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Refresher course in LIS
by gopikuttan gopikuttan 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

Dear Professionals Academic staff college of University of Kerala is conducting a refresher course in LIS from 1st November.Details can be collected from the website www.ugcasc.keralauniversity.edu Dr.A.Gopikuttan Reader DLIS University of Kerala Be the first one to try the new Messenger 9 Beta! Go to http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/win/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Young Librarian Award
by divya soni 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

Respected Professional and friends Greetings from Development Alternatives!! I am happy to inform you all that Mr. Kishor Chandra Satpathy, Librarian, Indian Institute of Management, Indore has been awarded the "Young Librarian Award" for the year 2008 by SATKAL Trust for his outstanding contributions and achievements in the profession of Librarianship. I congratulate him for his precious achievement. We all admire his contribution for librarianship. Some of his work can be found on his blog : http://sicilibnet.blogspot.com/ http://indorepubliclibrary.blogspot.com/ http://indolibnet.blogspot.com/ Regards Divya Soni Miss. Divya Soni Assistant Librarian Development Alternatives B-32, TARA Crescent Qutub institutional area New Delhi-16 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Digital conversion of Library materials
by Gopakumar Velayudhanpillai 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

In response to the query from N Shailaja of Deccan Herald in this forum Volume 66, Issue 20, I am providing some information regarding the digital conversion of library materials. The process of digitalization is time consuming and costly. Hence a proper planning is required in that respect. The major aspects we have to think about are : 1.Hardware requirements 2.Software requirements 3.Benchmarking 4.Storage formats and media 1.Hardware requirements Personal Computers with the present day configuration are more than enough for undertaking digitalization processes. As you have a lot of back up data better to have more disk space. RAM capacity also could be enhanced as you have to deal with graphic data. Scanners of various capacities are available in the market from Heavy duty Scanners to simple flat bed scanners. If you need to undertake OCR conversion, see that the software attached to the scanner has that facility. 2.Software requirements The software attached to scanners is suitable to carry out digitalization works. Abbey Fine reader is an OCR software. The twain utility attached to Photoshop is also helpful in scanning. He scanned images could be later edited for clarity in the Photoshop software itself. 3.Benchmarking We are not at all going to convert all materials that are available in our library into digital format. Then we will have to think of a selection process. A policy has to be framed to select documents for digital conversion. It should be reasonable. While making such a policy, copy right restrictions should be taken into consideration. 4.Storage format and Media Scanned image could be stored in various available digital formats. TIFF, PDF, JPEG etc are some of the formats that could be used. Adobe Acrobat TM software could be used to add security regulations to your scanned documents. It can be used to add metadata elements along with the documents. Dr GOPAKUMAR V. Librarian (UGC), University College,Palayam, Thiruvananthapuram, PIN 695 034. gopakumar.v(a)rediffmail.com Mobile No: 09447056713 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Warm Congratulations
by Pijushkanti Panigrahi 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

Dear Professional Colleagues On behalf of IASLIC, we extend our warm and hearty congratulations to Dr. P.R. Goswami, Director, NASSDOC (ICSSR), New Delhi and one of the dynamic Vice Presidents of IASLIC for his appointment as Director, Central Secretariat Library, (Ministry of Culture, Government of India), New Delhi. Dr P R Goswami held the position of Chief-Librarian-Cum-Documentation Officer in Planning Commission (2001-2002). He was Librarian Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi (1986-2001) and Librarian Central Statistical Organization, Government of India (1982-1986). As a winner of International Paper Competition, organized by the Special Interest Group – International Information Issues, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST); he was awarded Membership of the ASIST for four years i.e. 2001-2005. Dr Goswami has long association with IASLIC. He was elected as Vice President, Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC), Kolkata (2004-2005 and 2008-2010). We are proud of his achievements. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr Pijushkanti Panigrahi, Reader, Dept of Lib and Inf Science, 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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Congrets
by Kamlesh Goel 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

Dear Friends Let us congretulate to Dr. P. R. Goswami for his appointment as Director, Central Secretariate Library, Ministry of Culture, New Delhi. I take the opportunity to CONGRETULATE him and the BEST WISHES for his success and career promotion. -k. Goel Kamlesh Goel Documntation Officer NASSDOC, ICSSR -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Corporate Librarians in India: A Survey
by sudipta chatterjee 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

