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Tribute to Prof. Kaula
by Jivesh Bansal 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

'Tribute to Prof. Kaula' I pay my heart felt tribute to Padmasree Professor P N Kaula, a great visionary and an eminent library professional. He was disciple of Dr. SR Ranganathan, Father of Library Science in India. We should take lesson from the life of such a great library scientist. It is a time of grief for all library professionals in the country. Jivesh Bansal, Assistant Librarian, Panjab University Library, Chandigarh-160014 Email: jiveshbansal(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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UGC Fellowship
by Apurba Jyoti Majumder 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has decided to increase the scholarship amount for junior research fellowship (JRF) by 35 to 40 per cent. The move will ensure that researchers get money almost equivalent to the basic pay — Rs 20,800 per month — of entry-level Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officials and assistant professors UGC has also decided to hike scholarships for women pursuing post-doctoral fellowship by about four times. With this, women without research experience will get Rs 25,000 (which was Rs 6,000 earlier) while those with experience will get Rs 30,000 per month as against Rs 8,000 earlier. The contingency grant for these women scholars has been increased to Rs 50,000 per annum. The commission, earlier this month, decided that junior research scholars will now get Rs 16,000 per month (Rs 12,000 earlier) for first two years and Rs 20,000 (Rs 14,000 earlier) for the next three years. The physically challenged researchers will get an escort allowance of Rs 2,000 per month along with the scholarship. “The scholarship amount has been enhanced so that scholars don’t leave mid-day to join teaching,” UGC chairperson Sukhdeo Thorat said. The new scholarship amount — to be available to 6,500 researchers every year (doubled as compared to last year) — will be applicable from the new academic year 2009-10. Only students who have cleared the National Eligibility Test will be eligible for the scholarships. The proposal to enhance the scholarship was taken after a recommendation by RP Aggarwal, Higher Education Secretary in the HRD ministry. “The fellowship amount should be increased to 50 per cent subject to the condition that it is less than initial pay for a fresh appointee as assistant professor,” Aggarwal had told UGC in letter on July 30. With this, the UGC is looking to meet the demand for faculty with requisite research credentials and PhD degrees. http://www.hindustantimes.com/News/newdelhi/Researchers-to-get-money-equal-… -- Apurba Jyoti Majumder, JRF Deptt. of Library & Information Science. Arts Block, Ground Floor Gauhati University. Guwahati- 781014 Cell No: 09435268733, 09707626388 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for forward the email
by Muralidharan, Padma (ELS-DEL) 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Dear Moderator, Could you please post this message on our behalf ? Thanks & regards, Padma Muralidharan Elsevier India (Science & Technology) Gurgaon ----------------------------- Dear Librarian & Information Scientist, It is with great pleasure that we at Elsevier (India) have announced the 4th Scopus Young Scientist Awards this year. The awards have received great appreciation and recognition amongst India's scientific and academic community. I acknowledge the role played by you in cascading the information to your user community and I would like to express my thanks in your doing this. May I request you to once again come forward to ensure that every scientist and academician in your institution becomes aware of this announcement? All information about the award can be had from our website : http://southasia.elsevier.com For further information, I can be contacted at the following address and phone numbers. Thanking you for your active cooperation. Kind regards, Padma Muralidharan Senior Manager - Account Development Elsevier India (Science & Technology) 14th Floor, Building 10B, DLF Cyber City, Phase II Gurgaon - 122 002 Email : p.muralidharan(a)elsevier.com Phone : +91-124-4774202 l +91-9810739993 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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] another LIS star Prof Kaula is no more?? our heart felt condoleses (fwd)
by Mailing List Admin 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:40:57 +0530 From: ravindra mendhe <ravindramendhe(a)gmail.com> Dear Professionals Very sad to here this news.We lost a eminent LIS professional. I pray to Lord Buddha to give strength to his family to beer his loses. I pray to god for his soul to rest in peace. *Ravindra M. Mendhe Librarian *G.H.Raisoni Institute of Engineering and Management, Shirsoli Road, Post Box NO. 112, Jalgaon- 425001, MS. India. Tel.No. 0257- 2262781-82 M- 09403503789 email: ravindra_mendhe(a)rediffmail.com

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Wikipedia to Tinge Suspect Entries With Orange Cast
by DINESH SIDDAIAH 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Dear Friends, Wikipedia to Tinge Suspect Entries With Orange Cast Wikipedia plans to roll out a new feature with the goal of enhancing the site's credibility. Called "WikiTrust," the optional feature color codes entries based on reliability, according to a Wikipedia page describing the new development. The color-coding tool gives users a "check text tab" that reveals author, origin and reliability of the text. It has come up with a color-coding scheme that will assign an orange background to less-trustworthy information -- the darker, the more suspect -- and a white background to content that ranks high for accuracy. Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/story/68004.html 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.dineshks.webs.com, Official Blog: libraryofncet.blogspot.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Prof.Kaula
by Krishna Raghavendra Yeri 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Dear Professionals It is very sad to know that Dr PN Kaula is no more. It is an irrecoverable loss for our profession. Let us pray God, " May his soul rest in peace". Krishna Yeri Krishna Yeri Librarian Institute of Rural Management Anand Post Box No.60 Anand 388 001 Gujarat India Tel: 91 02692 260391 263260 260181 02692 221671 (D) Fax: 91 02692 260188 url: http://www.irma.ac.in ( http://www.irma.ac.in/ ) -- 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 on ICT Innovations: The EuroIndia ICT Cooperation Conference 2009
by Puna Das 01 Sep '09

