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Vaccancy Advt
by Mailing List Manager 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 13:15:03 +0530 From: geetha.v(a)tcs.com Tata Consultancy Services is looking for a bright and enthusiastic librarian for their new location near ITPL at Bangalore. Qualification : MLISc, with an ability to independently set up the library & handle the user requirements. Desired Skills : Excellent communication skills,Computer knowledge, should be a proactive service provider & a good team player. Experience 0 - 2 years Salary : As per the Industry standard Please mail your resume before 30/12/2004 Geetha Venkatraman Tata Consultancy Services Limited SJM Towers, No. 18, Seshadri Road,6th Cross, Gandhinagar Bangalore - 560 009,Karnataka India (Ph :5660 6007) Mailto: geetha.v(a)tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com

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Request to IR expert to advise & comments
by Sanjay Kataria 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Dear Information Scientist, I want to take a initiative on design & develop the Institutional Repository but i have some queries to all expert and experienced on same, which as follows: 1. There is number of open source software for development of Institutional Repository which one is most users friendly 2. What is grantee for up-gradation of the software from source organization 3 Data Security / Permission on LAN or WAN Environment 4. What about the Copy Right Issue or Intellectual Property Right Issues 5. What skills are required to operate or customized the software 6. What type of infrastructure required / Preplanning for Hardware or software, scanner etc. 7. Which format should be used to save the data/ for easy search 8. Other technical aspect, we should keep in mind before starting. 9. Kindly mention the Role of the librarian/ Role of the faculty/ Role of the institute I am looking your valuable suggestions and advise on above points. Thanks & Regards ==*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* Sanjay Kataria Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of InformationTechnology (Deemed-to-be-University) A-10, Sector-62, Noida (UP) 201307 India Ph. 0120-2400973 to 978 Ext. 251 09810503341 (Mobile) E-mail: lib_scholar(a)rediffmail.com, katariasanjay2001(a)yahoo.com, sanjay.kataria(a)jiit.ac.in Website: www.jiit.ac.in, http://www.geocities.com/katariasanjay2001 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Discover all that�s new in My Yahoo! Dear Information Scientist, I want to take a initiative on design & develop the Institutional Repository but i have some queries to all expert and experienced on same, which as follows: 1. There is number of open source software for development of Institutional Repository which one is most users friendly 2. What is grantee for up-gradation of the software from source organization 3 Data Security / Permission on LAN or WAN Environment 4. What about the Copy Right Issue or Intellectual Property Right Issues 5. What skills are required to operate or customized the software 6. What type of infrastructure required / Preplanning for Hardware or software, scanner etc. 7. Which format should be used to save the data/ for easy search 8. Other technical aspect, we should keep in mind before starting. 9. Kindly mention the Role of the librarian/ Role of the faculty/ Role of the institute I am looking your valuable suggestions and advise on above points. Thanks & Regards ==*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* Sanjay Kataria Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of InformationTechnology (Deemed-to-be-University) A-10, Sector-62, Noida (UP) 201307 India Ph. 0120-2400973 to 978 Ext. 251 09810503341 (Mobile) E-mail: lib_scholar(a)rediffmail.com, katariasanjay2001(a)yahoo.com, mailto:sanjay.kataria@jiit.ac.in sanjay.kataria(a)jiit.ac.in Website: http://www.jiit.ac.in, www.jiit.ac.in, http://www.geocities.com/katariasanjay2001 http://www.geocities.com/katariasanjay2001 Do you Yahoo!? Discover all that�s new in http://my.yahoo.com My Yahoo!

