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Are e-book readers too old, limited?
by DINESH SIDDAIAH 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Dear Friends, Are e-book readers too old, limited? After less than a year of its launch, Amazon Kindle seems to be having tough time in the market, as users feel that the usage of Kindle is old and limited compared to smartphones, which have touchscreen, media playback and third-party apps, reports Electronista. According to a study done by University of Georgia, a device like Apple's iPad may be better-suited to current readers than dedicated devices like the Amazon Kindle. Source: http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/Are_ebook_readers_too_old_limited-nid-… <http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/Are_ebook_readers_too_old_limited-nid-…>Thanking You, Dinesh -- Dr. Dinesh K. S. MLISc., Ph.D. Selection Grade Librarian, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Devanahalli, Bengaluru - 562 110. Ph: +91-9845102382, Email: dinesh.ncet(a)gmail.com www.nagarjunaknowledgecentre.webs.com www.dineshks.webs.com, -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy In Library Science
by mukesh jha 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

STAFF SELECTION COMMISSION (SSC), Eastern Region A.J.C. Bose Road, Nizam Palace, 1st MSO Building, 8th Floor, Kolkata - 700020 Staff Selection Commission (SSC), Eastern Region, Kolkata invites applications in the prescribed proforma from eligible candidates for the following Group-C non-gazetted posts for various Ministries/ Offices of the Government of India : Library & Information Assistant (General and Language) : 19 posts, Pay Scale : Rs. 9300 - 34800 grade pay Rs.4200, Age : 18-28 years Library & Information Assistant (Reprography) : 01 post, Pay Scale : Rs. 9300 - 34800 grade pay Rs.4200, Age : 18-28 years Library Clerk (Laboratory) : 01 post, Pay Scale : Rs. 5200-2022 grade pay Rs.1900, Age : 18-25 years Library Clerk (Mending) : 02 posts, Pay Scale : Rs. 5200-2022 grade pay Rs.1900, Age : 18-25 years Library Clerk (Reprography) : 01 post, Pay Scale : Rs. 5200-2022 grade pay Rs.1900, Age : 18-25 years Library Clerk (General) : 01 post, Pay Scale : Rs. 5200-2022 grade pay Rs.1900, Age : 18-25 years Fee Payable : Rs.50/- (No fee for Women/ SC/ST/PH and Ex-Servicemen) by means of Central Recruitment Fee Stamps (CRFS) only, available at head post office all over the country. How to Apply : Application in prescribed format should be sent in an envelope superscribed with bold letters as "Application for the posts of .................... " on or before 08/01/2010 (15/01/2010 for the candidates from far flung areas) to : Regional Director, Staff Selection Commission (ER), 234/4, A.J.C. Bose Road, Nizam Palace, 1st MSO Building, 8th Floor, Kolkata - 700029 For further details and application form, please visit http://www.sscer.org With Regards Mukesh Kumar Jha 9654448933 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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College librarian’s plight – DCE’s new circulation policy
by Vasanth 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

Dear Sir/madam, Recently Department of Collegiate Education directed all the librarians to allow student to borrow books during the examinations. It is very difficult for librarians issue books during the exam time, that too at the end of the academic year (May-June). We usually do stock verification during March, if not during May-June. Because during this period there will be no circulation, so it is easy for librarian to do stock verifications. If we follow the directions, it is hard to do stock verifications. We hardly find any time to do stock verifications. That is one aspect. There are other issues- mainly in degree colleges that too from colleges located in taluk level, the student dropout rate is somewhat more (30-40 students drop every year). Most of the time these students never return books to library. If we issue books during the exam time this will increase further and what policies you have to protect librarians. Every year the library grant is given at the end of the financial year. We have to purchase books before March 31st. Otherwise the grant will be taken back. In such a case we have to purchase large number of books and they have to be accessioned and classified. This takes lot of time and effort. With hardly any man power support librarian can’t accession books and circulate them instantly. Exams in most of the colleges continue for more than two months, if the students allow for borrowing books during this period, books have to be issued every day for two months with no guarantee of returning them in time. At the time of returning books it will be in depleting condition. Librarian has to quarrel with the students. The decision is taken without the consultation of librarians. Even it was written that DCE received complaints from student associations. But the DCE never consulted librarians before taking the decisions. This is right time for the Karnataka State College Librarians Association to intervene and protect the interest of the student and librarians. We are there to serve for students but it is really over burdening and will change the equilibrium of systematic librarianship. ------------------------- With best wishes Vasantha Raju N GFGC-Periyaptna Mysore Your Mail works best with the New Yahoo Optimized IE8. Get it NOW! http://downloads.yahoo.com/in/internetexplorer/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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IATUL-2010 Partial Grants for Developing Countries
by vjkjk＠yahoo.com 30 Jan '10

