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Koha 3.8 Live DVD has 176 Downloads (Madaiah Krishna Murthy)
by putta swamy 07 Jun '12

07 Jun '12

Dear Sirs/Madam, It is my pleasure to bring it your kind information that, Koha 3.8 Live DVD on 'sourceforge.net' uploaded by Dr. M. Krishna Murthy, Associate Professor, DRTC, Mysore Road, Bangalore is highly appreciated and over 176 downloads were made in India alone (93%) as on 5th June 2012 just within the span of 8 days (Selected date rage: 29-05-2012 to 05-06-2012). I think it's total solution with other supporting software for complete installation of Koha. Our sincere thanks and hearty Congratulations to Dr. M. Krishna Murthy for their new invention and tremendous R&D work on several Open Source Software's that are benefited thousands of Library Professionals across the globe. Hats of to u Sir.....! With best regards, Yours sincerely, R.M. Putta Swamy Chief Librarian BNM Institute of Technology 27th Cross, 12th Main, BSK II Stage Bangalore - 560 070. -- 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 Memorial Lecture (2012)]
by franc＠library.iisc.ernet.in 07 Jun '12

07 Jun '12

Dear Members: On behalf of NCSI-Net, an informal association comprising of erstwhile NCSI staff and its alumni, I cordially invites you for the 7th Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Memorial Lecture (2012). The details of the lecture follows: Title of Lecture - "Libraries: with no wall, no firewall" Speaker: Dr. H.S. Siddamallaiah Principal Library and Information Officer Library and Information Centre National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Science (NIMHANS) Bangalore-560029, India. Date: Friday, 15th June, 2012 Time: 6.00 PM Venue: Seminar Hall. Archives and Publications Cell (Erstwhile NCSI Building), IISc, Bangalore - 560012 Abstract: Libraries are always inter-connected and global, due to open communication, resource and access with IPR as legal entity for control (which are being legally opened). The access and communication barriers are to be removed for research communication, share data, create communities and deliver products and services. Web provides tools to increase or focus the library services either global or personal (even the personalized service) or to increase the visibility and accessibility. Infrastructure, resources and services are no longer bound by what institution can afford, build or maintained, it is libraries to design and define. With regards, - Francis J.R.D. Tata Memorial Library IISc -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Workshop on “Development of Institutional Repository using DSpace with special reference to creation of ETD Archive” at JNU
by Dr. Ramesh C Gaur 07 Jun '12

07 Jun '12

Dear All, I am pleased to inform you that Central Library, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in collaboration with INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad is organising a workshop on “Development of Institutional Repository using Dspace with special reference to creation of ETD Archive” at Central Library, JNU, New Delhi from July 23-27, 2012. Some of the objectives and other details regarding the workshop is as given below: Objectives The workshop will train the professionals about ; · How to handle and involved in installing, administering and customising the DSpace software. · The advanced features of 1.8.3 version – tools, RSS feeds for podcasts, discovery faceted searching and browsing system, ability to enable automatic virus checking during item upload etc. · Aspects related to maintenance development, upgradation aspects · Linux operating system which is pre requisite to install DSpace repositories. Intended Audience The Library and information professionals from University Libraries and other Academic Institutions across the countries. It will register only 20 participants from outside JNU on first-cum-first served basis. Preference will be given to the Academic Libraries intending to create Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive. Venue Central Library, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067 Date: 23-27 July 2012 Refreshments Working lunch and tea will be served to the participants Computing Infrastructure will be provided by JNU Conference kit will include CD Accommodation will be provided to the outside participants in JNU Guest House. Registration Fee Rs.5000/- with accommodation Rs.3000/- without accommodation The registration fee is to be sent by demand draft only in favour of “Finance Office, JNU” payable at New Delhi preferably at State Bank of India, New Delhi. Resource Persons Experts from INFLIBNET, DRTC, IIT Delhi and JNU will conduct the workshop. Your request along with Demand Draft should reach to undersigned at the address given below latest by July 6th 2012. However outstation participants are requested to send their request preferably by June 20, 2012 , so accommodation can be arranged and registration fee may be sent later For more details a brochure will be uploaded soon on the http://www.jnu.ac.in/Library/default.htm . regards ramesh ************************************** Dr. Ramesh C Gaur PGDCA, MLISc,Ph.D. Fulbright Scholar (Virginia Tech, USA) University Librarian Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU) New Meharuli Road, New Delhi - 110067 Tele +91-11-26742605, 26704551 Fax : +91-11-26741603 Email: rcgaur(a)mail.jnu.ac.in ;rcgaur66(a)gmail.com URL: www.jnu.ac.in Brief Profile: http://www.jnu.ac.in/Library/RameshCGaur.htm -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fw: [GOAL] Fwd: [sparc-oaforum] 25, 000 Advocates Urge White House to Open Taxpayer-Funded Research to Everyone
by Subbiah Arunachalam 07 Jun '12

