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NewGenLib demo now on a public IP
by L J Haravu 19 Apr '08

19 Apr '08

Dear Forum professionals I am happy to let you know that it is now possible for anyone to use open source NewGenLib via the server-side installation on one of our public IP machines. Please follow the steps given below. With this, you can use all the functionality as though the software is installed for you. However, the data added will be stored only temporarily and may be deleted. Please note that although this is a full fledged application, it is only to demonstrate to professionals and to help then get a first hand feel of the software. 1. Install J2RE1.4.2 on one or more client machines from the Sun Microsystems web site. This is the run time version of Java and needs to be installed on all clients that plan to access NewGenLib functionality. 2. Once you have successfully installed J2RE1.4.2 on your client machine, open your Internet browser and enter the URL, http://121.246.154.208:8080/newgenlibctxt/LaunchApplication 3. You will soon see a JAVA Starting window and the very first time that you launch the NewGenLib client, it will download the application from our server to your machine. This may take time and depends on the bandwidth you have. From the second and subsequent times, the applet is loaded from your client unless there has been an update of the server side software. 4. You will soon see a dialog where you need to enter the IP address of the server. This is 121.246.154.208. The port by default shown is 8080. You need not change this. Click OK in this dialog. 5. Next you will see the Login screen of NewGenLib. Enter xyz as the User_id and abc as the password. This user does not have all the System Administrator permissions. 6. Soon you will see the main menu of the NewGenLib applet with the functional modules on top. Click any of the main menu options to see the different functions possible within the module 7. To see the OPAC of the installation, open your Internet browser and enter 8. http://121.246.154.208:8080/newgenlibctxt and you will soon see the opening page of the OPAC with search and other options I would be happy to answer any questions but better still would be for professionals to go the discussion forum on Sourceforge.net, http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=210780 and create an account and post your problems, suggestions. Best regards. Haravu -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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job opportunities at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU)
by Thapar, Amit 19 Apr '08

19 Apr '08

Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Aligarh (UP) Advertisement No. 2/ 2008 Applications on the prescribed form are invited for the following posts by 26/05/2008. 1. University Librarian, Maulana Azad Library : 01 post, Pay Scale : Rs.16400-22400/- 2. Lecturer in Library Science, Dept of Library & Information Science : 01 post 3. Deputy Librarians, Maulana Azad Library : 02 posts 4. Assistant Librarians, Maulana Azad Library : 08 posts How to Apply : Apply in the prescribed format. Persons downloading the Form from the Net are required to send a Cash receipt issued by the Cash Section, Finance Office, AMU, Aligarh or Demand draft of Rs. 150/- payable to Finance Officer, AMU, Aligarh at State Bank of India, AMU Branch, Aligarh (code 5555) along with the duly filled employment form complete in all respect. Complete application form procured in the above manner may either be delivered personally at the Reception Counter of Administrative Block or sent by post, super scribing on the top left of the cover the post applied for, advertisement number and date, to the Deputy Registrar, (Selection Committee), Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh-202002, so as to reach him by 26/05/2008. Kindly visit http://www.amuregistrar.com/11april08.html for complete details of the vacancies and application form is available at http://www.amuregistrar.com/Form.doc Best of Luck !! Amit Thapar Library & Information Centre National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) (Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers, Govt. of India) Sector 67, S.A.S. Nagar-160062, Punjab (INDIA) "To make yourself exceptional is the biggest achievement of your life." -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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job opportunity
by Thapar, Amit 19 Apr '08

