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PGDLAN COURSE FROM IGNOU
by Nivedita.Sharma＠fluor.com 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

Hello Team Members Can I get qualitative feedback on Library Automation Course offered by IGNOU(PGDLAN). This course was started 2 yrs back. I was going thru the IGNOU web site, it doesn't have much details about the programme. Regards Nivedita Sharma Knowledge and IT Services Delivery - Fluor Fluro Daniel India Pvt. Ltd Gurgaon Haryana 122 002 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Open Access and Electronic Publishing Session @InfoVision2005- join the debate
by Shalini R Urs 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

Dear friends, Participate and join the debate - at the Panel on E-Publishing: Changing Paradigms and shifting markets on September 15 at the InfoVision2005 Summit This panel begins with a keynote by Prof. Jean Claude Guedon of University of Montreal, Canada, the founder of Surfaces, the first Canadian electronic scholarly journal, and a champion of Open Access Publishing from the Open Society Institute. The session is anchored by Ms. Judith Turner, the editor of Journal of Electronic Publishing - University of Michigan Press, USA. Joining the great debate are Mr. H.S. Balaram, Editor, Times of India, Ms. Mr. Rajiv Seth, president, Cybermedia services, Ms. Nancy Buckley from Blackwell publishing, Come and enjoy the intensive and incisive debates on topical issues that affect the Information Landscape of the future at the InfoVision 2005 Summit For more details visit the website www.infovision2005.org Shalini Urs Coordinator- InfoVision2005 -- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Mysore Tele: 91-821-2514699 Fax: 91-821-2519209 Homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.html

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Infosys launches 'A library for a school' in Gulbarga district
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEK20050816025454&Page=K&Title=… Infosys launches 'A library for a school' in Gulbarga district Tuesday August 16 2005 13:16 IST GULBARGA: The launching of 'A Library for a School' scheme by Infosys Foundation was the highlight of the celebrations of the 59th Independence Day here on Monday. The ambitious scheme envisaging provision of books worth Rs.10, 000 to every government school was inaugurated at a simple function in the Durbar Hall of the Aiwan-E-Shashi guesthouse. Though the beneficiary schools are from Gurmitkal assembly constituency in Yadgir taluk the function was organised at the far off district head quarter. Foundation Chairpersons Sudha Murthy symbolically handed over five kits each containing 144 books costing about Rs.10, 000 to the head masters of five government schools of Gurmitkal in the presence of Minister for Water Resources and Transport Mallikarjun Kharge. Gurmitkal is the assembly constituency of Kharge from where he has been elected to the assembly for a record eight times in a row. There are 169 government lower, higher and secondary schools in Gurmnitkal constituency and all of them will be getting free books under the Infosys Foundation scheme. The Foundation also offered sewing machines to five poorest of the poor women all hailing from Gurmitkal in an effort to bring about economic stability to their families. Handing over the book-kits, Sudha Murthy declared that all government Kannada medium secondary schools will be given book-kits in Gulbarga district in a phased manner. She wanted teachers to evince interest in inculcating reading habits among children so that children can develop love for reading in their life. Mallikarjun Kharge lauded Infosys Foundation for taking up educational charities on a large scale. Sent by ======= Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631

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post ponement of refresher course in Jammu University
by sangeeta gupta 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

Dear COlleagues We r sorry to say that Refresher Course in library Science has been postponed for probably in the month of November due to unavoidable circumstances. We will write to you later in the month of October. sorry for inconvenience. Dr. sangita Gupta Reader( Course Coordinator ) Deptt of Library science University of jammu jammu __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Is there any refresher course
by Mailing List Manager 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 00:35:11 -0700 (PDT) From: veena dusane <veenadusane2003(a)yahoo.com> Dear members Is there any agency/university which sponsors to attend refresher course or conference or seminar for library staff. It will be nice of you, if you will able to provide information about the refresher course in India. Thanking you Veena

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The newest open access journal from Hindawi
by Mailing List Manager 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 14:06:08 +0100 (BST) From: M.Prasanna <mitubpj(a)yahoo.co.in> August 10, 2005 The newest open access journal from Hindawi The Hindawi Publishing Corporation announce one more addition to its open access journal collection. The Journal of Nanomaterials (JNM) will be edited by Michael Hu of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and it can be found at www.hindawi.com/journals/jnm/. JNM is open access with a business model based on article processing charges to be paid by the authors' institution or research grant. The journal shall have an online edition, which is free with no subscription or registration barriers, and a print edition which shall be priced at a level reasonable for covering the printing cost. All articles published in JNM shall be distributed under the "Creative Commons Attribution License," which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. JNM brings the number of open access journals published by Hindawi to eight. The first seven journals are in the areas of biomedicine, computer engineering, mechanical engineering and applied mathematics. Hindawi is planning to launch several more open access journals in the next few months. For more information please contact: Paul Peters Senior Publishing Developer Hindawi Publishing Corporation E-Mail: http://in.f85.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=paul.peters@hindawi.com&YY=81754… paul.peters(a)hindawi.com The Hindawi Publishing Corporation is an STM publisher with 25 journals (17 subscription based and 8 open access) and two book series. The company website is located at http://www.hindawi.com/ http://www.hindawi.com < http://www.hindawi.com/ http://www.hindawi.com/ Prasanna

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XML Query Test Suite Released
by Mailing List Manager 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 07:45:29 +0100 (BST) From: noufal palliparamban <noufalkodur(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear friends, The XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group are pleased to release the XML Query Test Suite (XQTS). The groups invite W3C Members and the public to run this suite of approximately 7,000 test cases with any or all of the over 20 implementations of the XML Query draft specification. Your feedback will help the Working Groups judge the implementability of the XML Query language, help to improve interoperability, and help XML Query advance on the W3C Recommendation Track. Contributions of additional test cases are invited. XML home page. Regards Noufal.P.P Indian Institute of Technology

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Google's digital library on hold
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Google has shelved its ambitious library project -- to scan every book in the world -- for three months to allow copyright holders time to opt out of being scanned and included in Google's index. http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B80E824B0-2A2A-4670-A62E-4… Thanks Sreeharsha BG

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Inauguration of NLSIU Library, Bangalore
by madhu＠nls.ac.in 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Director, Faculty, Staff, Members of the General Council, Executive Council & Academic Council of the NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL OF INDIA UNIVERSITY Cordially invite you to the inauguration of Shri Narayanrao Meligiri Memorial National Law Library By The Visitor Honble Mr. Justice R.C. Lahoti Chief Justice of India On Saturday, the 27th of August, 2005 at 5.00 p.m --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Regards

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IBM Introduces Open Software Framework for Analysis of Unstructured Information
by Bhojaraju G 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Apologies for cross postings Dear Colleagues, IBM Introduces Open Software Framework for Analysis of Unstructured Information by Paula J. Hane --------------------------------------------------------------------------------August 15, 2005 — IBM has been working on an engineering foundation tosupport applications that make sense of the facts, meaning, andrelationships in unstructured information. IBM's UnstructuredInformation Management Architecture (UIMA) is an architecture andframework platform for creating, integrating, and deployingunstructured information management solutions that use combinations ofsemantic analysis and search components. The company has justannounced it is making UIMA available as free, open source software.The UIMA framework has already been embedded in IBM products,including IBM WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition, whichIBM said is the first commercially available software platform forprocessing content based on the UIMA standard. IBM WebSphere PortalServer and Lotus Work Place also leverage UIMA for content processing.In addition, 16 software vendors have announced commercial support forand adoption of UIMA. For full details pl referhttp://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb050815-3.shtml Thanks & Regards Bhojaraju G,Librarian–Knowledge Management, (Sharepoint Administrator)Homepage: http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.comKM-Forum Moderator : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/************************************… OneSource Ltd.148 Bhaskara Plaza, RV Road,VV Puram, Bangalore-560004, INDIA.Cell:+91-944 836 9905 E-mail: Bhojaraju.G(a)gmail.com, bhojarajug(a)yahoo.com ************************************************************************************************Visit "KM Cyberary" @http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com/cyberary.html & Pl put yourcomments on Guest Book.

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Announcement
by SRELS 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Sir: Kindly arrange to announce the following message to the members. Sincerely, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science ******** Message : To all the present and past students of DRTC It is proposed to compile a Directory of all the present and past students of Documentation Research and Training Centre (Indian Statistical Institute). Please send details including the mailing address and e-mail id to Dr. K.N. Prasad, Treasurer, DRTC Alumni Association C/o. Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010. Ph: (080) 23305109; E-mail: srels(a)vsnl.com If you have the details of address of your classmates at drtc, please send them. K.N. Prasad DRTC Alumni Association Sir: Kindly arrange to announce the following message to the members. Sincerely, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science ******** Message : To all the present and past students of DRTC It is proposed to compile a Directory of all the present and past students of Documentation Research and Training Centre (Indian Statistical Institute). Please send details including the mailing address and e-mail id to Dr. K.N. Prasad, Treasurer, DRTC Alumni Association C/o. Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010. Ph: (080) 23305109; E-mail: mailto:srels@vsnl.com srels(a)vsnl.com If you have the details of address of your classmates at drtc, please send them. K.N. Prasad DRTC Alumni Association

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OA and journal copyrights policy
by Subbiah Arunachalam 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Permissions for OA archiving from LIS journals Anita Coleman and three co-authors, Copyright Transfer Agreements in an Interdisciplinary Repository, a conference presentation, n.d. but archived on August 10, 2005. Abstract: Copyright Transfer Agreements (CTA) are a rich source of rights information related to self-archiving. According to the Eprints Self-Archiving FAQ, "To self-archive is to deposit a digital document in a publicly accessible website, preferably an OAI-compliant Eprint Archive." This poster describes a study undertaken by DLIST whereby the CTAs of selected LIS journals were analyzed for publisher statements on the rights of authors related to self-archiving. The study differs from efforts such as the SHERPA/RoMEO database that resulted from the large open access studies of Project RoMEO. The main differences are: 1) our focus on LIS journals and 2) focus on journals rather than publishers, since publishers appear to have different policies and CTAs for each of their journals. RoMEO/SHERPA focus on publishers in all disciplines and as such LIS is not fully/adequately represented. DLIST, Digital Library of Information Science and Technology is an Open Access Archive (OAA) for Library and Information Science and Technology based on E-prints; a cross-institutional disciplinary repository for the Information Sciences that focus on cultural heritage institutions such as Archives, Libraries, and Museums using interdisciplinary perspectives. To some researchers cultural heritage institutions and formal educational organizations are the critical information infrastructures for building the knowledge society.

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OA advantageous
by Subbiah Arunachalam 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Good advice for authors Rachel Singer Gordon, Publish, Don't Perish! Library Literature and the Gift Economy, Library Link, July 2005. Reasons for librarians to publish, especially in some OA form. Gordon's arguments apply to scholarly authors of all kinds, not just librarians. Excerpt: You will note also that most of these opportunities [for name recognition, building your resume and reputation, and advancing the literature] are maximized when access to your work is also maximized. Ive talked before about the advantages of publishing online, especially in free, open-access venues. (See February and March 2005.) The library literature of course contains a healthy mix of publication outlets, both free and fee - but take accessibility into account, along with other considerations, when choosing an outlet for your work.

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(no subject)
by Subbiah Arunachalam 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

OA metadata and OA full-text Brian Surratt, Take my metadata, please! Texadata, July 22, 2005. Excerpt: 1) Metadata that is "Open Access" gets proliferated throughout the web in a very efficient manner. The collections I'm speaking of are our ETD repository and the Journal of Digital Information. Over the past few months, our metadata for these collections has been proliferating over the web through various means. First of all, they are both harvested automatically by the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Second of all, they are harvested by specialty search engines focused on scholarly resources. They are being harvested by Google Scholar, Elsevier's Scirus, and Thompson-ISI's Current Web Contents and this is just what I know for sure. So the information that WE host is now included in these search engines, from the broadest web search to sites that are focused on serving the needs of scholars. This wouldn't have come about except for the fact that our content is available Open Access. Not just the full-text of the documents themselves, but our metadata as well! I think this is great. Since we are Open Access anyway, we don't measure success by profits, we measure it by use. We want to be used, hit, and downloaded as much as possible. We want our content to be cited and have scholarly impact.... 2) A lot of metadata in library systems is not "Open Access." This makes it much harder, less efficient, and expensive to manage.... 3) What is significant about these observations? In the future, I think metadata is going to become free-er, while the full-text content will be more controlled. I suspect that it will become beneficial for all parties involved to have "free" metadata, but enhance access controls to the content itself. It is the content that is so valuable, not the metadata. I also think that the control of access to content will be determined less by publishers and more by content creators. Some publishers (specifically Open Access publishers) will start providing more levels of access to content, and in this competitive environment, content creators will have a lot of options....Furthermore, if it turns out to be true that "Open Access" correlates to higher impact [PS: it is true], decisions on access levels will be influenced more by "impact" than commercial considerations. The power will be in the hands of the content creators. (PS: Even non-OA publishers should provide OA to their metadata. It functions as free advertising that intermediaries, like search engines, are scrambling to pick up and publicize. It doesn't follow that full-text "will be" more controlled. But it may be. They are independent decisions. The usual reasons for providing OA to full-text continue to apply and we can hope that they will continue to have an effect.) Posted by Peter Suber at 8/12/2005 02:45:00 PM.

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Unesco supports OAA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Access recommendations for UNESCO and WSIS The international participants at the conference, UNESCO Between Two Phases of the World Summit on the Information Society (St. Petersburg, May 17-19, 2005), drafted a Final Document to guide the upcoming WSIS meeting in Tunis. (Thanks to Julia Bolton Holloway.) Excerpt: The Conference recommendations...are intended specifically for UNESCO and through it for other international organisations, national governments, private sector, civil society, and research and education community. It was advised that the Conference recommendations presented in the Final Document be forwarded both to UNESCO and to the heads of the national delegations of the countries participating in the Summits preparatory process for submitting to the Tunis discussion. [Recommendations:]...to concentrate [UNESCO and UN-agency] financial resources on supporting or implementing self-sustainable Educational, Scientific and Cultural Information systems without costly recurrent licensing fees, with the help of Open Access repositories...; to support creation of second disclosure Open Access information resources whereby authors are describing the results of their research that have already been published elsewhere; to provide financial support to first and second disclosure Open Access resources to eliminate the need to charge publication fees; to support the creation of an association of Open Access Publishers to reinforce their effectiveness in collaboratively raising financial resources and in gaining collective renown; to create or support seed funding programs to create new Open Access information resources everywhere in the world and to promote the conversion of existing resources to the Open Access model; to require as a grant or endorsement condition publication in the Open Access model of any full report of research being even partially funded, or morally endorsed by them; to support and endorse the initiatives of Funding Institutions to implement their own mandatory Open Access Archives;...to build Open Access repositories in a way that would allow easy site mirroring as well as complete copying on portable media, such as CDs or DVDs, to allow access to knowledge in regions with little or non-existent Internet connections; to provide funding and in-kind assistance to a Free Software project that implements the peer-to-peer functionality as recommended by the WSIS Plan of Action to allow efficient exchange of scientific information;...to consider the problem of reasonable restriction of copyright principle for the sake of education, science, and culture in the Information Society and to develop the guiding policy principles for improving access to official public information;...to encourage creation of programs of acquiring non-exclusive intellectual property rights to support the Information Society development; to facilitate creation of community centres providing free access to legal information.

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Qyery for M.Phil
by pravesh chaudhary 14 Aug '05

14 Aug '05

Dear Member Please help me Actually I want to do M.Phil in Lib & Inf. Sc. From where can I do the same, and what is the proceess for that ? Recently I am working in Central Library, I.S.M., Dhanbad under MHRD. please suggest me with regards yours Pravesh Choudhary --------------------------------- Check out Yahoo! India Rakhi Special for Rakhi shopping, contests and lots more. http://in.promos.yahoo.com/rakhi/index.html Dear Member Please help me Actually I want to do M.Phil in Lib & Inf. Sc. From where can I do the same, and what is the proceess for that ? Recently I am working in Central Library, I.S.M., Dhanbad under MHRD. please suggest me with regards yours Pravesh Choudhary Check out Yahoo! India Rakhi Special for Rakhi shopping, contests and lots more. http://in.promos.yahoo.com/rakhi/index.html

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Dr.S.R.Ranganathan's Birthday Celebrations - Invitation
by Arunachalam Hariharan 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS) Dr.S.R.Ranganathan's Birthday Celebrations Date: 13th August 2005 Time: 4.00 PM to 7.30 PM Venue: Besant Hall, Thanjavur Programme Welcome Address: S.A.Sampthkumar Librarian S.K.S.S. Arts College, Thirupananthal Special Lectures Impact of IT on Library Dr. S.Balasubramanian and Information Services Librarian Periyar Maniammai College of Technology Vallam Contributions of Dr. A.Ganesan S.R. Ranganthan to Librarian & HOD, DLIS Library Science Sri Pushpam College Poondi Status of Libraries - in Today P. Ramasamy Librarian M.S. Govt. Arts College, Thanjavur SALIS Contributions A.Hariharan to Library Professionals Felicitation Dr. A.Kaliammal Librarian Bharadhisan University, Trichy Vote of Thanks P.Perumal Librarian Saraswati Mahal Library Thanjavur High Tea : 4.00 PM All are welcome ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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The medIND now covers 35 Free Access Full Text Medical Journals
by Sukhdev Singh 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

Dear Members, We have added the following TWO Journals to our medIND Site, http://medind.nic.in . --The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India --Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine The FREE ACCESS medIND [ http://medind.nic.in ] site covers Full Text of Indian indexed journals. Total number of journals under medIND are now 35 as listed below: * Endodontology * Health Administrator * Indian Journal of Aerospace Medicine * Indian Journal of Allergy Asthma and Immunology * Indian Journal of Anaesthesia * Indian Journal of Chest Diseases and Allied Sciences * Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry * Indian Journal of Community Medicine * Indian Journal of Gastroenterology * Indian Journal of Medical & Paediatric Oncology * Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology * Indian Journal of Medical Research * Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine * Indian Journal of Occupational and Enviornmental medicine * Indian Journal of Occupational Therapy * Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery * Indian Journal of Pediatrics * Indian Journal of Pharmacology * Indian Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine * Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases * Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery * Indian Journal of Tuberculosis * Indian Pediatrics * J.K. Practitioner * Journal, Indian Academy of Clinical Medicine * Journal of Family Welfare * Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine * Journal of Indian Rheumatology Association * Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India * Journal of The Anatomical Society of India * Journal of Indian Association of Pediatrics Surgeons * Journal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry * Medical Journal Armed Forces India * NTI Bulletin * Trends in Biomaterials and Artificial Organs --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://indmed.nic.in http://medind.nic.in http://openmed.nic.in

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UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme discussed in Oslo
by noufal palliparamban 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

Dear friends, UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme discussed in Oslo 11-08-2005 (UNESCO) The Memory of the World Programme will be the theme of the "UNESCO Open Forum" at the World Library and Information Congress that the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) organizes from 14 to 18 August in Norways capital Oslo. The UNESCO Open Forum on Memory of the World on 14 August will include presentations on regional activities of the Memory of the World Programme focusing on: Timbuktu Manuscripts, Slave Trade Archives project, Memory of the World in Asia and the Pacific, and UNESCO/Jikji Prize. The session will be chaired by Bendik Rugaas, former Minister, former Norwegian national librarian, Norwegian Cultural Attaché in the USA and former Chair of the Memory of the World Programme International Advisory Committee There will be in Oslo a 7-speaker panel presentation followed by a discussion. Speakers at the session will include: Jasmine Cameron, Deputy Director of the National Library of Australia, Celia Zaher, Director of the National Library of Brazil, Alida Boye, University of Oslo, Ekaterina Genieva, Director M.I. Rudomino All-Russia State, Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow, Adolf Knoll, Deputy Director of the Czech National Library, Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian of Congress and Chair of the Memory of the World Programme International Advisory Committee, and Aziz Abid, UNESCO Memory of the World Programme Officer. IFLA, which maintains official relations with UNESCO for many years, is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It describes itself as the global voice of the library and information profession. Source:http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=19745&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&U… Regards Noufal.P.P Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur --------------------------------- Check out Yahoo! India Rakhi Special for Rakhi shopping, contests and lots more. http://in.promos.yahoo.com/rakhi/index.html Dear friends, UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme discussed in Oslo 11-08-2005 (UNESCO) The Memory of the World Programme will be the theme of the "UNESCO Open Forum" at the World Library and Information Congress that the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) organizes from 14 to 18 August in Norways capital Oslo. The UNESCO Open Forum on Memory of the World on 14 August will include presentations on regional activities of the Memory of the World Programme focusing on: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=14224&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… Timbuktu Manuscripts , http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=8780&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTI… Slave Trade Archives project , Memory of the World in Asia and the Pacific, and http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=16050&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… UNESCO/Jikji Prize . The session will be chaired by Bendik Rugaas, former Minister, former Norwegian national librarian, Norwegian Cultural Attaché in the USA and former Chair of the Memory of the World Programme International Advisory Committee There will be in Oslo a 7-speaker panel presentation followed by a discussion. Speakers at the session will include: Jasmine Cameron, Deputy Director of the National Library of Australia, Celia Zaher, Director of the National Library of Brazil, Alida Boye, University of Oslo, Ekaterina Genieva, Director M.I. Rudomino All-Russia State, Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow, Adolf Knoll, Deputy Director of the Czech National Library, Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian of Congress and Chair of the Memory of the World Programme International Advisory Committee, and Aziz Abid, UNESCO Memory of the World Programme Officer. IFLA, which maintains official relations with UNESCO for many years, is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It describes itself as the global voice of the library and information profession. Source:http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=19745&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&U… Regards Noufal.P.P Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/TEMPLATE/images/spacer_tr.gif Check out Yahoo! India Rakhi Special for Rakhi shopping, contests and lots more. http://in.promos.yahoo.com/rakhi/index.html

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Kerala Libraries going digital
by noufal palliparamban 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

Dear friends, Kerala Libraries going digital THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With information technology capturing the imagination of youngsters, libraries in Kerala are going the digital way in a bid to attract more readers from the younger generation.Digital and online libraries, which now enrich a select few institutions, are going public with the Kerala State Library Council resolving to set up such ''libraries of the future'' in the state. The council has decided to bring all district and rural libraries in the state under the ''digital umbrella'' in a bid to usher in new reading culture in the state. ''With the world going hi-tech, it is time that we also change. In Kerala, digital and online libraries are with a select few institutions and unless this goes public, it will not benefit the whole society,'' said Dr G Balamohan Thamby, President of the Library Council. The libraries in the state would not only be connected with each other but also with those outside the country, he told and added a final decision on digital libraries would be taken at the Council's executive meeting to be held next week. Source: http://www.kaumudi.com/news/072105/kerala.stm#2 --------------------------------- Check out Yahoo! India Rakhi Special for Rakhi shopping, contests and lots more. http://in.promos.yahoo.com/rakhi/index.html Dear friends, Kerala Libraries going digital THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With information technology capturing the imagination of youngsters, libraries in Kerala are going the digital way in a bid to attract more readers from the younger generation.Digital and online libraries, which now enrich a select few institutions, are going public with the Kerala State Library Council resolving to set up such ''libraries of the future'' in the state. The council has decided to bring all district and rural libraries in the state under the ''digital umbrella'' in a bid to usher in new reading culture in the state. ''With the world going hi-tech, it is time that we also change. In Kerala, digital and online libraries are with a select few institutions and unless this goes public, it will not benefit the whole society,'' said Dr G Balamohan Thamby, President of the Library Council. The libraries in the state would not only be connected with each other but also with those outside the country, he told and added a final decision on digital libraries would be taken at the Council's executive meeting to be held next week. Source: http://www.kaumudi.com/news/072105/kerala.stm#2 http://www.kaumudi.com/news/072105/kerala.stm#2 Check out Yahoo! India Rakhi Special for Rakhi shopping, contests and lots more. http://in.promos.yahoo.com/rakhi/index.html

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Device to turn the pages
by Satish Munnolli 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

*** Apologies for cross posting *** An interesting paper for those who are in the job of digitising their print collection in mass scale. In case of digitisation process, for scanning every page of a document a person need to handle the job manually in Indian context. ('am not sure if any institute has bought this device/technology). A device has been developed, which can turn the sides of a bounded book automatically. While the book is scanned, the operator is free for other tasks, as for example the control and revision of already scanned material and the input of corresponding data records (meta data) into a catalogue system. A paper is available on the device / technology at the below mentioned URL with illustrations. The title of the paper is A Device for automated Scanning of Books http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/conferences/etd2003/ullrich-stephan/HTML/ullrich.h… JUST IMAGINE ... IF, THE SAME DEVICE / TECHNOLOGY IS APPLIED FOR READING BOOKS IN LIBRARY FOR ENHANCING THE USAGE ! 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 *** Apologies for cross posting *** An interesting paper for those who are in the job of digitising their print collection in mass scale. In case of digitisation process, for scanning every page of a document a person need to handle the job manually in Indian context. ('am not sure if any institute has bought this device/technology). A device has been developed, which can turn the sides of a bounded book automatically. While the book is scanned, the operator is free for other tasks, as for example the control and revision of already scanned material and the input of corresponding data records (meta data) into a catalogue system. A paper is available on the device / technology at the below mentioned URL with illustrations. The title of the paper is A Device for automated Scanning of Books http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/conferences/etd2003/ullrich-stephan/HTML/ullrich.h… http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/conferences/etd2003/ullrich-stephan/HTML/ullrich.h… JUST IMAGINE ... IF, THE SAME DEVICE / TECHNOLOGY IS APPLIED FOR READING BOOKS IN LIBRARY FOR ENHANCING THE USAGE ! 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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Open Access Webliography
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

A preprint of the article "Open Access Webliography" by Adrian K. Ho and Charles W. Bailey, Jr. is now available. This annotated webliography presents a wide range of electronic resources related to the open access movement that were freely available on the Internet as of April 2005. http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm This article appears in the volume 33, no. 3 (2005) issue of Reference Services Review, which is a special issue about "the role of the reference librarian in the development, management, dissemination, and sustainability of institutional repositories." http://thesius.emeraldinsight.com/vl=2409844/cl=18/nw=1/rpsv/cw/www/mcb/009… A preprint of my "The Role of Reference Librarians in Institutional Repositories" article in this issue is also available. http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/reflibir.pdf Both preprints are under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. Below is a list of the topics covered in the webliography: * Starting Points * Bibliographies * Debates * Directories--E-Prints, Institutional Repositories, and Technical Reports * Directories--Open Access and Free Journals * Directories and Guides--Copyright and Licensing * Directories and Guides--Open Access Publishing * Directories and Guides--Software * Disciplinary Archives * E-Serials about Open Access * Free E-Serials That Frequently Publish Open Access Articles * General Information * Mailing Lists * Organizations * Projects * Publishers and Distributors * Search Engines * Special Programs for Developing Countries * Statements * Weblogs Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston Libraries Home: http://www.escholarlypub.com/ DigitalKoans: http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/ Open Access Bibliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.htm Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm

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BASE: Academic Search Engine
by Shyam Prasad pujar 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:35:06 +0200 From: Urte Kramer <urte.kramer(a)uni-bielefeld.de> To: diglib(a)infoserv.inist.fr Subject: [DIGLIB] BASE: new release - Apologies for cross posting - BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), http://base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de Release 2, August 2005 The new release BASE in its updated version discloses now more than 2,3 Mio. documents of 130 online - resources, incl. many scholarly full text archives, accessible through the international protocol of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI). Documents are mainly freely available and can be searched by bibliographic data or full text. BASE offers new features within the search refinement ('restrict results to data source'), various result sorting options and a search history. About BASE BASE is the multi-disciplinary search engine at Bielefeld University to scholarly internet resources, developed by Bielefeld University Library based on the technology of the Norwegian company FAST Search & Transfer (www.fastsearch.com). BASE complements the current metasearch system for catalogues and databases of the Bielefeld Digital Library by disclosing many scholarly full text archives, digital repositories and preprint servers of the internet. BASE is a strategic project of Bielefeld University Library and will be further developed with the perspective of replacing the current metasearch. In the meantime BASE has registered as OAI service provider. BASE characteristics include: + Intellectual selection of resources + Indexes only qualified academic online resources from all academic disciplines + Transparency on the data resources included in BASE through an inventory + Searches metadata and full text (depending on the data source) + Discloses internet resources of the "deep web", that are not indexed by commercial search engines (such as 500,000 digitised pages historical journals and review organs of the German Enlightment) + Displays search results as bibliographic data and full text hits + Various options to sort result sets + Search refinement for authors, keywords, document type, language etc.) Contact: ub(a)uni-bielefeld.de -- Urte Kramer Universitaetsbibliothek Bielefeld Universitaetsstr. 25, 33615 Bielefeld / Germany Voice: +49 521 1064058, Fax: +49 521 1064052 http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de

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HBTI Library Digitisation Project
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

Please read the brief news item below. How does one go about getting such good funding, especially for Library activities? Kudos to HBTI, Kanpur ===================== Posted on 09 Aug 2005 # UNI http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=12359 HBTI Kanpur to have digital library Kanpur : The Harcourt Butler Technological Institute (HBTI) Kanpur, one of the oldest State government engineering institute, will have a digital library by the year end, courtsey a World Bank Programme. Director HBTI R P Singh told UNI a total amount of Rs 24.77 crores would be spent under the World Bank's Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme to spruce up the old library and then construct new state of art digital library. Both the libraries would be merged later, he added. ==========sent by =========== Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631

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Fwd: [XML4Lib] Current Cites Turns 15 This Month
by Saiful Amin 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Roy Tennant <Roy.Tennant(a)ucop.edu> Date: Aug 8, 2005 10:47 AM Subject: [XML4Lib] Current Cites Turns 15 This Month To: Web4Lib <web4lib(a)webjunction.org>, xml4lib <xml4lib(a)webjunction.org>, currentcites(a)webjunction.org The popular current awareness service "Current Cites" turns 15 years old this month. The monthly electronic newsletter features citations and evaluative abstracts of articles in information technology and librarianship considered by the Current Cites team as the most significant for that month. Sources of citations include professional magazines, journals, web sites and occasionally books. The newsletter goes out to a subscription base of over 3,000 individual subscribers and is either forwarded or featured in additional mailing lists, online forums, paper publications, and blogs. Each issue typically contains about a dozen one-paragraph citations, distributed toward the end of each month. Currency is the publication's strength, with some sources appearing only days (or hours!) before it is cited and published in Current Cites. Distribution was far different with Issue Number One. That came out as a paper insert to the library newsletter at UC Berkeley. The original intent was to provide an in-house guide to the rapidly expanding literature in information science. Soon however, the first electronic version became available through the University of California MELVYL system. Next came distribution through the PACS-L mailing list, and subsequently through a myriad of systems and protocols that reads like a glossary to technology in the 1990's: FTP, Gopher, WAIS, and finally the Web. Most recently, Current Cites completed a move to WebJunction.org, a library support site managed by OCLC and supported in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Current Cites has always been a volunteer operation, with no budget to its name but simply a team of committed individuals. The Current Cites team consists of 7 tech-savvy librarians. Their contrasting interests and styles serves to give each annotation a distinctive personal touch. This monthly dive into the literature in order to fish out the pearls is easily as rewarding to the team as the final product hopefully is to the public. Otherwise it would be hard to explain the service's longevity. Nevertheless, as founder and editor Roy Tennant admitted to American Libraries in 2001, "It still amazes me that we have continuously published this resource month after month for almost 11 years." Make that 15 years! Current Cites is available for online browsing at <http:// lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/<http://lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/>> or email subscription at <http:// lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/currentcites<http://lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/currentcites> >. -- The Current Cites Team _______________________________________________ XML4Lib mailing list XML4Lib(a)webjunction.org http://lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/xml4lib -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 GSM: +91 98407 76214 Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 www.edutechindia.com <http://www.edutechindia.com> "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Roy Tennant < mailto:Roy.Tennant@ucop.edu Roy.Tennant(a)ucop.edu > Date: Aug 8, 2005 10:47 AM Subject: [XML4Lib] Current Cites Turns 15 This Month To: Web4Lib < mailto:web4lib@webjunction.org web4lib(a)webjunction.org >, xml4lib < mailto:xml4lib@webjunction.org xml4lib(a)webjunction.org >, mailto:currentcites@webjunction.org currentcites(a)webjunction.org The popular current awareness service "Current Cites" turns 15 years old this month. The monthly electronic newsletter features citations and evaluative abstracts of articles in information technology and librarianship considered by the Current Cites team as the most significant for that month. Sources of citations include professional magazines, journals, web sites and occasionally books. The newsletter goes out to a subscription base of over 3,000 individual subscribers and is either forwarded or featured in additional mailing lists, online forums, paper publications, and blogs. Each issue typically contains about a dozen one-paragraph citations, distributed toward the end of each month. Currency is the publication's strength, with some sources appearing only days (or hours!) before it is cited and published in Current Cites. Distribution was far different with Issue Number One. That came out as a paper insert to the library newsletter at UC Berkeley. The original intent was to provide an in-house guide to the rapidly expanding literature in information science. Soon however, the first electronic version became available through the University of California MELVYL system. Next came distribution through the PACS-L mailing list, and subsequently through a myriad of systems and protocols that reads like a glossary to technology in the 1990's: FTP, Gopher, WAIS, and finally the Web. Most recently, Current Cites completed a move to WebJunction.org, a library support site managed by OCLC and supported in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Current Cites has always been a volunteer operation, with no budget to its name but simply a team of committed individuals. The Current Cites team consists of 7 tech-savvy librarians. Their contrasting interests and styles serves to give each annotation a distinctive personal touch. This monthly dive into the literature in order to fish out the pearls is easily as rewarding to the team as the final product hopefully is to the public. Otherwise it would be hard to explain the service's longevity. Nevertheless, as founder and editor Roy Tennant admitted to American Libraries in 2001, "It still amazes me that we have continuously published this resource month after month for almost 11 years." Make that 15 years! Current Cites is available for online browsing at <http:// http://lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/ lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/ > or email subscription at <http:// http://lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/currentcites lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/currentcites >. -- The Current Cites Team _______________________________________________ XML4Lib mailing list mailto:XML4Lib@webjunction.org XML4Lib(a)webjunction.org http://lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/xml4lib http://lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/xml4lib -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 GSM: +91 98407 76214 Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 http://www.edutechindia.com www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong."

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Publisher details of the Journal "Training and Management"
by Mailing List Manager 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 16:55:07 +0530 From: kishor.awachar(a)wipro.com Dear All, For Journal Training and management Plz contact at 011- 26898711 or 26912933 Contact person- Sarika or Abha Vasant Kunj. * Plz note -earlier ph no has been changed Rgds/Kishor ISD ,WT, Gurgaon

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Report of SALIS Delhi Chapter inauguration - reg
by Arunachalam Hariharan 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Report of SALIS Delhi Chapter inauguration - reg SALIS Delhi NCR Chapter SALIS Delhi NCR Chapter was inaugurated on 18th June 2004 at Jeepee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, Delhi. Mr. Sanjai Kataria welcomed the gathering. Dr. Harish Chandra, Librarian, IIT Madras explained the need for opening a SALIS chapter at Delhi and also pointed out various services SALIS providing to the professional community. A.Hariharan, President, SALIS spoke about the objectives and various programmes being conducted by SALIS through its various chapters. Dr. Shalindra Kumar, Reader, DLIS, Delhi University briefed the gathering about his experience with SALIS and appreciated SALIS E-Group for providing wonderful service to the professionals. Prof Nigam, HOD, DLIS, MCRP University stressed the need for organising professional programmes at Delhi region by SALIS. Mr. Kumar, Chairman, SALIS Delhi, Chapter sought the cooperation of the members to organize various programmes. Mr. Sanjai Kataria, Secretary proposed the vote of thanks. The following professionals were nominated as Office-bearers for the year 2005-2007 for the SALIS Delhi NCR Chapter DELHI - NCR Chapter (Office-bearers) Chairman Mr. I.R. Kumar, Librarian, United Services Institution of India Vice-Chairman Prof.B.S.Nigam, HOD,DLIS, MCRP University, Noida Ms. Lata Suresh, Librarian, IIHMR, Jaipur Secretary Sanjay Kataria, Librarian, JIIT, Noida, New Delhi Joint-Secretaries Mr.K.P. Singh, DESIDOC, New Delhi Mr. Projesh Roy, Librarian, RGCAS, Delhi Treasurer Mr. Shri Ram, Librarian, JUIT, Simla Joint-Treasurer Dr.Harish Goyal, Delhi University System, Delhi P.R.O. Mr.Salek Chand, Senior Doc. Officer, NIHAFW, Delhi E.C.Members Dr. Shailendra Kumar, Reader, DLIS, Delhi University Mr. Shankar Singh, Sr.Manager, Power Finance Coprn Mr. Sudeep Sharma, Librarian, JSS, Noida Dr.J.S.Lohia, Documentation Officer, JNU, New Delhi Mr. Srivastava, Asst. Librarian, IIT, Delhi Dr.Jai Deep Sharma, Reader, IGNOU, New Delhi Ms. Alpana Srivastava, Asst Manager, TCS, New Delhi Mr.R.K. Sukla, Librarian, Delhi College of Engg Mr. Sanjay Kumar, Librarian, International Centre for Audit & Training, Noida Mr. Khalid K.Karuqi, University Librarian, Hamdard University, Delhi ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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(no subject)
by Subbiah Arunachalam 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Friends: Mr Sam Pitroda wants knowledge to be freely available. The Knowledge Commission headed by him may kindly recommend to the Government of India that the Government mandate open access archiving of all results of publicly funded research. That would make a big difference. The IISc EPrints archive, for example, has led to increased visibility of the papers deposited in it. More than a lakh downloads (or viewings) have been recorded so far, and most of them from the USA. Subbiah Arunachalam More on the Indian Knowledge Commission and OA Access to knowledge imperative for prosperity: Pitroda, The Hindu, August 5, 2005. Excerpt: Knowledge Commission Chairperson Sam Pitroda, today said it was imperative to provide the masses access to knowledge if the country was to become prosperous. Delivering the 'Fourth Darbari Seth Memorial Lecture' here, he said providing access to knowledge to people in remote corners of the country should be accompanied by right to information, enhanced literacy and widened broadband connectivity for all. Also see Pitroda pushes e-portals, education revamp, The Indian Express, August 6, 2005. Excerpt: Father of the massive PCO network Sam Pitroda said today that it was time India revolutionised its university education and e-governance set-up. Delivering the fourth annual Darbari Seth Memorial Lecture of The Energy Research Institute (TERI), Pitroda said, access to knowledge through broadband, internet portals and a revamp of education are necessary before India can face globalisation....Pitroda said portals must be one-stop shops for all information, and not extensions of "The Raj philosophy" of creating barriers between rulers and people....Sam, who is credited with the plans that brought about a PCO revolution in the country in the 1990s, said Indians need to lose their fear of failure to build an "open, accessible" system. "Because we are afraid to fail here, we basically dont move...If you dont fail, you dont end up creating new knowledge," he said.