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Submission
by venky 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Contest to Design a Digital Library The Rotary Bangalore West along with the Rotaract Bangalore West is planning establish Rotary Scholastic Centre, a digital library for children at the Govt. Girls School in 13th Cross Malleswaram. The objective of the Project is to inculcate the spirit of learning and pursuit of knowledge by providing a learning centre for children upto the age group of 18 years and also to the Senior citizens above the age group of 60. It is our desire that we empower the children through the Power of knowledge, as we strongly believe that any investment in the development of children is a direct contribution to Nation building. In view of this, Rotary and Rotaract Bangalore West are holding a contest for students and freelancers to design a digital library. Ideas/Designs for the digital library are invited from interested parties. The team which proposes the best idea will implement the library and will also win a grand prize. The specifications for the library are given below. The main layout of the library will be on the Web based model with a main server + backup servers servicing upto 25 clients initially and should be scalable to serve upto 100 clients in the future. The server will have to run a webserver software hosting the pages where in the user at the clientside can run through an index of books sorted according to subjects and can access the book entirely or only parts of its contents based on topic/chapter. A data warehousing software will run in the background and will hold the books in a digitized format. The server side also should be capable of automatically generating index of items added to the Digital repository. Text based Digital documents could be made full text searchable through a suitable interface. When contents from CD are added to the library the server also need to act as CD cache. There is a need to have an intranet running for the local network and a firewall to prevent any intrusions and security threat. The network will be on a WLAN and we need to provide enough encryption on the packets that are sent out to prevent snooping on the network. There should also be an inbuilt mechanism which will keep track of all the books being accessed at any given time and it should be able to generate reports on issues such as no. of books accessed,total no. of hits on server, most frequently accessed books / subjects, internet access times, quantity of data downloads etc. For the internet access, mechanisms must be provided to allow only logged in users to access internet and to monitor the time and usage of the net. Suitable cache must be built into the system to speed up internet access to 'often used sites' On the server side we need automated replication on the backup servers such that there is no downtime experienced in case of failure on the main server. All the softwares that are to be used for the servers as well as web browsing clients should be free/open source software and should be readily upgradeable and should be easy to maintain. The proposed solution could be based on the several flavors of open source DL softwares like Greenstone, D-Space etc. The proposals/design ideas should reach any of the mail ids given below before 1 December 2004. You could also post any queries to: Dr. S. Venkadesan - venky(a)library.iisc.ernet.in Rtn Rajendra Rai - rai(a)bgl.vsnl.net.in Rtr Chinmay Albal - chinmayalbal(a)rediffmail.com Dr. S. Venkadesan Librarian JRD Tata Memorial Library Indian Institute of Science Bangalore-560012 INDIA Ph: +91 80 23601653 + 91 80 22932408 Fax: +91 80 23601653 E-Mail- venky(a)library.iisc.ernet.in venkys(a)gmail.com Contest to Design