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CALL FOR PAPERS: The American Library Association's Near East and South Asia (NESA) Subcommittee
by Bibhuti B. Sahoo 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Dear All, CALL FOR PAPERS: The American Library Association's Near East and South Asia (NESA) Subcommittee is seeking papers for presentation at the American Library Association Annual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, June 23-28, 2011. Papers should focus on some aspect of digital libraries, institutional repositories, or digitization projects in the Near East and South Asia. Please see http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/iro/neareastsouth.cfm for a list of countries that the subcommittee covers as proposed papers should include projects or institutions in one or more of these countries. The subcommittee will consider a broad range of papers related to the topic. Possible subjects include but are not limited to: * Collaborative projects between U.S. or European institutions and institutions in the NESA countries * Projects that effect a virtual reunification of cultural records * Digitization of manuscripts, rare books, photographs, maps or historic documents unique to the NESA countries * Promoting establishment and use of institutional repositories to capture intellectual output * Technical and financial challenges for creating digital libraries in the region Papers will be selected based on their originality, clarity, and relevance to the NESA countries. Presenters will be responsible for their own travel and registration expenses (although registration waivers may be available). If you are interested, please send a 200 word abstract and vita to Richard Sapon-White, chair, ALA Near East and South Asia Subcommittee by February 19, 2011 at richard.sapon-white(a)oregonstate.edu. -- Thanks and Regards Dr. Bibhuti Bhusan Sahoo Central Library, INDEST - AICTE Consortium Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110016 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION : NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LIBRARY 2.0
by jiban＠isical.ac.in 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Dear professional colleagues, A three-day Workshop on Library 2.0 (NATWOL2) is to be organized by the Indian Statistical Institute Library (Kolkata) in collaboration with North Eastern Hill University (Shillong); which will be held at NEHU campus, during March 7 to 9, 2011. A maximum number of 20 participants (only from north-eastern region of India) will be taken for the workshop on first-come-first-serve basis. No fees will be charged for registration, accommodation, etc. to attend the Workshop. Therefore, the professional colleagues belonging to north-eastern states of India may register for the workshop. Further details, please visit at: http://www.isical.ac.in/~Natwol2 (Jiban K Pal) Library, Documentation & Info. Sc. Division, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata E-mail: jiban(a)isical.ac.in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Quote: The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity... (Thomas Henry Huxley) This mail is scanned by Ironport -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fw: [oadl] Fwd: Urgent: Librarians' help needed to legalize parallel imports
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pranesh Prakash <pranesh(a)cis-india.org> Date: Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:52 PM Subject: Urgent: Librarians' help needed to legalize parallel imports To: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah.arunachalam(a)gmail.com> Subject: [oadl] Fwd: Urgent: Librarians' help needed to legalize parallel imports Dear Prof. Arunachalam, Krithika, and Gopa, Could you please circulate this amongst all the librarians and library associations that you know, and if possible follow up with them? I was told that we can also circulate this among the Koha, the LIS India and the LibTech mailing lists. Thanks. Regards, Pranesh ===== Dear all, Among the proposed amendments to the Copyright Act is a proposal to legalize parallel importation of books into India. This provision is now under threat because a publishers association convinced the HRD Minister (Kapil Sibal, who is in charge of copyright law) that no one is calling for parallel importation. The Copyright Office told me that we need to get in touch with the Minister by today if parallel importation is to be considered. Could you ask whichever libraries and library organizations you know to send in letters to the Minister today itself? I have attached a letter that could serve as a template. # What is Parallel Importation? Parallel importation allows books that are (legally) bought overseas to be imported into India without asking the copyright owners permission. Without parallel importation being allowed, purchases made by libraries from foreign sellers (for instance