30 Jan '10

31st Annual IATUL Conference The Evolving World of e-Science: Impact and Implications for Science and Technology Libraries Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States. June 20-24, 2010More at http://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul2010/ In order to encourage participation from librarians in developing countries and institutions the IATUL Grant Award program will provide up to 5 grants of US$1,000 each for the 2010 conference. Preference for this conference will be given to librarians from Central and South America, but applications are encouraged from librarians at any institution that is an IATUL member or would qualify for IATUL membership (i.e., the institution has a focus or substantial program in the sciences and/or engineering). More details http://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul2010/grant-award-program/ -- -- -- Dr. J. K. VIJAYAKUMAR, Ph.D, Science Specialist Librarian, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, www.kaust.edu.sa -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Seminar cum Workshop on “Web Resources in Social Science Research”
by Nadeem Akhtar khan 30 Jan '10

30 Jan '10

Call for Papers/ Participation Seminar cum Workshop on “Web Resources in Social Science Research” The department in collaboration with “Indian Council of Social Science Research” (ICSSR), North Western Region, Chandigarh is organizing a two day seminar/workshop on “Web Resources in Social Science Research” for teachers and research scholars of Social Sciences belonging to universities and colleges of the ‘North Western Region of India’ from 15-16 March, 2010. The workshop will focus on emerging Web resources, their format , discovery, effectiveness and authencity in diverse fields of Social Sciences, besides providing opportunity to participants in gaining valuable insights, exchange ideas, explore new opportunities and build new web enabled networks. The department invites teachers, research scholars and other stake holders from Social Science disciplines to contribute a paper or participate in the event to share their ideas and enrich themselves of the latest trends in the Social Science research. We are also enclosing herein the registration form which should reach to us by or before February 25, 2010. Topics for Paper Submission Web Resources: General Features, Opportunities and Challenges. 2. Web Resources in Social Sciences: General overview Web 2.0 and its Allied Tools · Wikis, Blogs etc · Social Networking etc. Open Access to Scholarship and Retrieval Tools Open Access Initiatives, Open Access Repositories Open Access Journals, Books, Theses and Dissertations, etc. Open Source Softwares Web Retrieval Tools and Strategies Web Resources and Copyright Issues Web Resources: Evaluation, Management and Citation Patterns Plagiarism in the web Era: Status and challenges. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: February 15, 2010 Notification of Acceptance: February 25, 2010 Seminar/Workshop Date: March 15-16, 2010. Note: All the papers should be submitted to the department either online at the following e-mail address shafi_sm(a)rediffmail.com or sumeersuheel(a)gmail.com or handed over personally to Director/Head of the Department/Organising Secretary. Scholars and other stakeholders can also participate without contributing a paper. The registration in such case is open up to March 10, 2010. However, it will be based on first come first serve basis. Registration Teachers and other Stakeholders: Rs. 1000.00 or (Rs.500.00 for Paper Contributors) Research Scholars: Rs 500.00 (The registration fee includes seminar kit, working lunch and refreshment) Mode of Payment: Payment can be made in cash or through demand draft /cheque drawn in favour of Head, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kashmir. Accommodation: Outstation participants can apply for accommodation and can avail the same on first come basis in the University Guest Houses. However, outside accommodation can also be made on request in economical Guest Houses and hotels. Contact Details: Dr. Sumeer Gul Assistant Professor Department of Library and Information Science University of Kashmir, Hazratbal, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. CELL: (0) 8803050076 E mail: sumeersuheel(a)gmail.com Seminar on Web Resources in Social Science Research, March 15-16, 2010 Registration Form Name (s) ____________________________________________________________________________ Designation __________________________________________________________________________ Affiliation ___________________________________________________________________________ Address:____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Contact Details: Cell ________________________E-mail____________________________________ Paper Contributed: Yes/No Accommodation Required Yes /No Single/Share basis DD/Cheque No: __________________________________ Amount: __________________________ Bank___________________________________________ Branch: _____________________________ Signature(s) Recommended and forwarded Head of the Department/Director/Principal -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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UGC NET COACHING CLASSES BY KLA
by Sadasivan KP 30 Jan '10

