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Open Source Systems for Libraries
by sandeep bhavsar 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

R/S Professionals please visit this url : http://www.oss4lib.org/projects/ about oss4lib Our mission is to cultivate the collaborative power of open source software engineering to build better and free systems for use in libraries. Toward this end, we maintain a listing <projects/> of free software and systems designed for libraries (the physical, books-on-shelves kind), and we track news about project updates or related issues of interest. oss4lib started at the Yale Medical Library <http://www.med.yale.edu/library> in early February 1999 thinking there were probably other folks like us out there who might be working on free library software or looking for same. Our reasons for wanting to see Open Source take off in the library software arena are straightforward, fairly typical, and mostly outlined in the Open Source Systems for Libraries: Getting Started <articles/oss4libarticle.html> piece. You would think librarians would have figured this shared software thing out years ago. :) who we are Dan Chudnov <http://curtis.med.yale.edu//dchud/> (dchud) started oss4lib and maintains it, along with the many readers who often post news (use the submit link above!). Gillian Mayman designed the site. We like <pinstripeheaven.html>. support us! oss4lib is a volunteer effort. If you like oss4lib, consider buying snazzy oss4lib tshirts and mugs <http://www.cafepress.com/oss4lib>; we'll get $3/shirt or $2/mug, which doesn't sound like much but actually really helps. Or if you like to buy books online consider using this link to Powell's <http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=23406> first... 10% of your purchase comes this way too. Thanks! how it runs The dynamic pieces of the site are written in php, with stories held in mysql tables. Plain, simple stuff. As of March 2000 it's all hosted at sourceforge.net <http://sourceforge.net>. If you are looking for a place to host your library (or any other kind of) open source project, check it out. Rough statistics for this site are available here http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/index.php?report=months&group_id=277. regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Research and Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 Mo : 9867437438 --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail R/S Professionals please visit this url : http://www.oss4lib.org/projects/ http://www.oss4lib.org/projects/ about oss4lib Our mission is to cultivate the collaborative power of open source software engineering to build better and free systems for use in libraries. Toward this end, we maintain a listing <projects/> of free software and systems designed for libraries (the physical, books-on-shelves kind), and we track news about project updates or related issues of interest. oss4lib started at the Yale Medical Library <http://www.med.yale.edu/library> in early February 1999 thinking there were probably other folks like us out there who might be working on free library software or looking for same. Our reasons for wanting to see Open Source take off in the library software arena are straightforward, fairly typical, and mostly outlined in the Open Source Systems for Libraries: Getting Started <articles/oss4libarticle.html> piece. You would think librarians would have figured this shared software thing out years ago. :) who we are Dan Chudnov <http://curtis.med.yale.edu//dchud/> (dchud) started oss4lib and maintains it, along with the many readers who often post news (use the submit link above!). Gillian Mayman designed the site. We like <pinstripeheaven.html> . support us! oss4lib is a volunteer effort. If you like oss4lib, consider buying snazzy oss4lib tshirts and mugs <http://www.cafepress.com/oss4lib> ; we'll get $3/shirt or $2/mug, which doesn't sound like much but actually really helps. Or if you like to buy books online consider using this link to Powell's <http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=23406> first... 10% of your purchase comes this way too. Thanks! how it runs The dynamic pieces of the site are written in php, with stories held in mysql tables. Plain, simple stuff. As of March 2000 it's all hosted at sourceforge.net <http://sourceforge.net> . If you are looking for a place to host your library (or any other kind of) open source project, check it out. Rough statistics for this site are available here http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/index.php?report=months&group_id=277 http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/index.php?report=months&group_id=277 . regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Research and Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 Mo : 9867437438 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/messenger/*http://uk.messen… Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PC http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/messenger/*http://uk.messen… calling worldwide with voicemail

