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Open Course Ware
by Subbiah Arunachalam 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

Friends: Here is an excerpt from a recent paper which I reproduce from Peter Suber's blog. Indian universities and institutes of technology will do well to join the Open Course Ware movement and do their bit to democratise knowledge. Arun ----- Openness as a response to globalization Hans van Ginkel, Toward a smarter information superhighway, Asahi Shimbun, February 14, 2006. Van Ginkel is Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Rector of the United Nations University. Excerpt: Universities...are increasingly recognizing that the real expansion today in international knowledge exchange does not relate to physical mobility of individuals, but rather to the mobility of knowledge itself. Openness and sharing knowledge have always been the hallmarks of the most successful universities around the world....MIT offers a rather interesting model of an educational institution responsive to globalizing trends. In particular, I would like to refer to their work with free online learning through the OpenCourseWare program. Many universities use distance and online learning as an important measure to increase student numbers....This represented a revolutionary step forward since up until then the trend had been for universities to restrict access to their knowledge behind password-controlled learning management systems. It is MIT's boldness in promoting this open approach that I believe contributes to its success and high ranking among international educational institutions. This same kind of openness is highly relevant to Japanese universities and would contribute to their climbing up the international university rankings. Hence, I am delighted to see that a number of Japanese universities have decided to work together to promote the idea of OpenCourseWare in Japan. The Japan OCW Alliance includes Keio University, Kyoto University, Osaka University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo University and Waseda University. This alliance was launched in May 2005, so it is relatively young, but has already placed a large amount of educational content online. It represents an important showcase of quality educational materials and, as professor Yuichiro Anzai, president of Keio University, has remarked, the Alliance is indicative of a new leadership role for Japanese universities. This view is echoed by President Kazuo Oike of Kyoto University who views the Japan OCW Alliance as contributing to the accumulation of intellectual capital on the World Wide Web. Moreover, as President Hiroshi Komiyama of the University of Tokyo remarked, "our goal is to give back to society the fruits of our educational activities. We would also like to assist those who are eager to learn by themselves, and those who would like to take part in a dynamic creative activity."...We at UNU share the same vision. At the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development, I called for the creation of a Global Learning Space to support science-based education through various projects, including the U.N. Water Virtual Learning Center, the Global Virtual University and the Asia Pacific Initiative. The latter includes close collaboration with Keio University and a network of universities in Southeast Asia and the Pacific to develop and run educational programs in the region on issues of sustainable development. More recently, at the World Summit on the Information Society held in Tunis in November 2005, I called for an "Information Society Open to All" where the provision of open educational resources would represent a core component....The way forward in this globalizing world, I would argue, is to promote openness within the education system.

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conference in Germany - call for papers
by Bartel, Martina 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

Dear LIS colleagues, in connection with the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2006, with India being Guest of Honor this year, a LIS conference of the DGI (German society for information science and information practice) will be held in Frankfurt/Germany. One of the topics chosen is "LIS in India" - which provides an excellent opportunity to present professional Indian activities and projects. The call for papers is published also in English language on the website for the conference: www.online-tagung.de (link: "CfP English"). For any suggested contributions, an abstract of up to 400 words would have to be submitted until 1st of March to the organizers and, if the suggestion is accepted, the full contribution must be submitted by 30th of June. Kindly distribute this information among your institute and colleagues. Best regards, Martina Bartel ________________________________________________ Martina Bartel Head of Information Dept. & Library Regional Coordinator South Asia Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi 110 001 Tel: 91-11-23 32 95 06, Fax: 91-11-23 72 25 73 http://www.goethe.de/newdelhi

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Ariadne Decennial Issue
by Mailing List Manager 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 07:17:56 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Ariadne, a wonderful online journal published by UKOLN, is celebrating its tenth year of publication with a special issue (issue 46) that looks back over ten years of progress in information technology in libraries and higher education, primarily in the UK, and speculates about progress to come. The issue includes articles by several of the key figures involved in shaping UK plans and policies during that time, and should be particularly helpful for those in the United States trying to gain deeper insight into the achievements and lessons learned in the UK; I have also contributed a short article looking at comparative developments across the US and UK. Ariadne can be found at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/ - Subbiah Arunachalam

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Doubt on email client cleared
by vimal kumar 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