30 Jan '10

KLA COACHING CLASSES FOR THE UGC NET EXAM ASPIRANTS Dear All, We have great pleasure to announce that Kerala Library Association is conducting Coaching Classes for the UGC NET Exam Aspirants. Classes for the first batch targeting the 2010 June Exam, will commence on 21st February 2010. Other details are as follows : Duration : 5 Months (approx) Schedule of Classes : Sundays & Other Holidays ; 10.00 am - 5.00 pm ; 4 Sessions of 1 hr. 30min. each Nature of Coaching : Lectures, Discussions, Tests & Model Exams Venue : Kerala Library Association Hq. at Trivandrum Course Materials : Will be supplied to the students Info Resources for Reference : Syllabus / Old Question Papers / Popular Texts & Guides / Question Bank with Answer Keys Papers to be covered : Papers I , II & III Course Fee : Rs. 4000/- , payable in two installments (Concessional rate for KLA Life Members : Rs. 3600/-) Faculty : A Team of well qualified & experienced professionals with rich experience in teaching / practicing. For further details, please contact : President / General Secretary Kerala Library Association 30(36) , II Floor , Kairalie Plaza Karamana, Trivandrum - 695 002, Kerala, India. President : KP Sadasivan : 09447903282 (Mob) / kps31147(a)yahoo.com General Secretary : PK Sureshkumar : 09495718460 (Mob) / pksuresh(a)yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fw: UGC-REFRESHER COURSE IN LIS, CALICUT UNIVERSITY
by Sunny Joseph 29 Jan '10

29 Jan '10

--- On Tue, 26/1/10, Sunny Joseph <sannyjoseph(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: From Sunny Joseph, Librarian, Govt. Institute of Advanced Study in Education,Thrissur, Kerala. 680 020 From: Sunny Joseph <sannyjoseph(a)yahoo.co.in> Subject: UGC-REFRESHER COURSE IN LIS, CALICUT UNIVERSITY To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Date: Tuesday, 26 January, 2010, 11:46 PM Dear all, I was a participant in 5th UGC-refresher course in LIS at calicut University. The course was from 5-1-2010 to 25-1-2010 at Academic Staff College. Threre were 45 participants including three from outside Kerala. The course was mainly aiming for providing hands on experience with various library softwares, especially digital library application packages. The course was inaugurated by Prof.Bavakutty, HOD, DLIS, Kannur University. Dr.K.X.Joseph, Director,ASC presided and Dr.Jalaja, HOD,DLIS, calicut university welcomed the gathering. Prof.Bavakutty conducted an excellent session on internet searching skills. He explained different ways of searching the Web with illustrations which was very useful. Dr.M.G.Sreekumar and Mr. Biju from IIM, Kozhikode explained about digital libraries and demonstrated Greenstone digital library applications. Sri. Rajasekharan, Librarian, KILA said that the librarian who is ignorant about building digital library is treated as illiterate in the digital age. He trained the participants on how to build digital library using Greenstone. Dr.Rama Sesha from Mysore university conducted an excellent on information sources for research. He revealed that Acharya Rajaneesh read 1,67,000 books and maintained them in his personal library fully organised. Oh! What an intellectual Acharya Rajaneesh was!!! who was mis-represented by our main stream media. Dr. Rama also revealed the story of another bibliophile, Sri. Asuthosh Mukherjee who was keeping a personal library of 1,10,000 books. Sri.Tomson, Librarian, Devagiri college, Calicut and Dr.Dinesan Koovakai, Asst. Librarian from Central University Kasaragod demonstrated KOHA installation and its working in Linux platform. They informed us that KOHA is a free library management software and has all features of high cost proprietary softwares. Sri.Madhu, system administrator, Calicut university taught us important Linux commands. Prof. Bardol form Mangalore University spoke on professional ethics. He explained that library ethics are rooted in the Five laws of Library Science. Dr. Chandrasekhara from Mysore University conducted a session on Doublin Core meta-data standards. Sri.Husain, Librarian, Kerala Forest Research Institute said there is confusion among working librarians resulting from new generation library softwares and the practical difficulty arising during switching over existing data bases to new applications. Dr.Manikandan, Faculty from Dept. of Psychology, Feroke College Calicut conducted an excellent session on reserch design and use of SPSS package in data analysis. Dr. Muhammed Haneefa, Lecturer, DLIS, Calicut University, trained us on making web pages using HTML. This was highly effective. Dr. Kochu kosi, Librarian, Central Reference Library, Kolkata conducted an enlightening session on eary writing materials, eary printing and informed us about the recommendations of National Knowledge Comission on Librarires and LIS. Dr. Jacob Verghese, Faculty, IMG, Calicut had an inter-active session on inter-personal relations. He enlightened us that professional skills contribute only 20% in success while 80% contribution in success is from other areas especially human relation skills. Dr. Abdul Aseese, University Librarian(i/C), Calicut University showed us UGC-INFONET Service in the University and informed us that 9000+ journals are in the consortium. During the course we could participate in a seminar on "Best Practices in Libraries" jointly organised by DLIS, Calicut Iniversity and KLA. SrI. Jayarajan, Country Head, British library India, Dr. Anil Chalambra, HOD, Dept. of Malayalam, University of Calicut etc spoke. On 20-1-2010, we had a good experiece of visiting IIM, Kozhikode. Dr. M.G.Sreekumar explained about the library services and about the digital library of IIMK. On the evening we visited Beypore beach, a place of historical importance. By Sunny Joseph, Librarian, Govt.Institute of Advanced Study in Education, Thrissur. sannyjoseph(a)yahoo.co.in The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Donate a Book to your school and Book Bank
by Puna Das 29 Jan '10

