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"First computerised library in country to be inaugurated"
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

Forwarded for the information of Lis-forum members. What is 'First' about this Shaik only knows! ================== http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=96567 First computerised library in country to be inaugurated 23rd August 2004. Bashir Pathan Gandhinagar, August 22: The Gandhinagar District Library will earn the distinction of being the first computerised library in the country, when it will be thrown open for the general public at a function here on August 24, to be organised by the State Youth and Culture Department. The computerisation of the library, with Internet connectivity, has been done by the State Directorate of Libraries, under a project funded by Kolkata-based Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation under the Union Human Resources Development Ministry. It is envisaged, under the project, to introduce computerisation in all government district libraries in the state. Director of Libraries A F Shaikh told Express Newsline on Saturday that computerisation of district libraries in five of the 26 districts was over, which included Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, Mehsana, Bharuch and Junagadh. The Gandhinagar library would be the first to be inaugurated on August 24 by Education Minister Anandiben Patel, who also holds the Youth and Culture portfolio. Shaikh said the process of computerising the remaining district libraries was on and would be over by March next year, while the computerisation of two central libraries - one each in Gandhinagar and Vadodara - would be completed under the project by the end of this year. All district and central libraries would have internet facilities and be connected with the G-SWAN (Gujarat State Wide Area Network) under the Centre-aided project. ''Once the system is in place, a book-lover will be able to avail a book of his choice sitting at home from any district library. He has to just surf a list of books posted by the Directorate on the Internet and place an order for that book,'' he explained. Asked, the director said postal charges for dispatching of books to the readers would be borne by the concerned government district library authorities. The reader has to dole out a meagre Rs 40 as one-time deposit to register himself with the government library of a district. The directorate has received a Rs 1.50-crore grant from the Kolkata-based Foundation under the project to purchase computers, hardware, software, colour TVs, VCRs and create other infrastructure facilities at the district and central libraries being computerised with internet linking. The Foundation has accepted the government's proposal to provide grant of Rs 4 lakh to help charitable trusts set up taluka or village-level libraries. The government has also plans to computerise its nine brail libraries in Bhavnagar, Porbandar, Visnagar, Idar, Bhachau, Ahmedabad and, Mehamdabad. ================================================= 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

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Self-Archiving Policy By Journal
by Shyam Prasad pujar 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

Dear Members, Following site provides information about publishers, who are allowing self archiving. Just enter title of the journal in search box to know the details. You may also browse through the list of publishers. The site is still under construction, may add many more titles in the future. Presently it includes around 8689 titles from 100 publishers. http://romeo.eprints.org You may please inform about this site to faculty, research scholars and students of your organization. Regards, Pujar

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University of Mysore-Library School- Alumni Association
by Shalini R. Urs 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

Dear Friends, The Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore was established on June 24, 1965 and has entered its 40th year of fruitful existence and contribution to society in general and to LIS profession in particular. At the threshold of crossing a milestone such as the 40th anniversary, it is time for the DLIS to introspect and prospect. We would like to collect as complete data as possible about our alumni and interact with them with a view to know where we stand in terms of our true 'contributions' to the LIS profession - our alumni and their contributions. In this context, the DLIS, University of Mysore intends to revitalize its Alumni Association- which has been kind of dormant for very long. We have christened the same as MULSAA ( Mysore University Library School Alumni Association) We have created a facility for the alumni of the DLIS- University of Mysore to upload their details online. Please visit the website- www.vidyanidhi.org.in/mulsaa Please note that there is no 'registration fee' For more information about your Alma Mater please visit- www.lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in You are also welcome to send your latest CV by mail to my colleague Dr.N.S.Harinarayana - harinarayana(a)lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in You are most welcome to send your CV by post as well- please down load the registration form I also request all our alumni to spread the good word-communicate this message to all their classmates and friends from the Mysore LIS School Join MULSAA and help us know ourselves better ---- Shalini ---- Dr. Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele:91-821-2514699 Fax :91-821-2519209

