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meeting of STATE LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS IN INDIA
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 14 Jan '15

14 Jan '15

dear friends There are 26 State Library Associations in the country. These Associations meet at their state level and do work for promotion of libraries especially public libraries, Many Associations are unable to do much work due to several limitations especially finances.We all know the value of public libraries in the present day environment. They have to play an important role in making access to knowledge / information to every one to make every citizen to make use of knowledge for the benefit of themselves and Society. The year 2015 had been declared by IFLA and UN as the year of access to knowledge for development. Public Libraries have to do a lot for the country and people by working with new spirit and zeal to provide access to knowledge. The experienced professionals have to guide and helpthe public libraries in making them as most resourceful. The Associations have to do a lot for promotion of libraries and consolidation of resources and activities as well as use of technology. Every one knows the value of public libraries both in pre and post independent India. Government is able to give lot of facilities for the cause of public libraries. we have RRRLF and National Mission for Libraries. Unfortunately, the state library associations have no chance to play their role in State and central Government activities / levels. It is high time for all state library associations to work hard for promotion of public libraries. we should guide and support Governments in their promotional activities especially in consolidation and use of Technology. There are many issues that needs to be sorted out to promote the public libraries including building a bridge between public libraries and other libraries as most of other libraries are also run with public funding. To make an consorted effort by all these associations for promotion and cause of libraries especially for public libraries we should join together and form a Federation of State Library Associations. In March 2015, the UP Library Association is organising two day conference and let representatives of all State Library Associations meet at the conference venue to plan and make strategies? I think it is right time for the state associations to put the plans in front of State and Central Governments as well as the appropriate agencies. We should also invite the ILA. IASLIC. pl write the details of president and secretary with email id to make future communications. If the president or secretary of the State Associations donot see this mail, I request other professionals friends to bring this mail to their notice.this may be treated as essential.let us join our hands to bring the library services accessible to every citizen and enrich them. best regards Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, Member, Advisory Board, National Library, KolkataPresident, Telangana Library Association. UGC-Emeritus Fellow (2009-11) Professor in Library and Information Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad ( super-annuated). Formerly Director, UGC-Academic Staff College (2006-8). Formerly President of Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science ( IATLIS) and Association of British Scholars ( AP Chapter) . ADDRESS: Plot No A-194, H No 1-8-10/1, Ravindra Nagar, Habsiguda, HYDERABAD- 500007. Mobile: 9493701565. email: naglaxman(a)yahoo.com, naglaxman(a)gmail.com. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Kerala Library Association publishes new Book “Information Technology Interfaces in Libraries and Information Centres”
by Sriram V 14 Jan '15

14 Jan '15

Dear all, Kerala Library Association has published a book titled “Information Technology Interfaces in Libraries and Information Centres”. The contents of this book comprise of selected papers of the National Seminar on "New Information Technology in Libraries and Information Centres" held during July 2013 at Thiruvananthapuram. Papers are from the following themes: 1. Evolving models of libraries and information centres in the new millennium 2. Social media in libraries 3. Cloud computing and libraries 4. Recent developments in software applicable to libraries 5. E-reading and E-devices 6. Library designing in the digital era 7. Human resource development in the digital context 8. Technology interfaces for public libraries. Please visit https://klaweblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/07/kla-publishes-new-book-informati… for more details about the book. Title: Information Technology Interfaces in Libraries and Information Centres ISBN: 978-81-927778-0-1 Price: Rs. 600/- For Institutions and KLA Life Members: Rs. 420/- For others: 480/- How to purchase a copy? Send your order indicating total copies and your complete postal address and mobile / phone numbers. Attach a Demand Draft drawn in favour Kerala Library Association payable at Thiruvananthapuram for price of the book + Rs.50/- (courier charges) Address for sending the orders: Dr. A. Gopikuttan (President, KLA) Dept. of Library and Information Science Kerala University Library Building Palayam, Thiruvananthapuram - 695034 Kerala or Online payment: Payment can also be remitted online by fund transfer to: Kerala Library Association S. B. A/c 67061603692 IFSC Code: SBTR0000292 State Bank of Travancore, KUOC Branch Thiruvananthapuram Please email the transaction details with full contact address and mobile / phone number to kla.org(a)gmail.com Thanks and Regards, V. Sriram Treasurer, KLA Mob: +91 9447251892 Email: vsrirams(a)gmail.com <https://vsrirams.wordpress.com/> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Design Thinking for Libraries
by Sandeep Bhavsar 14 Jan '15