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Repositioning the LIS profession & InfoVision 2005.
by Shalini R. Urs 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Dear Professionals, There have been frequent debates and musings on repositioning the LIS Profession in tune with the digital paradigms & emerging knowledge economy.InfoVision 2005, an Industry-Academia Summit is going to be the converging point for all stakeholders of the Information World. This summit is an excellent opportunity for LIS Professionals to listen to, mingle with, and discover the different terrains of the information landscape from the LIS and the non-LIS stream -- CIOs and KM specialists in corporate world, Speakers form Google & Yahoo, Publishers and Content Management Companies, etc. To encourage the teachers in LIS and librarians in academic institutions (Universities & colleges), the organizing committee of infovision2005 is pleasedto announce a special discounted registration fee for all LIS professionals from the academic institutions registering between 10th august and 10thSeptember, the confessional fee is Rs. 5000 only. Discover more about the themes, sessions and speakers, visit the infoVision2005Web site - www.infovision2005.org -- Organising Committee InfoVision 2005 Dr. Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele:91-821-2514699 Fax :91-821-2519209

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Ranganathan Birthday Celebration - SALIS - Invitation
by Arunachalam Hariharan 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Ranganathan Birthday Celebration- organised by SALIS Tiruchi Chapter Date :13.08.2005 at Besant Hall, Anna Salai, Tanjore-1 Time : 4.PM 7.30 P.M. The following programmes have been arranged. 1. Lecture on 'Ranganathans contributions to Library Science' by Dr. A.Ganesan, HOD, DLIS, Sri Poondi Pushpam College, Poondi, Thanjavur 2. Lecture on 'Impact of IT in Library & Information Services' by Dr.S. Balasubramanian, Librarian, Periyar Maniyammai Engineering College, Vallam 3. Felicitations to library professionals. High Tea: 4.00 P.M. All are invited For further details, please contact the Programme Co-ordinators Mr. P.Perumal, Librarian, Saraswati Mahal Library (Res: 04362-251036 Off: 234107/233568) or Mr. M.Kauthaman, Library, Tamil University, Thanjavur (Res: 04362-226121) ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Dr. Susheela Kumar Memorial Lecture
by Gowri Ravindranth 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Dear Colleagues The Madras Library Association (MALA) and Computer Society of India (CSI), Chennai Chapter Cordially invite you to Dr. Suseela Kumar Memorial Lecture 2005 On the occasion of Dr. S. R. Ranganathans birthday by Mr. N. Vittal (Former Central Vigilance Commissioner, Government of India) on The Right to Information at 6.00 p.m. on Friday, August 12, 2005 Venue: Gokhale Shastri Institute, K.N. Shanmugasundaram Hall , Old No.16, Karpagambal Nagar, Mylapore, Chennai 600 004 The Programme 5.30 p.m. Tea 5.55 p.m. Welcome address and introduction of the speaker by Dr. A. Amudavalli, President, MALA 6.00 p.m. Introduction of the event by Mr. K. Sankaraiah, Former President, MALA 6.10 p.m. Memorial Lecture on RIGHT TO INFORAMITON by Mr. N. Vittal 6.50 p.m. Presentation of Dr. Suseela Kumar Memorial Award to the outstanding student of the Masters Programme of the Faculty of Library and Information Science, University of Madras 6.55 p.m. Vote of Thanks by Ms. L. R. Gowri, Secretary, MALA Looking forward to see you on August 12th. Secretary, MALA Formula One fan? http://g.msn.com/8HMAENIN/2740??PS=47575 Get news, wallpapers and photos of Narain Karthikeyan. Vrrrrrroooooom!

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MALA Office Bearers
by Gowri Ravindranth 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Dear Colleagues: Madras Library Association (MALA) is pleased to announce its new office bearers for 2005-2007. They are: President Dr. A. Amudavalli Professor Department of Information Science University of Madras Chennai Vice Presidents Dr. Samyuktha Ravi Deputy Librarian University of Madras (Guindy Campus) Chennai Mr. R. Seshadri Publisher's Representative for UK & USA based Publications Chennai Secretary Ms. L. R. Gowri Reference Librarian American Information Resource Center U. S. Consulate Chennai Joint Secretary Mr. G. Sundar Director Roja Muthiah Research Library Chennai Treasurer Mr. M. K. Jagadish Director American Information Resource Center U. S. Consulate Chennai Members Mr. Arun Sowmya Narayn Archives Officer HSBC Central Archives C/o Writer Corporation Chennai Dr. V. Chandrakumar Lecturer Dept. of Information Science University of Madras Chennai Mr. K. Elavazhagan Manager Library and IT Services British Council Chennai Mr. A. Gnanasekar Assistant Director Roja Muthiah Research Library Chennai Dr. G. Krishnamurthy Deputy Librarian The Tamilnadu Dr. M. G. R. Medical University Chennai Mr. H. R. Mohan Chief Systems Manager The Hindu Chennai Mr. S. Raghavan Secretary The Pennington Committee Srivilliputur Dr. M. Somasekharan Head SIRD IGCAR Kalpakkam Ex-Officio Member: Mr. K. Sankaraiah Information Consultant Chennai Sincerely, L. R. Gowri Secretary, MALA Post FREE Classifieds. http://g.msn.com/8HMAENIN/2749??PS=47575 Reach out to over a million NRIs. Get great responses for your ads.

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Publisher details of the Journal "Training and Management"
by Mailing List Manager 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 04:01:53 -0700 (PDT) From: veena dusane <veenadusane2003(a)yahoo.com> Dear Mr.Sati, Publisher details of the Journal "Training and Management".is as follows Subscription for 1 year 455/-, 2 year 845/-, 3 year 1080 , 5 year 1440/-, lifetime 3890/- CORPWORTH MARKETING PVT. LTD. 13, Institutional Area, Lodi Road, II nd floor, Vanita Samaj Building, New Delhi-110 003 011-464 5132, 465 3560 Regards, Ms. Veena D. Nashik. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear All, Please give Publisher details of the Journal "Training and Management". Thanks in anticipation. Yours truly VIPIN SATI http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo… ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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IEEE Announces Five New Journals For 2006
by Farooque Shaheen 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has approved five new technical journals for publication in 2006, covering topics such as computational intelligence, vehicular technology, product safety engineering and information forensics. These journals will focus on emerging "breakthrough" technologies that can have an impact on industry as well as everyday lives. Titles will be available through the IEEE Xplore online delivery platform and various IEEE online collections, as well as by individual subscription. The journal titles are: IEEE Journal on Product Safety Engineering, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, and IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. Additional information is available at www.ieee.org. Source: http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=4098 Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has approved five new technical journals for publication in 2006, covering topics such as computational intelligence, vehicular technology, product safety engineering and information forensics. These journals will focus on emerging "breakthrough" technologies that can have an impact on industry as well as everyday lives. Titles will be available through the IEEE Xplore online delivery platform and various IEEE online collections, as well as by individual subscription. The journal titles are: IEEE Journal on Product Safety Engineering, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, and IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. Additional information is available at www.ieee.org. Source: http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=4098 Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Parliament library to be opened to researchers
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

News from The Hindu August 5 2005 Parliament library to be opened to researchers New Delhi, Aug 5. (PTI): Parliament Library, one of the biggest treasure trove of books, would soon be thrown open to research scholars. Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee disclosed this fact to a nine-member library committee delegation of the Punjab Legislative Assembly led by its Chairman Manpreet Singh Badal. ========= sent by ============ Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631

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Internet Explorer 7 Fails Standards Test
by Saiful Amin 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

"It's a shame, really, that Microsoft is eschewing Web-based standards in its upcoming Internet Explorer 7. The new browser will NOT support the CSS2 standards, and that means bad news for both Web publishers and anyone who regularly uses the Web. Find out why, even with the new version, Internet Explorer Version 7 will be substandard, and what you can do about it, in this report." Microsoft's IE7 Omissions Are Wrong: http://ct.eletters.whatsnewnow.com/rd/cts?d=181-503-1-278-692598-24359-0-0-… -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 GSM: +91 98407 76214 Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong."

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need information
by shivanand 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

Dear All, I am urgently in need of publisher details of the following Journals Address & E-mail) 1. psychology studies 2. Indian journal of applied psychology. Kindly give the details and help me out. Yours truly ************************************************************ Shivanand Murgod Librarian Belgaum Institute of Management Studies(MBA) R.S. No 15/2, Ramdurg Village, Adjacent to KU Campus Boothramanahatti, Belgaum -591156 Ph No-(0831) 2820055 Cell: 9448790619 ***************************************************************

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Information required on Special Library Standard
by Rajesh Chandrakar 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Dear Hena S Gupta, Yes, there is International Standard called "ANSI/NISO Z39.7 -2004 Information Services and Use: Metrics & statistics for libraries and information providers--Data Dictionary". This standard has been developed by the National Information Standard Organization (NISO), USA, identifies categories for basic library statistical data reported at the national level, and provides associated definitions of terms. In doing so it deals with the following areas: reporting unit and target population, human resources, collection resources, infrastructure, finances, and services. In addition, the standard identifies new measures associated with networked services, databases, and performance. The standard is not intended to be comprehensive in scope. Instead, it presents a framework for comparable library data by describing common elements pertaining to libraries of various types in the US. It does not address detailed statistics for specific areas where it seems more appropriate for experts in those areas to make recommendations (e.g., music, government documents, maps). Section 5 of this standard deals with the "Infrastructure", the website is http://www.niso.org/emetrics/current/section5.html. This standard has been developed for all kind of libraries, where you can look at your special library requirement. I hope this will help you. Rajesh Chandrakar ----- Original Message ----- From: "HENAG" <HENAG(a)infosys.com> To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 12:33 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Information required on Special Library Standard Dear LIS professionals, If there is any Special Library Standard known related to in-frastructure please let me know . Best Regards Hena S Gupta InfosysCentral Library, Infosys Technologies Limited, Electronics City, Hosur Road, Bangalore-560100 Board : (91)-(080)-28520261 Ext 52196 Fax: (91)-(080)-28520742 We enable you to leverage knowledge anytime, anywhere! **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. Further, you are not to copy, disclose, or distribute this e-mail or its contents to any other person and any such actions are unlawful. This e-mail may contain viruses. Infosys has taken every reasonable precaution to minimize this risk, but is not liable for any damage you may sustain as a result of any virus in this e-mail. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening the e-mail or attachment. Infosys reserves the right to monitor and review the content of all messages sent to or from this e-mail address. Messages sent to or from this e-mail address may be stored on the Infosys e-mail system. ***INFOSYS******** End of Disclaimer ********INFOSYS*** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajesh Chandrakar Scientific & Technical Officer INFLIBNET (INFormation and LIBrary NETwork) Centre An IUC of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House, PB No. 4116, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380 009, India Tel. +91-(0)79-26305971/ 8528/ 4695(O), 26873805(R) Mobile: +91-9898087422 Fax: +91-(0)79-26300990, 263007816 E-mail: rajesh(a)inflibnet.ac.in; rchandrakar(a)gmail.com Website: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Digital libraries
by Subbiah Arunachalam 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Friends: Received this news in the mail today. We in India (and Africa) should follow this example. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Digital scholarship in the library of the future Stefanie Olsen, The college library of tomorrow, News.com, August 3, 2005. Excerpt: Last December, Google started on a wildly ambitious and somewhat controversial plan to digitize the collections of some of the world's largest university and public libraries in an effort to make hard-to-find books accessible by the click of a mouse. But out of the spotlight, a number of universities are already working on bookless, digital libraries that reflect a growing understanding of how today's tech-savvy students access information. "The notion of a library as a physical collection has long ago been altered," said Michael Keller, university librarian and director of academic information resources at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. "It's now physical and virtual." Stanford librarians aren't the only academics working on the libraries of tomorrow. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California school system, the University of Michigan and University of Virginia, among others, have also been digitizing their collections, developing new technologies and creating a lasting archive of electronic material. Friends: Received this news in the mail today. We in India (and Africa) should follow this example. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Digital scholarship in the library of the future [A] Stefanie Olsen, http://news.com.com/Building+the+college+library+of+tomorrow/2100-1025_3-58… The college library of tomorrow , News.com , August 3, 2005. Excerpt: Last December, Google started on a wildly ambitious and somewhat controversial plan to digitize the collections of some of the world's largest university and public libraries in an effort to make hard-to-find books accessible by the click of a mouse. But out of the spotlight, a number of universities are already working on bookless, digital libraries that reflect a growing understanding of how today's tech-savvy students access information. "The notion of a library as a physical collection has long ago been altered," said Michael Keller, university librarian and director of academic information resources at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. "It's now physical and virtual." Stanford librarians aren't the only academics working on the libraries of tomorrow. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California school system, the University of Michigan and University of Virginia, among others, have also been digitizing their collections, developing new technologies and creating a lasting archive of electronic material.

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Yahoo introduces audio search service
by Farooque Shaheen 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Yahoo introduced a new Internet search service that allows users to find downloadable songs, podcasts to interviews and newscasts. The free service, which is still in its testing period, is called Yahoo Audio Search and can be found at http://audio.search.yahoo.com. The audio search feature for the first time breaches the barriers between the various online music services, providing access to more than 50 million digital recordings. It allows anyone to look for an individual song within the digital collections of 16 different services, including the iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody. Yahoo Audio works much like the company's video and image services. Users type in words or phrases and are returned a list of audio files that they can click on and play. The company has integrated Yahoo Audio Search with its video search service and has invited people to submit videos and music through Media Really Simple Syndication, so it can be found by the new audio search engine. It has also integrated tools from its comparison shopping search engine, which helps users find CD prices and make purchases from a variety of retailers. Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-08/05/content_3311908.htm Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 Yahoo introduced a new Internet search service that allows users to find downloadable songs, podcasts to interviews and newscasts. �The free service, which is still in its testing period, is called Yahoo Audio Search and can be found at http://audio.search.yahoo.com. � The audio search feature for the first time breaches the barriers between the various online music services, providing access to more than 50 million digital recordings. It allows anyone to look for an individual song within the digital collections of 16 different services, including the iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody. � � Yahoo Audio works much like the company's video and image services. Users type in words or phrases and are returned a list of audio files that they can click on and play. � � � The company has integrated Yahoo Audio Search with its video search service and has invited people to submit videos and music through Media Really Simple Syndication, so it can be found by the new audio search engine. � � It has also integrated tools from its comparison shopping search engine, which helps users find CD prices and make purchases from a variety of retailers. Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-08/05/content_3311908.htm Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Is there any funding agency
by Lavji N. Zala 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

----------------------------------------- (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. --------------------------------------------------------- Dear Satya, Mr. Shailesh R. Yagnik, Chief Librarian of Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad presented a paper titled "Funding Agencies for professionals upliftment" in the conference which was held by ADINET in year 2003. If you need the information pl. contact him at shailesh(a)mica.ac.in. Regards, Lavji N. Zala Library Officer KEIC MICA Shela Ahmedabad-380058 > 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. Is there any funding agency (Satyaranjan Sahu) > 2. InfoVision 2005 : A GLOBAL CONCLAVE OF INFORMAITON COMMUNITY; > (Sep 15-16, 2005, Hotel Le Meridien, Bangalore) (sathya) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 11:14:47 +0530 > From: "Satyaranjan Sahu" <satya(a)darya.nio.org> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Is there any funding agency > To: "LIS-Forum" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Message-ID: <ICENJJKBLLHFNCLBJKPLAEHCCCAA.satya(a)darya.nio.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear members, > Is there any funding agency which sponsors to attend International > conference or seminar? My paper has > been selected for presentation in CDS/ISIS-W2 world meeting in Brazil. It > is > the only paper from India which has been selected for the presentation > with > other four papers for poster presentation. I was expecting fund from an > International Oceanographic body but couldn't materialized. It will be > nice > of you, if you will able to provide information about the funding agencies > in India or anywhere else. > Thanking you > Satya > -------------------------------------------- > Satya Ranjan Sahu > National Information Centre for Marine Sciences > National Institute of Oceanography > Dona Paula, Goa - 403 004 > Phone: 0832-2450370 (O) > ----------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------------------- > NIO Virus Scan : Clean Message. > > Please visit out sites : > www.nio.org, www.indian-ocean.org, www.mangroveindia.org, > www.reefindia.org, www.coastalhazards.info > --------------------------------- >

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 29, Issue 5
by shiva shankar kimidi 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

[lis-forum] sir i am k shiva shankar, student i want to do project work on "search engines" can any onecan suggest me the approach On 8/3/05, lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in <lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > 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: Reports organizaton (Mailing List Manager) > 2. Tristana reader and Zone Alarm (Mailing List Manager) > 3. Open URLs for Library Users (Mailing List Manager) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:54:23 +0530 (IST) > From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Reports organizaton > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0508021254020.16937(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 22:15:33 +0530 (IST) > From: G. K. Manjunath <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> > > Please let me know the kind of reports you receive. We have some > experience in organising annual reports, working papers, reprints, and > other grey literature in our library > > g.k.manjunath > CHIEF LIBRARIAN ( Uni librarian ) > INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH > FILM CITY ROAD ( GEN.VAIDYA MARG ) > SANTOSH NAGAR > GOREGAON ( EAST ) > MUMBAI - 400 065 > INDIA > > > e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in > http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm > > phone 022-28490653 > fax 022-28402752 > > > On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Mailing List Manager wrote: > > > Date: 1 Aug 2005 08:15:37 -0000 > > From: Rajendra Thaty <pitam97(a)rediffmail.com> > > > > Dear all > > > > We receive all kinds of reports in our Library. Unfortunately, we do not > > have any system to organize them properly. I shall appreciate, if any of > > you share with me our personal experience on the problem. I would like to > > know in detail the procedure you follow, the problems you face and the > > solutions you recommend etc. Even if one does not have any real > > experience, ideas are welcome. > > > > Regards, > > > > Rajendra Thaty > > University Librarian > > Samablpur University Central Library > > Jyoti Vihar, BURLA 768019 > > Orissa > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:58:02 +0530 (IST) > From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Tristana reader and Zone Alarm > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0508021257430.16937(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 09:10:24 +0300 > From: Jayadev P Hiremath <jayadevph(a)gmail.com> > > FYI. > > Regards. > > Jayadev P Hiremath > > > Tristana Reader 4.0 > http://www.tristana.org/ > > Now that more and more websites offer a variety of dynamic materials (such > as podcasts and the like), it is increasingly more common to feel a bit > overwhelmed by the sheer volume of material on the Web. More discerning > users will appreciate Tristana Reader 4.0, which will allow them pull > content directly from the Web to their desktops. The application also allows > users the ability to set preferences so that they will be alerted to content > changes at any given site. The program is also spam-proof, which will be a > welcome relief to many. This version of Tristana Reader is compatible with > Windows 98 or newer. > > ZoneAlarm 6.0.631.003 > http://www.zonelabs.com > > The Zone Alarm application was created to protect DSL-or cable-connected PCs > from hackers, and this latest version contains four valuable security > services. They include a firewall, an application control, an Internet lock, > and zones. Working in tandem, these interlocking devices block Internet > traffic while the computer is unattended and also monitor all activity on a > given computer. This version of ZoneAlarm is compatible with Windows 98 or > newer. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 13:01:26 +0530 (IST) > From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Open URLs for Library Users > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0508021301060.16937(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 10:03:19 +0530 > From: Farooque Shaheen <Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com> > > Some Web visionaries have concocted a scheme to embed complete citation > information in Web pages. Inspired by U.K. researcher Dan Chudnov and > other innovators, Eric Hellman, Ross Singer, and others have invented > COinS, which is short for ?ContextObject in Span.? (?Span? refers to the > HTML tag used to embed COinS metadata.) The team has created a > specification and defined it at http://ocoins.info. > COinS seeks to address a fundamental problem: Imagine you are searching > Google Scholar or a blog or a random Web site, and you find a citation to > an article that is critical to your work. The article isn?t freely > available on the Web, but it is syndicated to one or more full-text > resources. You are affiliated with a company or a university that has > licensed the journal for online delivery via a content aggregator. You > just want to click on the citation and see the full text of the article; > you don?t want to have to go to your library?s home page and start your > search all over again. COinS is an attempt to address this problem. > COinS allows content providers to publish sufficient metadata so that you > can click on a hyperlink and (assuming your local institution has licensed > a database that includes the journal in its collection) seamlessly > download the full text of the article in question. The OpenURL standard > defines a scheme to transport metadata about a cited work?author, title, > etc.?over the Web. COinS defines a way for a Web content provider to embed > bibliographic metadata into an HTML document. > Last week, Openly Informatics announced an implementation of COinS as a > plug-in to the Firefox browser. If a user visits a Web site that has a > COinS-compliant citation, the plug-in allows the user to retrieve the > relevant article from the locally licensed database with a click or two. > The new plug-in is available at http://www.openly.com/openurlref and is > compatible with Google Scholar. > Source: http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb050801-1.shtml > > > Thanks & Regards, > Farooque Shaheen, > Caritor India Pvt Ltd. > Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 > Mobile-9342507449 > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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 29, Issue 5 > **************************************** >

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'In Case of Emergency"- ICE, A crucial bit of Information
by venky 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

The London incident &; now the Mumbai floods have promoted certain concerns and I share with you something useful somebody just sent. As long as everyone knows what ICE stands for, it is not a bad idea. A useful thing to add to your mobile address book! It was thought up by an ambulance man/paramedic who found that when they went to the scenes of accidents there were always mobile phones but they didn't know which numbers to call and he thought that it would be a good idea if there was a nationally recognized name to file "next of kin" under. Following the disaster in London . . . East Anglian Ambulance Service have launched a national "In case of Emergency (ICE)" campaign with the support of Falkland 's war hero Simon Weston. The idea is that you store the word " I C E " in your mobile phone Address book, and against it enter the number of the person you would want to be contacted "In Case of Emergency". In an emergency situation ambulance and hospital staff will then be able to quickly find out who your next of kin are and be able to contact them. It's so simple that everyone can do it. Please do. Please will you also email this to more people, it won't take too many 'forwards' before lots of people will know about this. It really could save your life, or put a loved one's mind at rest. For more than one contact name ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc. May be one can record even info like blood group in the ICE Dr. S. Venkadesan JRD Tata Memorial Library Indian Institute of Science Bangalore-560012 The London incident &; now the Mumbai floods have promoted certain concerns and I share with you something useful somebody just sent. As long as everyone knows what ICE stands for, it is not a bad idea. A useful thing to add to your mobile address book! It was thought up by an ambulance man/paramedic who found that when they went to the scenes of accidents there were always mobile phones but they didn't know which numbers to call and he thought that it would be a good idea if there was a nationally recognized name to file "next of kin" under. Following the disaster in London . . . East Anglian Ambulance Service have launched a national "In case of Emergency (ICE)" campaign with the support of Falkland 's war hero Simon Weston. The idea is that you store the word " I C E " in your mobile phone Address book, and against it enter the number of the person you would want to be contacted "In Case of Emergency". In an emergency situation ambulance and hospital staff will then be able to quickly find out who your next of kin are and be able to contact them. It's so simple that everyone can do it. Please do. Please will you also email this to more people, it won't take too many 'forwards' before lots of people will know about this. It really could save your life, or put a loved one's mind at rest. For more than one contact name ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc. May be one can record even info like blood group in the ICE Dr. S. Venkadesan JRD Tata Memorial Library Indian Institute of Science Bangalore-560012

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Journal "Yoga The Science" details required
by vipin sati 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

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InfoVision 2005 : A GLOBAL CONCLAVE OF INFORMAITON COMMUNITY; (Sep 15-16, 2005, Hotel Le Meridien, Bangalore)
by sathya 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

InfoVision 2005 : A GLOBAL CONCLAVE OF INFORMAITON COMMUNITY (September 15-16, 2005, Hotel Le Meridien, Bangalore) Come and listen to the visionaries. Interact with leaders. Join the debate with experts. Visualize a new Information Profession. www.infovision2005.org <http://www.infovision2005.org> Sessions Contouring the Knowledge Society. 1. IT & IM: Meeting and melding points. 2. KM Solutions & Practices. 3. E-Publishing: Changing paradigms and shifting markets. 4. Search Engines & Data mining. 5. E-Learning & Digital Libraries. 6. IPR: ideologies, legalities and technologies. 7. Policy Framework for Information Society. Speakers. 1. R. A. Mashelkar, DG, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, India 2. P. Anandan MD, Microsoft Research India. 3. Ronald Larsen Dean, School of Information Science, University of Pittsburg, USA. 4. Karl Wiig, Knowledge Research Institute, USA (T). 5. Sugata Mitra, NIIT. 6. Derk Haank, CEO, Springer, Germany. 7. Ajit Balakrishnan, CEO. Rediff.com. 8. Andrew Large , Chair, School of Library and Information Studies, McGill University, Canada. 9. R. Ramaraj, CEO, Sify. 10. Ingeborg Torvik Solvberg, Professor, Dept. of Computer & Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. 11. Praveen Anand , Advocate, Anand and Anand Associates, India 12. Jean Claude Guedon, Professor, University of Montreal, Canada. 13. S. Sadagopan, Director, International Institute of Information Technology. 14. Nick Moore, Chairman, Acumen Consulting & Research, UK. 15. N. Vijayaditya , DG, NIC. 16. Eric F. Van de Velde, Director, Library Information Technology, Caltech, USA. 17. Mohan Tambe, MD, Innomedia Technologies. 18. Judith Turner, Editor, Journal of Electronic Publishing, USA. 19. Abhijit Lahiri, Technology Information Program, DSIR. 20. Nancy Buckley, Blackwell Publishing, UK. 21. Jayant R. Haritsa, Professor, Indian Institute of Science. 22. T.A. Balasubramanian, Consultant and Media Advisor, Mumbai 23. Raj Datta, GM, Mind Tree, India 24. Madan Mohan Rao, Editor, Knowledge Management Chronicles. 25. Anand Parthasarathy, IT Columnist, The Hindu. 26. Uma Ganesh, CEO, Kalzoom Technologies. 27. G.Venkatesh, Chief Strategist & CTO, Sasken. 28. Prabhuddha Ganguly, CEO, Vision-IPR. 29. Subas Pani, Chief Secretary, Govt. of Orissa. 30. Rajiv Seth, President, CyberMedia Services. ________________ from N V Sathyanarayana Informatics (India) Ltd Bangalore 560 003, India sathya(a)informindia.co.in Phone: 91 80 23365940 Fax: 91 80 23344598

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Is there any funding agency
by Satyaranjan Sahu 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Dear members, Is there any funding agency which sponsors to attend International conference or seminar? My paper has been selected for presentation in CDS/ISIS-W2 world meeting in Brazil. It is the only paper from India which has been selected for the presentation with other four papers for poster presentation. I was expecting fund from an International Oceanographic body but couldn't materialized. It will be nice of you, if you will able to provide information about the funding agencies in India or anywhere else. Thanking you Satya -------------------------------------------- Satya Ranjan Sahu National Information Centre for Marine Sciences National Institute of Oceanography Dona Paula, Goa - 403 004 Phone: 0832-2450370 (O) ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- NIO Virus Scan : Clean Message. Please visit out sites : www.nio.org, www.indian-ocean.org, www.mangroveindia.org, www.reefindia.org, www.coastalhazards.info --------------------------------- Dear members, Is there any funding agency which sponsors to attend International conference or seminar? My paper has been selected for presentation in CDS/ISIS-W2 world meeting in Brazil. It is the only paper from India which has been selected for the presentation with other four papers for poster presentation. I was expecting fund from an International Oceanographic body but couldn't materialized. It will be nice of you, if you will able to provide information about the funding agencies in India or anywhere else. Thanking you Satya -------------------------------------------- Satya Ranjan Sahu National Information Centre for Marine Sciences National Institute of Oceanography Dona Paula, Goa - 403 004 Phone: 0832-2450370 (O) ----------------------------------------------------- NIO Virus Scan : Clean Message! Please visit our sites http://www.nio.org www.nio.org , http://www.indian-ocean.org www.indian-ocean.org , http://www.mangroveindia.org www.mangroveindia.org , http://www.reefindia.org www.reefindia.org , http://www.coastalhazards.info www.coastalhazards.info

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Call for Papers: Serials & Continuing Resources in the Library (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

To: diglib(a)infoserv.inist.fr Subject: [DIGLIB] Call for Papers: Serials & Continuing Resources in the Library *** APOLOGIES FOR DUPLICATE POSTINGS *** THE SERIALS LIBRARIAN | SPECIAL ISSUE Serials & Continuing Resources in the Library: New Frontiers in Access, Acquisition & Ownership If the past is an indicator, current, emerging and yet-to-be Net and Web features and functionalities will have a significant impact on the content and publishing of serials and continuing resources, as well as on those institutions that historically have assumed the role of maintaining and assuring current and long-term access to these publications, notably academic, public, research, and special libraries, among many other organizations. To commemorate the publication of the 50th volume of _The Serials Librarian_, submissions are invited that envision, review, or speculate on topics falling into one or more of the following broad categories: * The Future of Serials and Continuing Resources * The Future Role and Place of Serials in Libraries * The Future of Libraries in General. The categories are intentionally broad to allow contributors to think openly about any and all potential possibilities. This special issue will be published as volume 51, numbers 1/2 of _The Serials Librarian_. NOTE: The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2005. Authors should consult the 'Instructions for Authors' section of a recent issue of _The Serials Librarian_ for detailed guidelines and style requirements. Submissions should be sent via e-mail preferably as an attached MS Word document to Gerry McKiernan, Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian, Iowa State University Library, e-mail: gerrymck(a)iastate.edu . Regards, Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library 152 Parks Ames IA 50011

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Executive Digest
by Anita Kumari 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Hello Friends If any of you subscribe the magazine 'Executive Digest' for your library. Please send me the contact details of Vendor. Thanks with Regards Anita Kumari Librarian E-Mail : anitkuma(a)in.ibm.com Hello Friends If any of you subscribe the magazine 'Executive Digest' for your library. Please send me the contact details of Vendor. Thanks with Regards Anita Kumari Librarian E-Mail : anitkuma(a)in.ibm.com

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Can Google Stay Google?
by Madhuresh 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Dear Friends, You may like to read this article published in Fast Company. The article can be accessed at http://www.fastcompany.com/subscr/97/open_google.html Madhuresh Can Google Stay Google? It is the company of the nanosecond -- and a really, really rich one at that. But Silicon Valley often eats its own young. So what are Messrs. Brin and Page planning to keep Google thriving for the long haul? By: Alan Deutschman When you visit Google's headquarters, you have a vague feeling that there's something wrong here, but it's hard to say exactly what. In nearly every way, Google seems a corporate utopia, a vision of an idealized 21st-century corporation. The campus looks more like an idyllic resort than an office complex where anyone ever gets work done. The centerpiece of the main quadrangle is a beach volleyball court that sees a lot of action throughout the day. And look, there's cofounder Sergey Brin, 31, the $9 billion man, competing in a midday game. The rectangle of white sand is surrounded by green: grass that appears as though it's groomed daily and cacti that thrive in the sunny, humidity-free 80 degrees. The campus's pathways are strolled by employees so youthful and healthy looking that you wonder whether you made a wrong turn a few miles away in Palo Alto and wound up on the Stanford campus instead. Google has been sued for allegedly discriminating against workers over 40 years old. Only the shiny postmodern architecture makes you feel as if you're at a high-tech company. And the atmosphere seems strangely calm and quiet, almost lazy. It's hard to believe that this is a company that has been coping with breathless growth -- a company where it's not unusual for a marketing staffer to cycle through four different bosses within a year and a half. The only corner of the campus where there's visible tumult is the grill line at the cafeteria, which lives up to its reputation as one of the best places to eat in all of food-crazed northern California. The organic all-you-can-eat buffet is free to employees for lunch and dinner. Google is ever so young, self-satisfied, and happy. And rich! By late spring, its stock reached toward $300 a share, more than triple its $85 debut price when the company went public only the year before. Wall Street investors haven't hesitated to pay well over 100 times earnings for Google, betting that the company's growth is only just beginning. The seven-year-old startup boasts a market value of $80 billion, more than Yahoo, Amazon.com, eBay, or Oracle. For years it has been the company of the nanosecond. So why do you feel that gnawing sense of unease as you tour its eco-friendly buildings? Suddenly, you realize why: This epicenter of the Silicon Valley present is haunted by a ghost of the Silicon Valley past. You've been right here before, in this very spot, during its original incarnation as the campus of Silicon Graphics Inc. Remember SGI? It was one of the hottest tech companies of the early 1990s. Its founder, Jim Clark, became a celebrity billionaire. Like Google, SGI was a geeky innovator glamorized by an adoring media -- most famously, its expensive graphics computers powered the special effects for Hollywood blockbusters such as Terminator 2. SGI's stock split twice in the early 1990s before peaking at $42 a share in 1995. But once its rivals had time to catch up, SGI went into freefall. By 2001, the stock had plunged to 31 cents a share, and the company had to lay off thousands of workers and abandon the gleaming new campus it had constructed. In came Google, leasing 500,000 square feet of the SGI space to accommodate its mushrooming workforce, which has grown to 3,000 people worldwide. SGI is nearly forgotten only a decade after it reached the heights of Silicon Valley glory. It makes you think the unthinkable: Might Google face the same fate? Ten years from now, could Google be a vanquished champ while a newer contender takes over its campus? Silicon Valley is a notoriously brutal place. It's incredibly hard to maintain a lead in technology. As Brin plays in the sand at the "Googleplex," could there be the next Brin waiting five miles away at the Stanford campus -- another obscure but brilliant computer-science graduate student who'll swiftly reinvent the digital realm? Will slower-moving giants like Microsoft get the time to catch up? Google has terrific momentum -- unlike many companies, it doesn't have to worry unduly about the next quarter. The real questions (and they're questions any fast-growing, innovation-based company must ask itself at some point) are: How can Google keep its edge for the long run? What can it do to make sure it's still a hot company in 2010? How can a maturing organization with 3,000 people hold on to what made it a great startup? A series of interviews with Google executives and engineers revealed the ideas the company is counting on to sustain its streak. Challenge the Mind Brin enters the conference room and takes a seat on the same side of the table as you, and it's hard to focus on the interview while you're forced to look at his bare legs. He's wearing athletic short-shorts. Soon he senses your discomfort and apologizes for his attire, mentioning that he had just come from playing in a volleyball game. He also wears a black T-shirt, a wristwatch made from Lego blocks, and Adidas sandals without socks. "Here's the way I think of it," he says. "Is this the place I would want to work if I were graduating from a PhD program now?" Brin and Larry Page were pursuing doctorates at Stanford when they founded Google, which they now run together with Eric Schmidt, a veteran executive who had worked at Sun and Novell. "Yes," he answers. Why? The key reason is that Google lets brilliant computer scientists work on "great technical problems" that provide the intellectual stimulation and challenge they crave. "Artificial intelligence, complex systems, user interface -- all the things I studied as a graduate student, we hit the limits of," he says. In Google's early days, simply searching the Web was a daunting technical challenge. Today, Google conceives of "search" as something much broader and more grandly ambitious -- no less than helping people access, analyze, organize, understand, and grapple with all the world's information. That kind of audacious long-term challenge is really exciting and inspiring to the most technically brilliant minds. Making money and achieving professional status are significant for them, of course, but so are the psychic rewards of the work itself and its potential impact and visibility out in the world. "We're in a target-rich environment of interesting problems," says Alan Eustace, one of Google's handful of vice presidents of engineering and its head of research. Take the technology for "machine translation" of human language. Right now, Google can automatically translate Web pages from English into a bunch of major languages and vice versa -- German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. The list will get longer in the next year or two. But that's just the beginning, Eustace says: "The goal is to make the Internet language-independent." Ultimately, all search results will come back instantly in your own language, regardless of what tongue you speak -- and what dialect the pages are written in. Every Google user will be like a delegate in the General Assembly of the United Nations putting on headphones to hear translations of the speaker up front. At the UN, it doesn't matter whether you speak only French and the orator is waxing eloquent in Chinese. The Web will be the same way. Automated universal translation is the kind of long-range vision that inspires people like Eustace. It fascinates them because it's a technical Mount Everest that they can climb, but also because it's an idealistic goal that's potentially enriching to global society. "In the long term, if you can create technology that can unify information around the world and remove the language barrier, that would be very special," he says. Google has visions of unifying the world's data as well as its languages. Eustace wants to give people the tools to combine data from multiple sources on the Web. For example, if you were looking to buy a home today, it would be easy enough to map the available properties. But what if you wanted to overlay that map with other information that could help you make your decision -- figures about school rankings, economic conditions, day-care availability, community activities, or crime rates? "We're not anywhere near done with search technology," says Marissa Mayer, who left Stanford's PhD program to become Google's first female engineer in 1999 and currently manages its consumer Web products. "2010 or 2020 will make today look really sad." Google has recruited technologists who share this vision, which is an important source of their dedication. Before coming to Google, Anurag Acharya taught computer science at the University of California at Santa Barbara. "I was looking for a problem that would last me a very long time -- 10 years, 15 years," he says. He joined the company motivated by tackling the issue of "being able to deal with information coherently in all its manifestations." Like Eustace, Acharya seems equally influenced by Google's vast technical challenge as well as its potentially beneficial social impact. He expressed his idealism with his creation of Google Scholar, a feature that lets users search for information in academic publications. As principal engineer on Scholar, he spent four years recruiting scholarly journals to make their material publicly available over the Web for the first time. He thinks giving people around the world better access to information "has to fundamentally change how social processes evolve -- how people interact, how they develop organizations. I believe this is a significant thing for humanity." Of course, Google is far from the first Silicon Valley powerhouse to cultivate a reputation as a place for the most brilliant engineers. Like its predecessors -- Microsoft, Oracle, Apple -- Google can be elitist and a bit haughty. Nelson Minar, a midlevel Google engineer, starts off well by saying, "At Google, a lot of people are motivated by the beauty of what they do. A key thing in the engineering culture is a lot of pride in the technical challenge. Larry and Sergey have set the tone that we're in this for the long run." But then he realizes too late that he's sliding into arrogance when he says, "At Google, my assumption when I meet new engineers is they are as good as I am or better. When I worked at other places, the first question was, Is this person worth my time?" Share the Wealth Duke Ellington was once asked how he managed to take the many individualistic members of his band and get them to play together so harmoniously. "I have a gimmick," he said. "I pay them." That's one of Google's gimmicks, too. Even when people are motivated by challenge and idealism, pay and recognition remain important. Brin has been thinking a lot lately about how to revamp Silicon Valley's basic approach to compensation, which long relied on stock options. When there are only a few hundred people in a company, stock is a strong motivation, he says, because everyone gets enough options to have the chance to really make a lot of money. But "at thousands, it doesn't work that well as an incentive," because there are so many people that the options have to be spread too thin. "And people want the chance to be really well rewarded." Even though Google now has some 3,000 employees worldwide, he says, "I feel the compensation should be more like a startup's. Not entirely, because there's significantly less risk. But more like one. We provide the upside -- maybe not the identical upside, maybe a little less -- and higher odds of being successful." Google's most visible innovation in compensation is the Founders' Award -- a huge spot bonus for great work on a project. The first two awards, given out earlier this year, added up to $12 million and were announced at an all-staff gathering. The awards are paid in stock to give the winners incentive to keep striving. "These founders are quite willing to share generously the wealth that's created here," says Dave Rolefson, a compensation specialist who worked around the Valley before joining Google. "A lot of companies say they pay for performance, but Google actually does." The higher you are in the company, the more heavily your pay package depends on rigorous evaluations of your personal contribution. The exception comes at the very top: No matter how well they perform, Page and Brin now take only a $1 annual salary with no bonuses or grants of options or stock. They save the stock as a reward for other employees. In the past couple of years, other Silicon Valley companies have responded to the big changes in accounting rules by cutting back dramatically on the stock options they grant to employees as incentives. They have typically gone from giving 7% of equity each year to as little as 2%, and the cuts have had the biggest impact on lower-level employees. "At Google, we're seeing that none of the employees are cut," Rolefson says. "Full-time employees at all levels are still offered equity when they come in." In addition to stock grants, Brin says that Google is trying to do more with "bonuses and refreshers" and especially looking to develop more financial incentives for people in the fast-growing middle levels of the company. Still, he admits that "there are some inherent flaws with compensation incentives in a large company." That thought sends him off on a more philosophical tangent: "As you grow larger, you should be more efficient," he says, "or split into smaller companies if there are diminishing returns. The key is to look at the advantages you get from being larger." So does Brin think Google is a bit like Burning Man, the annual festival in the Nevada desert that's a magnet for artists and techies from northern California? Burning Man has grown from an intimate gathering into a mass pilgrimage for tens of thousands of people, many of whom talk nostalgically about how it was better when it was smaller and before it was changed by its renown. Brin has actually been to Burning Man -- how many CEOs can say that? -- but he contends that both the festival and Google have improved in many ways with size: "There's so much more to see and do now" at Burning Man, he says. As for Google, "It's a mistake to be nostalgic for two or four years ago, because you can be blind to all the benefits you get." The recently introduced features for searching and displaying maps with satellite photos, for example, were a "really collaborative effort from people at Google offices around the world -- we couldn't do that at a smaller company." Still, it's likely that individuals at Google will have a harder time feeling they can have an impact on the company now that it has thousands of people, not hundreds. And many talented individuals will surely leave for startups once Silicon Valley discovers its next big thing. Some of the people who stay will find motivation harder to come by once their stock grants vest and they no longer need to work to make a living or even to buy real estate in the nation's least affordable housing market. At Microsoft in the '90s, engineers and marketers took to wearing buttons around the office that said "fuifv." You can guess what the first two letters stand for. The last three meant "I'm fully vested." Brin doesn't have firsthand memory of much Silicon Valley history -- for the benefit of business experience, he says he turns to his board members, including new recruits CEO Paul Otellini from Intel and CEO Art Levinson from Genentech. Before Google, he says, "I never had a real job." But he does mention Microsoft as a case study for compensation policy. "The options were great as long as the stock was rising," he says. "Compensation is important, but it's not the only or the most important reward." Right now, Brin and Page can afford to share the wealth -- not only are they both multibillionaires, but Google's $1 million in revenues per employee is high for any company, and it beats even key competitors. At some point, though, the stock isn't going to be a trump card for running the company. That means the challenge and meaningfulness of the work is going to be Google's best hope for thriving in the long run. To keep up its extraordinary success, Google must do more than simply follow its slogan "Don't be evil." It has to be inspiring and good. Learning From the Past What can Google's founders learn from the ghosts of SGI that wander the campus they've taken over? SGI's decline came when Intel's hardware and Microsoft's software ultimately began to catch up to its own. In Silicon Valley, it's hard to keep a lead for long. SGI tried for a second act with what was known in the early and mid-1990s as the "information superhighway," but it bet wrongly that interactive TV was the form it would take. SGI's founder, Jim Clark, left -- and bet correctly that the "infobahn" would be the Internet. He cofounded Netscape and began the Web stock boom. Google's head-to-head rivals -- Yahoo and MSN -- are already starting to catch up to its technology, at least in the crucial basics of search. Google's indirect rivals, such as Amazon.com, are imitating it, too: Amazon's shrewd founder, Jeff Bezos, realizing that search is vital for how people find what they want to buy, has created his own search engine, A9.com. Google, for its part, has been busily imitating Yahoo and MSN by offering more of the features -- such as email, news, groups, shopping, and personalized starter pages -- that it needs to become a full-fledged Web portal. For the next few years, the Web's manic growth should provide plenty of opportunity for all of these sites, which have already established good brands and created a kind of Web power oligarchy together with eBay and America Online (which pays Google to power the searches on its site). Among the several portals, Google's most obvious competitive advantage is that people prefer it for search, probably because it has built its reputation specifically around the technology. It led in the United States with 47.3% of Web searches in the month of May compared with Yahoo at 20.9% and MSN at 13.6%. But where Google's business really stands out is as a huge advertising network: On other Web sites, when you see text advertisements that are triggered by keywords from the content of their pages, the odds are that those ads are powered by Google, which profits from every click. This "Google Network" accounted for around half of the company's $3.2 billion in revenue last year. Despite Google's incredible share and momentum as an advertising network, there's nothing stopping another big player, like Yahoo or Microsoft, from making big inroads, too. For the longer run, what Google needs is to come up with the next awesome leap in technology -- something that's as addictive and inspiring as Google itself was when it hit big. What's more likely, though, is that someone new -- maybe some other grad students at Stanford -- will do to Google what Google did to Microsoft and the other powers. Like Microsoft, Google is rich now, and it can pay for highly credentialed talent and use some of its spare billions of stock value to acquire any number of smaller companies that have promising technology or pose a potential competitive threat. But there's never a substitute for that great new idea. So far, at least, the Google guys are doing the right things in terms of creating a culture for hatching and nurturing it. But to be a hot company in 2015, they're going to need to find -- and keep -- the next Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Sidebar: Do You Realize That Google Has Ads? Google's motto is "Don't be evil." Its revenues come mostly from selling advertising in the form of the paid search results running down the right side of the Web page. In response to pressure from consumer advocates, these are labeled as "sponsored links." Still, according to a recent Pew Trust survey, only 38% of people realize the difference between paid and unpaid search results. That might seem surprising, but it fits the pattern of other innovative forms of advertising that have emerged in the past generation: Studies show that it has taken many years for most people to grasp that "infomercials" are different from regular TV programs and that brands shown in movies are paid product placements. Once consumers wise up, the gimmicks lose much of their impact. Google's ads are unusually effective because most people don't realize they are ads. Is that evil? Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 212 Mobile 98861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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Open URLs for Library Users
by Mailing List Manager 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 10:03:19 +0530 From: Farooque Shaheen <Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com> Some Web visionaries have concocted a scheme to embed complete citation information in Web pages. Inspired by U.K. researcher Dan Chudnov and other innovators, Eric Hellman, Ross Singer, and others have invented COinS, which is short for ?ContextObject in Span.? (?Span? refers to the HTML tag used to embed COinS metadata.) The team has created a specification and defined it at http://ocoins.info. COinS seeks to address a fundamental problem: Imagine you are searching Google Scholar or a blog or a random Web site, and you find a citation to an article that is critical to your work. The article isn?t freely available on the Web, but it is syndicated to one or more full-text resources. You are affiliated with a company or a university that has licensed the journal for online delivery via a content aggregator. You just want to click on the citation and see the full text of the article; you don?t want to have to go to your library?s home page and start your search all over again. COinS is an attempt to address this problem. COinS allows content providers to publish sufficient metadata so that you can click on a hyperlink and (assuming your local institution has licensed a database that includes the journal in its collection) seamlessly download the full text of the article in question. The OpenURL standard defines a scheme to transport metadata about a cited work?author, title, etc.?over the Web. COinS defines a way for a Web content provider to embed bibliographic metadata into an HTML document. Last week, Openly Informatics announced an implementation of COinS as a plug-in to the Firefox browser. If a user visits a Web site that has a COinS-compliant citation, the plug-in allows the user to retrieve the relevant article from the locally licensed database with a click or two. The new plug-in is available at http://www.openly.com/openurlref and is compatible with Google Scholar. Source: http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb050801-1.shtml Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Tristana reader and Zone Alarm
by Mailing List Manager 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 09:10:24 +0300 From: Jayadev P Hiremath <jayadevph(a)gmail.com> FYI. Regards. Jayadev P Hiremath Tristana Reader 4.0 http://www.tristana.org/ Now that more and more websites offer a variety of dynamic materials (such as podcasts and the like), it is increasingly more common to feel a bit overwhelmed by the sheer volume of material on the Web. More discerning users will appreciate Tristana Reader 4.0, which will allow them pull content directly from the Web to their desktops. The application also allows users the ability to set preferences so that they will be alerted to content changes at any given site. The program is also spam-proof, which will be a welcome relief to many. This version of Tristana Reader is compatible with Windows 98 or newer. ZoneAlarm 6.0.631.003 http://www.zonelabs.com The Zone Alarm application was created to protect DSL-or cable-connected PCs from hackers, and this latest version contains four valuable security services. They include a firewall, an application control, an Internet lock, and zones. Working in tandem, these interlocking devices block Internet traffic while the computer is unattended and also monitor all activity on a given computer. This version of ZoneAlarm is compatible with Windows 98 or newer.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Reports organizaton
by Mailing List Manager 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 22:15:33 +0530 (IST) From: G. K. Manjunath <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> Please let me know the kind of reports you receive. We have some experience in organising annual reports, working papers, reprints, and other grey literature in our library g.k.manjunath CHIEF LIBRARIAN ( Uni librarian ) INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FILM CITY ROAD ( GEN.VAIDYA MARG ) SANTOSH NAGAR GOREGAON ( EAST ) MUMBAI - 400 065 INDIA e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm phone 022-28490653 fax 022-28402752 On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Mailing List Manager wrote: > Date: 1 Aug 2005 08:15:37 -0000 > From: Rajendra Thaty <pitam97(a)rediffmail.com> > > Dear all > > We receive all kinds of reports in our Library. Unfortunately, we do not > have any system to organize them properly. I shall appreciate, if any of > you share with me our personal experience on the problem. I would like to > know in detail the procedure you follow, the problems you face and the > solutions you recommend etc. Even if one does not have any real > experience, ideas are welcome. > > Regards, > > Rajendra Thaty > University Librarian > Samablpur University Central Library > Jyoti Vihar, BURLA 768019 > Orissa > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >

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Free Blog Host
by Mailing List Manager 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Date: 30 Jul 2005 10:55:27 -0000 From: Arvind Bhadrashetty <aravind_1(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Professionals, Free Blog hoster are one of the best tool to share ideas and get comments. There are many free e bloggers providing free service like www.blogger.com/start � www.journalhome.com/start.php To make Open Archives Movement a success, These e bloggers may of great help.one of the sample site created is at http://www.journalhome.com/arvindbhadrashetty/7650/ Regards Arvind M Bhadrashetty

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Course on E-Content Development and Management
by Mailing List Manager 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Date: 30 Jul 2005 09:19:50 -0000 From: jyoti shreeram bhabal <jyotibhabal(a)rediffmail.com> � SHPT School of Library Science SNDT Women�s University Offers an Innovative part time Certificate Course In collaboration with DSIR, GoI On E-Content Development and Management Bill Gates once called the Internet as �a marketplace of ideas, experiences, and products - a marketplace of content.� In today�s digital environment �Content is King�. There is a continuing need to develop relevant, useful and authentic content. As more Indians use the Internet and as worldwide more people use the Internet to know about India, there is a growing need for the development of a critical mass of localized content � both in English and Indian languages. The definition of "content" is very wide and includes all categories of popular content - not just software and news, but also games, entertainment, sports programming, directories, classified advertising, and on-line communities devoted to major interests. Content development and management lies at the base of Web, Intranet and CD-Rom publishing; it also underlies e-commerce and e-learning � two growing trends, world wide. You can be part of the rapidly growing employment market in this area. You can use your subject knowledge (and also your experience, hobbies, passions, or pastimes) and learn to create high-value content, which ranks well at the Search Engines. You may become a self-employed Infopreneur or work as a team member of a web product and service provider. SHPT School of Library Science, SNDT Women�s University has a long tradition of continuing professional education. It has, in collaboration with the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India developed an 8-credit (4 month part time) course to provide conceptual and practical inputs in the area of content development and management. Objectives At the end of the course the participant will be able to: � Plan content and use various information sources for collecting information � Write and edit content for the Web in English and Indian languages � Create/structure digital documents using markup languages, e.g. XML � Design data structures for database management systems � Develop and apply standard metadata for easy retrieval � Create a plan for a website Scope: The course will cover: � Content Management and its Context � Planning Content � Collection of Information � Writing for the Internet � Developing Digital Content � Information Architecture: Structuring � Information Architecture: Organisation � Website Development � Basic issues Methodology Lectures, discussions, case study, demonstrations, practical exercises and Self Learning. Resource Persons Experts from industry, consultants and academic faculty. Evaluation Class exercises, Tests and Project to constitute a portfolio for evaluation Participants Limited to 15 participants on a first come first served basis. Post graduates in any subject with basic skills in computer and Internet use are eligible Course Schedule: First course: September to December 2005 (Beginning September 21, 2005) Every Wednesday: 4.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m. Every Saturday: 10.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. Second Course: Intensive course of 4 weeks (Beginning January 2006) Fees Application Fee: Rs.100/- (with application form) Course Fee: Rs.4000/- (Includes Computer practicals, course materials, and examination fees) Last Date of Registration for 1st course September 16, 2005 For More Information Contact : Ms Parul Zaveri / Dr. Ms Perin Marolia / Ms Jyoti Bhabal / Ms Sarika Sawant, SHPT School of Library Science, SNDT Women�s University, Patkar Hall, New Marine Lines, Mumbai 400 020 Tel. 2207 2792; 2208 5439 Email: sndtulib(a)bom3.vsnl.net.in ***** S.H.P.T. SCHOOL OF LIBRARY SCIENCE, S.N.D.T. WOMEN�S UNIVERSITY MUMBAI 400 020 ************************************* Course on e-Content Development and Management September � December 2005 ************************************** APPLICATION FORM *** Name: _________________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ Phone Number:_________________________________________________ e-mail Address:_________________________________________________ Date of Birth: _________________________________________________ Educational Qualifications: Degree Subject Year of passing Percentage Work Experience: I agree to abide by the rules set down for this course by the SHPT School of Library Science ______________________ Signature of Applicant Date: Note: Forms should be submitted to the office of the SHPT School of Library Science, before September 16, 2005, with the Application fee of Rs 100.

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Reports organizaton
by Mailing List Manager 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Date: 1 Aug 2005 08:15:37 -0000 From: Rajendra Thaty <pitam97(a)rediffmail.com> Dear all We receive all kinds of reports in our Library. Unfortunately, we do not have any system to organize them properly. I shall appreciate, if any of you share with me our personal experience on the problem. I would like to know in detail the procedure you follow, the problems you face and the solutions you recommend etc. Even if one does not have any real experience, ideas are welcome. Regards, Rajendra Thaty University Librarian Samablpur University Central Library Jyoti Vihar, BURLA 768019 Orissa

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proposal to seek financial assistance
by Mailing List Manager 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Date: 1 Aug 2005 10:57:09 -0000 From: Rajendra Thaty <pitam97(a)rediffmail.com> Dear all, I want to develop a proposal to seek financial assistance worth Rs. 5 croes for establishment of a modern public library. If somebody already has a similar proposal, can I have it please for guidance? Thank you Rajendra Rajendra Kumar Thaty Librarian Samabalpur University Central Library Jyoti Vihar, Burla, Sambalpur, Orissa PIN 768019 Telephone# 0663-2430548 (O) 98610-47084 (Mob)

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Request for demo version of AutoLib library software
by Mailing List Manager 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 16:25:57 +0530 From: Pradip Kumar Jana <pradipkumarjana(a)gmail.com> Dear professionals, I'm in need of a demo version of AutoLib library software. If any one kindly send the above to my following address I will be very gratefull. Regards Pradip Kumar Jana 34/10, Old Nimta Road, Ranipark, P.O.- Belgharia, Kolkata - 700056, West Bengal E-mail - pradipkumarjana(a)gmail.com

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MyLISA Lecture - "Stock Verification and Loss of Books in Libraries" - 6th Aug 2005
by SUNIL M.V. 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (R) (MyLISA) A Lecture on Stock Verification and Loss of Books in Libraries By Dr. Mallinath Kumbar Reader, Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Mysore On Saturday, the 6th August 2005 at 4.00 PM You are cordially invited Venue: VIDYANIDHI SEMINAR HALL Dept. of Library and Information Science, Manasagangothri, Mysore-570 006 --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (R) (MyLISA) A Lecture on Stock Verification and Loss of Books in Libraries By Dr. Mallinath Kumbar Reader, Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore , Mysore On Saturday, the 6 th August 2005 at 4.00 PM You are cordially invited Venue: VIDYANIDHI SEMINAR HALL Dept. of Library and Information Science, Manasagangothri, Mysore-570 006 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=34442/*http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page

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E-LIS news (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 19:27:20 +0200 From: Andrea Marchitelli <andreamarchitelli(a)hotmail.com> To: ifla-l(a)infoserv.inist.fr Subject: [IFLA-L] E-LIS news We would like to inform you that the new layout of E-LIS, the international open archive for Library and Information Science, has recently become public <http://eprints.rclis.org/>. In addition to more personalised graphics, the new layout has brought a new and improved organisation of the information. >From the right column of the homepage it is possible to directly activate searches (by title, abstract, keyword or by full text); or to easily link to search pages (for simple or advanced searches) or browse pages (by author or editor, journal or book, subject, country and year of publication and by latest additions). The left column lists the options dedicated to registered users, such as registration and deposit. In addition to these there are several information pages on the E-LIS archive, on its management policy and submission guidelines. Also on the left column (Information --> Brochures) a link is available to a page with information and brochures in different languages, including Italian <http://e-lis_docs.openlib.org/italian/>. We would like to take this opportunity to inform you that in October 2005 the first international conference of E-LIS will be held in the Geneva offices of CERN. Additional information is available on the conference website <http://www.aepic.it/conf/index.php?cf=4>. Finally, we would like to inform those that are interested that during the next IFLA conference (in Oslo 14-18 August 2005) the new E-LIS poster, completed thanks to the sponsorship of AIDA, will be presented. Regards, The Italian staff of E-LIS Antonella De Robbio, E-LIS manager Maria Cristina Bassi, Andrea Marchitelli, italian editors Zeno Tajoli, technician

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Fw: [LRC PRESS RELEASE] Best Global Website Award - Only 2 weeks left
by Rajesh Chandrakar 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajesh Chandrakar Scientific & Technical Officer INFLIBNET (INFormation and LIBrary NETwork) Centre An IUC of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House, PB No. 4116, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380 009, India Tel. +91-(0)79-26305971/ 8528/ 4695(O), 26873805(R) Mobile: +91-9898087422 Fax: +91-(0)79-26300990, 263007816 E-mail: rajesh(a)inflibnet.ac.in; rchandrakar(a)gmail.com Website: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "LRC" <lrc(a)ul.ie> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 2:54 PM Subject: [LRC PRESS RELEASE] Best Global Website Award - Only 2 weeks left > ========================================== > LRC BEST GLOBAL WEBSITE AWARD 2005 > ========================================== > Only 2 Weeks Left to Enter > > Make sure that your company does not miss the opportunity to shine! > > The LRC Best Global Website Award is the original prestige award aimed at > finding the web's most innovative website in relation to multilingual and > multicultural issues. If your company website caters for a minimum of 3 > languages, is regularly updated and shows excellent quality at all levels > of design then it may be eligible for this award. > > On the Internet, websites need to be increasingly customised, or localised > for foreign markets, taking into account local language issues, business or > social standards and aesthetic preferences. > > In recognition of both the innovative work being done to make websites > globally competitive but locally relevant, and the importance of this still > emerging digital market, the European Union through the Localisation > Research > Centre created the Best Global Website Award in 2003. The purpose of this > award is to find Europe's most innovative website in relation to > multilingual > and multicultural issues. In 2005, it is once again sponsored by Euro RSCG > Interaction. > > This award invites those who have designed and or are operating a > multi-lingual website to submit their work for consideration. Websites > will be judged on a variety of different criteria by a panel of academic > and industry experts. > > The recipient of the award will benefit from a raised profile and media > exposure while the localisation industry will benefit from the award by > using the winning site as a benchmark standard for other globalised websites > to aim for. > > For more information and to enter this award visit > www.bestglobalwebsiteaward.com > or > contact the Localisation Research Centre at LRC(a)ul.ie. > > This Award is sponsored by Euro RSCG Interaction. > > The website is available in English, Czech, French, German, Greek and > Spanish. > > Closing date for submission is 12 August 2005

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Tearing down those knowledge walls
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Hello, Shankar Iyer from Redhat India analyses the concept of Knowledge and open source software and correlates them... The complete piece is available @ http://www.financialexpress.com/print.php?content_id=97896 Thanks **************************************** Sreeharsha BG **************************************** Values are more important than People...!!!

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Microsoft Unveils Virtual Earth
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Dear Professionals, Finally Microsoft has come with a real good Mapping feature that can beat Google's Earth. MS' Beta Version of Virtual Earth gives you more accurate info compared to Google. You need not to install this on your system. Just click on the option - Use ip address n approximate location of where your system is currently can be found... Know More @ http://virtualearth.msn.com Thanks **************************************** Sreeharsha BG **************************************** Values are more important than People...!!!

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Managing Information: A training programme on information management and documentation. To be conducted at Centre for Science
by kiran＠cseindia.org 30 Jul '05

30 Jul '05

Warm Greetings from the Centre for Sciencen and Environment, New Delhi . Centre for Science and Environment, a premier research organisation working on environment since 1980 from New Delhi and recognised for its knowledge based activism has announced its training Managing Information: A training programme on information management and documentation, to be conducted at CSEs office in New Delhi from August 23-26, 2005. We will be extremely grateful if you could give space to our announcement in your publication, website, newsletter, career supplements, education supplements, etc. Managing Information: A training programme on Information management and Documentation, Aug 23-26, 2005, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, India Managing information for research, advocacy, dissemination and communication requires special skills and calls for investments in strengthening the information infrastructure and skills of the organisation. CSE's Environment Resources Unit (ERU), among the largest environmental documentation facilities in South Asia, offers a unique training programme in the latest documentation and information management tools and trends. Course modules * Sourcing & organising information (Classification and Indexing) * Digital Library basics * IT & Information management (Automation,Database creation , etc) * Managing Audio-Visual resources * Information services & product planning * Information outreach & marketing * Fund raising Course Fee * NGOs- Rs. 4,500 (US $ 125) * Individuals- Rs. 5,500 (US$ 150) * Others- Rs. 9,000 (US$ 225) Training Schedule: Batch I * Training commences on: Aug 23, 2005 * Training timings: 9.30 am to 5.30 pm * Training concludes on: Aug 26, 2005 [Documentation Training- Batch II scheduled for October 2005] For applications forms and enquiries , please contact: Kiran Pandey, Coordinator Environment Resources Unit Centre for Science and Environment E-mail: kiran(a)cseindia.org Ph: 91-011-29955124/5125/6110/6394/6399, Fax: 91-11-29955879 For online registration visit http://www.cseindia.org/misc/library_form.htm Last date for receiving completed applications Applications must reach CSE on or before Aug 8, 2005. [Documentation Training- Batch II scheduled for October 2005. Nominations are being accepted for second batch also] Please note: The course offers only a limited number of seats. Applications will be accepted on a first come-first served basis. The course fee does not cover travel or accommodation expenses. Ms. Kiran Pandey **************************************************************** CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT ( CSE ) 41, TUGHLAKABAD INSTITUTIONAL AREA, NEW DELHI- 110 062 TELE: 29955124 29956110, 29956394,29956399 FAX : 91-11-29955879 VISIT US AT: http://www.cseindia.org Email: kiran(a)cseindia.org ext:233 ****************************************************************

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Journal "Training and Management" details required
by Rajeev Sharma 30 Jul '05

30 Jul '05

Dear All, Please give Publisher details of the Journal "Training and Management". Thanks in anticipation. Yours truly Rajeev Kumar Sharma Officer - Information Services. Transport Corporation of India Ltd. Gurgaon Dear All, Please give Publisher details of the Journal "Training and Management". Thanks in anticipation. Yours truly Rajeev Kumar Sharma Officer - Information Services. Transport Corporation of India Ltd. Gurgaon

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Request for Journal Subscription
by jsharma 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Dear Professional Colleagues NIILM Centre for Management Studies an A Plus category management institution in the country is an Integrated B-school engaged in various academic and professional activities including research, consulting, training and development besides imparting quality education to the budding managers. The institute is continuously rated among the top twenty institutions in India by various surveys conducted for rating business institutions. We offer AICTE approved and AIU accredited Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management now treated at par with MBA program as per Association of Indian Universities (AIU). The institute also has active interest in Communication and Media Studies and hospitals administration programs. Institute publishes a tri-annual journal in Marketing Communication area titled Journal of Marketing & Communication: the journal for thought leaders and change drivers (JMC). It is fully refereed journal and its editorial board consists of well-known experts in the field. Papers from both Academics and industry practitioners in India and abroad are chosen. The Editorial Board is committed to bring out this journal in time and at par with the best international journals. In fact this is the only journal publishes from India on the said subject. JMC is available on subscription basis to all national and international institutions, students and faculty against a very nominal subscription of Rs. 450/- anually. Subscription Form is available in the journal and a copy of the same is also enclosed herewith. We invite contributions from you and other faculty in form of research articles and/or case studies in the area of Marketing Communication. I enclose herewith a copy of the subscription form for the Journal of Marketing and Communication with a request for subscribing the journal for benefit of your students, faculty and other members of the institution. I shall be happy to send a complimentary copy of the journal for your consideration and judgement. Please respond back mentioning your full postal address. It will facilitate us in delivering the copy at right place and to right person. Please strengthen the institute efforts of bringing out a good professional journal by subscribing the journal and also by encouraging your faculty for contributing research papers to the journal. With best regards, Jitender Sharma Librarian NIILM Centre for Management Studies B-II/66, MCIE Mathura Road, Badarpur New Delhi - 110044 Tel: 91-011-29893143 (Dir.), 29891529/39 Ext. 221 Fax: 91-011-29894212 JMC SUBSCRIPTION FORM To subscribe to Journal of Marketing and Communication, please make your payments through Demand Draft or Cheque payable at New Delhi, in favour of NIILM-CMS, and send to Marketing Manager, Journal of Marketing & Communication, NIILM CMS, B II/66, MCIE, Mathura Road, Badarpur, New Delhi 110044. The subscription Rates are as follows: Subscription Indian Institutions Foreign Institutions 1 Year Rs. 450 $25.00 2 Years Rs. 800 $40.00 3 Years Rs. 1000 $50.00 Please provide following details for smooth postal purpose. Name: _______________________________________________________________ Designation: ________________________________________________________ Institution Name: ___________________________________________________ Address: ____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ City ______________________________PIN ______________________ Country: ____________________________________________________________ Telephone & Fax No.: ________________________________________________ E-mail Address: _____________________________________________________ Subscriber Number (for Renewal only): _______________________________ Signature: ____________________________

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Contact info
by T.V. Prafulla Chandra 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Dear All, Can I have the email IDs of President and General Secretary of ILA and IASLIC. Also, I shall be thankful if you could kindly let me know the composition of the UGC Panel on Library and Information Science. Many thanks in advance for your help. Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Information required on Special Library Standard
by HENAG 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Dear LIS professionals, If there is any Special Library Standard known related to in-frastructure please let me know . Best Regards Hena S Gupta InfosysCentral Library, Infosys Technologies Limited, Electronics City, Hosur Road, Bangalore-560100 Board : (91)-(080)-28520261 Ext 52196 Fax: (91)-(080)-28520742 We enable you to leverage knowledge anytime, anywhere! **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. Further, you are not to copy, disclose, or distribute this e-mail or its contents to any other person and any such actions are unlawful. This e-mail may contain viruses. Infosys has taken every reasonable precaution to minimize this risk, but is not liable for any damage you may sustain as a result of any virus in this e-mail. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening the e-mail or attachment. Infosys reserves the right to monitor and review the content of all messages sent to or from this e-mail address. Messages sent to or from this e-mail address may be stored on the Infosys e-mail system. ***INFOSYS******** End of Disclaimer ********INFOSYS*** Information required on Special Library Standard Dear LIS professionals, If there is any Special Library Standard known� related to� in-frastructure please let me know . Best Regards Hena S Gupta InfosysCentral Library, Infosys Technologies Limited, Electronics City, Hosur Road, Bangalore-560100 Board : (91)-(080)-28520261 Ext 52196 Fax: (91)-(080)-28520742 We enable you to leverage knowledge anytime, anywhere! **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. Further, you are not to copy, disclose, or distribute this e-mail or its contents to any other person and any such actions are unlawful. This e-mail may contain viruses. Infosys has taken every reasonable precaution to minimize this risk, but is not liable for any damage you may sustain as a result of any virus in this e-mail. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening the e-mail or attachment. Infosys reserves the right to monitor and review the content of all messages sent to or from this e-mail address. Messages sent to or from this e-mail address may be stored on the Infosys e-mail system. ***INFOSYS******** End of Disclaimer ********INFOSYS***

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Informatiion required
by Mailing List Manager 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:25:59 +0530 From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Dear Mr Yadav http://pib.nic.in is a good source for archives of all speaches made by govt authorities - ministers , president etc. (Say if I want a speech of Mr Manmohan Singh in Washington )Advanced Search feature would get you all past speaches by prime minister. Is your requirement different? Vyasamoorthy -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Mailing List Manager Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 3:55 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Informatiion required Date: 23 Jul 2005 14:11:48 -0000 From: abhishek kumar yadav <cervicalgun(a)rediffmail.com> Dear All: I am working in a media library and we usually are in need of speeches etc. Is there any news channel which have speeches or any major incident in their archieve? which was shown on various news channels can I have this after 2 or 3 weeks? Please let me know. Thanks and regards Abhishek India InfoMedia Pvt Ltd C-22 Shivalik New Delhi _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Indian LIS associations--Please Communicate
by T.V. Prafulla Chandra 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Dear All, The interests of the Indian LIS profession would be better served if all the office bearers and members of the executive committee of the national/regional library associations in India make it a point to participate in the email-based discussion fora and answer the queries pertaining to their respective associations as well as other professional issues. Thank you Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Workshop on Conservation of Library Materials
by Arunachalam Hariharan 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Workshop on Conservation of Library Materials Organised by Saraswati Mahal Library, Thanjavur Date: 12-14 Aug 2005 Registration fee: RS.100/ Last date 1.8.2005 Pl contact for further details The Administrative Officer or Mr.Perumal Librarian T.M.S.Saraswati Mahal Library Thanjavur ----------------------------------------- A.Hariharan __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Free Internet Resources
by Bhojaraju G 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Dear Ms.Anuradha As far as I know, even though lot of resources are available freely onInternet, Some publishers or bodies strictly specify that if u areusing any of their information for Commercial will not be allowed. Ifat all needed u want to use that info u need to get prior permissionfrom them. (This reply i received when i contacted one of the organisation asthey didnt allowed as i work in Commercial Organisation) But yes if u r working for & want to use their information for anynon-profit organisation they will allow. Also pl consult some senior professionals on this. Thanks & Regards Bhojaraju G,Librarian – Knowledge Management, (Sharepoint Administrator)Homepage: http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.comKM-Forum Moderator : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/************************************… OneSource Ltd.148, Bhaskara Plaza, R.V.Road,V.V.Puram, Bangalore - 560 004, INDIA. Tel:+9180-2650 2540 Ext:103 Fax:+9180-2650 2086Cell:+91-944 836 9905 E-mail: bhojarajug@yahoo.com************************************************************************************************ To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in From: anuradha.a(a)tcs.com Add to Address Book Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 12:27:51 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Free Internet Resources Dear Professionals There are many e-resources (books, articles, newspapers, journals etc) available free on the internet. If want to collect some information from these resources and use it for commercial purpose, am i violating copyright act. Anuradha Rao

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infromation required
by sandeep sharma 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Dear All, This is sandeep Sharma from Delhi, i m doing Post Gradauate Diploma in Library Automation and Networking from IGNOU. I am assigned a project entitled "Information Retrieval through Meta Search Engines: An evaluative study". So please give me some information and websites where i can get some information about this subject. Sandeep Sharma Assistant Librarian Management Education and Research Institute Janak Puri New Delhi- 58 --------------------------------- How much free photo storage do you get? Store your friends n family photos for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. http://in.photos.yahoo.com Dear All, This is sandeep Sharma from Delhi, i m doing Post Gradauate Diploma in Library Automation and Networking from IGNOU. I am assigned a project entitled "Information Retrieval through Meta Search Engines: An evaluative study". So please give me some information and websites where i can get some information about this subject. Sandeep Sharma Assistant Librarian Management Education and Research Institute Janak Puri New Delhi- 58 How much free photo storage do you get? Store your friends n family photos for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. http://in.photos.yahoo.com

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Invitation for - Inauguration of SALIS Vellore Chapter and Special Lecture -SALIS
by Arunachalam Hariharan 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Dear Professional/Friend, The Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS) is a registered professional body, established to work for the advancement of Library and Information Science in the country. SALIS has chapters at Chennai, Madurai, Coimbatore, Tiruchi, Tirunelveli and New Delhi. SALIS organizes seminars, conferences, workshops, training courses and lectures regularly for the benefit of Library and Information Science professionals in their respective regions. As a continuation of this endeavor, SALIS intends to organize a Lecture cum get together for Library professionals to discuss various professional issues, providing professional services at various regions, opening a chapter at Vellore and also to get know about each other. You are invited to attend the programme and inauguration of SALIS Vellore Chapter and give your valuable suggestions. The details of the meeting are given below: Programme Schedule 10.30 : Welcome Address 10.40 : About SALIS and Its Activities 10.50 : Special Lecture on Information Technology & Library Services by Mr. Ebenezer, EDP Manager, Christian Medical College-Vellore 11.30 : High Tea 11.40 : Introduction of LIS Professionals 11.50 : Discussion 12.15 : Formation of SALIS Vellore Chapter 12.30 : Address by the Chairman/Secretary and other Office bearers of SALIS Vellore Chapter 12.55 Vote of thanks 01.00 : Fellowship Lunch ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date : 7th August 2005 Time : 10.30 AM to 2.00 PM. Venue : OCTAGON, Millennium Plaza, 3rd Floor Katpadi Main Road, Gandhi Nagar, (Silk Mill Bus Stop) Vellore - 632 006 All are Welcome Yours sincerely , V. Newton Programme Co-ordinator Head, Library Services CMC Vellore & Vice-President, SALIS Note: Kindly confirm your participation by sending send mail e-mail to newton(a)cmcvellore.ac.in or convey your message over through phone 0416-2282101 or Cell: 9443038871 ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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information on objective type questions in library and information science
by vijay kumar 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

dear friends iam interested to know about the current developments in library and information science especially in objective type questions which is useful for preparing interviews and competitive exams, where i can found the relevant information books, websites. kindly help me in getting information update in the subject hoping a positive reply thanking you yours Dr.B.Vijaya Kumar _______________________________________________________ Too much spam in your inbox? Yahoo! Mail gives you the best spam protection for FREE! http://in.mail.yahoo.com

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open archieve initiative
by ashokaupadhyay 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Dear All, I am conducting research on"Status of OAI in Indian Libraries". for this purpose i want to get information regarding the libraries which are using open archieve in India. you are requested to kindly help me regarding the above mention requirment. thanks sincerely yours ashok upadhyay aligarh Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com Buy The Best In BOOKS at http://www.bestsellers.indiatimes.com Bid for for Air Tickets @ Re.1 on Air Sahara Flights. Just log on to http://airsahara.indiatimes.com and Bid Now!

