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Google donates $3M to help scan documents
by Maruthu Pandian 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Dear Professionals Google Inc. is giving $3 million to the U.S. Library of Congress to help set up a system for creating digital copies of rare documents from around the world - the latest step in Google's crusade to expand the amount of information that can be indexed by its Internet-leading search engine. With the donation announced Tuesday, Google becomes the first business to back the "World Digital Library," a concept that began to take shape about five months ago. The worldwide program is loosely modeled after the Library of Congress' American Memory project launched 11 years ago. Backed with $48 million in private donations and a $15 million infusion from the federal government, the American Memory site at http://loc.gov/memory now has more than 10 million items, including early maps of the United States as well as photos and letters from the Civil War. Librarian of Congress James Billington now wants to create similar sites devoted to other cultures outside the United States and Europe. Although nothing has been finalized, Billington initially envisions devoting large sections of the World Digital Library to material from China, India and Islam. "Much of this will be one-of-a-kind material that you won't be able to find anywhere else," Billington said during a Monday interview. "Getting the material out there (online) is really important. "We have already preserved a lot of material that might have perished in other hands." Google co-founder Sergey Brin characterized the donation as no-brainer for his Mountain View, Calif.-based company as it pursues its avowed mission "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." "This is a philanthropic initiative for us," Brin said during a Monday interview. "It's all about making more information available to more people." Google's motives aren't entirely altruistic. Because Google makes most of money from the ads that appear when Web surfers are searching for something, the company stands to profit whenever more material comes online. With an estimated 45 percent share of the U.S. search market, Google earned $1.1 billion on revenue of $4.2 billion during the first nine months of the year. The donation represents a pittance for Google, which had $5.5 billion in cash through September. It's unlikely all the documents included in the World Digital Library will be indexed by Google or other search engines. That's because the technology that search engines use to crawl the Web still can't figure out how to recognize some documents, like handwritten letters. But Brin expects Google to eventually figure out a way to index almost everything in the World Digital Library. As part of its quest to bring more information online, Google last year set to scan millions of books in five major libraries. That project is now being challenged in court by several major publishers and a group of authors suing to thwart Google's plans to make digital copies of copyrighted material without prior permission. The World Digital Library plans to focus on material no longer protected by copyright. Relatively few books are involved in the Library of Congress project, Brin said. "This will really take us farther out on the frontier," he said. On the Net: http://www.google.com National Digital Library Program: http://www.loc.gov American Memory Web site: http://www.loc.gov/memory Library of Congress' Global Gateway site: http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html Courtesy : http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GOOGLE_DIGITAL_LIBRARY?SITE=NYMID&SE… Regards Maruthu Pandian, Library and Information Scientist, PubSub Concepts India Pvt Ltd, NOIDA, UP, INDIA --------------------------------- Enjoy this Diwali with Y! India Click here Dear Professionals Google Inc. is giving $3 million to the U.S. Library of Congress to help set up a system for creating digital copies of rare documents from around the world - the latest step in Google's crusade to expand the amount of information that can be indexed by its Internet-leading search engine. With the donation announced Tuesday, Google becomes the first business to back the "World Digital Library," a concept that began to take shape about five months ago. The worldwide program is loosely modeled after the Library of Congress' American Memory project launched 11 years ago. Backed with $48 million in private donations and a $15 million infusion from the federal government, the American Memory site at http://loc.gov/memory now has more than 10 million items, including early maps of the United States as well as photos and letters from the Civil War. Librarian of Congress James Billington now wants to create similar sites devoted to other cultures outside the United States and Europe. Although nothing has been finalized, Billington initially envisions devoting large sections of the World Digital Library to material from China, India and Islam. "Much of this will be one-of-a-kind material that you won't be able to find anywhere else," Billington said during a Monday interview. "Getting the material out there (online) is really important. "We have already preserved a lot of material that might have perished in other hands." Google co-founder Sergey Brin characterized the donation as no-brainer for his Mountain View, Calif.-based company as it pursues its avowed mission "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." "This is a philanthropic initiative for us," Brin said during a Monday interview. "It's all about making more information available to more people." Google's motives aren't entirely altruistic. Because Google makes most of money from the ads that appear when Web surfers are searching for something, the company stands to profit whenever more material comes online. With an estimated 45 percent share of the U.S. search market, Google earned $1.1 billion on revenue of $4.2 billion during the first nine months of the year. The donation represents a pittance for Google, which had $5.5 billion in cash through September. It's unlikely all the documents included in the World Digital Library will be indexed by Google or other search engines. That's because the technology that search engines use to crawl the Web still can't figure out how to recognize some documents, like handwritten letters. But Brin expects Google to eventually figure out a way to index almost everything in the World Digital Library. As part of its quest to bring more information online, Google last year set to scan millions of books in five major libraries. That project is now being challenged in court by several major publishers and a group of authors suing to thwart Google's plans to make digital copies of copyrighted material without prior permission. The World Digital Library plans to focus on material no longer protected by copyright. Relatively few books are involved in the Library of Congress project, Brin said. "This will really take us farther out on the frontier," he said. On the Net: http://www.google.com National Digital Library Program: http://www.loc.gov American Memory Web site: http://www.loc.gov/memory Library of Congress' Global Gateway site: http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html Courtesy : http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GOOGLE_DIGITAL_LIBRARY?SITE=NYMID&SE… Regards Maruthu Pandian, Library and Information Scientist, PubSub Concepts India Pvt Ltd, NOIDA, UP, INDIA Enjoy this Diwali with Y! India http://in.promos.yahoo.com/fabmall/index.html Click here

