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Report of NCDL-2014
by Rasmita Mohanty 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

Dear All As most of you must be knowing that Tolani College of Commerce, Mumbai has successfully organised a Two- Days National Conference on Digital Libraries: Reshaping Traditional Libraries into Next Generation Libraries during 16th to 17th January 2014. The Brief Report of the same is being available herewith for your reference and information. CONFERENCE REPORT: 1. INTRODUCTION: Tolani College of Commerce,Mumbai in collaboration with Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation, (Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India) organized a Two days National Conference on Digital Libraries: Reshaping Traditional Libraries into next Generation Libraries (NCDL-2014) at Mumbai during 16th and 17th January 2014. The conference was planned with an aim to provide a platform to enable interaction among the participants to discuss on the topic of digital libraries and all other available related emerging technologies, their future implications towards shaping information paradigm to bridge the digital divide through knowledge sharing and to provide an opportunity to identify the strength and gaps in the library system to suggest new models, policies and mechanisms for reshaping the traditional Libraries into next generation libraries. The Conference was structured into Keynote Address; Invited Talks followed by five thematic Sessions and one Panel discussion on the theme “Reshaping Traditional Libraries into Next Generation Libraries”. More than eighty participants from different parts of the country have participated in the event. 2 INAUGURAL SESSION The inaugural function of the conference was blessed with the lighting of lamp by the dignitaries. Prof. S. Parthasarathy, Formerly Director and Scientist-In charge, INSDOC, New Delhi as Chief Guest, Prof. S.C. Powdwal, HOD, SHPT School of Library Science, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, as Guest of Honor , Dr. Daulat Jotwani, Librarian, IIT Bombay as Key note speaker, Dr. Ranjit Kumar Das, Asst. Librarian, IIT Bombay as Rapporteur General and Dr. A. A. Rashid, Principal, Tolani College of Commerce has graced the occasion. 2.1 Welcome Address: Dr. A. A Rashid, Principal, Tolani College of Commerce delivered the Welcome address in which he emphasized that “technology has so advanced that almost everything is available on internet and this is the google generation. So the potentiality of the libraries has to be proved by the librarians by keeping themselves and their libraries up to date.” 2.2 Briefing of the Conference: Ms. Rasmita Mohanty, Organizing Secretary briefed about the National Conference. In her briefings she highlighted “Library plays a crucial role in fostering knowledge for the development of the society. They are the major role players in the threshold of information dissemination activity dealing with organization, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information thus satisfying user expectations. But the information explosion and ICT revolution has created a major challenge for the library system to deal with the changing expectation of the user mass and availability of information in several places in several forms. To keep pace with this phenomenon ICT application into library services has emerged and the emergence of ICT and its application in Library and Information Centers has revamped library services. Digital Libraries are the outcome of extensive research and development in the field of ICT and its application into library and information centers for enhanced services because in a technology driven world the libraries have to switch themselves from Traditional Libraries to Next Generation Libraries based on the need of the hour philosophy. 2.3 Address by Guest of Honor: Prof. S.C. Powdwal Guest of Honor has addressed the Library professionals as the trustee of knowledge in digital era. She has strongly recommended for sharing of knowledge through library automation. Library must collect the good ideas and suggestions from the users in shape of feedback to make the library more useful for the potential users. 2.4 Presidential Address: Prof. S. Parthasarathy Formerly Director and Scientist-In charge, INSDOC, New Delhi, delivered the presidential address as the CHIEF GUEST. He spoke about “Role of ICT in modernizing the library services in digital era” which has really enlightened the participants to a large extent.. In his thought provoking speech, he emphasized Access to Knowledge and the Importance of Reshaping Traditional Libraries into Next Generation Libraries for the user community in the digital era and the theme of the conference is very well suited to the present day situations. Ms. Rasmita Mohanty proposed the Vote of thanks. 