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Job Vacancy
by js vijaya 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Dear Friends, There is a vancancy for the post of Librarian at Advanced management college, Bangalore. The requirement for this post is : Candidate should have a M.L.I.Sc Degree and 1-2 years experience, also have a knowledge of computers and hard working. Please send the resume to the following address: The Principal Advanced Management college 18th K.M. Kalkere Bannerghatta Road Bangalore-83 Ph No: 080-7828657/6 ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Free Internet Resources
by anuradha.a＠tcs.com 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Dear Professionals There are many e-resources (books, articles, newspapers, journals etc) available free on the internet. If want to collect some information from these resources and use it for commercial purpose, am i violating copyright act. Anuradha Rao 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 There are many e-resources (books, articles, newspapers, journals etc) �available free on the internet. If want to collect some information from these resources and use it for commercial purpose, am i violating copyright act. Anuradha Rao 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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Conference of Central Govt. Library Association
by Prem Chand 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Central Government Library Association ( CGLS ) is organizing a conference at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration , Mussoorie on 7th August , 2005 Theme of conference is : Knowledge Management in Digital Era Sub themes are : 1 Knowledge management in digital era and its cost benefit analysis 2 Knowledge Management and Human Resource Planning in Digital Era 3 Changing role of Library Professional in Digital Era 4 Digital Era and Laws of Library Science For Further detail, Please contact : Mr. R . K Goyal Organizing Secretary, CGLA LBSNAA, Mussoorie 248179 Phone: 0135: 2632236 Mobile: 9837551052 Email: ramesh(a)lbsnaa.ernet.in Prem Chand Scientist- C INFLIBNET(Information and Library Network) Centre An IUC of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Navrangpura, PB No.4116 AHMEDABAD-380009 India # Tel. 91-079-26305971 / 26304695; 26923507 (Res.) FAX: 079-26300990, 26307816 email: prem65_chand(a)yahoo.co.in http://www.inflibnet.ac.in Central Government Library Association ( CGLS ) is organizing a conference at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration , Mussoorie on 7th August , 2005 Theme of conference is : Knowledge Management in Digital Era Sub themes are : 1 Knowledge management in digital era and its cost benefit analysis 2 Knowledge Management and Human Resource Planning in Digital Era 3 Changing role of Library Professional in Digital Era 4 Digital Era and Laws of Library Science For Further detail, Please contact : Mr. R . K Goyal Organizing Secretary, CGLA LBSNAA, Mussoorie 248179 Phone: 0135: 2632236 Mobile: 9837551052 Email: mailto:ramesh@lbsnaa.ernet.in ramesh(a)lbsnaa.ernet.in Prem Chand Scientist- C INFLIBNET(Information and Library Network) Centre An IUC of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Navrangpura, PB No.4116 AHMEDABAD-380009 India # Tel. 91-079-26305971 / 26304695; 26923507 (Res.) FAX: 079-26300990, 26307816 email: mailto:prem65_chand@yahoo.co.in prem65_chand(a)yahoo.co.in http://www.inflibnet.ac.in http://www.inflibnet.ac.in

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In the electronic age, the academic's need for commercial publishers is becoming obsolete.-The Age
by vasanth raj 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Dear Sir/Madam, Here is a very good article on open access publishing and its impact years to come. http://www.theage.com.au/news/education-news/to-publish--or-to-epublish/200… regards ------------------------- Vasantha Raju N --------------------------------- How much free photo storage do you get? Store your friends n family photos for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. http://in.photos.yahoo.com Dear Sir/Madam, Here is a very good article on open access publishing and its impact years to come. http://www.theage.com.au/news/education-news/to-publish--or-to-epublish/200… http://www.theage.com.au/news/education-news/to-publish--or-to-epublish/200… regards ------------------------- Vasantha Raju N How much free photo storage do you get? Store your friends n family photos for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. http://in.photos.yahoo.com

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New Version of Microsoft OS
by asim kumar 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Dear professionals, Microsoft's next generation operating system "Vista" would be released in late 2006. For more details please check the below given url. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx http://websearch.about.com/b/a/187991.htm Thanks and regards, Asim Kumar, Jain Group of Institutions. --------------------------------- Too much spam in your inbox? Yahoo! Mail gives you the best spam protection for FREE! http://in.mail.yahoo.com Dear professionals, Microsoft's next generation operating system "Vista" would be released in late 2006. For more details please check the below given url. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx http://websearch.about.com/b/a/187991.htm http://websearch.about.com/b/a/187991.htm Thanks and regards, Asim Kumar, Jain Group of Institutions. Too much spam in your inbox? Yahoo! Mail gives you the best spam protection for FREE! http://in.mail.yahoo.com

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Nominations are invited for SALIS Awards 2005 - reg
by Arunachalam Hariharan 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Nominations are invited for the following SALIS Awards for the year 2005. 1. Dr. Harish Chandra-Sushila Chandra Best Librarian Award (National level) ------------------------------------------------------ SALIS instituted an award- sponsored by Dr. Harish Chandra, Librarian, IIT Madras, in the name of Dr. Harish Chandra-Sushila Chandra Best Librarian Award . Aim of instituting the award: To honor and recognize library professionals - for their outstanding contributions to the profession. Eligibility: Professionals holding any degree in Library Science or equivalent and working in library and information field in any parts in India. Must be a citizen of India About Dr.Harish Chandra -------------------------- Dr.Harish Chandra is currently working as Librarian of IIT, Madras. Prior to this, he has also worked in IIT, Delhi, GSI and IIFT. He underwent training in Library Automation and Digital Library at University of Cambridge, UK and Tilburg University, Netherlands respectively. His major contributions are in the areas of New Library Building Planning, ISO-9001 application in the Library, Digital Library Initiative, Web based library and information services, etc. Dr.Chandra is a member of Senate, IIT since 1995, a member of Task Force for Higher Education Library System, MHRD. He is also a member in the editorial board of various journals including OCLC Systems and Services. He is also a member of many professional bodies. Dr.Chandra has over 60 publications to his credit and completed various projects and consultancy assignments. He has organized several national and international conferences. He has received several awards, chaired number of technical sessions and delivered number of invited lectures. He has visited more than 12 countries and received several awards. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. AutoLibTamilnadu Best Librarian Award (for Library Professionals working in Tamilnadu region only) 3. AutoLib Tamilnadu Best Young Librarian Award (for Library Professionals working in Tamilnadu region only: Age below 40 years) Must be a citizen of India The above two awards are sponsored by M/s AutoLib Software System , a leading Library Automation Solution Provider at Chennai. AutoLib Software System ---------------------------------- AutoLib Software System has been established to provide low cost and high quality library automation solutions. They undertake all types of library automation projects. One of their objectives is to recognize and encourage library professionals who contribute more for the profession. AutoLib is a popular library automation software in Tamilnadu- installed in many reputed institutions, is one of their products. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eligibility for the above two Awards : Professionals holding any degree in Library Science or equivalent and working in library and information field in Tamilnadu region.Must be a citizen of India Nominations for all the three awards ( by Library professionals holding responsible position or by self) are invited for the year 2005 from eligible professionals. The application form can be obtained from the Convener, SALIS Award Committee by sending a self addressed stamped (Rs.10/-) cover or downloaded from http://autolib-india.net/salis.html. or by sending E-mail to salisawards(a)yahoo.com. Last date for the receipt of filled application is 30.09.2005. For any clarifications, E-mail to the convener salisawards(a)yahoo.com The other details are given in the application form. Filled-in application along with necessary supporting documents should be sent in a sealed cover to The Convener, SALIS Award Committee, SALIS, C/o, AutoLib, B2-Solai Apartments(opp to MGR Garden) Mount-Poonamallee Road, Chennai 600 089. ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Solution to Information Required
by BHOSALE, DEEPALI [AG-Contractor/6020] 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

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Indo-US Inter-university Collaborative Initiative in Higher Education and Research
by Manju 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) for Indo-US Inter-university Collaborative Initiative in Higher Education and Research was signed during the visit of Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh to Washington DC on July 20. In this land mark agreement six leading American universities, including the University of California campuses at Berkeley and San Diego, Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, and State University of New York at Buffalo, which are ranked among the best universities of the world, will join with Indian institutions led by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, ISRO, and Department of Science and Technology to enhance science and engineering education in India over Edusat. Three of the leading technology companies in the world, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Cadence, will be funding this Initiative. University leaders, corporate executives, and the Secretary of Space, the Secretary of Science and Technology, and the Indian Ambassador to the U.S all gathered last wednesday in Washington D.C. for the signing of a three-year Memorandum of Understanding, immediately following which, they were warmly greeted by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Blair House, across from the White House. This MoU will bring the best of American university professors to Amrita. Amrita will deploy and manage its state-of-the-art e-Learning platform for delivery of interactive multimedia enriched lectures. The Professors from these Universities will take classes for a semester or two. These classes will be aired using ISRO's EDUSAT to over 250 professional colleges in India. The DST will design the curriculum and multimedia-rich course materials. Visiting U.S. faculty will also be encouraged to explore research collaboration with participating institutions in India. The U.S. universities have also agreed in principle to make teaching materials available on a non-exclusive basis for a new digital content library being created by AMRITA for future students. The program will focus initially on engineering and computer science, information and communication technologies, but courses will also include materials science, biotechnology and bioinformatics, nanotechnology, medical sciences, and others. SignatoriesFrom the Indian side Dr. G. Madhavan Nair, Secretary, Department of Space, Government of India & Chairman, Indian Space Research Organization Prof. V. S. Ramamurthy, Secretary, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India Dr. P. Venkat Rangan, Vice Chancellor, Amrita University. >From the US University side Hunter Rawlings, President, Cornell University, Ithaca, New YorkShankar Sastry, Director, CITRIS, University of California at Berkeley Gretchen Kalonji, Director, International Programs, Office of the President Oakland, California Frieder Seibel, Dean of Engineering, University of California San Diego Pradeep Khosla, Dean of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Satish Tripathi Provost & Executive Vice-President, University at Buffalo, New York Mark Hans, School of Dental Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Corporate Partners Irwin Jacobs, CEO of Qualcomm Inc Ravi Venkatesan, CEO, Microsoft India Deependar Saluja, Corporate Vice President, Cadence Design Systems For more details please have a look at 1. University of california http://www.calit2.net/articles/article.php?id=644 2. AMRITA University http://www.amrita.edu/news/us-mou.htm 3. NewKerala http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=8301 4. The Hindu http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/19/stories/2005071906211200.htm 5. Economic Times http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1180461.cms ------------------------------ Manju Vijayakumar AMRITA University Amritapuri Campus Library Kollam, KERALA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com A memorandum of understanding (MoU) for Indo-US Inter-university Collaborative Initiative in Higher Education and Research was signed during the visit of Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh to Washington DC on July 20. In this land mark agreement six leading American universities, including the University of California campuses at Berkeley and San Diego, Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, and State University of New York at Buffalo, which are ranked among the best universities of the world, will join with Indian institutions led by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, ISRO, and Department of Science and Technology to enhance science and engineering education in India over Edusat. Three of the leading technology companies in the world, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Cadence, will be funding this Initiative. University leaders, corporate executives, and the Secretary of Space, the Secretary of Science and Technology, and the Indian Ambassador to the U.S all gathered last wednesday in Washington D.C. for the signing of a three-year Memorandum of Understanding, immediately following which, they were warmly greeted by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Blair House, across from the White House. This MoU will bring the best of American university professors to Amrita. Amrita will deploy and manage its state-of-the-art e-Learning platform for delivery of interactive multimedia enriched lectures. The Professors from these Universities will take classes for a semester or two. These classes will be aired using ISRO's EDUSAT to over 250 professional colleges in India. The DST will design the curriculum and multimedia-rich course materials. Visiting U.S. faculty will also be encouraged to explore research collaboration with participating institutions in India. The U.S. universities have also agreed in principle to make teaching materials available on a non-exclusive basis for a new digital content library being created by AMRITA for future students . The program will focus initially on engineering and computer science, information and communication technologies, but courses will also include materials science, biotechnology and bioinformatics, nanotechnology, medical sciences, and others. Signatories >From the Indian side Dr. G. Madhavan Nair, Secretary, Department of Space, Government of India & Chairman, Indian Space Research Organization Prof. V. S. Ramamurthy, Secretary, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India Dr. P. Venkat Rangan, Vice Chancellor, Amrita University. >From the US University side Hunter Rawlings, President, Cornell University, Ithaca, New YorkShankar Sastry, Director, CITRIS, University of California at Berkeley Gretchen Kalonji, Director, International Programs, Office of the President Oakland, California Frieder Seibel, Dean of Engineering, University of California San Diego Pradeep Khosla, Dean of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Satish Tripathi Provost & Executive Vice-President, University at Buffalo, New York Mark Hans, School of Dental Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Corporate Partners Irwin Jacobs, CEO of Qualcomm Inc Ravi Venkatesan, CEO, Microsoft India Deependar Saluja, Corporate Vice President, Cadence Design Systems For more details please have a look at 1. University of california http://www.calit2.net/articles/article.php?id=644 http://www.calit2.net/articles/article.php?id=644 2. AMRITA University http://www.amrita.edu/news/us-mou.htm http://www.amrita.edu/news/us-mou.htm 3. NewKerala http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=8301 http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=8301 4. The Hindu http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/19/stories/2005071906211200.htm http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/19/stories/2005071906211200.htm 5. Economic Times http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1180461.cms http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1180461.cms ------------------------------ Manju Vijayakumar AMRITA University Amritapuri Campus Library Kollam, KERALA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Article Request
by Arvind Bhadrashetty 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Dear Professionals, One of our User want to have access to few articles from archives of "Journal of Fluid Mechanics". Hence, I Request any one of you having access to Articles from the back volumes (Print or Digital) to send the copies of the following articles :- 1. Ben Dor, G;Dewey, J M & Takayama, K; The Reflection of a plane shock wave over a double wedge, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 176,1987,pp 483-520. 2. Whitham ,G B; A New Approach to problems of shock dynamics Part-1 Two Dimensional Problems, Journal of Fluid MEchanics, 2, 1957, pp 337-360. 3. Whitham ,G B; On the propagation of shock waves through regions of non-uniform area or flow,Journal of Fluid MEchanics, 4, 1958, pp 337-360. I request you send the copies to following Address: BrahMOs Knowledge Centre BrahMOs Aerospace Pvt Ltd Adj To DRDL Rear Gate PO Kanchanbagh, Hyderabad 500 058 Andhra Pradesh India Ph- 040-2408 7111 Email bmkchyd(a)brahmos.com Regards Arvind M Bhadrashetty BrahMos Knowledge Centre Hyderabad Arvind Bhadrashetty Dear Professionals, One of our User want to have access to few articles from archives of "Journal of Fluid Mechanics". Hence, I Request any one of you having access to Articles from the back volumes (Print or Digital) to send the copies of the following articles :- 1. Ben Dor, G;Dewey, J M & Takayama, K; The Reflection of a plane shock wave over a double wedge, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 176,1987,pp 483-520. 2. Whitham ,G B; A New Approach to problems of shock dynamics Part-1 Two Dimensional Problems, Journal of Fluid MEchanics, 2, 1957, pp 337-360. 3. Whitham ,G B; On the propagation of shock waves through regions of non-uniform area or flow,Journal of Fluid MEchanics, 4, 1958, pp 337-360. I request you send the copies to following Address: BrahMOs Knowledge Centre BrahMOs Aerospace Pvt Ltd Adj To DRDL Rear Gate PO Kanchanbagh, Hyderabad 500 058 Andhra Pradesh India Ph- 040-2408 7111 Email bmkchyd(a)brahmos.com Regards Arvind M Bhadrashetty BrahMos Knowledge Centre Hyderabad Arvind Bhadrashetty http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo…

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Re: Open Archieves initiative in India
by Sukhdev Singh 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Please Visit following link [ Shorted by me ] for a live status of Open Archives in India. http://snipurl.com/ghe8 Hope this may be useful. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in ---ORIGINAL EMAIL---- Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 18:45:36 +0530 From: ashokaupadhyay <ashokaupadhyay(a)indiatimes.com> Dear friends, I'm in need of material on "Open Archieves initiative in India" for the study purpose which includes the workshops on OAI, its objectives and other related information. thanks Ashok Upadhyay AMU, Aligarh

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InfoVision 2005: Information Industry-Academia Summit - Sep 15-16, 2005, Hotel Le Meridian, Bangalore, India
by Mailing List Manager 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:44:36 +0530 From: mouna <mouna(a)informindia.co.in> InfoVision 2005: Information Industry-Academia Summit (Sep 15-16, 2005, Hotel Le Meridian, Bangalore, India) www.infovision2005.org <http://www.infovision2005.org> Organized Jointly by The International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B) and Informatics (India) Ltd., Bangalore The INFORMATION WORLD has many professionals and stakeholders - The new breed of Knowledge Mangers and CIOs (Chief Information Officers), with many old hats like traditional Information Center Managers, Publishers, Librarians, Search Analysts, Market Intelligence Analysts, etc. The profession of Information Science is increasingly becoming an active playground for these diverse groups of Information Professionals. To constantly be in search for a unified vision in this fast changing multi-professional discipline, IIT-B and Informatics are jointly organizing InfoVision 2005, an annual event, partnered and sponsored by a host of national and international organizations and companies. The event is unique. It aims to bring together all stake holders involved in Information Management, E-Learning, Data Mining, Publishing, Digital Libraries and related technologies under one forum. The program is modeled as a Summit with six panel debates and seven keynotes involving leaders and visionaries in the diverse fields of information sciences and management. There are over 30 invited speakers and panelists, from India and abroad, from diverse disciplines connected with IM & KM, to enrich the event with their vision of e-information world. Please visit the site to register. Printed brochures are also mailed extensively. If you havent received one, please contact the Summit Secretariat. Please tell your friends about this first ever event. And, please advertise the event on your website for wider reach. for N V Sathyanarayana Chairman & Managing Director Informatics (India) Ltd Bangalore 560 003, India Phone: 91 80 23365940 Fax: 91 80 23344598 Email: sathya(a)informindia.co.in <mailto:sathya@informindia.co.in>

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Informatiion required
by Mailing List Manager 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Date: 23 Jul 2005 14:11:48 -0000 From: abhishek kumar yadav <cervicalgun(a)rediffmail.com> Dear All: I am working in a media library and we usually are in need of speeches etc. Is there any news channel which have speeches or any major incident in their archieve? Say if I want a speech of Mr Manmohan Singh in Washington which was shown on various news channels can I have this after 2 or 3 weeks? Please let me know. Thanks and regards Abhishek India InfoMedia Pvt Ltd C-22 Shivalik New Delhi

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Open Archieves initiative in India
by Mailing List Manager 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 18:45:36 +0530 From: ashokaupadhyay <ashokaupadhyay(a)indiatimes.com> Dear friends, I'm in need of material on "Open Archieves initiative in India" for the study purpose which includes the workshops on OAI, its objectives and other related information. thanks Ashok Upadhyay AMU, Aligarh

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Current Science [SPECIAL SECTION: CHROMOSOMES TO FOOD SECURITY on the 80th birthday of Prof. M S Swaminathan]
by Subbiah Arunachalam 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Dear Friends: Please visit http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/jul252005/contents.htm to read the articles in honour of Prof. M S Swaminathan (on his 80th birthday). The print version of the issue was released today. Regards. Subbiah Arunachalam Dear Friends: Please visit http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/jul252005/contents.htm http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/jul252005/contents.htm to read the articles in honour of Prof. M S Swaminathan (on his 80th birthday). The print version of the issue was released today. Regards. Subbiah Arunachalam

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International Calendar of Information Science Conferences
by Satish Munnolli 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

** Please excuse duplicate postings ** The Special Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG/III), the European (ASIST/EC) and the New England (NEASIST) chapters of ASIS&T (American Society for Information Science & Technology) are pleased to announce: The International Calendar of Information Science Conferences (ICISC) http://icisc.neasist.org/ This centralized, master calendar of relevant conferences being held around the world serves three primary purposes: - to help information science researchers and practitioners (and their colleagues in related disciplines) to discover which conferences are planned that might fulfill their need to communicate their knowledge and experience and learn from others; and, - to help conference organizers avoid time or topic conflicts, or coordinate with other groups, leading to more interaction and coherence among professional groups; and, - to contribute to facilitating interaction among like-minded professionals working on information problems around the globe. This calendar is meant as a cooperative venture. Any organization or conference organizer is cordially invited to submit relevant conferences, either confirmed or planned, to the ICISC Calendar. Detailed instructions for registering a conference directly, through a submission form, or by Email can be found on the Web site. The site is moderated and the sponsoring organizations reserve the right to discard entries that would not be deemed appropriate. The calendar is in English at the moment. We hope that more languages and/or mirror sites could be added in the future. Announcements can be passed in any language that can be presented in Latin characters, provided an English translation of at least the conference title, place and dates is also included. In addition to the dynamic and searchable calendar available for viewing in both block and list style, there is a "Quick Calendar" listing all the events on a static HTML web page useful for printing, or for those with slower internet connections. ICISC further offers the option to subscribe to an RSS feed to keep up to date on the latest additions. The web site further includes lists of electronic fora, organizations, networks and rotating conferences in Information science. Suggestions of relevant entries will be most welcome. We hope that you will find this calendar useful from an organizational and/or individual stand point. We encourage you to contribute to the calendar and offer your suggestions. Be sure to subscribe to the RSS/XML feed to stay up to date on new additions to the calendar. Your colleagues from, SIG/III (http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/) ASIST/EC (http://www.asis.org/Chapters/europe/About.htm) NEASIST (http://www.neasist.org/) International Calendar of Information Science Conferences (ICISC) http://icisc.neasist.org/ Contact: icisc(a)neasist.org Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410 208 India ** Please excuse duplicate postings ** The Special Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG/III), the European (ASIST/EC) and the New England (NEASIST) chapters of ASIS&T (American Society for Information Science & Technology) are pleased to announce: The International Calendar of Information Science Conferences (ICISC) http://icisc.neasist.org/ http://icisc.neasist.org/ This centralized, master calendar of relevant conferences being held around the world serves three primary purposes: - to help information science researchers and practitioners (and their colleagues in related disciplines) to discover which conferences are planned that might fulfill their need to communicate their knowledge and experience and learn from others; and, - to help conference organizers avoid time or topic conflicts, or coordinate with other groups, leading to more interaction and coherence among professional groups; and, - to contribute to facilitating interaction among like-minded professionals working on information problems around the globe. This calendar is meant as a cooperative venture. Any organization or conference organizer is cordially invited to submit relevant conferences, either confirmed or planned, to the ICISC Calendar. Detailed instructions for registering a conference directly, through a submission form, or by Email can be found on the Web site. The site is moderated and the sponsoring organizations reserve the right to discard entries that would not be deemed appropriate. The calendar is in English at the moment. We hope that more languages and/or mirror sites could be added in the future. Announcements can be passed in any language that can be presented in Latin characters, provided an English translation of at least the conference title, place and dates is also included. In addition to the dynamic and searchable calendar available for viewing in both block and list style, there is a "Quick Calendar" listing all the events on a static HTML web page useful for printing, or for those with slower internet connections. ICISC further offers the option to subscribe to an RSS feed to keep up to date on the latest additions. The web site further includes lists of electronic fora, organizations, networks and rotating conferences in Information science. Suggestions of relevant entries will be most welcome. We hope that you will find this calendar useful from an organizational and/or individual stand point. We encourage you to contribute to the calendar and offer your suggestions. Be sure to subscribe to the RSS/XML feed to stay up to date on new additions to the calendar. Your colleagues from, SIG/III ( http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/ http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/ ) ASIST/EC ( http://www.asis.org/Chapters/europe/About.htm http://www.asis.org/Chapters/europe/About.htm ) NEASIST ( http://www.neasist.org/ http://www.neasist.org/ ) International Calendar of Information Science Conferences (ICISC) http://icisc.neasist.org/ http://icisc.neasist.org/ Contact: mailto:icisc@neasist.org icisc(a)neasist.org Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410 208 India

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Training programme on "Information Management on the Virtual Platform
by Satish Munnolli 24 Jul '05

24 Jul '05

** Apologies for cross posting ** Following message may be of your interest. Satish S Munnolli Librarian ACTREC Kharghar Navi Mumbai Dear Sir The National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE) at Hyderabad is organising a training programme on "Information Management on the Virtual Platform" during September 12 to 16, 2005. The objective of the programme is to orient to the techniques and strategies for better management of information with new technologies and practices. Participants will have an exposure to new concepts; trends in Internet technologies; the web as a platform for knowledge and information access and dissemination; web-based networking; content organization and management through institutional repositories and communication tools. The course fee is Rs.5000/- towards tuition fee, course material, boarding, lodging, and field visits. For local participants the fee is Rs.3300/-. We look forward to receiving nominations from your organization. Please send us the same by fax or email, so as to reach us by August 30, 2005. Thanking you, Sincerely Yours Lakshmi Lakshmi Murthy Assistant Director & Course Coordinator National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE) Rajendranagar Hyderabad - 500030, A.P.

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Fw:
by Subbiah Arunachalam 23 Jul '05

23 Jul '05

Dear Sir / Madam, I am very happy to inform you that Prof Swaminathan is being awarded with the Hiroshima Peace Prize on Monday, 25th July at Hiroshima. Thanking you. Sincerely, R Malathy ============================ Secretary to PROF. M S SWAMINATHAN Chairman, National Commission on Farmers, Govt. of India President, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs Chairman, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Third Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area Chennai - 600 113 (India) Tel: +91 44 2254 2790 / 2254 1229; Fax: +91 44 2254 1319 Email: chairman(a)mssrf.res.in / msswami(a)vsnl.net Dear Sir / Madam, I am very happy to inform you that Prof Swaminathan is being awarded with the Hiroshima Peace Prize on Monday, 25th July at Hiroshima. Thanking you. Sincerely, R Malathy ============================ Secretary to PROF. M S SWAMINATHAN Chairman, National Commission on Farmers, Govt. of India President, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs Chairman, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Third Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area Chennai - 600 113 (India) Tel: +91 44 2254 2790 / 2254 1229; Fax: +91 44 2254 1319 Email: mailto:chairman@mssrf.res.in chairman(a)mssrf.res.in / mailto:msswami@vsnl.net msswami(a)vsnl.net

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Re: [LIS-Forum] ILA website
by Mailing List Manager 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:28:20 +0530 From: Rupak Chakravarty <rupak2811(a)gmail.com> The website of "Central Reference Library" has the same story URL: http://www.crlindia.org/ People concerned/responsible are not aware or they have no more interest Rupak On 7/22/05, Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > > Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:04:32 +0530 > From: Aman Jha <aman.jha(a)ciionline.org> > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Subject: ILA website > > Friends, > > Wondering whether ILA's website address (domain name) has changed OR it > has forgotten to renew the domain name!!!!!!??? > <http://www.ilaindia.org> http://www.ilaindia.org - This website shows > something else. > > Regards, > Aman Jha > Librarian > Confederation of Indian Industry > Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV > Sector 18, Gurgaon 122015 (Haryana) > Tel: 0124-5014060-67 � Fax: 0124-5014080 > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > -- Rupak Chakravarty Assistant Librarian Panjab University Library Chandigarh 160014 INDIA

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SALIS Awards for the year 2005-nomination invited - Announcement
by Arunachalam Hariharan 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Nominations are invited for the following SALIS Awards for the year 2005. SALIS(Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science) Awards 1. Dr. Harish Chandra-Sushila Chandra Best Librarian Award (National level) ------------------------------------------------------ SALIS instituted an award- sponsored by Dr. Harish Chandra, Librarian, IIT Madras, in the name of Dr. Harish Chandra-Sushila Chandra Best Librarian Award . Aim of instituting the award: To honor and recognize library professionals - for their outstanding contributions to the profession. Eligibility: Professionals holding any degree in Library Science or equivalent and working in library and information field in any parts in India. Must be a citizen of India About Dr.Harish Chandra -------------------------- Dr.Harish Chandra is currently working as Librarian of IIT, Madras. Prior to this, he has also worked in IIT, Delhi, GSI and IIFT. He underwent training in Library Automation and Digital Library at University of Cambridge, UK and Tilburg University, Netherlands respectively. His major contributions are in the areas of New Library Building Planning, ISO-9001 application in the Library, Digital Library Initiative, Web based library and information services, etc. Dr.Chandra is a member of Senate, IIT since 1995, a member of Task Force for Higher Education Library System, MHRD. He is also a member in the editorial board of various journals including OCLC Systems and Services. He is also a member of many professional bodies. Dr.Chandra has over 60 publications to his credit and completed various projects and consultancy assignments. He has organized several national and international conferences. He has received several awards, chaired number of technical sessions and delivered number of invited lectures. He has visited more than 12 countries and received several awards. ------------------------------------------------------ 2. AutoLibTamilnadu Best Librarian Award (for Library Professionals working in Tamilnadu region only) 3. AutoLib Tamilnadu Best Young Librarian Award (for Library Professionals working in Tamilnadu region only: Age below 40 years) Must be a citizen of India The above two awards are sponsored by M/s AutoLib Software System , a leading Library Automation Solution Provider at Chennai. AutoLib Software System ---------------------------------- AutoLib Software System has been established to provide low cost and high quality library automation solutions. They undertake all types of library automation projects. One of their objectives is to recognize and encourage library professionals who contribute more for the profession. AutoLib is a popular library automation software in Tamilnadu- installed in many reputed institutions, is one of their products. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eligibility for the above two Awards : Professionals holding any degree in Library Science or equivalent and working in library and information field in Tamilnadu region.Must be a citizen of India Nominations for all the three awards ( by Library professionals holding responsible position or by self) are invited for the year 2005 from eligible professionals. The application form can be obtained from the Convener, SALIS Award Committee by sending a self addressed stamped (Rs.10/-) cover or downloaded from http://autolib-india.net/salis.html. or by sending E-mail to salisawards(a)yahoo.com. The other details are given in the application form. Filled-in application along with necessary supporting documents should be sent in a sealed cover to The Convener, SALIS Award Committee, SALIS, C/o, AutoLib, B2-Solai Apartments(opp to MGR Garden) Mount-Poonamallee Road, Chennai 600 089. Last date for the receipt of filled application is 30.09.2005. For any clarifications, E-mail to salisawards(a)yahoo.com Convener SALIS Award Committee ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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ILA website
by Mailing List Manager 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:04:32 +0530 From: Aman Jha <aman.jha(a)ciionline.org> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: ILA website Friends, Wondering whether ILA's website address (domain name) has changed OR it has forgotten to renew the domain name!!!!!!??? <http://www.ilaindia.org> http://www.ilaindia.org - This website shows something else. Regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon 122015 (Haryana) Tel: 0124-5014060-67 � Fax: 0124-5014080

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GOOGLE GETS A MAP FOR THE MOON
by Mailing List Manager 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 11:03:10 +0530 From: Farooque Shaheen <Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com> Google has come up with an interesting way to honour the first manned moon landing, which took place 36 years ago on July 20, 1969. The company has added some NASA imagery to its Maps interface,which enables the users to surf the exact spot where man first landed on Moon. Google Moon is basically an extension of Google Maps and Google Earth and uses NASA imagery to surf Moon?s surface. You can also check out the exact spots where Apollo astronauts landed. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin `Buzz?Aldrin became the first two humans to set foot on Moon. They stayed on the surface on 21.6 hours,while their fellow astronaut, Michael Collins, orbited above them. It can be accessed by clicking on the temporary moon logo on the Google homepage or by visiting http://moon.google.com. The map allows the user tozoom in and out, but you might be in for a surprise if you zoom in too close. Source: http://infotech.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1178799.cms Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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32 Tips to Inspire Innovation for You and Your Library
by Aman Jha 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Dear Professionals, Following articles/papers may be an interesting read: 1. 32 Tips to Inspire Innovation for You and Your Library: Part 1 / by Stephen Abram, M.L.S., Sirsi vice president of Innovation. http://www.imakenews.com/sirsi/e_article000423643.cfm?x=b5dRbWJ,b2rpmkgK 2. Know How - Managing knowledge for competitive advantage (An Economic Intelligence Unit white paper sponsored by Tata Consultancy Services), June 2005. This white paper examines how information can be managed to achieve better decision-making and knowledge-sharing around the organisation. It draws both on a survey of 122 executives from large corporations from Europe, and on a series of indepth interviews with knowledge-management experts. http://graphics.eiu.com/files/ad_pdfs/Tata_KnowHow_WP.pdf Regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon 122015 (Haryana) Tel: 0124-5014060-67 • Fax: 0124-5014080

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[lisnet] 8th National Convention on Library & Information Networking
by Subhash Reddy 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

PES INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 100 Ft. Ring Road, BSK 3rd Stage, BANGALORE 560 085 NACLIN 2005 The Eighth National Convention on Library & Information Networking on Strategies for Managing Knowledge Resources: Promoting Research, Education and Skills to be conducted for the first time in Karnataka, at P E S Institute of Technology, Bangalore, from 22nd to 25th August, 2005. This event is jointly organised by Developing Library Network (DELNET) and PES Institute of Technology (PESIT) Library and information professionals from all over the country will be participating in this event. We would like to bring this to the notice of all the professionals. If you are interested to participate in this event please go to the following links to download the form and more information. http://www.pes.edu/menu/naclin2005.asp http://www.delnet.nic.in/naclin-2005.htm Mrs. Gayathri Sen Organising Secreatay NACLIN 2005 PES Institute of Technology, 100 Feet Ring Road, BSK III Stage, BANGALORE 560 085 Ph: 080 30918985/26721983 E-mail: librarian_pesit(a)yahoo.co.in Web: www.pes.edu --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page PES INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 100 Ft. Ring Road , BSK 3 rd Stage, BANGALORE 560 085 NACLIN 2005 The Eighth National Convention on Library & Information Networking on Strategies for Managing Knowledge Resources: Promoting Research, Education and Skills to be conducted for the first time in Karnataka, at P E S Institute of Technology, Bangalore, from 22nd to 25th August, 2005. This event is jointly organised by Developing Library Network (DELNET) and PES Institute of Technology (PESIT) Library and information professionals from all over the country will be participating in this event. We would like to bring this to the notice of all the professionals. If you are interested to participate in this event please go to the following links to download the form and more information. http://www.pes.edu/menu/naclin2005.asp http://www.pes.edu/menu/naclin2005.asp http://www.delnet.nic.in/naclin-2005.htm http://www.delnet.nic.in/naclin-2005.htm Mrs. Gayathri Sen Organising Secreatay NACLIN 2005 PES Institute of Technology, 100 Feet Ring Road , BSK III Stage, BANGALORE 560 085 Ph: 080 30918985/26721983 E-mail: mailto:librarian_pesit@yahoo.co.in librarian_pesit(a)yahoo.co.in Web : http://www.pes.edu/ www.pes.edu http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=34442/*http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group " http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lisnet lisnet " on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: mailto:lisnet-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com?subject=Unsubscribe lisnet-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Yahoo! Terms of Service .

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Information required
by Mahesh G T 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Dear All, I need your help in finding vendors for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) in India as well as abroad, actually we r running Management School in Bangalore, We r planning to implement ERP in our institute as we r going to automate the whole in house operations like Admissions,Administartion, Library ,Lab,,,,. So I kindly request you all to provide me information on vendors for ERP, and also the organizations that have already implemented ERP in India, Thanks in advance, ======================================================================= "Knowledge is of two kinds,We Know a subject ourselves,or,We know where to find information on it" ======================================================================= Mahesh G T Alliance Business Academy, Bangalore. MB No - 9845727385. ========================================================== " Leadership Through Innovation and Technology " ========================================================== Mahesh G T Alliance Business Academy, Bangalore. MB No - 9845727385. ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Turning books into bits
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 21 Jul '05

21 Jul '05

Dear Professionals, Here is an interesting article about books and digital libraries Several years ago journalist John Lenger told a remarkable story in the Columbia Journalism Review about teaching a journalism class at Harvard’s extension school. He asked his young students to write a story about a Harvard land deal that occurred in 1732, but after a week of research, most came back with almost nothing substantial to report. The problem: They had done most of their research using the Internet, walking right past Harvard’s library and archives, where the actual information could be found...... For more news pls visit... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8258453/ **************************************** Sreeharsha BG i2 Technologies ‘One i2 Place’ #132 / 133, DivyaSree Technopolis Yamalur Post, Off Airport Road, Bangalore 560 037. Phone: +91-80-3028 8016 Email: sreeharsha_gopalakrishna(a)i2.com visit us @ www.i2.com **************************************** Values are more important than People...!!!

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Empanelment of Book Suppliers
by T.V. Prafulla Chandra 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Dear All, We would like to hear from book supplying firms who are willing to supply books to the Dharma Vana Arboretum, a not-for-profit project coming up near Bhongir, Andhra Pradesh over an area of 450+ acres. We are mainly interested in books relating to horticulture, agriculture, botany and forestry. The terms are: 20 % discount Post free supply Books should be in mint condition at the time of delivery. Preference would be given to Hyderabad-based firms, although it is not an essential criteria. Others would also be considered depending on their proximity to major centres of publishing. Thank you Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: Announcement: Web Conference has begun
by Smita Chandra 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Apologies for cross-posting. Smita-- ********************************************************************************** Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian Library, Information & Documentation Division Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218 Maharashtra, INDIA Ph.: 91-022-27484137 (9.30AM-6.00PM, excluding Sat/Sun) Fax: 91-022-27480763 Email : iiglib(a)iigs.iigm.res.in (official) smitac_in(a)yahoo.com (personal) ********************************************************************************** __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Apologies for cross-posting. Smita-- ********************************************************************************** Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian Library, Information & Documentation Division Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218 Maharashtra, INDIA Ph .: 91-022-27484137 (9.30AM-6.00PM, excluding Sat/Sun) Fax : 91-022-27480763 Email : mailto:iiglib@iigs.iigm.res.in iiglib(a)iigs.iigm.res.in (official) mailto:smitac_in@yahoo.com smitac_in(a)yahoo.com (personal) ********************************************************************************** __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Information is the saleable commodity: Remember Dr.CRK Sir's classes
by Puttaraj Choukimath 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Dear All, GREETINGS. http://www.alibnet.org/For%20Librarian.html Those who are searching for job or better job can put their short resume on ADINET web site. Charges : Rs. 100/- for 3 months. Let us appreciate the service. Regards, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, TATA Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: puttuc(a)yahoo.com, choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: www.tiss.edu __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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'India and the Knowledge Economy' - free copies
by ++ Mukesh Anand ++ 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Dear All 'India and the Knowledge Economy' There was a sudden surge in demand for copies and after 16 copies were earmarked for free distribution, we have run out of stock. More copies are on order from World Bank i will revert with supply status by end July'05. Interested members may register their request with Monitor - Hyderabad at monitorsales(a)gmail.com Best Wishes ++ Mukesh ++ - - Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing Monitor Information Services # 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Narayanguda, Opp. Deepak Theatre, Hyderabad - 500 029, India Telephone: 040-55787065 Fax: +91-40-27552390 http://www.monitorinfo.com Importers n Distributors of Technical Publications Dear All 'India and the Knowledge Economy' There was a sudden surge in demand for copies and after 16 copies were earmarked for free distribution, we have run out of stock. More copies are on order from World Bank i will revert with supply status by end July'05. Interested members may register their request with Monitor - Hyderabad at mailto:monitorsales@gmail.com monitorsales(a)gmail.com Best Wishes ++ Mukesh ++ - - Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing Monitor Information Services # 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Narayanguda, Opp. Deepak Theatre, Hyderabad - 500 029, India Telephone: 040-55787065 Fax: +91-40-27552390 http://www.monitorinfo.com http://www.monitorinfo.com Importers n Distributors of Technical Publications

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LIBCOM 2005 - Second Announcement
by Satish Munnolli 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Apologies for cross posting The following announcement may be of interest to Library and Information Science professionals Announcement and Call for Papers Ninth International Conference and Exhibition Information Technologies, Computer Systems and Publications for Libraries LIBCOM-2005 Zvenigorod, Moscow Region, Russia November 14 -18, 2005 Organizers: - Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology - Federal Agency for Science and Innovations, Moscow, Russia - Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography, Moscow, Russia - Russian Foundation for Basic Research - International Library, Information and Analytical Center - International Association of Electronic Libraries and New Information Technologies Users and Developers The subject scope of the Conference covers the state-of-the-art and prospects of new information, computer and Internet technologies in library and information practice; library consortia; digital libraries and digital information resources; legal aspects of libraries and information providers activities; new educational technologies; interaction of book publishers, booksellers and libraries. The Conference Program is based on accepted participants' paper proposals and special invitations issued by the Organizing Committee to selected experts in the Conference topics as well as to providers of information, computer, publishing and Internet products to libraries. Call for Papers The Organizing Committee seeks original research and application-oriented papers, not previously presented elsewhere, which make new contributions to the conference topics. You are invited to submit an extended abstract of your proposed paper in the electronic form (as an attachment to email) according to the following guidelines: 1. The extended abstract should not exceed 0.75 A4 page in length. 2. The heading should include the title of your paper, followed by names, affiliations, email of the author(s). 3. The deadline for submitting proposals is October 1, 2005. 4. Full text should not exceed 4, 000 words in length and should be single spaced. 5. The deadline for submitting full text is October 15, 2005. 6. Proposals for papers to be written and presented in English should be sent to Dr. Lester Pourciau, Deputy Chair, International Organizing Committee, email: Pourciau(a)memphis.edu or Pourciau(a)alumni.indiana.edu Abstracts for papers to be written and presented in Russian should be sent to Dr. Yakov Shraiberg, Chair, International Organizing Committee, and First Deputy Director, Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology, email: shra(a)gpntb.ru 7. Full texts of accepted papers will be published in the LIBCOM conference proceedings. A special exhibition operates during the Conference. The Exhibition scope includes: new computer technologies in information business and librarianship; Internet technologies; digital information; information technologies in libraries and educational institutions; book trade; library equipment and materials ; publishing houses products; book market services; university products and services as well as other related issues. Conference participants will be offered a social and cultural program, which includes: ? a tour to Savvino-Storozhevsky or New Jerusalem medieval Monasteries, ? an additional charged tour around Pushkin places (Zakharovo-Vyazemy), by preliminary requests ? a concert ? fourchette - dancing party «Nice to meet you» ? an informal party on the occasion of the Conference closing with live music. A pool, gym, and sauna as well as manipulation and health treatment will be available to the Conference participants on site. Registration and accommodation The Conference registration fee is $120 and covers: - participation in the Conference professional program and admittance to the exhibits - Conference bag with Conference proceedings and information materials - conference badge - transfer on the dates of arrival and departure - organizational expenses for Russian visa support - participation in conference opening and closing receptions - a concert - a tour to Savvino-Storozhevsky or New Jerusalem medieval Monasteries . Accommodation fee for the whole stay (four days including three meals a day) is as follows (prices per person): One-room apartment Two-room apartment Suite double - $ 210 double - $ 240 double - $ 280 single - $ 280 single - $ 360 single - $ 420 The Exhibition stand rental fee is 200 USD Payment should be made in US dollars in advance to: ILIAC (International Library Information and Analytical Center) 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 700, NW, Washington DC, 20036, USA Bank - Bank of America, 3 Dupont Circle, NW, Washington DC, 20036, USA ABA/Routing # 054001204, Acct. # 001920698423 For online registration and additional information please visit: http://www.gpntb.ru/libcom2005/eng iliac(a)iliac.org Contacts: Tel: +7 (095) 923-1249, +7 (095) 928-1340, +7 (095) 923-9998 Fax: +7 (095) 921-9862, +7 (095) 925-9750 Email: sigla(a)gpntb.ru, kv(a)gpntb.ru Mailing address: "LIBCOM-2005" Organizing Committee, GPNTB, 12 Kuznetsky Most, GSP-6, K-31, Moscow, 107996, Russia Satish S Munnolli Librarain Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer (ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre, Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410 208 Ph: +91 22 2740 5026 Fax: +91 22 2741 2894 Email: smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in

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Refresher courses in LIS
by Dr. Nabi Hasan 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

Dear Friends If u have the list of the Refresher courses in LIS to be organized in the different universities, then kindly forward the same to me. Thanking you all in anticipation Dr. Nabi Hasan Library System Administrator University Library, CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University Palampur (H.P.)- 176 062 (India) Phone: 01894-283184 (Direct), 01894-230361 (O) Cell- 9418149447, 01894-234571 (R) E-Mail: nabihasan(a)rediffmail.com nabihasan(a)gmail.com Web: http://hillagric.ernet.in --------------------------------- Too much spam in your inbox? Yahoo! Mail gives you the best spam protection for FREE! http://in.mail.yahoo.com Dear Friends If u have the list of the Refresher courses in LIS to be organized in the different universities, then kindly forward the same to me. Thanking you all in anticipation Dr. Nabi Hasan Library System Administrator University Library, CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University Palampur (H.P.)- 176 062 (India) Phone: 01894-283184 (Direct), 01894-230361 (O) Cell- 9418149447, 01894-234571 (R) E-Mail: mailto:nabihasan@rediffmail.com nabihasan(a)rediffmail.com mailto:nabihasan@gmail.com nabihasan(a)gmail.com Web: http:// hillagric.ernet.in Too much spam in your inbox? Yahoo! Mail gives you the best spam protection for FREE! http://in.mail.yahoo.com