19 Apr '08

Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) Manora Peak, Nainital-263129 Applications are invited through direct recruitment from eligible candidates for the post in the prescribed format: Scientific Assistant 'B' - Library : 02 posts, Pay scale: Rs. 4500-125-7000, Qualification : First Class Bachelors degree in Science with Bachelor Degree in Library Science/ Information Science/ Documentation or its equivalent degree from recognised university., Desirable : Knowledge of Computer Applications. General Conditions: 1.. The application should be on the format provided on Website http://aries.ernet.in/ of the institute with relevant details and affixing one self attested recent colored passport size photograph. 2.. The Maximum age limit is 45 for sl. no. 2 and 40 years for others as on 30/04/2008. The age limit is relaxable as per Govt. of India rules for SC/ST/OBC and PH (except Blindness or Low Vision Category.) on production of relevant certificates. 3.. Advance increment can be considered for meritorious candidates. 4.. Reservation is applicable as per the guidelines of the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India norms. 5.. Applications will be accepted upto 5:00 PM of 15 May, 2008 6.. The envelope containing the application must be superscribed in Bold letters "Application for the post of Engineer 'B'-Computer" 7.. The Institute will not be respnsible for any postal delays. No correspondence in th matter will be entertained in this office. 8.. Mere fulfilling of prescribed qualification and experience will not vest any right in candidates to be called for test/interview. The Director reserver the right to reject any or all applications without assigning any reason. 9.. Self attested Photostat Copies of the documents of all the supporting facts must be attached. 10.. All the applications should be sent to The Director, Aryabhatta research Institute of Observational Sciences, (ARIES), Manora Park, Nainital - 263 129 (Uttrakhand). 11.. The candidates will be called for test/interview after screening. 12.. The selected candidate can be posted at ARIES, Manora Park or Devasthal 13.. Application should be forwarded through proper channel or NOC should be produced at the time of Interview. Vigilance clearance as per the follwing format should be attached with the applications. " Certified that there is no vigilance / disciplinary case pending / contemplated against Shri Smt Kr. ______________________ of this organisation" Best of luck !! Amit Thapar Library & Information Centre National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) (Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers, Govt. of India) Sector 67, S.A.S. Nagar-160062, Punjab (INDIA) "To make yourself exceptional is the biggest achievement of your life." -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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job opportunity in PGIMER, Chandigarh
by Thapar, Amit 19 Apr '08

19 Apr '08

PGIMER, Chandigarh Advt.No.4/2008 (Estt.I) Applications on prescribed form are invited from the citizens of India for the following Group 'B' post on regular basis : 1.. Senior Library and Information Assistant : 01 post (UR), Pay Scale : 5500-9000/- Application form : The application forms and other information viz. qualification, experience, age limit can be obtained from the Recruitment Cell either personally or on written request accompanied by a self addressed stamped (Rs.10/-) envelope (27 cm x 12 cm) along with DD of Rs.525/0 (Rs.275/- for SC/ST candidates) in favour of the Director PGIMER, Chandigarh payable at State Bank of India, Sector 12, Chandigarh (Code No.1524) The same information and application form can also be downloaded from PGIMER web site at http://pgimer.nic.in/oppor.htm . A DD of Rs.500/- (Rs.250/- for SC/ST candidates) should be attached with application downloaded from the web site. Last date for receipt of application is 19/05/2008 Best of luck !! Amit Thapar Library & Information Centre National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) (Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers, Govt. of India) Sector 67, S.A.S. Nagar-160062, Punjab (INDIA) "To make yourself exceptional is the biggest achievement of your life." -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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LIS Motivation Survey
by esukhdev＠gmail.com 19 Apr '08

19 Apr '08

Friends, I am experimenting on Using Google Docs for Creating and Conducting Surveys. For this I am conducting a real survey on "What attracts / motivates people to join Library and Information (LIS) Field". Is it a sheer chance, accident, job availability or philosophy? I am not collecting your personal information. So your privacy is protected and would be protected during analysis and in results too. Remember, THIS IS A REAL SURVEY, Please fill in your responses. Your few minutes can make a difference!!! Thank you, Sukhdev Singh, NIC If you cannot view this form properly, you can fill it out here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=p4GBbR26ZPytvtls2v-qhBw&email=t… Your Age Group In years Under 25 Between 25 - 30 Between 31 - 35 Between 36 - 40 Between 41 - 45 Between 46 - 50 Between 51- 55 Between 56 - 60 Above 60 Your Occupation Please give your nearest present occupation Student - BLIS Student - MLIS Research Only Research, but Employed Employed in LIS Domain Employed in non-LIS Domain Employed but LIS Student of Distant / Correspondce Course Employed but non-LIS Student of Distant / Correspondce Course Retired Why you choose LIS Profession? Tick most nearest option Jobs are / were easily available in LIS Just joined it without caring what it is all about Wanted to spend some more time at university I loved the philosphy of the profession I had to do something, What is your problem? Nothing better was available to me I was employed in another field, studied LIS during job and now I am well off. Any comments? powered by Google Docs Terms of Service - Additional Terms -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Librarians of Private Academic Institution
by Balesh Kumar 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

