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Wellcome Trust to digitize 15 million pages of very old medical books
by Subbiah Arunachalam 02 Sep '14

02 Sep '14

http://www.livescience.com/47292-historic-medical-books-go-online.html? 15 Million Pages of Historic Medical Books to Go Online By Megan Gannon, News Editor | August 11, 2014 The British Army's "Manual for the Medical Staff Corps" (1893) shows how a rifle could easily be made into a splint. Credit: Wellcome Trust <https://archive.org/stream/b20408213> View full size image Some 15 million yellowed pages of text and images from arcane 19th-century medical books are about to go digital. Nine British universities and research institutions are sending their collections of important texts from the history of medicine <http://www.livescience.com/13002-7-absolutely-evil-medical-experiments-tusk…>and science to the London-based Wellcome Library so that their rare books and pamphlets can be made freely available online. The digitized collection, dubbed the U.K. Medical Heritage Library, will live on the Internet Archive, which already houses digital copies of hundreds of books in the Wellcome Library that were printed between 1800 and 1900. [See Images from 19th Century Medical Texts <http://www.livescience.com/47293-photos-19th-century-medical-texts.html>] *Digital books* Over the next two years, a team from the Internet Archive will scan texts on medicine, consumer health, sport and fitness, and even outdated medical practices like phrenology <http://www.livescience.com/41444-adopt-skull-fundraiser.html>, a pseudoscience based on the idea that a person's character was reflected in the shape of his or her skull. Texts on food and nutrition will include about 1,400 cookbooks from the University of Leeds, according to the Wellcome Trust, which announced plans for the project <http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2014/WTP056966.h…> in partnership with the digital tech charity Jisc last month. "By working closely with the partner institutions to build the U.K. Medical Heritage Library, we are converting books into searchable data so that users can explore every aspect of 19th-century medicine and develop new insights into this period of unprecedented medical discovery," Peter Findlay, the digital portfolio manager of Jisc, said in a statement. Other institutions that are lending their books for the project include University College London, the University of Glasgow, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, King's College London, the University of Bristol, the Royal College of Physicians of London, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. *Cookbooks and stolen corpses* Curious readers and researchers can already peruse thousands of pages of 19th-century texts from the Wellcome Library online. Holly Story, the Wellcome Collection's assistant media officer, told Live Science that two of her favorites were an 1860 edition of "Gray's Anatomy" and the British War Office's "Manual for the Medical Staff Corps," published in 1893. There is also a copy of "A Poetical Cook-Book <https://archive.org/details/b20393088>," an American text by Maria J. Moss, which features poems alongside recipes for haggis, pickled tongues, and something called "calf's head surprised." The collection includes a fascinating 1824 appeal by Scottish ophthalmologist William Mackenzie to the public and legislators about the necessity of making dead bodies available to anatomy students. And if one needs to be reminded of the deadly demand for cadavers <http://www.livescience.com/28363-the-human-body-as-textbook-inside-a-gross-…> at the time, there is also a book detailing the sensational proceedings of the 1828 murder trial <https://archive.org/details/b20443924> of William Burke and his mistress, Helen McDougal, who were accused of killing several people and selling their bodies to a surgeon who needed corpses for his anatomy lectures . -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[ELF] Offline Gmail
by Engg-Lib-Forum from India 01 Sep '14

01 Sep '14

Gmail Offline: users can access their mail and compose new messages when they don't have an Internet connection, or when their connection is unreliable or slow. When users reconnect, Gmail automatically sends any outbound messages. Source: https://support.google.com/a/answer/139154?hl=en -- Posted By Engg-Lib-Forum from India to ELF at 9/01/2014 05:27:00 AM -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Need Article - reg.
by Manjunath Ealiger 01 Sep '14

01 Sep '14

Dear Library Professional, One of our Faculty member has urgently required the below mentioned article for her research purpose. It would be highly appreciated if anyone can send this article to us. *Article : *Comparison of three different methods of evaluation of metabolic acid-base disorders * * *Author/s : **Dubin, Arnaldo MD; Menises, María M. PhD; Masevicius, Fabio D. MD; * * Moseinco, Miriam C. MD; Kutscherauer, Daniela Olmos MD; Ventrice, * * Elizabeth MD; Laffaire, Enrique MD; Estenssoro, Elisa MD* * * *Source : Critical Care Medicine* * Volume : 35, Issue No : 35 (May, 2007)* * * *Pages : **1264-1270 * -- Thanks and regards. Manjunath Ealiger Librarian ESI- Medical College & PGIMSR, Bangalore - 560010 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Ph.D of Pacific University- Udaipur(Rajasthan)
by Nitin S. Joshi Joshi 30 Aug '14

30 Aug '14

Dear Professionals It is approved or worth to take admission for Ph.D in library science in Pacific Academy of Higher Education & Research University.-Udaipur (Rajasthan) Kindly give your remarks. Nitin S Joshi Librarian MAEER’s MIT School of Management (MITSOM) Kothrud, Pune 411038 M- 09922587907 Direct Line- 020-30273597 www.mitsom.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Invitation ---- IASLIC Foundation Day 2014
by IASLIC Kolkata 30 Aug '14

