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Re: [LIS-Forum] [nmlis] information scientist debate
by Enukonda Rama Reddy 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

Dear Professional Colleagues, UGC appointed a Cadre Review Committee to streamline the designations to bring in uniformity in the Central Universities and Deemed Universities. Myself and Dr. S.S. Murthy former Director, DESIDOC were members alongwith Additional Secretary, UGC, a Memeber from DOPT, and also from MHRD, Government of India. Some of the Committees recommendations briefly include the following: 1 .To treat the Information Scientists on par with Asst. Librarians for promotion to the Deputy Librarians and merging it as Asst. Librarian eventually with LIS qualifications with specialization of IT. 2. Merging the designation of Documentation Officer with that of Asst. Librarians. 3. A uniform structure was suggested with merging (grouping) many different designations: Librarian, Dy. Librarian, Asst. Librarian, Professional Asst, Library Asst, Library Attendent. 4. Asst. Librarian level will have specializations for recruitment and promotion to head the sections. 5. Different qualifications with length of experience in the lower grade for open recruitment and internal promotion with percentage of posts. 6. CAS on par with faculty 7. Recommended for new designations and revised pay scales (below the Asst. Librarian) for consideration etc. 8. Another recommendation was mobility of professionals between practicing Librarians and Teachers in the LIS departments (Asst. Librarians and above). This automatically brings in uniformity of pay scales and promotion policies etc. The years of experience gained by working in the library or teaching in the department will be treated as equal. The matter is pending in UGC for longtime. The ILA may takeup the issue with UGC to get it cleared. This report was discussed among the Librarians of Central Universities at a one day meeting at University of Hyderabad. The report was also presented by me using ppt. at the meeting of the Vice-Chancellors of Central Universities presided over by the Chairman, UGC again at the University of Hyderabad. All this happened in the year 2004 for implementation. This is for information of all the professional colleagues. Rama Reddy E. Rama Reddy, Ph D. Retired Librarian, University of Hyderabad Presently, Visiting Professor Faculty of Informatics Mahasarakham University Mahasarakham, Thailand enukondar(a)yahoo.co.in enukondar(a)gmail.com ----- Original Message ---- From: nirmal swain <nirmal_swain(a)yahoo.com> To: NMLIS YAHOOGROUPS <nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com>; IATLIS YAHOOGROUPS <iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com>; DIGITALLIBRARY YAHOOGROUPS <digital_libraries(a)yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, 12 January, 2008 6:01:13 PM Subject: [nmlis] information scientist debate dear all for sometimes now there is a row in the various forum concern for the debate for information scientist. the situation is obviously matters for the professionals including those the victims. information scientists of universities are not getting promotion nor even any hope to get that that. this is the post grnated by INFLIBNET i suppose. why dont we all write letters to newly appointed director of INFLIBNET.At least he can facilitate in this regard. even if UGC takes any steps in this regard the dierector must be consulted . the director is from our profession and he can help us in this regard. and the professioanls also should have various alternatives for that. we should find the proper representation to bring to the notice og the UGC. nirmal kumar swain Nirmal Kumar Swain Lecturer Dept of Library Science, Vani Mandir Building Banasthali University Rajasthan - 304022. Tel: 01438-228687( R) M: 09414543231 E-Mail: nirmal_swain@ yahoo.com Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Members | Calendar MARKETPLACE Earn your degree in as few as 2 years - Advance your career with an AS, BS, MS degree - College-Finder.net. Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch format to Traditional Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe Recent Activity 15New Members Visit Your Group Connect w/Parents on Yahoo! Groups Get support and share information. Yahoo! Groups Improvement Zone Make and keep New Year's goals. Wellness Spot on Yahoo! Groups A resource for living the Curves lifestyle.. __,_._,___ Did you know? You can CHAT without downloading messenger. 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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Furthering NewGenLib
by Rajan 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

