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DRTC seminar on "Open Document format"
by nupur ag 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Indian Statistical Institute Documentation Research and Training Centre 8th Mile Mysore Road, R.V. College PO. Banglore- 560059 DRTC Seminar On Open Document Format (ODF) Abstract The open document format is a means of creating word processing, spreadsheet, chart and presentation documents in a standardized XML format. It is a new international standard for documents created using office type programs. The open document format is intended as a document type that could be used on any office program, that means one can create a spreadsheet in openoffice calc, save it in the standard open document format for spreadsheet and then be able to open it in any other spreadsheet program - Lotus, Quattro Pro or Excel and without losing any data. In this seminar I am going to discuss about what is open document format, how it originated, Organization behind this, its various features, benefits and its internal structure and use in digital preservation. Speaker: Nupur Agrawal, 2nd year ADIS All are cordially invited. Venue: DRTC classroom Date : 28th Feb 2006 Time : 3.30 pm Dr. A.R.D Prasad (Seminar Incharge) --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. Indian Statistical Institute Documentation Research and Training Centre 8 th Mile Mysore Road, R.V. College PO. Banglore- 560059 DRTC Seminar On Open Document Format (ODF) Abstract The open document format is a means of creating word processing, spreadsheet, chart and presentation documents in a standardized XML format. It is a new international standard for documents created using office type programs. The open document format is intended as a document type that could be used on any office program, that means one can create a spreadsheet in openoffice calc, save it in the standard open document format for spreadsheet and then be able to open it in any other spreadsheet program - Lotus, Quattro Pro or Excel and without losing any data. In this seminar I am going to discuss about what is open document format, how it originated, Organization behind this, its various features, benefits and its internal structure and use in digital preservation. Speaker: Nupur Agrawal, 2 nd year ADIS All are cordially invited. Venue: DRTC classroom Date : 28 th Feb 2006 Time : 3.30 pm Dr. A.R.D Prasad (Seminar Incharge) Jiyo cricket on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailcricket/*http://in.sports.yahoo.com/cric… Yahoo! India cricket http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailmobilemessenger/*http://in.mobile.yahoo.… Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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Vacancy at JNU, New Delhi.
by L Kaini Mahemei 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Dear All, Greetings. Vacancy at Central Library, JNU, New Delhi. http://www.jnu.ac.in/Career/currentjobs.htm with regards, L.Kaini Central Library, JNU, New Delhi - 110067. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Library Cataloging Software
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

Dear Friends Please visit: www.readerware.com Readerware software is available for cataloging books CDs & video products. Just Enter the ISBN, the catalog entry is automatically fetched from LOC or Brtish library and added to your database. You scan the barcode / isbn or drag & drop data from web pages. You can create a list of ISBNs in a text file for automatic cataloging. Users seem to have added anywhere between 200 to 2000 titles in a couple of days. This is fantastic product for books that are already cataloged in some leading library whose opac can be searched online. There is of course a provision for manual data etry as well for adding books. -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, SENIORS (Society for Enriched Information of Relevance to Seniors), 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500018 Phone 27846631

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Google Creates a Web page creator
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Google has launched a new product - Google Page Creator, a free, easy, browser-based tool for creating attractive web pages. Google maintains that Google Page Creator has been designed with ease-of-use in mind. Its interface enables users to edit and create pages just as they appear online, without knowledge of HTML or other computer programming languages. Combined with a simple one-step publishing process, users can create attractive, functional web pages in minutes - hosted by Google for free. You may check this feature and know more about it by clicking on the URL given below http//pages.google.com Regards ~Sreeharsha BG

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Student campaigns for OA and open source
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Friends: The United States has many faces: Wars in far away places such as Vietnam and Iraq, denying visas to reputed scientists, the dominant power in a unuopolar word, and so on. But US is also home to youngsters like Gavin Baker. University students in India might wish to look at what he is doing right now. Please pass this message to doctoral and masters students you know. Best wishes. Arun OA as a campaign issue in a student government election Gavin Baker is running for the Student Senate at the University of Florida. Baker co-founded the Florida chapter of Free Culture and is making open access a campaign issue. His platform is offline at the moment (but the problem is probably temporary, so keep trying). He tells me in an email: I'll advocate for open access to university research and journals, work to expand library digitization projects, promote open source software and open file formats....As far as I know, I am the first student to make open access an electoral issue. He's the first as far as I know too. His candidacy and position could make a difference: At UF, the Student Senate controls an $11 million budget, the third largest in the US. Go, Gavin! Note to students elsewhere: learn about open access and what you and your university can do to promote it. Take your commitment into your research and future career. But in the meantime, take it into your student government!

