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Article request
by janet lobo 10 Oct '14

10 Oct '14

Dear Sir/Madam, One of our Library user need the following Journal articles. If it is available with you please send the article at the earliest. Adaptive Radiation Therapy: Technical Components and Clinical Applications.[Review] Cancer Journal. 17(3):182-189, May/June 2011. Adaptive radiation therapy Phys Med Biol 1997 Jan (42) (1), 123-32 Thanking you With Kind Regards, Dr Janet Dotty Lobo Librarian Fr Muller Central Library Mangalore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Smarter Circulation Desks with Smart Phones
by Mohan T A 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Dear Professionals NGL Introduces the state-of-the-art technology for the Library. The latest release has new Smartphone applications to accelerate the circulation transactions. Kindly make use of the facility of NGL open source software . For more Information please visit the URL http://newgenlibofficial.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/smarter-circulation-desks… thanking you with regards T A Mohan Librarian Siddaganga Institute of Technology TUMKUR E-mail: mohan(a)sit.ac.in tamohanta(a)rgmail.com Phone: 0816 2214078 Mobile:9343525141 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Librarian Guide is back with Video Tutorials.....
by DP Tripathi 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Dear All, Librarian Guide is back with Video Tutorials....... Due to some technical problem, the site had not been functional for few months, now it can be accessed at http://koha.librarianguide.co.in Librarian Guide is an outcome of thoughts to share views and ideas with library professionals in order to increase the value of ICT based library services. Since beginning, the main objective of any library has been to extend maximum services to our library patrons and to achieve the target, libraries are in use of Information Technology for more than 2 decades. To maximum extent, we have been successful in implementation of these technologies in our libraries whether it is research, public or academic libraries? These libraries have been benefiting themselves for house keeping operations but at the same time they have been struggling with the system due to poor support. In between, emergence of open source technology has opened and widened the scope in every field especially library automation, digitization, content management system, and many more especially for libraries. And to enable the library professionals for proper use of all these, social media such as facebook, twitter etc. are playing a very vital role. In order to share ideas & thoughts with library professionals based on personal practical experience with these software, I thought of having one platform where I can share my ideas and solutions with ease and that's what Librarian Guide came into exhistence. The basic purpose for having this website is only to help people and not for gaining any kind of commercial benefits. The cost involved in maintaining this website is totally from my end and not from any other sources. Aim & Objective: Librarian Guide exists only with one aim and objective that is to share maximum ideas & views with library professional friends throughout the globe. Thanks, DP Tripathi NIT Rourkela -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Six things to do before writing your manuscript
by Vimal Kumar V. 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Dear Friends, Dr. Angel Borja draws on his extensive background as an author, reviewer and editor to give advice on preparing the manuscript (author's view), the evaluation process (reviewer's view) and what there is to hate or love in a paper (editor's view). http://www.elsevier.com/connect/six-things-to-do-before-writing-your-manusc… Regards, -- Vimal Kumar V. Technical Assistant Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.info Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.in http://moovandan.blogspot.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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request for full text article
by Ravi Hullur 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Dear Professionals, One of our Staff need of the following articles, If any library holds below mentioned article. Please send me 1. Am J Rhinol. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15586803#> 2004 Sep-Oct;18(5):311-4. The role of mitomycin C in preventing synechia and stenosis after endoscopic sinus surgery. Anand VK <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Anand%20VK%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true…> 1, Tabaee A <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Tabaee%20A%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true…> , Kacker A <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Kacker%20A%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true…> , Newman JG <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Newman%20JG%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=tru…> , Huang C <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Huang%20C%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&…> . 2. *The diagnostic value of pressure algometry in myofascial pain of the jaw muscles*M. Farella1, A. Michelotti1, M. H. Steenks2,R. Romeo1, R. Cimino1 andF. Bosman2 Journal of Oral Rehabilitation *Volume 27*, *Issue 1*, <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jor.2000.27.issue-1/issuetoc>*pages 9–14*, *January 2000* 3. *High Expression of the Mismatch Repair Protein MSH6 Is Associated With Poor Patient Survival in Melanoma * * AJCP 2014 142:121 132; doi:10.1309/AJCPCX2D9YULBBLG * * American journal of clinical pathology july14* -- ** *** Regards Mr.Ravi Hullur Asst.Librarian & In-Charge to Digital Library KLE University, Belgaum Mob.No.9740638831 Blog:http://ravihullurs.blogspot.in/ -- 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 "Scholarly Communication and Knowledge Management in Higher Educational Institutions",
