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DU library all set to go digital
by noufal palliparamban 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Dear friends, The Delhi University's Library System (DULS) is all set to go digital. Besides launching a separate library website, which will help in getting all electronic resources available in the public domain, the library resources, including the books which are out of the Copyright Act, will also be digitised soon. details: http://www.dailypioneer.com/displayit1.asp?pathit=/archives2/nov905/city/ci… Regards Noufal Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur --------------------------------- Enjoy this Diwali with Y! India Click here Dear friends, The Delhi University's Library System (DULS) is all set to go digital. Besides launching a separate library website, which will help in getting all electronic resources available in the public domain, the library resources, including the books which are out of the Copyright Act, will also be digitised soon. details: http://www.dailypioneer.com/displayit1.asp?pathit=/archives2/nov905/city/ci… http://www.dailypioneer.com/displayit1.asp?pathit=/archives2/nov905/city/ci… Regards Noufal Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Enjoy this Diwali with Y! India http://in.promos.yahoo.com/fabmall/index.html Click here

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Missing out books (K A. Sardesai)
by Mailing List Manager 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 14:08:07 +0530 From: K A. Sardesai <kshipras(a)rbi.org.in> Dear Library professionals, Here i have found some information from General Financial Rules,2005 para 194(i) & (ii)related to physical verification of Library books. I am still concerned for Librarian's guidelines from UGC or parallel organization. kshipra

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Oogling for Chemists - Chmoogle
by Mailing List Manager 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 15:29:53 +0530 (IST) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Spread the word among chemists. It is a boon to chemists. Arun ---- More on Chmoogle David Bradley, Oogling for Chemists, Reactive Reports, Issue #50. Excerpt: San Diego based eMolecules Inc has launched what one might consider to be the chemical equivalent of the Google search engine - "Chmoogle". The company describes Chmoogle as the world's leading free open-access chemistry search engine and its mission is to discover, curate, and index all of the public chemical information in the world, and make it available to the public. "The world's knowledge in chemistry is an invaluable resource", said Klaus Gubernator, eMolecule's Chief Executive Officer. "It lies dormant until it becomes searchable by every chemist. The language of chemistry is chemical structures. Chmoogle makes the world's chemistry searchable by structure. Just draw a molecule using your favorite structure drawing tool and hit Go!" "Currently, there are any number of excellent text search engines," Craig James, Chmoogle's Chief Technology Officer told us. "If you want to know everything about 'Alexander Fleming' (inventor of penicillin), they can help you," he adds. However, if you draw the penicillin molecule with your favorite chemical editor, can you search for it, James asks, "With Chmoogle you can." Before Chmoogle, there was no free Internet resource of this nature. It provides a genuine cheminformatics system that anyone could use to find information using a substructure search. A number of academic institutions have searchable databases, but they're usually focused on their particular field of science, and their search systems are often primarily for organizing only their data. Chmoogle's goal is to be the search system to index all of the world's publicly available chemical information....Chmoogle goes deeper than a superficial search of the latent chemical Web, as one would hope. It allows users to send queries, results and individual structures as links to their colleagues using email. This, the company says, will create an unparalleled collaborative environment for chemists worldwide. Chmoogle also provides "Chmoogle Free" code that users can embed into their own Web sites for direct access to Chmoogle, as well as hosted cheminformatics systems and full Web sites for chemical suppliers, pharmaceutical and other chemical industries. James does not see a conflict between Chmoogle and efforts to use the InChI. "Since Chmoogle will be crawling the Web looking for information, it may provide a valuable adjunct to their service: High-performance searches, combined with cross references to other places that Chmoogle has found the same molecule (for example, commercial vendors who have the molecule for sale, or other academic sites such as Zinc or PubChem)."

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Microfilm reader_lakshmi murthy
by Mailing List Manager 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Dear Member: There is request for using a microfilm reader and printer (request appended). The intended user is from Bangalore and would prefer if the gadgets are available in any of the libraries in and around Bg. If any of your library/organization have these gadgets, and permit non-members to make use of them on whatever terms and conditions, may I request you to write to Pramila Lochan <lochanp(a)yahoo.com> directly. Many thanks in advance. - Moderator [Original message follows] Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 20:53:59 -0800 (PST) From: Pramila Lochan <lochanp(a)yahoo.com> To: franc(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Microfilm reader_lakshmi murthy I am looking for a microfilm reader and printer. Since I am from Bangalore she thought it might be appropriate to conatct you. I am a researcher working at the IGNCA SRC and the microfilm reader and printer I am looking for is to help me decipher a manuscript that is recorded on a microfilm. I do hope there could be some solution for this in Bangalore itself regards Dr.Pramila Lochan