a Digital Library The Rotary Bangalore West along with the Rotaract Bangalore West is planning establish Rotary Scholastic Centre, a digital library for children at the Govt. Girls School in 13th Cross Malleswaram. The objective of the Project is to inculcate the spirit of learning and pursuit of knowledge by providing a learning centre for children upto the age group of 18 years and also to the Senior citizens above the age group of 60. It is our desire that we empower the children through the Power of knowledge, as we strongly believe that any investment in the development of children is a direct contribution to Nation building. In view of this, Rotary and Rotaract Bangalore West are holding a contest for students and freelancers to design a digital library. Ideas/Designs for the digital library are invited from interested parties. The team which proposes the best idea will implement the library and will also win a grand prize. The specifications for the library are given below. The main layout of the library will be on the Web based model with a main server + backup servers servicing upto 25 clients initially and should be scalable to serve upto 100 clients in the future. The server will have to run a webserver software hosting the pages where in the user at the clientside can run through an index of books sorted according to subjects and can access the book entirely or only parts of its contents based on topic/chapter. A data warehousing software will run in the background and will hold the books in a digitized format. The server side also should be capable of automatically generating index of items added to the Digital repository. Text based Digital documents could be made full text searchable through a suitable interface. When contents from CD are added to the library the server also need to act as CD cache. There is a need to have an intranet running for the local network and a firewall to prevent any intrusions and security threat. The network will be on a WLAN and we need to provide enough encryption on the packets that are sent out to prevent snooping on the network. There should also be an inbuilt mechanism which will keep track of all the books being accessed at any given time and it should be able to generate reports on issues such as no. of books accessed,total no. of hits on server, most frequently accessed books / subjects, internet access times, quantity of data downloads etc. For the internet access, mechanisms must be provided to allow only logged in users to access internet and to monitor the time and usage of the net. Suitable cache must be built into the system to speed up internet access to 'often used sites' On the server side we need automated replication on the backup servers such that there is no downtime experienced in case of failure on the main server. All the softwares that are to be used for the servers as well as web browsing clients should be free/open source software and should be readily upgradeable and should be easy to maintain. The proposed solution could be based on the several flavors of open source DL softwares like Greenstone, D-Space etc. The proposals/design ideas should reach any of the mail ids given below before 1 December 2004. You could also post any queries to: Dr. S. Venkadesan - mailto:venky@library.iisc.ernet.in venky(a)library.iisc.ernet.in Rtn Rajendra Rai - mailto:rai@bgl.vsnl.net.in rai(a)bgl.vsnl.net.in Rtr Chinmay Albal - mailto:chinmayalbal@rediffmail.com chinmayalbal(a)rediffmail.com Dr. S. Venkadesan Librarian JRD Tata Memorial Library Indian Institute of Science Bangalore-560012 INDIA Ph: +91 80 23601653 + 91 80 22932408 Fax: +91 80 23601653 E-Mail- mailto:venky@library.iisc.ernet.in venky(a)library.iisc.ernet.in mailto:venkys@gmail.com venkys(a)gmail.com

