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Re: [LIS-Forum] Occupational English Language and Communication
by T. Shahab 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

Dear all, The emphasis on the importance of communication skill for librarians is very welcome. It is a fact that one can deny on his/her own peril. But many librarians are still in the old mold. They are scared of communicating with teachers and scholars. They will talk long hours about rubbish. But feel tongue tied to enquire and inform. The reason lies in a disconnect with what is going on in the scholarly world. They will hardly work to refine search methodologies. What is required from teaching schools is better skill development in communication and a bit of psychological training as well as to develop empathy with the users. Regards TANWIR ________________________________ From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of shivakumar shiva Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 7:06 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Occupational English Language and Communication Dear Professionals, The Friday Talk series began with warm invocation by Pushpa of MLISc around 3.30pm. Dr. Khaiser Nikam Chairperson of Library and Information Science gave a welcome to the guest and all, along with an introduction of Dr. Benjamin Sukumaran IOLS Career Empowerment and Development Kuvempunagar, Mysore. Chairperson gave a brief note about the Library Science has grown in rapid speed. Thirst of knowledge, language and love towards subject maker a person to communicate better. Lecture Report:- ' Communication is life' 'Life without communication is tragedy'. With this great thought the lecture began by Dr. Benjamin Sukumaran. Benjamin explained how important communication is in life. And to communicate better one should have awareness of cross cultural, if not it would be a barrier for communication. "Communication is a process of response to a stimuli on the flat form of culture. " For communication Physical i.e. the Sound body is important secondly the expression and Thirdly acceptation. If intake is good means outtake will be good. There is stimuli everywhere but one should response. Every one's will power is some where one should realize and the will power should realize and the will power should not wasted in judging, but by learning, by understanding etc. EQ matters everywhere. And with an example of, A rich boy and poor boy who were his student 3-4 years ago and their problem and success story of them to Librarians communication is first because they are people to solve or to give the solution and not creating problem by more communication. He must be good at English because Librarians First nature is Enquiry, Second nature is confirmation and Third is Service. Librarians will be there until education is and Books are Source of Information, Travelling is Confirmation. "Fishes in River never get Thirsty". Thus one should identify his strength and weakness in communication and there by to overcome from it reading, learning and better hard work. The session ended with vote of thanks by Hydar Ali. -- Shivakumar H.R. II year MLISc Manasagangothri University of Mysore Mysore. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner <http://www.mailscanner.info/> , and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Invitation to and Programme of Inaugural Session of the UNESCO Sponsored Information Literacy Workshop for South and Central Asia
by Mailing List Admin 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 12:40:40 +0530 From: Jagtar Singh <jagtar.kindu(a)gmail.com> * The Department of Library and Information Science <http://www.punjabiuniversity.ac.in/pages/univprofile.html>* Cordially invites you to the Inaugural Session of the *UNESCO **Sponsored* Training-the-Trainers (TTT) In Information Literacy Workshop for South and Central Asia Under the Dynamic Leadership of *Dr. Jaspal Singh* Vice Chancellor, Punjabi University, Patiala *on **5 November 2008** at **11:00 a.m.** * in the Senate Hall, Punjabi University, Patiala. *Dr. Amrik Singh * Former Vice Chancellor, Punjabi University will inaugurate the Workshop. * * Prof. (Dr.) Jagtar Singh Dr. Trishanjit Kaur Workshop Coordinator & Head of Department Workshop Facilitator & Reader Tel: 0175-3046462 Tel: 0175-3046179 * * *Programme*: 11.00 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. University Dhuni Welcome Address: Dr. Jagtar Singh, Workshop Coordinator & Dean Faculty of Education and Information Science Inaugural Address: Dr. Amrik Singh, Former Vice Chancellor, Punjabi University Keynote Address: Ms. Pradeepa Wijetunge, Former Director, NILIS, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Special Remarks: Mr. G. S. Sidhu Damdami, Editor, Punjabi Tribune, Chandigarh Chief Guest: Dr. Harish Chandra, Librarian, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Presidential Address: Dr. Jaspal Singh, Vice Chancellor, Punjabi University, Patiala Vote of Thanks: Dr. Trishanjit Kaur, Workshop Facilitator & Reader, Dept. of Library and Information Science -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article request
by prithvi raj 02 Nov '08

