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Open Scholarship 2006: New Challenges for Open Access Repositories
by Shamprasad Pujar 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

FYI -- Original Message -- From: "David Prosser" <david.prosser(a)bodley.ox.ac.uk> To: <liblicense-l(a)lists.yale.edu> Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 19:00:09 EDT Subject: Open Scholarship 2006: New Challenges for Open Access Repositories *Apologies for cross-posting* The University of Glasgow, SPARC Europe and LIBER are proud to announce: OPEN SCHOLARSHIP 2006: NEW CHALLENGES FOR OPEN ACCESS REPOSITORIES This inaugural conference will be held at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK on 18-20 October 2006. Open Scholarship 2006: New Challenges for Open Access Repositories is a companion European Conference to the OAI meetings at CERN in Geneva, and to the Nordic Scholarly Communication Conferences, and is aimed at Librarians, University Administrators, funders, academics and technical specialists. Open access and the development of OA repositories are transforming scholarship and bringing new opportunities and challenges for researchers, librarians and publishers. Open Scholarship 2006 is a pan-European conference which will focus on these new challenges and opportunities. In addition to tutorial sessions on advocacy and policy issues as well as functionality and software issues, OS 2006 will address key themes presented by many leading European practitioners in the field of Open Access. Key themes will include: * Repository Developments * Added Value Services * Quality Assessment * Policies and Implementation * Sustainability The conference will also provide an opportunity for posters to be submitted and displayed in a dedicated slot in the programme. Posters should address one of the themes of the conference and be no larger than 1m x 1m. Further details about the poster session, including the list of themes is available at <http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship/posters.shtml> To register and for further information about the conference, including the preliminary programme go to: <http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship> The organising committee gratefully acknowledges our sponsors: JISC, LIBER, SHERPA, SHERPA-Leap, Ex Libris, SURF, EPrints.org, SPARC Europe and Proquest. For further information please contact us at openscholarship(a)lib.gla.ac.uk We look forward to seeing you in Glasgow in October, The Organising Committee, Open Scholarship 2006 Shamprasad M. Pujar Assistant Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen Vaidya Marg, Film City Road, Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065, India Phone: 91-22-2841 6514 E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in  FYI -- Original Message -- From: "David Prosser" <david.prosser(a)bodley.ox.ac.uk> To: <liblicense-l(a)lists.yale.edu> Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 19:00:09 EDT Subject: Open Scholarship 2006: New Challenges for Open Access Repositories *Apologies for cross-posting* The University of Glasgow, SPARC Europe and LIBER are proud to announce: OPEN SCHOLARSHIP 2006: NEW CHALLENGES FOR OPEN ACCESS REPOSITORIES This inaugural conference will be held at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK on 18-20 October 2006. Open Scholarship 2006: New Challenges for Open Access Repositories is a companion European Conference to the OAI meetings at CERN in Geneva, and to the Nordic Scholarly Communication Conferences, and is aimed at Librarians, University Administrators, funders, academics and technical specialists. Open access and the development of OA repositories are transforming scholarship and bringing new opportunities and challenges for researchers, librarians and publishers. Open Scholarship 2006 is a pan-European conference which will focus on these new challenges and opportunities. In addition to tutorial sessions on advocacy and policy issues as well as functionality and software issues, OS 2006 will address key themes presented by many leading European practitioners in the field of Open Access. Key themes will include: * Repository Developments * Added Value Services * Quality Assessment * Policies and Implementation * Sustainability The conference will also provide an opportunity for posters to be submitted and displayed in a dedicated slot in the programme. Posters should address one of the themes of the conference and be no larger than 1m x 1m. Further details about the poster session, including the list of themes is available at <http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship/posters.shtml> To register and for further information about the conference, including the preliminary programme go to: <http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship> The organising committee gratefully acknowledges our sponsors: JISC, LIBER, SHERPA, SHERPA-Leap, Ex Libris, SURF, EPrints.org, SPARC Europe and Proquest. For further information please contact us at openscholarship(a)lib.gla.ac.uk We look forward to seeing you in Glasgow in October, The Organising Committee, Open Scholarship 2006 Shamprasad M. Pujar Assistant Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen Vaidya Marg, Film City Road, Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065, India Phone: 91-22-2841 6514 E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in

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Fw: Lorcan Dempsey webcast: Monday 3 July 2006
by Subbiah Arunachalam 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

----- Original Message ----- From: "John MacColl" <john.maccoll(a)ED.AC.UK> To: <JISC-REPOSITORIES(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 4:32 PM Subject: Re: Lorcan Dempsey webcast: Monday 3 July 2006 > The archived version of the webcast of Lorcan Dempsey's presentation at > Edinburgh University Library on Monday 3 July is now available from our > website. You will find the link on this page: > http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/news/. > > John > -- > John MacColl > Head, Digital Library Division 0131 651 3814 07742 424428 > Edinburgh University Library www.lib.ed.ac.uk > >> >> Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President (Research) at OCLC, will be >> making a presentation at Edinburgh University Library on >> Monday 3 July 2006. >> >> -- >> The digital library landscape and trends in the world of Web 2.0. >> >> Presentation by Lorcan Dempsey. >> >> Edinburgh University Library. Monday 3 July 2006. 14.00 BST. >>

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Wanted Proj Asst/Graduate trainees....
by poornima＠css.nal.res.in 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

Applications are invited from suitable candidates with B.E (EC/CS/IT) , MCA and M.L.I.S (with IT knowledge) candidates for the post of Project Assistant /Graduate Trainees to work at the Information Center at NAL. While the tenure of this scheme is strictly for ONE year for Graduate Trainees; for Project Asst, initially for one year with possible extension for the subsequent term. The stipend for PA would be around 8,000/- and 6,000/- for GT. Eligible candidates may send their applications with their bio data to the undersigned at the earliest. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Poornima Narayana Contact: 080-25086083 (O) Dy Head, ICAST 080-26682781 (R) N.A.L E mail: poornima(a)css.nal.res.in Airport Road prn_1_in(a)yahoo.com Bangalore 560 017 Fax: 080-25268072 "Scanned By NAL SIG Appliance"

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Parallel between OA and education for all
by Mailing List Manager 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 12:30:04 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends Here is an item from Peter Suber's blog. The author of this paper says "Si= nce there is no way of knowing in advance where new insights may lie, it's = in the interest of humanity to ensure the widest possible access to the bod= y of scientific knowledge." That is why I and many others (including Peter = Suber, Stevan Harnad, Leslie Chan, Barbara Kirsop, Alma Swan, D K Sahu and = others) are advocating open access to all research papers (full text and me= tadata) through interoperable institutional open access archives. That is w= hy MIT and several other universities around the world are makingtheir cour= se content freely available on the Internet through their "Open Course ware= " programmes. In a recent article in OUTLOOK, Dr Pushpa Bhargava, vice chairman of India'= s National Knowledge Commission, has argued that "it is surely important t= o recognise the deprivation and lack of opportunities which the SC/STs and = OBCs-the small creamy layer apart-have experienced; they are the ones who w= ill in all likelihood bring India its future Nobel Prizes." Dr Bhargava arg= ues in favour of extending opportunities for education to all. There is a parallel between Dr Bhargava's plea for extending opportunities = for education to all and the Open Access advocates' plea for making researc= h results (in the form of published papers) available to all scientists aro= und the world without barriers. Many bright scientists in developing countr= ies and in resource-poor institutions in the advanced countries may have th= e potential to advance knowledge (and even to win Nobel Prizes) but how can= they do it if they cannot have access to literature relevant to their rese= arch? And the one sure way to make the research literature available to eve= ry scientist is through interoperable institutional open access archives (o= r repositories). That is why OA advocates are pleading for governments and donor agencies su= pporting scientific research to mandate OA for all publicly-funded research= . =0D Institutions such as the Open Society Institute, NIH, CERN, Wellcome Trust = and JISC are leading the way. It is for others, especially those in the dev= eloping countries, to follow. I believe that India, if China, Brazil and Soth Africa can adopt OA in a bi= g way. That would pave the way for other developing countries. Subbiah Arunachalam ---------- Paula Le Dieu on OA and Science Commons Paula Le Dieu, Science Commons, a podcast lecture delivered at the O'Reilly= European Open Source Convention (Amsterdam, October 17-20, 2005). Paula Le= Dieu is the Director of Creative Commons International. (Thanks to Windley= .) From the description: The scientific traditions of collaboration, transparency and sharing can = be at odds with the constraints of publishers, patents and copy protection.= Science Commons is a new project of the Creative Commons with a mission to= facilitate the growth of an openly accessible commons for scientific knowl= edge. In this talk, Paula Le Dieu maps out some of the alternative models f= or journal publishing, licensing and data sharing which can help promote th= e flow of scientific results and innovation. Le Dieu highlights research on the well known p53 tumor suppressor gene t= o illustrate how scientific progress can be encumbered by limited access to= published results. Meta analysis of the tens of thousands of articles writ= ten on p53 reveals an intriguing web of connections between different pathw= ays and diseases, but this approach is hindered by the fact that only a qua= rter of published research papers are freely accessible in full text on lin= e. =0D Limits stem partly from a conflict between the scientists' interest in sh= aring knowledge and publishers' interest in protecting copyright. The shift= toward electronic publishing also means more libraries acquire journals on= a rental basis rather than outright purchase so that all access is lost if= the subscription ends. Since there is no way of knowing in advance where new insights may lie, i= t's in the interest of humanity to ensure the widest possible access to the= body of scientific knowledge. To that end, Science Commons is promoting ne= w publishing models. They are also trying to rationalize the language of te= chnology transfer agreements to help scientists avoid inadvertently signing= away rights. Finally, the group is investigating alternatives to the 'publ= ish or perish' mode of building scientific reputation. Open access publicat= ion and diverse impact measurements can help reduce the inequities of citat= ion ranking.

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S.R.Ranganathan'sPortal
by krish＠isibang.ac.in 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

Proper link is http://www.isibang.ac.in/library/portal/index.htm M.Krishnamurthy

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Roles & Responsibilities of corporate Librarian
by Emmanuel E C (RBIN/ORG1-KCI) 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

Dear Friends, I would like to introduce my self first, I my self Mr. Emmanuel. E.C working at Robert Bosch India Ltd, Bangalore as, Officer-K-Center and information Services (Corporate Library) We are planning to redefine roles and responsibilities of Librarian at Corporate Library and redesign Information services & products in our company. In this connection I request you to let me know: 1. Role and responsibilities of Librarian at your company 2. Information services and products you are providing to internal customers. I assure you that the information given by you will be kept confidential and will be used as check points to know where do we stand and inputs for planning news services at corporate library. Hope you will not mind in spending some minutes to list out the requested details. Thanks in advance & Have a nice day!! Regards Emmanuel  Dear Friends, � I would like to introduce my self first, I my self Mr. Emmanuel. E.C working at Robert Bosch India Ltd, Bangalore as, Officer-K-Center and information Services (Corporate Library) � We are planning to redefine roles and responsibilities of Librarian at Corporate Library and redesign Information services & products in our company. In this connection I request you to let me know: � 1. �� Role and responsibilities of Librarian at your company 2. �� Information services and products you are providing to internal customers. � I assure you that the information given by you will be kept confidential and will be used as check points to know where do we stand and inputs for planning news services at corporate library. � Hope you will not mind in spending some minutes to list out the requested details. � Thanks in advance & Have a nice day!! � Regards Emmanuel

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S.R.Ranganathan's Portal
by krish＠isibang.ac.in 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

Dear Professionals, Even more than four decades after his demise S.R.Ranganathan's ideas continue to inspire and influence and research in Librarianship and Information Science. The Indian Statistical Institute, Library,Bangalore and Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Lirbary Science, Bangalore have jointly developed a web portal on S.R.Ranganathan. The portal hosted on the website of Indian Statistical Institute, Library, Bangalore center (http://www.isibang.ac.in/library/portal) will foucus on making accessible and or/providing links to: Books SRELS Journals Monologue on Dewey Bibliography of his publication Biography Memorabilia Chronology of Events A Photogallery on S.R.Ranganathan S.R.R: The Man & his mission-video (Dat file) Dr.M.Krishnamurthy Librarian Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Myore Road Bangalore 560059 Ph:91-80-8483002/3 Fax: 91-80-28484265

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Reg. advt.
by Pardeep Rai 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Applications are invited in prescribe form from Delhi University Library System for the Post of Asstt. Librarian/ Documentation officer the no of Posts are 29. for complete details Hindustan times dated 04 July 2006 (Power Job) may be consulted. From P. Rai Librarian Maitreyi College Applications are invited in prescribe form from Delhi University Library System for the Post of Asstt. Librarian/ Documentation officer the no of Posts are 29. for complete details Hindustan times dated 04 July 2006 (Power Job) may be consulted. From P. Rai Librarian Maitreyi College

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Lecturer required for Lib and Inf. Sc.
by Narayan Barse 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Dear all We are looking for qualified lecturer in Libraray and Inf. Science to teach BLISc and MLISc in the reputed college of Thane (Mumbai) affiliated to University of Mumbai. Pl. feel free to contact nbarse@hotmail.com,nbarse@gmail.com Regars, Barse N S Librarian and coordinator Deptt of LIS Contact: 022 25384591 Dear all We are looking for qualified lecturer in Libraray and Inf. Science to teach BLISc and MLISc in the reputed college of Thane (Mumbai) affiliated to University of Mumbai. Pl. feel free to contact mailto:nbarse@hotmail.com,nbarse@gmail.com nbarse@hotmail.com,nbarse@gmail.com Regars, Barse N S Librarian and coordinator Deptt of LIS Contact: 022 25384591

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Free Training on - "Biomedical Information Retrieval".
by Sukhdev Singh 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

National Informatics Centre, New Delhi is conducting a four day-training programme on "Biomedical Information Retrieval" from 18 - 21 July, 2006. This programme would cover searching of Internet biomedical resources including NLM Gateway and PubMED. In addition this would also include searching NIC's databases - IndMED, medIND and OpenMED Archive. There is no course fee. Lunch, tea, course material, Internet access during practise sessions would be provided. However, participats would have to arrange for their accomadation at Delhi and local commuting to reach NIC. Medical Librarians, Doctors, Health Administrators, Clinicians, Biomedical Academicians/Researchers are welcome to participate in this programme. Information regarding this is also available at http://indmed.nic.in For sending nominations please send an email to Mrs Rekha Gupta, Course-Coordinator. Only confirmed participants would be allowed to attend the training. Ph: 011-24362359/011-24305533 email: g.rekha <at> nic.in ------------- --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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Re:[LIS-Forum] Management Case Studies
by Mailing List Manager 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 17:59:18 +0530 From: Ashok Sahu <aks371(a)hotmail.com> Dear Colleague ICFAI is publishing Indian management casestudies. Kindly visit the website www.icfaipress.org . IIM Bangalore & Ahemdabad are also publishing some Indian management casestudies. You may get information from their website. Few foreign casestudies available on this website http://cases.ivey.uwo.ca/ But they are not freely access. regards Ashok Kumar Sahu Librarian Institute for International Management & Technology Gurgaon, Haryana >Dear professionals, >I need a Indian And Foreign Management Case Studies for our management >students Please help me in this query or send me the information were can >get this cases

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venue of ILA 206 conference
by Mailing List Manager 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Date: 3 Jul 2006 08:11:19 -0000 From: kishore kumar chinni <kishorechinni73(a)rediffmail.com> Dear friends, I would like to know the venue of ILA conference 2006. kindly inform me. With best wishes kishorechinni C.V.S.S.KISHORE KUMAR LIBRARY & INFORMATION ASSISTANT ADVANCED TRAINING INSTITUTE SHIVAM ROAD, VIDYANAGAR HYDERABAD - 500 007 CELL : 9866004977 OFFICE : 040-27428058

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Required Quotation for RFID implementation
by kalyanvl＠bel.co.in 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

> Dear Mr. Kamble, > > Our Company M/s Bharat Electronics Ltd., Bangalore - 560 013 are the RFID > Solutions provider, and the contact person is: >> > Mr.M.Loganathan, > Sr.Dy.Gen.Manager(Smart Card), > Components Division, > Bharat Electronics Ltd., > (Ministry of Defence Production), > Jalahalli Post, > Bangalore - 560 013 > Ph : 080-2219 5739 > > Another RFID service provider is M/s Essae Technologys Pvt. Ltd., #715, Om > Plaza, 2nd Floor, West of Chord Road, Modi Hospital Road, > Mahalakshmipuram, Bangalore - 560 086. Telefax: 080-2349 6732; Mobile: > 9342568093; E-Mail: essaeblr1(a)vsnl.net (Contact: Mr. T.R.Raghavendra). > > You should have a thorough technical discussions with people who are in > the field of RFID technology. > > With best wishes. > > V.L.Kalyan > Dy.Manager > TIC (Central D&E) > Bharat Electronics Ltd., > Jalahalli Post > Bangalore - 560 013 > Ph: 080-2219 5626 > > > Dear Professionals, >> >> We are keen to know the address's of RFID technology service >> providers/compay for implementation of the same.We are very much >> interested to get the quotations.Please let me know anybody how to go >> about it. >> >> with regards, >> YEKANATH N KAMBLE >> ASST.LIBRARIAN >> R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING,MYSORE ROAD, >> BANGALORE-59 (INDIA) >> PH.91-80-28600351/28604705/28600184 >> FAX : 91 - 80 - 2860 0337 >> >> MOBILE.9448585358 >> Do you Yahoo!? >> Everyone is raving about the >> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=42297/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/handr… >> all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. >> _______________________________________________ >> LIS-Forum mailing list >> LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >> http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >> > > > > Confidentiality Notice > > The information contained in this electronic message and any > attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of > the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged > information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify > the sender at Bharat Electronics or support(a)bel.co.in immediately > and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. > Confidentiality Notice The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender at Bharat Electronics or support(a)bel.co.in immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments.

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Management Case Studies
by library 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Dear professionals, I need a Indian And Foreign Management Case Studies for our management students Please help me in this query or send me the information were can i get this cases Thank you Kind regards Anil Phadke Librarian AICAR Business School Village - Damat, Neral - Tal. Karjat, Dist. Raigad, Maharashtra Pin :- 410101 www.aicar.net Tel. No.: (02148) 236714 - 19 Ext. 232 Fax:- (02148) 236713 M:- 9850803203 With regards Anil Phadke Librarian AICAR Business School Village - Damat, Neral - Tal. Karjat, Dist. Raigad, Maharashtra Pin :- 410101 www.aicar.net Tel. No.: (02148) 236714 - 19 Ext. 232 Fax:- (02148) 236713 M:- 9850803203 Dear professionals, I need a Indian And Foreign Management Case Studies for our management students Please help me in this query or send me the information were can i get this cases Thank you Kind regards Anil Phadke Librarian AICAR Business School Village - Damat, Neral - Tal. Karjat, Dist. Raigad, Maharashtra Pin :- 410101 http://www.aicar.net www.aicar.net Tel. No.: (02148) 236714 - 19 Ext. 232 Fax:- (02148) 236713 M:- 9850803203 With regards Anil Phadke Librarian AICAR Business School Village - Damat, Neral - Tal. Karjat, Dist. Raigad, Maharashtra Pin :- 410101 http://www.aicar.net www.aicar.net Tel. No.: (02148) 236714 - 19 Ext. 232 Fax:- (02148) 236713 M:- 9850803203

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In search of titles
by Vijayakumara 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Dear Professionals, One of our Research Associate need title and ending page numbers of the below mentioned two references. Reference 1. E. Bourquelot. Ann. Chim. 29 (1913), p. 145. Reference 2. E. Bourquelot. J. Pharm. Chem. 10 (1914), p. 361. It will be great if help you in this regard Yours Dr. Vijayakumar M \ \ | / / \ \ ~ ~ / / | @ @ | ---------------oooo------ (_)-------------oooo------------------ Dr. Vijayakumar M, Chief Librarian, East Point College of Engineering and Technology Bidarahalli, Kithaganoor Road, Virgonagar - Post, Bangalore - 5600 049, India Tel:080-8473888, 8473777 Fax:080-8472999, coolvg(a)gmail.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. Dear Professionals, One of our Research Associate need title and ending page numbers of the below mentioned two references. Reference 1. E. Bourquelot. Ann. Chim. 29 (1913), p. 145. Reference 2. E. Bourquelot. J. Pharm. Chem. 10 (1914), p. 361. It will be great if help you in this regard Yours Dr. Vijayakumar M \ \ | / / \ \ ~ ~ / / | @ @ | ---------------oooo------ (_)-------------oooo------------------ Dr. Vijayakumar M, Chief Librarian, East Point College of Engineering and Technology Bidarahalli, Kithaganoor Road, Virgonagar - Post, Bangalore - 5600 049, India Tel:080-8473888, 8473777 Fax:080-8472999, mailto:coolvg@gmail.com coolvg(a)gmail.com Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=42297/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/handr… all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta.

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Fw: Bookreview in the Newsletter
by Dinesh K. Gupta 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Dear colleagues, The forward is review of the book "Marketing Library and Information Services: International Perspectives" by Prof. Weingand, an expert and famous author on this area. This review will be published in the forthcoming issue of the Newsletter of IFLA Management and Marketing Section. The book will be reviewed in about 80 (eighty) international journals/ newsletters in many languages. It has already been reviewed in Annals of Library and Information Studies (March 2006) and in Srels Journal of of Information Management (June 2006). Best regards, Dinesh K. Gupta Assoiate Prof. of Lib. & Inf. Sc. V M open University, Kota Rajasthan ----- Original Message ----- From: <weingand(a)lava.net> To: Dinesh K. Gupta <dineshkg(a)sancharnet.in> Cc: <steffen.wawra(a)uni-passau.de>; <amassisimo(a)ub.edu> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 11:26 PM Subject: Re: Bookreview in the Newsletter Below is the review that you requested. I applaud you on bringing this text to fruition. Marketing Library and Information Services: International Perspectives. Edited on behalf of IFLA by Dinesh K. Gupta, Christie Koontz, Angels Massisimo and Rejean Savard. Munchen, Germany: K. G. Saur, 2006. The literature related to library marketing is growing, which is a sign of increasing interest as well as scholarship. This volume is an important addition to that body of knowledge and reflects the views of more than forty library professionals around the globe. These international perspectives bring depth and clarity to the marketing of libraries discussion. This volume is divided into six sections: Marketing Concept, a Changing Perspective; Marketing in Libraries Around the World; the Role of Library Associations; Education, Training and Research; Excellence in Marketing; and Databases and Other Marketing Literature. These broad categories are further subdivided into papers that are flanked by abstracts and extensive bibliographical references. Section I contains two papers focusing on the theoretical frame of marketing and how it has evolved and expanded over time. This is an excellent approach to helping the reader understand the numerous papers which follow. The novice reader will become informed and the experienced library marketer will develop an enhanced awareness of the scope of marketing in the library context. Section II considers how marketing is utilized as a management tool in libraries around the world. Geographical areas addressed include Denmark, Norway, Spain, Finland, China, France, Africa, Kenya, Pakistan, Australia, Romania, Croatia, and South Africa. While not country-specific, the final paper considers marketing from the perspective of knowledge management within the financial services sector. In Section III, the role of library associations is considered as an important factor in marketing libraries. The history of IFLA's Management and Marketing Section is reviewed and a specific look at public libraries through the IFLA/UNESCO Guidelines for Development is presented. Subsequent papers examine the American Library Association, libraries in the UK and National Library Week in Lithuania. Education, training and research become the focus in Section IV. Papers in this section take a close look at curricula in library education institutions in the United States, Canada, India and Estonia; and training for the LIS community in the UK and India. Two papers focusing on specific applications conclude this section. Excellence is addressed in Section V. This is an eclectic section, looking at quality from a variety of viewpoints. Beginning with a listing of awards, followed by a paper discussing awards in detail, the section moves on to discuss specific applications of marketing in the UK, the Houston [Texas/USA] Public Library, and Barcelona [Spain]. Finally, in Section VI, databases and reviews of the literature are featured, ending with an overview of the Marketing Library Services Newsletter. This reviewer would have preferred to see the literature review included in Section I, but that is a small point in the light of the overall wealth of material presented in this book. As a contributor to marketing literature over the years, I am pleased to see that this very important aspect of management is alive and well and moving forward internationally. It is very heartening and I certainly recommend this book to the profession. Darlene E. Weingand, PhD Professor Emerita University of Wisconsin-Madison [USA] >

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Academic Info - Online subject directory
by raja ram 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Dear all, 1. Academic Info : http://www.academicinfo.net/ Academic Info is an online subject directory of over 25,000 hand-picked educational resources for high school and college students as well as a directory of online degree programs (University of Phoenix, ITT Technical Institute, Kaplan, DeVry) and admissions test preparation resources (SAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, GMAT, USMLE, TOEFL). We also offer timely news and analysis of critical events including the Iraq War, Afghanistan Reconstruction, Hurricane Katrina recovery, and the War on Terrorism 2. Information Manager : http://infosara.blogspot.com A blog of a librarian from india, blog some of the interesting news,tools and updates in library profession and in general. regards raj --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new Click here Catch all the FIFA World Cup 2006 action on Yahoo! India Click here Dear all, 1. Academic Info : http://www.academicinfo.net/ http://www.academicinfo.net/ Academic Info is an online subject directory of over 25,000 hand-picked educational resources for high school and college students as well as a directory of online degree programs (University of Phoenix, ITT Technical Institute, Kaplan, DeVry) and admissions test preparation resources (SAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, GMAT, USMLE, TOEFL). We also offer timely news and analysis of critical events including the Iraq War, Afghanistan Reconstruction, Hurricane Katrina recovery, and the War on Terrorism 2. Information Manager : http://infosara.blogspot.com http://infosara.blogspot.com A blog of a librarian from india, blog some of the interesting news,tools and updates in library profession and in general. regards raj Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailanswersshare/*http://in.answers.yahoo.co… Click here Catch all the FIFA World Cup 2006 action on Yahoo! India http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailfifa/*http://in.sports.yahoo.com/footbal… Click here

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Don't Pay Bribes: Use the Right to Information Act Instead.
by Farooque Shaheen 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 40, Issue 1
by Usha Mujoo-Munshi 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Please circulate the following message via the lis-forum The United States Educational Foundation in India (USEFI) is happy to announce the 2007 International Fulbright Science and Technology Award for PhD study at top U.S. institutions in science, technology, or engineering. This new award is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and is designed to be the most prestigious international scholarship in science and technology. The International Fulbright Science and Technology Award reaffirms Americas pre-eminence and competitiveness in the fields of science, technology, and engineering, as the U.S. remains the most attractive destination for serious scientific and technological research and study. In the first year of this program, approximately 25 awards will be offered worldwide for candidates who demonstrate unique aptitude and innovation in scientific fields. USEFI requests that you bring this announcement to the attention of outstanding Indian students. Application deadline is July 31, 2006. Eligible fields of study include Aeronautics and Astronomics/Aeronautical Engineering, Astronomy/Planetary Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Sciences/Engineering, Engineering (electrical, chemical, civil, mechanical, ocean, and petroleum), Environmental Science/Engineering, Geology/Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Information Sciences/Engineering, Materials Science/Engineering, Mathematics, Neuroscience/Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Oceanography and Physics. USEFI will forward two nominations to compete with candidates from all over the world for this fellowship. The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State will fully fund grants for up to three years under this program and will provide tuition and fees, monthly stipend, applicable allowances, medical insurance, roundtrip airfare and a J1 visa sponsorship for up to five years. Academic placement (university admission and other formalities) of the selected scholars will be handled by the International Institute of Education (IIE). Application details and materials are available on USEFI website <http://www.fulbright-india.org> or at the USEFI offices in New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata and Mumbai. USEFI thanks you for your support and cooperation in spreading the word about the 2007 International Fulbright Science and Technology Award. Sincerely, Sarina Paranjape Indian Program Officer Sarina Paranjape Indian Program Officer United States Educational Foundation in India (USEFI) 12 Hailey Road, New Delhi 110001, India Tel: 91-11-23328944; fax: 91-11-23329718 emailsarina(a)fulbright-india.org USEFI website:<www.fulbright-india.org> > Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to > lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > You can reach the person managing the list at > lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Best Practices for the National Seminar- WEBSITE (Dr.P.V.Konnur) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:25:31 -0700 (PDT) > From: "Dr.P.V.Konnur" <pv_konnur(a)yahoo.com> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Best Practices for the National Seminar- WEBSITE > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com > Message-ID: <20060630072531.89155.qmail(a)web42203.mail.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Dear Friends, > > Bangalore University Library in collaboration with NAAC > Bangalore is organizing a National Seminar on Best > Practices in Library and Information Services from 9th to > 12 th August 2006. All are requested to contribute their > Best practices practiced in their Libraries. Enclosed is > the Brochure of the seminar. For details please visit > Best Practices National Seminar Website at: > http://bub.ernet.in/Seminar/library/index.html > > Thanks, > Konnur > > Dr.P.V.Konnur, > University Librarian, > Bangalore University Library, > Jnana Bharathi, Bangalore-560 056 > Phone: o8o-22961131, 080-23215510 > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > End of LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 40, Issue 1 > **************************************** > -- Dr. Usha Mujoo Munshi Head, Informatics Indian National Science Academy Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg New Delhi - 110 002 umunshi(a)insa.nic.in http://www.insaindia..org

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NCSI-NET Meeting
by Nandhan Ravi 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Dear All , NCSI-NET meeting will be held on Saturday, 8th July 2006. The meeting will commence with a talk. All are cordially invited for the talk. The talk - Topic: IP Asset Management Speaker: Mr. Adarsh Nigam. Vice President, Vans Information System, Mumbai Time: 11:00 AM. Venue: Seminar Hall, NCSI, IISc, Bangalore About the speaker: - Mr. Nigam is a management graduate with more than a decade of experience in the healthcare industry in marketing, product management, training & development, and knowledge management. Having been closely associated with corporate strategy formulation, development of business plans & implementation, he is currently associated with Vans Information Limited as Vice President. He has also been associated with different management & IP institutes as a visiting faculty Kindly confirm your attendance by sending a mail to: ravi.nandhan(a)capco.com or anitha_m(a)aurigene.com With warm regards, V. Ravi Nandhan and Anitha MK NCSI NET Coordinators. V. Ravi Nandhan. Knowledge Coordinator Capco t: +91 80 41997351 f: +91 80 41997201 v: 6-7351 e: ravi.nandhan(a)capco.com w: www.capco.com ************************************************************************ The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender of this email immediately. You should not copy, use or disseminate the information contained in the email. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Capco. http://www.capco.com/ ************************************************************************ NCSI-NET Meeting Dear All , NCSI-NET meeting will be held on Saturday, 8th July 2006. The meeting will commence with a talk. All are cordially invited for the talk. The talk - Topic: IP Asset Management Speaker: Mr. Adarsh Nigam. Vice President, Vans Information System, Mumbai Time: 11:00 AM. Venue: Seminar Hall, NCSI, IISc, Bangalore About the speaker: - Mr. Nigam is a management graduate with more than a decade of experience in the healthcare industry in marketing, product management, training & development, and knowledge management. Having been closely associated with corporate strategy formulation, development of business plans & implementation, he is currently associated with Vans Information Limited as Vice President. He has also been associated with different management & IP institutes as a visiting faculty Kindly confirm your attendance by sending a mail to: ravi.nandhan(a)capco.com or anitha_m(a)aurigene.com With warm regards, V. Ravi Nandhan and Anitha MK NCSI NET Coordinators. V. Ravi Nandhan. Knowledge Coordinator Capco t: +91 80 41997351 f: +91 80 41997201 v: 6-7351 e: ravi.nandhan(a)capco.com w: file://www.capco.com www.capco.com ************************************************************************ The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender of this email immediately. You should not copy, use or disseminate the information contained in the email. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Capco. http://www.capco.com/ ************************************************************************

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FW: Prof.Ganesh Bhattacharya - Passed away
by Kottai, A (IE10) 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Forwarded message from Dr. F.J.Devadason. Best Regards, Kottai -----Original Message----- From: F.J.Devadason [mailto:devadason_f_j@yahoo.com] Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 5:54 AM To: Kottai, A (IE10) Subject: Re: Prof.Ganesh Bhattacharya - Passed away Please send this mesaage to all whom you think fit. Thanks Devadason ================================================= Professor Ganesh Bhattacharyya Prof. Bhattacharyya as many of you might know was my teacher, colleague and best friend. My first association with him was in 1969, when I joined the Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) as a student. I met Prof. Neelameghan first, and was happy that it would be fine to be a student there. But when I met Prof. Bhattacharya "Oh my goodness" (an expression which he uses often in private communications), I was really terrified and thought that it would be a tiresome affair to spend the rest of the 14 months in DRTC with this Professor. He was the very nature of Bengal (tiger) in his frowning expression, absolute strictness with regard to assignments and insistence on precise communication in writing and speaking. "If you are not clear in what you say or write, then there is some aberration in your thinking" he used to say. But after a few months I realized that beneath that shell (it is an egg shell, actually) there is a soft and humane nature full of compassion and helping attitude. He was fully dedicated to his work starting from the job of newspaper delivery boy to supplement his parents' income to support his studies until his retirement as Professor and Head of DRTC and the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Branch. He was a faithful disciple of Dr. S.R. Ranganathan fully devoted to expanding and extending his research. He has made several significant contributions to the field of Library and Information Science, his most significant contribution being the development of the Postulate-based Permuted Subject Indexing System (POPSI). Whosesoever would ever think of producing an approximation to classified sequence (organizing sequence) in alphabetic arrangement of subject headings. He thought about it and did it. He also proposed "Classaurs" a faceted vocabulary control and indexing tool. He was a very good teacher with clear interpretation of fundamental principles and theories delivered with several illustrative examples. He was a good orator. A lecture on "The Central Theme of Baghavath Gheetha" was arranged by the "Ladies Club of Malleswaram, Bangalore". Swami Ranganathananda of Ramakrishna Mission gave the lecture. It was such a wonderful presentation that everyone was spell bound. When Swami Ranganathananda finished his oration, Prof. Bhattacharyya rose to give a Vote of Thanks as per the scheduled programme. At the same time almost everyone stood up, applauded and started to leave, as they all know very well, that after such a presentation by Swami Ranganathananda there would be nothing of importance afterwards. Prof. Bhattacharyya called in a loud voice "Ladies and Gentlemen" and at the same time removed his famous brown colour coat in his characteristic style. Hanging it on the back of the chair he continued "Is it not appropriate for us to spend just 5 more minutes to thank Swami Raganathananda who had been standing for almost one hour to enlighten us?" The whole crowd just sat down in absolute silence equally spell bound, and Professor Bhattacharyya spoke for about 10 minutes drawing an equally prominent applause for his vote of thanks. He was fully and totally dedicated to DRTC and devoted his full time for the development of the institute. In fact, it is he who initiated PhD programme with Karnatak University but for which none in DRTC would have had the chance of doing PhD in Library and Information Science in India. Almost all the students of DRTC have been immensely benefited by Prof. Bhattacharyya's teaching. His presentations and papers have been widely acknowledged. My research work was totally based on his work and it would not have been possible for me to do my work but for his work. I am extremely sad to hear about his departure, but I am sure his work will stand to the benefit of many. I express my sympathy to all his relatives and especially to his daughters Bobli and Lovely and their family members. May God give them the strength to withstand this loss and wisdom to move forward. F.J. Devadason --- "Kottai, A (IE10)" <Kottai.A(a)honeywell.com> wrote: > Dear Dr.Devadason, > FYI. > Regards, > Kottai > > -----Original Message----- > From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On > Behalf Of > krish(a)isibang.ac.in > Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 9:48 AM > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad Demise > > > Dear Professionals, > > Prof.Ganesh Bhattacharya, Former Head, DRTC Passed > away at around 18.00 > hrs on Monday, 26th June, 2006. > > > M.Krishnamurthy > > > > > > -------------------------- > Dr.M.Krishnamurthy > Librarian > Indian Statistical Institute, > 8th Mile Mysore Road > Bangalore 560059 > Ph: 91-80-28483002/3/4 > Fax: 91-80-28484265 > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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University Librarian - CUSAT Kerala
by J. K. Vijayakumar 02 Jul '06

02 Jul '06

Applications in prescribed form are invited for the post of UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN, carrying the scale of pay of Rs. 16400-22400 (UGC Scale) at COCHIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. Visit http://www.cusat.ac.in/uty_librarian.pdf ---------- J. K. Vijayakumar MLIS, PhD http://libinfospace.blogspot.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. Applications in prescribed form are invited for the post of UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN, carrying the scale of pay of Rs. 16400-22400 (UGC Scale) at COCHIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. Visit http://www.cusat.ac.in/uty_librarian.pdf http://www.cusat.ac.in/uty_librarian.pdf ---------- J. K. Vijayakumar MLIS, PhD http://libinfospace.blogspot.com http://libinfospace.blogspot.com Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman1/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.

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Remembering Prof Bhattacharya
by satya krishna savanur 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

Friends, I wish to echo what Dr Ganesh Bhattacharya had told us in one of his guest lectures at the Department of Library and Information Science, Karnataka University in the year 1972-73. He said, "What librarians need is one mile knowledge with one inch depth, and not one inch knowledge with one mile depth." How true! He has left great impact on all who came in contact with him. Dr S K Savanur Friends, I wish to echo what Dr Ganesh Bhattacharya had told us in one of his guest lectures at the Department of Library and Information Science, Karnataka University in the year 1972-73. He said, "What librarians need is one mile knowledge with one inch depth, and not one inch knowledge with one mile depth." How true! He has left great impact on all who came in contact with him. Dr S K Savanur http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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Best Practices for the National Seminar- WEBSITE
by Dr.P.V.Konnur 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

Dear Friends, Bangalore University Library in collaboration with NAAC Bangalore is organizing a National Seminar on Best Practices in Library and Information Services from 9th to 12 th August 2006. All are requested to contribute their Best practices practiced in their Libraries. Enclosed is the Brochure of the seminar. For details please visit Best Practices National Seminar Website at: http://bub.ernet.in/Seminar/library/index.html Thanks, Konnur Dr.P.V.Konnur, University Librarian, Bangalore University Library, Jnana Bharathi, Bangalore-560 056 Phone: o8o-22961131, 080-23215510 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Born teacher and researcher
by Dr.H.S.Siddmallaiah 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Professor Bhattacharya was a born teacher and researcher, lost a great professional in our field Let us prey god give peace to his soul and strength to his family members and dependent to recover from the great loss Siddamallaiah Principal Librarian, NIMHANS ----- Original Message ----- From: <lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 12:01 PM Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 39, Issue 38 > Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to > lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > You can reach the person managing the list at > lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Nomination of Prof. A.K. Baradol as Dean, Faculty of Science > and Technology in Mangalore University (Gopakumar Velayudhanpillai) > 2. Condolence by CULISA (junaise B) > 3. Prof. G Bhattacharya - a great loss (poornima(a)css.nal.res.in) > 4. Re: Whom does the corporate librarian report to (Deepa) > 5. Sad demise of Prof. Ganesh Bhattacharyya (Mr. Siva Chidambaram) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: 28 Jun 2006 10:41:27 -0000 > From: "Gopakumar Velayudhanpillai" <gopakumar.v(a)rediffmail.com> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Nomination of Prof. A.K. Baradol as Dean, Faculty > of Science and Technology in Mangalore University > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Cc: baradol(a)mangaloreuniversity.ac.in > Message-ID: <20060628104127.15211.qmail(a)webmail47.rediffmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear professionals, > Dr.A.K. Baradol, Professor, Department of Library and Information > Science, Mangalore Universsity (baradol(a)mangaloreuniversity.ac.in)has been > nominated as Dean, Faculty of Science and Technology in Mangalore > Univeristy for a period of two years with effect from 1.7.2006. This is > his second tenure as Dean, Faculty of Science and Technology in Mangalore > University. > Gopakumar.V > > > Gopakumar.V > Research Scholar > Department of Library & Information Science > Mangalore University > Mangalagangotri > gopakumar.v(a)rediffmail.com > Mobile No: 09447056713 >

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[LIS-Forum] GODS (Global Organizational Development Summit), Mysore, INDIA
by SUNIL M.V. 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Dear Professional Friends, SDM Institute for Management Development (SDM-IMD), Mysore, in partnership with Indian Society for Applied Behavioral Science (ISABS) and Infosys Leadership Institute (ILI), hosts a Global Organization Development Summit (GODS) in September 18-20, 2006. There will also be Pre and Post Summit Workshops on September 17 and 21. The goal of the summit is Networking for Knowledge Sharing. Experts and stakeholders from around the world will interact and share OD interventions that promise results. The Summit will showcase the best OD practices that made impact on organizations in managing change and improving organizational effectiveness. We are trying to evolve a framework for global network of OD professionals to work closely. The broad themes to be addressed by the Summit are: Best Practices of OD for Client Impact Ethical Issues of Corporate Governance Current status of OD knowledge Future Focus of Organization Development GODS needs your participation, encouragement and support to attain its logical conclusion. I request you to kindly spread the message across to your peers, friends, and known professionals. Please visit our website www.odsummitindia.org for up-to-date information on the speakers, summit details, organizers and details on call for papers. The brochure is downloadable from the Home Page. Also request you to put your comments, suggestions and views in forum's page in the website. I am eagerly looking forward to your participation in GODS as a speaker / delegate. Sincerely, Sunil MV Librarian SDM Institute for Management Development No. 1, Chamundi Hill Road Siddartha Nagar, Mysore Phone : 0821 - 2420490/491 2429722/161 Fax: 0821-2425557 --------------------------------- Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs.Try it free. Dear Professional Friends, SDM Institute for Management Development (SDM-IMD), Mysore, in partnership with Indian Society for Applied Behavioral Science (ISABS) and Infosys Leadership Institute (ILI), hosts a Global Organization Development Summit (GODS) in September 18-20, 2006. There will also be Pre and Post Summit Workshops on September 17 and 21. The goal of the summit is Networking for Knowledge Sharing . Experts and stakeholders from around the world will interact and share OD interventions that promise results. The Summit will showcase the best OD practices that made impact on organizations in managing change and improving organizational effectiveness. We are trying to evolve a framework for global network of OD professionals to work closely. The broad themes to be addressed by the Summit are: Best Practices of OD for Client Impact Ethical Issues of Corporate Governance Current status of OD knowledge Future Focus of Organization Development GODS needs your participation, encouragement and support to attain its logical conclusion. I request you to kindly spread the message across to your peers, friends, and known professionals. Please visit our website http://www.odsummitindia.org/ www.odsummitindia.org for up-to-date information on the speakers, summit details, organizers and details on call for papers. The brochure is downloadable from the Home Page . Also request you to put your comments, suggestions and views in forum's page in the website. I am eagerly looking forward to your participation in GODS as a speaker / delegate. Sincerely, Sunil MV Librarian SDM Institute for Management Development No. 1, Chamundi Hill Road Siddartha Nagar, Mysore Phone : 0821 - 2420490/491 2429722/161 Fax: 0821-2425557 Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=36035/*http://music.yahoo.c… Try it free.

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reminder for DSpace workshop at NCRA, Pune 24-27th July 2006
by Sunita Barve 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Dear all, The deadline for registration to the workshop on "Creating Digital Libraries Using DSpace Open Source Software" which is going to be held from 24-26 July 2006 at NCRA, Pune, INDIA is 5th July 2006. The workshop is restricted to only 30 participants. The participants will be selected on first-cum-first served basis. If you wish to attend the workshop please send your confirmation by email at the earliest. Attached herewith workshop annoucement for the reference. Sunita Barve Library-In-Charge National Centre for Radio Astrophysics Post Bag No. 3, Pune Univ. Campus Pune 411 007, INDIA Phone : 91-20-25697107 Ext.: 211(Library) (Office) 91-20-24270027 (Res) ; 9823975237 (Mobile) FAX : 91-20-25697257 Email :sunitab@ncra.tifr.res.in ; sunitabarve(a)gmail.com ________________________________________________________________________ Workshop Annoucement: _____________________ National Centre for Radio Astrophysics Pune is pleased to announce a workshop on " Creating digital libraries using DSpace - an Open Source Software" Duration: 3 days July 24 to 26, 2006. Venue: NCRA, Pune Host: National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) Many organizations are now looking forward to set up open access digital repositories. A few open source digital library software are popularly used to develop and manage digital libraries. DSpace (http://www.dspace.org/ ) is one of them that which is developed jointly by MIT Libraries and HP labs. DSpace helps to create, index and retrieve various forms of digital content. The purpose of this workshop is to provide training to LIS and KM professionals by providing adequate practical knowledge which will enable them to handle digital library projects independently, right from conceptual work to maintenance. In the workshop, though, faculty discusses digital library at length, the main focus will be on DSpace open source digital library software which is freely available on internet and customizable according to the individual organizational requirements. It will be a rarest opportunity for any library professional to converse to the concept of open source software, where customization is very easy as the source code is available with the user, which is not the case with proprietary software. DSPACE * DSpace can be used to build institutional or discipline-based repositories. *Submission facility allows scientists and researchers to upload digital documents from anywhere in the world. * Workflow feature allows moderation/review of the submitted documents * Assigns persistent identifiers to each digital object in the repository * Conforms to the standards like Dublin Core and OAI-PMH v.2.0 * Security can be built at various levels to effect restricted access * Asian and other world language based digital libraries can be built as it conforms to the UNICODE standard DSpace is an open source software and is freely downloadable from http://www.dspace.org/ This workshop is exclusively designed to provide hands-on-experience to the LIS Professionals and Knowledge Workers in developing a digital library using DSpace software. The topics to be covered in the Workshop * Digital Libraries: Overview * Overview of DSpace * Installation of DSpace * DSpace Users: Anonymous, Members & Authors * DSpace Administration * Dublin Core * OAI-PMH * Persistent Identifiers * DSpace Customization * Lucene Search Engine * Unicode and Indian Languages The workshop comprises of lectures, demonstration and practice on the topics mentioned above. Computer lab facilities are made available for practice to the participants during extended hours. NCRA has excellent computer facilities. Faculty Dr. ARD Prasad, DRTC, ISI, Bangalore, INDIA Dr. Devika Malladi, DRTC, ISI, Bangalore, INDIA Ms. Sunita Barve, NCRA, Pune, INDIA Target Participants LIS and Knowledge Professionals, who have familiarity with Information Technology. The workshop is The selection will be made on the basis of first-cum-first served (limited to total 30 participants). Registration fees Rs.5,500/- (The Demand Draft/Cash payable in favour of NCRA, Pune and payable at Pune) The Registration Fee includes Workshop Kit on CD-ROM Working Lunch/Tea Last Date for Registration 5th July, 2006 Accommodation Guest house accommodation can be made available at NCRA, Pune on payment. Coordinator Ms. Sunita A. Barve Library-In-Charge National Centre for Radio Astrophysics PO Box 3, Pune Univ. Campus Pune 411 007, INDIA Email: library(a)ncra.tifr.res.in ; sunitab(a)ncra.tifr.res.in sunitabarve(a)gmail.com Phone: 91-020-25697107/25691384/25691385-Ext. 211(Office) 9823975237 (Mobile) REGISTRATION FORM Participants Name:______________________________________________________ Designation:___________________________________________________________ Name and Address of the Institution:________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Telephone: Office:____________________________ Residence:_____________________________ Mobile:______________________________ E-mail:_______________________________ Do you require accommodation during the Workshop? Yes / No (If yes, please let us know immediately.) Demand Draft No: ____________________________________________________ Name of the Bank: ____________________________________________________ Amount: ____________________________________________________________ Date: ________________________________________________________________ Signature

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Prof. G. Bhattacharya
by M. Paul Pandian 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Dear Friends, I was deeply saddened to hear the loss of Prof. G. Bhattacharya. Prof. GB as he was fondly called by all was one of the greatest teachers in the LIS area. His teaching of Study of Subjects will make any one regardless of his/her basic subject background a qualified librarian to handle any subject areas. The study of subjects provides a template wherein any subject can be mapped and analysed for better understanding of a particular subject by a non subject specialist like the librarian. Although Prof. GB is no more with us, his teachings and commitments towards achieving excellence in whatever he did will be remembered forever. Our deepest condolences to the beraved family and friends. May his soul rest in peace. Dr.M. Paul Pandian ========================================================================= Scientific Officer(Library) | The Institute of Mathematical Sciences | 4th Cross Road | Cable: MATSCIENCE Central Institutes of Technology Campus| Phone: +91-44-2254 1856 Tharamani | Fax: +91-44-2254 1586 CHENNAI (Madras) | E-mail: pandian(a)imsc.res.in TAMILNADU - 600 113, INDIA | URL:http://www.imsc.res.in/library/Index.php =========================================================================

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MyLISA Seminar on "RFID Technology for Library Management"
by SUNIL M.V. 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

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Fw: [LIS-Forum] Whom does the corporate librarian report to
by librarymahad 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Dear Professionals, I agreed with Ms. Deepa's view. I am also reporting to Head Admin a Lt. Col., who is not even knowing about the cataloguing system of library. I have to face a lot of silly questions regarding library which I don't expect from my Boss. One incident I am telling. Joining to my current organisation I have classified all the documents with DDC classification code. As a result the book which was in Cupboard-3 was being shifted to Cupboard -6. But my Reporting Boss told me that he wants to see the book in the same cupboard only. Please note that Last year I had sent the same for a discussion. I am having 15 years of experience with Industrial Library in three different Organisations. I have always felt that Most of the time the Boss which we get doesn't have interest on library. And at the time of Evaluation they don't even recognised us as technically educated. Please see Ms Deepa's view in the same way also, which I have highlighted. Regards, Pradip Das Sr. Librarian, Pidilite Industries Limited, A/21, MIDC, Mahad, Maharashtra - 402309 Ph. : 02145- 31444(R), 02145 - 232043 to 46 (Off.) Extn. : 226 Fax. : 01245 - 232048 E-mail : librarymahad(a)pidilite.co.in or, pradipbhadreswardas(a)gmail.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deepa" <dmenon(a)hotmail.com> To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 4:41 PM Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Whom does the corporate librarian report to > Hi, > > I used to work for a software company in India as a Librarian (Information > Officer) some 6 years ago. And yes, as you said I used to report to the HR > head too! Worse still we had a dual reporting system where the appraisals > were done my the HR and for all professional advice I used to turn to the > corporate head librarian. > > The HR person hardly understood the importance of a library and a librarian and never actually appreicated the services offered by the library and thus got no recognition! > I think we librarians get our due recognition and professional satisfaction > when we have a good line manager who is able to guide us and advice us in our professional activities. As you rightly pointed out it should be a R&D > head or a knowledge management head to whom we should report to. > > Thanks. > Deepa > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Dear Professionals, I agreed with Ms. Deepa's view. I am also reporting to Head Admin a Lt. Col., who is not even knowing about the cataloguing system of library. I have to face a lot of silly questions regarding library which I don't expect from my Boss. One incident I am telling. Joining to my current organisation I have classified all the documents with DDC classification code. As a result the book which was in Cupboard-3 was being shifted to Cupboard -6. But my Reporting Boss told me that he wants to see the book in the same cupboard only. Please note that Last year I had sent the same for a discussion. I am having 15 years of experience with Industrial Library in three different Organisations. I have always felt that Most of the time the Boss which we get doesn't have interest on library. And at the time of Evaluation they don't even recognised us as technically educated. Please see Ms Deepa's view in the same way also, which I have highlighted. Regards, Pradip Das Sr. Librarian, Pidilite Industries Limited, A/21, MIDC, Mahad, Maharashtra - 402309 Ph. : 02145- 31444(R), 02145 - 232043 to 46 (Off.) Extn. : 226 Fax. : 01245 - 232048 E-mail : mailto:librarymahad@pidilite.co.in librarymahad(a)pidilite.co.in or, mailto:pradipbhadreswardas@gmail.com pradipbhadreswardas(a)gmail.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deepa" < mailto:dmenon@hotmail.com dmenon(a)hotmail.com > To: < mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 4:41 PM Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Whom does the corporate librarian report to > Hi, > > I used to work for a software company in India as a Librarian (Information > Officer) some 6 years ago. And yes, as you said I used to report to the HR > head too! Worse still we had a dual reporting system where the appraisals > were done my the HR and for all professional advice I used to turn to the > corporate head librarian. > > The HR person hardly understood the importance of a library and a librarian and never actually appreicated the services offered by the library and thus got no recognition! > I think we librarians get our due recognition and professional satisfaction > when we have a good line manager who is able to guide us and advice us in our professional activities . As you rightly pointed out it should be a R&D > head or a knowledge management head to whom we should report to. > > Thanks. > Deepa > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > mailto:LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Reg Magazine
by alex arun 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Hi Veena, If you subscribe Business Standard News paper, you will be getting "Motoring magazine" on weekly basis along with paper! Regards Alex __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Training course on "Care & Maintenance of Library Materials"
by Puna Das 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property (NRLC, Lucknow) invites participation for training course on "Care & Maintenance of Library Materials" from 16th to 21st July, 2006 at NRLC, Lucknow. For Details contact: Hari Narain, Senior Scientific Officer & Training Coordinator NRLC, Lucknow E-Mail: nrlclko(a)sancharnet.in, harinarain(a)gmail.com NLRC, Sector E/3, Aliganj, Lucknow 226 024 (India) Tel.: 2335359, 2333911, 2333912, 2333848, 2328930, 2324485 Fax: +91-0522-2372378, Cable: CONSERLAB Web site: http://www.nrlccp.org ___________________________________________________ Anup Kumar Das/ Bidyarthi Dutta/ Swapan Kumar Patra Information and Communication Society of India, New Delhi, India http://icsi-india.blogspot.com ___________________________________________________ --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new Click here Catch all the FIFA World Cup 2006 action on Yahoo! India Click here National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property (NRLC, Lucknow ) invites participation for training course on "Care & Maintenance of Library Materials" from 16th to 21st July, 2006 at NRLC, Lucknow . For Details contact: Hari Narain, Senior Scientific Officer & Training Coordinator NRLC, Lucknow E-Mail: nrlclko(a)sancharnet.in, harinarain(a)gmail.com NLRC, Sector E/3, Aliganj, Lucknow 226 024 ( India ) Tel.: 2335359, 2333911, 2333912, 2333848, 2328930, 2324485 Fax: +91-0522-2372378, Cable: CONSERLAB Web site: http://www.nrlccp.org http://www.nrlccp.org ___________________________________________________ Anup Kumar Das/ Bidyarthi Dutta/ Swapan Kumar Patra Information and Communication Society of India, New Delhi, India http://icsi-india.blogspot.com http://icsi-india.blogspot.com ___________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailanswersshare/*http://in.answers.yahoo.co… Click here Catch all the FIFA World Cup 2006 action on Yahoo! India http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailfifa/*http://in.sports.yahoo.com/footbal… Click here

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Re: Sad Demise of Prof. Ganesh Bhattacharya
by Puna Das 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Dear All I am really shocked to learn about this. May God grant him peace in his heavenly abode. B K Sen General Secretary Information and Communication Society of India, New Delhi (http://icsi-india.blogspot.com) > Dear Professionals, > > Prof.Ganesh Bhattacharya, Former Head, DRTC Passed away at around 18.00 > hrs on Monday, 26th June, 2006. > > > M.Krishnamurthy > > > > > > -------------------------- > Dr.M.Krishnamurthy > Librarian > Indian Statistical Institute, > 8th Mile Mysore Road > Bangalore 560059 > Ph: 91-80-28483002/3/4 > Fax: 91-80-28484265 > > > > ------------------------------ --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new Click here Catch all the FIFA World Cup 2006 action on Yahoo! India Click here Dear All I am really shocked to learn about this. May God grant him peace in his heavenly abode. B K Sen General Secretary Information and Communication Society of India , New Delhi (http://icsi-india.blogspot.com) > Dear Professionals, > > Prof.Ganesh Bhattacharya, Former Head, DRTC Passed away at around 18.00 > hrs on Monday, 26th June, 2006. > > > M.Krishnamurthy > > > > > > -------------------------- > Dr.M.Krishnamurthy > Librarian > Indian Statistical Institute, > 8th Mile Mysore Road > Bangalore 560059 > Ph: 91-80-28483002/3/4 > Fax: 91-80-28484265 > > > > ------------------------------ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailanswersshare/*http://in.answers.yahoo.co… Click here Catch all the FIFA World Cup 2006 action on Yahoo! India http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailfifa/*http://in.sports.yahoo.com/footbal… Click here

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sad demise of Prof.
by Arunachalam Hariharan 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Dear Professional friends, We heard the sad demise of Prof Ganesh Bhattacharayya, DRTC and a well known Professor in India. On behalf of the Society for the Advancement of Library and Infomation Science(SALIS), I convey my condolensces to the bereaved family. We all pray the Almighty to give strength to his family and let his soul rest in peace A.Hariharan President SALIS Chennai __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Sad demise of Prof. Ganesh Bhattacharyya
by Mr. Siva Chidambaram 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Dear all Prof. Ganesh Bhattacharyya is a genius teacher, guide, researcher for Library and Information Science, I had opportunity to attend his lecture in DRTC. His commending intellectual pronunciation of English I still remember. Let us pray to god for his soul to be in peace. In his teaching excellencies given POPSI and STUDY OF SUBJECT are like "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." for LIS profession. S.Siva Chidambaram NIPFP Librarian New Delhi Teachers open our eyes to the world. They give us curiosity and confidence. They teach us to ask questions. They connect us to our past and future. They are the guardians of our social heritage. [...] Life without a teacher is simply not a life. - Jonathan Sacks

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Whom does the corporate librarian report to
by Deepa 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hi, I used to work for a software company in India as a Librarian (Information Officer) some 6 years ago. And yes, as you said I used to report to the HR head too! Worse still we had a dual reporting system where the appraisals were done my the HR and for all professional advice I used to turn to the corporate head librarian. The HR person hardly understood the importance of a library and a librarian and never actually appreicated the services offered by the library and thus got no recognition! I think we librarians get our due recognition and professional satisfaction when we have a good line manager who is able to guide us and advice us in our professional activities. As you rightly pointed out it should be a R&D head or a knowledge management head to whom we should report to. Thanks. Deepa

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Prof. G Bhattacharya - a great loss
by poornima＠css.nal.res.in 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

The staff at Information Center of National Aerospace Laboratories deeply mourn the sad demise of Prof Ganesh Bhattacharya. He was closely associated with NAL in various capacities, as selection committee member and also an advisor in various projects at the center. His contributions to the L & IS profession, especially in the development of POPSI indexing system have won international acclaim. His achievements have made our community proud. I and my colleagues at NAL offer our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family and pray GOD to give strength to withstand this big loss. May the blessed soul rest in eternal peace. Poornima Narayana ----------------------------------------------------------------- Poornima Narayana Contact: 080-25086083 (O) Dy Head, ICAST 080-26682781 (R) N.A.L E mail: poornima(a)css.nal.res.in Airport Road prn_1_in(a)yahoo.com Bangalore 560 017 Fax: 080-25268072 "Scanned By NAL SIG Appliance"

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Automobile Journals
by Mailing List Manager 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:38:16 +0530 From: ramshirish.m(a)tcs.com Dear Ms. Veena Bhat You can get Indian publication of TopGear for details you can contact: subscriptions.rmd(a)timesgroup.com or Mumbai ph: 22731122 Hyderabad: 23352795 Ahmedabad: 26554494 Bangalore: 25586095 Chennai: 24342121 (ext: 575) Delhi: 23255634 regards Ramshirish Ramshirish Mamidala Tata Consultancy Services Limited Plot 1, Jubilee Garden Main Road Madhapur Hyderabad - 500081,Andhra Pradesh India Ph:- 040-66675019 Mailto: ramshirish.m(a)tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:50:56 -0700 (PDT) From: veena bhat <veenabhatkudbail(a)yahoo.com> Dear Sir/ Madam, Could you please provede me the information about Automotive Magazines? I am prefering the Indian Publication. Can I get the below magazines in Indian publication. [truncated]

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Condolence by CULISA
by junaise B 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Dear professionals, It is a sad news to hear that our beloved professional legend, Prof. G. Bhattacharya is no more. I pay homage to the departed soul on behalf of Calicut University Library and Information Students Association (CULISA ) & MLISc batch of 2003. May The Almighty rest his soul in peace Junaise.V Librarian The ICFAI Business School Kochi. 9447297859 ( Mob.) Dear professionals, It is a sad news to hear that our beloved professional legend, Prof. G. Bhattacharya is no more. I pay homage to the departed soul on behalf of Calicut University Library and Information Students Association (CULISA ) & MLISc batch of 2003. May The Almighty rest his soul in peace Junaise.V Librarian The ICFAI Business School Kochi. 9447297859 ( Mob.)

