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[Fwd: Re [bytesforall_readers] BBC Program on ICTs vs POVERTY]
by Subbiah Arunachalam 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Source: http://www.dev.tv ICTs vs POVERTY What role do ICTs have in banishing poverty? We have just had a Millennium Summit Plus 5 in New York. To no-one’s surprise, the ambitious so-called "Millennium Development Goals" for halving poverty are not being met. Could that be because in the 21st century we are overlooking the 21st century solution for bridging the divide between Rich and Poor? Namely: to invest more in ICTs – television, radio, computers, the Internet, mobile phones, and so on? On 30 September, at the headquarters of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in Geneva, we are staging a Debate on the emerging agenda for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). An invited audience of 50 ICT movers and shakers will fire questions at a distinguished panel. The Debate will be broadcast on BBC World Television on 22 October 2005, in advance of Phase II of WSIS, which will take place in Tunis, Tunisia, on 16-18 November 2005. This is your chance to have a say by sending your questions to Anita McNaught, moderator for the Debate. Send your questions right up to 12:00 GMT on 29 September 2005 on anita(a)dev.tv, and we will do our best to make sure they are put to the panel. This Debate is staged with support from SDC, GKP, and UNDP-APDIP.

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The knowledge revolution still eludes the Indian farmer -. P. Prabhakaran Nair
by vasanth raj 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Dear Sir/Madam, THREE interesting news items appeared last month. The first referred to the Independence Day promise by the Prime Minister that by the end of the current Plan, every district will have a Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), a new National Rainfed Area Authority to focus on problems of dry-land farming, and one crore hectares to be brought under irrigation. The second was on the recommendation by former space scientist, Dr U. R. Rao, that the new drive on developmental aspirations should be based on the new found "knowledge society". The third pertained to the suggestion by Mr Narayana Murthy, Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies, that people should be moved from agriculture to the manufacturing and services sectors to make India globally competitive on the export front............... Further Information Source: Business line www.thehindubusinessline.com/2005/09/24/stories/2005092400201000.htm regards ------------------------- Vasantha Raju N --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Dear Sir/Madam, T HREE interesting news items appeared last month. The first referred to the Independence Day promise by the Prime Minister that by the end of the current Plan, every district will have a Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), a new National Rainfed Area Authority to focus on problems of dry-land farming, and one crore hectares to be brought under irrigation. The second was on the recommendation by former space scientist, Dr U. R. Rao, that the new drive on developmental aspirations should be based on the new found "knowledge society". The third pertained to the suggestion by Mr Narayana Murthy, Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies, that people should be moved from agriculture to the manufacturing and services sectors to make India globally competitive on the export front............... Further Information Source: Business line http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2005/09/24/stories/2005092400201000.htm www.thehindubusinessline.com/2005/09/24/stories/2005092400201000.htm regards ------------------------- Vasantha Raju N http://yahoo.shaadi.com Yahoo! India Matrimony </a href>: Find your partner now.

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Re: Gouder Plz don't get offended !! (fwd)
by I.R.N.Goudar 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Dear Dr. Kaiser, Your opinion given in the text is perfectly OK and I agree with you that we should avoid personal communication and festival/birtday greetings. Infact Lis-Forum is already following these norms. However a good personal experience having a relation to LIS or somebody's outstanding achievements in LIS, etc can go through forum. When somebody requests for an article or a book through forum (justified), but the response by resource library and in turn thanking mail by the requester be sent to the concerned person only, not through the forum. In my posting I have clearly mentioned quality, relevance, etc. This is in confirmity with what you have opined. This being the case where was the need to mention in the Subject? " Gouder PlZ don't get offended!! Goudar " On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, khaiser nikam wrote: > *********************** > Your mail has been scanned by InterScan MSS. > ***********-*********** > > > Friends, > There is a saying "Facts are Secred&Comments are free, " .As far as I am concerened , i feel what ever news we get on LIS - FORUM is just fine & it is doing well .It is well with in its scope and aims ."Knowledge is power sharing knowledge is wwealth ". > So long as we communicate some thing original , academic & professional information irrespective of where it comes from ( I mean geographical -- zonal ,regional or local etc.) it should not matter . We must also adeher to very high ethical standards. > However ,certain items like sending festival greetings and sharing personal information , may kindly be avoided . > These comments are purely personal ,and not to hurt any bodys feeling > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dr Khaiser Nikam > Reader /Management consultant > University of Mysore > Mysore -570 006 > 0821-2419399(O) > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html