by Dr. R. Balasubramani 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Dear Professionals KL University Library, Andhrapradesh, organize International Conference on "Scholarly Communication and Knowledge Management in Higher Educational Institutions", in KL University from Andhrapradesh, India (28 & 29 November 2014). Submission of papers can be made electronically in MS Word Document (A4 size paper, single line, 11 point Times New Roman) with abstract, keywords and references. The manuscript should preferably be not more than 3000 words and be limited to a maximum of 8 pages. The papers submitted for presentation should not have already been published / presented elsewhere. Authors are requested to submit electronically a MS Word file to icskh2014(a)kluniversity.in Important Dates Receipts of full paper : 30th October, 2014 Intimation of Acceptance : 05th October, 2014 Submission of camera ready paper : 10th November, 2014 Registration Fee Category of Delegates Delegates from India Professionals Rs.1500/- Full time Research Scholars Rs.1000/- Students Rs.600/- Call for Papers Papers are invited for presentation in the following main / sub themes. 1. Knowledge Management in Libraries 2. Information Communication Technology 3. Open Source Software & Resources 4. Digital Libraries of 21st Century 5. Web 2.0 and Semantic Web Technologies Web 2.0 and Language Learning for Knowledgeable Management. 6. Copy Right Issues and Total Quality Management 7. E- Learning / Virtual Learning 8. LIS Education & Best Practices in Libraries Accommodation Accommodation will be provided to the participants on payment basis upon prior request in the university campus on first come first serve basis. A/C Room : Rs.475/- (for single person) Non A/C Room : Rs.375/- (for single person) Conference Highlights 1. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings with ISBN 2. Best paper award will be given for each theme of the conference 3. Invited talk by National and International LIS experts. 4. Selected papers will be published in the peer-reviewed open access LIS journal. Further Information please visit this site http://www.kluniversity.in/icskh2014/ With Regards Dr. K. S. Sivaraj Librarian and Head KL University Library, Andhrapradesh 08903582340 ksshivraj(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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Request for full text Articles
by Supritha Shetty 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Dear Professionals, If you have access to the following article could you please send it to me. Effect of Maternal Education on Adoption of Immunization Services-A Case Control Study in Bhubaneswar, Odisha Patnaik A, Associate Professor, Mishra R N, Asst. Prof., Choudhury K, Professor thanking you, with regards Librarian K.S.Hegde Medical Academy Deralakatte -575018 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 9th Memorial Lecture- reminder
by shivaram gowda 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Dear Members, NCSI-Net Foundation cordially invites you to the Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 9th Memorial Lecture. Please find the details below. Topic: Promotion of e-Resources for Academic & Research Excellence: Tips, Techniques and Insights Speaker: Dr. I.R.N. Goudar Venue: SRELS, # 702, Upstairs, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore-10 Date & Time: Friday, October 10th, 2014 at 6 PM The talk will be presided by Dr. I.K. Ravichandra Rao, visiting scientist at the Centre for Knowledge Analytics and Ontological Engineering, which is a World Bank funded Centre for excellence at the PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore, and Formerly, Professor and Head, Documentation Research and Training Centre, ISI, Bangalore. Abstract of the Talk: Apart from 50,000 e-journals, millions of e-Books and ETDs are accessible through both Open access and subscribed channels. This apart, Internet Archive alone gives access to more than 430 billion web pages. UGC spends about 180 crores annually towards e-Resources. Many publishers are moving towards online only environment. Managing and providing e-Resources-based services is a complex phenomenon. Library professionals are facing many challenges in promoting usage of e-resources. Some of the challenges that needs to be addressed to enhance the usage of e-resources include: A good library website serving as single point access to all e-resources (E-Resources Portal); Adaption of ERMs including federated search engines and discovery services; Good ICT infrastructure along with good Internet bandwidth; Both camp-wide and off-campus access to e-Resources; Effective department-wise awareness cum orientation programs; etc. Our experiments in this direction at the University of Mysore (UoM) resulted in accounting for 43.17% of usage of UGC Infonet E-Resources in 2013 among 11 universities in Karnataka. Useful tips, techniques and issues useful for promoting usage of e-Resources, especially my experience both at UoM and Bangalore University would be discussed. About Speaker: Dr. Goudar after completing his B.Sc. in Physics and M.Sc. in Human Physiology did his Bachelor's Degree in Library and Information Science from Karnataka University. He also obtained Associateship in Documentation and Information Science from DRTC/ISI in 1979 and his PhD in 'Library and Information Science' from Karnataka University in 2006. He started his career as a Scientific Assistant at CFTRI, Mysore during 1977. Then he moved to L&T, Bombay for a short period of one year as Supervisor-Documentation. He served Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, one of the CSIR organizations for nearly 12 years as Scientist-Information. He was on deputation as Deputy Librarian at IIT, Chennai for a period of one year. In 1992, he joined National Aerospace Laboratory (NAL) Bangalore and retired as Head of Information Centre (ICAST) in 2009. Even after several years of his retirement, he is still very active in LIS profession and he has served as Visiting Professor cum Library Adviser in University of Mysore and currently serving as Visiting Professor cum Library Adviser in Bangalore University Library. Dr. Goudar has been bestowed with many honors and awards, notably among them are British Council Scholar during 1993 wherein he visited more than 60 institutions / libraries in England and Scotland and the prestigious Fulbright Fellowship during 1995-96 at universities of Columbia, NY (2 months) and Michigan at Ann Arbor (6 months). Regards NCSI-Net Foundation Shivaram BS ICAST, CSIR-NAL Kodihalli Bangaluru-560017 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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The Library of Congress Wants Your File Format Ideas | The Signal: Digital Preservation
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