02 Nov '08

Dear modulator I need some articles for my work but me not getting those articles in free full text so asking help from you sir listed those articles below kindly help me sir waiting for your replay 1. Casserly M.F., & Bird J.E. (2003). Web citation availability: Analysis and implications for scholarship. *College and Research Libraries*, *64*, 300-317. 1. Harter, S.P., & Kim, J.H. (1996). Electronic journals and scholarly communication: A citation and reference study. *Information Research*, *2 *.Retrieved April 21, 2004. 1. Kitchens, J.D., & Mosley, P.A. (2000). Error 404 or, what is the shelf-life of printed Internet guides? *Library Collections, Acquisitions & Technical Services*, *24*, 467-478. 1. Kobayashi, M., & Takeda, K. (2002). Information retrieval on the Web. *ACM Computing Surveys*, *32*, 144-173.** * * 1. Taylor, M.K., & Hudson, D. (2000). "Link rot" and the usefulness of Web site bibliographies. *Reference & User Services Quarterly*, *39*, 273-276. 1. Catherine Jean Sassen, .Citation Accuracy in the Journal Literature of Four Disciplines:Chemistry, Psychology, Library Science, and English and American Literature. (Ph.D. diss, Univ.of North Texas, 1992), 33. 1. Idrisa Pandit, .Citation Errors in Library Literature: A Study of Five Library Science Journals,. *Library and Information Science Research *15, no. 2 (1993): 185.98; Susan P. Benning and SusanC. Speer, .Incorrect Citations: A Comparison of Library Literature with Medical Literature,. *Bulletinof the Medical Library Association *81 (1993): 56.58; Nancy N. Pope, .Accuracy of References inTen Library Science Journals,. *RQ *32, no. 2 (1992): 240.43. 1. Wallace Koehler, .An Analysis of Web Page and Web Site Constancy and Permanence,.*Journal of the American Society for Information Science *50, no. 2 (Feb. 1999): 162. 1. Judit Bar-Ilan and Bluma C. Peritz, .The Life Span of a Specific Topic on the Web: The Case of .Informetrics.: A Quantitative Analysis.. Scientometrics 46 (Nov. 1999): 371.82. 1. Philip M. Davis, .The Effect of the Web on Undergraduate Citation Behavior: A 2000 Update,. College and Research Libraries 63 (Jan. 2002): 53.60. 1. S. Mary P. Benbow, .File Not Found: The Problems of Changing URLs for the World Wide Web,. Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy 8, no. 3 (1998): 247.50; Susan Davis Herring, .Use of Electronic Resources in Scholarly Electronic Journals: A Citation Analysis,. College and Research Libraries 63, no. 4 (July 2002): 334.40; 1. Steve Lawrence, et al., .Persistence of Web References in Scientific Research,. Computer 34 (Feb. 2001): 26.31. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Occupational English Language and Communication
by shivakumar shiva 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Dear Professionals, The Friday Talk series began with warm invocation by Pushpa of MLISc around 3.30pm. Dr. Khaiser Nikam Chairperson of Library and Information Science gave a welcome to the guest and all, along with an introduction of Dr. Benjamin Sukumaran IOLS Career Empowerment and Development Kuvempunagar, Mysore. Chairperson gave a brief note about the Library Science has grown in rapid speed. Thirst of knowledge, language and love towards subject maker a person to communicate better. Lecture Report:- ' Communication is life' 'Life without communication is tragedy'. With this great thought the lecture began by Dr. Benjamin Sukumaran. Benjamin explained how important communication is in life. And to communicate better one should have awareness of cross cultural, if not it would be a barrier for communication. "Communication is a process of response to a stimuli on the flat form of culture. " For communication Physical i.e. the Sound body is important secondly the expression and Thirdly acceptation. If intake is good means outtake will be good. There is stimuli everywhere but one should response. Every one's will power is some where one should realize and the will power should realize and the will power should not wasted in judging, but by learning, by understanding etc. EQ matters everywhere. And with an example of, A rich boy and poor boy who were his student 3-4 years ago and their problem and success story of them to Librarians communication is first because they are people to solve or to give the solution and not creating problem by more communication. He must be good at English because Librarians First nature is Enquiry, Second nature is confirmation and Third is Service. Librarians will be there until education is and Books are Source of Information, Travelling is Confirmation. "Fishes in River never get Thirsty". Thus one should identify his strength and weakness in communication and there by to overcome from it reading, learning and better hard work. The session ended with vote of thanks by Hydar Ali. -- Shivakumar H.R. II year MLISc Manasagangothri University of Mysore Mysore. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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request for an article
by Francis Jayakanth 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Dear Members: One of our research scholar is need of the following article. I would appreciate if someone who has access to the full-text of the article can send me a soft copy: Title: Theoretical model for the determination of plastic rotation capacity in reinforced concrete beams Author(s): R. N. F. do Carmo, S. M. R. Lopes, & L. F A. Bernardo doi: 10.1680/stco.4.2.75.38228 Journal: Structural Concrete Volume: 4 | Issue: 2 Cover date: June 2003 Page(s): 75-83 Thanks for your attention. - Francis NCSI, IISc Bengaluru.