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Overview about Google Scholar
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

Dear Professionals, This is in continuation with my earlier mail. Here is a bird's eye view about Google scholar which launched couple of days ago. ************************************************************************************ The world of on-line "scholarly" research is changing today as Google introduces Google Scholar. This specialized new interface -- which will NOT be linked from Google's main search page -- will allow users to search a treasure chest of "scholarly material." As you've read here many times, Google is brilliant (that is, ingenious at marketing and trying new things), and this is yet another example of their savvy. This is something that some other large web engine(s) could have done years ago to help separate themselves from other players and also provide a useful service. No one did it. Now, others will likely play catch-up with Google. Basically, users of Google Scholar can, via a single search location, access content from "scholarly" materials found on the OPEN WEB that they've found in the Google crawl of the web. Btw, it might also be time to take another look at what has traditionally thought of as "scholarly" since some of the material in Google Scholar is not "scholarly" using a traditional definition. Some basic facts: + In a nutshell, Google has built an algorithm that makes a calculated guess at to *what it thinks* is a scholarly content mined from the OPEN WEB, and then makes it accessible via the Google Scholar interface. + Precisely what makes something "scholarly" enough to be included in Google Scholar, Google will not say. And this is not an insignificant omission. Librarians, especially academic librarians, are *always* being asked to provide "scholarly" material, even if customers aren't quite sure what this means. Their instructor told them they needed articles from "scholarly journals," so this is precisely what they ask for at the library. As librarians, we may try to educate them about how "refereed publications" work, but let's face it. What most of these folks really want is to quickly download an appropriate article and beat feet out of the library. And if they think they can get what they need from Google, the odds are slim that they will bother with library resources at all. College students AND professors might not know that library databases exist, but they sure know Google. The database vendors don't always make it easy for us, either. For example, when searching Gale databases such as InfoTrac OneFile or Expanded Academic ASAP, you see a check box that you can fill in if you want to restrict your search to "refereed publications." How many of our customers know what a "refereed publication" is? Does any instructor ever ask his or her students to find articles from "refereed publications"? What's up with this? More facts: + Material accessible via Google Scholar can also be in the main Google index. + Google Scholar results pages *will not contain advertising* -- at least for now. + Some examples of material from major publishers whose material you'll find (we know Google has been working with many)? Google will not provide us with a complete list, but look for content from ACM, IEEE, and yes, Open Worldcat material from OCLC. We also don't know precisely what is and is not available, date ranges, etc. * In some cases Google will be crawling and searching the full text of an article but users will either have to have a subscription to the content or pay for access to an individual articles. + VERY COOL! For many citations, you'll find a direct link to other articles in the Google Scholar database that cite the article you've selected. Yes, Google Scholar is a citation database too! This reminds me of two specialized databases that focus on specific types of scholarly content accessible on the open web that have been on-line for many years and remain EXCELLENT tools. 1) CiteSeer (focuses on computer science material, info tech content) 2) SmealSearch (focuses on business material) + Some material, let's say from Open Worldcat, isn't always scholarly in the way many people think of it. For example: ++ Here are many John Grishman books. ++ Although we're honored, we don't consider this blog to be a "scholarly" resource. ++ Academic librarians will be sad to learn that it's impossible to limit to only "peer-reviwed" material. + How big is the Google Scholar database? Google isn't saying. As Google makes this announcement and word spreads about a "scholarly search tool" -- ESPECIALLY in the academic community -- we think the use of specialty databases (the ones university libraries offer and spend $$$ for) will drop. It's worth watching to see if people begin paying for material located via Google Scholar that they can get *free* from a specialty database they may not know is available via their public or academic library. Might this be a golden opportunity for the library community to tell people -- look, we have access to this stuff and MUCH MUCH MORE? We have better ways to search it, and you might not even have to pay for it? Well, yeah...but if what we've seen in the past is any indication, this is not going to happen. Maybe this time it will be different. Bottom line: It's very difficult to compete with the Google marketing machine. In the meantime, we'll be extremely interested in the response to Google Scholar from fee-based database publishers. Some might ask, are specialized database tools still necessary? Info pros know they are but we sure haven't done a good job of explaining why. It will also be interesting to see if *any* of the press/chatter about Google Scholar makes even a small mention of specialized subscription databases, free access to these via libraries, and the fact that what Google is offering is merely the tip of the "scholarly" info iceberg. Is all of this yet another nail in the coffin for library resources and maybe librarians? Too early to tell, of course. Kudos to Google for doing so but the library community could (should?) have done something similar years ago. Why didn't we? When big announcements come from Google and web engines, we often get nervous and...sometimes upset with our profession. Not this time, however. It's just not worth it. This is BIG news and something that should have been around for years. It's going to be interesting what transpires moving forward. Finally, specialized databases are still valuable for many types of searching, including searching for "scholarly material." Why? A few examples: + Limit to material published by date + Ability to view more than 1000 results. The Google cutoff of 1000 results is still in place with Google Scholar + Google is constantly crawling the web but we don't know how often the Google Scholar database is being refreshed with new content + Searching using a controlled vocabulary/subject searching + Ability to limit by publisher affiliation + You can limit by author with author: but you can only use a last name. First names and initials are not searchable when using author:. + Proximity operators + Gobs and gobs of content, Google Scholar still doesn't have it all. Example: While you're find John Grisham books, you will NOT find material (both current and archived) from MANY newspapers, trade publications, and general interest periodicals. + I'm sure you can add many more examples of what's NOT there Again, it's one thing for the info pro to understand all of this, it's something else for the typical searcher. Stay tuned, this is going to be interesting. ************************************************************************************ Sreeharsha BG Knowledge Management Group i2 Technologies software Pvt. Ltd. 5th Floor, Diamond District, Airport Road, Bangalore-8 PH: 25047319 Work does not require effort if its of ones interest....:-)

