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Blog Action Day-2009
by Vasanth 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

Dear Sir/madam, Here is an opportunities for blogging community to share, discuss, question and to act on issue of global importance. Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world's bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog Action Day 2009 will be the largest-ever social change event on the web. One day. One issue. Thousands of voices. Blog Action Day 2009 theme is :Climate Change. visit the following URL to know more about: http://blogactionday.org/ ------------------------- With best wishes Vasantha Raju N From cricket scores to your friends. Try the Yahoo! India Homepage! http://in.yahoo.com/trynew -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Who is responsible for the downfall trend of LIS profession .
by Pandurang Konnur 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

Dear Friends, Here is one of the best topic where we should debate and derive a solution in the interest of our profession. We need to introspect in ourselves and trace the reason for the downfall trend of LIS profession and professionals. Let each one of us list out the reasons and the Associations like IALA will list them out, consolidate and bring on the right platforms for corrective measures. I request all of you to respond to this mail. Thanks, Konnur. On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 7:42 AM, CHARU MATHUR <newbird_2005(a)yahoo.co.in>wrote: > > > Respected Friends, > > Greetings for the day and seasons, > > Since long we have been witnessing and subsequently discussing regarding > the downfall trend of LIS profession and professionals. Despite of blessed > with ICT tools, LIS profession is not able to cope up with need of the users > coming from the cross-sections of the society. Every next second we are > getting a new e-query regarding very basic services supposed to be performed > by the person in charge. What are the reasons of this situation that every > new recruitee is find him in a soup and try to make every best possible > effort to find out the answers of very basic nature questions? The reason > may be any one of the following…………… > > 1. LIS Curricula is not updated enough so that a student can have the > latest and up-to-date knowledge of practical environment. > > 2. Do the learned faculties are not getting required time and proper > infrastructures to keep update themselves? > > 3. Are the students now a days are interested only to getting a > degree by using any of the means so that they can decorate their C.V.s > > 4. Does the new entrants feared to take challenges and not capable to > convert their theoretical knowledge in practical terms? > > 5. Does the govt is only interested only in framing the hard core > policies and setting up certain working groups to evaluate the situation? > > 6. What are the major roles of reputed Associations in this > profession are they just limiting themselves by organizing seminars and > workshops from time to time. > > In the light of above queries, who is responsible for this downfall……… > > 1. Educators > > 2. Students > > 3. Curriculum > > 4. Govt. > > 5. 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ISiM - CXO Lecture Series (1) on "eGovernance" by Mr. M.N. Vidyashankar, 9th October, 2009
by Roopa 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

International School of Information Management University of Mysore, Mysore ISiM CXO Lecture - 1 ****************** "eGovernance in India: Challenges and Opportunities" by Mr. M.N. Vidyashankar, IAS Principal Secretary, Department of e-Governance, Karnataka Presided by Prof. V.G. Talawar Vice Chancellor, University of Mysore Date and Time: October 9, 2009 : 3:00 P.M. Venue: ISiM Lecture Hall - 1 You are cordially invited Prof. Shalini R. Urs Executive Director For more details log on http://www.isim.ac.in/html/cxo/cxo1.htm Speaker's Bio: Mr. M.N. Vidyashankar, Principal Secretary, Department of e-Governance, Karnataka, joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1982 after his M.A., and M. Phil in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics and MBA from Harvard Business School, USA. His major areas of interest include Downsizing, Right Sizing, Re-engineering, E-Governance, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Customer Relations Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). He was the Chief Electoral Officer & Ex-officio Principal Secretary to Government, DPAR (Elections) and has held the post of Principal Secretary to the Government of Karnataka, Dept. of Information Technology, Biotechnology and Science & Technology between October 2006 to March 2008. Prior to this, he served in different Departments in the State Government, including Revenue, Rural Development & Panchayat Raj, and Energy & Medical Education. He has also served in the Department of Personnel & Training, Ministry of Personnel and Public Grievances in Government of India. He was Chairman, BWSSB during 2000 - 2004 and Commissioner, BDA from July 2004 to May 2006. Thanks & Regards Roopa Project Assistant International School of Information Management University of Mysore Mysore- 570006 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Google Scholar’s Ghost Authors, Lost Authors, and Other Problems
by Mallikarjun 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

Dear All Peter Jacso, has describe why the popular tool like google scholar can’t be used to analyze the publishing performance and impact of researchers on library journal. Please visit the link http://tinyurl.com/y8ftjz6 Thanks *************************************************************** Mallikarjun Dora Professional Assistant Vikram Sarabhai Library Indian Institute of Management, Ahemadabad http://mallikarjundora.wordpress.com/ ******************************************************************************* Keep up with people you care about with Yahoo! India Mail. Learn how. http://in.overview.mail.yahoo.com/connectmore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Who is responsible .............
by Charu 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