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OA
by Rajendra Thaty 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Dear All, Can anybody tell me what is Open Access Initiative and in what way it is better that the traditional journal literature? What are the various OAI models in India and abroad? Which one is the best? I may sound foolish but someone could please help me out . Regards, Rajendra Rajendra Kumar Thaty Librarian Samabalpur University Central Library Jyoti Vihar, Burla, Sambalpur, Orissa PIN 768019 Telephone# 0663-2430548 (O) 98610-47084 (Mob) Dear All, Can anybody tell me what is Open Access Initiative and in what way it is better that the traditional journal literature? What are the various OAI models in India and abroad? Which one is the best? I may sound foolish but someone could please help me out . Regards, Rajendra Rajendra Kumar Thaty Librarian Samabalpur University Central Library Jyoti Vihar, Burla, Sambalpur, Orissa PIN 768019 Telephone# 0663-2430548 (O) 98610-47084 (Mob) http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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OpenMED - RSS Feed Available
by Sukhdev Singh 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Dear Members, Let me inform you that RSS Feed is available for OpenMED@NIC , http://openmed.nic.in , from the following link: http://openmed.nic.in/perl/latest_tool?output=rss You can add the above link to your favorite RSS Reader [ http://www.ourpla.net/cgi-bin/pikie.cgi?RssReaders ] or some web-based services like : Google Reader [ http://reader.google.com ], Google Personalized [ http://www.google.com/ig ] or My Yahoo [ http://my.yahoo.com ]. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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RFID Providers/Distributors
by Sasireka Govindaraj 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

i would like to know about RFID technology providers / distributors in south india. I would highly appreciate if the members of this group help me regarding in this matter. Thanks & Regards G.SAsireka Librarian Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Engineering College Peramblur 621212 T.N. __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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UNESCO and Free Software
by Mailing List Manager 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 21:53:19 -0700 (PDT) From: vimal kumar <vimal0212(a)yahoo.com> Dear Professionals, Again prove its support for the distribution and use of Free software, Unesco improved the Free software Directory in their website. It consists most of the softwares suitable for our daily routines. Softwares are categorically arranged, Word processing tool to Free anti virus softwares available in the directory. URL is: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=12034&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… Vimal kumar Asian School of Business Thiruvananthapuram Kerala vimal0212(a)yahoo.com

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Cataloguing Project for Mark21 Standards.
by mouna 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

We have a project on original cataloguing of Indian languages books. The catalogued records require strict adherence to Mark21 format. Librarians who have practical knowledge of and expertise in Mark 21 rule based cataloguing are requested to contact us immediately. Languages : Gujarathi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Panjabi, Kannada Thank you. N V Sathyanarayana (sathya(a)informindia.co.in <mailto:sathya@informindia.co.in>)

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Informatics organises Seminars on Usage Promotion of e-Information Resources
by mouna 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

E-Information Resources have become an integral part of the libraries and their user community. The major concern faced today by the LIS professionals and decision makers is the optimal usage of these e-Information resources. Informatics, in association with Springer, Taylor & Francis, Annual Reviews and IEE Inspec is organizing series of seminars to discuss the issues related to User Awareness and Training on e-Information Resources. The serminars are scheduled to be held in different parts of the country the details of which are as follows: Cochin November 11, 2005 Pune November 14, 2005 Bhubaneswar November 16, 2005 Chandigarh November 18, 2005 The Programmme Structure: 1.Keynote on Seminar Topic 2 Panel Debates on issues related to the topic focusing on the following areas: § User awareness for different e-resources being subscribed. § Choice of relevant e-resources § Training the User and the Information Manager on the Resources. § User Training Responsibility (Librarian, Publisher or Agent) § Training Infrastructure, Course Material Development, Costs & Budgets § Internal Marketing for Usage Promotion § Usage Models & Analysis § Information Needs & Usage Levels § Users need for information and its quick access/availability on a scale comparable to developed world § Impact of education and research culture/quality on usage promotion. You are invited to register online (www.informindia.co.in) and submit your questions for the Panel Debate. REGISTRATION is FREE. For more details you can also write to us at events(a)informindia.co.in or contact: Amit Verma Product Marketing Manager Informatics (India) Ltd Bangalore 560 003, India Phone: 91 80 23365940 or 9845941610 email: amit(a)informindia.co.in