01 Sep '09

Call for Papers on ICT Innovations: The EuroIndia ICT Cooperation Conference 2009 10-11 December 2009 - New Delhi, India Supported by the European Commission and hosted by International Management Institute (IMI), New Delhi, India Call for Papers The indicative areas conference seeks contributions to, though not comprehensive are: * Innovation processes, including creativity, knowledge capture, transfer and sharing; * Social, cultural and policy effects on innovation and its institutional logics; * Financial issues, venture capital role in evaluating ideas and its impact on ICT innovation; * Political issues, regional, national and international in ICT innovations; * Innovation management, frameworks for capturing ideas, idea utilization and problem framing techniques; * Organizational design for innovation; networked firms, alliances, mergers, joint ventures, R&D Labs, standardisation bodies, etc. * Managing disruptive innovations, distributed innovation, co-creation, open innovation; * Cases of innovative ICT applications in business, government and civil society, including e-health, e-government, ICT innovations in transport and logistics, e-education, training and development; * Limitations and problems to innovation specifically between Europe & India and including emerging economies at large; * ICT innovations for development in emerging economies; * Global and national systems of innovations. Abstracts submission: The abstracts will be accepted till 10th September 2009 at https://conference.cbs.dk/index.php/euroindia/euroindia/index . There is no registration fee for contributing authors. Further Details: http://cssp-jnu.blogspot.com/2009/09/call-for-papers-on-ict-innovations.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ See the Web's breaking stories, chosen by people like you. Check out Yahoo! Buzz. http://in.buzz.yahoo.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Sad Demise of Prof P N Kaula
by Pijushkanti Panigrahi 01 Sep '09

01 Sep '09

Sad Demise of Prof P N Kaula It is hard to believe that Padmasree Prof P N Kaula, an eminent scholar, a great teacher, internationally renowned library scientist, a doyen is no more. Prof Kaula passed away on August 30, 2009 around at 12.00 noon due to cardiac arrest. The sad demise of Prof Kaula is a great loss for the LIS profession. He was a life member of IASLIC and was associated with different activities of. IASLIC. With his guiding comments and suggestions IASLIC has been enriched its services in different aspects. With heavy heart, on behalf of IASLIC, I pry to have peace and mental strength to the family members to bear this irreparable loss. Prof Pijushkanti Panigrahi Jt Secretary, IASLIC ======================= Dr Pijushkanti Panigrahi, Professor, Dept of Lib and Inf Science, 3rd Floor Asutosh Building, University of Calcutta, 87/1 College Street,Kolkata - 700 073, West Bengal, India, email : panigrahipk(a)yahoo.com, (M) : +91 94342 43522. Joint Secretary, IASLIC, Convenor, Education Division, IASLIC; Associate Editor, IASLIC Bulletin, IASLIC, Kolkata-54 Fitness on your mind? Check out nearby gyms on Yahoo! India Local http://in.local.yahoo.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Salute to a hero
by manoj kumar pant 01 Sep '09

01 Sep '09

Dear all, Its really a great loss to the profession with the death of Prof Kaula. I had recently had chance to meet him at Aligarh. He still at that age had travelled overnight to be in the workshop. He still was active with various national and international projects. Salute to a great Hero. ------------------------------------ Manoj Kumar Pant (BSc., MLISc., CCNA) Lecturer, Deptt. of Library & Information Science Amrapali Institute, Shiksha Nagar, Haldwani, Nainital, Uttaranchal-263139. Ph. No.-09012226260(Mob.) 919219918942(Home), 238201(Office) e-mail - " manojpant2(a)rediffmail.com ". " manojpant2(a)yahoo.co.in ". ------------------------------------------ "Don't walk ahead of me - I can't follow you, don't walk behind me I can't lead you, Walk along with me and be my friend." ------------------------------------------ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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CONDOLENCE
by Dipen Deka 01 Sep '09

01 Sep '09

Condolence Message Department of Library & Information science, Gauhati University in a condolence meeting presided over by its Head Prof N Lahkar, expressed deep shock on the sad demise of Prof P N Kaula, UGC Emeritus Professor & Padmashree awardee on 30th august, 2009 in Lucknow. Among others, Prof Alak Buragohain , Prof N N Sarma & Dr. R K Barman spoke on the life & works of Prof P N Kaula. The meeting observed two minutes silence in his honour for the peace of eternal soul. The department along with teachers, former teachers, students, ex-students, research scholars pray the almighty for the peace of heavenly abode and convey the condolence to the members of the bereaved family. -- Dipen Deka, SRF Department of Library & Information Science Arts Block, Gauhati University Guwahati-781014 contact no. 09435731470 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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