14 Jan '15

*IDEO’s toolkit for libraries is live!* Aarhus Public Libraries are pleased to announce the release of the Design Thinking Toolkit for Libraries. The toolkit can be used by any front-line library staffer to adapt to library users’ changing needs. *Design thinking for libraries* Chicago Public Libraries and Aarhus Public Libraries worked with design company IDEO to find out how design thinking methods might best be adapted and applied to a library context. The final result is a comprehensive new resource for any library leader or staff member hoping to advance their library by using human-centered design methods. Learn more and download the toolkit here: http://designthinkingforlibraries.com/ *What can I use it for?* The toolkit guides you through Design Thinking so you can start coming up with solutions to everyday challenges within the library. Design thinking, or human-centered design, is all about starting with people — the users that visit your library. IDEO have been using similar methods to envision new products, services, spaces, and experiences in other business areas. IDEO created this toolkit specifically for the library setting in close cooperation with the project teams in Chicago and Aarhus. *More information* The toolkit comes in two parts: the *toolkit guide*, and the accompanying *activities workbook*. If you don’t have much time then download the *”At-a-Glance-Guide”* which introduces how you might get started using design thinking over the course of one day. The toolkit is created with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – The Global Libraries initiative. Learn more and get the toolkit here: http://www.designthinkingforlibraries.com *For more information please contact* Director of Citizens’ Services and Libraries, Rolf Hapel, +45 8940 9300, hapel(a)aarhus.dk Library Transformer Sidsel Bech-Petersen, +45 5157 6462, sibp(a)aarhus.dk -- Warm Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian *Prin. L. N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research* L Napoo Road | Matunga (CR) | Mumbai- 400 019. Tel: 022-2419 8377 | Mob: 9870 18 9999 Library Portal*: http://elearn.welingkar.org/infowe <http://elearn.welingkar.org/infowe>* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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CFP-Final: National Conference on Emerging Trends & Techniques for Electronic Resource Management in Libraries: Issues & Challenges on February 13-14, 2015 at Rourkela
by Bhojaraju Gunjal 14 Jan '15

14 Jan '15

*Call for Papers - Final : Submission date extended to January 19, 2015* *Subject: Invitation to attend National Conference on Emerging Trends & Techniques for Electronic Resource Management in Libraries:* *Issues & Challenges on February **13-14, 2015** at Rourkela* Greetings from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela, *Dear Sir/Madam/Friends,* It gives us immense pleasure to inform you that Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL) of National Institute of Technology Rourkela is organizing the “*National Conference on Emerging Trends & Techniques for Electronic Resource Management in Libraries: Issues & Challenges*” on *February **13-14, 2015* in association with SLA-Asia and SLP. This conference is the second event under the series “*Empowering Library Professionals to Empower Society (ELPES)*”. The main objectives of this conference are: - Awareness and importance of electronic resources; - Familiarization with the different ways of accessing electronic content; - Acquaint with the review activities associated with e-resources; - Examine copyright and licensing implications for scholarly communication; - An opportunity to develop ideas, strategies and policies for e-resource management (ERM); - Equip participants with skills for collection development and management of e-resources both theoretical and practical; - To discuss the issues and challenges faced during ERM cycle; - To adopt best practices for enhancing usage of e-resources. We request you and your colleagues to participate and contribute a paper for this conference. And also help us to spread this message among library & information science professionals, information scientists, knowledge managers, students & scholars. Kindly register at the earliest to avail campus accommodation as we have limited number of rooms available. For Call for papers and other details please visit: http://library.nitrkl.ac.in/events/elpes2/ and http://library-nitrkl.blogspot.in/ ***Important Dates:* *Extended date of submission of paper* *Last date of submission of paper* *January 19, 2015* *January 09, 2015* *Last date of accepted Notification* *January 25, 2015**Conference Date**February 13-14, 2015* **Looking forward to meet you at NIT Rourkela. ** *Encl: Invitation and Poster* With Best regards, Yours sincerely, *Dr.Bhojaraju Gunjal* Organizing Secretary, ELPES-2 *Connect with BPCL: Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/bpcl.nitrkl> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/BPCL_NITR> | Google+ <https://plus.google.com/u/0/114839086094720039070/> | Blog <http://library-nitrkl.blogspot.in/>** |* ************************************************************************************************************* *Dr.Bhojaraju Gunjal* * Ph.D, MLISc, PGDLAN | Endeavour Research Fellow (Victoria University, Australia)* *Head, Central Library,* ** *Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL),* ** *National Institute of Technology Rourkela,** **769008, **Odisha. INDIA. * *Tel (Off): +91 (0) 661-2462101 <%2B91%20%280%29%20661-2462101> | Cell: +91 9040511891 | E-mail: Bhojaraju.G(a)gmail.com <Bhojaraju.G(a)gmail.com> * ************************************************************************************************************* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Senior citizens set up book bank to help college students in Chennai - The Times of India
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 14 Jan '15