2.5 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Dr Daulat Jotwani, Libraian of IIT Bombay delivered the Key Note address in which he discussed about the Guttenberg project, IPR and copy right, Licensing agreement for electronic resources, plagiarism software etc. 3. Plenary Session: There were a plenary session on the 2nd day of the conference and the theme of the plenary session was “Reshaping Traditional Libraries into Next Generation Libraries”. Prof. S. Parthsarathy, Prof. S. C. Podwal, Prof. Pratibha Gokhale, Mr. Shriram Pandey and Dr. Ranjit Kumar Das were the panelist. Two recommendations were emerged out of the discussion viz. the LIS professionals needs to equip themselves with the emerging technologies and secondly the LIS curriculum should be redesigned by keeping in mind the cutting edge technologies and changing environments in which UGC should take up the charge to promulgate an unified syllabus for all the Indian Universities imparting LIS education. 4 VALEDICTORY Dr. A. A Rashid, Principal Tolani College of Commerce, Mumbai delivered the concluding remarks. He felt that the whole two days deliberations, Panel discussion would enhance the awareness, enthusiasm and knowledge of the audience in implementing digital libraries and new technologies. Prof. S. Parthasarathy delivered the presidential address and Dr. Ranjit Kumar Das had given the Rapporteur General’s presentation of the Conference. After two days-long successful deliberation, the event concluded with a vote of thanks proposed by Ms. Rasmita Mohanty, the Organizing Secretary. She profusely thanked the co-host, RRRLF to extend their support to organize the event and all other stakeholders of the event. She also thanked her team, management and authorities of the Tolani College of Commerce, experts, and participants. 5 CONCLUSIONS The National Conference on Digital Libraries: Reshaping Traditional Libraries into Next Generation Libraries (NCDL-2014) provided a unique platform to discuss on the pertinent issues associated with setting up Digital Libraries, convergence of traditional libraries into next generation libraries. The experts and the participants focused on the various aspects of the themes and related areas in detail. The event also gave a chance to address the growing issues like resistance to change by the professionals as well as users, unwillingness of the authorities, core professional competencies, IPR, and devising training modules and user awareness programs for all the stakeholders. All the participants appreciated and expressed their views that the two days event was well-planned, organized and given fruitful insight into the burning issues of Reshaping Traditional Libraries into Next Generation Libraries.-- With Best Regards ----------------------------------------------------------- Mrs. Rasmita Mohanty [MLISc(Gold Medal), UGC-NET, PGDLAN, PGDCA] Librarian Tolani College of Commerce (Re-accredited by NAAC with Grade-A) Mumbai Phone:022-61535442 E-mail: rasmita06(a)gmail.com, rashmitam(a)tcc.tolani.edu URL: http://ncdl-2014.hpage.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Workshop on Koha, Joomla and data migration at NIT Rourkela
by Vinod Kumar Mishra 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

Dear All, Biju Patnaik Central Library of NIT Rourkela is organizing first National Workshop on "Library Automation (Koha), Content Management System (Joomla) Data Migration: Challenges and Prospects" from 02-05 May, 2014 under the Series "Empowering Library Professionals to Empower Society (ELPES)-I" . The most peculiarity of this workshop is to provide training to the participants in such a way that they can Implement the same in real environment and the experts from NIT Rourkela library will provide them online/telephonic support up to at least Six month from the date of Workshop. However, professionals are always welcome if they want any support from us. The Details of the Workshop can be found at our Workshop Page at: http://library.nitrkl.ac.in/images/bpcl/workshop/ http://library.nitrkl.ac.in/bpcl/workshop/brochure.pdf http://library.nitrkl.ac.in/bpcl/workshop/form.pdf V.K. Mishra I/C Library Workshop Convener With regards, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Assistant Librarian, (Library In-Charge) Biju Patnaik Central Library, NIT Rourkela, Mob:91+9439420860 91+6612462103 (O) email: vinod_librarian(a)rediffmail.com : mishravk79(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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Postpone- Training programme on Bibliometrics and Research Output Analysis
by Roma 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

Respected All Due to election, three days training programme on "Bibliometrics and Research Output Analysis" scheduled to be held at INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, Gujarat from 23rd -25th April, 2014 will be postponed till further announcement. Any inconvenience is regretted Regards, Roma -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Prof. Khaiser Nikam, DLIS, University of Mysore is appointed as Editor of "Journal of Advancements in Library Sciences (JoALS)"
by shivaraj Shiva 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

Prof. Khaiser Nikam, DLIS, University of Mysore is appointed as Editor of 'Journal of Advancements in Library Sciences (JoALS)' by the Managing Director of STM Group of Journals. The first issue of the online version of this journal is expected in the first week of April 2014 and the print version is awaited in the last week of April 2014. "JoALS" is a part of STM Group of Journals (Science, Technology & Medicine)." Shivaraju. M Dept. of Library and Information Science, Manasagangothri, Mysore mysore-6 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Who invented email?