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Dr. TBR Memorial Seminar on Content Management on November 08th, 2008- Reminder
by Ramya Krishna 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Dear Professionals, NCSI-Net, an informal association comprising of NCSI staff, trainees,and its alumni, cordially invites you to the fourth National level Dr. TBR Memorial Seminar, in memory of Late Dr. T.B. Rajashekar, erstwhile Associate Chairman, NCSI, IISc. It is a one day seminar targeted exclusively for the benefit of students of Library and Information Science course or its equivalent and budding information professionals. The details of the seminar are given below. Seminar Title: Dr. TBR Memorial Seminar on Content Management Date: November 08, 2008 (Saturday) Venue: Choksi Hall, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore - 560012 Target audience: Students of Library & Information science course or its equivalent & budding information professionals. Seminar coverage: The Seminar is conducted with an intention to create an awareness amongst the students and budding information professionals about the latest developments in the field of Information and Communication technologies applicable to LIS profession. This year's Seminar will give an overview of Content Management with special reference to Drupal- a content management software. There will also be a session dealing with career building strategies and job opportunities for LIS professionals. Registration fee: Rs. 150/- for Students and Rs. 300/- for budding professionals. Please do note that no arrangements for accommodation are being made. Kindly bring this to the attention of the budding professionals and encourage them to attend the seminar. Participants will get an opportunity to interact with professionals working in the industry and academia. For further information, please visit the Seminar website at: http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/ Registration form is available at: http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/2008seminar/HowtoRegsiter.html For further queries, please contact: Arumugam: arumugam.pitchai at hp.com Ramya: ramya at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Regards NCSI-NET Coordinators -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Two Day Workshop for TIPS
by Mailing List Admin 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:33:59 -0700 (PDT) From: krishanmoorthy ganapathy <krishnamoorthyg(a)yahoo.com> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Two Day Workshop for TIPS Dear Sir/Madam, � Warm Greetings!! � University Library, Anna University-Chennai is organising� �� TIPS-Training for Information Professional Skills � Two Day Workshop �Duration 14 -15 November, 2008 �Venue Henry Maudslay Hall Department of Mechanical Engineering Anna University-Chennai Sardar Patel Road, Guindy, Chennai-25, Tamilnadu, India � �KEY TAKEAWAYS �� Exposes to Soft Skills �� Introduces Participative Activities/Teamwork �� Demonstrates Leadership �� Insights into Information Skills �� Enhances Managerial skills �� Accomplishes to emerge as enhanced Information Managers FOR WHOM Library and Information professionals involved in information handling and front�desk work, Students and Scholars of Library & Information Science. The Workshop is limited to 50 Participants only. Selected Participants will be intimated through email. No TA/DA will be paid to participants. FEE DETAILS Participation Fee Rs.500/- The Cheque/DD is to be drawn in favour of �Director, University Library, Anna University-Chennai�. Registration Form is attached for use. WORKSHOP ORGANISING COMMITTEE Patron: Dr.Mannar Jawahar Vice-Chancellor, Anna University, Chennai Workshop Director Prof. K.Balu University Library, Anna University, Chennai� Workshop Coordinator Dr.G.Krishnamoorthy, Librarian, University Library, Anna University, Chennai� Committee Members Library Staff� (CEG�and MIT Campus) Contact for Registration and Other details: Dr.G.Krishnamoorthy University Librarian, Anna University Sardar Patel Road,Guindy, Chennai-25,Tamilnadu India Phone: 044-22352174 Fax��:� 044- 22355011 Email: aulib(a)annauniv.edu �� krishnamoorthyg(a)annauniv.edu �� krishnamoorthyg(a)yahoo.com With Warm Regards, Dr.G.Krishnamoorthy University Librarian, Anna University-Chennai