14 Jan '15

Very good initiative by senior citizens (read: pensioners) in Chennai. One good thing that I noticed is that student need not return the books. I spoke to Prof V Chandrashekar who is the man behind this project. He is a part of Senior Citizens Group of Basant Nagar in Chennai. This SCA has over 50 members, average age is 75+. They engage themselves in welfare activities for poor senior citizens and the needy. REcently they distributed blankets to those sleeping on pavements. They do not accept cash donations but donations in kind are welcome. About the free book bank service he comments: "Books represent Sarasawati. We should not sell Saraswati (old books must be given away and not sold to make money)". Well, I am inviting him to join sss-global so that we may hear more about their activities. =========== Senior citizens set up book bank to help college students in Chennai Divya Chandrababu,TNN | Jan 13, 2015, 09.53 PM IST CHENNAI: A group of senior citizens in Chennai have set up a book bank to help college students who are in need of textbooks but cannot afford to buy them. The Senior Citizens Group in Besant Nagar collected over 1,000 books so far. The group has appealed to individuals to donate old college textbooks and reference material. Students who are in need can show their identity cards and collect the books they want. "We will give more than one book based on their requirement. The students need not return the books," said one of the members of the group. "We also request colleges to collect as many books as they want if they want to distribute them to their students," he added. The senior citizens carry out the social work using their pensions. Interested students can contact V Chandrasekhar at 9884224480. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Senior-citizens-set-up-book… -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Senior citizens learn to edit Wikipedia in the Czech Republic « Wikimedia blog
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 14 Jan '15