on the Internet) are rendered illegal. International organizations like the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL), and Consumers International all support parallel importation, especially in developing countries. # What can be done to safeguard parallel importation? E-mail: Mr. Kapil Sibal: hrm(a)nic.in BCC: pranesh(a)cis-india.org (so that he can quote them when he speaks to journalists). You can fax the letter to: +91 11 23382365 To call him at his office numbers: +91 11 23782698 +91 11 23782387 And to follow it up with a letter sent by registered post to: Kapil Sibal Minister for Human Resource Development Room No 301 Shastri Bhawan Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road New Delhi - 110 001 If they need help, I have written more extensively about why we need parallel importation here: http://goo.gl/7MiMf Pranesh can be contacted at: +91 9916158217. -- Pranesh Prakash Programme Manager Centre for Internet and Society W: http://cis-india.org | T: +91 80 40926283 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Articles Request
by Harish Y S 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Dear all Please do favour to send following article as it is required by our research scholar. Details are given below 1. TITLE - TOOL WEAR STUDIES ON ALUMINIUM MATRIX HYBRID COMPOSITES AUTHOR - L KRISHNAMURTHY, D ABDUL BUDAN, BK SRIDHARA, ETAL. JOURNAL - International Journal for Manufacturing Science and Technology, vol11 (1) 2009 Page 5-10 2. TITLE - TOOL WEAR STUDIES ON ALUMINIUM MATRIX HYBRID COMPOSITES AUTHOR - L KRISHNAMURTHY, D ABDUL BUDAN, BK SRIDHARA, ETAL. JOURNAL -JOURNAL OF FUTURE ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY,Vol.1 (1) 2009 Page 26-32 -- Regards Harish Y S Librarian National Institute of Engineering, Manandavadi Road, Mysore-8, Mob - +919886384826 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Conversion from Microfilm to DVD
by Sriram V 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Dear friends, Our library has a large collection of Microfilms. Since the media is outdated, and the support for maintenance of its readers are not easily available, we wish to convert them to DVD. I would like to get the contact details of companies who can provide the conversion. If anyone is having the details please provide me the same and also your share your experience about the conversion and its outcome. Thanks and Regards, V. Sriram Chief Librarian, K N Raj Library Centre For Development Studies Prasanth Nagar, Ulloor Thiruvananthapuram - 695011. India P +91 471 2448881-4, C +91 94472 51892 E-mail: sriram(a)cds.ac.in Web: www.cds.edu -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Lecture invitation
by SRELS 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Dear Moderator: Kindly arrange to announce the following invitation for the benefit of LIS-FORUM members. Sincerely, K.N. Prasad, SRELS ********* Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS), Bangalore in association with Informatics (India) Ltd., Bangalore and Ranganathan Centre for Information Studies, Chennai & Bangalore cordially invites you to the Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Memorial Lectures (16) (2011) on PEOPLE, CULTURE, AND 21 CENTURY LIBRARIES by Dr. Gary Marchionini Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA on 17 , 18 , and 19 February 2011, at 6.00 pm each day at SRELS, 702, 'Upstairs', 42 Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Mr. N.V. Sathyanarayana Chairman & Managing Director, Informatics (India) Ltd., Bangalore Inaugurates Tea: 5.30 pm RSVP:1. K.N. Prasad-Ph: (080) 23305109 E-mail: srels(a)dataone.in ********* Abstracts Day 1. The transformation of Libraries as Institutions: Physical-Digital Hybrids Electronic technologies have brought great changes to information work, including libraries Library automation: classification, organizations, catalogs (e.g., MARC, OCLC, ISI) Online searching, virtual reference Databases and IR techniques Digital libraries Technology Drivers Digitization Indexing, Metadata Network transfer, interoperability Preservation Human Drivers New skills, roles, adoptions Culture Drivers Economies of scale and action Intellectual Property Cooperation, Policies Hybrid Libraries Shared collections Local special collections lnteroperations High tech vs high touch decisions Day 2. Humans as information Creators, Collectors, Consumers, and Communicators Human Memory and Institutional History Creation, capture, and reuse revolutions in the information life cycle Capture: cameras, recorders, sensors, scanners Editors, mixers and mashups Personal Collections Physical Digital Information Consumption Learning: effectiveness, retention Working: flow, efficiency Entertaining: engagement, enjoyment Communication Social networks Participatory Libraries: Institutional + Personal Libraries Day 3. Libraries of People and their State Changes: Saturday Computational Agents