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Article request
by Lata Suresh 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

We are looking for this article . We shall appreciate receiving a photocopy of the article.please send the same at the following address Bansal RD D.G.H.S., Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi. Health financing in India : priorities, issues, inter-state variations and challenges. Health and Population : perspectives and issues.. 1999 Jul-Dec.; 22(3&4): 123-32 Lata Suresh Librarian Institute of Health Management Research 1, Prabhu Dayal Marg Sanganer Airport Jaipur 302033 RAJASTHAN, INDIA Tel : 91-0141-2791431-34 Fax: 91-0141-2792138 Email : lata(a)iihmr.org We are looking for this article . We shall appreciate receiving a photocopy of the article.please send the same at the following address Bansal RD D.G.H.S., Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi. Health financing in India : priorities, issues, inter-state variations and challenges. Health and Population : perspectives and issues.. 1999 Jul-Dec.; 22(3&4): 123-32 Lata Suresh Librarian Institute of Health Management Research 1, Prabhu Dayal Marg Sanganer Airport Jaipur 302033 RAJASTHAN, INDIA Tel : 91-0141-2791431-34 Fax: 91-0141-2792138 Email : mailto:lata@iihmr.org lata(a)iihmr.org

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Google Book Serach
by Rupak Chakravarty 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Dear All, URL for google book search :http://books.google.com/ -- Rupak Chakravarty Assistant Librarian Panjab University Library Chandigarh 160014 INDIA Dear All, URL for google book search : http://books.google.com/ http://books.google.com/ -- Rupak Chakravarty Assistant Librarian Panjab University Library Chandigarh 160014 INDIA