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Seminar on Standards for Health Science Libraries...
by hemanth rao 23 Oct '05

23 Oct '05

Dear Professionals, The Digital Library and Information Centre of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka is organizing one day seminar on Professional Standards & Quality Improvement in Health Science Libraries on 26th October 2005 at 10.00 a.m. at Dhanwanthri Hall, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, 4th T Block, Jayanagar, Bangalore-560 041. This seminar is being organized to evolve the Standards and Policies required for collection development, Library Services, ICT Infrastructure, Staff pattern- Qualifications, job-description and analysis, status-and-pay structure etc towards the development of high quality competence and performance in all the affiliated college Libraries of RGUHS in the State of Karnataka. Information Resources, Services, Infrastructure, and Manpower are the specific issues on focus for evolving standards through this seminar for quality improvement in Health Science Libraries under Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka. A steady growth can be seen in the Health Science Library sector under the leadership of RGUHS, Karnataka as far as the quality of collection development and information services are concerned. But there is a an immediate need of standardization required for the staff development, collection development, budgetary provisions, ICT infrastructure, performance, competence and excellence. This situation called for organizing the seminar with the objective of bringing out standards and policies on the issues indicated and finding out solutions to the burning issues of standards in resources, services, staff pattern of professionals, semi-professionals and supporting staff required in health science libraries; qualifications, experience, status and payscales; continuing education and IT skills development etc. The Librarians of health science institutions are hereby requested to participate and take an active part in making this seminar a success and evolve the necessary standards. For further details: Mr.Hemanth Rao Digital Library and Information Centre Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka 4th T Block, Jaynagar Bangalore-560 041 Phone: 080-26961943 Email: hemanthrao(a)rguhs.ac.in --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. Dear Professionals, The Digital Library and Information Centre of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka is organizing one day seminar on Professional Standards & Quality Improvement in Health Science Libraries on 26th October 2005 at 10.00 a.m. at Dhanwanthri Hall, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, 4th T Block, Jayanagar, Bangalore-560 041. This seminar is being organized to evolve the Standards and Policies required for collection development, Library Services, ICT Infrastructure, Staff pattern- Qualifications, job-description and analysis, status-and-pay structure etc towards the development of high quality competence and performance in all the affiliated college Libraries of RGUHS in the State of Karnataka. Information Resources, Services, Infrastructure, and Manpower are the specific issues on focus for evolving standards through this seminar for quality improvement in Health Science Libraries under Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka. A steady growth can be seen in the Health Science Library sector under the leadership of RGUHS, Karnataka as far as the quality of collection development and information services are concerned. But there is a an immediate need of standardization required for the staff development, collection development, budgetary provisions, ICT infrastructure, performance, competence and excellence. This situation called for organizing the seminar with the objective of bringing out standards and policies on the issues indicated and finding out solutions to the burning issues of standards in resources, services, staff pattern of professionals, semi-professionals and supporting staff required in health science libraries; qualifications, experience, status and payscales; continuing education and IT skills development etc. The Librarians of health science institutions are hereby requested to participate and take an active part in making this seminar a success and evolve the necessary standards. For further details: Mr.Hemanth Rao Digital Library and Information Centre Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka 4th T Block, Jaynagar Bangalore-560 041 Phone: 080-26961943 Email: mailto:hemanthrao@rguhs.ac.in hemanthrao(a)rguhs.ac.in http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylc=X3oDMTFqODRtdXQ4BF9TAzMyOTc1MDIEX3MDOTY2ODgxNj… Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.

