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Researchers' use of academic libraries and their services
by Sukhdev Singh 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

A study was conducted on how researchers interact with academic libraries in the UK. Its report is available at the following link: http://www.rin.ac.uk/researchers-use-libraries Hope it would serve an insight into the present requirements of the present library users. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. -- 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] Training in LIS
by ananda thakur 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Hi all, I agree with the views of Mr. Arunachalam and Ms Vasumathi. As a school librarian , I face some unique problems regarding quality of librarians. For the past year or so , our school has been struggling to find well qualified interns. Most LIS graduates we interview are generally okay in terms of library science and technical skills, but their English language and communication skills are zero.We have noticed that it is easier to teach them our library software and other routines but when it comes to providing reference service they draw a blank since they cannot communicate well. Many people still come to us thinking that is a cushy desk job without user interface, not realizing that in a school you have to interact with students of all ages as well as well-read international faculty. A school librarian has to keep track of current affairs and resources which facilitate students and faculty in their research and projects, along with being alert about potential misuse of websites like orkut etc. If the librarian is not net-savvy he/she can be easily fooled by the students. Our education system , at the basic level(both English and vernacular) does not encourage good reading habits. In school libraries, if the librarian has not read and relished classic and contemporary authors like Dickens or Murakami , how can we expect that person to suggest good reading material for different levels of students? Children are then exposed only to racy ( not necessarily good) bestsellers. They in turn miss out on good literature and good reading habits, and may grow up to be ill-informed librarians continuing the 'vicious circle'. Such Librarians give a very bad impression about the profession to our students. In fact they come up to us and say " Ma'am if I don't get a job elsewhere I will become a librarian ". Till date, quite a number of students who join this course do so after failing to secure admission in other professional courses.The problem is further aggravated by the fact that most Universities offering this course do not have stringent admission criteria as compared to other postgraduate courses. It is urgently required that universities and colleges offering LIS courses make English Language and Communication Skills a compulsory part of their curriculum. While Library software unique to each organization can be taught on the job, internet surfing and information retrieval skills should be part of LIS training. LIS students should be given compulsory reading lists which could include magazines, journals , literary works , scholarly LIS articles. All Institutes conducting LIS courses should have entrance examinations to select the best candidates. There must be so many more ways in which we can improve the quality of training in LIS. Saying no to mediocrity is the first step in that direction.(We still don't have an intern inspite of staff shortage , but our fingers are crossed) Warm Regards Mrs. Ananda Vartak Assistant Librarian Dhirubhai Ambani International School --------------------------------- Check out what you're missing if you're not on Yahoo! Messenger -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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PKP Conference
by Suvarsha Walters 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Hello, The first PKP Conference on Scholarly Publsihing is being held between July 11 - 13, 2007 at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Here is the website: http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/ with regards, Suvarsha __________________________________________________ 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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LIS job postings
by raghu ashok 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Hi The following site will provides the information on Job postings(Vacancies) in the field of Library and information Science http://lis-job-oppertunities.blogspot.com/ It might be very usefull to the professionals Thanking you Regards Raghu.B Library Trainee IIMB --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Researchers Explore Scrapping Internet
by Farooque Shaheen 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