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WEBLIS: Library Integrated System (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 10:22:42 +0530 (IST) From: Shyam Prasad pujar <pujar(a)igidr.ac.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: WEBLIS: Library Integrated System Dear Members, UNESCO has released WEBLIS, a Web based Library Integrated System based on CDS/ISIS. It has been distributed as free-ware. The system has been developed by the Institute for Computer and Information Engineering (ICIE), Poland. The current version of WEBLIS, available in English, consists of the following modules: 1. Cataloguing system (books, papers from book, papers from journals, journals, miscellaneous -slides, photos, audio, video, etc) 2. OPAC -on-line public access catalogue- (basic and advanced search, history, saving queries function, and ISIS Query language facilities, thesaurus based search) 3. LOAN module (hold/reserve, loan/ renew, automatic claiming by e-mail or a traditional mail in word form, urgent task lists) 4. Statistical module (the main goal of the program is to generate statistical data aggregated from the CDS/ISIS databases). The software and documentation can be downloaded at: Software: http://www.unesco.org/isis/files/weblis.zip Documentation: http://www.unesco.org/isis/files/weblisdoc.zip Regards, S.M. Pujar ********************************************************************** Shamprasad M. Pujar Assistant Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% * Phone: (022) 28400919-21 Extn: 514 * * Fax: (022) 28402752 * * E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in * * URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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University of Mysore -Informatics Endowment Lecture Series on DL-3
by Shalini R. Urs 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

Department of Studies in Library and Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri, Mysore 570006 INFORMATICS Endowment Lecture Series on Digital Libraries 3 Privacy- Preserving Data Mining by Dr. Jayant Haritsa Supercomputer Education & Research Centre and Department of Computer Science & Automation Indian Institute of Science Bangalore Guest of Honour Sri. N.V. Sathyanarayana Chairman and Managing Director INFORMATICS (India) Ltd., Bangalore Prof. J. Shashidhara Prasad Vice Chancellor University of Mysore, Mysore Presides You are cordially invited Date : 27th August 2004 Time : 3.00 P.M. Venue: Einstein Auditorium Department of Studies in Physics Manasagangotri, Mysore 6 Dr. Shalini. R. Urs Professor & Chairperson ------- Abstract of the talk : Data mining services require accurate input data for their results to be meaningful, but privacy concerns may influence users to provide spurious information. In this talk, we discuss whether users can be encouraged to provide correct information by ensuring that the mining process cannot, with any reasonable degree of certainty, violate their privacy. Specifically, we present a scheme, based on matrix-theoretic distortion of user data, that can simultaneously provide a high degree of privacy to the user, retain a high level of accuracy in the mining results, and be efficient with respect to its response times. The performance of the scheme is validated against representative real and synthetic datasets. ------ About the Speaker Jayant Haritsa is on the faculty of the Supercomputer Education & Research Centre and the Department of Computer Science & Automation at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He received the BTech degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Madras), and the MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin (Madison). His research interests are in database systems. He is a recipient of the Swarnajayanti Fellowship from the Government of India, and the Sir C V Raman Young Scientist Award from the Government of Karnataka. ---- Bovet the Lecture series Informatics Endowment Lecture Series on Digital Libraries was instituted by Informatics India Ltd., Bangalore at the Department of Studies in Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, in the year 2000 The Inaugural lecture on Beyond Search Engines: Putting information back in the centre stage of information technology was delivered by Prof. S Sadagopan, Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore on November 10, 2001 The second lecture on Digital library: Technology, Law, the Society and the four Cs was delivered by Prof. N Balakrishnan, Head, Division of Information Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore on October 24, 2002 ---------------- Dr. Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele:91-821-2514699 Fax :91-821-2519209

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WHO Health Leadership Service Accepting Applicants
by Tomas Allen 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

