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Reminder - National Conference on "Challenges of Librarianship in Next Decade" 16th Dec 2010
by rai anitha 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Dear professionals, It is our great pleasure to inform you that New Horizon College of Engineering, Department of Library and Information Center is organizing One Day National Conference on “Challenges of Librarianship in Next Decade,” dated on “ 16th December 2010. The present conference provides a forum to working librarians (academic, public and special libraries), teachers, research scholars and students of Library and Information Science. The conference also intends to bring together LIS professionals would be towards new tasks, techniques, tools, and platform independent content with more authentic information (evidence based). The experts will provide brainstorming and project the technology tools and techniques for next decade. Speakers Theme Presentation H.S.Siddamallaiah Principal & Library Information Officer, NIMHANS Future of Content N V Sathyanarayana MD, Informatics India (Pvt) Ltd., Bangalore Future of Scholarly Communication Prof. Shalini R. Urs Executive Director, ISIM,University of Mysore Future of Technology Applications Shri A. Venkatesan Deputy Director General & SIO, NIC, Bangalore. Future of Knowledge Management Dr. Kavi Mahesh Professor, Dept. of CSE, PESIT. Panel Discussion, (Moderator) Dr. I.R.N. Goudar Library Advisery, Mysore University REGISTRATION DETAILS Last date for registration: 6th December 2010 DD should be drawn in favour of The Principal, New Horizon College of Engineering, payable at Bangalore and sent to the address stated below NEW HORIZON COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Ring Road, Marathalli, Bellandur Post Bangalore – 560 103 Tel : +91-80-6629 7777 Mob : 97310 34730/90086 36251/99009 61261 Fax : 080-28440770 E-mail:nhcelib.blr@gmail.com www.newhorizonindia.edu REGISTRATION FEE Corporate - Rs. 1000/- Professionals - Rs. 500/- Research Scholars - Rs. 500/- Students - Rs. 250/- For more details you may visit http://newhorizonindia.edu/html/Engg_html/conference/index.html With regards Anitha S Rai Conference Convenor Chief Librarian New Horizon College of Engineering M: 9731034730 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 5
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Version five of the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship as an XHTML website with live links to many included works. This selective bibliography includes articles, books, conference papers, technical reports, unpublished e-prints and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding electronic theses and dissertations. All included works are in English. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. http://digital-scholarship.org/etdb/etdb.htm The following recent Digital Scholarship publications may also be of interest: Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 3 http://digital-scholarship.org/irb/irb.html Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography (a paperback, a PDF file, and an XHTML website) http://digital-scholarship.org/tsp/w/tsp.html See also: Reviews of Digital Scholarship Publications. http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/reviews.htm Translate (oversatta, oversette, prelozit, traducir, traduire, tradurre, traduzir, or ubersetzen) this message: http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/etdb_en_5.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://digital-scholarship.org/ Digital Scholarship Chronology http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dschronology.htm -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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RFID LMS Live Demo
by S.Mohan 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Dear All, RFID implementation in Libraries is an COSTLY affair till date, so many institutions are avoiding it. To overcome this, we have come-up with a cost effective RFID solution for 1 LAC which includes a UHF-RFID READER, 5000 UHF TAGS and free LMS ( WEB enabled OPAC ). The system is being used in an engineering college in Tamilnadu for past 2 years successfully. It would be of great help if you could pass on this message to the concerned librarians willing to implement RFID solutions in their libraries. Live Demo can be arranged at your place in Chennai and suburbs. Regards S.K.Mohanraju Mb.: 9840260273 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Prof. K.A. Isaac Commemoration Lecture
