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IASLIC Appeals for Donation
by IASLIC Kolkata 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

*Appeal for Donation* *The esteemed members of IASLIC are alive to the spiraling prices in the economy creating an acute financial stringency in carrying on the IASLIC activities. The learned members of its Governing Body in their 3rd GB Meeting held at Puducherry on 10th December 2012 and subsequently in the Annual General Meeting held on 11th December 2012 during the 25th National Seminar decided to make an ardent appeal to the already enrolled Life Members of IASLIC to be generous to donate liberally at least Rs.1000/- to help IASLIC achieve its avowed objective. Accordingly IASLIC extends this ardent appeal to all its esteemed Life Members to please come forward to help IASLIC by donating liberally at least Rs. 1000/- by DD / multicity cheque duly drawn in favour of IASLIC. The names will be published in the IASLIC Newsletter.* *Prof. Pijushkanti Panigrahi* *General Secretary * -- *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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Which University is Good or Bad for PhD?
by Dr. A.T. Francis 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

Dear Library Professionals, This is regarding some comments and suggestions on PhD Research Work. Some professionals argued that deemed universities are bad and government universities are good and hence students should enroll for PhD only in the govt. It is not the right presumption that all govt. universities are good and all deemed universities are bad. In Kerala, we have 13 govt. universities and none of them have university librarians to look after their Library Systems. It is also to be noted that four of these universities not even established the University Libraries (Ref: Francis, A.T. 2014, Library and information systems in universities and quality of higher education and research. University News, 52(20), May 19-26, 2014, 8-13 & 21). So, it should be the first concern of the LIS professionals and Associations to establish good libraries with adequate facilities and library professionals in all schools, colleges, universities and research agencies. Another concern of the professionals was on the language of writing thesis. There is no harm in writing thesis in any language. But it should be as per the academic regulation of the concerned university. If the university permits writing LIS thesis in Malayalam, students can do accordingly. If the student decided to write LIS thesis in Malayalam, he/she should strictly follow the grammar and structure of Malayalam. That is why universities/experts insist thorough editing/checking of the topic/subject, quantitative analysis; and the last one, but not the least, the language editing. I am having the qualifications, MCom, MLISc, NET and PhD (CochinUniversity). I had to wait for 12 years to obtain a Research Guide for PhD. Hence, it is my humble request that please encourage our fellow professionals to do PhD and be good librarians with personal and social status. As majority of the librarians and former librarians in Kerala (not in universities and colleges) are non professionals without any professional qualifications, people generally think that librarians did not have any valid qualifications and the job of librarians need any expertise. If no skill is required for our job, Existence of LIS departments is also under question,. I am a research guide of several universities, including the KarpagamUniversity and BharathiarUniversity. Eight (maximum) students are doing PhD research under me and several students are struggling to get a slot for PhD. So, evaluating a university should be based on its facilities, academic regulations and not on personal grounds. With regards, Dr. A.T. FRANCIS, MCom, MLISc, NET, PhD HEAD, LIBRARY College of Horticulture Kerala Agricultural University Thrissur - 680 656, India, 91-9496839409 (m) francisaloor(a)yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Innovative Acquires VTLS
by nikesh 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