07 Jun '12

From: Peter Suber <peter.suber(a)gmail.com> To: SOAF post <sparc-oaforum(a)arl.org> For Immediate Release June 4, 2012 For more information, contact: Andrea Higginbotham andrea(a)arl.org (202) 296-2296 25,000 Advocates Urge White House to Open Taxpayer-Funded Research to Everyone“We the People Petition” hits 25,000 signatures in just two weeksWashington, DC – June 4, 2012 - The movement to make taxpayer-funded research freely available online hit a new milestone on Sunday when advocates hit their goal of 25,000 signatures to a “We the People” petition to the Obama administration. The petition, created by Access2Research (a group of Open Access advocates, including SPARC’s Executive Director, Heather Joseph), requests that President Obama make taxpayer-funded research freely available. According to the petition site’s rules, any petition securing 25,000 signatures within 30 days will be sent to the White House Chief of Staff, and will receive an official response. The Open Access petition hit the 25,000 mark in half the allotted time. “The community is fully engaged in sending a clear message to the Administration – access to taxpayer-funded information is in the public’s interest, and they want it now,” said Heather Joseph, SPARC’s Executive Director. The petition says: “We believe in the power of the Internet to foster innovation, research, and education. Requiring the published results of taxpayer-funded research to be posted on the Internet in human and machine readable form would provide access to patients and caregivers, students and their teachers, researchers, entrepreneurs, and other taxpayers who paid for the research.” The Open Access mandate builds on the National Institutes of Health’s policy, noting that that agency’s experience “proves that this can be done without disrupting the research process,” urging the president “to act now to implement open access policies for all federal agencies that fund scientific research.” John Wilbanks, Senior Fellow in entrepreneurship for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and one of the creators of the petition believes that the fast uptake by the public signals a new pace in the Open Access debate. “Opening access to taxpayer-funded research is no longer a policy discussion happening away from researchers, scientists and taxpayers. People are now fully part of the conversation, and that changes everything.” “The next step is for the White to House to issue an official response,” said Mike Rossner, Executive Director at The Rockefeller University Press and an original sponsor of the petition. “Our hope is that they will act quickly and will require expansion of the successful NIH policy to all other major U.S. federal funding agencies.” A number of key organizations outside the academic community endorsed the petition. The Wikimedia Foundation endorsed the petition and included a feature article on its Wikipedia’s English Homepage. Patients advocacy groups from Patients Like Me to the Avon Foundation promoted the petition to their members, as did a variety of publishers, university libraries, commercial companies and advocacy organizations. For further information on the petition, its sponsors and supporting organizations see the SPARC website at http://www.arl.org/sparc and the Access2Reserach website at http://access2research.org/. ### SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan, is an international alliance of more than 800 academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication. SPARC’s advocacy, educational, and publisher partnership programs encourage expanded dissemination of research. SPARC is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/sparc/. -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Conference on K-2012: Creating Digital Library in Globalized E-society
by Shantanu Ganguly 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

