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Knowledge Processing Outsourcing: The next biz area
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 31 Dec '04

31 Dec '04

KPO: The next big opportunity Shyamal Majumdar | BS | December 31, 2004 | 12:01 IST Knowledge process outsourcing is widely predicted to be the buzzword in the New Year; here's why. According to a recent study by Evalueserve, the global KPO market is expected to grow at a cumulative annual growth rate (CAGR) of 46 per cent, from $1.2 billion in 2003 to $17 billion in 2010. Compare this with the prediction for the low-end outsourcing services market. This is expected to have a CAGR of 26 per cent, from $ 7.7 billion to $39.8 billion in the same period. Evalueserve says India provided $3.5 billion of BPO and KPO (but non-IT) services in 2003 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 36 per cent during 2004 to 2010. Hence, it is likely to earn $30 billion in 2010 by providing these services. The high-end KPO opportunities are immense for Indian firms. For instance, look at some of the figures pertaining to intellectual property research. Drafting and filing of patent applications in the US is quite expensive. A typical application costs about $10,000 to $15,000 to draft and file with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Cost savings from offshoring even a portion of the patent drafting process can easily save up to 50 per cent of the cost for the end client, according to Alok Aggarwal, chairman of Evalueserve. Quite predictably, law firms such as Patent Metrix, Cantor-Colburn and Schwegman, Lundberg, and Woessner & Kluth, have already set up offices in India, and quite a few others are joining hands with Indian companies to cash in on the emerging opportunity. Offshoring R&D in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology is another area where there is enormous potential for KPO. Aggarwal says destinations such as India offer significant cost advantages (as much as 40 to 60 per cent) in the areas of contract research and clinical trials. Companies such as AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline have recently set up drug discovery centres at low-cost destinations to offshore R&D activities. Chip design and embedded systems is another critical area. A paper presented by Aggarwal says the reason why all major integrated design manufacturers such as Motorola, Intel, Analog Devices, National Semiconductor, IBM, Cisco, Cypress Semiconductor, Nokia and Philips have set up offshore design centres is simple. The compensation for a chip design engineer with a master's degree and five years' experience is about $7,000 a month in the US. An engineer with the same qualification and experience in India gets about $1,200 a month. Naturally, the cost savings in KPO is enormous. For example, data-mining services companies can save as much as 60 to 70 per cent on analytics and inventory management costs by off-shoring them. The cost differential between PhDs/engineers in the US and India is almost $60,000 to $80,000. Companies like Evalueserve, GE Caps, MarketRx have set up centres at low-cost destinations to provide these services. And more are expected to follow soon. A major reason why companies in India will have no option but to move up the value chain from BPO to KPO is quite simple. By 2010, India may have become too costly to provide low-end services at competitive costs. For example, Evalueserve says Indian salaries have increased at an average of 14 per cent a year. If this trend continues, they are expected to increase 2.5 times the current salaries (in constant dollars) by FY 2010, thereby reducing the cost-arbitrage benefit from the present 40 to 25 per cent. This, the low-end work may move to relatively cheaper countries like Ukraine, the Czech Republic and Malaysia. Moreover, commoditisation of BPO services will further boost the transition of present low-end destinations to the higher end of the value chain. The better margins expected at the higher end of the value chain might act as a deterrent for companies in accepting low-end work. The number of professionals working in the offshore industry is expected to increase as more and more companies decide to become involved in BPO and KPO. This will further drive the trend towards the migration of low-end services to high-end services, especially as offshore service vendors (as well as professionals working in this sector) gain experience and capabilities to provide high-value services. During 2000 to 2003, the US offshored 2,38,000 IT service jobs. Evalueserve predicts that this is likely to increase to 7,75,000 jobs by FY 2010. Further, by the end of March 2004, the US had offshored about 1,36,000 BPO (non-IT) jobs, mostly in the call centre segment. Forrester predicts that it is likely to offshore 1.314 million BPO (non-IT) jobs by FY 2010 **************************************** Sreeharsha BG Knowledge Management Group i2 Technologies software Pvt. Ltd. 5th Floor, Diamond District, Airport Road, Domlur, Bangalore-8 PH: 25047319 **************************************** An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in... A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves

