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UNESCO released its new publication "Freedom of connection, freedom of expression: the changing legal and regulatory ecology shaping the Internet"
by Puna Das 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

"Freedom of connection, freedom of expression: the changing legal and regulatory ecology shaping the Internet" by William H. Dutton; Anna Dopatka; Ginette Law; and Victoria Nash UNESCO, 2011. ISBN: 978-92-3-104188-4 This report provides a new perspective on the social and political dynamics behind the threats to expression. It develops a conceptual framework on the 'ecology of freedom of expression' for discussing the broad context of policy and practice that should be taken into consideration in discussions of this issue. Over the first decade of the 21st century, the Internet and its convergence with mobile communications has enabled greater access to information and communication resources. In 2010, nearly 2 billion people worldwide – over one quarter of the world's population – use the Internet. However, during the same period, defenders of digital rights have raised growing concerns over how legal and regulatory trends might be constraining online freedom of expression. Anecdotal accounts of the arrests of bloggers, the filtering of content and the disconnection of users have sparked these concerns. However, they are reinforced by more systematic studies that provide empirical evidence of encroachments on freedom of expression, such as through the increased use of content filtering. Download Full-text PDF http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001915/191594e.pdf Further Details: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=31418&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anupkumardas.blogspot.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 Article: Is it fair?
by Gireesh Kumar T K 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

Dear Sir/Madam/Professional friends This has reference to some of the recently published posts in LISFORUM with a topic "Request for Article", for their requirement of full text journal articles. In most of the requirements it is found that the bibliographic details given by the requester is deficient to find out even the source of the article and moreover it is a time-consuming process. And also seen that some of our professional friends are not even mentioned the title of the journal or year of publication/vol.No/Issues No/ number of pages etc etc. Is it a good practice to ask a person to do complete search and find out the details and then download the article even if we desire to help our friends? In my personal view, it would be very easy and time saving to find out the softcopy (fulltext) of the article (since we need to find out whether we have the full text access or not) if the requester could give the full text link of the source article. or the URL which directs to the publishers platform. With Regards Gireesh Kumar TK ARC International Hyderabad http://www.arci.res.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Information courses in new central universities
by atanu 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

Under the current plan period, central government intended to set up 30 central universities, out of which 15 are in various stages of operation for the 2010-11 session. It has been noted only a small fraction of these universities have opened any information-related courses/ curricula. Historically, central universities have not included information as a subject in their academics. Out of these newly established set-ups, only Central university of Himachal Pradesh appears to have included this subject in their academics. In view of this, the industry associations and professional bodies are kindly requested to submit their representations before the relevant regulatory bodies, state and central ministries and institutes themselves with a view to improve this situation. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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M.L.I.Sc. (2-year) admission in M.D. University, Rohtak
by Anil Librarian 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

Dear Friends, The Department of Library and Information Science, M.D. University, Rohtak, Haryana is offering a 2-year integrated M.L.I.Sc. course. Admissions will be done on merit prepared on the basis of marks obtained in the eligibility examination. The last date to receive the application forms is 14 June, 2011. Also there is provision of lateral entry in the 3rd semester for those who have done B.L.I.Sc. For more information and application form please visit the university website www.mdurohtak.ac.in Regards Anil Kumar Siwach Assistant Professor Department of Lib. & Inf. Sc. M.D. University Rohtak (Haryana) e-mail: aks.mdu(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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IALA - Request for UGC orders related to Pay Revision from first PRC till date
by Pandurang Konnur 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

Dear Academic Librarian friends, Indian Academic Library Association lead a deligation under the leadership of Prof.V.G.Talawar, Vice Chancellor, University of Mysore, Mysore recently to UGC and had a detailed discussion with the Chairman, Secretary and Joint Secretary UGC regarding the Complete parity of status of Teachers to Academic Librarians. The discussion was very encouraging and the Chairman assured us to submit a revised and short memorandum with historical background of the granting of status in all pay review committees. They assured us thet the same will be recommend to the MHRD for further considerations. We there and then itself prepared another memorandum sitting in Delhi University Library and submitted the same next day to UGC. I happend to meet Mr.Dogra, Joint Secretary, UGC a couple of days back in University of Mysore during his visit to Mysore University and learnt that, they need to know with the substantiated justification with the previous orders of UGC in different PRCs over the peiod of time. He said they do not have the old records with the UGC. Hence, I request all the academic Librarians to help us to prepare a memorandum with the justification that the parity was given in earlies PRCs and denied in the last and the current PRCs. Kindly get us the copies of the relevent orders of UGC if you have any, to enable us to get the issue resolved by UGC and MHRD. Lastly let us all thank Prof.Talawar for having given us a leadershi in fighting for our status.<vc(a)uni-mysore.ac.in>, -- Dr.P.V.Konnur President, IALA Fulbright Fellow (University of Illinois) *University Librarian,* Bangalore University Library, Jnanabharati, Bangalore-560056 Phone: 080-22961131, 23215510 Website: http://library.bub.ernet.in/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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CSI eNewsletter dt. 1st Jun 2011
by hrmohan＠vsnl.com 31 May '11