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Tempere archive - universal; what about OpenMED?
by Sukhdev Singh 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Yes, OpenMED@NIC, http://openmed.nic.in , is open to any author from the globe to self-archive. As on today it has 364 Registered Users from all around the world. There are 782 documents that are archived. It has a eloraborate subject categorisation scheme based on MeSH, perhaps the only archive to use such a scheme. Its RSS feed is also available from http://openmed.nic.in/perl/rss and can be added to RSS Readers or hosted services like Personalised Google Home Page http://www.google.com/ig or MyYahoo http://my.yahoo.com etc. If we can receive co-operation from Library and Information Community from India [ on which I am very bullish ] OpenMED@NIC has the potential of a very reliable [because being hosted on NIC's infra-structure] and largest OA repository from a fast developing country [ India ]. Please let me know if any professional would like to come forward to build OpenMED@NIC further? It is an opportunity to show the world that we can also build international quality archives. Let us show that we LIS professionals from India are not just "Downloaders", we "Upload" too!!. Thanks, Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in > Message: 6 > Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:58:52 +0530 (IST) > From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Tempere archive - universal; what about OpenMED? > To: peters(a)earlham.edu, oa-india(a)dgroups.org, > lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: <1766.196.203.128.85.1132298932.squirrel(a)196.203.128.85> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > > Peter Suber has recently said that the Tempere University archive is the > first to provide archiving facility to others (outside the university). > OpenMED in India does that too, but only for biomedical research. > > Arun > > --- > > Universal repository at U of Tampere > > > The OA repository at the University of Tampere in Finland is open to > deposits by scholars anywhere. The repository instruction page puts it > this way: "You can also offer your scientific material for publication on > the internet to the University of Tampere, whether you belong to the > personnel of the University or not." (Thanks to Kimmo Kuusela.) > (PS: This is an excellent idea. It makes the Tampere repository the first > universal repository --or the first that I know of. The current draft of > the RCUK OA policy mandates the deposit of all RCUK-funded research in an > OA repository, but makes an exception for grantees who don't have deposit > rights at any OA repository. The Tampere repository should plug this > loophole even if the universal repository I'm building with the Internet > Archive is not ready in time.) > > > >

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SUBMISSION FOR LIS FORUM MAILING LIST.
by krishnakumar.s＠tcs.com 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Dear Sir / Madam Kindly forwad this opening through LIS forum mailing list : regards kumar ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Job opportunity @Tata Consultancy Services,Trivandrum. Officer- Library and Information Centre(LIC) Job Description The person would be responsible for circulation and maintenance of books, journals, magazines and other library documents and assist towards offering SDI (Selective Dissemination of Information), CAS (Current Awareness Services and QBS (Query Based Services). KRAs Assist the respective Branch LIC Head to achieve the objectives of LIC namely: i. Provide uninterrupted Library services ii. Provide timely information services iii. Deliver Housekeeping operations to the utmost satisfaction of the customer iv. Create and archive information assets for future use. Qualification Master's degree in Library and Information Science (MLISc) or Associateship in Documentation and Science (AD Sc) from ISI or NISCAIR or equivalent degree Experience 0 to 3 years experience in library / documentation / information handling, preferably in the corporate, scientific or technology space. Freshers may also apply. Others Flair for IT, good communication and interpersonal skills Positions 1 Location Corporate Learning Centre, Thiruvananthapuram Last Date 05 December 2005 Interested candidates may e-mail their resume to: krishnakumar.s(a)tcs.com . Alternatively, hard copies can be posted to: Mr S Krishnakumar Executive - Library & Information Services Corporate Learning Centre Tata Consultancy Services Ltd Technopark Campus Kariyavattom ? 695 581 *********************************************************** Krishnakumar S. Tata Consultancy Services Limited Technopark Campus ,Kariyavattom P.O. Trivandrum - 695 581,Kerala India Mailto: krishnakumar.s(a)tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you Dear Sir / Madam Kindly forwad this opening through LIS forum mailing list : regards kumar ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Job opportunity @ Tata Consultancy Services ,Trivandrum. Officer- Library and Information Centre(LIC) Job Description The person would be responsible for circulation and maintenance of books, journals, magazines and other library documents and assist towards offering SDI (Selective Dissemination of Information), CAS (Current Awareness Services and QBS (Query Based Services). KRAs Assist the respective Branch LIC Head to achieve the objectives of LIC namely: i. Provide uninterrupted Library services ii. Provide timely information services iii. Deliver Housekeeping operations to the utmost satisfaction of the customer iv. Create and archive information assets for future use. Qualification Master's degree in Library and Information Science (MLISc) or Associateship in Documentation and Science (AD Sc) from ISI or NISCAIR or equivalent degree Experience 0 to 3 years experience in library / documentation / information handling, preferably in the corporate, scientific or technology space. Freshers may also apply. Others Flair for IT, good communication and interpersonal skills Positions 1 Location Corporate Learning Centre, Thiruvananthapuram Last Date 05 December 2005 Interested candidates may e-mail their resume to: krishnakumar.s(a)tcs.com . Alternatively, hard copies can be posted to: Mr S Krishnakumar Executive - Library & Information Services Corporate Learning Centre Tata Consultancy Services Ltd Technopark Campus Kariyavattom – 695 581 *********************************************************** Krishnakumar S. Tata Consultancy Services Limited Technopark Campus ,Kariyavattom P.O. Trivandrum - 695 581,Kerala India Mailto: krishnakumar.s(a)tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you