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Career Explorer Magazine details
by Abhilash P P 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Dear Professionals we would like to subscribe the following two periodicals for our central library, 1. Career Explorer 2. The Beutifull Mind any one know the subscription details or address details please mail to us thanking you in advance with best regards ABHILASHAN P ASST LIBRARIAN SRI KRISHNA COLLEGE OF ENGG & TECH KUNIAMUTHUR (PO) COIMBATORE - 641 008 INDIA Dear Professionals we would like to subscribe the following two periodicals for our central library, 1. Career Explorer 2. The Beutifull Mind any one know the subscription details or address details please mail to us thanking you in advance with best regards ABHILASHAN P ASST LIBRARIAN SRI KRISHNA COLLEGE OF ENGG & TECH KUNIAMUTHUR (PO) COIMBATORE - 641 008 INDIA 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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Elocution Competition at DLIS, University of Mysore, Mysore
by N.S. Harinarayana 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

MULISSA event � 4: Elocution Competition Mysore University Library and Information Science Students Association (MULISSA), Department of Library and Information Science (DLIS), University of Mysore, Mysore organized an elocution competition for the students of MLISc and MIM on Friday, September 23, 2005 at 3.30 pm. The elocution competition was arranged by MULISSA to encourage the students to improve upon their public speaking abilities, to overcome impediments such as stammer, stutter, general nerves, and to increase their confidence in their communication. Each participant was asked to speak for two minutes about any topic of their choice. The competition received an overwhelming response from the student community. Public speaking tops the list of phobias for most people. Public speaking anxiety is very common among student community. The anxiety of students in public speaking center around: being embarrassed; worries about mistakes; looking stupid; judged unattractive; no one being interested in what they have to say; and not wanting to be the centre of attention. Speaking on the occasion Prof. Shalini R Urs urged the students to participate actively. Oratory is a skill that needs to be cultivated consciously, as no one is a born orator. Proper preparation and practicing/rehearsing would help to communicate better. She said, even most successful speakers practice their speech. She cited the examples of Sir Winston Churchill � one of the most successful orators of the world - being confessed in that he was practising his speeches for important occasion before a huge mirror. There was an interesting range of topics that the students chose to speak on. They include: places; leaders � political and spiritual; institutions of learning � colleges, Departments and Universities; education; jokes; eye donation; technology; fundamental duties; personal traits � self respect, friendship etc. Events like Siachen and Katrina were also subjects of talk in the elocution competition. One student talked for entire two minutes on his futile effort to find a topic for the elocution competition!! A quick feed back collected showed that students enjoyed the programme and at the same they felt that the programme has helped them to overcome their inhibitions to some extent. Dr. Mallinath Kumbar, Reader, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore and Ms. Pushpa Joseph, Assistant Librarian, Mysore University Library, Mysore adjudged the student performance in the competition. Ms. M. Nagaveni and Ms. K. Savitha won the first and second prizes respectively. Giving his opinion on the competition, Dr. Kumbar said that these kinds of competition would help the students to improve their communication skill. He said apart from competition, the DLIS has been trying its best to improve the communication skills of students by way of compulsory seminars and assignments. It may be noted here that DLIS, Mysore has recently introduced one exclusive paper called �Personality Development and Communication Skills� in its MLISc curriculum. Dr. N.S. Harinarayana, the faculty advisor of MULISSA welcomed the gathering and Sri. C.S. Surendra proposed the vote of thanks. -- N.S.Harinarayana Ph.D Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri, Mysore 570 006 Ph: 2419393