31 May '11

Dear all, The 23rd issue (Volume 2. issue 7) of CSI eNewsletter dt. 1st Jun 2011 is ready and can be accessed at CSI KM Portal http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/enewsletter and also at http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2011-06-01.pdf For the archives of this newsletter, pl. visit at http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/archives or http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-archives.htm You are free to forward this mail to your contacts who may like the information presented in the mail. With regards HR Mohan Chairman, Div IV, CSI & eNewsletter Committee, IEEE CS & PCS Madras http://infoforuse.blogspot.com/ Contents ======= -- (ISC)² Resource Guide for Today’s Information Security Professional -- The Internet of Things -- How IT is managing new demands: McKinsey Global Survey results -- Implementing Managed Print Service Globally -- The Philosophy of Security -- HTML5 Deep Dive -- Office 2010 QuickStart Guides -- A plea from sysadmins to software vendors: 10 do's and don'ts -- Swadeshi Software and Swaraj -- Re-imagining India (with apologies to Nandan Nilekani) -- The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies -- Successful Strategies for IPv6 Rollouts. Really -- System Administration Soft Skills -- Cyber Terrorism Some Legal Perspectives -- 20 Great UX Blogs for Web Designers -- India's 2011 TR35: Top Innovators Under 35 -- Video: Wikipedia Architecture -- Random Thoughts -- Announcements -- ICT Events -- ICT News: Voices & Views -- ICT News: Manpower, Staffing & Top Moves -- ICT News: Government, Compliance -- ICT News: Company News: Tie-ups, Joint Ventures, New Initiatives -- Book: Quality Management -- Book: Online Marketing: A customer led approach -- Book: The Art of Creative Destruction - Illustrated Software Testing & Test Automation -- Book: Break Your Negative Attitude -- Book: Cyber Security: Understanding Cyber Crimes, Computer Forensics and Legal Perspectives -- Book: Road to Success - Project Management & PMP -- About the CSI-eNewsletter -- Contributions to CSI-eNewsletter -- eNewsletter Committee InfoQuiz–2011-06-01 (EIGHT Prizes to Win – SIX Books & TWO Awards of Rs. 500/-) =============================================================== 1. Who is the author of the book “Idea Man” 2. Quality Guru J.M. Juran has defined quality as “Conformance to Specifications”. State True or False. 3. The book “Bangalore Tiger” written by Steve Hamm is about the IT major ------ 4. Name the banker who has been recently appointed as the Chairman of Infosys. 5. The company ------ currently has the celebrity actor Jackie Chan as its product spokesman Email your answers by 20th June 2011 to csi.infoquiz(a)gmail.com with subject “infoquiz-2011-06-01”. Please provide your name, designation, company/institution, full postal address (to send the prize) and the contact phone nos. after the answers. The first person to answer correctly and one randomly selected lucky winner will be awarded Rs. 500/= each by SRA Systems (www.srasys.com) Oxford University Press (www.oup.co.in) Shroff Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd (www.shroffpublishers.com) Wiley India Pvt Ltd (www.wileyindia.com) and Infycareer Pvt Ltd (www.infycareer.com) will present the books which are briefly reviewed above. In all, there will be EIGHT prizes – TWO cash prizes of Rs. 500/- each and SIX prizes of one book each. Answers along with the winner info will be published in the next issue. Answers & Winners of InfoQuiz-2011-05-01 ================================ Arthur C. Clarke, TCS, EMC, Disaster Recovery / Data Recovery, Happiest Minds Awards of Rs. 500/= each from SRA Systems: Ms. Vandana Karande from Navi Mumbai and Ms. M. Bhuvaneshwari from Erode. Two books from Oxford University Press: “Knowledge Management in Organizations” to Mr. M. Anbazhagan from Chennai & “Business Communication” to Mr. Thomas Johnson from Trivandrum Two books from Shroff Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd: “Bootstrapping A Software Company” to Dr R K Singla from Chandigarh & “How To Eat the Elephant? The CEO's Guide to an Enterprise System Implementation” to Mr. Rakesh Sharma from Ranchi. One book from Wiley India Pvt Ltd: “Cloud Computing: Insights into New-Era Infrastructure “ to Mr. G. Santhosh Kumar from Cochin -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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KLA National Seminar 2011 Blog launched
by faisal sl 31 May '11