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New Koha Documentation available
by vimal kumar 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

User guide of Koha (ver. 2.2) now available in Koha documentation web site (www.kohadocs.org/userguide/) . This user guide will clear many doubts meet while administration and use of Koha ILS. It included the Setting Bibliographic Data Parameters, users can customize MARC tag according their purpose. This is not a full one, certain areas (circulation, reports, OPAC, routine maintenance, Acquiring MARC Bibliographic Records) to be completed. Vimal kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum vimal0212(a)yahoo.com __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com

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FW: [DIGLIB] article: "A Risky Gamble With Google"
by Vara Lakshmi Rudrabhatla 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

-- Dr. RSR Varalakshmi Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Science., Andhra University. Visakhapatnam. >From: Glen Newton - NRC/CNRC CISTI/ICIST Research ><glen.newton(a)nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> >Reply-To: glen.newton(a)nrc-cnrc.gc.ca >To: diglib(a)infoserv.inist.fr >Subject: [DIGLIB] article: "A Risky Gamble With Google" >Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 20:56:48 -0500 > >"A Risky Gamble With Google" >Chronicle of Higher Education (12/02/05) Vol. 52, No. 15, P. B7 >Vaidhyanathan, Siva > > > "Though Google's effort to digitize and offer free online access to > > millions of books from major English-language libraries is an > > exciting prospect, New York University professor Siva Vaidhyanathan > > contends that the initiative could compromise much of the freedom > > and integrity that libraries and other reference resources embody > > for scholars, researchers, and the general public. Google's > > reputation as an egalitarian information resource can only be > > sustained through expansion, and its mission statement to index the > > world's data raises issues of propriety while also implying that > > libraries, universities, and other traditional disseminators of > > information can no longer perform such duties adequately, according > > to Vaidhyanathan. The author warns that the Google Library Project > > increases the risk of privacy infringement, as Google's privacy > > policy makes no promise that the company will keep patrons' > > individual reading records from the FBI or local law > > enforcement. Privatization of information resource maintenance is > > another area of concern because of the inherent instability of > > businesses, and Google is essentially a business. Vaidhyanathan > > argues that stable public institutions should oversee a project such > > as Google Library. The project's most dire implication is the burden > > it adds to an already unbalanced copyright system, which creates > > even more uncertainty for librarians, students, researchers, and > > other innocent copyright users. "The presumption that Google's > > powers of indexing and access come close to working as a library > > ignores all that libraries mean to the lives of their users," > > Vaidhyanathan concludes. "All the proprietary algorithms in the > > world are not going to replace them." " >From: http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2005-7/1202f.html#item18 > >-- >Glen Newton | glen.newton(a)nrc-cnrc.gc.ca >Group Leader (Acting), CISTI Research >Chef de groupe (par intérim), Recherche de l'ICIST >tel/tél: 613-990-9163 | facsimile/télécopieur 613-952-8246 >Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) >National Research Council Canada (NRC)| M-55, 1200 Montreal Road >http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ >Institut canadien de l'information scientifique et technique (ICIST) >Conseil national de recherches Canada | M-55, 1200 chemin Montréal >Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6 >Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada >-- > > >