(As Lis-forum is a Text only Forum, I use "Send from Gmail" extension to Chrome to send ANY portion of a web page, converted to plain text; this extension also places the source URL at the end. Convenient, Na) Some well informed librarians may wish to respond to LC on their request ======================================================== The Library of Congress Wants Your File Format Ideas October 3, 2014 by Mike Ashenfelder “Uncle Sam Needs You” painted by James Montgomery Flagg In June of this year, the Library of Congress announced a list of formats it would prefer for digital collections. This list of recommended formats is an ongoing work; the Library will be reviewing the list and making revisions for an updated version in June 2015. Though the team behind this work continues to put a great deal of thought and research into listing the formats, there is still one more important component needed for the project: the Library of Congress needs suggestions from you. This request is not half-hearted. As the Library increasingly relies on the list to identify preferred formats for acquisition of digital collections, no doubt other institutions will adopt the same list. It is important, therefore, that as the Library undertakes this revision of the recommended formats, it conducts a public dialog about them in order to reach an informed consensus. This public dialog includes librarians, library students, teachers, vendors, publishers, information technologists — anyone and everyone with an opinion on the matter and a stake in preserving digital files. Collaboration is essential for digital preservation. No single institution can know everything and do everything alone. This is a shared challenge. Librarians, what formats would you prefer to receive your digital collections in? What file formats are easiest for you to process and access? Publishers and vendors, what format do you think you should create your digital publications in if you want your stuff to last and be accessible into the future? The time may come when you want to re-monetize a digital publication, so you want to ensure that it is accessible. Those are general questions, of course. Let’s look at the specific file formats the Library has selected so far. The preferred formats are categorized by: Textual Works and Musical Compositions Still Image Works Audio Works Moving Image Works Software and Electronic Gaming and Learning Datasets/Databases Take, for example, digital photographs. Here is the list of formats the Library would most prefer to receive for digital preservation: TIFF (uncompressed) JPEG2000 (lossless (*.jp2) PNG (*.png) JPEG/JFIF (*.jpg) Digital Negative DNG (*.dng) JPEG2000 (lossy) (*.jp2) TIFF (compressed) BMP (*.bmp) GIF (*.gif) Is there anything you think should be changed in that list? If so, why? Or anything added to this list? There’s a section on metadata on that page. Does it say enough? Or too little? Is it clear enough? Should the Library add some description about adding photo metadata into the photo files themselves? Please look over the file categories that interest you and tell us what you think. Help us shape a policy that will affect future digital collections, large and small. Be as specific as you can. Email your questions and comments to the digital preservation experts below. Your emails will be confidential; they will not be published on this blog post. So don’t be shy. We welcome all questions and comments, great and small. Send general email about preferred formats to Theron Westervelt (thwe at loc.gov) Send email about specific categories to: Ardie Bausenbach (abau at loc.gov) for Textual Works and Musical Compositions Phil Michel (pmic at loc.gov) for Still Image Works Gene DeAnna (edea at loc.gov) for Audio Works Mike Mashon (mima at loc.gov) for Moving Image Works Trevor Owens (trow at loc.gov) for Software and Electronic Gaming and Learning Donna Scanlon (dscanlon at loc.gov) for Datasets/Databases They are all very nice people who are up to their eyeballs in digital-preservation work and would appreciate hearing your fresh perspective on the subject. One last thing. The recommended formats are just that: recommended. It is not a fixed set of standards. And the Library of Congress will not reject any digital collection of value simply because the file formats in the collection might not conform to the recommended formats. Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Publications and Resources 2 Comments | Add a Comment » 2 Comments Cezar Popescu October 4, 2014 at 4:33 am The jpg is to be preferred over dng? What sort of madness is this? And tiff on the first position? A privately controlled file format? Phil Michel October 6, 2014 at 2:32 pm I agree that the ordered list of formats can seem illogical. It wouldn’t make sense to create a JPEG from a DNG prior to submitting an image to the Library. We would accept either. It would probably be better to emphasize that the Library is interested in the best version of the file as it was published or created. It is less important that the image is in a format that appears high on the list. We should consider removing the statement that the list is based on “order of preference.” http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/10/the-library-of-congress-wa… -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Creating digital version of printed books
by Dr Francis Jayakanth 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Dear Members, One of users, who is visually challenged, is need of several text books, specifically in PDF format, to enable him to read the books on his computer system using a specialized software. Digital versions of these books are available from various online sources, but none of them is offering downloadable PDF versions of the books. Our library has all the books needed by the user in the print format. Now, my question is, can the library scan these books, create PDF files and facilitate only the user in question to make use of the books in the digital format? Would the creation of digital version of a printed book for a very special case come under the fair use clause of copyright laws or would it still be an infringement? Your views and suggestion on the matter are welcome. With regards, - Francis IIMB, Banneghatta Road, BG-76 ******************************************* Disclaimer *************************************************** This email message, its content and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the originally intended addressee(s) and may be legally privileged and /or confidential. If you have received this email in error or otherwise, please delete it and contact the originator immediately. You should not copy or forward it on or otherwise use the contents, attachments, or information in any way without the express permission of the originator. Any such unauthorized use or disclosure may be unlawful. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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