and Social Media Agents as Assistants, Surrogates, Observers, and Adversaries Social media: individuals, groups, culture blur Proflection Theory Projections of Self: Exoinformation Purposeful Unconscious Reflections of Self Human Machine Participatory Libraries of Proflections of Personal Identity Libraries as Reflections of Cyberspace Culture Gary Marchionini, Brief Bio Gary Marchionini is the Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He teaches courses in humaninformation interaction, interface design and testing, and digital libraries. He heads the Interaction Design Laboratory at SILS. His Ph.D. is from Wayne State University in mathematics education with an emphasis on educational computing. He has published over 200 articles, chapters and reports in a variety of books and journals. He is author of a book titled Information Seeking in Electronic Environments published by Cambridge University Press and a forthcoming book titled Information Concepts: From books to Personal Identities in Cybespace. Professor Marchionini has had grants or research awards from the National Science Foundation, Council on Library Resources, the National Library of Medicine, the Library of Congress, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Kellogg Foundation, and NASA, The National Cancer Institute, Microsoft, Google, and IBM among others. Professor Marchionini was Editorin- Chief for the ACM Transaction on Information Systems (2002- 2008) and is the editor for the Morgan-Claypool Lecture Series on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services. He has been program chair forACM SIGIR (2005) and ACM/IEEE JCDL (2002) as well as general chair ofACMDL96 and JCDL2006. He serves or has served on a dozen editorial boards and is the 2010 president of the American Society of Information Science and Technology. His current interests and projects are related to: interfaces that support information seeking and information retrieval; usability of personal health records; alternative representations for electronic documents; multimedia browsing strategies; digital libraries; and evaluation of interactive media, especially for learning and teaching. He currently has a 3-year grant from NSF on established a search results framework that supports searches over multiple sessions and in collaboration. He also has a one-year grant from NSF to investigate the viability of Second Life as an environment for promoting digital preservation. -- 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 Feb 2011
by hrmohan＠vsnl.com 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Dear all, The 19th issue (Volume 2. issue 3) of CSI eNewsletter dt. 1st Feb 2011 is ready and can be accessed at http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2011-02-01.pdf and also at the CSI KM Portal http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/enewsletter You are free to forward this mail to your contacts who may like the information presented in the mail. 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 With regards HR Mohan Chairman, Div IV, CSI & eNewsletter Committee, IEEE CS Madras Contents ======= -- System Administration Soft Skills -- Virtualization: Blessing or Curse? -- The future of eBooks -- The 11 Drivers of Software Innovation in 2011 -- Book: Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries by David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu and Richard Schmalensee -- EMC’s cloud certification: Another way to validate cloud competency -- The Internet of Things -- The rise of the networked enterprise: Web 2.0 finds its payday -- Nine ways to avoid open source pitfalls -- 5 big themes in BI for 2011 -- The business focused CIO: The need of the hour for Indian enterprises -- Indian CIOs open up to open source -- Unified Communications: The new mouthpiece in enterprises -- Why don't firewalls work? -- Make a career in the BPO sector: Post your queries! -- Careers & Courses: Animation & Digital Technology -- ITU Report on “Power of ICTs in tackling climate change” -- French Proverbs -- Great One Liners. -- ICT News Headlines & Briefs -- Announcements -- IT Events: Call for Participation & Call For Papers -- Book: Mechatronics: Integrated Technologies for Intelligent Machines -- Book: Skills Development for Business and Management -- Book: 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know -- Book: Heads You Win Tails You Win -- About the CSI-eNewsletter -- Contributions to CSI-eNewsletter -- eNewsletter Committee InfoQuiz–2011-02-01 (Six Prizes to Win – Four Books and Two Awards of Rs. 500/- each) 1. “m-Paisa” – the mobile banking service is from ------ 2. What is common: Milestone, Flipout, Charm, Quench 3. ------ is a Facebook-style social media application for business from Salsesforce.com 4. The original product name/code name of the popular microblogging service twitter was ------ 5. Identify the company whose tagline is “Power of Simplicity” Email your answers by 13th Feb 2011 to csi.infoquiz(a)gmail.com with subject “infoquiz-2011-02-01”. 