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2011 ASIS&T SIG-III International Paper Contest
by atanu 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

Please see the announcement below. [From: Shaheen Maqsood, posted on 25 January 2011 at IFLA-L list] Announcement of the 2011 ASIS&T SIG-III International Paper Contest The Special Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG-III) of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is pleased to announce its eleventh competition for papers to be submitted for the 2011 Annual Meeting, which will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana, October 7-12, 2011. (http://www.asis.org/asist2011/am11cfp.html) Building from the overall conference theme, the theme for this year’s paper contest is: "Bridging the Gulf: Communication and Information in Society, Technology, and Work". Papers could discuss issues, policies and case studies on specific aspects of the theme from a global and/or international perspective. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following core areas: 1. Intercultural Information Ethics: Critical reflection on the ethical challenges related to the global and cross-cultural production, storage, and distribution of information, as well as the ethical dimensions of the global development and implementation of information systems, infrastructures, and policies. 2. Information Behavior: Information needs, information seeking, information gaps and sensemaking in various contexts including work, interests or every-day life activities by individuals or groups. 3. Knowledge Organization: Indexing, index construction, indexing languages, thesaurus construction, terminology, classification of information in any form, tagging (expert, userbased, automatic), filtering, metadata, standards for metadata, information architecture. 4. Information Systems, Interactivity and Design: How people use and communicate with information systems; the design, use and evaluation of interactive information technologies and systems, including interfaces and algorithms; search and retrieval, browsing, visualization, personalization. 5. Information and Knowledge Management: Information and knowledge creation, transfer and use at the personal, group, organizational and societal levels. The management of the processes and systems that create, acquire, organize, store, distribute, and use information and/or knowledge. Selected papers will be published in the International Journal of Information Management. 6. Information Use: How people re-purpose existing knowledge from a variety of sources (scientific, humanities, news, family, friends, colleagues), forms (articles, books, video, audio, tweets), locations (work, home, in transit) and mediums (cell-phones, PDAs, digital libraries) to advance knowledge, solve problems, improve information literacy, and learn. 7. Information and Society: Economic, Political, Social Issues: Copyright issues, policies and laws; national and international information policies; privacy and security; economics of information, personal rights vs. freedom of information; surveillance; globalization and the flows of information; computerization movements; social informatics. Selection Criteria There will be up to six winners who will be selected by a panel of judges including: Maqsood Shaheen (IRC, US Embassy Islamabad), Johannes Britz (UW-Milwaukee), Maria Haigh (UW-Milwaukee), Hong Xu (University of Pittsburg), Catherine Johnson (Western Ontario), Anindita Paul (University of Missouri), and Borchuluun Yadamsuren (University of Missouri). The judging criteria will be based on: 1. Originality of paper in the developing world and global information ecosystem (originality of the project described, etc.) 2. Relevance to the paper contest theme 3. Quality of argument, presentation and organization Eligibility & Information for authors Only papers by a principal author who is a citizen of, and resides in a developing country are eligible. Winners in the 2007-2010 contests are not eligible. The papers should be original, unpublished, and submitted in English. We encourage submissions from librarians, information and network specialists, and educators involved in the creation, representation, maintenance, exchange, discovery, delivery, and use of digital information. Award The award for each winner is a two-year individual membership in ASIS&T. In the case of multiple authors, the principal author will be awarded the ASIS&T membership. In addition, depending on SIG III fundraising for this competition, the first place winner will be rewarded a minimum of $1,000 toward travel, conference registration, and accommodations while attending the ASIS&T Annual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, October 7-12, 2011. Style The international paper contest committee requires that submissions follow the International Information and Library Review instructions to authors. Detailed information is available under the heading, Guide for Authors at: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622845/authori… Publishing opportunities Submitted papers will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the International Information and Library Review, subject to the usual peer refereeing process, for that journal. ASIS&T Copyright Policy ASIS&T will have the non-exclusive right to publish any of the papers submitted on its web site or in print, with ownership and all other rights remaining with the author. Deadline for submission of full papers: Authors are invited to submit manuscripts, not to exceed 5,000 words, by May 31, 2011, to Maqsood Shaheen at ShaheenMA(a)gmail.com, preferably as Microsoft Word or PDF attachments. Maqsood Shaheen Chair, Committee on International Paper Contest Special Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG-III) American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) Email: ShaheenMA(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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Article request
by Swati Bhattacharyya 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