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Introduction
by Maha Kumaran 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hello LIS Forumers, I am new to this list and thought I would introduce myself. I am originally from Chennai, India but have lived in Canada for the last 12 years. I am a librarian and I graduated from University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. It was by sheer accident I found this listserve on the website and decided to join in. For, I don't really know about libraries in India as much as I know of them here. The only libraries I visited were the British Council and USIS. Hope to chat with you all and learn more, Mahalakshmi Kumaran. Maha Kumaran Librarian, Saskatchewan Literacy Network http://www.sk.literacy.ca/resource.htm Saskatoon, SK, S7K 1M1 306-653-7368 Please read my blog at http://www.librariansramblings.blogspot.com/ and send me your comments --------------------------------- Find your next car at Yahoo! Canada Autos Hello LIS Forumers, I am new to this list and thought I would introduce myself. I am originally from Chennai, India but have lived in Canada for the last 12 years. I am a librarian and I graduated from University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. It was by sheer accident I found this listserve on the website and decided to join in. For, I don't really know about libraries in India as much as I know of them here. The only libraries I visited were the British Council and USIS. Hope to chat with you all and learn more, Mahalakshmi Kumaran. Maha Kumaran Librarian, Saskatchewan Literacy Network http://www.sk.literacy.ca/resource.htm http://www.sk.literacy.ca/resource.htm Saskatoon, SK, S7K 1M1 306-653-7368 Please read my blog at http://www.librariansramblings.blogspot.com/ http://www.librariansramblings.blogspot.com/ and send me your comments Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca Yahoo! Canada Autos

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On scholarly communication and OA
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

>From Peter Suber's blog. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] -------------------------- Nancy Davenport on scholarly communication and OA Andy Carvin has blogged some notes on Nancy Davenport's keynote address at the University of Missouri conference, Open Access, Open Source, Open CourseWare: Sharing as a Solution to the Digital Divide (Columbia, February 22, 2006). Davenport is the president of Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Excerpt: Scholarly Communications. What are the issues? What are the options? What are the leadership issues?...Scholars are the supply and the demand. Research has to be distributed, through print, e-format, open access, repositories, self-publishing, even blogs. Who is in the middle, mediating scholarly discussions? Societies, reviewers, publishers - for profit and nonprofit - aggregators, librarians, provosts, administrators, the Internet....Digital scholarship: only way to integrate disparate content, allows new research and scholarship, encourages using material in new ways, creates new fields and communities of practice, creates new knowledge. CLIR call to action: tells publishers that librarians want independent, third party preservation of your content. "The academic community is built upon a sham. More and more you don't own your content - you're paying rent." What impedes open access? The academic reward system. Tenure requires publishing in "the right journals." Scientists can put open access fee into their budgets. But in the humanities, you don't get that kind of funding. PloS.org won't work for most humanities scholars....Where are we now? We pay a lot of money. Most institutions are paying 24% for digital serial journals in their collections budget. Libraries each pay large fees to access the same material. Meanwhile, libraries are digitizing their own special, unique materials.

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Need for mandating OA
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