Dear Sir, As you need the information regarding the status of Librarians of Private Academic institutions. I would like to say the following: Now there are instititution who are paying at par with the Govt. Institutions. they are following the AICTE/UGC norms now to a great extent. I am working in a private engg. college in Haryana and availing all the benefits that are available in a govt. institute in terms of money. Now pension scheme is not available even in govt. employees who are being employed in recent few years. other future provisions are being given to us like EPF, grauty, medical insourance etc. As for security is concerned it is totally dependent on your performance, capabilities and abilities. There can not be secuurity like the govt. institutions. The private institutions who are in sound financial position may impliment the sixth pay commission with immidiate effect or may take some time but not much more or may not pay with the back effect. Thanking you, Balesh Kumar Balesh Kumar Librarian Haryana College of Technology & Management Ambala Road, Kaithal-136 027 (Haryana) Ph.: (O) 01746-280100, 280102, Fax: 280711 (M) 09416073008 --------------------------------- Did you know? You can CHAT without downloading messenger. Click here -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Lack of operational freedom in libraries
by gayathri sen 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

Dear friends, I completely agree with the opinion of all three that is, Dr.Sahib, Shri.Rajashekaran and Shri. Koteshwara Rao 1. Collection development of a particular library has to take place by the participation of all stake holders concerned. ie., faculty, students and librarian. 2. An innovative and dynamic librarian with working experience in a big library is definately capable of making good selections. He can choose quality publishers and select only in areas of study at the institution keeping in mind institutional goals and aspirations provoided required freedom is given. 3. to add one copy of each book in relevant subject areas should not be withheld from the responsibilities of librarian. At least that much freedom he should be given. Reason for poor collections of books in many institutions is, librarian does not have the authority to add, teachers do not have the time or interest. It is the student who suffers to the maximum extent. Institution never progresses academically because of poor collection. Information when wanted is not available. 4. 50% of the budgeted amount can be utilised for faculty selection, 25% for student request and 25% for librarian's choice 5.The % can also change depending on institutions policy. 6. NBA, NAAC, AICTE, UGC etc from top level and the Library associations together has to ensure that proper freedom and working environments has to be provoded for librarians to acheive and proove themselves. 7. I have noticed that in most cases, it is due to lack of freedom and support that librarians cannot achieve. It may be automation, good collection development etc. etc. 8. I have also noticed many new comers to the profession, especially those who qualify through correspondence, do not have an idea of how a library should run. 9. Institutions, especially private managements want to hire people giving the least possible salaries. naturally, the quality of work force is equally bad. This creates a very bad impression about all librarians. 10. Not many from science background are taking up this profession and as my esteem collegue pointed out they just to not have idea about science or engineering subjects, either for book selection or classification. Who will bell the cat is the question?(or how to solve this problem) Regards, Gayathri Sen PESIT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- 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] POD in libraries
by Suvarsha Walters 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

I am sorry, I didn't see the origin of this email thread. My response was mainly to the following and hence I've been referring to digitization rather than Print-On-Demand (POD). > > > When some (rare) resources are uploaded so that everyone can have it for free, is it not defeating the purpose if someone tries to earn profit from it? While I am aware of the POD concept, I was not sure how libraries could be involved because of cost issues. But this document does speak of the possibilities: http://www.library.cornell.edu/communications/2006/newsarchive/ALA06%20_Pre… Thanks, Suvarsha --- On Thu, 4/17/08, Leonard Fernandes <leonardfernandes(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > From: Leonard Fernandes <leonardfernandes(a)yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Digitization of rare materials - Interactive Relighting > To: suvarsha_w(a)yahoo.com > Date: Thursday, April 17, 2008, 10:07 AM > Just to recap... > > UNESCO had archived the contents of the library of > Xavier's at Kolkota and, being a POD publisher, I > mentioned of an offer I made to the Goa Central Library to > print one copy of their digitized collection so that the > physical copy could circulated among researchers and > students. > > I guess the question being asked is if it is ethical for me > to make money while providing a service that will, in turn, > be provided for free i.e. the books produced will be > provided to researchers for free > > There is no such thing as free lunch. Someone's got to > pay. If I provide the printing service for free, it is > probably the last time I provide such a service because I > will not be able to live on love and fresh air for very > long. Because I charge, I can sustain myself for another > day so that I am able to provide the same service to > another library or institution. > > We pay for water too. By the same argument, what right does > the government have to charge for a natural resource that > is, so to speak, freely available. But because the > government earns from it, it is able to lay pipelines, > afford to have a maintenance crew, etc.. So there is > justification in charging for the water, isn't there? > > Technology on its own is both neutral and without merit. > Only when it is used for a specific purpose does it assume > significance of any kind. I think POD is a technology worth > experimenting with instead of merely rubbishing. > > Regards, > > Leonard Fernandes > ============================== > Cell: +91-98503 98530 > Skype: leonardjensan > http://books.dogearsetc.com (our online book store) > http://cinnamonteal.dogearsetc.com (our print-on-demand > service) > http://thepost.dogearsetc.com (our weekly newsletter) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- 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] vacancy of Librarian at TAPMICEE, Bangalore- Urgent requirement
by Pandurang Shendage 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