14 Jan '15

Comments for lis-forum & U3A subscribers: GIven below is a news item showing how a Czech project motivating senior citizens to contribute to wikipedia has been successful. This is also an example to see how libraries can help Third Age Learning / U3A. Please See link below for graphs and images that are missing in the reproduced portion. Lis-forum is text only - hence this approach. ==== Senior citizens learn to edit Wikipedia in the Czech Republic BY VOJTĚCH DOSTÁL ON JANUARY 12TH, 2015 Senior citizens learn to edit Wikipedia in special classes held in Prague’s Municipal Library “Senior citizens class photo” by Pavla Pelikánová, licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Logo for the “Senior Citizens Write Wikipedia” program Logo by Dominik Matus, licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0. When we announced that we were starting a Wikipedia outreach program aimed at senior citizens, the response was mixed. “Do they even know how to work with computers?” our colleagues asked. Indeed, while more than 10,000 students have participated in Wikipedia education programs worldwide in the last four years, there have only been a few small-scale senior citizen education programs. This low Wikimedia outreach towards senior citizens is bewildering. Many of them are retired and thus have more free time than their younger student counterparts. Moreover, they are often well-educated and can contribute articles on a range of topics. Most importantly, senior citizens in developed countries are increasingly computer literate. The aim of this blog post is to shed light on what may be the next big thing in the Wikimedia education movement. Challenges Although we had extensive know-how from our university education program, we realized that the senior education program could not just copy what we learned from students. First, senior citizens do not regularly visit classrooms every day, as university students do. We needed to establish partnerships with institutions that could replace the schools – municipal libraries, senior citizen learning centers and third-age universities proved to be the most valuable. Facebook ads targeted people aged 55 or older; women that were between 55 and 65 years old interacted most with these ads. Facebook graph by Vojtěch Dostál, under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Moreover, we needed to find a way to tell senior citizens about our project, so that they could take part in it. We came up with several promotional strategies: some were successful and some not-so-good. Leaflets distributed and e-mails sent out in large quantities were among the least efficient. Featuring our project in the library and senior center newsletters were key to our success. In addition, promotional talks and introductory lectures on Wikipedia to an audience of senior citizens were quite effective: crucially, these were given by professor Jan Sokol (also a Czech Wikipedian), a prominent figure who was able to attract large crowds. Age-targeted ads on Facebook were also a promising way of reaching out to senior citizens who use the Internet, and especially engaged women aged 55 to 65. Finally, we knew we needed to establish well-organized, regular courses and be as patient and helpful as possible. By designing a course curriculum with approximately 10-12 hours divided into several weekly lessons, we ensured that our participants had enough time to first understand Wikipedia, then learn to discuss and work in a sandbox — and finally edit and write articles. Inevitably, this was time-consuming for the instructor (and program leader) but it led to superior results, as described in the next section. Outcomes Three separate weekly classes were held for the senior citizens of Prague, each in a different part of the city. A total of 37 participants registered to the course extension on Czech Wikipedia (although some of them did not finish the courses). A brief visit to their user pages reveals how valuable these participants are as Wikipedians – most of them have a college education, speak various languages, and some of them are former researchers. Weekly edits by participants to articles (orange), compared to all other pages (blue). Edit graph by Vojtěch Dostál, under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Not only did they learn how Wikipedia works and how to edit it, but they already started working on it. Of 201,912 bytes added by the participants in total, 84,828 bytes were made on pages in the main namespace. Some of the participants even created their first articles – a total of 18 new articles were written. About half of the registered senior citizens still continue to edit (i.e. edited in December 2014 after their course ended at the end of October). This retention rate is superior to that of most university education programs, where success rate of new editor recruitment has been estimated as 3% for the US/Canada Education program. Future directions As a pilot, the program exceeded our expectations. We demonstrated that it is perfectly possible to run a senior citizen education program and had good results with retention. Promotion to our target group was the biggest challenge – this may get easier once word spreads to more senior citizens, as they talk to each other about this successful program. We would like to continue with these efforts and scale up the project, if we can get more funding. Our participants often want to keep meeting in real life to improve their grasp of Wikipedia. They want to practice writing articles and gradually become independent editors. Among other things, we try to help them by creating lists of articles which they can easily start or edit. By organizing similar courses in cities other than Prague, the number of participants is likely to increase. We already have interested libraries in regional towns and cities of Moravia who wish to hold lessons for their senior citizens. The “Senior Citizens Write Wikipedia” project is funded by an IEG grant and runs under the patronage of Wikimedia Czech Republic. The program leader is Vojtěch Veselý, who can be contacted on a Wikipedia discussion page or by e-mail. Vojtěch Dostál, Wikimedia Czech Republic http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/12/czech-senior-citizens-learn-to-edit/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Sad Demise of V L Kalyan - KALA Should organize a Condolence Meeting immediately
by Pandurang Konnur 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Pandurang Konnur" <pvkonnur(a)gmail.com> Date: Jan 10, 2015 9:49 PM Subject: Sad Demise of V L Kalyan - KALA Should organize a Condolence Meeting immediately To: "LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in" <LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Friends, It is most shocking news to hear the sad demise of Mr.Kalyan. A Good friend for all of us and most renowned professional. His tenure in BEL and DRTC Libraries is highly remembered by his clientele. His involvement in the professional activities was experienced by most of us. He never posed as a leader any time, but loved to work as a volunteer in most of our professional activities. His tenure as a General Secretary of KALA is most memorable period in the history of KALA. What is really worrying to most of us is that, the young professionals who need to carry the flag of the profession need to show their responsibility and commitment to the profession. We know that the new generation librarians are most intelligent and knowledgable, but they need to work for uniting the professionals and project the profession to the society as an inevitable tool for the society. This role need to be played by the KALA. Now I request the KALA to organize a Condolence Meeting immediately possibly in Central College for the sad demise of Sri.Kalyan. KALA should remember the service rendered by Kalyan while he was its Secretary. Let us set a good tradition to our young Librarians and communicate them the services rendered by the senior professionals who have departed from us. Hope KALA will do this job at an earliest. Thanks, Sent from my iPad Best Regards, Dr.P V Konnur -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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MURTY'S INITIATIVE TO TAKE INDIAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE TO GLOBAL STAGE
by Ragaavendra R 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