Dear All, We got yet another excellent open software with all possible standards and hitherto un-available fulltext linking. This is the right time to think ways of intertwining it with our daily professional practices in some more libraries. As Dr Goudar pointed out, we need to think of evolving strategies to promote it by building up the capacity of a group of IT friendly professionals in learning, handling ,developing simple documentation and helping others to use the software in their libraries. Many excellent and easily usable pieces of software fail to root well in our profession, mainly because of the failure or deficiency in delivering the content of training in a simple and incremental manner to suit the new adult learners. Creation of simple manuals and giving training in a simple,cohesive and modular manner is essential. Any software is very easy to use, if someone help you know the proper sequence of choosing the option. If the proper sequence is not taught, using any simple software is a difficult task. So we need to design our training and promotion policy on thie NewGenLib software strategically, in a context where IT enabled libraries are envisaged far more than earlier by all, including the knowledge commission. Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India ------------------------------ Original Message: Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:25:02 +0530 (IST) From: "I.R.N.Goudar" <goudar(a)css.nal.res.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] NewGenLib-What next? Dear Professionals, Great news! NewGenLib, library automation software has become open source software. This welcome development raises many questions: a. What would be the role of Mr. Haravu and his colleagues now onwards? b. Who would support the further development of NewGenLib? c. Who would give the support for installation, customization and porting the whole data if one would like to migrate to this software? d. What about the libraries who have baought NewGenLib earlier? etc Initially we should hold one day brain storming round table meeting of selected 15-20 top level Indian librarians in the country who have successfully automated their libraries in a big way and few LIS Faculty along with Dr. Haravu and his technical team. I request Dr. ARD Prasad of DRTC to take a lead in this matter. Dr. I.R.N. Goudar -- 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] NewGenLib
by Rajesh Rangappa 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

Respected L.J.Haravu Congrats and thankful, to whole team of New Gen Lib for providing such a wonderful package for Library and Information profession, Its real beauty with such amazing feature's. Covering most of requirements of Professional, We can call it as Single package with multi usability , cost effective investment for us. Ha its very helpful one. Its splended work form you sir thank you once again -- RAJESH ALDARTHI Student (M Phil) Dept. of Library and Information Science Gulbarga University, Gulbarga Email : deepakdeepa89(a)gmail.com Mobile : 09886268857 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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congratulations to Porf. Haravu
by sbmjce library 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

Dear Professor Haravu, I congratulate you for your outstanding contribution towards LIS community. Form this milestone I hope all LIS professionals will get recharged I wish you to get more success in future in this field. With Warm Regards, C K Gowda Librarian S B M Jain College of Engineering Jakkasandra Post Kanakapura Taluk Ramanagaram District PIN-562112 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.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] NewGenLib as open source
by Suresh Horakeri 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

Dear sir, I am happy to know that, NewGenLib, the integrated library management system is now open source under GPL (General Public License). Thank you very much for taking such a great decision. Today every one talks about open archives initiatives, only few peoples come forward to do it, in this direction, yours is a great achievement for making NewGenLib open for all, the best library software in the country. Congratulations and wish you all best I hope many peoples will make best use of NewGenLib for automating their library. Thanks, Regards Suresh D Horakeri BSc, MLISc,PGDLAN, Asst Librarian, BVB College of Engg & Tech, Hubli-31, Ph: 9341610603 (R) (0836) 2378422 2378422 (O) Emails ; sdhorakeri(a)yahoo.co.in horakeri(a)bvb.edu http://www.connotea.org/user/suresh1973 http://works.bepress.com/suresh_dh/ http://www.prajavani.net/jun192006/5758220060619.php ----- Original Message ---- From: Jai Haravu <haravu(a)newgenlib.com> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Thursday, 10 January, 2008 8:59:13 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] NewGenLib as open source Dear Members of the List I am a very happy to announce that NewGenLib, the integrated library management system is now open source. Details are given below. NewGenLib Open Source NewGenLib (www.newgenlib.com) is now open source under the most widely used open source software licensing system called GNU GPL (General Public License) The open source binaries and source code can be downloaded from http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/newgenlib. Installation notes for Linux and Windows are also available at the site. The user manual is also downloadable. Librarians/developers who download the software can post their views, problems, solutions, discussions, etc., on https://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=210780. NewGenLib is web-based and has a multi-tier architecture (www.kiikm.org/newgenlib_architecture.jpg) uses Java (a swing-based librarian’s GUI) and the JBoss (J2EE-based Application Server). The default backend used is the open source PostgreSQL. NewGenLib functional modules: Acquisitions management (monographs and serials); technical processing; circulation control; system configuration; a desktop reports application and an end-of-day process (scheduler) application. NewGenLib is compliant with MARC-21 format. Has a MARC editor Allows seamless bibliographic and authority data import into cataloguing templates Form letter templates are configurable using openOffice 2.0 as ODT and htm. SMTP mail servers can be configured for emails that can be sent form functional modules. NewGenLib allows creation of institutional open access (OA) repositories compliant with the OAI-PMH. NewGenLib servers are SRU/W compliant supporting MARC-21 and MODS 3.0 metadata formats. CQL (level 1) with both Bath and Dublin Core Profiles are supported. NewGenLib is Unicode 3.0 compliant. It is an internationalized application. English and Arabic interfaces are already available. Is RFID ready. Regards L.J.Haravu Trustee Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. Bollywood, fun, friendship, sports and more. You name it, we have it on http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Thank U sir........
by velmurugan murugan 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