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Kalam emphasises need for digitalisation of books
by BHOSALE, DEEPALI [AG-Contractor/6020] 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

123Bharath.com, November 19, 2004 Kalam emphasises need for digitalisation of books Maharashtra, India > Mumbai, Nov 18 : President A P J Abdul Kalam today emphasised the need for digitalisation of books in libraries for its preservation and making it availabile to maximum number of people. "The digitalisation of books of the library is very vital. The mission should be to make availabe books to maximum public and digitalisation would enable free access to books by the public," Kalam said inaugurating the concluding function of the bi-centenary celebrations of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai. It would also help in preserving old books, Kalam said, adding the digitalisation of books has started in 2003 at 23 centres and is progressing in the right direction. The Asiatic society should also be part of it, he said, adding, he would ask authorities concerned to include the 200-year-old Society in the programme so that there can be preservation and dissemination of its vast knowledge. PTI Source: http://www.123bharath.com/news/index.php?action=fullnews&id=37691 Thanks & Regards, Ms. Deepali Bhosale Consultant - Library & Info Services Monsanto India Limited Mumbai [Bombay] Tel: 91-022-28247220 Fax: 91-022-28244707 email: deepali.bhosale(a)monsanto.com http://www.monsantoindia.com

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Workshop on Network Configuration and Management
by K Prakash 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Workshop on Network Configuration and Management Duration: 13 - 17 December, 2004 Venue: Vigyan Bhavan, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur More details can be had from http://www.mlsu.org/workshop/ncm.htm Contact on email: suic(a)mlsu.org or tsbohra(a)mlsu.org Contact Mobile No: 094144 72094 With best wishes/ regards. Bye. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- K PRAKASH Scientific/Technical Officer-I Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre An Inter-University Centre of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Post Box No.4116, Navrangpura, AHMEDABAD - 380 009 India # Tel.: 91 - 079 - 2630 5971 / 2630 4695 Extn: 38; Fax: 2630 0990(Off.); 2676 3724(Res.) # Email: prakash(a)inflibnet.ac.in; prakash_k(a)yahoo.com # URL: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ ; http://www.prakashk.netfirms.com/

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RE: [oa-india] And Google Scholar Includes medIND
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Dear All So also eprints@iisc, the IISc e-prints archive! Enter 'eprints@iisc' in Google Scholar search box. Regards Rajashekar T.B. Rajashekar NCSI, IISc > -----Original Message----- > From: Sukhdev Singh [mailto:esukhdev@hotmail.com] > Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 2:07 PM > To: Discussion Group for Open Access Workshop India > Subject: [oa-india] And Google Scholar Includes medIND > > > Dear Members > > As expected, Google Scholar includes medIND. > Have a try!!, Visit http://www.scholar.google.com/ and input > keyword 'medind'. > > medIND (http://medind.nic.in) has full text of 28 Indian > Biomedical Journals. > > Regards > Sukhdev Singh > National Informatics Centre > New Delhi > > Dgroups is a joint initiative of Bellanet, DFID, Hivos, ICA, > IICD, OneWorld, UNAIDS and World Bank > --- You are currently subscribed to oa-india as: > raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > leave-oa-india-143982O(a)dgroups.org

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And Google Scholar Includes medIND
by Sukhdev Singh 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Dear Members As expected, Google Scholar includes medIND. Have a try!!, Visit http://www.scholar.google.com/ and input keyword 'medind'. medIND (http://medind.nic.in) has full text of 28 Indian Biomedical Journals. Regards Sukhdev Singh National Informatics Centre New Delhi

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Digital Libraries Master's Program and Fellowships
by Shyam Prasad pujar 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Dear Members, This program with limited fellowships is open for International students. It could be of interest to some of you. Regards, S.M. Pujar IGIDR, Mumbai =============================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:58:33 +0100 (MET) From: daalbert(a)slis.indiana.edu To: diglib(a)infoserv.inist.fr Subject: [DIGLIB] Digital Libraries Master's Program The School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at Indiana University, Bloomington (IUB) announces a new Master's program with emphasis on Digital Libraries. The program is funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (http://www.imls.gov) It has been developed as a collaboration among the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, Bloomington (http://www.slis.indiana.edu) the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/) and the Digital Library Program at Indiana University (http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/) For the first year of the program, SLIS-IUB invites applicants for five fellowships to support a complete Master's degree with internship experience. More information about the program can be found at the Digital Libraries Education Program website (http://lair.indiana.edu/research/dlib/)

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Google service for Scholars
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Dear Professionals, The leading Search Engine - Google is doing a bit of service to the scholar community. Pls read the article appeared on NY Times.Kudos to the Indian who led the team http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/technology/18google.html SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17 - Google Inc. plans to announce on Thursday that it is adding a new search service aimed at scientists and academic researchers. Google Scholar, which was scheduled to go on-line Wednesday evening at scholar.google.com, is a result of the company's collaboration with a number of scientific and academic publishers and is intended as a first stop for researchers looking for scholarly literature like peer-reviewed papers, books, abstracts and technical reports. Google executives declined to say how many additional documents and books had been indexed and made searchable through the service. While the great majority of recent scholarly papers and periodicals are indexed on the Web, many have not been easily accessible to the public. The engineer who led the project, Anurag Acharya, said the company had received broad cooperation from academic, scientific and technical publishers like the Association of Computing Machinery, Nature, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the On-line Computer Library Center. PS: Its live and pretty amazing. See the "about" section at http://www.scholar.google.com/ for some suggestions as to how to use it Thanks Sreeharsha BG Knowledge Management Group i2 Technologies software Pvt. Ltd. 5th Floor, Diamond District, Airport Road, Bangalore-8 PH: 25047319 Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them....:-)

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