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Tribute to Prof. Khandwala
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

Date: 18 Jul 2005 08:01:05 -0000 From: jyoti shreeram bhabal <jyotibhabal(a)rediffmail.com> � Sorry for the delay in sending out this message. There was a technical problem at our end. jyoti SHPT School of Library Science Past Students Association ********************************************************************* Dear All, SHPT School of Library Science Past Students Association conducted a Remembrance Meeting for Prof. Vidyut Khandwala ( Ex-University Librarian, SNDT Women�s University )on Saturday 2nd July 2005 at 4.00 p.m. at 2nd floor SNDT Women�s University Library, Churchgate. Two minutes silence was maintained in the memory of Prof. Khandwala. This was followed by Bhajans by Ms. Preeti Bhatt. >From the eighty five people present, dignitaries such as Ms. Kamaliniben Bhansali (Ex- Vice Chancellor), Dr. Ms. Jyotiben Trivedi (Ex- Vice Cancellor ), Prof. Harsha Parekh (Ex- University Librarian SNDT Women�s Univ.), Dr. S. R. Ganpule (Ex- Univerity Librarian, Univ. of Mumbai) shared their memories of the golden times with Prof. Khandwala. On behalf of the past students Dr. Maya Avasia (Asiatic Society of Mumbai) paid her respect to Prof Khandwala and spoke about how Ms. Khandwala encouraged her students to go ahead and contribute to the field. Dr Perin Marolia (SHPT School of Library Science) remembered her for her unique quality i.e. her Memory and Creativity. �She was the only Head who knew each & every student. She could spot the weakness of the individual stundents and help them to overcome it,� said Ms. Parvati V. (American Information Resource Center). Ms. Parvati V. also highlighted Prof. Khandwala�s achievements. Mrs. Sushama Powdwal read out the message of the present Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Rupa Shah. A display of Photographs of Prof. Khandwala with various dignitaries in the library was organized. A poem was written by Ms. Sunanda Mahajan describing Prof. Khandwala�s personality was put up. Keeping in mind the dream and vision of Prof. Khandwala, SHPT School of Library Science past students Association started �Prof Vidyut Khandwala Fund� for giving Scholarship/ Internship for the needy and worthy students. Rs. 30,000/- was collected on the spot. Contribution to this fund is still pouring in from India & abroad. We hope a substantial corpus will be developed. We welcome contributions for this fund. Email: sndtulib(a)bom3.vsnl.net.in or shptsndt(a)bom7.vsnl.net.in Tel: 22072792

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Universities can be ranked based on web indicators
by Madhuresh 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

Dear Friends, Here is an interesting article published in The Scientist 2005, Vol. 19, Issue 14, page 10. It can be seen online at http://www.the-scientist.com/2005/7/18/10/1 I am copying below the full article but it is without table and figures. The article talks about the ranking of world's top universities based on various web indicators. The article also cite the ranking published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2004, which was based on publications and citations, available at http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/ranking.htm Indian Institute of Science is listed at 642 rank and IIT Bombay at 778 rank as per this webometrics while ranking published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University shows IISc with a rank of 200+. Even at regional level at Asia and Oceania, IISc ranking is 77 out of top 100. Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 212 Mobile 98861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/ What the Internet says about Science Universities can be ranked based on web indicators By Isidro F. Aguillo, Begoña Granadino, Jose Luis Ortega and Jose Antonio Prieto The Web has changed the way in which many researchers access scientific information, conduct research, communicate their findings, and share data. There is now a need to assess the impact of Web publication in order to promote wider and better use of this new medium. Recent attempts have been made to go beyond the strict use of bibliometric indicators. Shanghai Jiao Tong University has published a ranking of the top 500 universities, in which numbers of publications and citations were combined with other criteria such as institution size or the number of Nobel prizes awarded to alumni. The Web offers advantages as institutions represent "natural units," with their own institutional domains that mark their presence on the Internet. Since most institutions have a specific Internet domain or subdomain for all their Web pages, quantitative data can be extracted using specifically designed crawlers, or the robots of the major search engines. The contents of these institutional Web sites might include not only final papers or preprints, but also valuable information on other aspects of their scientific activities. Raw data, teaching materials, slides produced for meetings or conferences, in-house software, graphs, media files, and even administrative information might be useful to pupils, colleagues, and partners worldwide. Since the Web is ubiquitous, a wider audience is possible when publication is electronic; this could include readers in developing countries whose access to scientific publications can be very restricted. The Web is cheaper than the printed word and can provide information that paper sources could never contain; for example, large amounts of data, complex and dynamic graphics, or even interactive systems. Finally, the Web is a hypertext-interlinked system, and although the motivations for linking far exceed traditional "citation for recognition," careful use of citation analysis techniques may still be possible. Web indicators are now becoming important in the quantitative analysis of science, but a global system involving the major universities and research institutions has yet to be developed. To fill this gap, we designed a combined assessment model for ranking the institutional domains of universities worldwide based on "Web presence" indicators. Three different features of these domains were assessed: the size of their Web presence (measured by the number of Web pages), visibility (reflected by the number of in-links from pages external to the domain), and the number of "rich" files available (the number of downloadable files in advanced formats such as Adobe Acrobat - pdf, PostScript - ps, MS Word - doc, MS PowerPoint - ppt, and MS Excel - xls). While evaluations were made in absolute terms, the fact that research and other activities involve specific file types was taken into account. The number of in-links to these organizations' Web sites was used to establish the visibility of their content to third parties, including other academic and scientific organizations, government authorities, and companies. Data were collected using the major search engines. The full results are available from "Ranking of World Universities in the Web" [http://www.webometrics.info], where the first 1,000 universities are listed according to Web criteria. Preliminary analysis shows that most productive research-oriented universities are among the leaders in the list. A significant positive correlation was found between the Web list ranks and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University list. Moreover, a large number of technologically oriented institutions were well-positioned by the Webometric indicators. The universities of developing countries (especially of the larger nations) appeared in competitive positions with regard to those of the developed world. There are still several technical and methodological problems to overcome, mostly related with the search engine bias. More relevant, there are several shortcomings and caveats related to the use of Web indicators for assessing visibility and impact. These are not yet developed enough to compare directly to bibliometric ones, but we intend to use non-Webometric indicators in our rankings to allow a direct comparison of the different approaches. Isidro F. Aguillo [http://isidro@cindoc.csic.es], Begoña Granadino, Jose Luis Ortega, and Jose Antonio Prieto are researchers in the Internet Lab at the Center for Scientific Information and Documentation (CINDC), Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research, in Madrid, Spain. References 1. M Thelwall et al, http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/AoIRASIST/index.html Proceedings of the AoIR-ASIST 2004 Workshop on Web Science Research Methods 2004. 2. NC Liu et al, "Academic Ranking of World Universities - 2004," http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/ranking.htm Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2004. 3. IF Aguillo STM information on the Web and the development of new Internet R&D databases and indicators Proceedings Online Information Meeting 98, London, Learned information 1998, 239-43. 4. M Thelwall et al, "Webometrics," Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (Edited by: Cronin B). Medford, NY: Information Today, Inc 2005, 39: 81-135.

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Free Copies of World Bank Title
by ++ Mukesh Anand ++ 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

Dear All Appended below is the list of recipient libraries who will shortly receive a free copy of World Bank Title, 'India and the Knowledge Economy' Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune Vidyanidhi Digital Library, University of Mysore, Mysore M G State Institute of Public Administration, Chandigarh Loktak Power Station Library, Manipur Central Electrochemcial Research Institute, Karaikudi National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad ICRISAT, Hyderabad Community Information Service Centres, Tenali INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE LIBRARY, Kolkata Army Institute of Management, Kolkata Monitor Information Services thanks all the forum members for their participation in this free copy distribution campaign. Sincerely ++ Mukesh ++ - - Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing Monitor Information Services # 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Narayanguda, Opp. Deepak Theatre, Hyderabad - 500 029, India Telephone: 040-55787065 Fax: +91-40-27552390 http://www.monitorinfo.com Importers n Distributors of Technical Publications Dear All Appended below is the list of recipient libraries who will shortly receive a free copy of World Bank Title, 'India and the Knowledge Economy' Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune Vidyanidhi Digital Library, University of Mysore , Mysore M G State Institute of Public Administration, Chandigarh Loktak Power Station Library, Manipur Central Electrochemcial Research Institute, Karaikudi National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad ICRISAT, Hyderabad Community Information Service Centres, Tenali INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE LIBRARY, Kolkata Army Institute of Management, Kolkata Monitor Information Services thanks all the forum members for their participation in this free copy distribution campaign. Sincerely ++ Mukesh ++ - - Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing Monitor Information Services # 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Narayanguda, Opp. Deepak Theatre, Hyderabad - 500 029, India Telephone: 040-55787065 Fax: +91-40-27552390 http://www.monitorinfo.com http://www.monitorinfo.com Importers n Distributors of Technical Publications

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Elsevier Enhances Scopus
by Farooque Shaheen 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

Scopus, the abstract and indexing (A&I) database of scientific, technological, and medical research information developed last year by Elsevier, has apparently beat all expectations for the success of its market adoption. In June, 6 months after its launch, the company announced it had signed its 500th customer. And, following an agreement with the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC; http://www.jisc.ac.uk), more than 60 universities in the U.K. are now taking part in the introductory offer for Scopus. Today, July 18, Scopus is announcing a range of new updates and features that further its mission of providing an easy-to-use, comprehensive system for conducting scientific research. The product is not viewed as a stand-alone, but rather as one that fits within the research process and supports the workflow by seamlessly integrating third-party research tools. New features being introduced include close integration with RefWorks, the bibliographic management tool from CSA; interoperability with the chemical structure searching in MDL?s CrossFire Commander; and several content integration enhancements. In November 2004, Elsevier launched Scopus, its ambitious project designed in close collaboration with librarians and researchers that promised to be the most comprehensive STM database. At the time, Elsevier said that it aimed to make the Scopus service ?as easy to use as Google,? with fewer clicks to the full text than any service available. Since then, Scopus has been building on its foundation and adding enhancements to accelerate and simplify the research experience. Source: http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb050718-1.shtml Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 Scopus, the abstract and indexing (A&I) database of scientific, technological, and medical research information developed last year by Elsevier, has apparently beat all expectations for the success of its market adoption. In June, 6 months after its launch, the company announced it had signed its 500th customer. And, following an agreement with the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC; http://www.jisc.ac.uk), more than 60 universities in the U.K. are now taking part in the introductory offer for Scopus. Today, July 18, Scopus is announcing a range of new updates and features that further its mission of providing an easy-to-use, comprehensive system for conducting scientific research. The product is not viewed as a stand-alone, but rather as one that fits within the research process and supports the workflow by seamlessly integrating third-party research tools. New features being introduced include close integration with RefWorks, the bibliographic management tool from CSA; interoperability with the chemical structure searching in MDL’s CrossFire Commander; and several content integration enhancements. In November 2004, Elsevier launched Scopus, its ambitious project designed in close collaboration with librarians and researchers that promised to be the most comprehensive STM database. At the time, Elsevier said that it aimed to make the Scopus service “as easy to use as Google,” with fewer clicks to the full text than any service available. Since then, Scopus has been building on its foundation and adding enhancements to accelerate and simplify the research experience. Source: http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb050718-1.shtml Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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DWPI to include Indian Patents...
by Poornima Narayan 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

Source: 'Online' July-August 2005... Dear Fellow Professionals, Thomson Scientific announced that Derwent World patents Index (DWPI) will now include Indian patents, both pre-grant applications and granted patents, following the culmination of the government's long process of amending India's national patent laws to ensure conformity with Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) norms. Indian Patent coverage starts with data published December 4, 2004, when the new law took effect [215/386-0100; www.thomson.com] Poornima Narayana -- ----------------------------------------------------- Poornima Narayana Contact: 080-25086083 (O) Dy Head, ICAST 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

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Re: Size Reduce Software
by Ravi Nandhan 18 Jul '05

18 Jul '05

Dear Sir, You can pls visit the below given URL:- (Also many others are available) http://www.mp3-converter.com/wma/ http://www.mp3-converter.biz/ http://www.blazemp.com/blaze_media_pro.asp You find so many SW here, the tutorials will be given in the package. Pls choose whichever you feel is suitable one for you. As MP3 is already a compressed format of audio, WMA is the next option.(eg. On an avg 120 MP3 songs can be burnt on a CD, where as if WMA is the choice, a CD can hold upto 200 songs Apprx.) There are lots of converters available. You are sure to loose the quality if you compress audio files. If WAVE format has surround sound, then if you compress it to MP3 it may loose quality and further down if you convert it to WMA. Thx and regards, Ravi > Message: 6 > Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 11:54:44 +0100 (BST) > From: Radheshyam yadav <shyamtyadav(a)yahoo.co.in> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Size Reduce Software > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: <20050713105445.56638.qmail(a)web8407.mail.in.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > Hello techy people, > > I would like to ask for your help. I have some mp3 songs with 5 mb average size, can anyone give me some tu$ > > > > Radheshyam Yadav > Cairn Energy India Pty Ltd. > Information Management, > Surat, > Ph. 0261-2862792 > Mobile: 09898065128 -- --------------------------------------------------------- V. Ravi Nandhan Project Assistant National Centre for Science Info. Indian Institute of Science Bangalore - 560 012 e-mail:ravinandan@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ravinandhan(a)gmail.com Mobile : 94486 08533 Ph.Off.: +91 80 22933273 (Direct) +91 80 23600271-Ext.:23 & 24 ---------------------------------------------------------

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RE: Becoming a Librarian (SANJAY_B)
by Mailing List Manager 18 Jul '05

18 Jul '05

Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:28:27 +0530 From: Lata Suresh <lata(a)iihmr.org> I suggest that everybody who ever is mailing to the group should give their details. regards Lata Suresh Librarian Indian Institute of Health Management Research 1, Prabhu Dayal MArg Sanganer Airport Jaipur 302033 RAJASTHAN, INDIA Tel : 91-0141-2791431-34 Fax: 91-0141-2792138 Email : lata(a)iihmr.org OR iihmr(a)iihmr.org

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rules dealing with stock verification
by Mailing List Manager 18 Jul '05

18 Jul '05

Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:09:41 +0100 (BST) From: Dr. Nabi Hasan <nabihasan2002(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Friends Our university has asked about the ICAR/UGC Rules, dealing with stock verification of Books and other documents and the power of Librarian and Director/VC to write off the lost/ mutilated documents. Our total collection is about 80000 documents. Since there is no collective Semester Break of the students, we are not in a position to close the library and complete the stock verification of the library documents. The Audit people are pressing hard to conduct the Stock Verification. Being in the same system, u can better understand the problem. Therefore you are kindly requested to please supply the copy of the rules or any such notification/ document lying with u or may be made available by you. An early reply in this regard will be highly appreciable With warm regards Dr. Nabi Hasan Library System Administrator University Library, CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University Palampur (H.P.)- 176 062 (India) Phone: 01894-283184 (Direct), 01894-230361 (O) Cell- 9418149447, 01894-234571 (R) E-Mail: nabihasan(a)rediffmail.com nabihasan(a)gmail.com Web: http://hillagric.ernet.in

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Local Area Network (LAN} for a university library
by Mailing List Manager 18 Jul '05

18 Jul '05

Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:12:44 +0530 From: badan barman <badanbarman(a)gmail.com> Respected all, I want to study the existing plan for Local Area Network (LAN) for a University Library which are available online, for geeting help to make a plan for my own university library ( Gauhati University, Assam). I also want to know each and every aspect of the topic, so request refferences to online sources from the LIS-FORUM members. Any information regarding my topic will be of great helpful for me. Thanking you. Badan Barman M.L.I.Sc., 4 th semester Gauhati University, Assam E-Mail id -badanbarman(a)gmail.com

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Site For You: Conservation of Library materials...
by Puttaraj Choukimath 18 Jul '05

18 Jul '05

Dear All, GREETINGS. http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/ CoOL, a project of the Preservation Department of Stanford University Libraries, is a full text library of conservation information, covering a wide spectrum of topics of interest to those involved with the conservation of library, archives and museum materials. Happy Browsing! Best Regards, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, TATA Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: puttuc(a)yahoo.com, choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: www.tiss.edu __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Rearding Barcode
by Vandana Khandelwal 18 Jul '05

18 Jul '05

Dear all Good morning One of my library readers needs information on "how to construct BAR-CODE (barcode technology) reader system. The symbology being used is the PDF - 417. He needs this information for his project. If any information regarding the above subject is available with you kindly send it to us at your earliest. Librarian MAE, Alandi ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Public libraries in private mgmt
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 18 Jul '05

18 Jul '05

Please read the news below. In every city there may be a number of such privately owned public libraries. How about some PhD student studying these and subscription libraries -- how they supplement government efforts? Vyasamoorthy, P ========== http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEK20050716012637&Topic=0&Title… Institute of World Culture opens reference library Saturday July 16 2005 11:48 IST BANGALORE: The Indian Institute of World Culture in Basavangudi has opened up the K T Behanan Library on the second floor of its new Diamond Jubilee block. The library, which boasts a rare collection of books, used to be housed in the old building and was opened only on request. The new library will be open for reference everyday from 10 to 11.30 in the morning except Mondays. The shelves hold rare personal collections of late Dr K T Behanan, who used to be associated with institute. "Dr Behanan donated his entire collection before he passed away. We set up a library in his memory," said Y M Balakrishna, the institute's honorary secretary. The library got a further boost in 1963 when Dr Behanan's wife, M T Behanan, set up a permanent endowment for the institute for a substantial amount at the Canara Bank. "With the annual amount, more books are periodically add to the K.T. Behanan Library," adds Balakrishna. Among the large collection are eight volumes of the Encyclopaedia of World Art, 15 volumes of the Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology and entire collection on Sri Aurobindo, Srimad Bhagvad Gita, 24 volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, complete works of Sankaracharya, complete works of Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas, Balzac, Elliot, Holmes, Hawthorne, Poe, Thackeray besides modern self-help books. The institute has also added new books to its old library and the children's section. "The new block has just opened and more people are visiting it," says Balakrishna. Balakrishna said there are plans to include some magazines also at the new library. Some of Dr Behanan's collections have also been kept on shelves at the old block, where they can also be borrowed. ==================

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Fwd: Re: [LIS-Forum] Value of LIS Profession and Professional
by sri Lakshmi 16 Jul '05

16 Jul '05

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OAI-PMH functionality in NewGenLib
by Jai Haravu 15 Jul '05

15 Jul '05

Dear Friends I am happy to announce that NewGenLib, the library automation and networking software developed jointly by Kesavan Institute and Verus Solutions Pvt., Ltd. has now added functionality to harvest metadata from open access archive repositories that use either the Dublin Core or MARC-21 (MARC-XML) standards. The harvested metadata points to the URL of the digital content. The functionality also allows a library to archive publications of its own researchers in the library's catalogue database. Since NewGenLib allows networking of several libraries in its networking/consortium version, a Host library can harvest metadata from Associate libraries and vice versa. Other libraries that might want to harvest metadata from NewGenLib databases on the web can do so as records in Dublin Core, MARC-XML or in MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema), an XML schema, intended to carry selected data from existing MARC 21 records as well as to enable the creation of original resource description records. We would be happy to provide clarifications and more information on this new development. L J Haravu Trustee, Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management [http://www.kiikm.org/] 69 Krishnapuri Colony West Marredpally Sedcunderabad 500 026 Tel: 91-40-27803947 Dear Friends I am happy to announce that NewGenLib, the library automation and networking software developed jointly by Kesavan Institute and Verus Solutions Pvt., Ltd. has now added functionality to harvest metadata from open access archive repositories that use either the Dublin Core or MARC-21 (MARC-XML) standards. The harvested metadata points to the URL of the digital content. The functionality also allows a library to archive publications of its own researchers in the library's catalogue database. Since NewGenLib allows networking of several libraries in its networking/consortium version, a Host library can harvest metadata from Associate libraries and vice versa. Other libraries that might want to harvest metadata from NewGenLib databases on the web can do so as records in Dublin Core, MARC-XML or in MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema), an XML schema, intended to carry selected data from existing MARC 21 records as well as to enable the creation of original resource description records. We would be happy to provide clarifications and more information on this new development. L J Haravu Trustee, Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management [ http://www.kiikm.org/ http://www.kiikm.org/ ] 69 Krishnapuri Colony West Marredpally Sedcunderabad 500 026 Tel: 91-40-27803947

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ALA accredited degree (MLIS) is needed for getting job in USA/Canada...
by K Prakash 15 Jul '05

15 Jul '05

Hello, I received a plea from a library professional who emigrated to Canada. She has completed her B.Sc.(Physics); BLIS, MLIS (1998) from IGNOU. She has worked for British Council Library and few other institutions, she has about 10+ year experience in Library field. Now her MLIS degree is not considered as equivalent to MLS/MLIS of Canadian Universities, the authorities are asking for ALA accredited degree. She contacted ALA, they are saying she has to contact CLIP, UK and it is not replying to her. If anybody can help her on this issue, please write to her email id monasahu2000(a)yahoo.com [I had made a follow up on this issue quite some time back in some listserv, they were discussing now a days few universities/institutions are offering jobs for Library Professionals of India, China etc. nationals(where there is no ALA accredited degree offered). But some type of document proof is needed to support this.] With best regards. 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 # Tel.: 91-079-2630 5971/2630 4695 Extn: 38(Off.); 2676 3724(Res.); Fax: 91-079-2630 0990 # Email: prakash(a)inflibnet.ac.in; prakash_k(a)yahoo.com # URL: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ ; http://www.prakashk.netfirms.com/

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SLA Annual Conference 2005 - Presentations
by Aman Jha 15 Jul '05

15 Jul '05

Dear friends, PowerPoint presentations of sessions held at the Annual Conference of Special Library Association (SLA) are available at no cost(20 presentations currently available). <http://www.sla.org/content/Events/confpresentations/05confpresent.cfm> There is one presentation on 'Search the Web', that may be useful for freshers upgrading search skills on the web. Link is given below: http://www.batesinfo.com/sla-2005-60-tips.pdf With best wishes, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon 122015 (Haryana) Tel: 0124-5014060-67 * Fax: 0124-5014080

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Becoming a Librarian
by SANJAY_B 15 Jul '05

15 Jul '05

Hi, I sincerely suggest when people forward these kind of lengthy articles should give the context, authors detail and gist (Abstract) of the article. That will help us to prioritize the reading. Thanks, B. SANJAY Central Library, Education and Research, Infosys Technologies Limited, Electronics City, Hosur Road, Bangalore-560100 Board : (91)-(080)-28520261 Ext 52086 Fax: (91)-(080)-28520742 We enable you to leverage knowledge anytime, anywhere! -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Jayadev P Hiremath Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 11:48 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com; corporatelibrns(a)yahoogroups.com Subject: [LIS-Forum] Becoming a Librarian When I defended my dissertation at the University of Toronto in 1993, I was worried about my prospects for employment on the tenure track in English. Five years earlier, my adviser had been encouraging when I had proposed writing an interdisciplinary study of Restoration and 18th-century music drama. I wrote a respectable dissertation on the interrelations of music and theater -- on John Dryden, Henry Purcell, John Gay, and George Frideric Handel -- one that earned praise from my committee and from which I was eventually to publish three long articles in standard academic journals. By the time of my defense, I had some teaching experience, had presented a number of conference papers, and had shown my well-roundedness -- artistically and administratively -- by running a successful baroque-music chamber ensemble in Toronto for five years. Still, I was worried. The job market was abysmal; moreover, while I was a U.S. citizen, I was applying to American colleges and universities from a Canadian graduate program. I suspected that I would be at a considerable disadvantage for this reason alone, because I had gathered that many American academic employers seem to strongly favor graduates of American institutions. Plus, I had already cast about for jobs at the MLA meeting the preceding year, and had no nibbles at all. Yet it was not until I went on the job market with the all-important "Ph.D. in hand" that I realized exactly how grim my prospects were. Despite some initial interest, search committees proved not to be falling all over themselves to embrace my expertise. They seemed at a loss to appreciate what I might do for their departments. Over the next few years, those departments that told me anything about my rejection offered some version of the explanation that I was "too specialized." This made no sense to me: Isn't the whole point of a doctoral dissertation to demonstrate deep knowledge in whatever corner of your discipline you choose? I gather what they meant was not that I was too specialized, but that I was not specialized in ways or in matters to which they could relate. For the time being, I was able to survive on adjunct work and on tutoring at writing centers. I assumed that eventually some door would open; all I had to do was keep demonstrating my commitment to the profession by being a model teacher and scholar. Six years after completing my Ph.D., I had worked at as many colleges -- including some really good ones like MIT. I had taught freshman composition, medieval and Renaissance survey courses, "Foundation of Western Civilization," Shakespeare, "Fiction to 1832," you name it. I had published several articles and book chapters and had more in the works; had presented additional conference papers; and had won postdoctoral fellowships to conduct research at libraries including Harvard University's, the Huntington Library, and the British Library. I had also hand-crafted nearly 500 cover letters, tailored as many CV's to particular jobs, and spent far more than any adjunct could be expected to pay on photocopying, dossier requests, and postage. Instead of increasing my marketability, my achievements resulted in ever-more-deafening silence from prospective employers. Meanwhile, although I enjoyed interacting with students in the classroom, the onerous task of grading was getting me down, as were the low pay and the ineligibility for benefits. Add to this the frustration of feeling that, unless a miracle occurred, I would probably never be allowed to teach a high-enough level course to share what I liked most about academe -- the research process -- with my students. After an on-campus interview at a typical state college for a job teaching four courses each semester, including two sections of "developmental" (read: remedial) English every term -- a job that I was nonetheless not offered -- I was fed up. It was time for a career change. Since the first days of graduate school, I had been devoted to library work, and had developed great respect for the research librarians who had helped me unearth the countless treatises, pamphlets, play texts, and musical scores I needed to produce my scholarship. I was good at both knowing what to look for and finding necessary materials in libraries myself, particularly rare-book libraries. About the time of the state-college rejection, a friend who was a library director in Boston (where I was living at the time), and who was familiar with both my skills and my frustration, suggested I pursue a career in academic librarianship; she even offered to help get me started by forwarding my CV to other librarians she knew. Unfortunately, I had just attended a nonprofit job fair along with, it seemed, every inhabitant of the city of Boston. The crowds were wrapped around Mass. Ave and Huntington all the way to the Museum of Fine Arts. What jobs were on offer? Box-office clerk, file clerk, and the like. Thus, when my librarian friend offered to help, I was in such despair that all efforts felt hopeless; Every option seemed like the dead end that teaching and nonprofits had proved to be. Still, something in me growled, "Just give it a chance." I met with two Harvard librarians, and to my delight, both said instantly that a Ph.D. in English and a master's in library science would make a "powerful combination" of credentials for a future librarian. One even helped me get a job as a library assistant at Widener Library, and I gratefully accepted. Encouraged by this happy turn of events, I applied to Simmons College's Graduate School of Library and Information Science, was accepted, and believed I was finally on my way. Of course, there was still a little matter of tuition to worry about. Did I dare assume any further debt, given my precarious financial circumstances? I felt I had no choice but to go forward; I bit the bullet and took out additional student loans. After working in technical services at Harvard for a year, now with a semester of library school behind me, I applied for the job of library associate for collection maintenance and public services (responsible for the day-to-day operations of the main library) at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. I was offered this job and learned many further skills -- mainly managerial -- while completing my degree at Simmons. Between Harvard and the master's program, I learned the ropes of librarianship and had fun doing so; I even learned the art of artist's bookmaking and got academic credit for it. The next challenge would be finding a job as a professional librarian. As I approached graduation from Simmons, I attended a job fair there, at which, to my utter amazement, two representatives from Yale appeared. Tentative, I approached them. One, my current boss, said that Yale was looking for a librarian for literature in English. I already knew that, having scoured the job ads for months, but I thought there was no way I would be seriously considered, given that, in the scheme of things, I had barely begun my transition to academic librarianship. Nevertheless, he encouraged me to apply, saying that we were in a seller's market and that Yale really needed but was having trouble attracting qualified subject specialists. To my further amazement, he followed up with a phone call early the next week, urging me to apply to Yale. Yale offered me the job less than a month from the date of the Simmons fair, and I remain happily ensconced in my current position. I have landed on my feet at long last. My position at Yale offers multiple rewards. I am the collection development specialist or "selector" for all of Sterling Memorial Library's and Cross Campus Library's materials related to literatures in English: print, microform, and digital. That means I manage a six-figure budget, one of the largest Yale library portfolios. I run the undergraduate and graduate bibliographic instruction programs -- some mandatory, some elective -- for the English department in my capacity as their library liaison. That means I have a lot of direct contact with students, both in the classroom and in follow-up, one-on-one sessions. It also means that every day I teach my favorite subject of all: library research skills. Let me end with a plug for the importance of teaching such skills. Julie Walker, executive director of the American Association of School Librarians, says that most students will have multiple careers, so the knowledge they gain in college will not serve them throughout their lives: "It will be their ability to navigate information that will matter." I couldn't agree more. Todd Gilman is the librarian for literature in English at Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. Further, you are not to copy, disclose, or distribute this e-mail or its contents to any other person and any such actions are unlawful. 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Local Area Network (LAN} for a university library
by badan barman 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

From-Badan Barman E-Mail id -badanbarman(a)gmail.com Date-14-07-2005 Respected all, I want to study the existing plan for Local Area Network (LAN) for a University Library which are available online, for geeting help to make a plan for my own university library ( Gauhati University, Assam). I also want to know each and every aspect of the topic, so request refferences to online sources from the LIS-FORUM members. Any information regarding my topic will be of great helpful for me. Thanking you. Badan Barman M.L.I.Sc <http://M.L.I.Sc>. 4 th semester Gauhati University, Assam E-Mail id -badanbarman(a)gmail.com From-Badan Barman E-Mail id mailto:-badanbarman@gmail.com -badanbarman(a)gmail.com Date-14-07-2005 Respected all, I want to study the existing plan for Local Area Network (LAN) for a University Library which are available online, for geeting help to make a plan for my own university library ( Gauhati University, Assam). I also want to know each and every aspect of the topic, so request refferences to online sources from the LIS-FORUM members. Any information regarding my topic will be of great helpful for me. Thanking you. Badan Barman http://M.L.I.Sc M.L.I.Sc . 4 th semester Gauhati University, Assam E-Mail id mailto:-badanbarman@gmail.com -badanbarman(a)gmail.com

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Fw: Data from Chemical Abstracts
by Subbiah Arunachalam 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

Friends: Greetings from Chennai. Here is some informtion obtained from Chemical Abstracts Service on the contributions made by different countries to the journal literature abstracted in CA during 2004. USA 23.2%, People's Republic of China 12%, Japan 11.8% Germany 6.2%, UK 4.6%, France 3.7%, Russia 3.7% Italy 3.1%, INDIA 2.6%, Canada 2.5%, S.Korea 2.4%. China is second only to USA in the number of journal papers and India is 9th. Regards. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Friends: Greetings from Chennai. Here is some informtion obtained from Chemical Abstracts Service on the contributions made by different countries to the journal literature abstracted in CA during 2004. USA 23.2%, People's Republic of China 12%, Japan 11.8% Germany 6.2%, UK 4.6%, France 3.7%, Russia 3.7% Italy 3.1%, INDIA 2.6%, Canada 2.5%, S.Korea 2.4%. China is second only to USA in the number of journal papers and India is 9th. Regards. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Value of LIS profession and professionals
by Iqbalahmad U Rajgoli 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

Dear Members, This mail is with regard to the interview experience shared by Ms.Sri Laxmi: Once again the role of LIS professionals has been raised. Whenever such mails are posted to the forum, we get mails from other members of the forum asking our library professional associations to do something in this regard. I think our associations have restricted their role to organizing conferences/seminars etc. Our associations have bee requested many times through this forum. Are they listening our voice? Our associations should workout with UGC, NAAC, AICTE and related bodies to bring out some norms/guidelines as regards to the salaries of the LIS professionals in College libraries. Following is just a typical example of how interviews was conducted: Once my senior friend went for a interview for the post of librarian in some college in Bangalore. It was a interview of a kind. One of the interview committee member told him that he will be paid Rs.2000 pm and he is recruited here till the NAAC committee visit is over. That's all. No questions about his qualifications, experience etc. It has been seen that at the time of interview who so ever demands less salary will be recruited. We have innumerable examples of such typical interviews. Can anybody tell me how many college libraries have a permanent librarian post? How well paid the college librarians are? The need of the hour is that our so called library professional associations should come together with NAAC, UGC and AICTE and bring out some norms/guidelines as regards to the pay scale of library professionals. When I was studying MLISC my professor often use to say that "WE ARE IN SUCH A NOBLE PROFESSION WHERE WE ARE ALWAYS AT THE END OF GIVING, WHO ELSE OTHER THAN ALMIGHTY GOD, WHO IS ALWAYS AT THE END OF GIVING". It should not mean that we keep on serving our users without getting due credit and respectable salary........ These are my personal views and are not intended to critisize anybody. Yours -------------------------------------------------- IQBALAHMAD U RAJGOLI SCIENTIFIC ASSISTANT - B ISRO HQ LIBRARY ANTARIKSH BHAVAN NEW BEL ROAD BANGALORE - 560 094 PH: 2217 2010 & 2217 2011 MOBILE: 94480 56262 *********************************************************************** Our new domain is 'isro.gov.in'. All e-mails may be sent using address as user(a)isro.gov.in --------------------------------------------------------- Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ***********************************************************************

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Seminar Invitation from MyLISA
by SUNIL M.V. 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association® In collaboration with Kesavan Institute for Information and Knowledge Management (KIIKM) & Verus Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (VSPL) Presents Seminar on Web-based Library Automation and Networking software by Sri L.J. Haravu Trustee, Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management Demonstration of NewGenLib Library Automation Software by Sri E.M. Siddartha Verus Solutions Pvt., Ltd. Date: July 16, 2005 at 2.30 pm Venue: Vidyanidhi Seminar Hall Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Manasagangothri, Mysore Program Schedule Time Program by 2.30 to 2.50 KIIKM An Introduction Sri. L J Haravu 2.50 to 3.30 Web-based Library Automation and Networking software Case study of NewGenLib, developed jointly by KIIKM and VSPL Sri. L J Haravu 3.30 to 3.40 Tea Break 3.40 to 5.10 Demonstration of NewGenLib Sri. E M Siddartha 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 --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association ® In collaboration with Kesavan Institute for Information and Knowledge Management (KIIKM) & Verus Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (VSPL) Presents Seminar on Web-based Library Automation and Networking software by Sri L.J. Haravu Trustee, Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management Demonstration of NewGenLib Library Automation Software by Sri E.M. Siddartha Verus Solutions Pvt., Ltd. Date: July 16, 2005 at 2.30 pm Venue: Vidyanidhi Seminar Hall Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore , Manasagangothri, Mysore Program Schedule Time Program by 2.30 to 2.50 KIIKM An Introduction Sri. L J Haravu 2.50 to 3.30 Web-based Library Automation and Networking software Case study of NewGenLib, developed jointly by KIIKM and VSPL Sri. L J Haravu 3.30 to 3.40 Tea Break 3.40 to 5.10 Demonstration of NewGenLib Sri. E M Siddartha 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 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=34442/*http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page

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MyLISA Annual Day Invitation
by SUNIL M.V. 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association ® (MyLISA) Cordially invite you for the Annual Day Celebrations On July 16, 2005 at 6.00pm Chief Guest Sri I.R.N. Goudar Head, ICAST National Aerospace Laboratories Bangalore Presided by Dr. G. Raghavendra Rao Principal, National Institute Engineering (NIE), Mysore Venue: Vidyanidhi Seminar Hall Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Manasagangothri, Mysore Dr. Shalini R. Urs Sunil MV President Secretary 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association ® (MyLISA) Cordially invite you for the Annual Day Celebrations On July 16, 2005 at 6.00pm Chief Guest Sri I.R.N. Goudar Head, ICAST National Aerospace Laboratories Bangalore Presided by Dr. G. Raghavendra Rao Principal, National Institute Engineering (NIE), Mysore Venue: Vidyanidhi Seminar Hall Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore , Manasagangothri, Mysore Dr. Shalini R. Urs Sunil MV President Secretary 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Lecture on 22nd July 2005
by Lata Suresh 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

Kindly announce the below message:- A lecture and discussion on the topic "Future of Libraries" will be held in the Rajasthan University Library. Date 22 July 2005 Time 11.00 am By Principal Information Officer, American Library. For more details please contact:- Dr Pawan Kumar Gupta Deputy Librarian Rajasthan University Library Jaipur - 302 004 Ph: 0141- 270 7866 E-mail: pawan_jp(a)sancharnet.in regards Lata Suresh Librarian Indian Institute of Health Management Research 1, Prabhu Dayal MArg Sanganer Airport Jaipur 302033 RAJASTHAN, INDIA Tel : 91-0141-2791431-34 Fax: 91-0141-2792138 Email : lata(a)iihmr.org OR iihmr(a)iihmr.org

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Village knowledge centres
by Subbiah Arunachalam 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

Government of India Comes Forward to Support Mission 2007: Every Village a Knowledge Centre Subbiah Arunachalam Distinguished Fellow M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Chennai 600 113, India New Delhi, 12 July 2005 India's Finance Minister, Mr Palaniappan Chidambaram, announced today that the Government of India would support the Mission 2007: Every Village a Knowledge Centre, to the tune of Rs 65,000 million [roughly US $1,500 million). He was speaking at the Second Convention of the National Alliance for Mission 2007: Every Village a Knowledge Centre, held at New Delhi. Conceived by Prof. M S Swaminathan, the man who brought in the Green Revolution to India, the Mission aims to usher in a knowledge revolution in India by connecting all the more than 600,000 villages of a India in a knowledge network by 15 August 2007, the 60th anniversary of India's Independence. After a series of meetings with a wide cross section of people from government, academia, civil society organizations and corporations, Prof. Swaminathan announced the Mission 2007 in mid 2004. As such a huge programme cannot be undertaken by any single organization, Swaminathan went on to build a National Alliance, perhaps the largest multi-stakeholder partnership in the field of ICT-enabled development in the world. There are more than 150 members in the Alliance including the University of California, Berkeley; MIT, Cambridge; IDRC, Ottawa; the Nasscom Foundation, New Delhi, and OneWorld. The first convention of the National Alliance was held in New Delhi in October 2004. The second convention took place in New Delhi on 11 and 12 July 2005. Among the people who spoke at the convention are His Excellency the President of India Dr A P J Abdul Kalam; Mr P Chidambaram, the Finanace Minister of India; Mr Mani Shankar Iyer, Minister for Panchayati Raj; Mr M V Rajasekaran, Minister of State for Planning, and a number of senior government officials. The President Of India, Dr Abdul Kalam was very happy to see more than 135 elected Fellows of the National Virtual Academy for Rural Prosperity - all of them grassroots workers from rural India. Mr Mani Shankar Iyer suggested that the Village Knowledge Centres should preferably be established in collaboration with the Panchayati Raj (village level government) institutions and thus empower the village level leaders and the communities. -----

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Size Reduce Software
by Radheshyam yadav 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

Hello techy people, I would like to ask for your help. I have some mp3 songs with 5 mb average size, can anyone give me some tutorials and the software to reduce its size to a more phone friendly size? Radheshyam Yadav Cairn Energy India Pty Ltd. Information Management, Surat, Ph. 0261-2862792 Mobile: 09898065128 --------------------------------- How much free photo storage do you get? Store your friends n family photos for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. http://in.photos.yahoo.com Hello techy people, I would like to ask for your help. I have some mp3 songs with 5 mb average size, can anyone give me some tutorials and the software to reduce its size to a more phone friendly size? Radheshyam Yadav Cairn Energy India Pty Ltd. Information Management, Surat, Ph. 0261-2862792 Mobile: 09898065128 How much free photo storage do you get? Store your friends n family photos for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. http://in.photos.yahoo.com

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Latest Research Trends
by Achar 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

Dear PRofessional collegues, please explore your ideas on topics on latest research trends as i am planning to start my research work shortly. This will help in taking up a hot topic. Thanks Achar Librarian Ohio business school Bangalore Dear PRofessional collegues, please explore your ideas on topics on latest research trends as i am planning to start my research work shortly. This will help in taking up a hot topic. Thanks Achar Librarian Ohio business school Bangalore

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Value of LIS Profession and Professional
by sri Lakshmi 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

Hello, Here is an experience of an interview attended by by me at one of the academic college at Mysore. There was an adversitement in a news paper calling for the interview for the post of Librarian at one of the institution at Mysore. It was a walk in Interview. I went to the interview and I was passed. The next day they said me to join for their institution as librarian. The conditions were like , they wanted their library to be automated with in 1 month (with more than 1000 documents) without any assistant and many other things like it is a full time job, 700 students, should serve the institution, facility given to the students should be very good etc. etc.All the things needed to be done in a hightech pattern. Finally my turn came to ask about the pay scale. The reply was Rs 1500 per month. You cant get more than this because you will not be teaching any students,you will not be doing any other work like a teacher etc. What do you say about this? Lakshmi. ____________________________________________________ Sell on Yahoo! Auctions no fees. Bid on great items. http://auctions.yahoo.com/

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University Librarian Felicitated
by Shyam Prasad pujar 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

Dear Members, Dr P.V. Konnur, University Librarian, Goa University has been felicitated on July 10, 2005 at Panaji by Goa Kannada Samaj for his services to Goa University Library and Kannada community in Goa. Details of the press release can be found at: http://www.freewebs.com/gksp/ Regards, S.M. Pujar IGIDR, Mumbai

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Good one on Passwords
by Jayadev P Hiremath 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

Read it or forward it to your System administrator Back in the dark ages of the Internet as we know it -- before we had so many malware threats and Web application vulnerabilities -- strong passwords were the security solution. This was especially true in Windows after it was discovered just how easy it was to capture and crack LANMan passwords in NT. Even today, it seems that practically everyone (both inside and outside IT) has their own opinion on what it takes to create and enforce secure passwords. The consensus is that if we use uppercase, lowercase, numbers and special characters at least seven to eight characters in length, then our passwords are magically unbreakable. It's simply not true. Every year, I test a fairly large number of standalone Windows workstations, servers and domains for password vulnerabilities. Network managers occasionally tell me they know everyone has weak passwords, but most are completely unaware just how widespread the problem is. Based on what I've seen, most passwords that supposedly meet the "generally accepted" requirements can be guessed with some basic trial and error -- a nominal effort that can lead to high payoffs for the bad guys with little chance that they'll get caught. There are some legitimate password challenges that network managers struggle with. Many of these end up being serious security vulnerabilities that lead to risks most organizations aren't prepared to handle. The following are some common password management misconceptions along with an idea or two on hardening Windows security. Myth #1: Assigning all users passwords will help keep their workstations secure. Big mistake. Responsibility and accountability must be placed in the user's control. Otherwise, what incentive do they have to do better? Notice I didn't say that password policy enforcement should be placed in their hands. That's a different issue. Security decisions never should be placed in the hands of users. Rather, enforce strong passwords via written policy, GPOs or another password management system, and ongoing auditing. Also, what happens when a rogue or ex-network administrator abuses an innocent user's account? There's hardly an audit trail that can fix this. Myth #2: Having tight physical security will make systems safe against sniffers and password crackers. What happens when authentication for internal Citrix NFuse Web interfaces, Web applications and other systems are tied into Windows domain accounts? The password problem that was once just an internal issue is now opened up to the world. This is a big, big problem that's affecting more and more systems. Myth #3: Upper management can't force users to remember complex passwords, so it will just accept anything bad that may or may not occur. What I'm finding is that most upper managers and executives don't really understand the gravity of the problem. They think all users can be trusted, that no one shares their passwords, and that there's really not much to lose when a standard user account is compromised. Here's a trick to shed some light on the issue: Simply log in with basic user rights, and see what you can see on network servers and workstation shares. Perform basic text searches, and look for words such as "ssn," "credit card," "dob" and other things that users have been granted access. Your findings are sure to make even the biggest nonbelievers realize there's a security problem -- especially when combined with the technical vulnerability I mentioned in the point above. Myth #4: Requiring users to change passwords often will keep Windows secure. Again, this is another major misconception. What's the natural human tendency when we can't keep up with new passwords -- especially multiple passwords that must be changed every 30, 60 or 90 days? We write them down. This is a real tough one to prevent if users are forced to jump through unrealistic hoops in the name of security. The solution here is to create strong but easily remembered passwords (or better yet passphrases). And if they're never shared or suspected to have been compromised, why change them often if ever? The latter is what I always recommend. As long as we're forced to use passwords for our computing needs, I think passphrases are the only realistic solution. Build on the upper/lower/numerical/special character idea, but create passphrases that are long, impossible to crack and memorable. Once you explain it in simple terms and give good examples like "Man, I LOVE hard rock music!" your users' and executives' eyes will light up. It's virtually guaranteed.

