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Old Search Engine
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Date: 22 Jun 2004 13:21:14 -0000 From: farooque <mfarooque(a)rediffmail.com> It's a very interesting article published on June 21,in NewYork Times by Katie Hafner. Old Search Engine, the Library, Tries to Fit Into a Google World Katarina Maxianova, who received her bachelor's degree in comparative literature from Columbia University in May, took a seminar last year in which the professor assigned two articles from New Left Review magazine. She found one immediately throug Google; for the other, she had to trek the library tacks."Everyone in class tried to get those articles online," she said, "and some people didn't even bother to go to the stacks when they couldn't Google them."For the last few years, librarians have increasingly seen people use online search sites not to supplement research libraries but to replace them. Yet only recently have librarians stopped lamenting the trend and started working to close the gap between traditional scholarly research and the incomplete, often random results of a Google search."We can't pretend people will go back to walking into a library and talking to a reference librarian," said Kate Wittenberg, director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia University. Ms. Wittenberg's group recently finished a three-year study of research habits, including surveys of 1,233 students across the country, that concluded that electronic resources have become the main tool for information gathering, particularly among undergraduates."We have to respond to these new ways," Ms. Wittenberg said, and come up with a way to make better research material available online.That means working with commercial search engines like Google and Yahoo to make ever more digital-research materials searchable. Undergraduates like Ms. Maxianova and her classmates are not the only ones conducting research from their computers. Faculty members also do it."One of the rarest things to find is a member of the faculty in the library stacks," said Paul Duguid, an information researcher who will teach a class this fall at the University of California, Berkeley on judging the authenticity of information found on the Web. In the Columbia survey, 90 percent of the faculty members who responded said they used electronic resources in their research several times a week or more. Nearly all said it was a valuable resource. While the accuracy of online information is notoriously uneven, the ubiquity of the Web means that a trip to the stacks is no longer the way most academic research begins. "The nature of discovery is changing," said Joseph Janes, associate professor and chairman of library and information science at the University of Washington. "I think the digital revolution and the use of digital resources in general is really the beginning of a change in the way humanity thinks and presents itself."A few research librarians say Google could eventually take on more of the role of a universal library."If you could use Google to just look across digital libraries, into any digital library collection, now that would be cool," said Daniel Greenstein, university librarian of the California Digital Library, the digital branch of the University of California library system."It would help libraries achieve something that we haven't yet been able to achieve by ourselves," Dr. Greenstein said, "which is to place all of our publicly accessible digital library collections in a common pool."The biggest problem is that search engines like Google skim only the thinnest layers of information that has been digitized. Most have no access to the so-alled deep Web, where information is contained in isolated databases like online library catalogs. Search engines seek so-called static Web pages, which generally do not have search functions of their own. Information on the deep Web, on the other hand, comes to the surface only as the result of a database query from within a particular site. Use Google, for instance, to research Upton Sinclair's 1934 campaign for governor of California, and you will miss an entire collection of pamphlets accessible only from the University of California at Los Angeles's archive of digitized campaign literature. --------------------------------- Farooque, IBM Global Services (India) Pvt Ltd. First floor, GT Annexe, Airport Road, Bangalore-17 Tel: 25094107, 25094119 email... farooque(a)in.ibm.com ----------------------------------

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Gokhale Library: Online Public Access Catalogue
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 23:40:22 +1200 (NZST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Chaudhary Gokhale" <chaudhary_gokhale(a)yahoo.co.nz> Hello to all, I am pleased to inform you all lis-forum members that Dhananjayarao Gadgil Librarys online public access catalogue is available on the World Wide Web to browse and search the collection. Dhananjayarao Gadgil Library, the library of the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune has one of the largest and most important collections of social science documents in India. It has quite a large member of publications on Economics and allied social science subjects and successfully caters to the needs of scholars, academicians, policy makers and other users working in social science subjects in India and abroad. URL: http://www.gipe.ernet.in/library/ Total Number of records: 2,71,000 Home page: Designed using XHTML 1.0, HTML 4.0, CSS, JavaScript, ASP, Metadata Hosted at: Windows 2000 Advanced server Web server: IIS Designed and hosted by: N Murali For more details, please contact Webmaster With regards Chaudhary