Who is responsible for that? Respected Friends, Greetings for the day and seasons, Since long we have been witnessing and subsequently discussing regarding the downfall trend of LIS profession and professionals. Despite of blessed with ICT tools, LIS profession is not able to cope up with need of the users coming from the cross-sections of the society. Every next second we are getting a new e-query regarding very basic services supposed to be performed by the person in charge. What are the reasons of this situation that every new recruitee is find him in a soup and try to make every best possible effort to find out the answers of very basic nature questions? The reason may be any one of the following…………… 1. LIS Curricula is not updated enough so that a student can have the latest and up-to-date knowledge of practical environment. 2. Do the learned faculties are not getting required time and proper infrastructures to keep update themselves? 3. Are the students now a days are interested only to getting a degree by using any of the means so that they can decorate their C.V.s 4. Does the new entrants feared to take challenges and not capable to convert their theoretical knowledge in practical terms? 5. Does the govt is only interested only in framing the hard core policies and setting up certain working groups to evaluate the situation? 6. What are the major roles of reputed Associations in this profession are they just limiting themselves by organizing seminars and workshops from time to time. In the light of above queries, who is responsible for this downfall……… 1. Educators 2. Students 3. Curriculum 4. Govt. 5. Associations My dear friends, I just want to clarify myself as these questions are haunting my mind since long. Miss Charu Mathur, Delhi. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fw: Special OAIster Announcement from OCLC
by Subbiah Arunachalam 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

----- Forwarded Message ---- From: "Peters, Dale" <peters(a)SUB.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE> To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM(a)LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG Sent: Thursday, 24 September, 2009 20:29:11 Subject: Re: Special OAIster Announcement from OCLC An alternative to the systematic commercialisation of Open Access data, is the formal constitution of COAR: the Confederation of Open Access Repositories, scheduled to take place in Open Access Week 2009. http://www.driver-repository.eu/DRIVER-COAR.html Emerging as the sustainable outcome of the DRIVER infrastructure, COAR is a community-driven approach, where institutions can determine how they want their repositories to be deployed. The action plan is directed towards international organisational support for Open Access in research infrastructures around the globe. COAR utilises the tremendous synergies emerging in higher education between repositories, researchers and research funders to coordinate collaborative networks in the vision of a global knowledge infrastructure. Once the legal and technical infrastructures for OA dissemination reach the coverage and maturity that equally satisfies the researcher's data-sharing concerns and matches the respect that WorldCat enjoys, third party service providers, like OCLC, become equitable partners without questionable terms and conditions. Regards, Dale ------------------------------------------ Dr D Peters Scientific Technical Manager DRIVER II State and University Library of Goettingen peters(a)sub.uni-goettingen.de Tel: +49 551 39 5242 Fax: +49 551 39 5222 Mobile:+49 (0)160 989 67663 ------------------------------------------ http://www.driver-repository.eu/ http://www.driver-support.eu/en/ ---------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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55th Annual Conference of Indian Library Association
by Rajesh Bhardwaj 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

*55th Annual Conference of Indian Library Association * Dear Professionals, We are glad to inform you that 55th Annual Conference of Indian Library association will be held at Birla Institute of Management Technology, Greater Noida from 21st to 24th January, 2010 in association with “Ranganathan Society for Social Welfare and Library Development” and Jointly organised by BIMTECH and ILA. Establish in 1988, The fully residential campus of Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH) located in National Capital Region, provides a highly conducive academic environment, interaction with hard working and industry-academia mix professors, exposure to the international universities and companies, and a ready profile of strong alumni base spread through out the world. BIMTECH boasts of it’s library facility as a leader in it’s own class. The theme of the conference will be “Library and Information Science in the Digital Era” Without restricting itself, this conference would like to invite participants to reflect upon and present experiences, research and theories about the Formation, Organisation, Management, Updation, Mechanisation, Automation and Modernisation of libraries. This call for papers, based on variations on four themes, would like to ask contributors to link their paper to the relation between the above seven parameters. The aim is to better understand these things in the contemporary world, but also in their history; to examine the relationship between conventional publishing and digital publishing. The conference will maintain its proceedings of high standard and hence would evaluate each and every paper in accordance with the international standards. For further queries visit http://ilaindia.net/ILA-Conf.htm or http://ilaconf.bimtechlibrary.net Kind Regards, Rajesh Kr. Bhardwaj, M-9818603208, http://www.rajweb.name Area Convener and Librarian, Library and Information Centre, TERI *For further details may please contact to * * * Dr. Rishi Tiwari Organizing Secretary, Librarian-Knowlwdgw Centre Birla Institute of Management Technology(BIMTECH) Plot No.5, Knowledge Park-II Greater Noida(NCR) U.P.-201306 Mob.:09810583623, Off.:0120-232301-10,0120-3219972(dir) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Ph.D award
by raghunandana m 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