Hi Colleagues, Hope this information will be useful for VTLS customers and also to keep note of mergers and partnership among Library system developers. *Innovative Acquires VTLS http://www.iii.com/vtls <http://www.iii.com/vtls> * *& announce expanded strategic Partnership with EBSCO Discovery Service * On May 30, 2014 Innovative acquired VTLS, a library automation solutions provider with customers in 44 countries. The combined companies will be led by Innovative CEO Kim Massana. The combined company will offer even greater resources to Innovative customers in solving the challenges of library automation, deepening customer support and product development capabilities worldwide. Innovative now supports an installed base of over 2,400 library systems, totaling 9,500 libraries, in 66 countries. Corporate headquarters will continue to be located in Emeryville, CA, with other major offices in Blacksburg, VA; Syracuse, NY; Dublin, Ireland; Barcelona, Spain; Kuala Lumpur (Selangor), Malaysia; Noida, India; Madrid, Spain; and Taipei City, Taiwan. Innovative now employs more than 500 staff members, including 150 librarians. *Innovative Interfaces and EBSCO Discovery Service Announce Expanded Strategic Partnership * http://www.iii.com/news/pr_display.php?id=573 Discovery/ILS Partnership Leads to Greater Integration of Electronic Resource Discovery and Delivery Emeryville, CA--Innovative Interfaces, Inc. (Innovative) and EBSCO Information Services <http://www.ebsco.com/> (EBSCO) have expanded their strategic partnership designed to improve access to library resources. The expanded partnership will incorporate catalog functionality within the EBSCO Discovery Service(tm) (EDS) experience including real-time circulation status checking, enabling end users to place holds via EDS, providing libraries with single sign-on authentication and displaying patron account status within EDS. The partnership also allows Innovative to sell EBSCO A-to-Z(tm) with LinkSource(R), which will be known as Full Text Finder(tm). Innovative Chief Executive Officer, Kim Massana, says the expanded agreement came out of the success of the existing working arrangement. "As we have developed our current Encore/EDS integration, we saw opportunities for a closer working relationship in other areas that will benefit our library customers and their end users." EBSCO Information Services President Tim Collins say the expanded partnership with Innovative is a great example of two library vendors working together to benefit customers. "We know our customers are looking for a variety of solutions for improving access to library collections and that is what we want to provide. The continuing success of our partnership with Innovative is a testament to what two vendors can accomplish when they decide it is in their collective best interests to develop solutions that leverage their strengths and, most importantly, serve the needs of their customers." The existing agreement has provided for joint development designed to enable more tightly integrated access between Innovative's Encore discovery platform and EBSCO Discovery Service <http://www.ebscohost.com/discovery> (EDS) in addition to facilitating access between EDS and Innovative's Sierra Services Platform. Having access to EDS's unified index expands the quality and amount of content available for Encore users while adding the enhanced features and functionality available from EDS. Encore users are also able to search their EBSCOhost databases via the Encore interface--providing a uniquely powerful article search experience. The partnership has also led to the development of the newly released Encore with EBSCO Discovery Service, which brings the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles available into Encore. The robust metadata offered by EDS is culled from thousands of major journal publishers and information providers, providing the deepest possible indexing for the majority of journals and magazines. In addition, users of Encore with EBSCO Discovery Service benefit from more full-text resources than with any other option. Regards *Nikesh Narayanan **M.Tech, MLIS, M.Com* Discovery Service Engineer (India) *EBSCO* Information Services India Pvt. Ltd., 301-303 Ansal Chamber - II 6, Bhikaji Cama place New Delhi - 110 066 Mobile: +918130995687 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for Article
by Mahesh Moolya 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

Dear Professionals, If any library holds below mentioned article, Please mail it to me. 1. Laryngoscope. 2010 Sep;120(9):1724-9. doi: 10.1002/lary.20993. Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea: a clinical and anatomical study. Tóth M1, Selivanova O, Schaefer S, Mann W. 2. Laryngoscope. 2007 Feb;117(2):345-9. Endonasal endoscopic repair of Sternberg's canal cerebrospinal fluid leaks. Castelnuovo P1, Dallan I, Pistochini A, Battaglia P, Locatelli D, Bignami M. Thank you, with regards -- Mahesh Moolya Jr. Librarian K S Hegde Medical Academy Dearalakatte Mangalore 575 018 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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EPT award presented to Muthu Madhan
by Mailing List Admin 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 20:48:22 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah.arunachalam(a)gmail.com> Dear Friends: We had the long-awaited awards function this morning at the conference hall of the IITM Library. Prof. Pennathur Gautam handed over the EPT Award certificate signed by Prof. Derek Law to Madhan in front of a small gathering of about 40 people. Among those who spoke on the occasion were Prof. Arun Narasimhan, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, IITM, and Prof. Mangala Sunder Krishnan, Professor of Chemistry and the coordinator of NPTEL, India's flagship OER programme. Madhan gave a nice acceptance speech. Regards. Arun