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RE: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE
by M Koteswara Rao 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Dear Colleagues, I do agree that this LIS-Forum started by Late Dr. Rajashekar is the first of its kind in the country for library professionals. Over the year it has helped all of us in many ways. It is an example of a practical work done by Dr. TBR, and not just 'plain talk' given by many. However, I do not agree to Mr. Goudar's statement ".... Rather we need (not?) bother about the quality, importance and relevance of the of the content in the postings....". I think that the quality and relevance of the content is also very important in lis-forum. We are already aware that many of the postings on this forum are too immature and lack quality and sense of direction. If we need to keep this forum active and alive, we should definitely adhere to some standards. M. Koteswara Rao ------------------------------------- Deputy librarian Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai - 600036, India Tele: 91-044-22574954 On Fri, September 23, 2005 2:14 pm, Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com said: > RE: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE > I agree with Mr Gouder. > Lis-forum has already become (by virtue of heavy usage, members > from diverse institutions, and the perceived utility by subscribers) number one among such forums for librarians and library science. It is necessary for the professional to keep > abreast > of happenings > in the country. Therefore posts from other foru > m > s should be welcome. > > Only one minor problems needs to be addressed. As I am > greedy, I subscribe to several mailing lists: Lis-forum, corp. librarians, > Emala, IATLIS,Lis-net etc. When messages are cross-posted a lot of duplication at the subscriber's end occurs. As many messages > contain replies to some first link in a thread, one has to read through a lot of messages before deleting duplicates. > How can we avoid such duplication? > Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, > ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA > Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com > Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631 > -----Original Message----- > From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > [ mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > ]On Behalf Of I.R.N.Goudar > Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 12:05 PM > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Subject: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE > Dear Professionals, > As you are aware LIS-FORUM has emerged as an effective means of > communication and discussion among LIS Professionals in the country for the last few years. One of the Lis-Forum member has strongly expressed > his feelings that postings covering Regional/State level associations should not be broadcast on Lis-Forum. But if you see the postings all these years, forum has been covering items issued by be it MALIBNET, KALA, MYLISA, RSC-Delhi, IATLIS, SIS, etc or a message from an University. > In this way forum is networking LIS Professionals and concerned > professional associations all over the country, be it fron Kashmir, TN, West Bengal or Karnataka. > I am of the opinion that apart from discussing professional matters we should know what is going on in professional circles elsewhere too. While each Association can have its own discussion forum, important announcemnets should be covered by Lis-Forum irrespective of whether the > LIS Association is State/Regional level one as long as the matter is of interest, as has been the case all these days. Rather we need bother about the quality, importance and relevance of the of the content in the postings. Infact Late Dr. T.B. Rajashekar had posted an item toucing some > issues concerned in this matter a year back or so. > I INVITE LIS-FORUM MEMBERS TO GIVE THEIR OPINION IN THIS MATTER. Goudar > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 > Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 > Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 > National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India > http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html > http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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RE: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE
by Mailing List Manager 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:22:27 +0530 To: khaisernikam(a)yahoo.com There is a saying "Facts are Secred&Comments are free, " .As far as I am concerened , i feel what ever news we get on LIS - FORUM is just fine & it is doing well .It is well with in its scope and aims ."Knowledge is power sharing knowledge is wwealth ". So long as we communicate some thing original , academic & professional information irrespective of where it comes from ( I mean geographical -- zonal ,regional or local etc.) it should not matter . We must also adeher to very high ethical standards. However ,certain items like sending festival greetings and sharing personal information , may kindly be avoided . These comments are purely personal ,and not to hurt any bodys feeling ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr Khaiser Nikam Reader /Management consultant University of Mysore Mysore -570 006 0821-2419399(O)

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Open Journal Systems
by Mailing List Manager 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:18:42 +0530 From: Bhojaraju G <bhojaraju.g(a)gmail.com> *Dear Colleagues* ** FYI & Use.. *What is the Open Journal Systems?* Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research. OJS assists with every stage of the refereed publishing process, from submissions through to online publication and indexing. Through its management systems, its finely grained indexing of research, and the context it provides for research, OJS seeks to improve both the scholarly and public quality of referred research. OJS is open source software made freely available to journals worldwide for the purpose of making open access publishing a viable option for more journals, as open access can increase a journal's readership as well as its contribution to the public good on a global scale (see PKP Publications <http://pkp.ubc.ca/publications/>). *Features* 1. OJS is installed locally and locally controlled. 2. Editors configure requirements, sections, review process, etc. 3. Online submission and management of all content. 4. Subscription module with delayed open access options. 5. Comprehensive indexing of content part of global system. 6. Reading Tools for content, based on field and editors' choice. 7. Email notification and commenting ability for readers. 8. Complete context-sensitive online Help support. Consult OJS in an Hour <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/OJSinanHour.pdf> for more details and to take OJS for a test-drive. *September 17, 2005: OJS 2.0.2 Released* This release features Microsoft IIS 6 support, LOCKSS<http://lockss.stanford.edu/>support, custom email templates, search enhancements, bug fixes and much more. See the Download <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ojs_download.html> page and release notes <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/RELEASE> for more information. *OJS 2.0 Release Announcement*<http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ojs2announcement.html> *OJS in an Hour* <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/OJSinanHour.pdf> *OJS Technical Reference* <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/OJSTechnicalReference.pdf> *Early Reviews of OJS* <http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/ojs/ojs_comments.html> *OJS FAQs<http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/ojs/faq.html> * *Examples of OJS Users <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/journals.html>* *Demo of OJS v2.0 <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/demo/present/>* *Demo of OJS v1.1.9<http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/demo/ojs119/> * *OJS Online Support Forum <http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/support/forum/index.php> * *Other Open Source Systems <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/other_OJS.html>* * Download <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ojs_download.html>* Thanks & Regards Bhojaraju G, Librarian�Knowledge Management Homepage: http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com ************************************************************ ICICI OneSource Ltd. 148 Bhaskara Plaza, RV Road, VV Puram, Bangalore-560004, INDIA. Cell:+91-944 836 9905 E-mail: Bhojaraju.G(a)gmail.com, bhojarajug(a)yahoo.com ************************************************************ Pl do visit & put your comments on Guest Book "KM Cyberary" @ http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com/cyberary.html KM-Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/