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RE: Spam:Re: [nmlis] Internet Archive to build alternative to Google
by Madhuresh 31 Dec '04

31 Dec '04

This is the reply of Mr. Prafulla's mail. Well, the images will be there in the book. Actually books are being scanned and stored in TIFF format and also OCR is being done to create the text. You may like to see at http://www.dli.ernet.in/ where you can find the TIFF, HTML and Text version of the book. I am not sure why it is being called as Text-based. The reason may be that they are creating the text format also and allowing the search inside the book using the index created by OCR software. However there is little ambiguity. Project document says that keyword search is allowed but document will be delivered only in image format. Text will be used only for creating the index and searching. But Digital Library of India website is not allowing the keyword search (only Title and Author search with some browse options) and giving the full document in image as well as text format. I saw this scanning work almost 2 and half year back in Digital Library of IISc and there they were using Minolta overhead Book Scanner, which can scan 10,000 pages in a day in 3 shifts. Also this is overhead book scanner so there is no need to open the binding of the book. Also, after that they were doing OCR (probably using Abby FineReader s/w). Someone related to project may throw more light on this. You may like to see the following pages in order to have more details about the project. http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/MBP_FAQ.html and http://www.ulib.org/html/index.html Thanks and Regards Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Prafulla Chandra [mailto:prafulla@nisc.co.in] Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 2:49 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; Madhuresh Subject: Spam:Re: [nmlis] Internet Archive to build alternative to Google Dear Friends, This has reference to Mr Madhuresh's email reproduced below. How about the images contained in the books digitised? Are they going to be excluded or included? What does the phrase 'text- based' in the following extract mean? Can we search full-text of the books digitised by any key word? Ten major international libraries have agreed to combine their digitised book collections into a free text-based archive hosted online by the not-for-profit Internet Archive. All content digitised and held in the text archive will be freely available to online users. Thank you Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, <nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com>, <india-lis(a)infoserv.inist.fr> From: "Madhuresh" <madhuresh_s(a)aurigene.com> Date sent: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:36:28 +0530 Subject: [nmlis] Internet Archive to build alternative to Google [ Double-click this line for list subscription options ] Dear Friends, This announcement didn't get much attention in comparison to Google's announcement. Internet Archive is hosting the digitized book collections of 10 International libraries including the library of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. See below news item taken from http://www.iwr.co.uk/IWR/1160176 Internet Archive to build alternative to Google Ten international libraries agree to add digitised book collections to not-for-profit Internet Archive's new Text Archive project By Mark Chillingworth [21-12-2004] Ten major international libraries have agreed to combine their digitised book collections into a free text-based archive hosted online by the not-for-profit Internet Archive. All content digitised and held in the text archive will be freely available to online users. Two major US libraries have agreed to join the scheme: Carnegie Mellon University library and The Library of Congress have committed their Million Book Project and American Memory Projects, respectively, to the text archive. The projects both provide access to digitised collections. The Canadian universities of Toronto, Ottawa and McMaster have agreed to add their collections, as have China's Zhejiang University, the Indian Institute of Science, the European Archives and Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt. In a statement, the Internet Archive describes the Text Archive as an Open Access archive that will "ensure permanent and public access to our published heritage". Over a million books have been committed to the Text Archive by the member institutes, with 50,000 available in the first quarter of 2005. The San Francisco-based Internet Archive was founded in 1996 to build a library for the internet that offered access to historical collections. It's most well-known online project is the Wayback Machine, which harvests snapshots of freely-available websites. Announced 24 hours after Google's tie-up with the university libraries of Oxford, Stanford, Michigan and Harvard, and the New York Public Library, the Internet Archive project is likely to be seen as the first of many alternatives to the Google Print library. Internet Archive said: "Commercial companies are currently working with libraries to digitise materials as well. We are encouraging these efforts and hope most of these materials will also be available through Text Archives." Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. 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Information on library & Infn Science Thesis
by Pallavi gunashekarreddy 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