The National Science Foundation wants to build an experimental research network known as the Global Environment for Network Innovations, or GENI, and is funding several projects at universities and elsewhere through Future Internet Network Design, or FIND. Rutgers, Stanford, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are among the universities pursuing individual projects. Other government agencies, including the Defense Department, have also been exploring the concept. The European Union has also backed research on such initiatives, through a program known as Future Internet Research and Experimentation, or FIRE. Government officials and researchers met last month in Zurich to discuss early findings and goals. A new network could run parallel with the current Internet and eventually replace it, or perhaps aspects of the research could go into a major overhaul of the existing architecture. Why??? Cozy world of researchers in the 1970s and 1980s doesn't necessarily mesh with the realities and needs of the commercial Internet. "The network is now mission critical for too many people, when in the (early days) it was just experimental,". The Internet's early architects built the system on the principle of trust. Researchers largely knew one another, so they kept the shared network open and flexible ? qualities that proved key to its rapid growth. But spammers and hackers arrived as the network expanded and could roam freely because the Internet doesn't have built-in mechanisms for knowing with certainty who sent what. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18095186/ Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology
by Sanjeev Kumar Jain 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Dear LIS Professionals The glossary contains more than 2,000 defined entries and more than 600 lead-in terms, and nearly 700 citations from some 280 sources. Some 2,500 cross-references (not counting lead-in terms) in the syndetic structure illustrate relationships between terms. http://www.archivists.org/glossary/list.asp?letter=a -- With Regards Sanjeev Kumar Jain Central Library Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur - 721 302 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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School library opened
by prafulla tv 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Dear All, We are pleased to inform you that a school library has been opened on April 15, 2007 by Shri Gade Vinod Reddy garu, Chairman of Nalgonga Zilla Granthalaya Samstha in Sri Vidyanikethan High School, Mothkur village/mandal, Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh. Established in 1996 and located in a backward region of Telangana, SVHS is a Telugu medium school under private management offering facilities for education for Sishu, Class 1 to 10. Presently, it has a strength of 10 staff members and around 275 students. SVHS Library became a reality through voluntary donations from many sources: 1) Mr. Mahender, Correspondent of SVHS donated his personal collection of around 500 books to SVHS Library. 2) Mr. Anumula Srinivas, Founder President of Gundrampally Library and Information Centre (GLIC), Gundrampally, Nalgonda district, presented around 350 books to SVHS Library. Mr. Srinivas has been instrumental in developing GLIC as a model village library. He also announced life subscription to Chandamama magazine, the most popular childrens monthly in Telugu for SVHS Library. 3) An anonymous donation of Rs.5000 helped in the purchase of two glass-covered library racks. 4) Shri S.N. Chary, Local reporter of Eenadu announced a donation of Rs.1000 for the purchase of books. We are happy to inform all LIS professionals that Mr. Mahender had agreed -- to provide free library service to students as recommended in the UNESCO School Library Manifesto. --to keep the books freely available to students through open access. --to issue one book per student. --not to lock books in racks. --to allot at least one period per week for library. We appeal to all library lovers to extend their support in strengthening SVHS Library. Our plans are: --to develop a good collection of reference books and childrens books in Telugu. --to provide a computer system --to introduce Internet service --to develop a collection of educational non-book materials (CD-ROM, VCD, DVD, etc.) Please send your donations to: Shri Mahender Correspondent Sri Vidyanikethan High School Mothkur Village/Mandal Nalgonda District 508 277 Andhra Pradesh Mobile: 99850 83859 Thank you in advance for your cooperation and support to library development. Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra __________________________________________________ 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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Training in LIS
by Mailing List Admin 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:13:00 -0700 (PDT) From: amudhavalli alagusundaram <amudha75(a)yahoo.com> I do agree with the views of Ms. Vasumathi. she has always been concerned over this. No good candidate is ever entering any school, barring a very very few. It is very sad. I raise this issue in every platform. LIS Schools alone are not to be blamed. As she says it is a circle. LIS is the last resort or a refugee camp for many entrants. Added to this alarming situation, are those Distance Education programmes going haywire. We have from this acadmiec year made soft skills as compulsory module for all . And our DEPT has signed MOU with a commercial firm to include soft skills course (4 credits) for our students and all others in the campus. let us see if there can be any progress. amudha Vasumathi Sriganesh wrote, You have really touched a very deep chord. We can no longer reject the truth that we are faced with - however bitter it is. I know I have talked about all these things to many people on one or more of these lists and definitely with the individuals cc-ed on this list. I am also aware that there are a handful of excellent dedicated librarians in India - but the number is dwindling alarmingly.Also - they are buried deep in their institutions and do not spread their wings across - mostly because they not permitted to. I am praying hard that the National Knowledge Commission's findings and reports may do some resurrection for the profession. [truncated]

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Free E-Book on Digital Library by William Arms
by Sanjeev Kumar Jain 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Dear Library and Information Professionals Free E-Book on Digital Library Title: Digital Libraries Author: William Arms This book is my attempt to survey the entire field of digital libraries. Computers and networks are of fundamental importance, but they are only the technology. The real story of digital libraries is the interplay between people, organizations, and technology. How are libraries and publishers using this new technology? How are individuals bypassing traditional organizations and building their own libraries? Where is this all leading? The answer to the last question is simple. Nobody knows. I have tried to avoid speculation and to concentrate on describing current activities, trends, and research. Thus the heart of this book is a large number of examples described in panels. Each panel describes some significant aspect of digital libraries, technology, application, or research. Visit this Link for full text. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/DigLib Contants Preface 1 Background 2 The Internet and the World Wide Web 3 Libraries and publishers 4 Innovation and research 5 People, organizations, and change 6 Economic and legal issues 7 Access management and security 8 User interfaces and usability 9 Text 10 Information retrieval and descriptive metadata 11 Distributed information discovery 12 Object models, identifiers, and structural metadata 13 Repositories and archives 14 Digital libraries and electronic publishing today Glossary Feel free to contact any time With Regards Sanjeev Kumar Jain Central Library Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur - 721 302 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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Comparision of Business Online Databases.
by Rohit Sahu 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Dear All, Can any One help me, to provide the comparision data of Business online Database, i.e. EBSCO(BSP), PROQUEST (ABI/INFORM Complete), Emrald, JSTOR, On that basis i can select to subscribe the databases. I would be very grateful to all of you, If you could help me. Thanks and Regards, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rohit Kumar Sahu Associate Librarian Resource and Learning Centre *Pearl School of Business,* 46, Institutional Area, Sector -32, Gurgaon -122001 Mobile : 9811545534 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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