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Science in Trump's America
by Subbiah Arunachalam 12 Nov '16

12 Nov '16

*The Scientist* Trumping Science? How will the research enterprise fare under a Donald Trump administration? The scientific community reacts. By Bob Grant | November 11, 2016 Researchers and science advocates are taking to social media to voice their opinions on what a Donald Trump administration may mean for science <http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/47460/title/TS-Picks-…> in the coming years. Out of nearly 160 respondents who voted in a Twitter poll <https://twitter.com/TheScientistLLC/status/796411445625942016> posted by *The Scientist,* 42 percent said that they feared research funding would be affected by a Trump presidency. Running a close second was public support of science, which 35 percent of respondents felt would be impacted by Trump. Comments <https://www.facebook.com/TheScientistMagazine/posts/1261741440515760> also came in to *The Scientist’s Facebook page <https://www.facebook.com/TheScientistMagazine/>*. “I am taking a breath and trying to explain to my children that science matters, that global climate change is indeed occurring and we are watching it happen via species migration, storm intensity, and inundation on our coastlines,” wrote Deanne Caffee-Cooper. “That we have to continue to work on credible threats to international food security and water resources. That our fight is the good fight and that we do not have all the answers. That our integrity as professionals is valuable. That we have to continue to educate and not be silent any longer.” Another Facebook commenter, Chris Stable, expressed a slightly different viewpoint. “If science falters as a result of the political sphere,” he wrote, “then it is our fault as scientists.” Other researchers are suggesting that President-elect Trump and his advisors receive a science “tutorial” before taking office. “Some responsible scientist needs to educate [Trump’s transition team] about the importance of the scientific enterprise,” Harold Varmus, former National Institutes of Health (NIH) director now of Weill Cornell Medicine, told *STAT News <https://www.statnews.com/2016/11/09/scientists-trump-new-reality/>*. “I hope we’re going to be able to accommodate the new reality. But someone needs to give the transition team a tutorial.” Scientists abroad are expressing solidarity with their US counterparts. “I feel sad for the United States and its scientists, and would like to welcome good scientists to work and live in China,” said Peking University neuroscientist Yi Rao in a comment quoted by *Nature <http://www.nature.com/news/how-scientists-reacted-to-the-us-election-result…>* . Meanwhile, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is warning that academics are expressing fear that Trump “may be the greatest threat to academic freedom since the McCarthy period.” “His remarks about minorities, immigrants, and women have on some campuses had a chilling effect on the rights of students and faculty members to speak out,” the AAUP said in a statement <https://www.aaup.org/news/higher-education-after-2016-election#.WCTKl_krLRb> released Wednesday (November 9). -- Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article required urgently
by Paramjit Singh 12 Nov '16

12 Nov '16

Dear Library Professional Following Article required urgently *Article: The Study of Architectural Adornment:* * An Introduction by *Jan Pieper and Saryu Doshi Marg Magazine, Volume 34 Number 4, September 1982 -- Thanks & Regards *S Paramjit Rana <https://in.linkedin.com/in/s-paramjit-singh-8aa1238> | **Librarian * <https://in.linkedin.com/in/s-paramjit-singh-8aa1238>| M.A., M. Phil. Tel. +91 9968 308970, 9911 270778 *"Vidya Vichari Ta Parupkari"* *Please consider the environment before printing this email !!!* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National conference announcement from Presidency University, Bangalore
by sheshadri kn 12 Nov '16

