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International Conference on Building Knowledge Repositories
by Sanjeev Kumar Jain 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Dear LIS Professional International Conference on Building Knowledge Repositories: Cross- Sectoral Collaborations during 7-9 February 2008 at Gandhi Darshan Complex, Opposite Gandhi Samadhi New Delhi (India) Last date for submission of paper or presentation is-31st December 2007. For more: http://www.niftindia.com or write to the undersigned SANJEEV KUMAR JAIN Resource Centre/Library NIFT Campus, ITI Colony, Doorbhash Nagar Rae Bareli (U.P.) 209 010 Mobile: +91-94529-68706 Email: sanjeevmlis(a)yahoo.co.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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LIS-Forum guidelines
by Mailing List Admin 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

Dear Member, Currently, an interesting discussion is underway based on Prof. Arunachalam's posting related to the writing of Liz Lyon. While the discussions are most welcome but members should keep in mind that while replying to a posting only the specific portion of the original posting should be included, preferably at top before the reply portion begins. What's been happening now is that with a very few exceptions, rest of the members who participate in a discussion, include the entire message to which they are replying to. This practice will unnecessarily bloat the size of the messages and many a times fellow members may loose track of the on-going discussion. As a reminder, I'm including the guidelines of this list for your perusal. Thanks for your cooperation. With best regards, - Moderator, LIS-Forum Discussion List NCSI, IISc, Bangalore, India LIS-Forum guidelines -------------------- 1. Mails to LIS-Forum should be sent in "Plain text format" only. This can be ensured by making suitable changes in your mail client software. For example, if you have a Yahoo! email id, then to set the email composing mode to 'Plain Text', all that it takes is a few mouse clicks, as indicated below: - Login to your account - Click on 'Option' (right below the search box) - Scroll down to locate 'General Preferences' and click on it - Scroll down to locate 'Composing E-mails' and check the 'Compose messages as plain text' radio button. The above actions will ensure that your mail will be sent in Plain Text' format. 2. Mails with attachments (.doc, .pdf, etc) will not be approved for distribution. Such mails will be discarded. 3. Appropriate 'Subject' should be provided for every posting.. 4. When responding to emails, please retain ONLY any relevant portion of the original, if needed - at the TOP. Do not include one or more threads. 5. Please post mails only for discussing Library and Information Science and related issues. If seeking help (eg an article) - please mention that you have tried other resources and are asking for help from the forum, only because you have not succeeded from other resources 6. Do ensure that your complete Signature details are present (Name, organization, address, phone/fax nos) 7. If the content of your mail is already available online then your mail should just provide the gist of such content and provide its correct URL. 8. Mails meant for LIS-forum should be sent only to lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in and not to any other email id 9. Messages are to be posted without the covering note to the moderator. 10. Do not compose the entire mail in capital letters

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Re: [LIS-Forum] topics for development of LIS professionals
by Umme Asima 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

Dear Professionals, I am a student of MLISc from University of Mysore. I would like to respond to the issue raised by Mr. Rajesh Aldarthi on updating the syllabus. I have very limited exposure in the field but still want to record my opinion on the issue. I agree in principle that the changes are required. However, I do not tend to agree with the sweeping remarks, like the one made by Mr. Aldarthi, that the syllabus of universities are 'so old'. For instance, the syllabus I am studying at MyDLIS, Mysore is fairly futuristic and I have heard this comment from external professionals (including the ones coming from outside our country). When I discussed this issue with my teachers, they say that a few universities have already included many upcoming courses relevant to library and information science. As Mr. Sukdev suggested that we have to be careful in adopting the western syllabus. The topics suggested by Mr. Aldarthi confused me further that whether we have to get ourselves trained as "Information Professional (Librarian)" or "Computer professional"? Topics such as "Natural Language Processing", "Advanced Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval", "Graphic Design", "Database Application Design" and so on appears to me as core computer science topics. As a student I am confused about the competencies that I should develop to become a good information professional. N.A. Umme Asima Student of MLISc Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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open repositories conference 2008
by vijay kumar 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