Doubt on email client cleared First of all I express my thanks to LIS-Forum users, who have given instabt reply to my doubt on email clients suitable for e-newsletter distribution. Many users distribute news letters using ordinary mail accounts through Bcc (Blind Carbon Copy). I think this is the most convenient method to distribute news letters among a small group of people. I found free edition of GroupMail (www.infacta.com) email client is very much suitable for this purpose. It is very easy to use and can import email account and address list from default mail client like Out Look Express. Now I simultaneously using Yahoo mail and Group mail to deliver library news letter. Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- Brings words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail. First of all I express my thanks to LIS-Forum users, who have given instabt reply to my doubt on email clients suitable for e-newsletter distribution. Many users distribute news letters using ordinary mail accounts through Bcc (Blind Carbon Copy). I think this is the most convenient method to distribute news letters among a small group of people. I found free edition of GroupMail (www.infacta.com) email client is very much suitable for this purpose. It is very easy to use and can import email account and address list from default mail client like Out Look Express. Now I simultaneously using Yahoo mail and Group mail to deliver library news letter. Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com Brings words and photos together (easily) with http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/PMall/*http://photomail.mail.yahoo.… PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail.

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vacancy at TISS: Doc. Officer (1)
by Puttaraj Choukimath 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

Dear All, Greetings. fyi: Vacancy: Documentation Officer http://www.tiss.edu/work.htm All the Best, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, TATA Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: puttuc(a)yahoo.com, choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: www.tiss.edu --------------------------------- What are the most popular cars? Find out at Yahoo! Autos Dear All, Greetings. fyi: Vacancy: Documentation Officer http://www.tiss.edu/work.htm http://www.tiss.edu/work.htm All the Best, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, TATA Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: mailto:puttuc@yahoo.com puttuc(a)yahoo.com , mailto:choukimath@tiss.edu choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: http://www.tiss.edu www.tiss.edu What are the most popular cars? Find out at http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=38382/_ylc=X3oDMTEzNWFva2Y2BF9TAzk3MTA3MDc2BHNlY… Yahoo! Autos

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Attn : Management Institute's Information Professionals
by sandeep bhavsar 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

Respected Professionals It gives me a great pleasure to invite you to join the Management Information Professionals yahoo group. I am aware that your management institute is organizing various seminar and conferences on different subjects. You have been a major part of such efforts making them grand success. All your efforts contribution need to be disseminated widely. There are lot of updated and latest resources are coming up. We all are working with the same zeal and common goal. The need is to come together, share experience, and be a part of each-others efforts. With this intention, I am making a humble effort to form a group MANINFOPRO(a)yahoogroups.com (MANAGEMENT INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS) I request you to join this group and share your valuable knowledge and rich experience with each other. Thanks and Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr. V.N.Bedekar Institute of Research and Management Stuies Thane(w) email : sandeep(a)vpmthane.org ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Photos NEW, now offering a quality print service from just 8p a photo http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

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In Peter Suber's Blog - Migrating journals to Open Journal Systems (OJS)
by Sukhdev Singh 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

Peter Suber has covered my presentation at National Workshop onJournal Publishing in India (Bangalore, February 10-11, 2006) in hisblog http://snipurl.com/mi70 "Sukhdev Singh, Indian biomedical journals at NIC - issues formigration to OJS, a slide presentation delivered at the NationalWorkshop on Journal Publishing in India (Bangalore, February 10-11,2006)." http://openmed.nic.in/1342/ ] --Sukhdev Singh, NIC.http://openmed.nic.in

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Need some information - Reg.
by suruli nathi 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

Dear experts, i can't attatch the question for the previous mail. sorry for it. Now, if you any reflection for this questions regarding. please send me. What is the relationship between the published literature and the knowledge organization of the literature? There have been many studies that examined the links between the quantum of literature published and the knowledge organization of the literature. Growth of literature; how to control or organize the explosion of published literature? What are the knowledge organization techniques used to structure the published resources Why we have to be concerned about organizing the knowledge of the published resources? Publication rate is growing at a faster rate where as the process of organizing the literature for use is limited. What is required? In the KBS, one could witness an explosion of knowledge and information in various fields of activities. The rate of growth is bewildering demanding a concerted effort to organize these growing knowledge for retrieval and use. What will happen if there is no proper organization of knowledge? thanks and regards, N.Amsaveni __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear experts, i can't attatch the question for the previous mail. sorry for it. Now, if you any reflection for this questions regarding. please send me. What is the relationship between the published literature and the knowledge organization of the literature? There have been many studies that examined the links between the quantum of literature published and the knowledge organization of the literature. Growth of literature; how to control or organize the explosion of published literature? What are the knowledge organization techniques used to structure the published resources Why we have to be concerned about organizing the knowledge of the published resources? Publication rate is growing at a faster rate where as the process of organizing the literature for use is limited. What is required? In the KBS, one could witness an explosion of knowledge and information in various fields of activities. The rate of growth is bewildering demanding a concerted effort to organize these growing knowledge for retrieval and use. What will happen if there is no proper organization of knowledge? thanks and regards, N.Amsaveni __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Email clients suitable for sending news letter
by vimal kumar 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