by Dimple Patel 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

It might interest you to read this Wikipedia article and subsequently follow the external references. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Ayyadurai#Development_of_EMAIL.2C_ensuin… But some less discerning readers are taking this for a fact. I think such information should be taken with a pinch of salt till it has been confirmed. Regards, Dimple Dear LIS Members, Who invented email? Came across an interesting posting in a blog available at the following link INDIAN BOY WHO INVENTED EMAIL Monday, 24 March 2014 | Kumar Chellappan | CHENNAI http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2014/03/indian-boy-who-invented-email-va-… Content is as follows: Even the best brains in computer and software engineering may not be able to answer if you ask them who invented email. This was illustrated on Sunday when this writer checked the same with Prof Achuthsankar S Nair, Director, State Inter-University Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics, Government of Kerala and Dr Iyemperumal, Executive Director, Tamil Nadu State Science and Technology Centre. Both of them expressed their helplessness even though both of them handle hundreds of email messages per day. It is a 14-year-old boy from India and that too with roots in Tamil Nadu who invented email as well as the five-letter word which has become synonymous with communication. VA Shiva Ayyadurai, hardly out of school in New Jersey, ushered in the paperless era into this world. It was in response to a challenge thrown at him by Dr Leslie P Michelson, Director, High Performance Computing Lab, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), in Newark, New Jersey, which made little Shiva create the world's first email system in November 1978. ?The UMDNJ was a big campus connected by a wide area computer network. The computer was in its initial stages of being used in the office environment. Dr Michelson wanted me to create an electronic version of the interoffice mail system so that the entire staff of doctors, secretaries, students and staff could communicate faster. At that time, secretaries and staff were performing drafting, typing, copying, hand delivering of the entire paper-based mail. By observing the interoffice mail system, I created a parts list: Inbox, Outbox, Memo, Folders, Address Book, Attachments, and then created a computer programme of nearly 50,000 lines of computer code which replicated this entire system. I called my innovation ?email?, a term that had never been used before. The world?s first email I sent was to Dr Michelson in November 1978,? Dr Ayyadurai told The Pioneer on Sunday. Dr Ayyadurai developed email as a software programme. ?Software itself was a new concept then. In 1978, it was not even covered under the Intellectual Property Rights. The US Copyright Law of 1976 was amended, however, in 1980 to allow for the protection of software. In 1982, I was awarded the first US Copyright for ?Email?, recognising me as the inventor of email by the US Government,? said Dr Ayyadurai, who holds four different Post Graduate degrees including a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ?What you see in any email system today, the Inbox, Outbox, Address Book, the Memo (From, To, Date, Subject, Body, CC and BCC), Attachments, etc are based on my observations to replicate the interoffice mail system. In November 1978, as a 14-year-old school boy, I addressed the doctors of the University on what I invented and demonstrated the use of this entire system,? reminiscences Dr Ayyadurai, son of Vellayappa Ayyadurai, a chemical engineer hailing from Rajapalayam in Tamil Nadu and Meenakshi, a mathematics teacher who went on to become the head of the elite Don Bosco Public School in Mumbai. The Ayyadurais migrated to the USA in 1970 in search of greater challenges so that little Shiva could get better education and exposure. He did not let his parents down. By the age of 13 he had mastered all known computer programming languages in vogue and went on to create email, which revolutionised the world of communication. Dr Ayyadurai has come out with a book The Email Revolution: Unleashing The Power of Connect which has foreword by Dr Leslie Michelson and an introduction by none other than Prof Noam Chomsky. He is in India as part of his mission to identify more ?Shivas? who have much better innovations to offer to the world. ?Young people of all colors, hungry to make this world a better place, are going to innovate things we?ve never imagined. We have to provide more global images to young people, in India, for example, with icons, beyond just white skinned and white haired, bearded scientists,? said Dr Ayyadurai. And how many of us are aware of the fact that radio was invented by Prof Jagdish Chandra Bose? It was his failure to get it patented that cost Dr Bose the title. Marconi, who had seen Dr Bose?s public demonstration of the radio, had approached him with an irresistible offer to market the same. But Dr Bose wanted the radio to be used for the welfare of the humanity. The night he held the public demonstration, his equipment was robbed from his hotel room. The rest is history,? Prof Ranjit Nair, leading physicist, had told this writer. So, today we all think Marconi, an Italian, invented Radio. But, when it comes to email, it's time to set the record straight, once and for all ? it was a boy, a 14-year-old Indian boy, who invented email. The facts are black and white. -- *Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail* Dr. Sunil M.V. Librarian SDM Institute for Management Development No. 1, Chamundi Hill Main Road, Siddharthanagar Post Mysore - 570 011, INDIA -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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You want Linux DVD?