New Year Greetings to all!! For Information regarding LIS Thesis u can visit the mentioned below sites.But this does not cover full fledged Information, partly it will be helpful in your research work. www.lisgateway.com ( Aligrah Muslim University) www.vidyanidhi.org.in (Mysore University) Best Wishes, Pallavi, T.G St. Joseph's College of Business Administrstion, Bangalore ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony

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requesting for information about lis schools
by srini vas 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

respected sir/medium iam creating a database of LIS schools in south india.so i need information about all library &information science department. like faculty members,qualification &desigation,fax,telephone nunmber of the department,syllabus for both MLISc,BLISc. thanking you srinivas dos in LIS mysore --- lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in wrote: > Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to > lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, > visit > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > or, via email, send a message with subject or body > 'help' to > lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > You can reach the person managing the list at > lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it > is more specific > than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. The Manthan Award 2004 for best e-content > initiative > (JK Vijayakumar) > 2. 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SATKAL AWARDS FOR 2004 (Sangeeta Kaul, Network > Manager, DELNET) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 04:41:24 -0800 (PST) > From: JK Vijayakumar <vjkjk(a)yahoo.com> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] The Manthan Award 2004 for best > e-content > initiative > To: Lis-Forum <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Cc: digilibindia <digilib_india(a)yahoogroups.com>, > corporatelibrns > <corporatelibrns(a)yahoogroups.com>, AGRILIB > <agrilib(a)yahoogroups.com> > Message-ID: > <20041229124125.9579.qmail(a)web54604.mail.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > The Manthan Award 2004, India will be organized > by Digital Empowerment Foundation, India and > PlaNet Finance India, inspired by WSA - the World > Summit Award in order to select quality e-Content > and promote creativity and innovation in the > development of new media applications in India. > > Visit http://www.manthanaward.com/ for more > details. > > --J K Vijayakumar (INFLIBNET) > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? 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SATKAL AWARDS FOR 2004
by Sangeeta Kaul, Network Manager, DELNET 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

SATKAL - Satinder Kaur Ramdev Memorial Trust for Advancement of Librarianship is pleased to announce the names of the SATKAL Awardees for the year 2004 Punjab National Librarian Award : Dr. E Rama Reddy University Librarian Indira Gandhi Memorial Library University of Hyderabad Hyderabad Young Librarian Award : Shri M G Sreekumar Librarian Indian Institute of Management Calicut. Woman Librarian Award : Mrs Veena Chawla Library Director American Information Resource Centre American Centre Library New Delhi. The Awards will be presented during the Satkal Annual Function-2004 which will be held in Chandigarh on January 15, 2005. Our Heartiest Congratulations to all of them!! Devinder Kaur President SATKAL & University Librarian Punjabi University Patiala

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Call for LIBRI's "Best student papper of 2005"
by shashi kumar 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

Dear sir/madam/friends, I kindly inform you that, since 1950 LIBRI International Journal of Libraries and Information Services has been a leader among scholarly journals in the international library world. As part of its strategy to remain one of the premier library journals, LIBRI is issuing a call for "Best Student Paper of 2005." This competition supports the goal of publishing the best articles from the next generation of library and information science professionals. So If you are intresting to publishing the paper or more informaion please visit the website: http://www.librijournal.org/award.html For author Instructions and addresses visit: http://www.librijournal.org/authorinst.html Thanking you, Shashikumar Dept.of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Mysore. Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear sir/madam/friends, I kindly inform you that, since 1950 LIBRI International Journal of Libraries and Information Services has been a leader among scholarly journals in the international library world. As part of its strategy to remain one of the premier library journals, LIBRI is issuing a call for " Best Student Paper of 2005." This competition supports the goal of publishing the best articles from the next generation of library and information science professionals. So If you are intresting to publishing the paper or more informaion please visit the website: http://www.librijournal.org/award.html http://www.librijournal.org/award.html For author Instructions and addresses visit: http://www.librijournal.org/authorinst.html http://www.librijournal.org/authorinst.html Thanking you, Shashikumar Dept.of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Mysore. http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Internet Archive to build alternative to Google
by Madhuresh 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