Dear Professional Friends, Corporate Houses are introducing Library & Information Services to provide back-end support to the business process.... I am keen to undertake a survey on this, based on which I will like to prepare a Directory/Database of COrporate Librarians in India. All those are involed, please contact with the following Information: 1. Name of Professional: 2. Qualification: 3. Name of Organization (with Address): 4. Designation: 5. Nature of Organization: 6. Nature of Job: 7. Users' Profile: 8. Information Resources: 9. Services Offered: 10. Personal Views/Comments: 11. Contact Information (Professional's): Also, this is to find out the scope and possibilities of our profession in the Corporate Sector. Therefore, I request co-operation of all concerned. Thanks & Regards. Sudipta Chatterjee B.A.(Hons) M.Phil (LIS) Executive- Library & Information Services International Combustion (India) Ltd., Kolkata. Email: s.chatterjee(a)internationalcombustion.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Some basic Questions
by Charu Mathur 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

Dear Friends, I whole-heartedly with Divya Soni , that this is the time when we have to prove our self, in terms of tangible knowledge, by way of working with all your might and not last but least , to increase the capacity of swimming against the current. Miss Charu Mathur 9873030461 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Requirement of Library staff
by srinivas rao 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

There is a urgent requirement of Asst Librarian and Library Asst. in a Reputed Engineering college at Hyderabad. Please contact Mr. Harikrishna Librarian 9848575044 Srinivasa Rao G 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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Congratulations Dr. Harish Chandra.
by Rajesh Bhardwaj 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

Dear Dr. Harish Chandra and LIS Professionals, This is a great movement for all of us that you have received Silver Rolling Trophy for being selected as Best Maintained Library( IIT Madras) in Colleges for the year 2007 in the 54th Anniversary Celebrations of The Mylapore Academy. I personally extend my congratulations you for the achievement. He has about 30 years rich professional experience and currently working with IIT Madras as Librarian, the Principal Administrative Officer of the Central Library since 04-01-1995. We all should congratulate him for this achievement. Kind regards. Rajesh Kr. Bhardwaj, M-9818603208, http://www.rajweb.name ************************************************************ Fellow, Library and Information Centre TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) Darbari Seth Block IHC Complex, Lodhi Road New Delhi 110 003 (India) Tel. +91 11 2468 2100, 2468 2111 Ext 2725 Fax +91 11 2468 2144, 2468 2145 E-mail bhardwaj(a)teri.res.in Web site www.teriin.org ************************************************************ Find me @ 0.05 second, type "Rajesh Kumar Bhardwaj" in "google", click "I'm feeling lucky" > > On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 Harish Chandra wrote : > >Dear Mr. Hariharan, > > > >I am glad to inform you that I have received Silver Rolling Trophy for being selected as Best Maintained Library( IIT Madras) in Colleges for the year 2007 in the 54th Anniversary Celebrations of The Mylapore Academy(regd) A Premier Social Service Organisation. The Trophy, Certificate of Merit and Momento were presented by Sri G. Srinivasan, Chairman and Managing Director, United India Insurance Co. Ltd in the presence of Hon'able Justice Shri Asok Kumar Ganguly, Chief Justice of Madras High Court, Chennai on 02-09- 2008 Thanks DR. Harish Chandra Librarian IIT Madras -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Digitisation of old books and journals (Susmita Chakraborty)
by naganarasimha shailaja 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

Dear Friends I am Equally interested in knowing the methods used by other libraries in digitising their archival Material.The main parameters applied to get the best digital end product.Clarity, Reproducability and the life of the digital forms so converted.The cost involved in initial digitisation and in the up gradation of digital forms with the change in software , Hardware etc.If some experts respond on the LIS Forum It will be of great help to many professionals N Shailaja Assistant Editor Information Centre DECCAN HERALD Bangalore Ph No.25880545 Mobile:9449210448 Naganarasimhas(a)yahoo.com New Email names for you! Get the Email name you've always wanted on the new @ymail and @rocketmail. Hurry before someone else does! http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/aa/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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