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Condolence by Kerala Librarians
by Mailing List Manager 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 02:03:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Aloor Thomas Francis <francisaloor(a)yahoo.com> Dear professionals, It is a sad news to hear that our beloved professional doyen, Prof. G. Bhattacharya is no more. The library professionals in Kerala and Kerala Agricultural University express deep condolence on his demise. A.T. FRANCIS ASST. LIBRARIAN KERALA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY

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Nomination of Prof. A.K. Baradol as Dean, Faculty of Science and Technology in Mangalore University
by Gopakumar Velayudhanpillai 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Dear professionals, Dr.A.K. Baradol, Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Mangalore Universsity (baradol(a)mangaloreuniversity.ac.in)has been nominated as Dean, Faculty of Science and Technology in Mangalore Univeristy for a period of two years with effect from 1.7.2006. This is his second tenure as Dean, Faculty of Science and Technology in Mangalore University. Gopakumar.V Gopakumar.V Research Scholar Department of Library & Information Science Mangalore University Mangalagangotri gopakumar.v(a)rediffmail.com Mobile No: 09447056713 Dear professionals, Dr.A.K. Baradol, Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Mangalore Universsity (baradol(a)mangaloreuniversity.ac.in)has been nominated as Dean, Faculty of Science and Technology in Mangalore Univeristy for a period of two years with effect from 1.7.2006. This is his second tenure as Dean, Faculty of Science and Technology in Mangalore University. Gopakumar.V Gopakumar.V Research Scholar Department of Library & Information Science Mangalore University Mangalagangotri gopakumar.v(a)rediffmail.com Mobile No: 09447056713 http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Whom does the corporate librarian report to ?
by Mailing List Manager 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:43:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Rajesh P <rajeshbcd(a)yahoo.com> Hi, Ideally it should be R and D Head. I am shocked to note that in a progressive organisation like TCS the line manager is Head of HR. What has HR got to do with us ? Yes one can understand if the Library is part of an independent Training Center !! and the Librarian reports to the Head/Director of Training. Bye. Raj kishore.ingale(a)tcs.com wrote: Dear Colleagues, "Corporate Librarian" is now a well established role in our profession. Many of us playing this role, have been contributing greatly to respective organisations. [truncated]

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Notification of Exemption for M.Phil and Ph.Ds
by Mailing List Manager 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:00:32 +0530 (IST) From: prabhash(a)gipe.ernet.in Dear all UGC's notification does not specify whether the exemption is for Asst. Librarians in universities and college librarians. If it is applicable, then what should be condition, whether M. Phil. or Ph. D. in LIS? -- Prabhash N. Rath, Ph. D. Documentation Officer Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics B. M. C. C. Road Pune 411004 Tel: +91-20-25650287 (O.) +91-20-25678311 (R.) > The Commission in its meeting held on 11.6.2006 approved the second amendment in UGC Regulations for minimum qualifications for appointment and career advancement of teachers in Universities and Colleges [truncated]

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Automobile Journals
by Mailing List Manager 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:50:56 -0700 (PDT) From: veena bhat <veenabhatkudbail(a)yahoo.com> Dear Sir/ Madam, Could you please provede me the information about Automotive Magazines? I am prefering the Indian Publication. Can I get the below magazines in Indian publication. 1. Motoring 2. Autocar 3. Internatioanl Vehicle Testing Technology 4. Top Gear 5. Auto Racing I would like to have a list of Indian Automative Magazines. Thanking You, Best Regards, Veena Bhat

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Copyright issues
by Parinita Samant 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hello All, Could we have an open discussion on Copyright Laws in India...what constitutes a copyright violation? 1. Photocopying of books and keeping them for display and use in the library? 2. Scanning of books - say for using as a digital library? After all, these are not done for any commercial purpose, we do not sell them, they are for everyday use, especially when there is a huge demand for a particular book.....does this constitute a copyright violation? Can Academic Libraries not keep multiple copies of photocopies books which would really help the students? What about scanning books? Can books not be scanned and stored digitally? Have any of you tried these methods? Do they work? Are they legal? Can a library do such a thing? How do you handle situations when books are in great demand? Could you discuss these and other such related issues? Thanks & Regards Parinita Samant *************************************************************************************************************************** This e-mail communication and any attachments may be privileged and confidential to Hexaware and are intended only for the use of the recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not review, disclose, disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail and attachments. If you have received this email in error, please delete the same alongwith all attachments thereto and notify us immediately at mailadmin(a)hexaware.com . ***************************************************************************************************************************  Hello All, � Could we have an open discussion on Copyright Laws in India …what constitutes a copyright violation? � Photocopying of books and keeping them for display and use in the library? Scanning of books – say for using as a digital library? After all, these are not done for any commercial purpose, we do not sell them, they are for everyday use, especially when there is a huge demand for a particular book…..does this constitute a copyright violation? Can Academic Libraries not keep multiple copies of photocopies books which would really help the students? What about scanning books? Can books not be scanned and stored digitally? � Have any of you tried these methods? Do they work? Are they legal? Can a library do such a thing? How do you handle situations when books are in great demand? Could you discuss these and other such related issues? � Thanks &� Regards � Parinita Samant � *************************************************************************************************************************** This e-mail communication and any attachments may be privileged and confidential to Hexaware and are intended only for the use of the recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not review, disclose, disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail and attachments. If you have received this email in error, please delete the same alongwith all attachments thereto and notify us immediately at mailadmin(a)hexaware.com . ***************************************************************************************************************************

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Condolences for Prof. Bhattacharyya
by ramshirish.m＠tcs.com 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Dear Professionals It is really sad to know about the demise of Prof. Bhattacharyya. I pay homage to the departed soul on behalf of DRTC batch (2002-2004). It is personally painful for me because I was one of the students of the last classes that he took at DRTC. May god rest his soul in peace. regards ramshirish ********************* Ramshirish Mamidala Tata Consultancy Services Limited Plot 1, Jubilee Garden Main Road Madhapur Hyderabad - 500081,Andhra Pradesh India Ph:- 040-66675019 Mailto: ramshirish.m(a)tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com =====-----=====-----===== Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you Dear Professionals It is really sad to know about the demise of Prof. Bhattacharyya. I pay homage to the departed soul on behalf of DRTC batch (2002-2004). It is personally painful for me because I was one of the students of the last classes that he took at �DRTC. May god rest his soul in peace. regards ramshirish ********************* Ramshirish Mamidala Tata Consultancy Services Limited Plot 1, Jubilee Garden Main Road Madhapur Hyderabad - 500081,Andhra Pradesh India Ph:- 040-66675019 Mailto: ramshirish.m(a)tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com =====-----=====-----===== Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you

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Academic Journals Publishing Trend
by pku＠nic.in 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

A below would be useful for the members: http://www.alpsp.org/default.htm> Academic journal publishing trends A survey of 400 academic journal publishers found that: * 90 percent of the journals are now available online * A fifth of the publishers are experimenting with open access journals * 40 percent of publishers use previous print subscriptions as the base for pricing for bundles * Most publishers make agreements for either one year or three years * 91 percent of publishers make back volumes available online; 20 percent charge for access to back volumes * 42 percent have established formal arrangements for the long-term preservation of their journals * 83 percent require authors to transfer copyright in their articles to the publisher View news release <http://www.alpsp.org/publications/SPP2press.pdf> View executive summary <http://www.alpsp.org/publications/SPP2summary.pdf> View report description <http://www.alpsp.org/publications/pub13.htm> with regards P K Upadhyay http://mcitconsortium.nic.in

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Condolence - Prof. G. Bhattacharya
by mkumbar＠lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

It is shocking news to hear about sad demise of Prof. Ganesh Bhattacharya today morning. Prof. Bhattacharya, as all us know, was a scholar of great repute. His contributions to the field of indexing and cataloguing have drawn international attention. POPSI, an indexing method developed by him, has been considered as one of the important contributions to library and information science. He had associated with a few activities of Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore in the past. On behalf of my colleagues in the Department and myself I express my heartfelt condolences to the family members of Prof. Bhattacharya. I pray the almighty to rest his soul in peace. Dr. Mallinath Kumbar Reader and Chairman Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore 570 006

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PROF. GB'S SAD DEMISE-KALA CONDOLENCE
by I.R.N.Goudar 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Dear Professionals, President, Office Bearers and Members of Karnataka State Library Association mourn the sad demise of Prof. G. Bhattacharya, former Director of DRTC on 26 June 2006. All of us cherish his professional contributions as a well-known LIS teacher, researcher, guide and above all a good human being. His contributions especially in the area of indexing are well-known. He never used to enter the class without prior preparations inspite of his vast experience at DRTC. I recall the proud words of Late Prof. MR Kumbar referring GB very often as "My Ganesh". May the Almighty give the strength to his family members and professional colleagues to bear this irreparable loss. May His Soul Rest in Eternal Peace. Dr IRN Goudar President, KALA Officer bearers & Members. "Scanned By NAL SIG Appliance"

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S & T information
by Enukonda Rama Reddy 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Dear faculty members and researchers, Elsevier recently came up with the idea of sponsorship of articles by authors for 37 journals starting with 6 journals on nuclear physics. For the journals that offer this option, authors will have the choice of paying a fee to have their article available on ScienceDirect to non subscribers. Journals offering Sponsored Articles On May 24, 2006, six Elsevier nuclear physics journals started to state on their journal homepages that authors will have the option to make articles available to non-subscribers of ScienceDirect via Sponsored Articles. Similar statements will appear on thirty-one additional journals homepages in the next two months. How Sponsored Articles works In the selected 37 journals, authors have the option to make their articles available on ScienceDirect at no cost to any viewer. The author charge for article sponsorship is $3,000. Importantly, authors can only select this option after an article has been accepted. Authors can also choose not to exercise this option with the assurance that their article will continue to reach a wide audience of researchers through ScienceDirects large subscription base. For further information and clarifications please contact Mr. Perdeep Kumar or Ms. Padma Muralidharan at the following mail IDs. p.kumar(a)elsevier.com p.muralidharan(a)elsevier.com Regards, Dr. E. Rama Reddy Library Consultant Dr. E. Rama Reddy University Librarian (Retd.), Flat # 4, Siddartha Apartments 22 Santosh Nagar Colony, Mehdipatnam HYDERABAD-500 028, A.P. India Tel: 040-2351-2877 mobile: 094404 18727 enukondar(a)yahoo.co.in enukondar(a)gmail.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new Click here Catch all the FIFA World Cup 2006 action on Yahoo! India Click here Dear faculty members and researchers, Elsevier recently came up with the idea of sponsorship of articles by authors for 37 journals starting with 6 journals on nuclear physics. For the journals that offer this option, authors will have the choice of paying a fee to have their article available on ScienceDirect to non subscribers. Journals offering Sponsored Articles On May 24, 2006, six Elsevier nuclear physics journals started to state on their journal homepages that authors will have the option to make articles available to non-subscribers of ScienceDirect via Sponsored Articles. Similar statements will appear on thirty-one additional journals homepages in the next two months. How Sponsored Articles works In the selected 37 journals, authors have the option to make their articles available on ScienceDirect at no cost to any viewer. The author charge for article sponsorship is $3,000. Importantly, authors can only select this option after an article has been accepted. Authors can also choose not to exercise this option with the assurance that their article will continue to reach a wide audience of researchers through ScienceDirects large subscription base. For further information and clarifications please contact Mr. Perdeep Kumar or Ms. Padma Muralidharan at the following mail IDs. mailto:p.kumar@elsevier.com p.kumar(a)elsevier.com mailto:p.muralidharan@elsevier.com p.muralidharan(a)elsevier.com Regards, Dr. E. Rama Reddy Library Consultant Dr. E. Rama Reddy University Librarian (Retd.), Flat # 4, Siddartha Apartments 22 Santosh Nagar Colony, Mehdipatnam HYDERABAD-500 028, A.P. India Tel: 040-2351-2877 mobile: 094404 18727 mailto:enukondar@yahoo.co.in enukondar(a)yahoo.co.in mailto:enukondar@gmail.com enukondar(a)gmail.com Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailanswersshare/*http://in.answers.yahoo.co… Click here Catch all the FIFA World Cup 2006 action on Yahoo! India http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailfifa/*http://in.sports.yahoo.com/footbal… Click here

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Sad Demise
by krish＠isibang.ac.in 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Dear Professionals, Prof.Ganesh Bhattacharya, Former Head, DRTC Passed away at around 18.00 hrs on Monday, 26th June, 2006. M.Krishnamurthy -------------------------- Dr.M.Krishnamurthy Librarian Indian Statistical Institute, 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalore 560059 Ph: 91-80-28483002/3/4 Fax: 91-80-28484265

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Online Resource 4 LIS Professionals
by junaise B 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Dear friends, please go through the following link, it will be very helpful to all LIS professionals, www.orsforlis.com it has done by Mr. Mohammed Shafi a student of MLISc at Andra. Any way its a good work, hearty congrats to Mr. Mohammed Shafi. Junaise.V Librarian The ICFAI Business School Kochi Dear friends, please go through the following link, it will be very helpful to all LIS professionals, http://www.orsforlis.com www.orsforlis.com it has done by Mr. Mohammed Shafi a student of MLISc at Andra. Any way its a good work, hearty congrats to Mr. Mohammed Shafi. Junaise.V Librarian The ICFAI Business School Kochi

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Information regarding 'Medical Tourism'
by Dabas Bharat K 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Dear Sir/Madam, Good Morning! Our one of faculty member is interested to publish a article in 'Medical Tourism'. Can you help by guiding some name of Indian journals with relevant details, where the article may be sent for publication. Thanking you in anticipation. Bharat Kumar Librarian --------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups gets better. Check out the new email design. Plus theres much more to come. Dear Sir/Madam, Good Morning! Our one of faculty member is interested to publish a article in 'Medical Tourism'. Can you help by guiding some name of Indian journals with relevant details, where the article may be sent for publication. Thanking you in anticipation. Bharat Kumar Librarian Yahoo! Groups gets better. http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=41142/*http://groups.yahoo.… Check out the new email design. Plus theres much more to come.

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IndianJournals.com - New Initiative - "Governing Power"
by Chandrima Roy 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Dear All, Greetings! We are proud to announce that after our successful approach towards both open access and paid journals, we have tried to explore books also. And now our first initiative towards the same "Governing Power - by S.L. Rao" Published by The TERI Press is on the web on www.indianjournals.com <http://www.indianjournals.com/> URL : http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:gp <http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:gp&type=home> &type=home We are awaiting your comments on the same. This will help us to move ahead with our objective of converting the Indian contributions in the Publishing world online and hence make these available worldwide. Thanks & Regards Chandrima Roy Divan Enterprises B-9, Basement, "A" Block, Local Shopping Complex Naraina Vihar, Ring Road New Delhi - 110028 Tel: +91-11-25770411 Fax: +91-11-25778876 Email: croy(a)docdelserv.com croy(a)indianjournals.com Website: http://www.docdelserv.com http://www.indianjournals.com  Dear All, � Greetings! � We are proud to announce that after our successful approach towards both open access and paid journals, we have tried to explore books also. And now our first initiative towards the same “Governing Power – by S.L. Rao ” Published by The TERI Press is on the web on http://www.indianjournals.com/ www.indianjournals.com � URL : http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:gp&type=home http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:gp&type=home � We are awaiting your comments on the same. This will help us to move ahead with our objective of converting the Indian contributions in the Publishing world online and hence make these available worldwide. � Thanks & Regards Chandrima Roy Divan Enterprises B-9, Basement, “A” Block, Local Shopping Complex Naraina Vihar, Ring Road New Delhi – 110028 Tel: +91-11-25770411 Fax: +91-11-25778876 Email: � croy(a)docdelserv.com �� croy(a)indianjournals.com Website: http://www.docdelserv.com �� http://www.indianjournals.com �

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Whom does the corporate librarian report to ?
by kishore.ingale＠tcs.com 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Dear Colleagues, "Corporate Librarian" is now a well established role in our profession. Many of us playing this role, have been contributing greatly to respective organisations. However, there are few organisations where the role, responsibilities and reporting pattern of corporate librarian is still evolving.. Out of academic interest, I would like to know the reporting pattern of Corporate Librarians. Whom does the Corporate librarian report to ?? Is it the CEO ? . MD ? CIO ? CKO ? CTO, ? R&D head, Admin head ?, I will be grateful if those working in industrial / IT / corporate sectors could share this information. What is needed is just a sentence like, for eg, " At TCS the corporate librarian reports to the HR head " The data will be used only for academic purposes and treated as confidential. With regards Kishore Ramdas Ingale Tata Consultancy Services Limited Ph:- +91-22-6750 5998 Cell:- 9226711630 Mailto: kishore.ingale(a)tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com =====-----=====-----===== Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you Dear Colleagues, "Corporate Librarian" is now a well established role in our profession. Many of us playing this role, have been contributing greatly to respective organisations. However, there are few organisations where the role, responsibilities and reporting pattern of corporate librarian is still evolving.. Out of academic interest, �I would like to know the reporting pattern of Corporate Librarians. Whom does the Corporate librarian report to ?? Is it the CEO ? . MD ? CIO ? �CKO ? CTO, �? R&D head, Admin head ?, I will be grateful if those working in industrial / IT / corporate sectors could share this information. What is needed is just a sentence like, for eg, �" At TCS the corporate librarian reports to the HR head " The data will be used only for academic purposes and treated as confidential. With regards Kishore Ramdas Ingale Tata Consultancy Services Limited Ph:- +91-22-6750 5998 Cell:- 9226711630 Mailto: kishore.ingale(a)tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com =====-----=====-----===== Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you

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CET for Ph.D Degree
by yekanath kamble 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

BANGALORE: Get set for another CET. This test is for PhD applicants! Tired of receiving inane dissertation papers and approving them simply because a candidate would have put in five or six years, and also faced with the dilemma of approving thousands of applicants for PhD, all state universities have decided to conduct an entrance test to screen applicants. The move which will come into effect this academic year will, however, be university-specific. A candidate has to make a presentation about his project to a doctoral panel once in three months. At its last meeting, the BU academic council meeting suggested that candidates be assessed on their performance in two papers of the CET.A merit list will be prepared by allotting 50% marks for entrance test and 50% for PG marks. The CET format has been left to the discretion of each university. "This has been done since the generic aptitude and exposure of candidates vary in different parts of the state," university sources said. Candidates, who have passed examinations like NET/SLET/GATE/JRF or M Phil or belonging to FIP/QIP programmes, are exempted from the CET. Also, candidates selected to work under specialised-funded projects and government-sponsored foreign students can directly register for a PhD programme. It is also mandatory that before applying for a PhD, a candidate has to have had at least two articles published in a recognised journal. The move has evoked mixed reactions from vice-chancellors. "We used to conduct a CET a few years back, but there was not a single failure. So the test was redundant," said Mysore V-C Shashidhar Prasad. Mangalore V-C K M Cauveryappa feels it is not possible to judge the ability of a candidate of study by a generic test. "Instead, it will be better if the guide interviews the candidate," he said. However, universities cannot escape the CET as it is an Inter-University Board decision. BU has suggested that candidates be tested on general aptitude and on techniques of research methodology. "The aim of the CET should be to assess the aptitude of the candidate towards research and not just his knowledge," said former BU VC M S Thimmappa. Source: The times of India 23 June 2006 Bangalore Edition Page.01 YEKANATH N KAMBLE ASST.LIBRARIAN R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING,MYSORE ROAD, BANGALORE-59 (INDIA) PH.91-80-28600351/28604705/28600184 FAX : 91 - 80 - 2860 0337 MOBILE.9448585358 --------------------------------- Want to be your own boss? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. BANGALORE : Get set for another CET. This test is for PhD applicants! Tired of receiving inane dissertation papers and approving them simply because a candidate would have put in five or six years, and also faced with the dilemma of approving thousands of applicants for PhD, all state universities have decided to conduct an entrance test to screen applicants. The move which will come into effect this academic year will, however, be university-specific. A candidate has to make a presentation about his project to a doctoral panel once in three months. At its last meeting, the BU academic council meeting suggested that candidates be assessed on their performance in two papers of the CET.A merit list will be prepared by allotting 50% marks for entrance test and 50% for PG marks. The CET format has been left to the discretion of each university. "This has been done since the generic aptitude and exposure of candidates vary in different parts of the state," university sources said. Candidates, who have passed examinations like NET/SLET/GATE/JRF or M Phil or belonging to FIP/QIP programmes, are exempted from the CET. Also, candidates selected to work under specialised-funded projects and government-sponsored foreign students can directly register for a PhD programme. It is also mandatory that before applying for a PhD, a candidate has to have had at least two articles published in a recognised journal. The move has evoked mixed reactions from vice-chancellors. "We used to conduct a CET a few years back, but there was not a single failure. So the test was redundant," said Mysore V-C Shashidhar Prasad. Mangalore V-C K M Cauveryappa feels it is not possible to judge the ability of a candidate of study by a generic test. "Instead, it will be better if the guide interviews the candidate," he said. However, universities cannot escape the CET as it is an Inter-University Board decision. BU has suggested that candidates be tested on general aptitude and on techniques of research methodology. "The aim of the CET should be to assess the aptitude of the candidate towards research and not just his knowledge," said former BU VC M S Thimmappa. Source: The times of India 23 June 2006 Bangalore Edition Page.01 YEKANATH N KAMBLE ASST.LIBRARIAN R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING,MYSORE ROAD, BANGALORE-59 (INDIA) PH.91-80-28600351/28604705/28600184 FAX : 91 - 80 - 2860 0337 MOBILE.9448585358 Want to be your own boss? Learn how on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=41244/*http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index Yahoo! Small Business.

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Mind-reading' computers next
by Farooque Shaheen 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

An "emotionally aware" computer being developed by British and US scientists will be able to estimate an individual's thoughts by analysing a combination of facial movements that represent underlying feelings. Applications of the computer could range from improving people's driving skills to helping companies tailor advertising to people's moods. It could also be useful for online teaching ? to show whether someone understands what is being explained and in improving road safety by determining if a driver was confused, bored or tired. A full dig on this matter can be found at: http://finance.news.com.au/story/0,10166,19590439-31037,00.html Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Astt. Manager- Information Services Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366 An "emotionally aware" computer being developed by British and US scientists will be able to estimate an individual's thoughts by analysing a combination of facial movements that represent underlying feelings. Applications of the computer could range from improving people's driving skills to helping companies tailor advertising to people's moods. It could also be useful for online teaching – to show whether someone understands what is being explained and in improving road safety by determining if a driver was confused, bored or tired. A full dig on this matter can be found at: http://finance.news.com.au/story/0,10166,19590439-31037,00.html Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Astt. Manager- Information Services Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366

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Seeking information about Indian Journal in fulltext databases
by Chitra P Rao 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

Hello: Indianjournals.com and NITIE are co hosting a seminar on E Journals and the Global promotion of Indian Journals on 1st July 2006 in NITIE Mumbai. Those who are keen to attend may get in touch with me. It is planned to be a one day seminar. While trying to collect information about the total number of journals published in India and the total number hosted on any foreign fulltext database I have come accross only two Journals Finance India and The IIMB Management Review Journal. I would like to know how many other indian journals are published and how many hosted other than the above. Kindly let me know at the earliest. Any help will be highly appreciated. Sr Librarian and Head LIS NITIE Mumbai 400 087 ph: 28573371 extn 337

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Fwd: [IFLA-L] Librarian recruitment site
by J. K. Vijayakumar 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

FYI. Alex Byrne <Alex.Byrne(a)uts.edu.au> wrote: Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:22:44 +1000 From: "Alex Byrne" <Alex.Byrne(a)uts.edu.au> To: <Ifla-l(a)infoserv.inist.fr> Subject: [IFLA-L] Librarian recruitment site st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } We hope you will be pleased to learn that members of the Western European Studies Section (WESS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) have formed a committee to address the current and long-term shortage of academic librarians. We are particularly interested in advising scholars and teachers with foreign language training and advanced degrees that careers in academic librarianship provide additional options for using their training in an academic setting. The WESS Committee on Recruitment to the Profession would like to call your attention to our Web site and ask you please to share the URL with your members in whatever way you feel is most appropriate: http://www.columbia.edu/~klg19/WESS/ Many thanks for your consideration, and please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions you might have. Sincerely, Karen Green -- -- Karen Green Ancient & Medieval History and Religion Librarian Columbia University New York NY 10027 212-854-3031 klg19(a)columbia.edu J. K. Vijayakumar http://libinfospace.blogspot.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Next-gen email? Have it all with the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. FYI. Alex Byrne <Alex.Byrne(a)uts.edu.au> wrote: Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:22:44 +1000 From: "Alex Byrne" <Alex.Byrne(a)uts.edu.au> To: <Ifla-l(a)infoserv.inist.fr> Subject: [IFLA-L] Librarian recruitment site st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }  We hope you will be pleased to learn that members of the Western European Studies Section (WESS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) have formed a committee to address the current and long-term shortage of academic librarians. We are particularly interested in advising scholars and teachers with foreign language training and advanced degrees that careers in academic librarianship provide additional options for using their training in an academic setting. The WESS Committee on Recruitment to the Profession would like to call your attention to our Web site and ask you please to share the URL with your members in whatever way you feel is most appropriate: http://www.columbia.edu/~klg19/WESS/ http://www.columbia.edu/~klg19/WESS/ Many thanks for your consideration, and please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions you might have. Sincerely, Karen Green -- -- Karen Green Ancient & Medieval History and Religion Librarian Columbia University New York NY 10027 212-854-3031 mailto:klg19@columbia.edu klg19(a)columbia.edu J. K. Vijayakumar http://libinfospace.blogspot.com/ http://libinfospace.blogspot.com Do you Yahoo!? Next-gen email? Have it all with the http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=40791/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/handr… all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta.

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Article Request
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:19:18 +0530 From: Dr. Arun K. Chakraborty <akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in> Dear Professionals We need following Article for our Institute : 1. From semi-conductors to the rhythms of sensitive plants: the research of J. C. Bose by V. A. Shephard, Cellular and Molecular Biology, vol. 51, 607-19 (2006). Regards. Arun DR. ARUN KUMAR CHAKRABORTY LIBRARIAN BOSE INSTITUTE, KOLKATA, INDIA MAIN CAMPUS: 93/1 A.P.C. ROAD, KOLKATA 700 009 INDIA PH: 91-33-2350 2402/03, FAX: 91-33-2350-6790 CENTENARY CAMPUS : P1/12 CIT SCHEME - VII-M, KOLKATA 700 054 INDIA PH: 91-33-2355 9544, 9416, 9219 FAX: 91-33-2355 3886 Ph(Res): 33-2672 1192, 3892, E-MAIL: akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in (Fulbright Scholar 2005-2006)

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Excellent Job Opportunities with TCS Libraries.
by bp.prakash＠tcs.com 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

Job Opportunity at Library & Information Centre (LIC) - Tata Consultancy Services Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) is the world-leading information technology consulting, services, and business process outsourcing organization. Commencing operations in 1968, today TCS has a presence in 34 countries across 6 continents & a comprehensive range of services across diverse industries. TCS has one of the largest corporate library systems in India with 51 libraries located in 12 cities managed by 86 professionals. Backed with world class infrastructure facilities and high quality processes, TCS libraries offer a variety of information services in alignment to the business needs of the organization. TCS is looking for suitable candidates for the following position at five locations: Designation: ?Officer - Library & Information Centre? Locations: Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata & Mumbai (Clearly mention the preferred location in application) Last Date to Receive Applications: 3rd July 2006 Qualifications & Experience: M.LI.Sc/M.Sc (Lib.Sc)/ADIS or equivalent, with 0 to 3 years experience in library/documentation/information handling, preferably in corporate, scientific, technology environments. Those who have appeared for the qualifying examinations in 2005-06 and are awaiting results are also eligible Canditates with a flair for IT and good communication skills will be preferred Job Description: The person would be a member of the corporate / branch library team. His/her responsibilities would include handling electronic resources, web pages, information services and housekeeping operations. The person should be flexible to work at any of the locations within the city & carry out extended hours Key Responsibilities: Assist the corporate / branch libraries to achieve their objectives, namely: · Offer timely & relevant information services · Deliver housekeeping operations · Create and archive information assets · Provide uninterrupted library hours All positions are regular in nature & compensation will match the best in the industry Application Form: Interested candidates may email / post their resumes as per the format (see after contact details) to any one of the branch heads mentioned below , based on their location preference. The applications should reach us not later than 3rd July 2006. Superscribe the envelope or mention in the subject line of the email as "Application for the post of Officer - Library & Information Centre" Please do not enclose photocopies of marksheets/certificates etc., now Contact Details: Bangalore Branch Head: Ms. Geetha V, Mail: geetha.v(a)tcs.com Address: Library & Information Centre, Tata Consultancy Services SJM Towers, 18, Sheshadri Road, Gandhinagar, Bangalore 560 009 Chennai Branch Head: Ms. Githanjali C, Mail: githanjali.chandrasekhar(a)tcs.com Address: Library & Information Centre, Tata Consultancy Services Insurance Solutions Centre, 1, Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Vadapalani Chennai ? 600 026 Hyderabad Branch Head: Mr. B Nagappa, Mail: nagappa.b(a)tcs.com Address: Library & Information Centre, Tata Consultancy Services Deccan Park, Plot No.1, Software Units Layout, Madhapur, Hyderabad 500081 Kolkata Branch Head: Ms. Sanjukta Ray, Mail: sanjukta.ray(a)tcs.com Address: Library & Information Centre, Tata Consultancy Services Auditorium Building, 3rd & 4th Floors, Plot C, Block EP & GP, Sector V Saltlake Electronics Complex, Kolkata 700091 Mumbai Branch Head: Ms. Banalata Das, Mail: mumbai.library(a)tcs.com Address: Library & Information Centre, Tata Consultancy Services Plot No. 64(ODC), SEEPZ, Andheri (E), Mumbai - 400 096 For any queries & clarifications, please contact: corporate.library(a)tcs.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Application Format Application for the Position of Officer ? Library & Information Centre Tata Consultancy Services ******************************************************************************************** Location Applying for: ___________________________________________________________ (Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata or Mumbai) (In case candidate is willing to work at any location, please mention order of preference) Name: __________________________________________________________ (Surname First) Date of Birth (DD/MM/YYYY): ___________________ Age: ________ Yrs Address for Communication: _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ City: ________________ Pin Code: ___________________________ Contact Nos: ____________________________ Email: ______________________ Educational Qualifications: (Please give details for all examinations SSC / 10th onwards) Degree Institute/College Yr of Passing Marks Obtained Percentage Division / Class Additional Qualifications (Certifications, Diplomas), if any: Degree Institute/College Yr of Passing Marks Obtained Percentage Division / Class Professional Experience, if any: Employer Period of Service Designation Work Profile in Brief Salary Drawn References (Name & Contact Details): 1. __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ 2. __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ Sign: __________________________ Date: _____________________________ Place: _____________________________ ForwardSourceID:NT00002E66 ForwardSourceID:NT0000B742 ForwardSourceID:NT00046D92 ForwardSourceID:NT0000C77A ForwardSourceID:NT00046DDE =====-----=====-----===== Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you Job Opportunity at Library & Information Centre (LIC) - Tata Consultancy Services Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) is the world-leading information technology consulting, services, and business process outsourcing organization. Commencing operations in 1968, today TCS has a presence in 34 countries across 6 continents & a comprehensive range of services across diverse industries. TCS has one of the largest corporate library systems in India with 51 libraries located in 12 cities managed by 86 professionals. Backed with world class infrastructure facilities and high quality processes, TCS libraries offer a variety of information services in alignment to the business needs of the organization. TCS is looking for suitable candidates for the following position at five locations: Designation : “Officer - Library & Information Centre” Locations : Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata & Mumbai (Clearly mention the preferred location in application) Last Date to Receive Applications : 3rd July 2006 Qualifications & Experience: M.LI.Sc/M.Sc (Lib.Sc)/ADIS or equivalent, with 0 to 3 years experience in library/documentation/information handling, preferably in corporate, scientific, technology environments. Those who have appeared for the qualifying examinations in 2005-06 and are awaiting results are also eligible Canditates with a flair for IT and good communication skills will be preferred Job Description: The person would be a member of the corporate / branch library team. His/her responsibilities would include handling electronic resources, web pages, information services and housekeeping operations. The person should be flexible to work at any of the locations within the city & carry out extended hours Key Responsibilities: Assist the corporate / branch libraries to achieve their objectives, namely: · Offer timely & relevant information services · Deliver housekeeping operations · Create and archive information assets · Provide uninterrupted library hours All positions are regular in nature & compensation will match the best in the industry Application Form: Interested candidates may email / post their resumes as per the format (see after contact details) to any one of the branch heads mentioned below , based on their location preference. The applications should reach us not later than 3rd July 2006 . 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2 interesting news items
by Krishnan 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

(1) From the Financial Times, June 20, 2006: Royal Society tests new system of free access to papers By Jon Boone in London The world’s oldest learned society will on Wednesday tear up its 340-year-old business model with the launch of an “open access” journal allowing people to read its new scientific papers free of charge. The Royal Society in London virtually invented the subscription-based system of peer-reviewed scientific journals when it started the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1665. But in a trial that will be closely watched by researchers and journal publishers around the world, it will allow authors to pay for costs of publication themselves. Authors, or their research sponsors, who choose to pay to make their papers immediately available online will be charged £300 ($553, €439) per A4 page... The Royal Society hopes to test the viability of the scheme by charging the full economic cost of publication. ... The open access movement has been helped by recent developments, including the decision by the Wellcome Trust, one of the world’s biggest research granting bodies, that all articles produced through work it has funded will have to be published on an open access basis from October. The Royal Society’s first paper published on Wednesday is being financed by the trust... News Item (2)..... It seems that open access journal publishing, known as the "gold" version of OA, isn't paved with gold. In an eye-opening analysis in the journal Nature, the Public Library of Science (PLoS), which launched its first open access journals in 2003, is said to be facing a "looming financial crisis." According to Nature, which analyzed the non-profit PLoS's publicly available records on file with the Internal Revenue Service, PLoS ran a deficit of almost $1 million last year, and its total income from fees and advertising currently covers just 35 percent of its costs. While revenue is increasing slightly, spending is increasing at a greater clip, up to $5.5 million over the past three years combined. In response, with its grant funds being steadily depleted, PLoS has announced that it will raise author fees, effective July 1, for its open access journals from $1500 to $2500 for flagship journals PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine; and to $2000 for its community journals PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics, and PLoS Pathogens. In a release, officials from the non-profit PLoS said that, with three years of operational experience to draw on, it was "time to adjust this model so that our publication fees reflect more closely the costs of publication." Still, even with the increased fees, Nature reports that PLoS will have to rely on "philanthropy" to survive for the foreseeable future, including its funding from the Sandler and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundations. PLoS director of publishing Mark Patterson downplayed the financial situation, noting that the fledgling publisher is only in its fourth year. Still, more than a few commercial publishers may be saying "I told you so." In the early days of open access publishing, commercial publishers repeatedly suggested that author fees for PLoS, at $1500, and for-profit open access publisher BioMed Central, then $500, were unsustainably low. Last year, BioMed Central increased its author fees, from $525 to as much as $1700. Commercial competitors, meanwhile, including Springer, Blackwell, and most recently Elsevier, have begun offering open-access-like publishing options, for fees closer to $3000. Dr. S.Krishnan Head, Information Division National Chemical Laboratory Pashan Road PUNE 411008, INDIA e-mail: s.krishnan(a)ncl.res.in Tel: +91-20-25902650

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College Students' Perceptions: Libraries and Information Resources
by Thapar, Amit 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

College Students' Perceptions: Libraries and Information Resources <http://www.oclc.org/reports/perceptionscollege.htm> Academic librarians and college administrators will find these survey results valuable for their planning. amit@urservice Cell: 9855701060 e-mail: amit_thapar(a)yahoo.com URL: http://www.niper.gov.in/ College Students' Perceptions: Libraries and Information Resources < http://www.oclc.org/reports/perceptionscollege.htm http://www.oclc.org/reports/perceptionscollege.htm > Academic librarians and college administrators will find these survey results valuable for their planning. mailto:amit@urservice amit@urservice Cell: 9855701060 e-mail: mailto:amit_thapar@yahoo.com amit_thapar(a)yahoo.com URL: http://www.niper.gov.in/ http://www.niper.gov.in/

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Minutes of the First Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Memorial Lecture
by Nandhan Ravi 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Minutes of the First Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Memorial Lecture held on 3rd June, 2006 at Choksi Hall, IISc, Bangalore. The event began at 5:45 pm with a cup of tea. The speaker, Prof. N. J. Rao and the presider, Prof. N. V. Joshi inaugurated the event by lighting the lamps. Mr. Francis Jayakanth gave a brief background of the association of Late Dr. T.B. Rajashekar with NCSI-NET and about the memorial lecture series. Ms. Anitha introduced the guest speaker. Prof. N. J. Rao spoke on 'E-support Systems for Learning, Teaching and Research'. He gave a history of the methods of teaching and learning. Earlier models considered the brain as a black box. But with research on how the brain acts to stimulus, newer models have evolved. Traditional classroom teaching is teacher centric and is also limited in interactions with the students. A learning environment should be focused on the student instead and allow extensive interaction with the teacher. He focused on how 'Problem Based Teaching' can be very effective in forming a new generation of professionals who need to be very competitive in their work environments. He identified the characteristics of a modern and ideal teaching and learning environment. It should be possible to take advantage of the developments in ICT, like Internet and E-mail, and build a teaching-learning system that possesses all these characteristics. He explained the features of Moodle, open source e-learning software and also gave the screen shots of the system. The CD "Late Dr. T.B. Rajashekar's Academic Contributions'' was released by Prof. N J Rao. This digital collection comprises of the academic works, presentations and tutorials of Late Dr. T.B. Rajashekar. The collection has been built with the latest version of Greenstone Digital Library (GSDL) Software, and has search and browse features. The same collection is also available online at: http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/gsdl/cgi-bin/library Vote of thanks was proposed by Ms. Suvarsha Walters, and the event ended with high tea at 7:30 pm. A request to the LIS-Forum Members: If you are aware of any of Late Dr. T B Rajashekar's publications, which have not been included in the above mentioned collection, please bring this to the notice of either Ms. Anitha (anitha_m(a)aurigene.com) or Mr.Ravi Nandhan (ravinandhan(a)gmail.com) This will enable us to keep the collection as complete as possible. With warm regards, V. Ravi Nandhan and Anitha M NCSI-NET Coordinators V. Ravi Nandhan. Knowledge Coordinator Capco t: +91 80 41997351 f: +91 80 41997201 v: 6-7351 e: ravi.nandhan(a)capco.com w: www.capco.com ************************************************************************ LEARN MORE - Capco is a consultant, managed services provider and thought leader. We are experts in the financial services industry. 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Joshi inaugurated the event by lighting the lamps. Mr. Francis Jayakanth gave a brief background of the association of Late Dr. T.B. Rajashekar with NCSI-NET and about the memorial lecture series. Ms. Anitha introduced the guest speaker. Prof. N. J. Rao spoke on 'E-support Systems for Learning, Teaching and Research'. He gave a history of the methods of teaching and learning. Earlier models considered the brain as a black box. But with research on how the brain acts to stimulus, newer models have evolved. Traditional classroom teaching is teacher centric and is also limited in interactions with the students. A learning environment should be focused on the student instead and allow extensive interaction with the teacher. He focused on how 'Problem Based Teaching' can be very effective in forming a new generation of professionals who need to be very competitive in their work environments. He identified the characteristics of a modern and ideal teaching and learning environment. It should be possible to take advantage of the developments in ICT, like Internet and E-mail, and build a teaching-learning system that possesses all these characteristics. He explained the features of Moodle, open source e-learning software and also gave the screen shots of the system. The CD "Late Dr. T.B. Rajashekar's Academic Contributions'' was released by Prof. N J Rao. This digital collection comprises of the academic works, presentations and tutorials of Late Dr. T.B. Rajashekar. The collection has been built with the latest version of Greenstone Digital Library (GSDL) Software, and has search and browse features. The same collection is also� available online at: http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/gsdl/cgi-bin/library http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/gsdl/cgi-bin/library Vote of thanks was proposed by Ms. Suvarsha Walters, and the event ended with high tea at 7:30 pm. A request to the LIS-Forum Members: If you are aware of any of Late Dr. T B Rajashekar's publications, which have not been included in the above mentioned collection, please bring this to the notice of either Ms. Anitha (anitha_m(a)aurigene.com) or Mr.Ravi Nandhan (ravinandhan(a)gmail.com) This will enable us to keep the collection as complete as possible. With warm regards, V. Ravi Nandhan and Anitha M NCSI-NET Coordinators V. Ravi Nandhan. Knowledge Coordinator Capco t: +91 80 41997351 f: +91 80 41997201 v: 6-7351 e: ravi.nandhan(a)capco.com w: file://www.capco.com www.capco.com ************************************************************************ LEARN MORE - Capco is a consultant, managed services provider and thought leader. We are experts in the financial services industry. 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Presentations of U.S.-India Summit on Education, Research & Technology
by J. K. Vijayakumar 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

With reference to the earlier announcement pasted below, the presentations of the U.S.-India Summit on Education, Research & Technology are available at http://us-india.calit2.net/archive.html ---------- J.K.Vijayakumar http://libinfospace.blogspot.com/ "Dr. J. K. Vijayakumar" <vjkjk(a)yahoo.com> wrote: On May 31, 2006, an audience of 150 invited officials from industry, academe, government and non-governmental organizations in India and the United States will meet to explore strategic issues in high-tech research and education as they apply to the worlds two largest democracies. The U.S.-India Summit on Education, Research & Technology is organized by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), and will take place on the UCSD campus in La Jolla, California. The Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum will play an essential role in promoting and facilitating the collaborative research activities arising from the UC-India agreement. Visit http://us-india.calit2.net/ or http://www.amrita.edu/ for more details. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com With reference to the earlier announcement pasted below, the presentations of the U.S.-India Summit on Education, Research & Technology are available at http://us-india.calit2.net/archive.html http://us-india.calit2.net/archive.html ---------- J.K.Vijayakumar http://libinfospace.blogspot.com/ http://libinfospace.blogspot.com/ "Dr. J. K. Vijayakumar" <vjkjk(a)yahoo.com> wrote: On May 31, 2006 , an audience of 150 invited officials from industry, academe, government and non-governmental organizations in India and the United States will meet to explore strategic issues in high-tech research and education as they apply to the worlds two largest democracies. The U.S.-India Summit on Education, Research & Technology is organized by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), and will take place on the UCSD campus in La Jolla, California. The Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum will play an essential role in promoting and facilitating the collaborative research activities arising from the UC-India agreement. Visit http://us-india.calit2.net/ http://us-india.calit2.net/ or http://www.amrita.edu/ http://www.amrita.edu/ for more details. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Investing the "public" in the Public Library of Science
by Saiful Amin 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Greetings! There is an interesting article in the current issue of First Monday Investigating the 'public' in the Public Library of Science: Gifting economics in the Internet community by Charlotte Tschider http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_6/tschider/ Abstract: Countless critics of the open access movement have cited the Budapest–Bethesda–Berlin open access principles as responsible for unsustainable business models and a dilution of the efficacy of scientific scholarship or "impact." Impact factors measure a journal's primacy in academic scholarship, and it reflects how frequently a journal's articles are cited. Much to the surprise of open access critics, PLoS Biology recently achieved a high impact factor of 13.9 after only two years of publishing, a feat rarely accomplished even in more traditional print journals. The Public Library of Science (PLoS) employed the most liberal interpretation of the Budapest–Bethesda–Berlin (BBB) open access (OA) principles when creating its inaugural journal, PLoS Biology, after extensive OA advocacy efforts. BBB principles encourage open access for all individuals with an Internet connection and free use of all information for any educational purposes, including the creation of derivative works. ----- This current issue of First Monday also has a number of selected papers on Open Access from the First Monday Conference, 15–17 May 2006. http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_6/ Happy reading! Regards, Saiful -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 2/2, Union Street Off Infantry Road Bangalore 560001, India Tel: +91 80 4112 3437 M: +91 93438 26438 Fax: +91 80 4151 7801 www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong."

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Amsterdam named World Book Capital 2008
by vimal kumar 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Dear Professionals, Amsterdam has been chosen as the 2008 World Book Capital by a selection committee, comprised of representatives of UNESCO and the three main international organizations representing the book industry, that met at UNESCO on 8 June. Further reading http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=22376&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football 06 - Go with the leader. Start your league today! Amsterdam has been chosen as the 2008 World Book Capital by a selection committee, comprised of representatives of UNESCO and the three main international organizations representing the book industry, that met at UNESCO on 8 June. Further reading http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=22376&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football 06 - Go with the leader. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=33539/*http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com?o… Start your league today!

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Collapse Of Wikipedia?
by vimal kumar 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Dear professional, An interesting news about Wikipedia appeared in EFY newsnetwork. Collapse Of Wikipedia? Swapnil Bhartiya, EFY News Network Wikipedia is shifting from its core policy by restricting the users' power to edit the online content. 'If you want to see the true character of a person, give him power,' is what Abraham Lincoln said, and Wikipedia has just proved it right. Another statement that goes true for Wikipedia is that 'with the increase in power, democracy gives way to dictatorship'. Why is there so much of criticism of Wikipedia? There has to be: Wikipedia, which became the world's third most popular information hub, is shifting from its core policy -- free information 'which anyone can edit'. But Wikipedia has its own reasons for the shift from 'open editing' to 'not so open editing' of the content online. Wikipedia said that there has been an increase in vandalisation in the recent weeks, especially about the sensitive issues, like George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Iraq, etc. And they want more control to avoid this. According to the New York Times, "[Wikipedia] is not the experiment in freewheeling collective creativity it might seem to be, because maintaining so much openness inevitably involves some trade-offs...it's an online community that has built itself a bureaucracy of sorts one that, in response to well-publicised problems with some entries, has recently grown more elaborate." Wikipedia now has a clear power structure that gives volunteer administrators the authority to exercise editorial control, delete unsuitable articles and protect those that are vulnerable to vandalism. Owing to its policy only, Wikipedia succeded in creating such a huge database of information; now the shift could be seen through two glasses -- its inability to fight vandalism, or it's a strategy to take over full control over the content? Will democracy give way to dictatorship? Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. An interesting news about Wikipedia appeared in EFY newsnetwork. Collapse Of Wikipedia? Swapnil Bhartiya, EFY News Network Wikipedia is shifting from its core policy by restricting the users' power to edit the online content. 'If you want to see the true character of a person, give him power,' is what Abraham Lincoln said, and Wikipedia has just proved it right. Another statement that goes true for Wikipedia is that 'with the increase in power, democracy gives way to dictatorship'. Why is there so much of criticism of Wikipedia? There has to be: Wikipedia, which became the world's third most popular information hub, is shifting from its core policy -- free information 'which anyone can edit'. But Wikipedia has its own reasons for the shift from 'open editing' to 'not so open editing' of the content online. Wikipedia said that there has been an increase in vandalisation in the recent weeks, especially about the sensitive issues, like George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Iraq, etc. And they want more control to avoid this. According to the New York Times, "[Wikipedia] is not the experiment in freewheeling collective creativity it might seem to be, because maintaining so much openness inevitably involves some trade-offs...it's an online community that has built itself a bureaucracy of sorts one that, in response to well-publicised problems with some entries, has recently grown more elaborate." Wikipedia now has a clear power structure that gives volunteer administrators the authority to exercise editorial control, delete unsuitable articles and protect those that are vulnerable to vandalism. Owing to its policy only, Wikipedia succeded in creating such a huge database of information; now the shift could be seen through two glasses -- its inability to fight vandalism, or it's a strategy to take over full control over the content? Will democracy give way to dictatorship? Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman7/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… Great rates starting at 1¢/min.