by Saji S Nair 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Dear All, Kerala Library Association and YMCA Library & e-Learning Centre, Thiruvananthapuram will jointly organize the 6th Prof. K.A. Isaac Commemoration Lecture - 2010. Date & Time: 2nd December, 2010; 3 pm Venue: YMCA Library Hall, Thiruvananthapuram Lecture by: Dr. Gangan Prathap, Director, NISCAIR, New Delhi Topic: Research Evaluation All are cordially invited. For details, see the link: http://www.keralalibraryassociation.org/downloads/Isaac-6.pdf About Prof. K. A. Isaac Kadapuram Abraham Isaac (10 July 1925 – 12 September 2005) was an Indian writer and librarian. He was a Professor and Head of the Department of Library and Information Science at the University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram. Isaac was known for initiating and moulding the professional Library and Information Science (LIS) education in Kerala and has authored several books on Library and Information Science. He had served as a member of the Senate of the Kerala University and as Dean of its Arts Faculty......................................... Read a brief account of his life and professional commitments at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._A._Isaac Posted by: -- Saji S. Nair Library & Information Services Division Regional Cancer Centre Medical College Campus Trivandrum - 695011 Kerala, INDIA ----------------------------------------------------------- 91 471 2522225 (O) 91 471 2394252 (R) 09446014130 (Mob) Email: saji(a)rcctvm.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Delay in the delivery of LIS-Forum mails
by Mailing List Admin 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Dear Members, You may have noticed that there has been a considerable delay in the delivery of LIS-Forum mails especially during the week 22-26 Nov 2010. The delay has been because of some technical problem with the NCSI's email server, the server from which the LIS-Forum is being administered. The problem has been sorted out and since yesterday (Monday, 29 Nov) the normalcy has been restored. If you had posted a message during the last week and would like to know if it has been approved for circulation, you may visit the URL, http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2010-November/date.html This URL is a pointer to all the messages that have been approved during November 2010. If you had posted a message but it is not found in the Nov 2010 message list then it is quite likely that it has not been approved for circulation because the message may not have been adhering to one or more policies of the list. The most likely reason being that the message may have been posted with an attachment. Thanks for your cooperation. - Moderator

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Best DLISSUian Award 2010
by Jayant Tripathy 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Dear Professionals Colleagues, I would like to congratulate Mr. Nihar kanta Patra, who has been honored with the Best DLISSUian award for the year 2010 as bestowed by Alumni Association, Dept. of Library & Information Science, Sambalpur University, Odisha. Mr Patra was a class of 1998 Master and 1999 M.Phil. from Sambalpur University. Started his career at Centre for Environment Education, he has travelled a lot to a great position as of now. He was privileged to be associated with NSHM Knowledge Campus-Kolkata; XLRI-Jamshedpur, Indian Institute for Production Management-Kansbahal, National Institute of Fashion Technology-Gandhinager, Institure for Plasma Research-Gandhinagar. To his credits he has several research publications in refereed national / international’s journals / conferences / edited books. His professional contribution to the LIS Dept. of Sambalpur University is remarkable. Regards Jayanta Kumar Tripathy Deputy Librarian Indian Institute of Management Suchna Bhawan Audrey House Campus, Meur's Road Ranchi - 834 008 Jharkhand Tel: 0651 - 2285056 (O) Fax: 0651 -2280940 -------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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6th TBR Memorial seminar on Web 2.0 technologies for library services- Minutes
by shivaram gowda 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Dear Members It is a great pleasure to share with all of you that NCSI-Net team successfully organized 6th TBR Memorial seminar on Web 2.0 technologies for library services on Saturday 13th November 2010 at NCSI Seminar hall, IISc, Bangalore. The response to the seminar by the students and the budding LIS professionals was over whelming. We had 50+ registrations of which most of them were students and young professionals from various universities and organizations in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh. Seminar started off with a brief introduction about Dr. T.B. Rajshekar Memorial Seminar Series by Dr. Francis Jayakanth. He also highlighted late Dr. TBR’s passion towards teaching and educating young professionals about the latest developments in the field of ICT and their applications in LIS profession. The first technical session by Francis was on An Overview on Web 2.0. The talk was very interactive. The speaker highlighted the evolution of the Web and the various tools, technologies and the services of Web 2.0 with suitable examples. He also touched upon how the Web 2.0 applications can be made use of in the present day library and information services After coffee/tea break Mr. Rajendra Babu delivered second lecture of the day on Wikis: Concept, Implementation and Examples from the LIS Perspective. Speaker narrated