12 Nov '16

Dear Professional colleagues Greetings! We are pleased to announce that the National Conference on the *Role of LIS Professionals in the Changing Academic Paradigm *will be organized by Presidency University, Bangalore on *February 17-18, 2017*. Main objective of this conference is to provide a platform for LIS Professionals, researchers as well as academicians from all over India to present the results of their research and development activities related to library requirements for the constantly changing academic programs. The following are the conference themes & sub-themes and these are suggestive, but not exhaustive: *Evolving Library Landscape:* *Professionals’ Challenges:* · Futuristic vision of Academic Libraries · E-books procurement, Access methods and Rights management · Impact of Mobile Technologies on Libraries · Open access resources and technology · Application of Cloud Computing · Outsourcing of Information Services · Application of Social media for promoting the Digital Resources · User Education · User Satisfaction and Behavior in the Digital Age · Infrastructure, Budget and Staff competency issues · Academic Libraries in E-teaching and E-learning · Impact on Space Planning in Libraries · Issues in E-resources subscription in Libraries · Ensuring the Effective use of E-resources · Changes in emerging User Characteristics, Behaviors, and Expectations · Future of Print Publications · Impact on space planning *Digital resources & Big Data:* *Library Standards:* · Librarians’ Role in Curating and Exposing Big Data · Competency Standards for Library and Information Services · Impact of Big Data on LIS Education · Quality Assurance and Accreditation of LIS Programs · Evaluation of Digital Resources · Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development in LIS · Metadata for Digital Resources · IPR and tools to check Plagiarism · Digital Preservation · Best and New Practices and Processes, ISO and TQM Original contributions and case studies based on applications, research, surveys and practices related to the above themes are invited. Deadline for full paper submission is 31 December 2016. Registration of author is mandatory for paper presentation and publication. Please see the brochure provided in the conference website for further details. The conference website link will be up on *www.presidencyuniversity.in <http://www.presidencyuniversity.in/>* soon. Kindly contact me for the E-brochure. *Registration Fee (excluding Accommodation):* *INR 1000/-* for Library Professionals & Academicians & *INR 100/-* for Students & Research Scholars. The payment should be sent by DD in the favor of “REGISTRAR, PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY, BANGALORE–560064”. OR Bank transfers to “REGISTRAR, PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY ACCOUNT”. A/c No. 11890100129874 at FEDERAL BANK, GANDHINAGAR BRANCH, and IFSC: FDRL 0001189. The duly filled registration form along with payment details should reach the Organizing Secretary latest by 31st January 2017. *Accommodation & Transport:* Transport from and to Yelahanka, Bangalore will be arranged. Besides, economic accommodation at service apartments, budget hotels, guest houses, etc in the range Rs 600 – 1000 per night will be arranged on first cum first served basis. *Important Dates:* • Full paper submission deadline: *31st Dec, 2016* • Last date for Registration: *31st January, 2017* • Conference Dates: *17th & 18th Feb, 2017* *Manuscript requirements:* Length: Approximately between 2000-3000 words (4-8 pages on A-4 size papers with 12 font sizes for texts and single line spacing). Title: The title of the paper be in Title Case with 14 point bold letter size in Calibri. The same should be left justified. Font: Calibri, Font Size: Heading-14 (Bold), Sub Heading -12(Bold), and rest of the text - 12. Abstract: Papers should have abstract (maximum 200 words), five subject headings, brief information about the author, a color photograph of the author and e-mail address. References: APA style guidelines are to be followed for text as well as rendering references. *For any information, contact:* *Dr. K. N. Sheshadri, Organizing Secretary & Senior Librarian* *Presidency University* Itgalpur, Rajanakunte Yelahanka, Bangalore 560 064 Email: sheshadri.kn(a)presidencyuniversity.in Cellphone: +91 7899218877 URL: www.presidencyuniversity.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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FOLIO- webinar
by nikesh 11 Nov '16

11 Nov '16

FOLIO (the Future of Libraries is Open) is a new collaboration that brings libraries, service providers and developers together to speed innovation and redefine the future of library automation. The FOLIO project partners are hosting a webinar on the FOLIO roadmap on Wednesday, November 16. Harry Kaplanian, Senior Director of Product Management, Software Services at EBSCO Information Services, will present the short, medium and long term milestones along the FOLIO roadmap. He will explore questions like: What does the long term path for FOLIO development look like? What is the development status of the first applications and the short term goals? How can you get involved? *Date and time :*Wednesday, November 16, 2016 9:30 pm India Time (Mumbai, GMT+05:30 *Speaker: *Harry Kaplanian, Senior Director of Product Management, Software Services at EBSCO Information Services *Link to register for the webinar : * http://www.elabs10.com/functions/message_view.html?mid=4484479&mlid=191901&… *Nikesh Narayanan *I Systems & e-Librarian I Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research <http://www.kustar.ac.ae/> PO Box 127788, Abu Dhabi, UAE Mobile : +971507097346 https://ae.linkedin.com/in/nikeshn -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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E-Content 2016 - Keynote Speakers announced
by Soji Mathew 11 Nov '16