29 Jan '10

Donate a Book to your school and Book Bank To facilitate the collection of reading materials and to bring books to those who do not have access to libraries or the privilege of owning books, UNESCO has launched in collaboration with the Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development the Donate a Book to your school campaign in schools all over the country to develop a bank of books within the schools and outside. This campaign will be launched in conjunction with the "Book Bank" scheme which will collect books from the general public at selected centres. Books are necessary to enhance education of children and should be widely available in every school library. The National Curriculum Framework (NCF, 2005), an advisory document, intended to guide the formulation of curricula across schooling systems, noted that efforts are required for preparing more learning resources for children, especially books and reference materials in regional languages, for school and teacher reference libraries. Through this initiative we hope to both increases the strength of books in the school libraries, as also build book banks that would receive voluntary donations. The supplementary collection of books would thereafter be donated to NGOs and schools in order to enable children to have access to additional reading material. Simultaneously, the Initiative will also promote reading habits and literature appreciation in children. UNESCO will also use its network of UNESCO Clubs and Associated Schools Project, to implement this project. The initiative aims to build a bank of books and reference material for schools across the country both in national and regional languages. The initiative particularly aims to address the following objectives: # Increase the available books and reference material in schools and resource centres # Encourage reading habits among children # Encourage Literature Appreciation in schools # Facilitate the creation of mobile book libraries and mobile schools # Encourage local commitment to stronger community ties We invite children, parents, teachers, citizens, publishers, corporate houses and NGOs, to join hands with us in this initiative! To start with you can participate by donating a book in good shape that you don’t read anymore. For further information contact: Ms. Shaguna Gahilote Project Officer for Culture s.gahilote[at]unesco.org Source: http://portal.unesco.org/geography/en/ev.php-URL_ID=12102&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&U… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] An Appeal to all the members of Karnataka State Library Association (KALA)
by Babu Rajendra 29 Jan '10

29 Jan '10

Attn to KALA Members, I would like to thank the KALA members for responding with the change of address. We have updated the members details in KALA website. Please find the details at http://www.kalaonline.com/?q=node/4. Regards, Rajendra Babu H Joint Secretary, KALA. -------------------------- [LIS-Forum] An Appeal to all the members of Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) Babu Rajendra Rajendra.Babu at capco.com Thu Dec 24 15:18:50 IST 2009 Dear KALA Members, We at Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) would like to request all its members to verify their address on our website http://www.kalaonline.com/?q=node/4. Please write back to me if you have any changes to be made. Please quote your KALA membership receipt number. We appreciate if you could get back to us by Monday 28th December 2009. Warm Regards, Rajendra Babu H Joint Secretary, KALA. The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender of this email immediately. You should not copy, use or disseminate the information contained in the email. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Capco. http://www.capco.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Restructure of Paper III of UGC NET
by Bairam Khan 29 Jan '10

29 Jan '10

Dear Moderator, Please post this message. Paper III of UGC NET Exam has been restructured.It will be implemented from June, 2010 Exam. Please check this link. http://www.ugc.ac.in/inside/lateststructureofpapaer3net.pdf Bairam Khan Assistant Librarian Gr-II Central Library, Golapbag The University of Burdwan PIN-713104, W.B., India Cell No.- +91-9434585286 E-mail-bubairamkhan(a)gmail.com, bairamkhan(a)hotmail.com -- _______________________________________________ Search for products and services at: http://search.mail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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