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Seminar notification
by SRELS 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

Dear Moderator : Kindly arrange to announce the following for the benefit of our professional colleagues. Yours truly, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore *********** Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore in collaboration with M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Management, Bangalore is organizing a National Seminar on Information /Knowledge Organization in the Humanities and Two Special Lectures 1. Reaching the Unreached in the Digital Information World (Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Memorial Lectures (13)(2005) by Dr. N. Vijayaditya, Director General, NIC, New Delhi 2. Gutenberg to Google : Changing Facets of Libraries (Sarada Ranganathan Endowment Lecture (25) (2005) by Dr. Shalini R. Urs, Professor and Chair person DLIS, University of Mysore, Mysore Date and Venue 9-11 August 2005 M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Management, M.S. Ramaiah Nagar, Bangalore 560 054 ( Seminar Registration Fee : Rs.2000.00. Last date for Registration 1st August 2005 ) For details contact : Dr. K.N. Prasad, Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Ph: 080 - 23305109 ; E-mail : srels(a)vsnl.com For accommodation contact : Mr. A. N. Janardhana Rao Librarian M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Management M.S. Ramaiah Nagar MSRIT Post Bangalore 560 054. Ph: 080- 25695546 ; 23608769 ; E-mail : anjrao(a)indiatimes.com Dear Moderator : Kindly arrange to announce the following for the benefit of our professional colleagues. Yours truly, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science , Bangalore *********** Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore in collaboration with M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Management, Bangalore is organizing a National Seminar on Information /Knowledge Organization in the Humanities and Two Special Lectures 1. Reaching the Unreached in the Digital Information World (Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Memorial Lectures (13)(2005) by Dr. N. Vijayaditya, Director General, NIC, New Delhi 2. Gutenberg to Google : Changing Facets of Libraries (Sarada Ranganathan Endowment Lecture (25) (2005) by Dr. Shalini R. Urs, Professor and Chair person DLIS, University of Mysore, Mysore Date and Venue 9-11 August 2005 M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Management, M.S. Ramaiah Nagar, Bangalore 560 054 ( Seminar Registration Fee : Rs.2000.00. Last date for Registration 1st August 2005 ) For details contact : Dr. K.N. Prasad, Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Ph: 080 - 23305109 ; E-mail : mailto:srels@vsnl.com srels(a)vsnl.com For accommodation contact : Mr. A. N. Janardhana Rao Librarian M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Management M.S. Ramaiah Nagar MSRIT Post Bangalore 560 054. Ph: 080- 25695546 ; 23608769 ; E-mail : mailto:anjrao@indiatimes.com anjrao(a)indiatimes.com

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New Librarian: Panjab University Library
by Mailing List Manager 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 10:42:40 +0530 From: Rupak Chakravarty <rupak2811(a)gmail.com> To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in *To all LIS professionals,*=0D ** =0D *Dr. V.K. Anand has joined Panjab University Library as University Libraria= n =0D from today on the superannuation of Mr. A.R. Sethi who has retired =0D yesterday.=0D *=0D -- =0D Rupak Chakravarty=0D Assistant Librarian=0D Panjab University Library=0D Chandigarh 160014=0D INDIA=0D

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Consilience rescheduled for December 2005
by madhu ks 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

Dear All, We regret to inform you that our conference on Free/Open Source Software (FOSS), Consilience currently scheduled for July 8th and 9th 2005, has been rescheduled for December due to lack of sufficient funds/sponsorship and adequate speaker confirmations. We are looking for funds and also intend to get more key-note speaker confirmations for the rescheduled event. We apologize for all the inconvenience caused. The research teams are requested to submit their papers by 20th July 2005. Also, kindly forward this email to all your research volunteers. Thank you, Warm regards, Ankur Singla for Law and Technology Committee National Law School of India University Bangalore. --------------------------------- How much free photo storage do you get? Store your friends n family photos for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. http://in.photos.yahoo.com Dear All, We regret to inform you that our conference on Free/Open Source Software (FOSS), Consilience currently scheduled for July 8th and 9th 2005, has been rescheduled for December due to lack of sufficient funds/sponsorship and adequate speaker confirmations. We are looking for funds and also intend to get more key-note speaker confirmations for the rescheduled event. We apologize for all the inconvenience caused. The research teams are requested to submit their papers by 20th July 2005. Also, kindly forward this email to all your research volunteers. Thank you, Warm regards, Ankur Singla for Law and Technology Committee National Law School of India University Bangalore . How much free photo storage do you get? Store your friends n family photos for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. http://in.photos.yahoo.com

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Congrats to our Dept of LIS
by Ravi Nandhan 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