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 (Mechatronics: Integrated Technologies for Intelligent Machines, Skills Development for Business and Management) whose brief review appear in this issue. 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-2011-01-16 ================================== IBM, Mobile Applications Stores, Nicholas Carr, Micromax, symbolics.com Awards of Rs. 500/= each from SRA Systems to Mr. J.Vijayaraghavan from Chennai and to Mr. Debasis Ghosh from Kolkata Books from Oxford University Press: “Bioinformatics: Databases, Tools and Algorithms (with CD)” to Ms. Arati S. Nayak from Dharwad & “Leadership and Team Building” to Mr. G. Dorababu from Chennai. Books from Shroff Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd: “97 Things Every Programmer Should Know” to Mr. G.Vimal Raj from Chennai & “Time Out for Leaders” to Mr. Ravi Kumar from Chennai. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Seminar on Information and Knowledge Dissemination: Present Status and Future Direction
by bidhan chaudhuri 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Dear Members, We invite you all to participate in a national seminar on Information and Knowledge Dissemination: Present Status and Future Direction (IKD-2011) during May 6-7, 2011 organized by Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata. Research papers on the topics mentioned bellow are invited. For more information about the seminar please visit the conference webpage (www.cgcri.res.in/ikd2011) Topics: • Knowledge Dissemination Mechanism and Practices in Knowledge Resource Centre • Open Access and Knowledge Dissemination • Scholarly Communication, Grey Literature etc • Institutional Repositories: Case Studies • Role of Publishing Industries in Knowledge Dissemination • Knowledge Processing, Content Organization • Resource Description Framework (RDF) • Digital Library/Repository • Role of Web 2.0 in Information Dissemination: Blog, Wiki • Information User and Knowledge Dissemination in Digital Era • Issues Involved in Indigenous Knowledge Dissemination • Intellectual Property Right and Knowledge Dissemination • E-Resource Sharing • Right to Information Act with regards, -- Bidhan Chaudhuri CG & CRI Kolkata 700 032 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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?Classic articles in physics-jan 19 request
by jasim s 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

There was a request in our forum on jan 19 asking for the ? two classic articles in physics:it follows as... We wish to acquire the following two articles. If anybody has these articles, could you please send us the pdf of the same (or hardcopy at the address mentioned below, in case pdf is not possible). The articles requested are : 1. Arkiv for Matematik, Astronomi och Fysik, 1942, v.28A (6), p.19- , Alfven,H./ Remarks on the reotation of a magnetized sphere with application to solar rotation. 2. Nature, 1942, v.150, p.405-406, Alfven,H./ Existence of electromagnetic-hydrodynamic waves. The article with serial number two was available over the internet and that with the number first with a broken link and was not accessible.I mailed for assistance for locating it to the Science Reference Librarian of Library of Congress and the British Library.The very next day the Reference Librarian of the British Library responded that it was available there and a processing fees of 10 pound(approx) may be sent to customer service division to procure it.The science Reference Librarian Of LOC was kind enough to sent the scanned pdf file free of any processing charge of the same under fair use privilege for our Library. So it will be useful for all of us to make use of online reference services of the great libraries LOC and the British Library for Precise Information search. The Interesting thing is that the mail bounced back twice when i emailed to the person who requested the articles in our forum ... ;-) Jasimudeen.s MG University Library Kottayam Kerala -- *Life is like a book:what matter is how good it is ,not how long it is" * -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Securing Ph.D. degree to become tough
by Dhanukumar Pattanashetti 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Dear Professionals, An interesting article in The Hindu regarding PhD admissions. http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article114117… Best Regards, Dhanu ************************************************************** Dhanu Pattanashetti, BE, MLISc IEEE Client Services Manager, India Email - dhanu.p(a)ieee.org Web: http://www.ieee.org/go/clientservices ************************************************************** IEEE. Advancing Technology for Humanity -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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