>From Peter Suber's blog University policies are the next step for OA John Lorinc, The bottom line on open access, University Affairs, March 2006. Also available in French. (Thanks to Stevan Harnad.) Excerpt: The rapidly evolving debate over free online scholarship drives right to the heart of some of the most fundamental questions about research....Worldwide, there are about 24,000 scholarly journals, but only three to seven percent of them are considered to be open access OA for short meaning that they make their research papers available for free on the Internet. But the rapidly evolving debate over open-access scholarship extends well beyond academic journals like the [new] one at www.econtheory.org, and drives right to the heart of some of the most fundamental questions about research: Do publicly funded universities and granting bodies have a democratic indeed a moral obligation to ensure that academic scholarship is available on the Internet? What kinds of public and institutional policies are needed to make such wide-ranging dissemination both possible and useful? And what are the implications for publishers, research libraries, copyright, and for scholarship itself? Few self-respecting researchers argue with the idea per se. Its easy to get people to sign off on a principle, says Stevan Harnad, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at Université du Québec à Montréal. It becomes interesting and substantive when you take a practical policy. Since the mid-1990s, Dr. Harnad has been at the centre of an international campaign to promote open access. But its only in the last three or four years since the George Soros Open Society Institute orchestrated a 2002 summit of OA activists in Budapest that granting bodies and universities have begun to look hard at how to translate open access from a feel-good cyber principle into something entrenched in the way academics do business either by encouraging them to patronize open-access journals or urging them to routinely upload all their published research papers to a growing network of institutional repositories. The right to know is at the forefront [of OA], says John Willinsky, a language and literacy education professor at the University of British Columbia who heads the Public Knowledge Project, a research initiative that asks whether and how online technologies can improve the quality of academic research. The critical point were at now is mandated access. Were seeing a momentum build. The epistemological benefits are difficult to dispute. Dr. Harnad refers to studies showing that citations can more than double for articles that are freely available on the web. Accessible online papers benefit academics in poor countries where universities have few resources. And research libraries see institutional electronic repositories as one way of ensuring the preservation of digitized online material that is highly vulnerable to the problem of disappearing URLs....In the past few years, large research councils in the U.S. and U.K. have grappled with the mechanics of applying the OA principle to publicly funded research. In Canada, in late 2004, the board of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council approved OA in principle; council staff are preparing recommendations based on public consultations....But open-access advocates contend that universities must now step up to the plate and adopt policies that compel faculty to self-archive....Tim Mark, executive director of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, describes...the absurd situation whereby academics working for publicly funded institutions give up their intellectual property rights to commercial journal publishers, who turn around and sell the fruits of their labour right back to those institutions in the form of costly journal subscriptions....The potential of the OA movement, [Harnad] argues, doesnt begin with policy conditions aimed at altering the operating conditions for a small subset of journal publishers [to make them convert to OA]. Rather, it needs a much broader-based effort to make institutional self-archiving a routine and unquestioned part of the work of scholarship as basic as including bibliographies and reference lists at the end of any paper. OA advocates say the pieces for such a cultural change are beginning to fall into place. There are now numerous open-source software and harvesting systems that allow institutions to create searchable, indexed and networked electronic repositories....But, as Dr. Harnad observes, the availability of user-friendly archiving software is necessary but not sufficient. Thats why, in 2005, OA activists approved the Berlin 3 institutional policy commitment. It calls on universities and research institutions to establish policies requiring academics to self-archive, as well as encouraging them to publish in open-access journals....So far 17 universities and research institutions including the University of Zurich, Portugals University of Minho, and the University of Southampton, where Dr. Harnad taught before joining UQAM have signed the 2005 Berlin commitment. No Canadian universities are signatories. How do academics feel about self-archiving? Authors havent picked it up, says Dr. Willinsky at UBC. It has a lot to do with the fact that the focus of [academics] work is getting published, not getting circulated. Indeed, a U.K. survey of scholars showed that about half of the respondents had self-archived at one point, mainly on personal websites, but many didnt do it routinely. Yet 95 percent said theyd be prepared to self-archive if their university required it as a condition of tenure or employment. Whats become increasingly apparent is that copyright issues arent a roadblock for the OA movement....While journal publishers, from giants like Elsevier to upstarts like Econtheory.org, will continue to work out a sustainable online business model, the OA policy ball has now landed squarely in the university sectors court.

