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Refresher Course at the Univ. of Burdwan
by Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Dear members, The Academic Staff College, University of Burdwan is going to organize 3rd Refresher Course on LIS for the period from November 08-28, 2008 at the Burdwan University campus, Burdwan, W.B. The details of the schedule is available from http://www.burdwanuniversityasc.org/. The form may be downloaded through the link : http://www.burdwanuniversityasc.org/pdf/application_form.pdf The last date is 22.10.08. Thanks and regards, Dr. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay Department of Library and Information Science University of Burdwan, Burdwan, Rajbati - 713104, WB -- _______________________________________________ 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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Free Online Access to all SAGE journals until October 31, 2008
by Kshirod 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Dear Professionals, SAGE is currently offering free online access to over 500 SAGE journals with content available from 1999-date until October 31, 2008! Earlier this year SAGE celebrated the launch of the 500th journal site on the SAGE Journals Online platform. SAGE Journals Online provides users access to one of the largest collections of social science, humanities, and science, technical, and medical content in the world. Faculty, researchers, and students can register here for free online access until the end of the month. Registration Link: https://online.sagepub.com/cgi/register?egistration=FTOct2008-25 Regards, -- Kshirod Das National Institute of Technology Roukela Rourkela-769 008, Orissa -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Announcement - SRELS -JIM and Information Studies
by SRELS 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Dear Sir : Kindly announce the following for the benefit of LIS-FORUM users. Sincerely, K.N. Prasad SRELS ******* Dear LIS-FORUM USER: The contents of the Current issues of the following journals can be browsed at: http://www.Indianjournals.com 1. SRELS Journal of Information Management.Vol.45, No.3 September 2008. 2. Information Studies. Vol.14, No.4 October 2008. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Workshop on DSpace
by University LIbrary Mahatma Gandhi University 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Dear Colleagues, Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala in association with Federal Institute of Science and Technology(FISAT) Angamaly,Kerala is organizing a National Workshop on DSpace from 21-25 October 2008 at FISAT Angamaly. For workshop details log on to http://www.fisat.ac.in/National_Workshop/index.html Thank You. -- 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 ramesh chander 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Please send me following article, if anyone has access to it. It is needed for our research student. 1. D.S. Grummon, Material Science Forum, 327-328(2000)295. 2. Suppression of Martensitic Phase Transformation, Shape Memory and High Damping by Ion Implantation in Ni-Ti Thin Films by R. Gotthardt, Material Science Forum, vol 319(2006), pp 17-24. 3. Synthesis and Characterization of O,O'-Alkylenedithiophosphato Complexes of Vanadium(V) by A. Kumar and S.K. Pandey, Polish Journal of Chemistry, 2005,Volume 79, No. 6, pp951-957. With Regards, Romesh Chander Sharma National Center for Science Information(NCSI), Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore-560012, -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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GU plans on 'knowledge kiosks' for students from humble families
by noufal palliparamban 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hello, The Gujarat University (GU) is planning to set up 10 Knowledge Extension Centres (KEC)-cum-libraries in the economically backward areas to help the students get all the information related to the university near their residence. For full story : http://in.news.yahoo.com/48/20080930/804/tnl-gu-plans-on-knowledge-kiosks-f… Regards Noufal.PP Assistant Librarian XLRI jamshedpur Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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SAHITYA SHIROMANI AWARD
by Charu Mathur 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Respected Friends, Greetings for the day. I am very pleased to share the following overwhelming news received from one of my respected professional. I take the opportunity to congratulate from the bottom of my heart Dr Shankar Singh, Deptt of Library & Information services, Power Finance Corporation Ltd, New Delhi for his exemplary contribution in the LIS world. He is the proud recipient of prestigious award "SAHITYA SHIROMANI AWARD" by PARIVARTAN JAN KALYAN SAMITI, DELHI in a programme held at Constitution Club, New Delhi on 26th Sept 2008, for promoting Hindi language in Information Technology and Library & Information Science. Dr Singh has following Hindi books in his credit: 1.COMPUTER AUR SUCHANA TACHNIQUE 2.SUCHANA PRODHOGIKI KE NAYE AYAM 3.INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & LIBRARIES 4.INTERNET AUR ADHUNIK PUSTAKALAYA 5.SUCHANA PRODHOGIKI AUR INTERNET 6.SONANCHAL KI KAHANIYAN 7.URJANCHAL KI KAHANIYAN 8.PREM AUR YUDDH(NOVEL) Besides these he has been also associated with following Universities for writing Library & Information Sc Course Materials in Hindi: 1.IGNOU,NEW DELHI-BLIS 2.UPRTOU,ALLAHABAD-MLIS 3.VMOU,KOTA-MLIS 4.BOU,BHOPAL-MLIS We should congratulate to Dr Shankar Singh, a Senior Library Professional & a Teacher of Library science. Kind regards. 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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John Willinsky on open access