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Dr. Ranganathan's Open Access
by Mailing List Manager 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:05:23 +0530 From: Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> Dear Friends In the context "Open Access and Five Laws" messages [Given below] I would like to put my reactions. 1. The term "Open Access" was used by Dr. S.R Ranganathan to describe a library system where a "reader" is permitted to go to the stack and browse through the collection. This is what the modern libraries now follow. However, in those days, libraries were not "open access" as the readers were required to give details of required book to the Library Staff. At the most, a reader was permitted to access the Library Catalogue. By advocating "Open Access" he wanted to provide the benefits of "browsing approach" to the readers. 2. The Works of Dr. S.R Ranganathan are wonderful. I happen read the Original Works "FIVE LAWS and PROLEGOMENA to Library Classification. Five Laws has been written in a very interesting format of "Animated Talks / Dialogues". I wish these should be available now in Open Access [as understood these days] Mode. 3. SRELS may stand to loose financially. But then, There are ways to compensate. They may put up their own web site which may be sponsored / Or Advertisement revenue could be generated. 4. Technology / Hosting / Digitisation should not be a problem. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in =======================REFERENCE MESSAGES=================== Message: 3 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:57:39 +0530 (IST) From: "Prabhash.Rath" <prabhash(a)gipe.ernet.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Apply Open Access to Five Laws? To: MichaelMay.10726764(a)bloglines.com Cc: michael.p.may(a)earthlink.net, lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <42007.202.41.82.51.1127370459.squirrel(a)gipe.ernet.in> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Dear all This is actually a very good and useful suggestion. Really we talk a lot about Prof Ranganathan's five laws but I doubt really how many of us have really gone through the original work. Most of us get the references from the secondary sources only. Of course there are some other works like Prolegomena...etc. which are also often referred to but rarely seen in original, five laws being a small book can well be digitised.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Open access to Dr Ranganthan's ideas
by Mailing List Manager 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:29:01 +0100 (BST) From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> Hello freinds the suggestion given by Dr Arunachalam is valid and a good suggestion. i feel that there is enough of scope to revise even the CCC and CC to a larger extent. Mainly, the CCC is much comfortably can be revised. unfortunately, many students and colleagues of Late Dr Ranganathan, take his name for their own purposes. they make use of SRR name for their selfishness. they never bothered to revise or sponsor intensive studies on his works. Every one takes pride in associating their names with SRR. I am one of the lucky persons to have taken a gift (CCC ) from SRELS in 1968, duly signed by the great man. there is every possibility of sponsoring studies on relevance of his theories. It is a known fact that five laws continue to be relevant in the changing information environment. it is high time for SRELS or DRTC or others who claim and boast themselves the great man's colleagues, to take the job seriously and do something to retain and promote the ideas of late Ranganathan. it is a known fact that SRR's contribution to this profession / knowledge, especially in India is phenomenal and no one can do as much as he has done at least in next century.already, the generation started ignoring him and his concepts. the schools are shying away to teach some of his concepts. still it is not late to take up to take the job and do some thing. i only suggest all professionals especially, who claim and take SRR' name for everything to take advantage should start working for popularising / improving the concepts and theories. in the process of writing this mail, i never meant hurting any individual. my apologies if some one gets hurt. laxman rao ----------------------------------------------------- Shahab <smshahabuddin(a)rediffmail.com> wrote: Dear friends: I have read the posting by Michael May asking for the digitisation of Dr Ranganathan's book, Five Laws of Library Science. It is very pathetic to know that due to the nonavailability of sufficient number of copies many library and information science graduates are unable to read the book. The case is similar for other books penned by Dr Ranganthan. He had preached open access and accessibility to information throughout his life. And it is his books being obstructed, by whatsoever the reasons be, for access.

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