by Vimal Kumar V. 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Dear Friends, Few copies of Linux DVDs are available with me. I have burned the official ISO of Linux on DVDs on the occasion of a technical festival in our area. Following Linux distributions are available with me: Ubuntu 12.04 (Lucid Lynx) 64-bit Linux Mint 16 (Petra) 64-bit Debian 7.4 (Wheezy) 64-bit If you bear the expense of stationery (Rs. 50), I am ready to send the DVD by mail. You can send the delivery charge by money order to my address. Please contact me if you want more details about the Linux DVD. My email ID is vimal0212 at gmail.com Regards, -- Vimal Kumar V. Technical Assistant Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.info Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.in http://moovandan.blogspot.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Installing DSpace 4.1 on Ubuntu 12.04
by Vimal Kumar V. 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Dr. G Santhosh Kumar, DSpace Ambassador , India/Southern has prepared a document for supporting the installation of DSpace 4.1 (Latest Version) on Ubuntu 12.04. This document can be downloaded from the Cusat Digital Library. http://dspace.cusat.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/7831 Information courtesy: Sri. Surendran Cherukodan -- Vimal Kumar V. Technical Assistant Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.info Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.in http://moovandan.blogspot.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Workshop on Koha and Launch of Koha at BIMTECH
by Vinod Kumar Mishra 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Dear All, Its my pleasure to inform you that myself and My colleague Mr. D.P. Tripathy has participated at BIMTECH workshop ( 21-23 March ) as a resource person which was a very effective workshop as feedback received by the participants. During the workshop we have also migrated the BIMTECH data from previous software to Koha successfully which was Launched by Mr. Yogendra Singh, Librarian, IIT Roorkee. I congratulate Dr. Rishi Tiwari to develop and organize such platforms for the betterment of Library profession and Professionals. NIT Rourkela is also organizing the Workshop on same topic with data migration tools and tips the detail of the workshop can be found at: http://library.nitrkl.ac.in/images/bpcl/workshop/ Please feel free to contact if you need any assistance. Thanking You. With regards, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Assistant Librarian, (Library In-Charge) Biju Patnaik Central Library, NIT Rourkela, Mob:91+9439420860 91+6612462103 (O) email: vinod_librarian(a)rediffmail.com : mishravk79(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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Presentation on "Trillion Dollar by 2025 - North Star for Indian IT" by Mr. S. R. Ramaswami on Thursday, 3rd Apr 2014 at 6.00 p.m.