Dear Moderator, Please post this message on lis-forum: Hello All, I would request you to please let me know if your library has one or more of the following journals (years are indicatd against each title) in either print or electronic format. I need a few articles from these journals. 1. Newspaper Research Journal 1981, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1995 2. Journalism and Mass Communication 1995 3. Journalism Quarterly 1986, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1994 4. Presstime 1996 5. Mass Communication and Society 2001 6. Journal of Communication 1983 7. Communication Research -1994 Thanks, Swati Bhattacharyya -------------------------------------------------- Librarian Indian Institute of Management Joka Diamond Harbor Road Calcutta - 700104 Phone: 091-33-24678300 Extn: 416 FAX: 091-33-2467-8062 Email: swati @iimcal.ac.in -------------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fw: [LISEA] Call for Participants to A-LIEP 2011 Pre-conference Workshop 21 June and A-LIEP 2011 Conference 22-24 June 2011
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

From: Rafidah Abdul Aziz <rafidah3802(a)SALAM.UITM.EDU.MY> Subject: [LISEA] Call for Participants to A-LIEP 2011 Pre-conference Workshop 21 June and A-LIEP 2011 Conference 22-24 June 2011 To: LISEA(a)MLIST.NTU.EDU.SG Date: Wednesday, 2 March, 2011, 8:40 The organizing committee cordially invites you and colleagues to participate in the A-LIEP 2011 conference with its main theme encompassing Library, Information and Records Management-Practice and Education in these 3 related fields. There are also 3 pre-conference workshops that you and colleagues may be interested in. Please visit the web site: http://fim.uitm.edu.my/a-liep2011 for more details. Kindly forward this to your colleagues, students, and people in the information industry who may benefit from it. Thank you for your kind attention and response. Regards, A-LIEP 2011 Committee Faculty of Information Management Universiti Teknologi MARA Puncak Perdana Campus Shah Alam, Selangor. MALAYSIA -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Seminar on Networking of Libraries
by Kishor Satpathy 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