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KALA LECTURE
by I.R.N.Goudar 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Dear Professionals, KARNATAKA STATE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (KALA) Cordially invites you to the following Special Lecture TOPIC : Dissertations and Global Open Access Initiatives SPEAKER : Mr. Terry Robinson Vice President, International Sales, PROQUEST Information & Learning, UK DATE & TIME : Wedenesday, 21st June 2006 at 6.00 pm VENUE : Canara Bank School of Management Studies, Near BU Library (Central College),Dr Ambedkar Veedi Central College Campus, Bangalore-1 Tel: 22961975 (Mrs. Adilakshmi, Librarian) ALL ARE CORDIALLY WELCOME, PLEASE INFORM YOUR FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES Dr. IRN Goudar President, KALA Head, ICAST National Aerospace laboratories Bangalore -560 017 Tel: 25086080

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IndianJournals.com - Latest Update
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 10:01:41 +0530 From: Chandrima Roy <croy(a)docdelserv.com> Dear All, Greetings! We have uploaded two new issues of Open Access Journal "Fire Engineer" on our website www.indianjournals.com <http://www.indianjournals.com/> the details of which are given below along with the links. Hence, overall Statistics of Indianjournals.com as on date since it's Launch on 30th May 2005 becomes: No. of Publications: 36 Societies Associated: 30 Issues Archival: 151 Subject Areas Covered so far: 9 Open Access Journals: 6 Visitors So far as on 16th June, 2006: 72,177 Latest Journals (Issues) uploaded: 1) Fire Engineer Volume 30, Issue 4, 2005 (October-December) http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=3Dijor:fe <http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=3Dijor:fe&type=3Dhome> &type=3Dhome For TOC & Full text, please click on the link below: http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=3Dijor:fe <http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=3Dijor:fe&volume=3D30&issue= =3D= 4&type=3Dtoc> &volume=3D30&issue=3D4&type=3Dtoc 2) Fire Engineer Volume 30, Issue 3, 2005 (July-September) http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=3Dijor:fe <http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=3Dijor:fe&type=3Dhome> &type=3Dhoe For TOC & Full text, please click on the link below: http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=3Dijor:fe <http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=3Dijor:fe&volume=3D30&issue= 3&type=3Dtoc> &volume=3D30&issue=3D3&type=3Dtoc 3) Indian Journal of Microbiology Year 2006, Volume-46, Issue-1 (March) http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=3Dijor:ijm <http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=3Dijor:ijm&type=3Dhome> &type=3Dhome For TOC & Abstracts, please click on the link below: http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=3Dijor:ijm <http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=3Dijor:ijm&volume=3D46&issu= e =3D1&type=3Dtoc> &volume=3D46&issue=3D1&type=3Dtoc To access the full text of other free Journals, kindly log on to http://www.indianjournals.com Wish you a great time ahead! Thanks & Regards Chandrima Roy Divan Enterprises B-9, Basement, "A" Block, Local Shopping Complex Naraina Vihar, Ring Road New Delhi - 110028 Tel: +91-11-25770411 Fax: +91-11-25778876 Email: croy(a)docdelserv.com croy(a)indianjournals.com Website: http://www.docdelserv.com http://www.indianjournals.com

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XXIII IATLIS National Conference-2006- theme
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 03:36:39 +0100 (BST) From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> Dear Friends, Prof CR Karisiddappa, President of IATLIS (Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science) has proposed the following theme for the ensuing XXIII IATLIS National Conference to be organised in Nov 2006. As we are already delayed in finalising the theme, may i request all the concerned to react and suggest the changes to the thme. even it will be gret, if u can suggest something new, but shd be related to the LIS education. Earlier we have already organised three conferences relating to curriuclum. in the light of the earlier background, may i request all professional friends to suggest the the theme earliet to enable us to finalise the same. the same may also be sent to Prof Karisiddappa to his mail id karisiddappa(a)yahoo.com thanks laxman rao "Dr. C R Karisiddappa," : THEME: Building Curriculum of Difference: Defining the vision for LIS education Sub themes: - Constructing integrated curriculum for the present and future - new approaches - Modularisation of the curriculum - Web-based learning, learning through experience, hidden curricula, cross curricular key skills etc. - International LIS curricula - case / comparative studies - Emerging digital realities- reflections on LIS curriculum and their integration - Instructional improvement - Powerful pedagogies and innovative learning environment - Changing student demographies - massification challenges on curriculum development - Leadership in the next generation LIS professionals - Curriculum assessment and reinforcing subject - Sustenance of LIS Departments - funding (economic) issues - Role of associations academies in the promotion of curriculum building. ================================== Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, Chairman, Board of Studies, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) Vice President, Association of British Scholars(AP Chapter) Vice-President, Faculty Club, Osmania University 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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Workshop on "Applicatin of Instructional Technology to Information Literacy Programmes"
by ravija srivastava 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Dear Sir, This is in continuation to my previous mails regarding workshop being conducted by the Dept. of Libray & Information Science, University of Mumbai. By mistake the title of the workshop was deleted frommt he posting. Kindly include the title as following : " Application of Instructional Technology to Information Literacy Programmes" I sincerely apologise for the inconvenience. Thanking you. Yours sincerely Ravija Srivastava --------------------------------- Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football 06 - Go with the leader. Start your league today! Dear Sir, This is in continuation to my previous mails regarding workshop being conducted by the Dept. of Libray & Information Science, University of Mumbai. By mistake the title of the workshop was deleted frommt he posting. Kindly include the title as following : " Application of Instructional Technology to Information Literacy Programmes" I sincerely apologise for the inconvenience. Thanking you. Yours sincerely Ravija Srivastava Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football 06 - Go with the leader. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=33539/*http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com?o… Start your league today!

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SALIS Awards for the 2006 presented - Congrats to the winners
by Arunachalam Hariharan 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Dear Professionals, We are happy to inform that SALIS Awards for the year 2006 were presented to the following professionals for their OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION and SERVICE to the LIS profession. These awards were presented during the inaugural function of SALIS 2006 National Conference on Initiatives in Libraries and Information Centers at Karunya Deemed University, Coimbatore on 9th June 2006 at 10.30 A.M. Dr. P.V. Konnur , University Librarian, Bangalore University (Former University Librarian, Goa University was selected for the Dr. Harish Chandra-Sushila Chandra Best Librarian Award (National Level). Dr. V.S.Prasad, Director, NAAC presented the Award and Citation to Dr. P.V. Konnur. Dr. J.Dominic, Librarian, Karunya Deemed University was selected for AutoLib-Tamilnadu Best Librarian Award . Dr. V.S.Prasad, Director, NAAC presented the Award and Citation to Dr. J. Dominic Mrs. K. Vinitha, Librarian, National Engineering College, Kovilpatti was selected for the AutoLib-Tamilnadu Best Young Librarian Award. Prof. Dr.P.K.Phillip,Vice-Chancellor. Karunya Deemed University, presented the Award and Citation. Congratulation to all the AWARD WINNERS !!! On behalf of the Award Committee Convener SALIS Award Committee __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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RE: [DDN] bill gates transitions
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Friends: To take this discussion a little away from Microsoft and OSS. The Gatses are among the largest funders of public health and school education programmes. Both of these can benefit a great deal if knowledge flows freely and unfettered. Currently the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supports the public library movement through a major award. It would only be a logical extension for the Gatses, Microsoft and the N&M Gates Foundation to support the open access movement. Right now the Open Society Institute and the Wellcome Trust are among the few institutions that support the OA movement. Subbiah Arunachalam > I wonder if it's really possible to incorporate a "Linux -v- Microsoft" > battle of operating systems into any sort of effective Open Source > activism? > > > Trouble is that Open Source perse (and true OSS activism) has no issue > with > Microsoft - to the contrary... the fact this leviathan itself ventured > into > Open Source in 2004 (albeit tentatively and only a tiny step thus far), is > marvellous news to those of us honestly wishing to promote OSS as a viable > and humanitarian-focused software development ideology. > > I am quite sure that to a majority of software developers... What better > proponent for OSS than the world's largest and most powerful software > company? Having spent years fostering and developing a tenuous > relationship, > it would be horrible for the relationship to now be destroyed by a few > Linux > zealots so wrapped-up in a preferred operating system they would smash any > bridges regardless of cost. Ideological terrorism. > > In a few weeks (along with about 1,000 other software developers) I will > spend a week at Microsoft TechEd. Assuming the event is no different to > other years a small minority of us will be Linux users, a large majority > Open Source Software activists in our businesses and workplaces. Microsoft > are expected to announce further Open Source developments, and as in years > past we will again be very vocal should this fail to eventuate! (having > spent $thousands to attend the event MS are inclined to listen to us). > > A leviathan cannot be moved by brute force, but it can be persuaded to > move > if enough voices of interest suggest good reason to do so... Having nudged > this particular leviathan a few steps along the path we can only hope that > a > noisy minority do not continue to undermine efforts in one-eyed hatred of > all things Microsoft - That the leviathan isn't forced to abandon this > new-found path because the view of the end is simply too unpalatable. > > PS - I personally have more issue with IBM than Microsoft - MS is at least > honest enough to openly criticise what it views as the shortcomings of > OSS, > meaning activists can listen and address concerns in a reasonable > manner... > IBM has a history of trying to associate with and subsequently dominate > OSS > projects simply for it's own marketing purposes. To consume rather than > participate as equals. Nonetheless I also acknowledge the benefits IBM can > bring as a powerful "player" and market force. We need to nurture the > support of all these leviathans. > > Cheers, Don > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE(a)mailman.edc.org > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-request(a)mailman.edc.org > with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. >

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[Fwd: [DDN] A Fresh Look at Public Attitudes About Libraries in
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [DDN] A Fresh Look at Public Attitudes About Libraries in the 21stCentury From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne(a)temple.edu> Date: Sun, June 18, 2006 6:21 pm This recently released report is featured in a post on Net-Gold in which I also discuss the importance of teaching end users and in particular students regarding bibliographic database use resources and skills. LIBRARY: ISSUES: REPORT: A Fresh Look at Public Attitudes About Libraries in the 21st Century <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/13336> >From my comments: "One critical problem in American education and in our understanding of the digital divide is the almost complete failure in K-12 and undergraduate college programs is the lack of in depth training in the use of bibliographic databases now provided by many public and most academic libraries with the result that Americans who use the internet rely on search engines like Google, but not even Google Books or Google Scholar, to do research or learn or self educate themselves. " <http://snipurl.com/rxlw> Sincerely, David Dillard Temple University (215) 204 - 4584 jwne(a)temple.edu Net-Gold <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold> <http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html> General Internet & Print Resources <http://library.temple.edu/articles/subject_guides/general.jsp> <http://www.learningis4everyone.org/> <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html> Digital Divide Network <http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/jwne> Educator-Gold <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Educator-Gold/> _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE(a)mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-request(a)mailman.edc.org with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.

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KnowGenesis IJTC - Call for Papers
by Saurabh Kudesia 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Hello, Potential authors are invited to submit articles for peer review and publication in the coming editions of the KnowGenesis IJTC. Short columns, letters, reviews (book/product/technology), short technical releases, and study abstracts are also welcome. Articles are accepted on the basis that they will make a lasting contribution to technical literature. Information regarding scope, policies and author guidelines can be found by visiting the About the Journal section(http://knowgenesis.net/journal/index.php?journal=IJTC&page=about). Submission can be done anytime using the online submission system available at (http://www.knowgenesis.net/journal/index.php?journal=IJTC&page=about&op=sub…) You can also send your contribution for consideration directly to the IJTC editorial team at editorinchief(a)knowgenesis.org. About KnowGenesis IJTC ---------------------- KnowGenesis International Journal for Technical Communication (IJTC) is a freely available, international, scholarly journal, dedicated to making accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines under Technical Communication. KnowGenesis IJTC is a volunteer effort that brought some of the finest International minds at one place. Thanks to their dedication and support,KnowGenesis IJTC became the first Indian Journal listed by American Education Research Association (AERA) SIG Communication of Research. AERA SIG list is a prestigious list of electronic journals consisting of scholarly and peer-reviewed journals, which are accessible without cost. Recently, UNESCO and Digital Curation Centre (DCC) UK have also included KnowGenesis IJTC in their list of international journals. KnowGenesis is proud to have authors listed from prestigious institutes like NISCAIR, University of Mississippi, University of Calcutta and STC and is committed to contribute its valuable share for the foundation of a true knowledge driven society. Previous issues of the Journal are available at http://knowgenesis.net/journal/index.php?journal=IJTC&page=issue&op=archive. Please note the prior registration is required to access the Journal article. FREE registration can be done using the link http://knowgenesis.net/journal/index.php?journal=IJTC&page=user&op=register For more information on KnowGenesis Journal, visit www.knowgenesis.net/journal or mail me at editorinchief(a)knowgenesis.org with your queries. -- Saurabh Kudesia Co-founder, Editor-in-chief KnowGenesis IJTC editorinchief(a)knowgenesis.org www.knowgenesis.net/journal

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Workshop in University of Mumbai
by ravija srivastava 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

Dear Professionals As a part of Sesqui-Centennial Celebrations of University of Mumbai , the Department of Library & Information Science is going to conduct several workshops, seminars and lectures on various topics pertaining to the current trends int he profession during the coming two years. The first one is a workshop cum seminar scheduled for (-10 August, 2006. All the reference librarians and instruction librarians especially those working in the academic institutions are cordially invited to attend the event. This event has been conceived with the idea that information literacy is the need of the hour especially for the students, researchers and scientists. And to train the users, reference and instruction librarians should be made conversant with the skills of teaching and conducting effective short term instruction programmes, using instructional technology. Many of you would be receiving the brochures in the coming week. Attached herein is a part of the same along with registration form. Please make use of the same. Looking forward to your participation, Ravija Srivastava Lecturer Dept of Library & Information Science University of Mumbai Vidyanagari, Kalina Santa Cruz (E) Mumbai 400098 Ph. 91-022-26526679 Mo. 9819325070 E-mail ID : ravija_srivastava(a)yahoo.com INTRODUCTION Information Literacy is an important aspect of lifelong learning in the present competitive world replete with abundant information sources in various forms and formats. In libraries and information centers the reference librarians have traditionally provided bibliographic instruction or user education or library instruction to the users. Information literacy instruction covers all of them implying that information professionals strive to employ the users of information with a set of skills required to be able to find, retrieve, analyze, and use information effectively in the desired manner. As a necessity in many academic and research libraries it has become a core activity. Therefore the professional librarians need to be equipped with instructional techniques that can make the instruction programmes in the library more effective. This workshop is the first of its kind involving experts from the fields of Library & Information Science and Education. OBJECTIVES The workshop cum seminar aims to enable the participants 1. To know the elements of information literacy instruction 2. To know the elements of instructional technology 3. To design a customized training schedule for a single user or a group of identified users 4. To assess the effectiveness of their training programme METHODOLOGY The resource persons will use lecture method of instruction supported by exercises and activities suitable to the topic covered. Interactive sessions will be held at the end of the day. WHO SHOULD ATTEND Reference Librarians and other information professionals in academic and research libraries who regularly conduct information literacy instruction sessions (formal or informal) will benefit from this workshop by learning how to structure their instruction programmes in a technical manner. VENUE Auditorium, Department of Library & Information Science, Jawaharlal Nehru Library, University of Mumbai, Vidyanagari, Kalina, Santa Cruz (E), 400098. DATE 9th & 10th August, 2006. REGISTRATION Registration Fee : Rs.800/- (including Breakfast, lunch, workshop kit and study material) Accommodation : Arrangement can be made in the Guest House within University Campus if intimated well in advance. Contact Persons: 1.Mrs. Ravija Srivastava Lecturer Department of Library & Information Science University of Mumbai Vidyanagari, Kalina Santa Cruz (E) Mumbai 400098 Ph. 91-022-26526679 Mo. 9819325070 E-mail ID : ravija_srivastava(a)yahoo.com 2.Prof. (Dr.) S.R. Pandya Head, Department of Education University of Mumbai Vidyanagari, Kalina Santa Cruz (E) Mumbai 400098 Ph. 91-022-26526226 PROGRAM SCHEDULE 9th August, 2006 9.30a.m. Registration 10.00a.m. Keynote Speech 11.00a.m. Tea Break 11.30a.m. Session 1 : Instructional Strategies with special reference to Information Literacy 1.00p.m. Lunch Break 1.30p.m. Session 2 : Learning Styles 3.00p.m. Tea Break 3.30p.m.Session 3 : Critical Thinking Skills 5.00p.m. Interactive session 10th August, 2006 9.30a.m. Session 1 :Instructional Design I 11.00a.m. Tea Break 11.30a.m. Session 2 : Instructional Design II 1.00p.m. Lunch Break 1.30p.m. Session 3 : E-Learning 3.00p.m. Tea Break 3.30p.m. Session 4 : Evaluation & Assessment 5.00p.m. Interactive session 5.30p.m. Valedictory REGISTRATION FORM Name : Dr./Mr./Ms._____________________________________________________ Name of organization :_________________________________________________ Address:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Ph.(off.)______________(Mob.)__________________Email____________________ Designation :________________________________________ Accomodation Required : Yes / No Details of Payment : ___________________________________________________ (Cheques and Demand Drafts to be in the name of Librarian, University of Mumbai payable at Allahabad Bank, Kalina branch.) Signature --------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups gets better. Check out the new email design. Plus theres much more to come. Dear Professionals As a part of Sesqui-Centennial Celebrations of University of Mumbai , the Department of Library & Information Science is going to conduct several workshops, seminars and lectures on various topics pertaining to the current trends int he profession during the coming two years. The first one is a workshop cum seminar scheduled for (-10 August, 2006. All the reference librarians and instruction librarians especially those working in the academic institutions are cordially invited to attend the event. This event has been conceived with the idea that information literacy is the need of the hour especially for the students, researchers and scientists. And to train the users, reference and instruction librarians should be made conversant with the skills of teaching and conducting effective short term instruction programmes, using instructional technology. Many of you would be receiving the brochures in the coming week. Attached herein is a part of the same along with registration form. Please make use of the same. Looking forward to your participation, Ravija Srivastava Lecturer Dept of Library & Information Science University of Mumbai Vidyanagari, Kalina Santa Cruz (E) Mumbai 400098 Ph. 91-022-26526679 Mo. 9819325070 E-mail ID : mailto:ravija_srivastava@yahoo.com ravija_srivastava(a)yahoo.com INTRODUCTION Information Literacy is an important aspect of lifelong learning in the present competitive world replete with abundant information sources in various forms and formats. In libraries and information centers the reference librarians have traditionally provided bibliographic instruction or user education or library instruction to the users. Information literacy instruction covers all of them implying that information professionals strive to employ the users of information with a set of skills required to be able to find, retrieve, analyze, and use information effectively in the desired manner. As a necessity in many academic and research libraries it has become a core activity. Therefore the professional librarians need to be equipped with instructional techniques that can make the instruction programmes in the library more effective. This workshop is the first of its kind involving experts from the fields of Library & Information Science and Education. OBJECTIVES The workshop cum seminar aims to enable the participants 1. To know the elements of information literacy instruction 2. To know the elements of instructional technology 3. To design a customized training schedule for a single user or a group of identified users 4. To assess the effectiveness of their training programme METHODOLOGY The resource persons will use lecture method of instruction supported by exercises and activities suitable to the topic covered. Interactive sessions will be held at the end of the day. WHO SHOULD ATTEND Reference Librarians and other information professionals in academic and research libraries who regularly conduct information literacy instruction sessions (formal or informal) will benefit from this workshop by learning how to structure their instruction programmes in a technical manner. VENUE Auditorium, Department of Library & Information Science, Jawaharlal Nehru Library, University of Mumbai, Vidyanagari, Kalina, Santa Cruz (E), 400098. DATE 9 th & 10 th August, 2006. REGISTRATION Registration Fee : Rs.800/- (including Breakfast, lunch, workshop kit and study material) Accommodation : Arrangement can be made in the Guest House within University Campus if intimated well in advance. Contact Persons: 1.Mrs. Ravija Srivastava Lecturer Department of Library & Information Science University of Mumbai Vidyanagari, Kalina Santa Cruz (E) Mumbai 400098 Ph. 91-022-26526679 Mo. 9819325070 E-mail ID : mailto:ravija_srivastava@yahoo.com ravija_srivastava(a)yahoo.com 2.Prof. (Dr.) S.R. Pandya Head, Department of Education University of Mumbai Vidyanagari, Kalina Santa Cruz (E) Mumbai 400098 Ph. 91-022-26526226 PROGRAM SCHEDULE 9 th August, 2006 9.30a.m. Registration 10.00a.m. Keynote Speech 11.00a.m. Tea Break 11.30a.m. Session 1 : Instructional Strategies with special reference to Information Literacy 1.00p.m. Lunch Break 1.30p.m. S ession 2 : Learning Styles 3.00p.m. Tea Break 3.30p.m. Session 3 : Critical Thinking Skills 5.00p.m. Interactive session 10 th August, 2006 9.30a.m. Session 1 : Instructional Design I 11.00a.m. Tea Break 11.30a.m. Session 2 : Instructional Design II 1.00p.m. Lunch Break 1.30p.m. Session 3 : E-Learning 3.00p.m. Tea Break 3.30p.m. Session 4 : Evaluation & Assessment 5.00p.m. Interactive session 5.30p.m. Valedictory REGISTRATION FORM Name : Dr./Mr./Ms._____________________________________________________ Name of organization :_________________________________________________ Address:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Ph.(off.)______________(Mob.)__________________Email____________________ Designation :________________________________________ Accomodation Required : Yes / No Details of Payment : ___________________________________________________ (Cheques and Demand Drafts to be in the name of Librarian, University of Mumbai payable at Allahabad Bank, Kalina branch.) Signature Yahoo! Groups gets better. http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=41142/*http://groups.yahoo.… Check out the new email design. Plus theres much more to come.

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UNESCO invites proposals for evaluation of Information for All Programme (IFAP)
by K.R. Mulla 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

Dear Professionals, UNESCO launches an invitation to institutions and expert groups that are interested in evaluating its Information for All Programme (IFAP), an initative aiming at harnessing the new opportunities of the information age to create equitable societies through better access to information. The main purpose of the Evaluation is to review the role and future relevance of IFAP as a framework for international co-operation and partnerships to foster universal access to information and knowledge. The Programme supports the development of common strategies, methods and tools for building an information society for all. "The key focus of the evaluation is not to rework the initial objectives of the Programme, but rather to focus on the most effective ways of achieving them" says IFAP Chair Laurence Zwimpfer. "We expect that the evaluation provides UNESCO's Member States with a clear account of the overall performance of IFAP as well as specific implementable recommendations for future activities", he adds. The Supplier's proposal shall contain a technical proposal including a presentation of the overall approach, methodology and evaluation strategy, a suggested timeframe based on the Terms of Reference, a list of deliverables, and detailed information (Curriculum Vitae) of the staff resources. It must also include a detailed financial offer (Full text of "Guidance note" and "Terms of Reference" below). Offers should be sent to Geoffrey Geurts, UNESCO, Internal Oversight Service at g.geurts(a)unesco.org by *10 July 2006, 18h00 Paris time (GMT+1)*. The Information for All Programme was created in 2000 by UNESCO's Executive Board as a successor to the General Information Programme and the International Informatics Programme. The Programme is guided in its planning and implementation by an intergovernmental Council composed of 26 Member States of UNESCO that are elected by the General Conference of UNESCO. ** ------------------------------ Related themes/countries · *Information for All Programme (IFAP)<http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1627&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTI…> * · *CI Weekly News<http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=20341&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT…> * -- K. R. Mulla, Librarian, HKBK College of Engineering, # 22/1, Nagawara, Bangalore - 560 045. http://krmulla.googlepages.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/krmulla Dear Professionals, UNESCO launches an invitation to institutions and expert groups that are interested in evaluating its Information for All Programme (IFAP), an initative aiming at harnessing the new opportunities of the information age to create equitable societies through better access to information. The main purpose of the Evaluation is to review the role and future relevance of IFAP as a framework for international co-operation and partnerships to foster universal access to information and knowledge. The Programme supports the development of common strategies, methods and tools for building an information society for all. "The key focus of the evaluation is not to rework the initial objectives of the Programme, but rather to focus on the most effective ways of achieving them" says IFAP Chair Laurence Zwimpfer. "We expect that the evaluation provides UNESCO's Member States with a clear account of the overall performance of IFAP as well as specific implementable recommendations for future activities", he adds. The Supplier's proposal shall contain a technical proposal including a presentation of the overall approach, methodology and evaluation strategy, a suggested timeframe based on the Terms of Reference, a list of deliverables, and detailed information (Curriculum Vitae) of the staff resources. It must also include a detailed financial offer (Full text of "Guidance note" and "Terms of Reference" below). Offers should be sent to Geoffrey Geurts, UNESCO, Internal Oversight Service at mailto:g.geurts@unesco.org g.geurts(a)unesco.org by 10 July 2006, 18h00 Paris time (GMT+1) . The Information for All Programme was created in 2000 by UNESCO's Executive Board as a successor to the General Information Programme and the International Informatics Programme. The Programme is guided in its planning and implementation by an intergovernmental Council composed of 26 Member States of UNESCO that are elected by the General Conference of UNESCO. Related themes/countries · http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1627&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTI… Information for All Programme (IFAP) · http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=20341&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… CI Weekly News -- K. R. Mulla, Librarian, HKBK College of Engineering, # 22/1, Nagawara, Bangalore - 560 045. http://krmulla.googlepages.com/ http://krmulla.googlepages.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/krmulla http://www.linkedin.com/in/krmulla

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RE: change of MLIS degree to MSc - not required and stop.
by Manjunath K 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

Recently some mails are being posted on Lis-forum for changing MLIS to MSc degree ( few mails for and few against). Surprise to note the suggestion to change the nomenclature is coming from our young professionals who are more tech-savvy!!!. One should have self respect for his profession. The dedication to profession brings all fame and satisfaction. We should not feel shy, shame or degraded while telling our degree to someone. This fear of inferiority in society makes us nervous. Each profession has its own uniqueness and value. In what way our image will improve by telling MSc? In many universities our course is classified under Faculty of Science like any other basic science courses. "Still people are thinking that Library means simply sitting around the book and doing some issue and return" in what way an MSc nomenclature will help us to remove this image? Unless we prove our credibility.... "So we have revise the syllabus of LIS.we should follow the ALA syllabus in India" who said change of syllabus needs change of degree name? the syllabus can be updated frequently benchmarking with top LIS schools even without changing the name of the degree. I strongly opine that our degree nomenclature has unique feature and it need not be changed as few budding fellow professionals are proposing to change. Fellow colleagues, let us stop this type of discussion as it could lead to throwing mud on our face and profession. Manjunath _____________________________________________ Dr. Manjunatha K Librarian T.A. Pai Management Institute Manipal - 576 104. Udupi Dist. Karnataka State, India Phone: 91-0820-2573551(off) 2575161(Res). manjunath(a)mail.tapmi.org; manju_tapmi(a)yahoo.com _____________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of M.Arockia Lourdu Raj Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 5:27 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] change of degree Dear Professionals, I agree with the srinivasulu's point of view of changing the degree from MLISc to MSc will bring value to this degree and LIS professsionals. I would also like to mention that as well as changing the degree, we should change the subject name also from Library and Informtion science to Information Science, Because as soon as we say Library science the way they look at us totally different.Still people are thinking that Library means simply sitting around the book and doing some issue and return. So we have revise the syllabus of LIS.we should follow the ALA syllabus in India. So that other country will accept our LIS programme.Faculty members also have to update their knowedge from time to time. With regards M Arockia Lourdu Raj __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Final Call for Papers... NCIMDiL2006 at Central Library, IIT Kharagpur [Last date for Submission of paper: 30 June 2006]
by Sandeep Pathak 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

<<< Final Call for Papers >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS : National Conference on Information Management in Digital Libraries (NCIMdiL) August 02-04, 2006 http://www.library.iitkgp.ernet.in/NCIMDiL/ncimdil.htm Call for Papers =============== You are invited to submit your papers to the National Conference on Information Management in Digital Libraries (NCIMdiL) August 02-04, 2006. Original Contributions based on practice/theory/research/ practical experience/design and development work related to the theme are invited for presentation. All papers will go through a process of review and papers accepted and presented in the conference will be published in the Conference Proceedings. The theme areas are: ú Information storage and retrieval for global access ú Digital Library architectures, planning and ongoing project, models, integrated access interface. ú Content management, content organization, resource description and discovery, crosswalk and interoperability, metadata harvesting ú Access to distributed and heterogeneous digital collections: interoperability, scalability, relevant information discovery, meta information integration. ú New forms and models of digital library services ú Unicode & multilingual digital library development ú E-Learning, e-publishing, open source movement, open access initiatives, institutional repositories, consortium and electronic resource sharing ú Digital divide ú Policies, standards & practices, dublin core and metadata standards of digital resources, IPR / legal aspects, security, sustainability and preservation ú Digital library performance, resources, usefulness, usability and evaluation; ú User education, system evaluation & surveys ú User studies: user communities, user needs, user behavior, usage pattern; Implications for information (seeking) behavior and retrieval ú Digital library trends and future. Paper Submission Information : =========================== > All papers must be original in contribution and authors of the accepted > papers should transfer the copyrights to Central Library, IIT Kharagpur. > A panel of experts will review each contributed paper. Acceptance of a > paper and decision about oral or poster presentation will be strictly > based on recommendation of the reviewers. > > Two hard copies of the full paper printed in 12-point font (Times New > Roman) on A-4 paper in double space should be submitted as per the > schedule given below. Electronic submission as MS-Word file is also > required. Correspondence will be made with the corresponding author and > therefore the name, and full address, email, fax and phone number of the > corresponding author should be clearly indicated. Mailing Address (paper to be sent): ========================================== Mr. S. K. Pathak Convener, Technical Programme & Publication of Proceeding, NCIMDiL 2006 Assistant Librarian, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Kharagpur - 721302, W.B. Email: pathak(a)library.iitkgp.ernet.in =========================================== > Important Dates : > > Last date for submission of Papers : 30 June 2006 > Acceptance Notification : 10 July 2006 > Camera-ready Copy : 20 July 2006 > > > Registration Information : > > > For details about the conference registration fee for all presenters and > participants and other registration information, please refer to the > conference website > (http://www.library.iitkgp.ernet.in/NCIMDiL/ncimdil.htm) > > > For details visit conference website > http://www.library.iitkgp.ernet.in/NCIMDiL/ncimdil.htm > > > Thanking You. > > With warm regards, > > - Sandeep Pathak > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sandeep Kumar Pathak > Assistant Librarian > > Indian Institute of Technology |Residence | > Kharagpur - 721 302 |----------- | > West Bengal, INDIA |C1 - 174, | > Ph.: 03222-282466 (O), 03222-282453 (R) |I.I.T CAMPUS| > Fax: 03222-282431 |Kharagpur | > -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Boundaries in science
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

Friends: Here is an interesting point about subject-based boundaries in science (which could be extended to all knowledge in general). From Peter Suber's blog "Open Access News": More on PLoS ONE Richard Poynder, Open Access: Stage Two, Open and Shut, June 15, 2006. An interview with Chris Surridge, who moved from Nature to take the job of managing editor at PLoS ONE. Excerpt: RP: ...[W]hy does the world need PLoS ONE? CS: Because the system of disseminating scientific research has become extremely inefficient, and the concept of the journal has been eroded by the Internet....The Internet is providing us with all sorts of new tools for communicating science, so simply publishing journals, and distributing them electronically isnt using the full potential of the Web to make the dissemination of scientific information efficient and effective. It just isn't the best way to do it anymore....[Traditional journals] quickly run up against a boundary question: where, say, does biophysics end and biochemistry begins? You find yourself starting to have to make lots of unnecessary decisions about borders....The boundaries have effectively been imposed as a consequence of the way that journals work, and the way that universities are structured. RP: So there is no need for such rigid boundaries? CS: No. At least, not when publishing. Consider, for instance, if you were to have a study that compared the genomes of man and the great apes, looking at a cluster of genes that controls the development of the brain cells associated with language. Now what subject is that? Is it neuroscience? Is it evolution? Is it genetics? Is it genomics? Actually, it is all of these things, so you could classify it in any one of these subject areas.... RP: The criteria for accepting a paper, however, will be different will it not? The PLoS ONE press release, for instance, says that "subjective considerations like 'likely impact,' 'degree of advance,' or 'interest to a general reader' will not play a role in deciding whether an article should be published or not." CS: That's right. Traditionally a lot of the work that goes into peer reviewing consists of asking questions like: "How significant is this? How surprising are the conclusions?" Essentially, these are subjective questions. A more objective question to ask would be: "Is this properly done science"....What is also different about PLoS ONE, by the way, is that we do not see peer review ending on publication of the paper....We believe that the more subjective questions about how a paper relates to other work, and where it fits into the whole corpus of scientific literature are still important questions but we feel that these can be better answered via an open peer review process that takes place after the paper has been published. ---- The idea that these boundaries (say between biochemistry and biophysics or physical chemistry and chemical physics) are artificial was articulated years ago by Eugene Garfield (the man behind Current Contents, Science Citation Index, etc.). He suggested 'research fronts' as a more sensible category. After all, all knowledge could be viewed as a continuum, an unfragmentable whole. It is simply because most of us are mere mortals and cannot chew the whole, we keep nibbling at little corners. The more talented amongst us are able to see and play around with larger chunks. Amartya Sen, for example, is professor of economics as well as philosophy. The late Michael Polanyi made his mark first in chemistry and physics, then moved to philosophy and later to sociology. Prof. J D Bernal had also suggested, way back in the 1940s, that we could abandon the journals and circulate individual papers. After all, how many articles in a given journal will a scientist find directly relevant to her work? Take an issue of PNASc or JACS. There are about 100 articles in an issue; no one reads all of them. Each reader is interested in a small number of all these articles, here small meaning 0-3 or 4. Why pay for all 100? Subbiah Arunachalam

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Re: [nmlis] Eighth National Annual Convention of MANLIBNET at NIRMA Ahmedabad from 18-20th Sep 2006
by Pijushkanti Panigrahi 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

thankyou for information Sharma Jitender <jitendersharmaji(a)yahoo.com> wrote: VIII MANLIBNET Annual Convention September 18-20, 2006 Institute of Management, Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction Management Libraries Network (MANLIBNET), a network of management libraries, was born in the year 2000 and is in operation for the past six years as a registered Society in Delhi under Societies Regulation Act of 1860. MANLIBNET was established with sharing and exchanging new information and developments among library professionals as one of its aims. The network has already organized seven national conventions: Convention Venue Convention Venue First IIM, Ahmedabad (1999) Fifth XLRI, Jamshedpur (2003) Second IMT Ghaziabad (2000) Sixth Mumbai (2004) Third IIM, Lucknow (2001) Seventh IIM, Kozhikode (2005) Fourth NIFM, Faridabad (2002) The Eighth MANLIBNET Annual Convention is being organized at the Institute of Management, Nirma University, Ahmedabad. In its endeavor to provide a platform and opportunity to the library professionals to learn, share and deliberate on issues of professional interest with a focus, the Annual MANLIBNET conventions have a theme that is made up of various sub-themes. This annual convention of MANLIBNET has the following theme and sub-themes: Theme Technology and Management Trends: Perspectives and opportunities for library professionals Sub-themes 1. Technology Trends: Access, Organization and Retrieval Technologies 2. Library Security Trends: Video Camera, Magnetic Strips, RFID, etc 3. Management Trends: Marketing, Finance, Human Resources & Strategy Speakers Eminent technology and management experts will be invited to speak on the various sub-themes in addition to selected paper presentations on the sub-themes. Call for papers Papers on the various sub-themes are invited on or before August 15, 2006. Deadlines will be strictly adhered to as the selected papers will be invited for presentation and included in the conference volume that is planned to be published before the convention for distribution to the participants. Papers with original ideas, theoretical or application oriented and case studies of libraries in the context of the theme will be selected. Young professionals are encouraged to contribute. For Whom The convention is organized keeping in mind the library professionals working in various institutions like academic, corporate, public, nonprofit, etc. However persons from other disciplines like faculty of b-schools, business researchers, information technology professionals, etc are also encouraged to participate. Fees Residential Participants: Rs. 1,600/- (one thousand six hundred only) Non-residential Participants: Rs. 1,000/- (one thousand only) The payment has to be made by DD or cheque drawn in favor of Institute of Management, Nirma University. Please note that 1. The accommodation charges are highly subsidized and the charges are for three days only. 2. There is limited accommodation facility available in the campus hostel and the same will be allocated on first-come-first-serve basis. 3. For late registrants only dormitory type accommodation on campus is available. 4. If desired hotel accommodation on actual extra payment will be facilitated. 5. The last date for registration is August 15, 2006. Organising Secretary: H Anil Kumar Chief Librarian Nirma University of Science and Technology S-G Highway, Ahmedabad 382 481 Ph: 09825600804 (02717) 241900-04 Email: anil(a)nim.ac.in Institute of Management, Nirma University Institute of Management, Ahmedabad was established with a mission to be one of the best B-schools in the Asia-Pacific region by promoting excellence in management education. The Institute is ranked among the top 15 b-schools in the country. The Institute offers Master of Business Administration (full-time and part-time), doctoral level programme in management, in addition to various executive development programmes, executive education programmes, in-house training programmes and consulting services. The Institute also offers a specialized MBA in Family Business and Entrepreneurship. Nirma University of Science and Technology Established by the legendary Dr. Karsanbhai K. Patel, Chairman, Nirma Group, under the aegis of Nirma Education and Research Foundation (established in 1994), the university presently includes a top grade Institute of Technology (1995), a leading b-school Institute of Management (1996), an innovative Institute of Diploma Studies (1997), an upcoming Institute of Pharmacy (2003), a technology business incubator - NirmaLabs (2004) and an emerging Institute of Sciences (2005). All these institutions have emerged as centers of excellence offering various programmes ranging from undergraduate to doctoral levels in technology, engineering, business, pharmacy and sciences. The Government of Gujarat established the Nirma University of Science and Technology under Act No. 10 passed by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Gujarat in April 2003. This development witnessed the merging of all Institutes under the NERF into a single entity of Nirma University of Science and Technology. The university has also been recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC) under the section 2 (f) of the UGC Act. Spread over the sprawling 140 acres of beautifully landscaped area, the campus is among one of the most impressive ones in India. Massive educational complexes set in lush green environs provide the right ambience and atmosphere for intellectual interaction and stimulation. The world class infrastructure includes auditoriums, seminar rooms, class rooms, computer laboratories, library, hostels, canteens, etc facilitate teaching-learning processes that fascinate and delight students, faculty, corporate visitors, foreigners and parents. Library Resource Center Presently operating as three libraries, i.e., Technology, Management and Pharmacy, the libraries on the campus cater to the needs of the academic fraternity of the university. The Institute of Management Library has over the years established itself as a rich resource for business and management research, education and training requirements and usually rates high in all the Indian b-school rankings. The library provides access to a wide range of resources in print and digital formats. Digital library initiatives at the library provide friendly and convenient access to library resources through a library portal that can be accessed throughout the campus. Adopting effective technologies like barcode, biometric, digital scanning and other Information technologies the library makes its various services user friendly. The library also drives the book club of the Institute Sumantra that provides a platform to the students to review leading books to interested faculty and students. Jitender Sharma Librarian NIILM CMS B-II/66, MCIE Mathura Road New Delhi - 110044 Tel: 91-011-29891529/39 Extn. 221 and 29893143 (Dir.) Fax: 91-011-29894212 E-mail: jsharma@niilm.com,jitendersharmaji@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Members | Calendar You are receiving Individual Emails Change Delivery Settings Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe We Made Changes Your Yahoo! Groups email is all new. Learn More Share Feedback Recent Activity 10 New Members Visit Your Group SPONSORED LINKS Professional New millennium Ideas . __,_._,___ Dr Pijushkanti Panigrahi, Reader & Head, Dept of Lib and Inf Science, University of Calcutta, 87/1 College Street,Kolkata - 700 073, West Bengal, India, email : panigrahipk(a)yahoo.com, Res : Qtr No. C1/78 IIT Campus, Kharagpur - 721 302, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India, Ph : +91 (03222) 278852 (M) : +91 94342 43522. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Sharma Jitender <jitendersharmaji(a)yahoo.com> wrote: VIII MANLIBNET Annual Convention September 18-20, 2006 Institute of Management, Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction Management Libraries Network (MANLIBNET), a network of management libraries, was born in the year 2000 and is in operation for the past six years as a registered Society in Delhi under Societies Regulation Act of 1860. MANLIBNET was established with sharing and exchanging new information and developments among library professionals as one of its aims. The network has already organized seven national conventions: Convention Venue Convention Venue First IIM, Ahmedabad (1999) Fifth XLRI, Jamshedpur (2003) Second IMT Ghaziabad (2000) Sixth Mumbai (2004) Third IIM, Lucknow (2001) Seventh IIM, Kozhikode (2005) Fourth NIFM, Faridabad (2002) The Eighth MANLIBNET Annual Convention is being organized at the Institute of Management, Nirma University, Ahmedabad. In its endeavor to provide a platform and opportunity to the library professionals to learn, share and deliberate on issues of professional interest with a focus, the Annual MANLIBNET conventions have a theme that is made up of various sub-themes. This annual convention of MANLIBNET has the following theme and sub-themes: Theme Technology and Management Trends: Perspectives and opportunities for library professionals Sub-themes 1. Technology Trends: Access, Organization and Retrieval Technologies 2. Library Security Trends: Video Camera, Magnetic Strips, RFID, etc 3. Management Trends: Marketing, Finance, Human Resources & Strategy Speakers Eminent technology and management experts will be invited to speak on the various sub-themes in addition to selected paper presentations on the sub-themes. Call for papers Papers on the various sub-themes are invited on or before August 15, 2006. Deadlines will be strictly adhered to as the selected papers will be invited for presentation and included in the conference volume that is planned to be published before the convention for distribution to the participants. Papers with original ideas, theoretical or application oriented and case studies of libraries in the context of the theme will be selected. Young professionals are encouraged to contribute. For Whom The convention is organized keeping in mind the library professionals working in various institutions like academic, corporate, public, nonprofit, etc. However persons from other disciplines like faculty of b-schools, business researchers, information technology professionals, etc are also encouraged to participate. Fees Residential Participants: Rs. 1,600/- (one thousand six hundred only) Non-residential Participants: Rs. 1,000/- (one thousand only) The payment has to be made by DD or cheque drawn in favor of Institute of Management, Nirma University. Please note that 1. The accommodation charges are highly subsidized and the charges are for three days only. 2. There is limited accommodation facility available in the campus hostel and the same will be allocated on first-come-first- serve basis. 3. For late registrants only dormitory type accommodation on campus is available. 4. If desired hotel accommodation on actual extra payment will be facilitated. 5. The last date for registration is August 15, 2006. Organising Secretary: H Anil Kumar Chief Librarian Nirma University of Science and Technology S-G Highway, Ahmedabad 382 481 Ph: 09825600804 (02717) 241900-04 Email: mailto:anil%40nim.ac.in anil(a)nim.ac. in Institute of Management, Nirma University Institute of Management, Ahmedabad was established with a mission to be one of the best B-schools in the Asia-Pacific region by promoting excellence in management education. The Institute is ranked among the top 15 b-schools in the country. The Institute offers Master of Business Administration (full-time and part-time), doctoral level programme in management, in addition to various executive development programmes, executive education programmes, in-house training programmes and consulting services. The Institute also offers a specialized MBA in Family Business and Entrepreneurship. Nirma University of Science and Technology Established by the legendary Dr. Karsanbhai K. Patel, Chairman, Nirma Group, under the aegis of Nirma Education and Research Foundation (established in 1994), the university presently includes a top grade Institute of Technology (1995), a leading b-school Institute of Management (1996), an innovative Institute of Diploma Studies (1997), an upcoming Institute of Pharmacy (2003), a technology business incubator - NirmaLabs (2004) and an emerging Institute of Sciences (2005). All these institutions have emerged as centers of excellence offering various programmes ranging from undergraduate to doctoral levels in technology, engineering, business, pharmacy and sciences. The Government of Gujarat established the Nirma University of Science and Technology under Act No. 10 passed by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Gujarat in April 2003. This development witnessed the merging of all Institutes under the NERF into a single entity of Nirma University of Science and Technology. The university has also been recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC) under the section 2 (f) of the UGC Act. Spread over the sprawling 140 acres of beautifully landscaped area, the campus is among one of the most impressive ones in India. Massive educational complexes set in lush green environs provide the right ambience and atmosphere for intellectual interaction and stimulation. The world class infrastructure includes auditoriums, seminar rooms, class rooms, computer laboratories, library, hostels, canteens, etc facilitate teaching-learning processes that fascinate and delight students, faculty, corporate visitors, foreigners and parents. Library Resource Center Presently operating as three libraries, i.e., Technology, Management and Pharmacy, the libraries on the campus cater to the needs of the academic fraternity of the university. The Institute of Management Library has over the years established itself as a rich resource for business and management research, education and training requirements and usually rates high in all the Indian b-school rankings. The library provides access to a wide range of resources in print and digital formats. Digital library initiatives at the library provide friendly and convenient access to library resources through a library portal that can be accessed throughout the campus. Adopting effective technologies like barcode, biometric, digital scanning and other Information technologies the library makes its various services user friendly. The library also drives the book club of the Institute Sumantra that provides a platform to the students to review leading books to interested faculty and students. Jitender Sharma Librarian NIILM CMS B-II/66, MCIE Mathura Road New Delhi - 110044 Tel: 91-011-29891529/ 39 Extn. 221 and 29893143 (Dir.) Fax: 91-011-29894212 E-mail: mailto:jsharma%40niilm.com jsharma@niilm. com , mailto:jitendersharmaji%40yahoo.com jitendersharmaji@ yahoo.com ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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OA and copyright - MIT talks to publishers
by Subbiah Arunachalam 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

Dear Dr Bhargava: Here is a news story from Peter Suber's blog on MIT, Cambridge, talking to 30 major journal publishers about allowing MIT scientists and students who publish in their journals to retain the copyright and to have the right to self-archive the papers. You might wish to write to MIT and get more details so we can follow a similar approach in India. The National Knowledge Commission can negotiate with the leading publishers of the world on behalf of all our higher educational and research institutions. That would be easier than each institutions negotiating independently with all the publishers. Regards. Arun --- More on the MIT publishing amendment Hemai Parthasarathy, Instituting Change, PLoS Biology, June 2006. An editorial. Ann Wolpert, Director of Libraries at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),,...and the Vice President for Research and Associate Provost, Alice Gast, are asking publishers to allow MIT researchers to publish their work using a copyright amendment of MIT's design. The amendment allows the author and institution non-exclusive rights to reuse, reproduce, and archive their published research articles in digital repositories. Although this amendment is now available on the MIT Web site and has been distributed to the MIT faculty, Wolpert is taking the extra step of directly contacting the 30 major publishers with whom MIT faculty publish to finalize appropriate language that will best "accommodate the interests of the academy and those of the publishers," while supporting the implementation of the NIH policy. According to Wolpert, the MIT copyright amendment grew out of the faculty's double-edged response to the NIH policy recommendation: despite "a philosophical groundswell of agreement," researchers found the demands of work too overwhelming to overcome the logistical obstacles of acting on their beliefs. Focus groups with faculty and researchers generated a series of recommendations to make compliance easier. One important recommendation was to resolve any conflict between copyright agreements and archiving.... At the stage when a manuscript is (finally!) accepted for publication, the last thing a researcher wants to do is to fight over a copyright agreement, especially when this might cause a publication delay. The purpose of creating this amendment and the subsequent direct discussions with publishers is to bring the institution into the negotiations on the side of the author. Faculty, of course, are pleased to have this potential burden lifted. Although its use is not required, the recommended copyright amendment has the endorsement of several academic groups at MIT, including the Faculty Policy Committee, department heads, and Academic Council.... Dear Dr Bhargava: Here is a news story from Peter Suber's blog on MIT, Cambridge, talking to 30 major journal publishers about allowing MIT scientists and students who publish in their journals to retain the copyright and to have the right to self-archive the papers. You might wish to write to MIT and get more details so we can follow a similar approach in India. The National Knowledge Commission can negotiate with the leading publishers of the world on behalf of all our higher educational and research institutions. That would be easier than each institutions negotiating independently with all the publishers. Regards. Arun --- More on the MIT publishing amendment Hemai Parthasarathy, http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/… Instituting Change , PLoS Biology , June 2006. An editorial. Ann Wolpert, Director of Libraries at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),,...and the Vice President for Research and Associate Provost, Alice Gast, are asking publishers to allow MIT researchers to publish their work using a http://libraries.mit.edu/about/scholarly/amendment.pdf copyright amendment of MITs design. The amendment allows the author and institution non-exclusive rights to reuse, reproduce, and archive their published research articles in digital repositories. Although this amendment is now available on the MIT Web site and has been distributed to the MIT faculty, Wolpert is taking the extra step of directly contacting the 30 major publishers with whom MIT faculty publish to finalize appropriate language that will best accommodate the interests of the academy and those of the publishers, while supporting the implementation of the NIH policy. According to Wolpert, the MIT copyright amendment grew out of the facultys double-edged response to the NIH policy recommendation: despite a philosophical groundswell of agreement, researchers found the demands of work too overwhelming to overcome the logistical obstacles of acting on their beliefs. Focus groups with faculty and researchers generated a series of recommendations to make compliance easier. One important recommendation was to resolve any conflict between copyright agreements and archiving.... At the stage when a manuscript is (finally!) accepted for publication, the last thing a researcher wants to do is to fight over a copyright agreement, especially when this might cause a publication delay. The purpose of creating this amendment and the subsequent direct discussions with publishers is to bring the institution into the negotiations on the side of the author. Faculty, of course, are pleased to have this potential burden lifted. Although its use is not required, the recommended copyright amendment has the endorsement of several academic groups at MIT, including the Faculty Policy Committee, department heads, and Academic Council....

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Please write to European Union supporting OA
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

>From Peter Suber Important reminder Comments on the EC report and its OA recommendations were originally due on June 1. But the deadline was extended until tomorrow, June 15. In the 108 page report, Study on the Economic and Technical Evolution of the Scientific Publication Markets in Europe, the recommendations are on pp. 11-13. For a summary, see my SOAN story from May 2 or my blog posting from April 3. Note especially recommendation A1, which would mandate OA for publicly-funded research. Please send a supportive comment to rtd-scientific-publication(a)cec.eu.int, today if you can, tomorrow at the latest. You can be sure that OA opponents are sending in their comments. Even a short comment in support of recommendation A1 would be better than no comment at all, whether or not you live in a European country.

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KALA & NCSI Lecture
by Mailing List Manager 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:15:27 +0530 (IST) From: I.R.N.Goudar <goudar(a)css.nal.res.in> LECTURE NOTICE Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) and National Centre for Science Information, IISc cordially invites you for the following lecture Topic: Intellectual Property Rights and Scientific Information Services Speaker: Mr. Aalt Van De Kuilen Seniuor Information Specialist Solvey, Netherlands Date & Time: Thursday, 15 June 2006 at 6.00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall, NCSI, IISc (Tel: 23600271, Mr Francis Jayakanth) ALL ARE INVITED Dr. I.R. N. Goudar Mr Francis Jayakanth President, KALA NCSI, IISc -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html PLEASE NOTE: Mr Aalt is India to traing staff of GE on IPR and related matter About the talk: Speaker would give an overview of Information services available for the end-users within Solvay Pharmaceuticals. After a complete reorganization, Solvey did shift most of the Library & Information Services to the end-users. Aalt shares his Solvey experiences and insights. About the Speaker: Aalt van de Kuilen joined Solvay on 1st April 1980 as a chemist at the age of 23. At that time the company was known as Philips Duphar, part of the Philips Corporation. In 1993 he moved into the Patent Department of Solvay Pharmaceuticals and received training as a Patent Information Specialist. During this period he became a member of WON (Dutch Patent Information User Group) and soon afterwards a Board Member of WON. He is a member of SACEPO (Standing Advisory Committee of the European Patent Office) and represents Solvay Pharmaceuticals in the Pharma Documentation Ring (PDR). Mr. Van de Kuilen is also a teacher at the GO-Institute for the training course for Patent Information Specialists (PIS). >From September 2002 onwards, when the Intellectual Property and Scientific Information Business Sectors at Solvay Pharmaceuticals were combined, he became responsible for all Scientific Information. Aalt is married and has a son (19) and a daughter (17).

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Digital preservation
by Subbiah Arunachalam 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

Fro Peter Suber's blog: OA report on digital preservation IFLA has provided OA to its book-length report, Networking for Digital Preservation: Current Practice in 15 National Libraries. Arun Fro Peter Suber's blog: OA report on digital preservation http://www.ifla.org/index.htm IFLA has provided OA to its book-length report, http://www.ifla.org/V/pr/saur119.htm Networking for Digital Preservation: Current Practice in 15 National Libraries . Arun

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Re: Congrats to the IISc Prints team!
by Francis Jayakanth 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

Dear Sir: Thanks very much for the compliments. It is indeed very heartening to see the 5000 hits on our IR. We still have a long way to go. Our desire is to be the first institution, at least, in the country, whose publications are 100% open access. Of the 5000 deposits, majority of the deposits have been done by the Centre's staff. So, all the credits should go to my colleagues who have been working tirelessly to achieve this milestone. Actually, the plan was to reach 5000 mark by June 3, which marked the first death anniversary of Dr. T. B. Rajashekar. We were off the target by couple of records. We eventually reached the 5000 mark on June 10. ePrints@IISc project was very close Rajashekar's heart. He would have been a very happy man had been amongst us today. As you may be aware, we are conducting a workshop on GNU EPrints during the last week of July 2006. We are getting overwhelming responses for the workshop. We want to ensure that at least 10 new repositories will come up in the country as the outcome of this workshop. Madhan Muthu's suggestion of having a meeting of repository managers is very timely. I'll check with our Chairman if NCSI can host this event. With regards, - Francis On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Subbiah Arunachalam wrote: > > Congratulations to NCSI Team! I just came to know that the IISc Eprints server now > hosts 5,000 papers by the Institute's faculty and students. It is a > milestone worth celebrating. When I come on 1 June I shall bring a > packet of sweets. > > Of course, we have a long way to go. For instance, we must persuade ALL > our faculty and students to deposit their papers (full text) on their > own initiative. We should reach 100% archiving. And we should persuade > other Indian institutions to perform as well as IISc has done. > > Madhan Muthu of NIT-Rourkela suggests that we should have a meeting of > all repository managers, about 25-30 (?), to discuss how we could > achieve 100% archiving by authors. If we hold such a meeting, say at > IISc with DSIR support, we may also discuss issues relating to LOCKSS, > preservation, standards, and advocacy. > > Best wishes. > > Arun > [Subbiah Arunachalam] > >

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Congrats to the IISc Prints team!
by Mailing List Manager 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:09:42 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Congratulationa to NCSI team! I just came to know that the IISc Eprints server now hosts 5,000 papers by the Institute's faculty and students. It is a milestone worth celebrating. When I come on 1 June I shall bring a packet of sweets. Of course, we have a long way to go. For instance, we must persuade ALL our faculty and students to deposit their papers (full text) on their own initiative. We should reach 100% archiving. And we should persuade other Indian institutions to perform as well as IISc has done. Madhan Muthu of NIT-Rourkela suggests that we should have a meeting of all repository managers, about 25-30 (?), to discuss how we could achieve 100% archiving by authors. If we hold such a meeting, say at IISc with DSIR support, we may also discuss issues relating to LOCKSS, preservation, standards, and advocacy. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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MLIS - MSc
by junaise B 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

Dear LIS Members, I have read a lot of letters regarding the issue of changing the name. the youngsters in LIS field feel shy when they are introducing others, that they are LIBRARIANS. We have to understand one thing that, the entire works in the library( classification, book labelling, cataloguing, arranging the books in a helpful manner) should do ourself. All are trying to be a e-librarians, but who will do the troditional works in the libraries. As we know, without books there is no transfer of knowledge. So let us proudly announce that we are the LIBRARIANS, dont feel shy for that. Thanks Dear LIS Members, I have read a lot of letters regarding the issue of changing the name. the youngsters in LIS field feel shy when they are introducing others, that they are LIBRARIANS. We have to understand one thing that, the entire works in the library( classification, book labelling, cataloguing, arranging the books in a helpful manner) should do ourself. All are trying to be a e-librarians, but who will do the troditional works in the libraries. As we know, without books there is no transfer of knowledge. So let us proudly announce that we are the LIBRARIANS, dont feel shy for that. Thanks

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Change of MLIS degree
by anuradha.a＠tcs.com 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

Dear Professionals Changing of degree from MLIS to MSC may or may not help out. Positively I can say that revising/updating the syllabus of as per top 10 LIS university (ALA) will certainly fill up gap between the educational and professional competency as per the job market. Also accreditation from top universities like ALA will have better job Regards > > Anuradha Rao > > Bangalore =====-----=====-----===== Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you �Dear Professionals Changing of degree from MLIS to MSC may or may not help out. Positively I can say that revising/updating the syllabus of as per top 10 LIS university (ALA) will certainly fill up gap between the educational and professional competency as per the job market. Also accreditation from top universities like ALA will have better job Regards > > Anuradha Rao > > Bangalore =====-----=====-----===== Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you

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Digital mapping of India
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

friends: Here is a news story from The Times of India. Digital mapping of India on fast trackAdd to Clippings [ Monday, June 12, 2006 10:59:44 pmIANS ] NEW DELHI: India hopes to complete digital mapping of around 70 percent of the country in a year, leading to leveraging data assets for multi-functions like traffic management and infrastructure development. An example of its multi-dimensional use would be illustrated with the completion of a three-dimensional model of Chandni Chowk neighbourhood in the walled city area of the national capital by next month, Minister for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal said here on Monday. The 3D model being developed with an investment of around Rs.100 million would enable civic authorities to not only chart the development that needs to be undertaken in one of the most densely populated parts of the capital but also monitor any violations of the city norms, Sibal said. On the digital mapping of the country, he said with the approval of the ministry of defence, task is to be undertaken by an autonomous body, the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI), to be created under the ministry of science and technology. The cabinet had approved June 2 a proposal to set up the NSDI, which is to be manned by a 10-member panel headed by a CEO. "NSDI is a kind of soft infrastructure to be built at the national level for coordination, acquisition, processing, storage, distribution and improved utilisation of spatial (geographic location) data," said Sibal. A liberalised National Map Policy, approved last year, has helped India emulate the success of several developed countries, many of which are helping create a Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI). "Having got the go-ahead from the defence ministry about the areas that can be digitally mapped, the NSDI will utilise the data created by 15 national agencies like the Geological Survey of India (GSI) and the Forest Survey of India (FSI) for its gigantic task under a public-private initiative," the minister said. T. Ramasami, the new secretary of Department of Science and Technology, explained that the digital mapping is to be achieved primarily by leveraging the data assets of major data generating agencies through the process of standardisation, creation of metadata and Internet-enabled access. "We hope to complete mapping of 60-70 percent of India within a year. The ministry of defence has cleared most areas barring (a stretch of) 50 km along the international borders on the land surface in Jammu and Kashmir and the northeast region," said Brigadier R. Siva Kumar, director of NSDI. The digital mapping would allow the user to click on any geographical location to get details like longitude and latitude, altitude, forest mapping and other vital up-to-date inputs that are critical to any investment decision. The digital map has multiple uses including for navigational purpose. ---- Hope these digital maps are made readily available [open access] to the general public (on the Internet) at no cost. In most western countries taxis and cars are fitted with a device which clearly shows the map of the locality (at several levels of magnification) so the driver can choose a path avoiding traffic congestion. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Libraries activating for Access to Knowledge
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

>From Peter Suber of "Open Access News" [Forwarding from eIFL.net. --Peter.] http://www.eifl.net/services/ipcis_pr.html Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL.net) and International Renaissance Foundation Libraries activating for Access to Knowledge PRESS RELEASE June 1, 2006 Advocacy for Access to Knowledge: copyright and libraries International seminar, Kiev, 26-27 May 2006 On 26-27 May 2006, the prestigious National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy hosted experts from former Soviet Union, Mongolia, South-East Asia and the Middle East at an international seminar on the role of libraries and access to knowledge. Thirty specialist librarians from twenty-five countries debated how copyright law impacts on access to information and knowledge, especially in the digital age and discussed policies and strategies to safeguard future access to our cultural and scientific heritage. Access to knowledge is essential for the functioning of a healthy and democratic society. Libraries are conduits that enable all members of the community to benefit from global information resources, ideas and opinions. However legal and technological restrictions on the sharing and re-use of content over the last decade have restricted library services. "Librarians must defend the interests of students, researchers and the general public who use the library. We must ensure that copyright is an enabler of access to knowledge, not a barrier. That is what this seminar is about", said Teresa Hackett, Project Manager eIFL-IP. Organised by Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL.net) and local partner Informatio Consortium, the event is supported by the UNESCO Information for All Programme. High level speakers from Egypt, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, Ukraine and the UK shared their expertise with participants in a lively two days of learning and debate. "Librarians have an important role to play to ensure that international instruments concluded in the area of intellectual property are balanced and supportive of important public policy objectives such as access to knowledge and information", said Ahmed Abdel Latif, the speaker from Egypt who has represented his country in many negotiations on IP at different international fora. "Sharing knowledge is an essential function of society. Libraries and the Free Software community have a common interest in a copyright system that promotes the spread of knowledge so that ideas do not become monopolised. The Free Software Foundation Europe is delighted to work together with librarians for Access to Knowledge in the interest of users." said Karsten Gerloff, Free Software Foundation Europe. The International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Copyright Committee was represented at the workshop by Barbara Stratton, Senior Copyright Adviser for the UK's Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, who said, "Libraries underpin the Information Society. It is absolutely vital that librarians are recognised by governments, legislators and the wider community as major stakeholders in the knowledge economy. It is in society's interests that librarians are fully consulted and involved in every stage of development copyright legislation." "With due respect to our international obligations and national copyright laws, it is our role to dream, seek, ask and work for an intellectual property system that provides proper balance between the rights of rightholders and the rights of society to access use and disseminate knowledge, education which in turn stimulates creativity", said Hala Essalmawi, Attorney at law, IPR officer, The library of Alexandria, Egypt. "We are delighted that eIFL.net chose to hold this seminar in Ukraine", said Iryna Kuchma, manager of International Renaissance Foundation, which runs a programme on Access to Knowledge. "There is a growing international movement for Access to Knowledge (A2K) which is pushing for changes to the global intellectual property system at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). It is such an important issue and librarians have a key role to play", continued Iryna Kuchma. Fair access to information for all is essential to nurture education and stimulate innovation. This seminar is the first step to mobilise a network of library copyright experts in the region. Further information: http://www.eifl.net/services/ipcis.html Teresa Hackett, Project Manager eIFL-IP Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL) c/o ADN Kronos, Piazza Mastai 9 00153 Rome, Italy Tel: +(39)(06)5807216/17 E-mail: teresa.hackett(a)eifl.net http://www.eifl.net/ Iryna Kuchma, Social Capital and Academic Publications Program Manager International Renaissance Foundation 46, Artema Str., Kyiv, Ukraine, 04053 Telephone: (+380 44) 461-9500 Fax: (+380 44) 486 0166 E-mail: kuchma(a)irf.kiev.ua http://www.irf.kiev.ua/programs/scaap Notes for Editors eIFL eIFL.net is an international foundation which supports national library consortia in fifty transition and developing countries to negotiate and advocate for the wide availability of electronic resources to education, research and professional communities as well as governmental organisations and civil society. This global network embraces millions of users in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and the Middle East. International Renaissance Foundation International Renaissance Foundation is private, grant-making foundation funded by George Soros which aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. Funds are also allocated for diversification of information resources for the third sector, democratization of education and public health, development of social capital and academic publications.