11 Nov '16

Dear Forum members, Greetings from Informatics! We are pleased to announce the Keynote speakers for E-Content 2016 - "Library Services & Management - A Platform Approach". I. Ahmedabad - Tuesday, November 22, 2016 Dr. Jagdish Arora - Director, INFLIBNET Centre II. Bhubaneswar - Thursday, November 24, 2016 Prof. R. V. Rajakumar - Director, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar III. Chandigarh - Friday, November 25, 2016 Prof. A. K. Grover - Vice Chancellor, Panjab University IV. Hyderabad - Monday, November 21, 2016 will be announced soon Please register yourself for participating in the seminar to listen to these eminent speakers. Registration is mandatory and free. Kindly visit https://goo.gl/cvh0eX for registration. Hurry up... Only few seats left... Thank you. Regards, E-Content 2016 Team Informatics, Bangalore events(a)informaticsglobal.com -- *Confidentiality Notice: *T*his electronic message transmission, including any attachment(s), may contain confidential, proprietary, or privileged information from Informatics Publishing Limited. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that any dissemination, copying, distribution, printing or use of the contents of the information contained in this electronic message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic message by error, please destroy all copies of the message and contact the sender immediately by either replying to this message or calling 91-80-40387777.* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Shodhganga not popular in some TN universities
by Subbiah Arunachalam 11 Nov '16

11 Nov '16

Not all universities in Tamil Nadu seem to be keen to place the Ph D theses in the designated national repository (Shodhganga). University of Madras has deposited less than 800 and Annamalai University less than 400. Madurai Kamaraj University is in with a single digit presence. Please see < http://m.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/mku-yet-to-make-its-theses-availa… >. In contrast, Anna University has more than 3,900 and Bharathiar Univrersity more than 3,200. Bharathidasan University has about 2,900 and Mnonmaniam Sundaranar has about 2,300. Research scholars will benefit by placing their theses in a national open access repository. It should not be difficult at all as virtually all theses now are born digital (composed on PCs / laptops). MKU yet to make its theses available in ‘Shodhganga’ Updated: November 10, 2016 05:36 IST PonVasanth Arunachalam [image: http://m.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/03075/09Nov_MAPVANS2__GU_3075028d.…] *1,12,500 theses from 280 universities have been made available in the portal* The Ph. D theses available in Madurai Kamaraj Unviersity, numbering around 4,000, were yet to be made available in ‘Shodhganga’ portal, the national open access platform for research work. This is despite signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) way back in 2012 with Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET Centre) of University Grants Commission, which is managing the portal. ‘Shodhganga’ was launched in 2011 with the objective of making all research theses from universities in India available on a single platform. Apart from being a single repository to access research work from across the country based on research areas and other categories, the initiative also aimed at reducing plagiarism in research work. According to data available in ‘Shodhganga,’ around 1,12,500 theses from nearly 280 universities have so far been made available in the portal. However, the contribution from MKU has been just one so far, a theses from Department of Library Sciences, uploaded in 2015. In comparison, majority of the State-run universities have made hundreds of their theses available in the platform. For instance, Anna University tops the list in Tamil Nadu with 3,969 theses available in the portal. Universities from southern districts like Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Alagappa University and Mother Teresa Women’s University have also made 2319, 350 and 253 theses available respectively. A senior professor from the university said that there were exemplary research work done in MKU in the past, particularly from departments like School of Social Sciences and School of Biological Sciences, which if made available in the portal would be of immense use to researchers. A senior official from the university blamed the delay on INFLIBNET Centre. He said that there were about 3,500 theses in the library which were to be digitized from printed format, which would be a labour intensive work involving scanning of lakhs of pages. “As per the MoU, INFLIBNET Centre had to provide fund for the digitisation work. But it is yet to be sanctioned,” he said. He added that approval was pending from INFLIBNET Centre even to upload 603 theses submitted to MKU in the recent years, which were already available in the digital format. -- Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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International Conference on “Current Trends in Library and Information Services”-CTLIS-2017 @ DBIT
by Vinod Kumar Boyanagari 11 Nov '16