dear library professionals, Repositories play a pivotal role in the evolving scholarly information environment of open access research outputs and scholarly collections. With its theme of "Practice and Innovation", OR08 will create an opportunity for practitioners and researchers to share experiences and to explore the challenges of the new scholarly communication. They call for papers so follow the following links http://or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.html thanks vijay kumar -- 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] Attention please
by Vara Lakshmi Rudrabhatla 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Yes what Prof Amudha stated is true. Let us do something in action. There is need to promote our profession as suggested by Ms Vasumati Sriganesh since public have a different opinion. 1. Let us write articles in newspapers and telecast talks about the changing face of the profession. I will write one today itself for local newpaper and workout for a telecast in local cable vision. I am ready to write the same for national newspapers also but it should not be duplicated. I think if a working professional from corporate sector writes with his experience it will have more effect. 2. It is time for the LIS departments to to put a note in admision notification that 'candidates with good academic record have positions in corporate sector after completion of the course'. 3. Interaction with working professionals, as suggested by Mr Koteswara Rao, certainly boost the morale of students and motivate them. The departments in metros, where there are industries and business houses, had already initiated such programmes. The problem is with remote departments where they have to find means to meet their TA. 4. Regarding teacher expertise....Collaborative teaching is a viable option though not acceptable to many. Faculty exchange programmes atleast within a state may help to share the expertise of teachers with low cost. thanks varalakshmi -- Dr. RSR Varalakshmi Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Science., Andhra University. Visakhapatnam. _________________________________________________________________ Post free property ads on Yello Classifieds now! www.yello.in http://ss1.richmedia.in/recurl.asp?pid=221 -- 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] topics for development of LIS professionals
by Rajesh Rangappa 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

> Dear Professional, > > Don't we feel the syllabus of MLISc, and even the topics on which your > privileged Universities are undertaking research in LIS are so old and > outdated. Except few topics which are to be integral part of > Library professional's, ( like classification and cataloguing). Others are > of very > less use, Even though they are suitable for Indian environment and > Infrastructure facilities. > > The student's like us are not exposed to current technology > and > trends, we are studying the same old subjects, what your teachers have > studied in their years of study and research… Its like running a old > horse > in race and betting to win. > > So lets determine yourself to update your knowledge, skills > and > techniques of developing profession .. Hence I have made an attempt to > bring > some topics, which are to be studied by an information professional. This > are based on the syllabus of Master of Science in Information from > School of Information in Michigan US. *Borad topics > * > Archives and Records Management (ARM) > > Community Informatics (CI) > > Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) > > Incentive-Centered Design (ICD) > > Information Analysis and Retrieval(IAR) > > Information Policy (IP) > > Library and Information Services(LIS) > > School Library Media Certification > > Preservation of Information (PI) > > Social Computing (SC) > > They all will include the following topics specific topics on which > current research can be conducted for, Application and implementation for > professional development. I am interested in preparing notes on these topics > , so you all can help to contribute for our profession's future students. > Design of Complex Web Sites > Programming I (Java) > Networks: Theory and Application Human Interaction in Information Retrieval > Natural Language Processing Database Application Design > Recommender Systems > Data Manipulation > Exploratory Data Analysis > Information Retrieval > Searching and Databases > Networks: Theory and Application > Language and Information > Natural Language Processing > Advanced Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval > Evaluation of Systems and Services > Interface and Interaction Design > Fundamentals of Human Behavior > Graphic Design > Information-Seeking Behavior > Multimedia Production > Visual Persuasion > Natural Language Processing > Database Application Design > Recommender Systems > Data Manipulation Exploratory Data Analysis > Security in the Digital World > Information Visualization Information Architecture > Information in Organizations > eCommunities: Analysis and Design of Online Interaction > Environments > Computer-Supported Cooperative Work > Natural Language Processing > Semantic Web > Preserving Information > Digital Libraries > Evaluation of Systems and Services > Information Visualization > Interface and Interaction Design > > > -- > RAJESH ALDARTHI > LIBRARIAN (Jain Institute of vocational and Advanced Studies) > #127/3, Bull Tempel Road, > Chamarajpet, Bangalore-560096 > Email: deepakdeepa89(a)gmail.com > Phone: 9886268857 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Made in India (MS Office like- suite)
by Kshirod 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Dear Professionals, Bangalore-based InstaColl, co-founded by Sabeer Bhatia, Sumanth Raghavendra and Kaushal Cavale, today launched an application called Live Documents, which is a hybrid online-offline office suite of applications with features similar to Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. for details about this read the complete articles: http://www.business-standard.com/iceworld/storypage.php?leftnm=8&subLeft=1&… Regards, -- Kshirod Das Information Service Division 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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Fw: OpenDOAR hits 1000th Repository
by Subbiah Arunachalam 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