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Stand up for an OA mandate at your university John Willinsky, How To Institute an Open Access Policy? Stand Up, Slaw.ca, September 28, 2008. Excerpt: On June 10th, my colleagues in the Stanford University School of Education listened patiently as I stood before them explaining how the Harvard Law School had passed an “open access” motion which was going to lead to free online access to all of the scholarly articles that they published. We were on a faculty retreat, at a hotel by the ocean near Monterey, California, with the waves rolling in not far from where we were sitting. An opening had appeared in the program, and I jumped in, asking for the time to explain what such a policy could mean for the work of a school or department.... [The faculty] wondered about the copyright. I explained how the term “nonexclusive” was key....The author as the original copyright holder grants a non-exclusive right to post this particular copy prior to transferring the remaining rights to the publisher. They wondered, as well, why in the world publishers would accept this. And I explained that the publishers already had, at least in principle. The majority of publishers grant authors, in exchange for the author turning over copyright to their work, the right to post their work in just such an archive, sometimes some months after publication.... We talked briefly about what this access might mean for who reads law school scholarship and all the more so, in the case of an education school, which...saw itself having a responsibility for the professionalism of teachers and for addressing public interests in education. However, before we had been at it for half-an-hour, people were saying let’s just do it. Let’s pass an open access motion for the School of Education, and let’s do it right here and right now. I was taken aback by the ease with which this idea garnered nods and shrugs of assent. Before the hour was up, we had passed an open access motion that committed the School to sharing what it knew or at least what it had discovered and submitted for publication.... The times may be a changing. It had been very hard, only a few years ago, to get researchers to look up from their work long enough to explain access issues. Putting an article in a journal, as they saw it, made things public enough. No more. No longer. Greater openness, greater accessibility of knowledge has become part of culture. Now is the time to make it standard practice and a common policy within universities. To help other departments, schools and faculties take this step of making open access a policy, I put together a webpage on the Open Access Policy.... Take advantage of the times, my fellow scholars and researchers. It could prove dead easy for you, too, to stand up and reposition your institution within this larger world of public knowledge. PS: For background, also see our past blog posts on the Stanford OA mandate, and the recent post about it by Bret Waters, a member of the Advisory Council for the Stanford School of Education. Posted by Peter Suber at 9/28/2008 10:31:00 AM -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Congratulation to Prof. Shabahat Hussain Sir to Became next Universtiy Librarian of AMU
by majid khan 27 Sep '08

27 Sep '08

This is Honour for us especially Department of Library & Information Science that Prof. Shabahat Hussain Became the Nexr Universtiy Librarian of Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh India. We Congratulate Prof. Shabahat Hussain Sir Thanks Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now, on http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html/ -- 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] Nomenclature of LIS professional degree
by Mailing List Admin 26 Sep '08

26 Sep '08

Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:34:21 +0530 From: pramod mangla <manglapb(a)gmail.com> Dear Professional Colleagues, I greatly appreciate that quite a few professionals did express their views for the need to bring in change in the Nomenclature of our professional degree. Name does matter so do the content and professional spirit to serve the society. I strongly suggest that a Dept.of LIS in the country should take immediate steps to organise a national (or even international) seminar on this topic and formulate recommendations for the UGC for proper implementation. We did that in the University of Delhi in 1977 and this process should be continued. I can assure every one my fullest support for this urgent need. I shall look forward hearing more in this regard. Thanks to all, Prof.P.B.Mangla

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