30 Aug '14

*INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF SPECIAL LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION CENTRES(IASLIC**)* P-291, CIT Scheme, No. - 6M, Kankurgachi, Kolkata - 700 054, Ph: 033 2362 9651 E-mail: iaslic.india(a)gmail.com. Website: http://www.iaslic1955.org.in *IASLIC Foundation Day 2014* IASLIC Foundation Day ceremony will be held on Wednesday, the 3rd September, 2014 at 6.30 P.M. at the IASLIC Seminar Hall. This auspicious Foundation Day ceremony will be enriched with a Foundation Day Lecture 2014. Dr Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay, Director, Granthana Bibhag, Visva Bharati has kindly consented to deliver this lecture. . You are cordially invited to grace the occasion with your kind presence. Prof. Pijushkanti Panigrahi Place: Kolkata General Secretary Date: 28.08.2014 -- *Prof Pijushkanti Panigrahi*, Hony General Secretary, IASLIC, P-291, CIT Scheme No. 6M, Kankurgachi, Kolkata - 700054 iaslic(a)vsnl.net or iaslic.india(a)gmail.com www.iaslic1955.org.in *Join IASLIC, Contribute to IASLIC, Strengthen IASLIC* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Google ends authorship experiment in search results
by Ishwar Goudar 30 Aug '14

30 Aug '14

Dear Professionals, Google has announced that it has decided to stop showing authors' names when their articles appear in search results. The authorship experiment started in 2011, aimed at providing more valuable and relevant results in Google searches. However, a Google+ post by John Meuller of Google Webmaster Tools says that the experiment did not have the desired effect. For Detailed news please visit http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Google-ends-authorship-ex… The 2 Reasons for Killing It: Google is a company that likes to test, tinker and take chances, remember Google Wave and Google Buzz? They also do it in ranking websites, like giving new sites a chance at the top of page 1 to see how they do. If searchers respond well to it and gives them value, they stay there. If not, they go to where Jimmy Hoffa is buried, on page 2, where no one ever finds anything. More Details at http://organicseopress.com/google-kills-authorship-means/ Other stories: http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnrampton/2014/08/29/end-of-google-authorship/ http://www.cnet.com/news/google-stops-displaying-content-authorship-in-sear… http://dailydigestnews.com/2014/08/google-authorship-experiment-is-dead/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. I.R.N. Goudar - Visiting Professor Cum Library Adviser Bangalore University Library, Jnana Bharathi Campus BANGALORE - 560056, India - Ex. Visiting Professor Cum Library Adviser, UoM, Mysore - Ex. Scientist 'G' and Head, ICAST, NAL, Bangalore - Ex. Dy Librarian, IITM, Chennai - Ex. Scientist (Information), IICT, Hyderabad - Fulbright Scholar, Univ. of Michigan and Columbia Univ, USA (1995-96) - British Council Scholar (1982-83) E-mail: goudarishwar(a)gmail.com Tel: 080-23215510 Mob: 91+9611165781 (If not reachable pl try land line) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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One Day Workshop on "Design and Development of Library Web portals" on 21 September 2014 at Birla Institute of Technology - Mesra, Ranchi
by Amitabh Manglam 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

Dear All, It's our pleasure to inform you that, we are conducting *Librarians day cum one day workshop on* "*Design and Development of Library Web portals*" on *21 September 2014* at our campus (Birla Institute of Technology - Mesra, Ranchi) The *fee will be Rs.200.00* (Two Hundred Rupees only) per person which includes conference kit, working lunch, tea, biscuits. Interested persons may send the registration for to the following address for more details you can contact me. Thanking you *Mr. Amitabh Kumar Manglam* 9470943275 -- Thanking you With Warm Regards, *Amitabh Kumar Manglam* LIA, Central Library Birla Institute of Technology (Deemed University), Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand - 835215 Contact Number: +91-9470943275 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy of Technical Assistant in VSSC Library, Thiruvananthapuram
by NASAR 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

For details pls visit http://www.vssc.gov.in:8080/RMT284/advtno_284.html Regards AN -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Availability of a book - seeking for
by Mohanlal E.K 28 Aug '14

28 Aug '14

Sir I would like to refer the book " Introducing Sociolingustics by Rajend Mesthrie" for my PhD studies.. If the book is available pl. let me know.. Very urgent please -- *Mohanalal E.K. MLIS, MPhil.*Deputy Librarian i/c College of Veterinary and Animal Science Kerala Veterinary & Animal Science Uty. Mannuthy Post, Thrissur Dist. -680 651 Kerala , INDIA *e-mail: lallu2007(a)gmail.com <lallu2007(a)gmail.com>, libvetmty(a)kvasu.ac.in <libvetmty(a)kvasu.ac.in>* *Ph: +919495464972, 0487 2372148* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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fwd: A free online course in open research
by Shamprasad Pujar 28 Aug '14

28 Aug '14

Dear All, This could be of interest to some of you. best Regards, S M Pujar IGIDR, Mumbai ======================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ravi Murugesan <ravi(a)uwalumni.com> Date: Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 3:07 PM Subject: A free online course in open research https://p2pu.org/en/courses/2377/open-research/ An excerpt from the introduction: What does it mean to research in the open? Why should I make my research open? How do I research openly? This course is aimed at any researcher who wants to conduct an element of their research openly. Interested in how to ethically and openly share your findings so that others can reuse or develop your work? Curious about which open research methods you could use? Or just wanting to find out more about what open research entails? -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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