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Re: [LIS-Forum] FAO Statistical Databases
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:46:14 +0530 From: ++ Mukesh Anand ++ <mukesh(a)monitorinfo.com> FAOSTAT offers free on-line access to all of its data. In addition, FAOSTAT offers an annual subscription service that provides extended on-line query and download limits (10,000 records per query) and unlimited access to FTP bulk download files. FAO is a non-profit Organization with the mandate to work to alleviate poverty and hunger by promoting agricultural development, improved nutrition and the pursuit of food security. All proceeds from the sale of FAOSTAT services and products are used to improve those services by improving the collection, preparation and dissemination of information. ----- Original Message ----- From: "G. K. Manjunath" <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> To: "Mailing List Manager" <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > > FAOSTAT is also avialble free on the net. For futher details you may > visit http://apps.fao.org/default.jsp > > > g.k.manjunath > IGIDR > > e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in > http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm > > phone 91-22-28490653 > ************************************************ > > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Mailing List Manager wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:23:48 +0530 > > From: ++ Mukesh Anand ++ <mukesh(a)monitorinfo.com> > > > > Members may also be interested in the forthcoming publication: > > > > FAOSTAT CD 2004. > > FAO Statistical Databases. (CD-ROM) > > > > Year : 2004 > > ISBN 92-5-005125-5 > > Price : US$ 600.00 > > > > > > FAOSTAT is a statistical database that currently > > contains more than 3 million time-series records. > > This new, updated CD-ROM incorporates statistical > > information up to January 2004, covering more than > > 300 countries and territories and 3 000 items in > > the following areas of agriculture, fisheries, > > forestry and nutrition: > > > > > > * Production > > * Trade > > * Food Balance Sheets > > * Producer Prices > > * Forestry Trade Flow > > * Land Use and Irrigation > > * Forest Products > > * Fishery Products > > * Population > > * Codex Alimetarius Food Quality Control > > * Fertlizers and Pesticides > > * Agricultural Machinery > > * Food Aid Shipments > > * Exports by Destination > > > > > > Please confirm your order > > ------------------------- > > Monitor Information Services > > Library suppliers of books n software > > 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex > > Narayanguda > > HYDERABAD - 500 029 India > > > > http://www.monitorinfo.com > > > > Phone : (040) 55787065, 27552390 > > Fax : + 91-40-27552390 > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > >

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FAO Statistical Databases
by Mailing List Manager 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:23:48 +0530 From: ++ Mukesh Anand ++ <mukesh(a)monitorinfo.com> Members may also be interested in the forthcoming publication: FAOSTAT CD 2004. FAO Statistical Databases. (CD-ROM) Year : 2004 ISBN 92-5-005125-5 Price : US$ 600.00 FAOSTAT is a statistical database that currently contains more than 3 million time-series records. This new, updated CD-ROM incorporates statistical information up to January 2004, covering more than 300 countries and territories and 3 000 items in the following areas of agriculture, fisheries, forestry and nutrition: * Production * Trade * Food Balance Sheets * Producer Prices * Forestry Trade Flow * Land Use and Irrigation * Forest Products * Fishery Products * Population * Codex Alimetarius Food Quality Control * Fertlizers and Pesticides * Agricultural Machinery * Food Aid Shipments * Exports by Destination Please confirm your order ------------------------- Monitor Information Services Library suppliers of books n software 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Narayanguda HYDERABAD - 500 029 India http://www.monitorinfo.com Phone : (040) 55787065, 27552390 Fax : + 91-40-27552390

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Workshop on Developing digital library using Dspace (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:23:48 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> dear professional friends, I am sure u r aware that the Dept of Library & Information Science, Osmania University in colloboration with INFLIBNET is organising a WORKSHOP ON DEVELOPING A DIGITAL LIBRARY USING DSPACE from 28 th June to 3 rd July 2004. Many professional friends have expressed desire to join the workshop but it appears that their office is taking much time to sponsor / depute, and have asked us to extend the date. We understand the problem, therefore, u may please wrtie to us and make the spot payment on 28th June 2004. Please intimate if u r intending to join the workshop. all the best laxman rao 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

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Home page
by Mailing List Manager 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:44:56 +0530 (IST) From: K.T Anuradha <anu(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Hello, Kindly access my home page at: vidya-mapak.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Regards, Anuradha -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ms.K.T.Anuradha E-mail: anu(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Senior Technical Officer URL:vidya-mapak.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in National Centre for Science Information Indian Institute of Science FAX:(+91-80) 23601426/23600683 Karnataka, Bangalore 560 012 Tel:(+91-80) 23600271/22932511 India ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [LIS-Forum] My Website
by Mailing List Manager 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