Dear All, I would like to share the good things happening in our Dept.of Lib and Information Science, Univ. of Mysore, Mysore. I am sending this so that other Universities can also do similar things where our community students can have the oppurtunities to grow better. First thing I would like to share is about the Campus interview (No, it is not about BE but our own LIS). Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) had conducted campus interview in our Dept. and have selected two girl candidates who appeared for the written test and then faced two rounds of interviews, first round in our dept. and the second in Chennai and finally got through successfully. One student is of Master of Information Management (the first IM course in Indian Universities) and the other is MLISc. Both are lucky enough to draw 5 digit salary (just think how many of us struggled in the beginning to draw a four digit salary, that too the first digit starting only with 1or 2). My sincere thanks to our dept and also to TCS for the campus interview which is first of its kind. Apart from this one student was successful in NET last year(2004) and one student was successful this year, congrats to them and my thanks to them for making the dept proud. Also so many useful events are being conducted by MYLISA. The initiative on communication and personlity development classes is too good for the students and so many have benefitted from this too. Paper clippings competition is conducted and is very interesting one too, wherein we had to collect news about LIS and related articles (I am a proud winner(2004) but not to mention I got second, more funnily out of only 2 serious participants). I would like to point out that students get to read news papers and the same could be asked to be put in the GSDL so that a student gets the idea how to collect in GSDL. Special thanks to Shalini Mam for this. Other than this I would like to request the faculty to encourage students in writing papers for the conferences and journals and this must be made compulsary so the student gets good exposure in writing as well as to the LIS field. Thanks and regards -- --------------------------------------------------------- V. Ravi Nandhan Project Assistant National Centre for Science Info. Indian Institute of Science Bangalore - 560 012 e-mail:ravinandan@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ravinandhan(a)gmail.com Mobile : 94486 08533 Ph.Off.: +91 80 22933273 (Direct) +91 80 23600271-Ext.:23 & 24 ---------------------------------------------------------

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New .mobi suffix for wireless websites
by Mailing List Manager 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:32:25 +0530 From: Farooque Shaheen <Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com> Consumers will soon be able to recognise websites specially designed for use by mobile phones by the new ?.mobi? suffix, which will be introduced alongside the popular ?.com? and other top-level domain names. The new suffix was approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) at a Luxemburg meeting on Monday. The first websites for mobile devices, which will be fit for a small screen and limited memory and bandwidth, will be ready in 2006. Mobile Web services will also use geographic information to take advantage of the changing location of a mobile device, for instance to find the nearest hospital, ICANN chairman Vint Cerf said. The new domain name was requested by a group of powerful mobile phone operators and handset makers, which set up a joint venture to encourage companies and Web site designers to create mobile Web pages. Member companies include Hutchison 3, GSM Association, Ericsson, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung, Telefonica Moviles, T-Mobile and Vodafone. If more Web pages are optimised for handheld devices, rather than desktop or laptop computers with big screens, these companies hope more consumers will upgrade their phones. Source: http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=96200 Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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World Bank New Title - free copies
by ++ Mukesh Anand ++ 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

Dear Professionals The World Bank has just published a title which directs suggests India to use knowledge more effectively to raise the productivity of agriculture, industry, and services and reduce poverty. More details of the title, India and the Knowledge Economy: Leveraging Strengths and Opportunities by Carl Dahlman , Anuja Utz, Published July 2005, List US$ 25.00 are available at http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=4855483 Monitor Information Services, Hyderabad will provide Free Copies of this useful title to a limited number of small libraries across India. Please send your Library details in the format below to monitorsales(a)gmail.com Name of Library / Institution Contact Person's Name and E-Mail id Postal Address with Telephone numbers Free Copies will be sent by paid Courier/Regd Book Post and the recipient libraries name will be forwarded to this forum. I sincerely hope that small libraries will avail of this free offer. Best Wishes ++ Mukesh ++ - - Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing Monitor Information Services # 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Narayanguda, Opp. Deepak Theatre, Hyderabad - 500 029, India Telephone: 040-55787065 Fax: +91-40-27552390 http://www.monitorinfo.com Importers n Distributors of Technical Publications Dear Professionals The World Bank has just published a title which directs suggests India to use knowledge more effectively to raise the productivity of agriculture, industry, and services and reduce poverty. More details of the title, India and the Knowledge Economy: Leveraging Strengths and Opportunities by Carl Dahlman , Anuja Utz, Published July 2005, List US$ 25.00 are available at http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=4855483 http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=4855483 Monitor Information Services, Hyderabad will provide Free Copies of this useful title to a limited number of small libraries across India. Please send your Library details in the format below to mailto:monitorsales@gmail.com monitorsales(a)gmail.com Name of Library / Institution Contact Person's Name and E-Mail id Postal Address with Telephone numbers Free Copies will be sent by paid Courier/Regd Book Post and the recipient libraries name will be forwarded to this forum. I sincerely hope that small libraries will avail of this free offer. Best Wishes ++ Mukesh ++ - - Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing Monitor Information Services # 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Narayanguda, Opp. Deepak Theatre, Hyderabad - 500 029, India Telephone: 040-55787065 Fax: +91-40-27552390 http://www.monitorinfo.com http://www.monitorinfo.com Importers n Distributors of Technical Publications