National Seminar on Networking of Library and Information Centres of North East India in Digital Environment (NLICDE-2011) (21-23 March 2011) ORGANISED UNDER THE AEGIS OF National Library, Kolkata Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India Organized by Central Library, National Institute of Technology Silchar THEME Networking of Library and Information Centres of NE India in Digital Environment SUB-THEMES 1. Networking of Educational & Research Institutes of NE India 2. Library Consortia, Networking and Resource Sharing of LICs of NE India 3. Impact of ICTs on LICs of NE India: Issues and Challenges. 4. Web 2.0 / Lib 2.0 and Its Implications in LICs of NE India 5. Open Access, DL/ IR Initiatives in LICs of NE India OBJECTIVES 1. The principal objectives of this seminar is to provide a platform for exchange of knowledge, ideas & learning experience among the Librarians, Information specialists, Information providers & persons related to LIS. 2. To identify constraints, problems and challenges relating to networking & information sharing of LICs of NE India. 3. To develop inter-institute links within the North East India to facilitate effective exchange of information resources among the information professionals of NE India. 4. To initiate a library Consortia in North East India & to suggest the mechanisms to set up North East India Library & Information Network (NEILIBNET). WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Practicing Librarians, Retired Library Professionals, Teachers, IT Professionals, Knowledge Workers, Students and Faculties of LIS etc of the country in general and of the North East India in particular are the targeted participants. CALL FOR PAPERS Papers based on Case studies, Researches, Practical experiences, etc. on the main theme and sub-themes of the Seminar are invited from the interested persons. The Paper should be within 6000 word including Abstract of about 300 words with 4 keywords and typed in MS-WORD in 12-point Times New Roman. All the references should be properly tagged and referred following Chicago Manual Style. The authors should agree with the transfer of the copyright of the papers to NL, Kolkata and the NIT Silchar. The same should be sent as e-mail attachment to the Organizing Secretary on or before 10th March 2011. All the received papers will be peer–reviewed. Only the accepted papers will be published in an edited book format to be published under the aegis National Library, Kolkata. REGISTRATION Interested delegates need to resister for the Seminar. Registration, Boarding and Lodging for the Seminar is free. Due to limited financial resources, only the selected participants (presenting papers) from North-East Region shall be paid TA on production of Train/Bus/Sumo fare receipts. Please note that there will be no telephonic or on-the-spot registration, so please send your registrations before 10th March 2011. CONTACT DETAILS Kishor Chandra Satpathy Librarian & Organising Secretary. National Institute of Technology (A Deemed University-Institute of National Importance under Ministry of HRD, GOI) Silchar-788010, Assam, India Telephone : +91-3842-240055 (Off) +91-9435175531 (M) E-mail : kishor_satpathy(a)yahoo.com and ksatpathy(a)gmail.com Seminar updates can be accessed at: http://nerlibnet.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 Information
by Dr.D.P Prathap 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Dear colleagues If anybody has access to the following book chapter, please provide : Title: Transgenic plants : methods and protocols, Series: Methods in Molecular Biology 286, 2004 (Springer) *Chapter: histochemical and fluorometric assays for uicl a (us) gene detection.* *p.203-213* thanking you Sincerely T.Shanmuganathan Technical Officer (Library) Sugarcane Breeding Institute Coimbatore, M:99944-61172 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Rupee Symbol insertion - Reg
by Eswar rao Nadiminti 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Dear colleges Please tell me how to add rupee symbol in WINISIS database instead of Rs. and also let me see in the print format ok -- N.ESWARA RAO Assistant Professor in Library Science GODAVARI INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING COLLEGE ,RAJAHMUNDRY. NH-5 ,CHITANYA KNOWLEDGECITY VELUGUBANDA (V), RAJANAGARAM ( M),RAJAHMNDRY-533296 -- 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 Mar 2011
by hrmohan＠vsnl.com 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Dear all, The 20th issue (Volume 2. issue 4) of CSI eNewsletter dt. 1st Mar 2011 is ready and can be accessed at http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2011-03-01.pdf and also at the CSI KM Portal http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/enewsletter For the archives of this newsletter, pl. visit http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-archives.htm or at http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/archives 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 ======= -- eBook: Storage Virtualization for Dummies -- 7 Virtualization Challenges -- Is SOA Being Pushed Beyond Its Limits? -- Design Considerations for Software plus Services and Cloud Computing -- Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Design -- Business Insight = Business Infrastructure = BI Platform -- Red Hat PaaS: Bringing Open Choice & Application Portability to the Cloud -- The Fundamental Principles of Network Security -- Desktop Virtualization: Drivers, Challenges, and Best Practices -- 9 Essential Requirements for Web 2.0 Security -- Data Center Project: Standardized Process -- Blade server technology faces virtualization hit in the data center -- MCA programme: Eligibility, Best Institutes, more -- Careers & Courses: Software Testing -- Web 3.0 Emerging -- How to divorce your tech vendor -- Design Rules by Eric S. Raymond, the author of the book The Art of Unix Programming. -- Some startling facts in India -- ICT News Headlines & Briefs -- Announcements -- IT Events: Call for Papers & Participation -- Book: IT Strategy for Business -- Book: Entrepreneurship -- Book: Testing in 30+ Open Source Tools -- Book: Nothing is Absolute -- About the CSI-eNewsletter -- Contributions to CSI-eNewsletter -- eNewsletter Committee InfoQuiz–2011-03-01 (Six Prizes to Win – Four Books and Two Awards of Rs. 500/- each) ================================================================= 1. ------ is a tweet that is exactly 140 characters long. 2. In SMS/Chat lingo “OMG”means what? 3. Who is considered as the "Father of information theory?" 4. Classical Computer : bits = Quantum Computer : ------ 5. Identify the company whose tagline is “Exceed Your Vision” Email your answers by 20th Mar 2011 to csi.infoquiz(a)gmail.com with subject “infoquiz-2011-03-01”. 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 (http://www.oup.co.in) & Shroff Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd (http://www.shroffpublishers.com) will present the books which are briefly reviewed above. In all, there will be SIX prizes – TWO cash prizes of Rs. 500/- each and FOUR prizes of one book each. Answers along with the winner info will be published in the next issue. Answers & Winners of InfoQuiz-2011-02-01 =============================== Vodafone, handsets from Motorola, Chatter, twttr, Tally Awards of Rs. 500/= each from SRA Systems to Mr. R. Jayakanthan from Chennai and to Ms. S. Sangeetha from Walajapet. Books from Oxford University Press: “Mechatronics: Integrated Technologies for Intelligent Machines” to Mr. N.M. Zaheer from Chennai & “Skills Development for Business and Management” to Mr. M.Elavazhagan from Kanchipuram. Books from Shroff Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd: “97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know” to Ms. L. Kannagi, from Guduvancherry & “Heads You Win Tails You Win” to Mr. S. Shankar from Hosur. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Opportunities for Library professionals
by Swati Bhattacharyya 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