Date: 21 Jun 2004 10:22:02 -0000 From: Rajesh K Patil <rajeshbcd(a)rediffmail.com> � Hi, CONGRATULATIONS ! This is a beautiful piece of work. I have learned a lot about Karnataka today. Thanks for sharing this with the forum members. I have a suggestion : Many cities in Karnataka have websites devoted to them, may be you could provide links to these. Regards. Rajesh On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 Mailing List Manager wrote : >Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 10:18:26 +0530 > From: cynthiamum <cynthiamum(a)indiatimes.com> > >Hi, > >As a part of my training at IGIDR Library, I have developed a site on >�Political History of Karnataka� under the guidance of Mr. G. >K. Manjunath, Chief Librarian and Mr. S. M.Pujar, Assistant Librarian. > >The URL of the site is: http://freewebs.com/phkarnataka > >I request all the members to go through the site and give your valuable >suggestions and comments for incorporating for further improvement of the >site. > >Regards, > >Cynthia D Simeon >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Databases for Agricultural Research in India
by Mailing List Manager 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:35:13 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Sub: Braianstorming Session on Databases for Agricultural Research in India. In association with the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, we at the Bioinformatics Centre of the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation are holding a one-day Brainstorming Session on Databases for Agricultural Research in India in New Delhi on 11 July 2004, 10.00 - 15.30. The purpose of the workshop is to decide on the databases to be developed in India. About 5-7% (depending on the database one uses) of the world's literature on agriculture and related areas is produced in India. It will be a good idea to have them all available readily. For this reason, we propose that we discuss the following databases: 1. A Research Output Database - This is a bibliographic database of all of India's literature ouitput in agriculture, horticulture, veterinary science and fisheries science. Right now this information is scattered over several databases, mostly produced outside India, such as CAB Abstracts. 2. A Full-text database of All Indian Research Papers - This could be either Interoperable Institutional Archives, each institution maintaining its own papers, or a nationwide centralised Archive, say maintained by NAAS. 3. A Database on Research Projects - As different agencies support agricultural research and different institutions perform , a regularly updated database of projects will be useful. This database will also be helpful in identifying experts in different specialties and research fronts. Such a database assumes special importance in the context of current developments in biotechnology and bioinformatics. Ideas on other useful databses are welcome. Needless to say that all these databases will be electronic and readily accessible in the public domain. Attendance at the brainstorming session will be by invitation only. Invitees include eminent researchers, information scientists and specialists in information systems and database production. The workshop will be held at the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, located between the National Physical Laboratory and Todapur (on the road from Hotel Siddharth at the east Patel Nagar-Pusa roundabout going to Indrapuri). Because of limited financial resources, we will not be able to cover the travel costs of outstation participants. However, we will provide a day's accommodation and local hospitality to outstation participants. We will be grateful for your suggestions on who should be invited to this event. Please send your suggestions to my colleague Mr Senthilkumaran, Associate Director, Informatics, MSSRF at <senthil(a)mssrf.res.in>. Fax: 044 2254 1319. Regards. Yours sincerely, Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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My Website
by Mailing List Manager 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 10:18:26 +0530 From: cynthiamum <cynthiamum(a)indiatimes.com> Hi, As a part of my training at IGIDR Library, I have developed a site on ‘Political History of Karnataka’ under the guidance of Mr. G. K. Manjunath, Chief Librarian and Mr. S. M.Pujar, Assistant Librarian. The URL of the site is: http://freewebs.com/phkarnataka I request all the members to go through the site and give your valuable suggestions and comments for incorporating for further improvement of the site. Regards, Cynthia D Simeon

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RSS(sm): Rich Site Services General Bibliography
by Mailing List Manager 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:14:36 -0500 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> __RSS(sm): Rich Site Services General Bibliography__ I am pleased to announce that one of my latest registries, _RSS(sm): Rich Site Services_ [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS.htm now includes a General Bibliography of key articles / tutorials / guides / presentations, etc. relating to RSS, its use, and potential [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS.htm#GeneralBibliography ] . Currently, all items are hotlinked to their respective full-text documents. One of the most noteworthy entries is by Roddy MacLeod, (Senior Subject Specialist, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh) published earlier this week in _FreePint_ [Roddy MacLeod, "RSS: Less Hype, More Action," _FreePint_ No. 161 (June 2004): 7-10]. I am greatly interested in adding ANY and ALL *other*relevant works to the General Bibliography that relate to RSS and its potential for enhancing *Library Services. [I am NOT interested in articles that deal with RSS in general (unless they are exceptional)]. Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan General Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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