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RE: RSS Reader
by Nabonita Guha 23 Oct '05

23 Oct '05

Dear Professionals, As Mr. Vyasamoorthy rightly said about RSS reader that "...It is one easy way of creating current awareness service" I would like to share some more information on the same. HOW RSS READER WORKS The RSS reader keeps track of new additions in a Web site (only RSS specification compliant) of your interest. It notifies you about the latest changes in your chosen site. These websites can be of such kind in which information are being added periodically like news sites, mailing lists, weblogs, etc... To know more about RSS visit http://www.mnot.net/rss/tutorial/ http://www.mnot.net/rss/tutorial/ AVAILABLE OPEN SOURCE RSS READER SOFTWARE (I used...) Software name: FeedReader (avilable at http://sourceforge.net/projects/feedreader http://sourceforge.net/projects/feedreader ) Features Supports all major syndication formats: RSS 0.9, 0.91, 0.92, 1.00, 2.0 plus Dublin core and Slashback extensions Pre-configured with hundred of quality feeds from leading syndicators such as NewsIsFree and Moreover Alerts about incoming feeds on taskbar Caches headlines for offline viewing Supports proxies Allows one-click subscription of Radio Userland and AmphetaDesk feeds Search support Multilanguage support New in version 2.6: OPML import and export. Requirements Windows 95 or newer Internet Explorer 4.0 or newer Download & explore more about the software. Best wishes -- Nabonita Guha DRTC Bangalore ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:39:10 +0530 (IST) >From: pku(a)nic.in >Subject: [LIS-Forum] RSS Reader >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Message-ID: <38994.192.168.1.1.1129810150.squirrel@mail2021> >Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > >It may also be also of interest to mention that RSS 1.0 published last >year allows a ContextObject-the data structure at the heart of the new >OpenURL Framework that is being developed by ANSI/NISO as information >statdard Z39.88-2004. > >By year 2006, the growth rate in application-generated RSS data to exeed >human produced RSS content by atleast a factor of 0.8 probability. Some of >the software packages using email messages for notifications will be >replaced by RSS, because of simpler and more efficient from the >perspective of sender and receiver. >Publishers are now using RSS for content distribution to users. hence in >future we should now use checkpoints for selectimg any software and >vendors for compliance of RSS feed like Z39.50, OAI-PMH, etc. > >Good luck. > >P K Upadhyay >NIC Library > > > Dear Friends > > > > You may be interested in the following Google feature: > > > > http://www.google.com/reader/things/intro > > > > This page helps you search for news items on chosen keywords and > > thereafter subscribe to RSS feeds from such result pages. Please > > explore > > > > It is one easy way of creating current awareness service. > > > > Vyasamoorthy, P http://g.msn.com/8HMBENUS/2737??PS=47575 Find e-mail, documents and more on your PC instantly with Windows Desktop SearchFREE!

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Preprint depository
by Vijay Raghav Tiwari 22 Oct '05

22 Oct '05

Dear Professionals I am in need of creating a depository for the preprints of our institute. Kinldy suggest me how to create a preprint server, which should be accessible to a limited number of users. Hope that dspace would be better. Please advide whether it can work for the limited access and will be possible to work on windows machines. Please suggest quick. with regards vrt Vijay Raghav Tiwari Librarian Harish Chandra Research Institute (Department of Atomic Energy, Govt of India) Chhatnag Road Jhunsi Allahabad -211 019. Phone.91-532-2668302(O), 2667509,2667318,2667578 add extention 4064 (R) <vrtiwari(a)mri.ernet.in> Mobile: 9839252956 Dear Professionals I am in need of creating a depository for the preprints of our institute. Kinldy suggest me how to create a preprint server, which should be accessible to a limited number of users. Hope that dspace would be better. Please advide whether it can work for the limited access and will be possible to work on windows machines. Please suggest quick. with regards vrt Vijay Raghav Tiwari Librarian Harish Chandra Research Institute (Department of Atomic Energy, Govt of India) Chhatnag Road Jhunsi Allahabad -211 019. Phone.91-532-2668302(O), 2667509,2667318,2667578 add extention 4064 (R) <vrtiwari(a)mri.ernet.in> Mobile: 9839252956 http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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