>From Leslie Carr of Southampton University Congratulations to the OpenDOAR team for keeping track of all these repositories. I wish them even more future success! The magic figure of 1,000 is both a milestone for OpenDOAR and an opportunity for reflection by the community. In the computing field some twenty years ago the NeXT workstation was designed to be the first 3'M' workstation - ie one that had more than one Megabyte of RAM, a Megapixel display and Megaflop performance. In the intervening time, workstation performance has increased hugely and my workstation has 2 megapixel display, a 2,000 megabyte memory and performance measured in tens of thousands of megaflops. But the scale of the repository world is measured in thousands (K) rather than millions (M). As well as the 1,000 representing the number of repositories, it describes the size of their contents (repositories commonly hold around 1,000 items) and the size of their constituency (each serves around 1,000 faculty/academic users). So the repository world is currently in a 3'K' state. But what can we expect from the future? University communities are likely to stay the same size but the number of repositories will increase - perhaps by a factor of ten (to include all the institutions across the world) - or perhaps by a hundred (as individual departments and projects get their own repositories). But the real growth will come from capturing an increasing proportion of the thousands of thousands of faculty and researchers and research students for each of those repositories. If every person contributed 10 items every year to their repository (research outputs, publications, posters, data sets, presentations, teaching materials) then over the course of a decade a typical repository would accrue 100,000 items. So in ten year's time I look forward to ten times as many repositories each containing a hundred times as many items as the present. But size isn't everything, and its important to think about how such a change in capacity might lead to new capabilities. Looking back on the computer world, the 3M technical capacity achieved in the NeXT workstation gave Tim Berners-Lee the platform on which he was able to design and implement the first prototypes of the World Wide Web. And so I look forward to unprecedented improvements in scientific and scholarly enquiry created by a huge increase in repository capacity and openly accessible knowledge. Once again, congratulations to Bill, Pete, Gareth, Stephen and all the OpenDOAR technical and reviewing teams! -- Les Carr Caveats: obviously in the above text I'm working in approximate scales, rather than statistically valid estimates. But while some find it unrealistic, I stand by my assertion that every faculty member could reasonably contribute ten "intellectual outputs" per year to their repository. For more figures and calculations to support this, see http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july07/carr/07carr.html ________________________________________________________ You're not bound to your email address, it's a snitch to switch. Give Yahoo! Mail a try. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/isp_targeting2.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Personal library
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