* * *National Conference on* *K-2012:* *CREATING DIGITAL LIBRARY IN GLOBALISED E-SOCIETY* 28th July, 2012 (Saturday), ISI, New Delhi Organised by *SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION RESEARCH & STUDIES (SIRs)* * * *Last date for paper submission deadline : July 10, 2012* * * *Invited to Participate* *Dear Professional incumbent:*** It gives us immense pleasure to inform you that we are organizing a National Conference K-2012: CREATING DIGITAL LIBRARY IN GLOBALISED E-SOCIETY on 28-07-2012(Saturday) at ISI, New Delhi. *Why this event?* Globalization is defined by the spread and integration of people, goods, finance, knowledge and culture across the planet. Each of these dimensions of globalization has advanced since the dawn of civilization, at a pace determined by the available technologies for different purposes. E stands for electronic, D for digital and V for virtual. We would rather define the appearance of E, D and V as a phenomenon in e-society that takes place in a way where everyone can see objects and do things in a virtual world against a physical one; where everything is converted into digital formats and saved for use/reuse and represented in a virtual way; where everywhere is connected to a world wide web and any information, knowledge and services can be accessed by anyone, anywhere and anytime through any kind of devices. The conference aims to address the main issues of concern within WWW/Internet as well as to assess the influence of Internet in the Information Society. Broad areas of interest are Internet Technologies, Information Management, e-Society and Digital Divide, e-Learning, New Media and e-Society, Digital Services in e-Society. *Format of the Conference* The conference will be an educative mixture of invited talks and oral presentations. The event will have a keynote address and multiple technical sessions. *Call for Papers & Paper Submission Guideline* * * Participants are invited to submit original, unpublished papers based on research or practical experience on sub themes mentioned above for presentation at the conference. The full paper must be submitted in English language in soft copy form in MS-Word 2003 or MS-Word 2010 format to the email: *<knowledge.professional.india(a)gmail.com>*. The paper should be free from grammatical errors with complete references cited within the text. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, provided the paper is presented in person by the author/co-author.** * * Topics related to the Digital Information Society are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas: · *Digital libraries (DL) development, architecture, and management* · *DL multilingual issues* · *Digital Rights Management* · *DL services and case studies* · *E-Learning and e-publishing* · *DL standards & policy* · *Role of DL in education, social and economic development* · *Social media and Web 2.0 for information dissemination and communication* · *Managing e-based knowledge resources* * * *Important Dates* Last Date of Submission of Full Paper *July 10, 2012* Final Date of Acceptance of Paper *July 15, 2012* *Registration* *Catego Up to 20 July 2012 After 20 July 2012* Delegates 700/- 800/- Students* 400/- 500/- *Registration will be accepted on production of Student ID. *Best Paper Award* Best paper award will be given on the recommendation of panel of experts. The decision of the recommendation committee is final. For consideration of the award, paper must be in accordance with the guidelines given and should reach *on or before July10, 2012* *For any other queries, please contact* *Society for Information Research & Studies (SIRs)* 11A/1, IInd Floor, Gautam Nagar New Delhi – 110 049 Tel. +91- 9953476674 , 9910017177 E-mail. knowledge.professional.india(a)gmail.com -- With best regards *Shantanu* ==================================== *Shantanu Ganguly, PhD* Fellow, Librarian and Area Convenor Library and Information Centre Knowledge Management Division TERI India Habitat Center Complex Lodhi Road New Delhi - 110003 Tel: 011-24682100 (Extn 2762) Email: shantanu.ganguly(a)teri.res.in ----------------------------------------------------------------- A-67, Chittaranjan Park, First Floor New Delhi-110019 Tel (R): 011-26272596 (M): 9811330235 Email: sganguly67(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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ARSSF Signs Berlin Declaration
by Sridhar Gutam 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Dear All, It is a great pleasure to inform you that Agricultural Research Services Scientists´ Forum <http://www.icar.org.in/en/node/1168> had signed Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities < http://oa.mpg.de/lang/en-uk/berlin-prozess/berliner-erklarung/> (w.e.f 18/5/2012) and is added to the list of signatories. The inscription can be found at <http://oa.mpg.de/lang/en-uk/berlin-prozess/signatoren/> Thanks & Regards Sridhar __________________________________________________________ Sridhar Gutam PhD, ARS, Patent Laws (NALSAR), IP & Biotech. (WIPO) Senior Scientist (Plant Physiology) Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture <http://www.cishlko.org> Joint Secretary, Agricultural Research Service Scientists' Forum<http://www.icar.org.in/en/node/1168> Convener, Open Access India <https://www.facebook.com/oaindia> Rehmankhera, Kakori Post Lucknow 227107, Uttar Pradesh, India Phone: +91-522-2841022/23/24; Fax: +91-522-2841025 Mobile:+91-9005760036/8005346136 Publications: http://works.bepress.com/sridhar_gutam/ Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.co.in/citations?hl=en&user=6W1MSSwAAAAJ&pagesize=100&… <https://www.facebook.com/gutamsridhar> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/sridhargutam> <http://twitter.com/gutam2000><http://works.bepress.com/sridhar_gutam/rss.html> -- 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] Former Director, INSDOC, Prof. T Viswanathan no more
by Mailing List Admin 05 Jun '12

05 Jun '12

Date: 5 Jun 2012 06:24:23 -0000 From: Wajih Alvi <profalvi(a)rediffmail.com> To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Belated news. I remember his dash,dynamism and thoughtfulness. I had put him on the Board of Studies in LIS at Kashmir University when I was heading it. He did, no doubt, contribute a lot. Yes, a professional is no more. Why not to miss him.But life is like that. Prof.Wajih A Alvi Prof. Wajih A. Alvi University Librarian Islamic University of Science & Technology Awantipora, Pulwama-192 122, Kashmir (J&K) Mobile: 09596250038, 09419014482

