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J-Gate Newsletter - October Issue
by Sumitha 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

Dear All, We have pleasure in inviting you to click the below link to access the 3rd Volume (Issue 10) of J-Gate Newsletter. <http://informindia.co.in/iil_newsletter.asp> http://informindia.co.in/iil_newsletter.asp <http://www.informindia.co.in/iil_newsletter.htm> Awaiting your valuable feedback & suggestion. Thanks and Regards, Sumitha K Mani Informatics (India) Limited -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Librarian for Balaji College of Arts, Commerce & Science(BCACS)
by kamlesh hilal 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

*Librarian for Balaji College of Arts, Commerce & Science(BCACS)* Sri Balaji Society - Pune, Maharashtra <http://www.indeed.co.in/rc/clk?jk=ca1ff6c5bc51b4af&from=vj&grandfrom=ja&tk=…> 1. Responsible for day to day efficient running of library. 2. Procure books/periodicals & other literatures as desired by the institutes. 3. Prepare budget & exercise budgetary control. *Candidate Profile:*- Masters Degree in Library Science (M.Lib & I.Sc) with 55% marks, NET/ SET.(5% relaxation in marks for reserved category and reservation of post as per govt. guidelines.) *Post:* Librarian *No. of Post:* 1 *Reservation:* Open-1 Qualification, Experience, Pay Scales and Service conditions for the post as per rules of the University of Pune, Government of Maharashtra and UGC Rules & Regulations prescribed from time to time. *Medium of instruction:* English *HOW TO APPLY:* Interested candidates should forward their application with passport size photo, super-scribing the name of the post on the application within 15 days from the date of this advertisement to "The President, Sri Balaji Society, Sr. No. 55/2-7, Tathawade, Near Wakad, Off Mumbai-Bangalore Bypass, Pune-411033. The College authorities reserve the right to reject the applications which are not filled properly and are without attested Xerox copies of marksheets & experience certificate, if any. Candidates already in service should forward their application through proper channel and submit "No Objection Certificate" from the employer along with the application and also bring the same at the time of the interview. Reserved category candidates should send one copy of their application to the Dy. Registrar, Reservation Cell, University of Pune and one copy to the President, Sri Balaji Society, on the above address. Thanks (¨`·.·´¨) Always `·.¸ (¨`·.·´¨) Keep (¨`·.·´¨)¸.·´ Smiling! `·.¸.·´ Kamlesh B. Hilal B.R.Harne College of Engineering & Technology Wangani (W) 421503 MUMBAI. INDIA @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : kamleshhilal24(a)gmail.com : http://kamleshhilal.blogspot.com : http://www.slideshare.net/kamleshhilal/online-buying-for-librarians. Mob : 9322735397 /// 9833787311. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Indian Consortial efforts
by Yalagouda Patil 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

Dear MOderatory: Kindly post the following across LIS professionals. Regards, Y.M.Patil -- Dr.Y.M.Patil Retd. Librarian, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 560 080, India Mobile: 09902 550033 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Library Professionals/Consortia coordinators/Consortium participants: I am looking into Indian Consortia models and identified the following consortia that have come into existence in the recent years. If any of the consortium is missing in this list, could you pls let me know with a brief note and URLs. The following is the list: NKRC; UGC-INFONET, INDEST-AICTE, FORSA, IIM Libraries, TIFR and Branch Libraries, ISRO Libraries, HELENET, ISI Libraries, ERMED of ICMR, CeRA of ICAR MCIT LIbraries VIC of ICICI-KP NML Libraries SNDT - LISA JCCC@ VIC, Helenet, ICMR Thank you for your kind attention, Dr.Y.M.Patil email:ympatil@rri.res.in; yalagouda(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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University of Hyderabad VCs blog on Open Access and Vidyanidhi
by Shalini Urs 08 Oct '11

08 Oct '11

Dear Friends, Read this blog : http://hcurocks.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/open-access-scholarship/ I am happy to share this blog post about Open Access and Vidyanidhi Digital Library by one of the early champions of Open Access including ETD (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) movement in IndiaProf. Ram Ramaswamy, Vice Chancellor of the University of Hyderabad. Prof. Ramswamy (then professor and Dean at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) with whom I had the privilege of interacting during my efforts way back in 2003, to enlist the support of different universities in India to join hands with Vidyanidhi Digital Library initiative (www.vidyanidhi.org.in) He was one of those academics who showed lots of enthusiasm and championed the cause of Open Access and ETDs. Though JNU did not join Vidyanidhi (despite several efforts and meetings), Prof. Ramaswamy gave away all his students theses to Vidyanidhi. Please also do not forget read his blog about S.R.Ranganathan http://hcurocks.wordpress.com//?s=ranganathan&search=Go We need more academics and VCs who blog and share their thoughts on scholarship issues. May his tribe increase! In line with his belief about making things happen and to reach academic books reach a wider audience, Prof. Ramaswamy is also associated with the Scholars Without Borders initiative - http://www.swb.co.in/ which has been striving to help deliver books across the world. Let me take this opportunity to share the vignettes of Vidyanidhi. Vidyanidhi began championing the cause of Open Access and ETD way back in 1999 and the Vidyanidhi project funded by the then NISSAT was initiated in 2000. We expanded with funding from Ford Foundation in 2003. Vidyanidhi is one of the earliest and long-standing online digital libraries. We are online since 2001 (contrary to the claims by Mahatma Gandhi University Library that their online theses library-www.Mgutheses.org is the first though started in 2008☺ It is the decennial of Vidyanidhi! We have been online without a break for 10 years. So we can perhaps claim that it is one of the longest surviving online libraries in India. We are still the largest digital library of Indian Theses with more than 12,000 full texts available online. We were the first online library to offer a Unicode compliant system to access Indian Language Database and automatic transliteration of Kannada and Hindi metadata. It is due to our championing and advocacy efforts that the UGC adopted the ETD policy in 2005 and current move towards the ETD repository initiative. Shalini -- Dr. Shalini R.Urs Executive Director and Professor International School of Information Management University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore - 570006 Phone : + 91 821 2514699 Fax : + 91 821 2519209 www.isim.ac.in ISiM - Management School of IT. Technology School for IM -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fwd: Fw: regarding status of school librarian
by Rajesh Bhardwaj 08 Oct '11