historical development of Wiki, its features, type etc. with suitable examples. Mr. Ananda Byrappa delivered an interesting talk on New carrier opportunities for LIS professionals. The speaker mentioned that lack of trained manpower in the domains like Content Management, Knowledge management, Information Retrieval, IP industry etc,. He called upon young LIS professionals to make their careers in these areas and grab the opportunities available such domains. The talk was well received by the audience and Ms. Suvarsha Minj delivered the lecture on Mashups for Libraries. It was an interesting lecture wherein the speaker covered an overview, workflow, architecture, API’s, Data sources of Mashups. She also demonstrated how to configure web-based and client/server based data Mashups for Libraries with suitable example websites. After the lunch break. Mr. Madhuresh delivered the talk on Blogs and RSS -2 tools for Librarian 2.0. Speaker stressed upon the role and challenges of Librarian 2.0 and asked the participants to make use of Web 2.0 tools to satisfy their users’ information requirements more effectively. He demonstrated how to configure weblogs with examples and configuring RSS feeds. The last technical session of the day was an interesting lecture-cum-demonstration by Mr. Prasanna, on Building Library website using web 2.0 technologies. It was an interactive session and the speaker showed library website with various web 2.0 services like, Video & Audio objects, RSS alerts, Discussion forum, Live Chat etc. Ms. Ramya proposed the vote of thanks. NCSI-Net is thankful to all seminar participants. Judging by the seminar feedback of the participants, the seminar was a great success. We also thank all the HODs and the teaching faculty of various universities and heads of reputed organizations for having deputed their students and staff for the seminar. We are thankful to Director IISc and Chairman of NCSI, IISc, and Staff of NCSI for their support in organizing the seminar. Our special thanks to all speakers of the day and all the NCSI-Net members for their excellent support. Four of the six presentation files used during the seminar are available at http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/material2010.html Your comments and suggestions are most welcome and they may be sent to Shivaram Gowda, shivarams_gowda(a)yahoo.com / Obaiah B <obaiah(a)gmail.com> With Best regards, NCSI-Net Coordinators, Shivaram Gowda & Obaiah B Shivaram BS ICAST, CSIR-NAL Kodihalli Bangaluru-560017 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Call for papers (IFLA-HBS)
by Sangeeta Narang 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

World Library and Information Congress: 77th IFLA General Conference and AssemblySan Juan, Puerto Rico, 13-18 August 2011 IFLA Health and Biosciences Libraries Section and Library Services to People with Special Needs Section Call for papers “Beyond barriers to accessing health information” Colleagues from around the world are invited to submit an abstract for consideration for the Open Session jointly sponsored by the Health and Biosciences Libraries (HBL) and the Library Services to People with Special Needs (LSN) Sections Aim and Scope of the Session: It is hoped that papers will cover a wide range of areas of overcoming barriers – for example: · How have language barriers been overcome? Eg multilingual access, publications and other resources in the vernacular, information delivered via the spoken word? · How have mental and physical challenges been overcome? Eg how do you promote mental health information to people with disabilities· How is health information delivered to those with poor literacy skills (literacy skills include basic literacy skills, health literacy, IT literacy etc), and to the socially excluded? · How is health information provided in cultures that do not endorse ‘open’ access to information such as publicly available brochures? · What is the role of public libraries to support health information initiatives? · How can libraries work in partnership with others to promote health information ? It is anticipated that presentations be 20 minutes with time for questions at the end of the session. Important dates: February 1st 2011: Deadline for submission of abstract March 1st 2011: Notification of acceptance/rejection May 1st 2011: Deadline for submission of text Submission Guidelines The proposals must be submitted in an electronic format and must contain: Title of paper Summary of paper (250 - 350 words maximum) Speaker's name, address, telephone and fax numbers, professional affiliation, email address and biographical note (40 words) The final paper should preferably be presented as a paper (that may be published on the IFLA website and as an option in the IFLA Journal). If the final presentation will be in the format of a power point, a substantial abstract will be required, including references such as URLs and bibliographiesSubmissions are due before February 1st 2011 by email to: tone(a)moseid.com Tone Eli Moseid. Chair, IFLA Library Services for people with Special Needs Section. Regards Sangeeta Narang Librarian Grade-I All India Instittute of Medical Sciences http://wwwhealthinformationresources.blogspot.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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letter