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Open Course Ware
by Subbiah Arunachalam 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

>From Peter Suber's blog. Leading Indian educational institutions such as IISc, IITs and IIMs will do well to join the Open Course Ware movement. Now about 1,200 of MIT's 1,800 courses are available as OCW! Arun ---- Open courseware at WSIS OCW draws attention at world summit, a press release from MIT, November 21, 2005. At the World Summit on the Information Society this week in Tunis, Tunisia, MIT OpenCourseWare co-hosted a half-day event with the United Nations University, "Widening Access to Knowledge Through Open Sharing: The Growing OpenCourseWare Movement." More than 100 people attended the Nov. 14 forum, which featured presentations by prominent leaders from the global education community. The proceedings focused on the burgeoning OCW movement -- which now includes participating universities on five continents -- and how to best to leverage OCW resources to improve education around the globe. "I am surprised by all the OpenCourseWares, open educational resources and other 'open movements' around the world. It is truly a global movement, and MIT started it all with OCW," said Professor Shigeru Miyagawa, the MIT Kochi-Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture, who represented OpenCourseWare. "A UNESCO official told me that MIT is a 'trailblazer.' We set the world in motion with this OpenCourseWare Movement, and as the UNESCO official said, 'Nothing can stop it now.'" The keynote address at Monday's event was given by G.M. Reed, director of the U.N. University's International Institute for Software Technology. Featured speakers included leading educators from the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, Keio University in Japan, the Université Paris 3-Sorbonne in France, the African Virtual University, the UNESCO Information Society Division and MIT, among others. "I'm also gratified that so many people around the world know about MIT's OpenCourseWare, and the respect that they have for MIT and our faculty because of it," Miyagawa said. "I chaired the panel on 'The Growing International OpenCourseWare Movement,' and it was truly amazing to hear about OpenCourseWares being launched in Japan, France and other American schools such as Tufts. Everyone who attended our discussion 'got it' -- OCW is about sharing educational content freely and openly with anyone who wants to use it."

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Copyrights in Digital Era
by Mailing List Manager 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:40:26 -0800 (PST) From: Yogesh Modi <ymodi2k(a)yahoo.com> Dear Professional, I would like to know, about the Copyrights of Digital/Electronic materials, meaning, Can I scan the books/Journals for digital preservation, if no, then how is it possible. Thanks, Yogesh Modi ============================ YOGESH MODI, STA 'B' TIRC, SSPL Ministry of Defence, DRDO Lucknow Road, Timarpur, Delhi - 54 Phone 91-11-23960640 (Off.) ====================== __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com