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Fwd: Linking UK repositories - report published today (fwd)
by Subbiah Arunachalam 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM(a)LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 12:55:04 +0100 > From: Philip Pothen <p.pothen(a)JISC.AC.UK> > To: JISC-DEVELOPMENT(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: Linking UK repositories - report published > today > > - Apologies for cross-posting - > > > > Time is right for major investment in repositories > infrastructure, says > report > > > > The research community should be engaged at the > highest level to encourage > the establishment of repositories in UK education > and research, says a > report published today. While one third of UK > universities have an Open > Access repository to house digital content such as > research papers, > pre-prints, theses, working papers, conference > proceedings, teaching > materials, etc., most have very little content in > them, the report > continues. > > > > Acknowledging that an important foundation has > already been laid in the > establishment of a repository infrastructure for the > UK, the report > commissioned by JISC says, however, that the time > is right for the > development of the shared, national services upon > which a step-change in the > adoption, development and use of institutional > repositories now depends. > > > > Beginning with an examination of user requirements, > the report sets out > which national services will be needed to support > such an infrastructure, > suggesting that support will be needed by the > community particularly in the > areas of metadata provision (to support > cross-searching and resource > discovery), IPR and copyright, and preservation. In > addition, says the > report, advocacy work to the author community is > critically important in > raising the levels of deposition of research > postprints. > > > > The report calls on JISC to take the leadership role > in these areas and to > construct where necessary the appropriate > communication channels with the > research community, with repositories and with > potential service providers, > and to coordinate their efforts. > > > > With JISC investing £3.5m in its digital > repositories programme and an > additional £13.5m over the next two years through > its capital programme, the > report provides both an evidence base on which JISC > can provide the strong > management role called for by the report, as well > as a set of > recommendations upon which to focus its activities > in this area. > > > > Neil Jacobs, repositories programme manager at JISC, > welcomed the > publication of the report, saying: "The Linking UK > Repositories" report > describes a landmark study by Key Perspectives Ltd > and the University of > Hull, in which organisational, technical and > business models for repository > services are reviewed. The report will chart the > way ahead for JISC and > others, as novel applications are built over the > emerging repository > infrastructure." > > > > The report was written by Alma Swan of Key > Perspectives and Chris Awre of > the University of Hull. > > > > The report is available from the Digital > Repositories page at: > http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_digital_repositories > > > > > > > Dr Philip Pothen, > > JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), > > King's College London, > > Strand Bridge House, > > 138-142 The Strand (3rd Floor), > > London WC2R 1HH > > > > 020 7848 2935 > > 07887 564 006 > > > > p.pothen(a)jisc.ac.uk > > http://www.jisc.ac.uk > > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Peer-Review is Dead – Long Live "Peer-Review 2.0"
by Sukhdev Singh 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Peer-Review is Dead – Long Live "Peer-Review 2.0" Before an article gets published in a traditional scholarly journal – Print or Online – it undergoes a quality-check process called Peer Review. But this process does have some drawbacks. First one is that it is time-consuming process. Which adds to the delay in publication. Such a delay could be very significant if research results could be used to immediate problems – for example 'avian flu'. Second drawback is that it could add to the "biases" as quality control is in the hands of two or three peer-reviewers. Interactive nature of Internet has offered scholarly journals to experiment with peer-review process. "Nature" for example is undertaking an open peer review trial. In this trial, authors whose submissions to Nature are sent for peer review will also be offered the opportunity to participate in an open peer review process. In this three month trial, authors can choose to have their submissions posted on a preprint server for open comments, in parallel with the conventional peer review process. < http://openaccessjournals.blogspot.com/2006/06/trial-and-debate-over-peer-r… > Now an Open Access Publisher - Public Library of Science < http://www.plos.org/> is coming up with PLoS ONE < http://www.plosone.org/>. It claims to offer a new approach to the way that scientific research is communicated. It will "identify" papers that are technically sound and publish them "rapidly". These will be presented for open and continuous review to whole scientific community. They believe that published papers are not some form of absolute truth but part of an ongoing discussion. Interestingly their site PloS ONE is subtitled "Open Access 2.0". BMJ <http://bmj.bmjjournals.com> also has been trying to answer to the problems of traditional peer review [see its editorial - Peer review: reform or revolution? Time to open up the black box of peer review <http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/315/7111/759>]. It also has a "RAPID RESPONSES" < http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters?lookup=by_date&days=1 > feature by which readers may write online comments to published articles. There are some extreme views as well to do away the "Peer-Review" as such. In a pitch for Wikipedia Concept, Peter Frishauf [Are Traditional Peer-Reviewed Medical Articles Obsolete? A Pitch for the Wikipedia Concept <http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/520070>, Requires Free Registeration] argues, " we depend on peer-reviewed articles in print and online. But is this method obsolete? And is there a better way? Traditional medical articles are often outdated before publication. Consider HIV, SARs, avian flu -- even hormone replacement therapy. They're not comprehensive: For any topic, we have to read dozens of articles to be informed. And bias is always present, regardless of peer review… Based on a radical new model of publishing, on Wikipedia nearly anyone with a Web connection can start or edit an article. Contributors must agree to write in neutral point of view (NPV). Opinion is fair game for deletion by the first Wikipedian who reads it -- typically within 30 seconds of publication." What ever it takes – the era of "Post-Publication Peer Review" has begun. I wish to call it "Peer-Review 2.0". Peer-Review is Dead – Long Live "Peer-Review 2.0" --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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Two Libraries Join Windows Live Book Search
by Farooque Shaheen 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Microsoft announced that it had enhanced Windows Live Book Search, adding a new feature that would allow publishers to submit their in-copyright books to become part of the service. Additionally, more material would be added as a result of the addition of the University of California and the University of Toronto libraries, Microsoft said. The University of California library contains some 34 million books across 100 libraries on ten campuses, making it the world's largest academic library. The University of Toronto's collection spans some 15 million volumes and its considered one of the top research libraries in North America. http://www.betanews.com/article/Two_Libraries_Join_Windows_Live_Book_Search… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 VOIP- 40366 Microsoft announced �that it had enhanced Windows Live Book Search, adding a new feature that would allow publishers to submit their in-copyright books to become part of the service. Additionally, more material would be added as a result of the addition of the University of California and the University of Toronto libraries, Microsoft said. The University of California library contains some 34 million books across 100 libraries on ten campuses, making it the world's largest academic library. The University of Toronto's collection spans some 15 million volumes and its considered one of the top research libraries in North America. http://www.betanews.com/article/Two_Libraries_Join_Windows_Live_Book_Search… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 VOIP- 40366

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Call for candidates for prize on the use of ICT in education
by vimal kumar 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Dear Professionals The UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education is now calling for candidates. The award theme for 2006 is Innovative Learning Practices with Information and Communication Technologies. The prize is funded by the Kingdom of Bahrain. Launched in 2005, the $50,000 prize aims to reward the projects and best practices of individuals, institutions and NGOs in using ICT to enhance learning, teaching and overall educational performance. Deadline for submissions is 30 June 2006. Winners will be celebrated at an award ceremony to be held on 20 December 2006 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Only governments and international non-governmental organizations, maintaining formal consultative relations with UNESCO, may present candidatures. More details http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=22278&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear Professionals The UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education is now calling for candidates. The award theme for 2006 is Innovative Learning Practices with Information and Communication Technologies. The prize is funded by the Kingdom of Bahrain. Launched in 2005, the $50,000 prize aims to reward the projects and best practices of individuals, institutions and NGOs in using ICT to enhance learning, teaching and overall educational performance. Deadline for submissions is 30 June 2006. Winners will be celebrated at an award ceremony to be held on 20 December 2006 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Only governments and international non-governmental organizations, maintaining formal consultative relations with UNESCO, may present candidatures. More details http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=22278&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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US NSB supports OA
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Here is an article from the New York Times. Arun ----- June 9, 2006 > Inconsistent Information Policies Jeopardize Research, Panel Says > By ANDREW C. REVKIN > http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/science/09research.html > > WASHINGTON, June 8 - The quality and credibility of government > research are being jeopardized by inconsistent policies for > communicating scientific findings to the public, says an > independent group of scientists that advises Congress and the > White House. > > The group, the National Science Board, examined the issue at the > request of Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona. Mr. McCain > sought the review in February after Civil Service workers and > scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration > and other agencies complained publicly that political appointees > had interfered with efforts to discuss global warming and other > controversial issues. > > The board canvassed an array of agencies like the space agency > and the National Institutes of Health and found a lack of clear, > consistent guidance to scientists and press offices on releasing > information to the public and the news media. > > In recent months, the board found, NASA and the National Oceanic > and Atmospheric Administration have taken "steps in the right > direction." But it said other agencies continued to lack > consistent standards. > > Where policies exist, the board said, they are often focused more > on restricting scientists' ability to discuss their findings than > on guaranteeing a free flow of information. > > The board's review, written as a letter to Mr. McCain, was posted > last month on the Web site of the National Science Foundation and > has been noted by several Web publications and trade journals > focused on science policy. > > Asked to comment on the report, a spokesman for the White House > Office of Science and Technology Policy replied in an e-mail > message that the office had "discussed the issue of > communications policy with agency chief scientists shortly after > the NASA incidents which are cited in the senator's letter, and > we continue to monitor agency practices." > > "We think the NASA response was excellent," the spokesman, > Benjamin Fallon, wrote, "and have distributed it to the agencies > as an example of a best practice and have not seen evidence that > the situation requires the development of a mandatory > one-size-fits-all policy." > > The scientific board acknowledged that agencies were entitled to > keep track of what their scientists were saying. But it > recommended that the White House science office develop a common > set of principles encouraging open communication of science and > discouraging "the intentional or unintentional suppression or > distortion of research findings." > > The report said that at most agencies policies were out of date, > unclear or handled in different ways by different field offices. > Clear guidelines, it added, could reduce confusion. > > The lack of uniformity appears to cause other problems, said > Warren M. Washington, a senior scientist at the National Center > for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., who is the chairman > of the science board and the lead author of the report. > > "The constant turnover of upper-level staff meant the policies > were constantly changing depending on who is boss or who the > midlevel supervisor was," Mr. Washington said in an interview. > > Mr. McCain, a senior member of the Committee on Commerce, Science > and Transportation, inserted an amendment into a bill last month > reflecting the science board's findings. The amendment calls for > the White House science office to create a "set of principles" > encouraging the "open exchange of data and results of research by > federal agency scientists." > > The bill has not been sent to the Senate floor for a vote. > > copyright 2006 The New York Times

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PhD guides
by sangeeta dhamdhere 10 Jun '06

10 Jun '06

Hello friends, I would like to register the Ph.D. programme and searching for the guide. Not yet decided from which university.Topic for the same is no doubt IT related. I am thankful if anybody will send me the list of guides along with their universities. Thanks & regards. Sangeeta Dhamdhere Librarian Modern College, Ganesh-Khind, Pune. Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com <br><br> Stay connected with your friends even when away from PC. Link: http://in.mobile.yahoo.com/new/messenger/

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Study Circle Meeting of IASLIC
by Pijushkanti Panigrahi 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

Dear Professionals, 284th Study Circle meeting of IASLIC will be held on Tuesday, 13th June 2006 at 6:30PM in the IASLIC Seminar Room, IASLIC, P 291 CIT Scheme 6M, Kankurgachhi, Kolkata-700 054, INDIA. Dr Devika P Madalli, Documentation Research and Training Centre, ISI, Bangalore has kindly given consent to deliver a lecture on "Issues on Open Access to Information". Professor S B Ghosh, Dept of Lib and Inf Science, IGNOU, Maidan Garhi, New delhi and the President of IASLIC will preside over the meeting. IASLIC cordially inites you to attend the meeting along with your colleadues. Dr Pijushkanti Panigrahi Secretary, Education Division IASLIC Dr Pijushkanti Panigrahi, Reader & Head, Dept of Lib and Inf Science, University of Calcutta, 87/1 College Street,Kolkata - 700 073, West Bengal, India, email : panigrahipk(a)yahoo.com, Res : Qtr No. C1/78 IIT Campus, Kharagpur - 721 302, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India, Ph : +91 (03222) 278852 (M) : +91 94342 43522. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear Professionals, 284th Study Circle meeting of IASLIC will be held on Tuesday, 13th June 2006 at 6:30PM in the IASLIC Seminar Room, IASLIC, P 291 CIT Scheme 6M, Kankurgachhi, Kolkata-700 054, INDIA. Dr Devika P Madalli , Documentation Research and Training Centre, ISI, Bangalore has kindly given consent to deliver a lecture on " Issues on Open Access to Information ". Professor S B Ghosh , Dept of Lib and Inf Science, IGNOU, Maidan Garhi, New delhi and the President of IASLIC will preside over the meeting. IASLIC cordially inites you to attend the meeting along with your colleadues. Dr Pijushkanti Panigrahi Secretary, Education Division IASLIC Dr Pijushkanti Panigrahi, Reader & Head, Dept of Lib and Inf Science, University of Calcutta, 87/1 College Street,Kolkata - 700 073, West Bengal, India, email : panigrahipk(a)yahoo.com, Res : Qtr No. C1/78 IIT Campus, Kharagpur - 721 302, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India, Ph : +91 (03222) 278852 (M) : +91 94342 43522 . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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change of degree
by M.Arockia Lourdu Raj 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

Dear Professionals, I agree with the srinivasulu's point of view of changing the degree from MLISc to MSc will bring value to this degree and LIS professsionals. I would also like to mention that as well as changing the degree, we should change the subject name also from Library and Informtion science to Information Science, Because as soon as we say Library science the way they look at us totally different.Still people are thinking that Library means simply sitting around the book and doing some issue and return. So we have revise the syllabus of LIS.we should follow the ALA syllabus in India. So that other country will accept our LIS programme.Faculty members also have to update their knowedge from time to time. With regards M Arockia Lourdu Raj __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com I agree with the srinivasulu's point of view of changing the degree from MLISc to MSc will bring value to this degree and LIS professsionals. I would also like to mention that as well as changing the degree, we should change the subject name also from Library and Informtion science to Information Science, Because as soon as we say Library science the way they look at us totally different.Still people are thinking that Library means simply sitting around the book and doing some issue and return. So we have revise the syllabus of LIS.we should follow the ALA syllabus in India. So that other country will accept our LIS programme.Faculty members also have to update their knowedge from time to time. With regards M Arockia Lourdu Raj __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Indianjournals.com - Statistics
by Mailing List Manager 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 16:13:32 +0530 From: Chandrima Roy <croy(a)docdelserv.com> Hi All, WE are proud to announce that two more journals are added to the platform of Indianjournals.com! Hence, overall Statistics of Indianjournals.com as on date since its launch on 30th May 2005 becomes: No. of Publications: 36 Societies Associated: 30 Issues Archival: 148 Subject Areas Covered so far: 9 Open Access Journals: 6 Visitors So far as on 9th June, 2006: 70,926 Latest Journals (Issues) uploaded: 1) IASSI Quarterly - A Journal of Social Science Year 2005, Volume-23, Issue-4 (April-June) http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:iassi <http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:iassi&type=home> &type=home For TOC & Abstracts, please click on the link below: http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:iassi <http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:iassi&volume=23&iss ue=4&type=toc> &volume=23&issue=4&type=toc 2) IASSI Quarterly - A Journal of Social Science Year 2005, Volume-23, Issue-3 (January-March) For TOC & Abstracts, please click on the link below: http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:iassi <http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:iassi&volume=23&iss ue=3&type=toc> &volume=23&issue=3&type=toc 3) Global Institute of Flexible System Management Year 2005, Volume-6, Issue-2 (April-June) http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:gjfsm <http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:gjfsm&type=home> &type=home For TOC & Abstracts, please click on the link below: http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:gjfsm <http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:gjfsm&volume=6&issu e=2&type=toc> &volume=6&issue=2&type=toc To access the full text of other free Journals, kindly log on to http://www.indianjournals.com Happy reading! Thanks & Regards Chandrima Roy Divan Enterprises B-9, Basement, "A" Block, Local Shopping Complex Naraina Vihar, Ring Road New Delhi - 110028 Tel: +91-11-25770411 Fax: +91-11-25778876 Email: croy(a)docdelserv.com croy(a)indianjournals.com Website: http://www.docdelserv.com http://www.indianjournals.com

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Library and Information Science should be in Science Faculty
by Aloor Thomas Francis 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

Dear Professionals, We have seen many illogical, non-technical, unprofessional and unethical things, little more in LIS Profession. Earlier, all subjects were grouped in single faculty, Arts. Later, many subjects have separated in science, social science, medicine, engg. etc. But, as far as the LIS is concerned, our professionals could not move our subject into science group. To achieve this, we should be able to revise the syllabus according to the present need. Without thorough knowledge in IT and modern KM, no body can exile. Moreover, our faculty members should take this aspect seriously. If they are not competent in modern topics, there is no shame in utiliziling the experts from outside. In Kerala Agricultural University, the BSc and MSc are given in Coperation, Banking and Management also. If so, I don't know why we could not move in this direction. For this also, our unity, and cooperative efforts of faculty and librarians are essential. I know that Madras University and some other Utys. are offering MSc in LIS. Another thing, if we have grouped the LIS in science faculty, it will get more recognition and acceptance in science libraries of ISRO, DRDO, CSIR, DAE, etc. A.T. FRANCIS ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN KERALA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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About protecting increments.
by sangeeta dhamdhere 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

Hi professional collegues, I would like to know that whether the service of Non-granted colleges (Affiliated to University)are taken into consider in Granted colleges for protecting the increments. As the Candidate is qualified,appointed and approved by University selection committee, is there any difficulty in continuing the service and protecting the increments of the same candidate? If anybody knows any GR or solution on the same issue. Pl. let me know about the same. Thanking you, Yours truly, Sangeeta D Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com <br><br> Stay connected with your friends even when away from PC. Link: http://in.mobile.yahoo.com/new/messenger/

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Vacancy - Librarian - WHO Headquarters (Geneva)
by Tomas Allen 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

Dear Colleagues, Please excuse cross postings -- INDIA Please find below a vacancy notice for a Librarian position at WHO Headquarters (Geneva). Click also on the link below to see vacancies for Records Managers or Archivists: http://www.who.int/employment/vacancies/en/ Good luck! ************ Chers collègues, Veuillez trouver ci-dessous une vacance de poste de Bibliothécaire au Siège de l'OMS à Genève. Veuillez également cliquer sur le lien ci-dessous pour voir d'autres vacances de postes pour les Archivistes: http://www.who.int/employment/vacancies/fr/index.html Bonne chance! Meilleures salutations/Best regards. ******************************************* Vacancy Notice No.: KMS/06/FT352 Title LIBRARIAN Date 1 June 2006 Deadline for applications: 30 June 2006 (21 day(s) until closing deadline) Currently accepting applications Grade: P-3 Contract type: Fixed-term appointment Duration: TWO YEARS Duty Station: GENEVA Switzerland Organizational Unit KMS/LNK Library and Information Networks for Knowledge Knowledge Management and Sharing EVIDENCE AND INFORMATION FOR POLICY CLUSTER Objectives of the Programme Provide a full range of knowledge services to the international public health community with particular emphasis on national capacity-building needs; provide similar services in support of WHO's work as a global knowledge-based Organization, knowledge management for strengthening health systems, and in gathering evidence for policy determination. Description of duties The incumbent provides library, research and electronic information services in support of WHO initiatives, objectives and programmes. He/she has full responsibility for the contents and quality control of the WHO Library Information Systems (WHOLIS) database, applying available information technology and, at the same time, ensuring that adherence to international bibliographic standards is maintained. Duties: 1. Responsible for the management and development of the WHO Library database (WHOLIS) and all electronic operations: - Develop and apply, in accordance with international publication practices, international cataloguing and indexing standards, National Library of Medicine (NLM) classification, bibliographic standards and related IT standards and practices for full-text and worldwide access to the institutional and collective memory of the Organization. - Constantly revise, analyse and implement, in coordination with IT specialists, the formats and technologies required to make WHO full-text health information available to the largest populations possible. - Create machine-readable bibliographic records and streamline the processes for WHO and non-WHO data input. - Establish and manage authority control files, develop thesauri/WHOLIS controlled vocabulary. - Interpret and adapt international bibliographic control standards to meet requirements for WHO documentation access. - Maintain SIRSI Unicorn Integrated Library Management System, monitor and evaluate the system for performance and solve system problems in coordination with the supplier. - LNK IT Coordinator, coordinating as required with the WHO Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, the KMS Technologies for Information Management Team, the WHO web team and other UN agencies. - Working with the Regions to develop consensus on the libraries' institutional approaches and standards. - Coordinate with library reference services staff on the utilization of the database, organize special collections; and advise clients especially by working at the Reference Desk. 2. Coordinate, prepare, and apply the Cataloguing-in-Publication (CIP) data to all WHO produced publications following international bibliographic standards. 3. Consult and coordinate with WHO publications producers and IT on technological standards related to access to publications in new media: - Responsible for the appropriate collecting system and permanent storage of all electronic versions of publications/documents produced by the Organization. 4. Consult with WHO Technical Program areas to develop solutions for the cataloguing, storage and retrieval of all work related information and publications. Provide guidelines and make recommendations on data management and bibliographic policies. 5. Responsible for the WHO HQ multilingual scanning project: - Develop the plan and methodology of all scanning operations on WHO materials produced in the last 50 years in 6 official languages and 50+ other languages. - Develop opportunities for the scanning processes and seek external partnerships to ensure complete archival of WHO publications and institutional memory. 6. Perform other duties as required. QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED: Education Postgraduate degree in librarianship, preferably with health sciences specialization in librarianship. Competencies In-depth knowledge of bibliographic database management, international standard cataloguing, Marc coding, NLM classification and MeSH. Extensive knowledge of IT, especially Library-automated systems. Experience in providing library/information services. Proven writing and communication skills. Integrity, tact and discretion in dealing with various contacts. Ability to work with a variety of cultures in different settings. The following would be an advantage: Knowledge of WHO and/or the UN Library information systems at global, regional and national levels. Experience Extensive relevant experience preferably with responsibilities for database management and library and information services within a large and complex organization. The following would be desirable: - Experience in developing countries. - Experience within WHO, or other UN organization. Languages Excellent knowledge of English and a good working knowledge of French. Other WHO official languages an asset. Annual salary (Net of tax) US$ 49,149 at single rate. US$ 52,654 with primary dependants ************************************************************ Numéro de la vacance.: KMS/06/FT352 Intitulé du poste Bibliothécaire Date 1 juin 2006 Dernier délai pour le dépôt des candidatures: 30 juin 2006 (21 jour(s) jusqu'à la date de clôture) Candidatures en cours d'acceptation Classe: P-3 Type de contrat: durée déterminée Durée du contrat: DEUX ANS Lieu d'affectation: GENEVA Suisse Unité administrative KMS/LNK Library and Information Networks for Knowledge Knowledge Management and Sharing Groupe Bases factuelles et information à l'appui des politiques Objectifs du programme Fournir toute sorte de services d'information à l'intention de la communauté internationale de santé publique en mettant particulièrement l'accent sur les besoins de renforcement des capacités nationales et offrir des services similaires pour soutenir les activités de l'OMS en tant qu'organisation mondiale basée sur les connaissances, faciliter la gestion du savoir pour le renforcement des systèmes de santé et recueillir des informations pour faciliter l'adoption de politiques. Description des fonctions Le/la titulaire assure des services de bibliothèque, de recherche et d'information électronique pour soutenir les initiatives de l'OMS et faciliter la réalisation de ses objectifs et de ses programmes. Il/elle utilise les outils de technologie de l'information disponibles pour gérer le contenu et contrôler la qualité de la base de données WHOLIS dont il est entièrement responsable et, dans le même temps, s'assure que les normes bibliographiques internationales sont bien respectées. Le titulaire sera chargé des tâches suivantes: 1. En ce qui concerne la gestion et l'enrichissement de la base de données de la bibliothèque WHOLIS et de toutes les opérations électroniques: - Elaborer et appliquer, conformément aux pratiques internationales en vigueur en matière de publication, les normes internationales de catalogage et d'indexage, la classification NLM, les normes bibliographiques et d'autres normes et pratiques relatives à la technologie de l'information pour permettre à la communauté internationale d'avoir accès au texte intégral des documents constituant la mémoire institutionnelle et collective de l'Organisation. - Réviser constamment, analyser et mettre en oeuvre en coordination avec les services informatiques les formats et les techniques nécessaires pour permettre l'accès du plus grand nombre à l'intégralité des informations sanitaires de l'OMS. - Créer des dossiers bibliographiques sur support informatique et rationnaliser les méthodes d'entrée de données tant pour l'OMS que pour les clients de l'extérieur. - Créer et gérer les fichiers d'autorité, élaborer le vocabulaire contrôlé thesauri/WHOLIS. - Interpréter les normes internationales de contrôle bibliographique et les adapter aux prescriptions applicables à l'accès aux documents OMS. - Gérer le système intégré de gestion SIRSI Unicorn, surveiller et évaluer la performance de ce système et résoudre les problèmes en concertation avec le fournisseur. - En tant que coordonnateur de LNK, assurer, le cas échéant, la coordination avec le département Technologies de l'information et télécommunications, l'équipe de gestion des technologies de l'information de KMS, l'équipe web OMS et d'autres institutions du système des Nations Unies. - Travailler avec les régions à l'élaboration d'un consensus sur les méthodes et les normes institutionnelles bibliothécaires. - Travailler en coordination avec les services d'information bibliographique pour l'utilisation de la base de données, organiser des collections spéciales et renseigner la clientèle, notamment au bureau d'information. 2. Coordonner, préparer et appliquer le catalogage à la source à toutes les publications produites par l'OMS conformément aux normes bibliographiques internationales. 3. Travailler en consultation et en coordination avec les producteurs de publications OMS et les services informatiques sur les normes technologiques se rapportant à l'accès aux publications dans de nouveaux organes d'information: - Rechercher un système adéquat de collecte et de stockage permanent pour toutes les versions électroniques des publications ou des documents produits par l'Organisation. 4. Elaborer des solutions, avec l'aide des secteurs du programme technique OMS, pour le catalogage, le stockage et la recherche de toutes les informations et publications en rapport avec son travail. Etablir des lignes directrices et formuler des recommandations sur la gestion des données et les politiques bibliographiques. 5. Gérer un projet de numérisation multilingue: - Elaborer le plan et la méthode à suivre pour toutes les activités de numérisation des documents OMS produits dans les 50 dernières années dans 6 langues officielles et une cinquantaine d'autres langues. - Elaborer des possibilités de numérisation et rechercher des partenariats extérieurs pour mener à bien l'archivage complet des publications et de la mémoire institutionnelle de l'OMS. 6. S'acquitter de toute autre fonction qui pourrait lui être confiée. QUALIFICATIONS REQUISES: Formation Diplôme post-universitaire de bibliothécaire, de préférence avec une spécialisation en sciences de la santé Compétences Connaissance approfondie de la gestion de bases de données bibliographiques, du catalogage international, du codage Marc, de la classification NLM et du MeSH. Bonne connaissance de la technologie de l'information et en particulier des systèmes de gestion automatisée de bibliothèque. Expérience de la fourniture de services d'information/de bibliothécaire. Aptitude à communiquer à l'écrit et à l'oral. Intégrité, tact et discrétion dans les contacts avec toute sorte de personnes. Aptitude à travailler dans divers contextes avec des personnes de diverses origines nationales et culturelles. La connaissance des systèmes d'information bibliothécaire l'OMS et/ou de l'ONU au niveau mondial, régional et national serait un atout. Expérience Plusieurs années d'expérience, de préférence à des postes à responsabilité, de la gestion des bases de données et des services de bibliothèque et d'information au sein d'une grande organisation. Il serait souhaitable que le candidat possède une expérience: -des pays en développement. - du travail à l'OMS ou dans d'autres organisations internationales. Langues Parfaite maîtrise de l'anglais et bonne connaissance pratique du français. La connaissance d'une autre langue des Nations Unies serait un atout. Traitement annuel (net d'impôts) US$ 49,149 fonctionnaire sans personnes à charge US$ 52,654 fonctionnaire avec personnes à charge au premier degré Ajustement de Poste 57.90 % des montants mentionnés ci-dessus. Ce pourcentage n'a qu'une valeur indicative et peut varier, chaque mois, à la hausse ou à la baisse. _________________________________________________________________ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/

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UDC CD
by ravanan sekar 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

Dear lis-forum members, I want to know is there any CD available on UDC Classification. If available where can we get and how much it costs. please send vendors address and email. Is anyone having this CD please inform. with regards, C.Ravanan, IKM Trainee __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Do we need a change in the name of our degree?
by vishnu＠rcctvm.org 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

Dear LIS Forum members, I am totally agreeing with the comment made by Mr. Gopakumar, regarding the change of M.L.I.Sc. to M.Sc. When one think of M.Sc., he will definitely compare with any other M.Sc. degree and don't bother about what we would have studied and what we have been doing and so and so..In my Opinion, one may think what is in the letter 'L', AT LEAST. With all regards, Vishnu V Regional Cancer Centre Library Trivandrum, Kerala.

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Re: European Union study on scientific publishing
by Smita Chandra 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

Dear Colleagues, I apologize for cross-posting. This mail is in co-relation to Dr.Sukhdev Singh's earlier mail on an article in Information Today, Inc. Your response to the European Union would make a difference ! Please go through the mail below and send in your response at the email id mentioned in the mail (below), before the 15th of June. Support for the Open Access movement is solicited from those interested in supporting the cause, they may or may not be directly involved in it. As such, you might like to forward the message below to fellow colleagues around or abroad. Thanking you and with regards, Smita-- Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Panvel Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218 Phone: 91-22-2748 4000 Fax: 91-22-2748 0762 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Alma Swan <a.swan(a)talk21.com> wrote: Dear friends, I apologise for the round-robin message but time is of the essence and I need to get this out to a number of people quickly. Responses are currently being collected to the European Union's study on scientific publishing (http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/pdf/scientific-publication-stu dy_en.pdf). The report is long, but the recommendations are right at the beginning and include some excellent ones for Open Access. A good summary of the report and its findings is found in Robin Peek's article for InformationToday at: http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb060410-1.shtml I have been told that there is disappointment at the EU that the research community has not responded more enthusiastically. The EU people see their role as serving the research community and feel - rightly - that the future of publishing should be an important issue for that community. The lack of response belies that, unfortunately. The deadline for responses has been extended until June 15th in order to give the research community more time to respond. If we don't respond, then the EU cannot be blamed for assuming OA is not an important issue to academia. This is the chance to show that it is, and the chance won't come again. So, if you can spare a few moments, please would you write a line or two in support of Open Access for research results, declaring your position and interest and saying why it would be beneficial for the EU to take a policy decision on Open Access to scientific research results. It doesn't matter if you live and work outside the EU: the arguments for OA apply the world over and you can encourage the EU to set an example in this respect. Your message should be e-mailed to DG Research at: rtd-scientific-publication(a)cec.eu.int Responses are probably measured as much by numbers as by the quality of the content - like parliamentary representatives counting letters for and against an issue to give them an idea of strength of public feeling! Just a couple of lines from you would therefore make a difference: there is no need to spend a lot of time on it if you are busy. If you can represent your group, department, school or even institution then that would add even more weight. Thanks in advance if you can contribute. With warm best wishes, Alma __________________________ Alma P Swan, BSc, PhD, MBA Director Key Perspectives Ltd 2 Denver Place Elm Grove Road Topsham Devon, UK EX3 0EP Tel: +44 (0)1392 879702 www.keyperspectives.co.uk Consultants to the scholarly information industry __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear Colleagues, I apologize for cross-posting. This mail is in co-relation to Dr.Sukhdev Singh's earlier mail on an article in Information Today, Inc. Your response to the European Union would make a difference ! Please go through the mail below and send in your response at the email id mentioned in the mail (below), before the 15th of June. Support for the Open Access movement is solicited from those interested in supporting the cause, they may or may not be directly involved in it. As such, you might like to forward the message below to fellow colleagues around or abroad. Thanking you and with regards, Smita-- Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Panvel Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218 Phone: 91-22-2748 4000 Fax: 91-22-2748 0762 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Alma Swan <a.swan(a)talk21.com> wrote: Dear friends, I apologise for the round-robin message but time is of the essence and I need to get this out to a number of people quickly. Responses are currently being collected to the European Union's study on scientific publishing (http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/pdf/scientific-publication-stu dy_en.pdf). The report is long, but the recommendations are right at the beginning and include some excellent ones for Open Access. A good summary of the report and its findings is found in Robin Peek's article for InformationToday at: http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb060410-1.shtml I have been told that there is disappointment at the EU that the research community has not responded more enthusiastically. The EU people see their role as serving the research community and feel - rightly - that the future of publishing should be an important issue for that community. The lack of response belies that, unfortunately. The deadline for responses has been extended until June 15th in order to give the research community more time to respond. If we don't respond, then the EU cannot be blamed for assuming OA is not an important issue to academia. This is the chance to show that it is, and the chance won't come again. So, if you can spare a few moments, please would you write a line or two in support of Open Access for research results, declaring your position and interest and saying why it would be beneficial for the EU to take a policy decision on Open Access to scientific research results. It doesn't matter if you live and work outside the EU: the arguments for OA apply the world over and you can encourage the EU to set an example in this respect. Your message should be e-mailed to DG Research at: rtd-scientific-publication(a)cec.eu.int Responses are probably measured as much by numbers as by the quality of the content - like parliamentary representatives counting letters for and against an issue to give them an idea of strength of public feeling! Just a couple of lines from you would therefore make a difference: there is no need to spend a lot of time on it if you are busy. If you can represent your group, department, school or even institution then that would add even more weight. Thanks in advance if you can contribute. With warm best wishes, Alma __________________________ Alma P Swan, BSc, PhD, MBA Director Key Perspectives Ltd 2 Denver Place Elm Grove Road Topsham Devon, UK EX3 0EP Tel: +44 (0)1392 879702 www.keyperspectives.co.uk Consultants to the scholarly information industry __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Do we need a change in the name of our degree?
by Gopakumar Velayudhanpillai 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

Dear lisforum members, I have seen the posting of Mr.srinvasulu.b, a student of NCSI asking for changing the name of the degree from MLISc to MSc. A budding professional feels inferior with the name of the degree he is holding is an astonishing thing for me. If the name is changed to MSc, he may be feeling that nobody will ask him what he is learning there. But to me I feel that others should ask us what we are studying and what we are practicing. Through what we do, others will come to know about what we have learned also. Be proud to be a professional librarian. It is not the degree that matters or even its name. But what work you do at your workplace is that matters. This is the advice that a senior librarian with both BLISc and MLISc to his credit has to say. With all regards, Gopakumar.V Gopakumar.V Research Scholar Department of Library & Information Science Mangalore University Mangalagangotri gopakumar.v(a)rediffmail.com Mobile No: 09447056713 Dear lisforum members, I have seen the posting of Mr.srinvasulu.b, a student of NCSI asking for changing the name of the degree from MLISc to MSc. A budding professional feels inferior with the name of the degree he is holding is an astonishing thing for me. If the name is changed to MSc, he may be feeling that nobody will ask him what he is learning there. But to me I feel that others should ask us what we are studying and what we are practicing. Through what we do, others will come to know about what we have learned also. Be proud to be a professional librarian. It is not the degree that matters or even its name. But what work you do at your workplace is that matters. This is the advice that a senior librarian with both BLISc and MLISc to his credit has to say. With all regards, Gopakumar.V Gopakumar.V Research Scholar Department of Library & Information Science Mangalore University Mangalagangotri gopakumar.v(a)rediffmail.com Mobile No: 09447056713 http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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Their worry - "How Long Will America Lead the World?"
by Sukhdev Singh 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

Just want to quote from a Newsweek Business story: .."The national academies' report points out that China and India combined graduate 950,000 engineers every year, compared with 70,000 in America; that for the cost of one chemist or engineer in the U.S. a company could hire five chemists in China or 11 engineers in India; that of the 120 $1 billion-plus chemical plants being built around the world one is in the United States and 50 are in China.." Zakaria: How Long Will America Lead the World? - Leadership and Innovation - MSNBC.com http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13123358/site/newsweek/#storyContinued

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RE:IPR and copyright
by Byrappa, Ananda (GE, Research) 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

Kumar, There is no copyright violation in creating repository of your own institution's internal publications unless they are published externally. However, you need to have copyright clearance for the publications/documents already published externally (Journals/Conferences/workshops etc). As most of us know, off-late few major publishers have revised their copyright policies and now they would allow authors/institutions to retain and enable access to the published documents within the author's organization. Ofcourse, the rights differ from publisher to publisher. Its important to read latest copyright policies of publishers before you consider using their publications/documents. You may want to know that, some international organizations have "copyright transfer form" in place to ensure that publishers grant permission to authors/institutions to host the content within the organization at the time of submitting the manuscript for publication. This might be a solution for your future publications. Best Regards, Anand Ananda T. Byrappa Manager, Library & Information Services Whitney Knowledge Centre GE Global Research 122, EPIP, Phase 2, Whitefield Road, Bangalore - 560066, INDIA Phone : +91-80-2503-2618, DialCom: 8*901 2618 Fax : +91-80-2841-2114, Email : Ananda.Byrappa(a)ge.com -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 10:37 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 39, Issue 12 Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in You can reach the person managing the list at lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." Today's Topics: 1. IPR and copyright (Kumar N) 2. Indianjournals.com - Seminars (Mailing List Manager) 3. Re: IPR and copyright (Sukhdev Singh) 4. Re: Re: [bytesforall_readers] India-linked open accessjournals on doaj.org (sathya) 5. [Fwd: Overcoming the obstacles of harvesting and searching digital (arun(a)mssrf.res.in) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: 8 Jun 2006 10:09:16 -0000 From: "Kumar N" <kumar_dglin(a)rediffmail.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] IPR and copyright To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20060608100916.3218.qmail(a)webmail47.rediffmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Sir/Madam, I am N.Kumar, working as a "Project Assistant" in INCOIS Library, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, Hyderabad. I would like to build a digital repository for our institutional internal reports and scientist research papers published in national and international journals. In this regard, I need to know more about copy right information and IPR about making digital format of this. And also I want to know that is it possible to add someother digital files from outside into our digital repository?. I request to senior most professional, Please advice me in this regard. Kindest regards, N.Kumar. Project Assistant, INCOIS Library, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, Hyderabad. Bye, Take Care, Cheers! Kumar.N.

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[Fwd: Overcoming the obstacles of harvesting and searching digital
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Overcoming the obstacles of harvesting and searching digital repositories from federated searching toolkits, and embedding them in VLEs From: "MacLeod, Roderick A" <R.A.MacLeod(a)HW.AC.UK> Date: Thu, June 8, 2006 8:52 pm To: JISC-REPOSITORIES(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following paper, written by members of the PerX Project, part of the Digital Repositories Programme, may be of interest to members of this list. http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00006394/ <http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00006394/> Overcoming the obstacles of harvesting and searching digital repositories from federated searching toolkits, and embedding them in VLEs Chumbe, Santiago and MacLeod, Roddy and Barker, Phil and Moffat, Malcolm and Rist, Roger (2006) 2nd International Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, Athens, Greece. Abstract This paper addresses two important needs. The first one is the need to alleviate the resource discovery task across digital repositories by subject, which includes the ability of searching heterogeneous sources that apply to a specific audience (e.g. engineering academics) or purpose (e.g. research, teaching) from one access point. The second need is to provide toolkits for federated searching which are able to be embedded in electronic learning environments used by lecturers, students and researchers. Most of these environments are institutional Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) and Portals. Our study will show that the satisfaction of both needs faces important obstacles. On one side, standard exchange formats such as Z39.50 or OAI, developed precisely to facilitate the transfer or sharing of data between computer systems, present obstacles that make the harvesting and searching of data from digital repositories a challenging process. On the other side, VLEs are often restricted in their ability to allow the sharing and re-use of external e-learning sources discovered by federated searching toolkits. A solution for these obstacles, based on a service-oriented architecture approach, is suggested and explored on a pilot system. The aim of our research is the realisation of the concept of flexible federated searching. The intention is that the VLE user should be able to use whatever search tool he/she likes for whatever repositories he/she needs to search, without concern for how the tool and the repositories manage to communicate, or how the tool makes search results available to other VLE components. The pilot system attempts to demonstrate that most of the flexible federated searching concept can be achieved by making proper use of current interoperability standards for digital repositories and e-learning systems. Roddy MacLeod MA, DipLib, MCILIP Senior Subject Librarian Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS Tel (0131) 451 3576 Fax: (0131) 451 3164 R.A.MacLeod(a)hw.ac.uk <mailto:R.A.MacLeod@hw.ac.uk> http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/libram/roddy.html

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NCIMDiL2006 Deadline extension ...
by Sandeep Pathak 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

<<<< NCIMDiL2006 DEADLINE EXTENSION >>>> The deadlines for the National Conference on Information Management in Digital Libraries (NCIMDiL 2006) have been extended. The new deadlines are: Submission of papers: 30 June 2006 Acceptance Notification: 10 July 2006 Camera-ready copy: 20 July 2006 Conference date: August 2-4, 2006 Below is the final CFP. ----------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS : National Conference on Information Management in Digital Libraries (NCIMdiL) August 02-04, 2006 http://www.library.iitkgp.ernet.in/NCIMDiL/ncimdil.htm Call for Papers =============== You are invited to submit your papers to the National Conference on Information Management in Digital Libraries (NCIMdiL) August 02-04, 2006. Original Contributions based on practice/theory/research/ practical experience/design and development work related to the theme are invited for presentation. All papers will go through a process of review and papers accepted and presented in the conference will be published in the Conference Proceedings. The theme areas are: ú Information storage and retrieval for global access ú Digital Library architectures, planning and ongoing project, models, integrated access interface. ú Content management, content organization, resource description and discovery, crosswalk and interoperability, metadata harvesting ú Access to distributed and heterogeneous digital collections: interoperability, scalability, relevant information discovery, meta information integration. ú New forms and models of digital library services ú Unicode & multilingual digital library development ú E-Learning, e-publishing, open source movement, open access initiatives, institutional repositories, consortium and electronic resource sharing ú Digital divide ú Policies, standards & practices, dublin core and metadata standards of digital resources, IPR / legal aspects, security, sustainability and preservation ú Digital library performance, resources, usefulness, usability and evaluation; ú User education, system evaluation & surveys ú User studies: user communities, user needs, user behavior, usage pattern; Implications for information (seeking) behavior and retrieval ú Digital library trends and future. Paper Submission Information : =========================== > All papers must be original in contribution and authors of the accepted > papers should transfer the copyrights to Central Library, IIT Kharagpur. > A panel of experts will review each contributed paper. Acceptance of a > paper and decision about oral or poster presentation will be strictly > based on recommendation of the reviewers. > > Two hard copies of the full paper printed in 12-point font (Times New > Roman) on A-4 paper in double space should be submitted as per the > schedule given below. Electronic submission as MS-Word file is also > required. Correspondence will be made with the corresponding author and > therefore the name, and full address, email, fax and phone number of the > corresponding author should be clearly indicated. Mailing Address (paper to be sent): ========================================== Sandeep Kumar Pathak Convener, Technical Programme & Publication of Proceeding, NCIMDiL 2006 Assistant Librarian, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Kharagpur - 721302, W.B. Email: pathak(a)library.iitkgp.ernet.in =========================================== > Important Dates : > > Last date for submission of Papers : 30 June 2006 > Acceptance Notification : 10 July 2006 > Camera-ready Copy : 20 July 2006 > > > Registration Information : > > > For details about the conference registration fee for all presenters and > participants and other registration information, please refer to the > conference website > (http://www.library.iitkgp.ernet.in/NCIMDiL/ncimdil.htm) > > > For details visit conference website > http://www.library.iitkgp.ernet.in/NCIMDiL/ncimdil.htm > > > Thanking You. > > With warm regards, > > - Sandeep Pathak > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sandeep Kumar Pathak > Assistant Librarian > > Indian Institute of Technology |Residence | > Kharagpur - 721 302 |----------- | > West Bengal, INDIA |C1 - 174, | > Ph.: 03222-282466 (O), 03222-282453 (R) |I.I.T CAMPUS| > Fax: 03222-282431 |Kharagpur | > -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [bytesforall_readers] India-linked open access journals on doaj.org
by Subbiah Arunachalam 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Dear Fred and friends: Over 80 Indian journals are open access journals. These include all 11 journals published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, four published by the Indian National Science Academy, Indian Journal of Medical Research (ICMR), three journals published by the Calicut Medical College, and 38 journals whose OA version is brought out by NIC and thirty journals whose OA versions are published by MedKnow Publications, Bombay. Where we are lagging behind is in setting up and filling institutional open access archives. The Indian Institute of Science was probably the first Indian institution to set up an institutional archive. Earlier to that, way back in 1997, Institute of Mathematical Sciences set up a mirror site for arXiv, the well-known physics archive. One Indian institution, NIT, Rourkela, has mandated open access for all the faculty and student research publications including M Tech and Ph D theses. NIT-R is the sixth institution in the world to mandate OA. Funding agencies supporting scientific research such as DST, DBT, DSIR, CSIR and UGC are, for some reason, reluctant to mandate open access for publications resulting from projects funded by them. A private company [Informatics India, B'lore] has a free service called Open J-Gate which helps anyone with an internet connection to access full text of papers published in all Indian and foreign open access journals. Efforts are afoot at Perhaps we should appeal to the members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee for Science & Technology and Environment and request them to bring about a suitable legislation mandating open access for all publicly funded research. I think that the Left parties may support the idea readily. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred(a)bytesforall.org> To: <bytesforall_readers(a)yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 5:22 AM Subject: [bytesforall_readers] India-linked open access journals on doaj.org > India-linked open access journals, via http://www.doaj.org You can get > free access to all the content here. -- FN > > 18 journals matching your query: > > Anthropologist > ISSN: 09720073 > Subject: Anthropology > Publisher: Kamla-Raj Enterprises, Delhi, India > Language: English > Keywords: human sciences > Start Year: 2004 > > conservation & society > ISSN: 09724923 > Subject: Agriculture (General) --- Environmental Sciences > Publisher: Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment, > Bangalore, > India > Language: English > Keywords: conservation, interdisciplinary research, environment, > biological > diversity, livelihoods > Start Year: 2003 > > ICMR Bulletin > ISSN: 03774910 > Subject: Medicine (General) > Publisher: Indian Council of Medical Research, Division of Publication & > Information, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India > Language: English > Keywords: medicine > Start Year: 1998 > > Indian Folklife > ISSN: 09726470 > Subject: Anthropology > Publisher: National Folklore Support Centre, Chennai, India > Language: English > Keywords: Indian folklore, traditional Indian arts, cultural studies > Start Year: 2000 > > Indian Heart Journal > ISSN: 00194832 > Subject: Cardiovascular > Publisher: The Cardiological Society of India > Language: English > Keywords: cardiology, cardiovascular diseases > Start Year: 2001 > > Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry > ISSN: 09701915 > Subject: Biochemistry > Publisher: Association of Clinical Biochemists of India > Language: English > Keywords: clinical biochemistry, health care, laboratory science > Start Year: 2002 > > Indian Journal of Surgery > ISSN: 09722068 > Subject: Surgery > Publisher: Medknow Publications on behalf of the Association of Surgeons > of > India > Language: English > Keywords: surgery, medicine > Start Year: 2002 > > Indian Journal of Tuberculosis > ISSN: 00195707 > Subject: Internal medicine > Publisher: Tuberculosis Association of India > Language: English > Keywords: public health, tuberculosis, respiratory diseases, chest > diseases > Start Year: 2000 > > International Journal of Human Genetics > ISSN: 09723757 > Subject: Genetics > Publisher: Kamla-Raj Enterprises, Delhi, India > Language: English > Keywords: anthropogenetics, biochemical genetics, biometry, clinical > genetics, cytogenetics, genetic epidemiology, genetic testing, > population > genetics, immunogenetics, molecular genetics > Start Year: 2001 > > Journal of Human Ecology > ISSN: 09709274 > Subject: Environmental Sciences --- Anthropology --- Genetics > Publisher: Kamla-Raj Enterprises, Delhi, India > Language: English > Keywords: human ecology, genetics, biology, man-environment relationship > Start Year: 2004 > > Journal of Social Sciences > ISSN: 09718923 > Subject: Social Sciences > Publisher: Kamla-Raj Enterprises, Delhi, India > Language: English > Keywords: social sciences > Start Year: 2004 > > Journal of the Anatomical Society of India > ISSN: 00032778 > Subject: Anatomy > Publisher: Anatomical Society of India > Language: English > Keywords: anatomy > Start Year: 2001 > > Journal of the Association of Physicians of India > ISSN: 00045772 > Subject: Medicine (General) > Publisher: Association of Physicians of India > Language: English > Keywords: medicine > Start Year: 2003 > > Medical Journal Armed Forces India > ISSN: 03771237 > Subject: Medicine (General) > Publisher: Armed Forces Medical Services, Minestry of Defence > Language: English > Keywords: medicine > Start Year: 2000 > > Neurology India > ISSN: 00283886 > Subject: Neurology > Publisher: Medknow Publications on behalf of the Neurological Society of > India > Language: English > Keywords: medicine, neurology > Start Year: 2002 > > Studies of Tribes and Tribals > ISSN: 0972639X > Subject: Anthropology > Publisher: Kamla-Raj Enterprises, Delhi, India > Language: English > Keywords: socio-cultural studies, aboriginals, minorities > Start Year: 2003 > > The Journal of Family Welfare > ISSN: 00221074 > Subject: Gynecology and Obstetrics --- Gender Studies > Publisher: Family Planning Association of India > Language: English > Keywords: sexual health, reproductive health, family planning, fertility > control, family living > Start Year: 2004 > > Trends in Biomaterials & Artificial Organs > ISSN: 09711198 > Subject: Biotechnology > Publisher: Society for Biomaterials and Artificial Organs - India > Language: English > Keywords: biotechnology, artificial organs, biomaterials > Start Year: 2000 > > 18 journals matching your query > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! 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Indianjournals.com - Seminars
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:28:49 +0530 From: Chandrima Roy <croy(a)docdelserv.com> Dear All, With reference to my previous email, I am glad to announce that our next Seminar on "E-Publishing & Global Promotion of Indian Journals" will be held on 1st July, 2006 in Mumbai. Venue : Auditorium, National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Vihar Lake, Mumbai. For detailed information on the same and registration, please click here: http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=event_1july2006 However, those who have already confirmed their participation in response to my previous email need not register again. Formal invitation will be sent separately after 15th June, 2006. We look forward to meet you in the seminar. Have a great time ahead! :-) Thanks & Regards Chandrima Roy Divan Enterprises B-9, Basement, "A" Block, Local Shopping Complex Naraina Vihar, Ring Road New Delhi - 110028 Tel: +91-11-25770411 Fax: +91-11-25778876 Email: croy(a)docdelserv.com croy(a)indianjournals.com Website: http://www.docdelserv.com http://www.indianjournals.com <http://www.indianjournals.com/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -----

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IPR and copyright
by Kumar N 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Dear Sir/Madam, I am N.Kumar, working as a "Project Assistant" in INCOIS Library, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, Hyderabad. I would like to build a digital repository for our institutional internal reports and scientist research papers published in national and international journals. In this regard, I need to know more about copy right information and IPR about making digital format of this. And also I want to know that is it possible to add someother digital files from outside into our digital repository?. I request to senior most professional, Please advice me in this regard. Kindest regards, N.Kumar. Project Assistant, INCOIS Library, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, Hyderabad. Bye, Take Care, Cheers! Kumar.N. Dear Sir/Madam, I am N.Kumar, working as a "Project Assistant" in INCOIS Library, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, Hyderabad. I would like to build a digital repository for our institutional internal reports and scientist research papers published in national and international journals. In this regard, I need to know more about copy right information and IPR about making digital format of this. And also I want to know that is it possible to add someother digital files from outside into our digital repository?. I request to senior most professional, Please advice me in this regard. Kindest regards, N.Kumar. Project Assistant, INCOIS Library, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, Hyderabad. Bye, Take Care, Cheers! Kumar.N. http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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Digital archiving
by Eldho Joy 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Date: 07 Jun 2006 From: "Eldho Joy" eldhoj(a)gmail.com Subject: Digital Archiving Dear ffriends I would like to know how we go about archiving the e-resources we subscribe to. Is there any specific software available for this purpose?. Please let me know. Librarian LBS Institute of Technology Trivandrum-12 Kerala. Date: 07 Jun 2006 From: "Eldho Joy" mailto:eldhoj@gmail.com eldhoj(a)gmail.com Subject: Digital Archiving Dear ffriends I would like to know how we go about archiving the e-resources we subscribe to. Is there any specific software available for this purpose?. Please let me know. Librarian LBS Institute of Technology Trivandrum-12 Kerala.