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International Symposium (ETTLIS-2008) (fwd)
by Mailing List Admin 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:19:38 +0530 (IST) From: shashi jena <shashi_jena2001(a)yahoo.co.in> INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON EMERGING TRENDS AND TECHNOLOGIES IN LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SERVCIES ETTLIS- 2008 , December 18-20, 2008. INVITATION FOR PARTICIPATION Dear friends, We invite you to participate in International Symposium on Emerging Trends and Technologies in Libraries and Information Services (ETTLIS) 2008. The symposium is being organized by Learning Resource Centre, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University, Noida UP, India and Central Library, Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi in technical association with SALIS Delhi NCR Chapter. Venue: JIIT University Noida, UP, India Date: December 18-20, 2008. We have received 120+ papers from 11 countries i.e. UK, USA, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brazil, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa and India. Apart from paper presentation, we have invited more then 30 eminent professionals from India and abroad to share their knowledge & experience. You will get an opportunity to interact, learn and share your ideas during the symposium. I am sure that your participation will be useful and fruitful. You can avail 10% discount on early registration by October 30, 2008. The registration form is available on symposium website i.e. http://ettlis2008.com/index.html. You may confirm your participation through email at skataria.jiitu(a)gmail.com or ettlis2008(a)gmail.com With regards Dr. Sanjay Kataria Organising Secretary, ETTLIS 2008 & Head, Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University A-10, Sector-62, Noida (UP) India Email: skataria.jiitu(a)gmail.com, ettlis2008(a)gmail.com Website: http://ettlis2008.com , www.jiit.ac.in Phone: +91 9810503341, +919953594531 With Regards Shashikanta Jena Professional Assistant Learning Resource Centre JIIT University A-10, Sector-62, Noida INDIA Email-shashi_jena2001(a)yahoo.co.in

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Fw: Looking for Evidence of Researcher Engagement with Repositories
by Subbiah Arunachalam 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Leslie Carr <lac@ECS.SOTON..AC.UK> To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM(a)LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG Sent: Thursday, 30 October, 2008 15:04:21 Subject: Looking for Evidence of Researcher Engagement with Repositories Practitioners, developers and researchers in the repository community have been asking whether repositories are effective at appealing to their primary stakeholders: researchers. It would be great to have a collection of success stories - anecdotes of how repositories have been able to improve the lot of researchers - for appealing to institutional repository nay-sayers and open access agnostics. These should be examples of real wins for real individuals rather than marketing claims from repository software suppliers(!) as many repository successes are due to the library team's hard work and insight rather than the technical wizardry of the repository platform. Please can you email me a short (1 paragraph) success story (or stories!) about how your repository improved the experience of some researchers at your institution. They could be in the form of a user testimonial or described in your own words. I am not looking for tales of mass conversions and hysteria, just very practical stories of repository benefit as experienced by individuals. I will collect these together and make them available for repository managers and others to use in their marketing and advocacy. A cross-platform discussion on this topic of Researcher Engagement will be held at the previously announced EPrints meeting just before SPARC DR on November 16th in Baltimore. If you're planning to go to Baltimore, come and join in and boast about your repository's success, whatever software you use! --- Les Carr Pre-SPARC meeting in Balitimore: http://www.eprints.org/events/preDR2008 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Invitation
by kaushal giri 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

*Indian Statistical Institute* *Documentation Research and Training Centre* *8th, Mile Mysore Road, Bangalore-560059* * * *DRTC Seminar* *on* *Digital Preservation: Issues and Challenges* * * *Abstract* * * * *In today's world there is a huge collection of information. Any such information available in the form of document may be unavailable for future needs, if it is not collected and properly preserved. A viable solution to deal with collection and preservation of such information is digitization is now possible with the advent of high resolution scanning mechanisms and powerful computers with large storage capabilities. Libraries are an effective source of information to be shared by the people of all kinds, which are engaged in creating and maintaining digital libraries. The availability and use of digital libraries is gradually becoming the norm for the provision of literature and information in all the fields and research. Digitization has become the buzz world in libraries and information centers. The feature of digitization like enabling high level of data compression and easy retrieval are the factors that have made the libraries to convert their documents, books, journals, monographs, reports containing the text, pictures, audio, video in suitable digital formats. Digital Libraries are catering to information services interacting with online databases of journals and other resources. Digital Library plays an important role in creating, indexing and retrieving the various forms of digital resources. One of the main challenges in maintaining Digital library is the *Digital Preservation* aspect. Digital preservation is to manage the digital information and to preserve and maintain readability and accessibility across time. It is also being defined by set of *Metadata Standards,* which are structured encoded data that help in resources discovery and management of data. Discussions of metadata have largely centered on issue of resources description. There is however a growing awareness that metadata plays an important role in managing and preserving the digital resources. A study is made about the Digital preservation, its process, its workflow, *Issues and Challenges, *various ongoing projects (India and Abroad), concept of Metadata, its standards needed for data preservation. The seminar explores PREMIS (Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies) - preservation standard. * * SPEAKER: *Kaushal. K. Giri* 2nd Year Student VENUE : DRTC Classroom DATE : 5th November, 2008 TIME : 2.00 p.m. *All are cordially invited.* Dr. Devika. P. Madalli (Seminar coordinator) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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