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Workshop & Training Details
by Mailing List Manager 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 18:42:30 +0530 From: Saiful Amin <mail2saiful(a)gmail.com> Hi, You can visit the following site for information on upcoming programmes: http://www.infolibrarian.com/conf.htm Regards, Saiful On 7/11/05, Radheshyam yadav <shyamtyadav(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote:=0D > =0D > Dear=0D > =0D > Please let me know details of next coming workshop or training programe i= n =0D > Library science field. I will be very grateful if you could kindly send m= e =0D > details of workshop and training programe.=0D > =0D > I am also looking training programe on information technology like digita= l =0D > libraries, information management, Internet services etc.=0D > =0D > With regards,=0D > Radheshyam Yadav=0D > Cairn Energy India Pty Ltd.=0D > Information Management,=0D > Surat,=0D > Ph. 0261-2862792=0D > Mobile: 09898065128=0D > =0D > Free=0D > antispam, antivirus and 1GB to save all your messages=0D > Only in Yahoo! Mail: http://in.mail.yahoo.com=0D > =0D > =0D > _______________________________________________=0D > LIS-Forum mailing list=0D > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in=0D > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum=0D > =0D > =0D > =0D -- =0D Saiful Amin=0D Information Specialist=0D Edutech India=0D 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road=0D Chennai 600006, India=0D Tel: +91 44 2833 0999=0D GSM: +91 98407 76214=0D Fax: +91 44 2833 1777=0D www.edutechindia.com <http://www.edutechindia.com>=0D "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong."=0D ------=_Part_9747_5830260.1121087550201 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline You can visit the following site for information on upcoming programmes: http://www.infolibrarian.com/conf.htm http://www.infolibrarian.com/conf.htm Regards, Saiful On 7/11/05, Radheshyam yadav < mailto:shyamtyadav@yahoo.co.in shyamtyadav(a)yahoo.co.in > wrote: Dear Please let me know details of next coming workshop or training programe in = Library science field. I will be very grateful if you could kindly send me = details of workshop and training programe. I am also looking training programe on information technology like digital = libraries, information management, Internet services etc. With regards, Radheshyam Yadav Cairn Energy India Pty Ltd. Information Management, Surat, Ph. 0261-2862792 Mobile: 09898065128 Free antispam, antivirus and 1GB to save all your messages Only in Yahoo! Mail: http://in.mail.yahoo.com http://in.mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list mailto:LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 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 -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 GSM: +91 98407 76214 Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 http://www.edutechindia.com www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." ------=_Part_9747_5830260.1121087550201--

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Apply for B.Lib and MLIS
by Mailing List Manager 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

Date: 11 Jul 2005 12:18:32 -0000 From: akhtar hussain <ahussain2(a)rediffmail.com> � Dear Candidates: Those of you who are interested in applying for the said courses for the academic years, 2005-2006, may write to: DEPPARTMENT OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE, CCS,UNIV of MEERUT. You may please IMMEDIATLY CONTACT MR JAMAL AHMAD SIDDIQUI(CO-ORDINATOR,DEPP. OF LIBRARY &INFORMATION SCIENCE,CCS,U,MEERUT). CONTACT. NO. 09837206030 BY AKHTAR HUSSAIN FACULTY DEPT.LIB.&INFOR.SC. CCSU,MEERUT ahussain2(a)rediffmail.com abdul_mlis(a)yahoo.com

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PNAS digitally archived back to 1915 (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:01:01 EDT From: "Kendall, George" <GKendall(a)nas.edu> To: liblicense-l(a)lists.yale.edu Subject: PNAS digitally archived back to 1915 I am posting the following on behalf of the PNAS publisher, Ken Fulton: The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) is pleased to announce that its legacy content dating back to volume 1, issue 1, in 1915 is now digitally archived, searchable, and freely available on the PNAS web site at www.pnas.org <http://www.pnas.org/> . PNAS presents its free digital archive in conjunction with its 90th anniversary. The digital collection spans nearly a century of seminal scientific research, and comprises more than 390,000 pages and 80,000 articles. We encourage everyone to browse and read the PNAS digital collection, which contains research of exceptional importance and broad interest. PNAS is a break-even operation and relies about equally on author fees and on subscription fees to cover its operating costs. PNAS subscribers gain access to the most recent 6 months of published content. Sincerely, Ken Fulton Publisher, PNAS

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RE: [LIS-Forum] This library is for the kids only!
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