MURTY'S INITIATIVE TO TAKE INDIAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE TO GLOBAL STAGE On Thursday, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen will be inaugurating a series of books in New Delhi which is, arguably, unlike any set of works published before. For, Sen will be launching the first five books of the Murty Classical Library of India (MCLI), set up at Harvard to publish English translations of ancient Indian classical texts, not only from Sanskrit but a host of Indian vernacular languages, from Bengali to Telugu to Hindi to Kannada. The books, five of which will be published every year for the next hundred years, will offer readers around the world and in India access to unique works that one would otherwise find difficult to find in a library, let alone a book store. For instance, among the first works being released is Therigatha, an anthology of poems in Pali written by the first Buddhist women which might well be the oldest examples of women's writing. "I started this (MCLI) four years ago, when I was in Harvard University. In Harvard, for example, if you want to learn classics, they teach you only Greek and Latin. Our question was why only these, why not old Tamil poetry or Punjabi play or Malayalam text? So, now, we're doing these translations and making them available to people in India and the US," Rohan Murty, who had donated $5.2 million along with his family to launch MCLI, had told Business Standard earlier. Murty did his PhD in computer science from Harvard University and had recently taken leave from the university to spend a year as executive assistant to his father and Infosys founder Narayana Murthy. "This is the first time this is being done with Indian texts - people are used to seeing Greek and Latin texts, now they will start seeing books in ancient Tamil, Hindi and other Indian languages," he said. Murty was clear that though there would be some works in Sanskrit the focus would be on the vernacular languages. REF LINK:http://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/indian-classi… Best Regards, Raghvendra R The information contained in this electronic message and in any attachments to this message is confidential, legally privileged and intended only for use by the person or entity to which this electronic message is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please notify the sender and system manager by return email and delete the message and its attachments and also you are hereby notified that any distribution, copying, review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this electronic transmission or the information contained in it is strictly prohibited. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not represent those of the Company or bind the Company. Any commitments made over e-mail are not financially binding on the company unless accompanied or followed by a valid purchase order. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Mail Scanner, and is believed to be clean. The Company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.jubl.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Commissioning of India's first rural high-speed broadband network
by Saji S Nair 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

Dear All, India’s first hi-speed rural broadband network (national optical fibre network, NOFN) under the Digital India Programme has been commissioned in Idukki district of Kerala. Through this, Idukki with a large tribal and rural population becomes the first district in the country to have all its gram panchayats connected through NOFN. NOFN is the largest rural connectivity project of its kind in the world. It seeks to link each of the 2.5 lakh grama panchayats of India through broadband optical fibre network. It is is expected to facilitate broadband connectivity to over 600 million rural citizens of the country over its completion. It will enable the grama panchayats to have 100 Mbps of bandwidth, thereby facilitating the delivery of various e-Services and applications including e-health, e-education, e-governance and e-commerce in the future. In the first phase, NOFN shall be extended to cover 50,000 grama panchayats and the remaining 2 lakh is expected to be covered in a phased manner by 2016. Read the full story at: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/idukki-gets-first-hi… regards -- Saji S. Nair Assistant Librarian Library & Information Services Division Regional Cancer Centre Medical College Campus Trivandrum - 695011 Kerala, INDIA ----------------------------------------------------------- 91 471 2522225 (O) 91 471 2394252 (R) 09446014130 (Mob) Email: saji(a)rcctvm.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Not qualified UGC NET even after scoring Qualifying Marks
by Apurba J Majumder 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

Strange!!!! UGC NET December 2013 Qualifying Mark : 60.57 (UR) My friend scored exactly the same marks, still she is not NET Qualified in the result sheet. Roll No: 20590129 Name: Rosy Chakraborty How is it possible? What to do now? ****************************** Apurba Jyoti Majumder Assistant Librarian Rabindra Library (Central Library) Assam University. Dargakona Silchar- 781011 Cell No: 09435268733* www.aus.ac.in We care for tomorrow: Save a tree...please do not print this e-mail unless you really need. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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