Dear Friends, This announcement didn't get much attention in comparison to Google's announcement. Internet Archive is hosting the digitized book collections of 10 International libraries including the library of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. See below news item taken from http://www.iwr.co.uk/IWR/1160176 Internet Archive to build alternative to Google Ten international libraries agree to add digitised book collections to not-for-profit Internet Archive's new Text Archive project By Mark Chillingworth [21-12-2004] Ten major international libraries have agreed to combine their digitised book collections into a free text-based archive hosted online by the not-for-profit Internet Archive. All content digitised and held in the text archive will be freely available to online users. Two major US libraries have agreed to join the scheme: Carnegie Mellon University library and The Library of Congress have committed their Million Book Project and American Memory Projects, respectively, to the text archive. The projects both provide access to digitised collections. The Canadian universities of Toronto, Ottawa and McMaster have agreed to add their collections, as have China's Zhejiang University, the Indian Institute of Science, the European Archives and Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt. In a statement, the Internet Archive describes the Text Archive as an Open Access archive that will "ensure permanent and public access to our published heritage". Over a million books have been committed to the Text Archive by the member institutes, with 50,000 available in the first quarter of 2005. The San Francisco-based Internet Archive was founded in 1996 to build a library for the internet that offered access to historical collections. It's most well-known online project is the Wayback Machine, which harvests snapshots of freely-available websites. Announced 24 hours after Google's tie-up with the university libraries of Oxford, Stanford, Michigan and Harvard, and the New York Public Library, the Internet Archive project is likely to be seen as the first of many alternatives to the Google Print library. Internet Archive said: "Commercial companies are currently working with libraries to digitise materials as well. We are encouraging these efforts and hope most of these materials will also be available through Text Archives." Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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Information om Library And Infn. Science Thesis
by vijaykumar nayak 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

Dear colleagues, I need the information on list of Library and Information Science thesis which are accepted by UGC Is there any Web source for the same which can provide the above datails Thanking you Vijay Nayak Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear colleagues, I need the information on list of Library and Information Science thesis which are accepted by UGC Is there any Web source for the same which can provide the above datails Thanking you Vijay Nayak http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Re: [iatlis] Its Indians all the way......
by Smita Chandra 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