Dear Professionals, Now Iam searching for an free/open source email client can working in Windows suitable for sending Library News Letter. Problem is that, users can see the email IDs of other subscribers from messages sent by existing email clients (Out Look Express, Thunderbird). Please help me if anybody have experience in using email clients for Newsletter delivery. Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- Brings words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail. Now Iam searching for an free/open source email client can working in Windows suitable for sending Library News Letter. Problem is that, users can see the email IDs of other subscribers from messages sent by existing email clients (Out Look Express, Thunderbird). Please help me if anybody have experience in using email clients for Newsletter delivery. Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com Brings words and photos together (easily) with http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/PMall/*http://photomail.mail.yahoo.… PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail.

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Soquel High librarian encourages students to research on Web - By Nancy Pasternack - sentinel staff writer - February 8, 2006
by Mailing List Manager 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:54:31 -0500 From: K.R.Mulla <krmulla(a)gmail.com> Soquel High librarian encourages students to research on Web - By Nancy Pasternack - sentinel staff writer - February 8, 2006 Hi [LIS-Forum]! Thought you might be interested in reading this story from the Santa Cruz Sentinel. http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2006/February/08/local/stories/09l… http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2006/February/08/local/stories/09l… Regards K.R.Mulla February 8, 2006 SOQUEL Soquel High librarian encourages students to research on Web By Nancy Pasternack sentinel staff writer Soquel High School's Madeline Britton is part of an endangered and often misunderstood profession: the modern school librarian. Unlike librarians of yore who managed index files, taught the Dewey Decimal System and worked in rooms crowded with books, Britton teaches her students to mine the Web efficiently for the most reliable information, and to find creative solutions for stretching nearly extinct library budget dollars. She can't afford, she says, to spend the whopping $4,000 she has for 2006-07 all in one place. The $2,400 subscription bill for Ebsco Host, the primary database she has used in the past to teach her students research skills, is too steep. So that subscription, which allows access to magazine and academic journal articles, is out — and Santa Cruz Public Library cards are in. Britton's campaign to get all her students a public library card will have them using comprehensive databases like Ebsco Host, as well as many others the school cannot afford. They can access these resources from any Internet-linked computer, between the hours of 6 a.m. and midnight. And Britton can continue, she said, to teach students the necessities for adult life in today's real world. "This is the iPod generation," she said. "You have to teach them to use their brains in the ways they're wired." Her push has caught on in Santa Cruz City Schools' other high schools. Librarians from both Harbor High and Santa Cruz High have teamed up with public librarians to take students through the steps necessary to gain access to the public library's resources, and to take full advantage of those resources. "It's win-win," said Heidi Smith, the system's development librarian. "We have wonderful databases the students can now use." And because of the number of new cards the Santa Cruz Public Library system will issue, Smith can make a stronger case for continued funding. "If our databases don't get enough use," she said, "our governing board won't continue to fund it." Britton's school district is the only one in the county that still funds credentialed librarians. The ratio in California of professional media library teachers librarians to students is the lowest in the country: one media teacher/librarian for every 4,541 students. The average, nationwide, is one to 870. Because Soquel High's feeder schools — in the Live Oak and Soquel school districts — do not have professional librarians, Britton and many teachers must make an extra effort to get incoming students caught up with the online world. In order to do this, you first need access to reliable resources. "They need to learn library skills every year," O'Reilly said. "They need practice over and over again." Those skills increasingly consist of an ability to edit out sources that are either not going to be helpful, or that are not reliable. "They need to know what's a bogus Web site, and what isn't," O'Reilly said. Britton compares the Internet to an open fire hydrant. "You have to know how to swim through all that, just to take a sip of water," she said. She tells her students, "You guys have to be your own censors." "Your lives are packed," she tells them. "And you want to go to that party Friday night, right? Well, being good at this Internet research will save you time." Contact Nancy Pasternack at mailto:npasternack@santacruzsentinel.com?subject=Soquel High librarian encourages students to research on Web npasternack(a)santacruzsentinel.com .

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