Dear Sir, If there is condition of 3/4 years experience and your not giving scale to Library professionals. What is this? Why you are not giving scale? Your expectations are quite strong as per your convenience. This is insult of Skilled Professionals. I want to explain whichever person will join for this job. He will suffer a lot. We can see his expenditure - Home rent, electricity bill, Grocery bill, Future fund, Children Education, Parent Care, Etc. Can he manage all with 12000 to 13000 maximum? Now there is time to think Over it. I don't want to blame any body or any organization. So I request all LIS professionals that we should do thing. Thanks Pandurang Shendage On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 Manjunath K wrote : >T.A. Pai Management Institute Centre for Executive Education, >Koramangala, Bangalore > > > >Respected LIS professionals, > > > >We need a Library Professional for the post of LIBRARIAN in our T.A. Pai >Management Institute Centre for Executive Education, Koramangala, >Bangalore (TAPMICEE, Bangalore)). As it is an urgent requirement, please >help us to locate a candidate for this post. He will be directly >reporting to Prof. Ramesh-who is In-charge of the centre. > > > >Our expectations and offers: > > > >1. the candidate should be a postgraduate in library & information >science (MLIS) >2. 3-4 years of experience + desirable -computer skills >3. the salary would be around Rs. 12000 to Rs. 13000/month and it >can be negotiable subject to the suitability of the candidate >4. on selection he should be in a position to join immediately/at >short notice >5. the designation will be Librarian >6. Location of work: TAPMI-CEE, Koramangala, Bangalore > > > >Interested candidates can contact Prof. N. Ramesh, at CEE immediately >with his/her bio-data. > >Prof. N. Ramesh TAPMI-CEE, Mahayogi Vemana Road, 100 Ft. Road, IV block, >Koramangala, Bangalore. - 560 038 > >Prof. Ramesh can be contacted through ph: (080) 41501900/902, mobile- >98441 35841 > >The CV can be emailed to Prof. Ramesh or Mr. Johnson. > > > >Email: Prof. ramesh: nramesh(a)tapmi-blr.org > >Mr. Johnson: johnsonp(a)tapmi-blr.org > > > > Regards, > > > >Manjunath > >------------- > >Dr. Manjunatha K > >Librarian > >T.A. Pai Management Institute > >Manipal - 576 104 > >Udupi Dist. Karnataka, India > >Ph: +91-0820-2573551(0ff); 2575161(Res) > >email: manjunath(a)mail.tapmi.org; manju_tapmi(a)yahoo.com > >web: http://www.tapmi.org > > ------------- > > > > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request from USA
by vimal kumar 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

Dear Friend, My friend from a US library requests a help from me. Following is his request, anybody can help him. I wanted to ask for a little help: lately I've been cataloging a number of works in Hindi (mostly videos) and Panjabi (books, music and videos). Usually the Panjabi books have a Romanized title on the verso that we can use for our English-language cataloging records, but these are usually phonetic and seldom transliterated into English. It occurred to me that, with the 22 languages in official use throughout India, perhaps there might be a multi-lingual glossary of common words used in library work, general terms such as 'fiction', 'poetry', 'biography' etc. We use a list of this kind in Spanish here, because it is virtually the second language in California. Have you ever come across a resource like this in library school? I'm mainly interested in this kind of terminology in Hindi and Panjabi, but if there is a master library glossary or 'cheat-sheet' for other Indian languages, I think my boss would be happy to get a hold of one! Vimal Kumar Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 http://www.asb.edu.in/vimal ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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