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Call for Papers for Law Journal
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 06:10:47 +0100 (BST) From: monawwer eqbal <monawwereqbal(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Sir/Madam, We are pleased to inform you that a biannual journal � Vidhigya: The Journal of Legal Awareness� is being published by Integrated School of Law, Ghaziabad. The journal welcomes and encourages original research based papers, articles, legal expressions, legal perceptions, global views, views and comments on various legal issues, book reviews and case laws. The journal covers almost all the subjects relating to the study of law. The journal invites original and unpublished contributions. The editor reserves the right to edit and publish all contributions. Submission of paper indicates that it has been neither copyrighted, published nor submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere. Written material sent by post/ e-mail should include writer�s full name, complete postal address, phone no. and fax no. The editor also invites suggestions for achieving excellence for law journal. If you have any suggestions, views and comments, which would help us to improve the various areas of law, please write at once to the editor. Looking forward for your contributions. MONAWWER EQBAL Integrated School of Law (ISL) Delhi � papur Bypass, NH-24, Ghaziabad 201009 (UP) INDIA Tel: 2768951-52, 2800118 Fax: 91-1202800418 Mob. 09968060560 Ghaziabad. E-mail: eqballib(a)inmantec.edu E-mail: eqballib(a)gmail.com Guidelines for Authors: Guidelines for Contributors A general guideline for contributor is listed below, which should be strictly adhered to. Manuscripts should be sent along with the authorization letter in favor of the Editor-in-Chief that it may be published after necessary editing and the copyright shall remain with the Editor-in-Chief, Management should also accompany a brief Resume of the author on separate sheet. Manuscripts should normally be of around 10,000 words (to an extent of 20 to 40 A-4 size pages, typed double space) Manuscripts should be submitted in triplicate with the cover page bearing only the title of the paper and author�s names, designation, official address, phone/fax number and e-mail address. Abstracts, All the Manuscripts should include an abstracts of about 100 to 200 words. NO abstracts are required for review essays or case study Footnotes. All footnotes should be indicated by serial numbers in the text and literature cited should be detailed under Notes at the end of the chapter bearing corresponding number. Tables and Figures. Table should approximate the appearnce of printed tables and preferably submitted in a floopy disk. Table/figures should be placed at the end of the text, after footnotes, appendices and references. Tables should contain a source and units of measurements. Their location in the text should be indicated as follows: Table 1.1 about here Reference, Place the reference at the end of the manuscript following the footnotes. The list should mention only those sources actually cited in the text or notes. Author name should be same as in the original source. For more than one publication by the same author, list them in chronological order, with the older item first. For more than one publication in one year by the same author, use small lower case) letters to distinguish them (e.g. 1980a, 1980b) Following are some examples: Books- Chakarborty, S.K. (1987) Managerial Effectiveness and Quality of Worklife: Indian Insights New Delhi Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Co. Ltd. Ph.D Thesis Singh, Ajay Kumar (1995) �Acoounting for Human Resources: Acquisition, Development and Retention� Ph.D thesis, University of Delhi, Delhi. Journal Chakarborty, S.K.(Oct 1983 )� The Giving Model and Corporate Excellence: A field Report� Decision, pp 219-224, Monikutty, S (1997) �Telecom Services in Urban and Corporate Segments: A Consumer Presective� Vakalpa, Vol 22, No. 3, pp 15-28 No stops after abbreviations (UK, USA, MBBS, MBA etc.) Use stops after initials (B.S.Bedi) Use double quotes throughtout . The use of signal quotes to be restricted for use within double quotes e.g. �In the words of Churchill, �Any one can suggest you whren you are right; friends are there to support you when you are wrong�� Quotation in excess of 50 words should be separated from the text with a line space above and below and indented on the left. Quotes should be cited accurately from the original source, should not be edited, and should give the page numbers of the original publication. Capitalization should be kept the minimum and should be consistent An author will receive 10 off prints and a complementary copy of the issue in which his/her paper appears. Book reviews must provide the following details, and in this order: Name of author/title of book reviewed/place of publication/ publisher/year of publication/number of pages, in Roman and Arabic figures to include preliminary pages and price, with binding specifications such as paperback or hardbound For example: Aftab Alam Sales and Distribution Management, Wisdom publications, Delhi, 2005

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why cant we change Mlisc degree to MSc degree
by srini vasulu 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Dear lis-forum members, Really i felt very sad when people(some) asked me what is Mlisc. So every time i had to explain what is Mlisc and what we study in this degree. what i feel is better we change this Mlisc degree to MSc degree, and there wont be any confusion for non-library background people. Mlisc has been included under science stream in allmost all universities and some universities are giving degrees under MSc for example kuvempu university in karnataka. And one important thing i noticed is there is discrimination between Library science and some arts subjects . For example people study Geography under Arts stream in degree, but in PG it is included under science stream and degrees are awarded with MSc., even this holds good for Psychology also, they also study Psychology under Arts in degree and under science stream in PG. why this discrimination only for library science. So i request all Library science faculty to pressure higher authorities,VCs to change MLisc to Msc., I hope all lis-forum members will support my move and unite together for a good cause. Lets hope other University heads take a leaf out of Kuvempu university and change Mlisc degree to MSc., degree. with regards, srinvasulu.b Information and Knowledge Management(IKM) Trainee 2005-07, National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-12 -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.as…

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Impact factor
by Smita Chandra 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Dear Colleagues, We are in urgent need of the impact factors of the following journals for the years 2004 and 2005 (if available). If anybody could please help us with the same or direct us to appropriate person / institution for the same we would be extremely grateful. 1. Journal of Quarternary Science (Pub.:Wiley Interscience) 2. Deep Sea Research Part I and Part II 3. Marine Geology 4. Quarternary Geochornology. Thanking you in anticipation, Yours sincerely, Smita-- Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai Ph. 91-22-2748 4000 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear Colleagues, We are in urgent need of the impact factors of the following journals for the years 2004 and 2005 (if available). If anybody could please help us with the same or direct us to appropriate person / institution for the same we would be extremely grateful. 1. Journal of Quarternary Science (Pub.:Wiley Interscience) 2. Deep Sea Research Part I and Part II 3. Marine Geology 4. Quarternary Geochornology. Thanking you in anticipation, Yours sincerely, Smita-- Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai Ph. 91-22-2748 4000 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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dLIST Information Sciences Digital Archive Announces New Editors
by Anita S. Coleman 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

dLIST Information Sciences Digital Archive Announces New Editors We are pleased to announce the dynamic new team of editors for dLIST, the Digital Library of Information Science & Technology. These Information/Library & Information Science faculty and librarians will be responsible for specific subjects. * Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Asst. Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston Libraries, Houston * Anita Coleman, Asst. Prof., University of Arizona, Tucson * Marija Dalbello, Assoc. Prof., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick * Fernando Elichirigoity, Asst. Prof., University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign * Kristin R. Eschenfelder, Assoc. Prof., University of Wisconsin at Madison * Cheryl Knott Malone, Assoc. Prof., University of Arizona, Tucson * Paul Marty, Asst. Prof., Florida State University, Tallahassee * Michael May, Adult Services Librarian, Carnegie-Stout Public Library, Dubuque * Soo Young Rieh, Asst. Professor, University of Michigan dLIST is a cross-institutional, subject-based, open access digital archive for the Information Sciences, including Archives and Records Management, Library and Information Science, Information Systems, Museum Informatics, and other critical information infrastructures. The dLIST vision is to serve as a trusted archive and source for scholarly communication in the Information Sciences, broadly understood. dLIST seeks to positively impact and shape scholarly communication in our closely related fields. Editors represent diverse sub-disciplinary communities and work closely with scholars in different fields such as Digital Humanities and Digital Libraries (Marija Dalbello), Government Information and Social Informatics (Kristin Eschenfelder), Information Behaviors (Soo Young Rieh), Museum Informatics (Paul Marty), Scholarly Communication (Charles Bailey), Science Technology Studies (Fernando Elichirigoity), and Classics (Michael May). More information about each of the dLIST editors is available at http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/editors.html. The new team invites you to self-register, self-archive and explore the many unique features of dLIST. Some dLIST features are: * DL-Harvest, http://dlharvest.sir.arizona.edu., an open access aggregator, which brings together materials from 14 global and open access archives in the Information Sciences for meta-searching and access to the full-text * Detailed Usage Statistics, http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/es/index.php?action=show_detail _date;range=4w provide usage statistics of each item in dLIST * RSS feeds and subscription alerts for items deposited in dLIST are available both by individual subjects (example: Academic Libraries) as well as the entire archive and anybody can be alerted automatically and quickly about new dLIST works, http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/feeds.html * A streamlined new web-based submission interface that lets you upload and deposit your works easily * dLIST Classics is a new project that will be making fundamental and leading Library and Information Science texts openly accessible in dLIST. For more information about dLIST and to self-register please visit http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/ or email dlist at u dot arizona dot edu. dLIST, Digital Library of Information Science & Technology Email: dlist at u dot arizona dot edu Contact: Garry Forger, Learning Technologies at the University of Arizona Anita Coleman

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Open Source Digital Library Software Packages: A Survey
by Sanjo Jose 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

Dear Sir/Madam, I am Sanjo Jose, a Master of Library and Information Science student in Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kerala, India. I am doing a project on open source digital library software packages. As part of it a survey is done on open source digital library/repository software packages. Please cooperate with me by filling up the questionnarie available at the following link. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=876152219455 Thanking you, Yours sincerely, Sanjo Jose Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kerala Thiruvananthapuram - 695 034 India asanjojose(a)yahoo.com Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com Stay connected with your friends even when away from PC. Link: http://in.mobile.yahoo.com/new/messenger/ Dear Sir/Madam, I am Sanjo Jose, a Master of Library and Information Science student in Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kerala, India. I am doing a project on open source digital library software packages. As part of it a survey is done on open source digital library/repository software packages. Please cooperate with me by filling up the questionnarie available at the following link. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=876152219455 http://www.surveymonkey.com/s .asp?u=876152219455 Thanking you, Yours sincerely, Sanjo Jose Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kerala Thiruvananthapuram - 695 034 India mailto:asanjojose@yahoo.com asanjojose(a)yahoo.com Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com Stay connected with your friends even when away from PC. Link: http://in.mobile.yahoo.com/new/messenger/

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DSpace workshop at NCRA, Pune from 24th July-26th July 2006
by Sunita Barve 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

Dear All, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics Pune is pleased to annouce a workshop on " Creating digital libraries using DSpace Open Source Software" Dates: 24th-26th July 2006 Venue: NCRA, Pune Organised by : National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) Many organizations are now trying to set up open access digital repositories using open source software. There are couple of open source software available for developing digital libraries and DSpace (http://www.dspace.org/ ) is one of the most popular software developed jointly by MIT Libraries and HP labs. DSpace helps to create, index and retrieve various forms of digital content. The purpose of this workshop is to provide training to library professionals by providing adequate practical knowledge which will enable them to initiate digital library projects on their own by using open source software. The focus will be given on DSpace open source digital library software which is freely available on internet and can be customized according to the requirements. It will be a unique opportunity for library professionals to get exposure to the concept of open source software in which changes can be easily made since source code is available with the user, which is not the case with proprietary software. DSPACE: DSpace can be used to build institutional or discipline-based repositories Submission facility allows scientists and researchers to upload digital documents from anywhere in the world Workflow feature allows moderation/review of the submitted documents Assigns persistent identifiers to each digital object in the repository Conforms to the standards like Dublin Core and OAI-PMH v.2.0 Security can be built at various levels to effect restricted access Asian and other world language based digital libraries can be built as it conforms to the UNICODE standard DSpace is an open source software and is freely downloadable from http://www.dspace.org/ This workshop is exclusively designed to provide hands-on-experience to the Librarians and Information Officers in developing a digital library using DSpace software. The topics to be covered in the Workshop Digital Libraries: Overview Overview of DSpace Installation of DSpace DSpace Users: Anonymous, Members & Authors DSpace Administration Dublin Core OAI-PMH Persistent Identifiers DSpace Customization Lucene Search Engine Unicode and Indian Languages The workshop comprises of lectures, demonstration and practice on the topics mentioned above. Computer lab facilities are made available for practice to the participants during extended hours. NCRA has excellent computer facilities. Resource Persons Dr. ARD Prasad, DRTC, ISI, Bangalore, INDIA Dr. Devika Malladi, DRTC, ISI, Bangalore, INDIA Ms. Sunita Barve, NCRA, Pune, INDIA Target Participants Library and information Science professionals with knowledge of Information Technology. The selection will be made on the basis of first-cum-first served. Registration fees Rs.5,500/- (The Demand Draft/Cash payable in favour of NCRA, Pune and payable at Pune) The Registration Fee includes Workshop Kit on CD-ROM Working Lunch/Tea Last Date for Registration 5th July, 2006 Accommodation Guest house accommodation can be made available at NCRA, Pune on payment. Coordinator Ms. Sunita A. Barve Library-In-Charge National Centre for Radio Astrophysics PO Box 3, Pune Univ. Campus Pune 411 007, INDIA Email: library(a)ncra.tifr.res.in ; sunitab(a)ncra.tifr.res.in sunitabarve(a)gmail.com Phone: 91-020-25697107/25691384/25691385-Ext. 211(Office) 9823975237 (Mobile) REGISTRATION FORM Participants Name:_________________________________________ Designation:__________________________________________ Name and Address of the Institution:___________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Telephone: Office:_______________________ Residence:___________________ Mobile:___________________ E-mail:___________________ Do you require accommodation during the Workshop? Yes / No (If yes, please let us know immediately.) Demand Draft No: ____________________________________________________ Name of the Bank: ____________________________________________________ Amount: ____________________________________________________________ Date: ________________________________________________________________ Signature

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Trail and Debate over Peer-Review -- Nature's Style
by Sukhdev Singh 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

"Nature" < http://www.nature.com > is undertaking open peer review trial. In this trial, authors whose submissions to Nature are sent for peer review will also be offered the opportunity to participate in an open peer review process < http://www.nature.com/nature/peerreview/index.html >. In Nature's peer review trial, lasting for three months, authors can choose to have their submissions posted on a preprint server for open comments, in parallel with the conventional peer review process. < http://blogs.nature.com/nature/peerreview/trial/ > It has also initiated a web debate for perspectives about peer review from those who believe it is working well and also those who prefer other options. < http://www.nature.com/nature/peerreview/debate/index.html > --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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Business models in open access publishing
by Sukhdev Singh 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

I hope members of the group would be interested in reading the following: Business models in open access publishing by Cockerill, Matthew. In "Open Access: Key strategic, technical and economic aspects" Neil Jacobs (ed.) (forthcoming) - http://hdl.handle.net/2384/2367 Matthew Cockerill, in this chapter, draws a parallel between open access and open government, noting that only by making information freely available can we hope to build the kinds of systems and services that are already useful, and that will be essential in the future. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC http://openmed.nic.in

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Works on Library Standards
by Ravichandra monappa 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

Dear All, I am conducting a research study on the 'use of standards in the academic health sciences libraries' and collecting literature relevant to my topic. There might be some research studies already done in our country on this topic covering public, academic and special libraries. There might be as well some dissertations. Please let me know if you have conducted or aware of any of such studies. Thanking you Yours sincerely Ravichandra Librarian Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College of Medical Science and Hospital Sattur, Dharwad - 580 009 Karnataka, INDIA Ph:0091-836-2477565/66/67/68 Fax:0091-836-2461651 --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new Click here Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger Download now Dear All, I am conducting a research study on the 'use of standards in the academic health sciences libraries' and collecting literature relevant to my topic. There might be some research studies already done in our country on this topic covering public, academic and special libraries. There might be as well some dissertations. Please let me know if you have conducted or aware of any of such studies. Thanking you Yours sincerely Ravichandra Librarian Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College of Medical Science and Hospital Sattur, Dharwad - 580 009 Karnataka, INDIA Ph:0091-836-2477565/66/67/68 Fax:0091-836-2461651 Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailanswersshare/*http://in.answers.yahoo.co… Click here Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/freesms/*http://messenger.yahoo.com/download… Download now

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NBII databases
by Subbiah Arunachalam 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

Friends: You may find it useful to visit the website of the US National Biological Information Infrastructure [http://www.nbii.gov/about/pubs/news/2006/06Access_spring.htm] Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Friends: You may find it useful to visit the website of the US National Biological Information Infrastructure [http://www.nbii.gov/about/pubs/news/2006/06Access_spring.htm] Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Google Spreadsheets
by Sukhdev Singh 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

<a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/">Google Spreadsheets</a> is now available as a limited test on Google Labs. This will allow users to create, store and share spreadsheets on the web. Well I am still waiting an invitation code from Google! --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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Re: [openaccess] RE: FOCUS ON WEEK TWO
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

Dear members, Here is a nugget from Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus. In conversation with Richard Poynder, the British technology journalist who is interviewing many open access advocates (including me): RP: I'm curious about your motivation for supporting Open Access so vigorously.... HV: I believe that science is one of those activities that improves the state of the world, and once you realise how important publication is in the series of acts that constitutes the doing of science, and once you understand the incredible transformation of that publication process that the Internet, and software, and the whole digital world, now promises it is hard not to be pretty passionate about trying to make that part of the scientific universe work more effectively. Arun

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Scholarships/ Fellowships to support higher studies:
by Satish Munnolli 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

The following URLs may be of interest to young library science professionals to display them on their library notice boards/incorporate in their library home page for user community. Information (for students) about Scholarships/ Fellowships to support higher studies: http://www.education.nic.in/htmlweb/scho.htm http://www.15to25.com/education/scholarships/indgr2.htm http://www.educationinfoindia.com/scholarships/others.htm http://www.indiaagronet.com/jobs/resources/scholarships.htm#6 http://www.competitionmaster.com/pages/career/scholarships.html http://www.chopraconsultants.com/scholarships.htm http://www.tata.com/0_our_commitment/community_initiatives/tata_trusts/jn_t… http://www.india-uk-academic-network.net/scholarships.htm Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer (ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410 208 India Ph : +91 22 2740 5026 Fax : +91 22 2740 5085 Email : smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in The following URLs may be of interest to young library science professionals to display them on their library notice boards/incorporate in their library home page for user community. Information (for students) about Scholarships/ Fellowships to support higher studies : http://www.education.nic.in/htmlweb/scho.htm http://www.education.nic.in/htmlweb/scho.htm http://www.15to25.com/education/scholarships/indgr2.htm http://www.15to25.com/education/scholarships/indgr2.htm http://www.educationinfoindia.com/scholarships/others.htm http://www.educationinfoindia.com/scholarships/others.htm http://www.indiaagronet.com/jobs/resources/scholarships.htm#6 http://www.indiaagronet.com/jobs/resources/scholarships.htm#6 http://www.competitionmaster.com/pages/career/scholarships.html http://www.competitionmaster.com/pages/career/scholarships.html http://www.chopraconsultants.com/scholarships.htm http://www.chopraconsultants.com/scholarships.htm http://www.tata.com/0_our_commitment/community_initiatives/tata_trusts/jn_t… http://www.tata.com/0_our_commitment/community_initiatives/tata_trusts/jn_t… http://www.india-uk-academic-network.net/scholarships.htm http://www.india-uk-academic-network.net/scholarships.htm Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer (ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410 208 India Ph : +91 22 2740 5026 Fax : +91 22 2740 5085 Email : mailto:smunnolli@actrec.res.in smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in

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Comments are expected from all the active LIS forum members on this suggestion.(NET/SET)
by yekanath kamble 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

Hello Mr.Bandi, I agree with your points Mr Bandi and it is already implemented also. I saw an advertisement for the teaching and non teaching posts for tamil nadu open university modified notification i.e 1 .In view of the contmplated changes in the eligibility qualification for the post of Lecturers in the univerisity by way of exemption to M.Phil and Ph.D qualified candidates fron passing NET/SLET examination, all applicanbts with M.Phil/Ph.D alone are eligible to apply for the leecture post in the disciplines advertised, subject to the receipt of UGC communication to that effect before the date of Interview.However, all those possessin only Master's qualification should habve passed NET/SLET examinations 2. consequently, the last date for submission of filled-in application is extended to 15th june 2006 Dr. S.Manickam Registrar .in todays The Hindu Bangalore edition.If require i will send to you tomorrow after scanning. But, i dont know what criteria is UGC following for recruitment . According to me let the first priority given to UGC/NET qualified and if candidates are not available they for Ph.D and then M.Phil.candidates. If one is influncial, favoured, financial sound background. If it is not followed then lot of injustice may happen to those who have qualifed above exams. I think there is no use of commenting and quoting now about this matter after implementing all everything.If any chances are there let me know. We will fight strongly. with regards, YEKANATH N KAMBLE ASST.LIBRARIAN R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING,MYSORE ROAD, BANGALORE-59 (INDIA) PH.91-80-28600351/28604705/28600184 FAX : 91 - 80 - 2860 0337 MOBILE.9448585358 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Hello Mr.Bandi, I agree with your points Mr Bandi and it is already implemented also. I saw an advertisement for the teaching and non teaching posts for tamil nadu open university modified notification i.e 1 .In view of the contmplated changes in the eligibility qualification for the post of Lecturers in the univerisity by way of exemption to M.Phil and Ph.D qualified candidates fron passing NET/SLET examination, all applicanbts with M.Phil/Ph.D alone are eligible to apply for the leecture post in the disciplines advertised, subject to the receipt of UGC communication to that effect before the date of Interview.However, all those possessin only Master's qualification should habve passed NET/SLET examinations 2. consequently, the last date for submission of filled-in application is extended to 15th june 2006 Dr. S.Manickam Registrar .in todays The Hindu Bangalore edition.If require i will send to you tomorrow after scanning. But, i dont know what criteria is UGC following for recruitment . According to me let the first priority given to UGC/NET qualified and if candidates are not available they for Ph.D and then M.Phil.candidates. If one is influncial, favoured, financial sound background. If it is not followed then lot of injustice may happen to those who have qualifed above exams. I think there is no use of commenting and quoting now about this matter after implementing all everything.If any chances are there let me know. We will fight strongly. with regards, YEKANATH N KAMBLE ASST.LIBRARIAN R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING,MYSORE ROAD, BANGALORE-59 (INDIA) PH.91-80-28600351/28604705/28600184 FAX : 91 - 80 - 2860 0337 MOBILE.9448585358 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: Please review our article titled "Open Access and institutional repositories - a developing country perspective: a case study of India"
by Mailing List Manager 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 From: Usha Mujoo-Munshi <umunshi(a)insa.nic.in> Reference : Please review our article titled "Open Access and institutional repositories - a developing country perspective: a case study of India" (Puna Das) At the ouset i must compliment the author/s for a commendable work. A good review on OA IRs. While going through the contents, some discripencies regarding INSA data was observed. 1. INSA OA repositories using Dspace are not only metadata, communities like seminar reports, presentations, photo-gallery are complete communities. However many items under articles are though metadata level. 2. INSA journals are online from inception while dates(year) mentioned are not correct. Kindly update.

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Free E-books from July 4 for one month
by madhuresh.singhal 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

Dear Friends, You would like to take advantage of this news. I have taken this from http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=104909 For more detail, you can visit http://www.gutenberg.org/events/fair-pressmay4.txt E-book project to give free access Electronic book devotees may want to set aside some extra screen time this summer, as two non-profit organisations are preparing to provide free access to 300,000 texts online. Project Gutenberg and World eBook Library plan to make "a third of a million" e-books available free for a month at the first World eBook Fair. Downloads will be available at the fair's web site from July 4, the 35th anniversary of Project Gutenberg's founding, through Aug. 4. The majority of the books will be contributed by the World eBook Library. It otherwise charges $US8.95 ($A12.02) a year for access to its database of more than 250,000 e-books, documents and articles. But the book fair will not be the last chance for e-bookworms to devour works ranging from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" to "Old Indian Legends," not to mention dictionaries and thesauruses, without paying for them. Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart, who first announced the ambitious plan a month ago, said Friday the partners are on track to make 1 million books available for the annual fair's one-month run in 2009, with more appearing in subsequent years. About 100,000, he said, will be permanently available at the handful of Project Gutenberg sites on the internet. "We want to give the most books to the most people," the 59-year-old Hart said by phone from Urbana, where he established the project in 1971 after graduating from the University of Illinois. "It has been our goal since the dawn of the internet to break down the bars of ignorance and illiteracy." The Gutenberg books, typed and scanned into computers by thousands of volunteers, mostly are those that are no longer protected by copyright. They include fiction, nonfiction and reference books and will be available for worldwide readers in about 100 languages. While the commercial e-book market remains tiny, Hart said electronic books have "caught on without getting a lot of publicity" and are being widely read on handheld computers, mobile phones and even special programs for use on iPods. "These people that grew up on GameBoys - to them a GameBoy screen is the standard size," he said. "To us old folks, it's too small. But they don't care." Based on fast-increasing demand, he predicted there will be 10 million e-books available by 2020. "I've gotten notes from people who said they would have never, ever read Shakespeare if I hadn't put it on the internet," Hart said. Regards Madhuresh Singhal Assoc. Res. Scientist - Inf. Sc. Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. 21 & 22, Phase 2, Peenya Industrial Area, Bangalore - 560058 Phone: +91 80 51172085, Ext. 25; Mobile 098861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/ ************************************************************************************************ This email and its attachments are confidential and proprietary to Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. and are meant for the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient, do not take any actions based on the contents of this message, except to permanently delete the message and its attachments and inform the sender immediately. ************************************************************************************************

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Results of UGC/NET
by yekanath kamble 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

Dear Professional, May i know the result of UGC/NET Dec, 2005 Published in whic issue/date of Employment News?.Already results are announced in Internet . Please let us know. with regards, YEKANATH N KAMBLE ASST.LIBRARIAN R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING,MYSORE ROAD, BANGALORE-59 (INDIA) PH.91-80-28600351/28604705/28600184 FAX : 91 - 80 - 2860 0337 MOBILE.9448585358 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear Professional, May i know the result of UGC/NET Dec, 2005 Published in whic issue/date of Employment News?.Already results are announced in Internet . Please let us know. with regards, YEKANATH N KAMBLE ASST.LIBRARIAN R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING,MYSORE ROAD, BANGALORE-59 (INDIA) PH.91-80-28600351/28604705/28600184 FAX : 91 - 80 - 2860 0337 MOBILE.9448585358 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Comments are expected from all the active LIS forum members on this suggestion.(NET/SET)
by ishwar bandi 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

LISDWD(a)yahoogroups.co.in, lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Dear professionals, I read many responses and comments regarding the scraping up of NET/SET decided by UGC, before to this decision I red one article in CURRENT SCIENCE Journal illuminated about the affect of the NET/SET compulsion on University out put i.e. Research. See UGC decision has taken by considering many more subjects and aspects. A proper guideline regarding the selection for the Lectureship is not yet formally decided by UGC. It is too early to draw a conclusion whether this decision is a correct or not. Now we see about the QUALITY, many people have raised a question about the NET/SET candidates have better QUALITY than non NET/SET candidates. I feel UGC Exam gives QUALIFICATION not QUALITY. As we are thinking only about the LIS whether there was no QUALITY before 1992 when there was no NET/SET compulsion for teaching. Most of we have studied under non NET/SET teachers then have you questioned about their QUALITY? In total I want to say that NET/SET is not only for the QUALITY but also to promote the research work, which is not happening. One more thing I wanted to tell you that not even one Indian University is ranked in first 500 universities at International level, why it is so? In subjects like Egg. can survive and do better without GATE then is it not possible in other subjects. Have you all observed the NET/SET clearing candidates are fresher students who have little practical knowledge? Hence I suggest UGC can conduct these qualifying exams categorically. Category may be on the basis of experience; Without experience 1 to 3 years experience 3 to 5 years experience 5 to 7 years experience 7 to 10 years experience 10 to 15 years experience 15 to 20 years experience In this type you can consider many other aspects to test the candidates subject knowledge. Because fresher may get more time to prepare and may not be having work pressers and so many other things which are in fever to them. Now the answers expecting in the exam are of text book oriented and you cannot expect a 5 to 10 and more years experience persons answers will compete the fresh candidates answers as far as the text book knowledge is concerned. Comments are expected from all the active LIS forum members on this suggestion. Thanking you Ishwar Bandi ********************************** Mr.Ishappa Bandi Librarian Don Bosco Institute of Technology Premier Automobile Road Kurla(w),Mumbai-400 070 Phone:022-25040508 Ext:117 www.donboscoit.ac.in icbandi(a)yahoo.co.in --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new Click here Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger Download now LISDWD(a)yahoogroups.co.in, lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Dear professionals, I read many responses and comments regarding the scraping up of NET/SET decided by UGC, before to this decision I red one article in CURRENT SCIENCE Journal illuminated about the affect of the NET/SET compulsion on University out put i.e. Research. See UGC decision has taken by considering many more subjects and aspects. A proper guideline regarding the selection for the Lectureship is not yet formally decided by UGC. It is too early to draw a conclusion whether this decision is a correct or not. Now we see about the QUALITY, many people have raised a question about the NET/SET candidates have better QUALITY than non NET/SET candidates. I feel UGC Exam gives QUALIFICATION not QUALITY. As we are thinking only about the LIS whether there was no QUALITY before 1992 when there was no NET/SET compulsion for teaching. Most of we have studied under non NET/SET teachers then have you questioned about their QUALITY? In total I want to say that NET/SET is not only for the QUALITY but also to promote the research work, which is not happening. One more thing I wanted to tell you that not even one Indian University is ranked in first 500 universities at International level, why it is so? In subjects like Egg. can survive and do better without GATE then is it not possible in other subjects. Have you all observed the NET/SET clearing candidates are fresher students who have little practical knowledge? Hence I suggest UGC can conduct these qualifying exams categorically. Category may be on the basis of experience; Without experience 1 to 3 years experience 3 to 5 years experience 5 to 7 years experience 7 to 10 years experience 10 to 15 years experience 15 to 20 years experience In this type you can consider many other aspects to test the candidates subject knowledge. Because fresher may get more time to prepare and may not be having work pressers and so many other things which are in fever to them. Now the answers expecting in the exam are of text book oriented and you cannot expect a 5 to 10 and more years experience persons answers will compete the fresh candidates answers as far as the text book knowledge is concerned. Comments are expected from all the active LIS forum members on this suggestion. Thanking you Ishwar Bandi ********************************** Mr.Ishappa Bandi Librarian Don Bosco Institute of Technology Premier Automobile Road Kurla(w),Mumbai-400 070 Phone:022-25040508 Ext:117 http://www.donboscoit.ac.in/ www.donboscoit.ac.in mailto:icbandi@yahoo.co.in icbandi(a)yahoo.co.in mailto:i@rediffmail.com Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailanswersshare/*http://in.answers.yahoo.co… Click here Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! 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History of Nobel unravelled at Vishveshwariah Museum
by vasanth raj 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

Dear Sir/Madam, Rare opportunity to see the works of great scientists and Nobel Laureates at Vishveshwariah Museum in Bangalore. Further Information http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/may302006/city1858142006529.asp http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/may292006/update945282006529.asp Your Sincerely Vasantha Raju N Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com

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Information for stock verification
by Ajay Kumar Sharma 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

Dear Professionals I have approx. 50,000 Books and i want to stock verification of books. Please send me most appropriate methods which will not create hinderence in my library services. Ur Ajay Kumar Sharma Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (Library) <http://www.idsa.in/> Block No. 3, Old JNU Campus, New Delhi-110067 Dear Professionals I have approx. 50,000 Books and i want to stock verification of books. Please send me most appropriate methods which will not create hinderence in my library services. Ur Ajay Kumar Sharma http://www.idsa.in/ Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (Library) Block No. 3, Old JNU Campus, New Delhi-110067

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Rquest for Articles
by veena bhat 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

Dear All, Could you please send the following article in E-Format? It is very urgent for one of our user. 1. Abernathy, William J., and Kenneth Wayne.1974. Limits to the Learning Curve. 2. Andrews, Kenneth R. 1971. The concept of Corporate Strategy. Homewood, IL: Irwin. Thanking You, Best Regards, Veena Bhat IIIT, Pune __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear All, Could you please send the following article in E-Format? It is very urgent for one of our user. 1. Abernathy, William J., and Kenneth Wayne.1974. Limits to the Learning Curve. 2. Andrews, Kenneth R. 1971. The concept of Corporate Strategy. Homewood, IL: Irwin. Thanking You, Best Regards, Veena Bhat IIIT, Pune __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Please review our article titled "Open Access and institutional repositories - a developing country perspective: a case study of India"
by Puna Das 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

Dear Member Please review our article titled "Open Access and institutional repositories - a developing country perspective: a case study of India" and give your valuable comments. If this article does not include your OA/ IR initiatives accessible worldwide, please provide details to the undersigned. Yours sincerely Anup Kumar Das World Library and Information Congress: 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council "Libraries: Dynamic Engines for the Knowledge and Information Society" 20-24 August 2006, Seoul, Korea Open Access and institutional repositories - a developing country perspective: a case study of India S.B. GHOSH (Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India) and ANUP KUMAR DAS (Jadavpur University, New Delhi, India) http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla72/papers/157-Ghosh_Das-en.pdf ____________________________________________________ 1st International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2006) December 06-08, 2006; Bangalore, India http://www.icdim.org ____________________________________________________ National Conference on Information Management in Digital Libraries (NCIMDiL) August 02-04, 2006; IIT, Kharagpur, India http://www.library.iitkgp.ernet.in/NCIMDiL/ncimdil.htm ____________________________________________________ International Conference on Computing: Theory and Applications March 5 - 7, 2007 Venue: Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Website: http://www.isical.ac.in/~ccsd_platinum/ ____________________________________________________ Indo German e-Gurukul on Digital Libraries (An joint e-learning initiative of DRTC, Bangalore & MMB, New Delhi using Moodle software) http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/mmb/ ___________________________________________________ EU Scholarship Scholarship Program for India worth 33 Million Euro How to Apply http://www.science-circle.org/EU_IN_Scholarships.asp ____________________________________________________ Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com

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stock verification
by gayathri sen 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

Dear friend, We have around 42,000 plus books and we follow the following steps which seems to be quite efficient. Most of the collection is bar coded. We make 3 groups of 3 persons each. To speed up the process each group starts scanning the barcodes at the same time. We have 3 laser scanners. The acc. No. of books without the bar codes are entered manually into the system. You can use the extension wires to take the systems and scanners near the shelf itself to save time. All the entries from all three systems are compiled in a single system for the physical presence of the books in the library and submitted to your library management software (if you have that) stock verification module for updating in your system. Report submitted to the management or authorities concerned. You can hire or borrow more scanners if you want to speed up and have more groups. The top gun with memory which is available for stock checking costs around Rs.30,000, but only one person can work at a given time ( that is if you have only one gadget). This takes more time. Probably you can hire more no.s if available and if you want to use this. Regards, Gayathri Sen PESIT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear friend, We have around 42,000 plus books and we follow the following steps which seems to be quite efficient. Most of the collection is bar coded. We make 3 groups of 3 persons each. To speed up the process each group starts scanning the barcodes at the same time. We have 3 laser scanners. The acc. No. of books without the bar codes are entered manually into the system. You can use the extension wires to take the systems and scanners near the shelf itself to save time. All the entries from all three systems are compiled in a single system for the physical presence of the books in the library and submitted to your library management software (if you have that) stock verification module for updating in your system. Report submitted to the management or authorities concerned. You can hire or borrow more scanners if you want to speed up and have more groups. The top gun with memory which is available for stock checking costs around Rs.30,000, but only one person can work at a given time ( that is if you have only one gadget). This takes more time. Probably you can hire more no.s if available and if you want to use this. Regards, Gayathri Sen PESIT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Congratulation - NIT - Rourkela for mandating OA Archiving
by Sukhdev Singh 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

I learn from Prof. Arunachalam's email that National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela adopted an OA mandate. The policy adopted by NIT as summarised in ROARMAP is - "All research papers by faculty and students, MTech (Research) and Ph. D. thesis is to be self-archived in Dspace@nitr or it should be submitted to the librarian for archiving, so that others interested may benefit by referring to these documents. The Administration may use this archive for assessment of faculty performance when needed." All credit should go to the Librarian ( I don't know who -- sorry!! ). Others should fellow the example. CONGRATULATIONS!! NIT and the LIBRARIAN!! --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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New small molecules database on open access
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

>From Peter Suber's blog "Open Access News" New OA database on small molecules ChemBank is a new OA database from the Broad Institute's Chemical Biology Program (at Harvard University) and funded by the U.S. National Cancer Institute's Initiative for Chemical Genetics (ICG). (Thanks to ResourceShelf.) From the site: This knowledge environment includes freely available data derived from small molecules and small-molecule screens, and resources for studying the data so that biological and medical insights can be gained.... Currently, ChemBank stores information on hundreds of thousands of small molecules and hundreds of biomedically relevant assays that have been performed at the ICG in collaborations involving biomedical researchers worldwide. These scientists have agreed to perform their experiments in an open data-sharing environment (data-sharing agreement). The goals of ChemBank are to provide life scientists unfettered access to biomedically relevant data and tools heretofore available almost exclusively in the private sector. We intend for ChemBank to be a planning and discovery tool for chemists, biologists, and drug hunters anywhere, with the only necessities being a computer, access to the Internet, and a desire to extract knowledge from public experiments whose greatest value is likely to reside in their collective sum.

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Re: European Union study on scientific publishing
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

Friends: Here is a letter from Dr Alma Swan, who came to deliver the keynote address at the special session on open access at this year's Science Congress, held at Hyderabad. Please request your scientist friends to write to the European Union's Directorate General of Research at rtd-scientific-publication(a)cec.eu.int Let them tell how important it is to have open access to all scientific research papers. Inaction may be taken to mean that OA is not really an important issue for scientists! Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] > Dear friends, > > I apologise for the round-robin message but time is of the essence and I > need to get this out to a number of people quickly. > > Responses are currently being collected to the European Union's study on > scientific publishing > (http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/pdf/scientific-publication-stu > dy_en.pdf). The report is long, but the recommendations are right at the > beginning and include some excellent ones for Open Access. A good summary > of > the report and its findings is found in Robin Peek's article for > InformationToday at: http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb060410-1.shtml > > I have been told that there is disappointment at the EU that the research > community has not responded more enthusiastically. The EU people see their > role as serving the research community and feel - rightly - that the > future > of publishing should be an important issue for that community. The lack of > response belies that, unfortunately. > > The deadline for responses has been extended until June 15th in order to > give the research community more time to respond. If we don't respond, > then > the EU cannot be blamed for assuming OA is not an important issue to > academia. This is the chance to show that it is, and the chance won't come > again. So, if you can spare a few moments, please would you write a line > or > two in support of Open Access for research results, declaring your > position > and interest and saying why it would be beneficial for the EU to take a > policy decision on Open Access to scientific research results. It doesn't > matter if you live and work outside the EU: the arguments for OA apply the > world over and you can encourage the EU to set an example in this respect. > > Your message should be e-mailed to DG Research at: > rtd-scientific-publication(a)cec.eu.int > > Responses are probably measured as much by numbers as by the quality of > the > content - like parliamentary representatives counting letters for and > against an issue to give them an idea of strength of public feeling! Just > a > couple of lines from you would therefore make a difference: there is no > need > to spend a lot of time on it if you are busy. If you can represent your > group, department, school or even institution then that would add even > more > weight. > > Thanks in advance if you can contribute. > > With warm best wishes, > > Alma > __________________________ > Alma P Swan, BSc, PhD, MBA > Director > Key Perspectives Ltd > 2 Denver Place > Elm Grove Road > Topsham > Devon, UK > EX3 0EP > Tel: +44 (0)1392 879702 > www.keyperspectives.co.uk > Consultants to the scholarly information industry > >

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NIT-R mandates OA for all its papers and theses!
by Subbiah Arunachalam 03 Jun '06

03 Jun '06

>From SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #98[http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/06-02-06.htm] * Institutional OA policies adopted in two countries. On May 15, India's National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Rourkela adopted an OA mandate. According to the policy summary in ROARMAP, "All research papers by faculty and students, MTech (Research) and Ph. D. thesis is to be self-archived in Dspace@nitr or it should be submitted to the librarian for archiving, so that others interested may benefit by referring to these documents. The Administration may use this archive for assessment of faculty performance when needed." NIT's is the sixth worldwide university-level OA mandate and the first from India. For the other five, see the institutions with asterisks by their names in ROARMAP. India's National Institute of Technology http://www.nitrkl.ac.in/ http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_07_fosblogarchive.html#114752693… ROARMAP http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/ ----- Congratulations to the Director of NIT-R and Mr Muthu Madhan, Librarian, NIT-R, for their bold vision. But when will the rest of India's higher educational institutions and research laboratories set up institutional archives and mandate OA for all their research publications? After all, most of India's researchers - be they faculty or students in universities or scientists in laboratories - are supported by public funds. It is only fair that publicly-funded research is made freely available to other researchers and students of science. Here are some more excerpts from Peter Suber's SPARC Open Access Newsletter No.98: Here are the top stories from May: * German Parliament considers an OA bill. * National OA policies emerging in four other countries. * Institutional OA policies adopted in two countries. * OA repositories pop up at institutions in three countries. * Gunther Eysenbach confirms the OA impact advantage. * German Parliament considers an OA bill. The Upper House of Germany's Parliament (Bundesrat) is considering a bill to permit author self-archiving of journal articles six months after publication regardless of the terms in a copyright transfer agreement the author might have signed. Here's an English-language summary of the bill by Gerd Hansen, an OA advocate, doctoral candidate at the Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property Law in Munich, and the author or at least the inspiration for the new bill. From his email: The provision that is currently being discussed is based on the wording I have proposed in an article on "Access to scientific information" published in GRUR Int. 2005, 378, p. 17 (until this very moment only in German). The Bundesrat now asked for a provision (p. 7) that would support OA in particular by giving authors the right to make their articles available online, even if they have granted exclusive rights to the publisher, if the following requirements are met: --only after expiration of 6-months since first publication --research predominantly based on public (tax payer) money --only publications in periodicals --non-commercial purpose of post-print-publication --author is obliged to use his final version of the article The bill permits author-initiated OA to publicly-funded research in Germany, though without mandating it. A mandate would be stronger, of course. But even many mandates (proposed or adopted) make vague or counterproductive exceptions for cases in which authors transfer copyright to publishers and publishers dislike the funder's OA policy. The German bill elegantly resolves doubts about permission and makes publisher dissent irrelevant. Moreover, Germany already has something of a mandate. The OA policy of Germany's DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), the country's primary public funding agency, tells grantees that they should deposit their DFG-funded research in OA repositories. The German OA bill is unusual for seeking to facilitate OA by amending copyright law, a strategy tried in the US with the Sabo Bill (June 2003) and since abandoned. In a country more likely to amend copyright law in the wrong direction than the right direction, like the US, this is a very difficult and uncertain strategy. But where it can succeed, it can be direct, effective, and durable. Is Germany such a country? We'll soon see. ............. * National OA policies emerging in four other countries. Four other countries either adopted or began considering national OA policies --all in May. Together with the German OA bill these are signs of growing momentum not only toward OA, but toward national commitments to OA. The Australian Research Council is considering a national OA policy. In his May 26 submission, Arthur Sale recommended that the ARC mandate OA for ARC-funded research. His proposal would mandate deposit of a postprint immediately upon acceptance for publication and immediate OA for the metadata. For the full-text article he recommends "delayed access, restricted access or closed access...depending on [the author's] agreement with the relevant journal." http://eprints.comp.utas.edu.au:81/archive/00000277/ http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_21_fosblogarchive.html#114873581… On May 23, the Finnish Council of University Rectors launched a national OA initiative "(1) to give aid to universities and research institutes in setting up institutional repositories; (2) to inform researchers about how open access is a part of the research process; and (3) to provide an easy-to-use platform for the open access journals of Finnish learned societies." At the same time, the Council decided to sign the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge. http://www.minedu.fi/julkaisut/tiede/2005/tr16/tr16.pdf http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_21_fosblogarchive.html#114838872… On May 11, Sweden has launched a national OA initiative "to promote maximum accessibility and visibility of works produced by researchers, teachers and students at Swedish universities and university colleges." The new initiative will promote both OA repositories and OA journals in Sweden. http://www.kb.se/openaccess/english/english_intro.htm http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_14_fosblogarchive.html#114805874… The Academy of Science of South Africa wrote a report in March (apparently not released until May) recommending both green and gold OA. See especially Recommendation 6, which would use public funds to pay processing fees at OA journals, launch a network of OA repositories, and harvest the repositories --everything essential except mandated deposits in the repositories. http://blues.sabinet.co.za/images/ejour/assaf/assaf_strategic_research_publ… http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_07_fosblogarchive.html#114720037… Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] From SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #98 [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/06-02-06.htm] http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_07_fosblogarchive.html#114720037… [A] * Institutional OA policies adopted in two countries. On May 15, India's National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Rourkela adopted an OA mandate. According to the policy summary in ROARMAP, "All research papers by faculty and students, MTech (Research) and Ph. D. thesis is to be self-archived in Dspace@nitr or it should be submitted to the librarian for archiving, so that others interested may benefit by referring to these documents. The Administration may use this archive for assessment of faculty performance when needed." NIT's is the sixth worldwide university-level OA mandate and the first from India. For the other five, see the institutions with asterisks by their names in ROARMAP. India's National Institute of Technology http://www.nitrkl.ac.in/ http://www.nitrkl.ac.in/ http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_07_fosblogarchive.html#114752693… http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_07_fosblogarchive.html#114752693… ROARMAP http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/ http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/ ----- Congratulations to the Director of NIT-R and Mr Muthu Madhan, Librarian, NIT-R, for their bold vision. But when will the rest of India's higher educational institutions and research laboratories set up institutional archives and mandate OA for all their research publications? After all, most of India's researchers - be they faculty or students in universities or scientists in laboratories - are supported by public funds. It is only fair that publicly-funded research is made freely available to other researchers and students of science. Here are some more excerpts from Peter Suber's SPARC Open Access Newsletter No.98: Here are the top stories from May: * German Parliament considers an OA bill. * National OA policies emerging in four other countries. * Institutional OA policies adopted in two countries. * OA repositories pop up at institutions in three countries. * Gunther Eysenbach confirms the OA impact advantage. [A] * German Parliament considers an OA bill. The Upper House of Germany's Parliament (Bundesrat) is considering a bill to permit author self-archiving of journal articles six months after publication regardless of the terms in a copyright transfer agreement the author might have signed. Here's an English-language summary of the bill by Gerd Hansen, an OA advocate, doctoral candidate at the Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property Law in Munich, and the author or at least the inspiration for the new bill. From his email: The provision that is currently being discussed is based on the wording I have proposed in an article on Access to scientific information published in GRUR Int. 2005, 378, p. 17 (until this very moment only in German). The Bundesrat now asked for a provision (p. 7) that would support OA in particular by giving authors the right to make their articles available online, even if they have granted exclusive rights to the publisher, if the following requirements are met: --only after expiration of 6-months since first publication --research predominantly based on public (tax payer) money --only publications in periodicals --non-commercial purpose of post-print-publication --author is obliged to use his final version of the article The bill permits author-initiated OA to publicly-funded research in Germany, though without mandating it. A mandate would be stronger, of course. But even many mandates (proposed or adopted) make vague or counterproductive exceptions for cases in which authors transfer copyright to publishers and publishers dislike the funder's OA policy. The German bill elegantly resolves doubts about permission and makes publisher dissent irrelevant. Moreover, Germany already has something of a mandate. The OA policy of Germany's DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), the country's primary public funding agency, tells grantees that they should deposit their DFG-funded research in OA repositories. The German OA bill is unusual for seeking to facilitate OA by amending copyright law, a strategy tried in the US with the Sabo Bill (June 2003) and since abandoned. In a country more likely to amend copyright law in the wrong direction than the right direction, like the US, this is a very difficult and uncertain strategy. But where it can succeed, it can be direct, effective, and durable. Is Germany such a country? We'll soon see. ............. * National OA policies emerging in four other countries. Four other countries either adopted or began considering national OA policies --all in May. Together with the German OA bill these are signs of growing momentum not only toward OA, but toward national commitments to OA. The Australian Research Council is considering a national OA policy. In his May 26 submission, Arthur Sale recommended that the ARC mandate OA for ARC-funded research. His proposal would mandate deposit of a postprint immediately upon acceptance for publication and immediate OA for the metadata. For the full-text article he recommends "delayed access, restricted access or closed access...depending on [the author's] agreement with the relevant journal." http://eprints.comp.utas.edu.au:81/archive/00000277/ http://eprints.comp.utas.edu.au:81/archive/00000277/ http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_21_fosblogarchive.html#114873581… http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_21_fosblogarchive.html#114873581… On May 23, the Finnish Council of University Rectors launched a national OA initiative "(1) to give aid to universities and research institutes in setting up institutional repositories; (2) to inform researchers about how open access is a part of the research process; and (3) to provide an easy-to-use platform for the open access journals of Finnish learned societies." At the same time, the Council decided to sign the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge. http://www.minedu.fi/julkaisut/tiede/2005/tr16/tr16.pdf http://www.minedu.fi/julkaisut/tiede/2005/tr16/tr16.pdf http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_21_fosblogarchive.html#114838872… http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_21_fosblogarchive.html#114838872… On May 11, Sweden has launched a national OA initiative "to promote maximum accessibility and visibility of works produced by researchers, teachers and students at Swedish universities and university colleges." The new initiative will promote both OA repositories and OA journals in Sweden. http://www.kb.se/openaccess/english/english_intro.htm http://www.kb.se/openaccess/english/english_intro.htm http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_14_fosblogarchive.html#114805874… http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_14_fosblogarchive.html#114805874… The Academy of Science of South Africa wrote a report in March (apparently not released until May) recommending both green and gold OA. See especially Recommendation 6, which would use public funds to pay processing fees at OA journals, launch a network of OA repositories, and harvest the repositories --everything essential except mandated deposits in the repositories. http://blues.sabinet.co.za/images/ejour/assaf/assaf_strategic_research_publ… http://blues.sabinet.co.za/images/ejour/assaf/assaf_strategic_research_publ… http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_07_fosblogarchive.html#114720037… http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_05_07_fosblogarchive.html#114720037… Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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DSIR-NCSI Training Workshop on "Setting up & Maintaining Institutional Repositories using EPrints"
by S. Filbert Minj 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

Dear Professionals: As part of ongoing project, Development of OAI-based Institutional Repository Services in India, sponsored by Department of Scientific and Industrial research, Ministry of Science and technology, Govt. of India, the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, will be conducting a training workshop on "Setting up and Maintaining Institutional Repositories using EPrints", during 26-28 July 2006. The main focus of the workshop will be to provide an intensive practical training to the participants to setup and maintain their Institutional Repositories (IR) using the "EPrints.org" software. The workshop is being conducted to encourage research institutes, Universities and R&D organizations to setup their interoperable IRs. The institutions/organizations are encouraged to depute appropriate systems/library staff who will be in a position to take advantage of the training to set up and operate institutional repositories in their respective institutions A nominal registration fee of Rs. 1000/- will be charged per participant. Please note that only online registrations are entertained. Last date for registration is 15 June 2006. Selected applicants will be intimated by email on or before 19 June 2006. All the selected applicants are to send a DD for Rs. 1000/- favouring Registrar, IISc, payable at Bangalore on or before 29 June 2006 to confirm their registration. For detailed information about the workshop and also for online registration, please visit: http://casin.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/ws/eprints/index.html Important Dates: Last Date for Registration: 15 June 2006 Selection Intimation: 19 June 2006 Last Date for Sending the DD: 29 June 2006 -- Filbert Minj & Francis Jayakanth, National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012

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Library Traineeship in the Resource Centre at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar
by ts kumbar 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