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Former Director, INSDOC, Prof. T Viswanathan no more
by G Mahesh 05 Jun '12

05 Jun '12

Prof. T. Viswanathan, Former Director of erstwhile INSDOC has passed away. Cremation took place at Delhi on 03 June 2012. G. Mahesh NISCAIR ----------------------------------------- This email was sent using NISCAIR's web mail service. "" http://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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Koha 3.8 Live DVD (Madaiah krishnamurthy)
by Gangadhar KC 05 Jun '12

05 Jun '12

Dear Library Professionals, Earlier we are suppose to install separately Ubuntu, and select the LAMP( Apache, mysql, perl, php and other supporting software to install KOHA which was a tedious process. Now, Dr. Krishnamurthy, Associate Professor-DRTC has done a wonderful job by compiling all the software in one DVD making KOHA-Live DVD by which installation of KOHA completes in a single step. LIS professionals need such types of practical oriented tools which help/encourage us to automate the Library by using Open Source Software and become self-reliant. Thanks to Prof. M.Krishnamurthy for his effort. At this time, I would like to mention one more thing that since 4-5 years, he is practically helping more than 150 Engineering and First Grade Colleges in installing DSpace- a Free Institutional Repository Software and thus promoting the use of Open Source Software. Gangadhar K.C. Senior Librarian Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology P.B.No.6429, Yelahanka, Bangalore-560 064. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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ICTK 2012: Call for registration
by ictk drtc 05 Jun '12

05 Jun '12

International Conference on Trends in Knowledge and Information Dynamics 10-13 July, 2012 Hosted by Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/ICTK Venue: NIMHANS Convention Center, Nimhans Hospital Premises, Hosur Road, Bangalore- 560029 Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) established by Prof. S R Ranganathan in 1962, is a research centre at Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) conducting Research, Training and Higher Education in the field Library and Information Sciences and allied areas. In the last five decades, DRTC has been involved in Research, Education, Training and cutting edge applications of Information and Communication Technology to Libraries and Information Centres, Knowledge centers and systems. 2012 marks the Golden Jubilee of DRTC and we are happy to host as part of 'Golden Jubilee Celebrations', the 'International Conference on Trends in Knowledge and Information Dynamics' (ICTK-2012). Broadly the themes of the conference are divided into main streams (in parallel sessions on all the days of the conference): Stream 1: Trends in Library Education and Research Stream 2: Trends in Public Library Services Stream 3: Trends in Domain Specific Information Systems and Services Stream 4: Trends in Open Access to Information and Data Stream 5: Trends in ICT applications to Library and Information Science For details visit us on http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/ICTK/subthemes ICTK 2012 includes sessions of invited talks by renowned in the field of Library and Information Science from around the globe on various topics related to the above mentioned five streams covering various aspects of current interest and popular trends. The conference serves as an International Platforms for dissemination of information of International research and collaborative projects such as European Commission infrastructure projects. Experts Panel on Open Access to Information and Public Libraries present experts' views from around the world. In addition to plenary spearker of International repute, we plan to have panel discussions on Higher Education and International Collaborative Research in LIS, Public Libraries, Agricultural Information Systems, Open Access to Information List of invited speakers Dr. Jagdish Arora INFLIBNET India Dr. Roberto Barbero INFN Italy Dr. Donatella Castelli CNR-ISTI, Italy Prof. Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento Italy Dr. Johannes Keizer UN-FAO Rome Prof. Dr. Norbert Lossau Goettingen State and University Library Germany Dr. Alberto Masoni INFN Rome Dr. Carlos Morais Pires, European Commission, Brussels Dr. Federico Ruggieri INFN Rome Dr. Alma Swan Key Perspectives Ltd, Truro, UK Prof. Anna Maria Tammaro University of Parma Italy Dr. Stuart Wiebel Senior Research Scientist, OCLC USA Last date of registration : 30 June 2012 Details of registration at http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/ictk/registration Contact Prof. A.R.D. Prasad (Convener - ICTK-2012) Documentation Research & Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute (I.S.I), 8th Mile, Mysore Road, R.V. College Post, Bangalore - 560 059, Karnataka INDIA Phone: +91-80-2848 2711 Fax : 91-80-2848 4265 E-mail ID: ictk2012(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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