by Mohan Hr 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Dear all, Pl. find an invite for a presentation on "Trillion Dollar by 2025 - North Star for Indian IT" by Mr. S. R. Ramaswami on Thursday, 3rd Apr 2014 at 6.00 p.m. This is a part of "CSI at 50 - Celebrating Golden Jubilee" Programme Series. The pdf invite is available at http://ieeecs-madras.managedbiz.com/pgms/2014/mm-140403.pdf The invite in word doc format is available at http://ieeecs-madras.managedbiz.com/pgms/2014/mm-140403.doc To facilitate dinner and other logistics, pl. pre-register at http://goo.gl/GTzKg PLEASE CONSIDER REGISTERING FOR THE PROGRAMS ONLY IF YOU ARE SURE OF ATTENDING. PLEASE BE CONSIDERATE TO OTHER FELLOW MEMBERS AND PROFESSIONALS. By any chance, after registering, if you are not likely to attend, pl. inform us at least ONE day in advance by email to csiprograms(a)csi-india.org so that we will extend the invite to those in the wait list and also plan the dinner arrangements accordingly. With reagrds HR Mohan Chairman, IEEE CS & PCS and VP, CSI INVITE ========================================== Computer Society of India, Chennai Chapter IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter Cordially invite you to a presentation on "Trillion Dollar by 2025 - North Star for Indian IT" by Mr. S. R. Ramaswami Growth with Governance Advisor Former President & Partner Polaris Financial Technology, Chennai on Thursday, 3rd Apr 2014 at 6.00 p.m. at CSI Education Directorate, Taramani, Chennai - 600113 (Situated in the opposite lane to Indira Nagar MRTS Railway Station. About 100 meters away from the Dharmambal Women's Polytechnic & Opposite to the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Institute of Hotel Management) Mr. P. Kumar, Chairman, CSI Chennai Mr. H.R. Mohan, Chairman, IEEE CS Programme ======== 6.00 p.m. : Tea & Fellowship 6.30 p.m. : Presentation 7.45 p.m. : Dinner (Fruit & Bread) About the presentation ================= Indian IT has poised for the next big leap and move up to reach leadership position not only in IT services but also in Software Products and possibly Knowledge Technology. According to Gartner and other analysts, by 2015, IT services will be a trillion dollar market and enterprise software to grow to 325 billion in the total market of four trillion. With normal growth and next wave of technology evolution, the IT spend is expected to touch eight to 10 trillion USD by 2025. The Indian IT has an opportunity to dominate and lead in the IT services, enterprise software and contribute to the growth in newer technologies including robotics and bionics. IT Services and Software Product (IP) is the sweet spot for India to gain 30% market share. The speaker is looking at the Crystal Ball in this session and will walk through the path that Indian IT to take including paradigm shift to become the top three in the world coinciding with the Diamond Jubilee of CSI. About the Speaker ============== Mr. S.R. Ramaswami, an alumnus of IISc is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). He has over three decades of exposure to Business and Technology in Banking, Insurance and Manufacturing. He has been a banker and technologist from the days of FORTRAN to iOS. He has successfully developed and implemented strategies for a 100 million pure play enterprise software company and also has been the CEO of an Insurance Product company from Pittsburg, UA and has been on the Boards of several services and product companies. He has authored of the article "Indian Software Industry - Landing on the Moon" way back in 1997 (DQ Week) dreaming India to touch USD 300 billion by 2010. He has published a paper in Prajnan - the Journal of NIBM, Pune framing an Linear Programming Model for Investment Returns. He has contributed to Draft1.2 of SEI CMM Model to include Risk Management as a KPA. He has further helped in establishing software company operations at Singapore, Australia, UK, USA, Canada etc., He is currently an independent advisor to software companies in India and US. Registration ========= To facilitate dinner and other logistics, pl. pre-register at http://goo.gl/GTzKg PLEASE CONSIDER REGISTERING FOR THE PROGRAMS ONLY IF YOU ARE SURE OF ATTENDING. PLEASE BE CONSIDERATE TO OTHER FELLOW MEMBERS AND PROFESSIONALS. By any chance, after registering, if you are not likely to attend, pl.inform us at least ONE day in advance by email to csiprograms(a)csi-india.org so that we will extend the invite to those in the wait list and also plan the dinner arrangements accordingly. This is a part of "CSI at 50 - Celebrating Golden Jubilee" Programme Series. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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The Library Blog of Kendriya Vidyalaya
by Karunakar N 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

It's immense job done by the Librarian's and Its Staff Members in Promoting and making students to read and identifying them & Involving students in Library Activities. Congrats to all them for giving Library Blog. FYA>>> Happy to share the joy of crossing 3 Million Hits on the Library Blog of Kendriya Vidyalaya Pattom at http://librarykvpattom.wordpress.com/ -- * Thanks & Regards,*** *Karunakar.N** B.Sc., MLISc., M.Phil., MBA. Librarian, Govt Women's College, Hunsur, Hunsur(T), Mysore(D). Karnataka, INDIA* -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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