Hearty Congradulations for your one of the best efforts to our Library era. Now our Library and Information Science Professionals should make use of it in a very best way. Thank you very much. With kind regards by *VELMURUGAN.C* Asst Librarian Lalaji Memorial Omega Internatioanl School, Chennai- 602 101. -- 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] NewGenLib as open source
by Enukonda Rama Reddy 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Dear Mr. Haravu, It is a wonderful New Year gift to the library professionals in India and also the other countries in the Developing World. You and your team worked so hard to make it one of the best product and many libraries will benefit by using it. One of the main reasons for delay in the implementation of Library Automation in India is because of non-availability of a good high-end software with all the functions and standards like NewGenlib. Your other contribution in the form of text-book (Library Automation) has become valuable to the professional community. It is the only text-book of its kind from India. Library professionals will remember you for ever for this gesture. We all wish you good health. Dr. E. Rama Reddy visiting Professor Faculty of Informatics Mahasarakham University Mahasarakham, Thailand enukondar(a)yahoo.co.in enukondar(a)gmail.com ----- Original Message ---- From: Jai Haravu <haravu(a)newgenlib.com> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Thursday, 10 January, 2008 3:29:13 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] NewGenLib as open source Dear Members of the List I am a very happy to announce that NewGenLib, the integrated library management system is now open source. Details are given below. NewGenLib Open Source NewGenLib (www.newgenlib.com) is now open source under the most widely used open source software licensing system called GNU GPL (General Public License) The open source binaries and source code can be downloaded from http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/newgenlib. Installation notes for Linux and Windows are also available at the site. The user manual is also downloadable. Librarians/developers who download the software can post their views, problems, solutions, discussions, etc., on https://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=210780. NewGenLib is web-based and has a multi-tier architecture (www.kiikm.org/newgenlib_architecture.jpg) uses Java (a swing-based librarian’s GUI) and the JBoss (J2EE-based Application Server). The default backend used is the open source PostgreSQL. NewGenLib functional modules: Acquisitions management (monographs and serials); technical processing; circulation control; system configuration; a desktop reports application and an end-of-day process (scheduler) application. NewGenLib is compliant with MARC-21 format. Has a MARC editor Allows seamless bibliographic and authority data import into cataloguing templates Form letter templates are configurable using openOffice 2.0 as ODT and htm. SMTP mail servers can be configured for emails that can be sent form functional modules. NewGenLib allows creation of institutional open access (OA) repositories compliant with the OAI-PMH. NewGenLib servers are SRU/W compliant supporting MARC-21 and MODS 3.0 metadata formats. CQL (level 1) with both Bath and Dublin Core Profiles are supported. NewGenLib is Unicode 3.0 compliant. It is an internationalized application. English and Arabic interfaces are already available. Is RFID ready. Regards L.J.Haravu Trustee Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. Download prohibited? No problem. CHAT from any browser, without download. 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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Re: [LIS-Forum] NewGenLib now open source
by Francis Jayakanth 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Jai Haravu wrote: > I am a very happy to announce that NewGenLib, the integrated library > management system developed in India is now open source. Hearty congratulations to the NewGenLib team and all the others who are directly or indirectly associated in developing this wonderful product and now for making it open-source! LIS professionals will greatly benefit by using this package because it not only helps them to automate their libraries but it also helps in maintaining their open-access repositories. Both these activities are very essential for many of the academic libraries. Till now, to the best of my knowledge, most of the libraries are using two different software packages, one for library automation and the other for open access repositories. With the availability of NewGenLib, both these essential activities can be integrated thus eliminating the possibility of using more than one computer server. Maintaining computer servers with minimal of downtime and up-to-date OS and other software packages is not an easy task. With best wishes, - Francis NCSI, IISc Bangalore

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Article required
by K. Thulasi 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Dear All, Can anyone arrange to send me a soft/hard copy of the following article, as required by one of our faculty? Structural compromise of disallowed conformations in peptide and protein structures. C. Ramakrishnan, B.Lakshmi, Anita Kurien, D.Devipriya and N. Srinivasan Protein & Peptide Letters 14, 672-682 (2007) Thanks K Thulasi NCSI, IISC Bangalore

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Set up of binding section
by Balesh Kumar 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Dear Sir, I wish to set up the maintenance section in our college library. I wish to know the experience of the professional who have set up the same. Specifically I want to know which machines will be required for binding of the books for cloth or leather binding of books and journals and the approximatte cost involved. Thanking you, Sincerely 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 --------------------------------- Meet people who discuss and share your passions. Join them now. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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