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URGENT NOTICE
by IASLIC Kolkata 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

NOTICE The esteemed members of the Association are hereby informed that we have been publishing IASLIC Newsletters in electronic format (since 2011) in addition to its monthly hardcopy editions. Many of you have welcomed the effort. Due to rising printing and postage costs, the association is facing financial constraints in publishing hardcopy editions of the newsletter. To overcome the situation we had appealed to our members for generous donations (Rs 1000/- or more). But the responses are not satisfactory. In this situation, some members present at the Annual General Meeting held on 27.12.2013 at Pune suggested publication of newsletter in electronic format only from July, 2014 issue, while some members opposed this view. In the circumstances it was resolved to send electronic version of the newsletter to those who have necessary access facilities.Hence our humble request to our fellow members is to let us know their present e-mail addresses to the office of the IASLIC through e-mail (iaslic.news(a)gmail.com) immediately for our record. Feedback/comments of the esteemed members are earnestly solicited on this issue. General Secretary, IASLIC, Kolkata -- *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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IASLIC - Academic Library Section
by IASLIC Kolkata 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

It is to inform all all concerned that the result of the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) 2012 has been published. Result is available here *http://www.westbengalssc.com/sscorg/wbssc/finalResult2lib/ <http://www.westbengalssc.com/sscorg/wbssc/finalResult2lib/>* *IASLIC - Academic Library Section and IASLIC family as whole *extend its heartiest congratulations to all successful candidates. *Best Wishes for the Future* -- *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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IASLIC Newsletter June 2014
by IASLIC Kolkata 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

It is to inform all concerned that IASLIC Newsletter June 2014 is already published. Visit http://www.iaslic1955.org.in/fckeditor/userfiles/file/IASLIC%20Newsletter%2… regards -- *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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NISCAIR Training Programme on "Library Automation using KOHA - Basic"
by Mohd. S Ansari 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

Dear Members, CSIR - NISCAIR, New Delhi is organizing a short-term training programme on "Library Automation using KOHA - Basic". Dates: June 30 - July 04 2014. Course fee: Rs. 4000/- (without accommodation) and Rs. 5200/- (with accommodation). KOHA is an Open Source Integrated Library Management System (ILMS). It has all the features/ facilities required for Automation of a Library. The training programme is a practical oriented programme. It covers installation of KOHA on Linux platform followed by Hands-on on different modules and features of KOHA. Those interested may please contact Dr. Narendra Kumar, Head, Education and Training Division Phone: 011-26863617/26863521 / Email: training(a)niscair.res.in<http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum>). Regards, M. S. Ansari CSIR - NISCAIR Disclaimer ________________________________ Information contained and transmitted by this email is proprietary to NISCAIR and is intended for use only by the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If this is a forwarded message, the content of this email may not have been sent with the authority of the Company. If you are not the intended recipient, an agent of the intended recipient or a person responsible for delivering the information to the named recipient, you are notified that any use, distribution, transmission, printing, copying or dissemination of this information in any way or in any manner is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please delete this mail & notify us immediately at itd(a)niscair.res.in ________________________________ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for Article
by hamsa kalyani 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

Dear Friends, I am writing to request for the following article. Gaurav Kampani (2014). New Delhi's Long Nuclear Journey, International Security 38(4): 79–114. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/isec/current Thank you and regards, Hamsa Kalyani National Institute of Advanced Studies Library Indian Institute of Science Campus Bangalore 560012 INDIA Tel: 91-080-22185022 Fax: 91-080-22185028 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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