31 May '11

Dear All, Kerala Library Association (KLA) is going to organize a National Seminar on "CONTENT MANAGEMENT AND LIBRARIES New Vistas for Harnessing Information" from 14 to 16 July 2011 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Seminar updates with all related information are now available at the blog, http://klanationalseminar2011.wordpress.com Important Dates: Last date for submission of Papers : 25 June 2011 Last date for Registration : 05 July 2011 Release of Souvenir : 14 July 2011 The Event : 14 – 16 July 2011 Thanks S.L.Faisal Convener (Publicity) KLA national Seminar 2011 slfaizal(a)gmail.com Ph.09447699724 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Training The Trainers: Workshop on Information Literacy & Competency
by Rajesh Singh 31 May '11

31 May '11

Dear professional Collegues, Information available on Internet in public domain as well as through different subscription based databases provided by various hosts and aggregators plays a very important role in teaching, learning and research. For maximum utilization of these resources in academics the need of the hour is to make the users of information competent enough for retrieving precise and relevant information as per their needs. In this context the libraries and information centers has a very important role to play. With a view to educate the users and enhance their capabilities about electronic resources and make them competent for retrieving precise and relevant information through Internet, DULS has started regular Information Literacy Programme since, 2006. In continuation to its programs and activities DULS is organizing a two-days Training The Trainers: Workshop on Information Literacy & Competency for University and College Library Professionals. The goal is to train the library and information professionals for onward transmission of the skills to end users. Who can participate Library Professionals from University of Delhi and its Colleges of the under mentioned categories can participate in the program: * Deputy Librarians * Assistant Librarians * College Librarians * Professional Assistants working in DULS and Colleges. The workshop consent form is attached. For further details please log on to http://crl.du.ac.in/tttworkshop/index.htm OR contact the undersigned. Thanks and regards Rajesh Singh Dy. Librarian E-Resources & Training Central Library University Of Delhi DELHI-110 007 011-27666404, 27667848 http://crl.du.ac.in/ Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. The information contained in this e-mail message is privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination or copying is strictly prohibited. If you think that you have received this e-mail message in error, please e-mail the sender. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Just Published UNESCO Book "Broadcasting Science"
by Puna Das 31 May '11

31 May '11

Broadcasting Science by KP Madhu and Savyasaachi Jain Published in 2010 by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), New Delhi and Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD), Kuala Lumpur This book is for broadcasters of all flavours, colours and tastes. Whether you are reporting politics, business, sports, fashion or any other beat, which appear far removed from science, you will benefit from having a basic awareness of science. Science is not all about faraway galaxies or subatomic particles. It is about explanations about natural phenomena, including our society. So, politics, religion or our thought processes or imagination are not beyond the scope of scientific investigation. For example, if you are reporting a local conflict, there are enough scientific studies on aggression and violence that may throw light on the situation. You can give a new spin on sports if you have enough understanding about sports science and the pharmacology of performance enhancing drugs. Business cycles are specific examples of quasi-periodic phenomena and your reporting would bear a fresh perspective if you could dig deep into non-linear dynamics. How can you report on a crime without understanding the basics of forensic science? This book will help you to improve your programme even if you are a DJ presenting songs at a local radio station. Of course, if you want to specialize in science reporting, you might want more awareness of science than what a producer of a cookery show would need. We have something for you too in this book. Download Full-text PDF: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001921/192165e.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Advertisement for the Recruitment of Faculty Positions in the Pondicherry University
by Dr. Chennupati K. Ramaiah 30 May '11

30 May '11

Dear Moderator, Would you please post our university’s faculty advertisement for an *Associate Professor (1) *in the filed of Library & Information Science? Thanks & regards, Prof. CK Ramaiah ------------- *Advertisement for the Recruitment of Faculty Positions in the Pondicherry University * Advt No:RC/2011/013 Dated : 09.05.2011 RECRUITMENT OF FACULTY Pondicherry University is seeking highly qualified, dedicated and academically productive faculty members from Indian Nationals who have strong commitment in innovative teaching and high quality research in the following subjects/disciplines for appointment on regular basis. S.No. 28. *Associate Professor (1) *post is reserved for ST in the filed of Library & Information Science. Full advertaismant may be accessed at the URL http://www.pondiuni.edu.in/news/recruitment-faculty-positions-advertisement… Last date for receiving the applications is *22nd June 2011. * -- ********************************************************************* Dr. Chennupati K. Ramaiah MSc (Meerut), MLISc (Delhi), PhD (Loughborough), MACM, MASIST, MIInfSci, Professor & Head, Department of Library and Information Science, Pondicherry University, R.V. Nagar, Kalapet, PUDUCHERRY – 605 014. INDIA. Tel: 0413-2917242; Fax: 0413-2655254; Mobile: 9487605773. Email: ckramaiah.lis(a)pondiuni.edu.in ; ckramaiah(a)gmail.com Website: http://www.pondiuni.edu.in/ ********************************************************************* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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