11 Nov '16

Dear Sir / Madam, It gives me enormous pleasure to inform you Don Bosco Institute of Technology (DBIT) Library has organizing a International Conference on “Current Trends in Library and Information Services”-CTLIS-2017 during 5th to 7th January, 2017. We request you to make the conference a success with your participation and sharing your valuable experience and expertise with us. *Paper can submit on the following Themes:* Applications of Tools & Technologies in LIS Best Practice & Case Studies Collection Development Electronic Resources Human Resources Management in Library Information and Knowledge Services Information Literacy IOT & Library Apps Knowledge Organisation & Retrieval Library Automation & open Source Software Marketing of information Resources & Services Resource Sharing Application of Social Media in LIS *For more details please visit* : http://www.icctest.in/call.html *Contact Info:* Mr. Somaraya B Tallolli Librarian & Organising co-chair Don Bosco Institute of Technology Bangaluru, Karnataka, India sbtallolli(a)gmail.com +91 94 49960206, 8553948128 With regards, B.VINOD KUMAR ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN M.S.RAMAIAH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (AUTONOMOUS) ISO 9001-2008 Certified Institution and Accredited by NBA M.S.RAMAIAH NAGAR BANGALORE 560054 PH: 080 23600822/23606934 EXT 312 & 107 MOB: 9035756919 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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paper
by Subhash Khode 10 Nov '16

10 Nov '16

Dear Librarians Kindly arrange following paper for me Mark Stover <http://www.emeraldinsight.com/author/Stover%2C+Mark>, "Making tacit knowledge explicit: the Ready Reference Database as codified knowledge",Reference Services Review, (2004) Vol. 32 Iss: 2, pp.164 - 173 Dr. Subhash Khode Librarian Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth University, Indore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article Request
by Rajesh K 10 Nov '16

10 Nov '16

Dear professionals, Does anybody has access to the full text of the following article pls send to me. as it is urgently required by one of our research scholar. The details are as below : *Back to definitions: Cognition, semantics, and lexicography -Anna Wierzbicka <https://www.degruyter.com/abstract/j/lexi.1992.8.issue-1/9783110244120.146/…>* Thanks and Regards, Rajesh K Library Assistant NIAS Bengaluru -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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English Proficiency Programme by Prof Bhaskar Dasgupta, IIT Kanpur January 2017
by Bhavesh Patel 10 Nov '16

10 Nov '16

I am happy to share you the information regarding “English Proficiency Programme by Prof. Bhaskar Dasgupta, IIT Kanpur” You will find the purpose of this initiativehttp://home.iitk.ac.in/~dasgupta/teaching/English/ EPPTheme.pdf . This is one the best course I have came across through NPTEL Certification Course in 2015. Now IIT Kanpur offering this course online mode. Anybody can participate in this course. English proficiency is most important requirement for LIS professional in their career. English improvement need systematic efforts and this course definitely benefit the LIS professionals. I request all LIS professionals to join the course and reap the benefit for the future career success. Course duration is four month and course fee is only Rs 1500/- Course "PELT 2017" is starting from January 2017 , http://home.iitk.ac.in/~dasgupta/teaching/English/EPP2017.html [For NPTEL 2015 course lecture, please visit You Tube and Search the keywords combination “bhaskar dasgupta” and “NOC15 Jul-Sep HS12 <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWl0DV6O5bY9eClflK2vJQA>”. Listen Video 1 about the Introduction Lecture.] -- ******************************************************************With Warm Regards,* *Bhavesh Patel* *Librarian,* *Gharada Institute of Technology (GIT),* *A/P - Lavel, Tal - Khed, Dist. Ratnagiri- 415 708Pin code - 415 708. * *Tel. 91 2356 262798 Ext. 270* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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