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DRTC Seminar
by pradyot bharatkar 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Dear Professionals, On behalf of DRTC-ISI, I cordially invite you for the Seminar on 'Text Mining: an emerging scenario' ************************************************************* Indian Statistical Institute Documentation Research and Training Centre. 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Banglore-560059 Seminar on Text Mining: an emerging scenario ABSTRACT Text mining, also known as intelligent text analysis, text data mining or knowledge discovery in text (KDT), refers generally to the process of extracting interesting and non-trivial information and knowledge from unstructured text. Text mining is a young interdisciplinary field that draws on information retrieval, data mining, machine learning, statistics and computational linguistics. As most of the information in the world (over 80%) is stored as text, text mining is believed to have a high commercial potential value. It has many applications, especially in information service sector, bio-informatics, humanities, intelligence communities and in other fields also. Recently, text mining is receiving much attention, several research groups around the world, as well as R&D departments of big companies, are doing research on text mining. This seminar will focus on several issues of text mining including: Themes: 1.Basic function of text mining 2.Text mining process 3.Architecture of text mining system 4.Techniques used in text mining 5.Application areas 6. Challenges in text mining All are cordially invited. Venue: DRTC Classroom Date: 9thDec,2005 Time: 2.00 p.m. Dr. A. R.D. Prasad (Seminar Co-ordinator) Pradyot S. Bharatkar Associateship in Documentation & Information Science (ADIS IInd year) DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, 8th Mile Mysore Road, RV College PO, Bangalore- 560059. Email & web site: pradyot(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/~pradyot (/wwwisis) --------------------------------- Yahoo! Model Search - Could you be the next catwalk superstar? Check out the competition now Dear Professionals, On behalf of DRTC-ISI, I cordially invite you for the Seminar on ' Text Mining: an emerging scenario ' ************************************************************* Indian Statistical Institute Documentation Research and Training Centre. 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Banglore-560059 Seminar on Text Mining: an emerging scenario ABSTRACT Text mining, also known as intelligent text analysis, text data mining or knowledge discovery in text (KDT), refers generally to the process of extracting interesting and non-trivial information and knowledge from unstructured text. Text mining is a young interdisciplinary field that draws on information retrieval, data mining, machine learning, statistics and computational linguistics. As most of the information in the world (over 80%) is stored as text, text mining is believed to have a high commercial potential value. It has many applications, especially in information service sector, bio-informatics, humanities, intelligence communities and in other fields also. Recently, text mining is receiving much attention, several research groups around the world, as well as R&D departments of big companies, are doing research on text mining. This seminar will focus on several issues of text mining including: Themes: 1.Basic function of text mining 2.Text mining process 3.Architecture of text mining system 4.Techniques used in text mining 5.Application areas 6. Challenges in text mining All are cordially invited. Venue: DRTC Classroom Date: 9 th Dec,2005 Time: 2.00 p.m. Dr. A. R.D. Prasad (Seminar Co-ordinator) Pradyot S. Bharatkar http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/40.gif http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/40.gif http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/40.gif http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/40.gif Associateship in Documentation & Information Science (ADIS IInd year) DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, 8th Mile Mysore Road, RV College PO, Bangalore- 560059. Email & web site: pradyot(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/~pradyot http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/~pradyot (/wwwisis) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/modelsearch/*http://uk.news… Yahoo! Model Search - Could you be the next catwalk superstar? Check out the http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/modelsearch/*http://uk.news… competition now

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Book Piracy
by anand ulaya 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Dear Professionals The publishers and authors are now taking up arms against book piracy, but they'll follow the beaten path through the courts and wind up trying to swat down every showoff kid, ISP, and Internet file trader who might have any involvement in the creation, transfer, or storage of illegal copies of paper books. More about this article http://www.prajavani.net/dec042005/36572200501204.php Your Sincerely Anand Ulaya SDM Institute for Management Library No.1 Chamundi Hill Road Siddarthanagar Post Mysore 570 011 Anand U __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear Professionals The publishers and authors are now taking up arms against book piracy, but they'll follow the beaten path through the courts and wind up trying to swat down every showoff kid, ISP, and Internet file trader who might have any involvement in the creation, transfer, or storage of illegal copies of paper books. More about this article http://www.prajavani.net/dec042005/36572200501204.php http://www.prajavani.net/dec042005/36572200501204.php Your Sincerely Anand Ulaya SDM Institute for Management Library No.1 Chamundi Hill Road Siddarthanagar Post Mysore 570 011 Anand U __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Invitation to join NCSI-KM-Forum
by P. Arumugam 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Hi, This is a discussion forum maintained by Information and Knowledge Management Trainees of National Center for Science Information (http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) which is part of Indian Institute of Science (http://www.iisc.ernet.in) Bangalore, India. This is an attempt to create an interactive group for Knowledge Management. This group is a place for knowledge manager to meet all related professionals and share their knowledge. Objectives: 1. To share the knowledge within KM professionals. 2. Search and find the KM jobs. 3. Personal interaction among Knowledge Managers. 4. To assist KM implementation in organizations. Forum URL: http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/NCSI-KM-Forum http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/NCSI-KM-Forum Come and Join with us!!! Information and Knowledge Management Trainees, National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-12, India.

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explanation about auto data capturing machine-reg:-
by librarian＠gitam.edu 03 Dec '05

03 Dec '05

Dear Colleagues, > It is device which can be used for stock verification. For using this > device library should be Computerised and all the books are to be > barcoded. The device will be taken to the racks and the barcode on the > books will be scanned by the stock taking machine. After scanning a good > number books the data will be dumped on to the computer. This will save > time in the process of stock-verification and also assures accuracy. The > approximate cost is around 60 to 70 thousands. We have acuired thios > device two years back. > With regards, > DR.K.Satyanarayana, > Dy.LIbrarian, > GITAM Central Library, > Visakhapatnam-45

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