lis-forum coordinator - please post this message: Opportunities for Library professionals A Human Resource Agency (Updater Services Ltd. Kolkata) is inviting applications from trained Library and Information Science graduates, for placing them in the library of a Kolkata-based institute. The requirements are: 1. Minimum qualification: M.Lib.Sc with good result and strong aptitude towards working in fully computerized environment. 2. Desirable: Training in MS-Office (ability to work with MS Access and spreadsheet) and other software necessary for library work. 3. Experience: A few of the positions will be filled up with professionals already having working experiences in large libraries. At the maximum level, the experience should be in the area of one or more of (i) working with MARC-21 record structure (ii) working with library software such as Libsys, Softlink, Virtua, KOHA (iii) record management for electronic resources (iv) knowledge of cataloguing, classification, metadata. Rest of the positions will be filled up with professional with less experience (in terms of the area of experience and/or years of experience). Fresh graduates may also be considered if found suitable. 4. Remuneration: Rs 9,000 Rs 18,000/ p.m. depending on range and number of years of experience. 5. Duration: The positions are purely on contractual basis and initially for one year. Hence permanent position holders must not apply. Interested individuals may send their resume. Those who want their current experiences to be considered must provide details of experiences (duration of experience, nature of job done) duly certified by the organization. Please email your application to udskolkata(a)uds.in with subject line: Attn Mr. P.K. Sen for Library positions. Applications can also be mailed to the undersigned (swati(a)iimcal.ac.in) which will be forwarded to the agency. Swati Bhattacharyya -------------------------------------------------- Librarian Indian Institute of Management Joka Diamond Harbor Road Calcutta - 700104 Phone: 091-33-24678300 Extn: 416 FAX: 091-33-2467-8062 Email: swati @iimcal.ac.in -------------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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DCSMAT Invites applications for library trainees.
by Rajesh M N 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

*DCSMAT* Institutions invites Applications for the post of *Professional Trainees* for our Vagamon Campus Library. For more details follow the link below. http://www.dcschool.net/php/showAnnouncementDetails.php?ann_id=7 With regards, Rajesh M N Assistant Librarian Library and Research Centre DC School of Management and Technology Vagamon -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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3 days training program on Content Management using Open Source Tool-DRUPAL
by shivaram gowda 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

Dear Professionals/Memmbers, The Information center of CSIR-NAL, ICAST, an ISO-9001: 2008 Certified Center (http://www.icast.org.in) is imparting 3 days training program on Content Management using Open Source Tool-DRUPAL. This training program is targeted to professional interested in and responsible for creating, managing and providing web based information service. The details of the training program are given below: TITLE: Content Management using Open Source Tool-DRUPAL DATE: 19-21 April 2011 VENUE: NAL-ICAST Lecture Hall, NAL, Bangalore - 560017 TARGET AUDIENCE: Librarians, Information and KM managers, Content Managers, Information systems managers, etc, with adequate knowledge of IT applications. TRAINING PROGRAM OBJECTIVE and COVERAGE: The objective of this training program is to enable individual and organisations to initiate building their library and subject specific web portals. The specific goal of the training program is to impart practical training to participants in using the package for creation and maintenance of their library portal. Focus is on installing, configuring, customizing and administration of this package. The main objective is to acquire complete knowledge and skill sets required to build one’s own subject specific web portal. Training Program Contents: Introduction to Content Management An Overview of Drupal Installation of Drupal on Linux/Windows Modules, Themes, Menus & Blocks Configuration Content Creation Functionality Custom Content Kit (CCK) & Taxonomy Views Configuration User management Site Configuration Multilingual Content Report Generations & Backup Number of Participants: Restricted to 25, it will be FIRST COME FIRST SERVE BASIS. Registration fee: Rs. 2000/- per participant, DD should be drawn in favor of Director NAL, payable at Bangalore. NOTE: Limited arrangements for accommodation at NAL Guest house for outstation participants on first come first serve basis. For further information, please visit the Seminar website at: http://www.icast.org.in/cm/contmgnt.html To register kindly send an E-Mail to Training program Coordinator. Dr. Poornima Narayana Head, ICAST National Aerospace Laboratories Bangalore - 560 017 E-Mail: poornima(a)nal.res.in; adminicast(a)nal.res.in Telephone: Tel: 080-25086080, 81, 82, 83. Fax: 080-25268072 Registration Form Participant’s Name: Ms./ Mr./ Dr. Position: Organization: Address: City: Pin: Telephone: Fax: Email: Registration details: Registration Fee per participant Rs. 2,000/- I need accommodation in NAL Guesthouse: YES / NO (Note: Accommodation charges are as per guest-house rates. Bill to be settled in the guest-house directly) Dates of accommodation requirement: From: To: Payment details: DD No. & date: Bank drawn on: Amount:(Note: DD to be drawn in favor of “Director NAL” payable at Bangalore) with warm Regards ICAST, CSIR-NAL, Bangalore-17 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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