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CfP:: Conference on "ICT-IPR Trends and Challenges in Globalised World", 21st April; India Habitat Centre
by Puna Das 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

Conference on "ICT-IPR Trends and Challenges in Globalised World" Thursday, 21st April, 2011 Time: 9:30 am to 5:30 pm Venue: Jacaranda Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi Organisers: Department of Information Technology (DIT), Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Electronics and Information technology has emerged as an enabler for innovations in virtually all fields of technology. Technology changes are taking place rapidly, creating more avenues for business. The commercial stakes are very high which can be gauged from the fact that between 10-15% of patenting activities in the world are related to this field. Being a specialized and rapidly evolving field, handling IPR issues requires specialized knowledge. The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), a premier institute under the patronage of the Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communications & Information Technology (MC&IT), Government of India along with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is organizing a one day conference on “ICT-IPR Trends and Challenges in Globalised World” at New Delhi. The main objective of the conference is to discuss issues and methodologies so that the Indian ICT community especially SME’s and Researchers get updated, so as to meet the challenges of the present innovation based global economic ecosystem. The conference also aims to build greater awareness and develop insights into the complex mechanism of creation, ownership and protection of Intellectual Property (IP). Who should attend: Academicians, Researchers, IPR Professionals, SME’s, Start-Ups and Executives involved in IP creation, Management, Technology Transfer & Licensing issues in ICT domain. SESSION 1: Role of IPR in the digital economy : A global perspective This session will focus on role of IPR, especially patents in promoting innovation, issues, trends, laws and their profound implications on innovation. SESSION 2: Technical Session: Strategies for Protection of Incremental Innovations and Patentability of Software : Challenges for ICT industry This session will focus on Patents for incremental innovations, which are typical of the software industry. The session will also attempt to answer a plethora of questions in respect of computer program related inventions. SESSION 3: Panel discussion: The ICT Sector Today and Tomorrow: Changing Paradigms, Disruptive Technologies and Challenging Business Models, The Intellectual Property Dimension & Public Policy Direction Online Registration: http://203.199.132.51/ict-ipr.cdac.in/IPRConference_registrationForm.html Further Details: http://ict-ipr.cdac.in/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. Anup Kumar Das 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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Fw: Global Open Access Portal: Call for consultants
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

--- On Sun, 10/4/11, IAN JOHNSON (0616285) <i.m.johnson(a)rgu.ac.uk> wrote: From: IAN JOHNSON (0616285) <i.m.johnson(a)rgu.ac.uk> Subject: Global Open Access Portal: Call for consultants To: Date: Sunday, 10 April, 2011, 15:15 Global Open Access Portal: Call for consultants 06-04-2011 (Paris) Open Access logo UNESCO, with the support of Colombia, Norway and United States of America, is developing a portal on Open Access (OA) to present a high-level snapshot of the state of OA around the world. Entitled Global Open Access Portal (GOAP), the tool is supposed to be the first destination for users seeking information on OA. OA experts will collect, analyse and filter information related to the subject from different countries. This information will include: major national projects and initiatives; national and regional funding agencies; deposit mandates; and key organizations and institutions that are able to support Open Access initiatives. GOAP aims to assist UNESCO Member States in understanding the current state of Open Access and in taking appropriate decisions. UNESCO is soliciting the interest of individual experts and institutions working on Open Access to serve as short-term consultants to provide content from the five regions: Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and North America, and Latin America and the Caribbean. For more details about the consultancy and the information on how to join the OA Community, please contact: Sanjaya Mishra, UNESCO, Information Society Division (s.mishra(a)unesco.org) The promotion of Open Access, with a particular reference to scientific information published in journals, is one of the UNESCO approaches to build knowledge societies. UNESCO believes that research literature should have the highest visibility and be freely available to all. The Organization is advocating, therefore, for OA and participating in debates and discussions to coordinate and organize the OA field through capacity building activities and the creation of a Community of Practice (CoP). The seminar that was organised by the UNESCO Office in New Delhi (India) on 16 March 2011 is one of UNESCO’s activities in the OA field. Over 60 delegates from research institutions in India gathered at the seminar, which was also attended by participants from Bangladesh, Brazil, Italy, Nepal, Netherlands and Sri Lanka. Discussions focused on potentials of Open Access, and good practices and business models around it. The Open Access Community, recently built by UNESCO on the WSIS platform, has already more than 1000 members and hosts many discussions about various issues of interest to stakeholders. OA practitioners are encouraged to join the community and to enrich the debates. Robert Gordon University is the best modern university in the UK (The Times Good University Guide 2011) Robert Gordon University, a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC 013781. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Robert Gordon University. Thank you. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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BEST PAPER AWARD
by ashok upadhyay 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