Dear Colleagues, We would highly appreciate, if you could kindly bring the following information to the notice of interested fresh ( with First Class M.L.I.Sc) Graduates in Library and Information Science and recommend the potential candidates. Regards Dr. T S Kumbar Resource centre DA-IICT Gandhinagar Tel. 079-30510550 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub: Openings for the position of Library Trainees in the Resource Centre (Library) at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar. Gujarat Dear Sir/Madam: We take this opportunity to inform you that Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), situated at Gandhinagar, Gujarat, is promoted by Reliance Group. It has been established on a 50-acre of land in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The Government of Gujarat has granted it the University Status under the State Act and is recognized by University Grants Commission. The Institute has started functioning since August 2001 with a batch size of 240 students at Undergraduate level in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It also offers a variety of Masters' and Doctoral programs in ICT and allied areas. The Institute takes young and dynamic postgraduate freshers with minimum First Class Masters in Library and Information Science and well versed in Computer application to Library and Information Services. Duration of Training is for a period for one year. However, guarantee of continued employment cannot be given. The trainees get a (all inclusive) fixed stipend between Rs.5000 to Rs.6000 depending on their quality etc, per month. Resource Centre is kept open till mid night on all working days during the semester and is open on holidays and Sundays. Selected trainees will have to work during these extended hours on rotation basis. The Institute has fully computerized in-house operations and services of the Resouce Centre and provides access to wide variety of digital collection, catering to the needs of the Faculty, Staff and students. Plans are on to convert this library into a complete Digital Library. We would be grateful if you could kindly identify a few such students from your Institution and send us your recommendation, along with their bio-data and information showing the year of passing and the percentage of marks obtained in M. L. I. Sc by 9th June, 2006. The students identified by you can directly come to the Institute for a written test and the interview on the 12th June, 2006 at 9.00am and we will consider them provided their bio-data and confirmation about their attending the test and interview are received by us on or before 9th June, 2006 on hr(a)da-iict.org All communications in this matter should be addressed to H R Officer at hr(a)da-iict.org Yours sincerely Executive Registrar Dhirubhai Ambani Instiute of Information and Communication Technology Post Bag. No.4 Near Indroda Circle Gandhinagar 382009 Gujarat http://www.da-iict.org Dear Colleagues, We would highly appreciate, if you could kindly bring the following information to the notice of interested fresh ( with First Class M.L.I.Sc) Graduates in Library and Information Science and recommend the potential candidates. Regards Dr. T S Kumbar Resource centre DA-IICT Gandhinagar Tel. 079-30510550 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub: Openings for the position of Library Trainees in the Resource Centre (Library) at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar. Gujarat Dear Sir/Madam: We take this opportunity to inform you that Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), situated at Gandhinagar, Gujarat, is promoted by Reliance Group. It has been established on a 50-acre of land in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The Government of Gujarat has granted it the University Status under the State Act and is recognized by University Grants Commission. The Institute has started functioning since August 2001 with a batch size of 240 students at Undergraduate level in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It also offers a variety of Masters’ and Doctoral programs in ICT and allied areas. The Institute takes young and dynamic postgraduate freshers with minimum First Class Masters in Library and Information Science and well versed in Computer application to Library and Information Services. Duration of Training is for a period for one year. However, guarantee of continued employment cannot be given. The trainees get a (all inclusive) fixed stipend between Rs.5000 to Rs.6000 depending on their quality etc, per month. Resource Centre is kept open till mid night on all working days during the semester and is open on holidays and Sundays. Selected trainees will have to work during these extended hours on rotation basis. The Institute has fully computerized in-house operations and services of the Resouce Centre and provides access to wide variety of digital collection, catering to the needs of the Faculty, Staff and students. Plans are on to convert this library into a complete Digital Library. We would be grateful if you could kindly identify a few such students from your Institution and send us your recommendation, along with their bio-data and information showing the year of passing and the percentage of marks obtained in M. L. I. Sc by 9th June, 2006. The students identified by you can directly come to the Institute for a written test and the interview on the 12th June, 2006 at 9.00am and we will consider them provided their bio-data and confirmation about their attending the test and interview are received by us on or before 9th June, 2006 on mailto:hr@da-iict.org hr(a)da-iict.org All communications in this matter should be addressed to H R Officer at mailto:hr@da-iict.org hr(a)da-iict.org Yours sincerely Executive Registrar Dhirubhai Ambani Instiute of Information and Communication Technology Post Bag. No.4 Near Indroda Circle Gandhinagar 382009 Gujarat http://www.da-iict.org http://www.da-iict.org

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Reminder - Dr. TBR Memorial Lecture
by anitha mk 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

Dear All, This is a gentle reminder about the Dr. TBR Memorial Lecture which will be held tomorrow 3rd June, 2006, by NCSI-NET. The details of the Lecture are given below: Title: E-support Systems for Learning, Teaching and Research Speaker: Prof: N.J Rao, CEDT Dept., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Time: 6 PM Date: 3rd June, 2006 Venue: Choksi Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore After this, a collection of the works of Dr. TBR will be released in a CD. Prof. Joshi, Chairman of NCSI, will preside over the proceedings. The event will end with a high tea. We request you all to attend this Lecture and make it a successful event. Thanks and Regards, Anitha M.K and Ravi Nandhan V NCSI-NET Coordinators  � Dear All, � This is a gentle reminder about the Dr. TBR Memorial Lecture which will be held tomorrow 3 rd June, 2006 , by NCSI-NET. The details of the Lecture are given below: � Title: E-support Systems for Learning, Teaching and Research � Speaker: Prof: N.J Rao, CEDT Dept., Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore � Time: 6 PM � Date: 3rd June, 2006 � Venue: Choksi Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore � After this, a collection of the works of Dr. TBR will be released in a CD. Prof. Joshi, Chairman of NCSI, will preside over the proceedings. The event will end with a high tea. � We request you all to attend this Lecture and make it a successful event. � Thanks and Regards, Anitha M.K and Ravi Nandhan V NCSI-NET Coordinators �

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ICADL2006 Deadline Extension
by Taro Tezuka 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

***** ICADL2006 DEADLINE EXTENSION ***** (Apologies for cross postings) The deadlines for the 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2006) have been extended. The new deadlines are: Submission of abstract Jun 20, 2006 Submission of paper Jun 30, 2006 Notification of acceptance Aug 20, 2006 Submission of camera-ready Sep 10, 2006 Conference date Nov 27-30, 2006 Below is the final CFP. -------------------------------------------- Call For Papers The 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2006) November 27-30, 2006, Kyoto, Japan http://www.icadl2006.org/ The International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) is an annual Asian event of international participation focusing on digital libraries and related technologies. Inaugurated in Hong Kong in 1998, ICADL has since been hosted in Taipei, Taiwan (1999), Seoul, South Korea (2000), Bangalore, India (2001), Singapore (2002), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2003), Shanghai, China (2004) and Bangkok, Thailand (2005). The 9th ICADL (ICADL2006) will be held in Kyoto, Japan in the late November. ICADL2006 provides an international forum for sharing experiences and up-to-date technologies among researchers, developers, educators, practitioners and policy makers from a variety of disciplines. ICADL2006, as well as the previous ICADL conferences, focuses on the use, adoption and adaptation of digital libraries, which include work surrounding digital libraries and related technologies, the management of knowledge in digital libraries, and the associated usability and social issues. Kyoto, which is globally known as the historical city and the heart of Japan, will welcome you to ICADL2006 in a very beautiful autumn. Submissions of papers, panels, tutorials, and workshops are invited in all areas of digital libraries and related technologies, the management of knowledge in digital libraries, and the associated usability and social issues. Research, system, evaluation, policy, and position papers are all invited. Suitable topics include but are not limited to: * Strategies with regards to o economic issues o legal issues o organizational issues o pedagogical issues o policy issues o social issues * Implementation experiences regading o collection development o international collaboration o quality of service o system evaluation o user communities o user studies * Systems o architecture o concepts and models o integration o interoperability * Techniques o Asian information processing o cross-language information access o human-computer interaction o information integration o information mining o information retrieval o localization o metadata o multimedia o ontologies o personalization o semantic web o semi-structured data management o Web cataloging o Web-page analysis * Management o access control o content management o intellectual property o security and privacy o service models * Application areas and concerns o digital archives and museums o digital preservation o knowledge management o education o e-science o Grid o scholarly publishing Prospective authors from all parts of the world are invited to submit their papers dealing with original work which, at the time of submission, is not under review or has not been published or accepted for publication in a journal or by another conference. Papers must be written in English, conforming to the formatting instructions of LNCS, Springer. Each paper must not exceed 10 pages. Only electronic submission (PDF format) is accepted via the Web page in University of Tsukuba (in preparation) for papers. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Based on their recommendations, a decision will be made regarding rejection or acceptance as poster (up to 2 pages), short paper (up to 4 pages), or long paper (up to 10 pages). The Conference Proceedings will be published in the LNCS series, Springer as well as the previous ICADL's. Best paper awards also will be conferred on the authors of the best paper(s) at the conference. Honorary Conference Chair: Makoto Nagao (NICT, Japan) General Chair: Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan) Program Co-Chairs: Jane Hunter (University of Queensland, Australia) Andreas Rauber (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Shigeo Sugimoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Tutorial/Workshop Chair: Jun Adachi (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Finance Chair: Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Kyoto University, Japan) Publication Chair: Atsuyuki Morishima (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Publicity Co-Chairs: Taro Tezuka (Kyoto University, Japan) Kenji Hatano (Doshisha University, Japan) Local Arrangement Co-Chairs: Satoshi Oyama (Kyoto University, Japan) Akira Maeda (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) ICADL Steering Committee Chair: EePeng Lim (NTU, Singapore) Program Committee: Robert Allen (Drexel, USA) Toshiyuki Amagasa (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan) Chutiporn Anutariya (Shinawatra Univ., Thailand) Thomas Baker (DCMI/Univ. of Goettingen, Germany) Jose Borbinha (National Library of Portugal, Portugal) Christine Borgman (UCLA, USA) Pavel I. Braslavsky (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) Donatella Castelli (Italian National Research Council, Italy) Abdus Sattar Chaudhry (NTU, Singapore) Ching-chie Chen (Simmons College, USA) Hsinchun Chen (Univ. of Arizona, USA) Hsueh-hua Chen (NTU, Taiwan) Chao-chen Chen (National Taiwan Normal Univ., Taiwan) Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea) Gobinda Chowdhury (Univ. of Strathclyde, UK) Weiguo Fan (Virginia Tech, USA) Edward Fox (Virginia Tech, USA) James French (Univ. of Virginia, USA) Norbert Fuhr (Univ. of Dortmund, Germany) Richard K. Furuta (Texas A&M, USA) Wen Gao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Dion Goh Hoe Lian (NTU, Singapore) Jane Greenberg (Univ. of North Carolina, USA) Maruf Hasan (Shinawatra Univ., Thailand) Rachel Heery (UKOLN, UK) Sachio Hirokawa (Kyushu Univ., Japan) Jieh Hsiang (National Chi-nan Univ., Taiwan) Jane Hunter (Univ. of Queensland, Australia) Soon J. Hyun (Information Communication Univ., Korea) Hiroshi Itsumura (Nagoya Univ., Japan) Paul Janecek (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand) Peter Jasco (Univ. of Hawaii, USA) Noriko Kando (NII, Japan) Ji-Hoon Kang (Chungnam National Univ., Korea) Sunghyuk Kim (Sookmyung Women's Univ., Korea) Hiroyuki Kitagawa (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan) Carl Lagoze (Cornell Univ., USA) Eepeng Lim (NTU, Singapore) Yan Quan Liu (Sourthern Connecticut State Univ., USA) Akira Maeda (Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan) Gary Marchionini (Univ. of North Carolina, USA) Cliff McKnight (Loughborough Univ., UK) Makiko Miwa (NIME, Japan) Atsuyuki Morishima (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan) Sung Hyun Myaeng (Chungnam National Univ., Korea) Mitsuharu Nagamori (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan) Takashi Nagatsuka (Tsurumi Univ., Japan) Ekawit Nantajeewarawat (SIIT, Thailand) Erich Neuhold (Univ. of Vienna, Austria) Liddy Nevile (La Trobe Univ., Australia) Paul Nieuwenhuysen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Pimrumpai Premsmit (Chulalongkorn Univ., Thailand) Somporn Puttapithakporn (STOU, Thailand) Edie Rasmussen (UBC, Canada) Andreas Rauber (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria) S. Sadagopan (IIIT-B, India) Tetsuo Sakaguchi (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan) Hideyasu Sasaki (Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan) Michael Seadle (Michigan State Univ., USA) Praditta Siripan (NSTDA, Thailand) Ingeborg Solvberg (NTNU, Norway) Ohm Sornil (NIDA, Thailand) Shigeo Sugimoto (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan) Atsuhiro Takasu (NII, Japan) Yin-Leng Theng (NTU, Singapore) Shalini Urs (Univ. of Mysore, India) Stuart Weibel (OCLC, USA) Ian Witten (Waikato Univ., New Zealand) Vilas Wuwongse (AIT, Thailand) Christopher C. Yang (CUHK, Hong Kong SAR) Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Kyoto University, Japan) Marcia Lei Zeng (Kent State Univ., USA) Important Dates: Submission of abstract Jun 20, 2006 Submission of paper Jun 30, 2006 Notification of acceptance Aug 20, 2006 Submission of camera-ready Sep 10, 2006 Conference date Nov 27-30, 2006

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hubmed
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

from researchbuz websire ====================== Are you familiar with HubMed? (http://www.hubmed.org.) It's an interface to the medical literature search engine PubMed that's simplified and very easy to use. Nice if you're not a professional medical researcher and find the PubMed interface overwhelming. HubMed also offers keyword-based RSS feeds for tracking additions to its database. HubMed also offers charts as well. Run a search. On the results page look to the right and you'll see a results count: "Results 1-20 of" however many results you got. Next to that will be a small chart icon. Click on that and you'll get -- hey! -- a chart. The chart will show you how many papers containing that keyword have appeared over time, starting in 1975 and moving to current day. Obesity is an interesting one to check; it starts out with a gentle curve and shoots up around 2000. For an interesting chart that meanders up and down, check out a query for hypnosis. -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, SENIORS (Society for Enriched Information of Relevance to Seniors), 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500018 Phone 27846631 ====================== Are you familiar with HubMed? ( http://www.hubmed.org./ http://www.hubmed.org. ) It's an interface to the medical literature search engine PubMed that's simplified and very easy to use. Nice if you're not a professional medical researcher and find the PubMed interface overwhelming. HubMed also offers keyword-based RSS feeds for tracking additions to its database. HubMed also offers charts as well. Run a search. On the results page look to the right and you'll see a results count: "Results 1-20 of" however many results you got. Next to that will be a small chart icon. Click on that and you'll get -- hey! -- a chart. The chart will show you how many papers containing that keyword have appeared over time, starting in 1975 and moving to current day. Obesity is an interesting one to check; it starts out with a gentle curve and shoots up around 2000. For an interesting chart that meanders up and down, check out a query for hypnosis. -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, SENIORS (Society for Enriched Information of Relevance to Seniors), 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500018 Phone 27846631

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Post of Librarian at DPS, Nagpur
by Easy Resources 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

All, Delhi Public School at Nagpur is looking for a Librarian. For the first one year the post will be on probation and the scale will be as per basic fifth pay commission. The candidates from Nagpur with BLISC, fresh or experienced in school libraries can apply for the post. The interested candidates can send their resume at easyresources(a)rediffmail.com Thanks & Regards, For Easy Resources All, Delhi Public School at Nagpur is looking for a Librarian. For the first one year the post will be on probation and the scale will be as per basic fifth pay commission. The candidates from Nagpur with BLISC, fresh or experienced in school libraries can apply for the post. The interested candidates can send their resume at easyresources(a)rediffmail.com Thanks & Regards, For Easy Resources http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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Visit two recent web-based e-Learning initiatives
by Puna Das 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Visit two recent web-based e-Learning initiatives Indo German e-Gurukul on Digital Libraries (An joint e-learning initiative of DRTC, Bangalore & MMB, New Delhi using Moodle software) http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/mmb/ Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK is an e-learning initiative in agricultural information management developed by FAO and partner organizations) Modules Management of Electronic Documents Building Electronic Communities and Networks Investing in Information for Development Digitization and Digital Libraries http://www.imarkgroup.org/index_en.asp ___________________________________________________ Anup Kumar Das/ Bidyarthi Dutta/ Swapan Kumar Patra Information and Communication Society of India, New Delhi, India ___________________________________________________ Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [LIS-Forum] NET Exemption
by Vijay Raghav Tiwari 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Dear Raj I dont agree with you that only Ph.D and M.Phil students have the communication skills. How does Ph.D and M.Phil enhances the skills of communication. Staying in India every body what is tough to get it cleared even then people are commenting and favouring the exemption from NET. I dont understand any examination which has so far been quite tough to clear, has got no value very recently. People started voicing over its uselessnes, It hurts me. regards vrt On Tue, 30 May 2006 Raj K Bhardwaj wrote : >Dear Members , > > >From last twenty days we have received so many massages on UGC NET exemption for M.Phil,Phd students why you Library Professionals are taking >it unstandardization of Education . >You know level of research work in our country from last ten years are going down at very rapid pace because students intend to go to prepare for exam and they bye pass the reseach ,intellctual process of education . > >Exemption for M.Phil and Phd student is the only way to incease the research level. Think about research in scinece and other stream where a single idea if you generate and patent it can earn good reputation and money for country. > > >So don't think exemption of NET for M.Phil and Phd student is decreasing our education standard. >In my opinion We should impliment the NET Exam to get Admission in M.Phil and only after M.Phil students can enrollin Phd this should be the model . > > >secondly if any one who cleared UGC _NEt in library science with old traditional syallabus how can teach new concept and technology application in Libraries to students . > >if UGC Net exam cleared person don't have good Communication skills how he/she can teach student ? > >I have seen so many students who cleared NET exam and could ' manage to get any Job in Private College . > > > > >Raj Kumar Bhardwaj >Asstt Librarian >Punjab and Haryana High Court >Chandigarh > >Ring'em or ping'em. Make http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman11/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/e… PC-to-phone calls as low as 1¢/min >with Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Dr. Vijay Raghav Tiwari Librarian Harish Chandra Research Institute (Department of Atomic Energy, Govt of India) Chhatnag Road,Jhunsi,Allahabad -211 019. Phone.91-532-2668302(O), 0532-2274325 (O), 0532-2274064 (R) <vrtiwari(a)mri.ernet.in> Dear Raj I dont agree with you that only Ph.D and M.Phil students have the communication skills. How does Ph.D and M.Phil enhances the skills of communication. Staying in India every body what is tough to get it cleared even then people are commenting and favouring the exemption from NET. I dont understand any examination which has so far been quite tough to clear, has got no value very recently. People started voicing over its uselessnes, It hurts me. regards vrt On Tue, 30 May 2006 Raj K Bhardwaj wrote : >Dear Members , > > >From last twenty days we have received so many massages on UGC NET exemption for M.Phil,Phd students why you Library Professionals are taking >it unstandardization of Education . >You know level of research work in our country from last ten years are going down at very rapid pace because students intend to go to prepare for exam and they bye pass the reseach ,intellctual process of education . > >Exemption for M.Phil and Phd student is the only way to incease the research level. Think about research in scinece and other stream where a single idea if you generate and patent it can earn good reputation and money for country. > > >So don't think exemption of NET for M.Phil and Phd student is decreasing our education standard. >In my opinion We should impliment the NET Exam to get Admission in M.Phil and only after M.Phil students can enrollin Phd this should be the model . > > >secondly if any one who cleared UGC _NEt in library science with old traditional syallabus how can teach new concept and technology application in Libraries to students . > >if UGC Net exam cleared person don't have good Communication skills how he/she can teach student ? > >I have seen so many students who cleared NET exam and could ' manage to get any Job in Private College . > > > > >Raj Kumar Bhardwaj >Asstt Librarian >Punjab and Haryana High Court >Chandigarh > >Ring'em or ping'em. Make http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman11/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/e… PC-to-phone calls as low as 1¢/min >with Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Dr. Vijay Raghav Tiwari Librarian Harish Chandra Research Institute (Department of Atomic Energy, Govt of India) Chhatnag Road,Jhunsi,Allahabad -211 019. Phone.91-532-2668302(O), 0532-2274325 (O), 0532-2274064 (R) <vrtiwari(a)mri.ernet.in> http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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Urgent: Need soft copy of article
by venu.kumaris＠wipro.com 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Hi All, Need the soft copy of an article for the project purpose, Title: Extraction of Binary Character/Graphics Images from Grayscale Document Images", CVGIP, Vol.55, No.3, pp.203-217, May 1993. Author: Mohamed Kamel and Aiguo Zhao. Waiting for your reply . Regards Venu. The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. WARNING: Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.wipro.com  Hi All, � �� Need the soft copy of an article for the project purpose,�� Title: �Extraction of Binary Character/Graphics Images from Grayscale Document Images", CVGIP , Vol.55, No.3, pp.203-217, May 1993 . Author: �Mohamed Kamel and Aiguo Zhao . � Waiting for your reply . � Regards Venu. � � The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. WARNING: Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.wipro.com

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Lecture on FUTURE OF LIBRARIES by Ms.Wendy Zaman on 8-6-06 at British Library, Hyderabad,
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 13:29:56 +0100 (BST) From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> Academy of Library Science and Documentation, Hyderabad & Center for Telecom Management and Studies, Hyderabad Invite you to a talk on THE FUTURE OF LIBRARIES By Ms. Wendy Zaman* Information Resource Officer, American Embassy, New Delhi Venue: British Council Library, Hyderabad Date: Thursday, the 8th June at 18.45 hrs Dr T H Chowdary Prof V Chandrasekhar Rao Director , CTMS President ALSD Ph: (40) 5567-1191 Ph: 93 466 2 1493 ==================================================== *Wendy Zaman joined the Foreign Service as an Information Resource Officer in February 2003. She arrived in India in December 2004. She works as the consultant for the seven American Information Resource Centers (AIRCs), also known as American Libraries in New Delhi, Chennai, Calcutta and Mumbai in India as well as Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Wendy worked as a university librarian in Florida for three years. Before that, she lived throughout Asia and Africa for over twenty years and worked in a variety of libraries, ranging from universities to international schools to NGOs and consulting firms. Wendy has a Bachelor of Arts degree in literature from American University in Washington, DC and a Master�s degree in Library and Information Sciences from Long Island University in New York.

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NET material
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 10:42:29 +0100 (BST) From: pravesh chaudhary <pravesh_chaudhary(a)yahoo.co.in> Respected member I am appearing for NET. pls. advice me about the materials for library and information science discipline. with regards Pravesh

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Re: [LIS-Forum] EAS System - Library Security
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Date: 30 May 2006 12:35:52 -0000 From: vishal verma <vishal_56verma(a)rediffmail.com> Dear all, Now with improved and comparatively low priced than earlier, RFID solutions address the security issues in libraries. And not only the security issue= s but also many other routine and repetitive tasks like stock verification, sorting of books, check-out/in, etc=85 can be automated without much human intervention, which leads to better & improved services, efficient use of = library staff and avoiding inadvertent manual mistakes. Another advantage of RFID over magnetic tattle is one need not to swipe lib= rary resources for charging and discharging magnetic tattle every time reso= urces go out and come into the library after checkout and checkin. In case of RFID the security bit in the tag automatically gets disarmed on checkout and armed on checkin without one needs to swipe it manually. Moreover the skilled staffs who undergo rigorous two year training would be freed by the automated process and can be put to more meaningful tasks viz=. reference services than repetitive works. In fact two of the implementation of RFID in Indian Libraries have been don= e by Edutech India Pvt. Ltd. at IIT Madras and IIM Indore. Regards Vishal Verma Information Specialist Edutech India Pvt Ltd #8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 28330999 Fax: +91 44 28331777 GSM: +91 98409 97846 www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong."

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Information required
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Date: 29 May 2006 12:46:30 -0000 From: abhishek kumar yadav <cervicalgun(a)rediffmail.com> � Dear All, Any one of will let me know, is there any agency which can do digitisation of our library's accession register at the reasonable rates. Kindly give full details. Thanks Abhishek RFC Hyderabad

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INFLIBNET Staff gives Dr T A V Murthy, Director a Farewell tribute
by K Prakash 31 May '06

31 May '06

Hello, INFLIBNET Staff gives Dr T A V Murthy, Director a Farewell tribute Dr T A V Murthy, Director of INFLIBNET Centre has relinquished from his duty on 31-05-2006 after successfully completing his five year tenure. INFLIBNET Staff today gave him a farewell to him. Warm wishes, emotional memories and frozen treats were the order of the day. The INFLIBNET and academic community wishes Dr Murthy and his family a prosperous, peaceful and cheerful life and also wishes him a very best in his new assignment(CIEFL, Hyderabad). Sh. Manoj Kumar K, Scientist-D (Comp.Sc.) will be the Acting Director till the new Director will be appointed by the University Grants Commission (UGC). Bye. ________________________________________________ K Prakash Scientific/Technical Officer-I Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre An Inter-University Centre of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Post Box No.4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad - 380 009 India Phone: 91-079-2630 5971/2630 4695 Extn: 38(Off); 2676 3724(Res) Fax: 91-079-2630 0990/ 2630 7816 Mobile: 94270 00758 Email: prakash(a)inflibnet.ac.in; URL: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/

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FREE Theoretical Physics Papers--And More!
by Dabas Bharat K 31 May '06

31 May '06

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by Indira K. 31 May '06

31 May '06

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File sharing through Peerfactor
by Shahab 31 May '06

31 May '06

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( CD-ROM Storage cum Retrieval System)- Imation DiscStakka CD/DVD Library
by Mr. Siva Chidambaram 31 May '06

31 May '06

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NET Exemption
by Raj K Bhardwaj 31 May '06

31 May '06

Dear Members , From last twenty days we have received so many massages on UGC NET exemption for M.Phil,Phd students why you Library Professionals are taking it unstandardization of Education . You know level of research work in our country from last ten years are going down at very rapid pace because students intend to go to prepare for exam and they bye pass the reseach ,intellctual process of education . Exemption for M.Phil and Phd student is the only way to incease the research level. Think about research in scinece and other stream where a single idea if you generate and patent it can earn good reputation and money for country. So don't think exemption of NET for M.Phil and Phd student is decreasing our education standard. In my opinion We should impliment the NET Exam to get Admission in M.Phil and only after M.Phil students can enrollin Phd this should be the model . secondly if any one who cleared UGC _NEt in library science with old traditional syallabus how can teach new concept and technology application in Libraries to students . if UGC Net exam cleared person don't have good Communication skills how he/she can teach student ? I have seen so many students who cleared NET exam and could ' manage to get any Job in Private College . Raj Kumar Bhardwaj Asstt Librarian Punjab and Haryana High Court Chandigarh --------------------------------- Ring'em or ping'em. Make PC-to-phone calls as low as 1¢/min with Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Dear Members , >From last twenty days we have received so many massages on UGC NET exemption for M.Phil,Phd students why you Library Professionals are taking it unstandardization of Education . You know level of research work in our country from last ten years are going down at very rapid pace because students intend to go to prepare for exam and they bye pass the reseach ,intellctual process of education . Exemption for M.Phil and Phd student is the only way to incease the research level. Think about research in scinece and other stream where a single idea if you generate and patent it can earn good reputation and money for country. So don't think exemption of NET for M.Phil and Phd student is decreasing our education standard. In my opinion We should impliment the NET Exam to get Admission in M.Phil and only after M.Phil students can enrollin Phd this should be the model . secondly if any one who cleared UGC _NEt in library science with old traditional syallabus how can teach new concept and technology application in Libraries to students . if UGC Net exam cleared person don't have good Communication skills how he/she can teach student ? I have seen so many students who cleared NET exam and could ' manage to get any Job in Private College . Raj Kumar Bhardwaj Asstt Librarian Punjab and Haryana High Court Chandigarh Ring'em or ping'em. Make http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman11/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/e… PC-to-phone calls as low as 1¢/min with Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.

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National Workshop on "Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and Institutional Repositories with DSPACE
by T R B Sarma 31 May '06

31 May '06

National Workshop on "Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and Institutional Repositories with DSPACE" to be held at ISEC, Bangalore between 26-27, June 2006 The Institute for social and Economic Change (ISEC) is a multi-disciplinary research and training institute in Social Sciences. It is one of the major ICSSR research organizations established by Professor V K R V Rao, in the year 1972 in Bangalore. ISEC Library and ICSSR will be jointly conducting a National Workshop on " Open Archives Initiative and Institutional Repositories with DSPACE" between 26-27, June 2006 at the campus of ISEC, Nagarabhavi PO, Dr. V.K.R.V Rao Avenue, Bangalore-560 072. The Institute is well equipped with fully air-conditioned seminar halls, a computer lab, a meeting room with Multi-media and OHP facilities. The Workshop will arrange invited lectures cum demonstrations and practical experience on computers (afternoon sessions) by eminent scholars and experts in their respective individual subject fields. The topics to be covered in the above workshop are: 1. Introduction on "Digitization of Library and Information Centres". 2. Open Source Digital Software for libraries 3. DSPACE Software 4. Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and Institutional Repositories 5. Creation of OAI and Institutional Repositories with DSPACE Regisration fee: There is no registration fee. Accommodation: The organizers will provide accommodation by charging a nominal fee of Rs. 125/- per day per participant at institute's guesthouse. Eligibility for participation: The workshop invites two participants from each organization - One from the Library and another, a computer professional, from their systems department. Total number of participants has been restricted to twenty from ten organisations only. Preference will be given to the participants from ICSSR funded research institutions and other social science research institutions. Registration is accepted on first cum and first served basis. The resource persons will come from DRTC, Bangalore and IGIDR, Mumbai. Interested participants (combination of library and computer professional from the same institution) may please fill the enclosed registration form and transmit the same to the undersigned through e-mail or post at the earliest. TRB SARMA Librarian, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) Nagarabhavi, Bangalore. 560 072 (Karnataka) Telephone No.s 080-23215468/23215592 Extension 302 Fax: 080-23217008; E-mail trbsarma(a)isec.ac.in Web: WWW.isec.ac.in National Workshop on "Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and Institutional Repositories with DSPACE" 26-27, June 2006 at ISEC, Bangalore Registration Form Name Mr/Ms/Dr Library Professional : Computer Professional : : Designation and qualifications Library Professional: Computer Professional : Name and address of the institution: Phones (Office and Res.) : Fax Nos. : E-mail : Does your library have a website YES or No If yes, Please furnish its URL What is the bandwidth your internet connection ? After the workshop Would you like to develop an Institutional repository for Your publications yes / No Accommodation needed : Yes or No Signature Library professional Computer Professional Date TRB SARMA Librarian, ISEC Nagarabhavi, Bangalore. 560 072. E-mail : trbsarma(a)isec.ac.in Telephone: 080-23215468 Extn. 302 National Workshop on "Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and Institutional Repositories with DSPACE" to be held at ISEC, Bangalore between 26-27, June 2006 The Institute for social and Economic Change (ISEC) is a multi-disciplinary research and training institute in Social Sciences. It is one of the major ICSSR research organizations established by Professor V K R V Rao, in the year 1972 in Bangalore . ISEC Library and ICSSR will be jointly conducting a National Workshop on " Open Archives Initiative and Institutional Repositories with DSPACE" between 26-27, June 2006 at the campus of ISEC, Nagarabhavi PO, Dr. V.K.R.V Rao Avenue, Bangalore-560 072 . The Institute is well equipped with fully air-conditioned seminar halls, a computer lab, a meeting room with Multi-media and OHP facilities. The Workshop will arrange invited lectures cum demonstrations and practical experience on computers (afternoon sessions) by eminent scholars and experts in their respective individual subject fields. The topics to be covered in the above workshop are: 1. Introduction on "Digitization of Library and Information Centres". 2. Open Source Digital Software for libraries 3. DSPACE Software 4. Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and Institutional Repositories 5. Creation of OAI and Institutional Repositories with DSPACE Regisration fee : There is no registration fee. Accommodation: The organizers will provide accommodation by charging a nominal fee of Rs. 125/- per day per participant at institute's guesthouse. Eligibility for participation : The workshop invites two participants from each organization - One from the Library and another, a computer professional, from their systems department. Total number of participants has been restricted to twenty from ten organisations only. Preference will be given to the participants from ICSSR funded research institutions and other social science research institutions. Registration is accepted on first cum and first served basis. The resource persons will come from DRTC, Bangalore and IGIDR, Mumbai. Interested participants ( combination of library and computer professional from the same institution ) may please fill the enclosed registration form and transmit the same to the undersigned through e-mail or post at the earliest. TRB SARMA Librarian, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) Nagarabhavi, Bangalore. 560 072 (Karnataka) Telephone No.s 080-23215468/23215592 Extension 302 Fax: 080-23217008; E-mail trbsarma(a)isec.ac.in Web: WWW.isec.ac.in National Workshop on "Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and Institutional Repositories with DSPACE" 26-27, June 2006 at ISEC, Bangalore Registration Form Name Mr/Ms/Dr Library Professional : Computer Professional : : Designation and qualifications Library Professional: Computer Professional : Name and address of the institution: Phones (Office and Res.) : Fax Nos. : E-mail : Does your library have a website YES or No If yes, Please furnish its URL What is the bandwidth your internet connection ? After the workshop Would you like to develop an Institutional repository for Your publications yes / No Accommodation needed : Yes or No Signature Library professional Computer Professional Date TRB SARMA Librarian, ISEC Nagarabhavi, Bangalore. 560 072. E-mail : mailto:trbsarma@isec.ac.in trbsarma(a)isec.ac.in Telephone: 080-23215468 Extn. 302

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Indianjournals.com - Statistics
by Chandrima Roy 30 May '06

30 May '06

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RFID: Beyond the Drive for Five
by Saiful Amin 30 May '06

30 May '06

Greetings, Five cents for a RFID tag is said to be the tipping point for its adoption. "We've been talking about the mythical five-cent price point for years," notes Mike Liard, RFID practice director for Venture Development Corp. "Is it possible? Yes. But it may not necessarily be the type of tag you're looking for." Indeed, makers of RFID chips know this, which is why most haven't rushed to put nickel tags on the market. Instead, they've been content to cut prices at a steady rate of about 5 to 10 percent per year since 2000, while simultaneously improving the technology. As a result, users of the tags are already employing them in applications undreamed of a decade ago, despite their inability to reach the elusive nickel price point. The bottom line is that while RFID vendors have been lowering their prices and improving their technology, they've been carving out new niches for themselves. Increasingly, RFID tags are being used on pallets, cartons, garments, luggage, DVD cases, pill bottles and library books. And in the future, experts foresee more use in low-cost everyday items, from lipstick cases to cereal boxes. While they won't replace the bar code any time soon, they nevertheless offer non-line-of-sight capability, which means they can gather information of their whereabouts without being individually handled. As a result, they're capable of deterring theft and counterfeiting. Why does adoption of RFID always seem to lag behind forecasts? Experts say there are good reasons, including: - Benefits aren't always easily understood by potential users. - Process changes take time, especially when people must be re-trained and machines must be re-programmed. - Developing the infrastructure for RFID calls for major capital investment. Read the full article at: http://www.designnews.com/article/CA6324161.html Regards, Saiful -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 2/2, Union Street Off Infantry Road Bangalore 560001, India Tel: +91 80 4112 3437 M: +91 93438 26438 Fax: +91 80 4151 7801 www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong."

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Re: Quality is essential in LIS also
by Aloor Thomas Francis 30 May '06

30 May '06

Dear Professionals, The decision of UGC to give exemption to the M.Phil and Ph.D. Holders is not fair. It may be better if the UGC has rectified the defect if any in the NET exam. Maximum, the UGC can give exception for candidates with MPhil/PhD and some years of teaching/professional experience. Qualifing the NET by their students is a proud to the colleges/universities. If so, we can think who is favouring the present decision of the UGC. People who can not clear NET will be against the NET Exam. The arguments favouring the UGC decision are that, people are not getting cleared the NET easily. If we favour such arguments, why we want Post Graduate Degrees itself to become teachers. This will be like persons with telant in teaching, but with out subject knowledge. Why we want competitive exams for IAS, job, etc. The selection may be on the basis of marks in qualifying exams. like degree, PG, +2, etc. Another argument was why librarians qualify NET. Since the librarians are not engaged in imparting knowledge and research, of course we should not clear the NET. Moreover, we should not go for MPil/PhD. But, We NEED UGC SCALE. This is our only right as Librarians. Moreover, we should represent to change our designations from librarians/scientists/engineers/ etc. to librarians and if possible, as store keepers. Francis __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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File Sharing Service from PeerFactor
by Farooque Shaheen 30 May '06

30 May '06

PeerFactor has announced a new service that allows users to share files of any size. The service allows users to upload files to PeerFactor?s servers and receive a link which they can send by email instead of sending email with a huge attachment. A demo PeerFactor site is available at http://www.peerfactor.fr/send/ Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 PeerFactor has announced a new service that allows users to share files of any size. The service allows users to upload files to PeerFactor’s servers and receive a link which they can send by email instead of sending email with a huge attachment. A demo PeerFactor site is available at http://www.peerfactor.fr/send/ Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105

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EAS System - Library Security
by Rafiq 30 May '06

30 May '06

Dear colleagues in profession, I beg to differ with Gayathri Sen of the PESIT-Engineering College (leaving aside her claim to be the 2nd library in the country to have implemented EAS system!). While observations made by Gayathri Sen must be certainly based on her experiences, it cannot be generalized that the RFID and EAS systems are only for 'show off'. Percolation of RFID in libraries is a good technological advancement in our profession. I have seen this system working very fine, without any hassles, in a number of libraries in India and abroad, and we should really boast of its implementation in Indian libraries. It is unfortunate that Gayathri Sen landed in wrong vendors' land with some infamous product, hence her problems and sufferings. Else her experience could have certainly been of jubilation, pride and exuberance. Rafiq Ansari Senior Manager - Library TV Division, The Times of India Group Kamala Mills Compound Lower Parel (West) Mumbai - 400 013 Email: rafiq.ansari(a)timesgroup.com -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 12:04 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 38, Issue 43 Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in You can reach the person managing the list at lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." Today's Topics: 1. EAS systems - Library Security (gayathri sen) 2. Dr. TBR Memorial Lecture (anitha mk) 3. Indian Edition of DDC (veena bhat) 4. Regarding Technical Course (bharathi niranjana) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 01:54:40 -0700 (PDT) From: gayathri sen <gayatsen(a)yahoo.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] EAS systems - Library Security To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20060529085440.64893.qmail(a)web52904.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Friends, Ours was the first library in Karnataka and Second in our country after IUCCA, Pune to install EAS Security System in Libraries. US consulate had this for other purpose and not for its library. My experience: 1. Not very reliable 2. Return on Investment not good 3. Service is poor. We bought it from Monitor Electronics, Pune but the product was imported. They did not have office in Bangalore and every time we had to bear their conveyence charge plus repair charge whcih worked out to be too expensive in the long run. 4.Service was not immediate because they had to come from Pune. 5. Product acts only as deterrant for stealing, but total loss cannot be prevented. 6. Too many false alarms. 7. Adds only value but not a must buy. 8. You can buy it if you have too much finance to spend, or to show off to others and say you have a very modern library. 9. Newer versions may be slightly bettter. 10. Right now we have stopped depending on this. Regards, Gayathri Sen PESIT-Engineering College --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail Beta.

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Revision of AACR- outcomes of the JSC meeting
by Indira K. 30 May '06

30 May '06

Dear Professionals, the outcomes of the JSC meeting held in Ottawa from April 24-28, 2006 and the structure of RDA (Resource Description and Access) can be captured from: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/0604out.html Indira Koneru Dear Professionals, the outcomes of the JSC meeting held in Ottawa from April 24-28, 2006 and the structure of RDA (Resource Description and Access) can be captured from: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/0604out.html http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/0604out.html Indira Koneru

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The Hindu Speaks on Libraries
by K.R.Mulla 30 May '06

30 May '06

Dear professionals, Sorry for cross posting this mail The Hindu Speaks on Libraries This book in 304 pages is a compilation of news, views, editorials etc. on libraries covering the period 1918 to 1992. This gives a general view of the developments in this field over the past seven decades and a half and serves a useful reference book for librarians and information scientists. http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Hindu/400x60/0 To buy online Copies can be had on payment of USD 8 (EIGHT only - To all foreign countries - including Airmail Regd. book post charges) or INR 120/- (Indian Rupees One Hundred and Twenty Only - Within India by Regd. book post) by demand draft payable at Chennai, India favouring KASTURI & SONS LTD. (No seamail mode entertained for any countries. We do not have arrangements to send copies by V.P.P) Address for communication: Customer Relations Division Circulation Department The Hindu 859 & 860 Anna Salai Chennai - 600002 Tamil Nadu India Ph: 91-44-28589060 Fax: 91-44-28545703 email: subscribe http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Hindu/400x60/0 Insert a catchy tag line here Mr. K. R.Mulla Head - LIC HKBK College of Engineering Sy. No. 22/1, Nagawara, Bangalore 560 045 Karnataka, India http://krmulla.googlepages.com tel: fax: mobile: +918025441722 +918025443813 +19-94480-31969 Add me to your address book... Want a signature like this? Dear professionals, Sorry for cross posting this mail The Hindu Speaks on Libraries This book in 304 pages is a compilation of news, views, editorials etc. on libraries covering the period 1918 to 1992. This gives a general view of the developments in this field over the past seven decades and a half and serves a useful reference book for librarians and information scientists. http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Hindu/400x60/0 http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Hindu/400x60/0 javascript:void window.open('http://www.hindu.com/books/index.htm'); To buy online Copies can be had on payment of USD 8 (EIGHT only - To all foreign countries - including Airmail Regd. book post charges) or INR 120/- (Indian Rupees One Hundred and Twenty Only - Within India by Regd. book post) by demand draft payable at Chennai, India favouring KASTURI & SONS LTD. (No seamail mode entertained for any countries. We do not have arrangements to send copies by V.P.P) Address for communication: Customer Relations Division Circulation Department The Hindu 859 & 860 Anna Salai Chennai - 600002 Tamil Nadu India Ph: 91-44-28589060 Fax: 91-44-28545703 email: mailto:subs@thehindu.co.in?subject=The Hindu Speaks on Libraries subscribe http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Hindu/400x60/0 http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Hindu/400x60/0  cid:000501c683b0$81ffde30$3402a8c0@libserver1 Insert a catchy tag line here Mr. K. R.Mulla Head - LIC HKBK College of Engineering Sy. No. 22/1, Nagawara, Bangalore 560 045 Karnataka, India http://krmulla.googlepages.com http://krmulla.googlepages.com tel: fax: mobile: +918025441722 +918025443813 +19-94480-31969 https://www.plaxo.com/add_me?u=47244715461&v0=150405&k0=868755986 Add me to your address book... http://www.plaxo.com/signature Want a signature like this?

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IIMK-INDEST/AICTE Workshop on 'IRs' during 17-19 July 2006
by mgsree＠iimk.ac.in 29 May '06

29 May '06

Dear Colleagues: The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (http://www.iimk.ac.in) & the INDEST/AICTE Consortium (http://indest.iitd.ac.in/) are pleased to annouce the joint Workshop on 'Institutional Repositories', scheduled during 17-19 July 2006, at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK). The objective of this 3-day Workshop is to provide intensive training on building Institutional Repositories (IRs) using the Open Source Software DSpace. The target audience include the librarians, information science and software professionals, and IT faculty belonging to the INDEST/AICTE Consortium Institutions, the academia, Government, Corporate and the NGOs in India. The details of the workshop are furnished below. The workshop brochure as well as the Registration Form are available at http://www.iimk.ac.in/fdpcalendar2006.htm A hardcopy of the brochure shall be forwarded upon request. Thanking you and with regards, Sreekumar ========================================================================== Workshop Content ---------------- The Workshop shall facilitate the participants create IRs using 'DSpace' in the Windows platform, which include software installation, configuration, customization and other related workflow operations, content development and management, Internet publishing, designing and creating standard metadata sets to describe digital objects and encoding it in standard markup formats. The three-day workshop shall cover Open Access concepts, Scholarly Institutional Repositories, DSpace, and Metadata Standards. The prime focus areas are: ------------------------- Institutional Repositories: Open Access Archives, OAI, OAI-PMH - working principle, and cases. DSpace: Overview, Installations (Java 2 SDK, Apache, Jakarta Tomcat, mod_jk, Apache Ant, PostgreSQL, DSpace), Configuration, Administration, and Customization. Metadata Standards: Concepts, Dublin Core, METS and MODS. Hands-on Sessions Workshop Faculty ---------------- 1. Dr. M.G. Sreekumar, Librarian & Head, CDDL, IIM Kozhikode 2. Dr. Jagdish Arora, National Coordinator, INDEST Consortium & Librarian, IIT Delhi 3. Dr. R. Radhakrishna Pillai Associate Professor of IT, IIM Kozhikode 4. Dr. Saji Gopinath, Associate Professor, IIM Kozhikode 5. Dr. A.R.D. Prasad, Associate Professor, DRTC (ISI), Bangalore 6. Dr. Usha Mujoo Munshi, Head, Informatics Centre, INSA, New Delhi 7. Sh. Ashok Pathak, Systems Manager, IIM Kozhikode Workshop Participants --------------------- Twenty participants, on First Come First Served basis, will be taken from INDEST/AICTE Consortium participating Institutions. Twenty participants, on First Come First Served basis, will be taken from Other Academic/Industry/ Research Institutions Workshop Fee ------------ INDEST/AICTE Consortium Institutions - Rs. 1000.00 (Rupees One Thouand Only) Others Rs.4000/- (Rupees Four Thousand Only) Workshop Registration --------------------- The interested individuals may please register for the Workshop on or before July 01 2006. DD or Cheque to be drawn in favour of Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, Payable at Calicut. Workshop Coordinator -------------------- Dr. M.G. Sreekumar, Librarian and Head, Center for Development of Digital Libraries (CDDL), Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, IIMK Campus (Post), Calicut-673570, E-mail : mgsree(a)iimk.ac.in, Phone :0495-22809140. For Further details ------------------- Please refer the brochure and registration form that can be downloaded from the IIMK Website at http://www.iimk.ac.in/fdpcalendar2006.htm or contact FDP office 0495-2809208. -- Dr. M. G. Sreekumar Librarian & Head, Center for Development of Digital Libraries (CDDL) Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode IIMK Campus P.O. Kozhikode, Kerala, India-673 570 ------------------------------------------------ Phone : +91 495 2809140 Mobile : 09447654066 Fax : +91 495 2803010/11 Email : mgsree(a)iimk.ac.in Web : http://www.iimk.ac.in; : http://iimk.ac.in/mgsree.htm ===========================================================================

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Regarding Technical Course
by bharathi niranjana 29 May '06

29 May '06

Hello Good Evening Sir, I am Bharathi, Librarian. I need your guidence to do my technical education related to our Profession. I have done my master degree in library and information science(MLISc) and also i have knowledge of basic coputer science. Now I am thinking to do C, C++, Oracle(PL/ SQL) and .Net course in bangalore. What about your Suggessions on this please. I am thinking to do my job in corporate side on my profession degree and these computer course. Please guidehow it helpfull if i do these course and which centre is better in bangalore. I will be highly oblize you if suggest me Thanking you Bharathi H N E-mail: brbharathi(a)yahoo.co.in --------------------------------- How should a woman equip herself to travel safe even when she's unescorted? Share your knowledge with real people on Yahoo! India Answers Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger Download now Hello Good Evening Sir, I am Bharathi, Librarian. I need your guidence to do my technical education related to our Profession. I have done my master degree in library and information science(MLISc) and also i have knowledge of basic coputer science. Now I am thinking to do C, C++, Oracle(PL/ SQL) and .Net course in bangalore. What about your Suggessions on this please. I am thinking to do my job in corporate side on my profession degree and these computer course. Please guidehow it helpfull if i do these course and which centre is better in bangalore. I will be highly oblize you if suggest me Thanking you Bharathi H N E-mail: mailto:brbharathi@yahoo.co.in brbharathi(a)yahoo.co.in How should a woman equip herself to travel safe even when she's unescorted? Share your knowledge with real people on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailanswerswomen/*http://in.answers.yahoo.co… Yahoo! India Answers Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/freesms/*http://messenger.yahoo.com/download… Download now

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Dr. TBR Memorial Lecture
by anitha mk 29 May '06

29 May '06

Dear All, NCSI-NET is organizing Dr. TBR Memorial Lecture on Saturday, 3rd June, 2006 to commemorate the first death anniversary of our beloved Sir, Dr. T.B Rajashekar. The details of the Memorial Lecture are given below: Title: E-support Systems for Learning, Teaching and Research Speaker: Prof: N.J Rao, CEDT Dept., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Time: 6 PM Date: 3rd June, 2006 Venue: Choksi Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore After this, a collection of the works of Dr. TBR will be released in a CD. Prof. Joshi, Chairman of NCSI, will preside over the proceedings. The event will end with a high tea. We request you all to attend this Lecture and make it a successful event. Kindly confirm your attendance by sending a mail to - anitha_m(a)aurigene.com or ravi.nandhan(a)capco.com Thanks and Regards, Anitha M.K and Ravi Nandhan V NCSI-NET Coordinators  Dear All, � NCSI-NET is organizing Dr. TBR Memorial Lecture on Saturday, 3rd June, 2006 to commemorate the first death anniversary of�our � beloved Sir, Dr. T.B Rajashekar. The details of the Memorial Lecture are given below: � Title: E-support Systems for Learning, Teaching and Research � Speaker: Prof: N.J Rao, CEDT Dept., Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore � Time: 6 PM � Date: 3rd June, 2006 � Venue: Choksi Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore � After this, a � collection of the works of Dr. TBR will be released � in a CD.� � � Prof. Joshi, Chairman of NCSI, will preside over the proceedings. The event will end with a high tea. � We request you all to attend this Lecture and make it a successful event. Kindly confirm your attendance by sending a mail to – mailto:anitha_m@aurigene.com anitha_m(a)aurigene.com or mailto:ravi.nandhan@capco.com ravi.nandhan(a)capco.com � Thanks and Regards, Anitha M.K and Ravi Nandhan V NCSI-NET Coordinators � � � �

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Indian Edition of DDC
by veena bhat 29 May '06

29 May '06

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EAS systems - Library Security
by gayathri sen 29 May '06

29 May '06

Dear Friends, Ours was the first library in Karnataka and Second in our country after IUCCA, Pune to install EAS Security System in Libraries. US consulate had this for other purpose and not for its library. My experience: 1. Not very reliable 2. Return on Investment not good 3. Service is poor. We bought it from Monitor Electronics, Pune but the product was imported. They did not have office in Bangalore and every time we had to bear their conveyence charge plus repair charge whcih worked out to be too expensive in the long run. 4.Service was not immediate because they had to come from Pune. 5. Product acts only as deterrant for stealing, but total loss cannot be prevented. 6. Too many false alarms. 7. Adds only value but not a must buy. 8. You can buy it if you have too much finance to spend, or to show off to others and say you have a very modern library. 9. Newer versions may be slightly bettter. 10. Right now we have stopped depending on this. Regards, Gayathri Sen PESIT-Engineering College --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail Beta. Dear Friends, Ours was the first library in Karnataka and Second in our country after IUCCA, Pune to install EAS Security System in Libraries. US consulate had this for other purpose and not for its library. My experience: 1. Not very reliable 2. Return on Investment not good 3. Service is poor. We bought it from Monitor Electronics, Pune but the product was imported. They did not have office in Bangalore and every time we had to bear their conveyence charge plus repair charge whcih worked out to be too expensive in the long run. 4.Service was not immediate because they had to come from Pune. 5. Product acts only as deterrant for stealing, but total loss cannot be prevented. 6. Too many false alarms. 7. Adds only value but not a must buy. 8. You can buy it if you have too much finance to spend, or to show off to others and say you have a very modern library. 9. Newer versions may be slightly bettter. 10. Right now we have stopped depending on this. Regards, Gayathri Sen PESIT-Engineering College Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=40791/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/handr… You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail Beta.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Open Access Journals?
by Sukhdev Singh 29 May '06

29 May '06

Interesting document by Thomson Scientific, Thanks Venkatesh for sharing it with the group. The following para is worth noting: "The evolving environment of scholarly publishing includes additional avenues for making content openly available. Our findings suggest that over 55% of the journals and over 65% of the articles indexed in Web of Science in 2003 are produced by publishers who permit some form of self-archiving, and could be made OA by author archiving." The data studied in the document is of 2003. I hope the figure (65%) of the articles indexed in Web of Science that can be self-archived by authors might have improved by now. According to ROMEO Project < http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php > 93% of the journals surveyed by them allow some form of author archiving. Even if we go by the Web of Science 2003 figures, it can be concluded that 65% of the best articles can be made OA by self-archiving. And the beauty is that it does not matter where on the earth these are archived, OAI-PMH protocol will ensure their universal discovery and access. Just like libraries are essential for teaching / research institutes - OA Repositories should also be must to reflect institutional / country's intellectual output. Yes - OA Repositories are no substitute to journals - but stores them - just like libraries hold books / journals. Now, let us decide what we should be doing in this matter? --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in On 26/05/06, LS Venkatesh <venkatesh(a)edutech.com> wrote: > > Dear friends: > > While on the subject of OA journals, I thought that those who are interested in this topic will find the white paper on "The Impact of Open Access Journals" by Thomson Scientific very useful. The whitepaper, though published in 2004, is available at the following link and could give some very interesting insight into the evolution of OA journals, the trends, impact factor of OA journals and importantly, the lead from Asia Pacific, contrary to usual western dominance. > > > http://www.thomsonscientific.com/media/presentrep/essayspdf/openaccesscitat… > > > Hope you will find it useful. > > > Regards, > > Venkatesh > ----------- > > > Venkatesh L S > General Manager > Edutech India Pvt Ltd > 8, Khader Nawaz Khan Road > Chennai 600 006, India > Tel: +91 44 28330999 > Fax: +91 44 28331777 > GSM: + 91 98403 21214 > www.edutechindia.com > "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." > >

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Homeopathic drugs to preserve books, manuscripts!
by Krishna Maraddi 29 May '06

29 May '06

Dear All, Please go through this article. Homeopathic drugs to preserve books, manuscripts! 4 4 Certain homeopathic medicines are useful to prevent & remove fungus in books and manuscripts 4 4 The basic properties of the paper would remain unchanged after the treatment by homeopathic drugs 4 4 Sulphar Iodatum, Petrolim, Arsenicum and Rumux in different potencies are found to be most effective in the treatment of books and manuscripts After proven efficacy on human beings, homeopathy medicines can now be used to prevent fungal growth in books, old documents and manuscripts -- a breakthrough research says. In the first of its kind study, scientists at National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property (NRLC) have found that certain homeopathic medicines are useful to prevent and remove fungus in books and manuscripts. Following over-a-decade of reaserch in this regard, certain medicnies had been successfully tested and found to be extremely useful in treating the fungus on the books, NRLC scientist Dr Shashi Dhawan along with Dr K L Garg, who achieved the breakthrough said. The paper division of the Lab also studied the physico-chemical properties of the paper and found that the basic properties of the paper would remain unchanged after the treatment by homeopathic drugs, Dr Dhawan said. NRLC, which is engaged in preservation and conservation of historical and heritage buildings through its expertise is venturing into preservation of documents and manuscripts for the first time. Various drugs were tested during the course of research which had started in 1995. Sulphar Iodatum, Petrolim, Arsenicum and Rumux in different potencies were found to be most effective in the treatment of books and manuscripts, Dr Dhawan, the Head of Bio-deterioration Division of the NRLC, said. She said the findings had already been published and well received everywhere. Earlier, the fungus on books and manuscripts was treated successfully by NRLC scientists through chemicals but homeopathic medicines were environment-friendly and not harmful in any way, she said in reply to a query. Homeopathic medicines are environment-friendly, non-hazardous and without side effects in human beings, books and manuscripts will also have no bearings of this off-beat treatment, the scientists claimed. Dr Dhawan said the application of homeophatic medicinies was done on plants but its use on books and manuscripts was being tried for the first time. Tropical and sub-tropical countries like India, where humid weather prevails, the attack of fungus on books is more prevalent. This breakthrough research would go a long way in treatment of books and manuscripts. Yours Krishna Maraddi Librarian SKSVM Agadi college of Engg. & Tech. Laxmeshwar Dist; Gadag --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. Dear All, Please go through this article. Homeopathic drugs to preserve books, manuscripts! 4 4 Certain homeopathic medicines are useful to prevent & remove fungus in books and manuscripts 4 4 The basic properties of the paper would remain unchanged after the treatment by homeopathic drugs 4 4 Sulphar Iodatum, Petrolim, Arsenicum and Rumux in different potencies are found to be most effective in the treatment of books and manuscripts After proven efficacy on human beings, homeopathy medicines can now be used to prevent fungal growth in books, old documents and manuscripts -- a breakthrough research says. In the first of its kind study, scientists at National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property (NRLC) have found that certain homeopathic medicines are useful to prevent and remove fungus in books and manuscripts. Following over-a-decade of reaserch in this regard, certain medicnies had been successfully tested and found to be extremely useful in treating the fungus on the books, NRLC scientist Dr Shashi Dhawan along with Dr K L Garg, who achieved the breakthrough said. The paper division of the Lab also studied the physico-chemical properties of the paper and found that the basic properties of the paper would remain unchanged after the treatment by homeopathic drugs, Dr Dhawan said. NRLC, which is engaged in preservation and conservation of historical and heritage buildings through its expertise is venturing into preservation of documents and manuscripts for the first time. Various drugs were tested during the course of research which had started in 1995. Sulphar Iodatum, Petrolim, Arsenicum and Rumux in different potencies were found to be most effective in the treatment of books and manuscripts, Dr Dhawan, the Head of Bio-deterioration Division of the NRLC, said. She said the findings had already been published and well received everywhere. Earlier, the fungus on books and manuscripts was treated successfully by NRLC scientists through chemicals but homeopathic medicines were environment-friendly and not harmful in any way, she said in reply to a query. Homeopathic medicines are environment-friendly, non-hazardous and without side effects in human beings, books and manuscripts will also have no bearings of this off-beat treatment, the scientists claimed. Dr Dhawan said the application of homeophatic medicinies was done on plants but its use on books and manuscripts was being tried for the first time. Tropical and sub-tropical countries like India, where humid weather prevails, the attack of fungus on books is more prevalent. This breakthrough research would go a long way in treatment of books and manuscripts. Yours Krishna Maraddi Librarian SKSVM Agadi college of Engg. & Tech. Laxmeshwar Dist; Gadag Yahoo! 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Exemption from NET
by Lavji N. Zala 29 May '06