Please excuse cross-posting. We would greatly appreciate you distributing this information and our call for applications to members of your institution whom you consider might be interested. Librarians being the great "brokers of information", I am sure that you know of people that are quality applicants. Thank you very much for your help. Tomas Allen WHO Library ******************************************************************************* World Health Organization's new young professionals programme, the Health Leadership Service (HLS), is now accepting applications until 15th September. The Health Leadership Service is recruiting promising young health professionals from around the world and will provide them with the opportunity to work and learn for two years within WHO. Mentored by senior WHO staff, these young professionals will form part of the next generation of health leaders. Eight to ten 'HLS Officers' will be recruited as WHO staff under a two-year non-renewable fixed-term appointment. Women and nationals of developing countries are particularly encouraged to apply For more information, and to apply, please go to http://www.who.int/health_leadership or email directly to HLSMailbox(a)who.int The Health Leadership Service secretariat EIP/HRH/LMF WHO 20 Avenue Appia 1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland ********************************************************************************************* _________________________________________________________________ So wird man Teil einer riesigen Chatgemeinde, die ihrer Zeit voraus ist. http://messenger.msn.ch?DI=1057&XAPID=2532

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Suggestion needed
by Mahesh G T 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

Dear Professionals, our library has a good collection of books as well as serials,even we have maintained the AICTE norms of collection,actualy we have quite lot of multiple copies rather titles,we r planning (demand from management) to weed out some old editions of the same titles,but the irony is that some of the old edition of the title is usefull for some extent say "Advertising Management" by Batra and others,currently we have its eleventh edition,but still students felt in need of 5th,6th editions of the title,we have come across like same situation for several titles, so could anyone plz help me out in how far it is better to weed out the old editions, is it worth to weed out the multiple copies,(old editions) does it not affect the collection development,and is there any weeding out policy, considering the above case. thanking you, Mahesh G T Alliance Business Academy, Bangalore. MB No - 9844182965. ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony

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reference required
by Rajeev Sharma 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

Dear Sir/ Madam Please give details of any recent study (2003/2004) regarding the opportunities in pharmaceutical sector for logistics/Transportation. Regards Rajeev Kr. Sharma Officer - Information Services Business Information Center Transport Corporation of India Ltd.

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need information
by vijayalakshmijs＠ingvysyabank.com 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

Dear professional friends, I want the information about the library stationary suppliers or vendors who are at Bangalore. I want to buy some acrylic folders to our library. Expecting positive replies from all of you. Thanks and regards Vijayalakshmi J S Librarian STC ING Vysya Bank Ltd. PH NO: 26507281

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Differential Pricing for Books in Foreign Currency
by I.R.N.Goudar 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

Dear friends, The differencial pricing for books in foreign currency has become a matter of concern to librarians, especially after EU adopted currency Euro. I wish to share our experience and invite your experience, comments, suggestions in the matter. Recently we purchased "Handbook of Nanotechnology" by Bhushan, B published by Springer(ISBN : 3-540-01218-4). While processing processing the invoice, we have noticed the following discrepancies : 1. The price mentioned in the invoice (EURO 249.00) and the price mentioned by the requester (USD 199.00) although different both are correct. 2. The price proof produced by the vendor, taken from the WEB (URL not given) 3. We visited the Springer site at http://www.springeronline.com/ and noticed different prices when checked depending upon the route as follows - Europe General, Asia, Africa: EURO 249.00 Germany: EURO 266.43 United Kingdom: Pound 191.50 North America, South America: USD 199.00 Switzerland: SFr 421.00 4. Amazon sells this book at the price USD 199.00, As you can see there is a huge difference in price of about Rs 5000. When enquired the vendors tell us that they procure through European sources and hence charge in EURO. Even if we give handling and postage charges to Amazon we not only save good amount, but get the document faster. In this particular case since the basic cost is more Amazon could be a solution. But why should we give such high prices? Can we not force the publishers to adopt single price? Why not Vendors use their US contacts to supply books at US $ price? Another interesting thing we notice is some Vendors publish the publishers catalogue locally to suit them. This is the case with journals too. We face problems while passing the bills as our accounts raise objections in such cases. How should we satisfy audits? One possibility is that we can demand the original invoice received by Vendors from publishers. Friends you too would have come across many such situations. Your reactions please! 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 http://www.icast.org.in/staff1.htm BANGALORE-560 017 India

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