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Details about M.Phil. and Ph.D. programs
by shyam sunder rao 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Deal all members of the Lis-Forum, I have received no. of e-mails, about the program details of Dr.B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. Pl. go through the following website: http://www.braou.ac.in/Notification-Mphil&PHD.doc S. Shyam Sunder Rao Librarian Siva Sivani Institute of Management Kompally, Secunderabad-500 014. (M) 09391075416 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Why Kerala Libraries Fail ?
by Rajan 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Dear Mr Swetank, The private institutions are designed for a purpose and to serve a cause. but the public institutions in Kerala, as in many other states, are not designed systematically to achieve something. That is why same people fail in one and succeed in the other.Public institutions and organizations are nobodys control zone. You can do anything in any public institution normally. Well delineated do's and don'ts are less in any ordinary organization in the public sphere. Most of the public organizations do not have a set of goals, no one find the strategies or set the action points and never think of any kind of evaluation at all. The tenacious, committed and capable person having focus on work will find difficult to get along in any average institution in Kerala. Petty politics, caste and selfish interests yield better results. In some institutions library is an appendage with no direct relevance to the academic activities. The overall decline in academic activities in Kerala where even Vice-Chancellors are decided on the basis of caste or influence, you cannot have good libraries.Most of the academics do not bother about good library services too, except when they are preparing for competitive examinations or theses. Job threat and salary are not the determinant factors. Rather you may not get the freedom and an enabling environment to work better in any library in Kerala. A well established system can make you love your job than earlier. But we keep failed systems here in our libraries.Most of the appointments or activities in Kerala are based on petty party politics. If a good person is appointed, the political party based organizations will make his world disastrous. On the other hand most of the appointments in the top are either political or seniority based, both leaving no room for good work and designs. It seems that is why Kerala libraries fail. Professionals Associations like Kerala Library Association,alone can bring in more light to this world of utter darkness, if it has a motivation to do so. Best Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India ------------------------------ Original Message: 3 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:22:41 +0530 From: "info" <info(a)deekshasystems.com> Message-ID: PHEJKJBICLJKBEPALLHHCEGICCAA.info(a)deekshasystems.com Hi, Very valid point by Mr. Rajan. One point I fail to understand, why the same people works more efficiently in private organization compared to government (exceptions are always there). For them is it only Job threat or salary is the motivation. I feel any one's love for his/her work is also important. and if he/she don't feel it he should leave the job and go to some other job where he feels that he is loving the work. There will be always a needy person who will fill the gap and every thing will keep on moving. Love for your work is very important and this will only help us to realise the dream of being a developed country. Why in USA on an average even a small govt. servant is more sincere for his duty than his Indian counterpart. Is it only a coincidence or it has to do something with their progress. With best regards Shwetank Upadhyaya -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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"Journal of Information Science and Technology"-Announcement of a new journal
by gopikuttan gopikuttan 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Dear professionals The Dept of library and information science is launching a research journal in Library and Information Science, as a biannual publication. The title of the journal as approved by the Registrar of Newspapers for India is Journal of Information Science and Technology. It is proposed to be published in March and September every year. The inaugural issue is scheduled to be released in March 2008. We request the cooperation from all library professionals. Dr.A.Gopikuttan Department of Library and information Science University of Kerala Thiruvananthapuram-34. Chat on a cool, new interface. No download required. Go to http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Internet Resources Newsletter: New Issue
by MacLeod, Roderick A 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

____________________________________________ Internet Resources Newsletter ____________________________________________ The latest edition of the FREE monthly newsletter for academics, students and researchers is now available at: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn159/irn159.html No subscription or registration is needed to access this full-text newsletter at the above site. You can also subscribe to the free, full-text email version at: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html An RSS feed for the newsletter is available: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.rss Featured in this issue: Comment Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS News items of interest A-Z New & Notable Web Sites: About 100 new and notable websites: new services, ejournals, directories, search engines, publishers, government sites, eResources, booksellers, calls for papers, software, news services, conferences, research groups, plus anything of interest, etc, etc. Nice Web Site(s): Times Higher Education Blogorama Selected interesting blogs, RSS feeds and news items Recent Internet books in the Library Get a life! Leisure Time After hours Published by Heriot-Watt University Library, and edited by Roddy MacLeod (R.A.MacLeod(a)hw.ac.uk) Catherine Ure and Marion Kennedy -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Review of ItrainOnline Multimedia Training Kit (MMTK)
by Puna Das 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Dear Colleagues Probably you are aware that the ItrainOnline Multimedia Training Kit (MMTK) is a series of modular training materials for use in refresher courses developed by ItrainOnline partners such as UNESCO, FAO, INASP, APC, and others. The materials share a common easy-to-use format, and are freely available for non-commercial use. I hope some of you are extensively using this Training Kit for refreshing your knowledge on ICT-enabled information management areas. The Programme Coordinator of this project now proposes to review of current version of the MMTK. I would appreciate very much if you kindly send any feedback/comment/suggestion on the usage of MMTK materials, available on the www.itrainonline.org/itrainonline/mmtk/ website. You can directly send your feedbacks to the Programme Coordinator at: Mr. Karel Novotny Knowledge Sharing Projects Coordinator The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) Email: karel(a)apc.org Thanking you Yours sincerely Anup Kumar Das B5/29, Safdarjung Enclave New Delhi-110029, India Email: puna_05(a)yahoo.co.in --------------------------------- Explore your hobbies and interests. Click here to begin. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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M Phil program.
by amitbhu srivastava 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