29 May '06

Dear LIS-Forum Colleagues, The decision taken by UGC to give exemption to the M.Phil and Ph.D. Holders form net is not fair. It is just like, IIMs and IITs offer admissions without CAT. Feel, what happens if this type of situation may be imposed in the education sector? Testing to the aspirants through the national or international standards (NET, CAT, IEEE, GMAT, TOEFL, PMT and so on.), is essential to produce qualitative and intellectual (because the competitive exams always test the aspirants at maximum aspects of intellectuality) persons rather than concentrate on quantity. Why the students from self financed management institutes (who offer admission without any national entrance test and believe in quantity) do not steps with the students of other institutes (who believe in quality and test the knowledge of aspirants through the national standards /entrance exams) in context to knowledge, innovation, self - determination and so on. Quality gives you assurance. There may many alternatives of quality but the alternatives will affect the national standards (standardization) and education system and create double standard system. I do not believe that the M.Phil and Ph.D holders have not capacity, however they have to pass through the national test and prove them as NET holders. They are very experienced persons in context to teaching but the at the other side the person having plenty of experience and knowledge in concerned filed but without having degree S/he may not be eligible for concerned field. This decision will create chaos in the standardization of aspirants. The nation can achieve the vision corruption-free India in education if it doesnt allow the chance for thinking towards DOUBLE-STANDARD but think of ONLY ONE STANDARD THAT IS CALLED NET/SLET. FYI: I have been trying to be a NET Holder since 2000 but I have not cleared it till date. regards, Lavji N. Zala Library Officer, Knowledge Exchange and Information Centre (KEIC), Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA), Shela, Ahmedabad Pin- 380058 Phone: +91 2717 237946-51 ----------------------------------------- (on mail) Email Disclaimer: Information contained and transmitted by this e-mail is confidential, proprietary, and legally privileged data of Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad (MICA), that is intended for use only by the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. You are requested to delete this e-mail immediately and notify the originator. Any views expressed by an individual do not necessarily reflect the views of MICA. While this e-mail has been checked for all known viruses, the addressee should also scan for viruses. Internet communications can not be guaranteed to be timely, secure, error or virus-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete. MICA does not accept liability for any errors or omissions. ---------------------------------------------------------

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Requirement of MIS Operator
by Dipaali K Bhosle 29 May '06

29 May '06

GlacierDear All, We are looking out for a male candidate, BSc with Statistics or mathematics along with LIS background. The job includes operating MIS system, which will include a data entry and then statistical analysis of the data. The candidate will also maintain Knowledge Centre in the absence of Knowledge Officer. Post will be on contractual basis and remuneration as per current industry value. Interested candidates can apply at dipaali.bhosle(a)infomediaindia.com Ms. Dipaali K Bhosle INFOMEDIA Mumbai Glacier  Dear All, We are looking out for a male candidate, BSc with Statistics or mathematics along with LIS background. The job includes operating MIS system, which will include a data entry and then statistical analysis of the data. The candidate will also maintain Knowledge Centre in the absence of Knowledge Officer. Post will be on contractual basis and remuneration as per current industry value. Interested candidates can apply at mailto:dipaali.bhosle@infomediaindia.com dipaali.bhosle(a)infomediaindia.com mailto:dipaali.bhosle@infomediaindia.com Ms. Dipaali K Bhosle INFOMEDIA Mumbai

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Information about electronic gates reg:-
by librarian＠gitam.edu 29 May '06

29 May '06

Dear Colleagues, Please let know the details and address of elecftronic security gates to avoid the theft of books from the library. librarians pl. share your experience after installing the electronic security gates. Pleasse send me the detailed address of the vendors with approximate cost. Wsith regards, Dr.K.Satyanarayana, Knowledge Resource Centre, G.I.T.A.M., Visakhapatnam-45,. Andhra Pradesh

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need information for how get job,accredition aborad
by Mailing List Manager 29 May '06

29 May '06

Date: 24 May 2006 06:17:30 -0000 From: planisamy ilangumaran kumar <kumarilan(a)rediffmail.com> � dears i complete M.L.I.S degree and 7 year experience in enginerring college as librarian i like migrate foriegn countries. please give guidance and how get job in foriegn countries. thanking you kumarilan(a)rediffmail.com

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Retroconversion of documents
by ashok upadhyay 29 May '06

29 May '06

lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in wrote: 1.Subject- REQUEST- Retroconversion of documents From (Ashok Upadhyay) Dear Friends, I am doing my PhD work on " Retroconversion of documents " For this purpose I want some material and links by which I could take some help regarding to my topic.Kindly comforward to help me. Expecting your valuable information thanks & regards, Ashok Upadhyay (Research Scholar)Deptt. ofLib.&Inf. Sc.AMU, Aligarh ashoka143(a)gmail.com akualig(a)rediffmail.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers Share what your know-how and wisdom Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger Download now lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in wrote: 1.Subject- REQUEST- Retroconversion of documents From (Ashok Upadhyay) Dear Friends, I am doing my PhD work on " Retroconversion of documents " For this purpose I want some material and links by which I could take some help regarding to my topic.Kindly comforward to help me. Expecting your valuable information thanks & regards, Ashok Upadhyay (Research Scholar)Deptt. ofLib.&Inf. Sc.AMU, Aligarh mailto:ashoka143@gmail.com ashoka143(a)gmail.com mailto:akualig@rediffmail.com akualig(a)rediffmail.com http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailanswersshare/*http://in.answers.yahoo.co… Yahoo! India Answers Share what your know-how and wisdom Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/freesms/*http://messenger.yahoo.com/download… Download now

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Fw: Resignation of IFLA Secretary General
by JK Vijayakumar 28 May '06

28 May '06

Magda Bouwens <Magda.Bouwens(a)ifla.nl> wrote: Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:38:05 +0100 From: "Magda Bouwens" To: Subject: Resignation of IFLA Secretary General It is with great regret that IFLA announces that the Secretary General, Mr Ramachandran, has resigned for personal reasons effective 31 December 2004. IFLA is very grateful to him for his service to the Federation during his tenure of the post. Drawing on his wide experience gained during a distinguished career in librarianship in Singapore and Southeast Asia, Mr Ramachandran brought new perspectives to IFLA which have enhanced the planning processes. IFLA wishes Mr Ramachandran well in his future endeavours and thanks him for his contributions to global librarianship. Kay Raseroka IFLA President __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Fwd: Request to librarians
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 28 May '06

28 May '06

Here is (strange) request to librarians in Sociology, public libraries etc. http://0044c40.netsolhost.com/downloads/WEAAD_CallToAction_Poster.pdf Can you please visit the above link, download the poster and display it in yourLibrary Notice Board? Whatever else you can do to publicize "World Elder Abuse Awareness Day" among clientele of your library would be most appreciated. Thanks -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, SENIORS (Society for Enriched Information of Relevance to Seniors), 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500018 Phone 27846631 -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, SENIORS (Society for Enriched Information of Relevance to Seniors), 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500018 Phone 27846631 Here is (strange) request to librarians in Sociology, public libraries etc. http://0044c40.netsolhost.com/downloads/WEAAD_CallToAction_Poster.pdf http://0044c40.netsolhost.com/downloads/WEAAD_CallToAction_Poster.pdf Can you please visit the above link, download the poster and display it in yourLibrary Notice Board? Whatever else you can do to publicize "World Elder Abuse Awareness Day" among clientele of your library would be most appreciated. Thanks -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, SENIORS (Society for Enriched Information of Relevance to Seniors), 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500018 Phone 27846631 -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, SENIORS (Society for Enriched Information of Relevance to Seniors), 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500018 Phone 27846631

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Fwd: [libtech] Jobs at GOA
by jaypee hugar 27 May '06

27 May '06

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Open Access Journals?
by Chandrima Roy 26 May '06

26 May '06

Based on my understanding, discussions and as per the details given by Peter Suber on http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm Can we summarize the points as under? - Features of Open Access: A) Free for User i) Users are free to quote or refer the text ii) They are free to download iii) Users are free to add the downloaded text to their archive iv) As Online Access Literature is free of most copyright and licensing restrictions, no permissions are required to make the information freely available on users' platform, from any other platform B) Authors/ Publishers have to bear the cost i) As an Author, if one has information but cannot pay, then? Can he look for subsidy? ii) A Publisher, who is either Commercial or Governmental needs to fund the project. So, the finance will come from where? a) Excess charging of Print Version? (That is possible in case of established journals only) b) Subsidy? (Again available to established journal only) OR c) Advertisements? (Again depends upon the Journal Standard) Chandrima Roy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 14:14:20 +0530 From: Sukhdev Singh < <http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum> esukhdev at gmail.com> Who bears the cost of the author's intellectual inputs?!! The same should bear the cost of author's publication. What is reported in scholarly journals? -- Research output. Who does that research? -- Scientists / Scholars. And Scientists / Scholars get salary for that. They need infrastructure to work in. They work on Research Projects that cost money. Who bears all the cost? Publication costs are just a fraction of the total cost of the research output. So it makes sense to spend a bit extra to expose the research results, gain maximum impact of it and build ground for further research. So funding agencies ( Govt. or Others) need to spend little extra to publish the research / project outcome which they sponser. Public funding agencies have their publication wings - they just need to allow free / open access to their publications. Atleast to their online versions. Indian Council for Medical Research is an example which provides free access to their journal - Indian Journal of Medical Research. Well there are other models as followed by BioMed Central and PLoS. Advertising revenues could be other. Don't we have Free-to-Air TV Channels? Hey! Do we pay for listening to FM Radio Channels? - Private or Public. I would suggest - --All publications consuming public money to produce should be publicly accessible - at least their online versions. --All publicly funded research should be mandated to be open-archived by the author with in a time frame. --All teaching / reseach institutions should set-up their institutional repositories. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 02:18:16 -0700 (PDT) From: ranjit dharmapurikar < <http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum> d_ranjit at yahoo.com> Dear Sir, You have asked about the cost of open source journals. who will bear the cost. Of course, the publisher, agency, person who is putting the journal on the net is required to bear the cost. Keeping the facility of open source journals is a way of an advertisement. Generally what I have observed that these open source journals are very old. Whenevr they found that there is not demand for such articles then they declear it as an open source journal. At least with this open source journals users will learn and will come to know that such titled journals are available. So it is a way of an advertisement. What I think. Like out dated goods are sold by maximum discount for attracting the customers towards new and fresh product. The same story can be applicable with open source journals R.G. Dharmapurikar  Based on my understanding, discussions and as per the details given by Peter Suber on http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm � Can we summarize the points as under? – Features of Open Access: � <![if !supportLists]> A) �� <![endif]> Free for User i ) �� Users are free to quote or refer the text ii) �� They are free to download iii) �� Users are free to add the downloaded text to their archive iv) �� As Online Access Literature is free of most copyright and licensing restrictions, no permissions are required to make the information freely available on users’ platform, from any other platform � <![if !supportLists]> B) �� <![endif]> Authors/ Publishers have to bear the cost <![if !supportLists]> i) �� <![endif]>As an Author, if one has information but cannot pay, then? Can he look for subsidy? <![if !supportLists]> ii) �� <![endif]>A Publisher, who is either Commercial or Governmental needs to fund the project. So, the finance will come from where? <![if !supportLists]> a) �� <![endif]>Excess charging of Print Version? (That is possible in case of established journals only) <![if !supportLists]> b) �� <![endif]>Subsidy? (Again available to established journal only) �� OR <![if !supportLists]> c) �� <![endif]>Advertisements? (Again depends upon the Journal Standard) � Chandrima Roy � -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- � Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 14:14:20 +0530 From: Sukhdev Singh < http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum esukhdev at gmail.com > � Who bears the cost of the author's intellectual inputs?!! � The same should bear the cost of author's publication. � What is reported in scholarly journals? -- Research output. Who does that research? -- Scientists / Scholars. � And Scientists / Scholars get salary for that. They need infrastructure to work in. They work on Research Projects that cost money . � Who bears all the cost? � Publication costs are just a fraction of the total cost of the research output. So it makes sense to spend a bit extra to expose the research results, gain maximum impact of it and build ground for further research. � So funding agencies ( Govt . or Others) need to spend little extra to publish the research / project outcome which they sponser . Public funding agencies have their publication wings - they just need to allow free / open access to their publications. Atleast to their online versions. Indian Council for Medical Research is an example which provides free access to their journal - Indian Journal of Medical Research. � Well there are other models as followed by BioMed Central and PLoS . Advertising revenues could be other. � Don't we have Free-to-Air TV Channels? Hey! Do we pay for listening to FM Radio Channels? - Private or Public. � I would suggest - � --All publications consuming public money to produce should be publicly accessible - at least their online versions. � --All publicly funded research should be mandated to be open-archived by the author with in a time frame. � --All teaching / reseach institutions should set-up their institutional repositories. � -- Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in http://openmed.nic.in � Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 02:18:16 -0700 (PDT) From: ranjit dharmapurikar < http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum d_ranjit at yahoo.com > � Dear Sir, You have asked about the cost of open source journals. who will bear the cost. Of course, the publisher, agency , person who is putting the journal on the net is required to bear the cost. Keeping the facility of open source journals is a way of an advertisement. Generally what I have observed that these open source journals are very old. Whenevr they found that there is not demand for such articles then they declear it as an open source journal. At least with this open source journals users will learn and will come to know that such titled journals are available. So it is a way of an advertisement. What I think. Like out dated goods are sold by maximum discount for attracting the customers towards new and fresh product. The same story can be applicable with open source journals R.G. Dharmapurikar �

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Providing information about electronic security gates-reg:-
by librarian＠gitam.edu 26 May '06

26 May '06

Dear Colleagues, Please let know the details and address of elecftronic security gates to avoid the theft of books from the library. librarians pl. share your experience after installing the electronic security gates. Pleasse send me the detailed address of the vendors with approximate cost. Wsith regards, Dr.K.Satyanarayana, Knowledge Resource CEntre, G.I.T.A.M., Visakhapatnam-45,. Andhra Pradesh

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Regarding the reply for security gate
by vandana gambhir 26 May '06

26 May '06

Dr.K.Satyanarayana, Knowledge Resource Centre, The E-security gate is quite beneficial for your library. You can contact to 3 M, Amba Electronic, B-54, Flatted Factories Complex, Jhandewalan, New Delhi-55 Conerned Person E-mail: jitender_k(a)vsnl.net It will cost you about 8 lacks. Vandana Gambhir Pathways World School, Gurgaon --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. Dr.K.Satyanarayana, Knowledge Resource Centre, The E-security gate is quite beneficial for your library. You can contact to 3 M, Amba Electronic, B-54, Flatted Factories Complex, Jhandewalan, New Delhi-55 Conerned Person E-mail: mailto:jitender_k@vsnl.net jitender_k(a)vsnl.net It will cost you about 8 lacks. Vandana Gambhir Pathways World School, Gurgaon Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=40791/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/handr… all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta.

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 38, Issue 36
by Krishnamurthy M 26 May '06

26 May '06

Here is some of the input from me about OA and OSS: Open Access: Open access, Open Source software, digital libraries are three concepts that have been receiving increased attention in the digital library world. Open access is to scholarly information scholars, and publishes over the last few years. Open access basically calls for scholarly publication to be made free available to libraries and end users. Digital libraries is an integrated set of services for capturing, cataloguing, storing, searching, protecting, and retrieving information, which provide coherent organization and convenient access to typically large amounts of digital information. All three of these concepts are important to libraries individually and they can be leveraged simultaneously. Willinski (2003 ) identified nine flavors of open access. The flavors are : 1.E-prit archive (authors self-archive-pre-or post prints), 2. un qualified (immediate and full open access publication of a journal, 3. dual mode (both-print subscription and open access version of a journal are offered, 4. delayed open access (open access in available after a certain period of time, 5. author free ( authors pay a fee to support open access, 6. partial open access(some articles from a journal are available via open access, 7. per-capita (open access is made available to countries based on per-capita income, 8.abstract (open access available to task of content /abstract 9. co-op ( institutional members support open access journals). Open access helps to ensure long-term access to scholarly articles. Unlike articles that are licensed in traditional article databases, libraries and other can create local copies and repositories of these resources. GNU web site offers the following defintion of OSS: The freedom to run the program, for any purpse (freedom 0). Thre freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs . Access to the source code is a precondition for this. The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits. Access to the source code is precondition for this. (www.gnu.org/philosophy/free.sw.html) M.Krishnamurthy -- Dr.M.Krishnamurthy Librarian Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road R.V.C.E. Post Bangalore 560059 Ph:91-80-8483002/3/4/4 Fax: 91-80-8484265

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RE: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 38, Issue 34
by LS Venkatesh 26 May '06

26 May '06

Dear friends: While on the subject of OA journals, I thought that those who are interested in this topic will find the white paper on "The Impact of Open Access Journals" by Thomson Scientific very useful. The whitepaper, though published in 2004, is available at the following link and could give some very interesting insight into the evolution of OA journals, the trends, impact factor of OA journals and importantly, the lead from Asia Pacific, contrary to usual western dominance. http://www.thomsonscientific.com/media/presentrep/essayspdf/openaccesscitat… Hope you will find it useful. Regards, Venkatesh ----------- Venkatesh L S General Manager Edutech India Pvt Ltd 8, Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600 006, India Tel: +91 44 28330999 Fax: +91 44 28331777 GSM: + 91 98403 21214 www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 12:14 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 38, Issue 34 Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in You can reach the person managing the list at lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." Today's Topics: 1. REQUEST- DIGITAL LIBRARY PROJECT (suruli nathi) 2. Fw: Welcome to the Discussion (Subbiah Arunachalam) 3. Re: Open Access Journals? (Sukhdev Singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 21:48:54 -0700 (PDT) From: suruli nathi <surulinathi_iisc(a)yahoo.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] REQUEST- DIGITAL LIBRARY PROJECT To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20060525044854.11910.qmail(a)web53212.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear friends From: "Manimekalai A" <a.manimeka...(a)gmail.com> To: lisnetwork(a)googlegroups.com Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 22:51:22 +0530 Subject: REQUEST- DIGITAL LIBRARY PROJECT Dear Friends, I am doing my PhD work on " Digital Library Projects" . I do like to have the email ID of the Co- Ordinators who are doing the Digital Library Projects to collect some information for my work. Kindly comforward to help me by intimating the Name of the Project and the co ordinator's email ID. Expecting your valuable information thanks & regards, manimekalai a.manimeka...(a)gmail.com -- A.Manimekalai Asst. Librarian, Faculty of Engg. & Tech. Library, Annamalai University Annamalainagar- 608 002. Tamilnadu- INDIA Ph: (o) 04144-239175 Ph: (R)04144-228230 --------------------------------- Ring'em or ping'em. Make PC-to-phone calls as low as 1¢/min with Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.

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Casting away the NET
by raja ram 26 May '06

26 May '06

Casting away the NET The NET seems to be on its way out. But academics have their reservations about this development. It is now official. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has declared that the National Eligibility Test (NET) it conducts for identifying potential teachers in colleges and universities will no longer be an eligibility criterion for those with an M.Phil. and/or a doctoral degree. On May 16, the Commission chairman announced that the interim report of the Balchandra Mungekar Committee, which was set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development in November 2005 to suggest ways to revamp the NET and to find out whether the NET was needed at all as an eligibility criterion to teach in institutions of higher learning, has been accepted in principle. Report recommendation The interim report recommends that those with an M.Phil. may be exempted from having to clear the NET for teaching in undergraduate courses and that those with a Ph.D. need not have a NET for teaching postgraduate courses. This announcement has caused dismay among many academicians in Kerala. Many teachers who spoke to The Hindu-Educationplus said they saw this announcement as the beginning of the end of the NET. While these academics are firm in their view that the NET as it exists today is pretty much useless, they are also equally firm in the belief that a national-level test of some sort in unavoidable if quality teachers are to be appointed in the nation's universities and colleges. Dissenting voices "This is wrong step," says K. Sasikumar, professor, Department of Commerce, University of Kerala. "It will open the floodgates of mediocrity as far as selecting good teachers is concerned. Now, in this university anyone with 55 per cent marks for the postgraduate examination can sign up for M.Phil. and everyone who registers for Ph.D. gets a doctoral degree. There is no such thing as turning down a thesis. There is no evaluation by a foreign expert." "Now, after this announcement, there is going to be a huge rush for M.Phil. courses," points out R. Mohankumar, general secretary of the All Kerala Private College Teachers' Association. He says the UGC has always been inconsistent in taking a stand, vis-à-vis exemptions from the NET. "In 1993, 1998, 2000 and in 2002, the UGC's position regarding who can be exempted from the NET kept on shifting. Is there a hidden agenda in this? There must be. Otherwise why these constant changes? If for some subjects, due to shortage of NET-qualified hands, some exemption needs to be given, fine. But a blanket exemption for all M.Phil. holders and Ph.D. holders? No that cannot be accepted. That is bad news for quality teaching," he says. Mr. Mohankumar adds that he is with those who argue that this move of the UGC is aimed at regularising the services of hundreds, if not thousands, of part-time/contract lecturers in colleges across the country who have not cleared the NET but have M.Phil. and are seeking to get a Ph.D. Flawed decision There are also those who feel that the Mungekar committee could have better employed its time and energy by trying to reform and broad-base the NET. Head of the Department of Law University of Kerala N. K. Jayakumar is among those who firmly believe that the very concept of linking M.Phil. and Ph.D. to the career of a teacher is flawed. "A good teacher need not be a good researcher and a good researcher need not know how to teach. We see that happening all the time. Sure you should have a test to see gauge the teaching skills of a person. The method adopted by the National Law School Bangalore is very good in this respect. Now, with this announcement by the UGC, there is going to be a spurt in the number of M.Phils. being offered by colleges. In no time there will also be M.Phil. in the distance education mode. Then all those people are going to try and become teachers. What will happen to these people if in the future the NET - in another form - becomes compulsory," Dr. Jayakumar asks. Broad-basing NET Former Vice-Chairman of the UGC V. N. Rajasekharan Pillai too says the need of the hour is to try and revamp the NET instead of seeking to do away with it. As a teacher he says he is strongly in favour of having a nation-wide eligibility test in some form. " The NET can be broad-based so as to assess teaching capability and aptitude," he told The Hindu-Education plus over phone from Kottayam.Right from the time the Mungekar Committee was set up, Dr. Pillai had argued that the best way ahead would be to have a NET that allows for trans-disciplinary eligibility; so that a candidate who clear the NET for English can also teach such subjects as communicative English, linguistics or journalism. Many in the academic community say they would not be surprised if the Mungekar Committee in its final report recommends that the NET be done away with. "All these things should be done after a nation-wide debate among academics and by a five-member committee," points out Mr. Mohankumar, "such decisions can affect the lives and future of thousands of students." G. MAHADEVAN Source: The Hindu, Education plus , kerala. --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers Share what your know-how and wisdom Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger Download now Casting away the NET The NET seems to be on its way out. But academics have their reservations about this development. It is now official. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has declared that the National Eligibility Test (NET) it conducts for identifying potential teachers in colleges and universities will no longer be an eligibility criterion for those with an M.Phil. and/or a doctoral degree. On May 16, the Commission chairman announced that the interim report of the Balchandra Mungekar Committee, which was set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development in November 2005 to suggest ways to revamp the NET and to find out whether the NET was needed at all as an eligibility criterion to teach in institutions of higher learning, has been accepted in principle. Report recommendation The interim report recommends that those with an M.Phil. may be exempted from having to clear the NET for teaching in undergraduate courses and that those with a Ph.D. need not have a NET for teaching postgraduate courses. This announcement has caused dismay among many academicians in Kerala. Many teachers who spoke to The Hindu-Educationplus said they saw this announcement as the beginning of the end of the NET. While these academics are firm in their view that the NET as it exists today is pretty much useless, they are also equally firm in the belief that a national-level test of some sort in unavoidable if quality teachers are to be appointed in the nation's universities and colleges. Dissenting voices "This is wrong step," says K. Sasikumar, professor, Department of Commerce, University of Kerala . "It will open the floodgates of mediocrity as far as selecting good teachers is concerned. Now, in this university anyone with 55 per cent marks for the postgraduate examination can sign up for M.Phil. and everyone who registers for Ph.D. gets a doctoral degree. There is no such thing as turning down a thesis. There is no evaluation by a foreign expert." "Now, after this announcement, there is going to be a huge rush for M.Phil. courses," points out R. Mohankumar, general secretary of the All Kerala Private College Teachers' Association. He says the UGC has always been inconsistent in taking a stand, vis-à-vis exemptions from the NET. "In 1993, 1998, 2000 and in 2002, the UGC's position regarding who can be exempted from the NET kept on shifting. Is there a hidden agenda in this? There must be. Otherwise why these constant changes? If for some subjects, due to shortage of NET-qualified hands, some exemption needs to be given, fine. But a blanket exemption for all M.Phil. holders and Ph.D. holders? No that cannot be accepted. That is bad news for quality teaching," he says. Mr. Mohankumar adds that he is with those who argue that this move of the UGC is aimed at regularising the services of hundreds, if not thousands, of part-time/contract lecturers in colleges across the country who have not cleared the NET but have M.Phil. and are seeking to get a Ph.D. Flawed decision There are also those who feel that the Mungekar committee could have better employed its time and energy by trying to reform and broad-base the NET. Head of the Department of Law University of Kerala N. K. Jayakumar is among those who firmly believe that the very concept of linking M.Phil. and Ph.D. to the career of a teacher is flawed. "A good teacher need not be a good researcher and a good researcher need not know how to teach. We see that happening all the time. Sure you should have a test to see gauge the teaching skills of a person. The method adopted by the National Law School Bangalore is very good in this respect. Now, with this announcement by the UGC, there is going to be a spurt in the number of M.Phils. being offered by colleges. In no time there will also be M.Phil. in the distance education mode. Then all those people are going to try and become teachers. What will happen to these people if in the future the NET - in another form - becomes compulsory," Dr. Jayakumar asks. Broad-basing NET Former Vice-Chairman of the UGC V. N. Rajasekharan Pillai too says the need of the hour is to try and revamp the NET instead of seeking to do away with it. As a teacher he says he is strongly in favour of having a nation-wide eligibility test in some form. " The NET can be broad-based so as to assess teaching capability and aptitude," he told The Hindu-Education plus over phone from Kottayam. Right from the time the Mungekar Committee was set up, Dr. Pillai had argued that the best way ahead would be to have a NET that allows for trans-disciplinary eligibility; so that a candidate who clear the NET for English can also teach such subjects as communicative English, linguistics or journalism. Many in the academic community say they would not be surprised if the Mungekar Committee in its final report recommends that the NET be done away with. "All these things should be done after a nation-wide debate among academics and by a five-member committee," points out Mr. Mohankumar, "such decisions can affect the lives and future of thousands of students." G. MAHADEVAN Source: The Hindu, Education plus , kerala. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailanswersshare/*http://in.answers.yahoo.co… Yahoo! India Answers Share what your know-how and wisdom Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! 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Workshop on E-Resources and IPR issues 14-16 June 2006
by D Jotwani 26 May '06

26 May '06

Dear All The Central Library, IIT Bombay shall be organizing a 3-days Training Workshop on e-Resources and IPR Issues on 14-16 June 2006. The main objective of the workshop is to expose participants to the relevance of IPR issues vis-a-vis usage of e-resources. Thanks to the success of the Consortia model of acquisition, libraries have been able to provide access to several thousands e-books and journals to their users without the constraints of space and time. While applications of Information and Communication Technologies and Consortia approach have benefited large number of libraries and their users, it has added responsibilities to ensure that the usage is made within the framework of Intellectual Property Rights and the interests of the creators of information/knowledge are protected. Library and information professionals providing e-resources-based information services have important role to play in this area and this workshop will provide them with a broader view of the implications of IPR while discharging their responsibilities and serving their users. Only 30-35 participants, on first-come-first-served basis, will be taken for the course from IITs, IISc, NITs, other engineering colleges, scientific and technical institutions. Preference will be given to those from INDEST/AICTE Consortium participating institutions. Two participants from the consortium participating institutes will be provided free registration. Other participants will be charged Rs 1000-/ as registration fee which includes workshop kit, hostel accommodation, working lunch, and tea/coffee during sessions. TA/DA will have to be borne by the participants or their sponsoring organizations. Participants desiring registration fee concession may kindly submit their application thru parent organization. For more details please visit : http://www.library.iitb.ac.in/news/workshop.pdf -- D. Jotwani Librarian Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Powai, Mumbai 400076 Phone 91-22-25768920, 91-22-25720227

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RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE monthly Meeting 27th May 2006
by Swapan Patra 26 May '06

26 May '06

The 121st Monthly Meeting of RRC will be held on on 27th May, 2006 (4th Saturday) at 10.00 hrs. *Venue : NASSDOC, 35 Firoze Shah Road (near Mandi House)* *New Delhi-110001* * * *Topic : Advances in Digital Library* * * *Speaker : Ms. Tulika Pandey* *Additional Director,* *Department of Information Technology, New Delhi* * * The 121st Monthly Meeting of RRC will be held on on 27th May, 2006 (4th Saturday) at 10.00 hrs. Venue : NASSDOC, 35 Firoze Shah Road (near Mandi House) New Delhi-110001 Topic : Advances in Digital Library Speaker : Ms. Tulika Pandey Additional Director, Department of Information Technology, New Delhi

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Re: [LIS-Forum] NET/SET stop discussion do action
by Vijay Raghav Tiwari 25 May '06

25 May '06

On Wed, 24 May 2006 Monali Panchbhai wrote : >Hi, >Dear Monali I think you have been the first to say such words that NET/SLET candidates are below standards. I dont know how much you know about all who have cleared this examination. But certainly I feel commenting about any one has become very easy, because it does not refelct on any one's face. Next thing you said about the librarian's and library's reference by the students. I would say that the references about both can never be so positive because of the following reasons: 1. Library impose rules, students dont want to follow any rules. 2. Librarian does not have any direct role in their markings at all as teacher have, may be in practicals or sessional markings. 3. Losses in the library do have a direct bearing on the librarian, hence he or she has to be more carefull about the use of the library. 4. Comments you can hear about any teacher too who does not have direct bearing on their marking/grading system. Please do not take comments about any one that so and so is below standard. Any exam which was difficult and was devised so many experts , how it can be useless? It is the irony in our country that opposition is made normally for opposition sake and sometimes by self interests too. Please think again while commenting on any one straight. regards vrt >I do not know who told my respected friends that those who have cleared NET / SET have opted standards and quality? Its been observed that, just because of NET and / or SET clearance few undeserved candidates gets job. There are professionals who hold certificates in NET / SET but can not build a good image of profession in society, do not have enthusiasm in teaching and / or servicing the need of users. Even students can clearly mark their negative qualities. Tell me how many college going students actually say some good things about their librarian? Everyone makes faces when the topic of library or librarian comes into discussion. One can easily observe this in surrounding specially while traveling with young generation. > >In such cases whats the use of their certificates of NET/SET exams? > >If private sector ensures the best candidate for their profitability and if professionals with NET/SET are supposed to be the best then why our MNCs and private sectors are yet away from having that as one of the major selection criteria for candidate? Infact the payments in these sectors are like anything and thus they can demand for the best as well. But I think they go for skills and not for certificates which can be obtained through a completely opaque system like these eligibility examinations. Tell me how many students who can not clear these exams even after several attempts, actually know the paper which becomes cause of failure? There is no transparency in examination results and thus it does not help students for preparations of next attempt. > > >One of our friends has stated that A good teacher need not be a good researcher and a good researcher need not be a good teacher thus M. Phil and Ph.D. as well have to go through these examinations. But can anyone tell me which section of NET / SET exam actually checks teaching skills of candidates? > >People from private sectors do their best to update themselves and cater the need of their organizations. But people from public sector has secure job and thus do not take much efforts to give someting best, which spoils the image of profession and professionals both. > >Thus I personally think that the exemption of these examinations is a good start and at same time instead of debating NET/SET/Ph.D./M.Phil etc. we should think of improving quality of our profession. Cause our educational system is such that neither clearing any of eligibility tests nor having any degree assures the quality. And our professionals who works as guide for Ph. D. and M. Phil students should take care that they allocate degree to a proper candidate. They can also try to either ban those universities who give fake degree to students or force them to wind up their activity so that we get quality. > >There should be a committee where anyone can complain against those professionals who are spoiling the image of profession. And the rights should be given to that committee so that they can take serious actions against the candidate (Like in Medical profession they have rights to take away the degree of doctor). This will automatically help to maintain the quality. And people will do their best to serve the profession. > >Regards, > >Monali >Sr. Exe. - Library & Documentation >Mumbai. > From: "Dr.H.S.Siddmallaiah" <sidda(a)nimhans.kar.nic.in> >To: "nmlis" <nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com>, "lis" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, "corporatelibrns Moderator" <corporatelibrns(a)yahoogroups.com>, "raja ram" <raj_lib001(a)yahoo.co.in> >Subject: [LIS-Forum] Dont hang on to NET >Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 22:48:19 +0530 >>Dear Friends >> >>UGC have honoured university colleagues >> >>If university people are not confident >>on their own product >>why don't they close M.Phil or Ph.D., >> >>on Contrary Ph.D., is mandatory for teacher in their >>promotion, irrespective of whether they are through with >>NET or not. >>If NET is everything why Ph.D., why don.t you call it like an IAS in >>academic. >> >>Research or academic activities are mindset, culture and need to be >>acquired through practice and actual research not just one exam >> >>Please be proactive to creativity and grow up to expectation by >>creating better products in university. Do not underestimate your >>own product. >>Good or bad is a comparative value, >>there is no benchmark for it >> >>With regards >>Dr.H.S.Siddamallaiah >> >>----- Original Message ----- From: "raja ram" >><raj_lib001(a)yahoo.co.in> >>To: "nmlis" <nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com>; "lis" >><lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; "corporatelibrns Moderator" >><corporatelibrns(a)yahoogroups.com> >>Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 4:40 PM >>Subject: [nmlis] Casting away the NET >> >> >> >>Casting away the NET >> >>The NET seems to be on its way out. But academics have their >> >>reservations about this development. It is now official. The >>University Grants Commission (UGC) has declared >> >>that the National Eligibility Test (NET) it conducts for identifying >> >>potential teachers in colleges and universities will no longer be an >> >>eligibility criterion for those with an M.Phil. and/or a doctoral >>degree. >> >>On May 16, the Commission chairman announced that the interim report >>of >> >>the Balchandra Mungekar Committee, which was set up by the Ministry >>of >> >>Human Resource Development in November 2005 to suggest ways to >>revamp >> >>the NET and to find out whether the NET was needed at all as an >> >>eligibility criterion to teach in institutions of higher learning, >>has been accepted in principle. >> >>Report recommendation >> >>The interim report recommends that those with an M.Phil. may be >> >>exempted from having to clear the NET for teaching in undergraduate >>courses and that those with a Ph.D. need not have a NET for teaching >>postgraduate courses. >> >>This announcement has caused dismay among many academicians in >>Kerala. >> >>Many teachers who spoke to The Hindu-Educationplus said they saw >>this >> >>announcement as the beginning of the end of the NET. While these >> >>academics are firm in their view that the NET as it exists today is >>pretty much useless, they are also equally firm in the belief that a >> >>national-level test of some sort in unavoidable if quality teachers >>are to be appointed in the nation's universities and colleges. >> >>Dissenting voices >> >>"This is wrong step," says K. Sasikumar, professor, Department of >> >>Commerce, University of Kerala. "It will open the floodgates of >>mediocrity as far as selecting good teachers is concerned. Now, in >>this university anyone with 55 per cent marks for the postgraduate >>examination can sign up for M.Phil. and everyone who registers for >>Ph.D. gets a doctoral degree. There is no such thing as turning down >>a thesis. There is no evaluation by a foreign expert." >> >>"Now, after this announcement, there is going to be a huge rush for >> >>M.Phil. courses," points out R. Mohankumar, general secretary of the >>All Kerala Private College Teachers' Association. He says the UGC >>has always been inconsistent in taking a stand, vis-à-vis exemptions >> from the NET. >> >> >> >>"In 1993, 1998, 2000 and in 2002, the UGC's position regarding who >>can >> >>be exempted from the NET kept on shifting. Is there a hidden agenda >>in >> >>this? There must be. Otherwise why these constant changes? If for >>some >> >>subjects, due to shortage of NET-qualified hands, some exemption >>needs >> >>to be given, fine. But a blanket exemption for all M.Phil. holders >>and >> >>Ph.D. holders? No that cannot be accepted. That is bad news for >>quality >> >>teaching," he says. >> >>Mr. Mohankumar adds that he is with those who argue that this move >>of >> >>the UGC is aimed at regularising the services of hundreds, if not >> >>thousands, of part-time/contract lecturers in colleges across the >>country who have not cleared the NET but have M.Phil. and are >>seeking to get a Ph.D. >> >>Flawed decision >> >>There are also those who feel that the Mungekar committee could have >> >>better employed its time and energy by trying to reform and >>broad-base >> >>the NET. Head of the Department of Law University of Kerala N. K. >> >>Jayakumar is among those who firmly believe that the very concept of >>linking M.Phil. and Ph.D. to the career of a teacher is flawed. >> >> >> >>"A good teacher need not be a good researcher and a good researcher >> >>need not know how to teach. We see that happening all the time. Sure >>you should have a test to see gauge the teaching skills of a person. >>The method adopted by the National Law School Bangalore is very good >>in this respect. Now, with this announcement by the UGC, there is >>going to be a spurt in the number of M.Phils. being offered by >>colleges. In no time there will also be M.Phil. in the distance >>education mode. Then all those people are going to try and become >>teachers. What will happen to these people if in the future the NET >>- in another form - becomes >> >>compulsory," Dr. Jayakumar asks. >> >>Broad-basing NET >> >>Former Vice-Chairman of the UGC V. N. Rajasekharan Pillai too says >>the >> >>need of the hour is to try and revamp the NET instead of seeking to >>do >> >>away with it. As a teacher he says he is strongly in favour of >>having a >> >>nation-wide eligibility test in some form. " The NET can be >>broad-based >> >>so as to assess teaching capability and aptitude," he told The >> >>Hindu-Education plus over phone from Kottayam.Right from the time >>the Mungekar Committee was set up, Dr. Pillai had >> >>argued that the best way ahead would be to have a NET that allows >>for >> >>trans-disciplinary eligibility; so that a candidate who clear the >>NET for English can also teach such subjects as communicative >>English, >> >>linguistics or journalism. >> >>Many in the academic community say they would not be surprised if >>the >> >>Mungekar Committee in its final report recommends that the NET be >>done >> >>away with. "All these things should be done after a nation-wide >>debate >> >>among academics and by a five-member committee," points out Mr. >> >>Mohankumar, "such decisions can affect the lives and future of >>thousands of students." >> >>G. MAHADEVAN Source: The Hindu, Education plus , kerala. >> >> >> >> >> >>--------------------------------- >> Yahoo! India Answers Share what your know-how and wisdom >>Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger >>Download now >> >>[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >> >> >> >> >> >>------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor >>--------------------~--> >>Protect your PC from spy ware with award winning anti spy >>technology. It's free. >>http://us.click.yahoo.com/97bhrC/LGxNAA/yQLSAA/HDfwlB/TM >>--------------------------------------------------------------------~-> >> >> >>Yahoo! Groups Links >> >><*> To visit your group on the web, go to: >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nmlis/ >> >><*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: >> nmlis-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com >> >><*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: >> http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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 Dr. Vijay Raghav Tiwari Librarian Harish Chandra Research Institute (Department of Atomic Energy, Govt of India) Chhatnag Road,Jhunsi,Allahabad -211 019. Phone.91-532-2668302(O), 0532-2274325 (O), 0532-2274064 (R) <vrtiwari(a)mri.ernet.in> On Wed, 24 May 2006 Monali Panchbhai wrote : >Hi, >Dear Monali I think you have been the first to say such words that NET/SLET candidates are below standards. I dont know how much you know about all who have cleared this examination. But certainly I feel commenting about any one has become very easy, because it does not refelct on any one's face. Next thing you said about the librarian's and library's reference by the students. I would say that the references about both can never be so positive because of the following reasons: 1. Library impose rules, students dont want to follow any rules. 2. Librarian does not have any direct role in their markings at all as teacher have, may be in practicals or sessional markings. 3. Losses in the library do have a direct bearing on the librarian, hence he or she has to be more carefull about the use of the library. 4. Comments you can hear about any teacher too who does not have direct bearing on their marking/grading system. Please do not take comments about any one that so and so is below standard. Any exam which was difficult and was devised so many experts , how it can be useless? It is the irony in our country that opposition is made normally for opposition sake and sometimes by self interests too. Please think again while commenting on any one straight. regards vrt >I do not know who told my respected friends that those who have cleared NET / SET have opted standards and quality? Its been observed that, just because of NET and / or SET clearance few undeserved candidates gets job. There are professionals who hold certificates in NET / SET but can not build a good image of profession in society, do not have enthusiasm in teaching and / or servicing the need of users. Even students can clearly mark their negative qualities. Tell me how many college going students actually say some good things about their librarian? Everyone makes faces when the topic of library or librarian comes into discussion. One can easily observe this in surrounding specially while traveling with young generation. > >In such cases whats the use of their certificates of NET/SET exams? > >If private sector ensures the best candidate for their profitability and if professionals with NET/SET are supposed to be the best then why our MNCs and private sectors are yet away from having that as one of the major selection criteria for candidate? Infact the payments in these sectors are like anything and thus they can demand for the best as well. But I think they go for skills and not for certificates which can be obtained through a completely opaque system like these eligibility examinations. Tell me how many students who can not clear these exams even after several attempts, actually know the paper which becomes cause of failure? There is no transparency in examination results and thus it does not help students for preparations of next attempt. > > >One of our friends has stated that A good teacher need not be a good researcher and a good researcher need not be a good teacher thus M. Phil and Ph.D. as well have to go through these examinations. But can anyone tell me which section of NET / SET exam actually checks teaching skills of candidates? > >People from private sectors do their best to update themselves and cater the need of their organizations. But people from public sector has secure job and thus do not take much efforts to give someting best, which spoils the image of profession and professionals both. > >Thus I personally think that the exemption of these examinations is a good start and at same time instead of debating NET/SET/Ph.D./M.Phil etc. we should think of improving quality of our profession. Cause our educational system is such that neither clearing any of eligibility tests nor having any degree assures the quality. And our professionals who works as guide for Ph. D. and M. Phil students should take care that they allocate degree to a proper candidate. They can also try to either ban those universities who give fake degree to students or force them to wind up their activity so that we get quality. > >There should be a committee where anyone can complain against those professionals who are spoiling the image of profession. And the rights should be given to that committee so that they can take serious actions against the candidate (Like in Medical profession they have rights to take away the degree of doctor). This will automatically help to maintain the quality. And people will do their best to serve the profession. > >Regards, > >Monali >Sr. Exe. - Library & Documentation >Mumbai. > From: "Dr.H.S.Siddmallaiah" <sidda(a)nimhans.kar.nic.in> >To: "nmlis" <nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com>, "lis" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, "corporatelibrns Moderator" <corporatelibrns(a)yahoogroups.com>, "raja ram" <raj_lib001(a)yahoo.co.in> >Subject: [LIS-Forum] Dont hang on to NET >Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 22:48:19 +0530 >>Dear Friends >> >>UGC have honoured university colleagues >> >>If university people are not confident >>on their own product >>why don't they close M.Phil or Ph.D., >> >>on Contrary Ph.D., is mandatory for teacher in their >>promotion, irrespective of whether they are through with >>NET or not. >>If NET is everything why Ph.D., why don.t you call it like an IAS in >>academic. >> >>Research or academic activities are mindset, culture and need to be >>acquired through practice and actual research not just one exam >> >>Please be proactive to creativity and grow up to expectation by >>creating better products in university. Do not underestimate your >>own product. >>Good or bad is a comparative value, >>there is no benchmark for it >> >>With regards >>Dr.H.S.Siddamallaiah >> >>----- Original Message ----- From: "raja ram" >><raj_lib001(a)yahoo.co.in> >>To: "nmlis" <nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com>; "lis" >><lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; "corporatelibrns Moderator" >><corporatelibrns(a)yahoogroups.com> >>Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 4:40 PM >>Subject: [nmlis] Casting away the NET >> >> >> >>Casting away the NET >> >>The NET seems to be on its way out. But academics have their >> >>reservations about this development. It is now official. The >>University Grants Commission (UGC) has declared >> >>that the National Eligibility Test (NET) it conducts for identifying >> >>potential teachers in colleges and universities will no longer be an >> >>eligibility criterion for those with an M.Phil. and/or a doctoral >>degree. >> >>On May 16, the Commission chairman announced that the interim report >>of >> >>the Balchandra Mungekar Committee, which was set up by the Ministry >>of >> >>Human Resource Development in November 2005 to suggest ways to >>revamp >> >>the NET and to find out whether the NET was needed at all as an >> >>eligibility criterion to teach in institutions of higher learning, >>has been accepted in principle. >> >>Report recommendation >> >>The interim report recommends that those with an M.Phil. may be >> >>exempted from having to clear the NET for teaching in undergraduate >>courses and that those with a Ph.D. need not have a NET for teaching >>postgraduate courses. >> >>This announcement has caused dismay among many academicians in >>Kerala. >> >>Many teachers who spoke to The Hindu-Educationplus said they saw >>this >> >>announcement as the beginning of the end of the NET. While these >> >>academics are firm in their view that the NET as it exists today is >>pretty much useless, they are also equally firm in the belief that a >> >>national-level test of some sort in unavoidable if quality teachers >>are to be appointed in the nation's universities and colleges. >> >>Dissenting voices >> >>"This is wrong step," says K. Sasikumar, professor, Department of >> >>Commerce, University of Kerala. "It will open the floodgates of >>mediocrity as far as selecting good teachers is concerned. Now, in >>this university anyone with 55 per cent marks for the postgraduate >>examination can sign up for M.Phil. and everyone who registers for >>Ph.D. gets a doctoral degree. There is no such thing as turning down >>a thesis. There is no evaluation by a foreign expert." >> >>"Now, after this announcement, there is going to be a huge rush for >> >>M.Phil. courses," points out R. Mohankumar, general secretary of the >>All Kerala Private College Teachers' Association. He says the UGC >>has always been inconsistent in taking a stand, vis-à-vis exemptions >> from the NET. >> >> >> >>"In 1993, 1998, 2000 and in 2002, the UGC's position regarding who >>can >> >>be exempted from the NET kept on shifting. Is there a hidden agenda >>in >> >>this? There must be. Otherwise why these constant changes? If for >>some >> >>subjects, due to shortage of NET-qualified hands, some exemption >>needs >> >>to be given, fine. But a blanket exemption for all M.Phil. holders >>and >> >>Ph.D. holders? No that cannot be accepted. That is bad news for >>quality >> >>teaching," he says. >> >>Mr. Mohankumar adds that he is with those who argue that this move >>of >> >>the UGC is aimed at regularising the services of hundreds, if not >> >>thousands, of part-time/contract lecturers in colleges across the >>country who have not cleared the NET but have M.Phil. and are >>seeking to get a Ph.D. >> >>Flawed decision >> >>There are also those who feel that the Mungekar committee could have >> >>better employed its time and energy by trying to reform and >>broad-base >> >>the NET. Head of the Department of Law University of Kerala N. K. >> >>Jayakumar is among those who firmly believe that the very concept of >>linking M.Phil. and Ph.D. to the career of a teacher is flawed. >> >> >> >>"A good teacher need not be a good researcher and a good researcher >> >>need not know how to teach. We see that happening all the time. Sure >>you should have a test to see gauge the teaching skills of a person. >>The method adopted by the National Law School Bangalore is very good >>in this respect. Now, with this announcement by the UGC, there is >>going to be a spurt in the number of M.Phils. being offered by >>colleges. In no time there will also be M.Phil. in the distance >>education mode. Then all those people are going to try and become >>teachers. What will happen to these people if in the future the NET >>- in another form - becomes >> >>compulsory," Dr. Jayakumar asks. >> >>Broad-basing NET >> >>Former Vice-Chairman of the UGC V. N. Rajasekharan Pillai too says >>the >> >>need of the hour is to try and revamp the NET instead of seeking to >>do >> >>away with it. As a teacher he says he is strongly in favour of >>having a >> >>nation-wide eligibility test in some form. " The NET can be >>broad-based >> >>so as to assess teaching capability and aptitude," he told The >> >>Hindu-Education plus over phone from Kottayam.Right from the time >>the Mungekar Committee was set up, Dr. Pillai had >> >>argued that the best way ahead would be to have a NET that allows >>for >> >>trans-disciplinary eligibility; so that a candidate who clear the >>NET for English can also teach such subjects as communicative >>English, >> >>linguistics or journalism. >> >>Many in the academic community say they would not be surprised if >>the >> >>Mungekar Committee in its final report recommends that the NET be >>done >> >>away with. "All these things should be done after a nation-wide >>debate >> >>among academics and by a five-member committee," points out Mr. >> >>Mohankumar, "such decisions can affect the lives and future of >>thousands of students." >> >>G. MAHADEVAN Source: The Hindu, Education plus , kerala. >> >> >> >> >> >>--------------------------------- >> Yahoo! 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Copyright Clearance of articles
by Chandrima Roy 25 May '06

25 May '06

Hi, That's true. In fact, the same is applicable for other organizations facilitating articles also. If an organization/ library facilitate articles to corporate/other users by mere photocopying of the same, it leads to infringement of Copyright law. With Regards Chandrima Roy Divan Enterprises B-9, Basement, "A" Block, Local Shopping Complex Naraina Vihar, Ring Road New Delhi - 110028 Tel: +91-11-25770411 Fax: +91-11-25778876 Email: croy(a)docdelserv.com croy(a)indianjournals.com Website: http://www.docdelserv.com http://www.indianjournals.com <http://www.indianjournals.com/> Vasumathi Sriganesh <mailto:lis-forum%40ncsi.iisc.ernet.in?Subject=%5BLIS-Forum%5D%20Copyrig ht%20Clearance%20of%20articles&In-Reply-To=> vasu at qmedin.com Wed May 24 12:53:00 IST 2006 * Previous message: [LIS-Forum] <http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2006-May/004057.html> Copyright Clearance of articles * Next message: [LIS-Forum] <http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2006-May/004058.html> RFID design center in Bangalore * Messages sorted by: [ <http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2006-May/date.html#4074> date ] [ <http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2006-May/thread.html#4074 > thread ] [ <http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2006-May/subject.html#407 4> subject ] [ <http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2006-May/author.html#4074 > author ] _____ Mr. Kaushik You can photocopy an article from another library's collection, and give it to the end user in your library with no copyright fee / liability ONLY if your user is wanting it for general reading and not for a profit making objective of your organization If it is for the use in a project of your organization etc (where the project is a for-profit one - and usually corporate projects are), then you need to pay the copyright fee for the article to the publisher. If you cannot pay to the publisher, you will need to pay through www.copyright.com (look for the Transaction Reporting Service) You cannot keep the article so procured in your library as part of your collection. It will need to be with the end user. IF the end-user leaves the organization, he / she needs to give the article to his/her successor. If you do keep it in the library for control reasons, you need to make sure that only that particular user / successor has access to the article. If another dept / user wants a copy, you have to pay the copyright fee all over again and only then make a copy for that user Regards Vasumathi Sriganesh Director, QMed Services A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099, India Ph: 91-22-28229223 Fax: 91-22-28224358 Email: vasu at qmedin.com <http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum> , Web: www.qmedin.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kaushik" < <http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum> kginfo at gmail.com> To: < <http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum> lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 6:02 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Copyright Clearance of articles If a corporate library is looking for an article and procuring that article from another library by doing photocopy of the same and then using that in the library ....then will such procurement be copy right cleared ? What does our copyright act say on this ? -- Kaushik Ghosh Kolkata  Hi, � That’s true. In fact, the same is applicable for other organizations facilitating articles also. If an organization/ library facilitate articles to corporate/other users by mere photocopying of the same, it leads to infringement of Copyright law. � With Regards Chandrima Roy Divan Enterprises B-9, Basement, “A” Block, Local Shopping Complex Naraina Vihar, Ring Road New Delhi – 110028 Tel: +91-11-25770411 Fax: +91-11-25778876 Email: � croy(a)docdelserv.com �� croy(a)indianjournals.com Website: http://www.docdelserv.com �� http://www.indianjournals.com/ http://www.indianjournals.com � � Vasumathi Sriganesh mailto:lis-forum%40ncsi.iisc.ernet.in?Subject=%5BLIS-Forum%5D%20Copyright%20Clearance%20of%20articles&In-Reply-To= vasu at qmedin.com Wed May 24 12:53:00 IST 2006 Previous message: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2006-May/004057.html [LIS-Forum] Copyright Clearance of articles Next message: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2006-May/004058.html [LIS-Forum] RFID design center in Bangalore Messages sorted by: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2006-May/date.html#4074 [ date ] http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2006-May/thread.html#4074 [ thread ] http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2006-May/subject.html#4074 [ subject ] http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2006-May/author.html#4074 [ author ] Mr. Kaushik � You can photocopy an article from another library's collection, and give it to the end user in your library with no copyright fee / liability ONLY if your user is wanting it for general reading and not for a profit making objective of your organization � If it is for the use in a project of your organization etc (where the project is a for-profit one - and usually corporate projects are), then you need to pay the copyright fee for the article to the publisher. � If you cannot pay to the publisher, you will need to pay through www.copyright.com ( look for the Transaction Reporting Service) � You cannot keep the article so procured in your library as part of your collection . It will need to be with the end user. IF the end-user leaves the organization , he / she needs to give the article to his/her successor. If you do keep it in the library for control reasons, you need to make sure that only that particular user / successor has access to the article. If another dept / user wants a copy, you have to pay the copyright fee all over again and only then make a copy for that user � Regards � Vasumathi Sriganesh Director, QMed Services A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road Chakala , Andheri East , � Mumbai 400099, India Ph: 91-22-28229223 Fax: � 91-22-28224358 Email: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum vasu at qmedin.com , Web: � www.qmedin.com � ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kaushik" < http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum kginfo at gmail.com > To: < http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum lis -forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 6:02 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Copyright Clearance of articles � � If a corporate library is looking for an article and procuring that article from another library by doing photocopy of the same and then using that in the library ....then will such procurement be copy right cleared ? What does our copyright act say on this ? � -- Kaushik Ghosh Kolkata � � � �

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Fw: Welcome to the Discussion
by Subbiah Arunachalam 25 May '06

25 May '06

Friends: In case you have not heard about this new discussion group ...... There are a few articles, in the resources section, on OA in different countries and regions. If this discussion group attracts many in Africa to join and if it creates great enthusiasm for OA in Africa, it would be very good. Agencies such as IDRC, IICD, Hivos, CoL, UNECA and SDC may not only kindly follow developments but may proactively promote OA in Africa. Often people tend to see the great value of open access in the context of research. But OA is also important in distance learning and in development. Best wishes. Arun ----- Original Message ----- From: Sue Adams To: arun(a)mssrf.res.in Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 1:48 AM Subject: Welcome to the Discussion Greetings from the Coady International Institute, and welcome to our online discussion on Open Access and Information for Development. We have around 95 participants from 19 countries registered so far ~ The discussion messages will come to your e-mail. You can contribute to the discussion by replying to the message (remember that your response will go to everyone on the list!) or by sending a new message to openaccess(a)dgroups.org If you want to send a message to only one person, please do not use the "Reply" option. The group also has a web page where we have posted some interesting papers to begin the discussion. One is a general introduction to Open Access, and there are also several short papers giving regional perspectives on Open Access. These papers were written specially for our discussion by participants who work in Nigeria, Tanzania, Nepal, Vietnam and Mongolia. You may want to look at the papers before the discussion officially begins on May 29. You can go to the discussion web page to read the papers at this address: http://www.dgroups.org/groups/openaccess You may be asked to enter your e-mail address and a password. You should have already received a message giving you an initial password (which you can change, if you wish). If you have any trouble accessing the web page, please let me know! 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If this discussion group attracts many in Africa to join and if it creates great enthusiasm for OA in Africa, it would be very good. Agencies such as IDRC, IICD, Hivos, CoL, UNECA and SDC may not only kindly follow developments but may proactively promote OA in Africa. Often people tend to see the great value of open access in the context of research. But OA is also important in distance learning and in development. Best wishes. Arun ----- Original Message ----- From: mailto:sadams@stfx.ca Sue Adams To: mailto:arun@mssrf.res.in arun(a)mssrf.res.in Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 1:48 AM Subject: Welcome to the Discussion Greetings from the Coady International Institute, and welcome to our online discussion on Open Access and Information for Development. We have around 95 participants from 19 countries registered so far ~ The discussion messages will come to your e-mail. You can contribute to the discussion by replying to the message (remember that your response will go to everyone on the list!) or by sending a new message to mailto:openaccess@dgroups.org openaccess(a)dgroups.org If you want to send a message to only one person, please do not use the Reply option. The group also has a web page where we have posted some interesting papers to begin the discussion. One is a general introduction to Open Access, and there are also several short papers giving regional perspectives on Open Access. These papers were written specially for our discussion by participants who work in Nigeria , Tanzania , Nepal , Vietnam and Mongolia . You may want to look at the papers before the discussion officially begins on May 29. You can go to the discussion web page to read the papers at this address: http://www.dgroups.org/groups/openaccess http://www.dgroups.org/groups/openaccess You may be asked to enter your e-mail address and a password. You should have already received a message giving you an initial password (which you can change, if you wish). If you have any trouble accessing the web page, please let me know! Email me directly at mailto:sadams@stfx.ca sadams(a)stfx.ca Best wishes, Sue Adams Coady International Institute

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REQUEST- DIGITAL LIBRARY PROJECT
by suruli nathi 25 May '06

25 May '06

Dear friends From: "Manimekalai A" <a.manimeka...(a)gmail.com> To: lisnetwork(a)googlegroups.com Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 22:51:22 +0530 Subject: REQUEST- DIGITAL LIBRARY PROJECT Dear Friends, I am doing my PhD work on " Digital Library Projects" . I do like to have the email ID of the Co- Ordinators who are doing the Digital Library Projects to collect some information for my work. Kindly comforward to help me by intimating the Name of the Project and the co ordinator's email ID. Expecting your valuable information thanks & regards, manimekalai a.manimeka...(a)gmail.com -- A.Manimekalai Asst. Librarian, Faculty of Engg. & Tech. Library, Annamalai University Annamalainagar- 608 002. Tamilnadu- INDIA Ph: (o) 04144-239175 Ph: (R)04144-228230 --------------------------------- Ring'em or ping'em. Make PC-to-phone calls as low as 1¢/min with Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Dear friends [A] From: "Manimekalai A" <a.manimeka http://groups.google.com/groups/unlock?msg=4f81833510fafd56&_done=/group/li… ... @gmail.com> To: lisnetwork(a)googlegroups.com Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 22:51:22 +0530 Subject: REQUEST- DIGITAL LIBRARY PROJECT Dear Friends, I am doing my PhD work on " Digital Library Projects" . I do like to have the email ID of the Co- Ordinators who are doing the Digital Library Projects to collect some information for my work. Kindly comforward to help me by intimating the Name of the Project and the co ordinator's email ID. Expecting your valuable information thanks & regards, manimekalai a.manimeka http://groups.google.com/groups/unlock?msg=4f81833510fafd56&_done=/group/li… ... @gmail.com -- A.Manimekalai Asst. Librarian, Faculty of Engg. & Tech. Library, Annamalai University Annamalainagar- 608 002. Tamilnadu- INDIA Ph: (o) 04144-239175 Ph: (R)04144-228230 Ring'em or ping'em. Make http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman11/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/e… PC-to-phone calls as low as 1¢/min with Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 38, Issue 24
by Dr.H.S.Siddmallaiah 24 May '06

24 May '06

The argument in Indian express have two points a) Somebody have struggled to prepare NET that is why it should be continued b) M.Phil and Ph.D., are easy and net is difficult a) Creating difficult exam or conducting too many exams can not create good teachers. Actually teaching is art and it is not just knowledge b) If these university teachers can not produce good quality M.Phil or a Ph.D., close them. On top of it you also have policy that Ph.D., is a must for university teacher to become professor. Then Ph.D., is above your NET. If NET is everything why highest degree Ph.D., I endorse that the decision of UGC is fare and good, it has honoured universities, University teacher has to come up to that expectation. with regards Dr.H.S.Siddamallaiah ----- Original Message ----- From: <lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 5:47 PM Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 38, Issue 24 > Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to > lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > You can reach the person managing the list at > lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Open Access Journals? (Sukhdev Singh) > 2. open source software (mahendra m m) > 3. Re: Open source Journals? (Suvarsha Walters) > 4. Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 38, Issue 22 (Jeetender Chandna) > 5. Opinion on Net/slet exemption for PhDs and MPhil holders > (yekanath kamble) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 17:24:31 +0530 > From: "Sukhdev Singh" <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Open Access Journals? > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: > <c13c85220605220454yb88435gc69f6e55a470d801(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > What I can understand from your email is that you want to say again > that someone has to pay for the open access - be it the author, > publisher or employer / funding agency of the author. > > But same is also true in "Traditional Model" or Closed Access. In the > traditional / subscription based model also the Governmental Agency / > Funding Agency pays subscription fee to acquire / subscribe the > journals into their Library for its employee / scholars to "consume" > literature before they can "produce". > > Let us remember one thing - in academic domain - both the consumers > and producers are the same - the scientific / academic community. They > consume literature to produce literature. And this circle is ensured > with the help of public money in some way or the other. > > Let me introduce two terms for the business models of the Open and the > Closed Access. > > "Pre-Paid" for Open Access Publishing - The funding agency Pre-Pays > for the Consume-Produce Circle by spending on the publication of the > research results which it has been funding. This payment has to be > made only once for all members of the scientific community. > > "Post-Paid" for Traditional Publishing - The funding agency does not > pay an extra bit for the research funded by it. The authors after > utilising the public money for carrying out research, get the results > published in traditional journals. No payment is required for > publication but the authors surrenders all rights of their paper. The > best papers most often are published in foreign journals. Later on - > the funding agency - makes the journal available in its library after > paying subscription cost. In case of foreign journal it has to shell > out foreign currency to get back the results of even that work which > it originally funded. Multiple payments are required to be made if the > govt. / funding agency has multiple libraries spread over a > geographical area. Even for digital copies / version the licence fee > would be in proportionate to the number of end - users. > > It can be easily seen that "Pre-Paid" model makes more sence for > research funding agencies. > > So if it costs to publish science - then why not to adopt "Pre-Paid" > model? > > > --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. > http://openmed.nic.in > > > > > --------- > On 20/05/06, Chandrima Roy <croy(a)docdelserv.com> wrote: > Based on my understanding, discussions and as per the details given by > Peter Suber on http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm > > Can we summarize the points as under? - > Features of Open Access: > > A) Free for User > i) Users are free to quote or refer the text > ii) They are free to download > iii) Users are free to add the downloaded text to their archive > iv) As Online Access Literature is free of most copyright and > licensing restrictions, no permissions are required to make the > information freely available on users' platform, from any other platform > > B) Authors/ Publishers have to bear the cost > i) As an Author, if one has information but cannot > pay, then? Can he look for subsidy? > ii) A Publisher, who is either Commercial or > Governmental needs to fund the project. So, the finance will come from > where? > a) Excess charging of Print Version? (That is possible in case of > established journals only) > b) Subsidy? (Again available to established journal only) OR > c) Advertisements? (Again depends upon the Journal Standard) > > Chandrima Roy > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Date: Thu, >> 18 May 2006 >> 14:14:20 >> +0530 >> From: >> Sukhdev >> Singh < http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >> esukhdev >> at gmail.com >> > >> >> Who bears the cost of the author's intellectual inputs?!! >> >> The same >> should >> bear the cost of author's publication. >> >> What is reported in scholarly journals? -- Research output. >> Who does that research? -- Scientists / Scholars. >> >> And Scientists / Scholars get salary for that. They need >> infrastructure >> to work in. They work on Research Projects that cost >> money >> . >> >> Who bears all the cost? >> >> Publication costs are just a fraction of the total cost of the >> research >> output. So it makes sense to spend a bit extra to expose the >> research >> results, gain maximum impact of it and build ground for >> further >> research. >> >> So funding agencies >> ( Govt >> . or Others) need to spend little extra to >> publish >> the research / project outcome which they >> sponser >> . Public >> funding >> agencies have their publication wings - they just need to >> allow >> free / open access to their publications. >> Atleast >> to their >> online >> versions. Indian Council for Medical Research is an example >> which >> provides free access to their journal - Indian Journal of >> Medical Research. >> >> Well there are other models as followed by >> BioMed >> Central and >> PLoS >> . >> Advertising revenues could be other. >> >> Don't we have Free-to-Air TV Channels? >> Hey! Do we pay for listening to FM Radio Channels? - Private or Public. >> >> I would suggest - >> >> --All publications consuming public money to produce should be >> publicly >> accessible - at least their online versions. >> >> --All publicly funded research should be mandated to be open-archived >> by >> the author with in a time frame. >> >> --All teaching / >> reseach >> institutions should set-up their >> institutional >> repositories. >> >> -- >> Sukhdev >> Singh, NIC. >> http://openmed.nic.in http://openmed.nic.in >> >> Date: Thu, >> 18 May 2006 >> 02:18:16 >> -0700 (PDT) >> From: >> ranjit >> dharmapurikar >> < http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >> d_ranjit >> at yahoo.com >> > >> >> Dear Sir, >> You have asked about the cost of open source journals. >> who >> will bear the cost. Of course, the publisher, >> agency >> , person who is putting the journal on the net >> is >> required to bear the cost. Keeping the facility of >> open >> source journals is a way of an advertisement. >> Generally what I have observed that these open source >> journals >> are very old. >> Whenevr >> they found that there >> is >> not demand for such articles then they >> declear >> it >> as >> an open source journal. At least with this open >> source >> journals users will learn and will come to know >> that >> such titled journals are available. So it is a >> way >> of an advertisement. What I think. Like out dated >> goods >> are sold by maximum discount for attracting the >> customers >> towards new and fresh product. The same >> story >> can be applicable with open source journals >> R.G. >> Dharmapurikar >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LIS-Forum mailing list >> LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >> http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >> >> >> > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: 22 May 2006 18:59:00 -0000 > From: "mahendra m m" <mahendrammm3(a)rediffmail.com> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] open source software > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: <20060522185900.25816.qmail(a)webmail49.rediffmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed > > > topic;OPEN SOURCE INITIATIVES IN INDIAN LIBRARIES > HELLO LIS PROFESSIONALS, > I AM WORKING ON PROJECT OPEN SOURCE INITIATIVES IN INDIAN > LIBRARIES.INTERESTED PROFESSIONALS ARE REQUESTED THAT THEY SHOULD > SEND THE INFORMATION ABOUT USE OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE IN THEIR > LIBRARIES. > WITH BEST WISHES > MAHENDRA METE > LIBRARIAN SHRI SHIVAJI COLLEGE AMRAVATI > mahendrammm3(a)rediffmail.com > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 13:00:34 +0530 (IST) > From: Suvarsha Walters <suvarsha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Open source Journals? > To: Chandrima Roy <croy(a)docdelserv.com> > Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0605231059510.8071(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > Hi, > > There is a subtle difference between Open Source and Open Access. > Open Source software where source is given, can also be commercial. It can > be bought and sold too. > > Open Access is applied to content that is free. You cannot charge > for the content itself. Though of course you can make money by other > means like ads, charging authors etc. > > with regards, > > Suvarsha > *********************************************************************** > Suvarsha Walters, Project Assistant, > National Centre for Science Information > Indian Institute of Science, > Bangalore - 560 012 > INDIA > Ph (Off): 080-23600271 / 22932511 > Ph (Mobile): 98458 33694 > E-mail: suvarsha_w(a)yahoo.com > suvarsha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > ************************************************************************ > > On Mon, 22 May 2006, Chandrima Roy wrote: > >> What is the difference between Open Access and Open Source? >> >> Open source software, like free software, is a kind of software the >> source code of which is freely available for inspection or modification. >> >> Open access is a kind of access or availability. This kind of access >> could apply to any digital content, such as software, music, movies, or >> news. >> >> Chandrima Roy >> >> >> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 12:55:47 +0530 > From: "Jeetender Chandna" <granthpal(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 38, Issue 22 > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: > <c6921800605230025r70841ee4yb2f788c28082a7d5(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed > >> What is the difference between Open Access and Open Source? >> >> Open source software, like free software, is a kind of software the >> source code of which is freely available for inspection or modification. >> >> Open access is a kind of access or availability. This kind of access >> could apply to any digital content, such as software, music, movies, or >> news. >> >> Chandrima Roy > > Google has given us a very powerful search tool for making such > comparisons. > > ----------------------------------- > define: XYZZZZZZZZZ > ----------------------------------- > > The (define:) tool picks up definitions from many sources and brings > forth many definitions from various glossaries. > ************************************************************************************ > For <define: "Open Access"> I am show casing a few relevant results: > > ************************************************************************************ > Open access (also known as open-access publishing and free online > scholarship) is an ongoing publication practice which differs in the > way traditional methods of publishing papers to the public get > submitted, reviewed, authenticated and finally published. The word > "open" here means a change in how publication is negotiated between > author and publisher and 'access' has an inflex on how the audience > can obtain the publication. ... > <src: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access> > > Open Access: A publication model where in neither readers nor a > reader's institution are charged for access to articles or other > resources. Users are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, > search, or link to the full texts of these articles. The only > constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for > copyright . ... > <src: www.loc.gov/acq/conser/glossary.html> > > Also, this last definition is also applicable and ergo suggests to us > that this is not purely a digital domain term: > > Open Access: Book stacks to which users have free access to browse and > retrieve items on their own, as opposed to closed stacks > library.wur.nl/desktop/help/faq_glossary.html > > > Adding my thoughts, today Open Access is a MOVEMENT which is targetted > towards freedom of content from parasitic publishers. It is also > concerned with newer forms of publishing rights, these rights now > include terms like -- copyright, copyleft, creative commons licensing > models, et al. > > Open Access in www terms is indicative of faster, cheaper, and maybe > free access to current content -- both in peer reviewed and otherewise > domains. > > > ************************************************************************************ > Vis-a-vis Open Source ---- Google Search::<define: "open source"> > ************************************************************************************ > Open Source is also another movement, but on that has largely been > relegated to the IT software domain. In this, people generate software > for the common good. The software is released into the market and is > generally improved upon by other programmers, resulting in faster, > better, and usually free products. The credit-line is always > maintained - of the producers. These warez cannot be sold > commercially. > > One well known OS site is SourceForge.net > > Shareware / Freeware eg: tucows.com, are other ways of sharing programs. > Whereas Shareware is commercial, Freeware is free of cost. > But in these cases, the source code of the programming involved is not > disclosed. > > > Regarding "Open Source" definitions: > > This is what Microsft has to say > "A movement in the programming community for making source code > (program instructions) free and freely available to anyone interested > in using or working with it. > <www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/visio/visio2002/plan/glossary.mspx>" > > > Another definition for OS > Term coined in March 1998 to describe software distributed in source > under licenses guaranteeing anybody rights to freely use, modify, and > redistribute the code. The intent was to be able to sell the hackers' > ways of doing software to industry and the mainstream by avoiding the > negative connotations (to [business people]) of the term "free > software". For discussion of the follow-on tactics and their > consequences, see the Open Source Initiative site. > <www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/libr500/02-03-wt1/www/J_Caldwell/Terminology.htm> > > > Lets us what the future holds in store for us. > > Vis-a-vis capitalism, communism has usually taken a back seat. > > "Open Source," essentially a community movement, has been slow in its > growth. Linux has found a strong foothold in the www arena, but that > has been largely due to Microsoft's blinders which they were quite > late in removal. > > However the share of MS web servers is on the rise and just like what > they did to Netscape in the Browser wars, the same may happen with web > servers also. > > Similar is the case in the database scenario also mySQl vs Oracle/SQL. > > Whatever be the results, there is no end to this basic war between the > rich and the do-gooders. It is a perennial war with no end. > > I am game. Its fun. The fun is playing the game, not winning or > losing. It all relates to the side you choose. > > Open Access.. here I come :) > > -- > Regards > Granthpal > ---------------------------------------- > Jeetender Chandna aka Vicky aka Granthpal > Esha News Monitoring Services Pvt Ltd > 10th Floor, Krushal Commercial Complex > Chembur (W) Mumbai 400089 > Tel: (91-22) 3245 2861 > Email: granthpal(a)gmail.com > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 00:39:07 -0700 (PDT) > From: yekanath kamble <yekanathnkamble(a)yahoo.com> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Opinion on Net/slet exemption for PhDs and MPhil > holders > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: <20060523073907.61798.qmail(a)web50511.mail.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next > part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: ugc.JPG > Type: image/pjpeg > Size: 250142 bytes > Desc: 3817349252-ugc.JPG > Url : > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20060523/6be0e501… > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > End of LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 38, Issue 24 > ***************************************** > > >

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[Fwd: From Arun, MSSRF]
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 24 May '06

24 May '06

>From Peter Suber's blog 1. Finland's university rectors commit to OA The Finnish Council of University Rectors decided today to support a wide-ranging set of initiatives to advance OA in Finland. (Thanks to Kalle Korhonen.) From the minutes of its meeting: The Finnish Council of University Rectors has, in its meeting today, decided to sign the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. The council is a non-governmental association representing the heads of all 21 Finnish universities. In this occasion, it is important to point out also the more concrete open access activities in Finland. In April 2006, an initiative was started for the advancement of open access activities in Finland, funded by the Ministry of Education. The project, known as OA-JES, is coordinated by the Finnish Open Access Working Group, FinnOA. It is a collaboration between the University of Helsinki, Helsinki University of Technology, the National Library of Finland, and the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV). The objectives of the initiative are: 1) to give aid to universities and research institutes in setting up institutional repositories; 2) to inform researchers about how open access is a part of the research process; and 3) to provide an easy-to-use platform for the open access journals of Finnish learned societies. The Ministry of Education will also be funding a digital infrastructure initiative in the centre campus the University of Helsinki, starting in 2007. In the centre campus are situated the faculties of arts, behavioural sciences, law, social sciences, and theology. The aims will be twofold: 1) to support scholarly open access publishing, which will include repository services both for researchers and for scholarly journals of the departments, and 2) to build a supportive infrastructure for the accessibility and preservation of primary research materials of the departments. The idea is to provide faculty with a comprehensive set of services for own publications and research materials. These activities are a concrete manifestation of the recommendations of the Open Access Publishing Committee, issued by the ministry in 2005. Comment. Finland is one of only three countries so far with a national-level OA policy that has gone beyond proposal to adoption. The other two are the US (NIH policy) and Germany (DFG policy). The minutes above link to an abstract (in English) of the policy, but also see the full-text (in English). The new initiatives supported by the rectors focus on what remains to be done: funding, educational outreach, and OA infrastructure. Kudos to Finland for these important steps. With the new OA bill in Germany I blogged yesterday, these are signs of growing momentum not only toward OA, but toward national commitments to OA. 2. Background on the US National Science Digital Library Dean Krafft, Building a National Science Digital Library, a webcast lecture and PPT slides from the Educause webinar series, delivered May 8, 2006. (Thanks to ResourceShelf.) From the summary: Since 2000, the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Core Integration team has been creating the infrastructure for a digital library of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics resources. That library now contains more than a million resources from approximately 100 collections. In this talk, Dean Krafft will give a short historical overview of the NSDL and describe the current NSDL community and participants. He will then review the technical underpinnings of NSDL 1.0, a library built on metadata harvesting, and describe some of the challenges encountered. For the past year, the project has been working on NSDL 2.0, a new version of the library built on the Fedora repository architecture. For the last part of the talk, Krafft will describe this new library architecture and explain how it supports creating context for science resources, how it enhances the selection and use of library materials, and what these capabilities mean for the users of the NSDL.

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NET
by Emmanuel E C (RBIN/ORG1-KCI) 24 May '06

24 May '06

Dear Friends, I strongly support Dr.H.S.Siddamalliah's thoughts & feel that there is logic in his thoughts. 1. First of all why do we need NET is basic thing here most our friends are unmindful of their writing and just telling that they want NET, let them express logically how NET is going to improve the present educational scenario namely in Library & Information Science Profession. I have two leaving examples in front of me those who have cleared their NET but still they cannot open their mouth and explain simple topics of LIS (Library & Information Science) clearly, I saw them attending several interviews but still not got through. By thinking that it might be communication problem I looked closely into their LIS knowledge it is shocking but they have cleared their NET. But I don't think one exam improves the caliber of education/identifies one's ability. 2. I believe NET & SLET is meant for teaching professionals and Research professionals in all faculties at Higher learning centers but I strongly believe that Librarian is not going to teach anything there. If yes why he is bothered with this unwanted exam. In this context I feel NET is totally irrelevant to Librarians. Of course we can have NET for those who want to make their career as teaching professionals/Research professionals in LIS. 3. I saw some of my friends writing as NET/SLET changes the way other look at Librarians. Through this forum I ask my friend "whether your role is going to change after clearing NET? Do you stop classifying, cataloguing & organizing information and or else start doing something else because you have cleared NET. What I would like to say is by wearing a new shirt your internal attitude doesn't change but only look changes. Whether you have NET or not but the basic work what you do and will be doing is the same. 4. Some of our fellow professionals wrote very arrogantly by recommending NET, that NET improves the LIS professions standard, I would like to reply them through this forum that it is NOT THE NET BUT sincere work of our senior fellow professionals in LIS has improved the way people look at us to name a few ( Karnataka) a. Dr. Karisidappa Professor, b. Dr. Dr.H.S.Siddamalliah, c. Mr. Chikmalliah , d. Mrs. Theresa Williams Manager information services , Wipro e. Dr Shalini Urs etc f. Dr. Maheswarappa Several others are there world over who are really contributing to the Profession by taking new projects, by providing innovative information services by publishing literature in LIS, by creating more opportunities for fellow professionals by taking new projects & providing apprenticeship trainings and even some of them have really worked hard to change the present syllabus of LIS which is par with syllabus of foreign universities etc. But none these have NET aren't they still contributing to the profession with their small efforts. 5. Last but not least what I want to convey is you improve your skills, learn something new every time as learning is a continuous process it will not stop by clearing NET. Let us say one who clears NET is really an asset to the profession but what is the guarantee that he keeps alive the fire within him and serve his profession sincerely. When you closely look why people want to clear their NET is not to contribute to the profession but to get/secure a job. 6. If it was our higher educational system is wrong then several people those who working in foreign universities would not have been there. Still several foreign universities are happy to recruit people who have completed their Ph.D in India. Yes here & there some bias and favoritism is there in Indian universities also as we all are human being .I strongly believe that few instances of bias & favoritism cannot overshadow the efforts & services of several Professors serving in the Indian Universities. 6. Request all of you to stop wasting your time by writing on this issue but to use this forum for right purpose. Thanks & Regards Knowledge Center & Information Services, RBIN, Bangalore. >Emmanuel Ebnazar. > -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Wednesday, 24. May 2006 4:27 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 38, Issue 30 Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in You can reach the person managing the list at lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Casting away the NET (Satish Munnolli) 2. NET or PhD (nazim malik) 3. NET/SET stop discussion do action (Monali Panchbhai) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 12:26:54 +0530 From: "Satish Munnolli" <smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Casting away the NET To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, <nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com> Message-ID: <00b001c67eff$4013af70$1f08640a@SatishMunnolli> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" In continuation to the debate on NET/SET/MPhil/Ph.D. If, Librarians (not in teaching profession) are categorised under NON TEACHING faculty by many colleges, why they should clear NET / SET exam that is basically designed for teaching faculty ? Librarians attached to academic institute libraries are not teaching in their practice. Is it only to ensure UGC scale ? If it is so, how many fellow colleagues who cleared NET exam are really getting UGC scale in private colleges ? And also I believe for teaching professionals in library science (in Universities) they should have one more Master's degree apart from MLISc and NET clearance. Is it the same case with other disciplines also ? Why there is a double standard for Library Science professionals ? Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer (ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410 208 India Ph : +91 22 2740 5026 Fax : +91 22 2740 5085 Email : smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dr.H.S.Siddmallaiah" <sidda(a)nimhans.kar.nic.in> To: "nmlis" <nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com>; "lis" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; "corporatelibrns Moderator" <corporatelibrns(a)yahoogroups.com>; "raja ram" <raj_lib001(a)yahoo.co.in> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 10:01 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: [nmlis] Casting away the NET > Dear Friends > the arguments of the academician friends does not have any logic > and they are not confident of their product at research degrees like M.Phil > or Ph.D., > > NET is a benefit of chance in answering one exam > If Universities are not sure of the generating good quality M.Phil and > quality Ph.D., > then let them work out achieving good quality at that level not to leave > it to the benefit of chance in > one exam . > the argument to hang on to NET is a stupidity > and doubt on their own M.phil and Ph.D., > there argument is like they are through and they don't want others to be > through > > May be I am little harsh, conducting too many exam is not a solution and can > not create a research culture > or academic bent, making the students to work better in research degrees can > create better culture > With regards > Dr.H.S.Siddamalliah > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "raja ram" <raj_lib001(a)yahoo.co.in> > To: "nmlis" <nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com>; "lis" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; > "corporatelibrns Moderator" <corporatelibrns(a)yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 4:40 PM > Subject: [nmlis] Casting away the NET > > > > Casting away the NET > > The NET seems to be on its way out. But academics have their > > reservations about this development. It is now official. The University > Grants Commission (UGC) has declared > > that the National Eligibility Test (NET) it conducts for identifying > > potential teachers in colleges and universities will no longer be an > > eligibility criterion for those with an M.Phil. and/or a doctoral degree. > > On May 16, the Commission chairman announced that the interim report of > > the Balchandra Mungekar Committee, which was set up by the Ministry of > > Human Resource Development in November 2005 to suggest ways to revamp > > the NET and to find out whether the NET was needed at all as an > > eligibility criterion to teach in institutions of higher learning, has been > accepted in principle. > > Report recommendation > > The interim report recommends that those with an M.Phil. may be > > exempted from having to clear the NET for teaching in undergraduate courses > and that those with a Ph.D. need not have a NET for teaching postgraduate > courses. > > This announcement has caused dismay among many academicians in Kerala. > > Many teachers who spoke to The Hindu-Educationplus said they saw this > > announcement as the beginning of the end of the NET. While these > > academics are firm in their view that the NET as it exists today is pretty > much useless, they are also equally firm in the belief that a > > national-level test of some sort in unavoidable if quality teachers are to > be appointed in the nation's universities and colleges. > > Dissenting voices > > "This is wrong step," says K. Sasikumar, professor, Department of > > Commerce, University of Kerala. "It will open the floodgates of mediocrity > as far as selecting good teachers is concerned. Now, in this university > anyone with 55 per cent marks for the postgraduate examination can sign up > for M.Phil. and everyone who registers for Ph.D. gets a doctoral degree. > There is no such thing as turning down a thesis. There is no evaluation by a > foreign expert." > > "Now, after this announcement, there is going to be a huge rush for > > M.Phil. courses," points out R. Mohankumar, general secretary of the All > Kerala Private College Teachers' Association. He says the UGC has always > been inconsistent in taking a stand, vis-à-vis exemptions from the NET. > > > > "In 1993, 1998, 2000 and in 2002, the UGC's position regarding who can > > be exempted from the NET kept on shifting. Is there a hidden agenda in > > this? There must be. Otherwise why these constant changes? If for some > > subjects, due to shortage of NET-qualified hands, some exemption needs > > to be given, fine. But a blanket exemption for all M.Phil. holders and > > Ph.D. holders? No that cannot be accepted. That is bad news for quality > > teaching," he says. > > Mr. Mohankumar adds that he is with those who argue that this move of > > the UGC is aimed at regularising the services of hundreds, if not > > thousands, of part-time/contract lecturers in colleges across the country > who have not cleared the NET but have M.Phil. and are seeking to get a Ph.D. > > Flawed decision > > There are also those who feel that the Mungekar committee could have > > better employed its time and energy by trying to reform and broad-base > > the NET. Head of the Department of Law University of Kerala N. K. > > Jayakumar is among those who firmly believe that the very concept of linking > M.Phil. and Ph.D. to the career of a teacher is flawed. > > > > "A good teacher need not be a good researcher and a good researcher > > need not know how to teach. We see that happening all the time. Sure you > should have a test to see gauge the teaching skills of a person. The method > adopted by the National Law School Bangalore is very good in this respect. > Now, with this announcement by the UGC, there is going to be a spurt in the > number of M.Phils. being offered by colleges. In no time there will also be > M.Phil. in the distance education mode. Then all those people are going to > try and become teachers. What will happen to these people if in the future > the NET - in another form - becomes > > compulsory," Dr. Jayakumar asks. > > Broad-basing NET > > Former Vice-Chairman of the UGC V. N. Rajasekharan Pillai too says the > > need of the hour is to try and revamp the NET instead of seeking to do > > away with it. As a teacher he says he is strongly in favour of having a > > nation-wide eligibility test in some form. " The NET can be broad-based > > so as to assess teaching capability and aptitude," he told The > > Hindu-Education plus over phone from Kottayam.Right from the time the > Mungekar Committee was set up, Dr. Pillai had > > argued that the best way ahead would be to have a NET that allows for > > trans-disciplinary eligibility; so that a candidate who clear the NET for > English can also teach such subjects as communicative English, > > linguistics or journalism. > > Many in the academic community say they would not be surprised if the > > Mungekar Committee in its final report recommends that the NET be done > > away with. "All these things should be done after a nation-wide debate > > among academics and by a five-member committee," points out Mr. > > Mohankumar, "such decisions can affect the lives and future of thousands of > students." > > G. MAHADEVAN Source: The Hindu, Education plus , kerala. > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! India Answers Share what your know-how and wisdom > Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger Download > now > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> > Protect your PC from spy ware with award winning anti spy technology. It's > free. > http://us.click.yahoo.com/97bhrC/LGxNAA/yQLSAA/HDfwlB/TM > --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nmlis/ > > <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > nmlis-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com > > <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 08:10:12 +0100 (BST) From: nazim malik <monis_naz(a)yahoo.co.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] NET or PhD To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20060524071012.32961.qmail(a)web8404.mail.in.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Friends Much has already been discussed regarding the exemption of NET. Some people are in favor and some are against the UGC decision. This is very difficult to say that UGC decision is right or wrong because those who having PhD or going to complete their PhD in near future obviously welcome the UGC decision. But those who after a hard work cleared the NET/JRF certainly reject the exemption of NET idea of UGC. This is my observation that in each discipline or subject number of NETs is more than number of available posts. It means supply is higher than demand. Then what is the need of exemption of NET? If UGC is really interested to improve quality in teaching and research then NET must be compulsory for those who want to do PhD and the essential qualification for lectureship must be NET+PhD. A PhD Holder may be expert in a very small field on which he has done his work but for clearing NET he must be master of his subject and that is necessary for a good teacher. One thing I would like to share that UGC decision is good as far as the post of Asstt. Librarian is concerned because this is purely administrative post which requires practical experiences rather than theoretical knowledge. 50% post of Asstt. Librarians should be filled up through the internal promotion and rest 50% through the NET or PhD. This is my personal views based on my experiences. But I have also experienced that candidates having sound knowledge of their subjects but could not cleared the NET. But these are exceptional cases. With Regards Nazim malik BHU, Varanasi --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers Share what your know-how and wisdom Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger Download now -------------- next part -------------- Dear Friends Much has already been discussed regarding the exemption of NET. Some people are in favor and some are against the UGC decision. This is very difficult to say that UGC decision is right or wrong because those who having PhD or going to complete their PhD in near future obviously welcome the UGC decision. But those who after a hard work cleared the NET/JRF certainly reject the exemption of NET idea of UGC. This is my observation that in each discipline or subject number of NETs is more than number of available posts. It means supply is higher than demand. Then what is the need of exemption of NET? If UGC is really interested to improve quality in teaching and research then NET must be compulsory for those who want to do PhD and the essential qualification for lectureship must be NET+PhD. A PhD Holder may be expert in a very small field on which he has done his work but for clearing NET he must be master of his subject and that is necessary for a good teacher. One thing I would like to share that UGC decision is good as far as the post of Asstt. Librarian is concerned because this is purely administrative post which requires practical experiences rather than theoretical knowledge. 50% post of Asstt. Librarians should be filled up through the internal promotion and rest 50% through the NET or PhD. This is my personal views based on my experiences. But I have also experienced that candidates having sound knowledge of their subjects but could not cleared the NET. But these are exceptional cases. With Regards Nazim malik BHU, Varanasi http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailanswersshare/*http://in.answers.yahoo.co… Yahoo! India Answers Share what your know-how and wisdom Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/freesms/*http://messenger.yahoo.com/download… Download now ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 07:16:51 +0000 From: "Monali Panchbhai" <monalipanchbhai(a)hotmail.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] NET/SET stop discussion do action To: sidda(a)nimhans.kar.nic.in, nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com, lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, corporatelibrns(a)yahoogroups.com Message-ID: <BAY108-F28A315635B88FFD203C243B1980(a)phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed" Hi, I do not know who told my respected friends that those who have cleared NET / SET have opted standards and quality? It's been observed that, just because of NET and / or SET clearance few undeserved candidates gets job. There are professionals who hold certificates in NET / SET but can not build a good image of profession in society, do not have enthusiasm in teaching and / or servicing the need of users. Even students can clearly mark their negative qualities. Tell me how many college going students actually say some good things about their librarian? Everyone makes faces when the topic of library or librarian comes into discussion. One can easily observe this in surrounding specially while traveling with young generation. In such cases what's the use of their certificates of NET/SET exams? If private sector ensures the best candidate for their profitability and if professionals with NET/SET are supposed to be the best then why our MNCs and private sectors are yet away from having that as one of the major selection criteria for candidate? Infact the payments in these sectors are like anything and thus they can demand for the best as well. But I think they go for skills and not for certificates which can be obtained through a completely opaque system like these eligibility examinations. Tell me how many students who can not clear these exams even after several attempts, actually know the paper which becomes cause of failure? There is no transparency in examination results and thus it does not help students for preparations of next attempt. One of our friends has stated that "A good teacher need not be a good researcher and a good researcher need not be a good teacher" thus M. Phil and Ph.D. as well have to go through these examinations. But can anyone tell me which section of NET / SET exam actually checks teaching skills of candidates? People from private sectors do their best to update themselves and cater the need of their organizations. But people from public sector has secure job and thus do not take much efforts to give someting best, which spoils the image of profession and professionals both. Thus I personally think that the exemption of these examinations is a good start and at same time instead of debating NET/SET/Ph.D./M.Phil etc. we should think of improving quality of our profession. Cause our educational system is such that neither clearing any of eligibility tests nor having any degree assures the quality. And our professionals who works as guide for Ph. D. and M. Phil students should take care that they allocate degree to a proper candidate. They can also try to either ban those universities who give fake degree to students or force them to wind up their activity so that we get quality. There should be a committee where anyone can complain against those professionals who are spoiling the image of profession. And the rights should be given to that committee so that they can take serious actions against the candidate (Like in Medical profession they have rights to take away the degree of doctor). This will automatically help to maintain the quality. And people will do their best to serve the profession. Regards, Monali Sr. Exe. - Library & Documentation Mumbai. From: "Dr.H.S.Siddmallaiah" <sidda(a)nimhans.kar.nic.in> To: "nmlis" <nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com>, "lis" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, "corporatelibrns Moderator" <corporatelibrns(a)yahoogroups.com>, "raja ram" <raj_lib001(a)yahoo.co.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Dont hang on to NET Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 22:48:19 +0530 >Dear Friends > >UGC have honoured university colleagues > >If university people are not confident >on their own product >why don't they close M.Phil or Ph.D., > >on Contrary Ph.D., is mandatory for teacher in their >promotion, irrespective of whether they are through with >NET or not. >If NET is everything why Ph.D., why don.t you call it like an IAS in >academic. > >Research or academic activities are mindset, culture and need to be >acquired through practice and actual research not just one exam > >Please be proactive to creativity and grow up to expectation by >creating better products in university. Do not underestimate your >own product. >Good or bad is a comparative value, >there is no benchmark for it > >With regards >Dr.H.S.Siddamallaiah > >----- Original Message ----- From: "raja ram" ><raj_lib001(a)yahoo.co.in> >To: "nmlis" <nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com>; "lis" ><lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; "corporatelibrns Moderator" ><corporatelibrns(a)yahoogroups.com> >Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 4:40 PM >Subject: [nmlis] Casting away the NET > > > >Casting away the NET > >The NET seems to be on its way out. But academics have their > >reservations about this development. It is now official. The >University Grants Commission (UGC) has declared > >that the National Eligibility Test (NET) it conducts for identifying > >potential teachers in colleges and universities will no longer be an > >eligibility criterion for those with an M.Phil. and/or a doctoral >degree. > >On May 16, the Commission chairman announced that the interim report >of > >the Balchandra Mungekar Committee, which was set up by the Ministry >of > >Human Resource Development in November 2005 to suggest ways to >revamp > >the NET and to find out whether the NET was needed at all as an > >eligibility criterion to teach in institutions of higher learning, >has been accepted in principle. > >Report recommendation > >The interim report recommends that those with an M.Phil. may be > >exempted from having to clear the NET for teaching in undergraduate >courses and that those with a Ph.D. need not have a NET for teaching >postgraduate courses. > >This announcement has caused dismay among many academicians in >Kerala. > >Many teachers who spoke to The Hindu-Educationplus said they saw >this > >announcement as the beginning of the end of the NET. While these > >academics are firm in their view that the NET as it exists today is >pretty much useless, they are also equally firm in the belief that a > >national-level test of some sort in unavoidable if quality teachers >are to be appointed in the nation's universities and colleges. > >Dissenting voices > >"This is wrong step," says K. Sasikumar, professor, Department of > >Commerce, University of Kerala. "It will open the floodgates of >mediocrity as far as selecting good teachers is concerned. Now, in >this university anyone with 55 per cent marks for the postgraduate >examination can sign up for M.Phil. and everyone who registers for >Ph.D. gets a doctoral degree. There is no such thing as turning down >a thesis. There is no evaluation by a foreign expert." > >"Now, after this announcement, there is going to be a huge rush for > >M.Phil. courses," points out R. Mohankumar, general secretary of the >All Kerala Private College Teachers' Association. He says the UGC >has always been inconsistent in taking a stand, vis-à-vis exemptions >from the NET. > > > >"In 1993, 1998, 2000 and in 2002, the UGC's position regarding who >can > >be exempted from the NET kept on shifting. Is there a hidden agenda >in > >this? There must be. Otherwise why these constant changes? If for >some > >subjects, due to shortage of NET-qualified hands, some exemption >needs > >to be given, fine. But a blanket exemption for all M.Phil. holders >and > >Ph.D. holders? No that cannot be accepted. That is bad news for >quality > >teaching," he says. > >Mr. Mohankumar adds that he is with those who argue that this move >of > >the UGC is aimed at regularising the services of hundreds, if not > >thousands, of part-time/contract lecturers in colleges across the >country who have not cleared the NET but have M.Phil. and are >seeking to get a Ph.D. > >Flawed decision > >There are also those who feel that the Mungekar committee could have > >better employed its time and energy by trying to reform and >broad-base > >the NET. Head of the Department of Law University of Kerala N. K. > >Jayakumar is among those who firmly believe that the very concept of >linking M.Phil. and Ph.D. to the career of a teacher is flawed. > > > >"A good teacher need not be a good researcher and a good researcher > >need not know how to teach. We see that happening all the time. Sure >you should have a test to see gauge the teaching skills of a person. >The method adopted by the National Law School Bangalore is very good >in this respect. Now, with this announcement by the UGC, there is >going to be a spurt in the number of M.Phils. being offered by >colleges. In no time there will also be M.Phil. in the distance >education mode. Then all those people are going to try and become >teachers. What will happen to these people if in the future the NET >- in another form - becomes > >compulsory," Dr. Jayakumar asks. > >Broad-basing NET > >Former Vice-Chairman of the UGC V. N. Rajasekharan Pillai too says >the > >need of the hour is to try and revamp the NET instead of seeking to >do > >away with it. As a teacher he says he is strongly in favour of >having a > >nation-wide eligibility test in some form. " The NET can be >broad-based > >so as to assess teaching capability and aptitude," he told The > >Hindu-Education plus over phone from Kottayam.Right from the time >the Mungekar Committee was set up, Dr. Pillai had > >argued that the best way ahead would be to have a NET that allows >for > >trans-disciplinary eligibility; so that a candidate who clear the >NET for English can also teach such subjects as communicative >English, > >linguistics or journalism. > >Many in the academic community say they would not be surprised if >the > >Mungekar Committee in its final report recommends that the NET be >done > >away with. "All these things should be done after a nation-wide >debate > >among academics and by a five-member committee," points out Mr. > >Mohankumar, "such decisions can affect the lives and future of >thousands of students." > >G. MAHADEVAN Source: The Hindu, Education plus , kerala. > > > > > >--------------------------------- > Yahoo! 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I have two leaving examples in front of me those who have cleared th eir NET but still they cannot open their mouth and explain simple topic s of LIS (Library & Information Science ) clearly , I saw the m attending several interviews but still not got through. By thinking that it might be communication problem I looked closely into their LIS knowledge it is shocking but they have cleared their NET. But I don't think one exam improve s the caliber of education /identifies one 's ability . 2. I believe NET & SLET is meant for teaching professionals and Research professionals in all faculties at Higher learning centers but I strongly b elieve that Librarian is not going to teach anything there . I f yes why he is bothered with this unwanted exam. I n this context I feel NET is totally irrelevant to Librarians . Of course we can have NET for those who want to make their career as teaching professionals /Research professionals in LIS . 3. I saw some of my friends writing as NET/SLET changes the way other look at Librarian s. T hrough this forum I ask my friend " whe ther you r role is going to change after clearing NET? Do you stop classifying, cataloguing & organizing information and or else start do ing something else because you have cleared NET . W hat I would like to say is by wearing a new shirt your internal attitude doesn't change but only look changes. Whether you have NET or not but the basic work what you do and wi ll be doing i s the same. 4. Some of our fellow professionals wrote very arrogantly by recommending NET , that NET improves the LIS professions standard , I would like to reply them through this forum that it is NOT THE NET BUT sincere work of our senior fellow professionals in LIS has improved the way people look at us to name a few ( Karnataka) a . Dr. K arisidappa Professor , b . Dr. Dr.H.S.Siddamalliah , c . Mr. Chikmalliah , d . Mrs. Theresa Williams Manager information services , Wipro e. D r Shalini Urs etc f. D r. Mah e swarappa Several others are there world over who are really contributing to the Profession by taking new projects, by providing innovative information services by publishing literature in LIS , by creating more opportunities for fellow professionals by taking new projects & providing apprenticeship trainings and eve n some of them have really worked hard to change the present syllabus of LIS which is par with syllabus of foreign universities etc . But none these have NET aren't they still contributing to the profession with their small efforts. 5. Last but not least what I want to convey is you improve your skills , learn something new every time as learning is a continuous pro cess it will not stop by clearing NET. Let us say one who clears NET is really an asset to the profession but what is the guarantee that he keeps alive the fire within him and serve his profession sincerely. When you closely look why people want to clear their NET is not to contribute to the profession but to get/ secure a job . 6. If it was our higher educational system is wrong then several people those who working in foreign universities would not have been there. Still several foreign universities are happy to recruit people who have completed their Ph.D in India. Yes here & there some bias and favori ti sm is there in Indian universities also as we all are human being . I str ongly believe that f ew instances of bias & favoritism cannot overshadow the efforts & services of several Professors serving in the Indian Universities. 6. Request all of you to stop wasting your time by writing on this issue but to u se this forum for right purpose . [A] Thanks & Regards Knowledge Center & Information Services, RBIN, Bangalore. >Emmanuel Ebnazar. > -----Original Message----- From: lis -forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [ mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ] On Behalf Of lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Wednesday, 24. May 2006 4:27 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 38, Issue 30 Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in You can reach the person managing the list a t lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Casting away the NET (Satish Munnolli) 2. NET or PhD (nazim malik) 3. NET/SET stop discussion do action (Monali Panchbhai) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 12:26:54 +0530 From: "Satish Munnolli" <smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Cas ting away the NET To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, <nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com> Message-ID: <00b001c67eff$4013af70$1f08640a@SatishMunnolli> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" In continuation to the debate on NET/SET/MPhil/Ph.D. If, Librarians (not in teaching profession) are categorised under NON TEACHING faculty by many colleges, why they should clear NET / SET exam that is basically designed for teaching faculty ? Librarians attached to academic institute libraries are not teaching in their practice. Is it only to ensure UGC scale ? If it is so, how many fellow colleagues who cleared NET exam are really getting UGC scale in private colleges ? And also I believe for teaching professiona ls in library science (in Universities) they should have one more Master's degree apart from MLISc and NET clearance. Is it the same case with other disciplines also ? Why there is a double standard for Library Science professionals ? Satish S Munnolli L ibrarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer (ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410 208 India Ph : +91 22 2740 5026 Fax : +91 22 2740 5085 Email : smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in ----- Original Message -- --- From: "Dr.H.S.Siddmallaiah" <sidda(a)nimhans.kar.nic.in> To: "nmlis" <nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com>; "lis" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; "corporatelibrns Moderator" <corporatelibrns(a)yahoogroups.com>; "raja ram" <raj_lib001(a)yahoo.co.in> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 10:01 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: [nmlis] Casting away the NET > Dear Friends > the arguments of the academician friends does not have any logic > and they are not confident of their product at research degrees like M.Phil > or Ph.D., > > NET is a benefit of chance in answering one exam > If Universities are not sure of the generating good quality M.Phil and > quality Ph.D., > then let them work out achieving good quality at that level not to leave > it to the benefit of chance in > one exam . > the argument to hang on to NET is a stupidity > and doubt on their own M.phil and Ph.D., > there argument is like they are through and they don't want others to be > through > > May be I am little harsh, conducting too many exam is not a solution and can > not create a research culture > or academic bent, making the students to work better in research degrees can > create better culture > With regards > Dr.H.S.Siddamalliah > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "raja ram" <raj_lib001(a)yahoo.co.in> > To: "nmlis" <nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com>; "lis" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; > "corporatelibrns Moderator" <corporatelibrns(a)yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 4:40 PM > Subject: [nmlis] Casting away t he NET > > > > Casting away the NET > > The NET seems to be on its way out. But academics have their > > reservations about this development. It is now official. The University > Grants Commission (UGC) has declared > > that the National Eligibility Test ( NET) it conducts for identifying > > potential teachers in colleges and universities will no longer be an > > eligibility criterion for those with an M.Phil. and/or a doctoral degree. > > On May 16, the Commission chairman announced that the interim report of > > the Balchandra Mungekar Committee, which was set up by the Ministry of > > Human Resource Development in November 2005 to suggest ways to revamp > > the NET and to find out whether the NET was needed at all as an > > eligibility criterion to teach in institutions of higher learning, has been > accepted in principle. > > Report recommendation > > The interim report recommends that those with an M.Phil. may be > > exempted from having to clear the NET for teaching in u ndergraduate courses > and that those with a Ph.D. need not have a NET for teaching postgraduate > courses. > > This announcement has caused dismay among many academicians in Kerala. > > Many teachers who spoke to The Hindu-Educationplus said they saw this > > announcement as the beginning of the end of the NET. While these > > academics are firm in their view that the NET as it exists today is pretty > much useless, they are also equally firm in the belief that a > > national-level test of some sort in una voidable if quality teachers are to > be appointed in the nation's universities and colleges. > > Dissenting voices > > "This is wrong step," says K. Sasikumar, professor, Department of > > Commerce, University of Kerala. "It will open the floodgates of mediocrity > as far as selecting good teachers is concerned. Now, in this university > anyone with 55 per cent marks for the postgraduate examination can sign up > for M.Phil. and everyone w ho registers for Ph.D. gets a doctoral degree. > There is no such thing as turning down a thesis. There is no evaluation by a > foreign expert." > > "Now, after this announcement, there is going to be a huge rush for > > M.Phil. courses," points out R. Moh ankumar, general secretary of the All > Kerala Private College Teachers' Association. He says the UGC has always > been inconsistent in taking a stand, vis-à-vis exemptions from the NET. > > > > "In 1993, 1998, 2000 and in 2002, the UGC's position regardin g who can > > be exempted from the NET kept on shifting. Is there a hidden agenda in > > this? There must be. Otherwise why these constant changes? If for some > > subjects, due to shortage of NET-qualified hands, some exemption needs > > to be given, fine . But a blanket exemption for all M.Phil. holders and > > Ph.D. holders? No that cannot be accepted. That is bad news for quality > > teaching," he says. > > Mr. Mohankumar adds that he is with those who argue that this move of > > the UGC is aimed at regularising the services of hundreds, if not > > thousands, of part-time/contract lecturers in colleges across the country > who have not cleared the NET but have M.Phil. and are seeking to get a Ph.D. > > Flawed decision > > There a re also those who feel that the Mungekar committee could have > > better employed its time and energy by trying to reform and broad-base > > the NET. Head of the Department of Law University of Kerala N. K. > > Jayakumar is among those who firmly believe t hat the very concept of linking > M.Phil. and Ph.D. to the career of a teacher is flawed. > > > > "A good teacher need not be a good researcher and a good researcher > > need not know how to teach. We see that happening all the time. Sure you > should have a test to see gauge the teaching skills of a person. The method > adopted by the National Law School Bangalore is very good in this respect. > Now, with this announcement by the UGC, there is going to be a spurt in the > number of M.Phils. be ing offered by colleges. In no time there will also be > M.Phil. in the distance education mode. Then all those people are going to > try and become teachers. What will happen to these people if in the future > the NET - in another form - becomes > > compu lsory," Dr. Jayakumar asks. > > Broad-basing NET > > Former Vice-Chairman of the UGC V. N. Rajasekharan Pillai too says the > > need of the hour is to try and revamp the NET instead of seeking to do > > away with it. As a teacher he says he is strongly in favour of having a > > nation-wide eligibility test in some form. " The NET can be broad-based > > so as to assess teaching capability and aptitude," he told The > > Hindu-Education plus over phone from Kottayam.Right from the time the > Mungekar Committee was set up, Dr. Pillai had > > argued that the best way ahead would be to have a NET that allows for > > trans-disciplinary eligibility; so that a candidate who clear the NET for > English can also teach such subjects as communicative English, > > linguistics or journalism. > > Many in the academic community say they would not be surprised if the > > Mungekar Committee in its final report recommends that the NET be done > > away with. "All these things should be done after a nation-wide debate > > among academics and by a five-member committee," points out Mr. > > Mohankumar, "such decisions can affect the lives and future of thousands of > students." > > G. MAHADEVAN Source: The Hindu, Education plus , kerala. > > > > > > ------------------------- -------- > Yahoo! India Answers Share what your know-how and wisdom > Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger Download > now > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> > Protect your PC from spy ware with award winning anti spy technology. It's > free. > http://us.click.yahoo.com/97bhrC/LGxNAA/yQLSAA/HDfwlB/TM http://us.click.yahoo.com/97bhrC/LGxNAA/yQLSAA/HDfwlB/TM > ------------------------------------ --------------------------------~-> > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nmlis/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nmlis/ > > <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > nmlis-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com > > <* > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 08:10:12 +0100 (BST) From: nazim malik <monis_naz(a)yahoo.co.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] NET or PhD To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20060524071012.32961.qmail(a)web8404.mail.in.yahoo. com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Friends Much has already been discussed regarding the exemption of NET. Some people are in favor and some are against the UGC decision. This is very difficult to say that UGC decision is ri ght or wrong because those who having PhD or going to complete their PhD in near future obviously welcome the UGC decision. But those who after a hard work cleared the NET/JRF certainly reject the exemption of NET idea of UGC. This is my observation that in each discipline or subject number of NETs is more than number of available posts. It means supply is higher than demand. Then what is the need of exemption of NET? If UGC is really interested to improve quality in teaching and research then NET m u st be compulsory for those who want to do PhD and the essential qualification for lectureship must be NET+PhD. A PhD Holder may be expert in a very small field on which he has done his work but for clearing NET he must be master of his subject and that i s necessary for a good teacher. One thing I would like to share that UGC decision is good as far as the post of Asstt. Librarian is concerned because this is purely administrative post which requires practical experiences rather than theoretical kno wledge. 50% post of Asstt. Librarians should be filled up through the internal promotion and rest 50% through the NET or PhD. This is my personal views based on my experiences. But I have also experienced that candidates having sound knowledge of their subjects but could not cleared the NET. But these are exceptional cases. With Regards Nazim malik BHU, Varanasi --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers Share what your know-how and wisdom Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger Download now

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