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EurasiaHealth Knowledge Network
by Bhojaraju Gunjal 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

Dear Colleagues FYI & Use EurasiaHealth Knowledge Network and American International Health Alliancehttp://www.eurasiahealth.org/index.jsp?sid=1&id=3531&pid=3531http:/… Building information systems in health care -A reference guide forhealth care decision-makers- Croatia.http://lrc.aiha.com/English/Training/MImanual-Eng.pdf A Guide to Electronic Libraries http://lrc.aiha.com/English/Training/LibGuide-Eng.pdf EurasiaHealth Knowledge Network (a project of the AmericanInternational Health Alliance/AIHA) is an on-line clearinghousefeaturing a library of multilingual health resources, databases, andinteractive forums. This clearinghouse--designed to serve as arepository for clinical practice guidelines, medical textbooks, andother educational materials that are available in the languages of theNew Independent States (NIS) and Central and Eastern Europe(CEE)--provides users with access to information, tools, and trainingto enhance the knowledge of healthcare professionals in the region. A key feature of EurasiaHealth is its network of regularly updateddatabases that literally puts information at the fingertips of NIS/CEEhealth professionals in their native language, in even the most remoteareas of the region. Users can search the Multilingual Library bylanguage, subject, and type of material (articles, conferenceproceedings, presentations, clinical practice guidelines, etc.), tofind downloadable full-text educational documents and other materials.A medical conferences database provides news about upcoming events inthe region or of international interest. The regional health projectsdatabase provides in one place a comprehensive record of current, pastand planned health projects in the NIS/CEE countries conducted by NGOsand other organizations. Other databases provide information ongrants and funding resources, regional contacts, Internet medicalsites, glossary terms, and links to healthcare organizationsthroughout the region. While the Knowledge Network addresses all aspects of health andmedicine, a particular focus lies in several specialty subjectareas--such as community health, emergency medicine, healthmanagement, HIV/AIDS, infection control, maternal and child health,medical informatics, nursing, primary healthcare, and women'shealth--that represent common, critical issues throughout the region. Through research and collaboration, the EurasiaHealth team isconstantly working to develop and catalog new resources in each ofthese areas. The EurasiaHealth Web site also features a variety of interactiveforums, including discussion forums, a teleconsultation forum, and aset of Internet mailing lists, that allow healthcare professionals tocommunicate and consult directly with one another. Theteleconsultation forum supplies a template for clinicians to postinformation about interesting or difficult cases and enables them torequest feedback from hundreds of colleagues and specialists atpartner institutions and the world over. These consultation requestsare then sent out via the EurasiaTeleconsult Internet mailing list. The foundation of EurasiaHealth is the experiences and resources thathave been developed through AIHA's health care partnership program,which brings together over 350 health care institutions, includinghospitals, health systems, medical universities, government bodies andNGOs in the NIS, CEE and the United States. EurasiaHealth works withan ever-expanding community of organizations to offer newhealth-related resources in the languages of the NIS/CEE region. For information on how you or your organization can contribute to thegrowing base of EurasiaHealth resources, contact us atlibrary(a)eurasiahealth.org. Thanks & Regards Bhojaraju G,Librarian – Knowledge Management, (Sharepoint Administrator)Homepage: http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.comKM-Forum Moderator : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/************************************… OneSource Ltd.148, Bhaskara Plaza, R.V.Road,V.V.Puram, Bangalore - 560 004, INDIA. Tel:+9180-2650 2540 Ext:103 Fax:+9180-2650 2086 Cell:+91-944 836 9905 E-mail: bhojarajug@yahoo.com************************************************************************************************

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InfoWatch Apr-June 2005
by M.R Lalitha 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

Dear LIS-Forum member, The April-June 2005 combined issue of InfoWatch is now online, bringing you the details of new Internet sites related to Science and Engineering. You can access the complete issue on the NCSI Web server at the URL : http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/infowatch/iw.php You will also find earlier issues of InfoWatch here. For your convenience, the table of contents is given below. If you wish to be on the mailing list of InfoWatch to receive the complete issue by e-mail, let us know. Also mention your format preference - html or text. Regards -Lalitha M.R (lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ InfoWatch Tracking Networked Scientific Information Sources and Services (An electronic update service brought to you by NCSI) Apr-June 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In This Issue 1. academici - The Virtual Academy [Personal and academic networks] 2. Active hardware.com [Information and reviews on computer hardware-related topics] 3. BioModels database [A resource with mathematical models of biological interests] 4. CADdepot.com [A repository of freeware and shareware tools for use with AutoCAD and other CAD systems] 5. Integratet Microbial Genomes (IMG) [Analysis of genomes] 6. Earthquake Information Network (EQNET) 7. Educating the Net Generation - A new EDUCAUSE e-book [Aptitudes, attitudes and learning styles of the present-day Net Gen students] 8. Energy TechNet - Inventions and innovations technology toolbox for energy technology developers 9. Enviropedia - An encyclopedia of environment 10. ExactAntigen monoclonal antibody database 11. IntAct - Analysis tools for protein interaction data 12. KM's Site - PC corner 13. NASA - How does this work? 14. Online conversion [A tool providing quick conversions of a wide range of mathematical and everyday measurements] 15. O'Reilly CodeZoo [Free, reusable software code components for programmers] 16. Platinum Group Metal (PGM) database [Physical properties and characteristics of Platinum group metals] 18. Science Lobby - Electronics resource center 19. The Science foresight project 20. wiseGEEK - Clear answers for common questions ------------------------------------------------------------------------ About InfoWatch : InfoWatch is a monthly electronic newsletter, brought out by the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012, INDIA. Information in the newsletter is collected and verified by NCSI staff.The newsletter aims to raise awareness of new sources of information on the Internet, particularly those which are relevant for higher education and research. Some items may be of relevance only to the IISc community.Resources reported here have been taken from various discussion lists and other network tools and no special claims are made for accuracy or originality. Most of the sources cited in the newsletter were checked at the time of publication, however it is possible that some of the resources are no longer available. We welcome comments about the newsletter and suggestions for resources to be featured. Please e-mail your comments to Infowatch editors: Ms. K. Thulasi (thulasi(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) & Ms. M. R. Lalitha (lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Becoming a Librarian
by Jayadev P Hiremath 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

When I defended my dissertation at the University of Toronto in 1993, I was worried about my prospects for employment on the tenure track in English. Five years earlier, my adviser had been encouraging when I had proposed writing an interdisciplinary study of Restoration and 18th-century music drama. I wrote a respectable dissertation on the interrelations of music and theater -- on John Dryden, Henry Purcell, John Gay, and George Frideric Handel -- one that earned praise from my committee and from which I was eventually to publish three long articles in standard academic journals. By the time of my defense, I had some teaching experience, had presented a number of conference papers, and had shown my well-roundedness -- artistically and administratively -- by running a successful baroque-music chamber ensemble in Toronto for five years. Still, I was worried. The job market was abysmal; moreover, while I was a U.S. citizen, I was applying to American colleges and universities from a Canadian graduate program. I suspected that I would be at a considerable disadvantage for this reason alone, because I had gathered that many American academic employers seem to strongly favor graduates of American institutions. Plus, I had already cast about for jobs at the MLA meeting the preceding year, and had no nibbles at all. Yet it was not until I went on the job market with the all-important "Ph.D. in hand" that I realized exactly how grim my prospects were. Despite some initial interest, search committees proved not to be falling all over themselves to embrace my expertise. They seemed at a loss to appreciate what I might do for their departments. Over the next few years, those departments that told me anything about my rejection offered some version of the explanation that I was "too specialized." This made no sense to me: Isn't the whole point of a doctoral dissertation to demonstrate deep knowledge in whatever corner of your discipline you choose? I gather what they meant was not that I was too specialized, but that I was not specialized in ways or in matters to which they could relate. For the time being, I was able to survive on adjunct work and on tutoring at writing centers. I assumed that eventually some door would open; all I had to do was keep demonstrating my commitment to the profession by being a model teacher and scholar. Six years after completing my Ph.D., I had worked at as many colleges -- including some really good ones like MIT. I had taught freshman composition, medieval and Renaissance survey courses, "Foundation of Western Civilization," Shakespeare, "Fiction to 1832," you name it. I had published several articles and book chapters and had more in the works; had presented additional conference papers; and had won postdoctoral fellowships to conduct research at libraries including Harvard University's, the Huntington Library, and the British Library. I had also hand-crafted nearly 500 cover letters, tailored as many CV's to particular jobs, and spent far more than any adjunct could be expected to pay on photocopying, dossier requests, and postage. Instead of increasing my marketability, my achievements resulted in ever-more-deafening silence from prospective employers. Meanwhile, although I enjoyed interacting with students in the classroom, the onerous task of grading was getting me down, as were the low pay and the ineligibility for benefits. Add to this the frustration of feeling that, unless a miracle occurred, I would probably never be allowed to teach a high-enough level course to share what I liked most about academe -- the research process -- with my students. After an on-campus interview at a typical state college for a job teaching four courses each semester, including two sections of "developmental" (read: remedial) English every term -- a job that I was nonetheless not offered -- I was fed up. It was time for a career change. Since the first days of graduate school, I had been devoted to library work, and had developed great respect for the research librarians who had helped me unearth the countless treatises, pamphlets, play texts, and musical scores I needed to produce my scholarship. I was good at both knowing what to look for and finding necessary materials in libraries myself, particularly rare-book libraries. About the time of the state-college rejection, a friend who was a library director in Boston (where I was living at the time), and who was familiar with both my skills and my frustration, suggested I pursue a career in academic librarianship; she even offered to help get me started by forwarding my CV to other librarians she knew. Unfortunately, I had just attended a nonprofit job fair along with, it seemed, every inhabitant of the city of Boston. The crowds were wrapped around Mass. Ave and Huntington all the way to the Museum of Fine Arts. What jobs were on offer? Box-office clerk, file clerk, and the like. Thus, when my librarian friend offered to help, I was in such despair that all efforts felt hopeless; Every option seemed like the dead end that teaching and nonprofits had proved to be. Still, something in me growled, "Just give it a chance." I met with two Harvard librarians, and to my delight, both said instantly that a Ph.D. in English and a master's in library science would make a "powerful combination" of credentials for a future librarian. One even helped me get a job as a library assistant at Widener Library, and I gratefully accepted. Encouraged by this happy turn of events, I applied to Simmons College's Graduate School of Library and Information Science, was accepted, and believed I was finally on my way. Of course, there was still a little matter of tuition to worry about. Did I dare assume any further debt, given my precarious financial circumstances? I felt I had no choice but to go forward; I bit the bullet and took out additional student loans. After working in technical services at Harvard for a year, now with a semester of library school behind me, I applied for the job of library associate for collection maintenance and public services (responsible for the day-to-day operations of the main library) at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. I was offered this job and learned many further skills -- mainly managerial -- while completing my degree at Simmons. Between Harvard and the master's program, I learned the ropes of librarianship and had fun doing so; I even learned the art of artist's bookmaking and got academic credit for it. The next challenge would be finding a job as a professional librarian. As I approached graduation from Simmons, I attended a job fair there, at which, to my utter amazement, two representatives from Yale appeared. Tentative, I approached them. One, my current boss, said that Yale was looking for a librarian for literature in English. I already knew that, having scoured the job ads for months, but I thought there was no way I would be seriously considered, given that, in the scheme of things, I had barely begun my transition to academic librarianship. Nevertheless, he encouraged me to apply, saying that we were in a seller's market and that Yale really needed but was having trouble attracting qualified subject specialists. To my further amazement, he followed up with a phone call early the next week, urging me to apply to Yale. Yale offered me the job less than a month from the date of the Simmons fair, and I remain happily ensconced in my current position. I have landed on my feet at long last. My position at Yale offers multiple rewards. I am the collection development specialist or "selector" for all of Sterling Memorial Library's and Cross Campus Library's materials related to literatures in English: print, microform, and digital. That means I manage a six-figure budget, one of the largest Yale library portfolios. I run the undergraduate and graduate bibliographic instruction programs -- some mandatory, some elective -- for the English department in my capacity as their library liaison. That means I have a lot of direct contact with students, both in the classroom and in follow-up, one-on-one sessions. It also means that every day I teach my favorite subject of all: library research skills. Let me end with a plug for the importance of teaching such skills. Julie Walker, executive director of the American Association of School Librarians, says that most students will have multiple careers, so the knowledge they gain in college will not serve them throughout their lives: "It will be their ability to navigate information that will matter." I couldn't agree more. Todd Gilman is the librarian for literature in English at Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library.

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PhDs invading library profession in the US of A
by Jayadev P Hiremath 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

A Matter of Degrees By TODD GILMAN First Person Personal experiences on the job market Previous articles Easy-to-print version E-mail this story If you're a Ph.D. in the humanities, do you need a master's degree in library and information science to pursue a career as an academic librarian or as a curator of special collections? That question has lately generated impassioned arguments among Ph.D.'s who seek to enter the field of librarianship, as well as among librarians and curators concerned over the integrity of their profession. My qualified answer is yes, the library-science credential is essential -- unless the Ph.D. really, truly, and demonstrably has the equivalent experience. Before I elaborate, let me review my own background: I'm a Ph.D. in English who switched gears in the face of an abysmal faculty-job market, earned a master's in library science, and landed on my feet as an academic librarian at Yale University. Admittedly, Ph.D.'s who attend library school may or may not acquire such earth-shaking skills and wide-ranging theoretical knowledge as will justify the seemingly unreasonable outlay of time, effort, and expense required of one who has already endured the tribulations of a doctoral program. That is, at least in part, the motivation and justification for a new fellowship program and other recent initiatives that promise to set humanities Ph.D.'s on the fast (and free or low-cost) track to academic librarianship while bypassing most if not all library-school requirements. Still, the M.L.I.S., short for master's in library and information science (it's also known in some quarters as the M.L.S., for master's of library science), continues to serve as both a practical and an intellectual entreé into professional librarianship. What's more, the M.L.I.S. protects the library profession from becoming degraded in the way that teaching has been in academe. As a rule, Ph.D.'s do fine if they land a tenure-track job in their discipline. They get respect, decent pay, benefits, research leave, and promotions based on merit. But that's a big if. A frightening percentage of Ph.D.'s who seek to teach these days wind up slogging away as adjuncts. According to John W. Curtis of the American Association of University Professors, "The most recent comprehensive figures from the Department of Education show that in fall 2001, 44.5 percent of all faculty were in part-time positions -- nearly all without tenure -- and an additional 19.2 percent of faculty were in full-time, non-tenure-track positions." Why has that happened? Because the supply greatly outweighs the demand. Even more insulting, Ph.D. adjuncts are so hungry that academic departments can further cheat them by offering the same low pay (or close to it), ineligibility for benefits and promotion, and so on, which are offered to those with no more than an M.A. Those Ph.D.'s are denied a living wage because in the eyes of academic departments -- to echo Gertrude Stein -- an adjunct is an adjunct is an adjunct. That despite significant differences between a Ph.D. and an M.A. in the extent and cost of their education, teaching experience, and (more often than not) publishing records. Earning the lofty Ph.D., therefore, fulfills its promise for only a lucky few -- the tenured and tenure-track -- while the vast majority drift away on the ice floe. The value of the Ph.D. has been degraded indeed. For the library profession to admit Ph.D.'s to our profession without the M.L.I.S. would result in a flooded market and would condemn librarians to experience the same miserable, exploitative conditions so many Ph.D.'s now suffer. Equally damaging, hiring too many Ph.D.'s who skipped the M.L.I.S. training could create a glass ceiling for librarians who have that degree but no Ph.D. They would become (in status terms) the nurses to these doctors -- even though this particular breed of doctors is not qualified to give orders to such nurses. In fact, the nurses would wind up teaching the doctors their jobs while still being held in lower esteem, a bitter irony that would force library morale down the tubes. And of course the library would then be run by those with the least experience in the profession. Irrespective of such potential dire consequences, we must consider the question of professional standards. What exactly have M.L.I.S.-trained librarians learned that those with Ph.D.'s haven't? Analytical, descriptive, physical, and textual bibliography. The history of books and printing. Issues in cataloging library materials. The book trade -- current, rare, out of print, or all of those, including how best to manage vendors, approval plans, and standing orders. How to identify appropriate collecting levels for different subjects in different kinds and sizes of libraries. How to analyze a given library collection for purposes of, say, transfer to remote storage, filling in gaps, or preservation. How to analyze the pros and cons of a given electronic database or reference resource. How to manage acquisitions and other budgets. Digital library inititatives. The composition and scope of the essential bibliographic utilities like WorldCat, Eureka, and ESTC. How best to search any of the myriad electronic databases licensed by the modern library. What archivists do, how they do it, and why. You get the idea. Don't get me wrong: As I have said in my previous columns, I believe that academic librarianship is a great career alternative for many humanities Ph.D.'s who choose not to teach. I also believe that many library-school courses, as currently taught, leave much to be desired, and that library schools could never even hope to provide the deep subject expertise that scholars acquire in doctoral programs and that is so vital to much academic library work. Some Ph.D.'s who wish to be librarians doubtless have some of the training and experience necessary (particularly those who possess the aptitude to be librarians and are well-versed in bibliography), but they most certainly do not have enough of either to be taken seriously as library professionals. To argue that because you have spent years in libraries you are qualified to run one strikes me as claiming that because you have been visiting the dentist and brushing and flossing your teeth all your life you can perform a root canal. The creation of the profession of librarianship was an innovation of the late 19th century, by which point libraries had become too complicated to be run by dilettantes from academic departments. Hiring such people now to run our libraries -- which are vastly more complicated than those that gave rise to our profession -- sets us back over a hundred years. Indeed, the notion that we need professional librarians to run a modern library is even more valid today than it was in Melville Dewey's age. Although I have taken the position that the M.L.I.S. remains and should remain the necessary minimum credential, I must acknowledge that Ph.D.'s without the master's and with no background in librarianship still occasionally are hired by academic libraries, especially as curators of special collections at Ivy League and a few other major universities. That happens because, unfortunately, some senior administrators overvalue the prestige of the Ph.D. degree and undervalue the M.L.I.S. Librarianswho know that the master's and the training and experience it represents are what qualify a candidate to perform the jobreact to such hiring practices the way that senior faculty members would to learning that an M.A. in English with no teaching experience had been made head of their English department. Who can blame us? So while you might luck out and land one of those quirky plum jobs, if you hope to stay mobile in the library profession over the long term, you simply must earn the M.L.I.S. Todd Gilman is the librarian for literature in English at Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library.

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Seminar notification
by SRELS 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

Dear Moderator : Kindly arrange to announce the following for the benefit of our professional colleagues. Yours truly, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore *********** Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore in collaboration with M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Management, Bangalore is organizing a National Seminar on Information /Knowledge Organization in the Humanities and Two Special Lectures 1. Reaching the Unreached in the Digital Information World (Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Memorial Lectures (13)(2005) by Dr. N. Vijayaditya, Director General, NIC, New Delhi 2. Gutenberg to Google : Changing Facets of Libraries (Sarada Ranganathan Endowment Lecture (25) (2005) by Dr. Shalini R. Urs, Professor and Chair person DLIS, University of Mysore, Mysore Date and Venue 9-11 August 2005 M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Management, M.S. Ramaiah Nagar, Bangalore 560 054 ( Seminar Registration Fee : Rs.2000.00. Last date for Registration 1st August 2005 ) For details contact : Dr. K.N. Prasad, Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Ph: 080 - 23305109 ; E-mail : srels(a)vsnl.com For accommodation contact : Mr. A. N. Janardhana Rao Librarian M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Management M.S. Ramaiah Nagar MSRIT Post Bangalore 560 054. Ph: 080- 25695546 ; 23608769 ; E-mail : anjrao(a)indiatimes.com Dear Moderator : Kindly arrange to announce the following for the benefit of our professional colleagues. Yours truly, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science , Bangalore *********** Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore in collaboration with M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Management, Bangalore is organizing a National Seminar on Information /Knowledge Organization in the Humanities and Two Special Lectures 1. Reaching the Unreached in the Digital Information World (Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Memorial Lectures (13)(2005) by Dr. N. Vijayaditya, Director General, NIC, New Delhi 2. Gutenberg to Google : Changing Facets of Libraries (Sarada Ranganathan Endowment Lecture (25) (2005) by Dr. Shalini R. Urs, Professor and Chair person DLIS, University of Mysore, Mysore Date and Venue 9-11 August 2005 M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Management, M.S. Ramaiah Nagar, Bangalore 560 054 ( Seminar Registration Fee : Rs.2000.00. Last date for Registration 1st August 2005 ) For details contact : Dr. K.N. Prasad, Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Ph: 080 - 23305109 ; E-mail : mailto:srels@vsnl.com srels(a)vsnl.com For accommodation contact : Mr. A. N. Janardhana Rao Librarian M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Management M.S. Ramaiah Nagar MSRIT Post Bangalore 560 054. Ph: 080- 25695546 ; 23608769 ; E-mail : mailto:anjrao@indiatimes.com anjrao(a)indiatimes.com

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New Librarian: Panjab University Library
by Mailing List Manager 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 10:42:40 +0530 From: Rupak Chakravarty <rupak2811(a)gmail.com> To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in *To all LIS professionals,*=0D ** =0D *Dr. V.K. Anand has joined Panjab University Library as University Libraria= n =0D from today on the superannuation of Mr. A.R. Sethi who has retired =0D yesterday.=0D *=0D -- =0D Rupak Chakravarty=0D Assistant Librarian=0D Panjab University Library=0D Chandigarh 160014=0D INDIA=0D

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Consilience rescheduled for December 2005
by madhu ks 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

Dear All, We regret to inform you that our conference on Free/Open Source Software (FOSS), Consilience currently scheduled for July 8th and 9th 2005, has been rescheduled for December due to lack of sufficient funds/sponsorship and adequate speaker confirmations. We are looking for funds and also intend to get more key-note speaker confirmations for the rescheduled event. We apologize for all the inconvenience caused. The research teams are requested to submit their papers by 20th July 2005. Also, kindly forward this email to all your research volunteers. Thank you, Warm regards, Ankur Singla for Law and Technology Committee National Law School of India University Bangalore. --------------------------------- How much free photo storage do you get? Store your friends n family photos for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. http://in.photos.yahoo.com Dear All, We regret to inform you that our conference on Free/Open Source Software (FOSS), Consilience currently scheduled for July 8th and 9th 2005, has been rescheduled for December due to lack of sufficient funds/sponsorship and adequate speaker confirmations. We are looking for funds and also intend to get more key-note speaker confirmations for the rescheduled event. We apologize for all the inconvenience caused. The research teams are requested to submit their papers by 20th July 2005. Also, kindly forward this email to all your research volunteers. Thank you, Warm regards, Ankur Singla for Law and Technology Committee National Law School of India University Bangalore . How much free photo storage do you get? Store your friends n family photos for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. http://in.photos.yahoo.com

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Congrats to our Dept of LIS
by Ravi Nandhan 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

Dear All, I would like to share the good things happening in our Dept.of Lib and Information Science, Univ. of Mysore, Mysore. I am sending this so that other Universities can also do similar things where our community students can have the oppurtunities to grow better. First thing I would like to share is about the Campus interview (No, it is not about BE but our own LIS). Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) had conducted campus interview in our Dept. and have selected two girl candidates who appeared for the written test and then faced two rounds of interviews, first round in our dept. and the second in Chennai and finally got through successfully. One student is of Master of Information Management (the first IM course in Indian Universities) and the other is MLISc. Both are lucky enough to draw 5 digit salary (just think how many of us struggled in the beginning to draw a four digit salary, that too the first digit starting only with 1or 2). My sincere thanks to our dept and also to TCS for the campus interview which is first of its kind. Apart from this one student was successful in NET last year(2004) and one student was successful this year, congrats to them and my thanks to them for making the dept proud. Also so many useful events are being conducted by MYLISA. The initiative on communication and personlity development classes is too good for the students and so many have benefitted from this too. Paper clippings competition is conducted and is very interesting one too, wherein we had to collect news about LIS and related articles (I am a proud winner(2004) but not to mention I got second, more funnily out of only 2 serious participants). I would like to point out that students get to read news papers and the same could be asked to be put in the GSDL so that a student gets the idea how to collect in GSDL. Special thanks to Shalini Mam for this. Other than this I would like to request the faculty to encourage students in writing papers for the conferences and journals and this must be made compulsary so the student gets good exposure in writing as well as to the LIS field. Thanks and regards -- --------------------------------------------------------- V. Ravi Nandhan Project Assistant National Centre for Science Info. Indian Institute of Science Bangalore - 560 012 e-mail:ravinandan@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ravinandhan(a)gmail.com Mobile : 94486 08533 Ph.Off.: +91 80 22933273 (Direct) +91 80 23600271-Ext.:23 & 24 ---------------------------------------------------------

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New .mobi suffix for wireless websites
by Mailing List Manager 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:32:25 +0530 From: Farooque Shaheen <Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com> Consumers will soon be able to recognise websites specially designed for use by mobile phones by the new ?.mobi? suffix, which will be introduced alongside the popular ?.com? and other top-level domain names. The new suffix was approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) at a Luxemburg meeting on Monday. The first websites for mobile devices, which will be fit for a small screen and limited memory and bandwidth, will be ready in 2006. Mobile Web services will also use geographic information to take advantage of the changing location of a mobile device, for instance to find the nearest hospital, ICANN chairman Vint Cerf said. The new domain name was requested by a group of powerful mobile phone operators and handset makers, which set up a joint venture to encourage companies and Web site designers to create mobile Web pages. Member companies include Hutchison 3, GSM Association, Ericsson, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung, Telefonica Moviles, T-Mobile and Vodafone. If more Web pages are optimised for handheld devices, rather than desktop or laptop computers with big screens, these companies hope more consumers will upgrade their phones. Source: http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=96200 Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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World Bank New Title - free copies
by ++ Mukesh Anand ++ 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

Dear Professionals The World Bank has just published a title which directs suggests India to use knowledge more effectively to raise the productivity of agriculture, industry, and services and reduce poverty. More details of the title, India and the Knowledge Economy: Leveraging Strengths and Opportunities by Carl Dahlman , Anuja Utz, Published July 2005, List US$ 25.00 are available at http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=4855483 Monitor Information Services, Hyderabad will provide Free Copies of this useful title to a limited number of small libraries across India. Please send your Library details in the format below to monitorsales(a)gmail.com Name of Library / Institution Contact Person's Name and E-Mail id Postal Address with Telephone numbers Free Copies will be sent by paid Courier/Regd Book Post and the recipient libraries name will be forwarded to this forum. I sincerely hope that small libraries will avail of this free offer. Best Wishes ++ Mukesh ++ - - Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing Monitor Information Services # 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Narayanguda, Opp. Deepak Theatre, Hyderabad - 500 029, India Telephone: 040-55787065 Fax: +91-40-27552390 http://www.monitorinfo.com Importers n Distributors of Technical Publications Dear Professionals The World Bank has just published a title which directs suggests India to use knowledge more effectively to raise the productivity of agriculture, industry, and services and reduce poverty. More details of the title, India and the Knowledge Economy: Leveraging Strengths and Opportunities by Carl Dahlman , Anuja Utz, Published July 2005, List US$ 25.00 are available at http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=4855483 http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=4855483 Monitor Information Services, Hyderabad will provide Free Copies of this useful title to a limited number of small libraries across India. Please send your Library details in the format below to mailto:monitorsales@gmail.com monitorsales(a)gmail.com Name of Library / Institution Contact Person's Name and E-Mail id Postal Address with Telephone numbers Free Copies will be sent by paid Courier/Regd Book Post and the recipient libraries name will be forwarded to this forum. I sincerely hope that small libraries will avail of this free offer. Best Wishes ++ Mukesh ++ - - Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing Monitor Information Services # 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Narayanguda, Opp. Deepak Theatre, Hyderabad - 500 029, India Telephone: 040-55787065 Fax: +91-40-27552390 http://www.monitorinfo.com http://www.monitorinfo.com Importers n Distributors of Technical Publications

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Workshop & Training Details
by Mailing List Manager 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 18:42:30 +0530 From: Saiful Amin <mail2saiful(a)gmail.com> Hi, You can visit the following site for information on upcoming programmes: http://www.infolibrarian.com/conf.htm Regards, Saiful On 7/11/05, Radheshyam yadav <shyamtyadav(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote:=0D > =0D > Dear=0D > =0D > Please let me know details of next coming workshop or training programe i= n =0D > Library science field. I will be very grateful if you could kindly send m= e =0D > details of workshop and training programe.=0D > =0D > I am also looking training programe on information technology like digita= l =0D > libraries, information management, Internet services etc.=0D > =0D > With regards,=0D > Radheshyam Yadav=0D > Cairn Energy India Pty Ltd.=0D > Information Management,=0D > Surat,=0D > Ph. 0261-2862792=0D > Mobile: 09898065128=0D > =0D > Free=0D > antispam, antivirus and 1GB to save all your messages=0D > Only in Yahoo! Mail: http://in.mail.yahoo.com=0D > =0D > =0D > _______________________________________________=0D > LIS-Forum mailing list=0D > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in=0D > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum=0D > =0D > =0D > =0D -- =0D Saiful Amin=0D Information Specialist=0D Edutech India=0D 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road=0D Chennai 600006, India=0D Tel: +91 44 2833 0999=0D GSM: +91 98407 76214=0D Fax: +91 44 2833 1777=0D www.edutechindia.com <http://www.edutechindia.com>=0D "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong."=0D ------=_Part_9747_5830260.1121087550201 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline You can visit the following site for information on upcoming programmes: http://www.infolibrarian.com/conf.htm http://www.infolibrarian.com/conf.htm Regards, Saiful On 7/11/05, Radheshyam yadav < mailto:shyamtyadav@yahoo.co.in shyamtyadav(a)yahoo.co.in > wrote: Dear Please let me know details of next coming workshop or training programe in = Library science field. I will be very grateful if you could kindly send me = details of workshop and training programe. I am also looking training programe on information technology like digital = libraries, information management, Internet services etc. With regards, Radheshyam Yadav Cairn Energy India Pty Ltd. Information Management, Surat, Ph. 0261-2862792 Mobile: 09898065128 Free antispam, antivirus and 1GB to save all your messages Only in Yahoo! Mail: http://in.mail.yahoo.com http://in.mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ 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 -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 GSM: +91 98407 76214 Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 http://www.edutechindia.com www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." ------=_Part_9747_5830260.1121087550201--

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Apply for B.Lib and MLIS
by Mailing List Manager 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

Date: 11 Jul 2005 12:18:32 -0000 From: akhtar hussain <ahussain2(a)rediffmail.com> � Dear Candidates: Those of you who are interested in applying for the said courses for the academic years, 2005-2006, may write to: DEPPARTMENT OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE, CCS,UNIV of MEERUT. You may please IMMEDIATLY CONTACT MR JAMAL AHMAD SIDDIQUI(CO-ORDINATOR,DEPP. OF LIBRARY &INFORMATION SCIENCE,CCS,U,MEERUT). CONTACT. NO. 09837206030 BY AKHTAR HUSSAIN FACULTY DEPT.LIB.&INFOR.SC. CCSU,MEERUT ahussain2(a)rediffmail.com abdul_mlis(a)yahoo.com

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PNAS digitally archived back to 1915 (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:01:01 EDT From: "Kendall, George" <GKendall(a)nas.edu> To: liblicense-l(a)lists.yale.edu Subject: PNAS digitally archived back to 1915 I am posting the following on behalf of the PNAS publisher, Ken Fulton: The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) is pleased to announce that its legacy content dating back to volume 1, issue 1, in 1915 is now digitally archived, searchable, and freely available on the PNAS web site at www.pnas.org <http://www.pnas.org/> . PNAS presents its free digital archive in conjunction with its 90th anniversary. The digital collection spans nearly a century of seminal scientific research, and comprises more than 390,000 pages and 80,000 articles. We encourage everyone to browse and read the PNAS digital collection, which contains research of exceptional importance and broad interest. PNAS is a break-even operation and relies about equally on author fees and on subscription fees to cover its operating costs. PNAS subscribers gain access to the most recent 6 months of published content. Sincerely, Ken Fulton Publisher, PNAS

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RE: [LIS-Forum] This library is for the kids only!
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

Dear Friends, I thank Prronima Narayan, Ravindran of NCSI, Geetha Venkatraman of TCS, B Sanjay of Infosys, SM Pujar of IGDIR, and others giving me contact details for Hippocampus. I shall contact Mr Malhotra directly. Thanks for all the overwhelming help. Vyasamoorthy, P -----Original Message----- From: Poornima Narayan [mailto:poornima@css.nal.res.in] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 4:14 PM To: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] This library is for the kids only! Dear Dr. Vyasamoorthy "Hippocampus' is generally closed on mondays so I could not contact him personally. However, I am furnishing his official contact address. 'Hippocampus" 525, 16th Main Road, 3rd Block, Koramangala, Bangalore 560 034. # 080-25630206 He is ususally at his work spot by 11 a.m. Poornima Narayana On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com wrote: > *********************** > Your mail has been scanned by InterScan MSS. > *********************** > > > Dear Friends, > > Please see the Rediff Story below. > > Can some Bangalore based friend furnish the contact address of Mr Malhotra? > > Thanks > > Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, > ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, > RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA > Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com > Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631 > ================================ > > http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2005/jul/09spec1.htm > > This library is for the kids only! > > Arati Menon Carroll | July 09, 2005 > > > >From 10 years at Infosys to founder CEO of the high-profile IT company Bangalore Labs, three years ago Umesh Malhotra looked every bit the typical corporate executive. Then in 2002, after selling Bangalore Labs to PlanetOne Asia, Malhotra put his cash to good use and chased a nagging dream. By March 2003, Hippocampus, Malhotra's very own library for Bangalore's children, was up and running. > > >From IT to I Read > I have an engineering degree from IIT Chennai. I picked up the first job I was offered on campus, at a then little known IT company called Infosys Technologies. After 10 years at Infosys, managing their electronics payment vertical, my business vertical contributed 5 per cent of company revenue. > > I quit in 1999 to start Bangalore Labs, an IT infrastructure management company. Two-and-a-half years later, we sold the company. I quit IT and followed my dream to start a children's library. > > What is Hippocampus? > Hippocampus is not a library, or a club, a work shop, or a community centre -- it is all that and more. We call it an experience centre -- a vibrant and dynamic environment offering an almost endless range of opportunities from every area of life. > > Today, the Hippocampus library has more than 7,000 books for children to choose from. Children can choose and watch DVDs in the film room, or play games on the available PCs. > > Kids can choose from six Hippocampus clubs -- the Art Club, Music club, Journalism Club (a club which lets them start their own newspaper), Nature Club, Cooking Club and the Adventure Club -- and participate in themed monthly activities and creative learning forums. > > The inspiration > Before I quit Infosys, my wife and I spent 18 months in the US and were astounded by all that a child there is exposed to in terms of education and hands-on experience. There were public libraries in every neighbourhood. > > Here you could find children of all ages engaged in reading, working on school projects or checking out activities and workshops that they could sign up for during the course of the year. > > And all this, amazingly, was free. When we came back to India, in 1999, we realised that although an enormous number of children's books are published each year, children in India have hardly any access to them. While the inspiration for Hippocampus came from American public libraries, the concept itself took a life of its own. > > Not just a library for rich kids > Our experience centre in Bangalore's Koramangala residential area was set up for privileged children. In December 2004, we opened a second centre. But we're far from being just a library for rich kids. > > The Hippocampus Reading Foundation, which we set up together with our non-profit partners like the Akshara Foundation, among others, is involved in setting up libraries for kids in slum communities, government schools, and NGO-run schools. > > We currently run 38 such libraries. They have to prove that they are serious enough about the cause to raise a one-time investment of Rs 5,000 per 20 kids. After that, we work with them on an ongoing basis for free. > > We have also introduced a reading reward system whereby children are positively reinforced for their reading habits, with quarterly day trips organised for winners. > > Where do we go from here? > Ultimately, we want all children to read. Just this week, along with Wipro, we began a pilot run of taking over library transformations in lower income group schools. We loan the initial investment to these schools who repay based on an affordable installment plan. > > This is not a business opportunity, it was born out of the realisation that we need to fix a problem in school libraries and that all our work can't be outside schools. We want our entire reading programme to be built around a sustainable model. > > We charge our beneficiaries in different segments based on their income levels. Today, because our work with less privileged children has expanded so much, we're running on a bit of a deficit. > > But we're working on alternative revenue streams like developing reading fluency assessment tests that we can then sell to mainstream schools for profit. In two years, our entire programme will be self-sustaining. > Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, > ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, > RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA > Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com > Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631 > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > -- 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