Subject: Best Paper Award NeGLIS 2011 Dear Professionals, It gives me a great pleasure that a national seminar on ‘Next Generation Library and Information Services’, (NeGLIS 2011) was organized at Maulana Azad Library with the collaboration with DLIS, Aligarh Muslim University during 2-3 April, 2011. The Seminar was a grand success in terms of participation, discussions and its outcome. No. of research papers were presented in the seminar and the best paper award was given to Mr. Monawwrer Eqbal, Librarian and Managing Editor, INMANTEC Institutions Ghaziabad. Mr. Eqbal has 8 yrs library experience and has more than 35 papers at the national and international level. He has also two books in his credit and working as a Editor, Gyankosh the Journal of Library and Management and managing editor of other three journals published by INMANTEC publications. For his bright career we all professionals wished him and expect that he will do your best and for the library profession also. From DR.ASHOK KUMAR UPADHYAY Librarian NOIDA INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (NIET) 19, Knowledge Park-II, Institutional Area, Phase - II, Greater Noida, GB. Nagar, UP (M) 91+9412545849 (ALIGARH) 91+7428066447 (NCR) E-Mail: ashoka143(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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Bids invited for hosting the 2011 IATLIS National Conference.
by Jagtar Singh 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

Dear All, Bids are now invited from interested institutions/ departments of library and information science/university libraries/other libraries for hosting the 28th National Conference of IATLIS to be held in 2011. Theme of the 2011 IATLIS National Conference is 'LIS Education Research and Training: Vision 2020'. This three day annual conference is generally held during November. Interested institutions should send their bids to the President, IATLIS via email as well as via postal mail by 16 May 2011 with tentative dates, and details of the: - infrastructural facilities including accommodation available - manpower (faculty in the department/library staff) - past experience of organizing such events - support of their parent institution - support of other institutions/libraries, and - rail. road and air connectivity, For further details, contact Dr Jagtar Singh, President IATLIS & Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala-147 002 (Punjab) Tel: 0175-3046179 Email: jagtar.kindu(a)gmail.com iatlis.patiala(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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Exemption from NET
by M. Ram 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