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OA improves impact
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

Here is an interesting article on Impact Factor which states that open access helps journals improve their impact factors. From Peter Suber's blog "Open Access News" Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ---------------------- OA improves impact factors for journals Peng Dong, Marie Loh, and Adrian Mondry, The "impact factor" revisited, Biomedical Digital Libraries, December 2005. Abstract: The number of scientific journals has become so large that individuals, institutions and institutional libraries cannot completely store their physical content. In order to prioritize the choice of quality information sources, librarians and scientists are in need of reliable decision aids. The "impact factor" (IF) is the most commonly used assessment aid for deciding which journals should receive a scholarly submission or attention from research readership. It is also an often misunderstood tool. This narrative review explains how the IF is calculated, how bias is introduced into the calculation, which questions the IF can or cannot answer, and how different professional groups can benefit from IF use. Excerpt from the body of the text. Note the sentence Peter Suber has put in bold. Given the rapid growth of electronic publications, the online availability of articles has recently become an important factor to influence the IF. Murali et al. determined how the IF of medical journals is affected by their online availability. In that study, a document set obtained from MEDLINE was classified into three groups, namely FUTON (full text on the Net), abstracts only and NAA (no abstract available). Online availability clearly increased the IF. In the FUTON subcategory, there was an IF gradient favoring journals with freely available articles [PS: emphasis added]. This is exemplified by the success of several "open access" journals published by BioMed Central (BMC) and the Public Library of Science (PLoS). Open access journals publish full-text online papers free of subscription fees. BioMed Central (BMC) is an "open access" publisher in business since 2000. BMC hosts over 100 biomedical journals ranging from general interest to specialized research. More than twenty journals published by BMC are currently tracked by the ISI and over half of these have IFs available for the recent years. BMC Bioinformatics was assigned its first IF for 2004. At 5.4, it places the journal second in the field, only marginally below the traditional competitor Bioinformatics (IF = 5.7), which has a 20-years' publishing history and is connected to a major learned society within this field of research (International Society for Computational Biology). PLoS (Public Library of Science) is another example of a successful "open access" publishing strategy. It started publishing two open access journals in biology and medical research in 2003 and 2004 respectively. PLoS Biology was assigned its first IF of 13.9 for 2004. In the ISI subject category "biology", it is thus placed at the number 1 position of 64 in its first year of reporting an IF. FASEB journal at position 2 has an IF of 6.8, but has been in circulation since 1987. Similarly, in the other SCI subject category ("biochemistry and molecular biology")in which PLOS Biology is listed, it ranks at position 8 out of 261. Monitoring the development of such journals' IF will inform the determination of the online-availability bias in the future. This effect will increase in the future with the availability of new search engines with deep penetration such as Google Scholar, allowing researchers to find relevant articles in an instant, and then choose those with immediately and freely available content over those with barriers, economic and otherwise.