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This library is for the kids only!
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

Dear Friends, Please see the Rediff Story below. Can some Bangalore based friend furnish the contact address of Mr Malhotra? Thanks Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631 ================================ http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2005/jul/09spec1.htm This library is for the kids only! Arati Menon Carroll | July 09, 2005 >From 10 years at Infosys to founder CEO of the high-profile IT company Bangalore Labs, three years ago Umesh Malhotra looked every bit the typical corporate executive. Then in 2002, after selling Bangalore Labs to PlanetOne Asia, Malhotra put his cash to good use and chased a nagging dream. By March 2003, Hippocampus, Malhotra's very own library for Bangalore's children, was up and running. >From IT to I Read I have an engineering degree from IIT Chennai. I picked up the first job I was offered on campus, at a then little known IT company called Infosys Technologies. After 10 years at Infosys, managing their electronics payment vertical, my business vertical contributed 5 per cent of company revenue. I quit in 1999 to start Bangalore Labs, an IT infrastructure management company. Two-and-a-half years later, we sold the company. I quit IT and followed my dream to start a children's library. What is Hippocampus? Hippocampus is not a library, or a club, a work shop, or a community centre -- it is all that and more. We call it an experience centre -- a vibrant and dynamic environment offering an almost endless range of opportunities from every area of life. Today, the Hippocampus library has more than 7,000 books for children to choose from. Children can choose and watch DVDs in the film room, or play games on the available PCs. Kids can choose from six Hippocampus clubs -- the Art Club, Music club, Journalism Club (a club which lets them start their own newspaper), Nature Club, Cooking Club and the Adventure Club -- and participate in themed monthly activities and creative learning forums. The inspiration Before I quit Infosys, my wife and I spent 18 months in the US and were astounded by all that a child there is exposed to in terms of education and hands-on experience. There were public libraries in every neighbourhood. Here you could find children of all ages engaged in reading, working on school projects or checking out activities and workshops that they could sign up for during the course of the year. And all this, amazingly, was free. When we came back to India, in 1999, we realised that although an enormous number of children's books are published each year, children in India have hardly any access to them. While the inspiration for Hippocampus came from American public libraries, the concept itself took a life of its own. Not just a library for rich kids Our experience centre in Bangalore's Koramangala residential area was set up for privileged children. In December 2004, we opened a second centre. But we're far from being just a library for rich kids. The Hippocampus Reading Foundation, which we set up together with our non-profit partners like the Akshara Foundation, among others, is involved in setting up libraries for kids in slum communities, government schools, and NGO-run schools. We currently run 38 such libraries. They have to prove that they are serious enough about the cause to raise a one-time investment of Rs 5,000 per 20 kids. After that, we work with them on an ongoing basis for free. We have also introduced a reading reward system whereby children are positively reinforced for their reading habits, with quarterly day trips organised for winners. Where do we go from here? Ultimately, we want all children to read. Just this week, along with Wipro, we began a pilot run of taking over library transformations in lower income group schools. We loan the initial investment to these schools who repay based on an affordable installment plan. This is not a business opportunity, it was born out of the realisation that we need to fix a problem in school libraries and that all our work can't be outside schools. We want our entire reading programme to be built around a sustainable model. We charge our beneficiaries in different segments based on their income levels. Today, because our work with less privileged children has expanded so much, we're running on a bit of a deficit. But we're working on alternative revenue streams like developing reading fluency assessment tests that we can then sell to mainstream schools for profit. In two years, our entire programme will be self-sustaining. Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631

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A9 launched OpenSearch
by Madhuresh 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

"We want OpenSearch to do for search what RSS has done for content." OpenSearch is a collection of technologies, all built on top of popular open standards, to allow content providers to publish their search results in a format suitable for syndication. You can see how this works on A9.com. Many sites today return search results as a tightly integrated part of the website itself. Unfortunately, those search results can't be easily reused or made available elsewhere, as they are usually wrapped in HTML and don't follow any one convention. OpenSearch offers an alternative: an open format that will enable those search results to be displayed anywhere, anytime. Rather than introduce yet another proprietary or closed protocol, OpenSearch is a straightforward and backward-compatible extension of RSS 2.0, the widely adopted XML-based format for content syndication. Any site that has content-and a search box-can choose to return results in OpenSearch RSS. This includes travel sites, classifieds, encyclopedias.... If you can provide search results for something, it probably can fit into the OpenSearch model. Returning OpenSearch results is easy-the format is the standard set of XML elements, plus three additional elements designed to support navigation between pages. OpenSearch is comprised of: OpenSearch RSS: XML format for providing open search results. OpenSearch Description Documents: XML files that identify and describe a search engine. OpenSearch Aggregators: Sites, such as A9.com, that can display OpenSearch results. OpenSearch is not a search engine-it is a way for search engines to publish their search results in a standard and accessible format. And because OpenSearch is built on top of standard RSS, existing tools-such as blog readers-can read OpenSearch results natively. While existing RSS tools can't take advantage of all of the advanced features that OpenSearch offers, this backward compatibility guarantees a rich set of client applications for OpenSearch today. This item is taken from http://opensearch.a9.com/ Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 212 Mobile 98861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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xqDoc
by Madhuresh 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

After several months of development, Elsevier, Inc. announced the initial release of xqDoc, an open source XQuery documentation tool. See details at http://www.xqdoc.org XQuery, under development by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (http://www.w3.org/XML/Query), is a new query/programming language based on XML and used in conjunction with XML databases such as MarkLogic (http://www.marklogic.com), a commercial database, and eXist (http://exist.sourceforge.net) on the open source side. As XQuery applications became more complex, it became evident that a tool was needed to assist with documenting the ever growing and equally complex XQuery modules. xqDoc provides a simple vendor neutral solution for documenting XQuery library and main modules, as well as tools to generate a user friendly presentation of this documentation and cross referencing information. This is being accomplished through (4) specific components: 1. xqDoc proposes a new commenting convention that extends the currently defined XQuery comment style. This convention is modeled after Java's Javadoc commenting style, and provides a simple, uniform way to document XQuery source code. 2. xqDoc defines a standard xqDoc XML schema. This schema provides a neutral format for storing information for user-defined XQuery modules as well as 3rd party proprietary functions that may be implemented in other programming languages. 3. xqDoc provides a vendor neutral Java based conversion package that parses an XQuery library or main module and generates an xqDoc XML document modelled after the xqDoc XML schema. Support for specific XML database platforms is provided by writing vendor specific drivers to store the generated xqDoc XML into the vendor's database. 4. xqDoc provides a vendor neutral presentation component, consisting of XQuery main modules and a library module, that can process the xqDoc XML document(s) stored in a XML database and generate an extensively hyperlinked XHTML navigation interface. This news item is picked up from Elsevier and xqDoc website. Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 212 Mobile 98861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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TWIKI Blog
by Mailing List Manager 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:56:54 +0530 From: Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna(a)i2.com Dear Professionals, I want to know whether anybody using TWIKI, an opensource blog in their organisation??? I am having some problem while downloading the files from the site on windows platform.... Thanks Sreeharsha BG ************************************************** Values are more important than People...!!! **************************************************

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Workshop & Training Details
by Radheshyam yadav 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

Dear Please let me know details of next coming workshop or training programe in Library science field. I will be very grateful if you could kindly send me details of workshop and training programe. I am also looking training programe on information technology like digital libraries, information management, Internet services etc. With regards, Radheshyam Yadav Cairn Energy India Pty Ltd. Information Management, Surat, Ph. 0261-2862792 Mobile: 09898065128 --------------------------------- Free antispam, antivirus and 1GB to save all your messages Only in Yahoo! Mail: http://in.mail.yahoo.com Dear Please let me know details of next coming workshop or training programe in Library science field. I will be very grateful if you could kindly send me details of workshop and training programe. I am also looking training programe on information technology like digital libraries, information management, Internet services etc. With regards, Radheshyam Yadav Cairn Energy India Pty Ltd. Information Management, Surat, Ph. 0261-2862792 Mobile: 09898065128 Free antispam, antivirus and 1GB to save all your messages Only in Yahoo! Mail: http://in.mail.yahoo.com

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Wiki for LIS
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Here is a Wiki for the LIS Professionals http://www.liswiki.com/wiki/Main_Page Thanks Sreeharsha BG **************************************** Universe is Vast and Sometimes Dark... But you are not all alone...!!!

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Reasearch Topics for PhD in Library & INformation Science.
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Dear Friends, Quite often many librarians wishing to do PhD ask me what topic they should choose. Though I am at a loss to answer such a pround question, I would like to re-circulate a list of topics that I complied some years ago. Some topics might still interest current day researchers. Best wishes Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631 =============== Now for the list ============ 1. Professional associations and their role in the development of the LIS: IASLIC. ILA. IATLIS, SIS. ALSD. APLA. etc. Role in training of professionals, dissemination of professional information, safeguarding professional interests, etc. 2. House journals as sources of technical information: A look into the structure. contents. availability. bias. price and procurability can be studied. 3. Analysis of employment opportunities for library professionals: Who employs whom-what are entry qualifications, salary. pay-scales, promotional avenues and opportunities, language preferences. etc. 4. Book review as source of book selection: Assessment of book reviews-content, bias, timeliness, criticality, objectivity, comprehensiveness, authority, etc. 5. Bibliotherapy under Indian situation: A study of use of books and reading to cure certain chronic diseases and mental disorders. Libraries in hospitals. availability of trained manpower in this regard. 6. Conferences/seminars-resolutions and their implementation: resolutions adopted in several national conferences / seminars / symposia and their implementation. 7. Indian dissertations/theses as cited documents: Analysis of the citation of dissertations/theses in LIS published/unpublished by other researchers/authors in LIS. 8. Occupational health hazards of library personnel: allergic problems from dust, age, problems in using chemicals in photocopying, book preservations, binding; problems with user community (burn out issues) 9. Indian patents and their use: availability of patent literature in libraries. Its use, indexing patterns, awareness among user community, availability, etc. 10. Survey of Indian software packages for library automation: a survey of software packages brought out by private companies -hardware/software requirements, compatibility, user friendliness, etc. 11. Study of title and content pages of Indian publications: insufficient data, variant data, ambiguity, authorship, price, disfigurement, etc. 12. Book indexes in Indian texts: indexes and their usefulness, comprehensiveness, correctness, arrangement, style, reader's view, etc. 13. Role of media on library movement and development: analysis of articles appeared in newspapers, radio talks, telecasts on library development, their role in public opinion, legislation, etc. 14. Women librarians/LIS teachers in India: role, impact, parity, contribution, etc. 15. Problems of non-use and misuse of library materials: vandalism, theft, loss of books, security aspects; less used and unused books, weeding out policy, etc. 16. Survey of map libraries/tape libraries, etc. 17. Philosophical basis for Ranganathan's Five Fundamental Categories. 18. Universe of knowledge: the Indian conception - its treatment in ancient Indian classics. 19. Notational techniques in DOC, CC and UDC. 20. Study of auxiliaries in DOC, CC and UDC. Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631

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KALA AGM and Elections
by I.R.N.Goudar 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Dear friends, I am happy to learn that AGM of Karanataka State Library Association has been convenede on Saturday, 9th July 2005 at 4.00 pm at Granthangana, City Central Libary, RPC Layout (Near last RPC Layout Bus stop), Vijayanagar. KALA being apex state level LIS Professionl Association we need to attend this meeting in large number and make the meeting a success and more meaningful event. There is a need to look at the meeting with a broad and true spirit to fulfill the aspirations of peers who have nurtured KALA all these days. The entire Govering Body and members need to be active not just the key office bearers. There should be good coordination between various LIS Associations atleast at state level. We have to set up a Web site of KALA with all details and links to other LIS Professional Associations within and out side the country. It is my personal request to all members of KALA to attend the meeting and give useful suggestions and elect competent Governing Body representing all sectors like Schools, Colleges, Engineering & Medical colleges, Universities, Institutions, Corporate Bodies, etc. It is my feeing that participation should be by all regions of Karnataka and also out of state and not just Bangalore based members. I also suggest the presence of interested non-members as observers in the interest of KALA. Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

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Yahoo rolls out SMS web search for mobiles
by Rashid Hussain 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Yahoo has rolled out a new mobile search service that lets users in US send short text message queries and retrieve results from their mobile phones. BEIJING, July 8 -- Yahoo has rolled out a new mobile search service that lets users in US send short text message queries and retrieve results from their mobile phones. The new service, called SMS Short Message Service) Search, is designed to let people get specific information, such as weather, stock quotes and business addresses, and use shortcuts on the keypad to take less time for users to input their queries. For example, typing in "w" and the ZIP code will retrieve a short weather forecast, Yahoo said. The tool was announced Thursday. If the information sought is not included in the first set of results, users can request and receive additional input. People also can save the responses and reply to them repeatedly over time to get updates of the same information, such as stock quotes for a particular company. In addition, Yahoo also said that it was expanding its Yahoo Search on Mobile, which was previously available only on advanced phones such as the Treo. Now any Wireless Application Protocol-enabled phone, which includes most mobile phones with a color screen, can do Web searches. Last October, Google, the No. 1 Web search engine, launched its own service that let users use mobile phones or handheld devices to do Web searches using text messages, or short message service, which is also known as SMS. Unlike Google, however, once a user retrieves a reply from Yahoo's text message search service, they can refresh it without having to retype the query, said Thad White, who runs mobile services for Yahoo. That could be useful, he added, for retrieving the latest stock quote on a company. Source: http://news3.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-07/08/content_3190985.htm Thanks & Regards = = = = = = = = = = = Rashid Hussain Siddiqui Project Assistant Digital Library, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science Jayanagar, Bangalore : 560041 Phone No. : 080-26540930 e-mail : ras.botlib(a)gmail.com Homepage : http://www.drtc.isibang.ac.in/~hussain = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet. Samuel NIGER (1883-1956) --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail for Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. Yahoo has rolled out a new mobile search service that lets users in US send short text message queries and retrieve results from their mobile phones. BEIJING, July 8 -- Yahoo has rolled out a new mobile search service that lets users in US send short text message queries and retrieve results from their mobile phones. The new service, called SMS Short Message Service) Search, is designed to let people get specific information, such as weather, stock quotes and business addresses, and use shortcuts on the keypad to take less time for users to input their queries. For example, typing in "w" and the ZIP code will retrieve a short weather forecast, Yahoo said. The tool was announced Thursday. If the information sought is not included in the first set of results, users can request and receive additional input. People also can save the responses and reply to them repeatedly over time to get updates of the same information, such as stock quotes for a particular company. In addition, Yahoo also said that it was expanding its Yahoo Search on Mobile, which was previously available only on advanced phones such as the Treo. Now any Wireless Application Protocol-enabled phone, which includes most mobile phones with a color screen, can do Web searches. Last October, Google, the No. 1 Web search engine, launched its own service that let users use mobile phones or handheld devices to do Web searches using text messages, or short message service, which is also known as SMS. Unlike Google, however, once a user retrieves a reply from Yahoo's text message search service, they can refresh it without having to retype the query, said Thad White, who runs mobile services for Yahoo. That could be useful, he added, for retrieving the latest stock quote on a company. Source: http://news3.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-07/08/content_3190985.htm http://news3.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-07/08/content_3190985.htm Thanks & Regards = = = = = = = = = = = Rashid Hussain Siddiqui Project Assistant Digital Library, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science Jayanagar, Bangalore : 560041 Phone No. : 080-26540930 e-mail : ras.botlib(a)gmail.com Homepage : http://www.drtc.isibang.ac.in/~hussain = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet. Samuel NIGER (1883-1956) Yahoo! Mail for Mobile http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=31132/*http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone.

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ISBN standard will change from 10 digits to 13 digits from 1 January 2007
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 21:07:38 +0530 From: Bhojaraju Gunjal <bhojaraju.g(a)gmail.com> Dear Colleagues, ISBN standard will change from 10 digits to 13 digits from 1 January 2007 ** *The new ISBN-13* ** Information for Publishers The International Standard Book Number standard will change from 10 digits to 13 digits from 1 January 2007. A summary of the details of this change follows. Why revise the ISBN standard? To increase the numbering capacity of the ISBN system (owing to the increase of electronic publications and the resulting proliferation of editions and formats). 1. To make the ISBN totally compatible with the EAN-13 used for other products and supply chains. 2. To decide whether and how the ISBN is assigned to certain types of monographic publications (e.g. digital files; print-on-demand materials; discrete parts of monographic publications). 3. To specify the authority to assign ISBN and the administration of the ISBN system. Pl refer http://www.thorpe.com.au/isbn/isbn13.htm Thanks & Regards Bhojaraju G, Librarian � Knowledge Management, (Sharepoint Administrator) Homepage: http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com KM-Forum Moderator : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/ ************************************************************************************************ ICICI OneSource Ltd. 148, Bhaskara Plaza, R.V.Road, V.V.Puram, Bangalore - 560 004, INDIA. Tel:+9180-2650 2540 Ext:103 Fax:+9180-2650 2086 Cell:+91-944 836 9905 E-mail: bhojarajug(a)yahoo.com ************************************************************************************************

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(no subject)
by Dr.H.S.Siddamallaiah 07 Jul '05

07 Jul '05

Remainder This is to remind all the members of the KALA- Karnataka State Library Association that the Annual General Body Meeting and the election of Governing Body members will conducted on Saturday, 9th July 2005. As per the bye law of the association the election will be held among the members attended the meeting. The members present in the meeting are eligible for both contesting the election and to vote the candidates. Details of the meeting are as follows Karnataka State Library Association ® C/o Canara Bank School of Management Sciences Central College campus Bangalore University, Bangalore-1 No.KALA/AGM/2001-2005/june18 AGM notification Annual General-body Meeting (AGM) of KALA is convened on 9th July 2005, Saturday, at 4.00 PM. All the members are requested to make it convenient to attend the AGM. Venue: Granthangana, City Central Library, RPC layout (near Bus stop) Vijayanagar, Bangalore- 560040 AGENDA: 1. Tabling Annual report 2001- 2005 2. Tabling Audited statement report 2001-2005 3. Election of Governing body members - Election Officer- Sri.N.V.Sathyanarayana, Informatics 4. Official announcement of elected GB members by election officer 5. Presidents Address Dr.H.S.Siddamallaiah, President KALA will preside over the meeting Dr.H.S.Siddamallaiah President KALA Ms.R.Adilakshmi General Secretary, KALA

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New Working Title for AACR3 - RDA
by Indira Koneru 06 Jul '05

06 Jul '05

Dear Professionals, Joint Steering Committee (JSC) has decided on a new working title for new cataloguing code "Resource Description and Access" (RDA) rather than a new edition of AACR, with a different approach, to accommodate rules for mixed and multi media materials. One can capture the relevant news and announcement from the following link http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/current.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Indira K. Faculty Associate Dept. of Library Science ICFAI University 25, Nagarjuna Hills Hyderabad-500 082 E-mail: indk68(a)hotmail.com Dear Professionals, Joint Steering Committee (JSC) has decided on a new working title for new cataloguing code "Resource Description and Access" (RDA) rather than a new edition of AACR, with a different approach, to accommodate rules for mixed and multi media materials. One can capture the relevant news and announcement from the following link http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/current.html http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/current.html Indira K. Faculty Associate Dept. of Library Science ICFAI University 25, Nagarjuna Hills Hyderabad-500 082 E-mail: mailto:indk68@hotmail.com indk68(a)hotmail.com

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Waiting for Positive Response
by Sukhdev Singh 06 Jul '05

06 Jul '05

Dear fellow professionals, If you remember, last week I had made an appeal. However, I got just one response that too from NCSI. I am still hopeful that professionals working in institutions dealing with Bio-Medical Sciences will make their scientist aware of self-archiving and OpenMED@NIC i.e. http://openmed.nic.in . Although it is not doing that bad, but still I feel, our professionals should take active interest in it. As of now it seems people from other fields are much more active and vocal. I therefore request you to make scientists of your organisation aware in self-arching. It really does NOT matter if they archive in OpenMED , http://openmed.nic.in or some other reliable and persistant archive. The thing that really matters is that WHAT IS OUR CONTRIBUTION in this Open Access and Self - Archiving movement. If you are planing to conduct such awareness programmes and need some of my time. Please let me know. Waiting for Positive Response. One of you, Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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vacancy for Asst.Librarian
by d.v. patwardhan 06 Jul '05

06 Jul '05

To: The System Manager, LIS-Forum Dear Sir, Sub: Candidates for the post of Assistant Librarian. Please announce the following Advertisement relating to vacancy for a post in the Library of Global Academy of Technology, Rajarajeshwari Nagar, Bangalore560098, in LIS-Forum. D.V.Patwardhan Librarian, G.A.T., Bangalore-560098 Tel: 080-28603158 (O), 080-23409134 (Res. After 7 p.m.) ---------------------------------------------------- A post of Assistant Librarian will fall vacant from 1st August 2005 requiring following qualification and experience. Qualification: Any Degree with M.L.I.Sc. and working knowledge of any Library software Package; Experience: One/Two year in a College Library. Pay: State Govt. scale (min.Rs.8000/-). Interested candidates may please send their Resume with Passport size colour photograph, copies of marks cards and Certificates to: The Principal, Global Academy of Technology, Ideal Homes Township, Rajarajeshwari Nagar, Bangalore560098, within ten days. The candidates should provide two references of persons of repute. The candidates should be willing to attend interview at their cost. ----------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail for Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail

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science research in India- two articles are there in this message
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

UK seeks views on 'science for development' strategy David Dickson 29 June 2005 Source: SciDev.Net The British government has launched an online consultation to seek guidance on how it should support science and innovation as part of its international aid programme. The consultation was launched this week by Gordon Conway, the former president of the Rockefeller Foundation, who was appointed chief scientist at the Department for International Development (DFID) earlier this year and is currently drawing up a science and innovation strategy for the department. According to Conway, developing the new strategy is one of his "highest priorities". It is intended not only to describe the current activities of the UK government in this area, but also provide a "scientific lens" for DFID thinking, and for its future policy development (see Six components for science in poor nations). "I am keen to seek views on the strategy, and learn from the wealth of knowledge, experience and new and exciting thinking that exists, not only in the international community and in DFID itself but particularly among our partners in developing countries," Conway said in a statement issued on Tuesday (28 June). The Science and Innovation Strategy is expected to be published by the end of 2005. In addition to influencing DFID's own thinking, it will also contribute to the delivery of the UK's ten-year investment framework for science and development, launched by finance minister Gordon Brown last year. Earlier this year, DFID was criticised by a UK parliamentary committee for not making a greater contribution to the initial design of this ten-year framework, which lays out a plan for significantly increasing government support for science and technology in Britain but has relatively little to say about how much of this should be aimed at helping developing countries. DFID officials say that the consultation is intended to pose a range of questions about how the department engages with science and innovation, whether internally, as part of the international community, or in developing countries. "By 'science' we refer to the full spectrum of natural and social sciences, engineering and technology. 'Innovation' refers to the successful application of new ideas, from cutting edge research to the application of established technologies to meet the challenges faced by the very poorest," says a statement issued by the department. Officials say that the online consultation is intended to help the department increase its effectiveness, and to establish future priorities for supporting science and innovation for development. However, they add that although the strategy will be used "to inform and influence resource allocation processes", the consultation "is not an opportunity to bid directly for DFID funds". Contributions should be submitted no later than 19 September 2005. To contribute, please visit the consultation website at http://www.dfid.gov.uk/consultations/. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- India to revitalise science research in universities T. V. Padma 1 July 2005 Source: SciDev.Net [NEW DELHI] The Indian government has announced it will create 1,000 new positions for researchers at its universities and set up centres in them to promote collaborative research. The moves are among recommendations made by a committee set up in March to suggest ways of improving research in basic sciences in India. The government said on 15 June that it would implement all the committee's recommendations, whose projected cost is six billion rupees (US$138 million) per year. Two 'networking centres' each, housed in Indian universities, will be set up for physics, chemistry, biology, material sciences and mathematics. The centres will promote collaborative research, and provide both training and access to advanced research facilities. The government has agreed to support the centres on a long-term basis to help them become internationally competitive. The committee also stressed the need for India to fill the large number of faculty positions that have been vacant in its universities for many years, and to create 1,000 additional research posts including lecturers and professors. Although there are no official figures for the number of vacancies in science faculties, Arun Nigavekar, chair of the University Grants Commission told SciDev.Net that across all disciplines, an average of 25 per cent of faculty positions in India are lying vacant. The government plans to phase in the new positions over the next five years, but, according to Nigavekar, has yet to decide whether the posts new as well as existing vacant ones would be filled on a permanent or on a tenure basis. The committee also set a target of increasing five-fold the number of science doctorates awarded in India by 2015. In the 2001-2002 academic year, just over 4,000 PhDs in science subjects were awarded, according to the latest figures from the University Grants Commission. The committee suggested the minimum qualification for a lecturer in the university science departments should be a PhD, except for departments in engineering and medicine where a lecturer could initially be appointed with an M.Tech/MD or MSc, but must acquire a PhD within seven years of appointment. Another key recommendation included promoting formal links between universities and national science institutes through joint research projects and training programmes, as well as encouraging collaboration with industries and user organisations for technologies. Women scientists should be encouraged to take up careers in basic science by removing age barriers currently 28 years for a junior research fellowship and introducing flexible time management at work to help them balance their personal and professional responsibilities. The government's latest move comes in the wake of concern voiced repeatedly by senior scientists, science policymakers and even Indian prime ministers, on the decline of science education and research in basic sciences in Indian universities. "Pure sciences are definitely some of the disciplines we need to pay attention to urgently," says Nigavekar. To address some of these issues, the University Grants Commission has initiated steps to increase funds to upgrade science laboratories, improve Internet connectivity to universities and colleges and improve the quality of teaching and distance education. Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PCcalling worldwide with voicemail UK seeks views on 'science for development' strategy David Dickson 29 June 2005 Source: SciDev.Net The British government has launched an online consultation to seek guidance on how it should support science and innovation as part of its international aid programme. The consultation was launched this week by Gordon Conway, the former president of the Rockefeller Foundation, who was appointed chief scientist at the Department for International Development (DFID) earlier this year and is currently drawing up a science and innovation strategy for the department. According to Conway , developing the new strategy is one of his "highest priorities". It is intended not only to describe the current activities of the UK government in this area, but also provide a "scientific lens" for DFID thinking, and for its future policy development (see http://www.scidev.net/content/news/eng/six-components-for-science-in-poor-n… Six components for science in poor nations ). "I am keen to seek views on the strategy, and learn from the wealth of knowledge, experience and new and exciting thinking that exists, not only in the international community and in DFID itself but particularly among our partners in developing countries," Conway said in a statement issued on Tuesday (28 June). The Science and Innovation Strategy is expected to be published by the end of 2005. In addition to influencing DFID's own thinking, it will also contribute to the delivery of the UK 's ten-year investment framework for science and development, launched by finance minister Gordon Brown last year. Earlier this year, DFID was criticised by a UK parliamentary committee for not making a greater contribution to the initial design of this ten-year framework, which lays out a plan for significantly increasing government support for science and technology in Britain but has relatively little to say about how much of this should be aimed at helping developing countries. DFID officials say that the consultation is intended to pose a range of questions about how the department engages with science and innovation, whether internally, as part of the international community, or in developing countries. "By 'science' we refer to the full spectrum of natural and social sciences, engineering and technology. 'Innovation' refers to the successful application of new ideas, from cutting edge research to the application of established technologies to meet the challenges faced by the very poorest," says a statement issued by the department. Officials say that the online consultation is intended to help the department increase its effectiveness, and to establish future priorities for supporting science and innovation for development. However, they add that although the strategy will be used "to inform and influence resource allocation processes", the consultation "is not an opportunity to bid directly for DFID funds". Contributions should be submitted no later than 19 September 2005 . To contribute, please visit the consultation website at http://www.dfid.gov.uk/consultations/ http://www.dfid.gov.uk/consultations/ . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- India to revitalise science research in universities T. V. Padma 1 July 2005 Source: SciDev.Net [ NEW DELHI ] The Indian government has announced it will create 1,000 new positions for researchers at its univ! ersities and set up centres in them to promote collaborative research. The moves are among recommendations made by a committee set up in March to suggest ways of improving research in basic sciences in India . The government said on 15 June that it would implement all the committee's recommendations, whose projected cost is six billion rupees (US$138 million) per year. Two 'networking centres' each, housed in Indian universities, will be set up for physics, chemistry, biology, material sciences and mathematics. The centres will promote collaborative research, and provide both training and access to advanced research facilities. The government has agreed to support the centres on a long-term basis to help them become internationally competitive. The committee also stressed the need for India to fill the large number of faculty positions that have been vacant in its universities for many years, and to create 1,000 additional research posts including lecturers and professors. Although there are no official figures for the number of vacancies in science faculties, Arun Nigavekar, chair of the University Grants Commission told SciDev.Net that across all disciplines, an average of 25 per cent of faculty positions in India are lying vacant. The government plans to phase in the new positions over the next five years, but, according to Nigavekar, has yet to decide whether the posts new as well as existing vacant ones would be filled on a permanent or on a tenure basis. The committee also set a target of increasing five-fold the number of science doctorates awarded in India by 2015. In the 2001-2002 academic year, just over 4,000 PhDs in science subjects were awarded, according to the latest figures from the University Grants Commission. The committee suggested the minimum qualification for a lecturer in the university science departments should be a PhD, except for departments in engineering and medicine where a lecturer could initially be appointed with an M.Tech/MD or MSc, but must acquire a PhD within seven years of appointment. Another key recommendation included promoting formal links between universities and national science institutes through joint research projects and training programmes, as well as encouraging collaboration with industries and user organisations for technologies. Women scientists should be encouraged to take up careers in basic science by removing age barriers currently 28 years for a junior research fellowship and introducing flexible time management at work to help them balance their personal and professional responsibilities. The government's latest move comes in the wake of concern voiced repeatedly by senior scientists, science policymakers and even Indian prime ministers, on the decline of science education and research in basic sciences in Indian universities. "Pure sciences are definitely some of the disciplines we need to pay attention to urgently," says Nigavekar. To address some of these issues, the University Grants Commission has initiated steps to increase funds to upgrade science laboratories, improve Internet connectivity to universities and colleges and improve the quality of teaching and distance education. Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/messenger/*http://uk.messen… Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PC http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/messenger/*http://uk.beta.m… calling worldwide with voicemail

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Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists,
by vishal mali 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

Dear all Please follow the below link for Guide for care of CDs and DVDs http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub121/pub121.pdf Which is very useful for librarians -- VISHAL MALI PROJECT ASSISTANT II NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY PUNE-8 Dear all Please follow the below link for Guide for care of CDs and DVDs http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub121/pub121.pdf http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub121/pub121.pdf Which is very useful for librarians -- VISHAL MALI PROJECT ASSISTANT II NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY PUNE-8

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Re: IATLIS ELECTIONS -2005-08 DECLARATION OF RESULTS
by Mailing List Manager 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 11:51:17 +0530 (IST) From: I.R.N.Goudar <goudar(a)css.nal.res.in> Dear LIS Professors and Professionals, CONGRATULATIONS TO THE NEW TEAM OF IATLIS OFFICE BEARERS, REGIONAL MEMBERS AND EXECUTIVE MEMBERS. This list is very much balanced with representations from all regions (VPs and Regional Secretaries) and convinient immidiate office bearers like Secreatry in the vicinity of IATLIS President Prof. C.R. Karisiddappa from functional. I am sure the entire LIS Teachers Community and there by Students and Practicing LIS Professionals in the country will reap the expertise and expertise of this able team through IATLIS activities. The inputs and guidance of Prof. Lakshman Rao and others, who worked for IATLIS, I am sure will be available to the new team. There is a need to bring together various LIS Associations on a common platform (including ILA, IASLIC, SIS, various State Level Library associations, Associations of various types of colleges, schools, Industries, etc) to give new direction to LIS Community and also network the minds of all those concerned in one method or the other including Virtual Technplogy. I request IATLIS to take a lead in this matter. GOOD LUCK TO IATLIS NEW TEAM IN THEIR ENDEAVIOUR FOR THEIR TERM. Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

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Kannada books will go online
by Rashid Hussain 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

Primary and Secondary Education Minister R Ramalinga Reddy said on Monday at a programme organised by Karnataka State Public Libraries Department Employees Association that one Lakh kannada books will made available online within a year. Here is the News One lakh Kannada books, including short stories and novels will be made available online within a year, Primary and Secondary Education Minister R Ramalinga Reddy said on Monday. The Carnegie Mellon University of the US has been entrusted with the project of hosting the books on the website, he said at a programme organised by Karnataka State Public Libraries Department Employees Association to felicitate Mr F S Durgannavar, former chief librarian, City Central Library, Malleswaram, and the launch of library kiosk (at Malleswaram library) and release of e-granthalaya (public library), a users manual of the Department of Public Libraries. Mr Reddy said that libraries will be established in 250 Gram Panchayats at a cost of Rs 10 crore this year. The government has planned to establish three hi-tech libraries in Shravanabelagola, Gulbarga and Bagalkot, besides two in Bangalore, he said. Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H K Patil, who inaugurated the library kiosk said that more libraries should be opened in rural areas and the concept of e-library should be extended to them. Mr Patil also commended Mr F S Durgannavar, former chief librarian, City Central Library, Malleswaram for designing the library kiosk. The kiosk is developed by Saral Solutions. Source : Decan Herald, 5th July 2005 Link : http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/jul52005/state19839200574.asp Thanks & Regards = = = = = = = = = = = Rashid Hussain Siddiqui Project Assistant Digital Library, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science Jayanagar, Bangalore : 560041 Phone No. : 080-26540930 e-mail : ras.botlib(a)gmail.com Homepage : http://www.drtc.isibang.ac.in/~hussain = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet. Samuel NIGER (1883-1956) --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. Primary and Secondary Education Minister R Ramalinga Reddy said on Monday at a programme organised by Karnataka State Public Libraries Department Employees Association that one Lakh kannada books will made available online within a year. Here is the News One lakh Kannada books, including short stories and novels will be made available online within a year, Primary and Secondary Education Minister R Ramalinga Reddy said on Monday. The Carnegie Mellon University of the US has been entrusted with the project of hosting the books on the website, he said at a programme organised by Karnataka State Public Libraries Department Employees Association to felicitate Mr F S Durgannavar, former chief librarian, City Central Library, Malleswaram, and the launch of library kiosk (at Malleswaram library) and release of e-granthalaya (public library), a users manual of the Department of Public Libraries. Mr Reddy said that libraries will be established in 250 Gram Panchayats at a cost of Rs 10 crore this year. The government has planned to establish three hi-tech libraries in Shravanabelagola, Gulbarga and Bagalkot, besides two in Bangalore, he said. Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H K Patil, who inaugurated the library kiosk said that more libraries should be opened in rural areas and the concept of e-library should be extended to them. Mr Patil also commended Mr F S Durgannavar, former chief librarian, City Central Library, Malleswaram for designing the library kiosk. The kiosk is developed by Saral Solutions. Source : Decan Herald, 5th July 2005 Link : http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/jul52005/state19839200574.asp http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/jul52005/state19839200574.asp Thanks & Regards = = = = = = = = = = = Rashid Hussain Siddiqui Project Assistant Digital Library, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science Jayanagar, Bangalore : 560041 Phone No. : 080-26540930 e-mail : ras.botlib(a)gmail.com Homepage : http://www.drtc.isibang.ac.in/~hussain = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet. Samuel NIGER (1883-1956) Yahoo! Mail Mobile http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=31132/*http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone.