Dear Professionals I wish to know the followings: 1.Whether PHD and M Phil holder of Library Science is exempted from NET or Not if exempted any GO regarding this. 2.Many professionals are saying that MHRD rejected the plea of UGC to exempt the Ph D or M Phil holder of Library Science from NET. Any document or order of MHRD regarding this. 3. Whether PHd or Mhill from Distance mode is exempted or not.Any notification regarding this. Thanking you Dr.Mange Ram Deputy Librarian & Incharge University Library Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University), Dayalbagh Agra-5 (UP)INDIA Mail: mram72ster(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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First CFP: M4D2012 - 3rd International Conference on Mobile Communication for Development
by atanu 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers M4D2012: 3rd International Conference on Mobile Communication for Development February 28–29, 2012 New Delhi, India www.m4d2012.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Institute of Management Studies (Ghaziabad, India) in cooperation with HumanIT (Karlstad University, Sweden) invite you to the 3rd International Conference on Mobile Communication for Development (M4D2012), following the inaugural conference in Karlstad, Sweden in 2008 (http://m4d.humanit.org/2008/) and 2nd conference in Kampala, Uganda (http://m4d.humanit.org/) M4D2012 aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and all those with interests in Mobile Communication for Development. M4D2012 will combine two days of workshops, discussions, demos, plenary, paper and panel sessions. The conference activities will take place at a reputed hotel in the National Capital Region of Delhi and the campus of Institute of Management Studies, Ghaziabad. More information in subsequent call for papers and on the website: http://www.m4d2012.com. ***Call for papers, panels and workshops*** We strive to create an inclusive event where all types of actors and formats are included. If you wish to present a paper, demo or poster you submit either to the practitioner or the research track. The research track has a traditional academic conference design while in the practitioner’s track industry, NGOs, and public bodies can discuss experiences, ideas and disseminate knowledge. However this conference is not only for paper presenters but also for all who have an interest in areas of mobility, communication, social change and their intersections. It is our explicit aim to make room for extensive discussions and interaction between all participants throughout the conference. We therefore also invite you who have ideas of different kinds workshops, panels, demos and discussion formats to contact the conference organization (m4d2012(a)gmail.com) All topics that relate to mobile communication and development are welcome. The suggested topics (but not limited to) include: • Social implications of mobile communication • Mobile health • Mobile communication and political participation/ change • Agriculture, rural development and mobile communication • Economic development and mobile communication such as mobile banking and mobile money • Mobile learning • Mobile communication and community awareness/ development • Mobile communication and disaster management • Mobile communication and fighting corruption • Mobile communication and election/ government monitoring • Mobile communication and community awareness/ development • Mobile communication and disaster management • Mobile communication and climate control • Challenges to the proliferation of mobile technology • Mobile communication and women empowerment • Mobile communication and surveillance • Innovative applications for mobile communication ***Important Dates*** Workshop/ panel proposals: Jun 30, 2011 Paper/ poster/ demo: Jul 31, 2011 Acceptance/ review note: Sep 30, 2011 Travel grant application: Oct 15, 2011 Final paper submission: Nov 15, 2011 Early bird registration: Nov 15, 2011 Regular registration: Dec 31, 2011 ***Submission*** All paper presenters will have to apply directly with a more or less finished version upon deadline (July 31), no abstracts should be sent in advance. Paper presenters can choose whether to submit a full paper (maximum of 10 pages) or a short paper (4 pages) to the practitioners or the research track. Poster and demo presenters as well as workshop and panel organizers are requested to submit a 1 page abstract for conference proceedings upon deadline (see above). Poster size is 80 cm maximum width and 120 cm maximum height. Submitting your papers and abstracts, you must use the M4Dtemplate found here: http://m4d.humanit.org/m4d_template.doc. All Submissions to the M4D 2012 should be done using the EasyChair Conference Management system. Please click the following link for the Paper submission: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=m4d2012 ***Travel Grants*** HumanIT will sponsor travel costs and conference fees for a few participants from the developing countries with accepted full papers. Upon acceptance notification, send your paper, together with the reviews of the paper and a motivation letter (1 page maximum) to jakob.svensson(a)kau.se (deadline for application October 15th). The decision on who will get their fees covered will be made by the board of HumanIT. ***Interested in Reviewing? *** Interested in reviewing? Please contact Vikas Kumar (m4d2012(a)gmail.com) and tell how many papers you are interested in reviewing, your areas of interest and your level of expertise. ***Organization*** Conference Chairs: General Chair: Vikas Kumar, IMS, Ghaziabad, India Co-Chair: Jakob Svensson, HumanIT, Karlstad University, Sweden International Advisory Committee: R K Bharadwaj, Director General, IMS, Ghaziabad, India John Sören Pettersson, President, HuamanIT, Karlstad University, Sweden H M Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India R G Gupta, Ministry of Communications & IT, Govt. of India, New Delhi, India Harinder Kumar, DGM (IT & TM), Advance Level Telecom Training Centre, Ghaziabad, India International program committee: Johan Hellström, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Kiran Prasad, Sri Padmavati Mahila University, Tirupati, India Gudrun Wicander (IPID/ HumanIT), Karlstad, Sweden Jude T Lubega, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda Pushpendra Singh, Indraprashtha Institute of Information Technology, New Delhi, India Ravinder Jena, Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur, India Rasika Dayarathna, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka Atanu Garai, AROHEE Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India Local organizing committee: Nripender Dwivedi, IMS, Ghaziabad, India Awadhesh Gupta, IMS, Ghaziabad, India Rajnish Jain, IMS, Ghaziabad, India Smita Agarwal, IMS, Ghaziabad, India Kavindra Garg, IMS, Ghaziabad, India Nitin Rastogi, IMS, Ghaziabad, India Preeti Sirohi, IMS, Ghaziabad, India Tushar Jindal, IMS, Ghaziabad, India -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy for Library Assistants at ISEC
by yekanath kamble 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

Dear All, Applications are invited for three posts of ‘Library Assistant’ at Dr.V K R V Rao Library of Institute for Social and Economic Change, Nagarbhavi, Bangalore. The tenure of position is for six months and it is extendable. Essential Qualification: Graduate in Library and Information Science. Post Graduates may also apply. Salary: Rs.7000/- PM Interested candidates may send or e-mail/their application/resume with full details to. Deputy Librarian Institute for Social and Economic Change Nagarabhavi, Bangalore 560072 Phone: 080-23215468, 23215519, Ext.-305/303 Fax :( 91 080)23217008 Mobile.09448585358 leela(a)isec.ac.in yekanathnkamble(a)yahoo.com yekanathnk(a)isec.ac.in ************************************************************************************** Yekanath N K Assistant Librarian Institute for Social and Economic Change (An All-India Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and Training in the Social Sciences) Nagarabhavi,Bangalore 560072 Phone: 080-23215468, 23215519, Ext.-305 Fax:(91 080)23217008 Mobile.09448585358 E-mail:yekanathnkamble@yahoo.com E-mail:yekanathnk@isec.ac.in www.isec.ac.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 an article
by LIBRARY 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