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CALIBER 2006 - PROCEEDINGS
by suresh jange 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION - CALIBER 2006 Gulbarga University Library in collaboration with INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad (An Inter University Centre of University Grants Commission, New Delhi ) organized the Fourth International Convention CALIBER 2006 on the theme 'Dynamic Interoperable Web Based Information Systems" from February 2-4, 2006 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee Celebrations of the University. Pre-Convention tutorial `Building Digital Libraries using D-Space was also organized on February 2, 2006. It is the great honour for Gulbarga University Library to organize this International Convention for the first time in history of Libraries in Hyderabad Karnataka Region that too in Gulbarga city and also the CALIBER in Karnataka. The inaugural function commenced with Smiling, well attired, adorable invocation rendered by the well chosen Cultural Group, from V.G.Womens College, Gulbarga .. They invoked the Blessings of Goddess Saraswathi for the success of CALIBER 2006. Dr. Ravi Gaddagimath, Organising Secretary, CALIBER 2006 welcomed the Guests and Dignitaries in his own immaculate style and also briefed on the Convention. Dr. Arthur Smith, Director OCLC, Ohio , USA Inaugurated the Convention by lighting the Nanda Deepa. A brief prelude on CALIBER 2006 was given by Sri. K.Manoj Kumar, Scientist, D of INFLIBNET. The Convention volume by Dr. Rahul De, Hewlett-Packard Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and Mr. S. Rajanna, Registrar, Gulbarga University were released. Mr, Rajanna, thanked INFLIBNET for giving an opportunity to Gulbarga University , Gulbarga to host CALIBER- 2006. The apprehension that in a remote place like Gulbarga , the attendance would not reach even 150 numbers, but today it has crossed 500, he expressed. He extended a warm welcome to the delegates, wished them a very fruitful and eventful participation in the Conference deliberations. He requested all the delegates to carry with them the sweet and unforgettable memories of their stay in Gulbarga . On behalf of Vice Chancellor of Gulbarga University, he welcomed all the delegates to the culturally rich City GULBARGA . Dr, De made an excellent presentation on ICT for Development and Web-based Information Systems. Recalling his entry to the information field, he elaborated on his new role as researcher in ICT for Sustainable Economic Development and said that it has many fascinating areas that have to be investigated. He placed many issues on the agenda of ICT for Development emphasizing what constitutes development a holistic approach which was visualized by the Nobel Laureate Dr. Amartya Sen. Dr. TAV Murhty, Director INFLIBNET in his Presidential address highlighted the major developments made during 2005-2006. He acknowledged the cooperation of Academic Libraries and encouragement received from UGC and the MHRD. He also pointed out the lead role played by the Government of Kerala in giving a new dimension to the journal consortia, INFONET Consortia byshowing their keen interest in adding the E-Books. Dr. Arthur Smith, Director OCLC , USA , the Chief Guest requested the University libraries to join OCLC network. Building Digital Libraries using Dspace; open source Digital Library software, the tutorial was conducted by Mr. Yatrik Patel of INFLIBNET which was attended by over 50 Delegates. The tutorial content explained the working of Dspace with practical aspects of creating Web-content for Digital Library of Books, Data Sheets, Computer Programs, Visuals, different types of files Text, Image, Audio and Video and so on. More than 500 delegates from India and abroad attended and deliberated on the theme and about 150 research papers were presented and interesting resolutions were endorsed. A lecture on IPR and E-resources was delivered by Dr. J.S. Patil, Dean, Faculty of Law, Gulbarga University , Gulbarga and has was most educative and informative presentation. AV Presentation on Dr. Eugene Garfield, President Emeritus, Thompson Scientific, USA . Dr. Garfield stands high on pedestal of Information Scientist, an information scientist of great eminence, who introduced Citation Indexing and today it stands as one of the methods of Information research and has discovered new areas of discourse. Cultural programs a dance recital by Omkar Nrutya Sadana and Classical music concert by Smt. Sangeeta Katti were also released. The valedictory session was held on Saturday, 4th February 2006 at 3.30 P.M and Mr. Justice S. R. Bannurmath, Honble Judge, High Court of Karnataka, Bangalore , the Chief Guest and delivered valedictory address. Prof. K. S. Deshpande (in absentia), Prof. S. R. Gunjal, former Librarians and Prof. Y. P. Dubey, Emeritus Professor, BHU were felicitated in the valedictory function, that was presided by Prof. V.B Coutinho, Vice Chancellor, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga. Sri S.B Policegoudar, Assistant Librarian and Sri D.V Biradar, Assistant Librarian, who retired from university library were felicitated. `Building Cyber Libraries a festschrift volume in honour of Dr M.Sankar Reddy, Hyderabad was released by Sri S. Rajanna, Registrar. Dr. R.B Gaddagimath, University Librarian, Gulbarga University , Gulbarga coordinated the International Convention as Organizing Secretary. Dr.Suresh S Jange Assistant Librarian (Sr.) Head Digital Resource Centre Central Library, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga - 585 106 Karnataka, INDIA E-mail : suresh_jange(a)rediffmail.com URL : http://www.suresh.tripod/suresh.htm Phone - 91+08472-249683 (O) 91+08472-248711 (R) FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION - CALIBER 2006 Gulbarga University Library in collaboration with INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad (An Inter University Centre of University Grants Commission, New Delhi) organized the Fourth International Convention CALIBER 2006 on the theme 'Dynamic Interoperable Web Based Information Systems" from February 2-4, 2006 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee Celebrations of the University. Pre-Convention tutorial `Building Digital Libraries using D-Space was also organized on February 2, 2006. It is the great honour for Gulbarga University Library to organize this International Convention for the first time in history of Libraries in Hyderabad Karnataka Region that too in Gulbarga city and also the CALIBER in Karnataka. The inaugural function commenced with Smiling, well attired, adorable invocation rendered by the well chosen Cultural Group, from V.G.Womens College, Gulbarga.. They invoked the Blessings of Goddess Saraswathi for the success of CALIBER 2006. Dr. Ravi Gaddagimath, Organising Secretary, CALIBER 2006 welcomed the Guests and Dignitaries in his own immaculate style and also briefed on the Convention. Dr. Arthur Smith, Director OCLC, Ohio, USA Inaugurated the Convention by lighting the Nanda Deepa. A brief prelude on CALIBER 2006 was given by Sri. K.Manoj Kumar, Scientist, D of INFLIBNET. The Convention volume by Dr. Rahul De, Hewlett-Packard Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and Mr. S. Rajanna, Registrar, Gulbarga University were released. Mr, Rajanna, thanked INFLIBNET for giving an opportunity to Gulbarga University, Gulbarga to host CALIBER- 2006. The apprehension that in a remote place like Gulbarga, the attendance would not reach even 150 numbers, but today it has crossed 500, he expressed. He extended a warm welcome to the delegates, wished them a very fruitful and eventful participation in the Conference deliberations. He requested all the delegates to carry with them the sweet and unforgettable memories of their stay in Gulbarga. On behalf of Vice Chancellor of Gulbarga University, he welcomed all the delegates to the culturally rich City GULBARGA. Dr, De made an excellent presentation on ICT for Development and Web-based Information Systems. Recalling his entry to the information field, he elaborated on his new role as researcher in ICT for Sustainable Economic Development and said that it has many fascinating areas that have to be investigated. He placed many issues on the agenda of ICT for Development emphasizing what constitutes development a holistic approach which was visualized by the Nobel Laureate Dr. Amartya Sen. Dr. TAV Murhty, Director INFLIBNET in his Presidential address highlighted the major developments made during 2005-2006. He acknowledged the cooperation of Academic Libraries and encouragement received from UGC and the MHRD. He also pointed out the lead role played by the Government of Kerala in giving a new dimension to the journal consortia, INFONET Consortia byshowing their keen interest in adding the E-Books. Dr. Arthur Smith, Director OCLC, USA, the Chief Guest requested the University libraries to join OCLC network. Building Digital Libraries using Dspace; open source Digital Library software, the tutorial was conducted by Mr. Yatrik Patel of INFLIBNET which was attended by over 50 Delegates. The tutorial content explained the working of Dspace with practical aspects of creating Web-content for Digital Library of Books, Data Sheets, Computer Programs, Visuals, different types of files Text, Image, Audio and Video and so on. More than 500 delegates from India and abroad attended and deliberated on the theme and about 150 research papers were presented and interesting resolutions were endorsed. A lecture on IPR and E-resources was delivered by Dr. J.S. Patil, Dean, Faculty of Law, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga and has was most educative and informative presentation. AV Presentation on Dr. Eugene Garfield, President Emeritus, Thompson Scientific, USA. Dr. Garfield stands high on pedestal of Information Scientist, an information scientist of great eminence, who introduced Citation Indexing and today it stands as one of the methods of Information research and has discovered new areas of discourse. Cultural programs a dance recital by Omkar Nrutya Sadana and Classical music concert by Smt. Sangeeta Katti were also released. The valedictory session was held on Saturday, 4th February 2006 at 3.30 P.M and Mr. Justice S. R. Bannurmath, Honble Judge, High Court of Karnataka, Bangalore, the Chief Guest and delivered valedictory address. Prof. K. S. Deshpande (in absentia), Prof. S. R. Gunjal, former Librarians and Prof. Y. P. Dubey, Emeritus Professor, BHU were felicitated in the valedictory function, that was presided by Prof. V.B Coutinho, Vice Chancellor, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga. Sri S.B Policegoudar, Assistant Librarian and Sri D.V Biradar, Assistant Librarian, who retired from university library were felicitated. `Building Cyber Libraries a festschrift volume in honour of Dr M.Sankar Reddy, Hyderabad was released by Sri S. Rajanna, Registrar. Dr. R.B Gaddagimath, University Librarian, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga coordinated the International Convention as Organizing Secretary. Dr.Suresh S Jange Assistant Librarian (Sr.) Head Digital Resource Centre Central Library, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga - 585 106 Karnataka, INDIA E-mail : suresh_jange(a)rediffmail.com URL : http://www.suresh.tripod/suresh.htm Phone - 91+08472-249683 (O) 91+08472-248711 (R)

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