This is really a large personal collection put to students use. Great social work. VRAJ PATEL, Excise inspector His library has 50,000 books on subjects ranging from Mathematics to Metaphysics. Patel trains students for the civil services entrance exams for a nominal fee. Address: Palm View Bldg., 1st Floor, AWing, Flat no. 4, LN Road, Near Swami Narayan temple, Dadar (E), Mumbai - 400 014. # 24125174 (Taken from an article on Silent souls saving the society) -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Society for Serving Seniors 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015 Phone 27846631 / 94908 04278 http://societyforservingseniors.satyamcsr.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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FW: Attention Please
by Koteswara_Tumuluru 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Prof, Thank you for an interesting discussion and your valid comments on teaming up in the current scenario. I think here is a huge opportunity for everyone to collaborate and improve the situation. I strongly feel LIS schools and LIS professionals are doing good and of course can do better. This cautiously optimistic outlook or operating with the Feel Good Factor (FGF) will help everyone a lot and fosters Synergy. The third major component, I wish to add, is 'Practicing LIS Professionals' in any institution/industry. Just as the IT domain is embarking on the Industry-Academia Collaboration for learning, teaching, research, Knowledge Transfusion (KT), sharing of the best practices & unleashing the next practices etc, the stakeholders of LIS profession also need to collaborate closely to give practical perspective and orientation to the students. Librarian as Teacher (besides as Continuous Learner as you mentioned and questioned by Arun) is one of the important dimension to be explored much better for imparting wisdom on emerging trends and also survival skills to be a successful Information Professional in this information-intensive knowledge era. I strongly feel, the practicing Librarians should collaborate with academicians/professors, visit LIS schools, talk to students, answer some of the unanswered questions in their budding minds or at least briefly share their experience, learning and knowledge. Joseph Joubert said 'To Teach is to Learn Twice' and thus it would benefit all the stakeholders in the best interest of our Profession. I am gradually trying this in my own little way and always ready to visit nearby LIS schools to talk to our students (the budding professional colleagues) to induce confidence in themselves and learn from them myself. These are some of my own thoughts I thought I should share to reflect on this discussion and thank you for reading the note. T Koteswara Rao Librarian Satyam Computer Services Ltd Telephone: 098408 23377 From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of amudhavalli alagusundaram Sent: 21 November 2007 10:52 To: Subbiah Arunachalam Cc: Varalakshmi Rudrabhatla; mala; Sewa Singh; Samyuktha Ravi; vijayakumar kp; lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; commodore shekhar; sashi singh; sangita gupta Subject: [LIS-Forum] Attention Please Sir, You are right and free to do so. Students performance and matching the requirements are based on several factors. The two major components are students and teachers. Teachers, you know need to update themeselves and be committed. you can only advise or suggest to this group and it is oneself who will lhave to lead in his/her career. AS far as students are concerned, the input into the schools are very disappointing. Both quantitatively and qualitatively, they are so low, it is extremely difficult to mould them to be even a 'better lot' if not the 'best'. Candidates below the medocre line enter our profession, unfortunately. They have no vision or mission. We try to inculcate that in them to the best of our ability. In 2 two years is everythiing cannot be accomplished though best of our efforts are put into that process. Our curricula has been changed, by and large in most of the LIS Schools across the coun try, particularly in the South. Infrastrcucture has been improvised. What else you need????? Profssional bodies at all levels are initiating lectures, workshops, discussions etc for betterment of the professionals. Not many respond or even iof they do so, not intersted or ready to learn and or change, It has become a very challenging task for all of us. People have to change themselves, I feel. Ther seems to no competency, competition or communcation skills amongst the professionals, which is very disappointing. Yes, We speak and talk and talk, but what is the net result?. Who is to be blamed?? Ofc ourse, Not any one single individual or group. All of us need to team up together to create awareness and upgrade the literacy level. I am willing to take up any task at any time to be involved in this attempt. I Look forward for some concrete suggestions and movements to participate myself. Thanks amudha Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> wrote: Friends: Professor Amudhavalli of the University of Madras found the presentation by Liz Lyon of UKOLN http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/presentations.html very useful. A few others may say the same thing. But what matters is are we preparing our students for the new era? Will the LIS students of today be able to excel in the fast changing technology-dominated environment? Will they be able to find their niche when constantly improving technology and the culture of networking and virtual collaboration among scientists may make intermediaries redundant? Are we training them to become life-long learners who can adapt to any situation? Or are we still in an age when it takes years to get even a minoe change in the syllabus? It seems to me that we need to go a long way. Correct me if my perception is wrong. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----- Original Message ---- From: amudhavalli alagusundaram <amudha75(a)yahoo.com> To: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, 19 November, 2007 3:12:34 PM Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Open science Very Useful Link, Sir. Thanks amudha Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> wrote: Friends: I am sure you are following the writings of Liz Lyon of UK LON. I just stumbled upon this presentation: "Open Science and the Research Library: Roles, Challenges and Opportunities?" http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/presentations.html Best wishes. Arun ______________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail now has unlimited storage, which means you can have spam control and more space for those important e-mails. http://uk.mail.yahoo.com -- 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 Prof.A. Amudhavalli Head, Dept. of Information Science, University of Madras, Chepauk, Chennai 600 005. Ph: 2539 9672 ( Off- Direct) Ph: 2245 5922 - Residence ________________________________ Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. 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