Namaskars, One of the academicians in our Centre needs this article. Could any one kindly help us by sending a copy of the same. Factoring and weighting approaches to status scores and clique identification The Journal of Mathematical Sociology Volume 2, Issue 1, 1972, Pages 113 - 120 Author: Phillip Bonacicha Thanks & regards, Veena -- -------------------------------------------------- Library TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics Phone: 91-80-66953757 Post Bag No. 6503, Sharada Nagar, Fax: 91-80-66953799 Chikkabommasandra, GKVK Post, URL: http://math.tifrbng.res.in Yalahanka New Town, Bangalore-560 065 Bharat -------------------------------------------------- "Every duty is holy and devotion to duty is the highest form of the worship of God." - Swami Vivekananda -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Announcement and Call for Papers
by Ranjit Das 10 Apr '11

10 Apr '11

Dear Professionals, I take the pleasure in informing you that KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha is organizing the First “*International Conference* *On* *Digital Library and Electronic Information Management and Control” during **8th to 10th October 2011 *for the first time in the state. Digital Library and Electronic Information Management and Control is the out come of the development of information and communication technology or access facilities in libraries, an enhanced skill base and improved telecommunication and information technology facilities within and across geographical boundaries. The Information Communication Technology revolution at the end of 20th Century has revamped the ways in which information can be created, harvested, assembled, combined, manipulated and enhanced. Therefore, a nation’s capacity to develop systems that support the upgradation in the lifestyle of the civilized and cultured society. The objective of the conference is to juxtapose the library professionals with IT professionals for the management and control of the electronic information with regards to Digital Library. This interaction is expected to create understanding of the needs to manage the Libraries now-a-days with the advent of new technology. * * *Delegate Profile:* * * ICDLEIMC 2011 will witness cross-disciplinary participation by policy makers - Library and Information Scientists - IT Professionals - Knowledge Managers - Educationists - Electronic Publishers - Information Scientists - Information providers and vendors - All stakeholders in the digitization and knowledge business - Policy makers The conference aims to explore the topics in themes and sub themes through tutorials, workshops, demonstrations, invited talks and presentations. Eminent researchers, academicians and practitioners will be invited to deliver theme papers on selected papers. * * *CALL FOR PAPERS:* ICDLEIMC 2011 invites original papers and case studies on various facets of the conference theme, as listed here. *Theme: Digital Library and Electronic Information Management and Control* - Planning, development and management of Digital Libraries - New Technologies and adaptability - Digital Library Development: Technical Issues - Web design and Interfaces - Digital Preservation - Digital Resource sharing and Networking: Consortia, Open Archives etc. - Content organization and knowledge management - Information Storage and Retrieval for global access - User studies and system evaluation - E-learning - Multilingual information retrieval system and Unicode - Organization of traditional and electronic Resources cataloguing, metadata, XML, Dublin Core, New Generation Catalogues, etc. - Indexing and Classification in a digital Environment, Taxonomies, Information architecture, Ontology, Natural Language Processing, Intelligent Mediators, etc. - Resource Discovery Tools-Search Engines, Directories, Semantic web, Intelligent Retrieval, Multi and Cross Lingual Retrieval, Information audit, etc. - Digital Library services - Copy right issues in Digital Era *Important dates :* * * *Deadline for Submissions of Abstract of Papers* *May 1st , 2011* *Notification for Acceptance of Papers* *June 1st, 2011* *Full Paper Submission* *July 1st, 2011* * * For details please log on to the conference website at www.kiit.ac.in/icdleimc2011 -- Thanking You. Yours sincerely, Dr. Ranjit Kumar Das, Organizing Secretary, ICDLEIMC-2011, Kushabhadra Campus, KIIT Campus-5, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar-751 024, ODISHA, INDIA. Mob:- +91-94371 77669, Tel: +91-674-2725472, 2725415,2725708 Fax No: +91-674-2725708. Email: library(a)kiit.ac.in, ranjitkumardaskims(a)gmail.com Web: www.kiit.ac.in/icdleimc2011 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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A presentation on "The time for Libraries now"- very cool and must see for all LIS professionals
by Shalini Urs 09 Apr '11

09 Apr '11

Hello friends, I came across the coolest presentation on Libraries. This is as good and would say far superior any cool marketing blitz any company has done it. Please see, enjoy and use it to market and reposition libraries. It also tells how to reposition! http://www.slideshare.net/thewikiman/the-time-for-libraries-is-now Happy viewing! Shalini Dr. Shalini Urs Executive Director and Professor International School of Information Management University of Mysore 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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