The members of LIS-Forum, Following are the university which are conducting M.Phil program (1)Andhra University,Visakhaatnam (2)Sri Krishnadevarya University,Ananthapur (3)Sri Venkateshwaraa University (4)Cof Delhi,Tutorial (www.du.ac.in) (5)Gujrat Vidyapith Library Amhedabad (6)Gulbarg University Jnana Ganga(www.Bangloreuniversity.net) (7)University of Kerala,Tiruvanthpuram (8)University of Pune Jayakar Library Ganeshkhind,pune (9)Sambalpur University Jyoti Vihar,Burla Sambalpur (10)Annamalai University Annamalai Nagar For futher information read employment news date:-26 jan-01feb 08. With Regards, Amit Kr.Srivastava Librarian Army School 39,G.T.C. Varanasi Cantt. -- 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 Sri.M.V.Ranganathan
by Mailing List Admin 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:17:30 +0530 From: srels <srels(a)dataone.in> I regretfully announce the sad demise of Sri.M.V.Ranganathan, Retd. Head, Central Technical Information Centre, HMT Ltd., Bangalore on 27th January 2008 in Bangalore. May his soul rest in peace. K.N. Prasad Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science Bangalore.

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Brain Storm session on Newgenlib at Mysore University Library
by Mailing List Admin 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:29:26 +0530 From: madaiah krishnamurthy <mkrishna_murthy(a)hotmail.com> Dear Professionals friends, Mysore University Library arranged a half a day brain storm session on New Gen lib software at Mysore University Library. It was a awesome experience to listen to such knowledge driven by Professor Haravu. He highlighted the feautures of Newgenlib which is available on open source software. Both theoretical and practical sessions gave a clear picture outlining different layers of Newgen lib. He described the various modules of Newgenlib like acquisition, technical processing, serial management and other modules. How to search bibliographic data search by title, MARC 21 bibliographic standard which is using 90 countries. He showed video how to import MARC 21 from library of congress with the examples of knowledge management title with ISO 2709 selecting, coping and back to Newgenlib and pasting. And also he pointed out Newgen lib is complex software and the he explained the archtitecture of the software which is built on presentation layer, web layer, application layer, and end of the layer. Staff of the library and few research schoar were present on this occassion. We were able to gain practical knowledge of all the aspects of Newgenlib. M.Krishnamurthy Dr.M.Krishnamurthy,M.A.,M.L.I.Sc., PhD. University Librarian University of Mysore Manasagangothri, Mysore 570006 Ph: 91-0821-2514808/2419388 Fax: 91-0821-2419335

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Blog for NewGenLib open source users
by Mailing List Admin 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:28:20 +0530 (IST) From: Shamprasad Pujar <pujar(a)igidr.ac.in> Sorry for cross postings, if any -- Original Message -- From: L J Haravu <haravu(a)newgenlib.com> To: newgenlib(a)yahoogroups.com, "Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:57:00 +0530 The blog is a more unstructured forum for exchange of views, opinions and knowledge about the software and ideas too. The blog supplements the Sourceforge.net discussion forum which is more for the user/developer communities to seek help from each other. I hope we can make the Blog a worthwhile spot for all users of the open source offering. Haravu

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Asst.Librarian for IMA-Bangalore
by Mailing List Admin 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:23:35 +0530 From: Shanmukha Achar <Shanmukha.Achar(a)manipalu.com> Dear All, IMA Bangalore(near Hegdenagar, Jakkur, Bangalore) requires asst.librarian. B.L.I.Sc. is the minimum education with 1-2 years experience. Ready to work in shifts(till 10.00 PM)( Male candidates Preferable). For further details contact-Achar @ 9449340789

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