08 Oct '11

Dear Professionals Please refer appende mail of Mr. Jasbir, If it is true, it is really unfortunate and someone should come forward to resolve such professional issues at state or national level. Regards Rajesh Bhardwaj ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: jasbir samra <jasbir_samra(a)yahoo.com> To: "punjablib(a)yahoo.co.in" <punjablib(a)yahoo.co.in> Sent: Saturday, 8 October 2011 1:08 PM Subject: regarding status of school librarian respected sir, myself jasbir singh samra, i am librarian of govt adarsh school,gurdaspur.i love library proffession.but day by day librarian status of schools is going down.till date i am getting salary equilent to PRT of schools which was not justice with us,but now punjab govt enhanced pay grade to all teachers except librarian.in 5th pay commissin recommend school lirarian equilent to TGT but now we are equilent to clerk.sir please suggest how we recognize ourself. reply soon as soon as possible Librarian Govt. Adarsh School,kot Dhandal, Gurdaspur,Punjab 9646053499 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Sites on Steve Jobs
by Ashok Asundi 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

Dear All This in continuation of my earlier mail to you. Here are some sites on Steve Jobs. http://in.news.yahoo.com/photos/apple-ceo-steve-jobs-resigns-1314244777-sli… http://in.omg.yahoo.com/photos/true-heroes-stars-who-battled-cancer-slidesh… http://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/What-made-Steve-Jobs-tick-ians-3287004349.… http://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/Apple-Steve-Jobs-visionary-reuters-6276010… http://in.news.yahoo.com/photos/steve-jobs-his-life-and-work-in-pictures-13… A.Y.Asundi -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Steve Jobs is no more
by Ashok Asundi 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

Dear All Professionals, Steve Jobs the PC wizard, who assembled and started the APPLE in the car garage of his father died at 56 the age does not demand for such an end. The visionary who is responsible for demystifying computer has created many land marks. Here is a quote that summarises his contribution to the World of PC and the WWW has many sites and agonising news of his end. I wish all of us should browse them and derive inspiration. Here are some quotes of Steve."Three apples have changed the world. One seduced Eve, second awakened Newton, the third one was in the hands of Jobs." “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” Quoted in The Wall Street Journal, May 25, 1993. Go to Yahoo News and other sites to get more on Steve Jobs. A.Y.AsundiRetd. Professor,DLISc, Bangalore University,BANGALORE. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article on "Contractual Appointments" in Current Science
by Rabisankar Giri 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

Dear friends and professional colleagues, Please see the interesting article on “Contractual Appointments” appeared in the recent issue of the “Current Science” . http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/25sep2011/716.pdf Rabisankar Giri -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Create Online Backups
by shankar nadoor 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Dear Professionals.. iDrive helps you create online backups of important files and folders on your Desktop.When you download and install this software,you can choose folders which need to be backup.iDrive will keep track of the changes made to the selected files and folders and backs them up.If your PC crashes ,you get your files back.Free users get 5 GB of storage space,while paid users get more.Visit www.idrive.com Source :Deccan Herald ,05/10/2011 Thanking You, Regards, Shankar Nadoor Assistant Librarian M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology Bangalore -54 Mob:8553533135 www.msrit.edu http://sites.google.com/site/shankarnadoor -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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The Indian Academy repository
by Subbiah Arunachalam 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Friends: The Indian Academy of Sciences now has its own open access repository for papers by all its Fellows, both living and deceased. Please visit <http://repository.ias.ac.in/>. The repository was officially announced by the President of the Academy, Prof. A K Sood, on 30 September 2011. As of today, it provides access to more than 60,400 documents, but not all of them full text. Efforts are being made to deposit full texts of all papers. This is the largest open access repository in India. Please spare some time to examine the repository and offer your suggestions. You may send your suggestions to Prof. N. Mukunda <nmukunda(a)gmail.com>, Mr N. A. Prakash <na.prakash(a)gmail.com>, or Mr G Chandramohan < iaschandra(a)gmail.com>. Subbiah Arunachalam -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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