Nice to know this, but what are they doing for the 'Indian Library Scenario' ? Maybe we can lead them to pool together their expertise and resources for libraries here !?! If there is anybody willing to start this as a project, I'd most like to help. Best wishes, Smita C. Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai.INDIA Kumaresan <sckumaresan(a)yahoo.com> wrote: 'Indians in US are superachievers' December 29, 2004 10:15 IST The right wing Republican magazine 'National Review' praises Indian Americans as 'superachievers' who are reportedly switching from the Democratic to the Republican party in increasing numbers. "They may be the most prosperous ethnic group in America. By any measure, they are among the most successful. And they are waking up to politics, which portends big things ahead. Republicans, in particular, have reason to be excited," review writer Jay Nordingler says. An Indian-American moment may be coming. This community we're talking South Asia, not 'Native American' numbers about two million, and they are the fastest-growing such community in the nation. Their median income is $60,000 (as against the general American one, about USD 39,000), the magazine says. "They boast something like 200,000 millionaires. They are extraordinarily educated, leaders in many professions. They include about 40,000 doctors, a staggering figure to which you can add about 12,000 medical students and interns." Famous small-business owners, Indian Americans preside over nearly 40 percent of hotels in the US. In short, this is a group of American superachievers. And Republicans think and hope that this group is ripe for their party, it says. The thinking goes like this: "Indian Americans are entrepreneurial, hard-working, striving, traditionalist, family-oriented, religious, assimilationist and patriotic. What could be better?" And what are their issues? Tax reform and regulation, particularly as they affect small businesses; free trade, which includes a robust defence of outsourcing..., the magazine says. "Have a Nice Day" S.C.Kumaresan Senior Librarian BITS, Pilani - Dubai Campus, P.O. Box: 500022, Block No.11, Knowledge Village, Dubai - UAE Phone. 0097143664575 - 77, Fax. 009714 3664580. Mobile. 00971508829462 ================================================================= The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge. -- Sir William Arthur Lewis. ================================================================= --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. Yahoo! Groups SponsorADVERTISEMENT --------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iatlis/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: iatlis-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Jazz up your holiday email with celebrity designs. Learn more. Nice to know this,�but what are they doing for the 'Indian Library Scenario' ? Maybe we can�lead them�to�pool�together their expertise and resources for libraries here�!?!� If there is anybody willing to start this as a project, I'd most like to help. � Best wishes, � Smita C. Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai.INDIA Kumaresan <sckumaresan(a)yahoo.com> wrote: 'Indians in US are superachievers' December 29, 2004�10:15 IST The right wing Republican magazine 'National Review' praises Indian Americans as 'superachievers' who are reportedly switching from the Democratic to the Republican party in increasing numbers. "They may be the most prosperous ethnic group in America. By any measure, they are among the most successful. And they are waking up to politics, which portends big things ahead. Republicans, in particular, have reason to be excited," review writer Jay Nordingler says. An Indian-American moment may be coming. This community we're talking South Asia, not 'Native American'� numbers about two million, and they are the fastest-growing such community in the nation. Their median income is�$60,000 (as against the general American one, about USD 39,000), the magazine says. "They boast something like 200,000 millionaires. They are extraordinarily educated, leaders in many professions. They include about 40,000 doctors, a staggering figure to which you can add about 12,000 medical students and interns." Famous small-business owners, Indian Americans preside over nearly 40 percent of hotels in the US. In short, this is a group of American superachievers. And Republicans think and hope that this group is ripe for their party, it says. The thinking goes like this: "Indian Americans are entrepreneurial, hard-working, striving, traditionalist, family-oriented, religious, assimilationist and patriotic. What could be better?" And what are their issues? Tax reform and regulation, particularly as they affect small businesses; free trade, which includes a robust defence of outsourcing..., the magazine says. "Have a Nice Day" � S.C.Kumaresan Senior Librarian BITS, Pilani - Dubai Campus , P.O. Box: 500022, Block No.11, Knowledge Village, Dubai - UAE Phone. 0097143664575 - 77, Fax. 009714 3664580. Mobile. 00971508829462 � ================================================================= The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge. -- Sir William Arthur Lewis. ================================================================= Do you Yahoo!? http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/mobile/*http://mobile.yahoo.com/mai… Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. Yahoo! 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Fwd: NASSDOC Workshop for Librarians and Social Scientists
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

--- "M.K.Singh" <mksingh(a)iiml.ac.in> > Subject: NASSDOC Workshop for Librarians and Social Scientists > Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:08:24 +0530 > > A Very Happy New Year 2005 > > May I take the liberty of requesting you to please post the following > news-item along with the attachments, to as many LIS User > Groups/Bulletin Boards, as you are familiar > with/coordinating/monitoring, like the following? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dear Colleagues > > A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR 2005 > > It gives me pleasure to inform all my colleagues in the profession as > well as academia that on a request from National Social Science > Documentation Centre of ICSSR, IIM Lucknow has agreed to organize a > four day workshop (without any registration Fee) for Librarians, Social > Scientists and Research Scholars, in the area of Acess to Social Science > Information in Digital Environment during February 7-10, 2005. > Since this programme is designed to accommodate a participant strength > of 20-25, registrations will be confirmed on the basis of > first-come-first-serve basis. > for further details plese contact> > > M.K.Singh > Assistant Librarian > Indian Institute of Management > Prabandh Nagar > Off Sitapur Road > Lucknow 226 013 (India) > > Phone: 91-0522- 2734101-20 Ext. 6965 (O) > 91-0522-2766746 & 2766097 (R), 9415010875(Mobile) > > email: mksingh(a)iiml.ac.in > Fax: 91-0522 -2734025-2734027 > URL: http://iiml.ac.in ===== Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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