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John Willinsky's book, The Access Principle
by Mailing List Manager 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 03:38:35 +0530 (IST) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is a great book on open access. eter Suber recommends it whole-heartedly. LIS teachers and students might wish to read this and possibly discuss it in the classroom. Policymakers (in higher education, science and technology and university administration) would do well to read this book. Arun ---- John Willinsky's book, The Access Principle John Willinsky's book, The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (MIT Press, 2005) is now shipping. From the MIT description: In The Access Principle, John Willinsky describes the latest chapter in [an] ongoing story -- online open access publishing by scholarly journals -- and makes a case for open access as a public good. A commitment to scholarly work, writes Willinsky, carries with it a responsibility to circulate that work as widely as possible: this is the access principle. In the digital age, that responsibility includes exploring new publishing technologies and economic models to improve access to scholarly work. Wide circulation adds value to published work; it is a significant aspect of its claim to be knowledge. The right to know and the right to be known are inextricably mixed. Open access, argues Willinsky, can benefit both a researcher-author working at the best-equipped lab at a leading research university and a teacher struggling to find resources in an impoverished high school. Willinsky describes different types of access...discusses the contradictions of copyright law, the reading of research, and the economic viability of open access. He also considers broader themes of public access to knowledge, human rights issues, lessons from publishing history, and "epistemological vanities." The debate over open access, writes Willinsky, raises crucial questions about the place of scholarly work in a larger world -- and about the future of knowledge. John Willinsky is Pacific Press Professor of Literacy and Technology at the University of British Columbia. Peter Suber says: Congratulations, John. I'm glad to reaffirm my blurb from the jacket: John Willinsky understands the way the Internet changes everything for scholarly communication and has written a clear and compelling defense of open access, both in principle and in practice. I recommend it especially for its treatment of copyright issues and the special situation of scholarly societies and developing countries.

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German Embassy, New Delhi cordially invites you to the Fifth Science Circle Meeting
by Puna Das 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

The German Embassy, New Delhi cordially invites you to the Fifth Science Circle Meeting Lecture by: Prof. Dr. K. Schilling, Robotics and Telematics, Worzburg University, Germany Topic: Robotics: "The European Huygens ? Mission to Explore the Saturnian Moon Titan and Technology Spin Offs for Tele-Education" Date, Time: November 23rd, 2005, 6.30 p.m. Venue: Casuarina, India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi. The Lecture shall be followed by informal discussions and a get together. For details please contact wiss-20(a)newd.diplo.de, Tel: 011-24199164 __________________________________________________________ Enjoy this Diwali with Y! India Click here http://in.promos.yahoo.com/fabmall/index.html

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Requirements at IOL Broadband
by rupesh kumar 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

IOL Broadband, Mumbai is looking for Librarians [ Job Code: 5379422, 21] Qualifications and Experience: Not mentioned Scale of pay: Not mentioned Last Date: Not given Kindly apply online only by registering with http://www.jobjunction.in using the above mentioned job code. It is recommended that you apply online at jobjunction. However, if you are unable to do so, please e-mail your detailed resume at: recruit(a)jobjunction.in or mail the same to: IOL Broadband Ltd 601, Raheja Center Nariman Point MUMBAI-400021 [Source: The Economic Times (Mumbai), Nov 15, 2005 ] [from infolibrarian.com] RUPESH KUMAR.A. DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE BANGALORE UNIVERSITY --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. IOL Broadband, Mumbai is looking for Librarians [ Job Code: 5379422, 21] Qualifications and Experience: Not mentioned Scale of pay: Not mentioned Last Date: Not given Kindly apply online only by registering with http://www.jobjunction.in using the above mentioned job code. It is recommended that you apply online at jobjunction. However, if you are unable to do so, please e-mail your detailed resume at: recruit(a)jobjunction.in or mail the same to: IOL Broadband Ltd 601, Raheja Center Nariman Point MUMBAI-400021 [Source: The Economic Times (Mumbai), Nov 15, 2005 ] [from infolibrarian.com] http://www.bub.ac.in/buLogo.jpg RUPESH KUMAR.A. DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE BANGALORE UNIVERSITY http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylc=X3oDMTFqODRtdXQ4BF9TAzMyOTc1MDIEX3MDOTY2ODgxNj… Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.

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