Dear Sir, As per your guidance I have included the Title of the thesis and abstract. So, kindly post this mail of acknowledgment to professional fraternity of LIS-FORUM. Dear Professional friends, I am happy to inform you all that, I have successfully completed and awarded Ph.D. Degree from Karnatak University, Dharwad for the thesis entitled “Use of Information Resources in UN (United Nations) Depository Centers in South India: A study with special reference to the policies, procedures and plan of action in view of the development of Internet”, under the auspicious guidance of Prof. C.R. Karisiddappa, UGC-Emeritus Fellow, Department of Studies in Library and Information Science, Karnatak University, Dharwad. I sincerely acknowledge the friends and professionals who directly and indirectly supported in getting my Ph.D. and those who have extended their moral support. I promise before the professional fraternity that, I will make justice to the profession with good vision and mission as I have got more responsibility after getting this degree. Thanking you, with regards. Yours sincerely, Dr. Raghunandana M. Abstract of the Thesis The United Nations is an inter-governmental organization dedicated to promoting peace and security among nations and developing global efforts to fight economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian problems. There are 408 UN Publications Depository Libraries in 146 Countries of the world today, in India there are 18 Depository Libraries. The publications brought by UNO and its other agencies like, UNESCO, WHO etc. are easily available in the market or at any other library because of their special nature, the establishment of Depository of UNO Publications in reputed libraries was brought into practice. So, these Centers are now able to fulfill the requirements of Researchers and others who are in need of them and it is also responsibility of each Depository Centre to work towards this end. However, it is found that these publications are not able to reach the users in a desired level of expectations and few studies on their in-depth information contents exist, and also ! as to their availability and use of these Publications from the Depository Libraries. An attempt is therefore made in this research study to examine the various issues related to the UNO and its other publications available through the Depository Libraries. Hence the study of UNO Publications Depository Libraries located in South India is undertaken for an in-depth and detailed study. The aim of the study is to find out how the UN depository resources reach to the end user and various effective mechanisms created for their optimum utilization with the available information technology facilities in particular in selected designated libraries. This research work is focused in the need analysis of the selected samples from seven Depository Libraries. The main aim of the study is to find out the awareness of UN Depository Information. As a part of the study a survey of seven Depository Libraries in South India through questionnaire method has been conducted successfully. ! The questionnaires mainly focused on the strengths of the Depository L ibraries with regard to their information resources, awareness, budget, library collection, user education programmes, building, arrangement of the documents etc., The Information Technology infrastructure were also gathered. Dr. Raghunandana M M.A.,MLISc.,Ph.D. Lecturer, Dept. of Library & Information Science Bangalore University Bangalore - 560056 Karnataka State India Ph:091-080-22961401 Mobile:091-9611334522 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Five US universities to provide central funding for open access publication fees
by Mailing List Admin 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:46:45 +0530 From: Shivendra Singh <shiv.mail(a)gmail.com> Five US universities to provide central funding for open access publication fees<http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcblog/entry/five_us_universities…> In a major step forward for the open access movement, Berkeley, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last week announced <http://news.biomedcentral.com/t/13102619/7881471/1544239/0/> a joint commitment to provide their researchers with central financial assistance to cover open access publication fees, and encouraged other academic institutions to join them. The aim of the 'compact for open access publication equity<http://news.biomedcentral.com/t/13102619/7881471/1544240/0/>' is to create a level playing field between subscription-based journals (which institutions support centrally via library budgets) and open access journals (which often depend on publication fees). Read more <http://news.biomedcentral.com/t/13102619/7881471/1544241/0/> http://www.oacompact.org/ -- Shivendra Singh 9815526163

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conference:relevance of Ranganathan @bbau
by Mailing List Admin 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:14:15 +0530 From: vijay kumar <vijaydlis(a)gmail.com> Dear LIS professionals, Topic:"RELEVANCE OF RANGANATHAN IN THE PRESENT DAY KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY" PLACE: BBAU (a central university), LUCKNOW DATE:14-15 NOV,2009 for detail, visit, http://www.bbauindia.org/news_events/notice_18sep09.pdf With Regards, VIJAY GAUTAM MLISc.,(MCA) bbau,lko

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