Dear Friends, I thank Prronima Narayan, Ravindran of NCSI, Geetha Venkatraman of TCS, B Sanjay of Infosys, SM Pujar of IGDIR, and others giving me contact details for Hippocampus. I shall contact Mr Malhotra directly. Thanks for all the overwhelming help. Vyasamoorthy, P -----Original Message----- From: Poornima Narayan [mailto:poornima@css.nal.res.in] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 4:14 PM To: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] This library is for the kids only! Dear Dr. Vyasamoorthy "Hippocampus' is generally closed on mondays so I could not contact him personally. However, I am furnishing his official contact address. 'Hippocampus" 525, 16th Main Road, 3rd Block, Koramangala, Bangalore 560 034. # 080-25630206 He is ususally at his work spot by 11 a.m. Poornima Narayana On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com wrote: > *********************** > Your mail has been scanned by InterScan MSS. > *********************** > > > Dear Friends, > > Please see the Rediff Story below. > > Can some Bangalore based friend furnish the contact address of Mr Malhotra? > > Thanks > > 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 > ================================ > > http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2005/jul/09spec1.htm > > This library is for the kids only! > > Arati Menon Carroll | July 09, 2005 > > > >From 10 years at Infosys to founder CEO of the high-profile IT company Bangalore Labs, three years ago Umesh Malhotra looked every bit the typical corporate executive. Then in 2002, after selling Bangalore Labs to PlanetOne Asia, Malhotra put his cash to good use and chased a nagging dream. By March 2003, Hippocampus, Malhotra's very own library for Bangalore's children, was up and running. > > >From IT to I Read > I have an engineering degree from IIT Chennai. I picked up the first job I was offered on campus, at a then little known IT company called Infosys Technologies. After 10 years at Infosys, managing their electronics payment vertical, my business vertical contributed 5 per cent of company revenue. > > I quit in 1999 to start Bangalore Labs, an IT infrastructure management company. Two-and-a-half years later, we sold the company. I quit IT and followed my dream to start a children's library. > > What is Hippocampus? > Hippocampus is not a library, or a club, a work shop, or a community centre -- it is all that and more. We call it an experience centre -- a vibrant and dynamic environment offering an almost endless range of opportunities from every area of life. > > Today, the Hippocampus library has more than 7,000 books for children to choose from. Children can choose and watch DVDs in the film room, or play games on the available PCs. > > Kids can choose from six Hippocampus clubs -- the Art Club, Music club, Journalism Club (a club which lets them start their own newspaper), Nature Club, Cooking Club and the Adventure Club -- and participate in themed monthly activities and creative learning forums. > > The inspiration > Before I quit Infosys, my wife and I spent 18 months in the US and were astounded by all that a child there is exposed to in terms of education and hands-on experience. There were public libraries in every neighbourhood. > > Here you could find children of all ages engaged in reading, working on school projects or checking out activities and workshops that they could sign up for during the course of the year. > > And all this, amazingly, was free. When we came back to India, in 1999, we realised that although an enormous number of children's books are published each year, children in India have hardly any access to them. While the inspiration for Hippocampus came from American public libraries, the concept itself took a life of its own. > > Not just a library for rich kids > Our experience centre in Bangalore's Koramangala residential area was set up for privileged children. In December 2004, we opened a second centre. But we're far from being just a library for rich kids. > > The Hippocampus Reading Foundation, which we set up together with our non-profit partners like the Akshara Foundation, among others, is involved in setting up libraries for kids in slum communities, government schools, and NGO-run schools. > > We currently run 38 such libraries. They have to prove that they are serious enough about the cause to raise a one-time investment of Rs 5,000 per 20 kids. After that, we work with them on an ongoing basis for free. > > We have also introduced a reading reward system whereby children are positively reinforced for their reading habits, with quarterly day trips organised for winners. > > Where do we go from here? > Ultimately, we want all children to read. Just this week, along with Wipro, we began a pilot run of taking over library transformations in lower income group schools. We loan the initial investment to these schools who repay based on an affordable installment plan. > > This is not a business opportunity, it was born out of the realisation that we need to fix a problem in school libraries and that all our work can't be outside schools. We want our entire reading programme to be built around a sustainable model. > > We charge our beneficiaries in different segments based on their income levels. Today, because our work with less privileged children has expanded so much, we're running on a bit of a deficit. > > But we're working on alternative revenue streams like developing reading fluency assessment tests that we can then sell to mainstream schools for profit. In two years, our entire programme will be self-sustaining. > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > -- Poornima Narayana Contact: 080-25086083 (O) Dy Head, ICAST 080-26682781 (R) N.A.L E mail: poornima(a)css.nal.res.in Airport Road prn_1_in(a)yahoo.com Bangalore 560 017 Fax: 080-25268072

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