by Manoj Kumar Verma 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Let us congratulate Prof. ARD Prasad on becoming Head, Documentation Research & Training Centre (DRTC), Bangalore. We hope that DRTC will establish new dimensions under his leadership *Dr. Manoj Kumar Verma* *Assistant Professor Department of Library and Information Science Mizoram University(a Central University) * *Aizawl-796004 Contact No.- 09774003201(M)* * 09436707900 (M)* * **09454142441 (Varanasi*) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Registration open International Conference on Digital Library Management (ICDLM)
by ICDL 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Please consider to participate and encourage your colleagues and team members to participate to The International Conference on Digital Library Management: ICDLM 2011 to be held in Kolkata, India, on 11-13 January 2011. Please also announce it to your newsletter and list serve. You are cordially invited to attend International Conference on Digital Library Management (ICDLM) Theme: Extending Benefits of Modern Technology to Public, Academic and Special Libraries Science City, Kolkata, 11-13 January, 2011 Venue: Science City, Kolkata Organiser: TERI, New Delhi Co-Organiser: Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, Kolkata Continuous capacity development and awareness programmes are necessary to achieve the objective of transforming the novice into digital librarians of future. The success of ICDL 2004, ICDL 2006 and ICDL 2010 has encouraged and motivated TERI, New Delhi and Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation, Kolkata in partnership with Ministry of Culture, Government of India, New Delhi to conduct of the ICDLM 2011 which will provide yet another stimulating forum for DL professionals to share their knowledge, experience and wisdom. The theme of the proposed conference is “Extending Benefits of Modern Technology to Public, Academic and Special Libraries”. The conference will focus on creation, adoption, implementation and utilization of digital libraries, e-learning and a knowledge society. We invite you all to submit your research paper. Who should participate? (a) Professionals from public, academic and special libraries (b) Information Technology professionals. (c) Content and knowledge managers (d) Policy makers (e) Academicians, students and distance learners (f) Archivists and museologists (g) Information providers and vendors. (h) E-publishers and virtual electronic communities (i) Library and Information Science professionals. (j) All stakeholders in the digitization and knowledge business. Conference will cover Original papers focusing on the theme of the conference— Extending Benefits of Modern Technology to Public, Academic and Special Libraries are invited for the. Some of the topics are listed below: § DL development and management § Content organization and management § DL architecture and access management § Knowledge management § Digital preservation § DL standards and policy § Thesauri and ontologies, semantics, metadata and retrieval § Open archives initiatives/PMH § Multilingual and interoperability § Copyrights issues in digital environment § DL services and applications § Collaboration and Networking between public libraries º Digital initiatives of public libraries § Open Educational resources For Early–bird registration offer please visit http://www.teriin.org/events/icdlm/registration.php Registration: please visit http://www.teriin.org/events/ICDLM Delegates fee | Up to 30 November 2010 | After 30 November 2010 ------------------+-----------------------------+----------------------------- | | India and SAARC | Indian Rs 3000 + Rs 309 | Indian Rs 3500 + Rs 360 countries | service tax | service tax ------------------+-----------------------------+----------------------------- | | Other countries | US$ 125 | US$ 150 (including | | service tax) | | Contact: DEBAL C KAR Organizing Secretary ICDLM Secretariat TERI, Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 110 003, India Telephone 24644654, 24682100, 41504900 Fax 24682144, 24682145 E-mail icdlm(a)teri.res.in Web www.teriin.org/events/icdlm India +91 • Delhi (0)11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer: The information contained in this e-mail is intended for the person or entity to which it is addressed, and it may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review or other use of this mail or taking any action based on it by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you receive this e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender, and delete all copies of this mail.This e-mail has been scanned and verified by McAfee SaaS Email Security, formerly MX Logic. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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