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Hon'ble President of India to Launch AMRITA-ISRO VRC Network
by Manju 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

President of India to Launch AMRITA-ISRO VRC Network on July 6, 2005 at AMRITA University Campus in Coimbatore Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, a multi-campus, multi-disciplinary University is collaborating with ISRO, India's foremost agency for space technology and research, to launch the AMRITA-ISRO VRC Satellite Network, a comprehensive Satellite-based Rural Transformation Initiative. ISROs vision of the VRC (Village Resource Center) initiative is to create and implement a sustainable, scalable, space technology-supported community infrastructure catalysing the transformation of rural India. The benefits that VRCs are expected to deliver to rural India cover a broad spectrum: Tele-Education: Using best available teachers to deliver superb quality education to large number of rural area schools across the country over the satellite network interactively via multimedia enhanced content; Imparting skill-based training in tune with local needs of the rural population. Tele-Medicine: Delivering basic and specialized healthcare, preventive and diagnostic services digitally at every rural doorstep via satellite networks Tele-Agriculture, Tele-Fisheries, etc.: Enhancing agricultural, fishing, and other rural occupational productivity with active assistance of timely scientific information on earth (soil, land use, etc.), water, weather, etc. Disaster warning and management, etc. Rural entrepreneurship with the help of micro-financing, etc. Thus, the VRC initiative is an ambitious attempt at overall development of Indias vast rural landscape with the help of the best of communication and information technologies. Project Partners The AMRITA-ISRO VRC Project is a one-of-its-kind University-Government-Industry partnership. AMRITA has brought in some of the foremost multinational companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Oracle, TCS, and financial firms such as IL&FS and Dhanalakshmi Bank, as technology and funding partners, to actively support this landmark initiative to launch more than 12 Village Resource Centers on the Satellite Network across India in the first phase. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has distinguished itself as a dynamic University well on its way to becoming a world class institution of learning, education, and research in a multitude of disciplines. Amrita has launched numerous projects of both societal importance to our Nation and scientific relevance to the World. The Amrita-ISRO VRC Project stands out among these by taking the benefits of satellite network to the common mans doorstep. Visit http://www.amrita.edu , http://www.isro.org/pressrelease/Nov05_2004.htm ------------------------------ Manju Vijayakumar, Amrita Deemed University, Amritapuri Campus, Kollam, Kerala __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com President of India to Launch AMRITA-ISRO VRC Network on July 6, 2005 at AMRITA University Campus in Coimbatore http://www.amrita.edu/news/images/vrcapj.jpg Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, a multi-campus, multi-disciplinary University is collaborating with ISRO, India's foremost agency for space technology and research, to launch the AMRITA-ISRO VRC Satellite Network, a comprehensive Satellite-based Rural Transformation Initiative. ISROs vision of the VRC (Village Resource Center) initiative is to create and implement a sustainable, scalable, space technology-supported community infrastructure catalysing the transformation of rural India. The benefits that VRCs are expected to deliver to rural India cover a broad spectrum: Tele-Education: Using best available teachers to deliver superb quality education to large number of rural area schools across the country over the satellite network interactively via multimedia enhanced content; Imparting skill-based training in tune with local needs of the rural population. Tele-Medicine: Delivering basic and specialized healthcare, preventive and diagnostic services digitally at every rural doorstep via satellite networks Tele-Agriculture, Tele-Fisheries, etc. : Enhancing agricultural, fishing, and other rural occupational productivity with active assistance of timely scientific information on earth (soil, land use, etc.), water, weather, etc. Disaster warning and management, etc. Rural entrepreneurship with the help of micro-financing, etc. Thus, the VRC initiative is an ambitious attempt at overall development of Indias vast rural landscape with the help of the best of communication and information technologies. Project Partners The AMRITA-ISRO VRC Project is a one-of-its-kind University-Government-Industry partnership. AMRITA has brought in some of the foremost multinational companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Oracle, TCS, and financial firms such as IL&FS and Dhanalakshmi Bank, as technology and funding partners, to actively support this landmark initiative to launch more than 12 Village Resource Centers on the Satellite Network across India in the first phase. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has distinguished itself as a dynamic University well on its way to becoming a world class institution of learning, education, and research in a multitude of disciplines. Amrita has launched numerous projects of both societal importance to our Nation and scientific relevance to the World. The Amrita-ISRO VRC Project stands out among these by taking the benefits of satellite network to the common mans doorstep. Visit http://www.amrita.edu http://www.amrita.edu , http://www.isro.org/pressrelease/Nov05_2004.htm http://www.isro.org/pressrelease/Nov05_2004.htm ------------------------------ Manju Vijayakumar, Amrita Deemed University, Amritapuri Campus, Kollam, Kerala __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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NITT - Library Science Graduate Apprenticeship Trainee Needed
by mouni＠nitt.edu 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Dear Members, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli-15, a deemed university, needs 3 Nos of One year Library Science Graduate Apprenticeship Trainees on a stipend of Rs.1940/- per month. A pass in BLIS is the eligible qualification. Direct MLIS holders and candidadtes passed BLIS prior to the year 2003 are not eligible. The interested candidates are requested to apply in plain paper along with resume for considering for the training. Application should be addressed to: Prof. S. Raghavan, Overall Co-odinator/Head Central Library National Institute of Technology,Tiruchirappalli-15 Tamil Nadu ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP(http://www.nitt.edu)

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RE: [LIS-Forum] help required
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Dear Mr Rajeev Sharma Further to my earlier message you may also try http://w.moreover.com Here goto products -> Individual -> RSS Feeds In the drop down menu of categories you will find Transporatation Industry under Inductry/business. (there are 300 plus categories to choose)If you add the RSS feed you would get free news items brought to you like google alerts. "You subscribe" is a free RSS reading softare that helps you get RSS feed in Outlook. Moreover is known for "Paid" services too. Vyasamoorthy, P -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Rajeev Sharma Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 10:57 AM To: LIS-FORUM Subject: [LIS-Forum] help required Dear Professional, I have been using Google Alert for a long time and found it very useful. Though it gives good alerts from various web resources but alerts from Indian news papers are generally missing. Is there any alert service free/ paid (except yahoo, Topix.Net, Factiva) where searches will be performed from selected (given by user) web links? Thanks in anticipations. Warm Regards Rajeev Sharma Officer - Information Services Transport Corporation of India Limited. Gurgaon.

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Library Trainee at ACTREC, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai
by Satish Munnolli 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Dear professionals, The message hosted on the ACTREC home site may be of interest to fresh MLISc degree holders. It is highly appreciated if you could bring the information to the notice of those interested. The information may be displayed on departmental notice boards. More details on the same can be had from http://www.actrec.res.in/LIbrary%20trainee.pdf Thanking you, Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Research & Education in Cancer Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410 208 Ph: +91 22 2740 5026 Fax: +91 22 2741 2894 Email: smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in ACTREC is looking for young and dynamic freshers for induction as LIBRARY TRAINEES for a period of six months which may be extendable up to one year Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer, (ACTREC), situated in 60 acre land at Kharghar, Navi Mumbai is a new state of the art R & D satellite of the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC). The institute comprises of basic research wing and clinical research centre. It also has a 50-bed hospital fully equipped with state-of-the-art diagnostic and therapeutic facilities. ACTREC has the mandate to function as a national centre for research, treatment and education in cancer. The Institute library has fully computerized in-house operations and services. It houses over 15000 books and back volumes of journals and has access to 1800 journals through SciencDirect online database round the clock. Theses, Institutional reports, staff publications, CD ROMs, Video Cassettes are the additional resources available to Scientists, Clinicians and students. The library has plans to digitize its Theses collection, impart bar-code system and introduce enhanced electronic information services in the coming years. Interested candidate should have Masters Degree in Library and Information Science (MLISc) with first class from a recognized University. Candidate with Science background, knowledge of library software and computer skills will have an added advantage. Age : Around 25 years The selected candidate will be paid a stipend of Rs. 4000/- per month with accommodation facilities in the institute hostel which is located in the campus. Trainee may have to work during flexible hours on all working days including week ends. Trainee appointed will have an opportunity to work in a computerized library with hands on experience on all library procedures and exposure to modern techniques of maintaining scientific and medical library. Candidates fulfilling above requirements may walk in for an interview on 15th July, 2005 at 10.00 a.m. at the above address alongwith detailed CV and testimonials in original. Administrative Officer Dear professionals, The message hosted on the ACTREC home site may be of interest to fresh MLISc degree holders. It is highly appreciated if you could bring the information to the notice of those interested. The information may be displayed on departmental notice boards. More details on the same can be had from http://www.actrec.res.in/LIbrary%20trainee.pdf http://www.actrec.res.in/LIbrary%20trainee.pdf Thanking you, Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Research & Education in Cancer Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410 208 Ph: +91 22 2740 5026 Fax: +91 22 2741 2894 Email: mailto:smunnolli@actrec.res.in smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in ACTREC is looking for young and dynamic freshers for induction as LIBRARY TRAINEES for a period of six months which may be extendable up to one year Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer, (ACTREC), situated in 60 acre land at Kharghar, Navi Mumbai is a new state of the art R & D satellite of the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC). The institute comprises of basic research wing and clinical research centre. It also has a 50-bed hospital fully equipped with state-of-the-art diagnostic and therapeutic facilities. ACTREC has the mandate to function as a national centre for research, treatment and education in cancer. The Institute library has fully computerized in-house operations and services. It houses over 15000 books and back volumes of journals and has access to 1800 journals through SciencDirect online database round the clock. Theses, Institutional reports, staff publications, CD ROMs, Video Cassettes are the additional resources available to Scientists, Clinicians and students. The library has plans to digitize its Theses collection, impart bar-code system and introduce enhanced electronic information services in the coming years. Interested candidate should have Masters Degree in Library and Information Science (MLISc) with first class from a recognized University. Candidate with Science background, knowledge of library software and computer skills will have an added advantage. Age : Around 25 years The selected candidate will be paid a stipend of Rs. 4000/- per month with accommodation facilities in the institute hostel which is located in the campus. Trainee may have to work during flexible hours on all working days including week ends. Trainee appointed will have an opportunity to work in a computerized library with hands on experience on all library procedures and exposure to modern techniques of maintaining scientific and medical library. Candidates fulfilling above requirements may walk in for an interview on 15 th July, 2005 at 10.00 a.m. at the above address alongwith detailed CV and testimonials in original. Administrative Officer

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ACNielsen Market Information Digest 2005
by Neha Thakkar 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Hi All, Came across this useful source of information - *The ACNielsen Market Information Digest (MID) 2005 now brings you all the information about India's consumer market * *that you need to handle the challenge of identifying opportunities and successfully understanding category dynamics.* *MID 2005 combines data from the most comprehensive primary and secondary data sources on India's consumer landscape to offer you a clear snapshot of 83 major product categories, media analysis, economic, industry and demographic information. * *Across the Asia Pacific region, MID is used extensively by consumer goods marketers, venture capitalists and advertising and media professionals to aid their market planning. You too can use this comprehensive database as an invaluable guide to understanding the breadth and scope of opportunities within consumer India . * *Cost: Rs 1,20,000 (excluding 10.2% service tax)* *Contact - Ms. Sweta Bohra at **sweta.bohra(a)acnielsen.co.in*<sweta.bohra(a)acnielsen.co.in> * or on 91 22 56632632* Regards, Neha * * Hi All, Came across this useful source of information - The ACNielsen Market Information Digest (MID) 2005 now brings you all the information about India's consumer market that you need to handle the challenge of identifying opportunities and successfully understanding category dynamics. MID 2005 combines data from the most comprehensive primary and secondary data sources on India's consumer landscape to offer you a clear snapshot of 83 major product categories, media analysis, economic, industry and demographic information . Across the Asia Pacific region, MID is used extensively by consumer goods marketers, venture capitalists and advertising and media professionals to aid their market planning. You too can use this comprehensive database as an invaluable guide to understanding the breadth and scope of opportunities within consumer India . Cost: Rs 1,20,000 (excluding 10.2% service tax) Contact - Ms. Sweta Bohra at mailto:sweta.bohra@acnielsen.co.in sweta.bohra(a)acnielsen.co.in or on 91 22 56632632 Regards, Neha

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Book lover in Orissa village runs a free library of 30, 000 books
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Book lover in Orissa village runs a free library of 30,000 books Madanapur(Orissa): A book lover in Madanapur village of Balasore district in Orissa shares his passion for knowledge and is taking on the fight against ignorance by running a free library of over 30,000 books at his home. In his quest and thirst for knowledge, Bikash Satpathy started 'Loknath' library in 1990.The library, was first set up in a room at his father's residence with as few as 50 books, but this collection has gradually increased over the years to some 30,000 books of different genres, ranging from 300-year-old, palm leaf manuscripts to biographies of famous people. "Human life is very precious but people in villages are ignorant and illiterate and so through my library I want to help these villagers gain knowledge and develop their mental faculties," claims Bikash. The collection includes books in Oriya, English, Hindi, Bengali and Telugu and genre such as fiction, poetry, biography, reference, magazines and periodicals. The library, which is open to all, free of cost, is a "house of knowledge" for many of the villagers. "We get all kinds of books here which are either not available outside or which we cannot afford. The best thing about this library is that we don't have to pay anything to read the books," said Gopal Behera, a villager. Works of eminent authors like Fakir Mohan, Senapati, Gangadhar Meher and Laxmikanta Mohapatra are part of the Oriya collection. Besides, many books that the library houses, there are also a number of interesting bric-a-bracs such as caps of navy, police and army officials, a vast collection of stamps, foreign currency and coins which are on display for curious visitors. "We can call this library a museum because we find a lot of things which we've only heard of before for instance here we have foreign currencies which we never thought we would be able to see in this small village," said Jasabanta Jena, another villager. And the English collection of over 1500 includes the works Leo Tolstoy, Rabindranath Tagore, the autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru and some periodicals published between 1925 and 1936. For the residents of Madanapur village where the literacy rate is around 40 per cent, the library is its soul and pride. Source: http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=4258 ============== sent in by ============== Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631

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help required
by Rajeev Sharma 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Dear Professional, I have been using Google Alert for a long time and found it very useful. Though it gives good alerts from various web resources but alerts from Indian news papers are generally missing. Is there any alert service free/ paid (except yahoo, Topix.Net, Factiva) where searches will be performed from selected (given by user) web links? Thanks in anticipations. Warm Regards Rajeev Sharma Officer - Information Services Transport Corporation of India Limited. Gurgaon. Dear Professional, I have been using Google Alert for a long time and found it very useful. Though it gives good alerts from various web resources but alerts from Indian news papers are generally missing. Is there any alert service free/ paid (except yahoo, Topix.Net, Factiva) where searches will be performed from selected (given by user) web links? Thanks in anticipations. Warm Regards Rajeev Sharma Officer - Information Services Transport Corporation of India Limited. Gurgaon.

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LIS-Forum Digest
by Lata Suresh 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Hi all, Those who are interested in installing DSpace on Windows, may visit a step-by-step instructions at http://jackeapen.org/Article24.html With regards, Lata Suresh Librarian Indian Institute of Health Management Research 1, Prabhu Dayal MArg Sanganer Airport Jaipur 302033 RAJASTHAN, INDIA Tel : 91-0141-2791431-34 Fax: 91-0141-2792138 Email : lata(a)iihmr.org OR iihmr(a)iihmr.org

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Google Brings the Earth to Your Desktop
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Dear Professionals, Google Inc. has launched a new software package that allows you to see satellite images on your desktop. Google Earth lets you search for locations anywhere on earth and display 3D aerial images of major cities and tourist attractions. Google Earth is in development, but a free beta version is available for home users. Locations can be searched by address, intersections, cities, zip codes or countries and the images can be zoomed in close enough to see streets and buildings. More news available @ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/02/AR200507020… You can also, download and give a try to Google Earth. http://earth.google.com/ Regards, Sreeharsha BG ******************************************** Values are more important than people ********************************************

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Resource on Web Peformance
by SUNIL M.V. 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

Dear Professional Please do forward the information pertaining to the following aspects pertaining to web performance: 1. Journals (Scholarly) and Magazines 2. Associations 3. listserv 4. Prominent URL's With regards, 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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BRINT: World's no.1 Resource for BTM and KM
by chaya devi 02 Jul '05

02 Jul '05

Dear all BRINT is the World no.1 internet resource site for Business Technology Management and Knowledge Management. This site is having the subject portals seperately on topics such as intellectual Property, Patents, Trademarks, Internet patents, computer law, cyberspace law etc. Visit this resource site at URL: http://www.brint.com/IntellP.htm Chaya Devi, V. Academic Consultant, Dr.BRAOU, Hyderabad mail: chayav2002(a)yahoo.co.in --------------------------------- Free antispam, antivirus and 1GB to save all your messages Only in Yahoo! Mail: http://in.mail.yahoo.com Dear all BRINT is the World no.1 internet resource site for Business Technology Management and Knowledge Management. This site is having the subject portals seperately on topics such as intellectual Property, Patents, Trademarks, Internet patents, computer law, cyberspace law etc. Visit this resource site at URL: http://www.brint.com/IntellP.htm http://www.brint.com/IntellP.htm Chaya Devi, V. Academic Consultant, Dr.BRAOU, Hyderabad mail: mailto:chayav2002@yahoo.co.in chayav2002(a)yahoo.co.in Free antispam, antivirus and 1GB to save all your messages Only in Yahoo! Mail: http://in.mail.yahoo.com

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Curator is charged as 30, 000 books are 'lost' by French national library
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 13:19:56 +0530 From: Bhojaraju Gunjal <bhojaraju.g(a)gmail.com> http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article295301.ece Curator is charged as 30,000 books are 'lost' by French national library By John Lichfield in Paris Published: 28 June 2005 More than 30,000 books, including 1,000 rare and priceless items, are believed to have been stolen from the French national library in Paris. So chaotic are the library's cataloguing and security systems it is impossible to know when books were stolen. Some may have been "lost" in an institution that houses 35 million objects. But a year-long investigation by the president of the Biblioth�que Nationale de France (BNF) found the library had been systematically pillaged over many years For more details... Pl refer http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article295301.ece Thanks & Regards Bhojaraju G, Librarian � Knowledge Management, (Sharepoint Administrator) Homepage: http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com KM-Forum Moderator : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/ ************************************************************************************************ ICICI OneSource Ltd. 148, Bhaskara Plaza, R.V.Road, V.V.Puram, Bangalore - 560 004, INDIA. Tel:+9180-2650 2540 Ext:103 Fax:+9180-2650 2086 Cell:+91-944 836 9905 E-mail: bhojarajug(a)yahoo.com ************************************************************************************************ Keep in Touch Always !!! ************************************************************************************************

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News on new e-journals and newsletters
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:45:27 +0530 From: Satish Munnolli <smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in> Apologies for cross posting "NewJour - Electronic Journals and Newsletters" is a portal that provides news on new e-journals and newsletters added in the Internet with publication contents in caption. It has interesting features viz., view recent issues, complete archive, search archive with various search options. http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/ It is a good site for those searching for new titles. Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410 208 Ph: +91 22 2740 5026 Fax: +91 22 2741 2894 Email: smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in

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Appeal to fellow professionals - Help us to Populate Open Archive
by Sukhdev Singh 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

Dear Fellow Professionals, We have an Open Archive for Biomedical and Allied Sciences at the following URL. http://openmed.nic.in/ I request all fellow professionals to help us to populate it. If you are working in a medical college or an institute related to any Biological / Medical / Pharmacetical / Nursing / Dental / Medical Informatics etc etc, then please tell your scientist colleagues to self-archive their papers in OpenMED, i.e. http://openmed.nic.in . You can also conduct some awareness programmes in your institutes and make them aware of self-archiving and OpenMED. We have made also archived self-help tutorial at OpenMED at the following URL : http://openmed.nic.in/135/ You may download it for training your scientists for self-archiving in OpenMED. If you are not working in Biological / Medical / Allied Areas then atleast suggest us how to proceed. Let us not always look towards our "westernal" Counterparts, LET US DO SOMETHING. Thank you very much. Sukhdev Singh, Bibliographic Informatics Division, National Informatics Centre, New Delhi.

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Conference on Legal Aspects of Open Source Software at NLSIU
by madhu ks 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

Dear Professional, The Law and Technology Committee of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, is organising its annual conference Consilience (http://www.nls.ac.in/students/consilience/index.htm) in Bangalore on the 8th and 9th July, 2005. The aim of Consilience is to bring together scholars, industry stakeholders, legal experts, and policy-makers to address issues that have been earmarked for them after intensive research. This year's theme is Free/Open Source Software (FOSS), and we intend to have the following conference tracks - o FOSS - An Introduction o Role of FOSS in developing countries o FOSS Business Models o Legal Aspects of FOSS We envisage a robust dialogue and thorough analysis of these issues relating to free/open source software, including its uses in ICT for development. We expect the conference to result in a recommendation paper/declaration having the potential to effect formulation of a comprehensive policy by the Indian Government concerning FOSS. For any other clarifications contact, E-mail: consilience(a)nls.ac.in Visit Our Website: http://www.nls.ac.in/students/consilience/index.htm Regards Madhu K S Library Assistant NLSIU, Bangalore --------------------------------- How much free photo storage do you get? Store your friends n family photos for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. http://in.photos.yahoo.com Dear Professional, The Law and Technology Committee of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, is organising its annual conference Consilience ( http://www.nls.ac.in/students/consilience/index.htm http://www.nls.ac.in/students/consilience/index.htm ) in Bangalore on the 8th and 9th July, 2005. The aim of Consilience is to bring together scholars, industry stakeholders, legal experts, and policy-makers to address issues that have been earmarked for them after intensive research. This year's theme is Free/Open Source Software (FOSS), and we intend to have the following conference tracks - o FOSS - An Introduction o Role of FOSS in developing countries o FOSS Business Models o Legal Aspects of FOSS We envisage a robust dialogue and thorough analysis of these issues relating to free/open source software, including its uses in ICT for development. We expect the conference to result in a recommendation paper/declaration having the potential to effect formulation of a comprehensive policy by the Indian Government concerning FOSS. For any other clarifications contact, E-mail: https://mail.nls.ac.in/src/compose.php?send_to=consilience%40nls.ac.in consilience(a)nls.ac.in Visit Our Website: http://www.nls.ac.in/students/consilience/index.htm http://www.nls.ac.in/students/consilience/index.htm Regards Madhu K S Library Assistant NLSIU, Bangalore How much free photo storage do you get? Store your friends n family photos for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. http://in.photos.yahoo.com

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Sponsorship for students on Indian languages for Wikipedia
by Maruthu Pandian 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

Hi, So far the Wikipedias in Indian languages have seen very slow progress. These are among the lowest ratio "number of articles / number of speakers". There a number of technical and other reasons. Some people from the Wikimedia Foundation think that a financial help may boost these languages. They are willing to sponsor students who might contribute writing articles in Indian languages on different subjects for Wikipedia. Here is the URL for further reading. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Promoting_the_Indian_languages_projects Here are some proposed rules: * The articles should be written in Indian languages from scratch or translated (probably from the English Wikipedia). * The articles should be encoded in Unicode. * The articles sould be released under the GFDL licence (free to edit and copy). * The articles should be more than 500 words. Here are a list of articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_articles_all_languages_shoul… This list should be completed with specific Indian topics (Indian states and cities, personalities, events, etc.). A proposition of a list of Indian subjects is welcome. For each language, at least two persons are needed to review the quality of the articles (teachers, writers, etc.). Please could you also transfer this message to people who might be interested by this project ? Regards, Maruthu Pandian.B Pubsub Concepts Pvt Ltd. __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/online.html

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[Fwd: Re: [ISSI] Access to Research Outputs]
by Subbiah Arunachalam 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

Here's a news release on this statement. Includes some links that might be of interest. Research councils back free online access Thousands of British academics in every subject from art history to zoology will soon be required to make their research freely available online, the UK research councils have announced. http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,10577,1517381,00.html Quentin Dr Quentin L Burrell Isle of Man International Business School The Nunnery Old Castletown Road Douglas Isle of Man IM2 1QB via United Kingdom www.ibs.ac.im

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FREE TRIAL announcement
by raghavendra patil 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

Dear All, Sage Publications has announced FREE TRIAL access for the following journals including JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE (1997-2005) The following journals are available for a free trial. Please click on the trial you are interested in to register for free access. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice - Volume One Free - Free Online Access to Volume 1 of Education, Citizenship and Social Justice (Access ends 31 December, 2006) Leadership - Free Online Access to Vol.1 of Leadership (Access ends 31 Dec, 2005) Planning Theory - Free Online Access to Planning Theory (Access ends 31 December, 2005) Marketing Theory Trial - Free Online Access to Marketing Theory (Access ends 31 December, 2005) Space and Culture - Free Online Access to Space and Culture (Access ends 30 June, 2005) Global Media and Communication - Free Online Access to Volume 1 of Global Media and Communication (Access ends 31 December, 2005) Management Journals - Free Online Access to select journals in Management from SAGE Publications (Access ends 16 September, 2005) Games and Culture - Pre-register for Free Online Access to Volume 1 of Games and Culture [First issue January 2006] (Access ends 1 January, 2007) -----HAPPY ACCESS. With Regards Raghavendra @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Raghavendra Patil Digital Library Project Programmer Sir. Dorabji Tata Memorial Library Tata Institute of Social Sciences (A Deemed University) Sion-Trombay Road, P B No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 (INDIA) Telephone: 022-25563290 Ext: 284 Fax: 091-22-25562912 E mail:raghav@tiss.edu,raghapatil@yahoo.com, raghavendra.patil(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.tiss.edu --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. Dear All, Sage Publications has announced FREE TRIAL access for the following journals including JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE (1997-2005) The following journals are available for a free trial. Please click on the trial you are interested in to register for free access. http://online.sagepub.com/cgi/register?registration=FT5685 Education, Citizenship and Social Justice - Volume One Free - Free Online Access to Volume 1 of Education, Citizenship and Social Justice (Access ends 31 December, 2006 ) http://online.sagepub.com/cgi/register?registration=FTLEA Leadership - Free Online Access to Vol.1 of Leadership (Access ends 31 Dec, 2005 ) http://online.sagepub.com/cgi/register?registration=FT5584 Planning Theory - Free Online Access to Planning Theory (Access ends 31 December, 2005 ) http://online.sagepub.com/cgi/register?registration=FT5610 Marketing Theory Trial - Free Online Access to Marketing Theory (Access ends 31 December, 2005 ) http://online.sagepub.com/cgi/register?registration=FT1052014 Space and Culture - Free Online Access to Space and Culture (Access ends 30 June, 2005 ) http://online.sagepub.com/cgi/register?registration=FT5628 Global Media and Communication - Free Online Access to Volume 1 of Global Media and Communication (Access ends 31 December, 2005 ) http://online.sagepub.com/cgi/register?registration=FTN01124 Management Journals - Free Online Access to select journals in Management from SAGE Publications (Access ends 16 September, 2005 ) http://online.sagepub.com/cgi/register?registration=FTN00934 Games and Culture - Pre-register for Free Online Access to Volume 1 of Games and Culture [First issue January 2006] (Access ends 1 January, 2007 ) -----HAPPY ACCESS. With Regards Raghavendra @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Raghavendra Patil Digital Library Project Programmer Sir. Dorabji Tata Memorial Library Tata Institute of Social Sciences (A Deemed University) Sion-Trombay Road, P B No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 (INDIA) Telephone: 022-25563290 Ext: 284 Fax: 091-22-25562912 E mail: raghav(a)tiss.edu , mailto:raghapatil@yahoo.com, raghapatil(a)yahoo.com, mailto:raghavendra.patil@gmail.com raghavendra.patil(a)gmail.com http://us.f310.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ %20http://www.tiss.edu URL: http://www.tiss.edu Yahoo! Mail Mobile http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=31132/*http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone.

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Yahoo Introduces 'Social' Search Engine
by Farooque Shaheen 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

Yahoo has enhanced its My Web personal search service to enable users to share their personal Web index of pages and links. My Web 2.0, which is in test (or beta) mode, was launched late on Tuesday and will be available "http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com" on a first-come first-serve basis to a limited number of users. My Web also let users share saved results via e-mail, syndication, and a public Web page of saved search results--a so-called link blog. Source: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,121651,00.asp Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 Yahoo has enhanced its My Web personal search service to enable users to share their personal Web index of pages and links. My Web 2.0, which is in test (or beta) mode, was launched late on Tuesday and will be available "http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com" on a first-come first-serve basis to a limited number of users. My Web also let users share saved results via e-mail, syndication, and a public Web page of saved search results--a so-called link blog. Source: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,121651,00.asp Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Re: [oa-india] OpenMED Self Help Tutorial
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

A very good move indeed. Arun ----- Original Message ----- From: "Naina Pandita" <naina(a)nic.in> To: "Discussion Group for Open Access Workshop India" <oa-india(a)dgroups.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 3:30 PM Subject: [oa-india] OpenMED Self Help Tutorial > Dear Friends, > > We have prepared a self help tutorial..which is a step by step guide on > how to submit publications in the OpenMED@NIC Archive. This would help 1st > time users to submit their publications in OpenMED and also in any other > EPrints based archive. The PPT tutorial has been submitted in our > Archive (http://openmed.nic.in). > > Regards, > > Naina > > Dgroups is a joint initiative of Bellanet, DFID, Hivos, ICA, IICD, > OneWorld, UNAIDS and World Bank > --- You are currently subscribed to oa-india as: arun(a)mssrf.res.in > To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-oa-india-137598Y(a)dgroups.org

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A new directory of OA journals
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

Here is a message from Prof. Peter Suber on a new directory of OA journals. Arun A new, larger list of OA journals Jan Szczepanski, a librarian at Sweden's Goteborg University, has been collecting links and information on OA journals for years. While the DOAJ lists 1,625 OA journals (today), Jan's collection lists 3,759 current OA journals and 608 historic, retrodigitized OA journals (today). Until now, his collection was not available online. But with his permission, I've posted Jan's files to my site for all to use or download. It was not possible to convert them to HTML, but they should be usable in their present forms. If your browser will not display the files, you should be able to download them. Jan's list is larger than the DOAJ list in part because the DOAJ is working through a backlog, in part because Jan has focused especially on the humanities, and in part because Jan is willing to list journals that are not peer reviewed. Jan would like to be in contact with other librarians willing to collect and share new OA titles. His email address is <Jan.Szczepanski(a)ub.gu.se>. Note that these files only represent Jan's collection as of June 27, 2005. He enlarges it continuously, and I won't be able to re-post every update to the files. But I will work with him to find another way to circulate the updates. Current OA journals http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/js-current.doc (A large Word file, 3.48 MB.) Historic or retrodigitized OA journals http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/js-retro.xls (An Excel spreadsheet, 315 KB.) ---------- Here is a message from Prof. Peter Suber on a new directory of OA journals. Arun A new, larger list of OA journals Jan Szczepanski, a librarian at Sweden's Goteborg University, has been collecting links and information on OA journals for years. While the DOAJ lists 1,625 OA journals (today), Jan's collection lists 3,759 current OA journals and 608 historic, retrodigitized OA journals (today). Until now, his collection was not available online. But with his permission, I've posted Jan's files to my site for all to use or download. It was not possible to convert them to HTML, but they should be usable in their present forms. If your browser will not display the files, you should be able to download them. Jan's list is larger than the DOAJ list in part because the DOAJ is working through a backlog, in part because Jan has focused especially on the humanities, and in part because Jan is willing to list journals that are not peer reviewed. Jan would like to be in contact with other librarians willing to collect and share new OA titles. His email address is <Jan.Szczepanski(a)ub.gu.se>. Note that these files only represent Jan's collection as of June 27, 2005. He enlarges it continuously, and I won't be able to re-post every update to the files. But I will work with him to find another way to circulate the updates. Current OA journals http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/js-current.doc http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/js-current.doc (A large Word file, 3.48 MB.) Historic or retrodigitized OA journals http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/js-retro.xls http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/js-retro.xls (An Excel spreadsheet, 315 KB.) ----------

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Personlised Search from Google
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

Google on Tuesday rolled out personalized search to users who have opted to forego privacy concerns and have the company save records of their search history. With the new tool, Google will filter searches to predict which results might be most relevant to the user. In addition to increased personalization, Google made other significant steps toward becoming a portal like competitors Yahoo and MSN by expanding its mapping and multimedia offerings. Google Earth, a mapping application now available free of charge, has three-dimensional models of major U.S. cities. It also identifies local businesses and points of interest from Google Local. A satellite zoom function takes users from planet to street level. For $20, Google Earth Plus has GPS integration, higher resolution printing, and annotation. For $400, professional users can get further customization. All three products are based on technology that originated at Keyhole, a startup that Google bought last October for an undisclosed amount. The latest releases followed Monday’s announcement of Google’s own video player, based on the open-source cross-platform media player VLC. The player includes an attempt at keyword search in video. The move was praised by open-source advocates, including the Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF), which also uses VLC. “Internet TV has been held back by proprietary battles over codecs [video compression formatting] and delivery,” said Tiffiniy Cheng of the PCF, who predicted that Google’s clout in the space would rapidly ramp up improvement to video players. Indeed, on Tuesday, a day after Google Video Viewer made its debut, it was widely reported that 21-year-old Norwegian hacker Jon Lech Johansen had modified the Google code to make it possible to watch any video, regardless of origin. More news @ http://www.internetweek.com/news/164903633 Thanks Sreeharsha BG

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Reminder - Openings for the position of Library Trainees in the Resource Centre
by Murali N 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

This is a reminder of the deadline to send bio-data for the position of Library Trainees in the Resource Centre on or before 30th June 2005. 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 the Dhirubhai Ambani Foundation. 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 UGC. 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 fresher with minimum first class in Masters in Library and Information Science, well versed in Computer application to Library and Information Services. Duration of Training is for a period of one year. However, guarantee of continued employment cannot be given. The trainees get a fixed stipend between Rs.5000 to Rs.6000 depending on their quality etc, per month with no other facilities / benefits, as applicable to regular employees, excepting casual leave. Resource Centre is kept open till mid night on all working days during the semester and 2.00am during examination period and is open on holidays and Sundays. Selected trainees may have to work during these extended hours on rotation basis. The Institute has fully computerized in-house operations and services of the Resource 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 Resource Centre into a complete Digital Resource Centre. Resource Centre has recently implemented the electromagnetic technology based security systems for reading materials. Interested candidates are requested to send your bio-data by email addressed to H. R Officer at hr(a)da-iict.org (a copy of the same may be marked to ts_kumbar(a)da-iict.org ). The last date for receiving the application is 30th June, 2005.The short listed candidates will be called for a written test and the interview, the dates for which will be communicated later over the email. Yours sincerely Executive Registrar Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology Post Bag. No.4 Near Indroda Circle Gandhinagar 382009 Gujarat ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com

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New education tools from Microsoft
by Farooque Shaheen 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

Microsoft announced a bouquet of software products targeting schools. The offerings include a beta version of the Microsoft Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP, designed for computers being used in school computer labs, public libraries, Internet cafes or other shared locations. The software allows administrators to add safety features to those types of systems, which are often more vulnerable to spyware and viruses. For example, new Windows Disk Protection technology tracks changes made by users and restores the computer to its original state after people log off, discarding their changes. Also, a restrictions tool on Shared Computer Toolkit lets administrators decide what people can do on a PC. Access to drives and system utilities such as the control panel, command prompt and registry editor can be blocked, for example. Although this software is not designed for IT pros, it likely will help them as well, according to Microsoft. Another product, Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office, available in July, runs atop Microsoft's XP or Office 2003, and includes project and tutorial assistance from a number of education publishers. Among its features: templates for MS Office Word and Excel and PowerPoint. The software will be available for free to schools that subscribe to a Microsoft Academic Volume Licensing program for Microsoft Office. A third product, Microsoft Student 2006, includes the Learning Essentials package, along with a graphing calculator and curriculum-based templates and tutorials for a range of school subjects including history, languages and science. This product also is scheduled to be available in July. Pricing was not released. A full dig on this can be found here "http://news.com.com/New+education+tools+from+Microsoft/2100-7343_3-5766675.…" Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 Microsoft announced a bouquet of software products targeting schools. The offerings include a beta version of the Microsoft Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP, designed for computers being used in school computer labs, public libraries, Internet cafes or other shared locations. The software allows administrators to add safety features to those types of systems, which are often more vulnerable to spyware and viruses. For example, new Windows Disk Protection technology tracks changes made by users and restores the computer to its original state after people log off, discarding their changes. Also, a restrictions tool on Shared Computer Toolkit lets administrators decide what people can do on a PC. Access to drives and system utilities such as the control panel, command prompt and registry editor can be blocked, for example. Although this software is not designed for IT pros, it likely will help them as well, according to Microsoft. Another product, Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office, available in July, runs atop Microsoft's XP or Office 2003, and includes project and tutorial assistance from a number of education publishers. Among its features: templates for MS Office Word and Excel and PowerPoint. The software will be available for free to schools that subscribe to a Microsoft Academic Volume Licensing program for Microsoft Office. A third product, Microsoft Student 2006, includes the Learning Essentials package, along with a graphing calculator and curriculum-based templates and tutorials for a range of school subjects including history, languages and science. This product also is scheduled to be available in July. Pricing was not released. A full dig on this can be found here "http://news.com.com/New+education+tools+from+Microsoft/2100-7343_3-5766675.…" Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Re: [eGovINDIA] Sun to publish Web services software source code / The move by Sun comes almost two weeks after the company published the source code for its Solaris operating system that is used to run large computer centers
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

Friends: I see many postings in this (eGovIndia) list on open source software, but hardly any on open access to scientific and scholarly literature. As you may be aware, most research in India, be it in universities and other higher educational institutions or in research laboratories, is funded by the Government. It is only logical that publicly funded research should be made available to everyone. Unfortunately, most Indian researchers WANT to publish in journals published by COMMERCIAL publishers operating out of the western countries. And many of them succeed in getting their papers accepted by these foreign (commercial) journals. What is more, Indian authors surrender their copyright to these journals. Effectively our government (and Indian taxpayers) are funding research whose results are under copyright of commercial publishers in the West! These publishers sell their journals at enormous subscription prices, of the order of 2-20 thousand dollars a year. And Indian libraries, at least some of them, subscribe to these expensive journals. Of course there is an alternative. The government and funding agencies can adopt a policy whereby results of all publicly funded research would be required to be published in open access journals (no subscription for the electronic version) and be deposited in interoperable open access archives. There are a few thousand such open access journals and about 500 such archives around the world (as of now). All the journals published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy and Current Science Association are open access journals. MedKnow Publications of Bombay also publishes several open access journals (in the area of medicine). There are also a few Indian archives. The most well known is the Eprints archive at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. A good example of an Indian central archive (where any researcher can deposit his/her paper) is OpenMED of NIC. Members of this list should lend their support to the setting up of many more interoperable institutional archives in India and to persuade journal publishers in India, both in the government and in the private sector, to make their journals OA journals. The advantages of open access are many and have been well documented. If need be can write about them some other time. Subbiah Arunachalam

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RUCK position statement on OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

SUMMARY OF RCUK POSITION STATEMENT ON ACCESS TO RESEARCH OUTPUTS This document summarises the RCUK position on the dissemination of and access to research outputs in the form of journal articles or conference proceedings. A fuller statement of the position is available at http://www.rcuk.ac.uk. The position is founded on four fundamental principles: . Ideas and knowledge derived from publicly-funded research must be made available and accessible for public use, interrogation, and scrutiny, as widely, rapidly and effectively as practicable. . Effective mechanisms are in place to ensure that published research outputs must be subject to rigorous quality assurance, through peer review. . The models and mechanisms for publication and access to research results must be both efficient and cost-effective in the use of public funds. . The outputs from current and future research must be preserved and remain accessible not only for the next few years but for future generations. Communication, Access, and Availability The development of Internet technologies providing access to a range of distributed information resources has enabled new possibilities for the delivery of information as an output of research. E-print repositories and open access journals have both developed as part of this change in technology, and RCUK considers that both can help improve access to the results of publicly funded research. RCUK believes that e-print repositories provide an opportunity to enhance access to research publications. Research Councils will work with partners to set out a strategy for developing in particular the network of institutional e-print repositories, and promoting their role. But promotion in itself is not sufficient. Therefore, Research Councils will require for all grants awarded from 1 October 2005 that, subject to copyright and licensing arrangements, a copy of any resultant published journal articles or conference proceedings should be deposited in an appropriate e-print repository (either institutional or subject-based) wherever such a repository is available to the award-holder. Deposit should take place at the earliest opportunity, wherever possible at or around the time of publication. There will be no obligation to set up a repository where none exists at present. Although RCUK sees advantages in the deposit of material in institutional repositories, Research Councils will leave to authors the choice of which is the most appropriate repository for their publications. Research Councils will also encourage, but not formally oblige, award-holders to deposit articles arising from grants awarded before 1 October 2005. By the end of 2008, RCUK will review the development of e-print repositories and the requirement to deposit. Full implementation of the above requirements depends upon copyright and licensing practice, and RCUK will engage the publishing industry and other partners to develop effective policy and practice in this area. Quality Assurance Rigorous, high-quality peer review remains the guarantor of quality whatever the medium of publication, and must be the norm as new models develop. There is no reason in principle why emerging publication and dissemination models should adversely affect either the key processes or the quality of peer review. E-print repositories that carry published material must make a clear distinction between articles that have been peer-reviewed and those that have not - and also between different pre-print versions. RCUK will work with the managers of e-print repositories to develop a standard for making clear to all users the distinction between pre-prints and post-prints. Cost-effectiveness The costs of communication and dissemination are an integral part of the costs of research itself, however they are met. Research Councils are interested in ensuring that the mechanisms of communication, and the financial models that support them, are as efficient and effective as possible. Councils recognise that, although e-print repositories provide clear benefits, they also impose costs on institutions and on the bodies that provide the necessary co-ordination and support for networking, interoperability and preservation. Adoption of an "author-pays" publication model is also likely to lead to some shift in costs, small initially, but probably larger in the longer-term. Councils will ensure that applicants for grants are allowed, subject to justification of cost-effectiveness, to include in the costing of their projects the predicted costs of any publication in author-pays journals. Such charges will be one of the elements of Full Economic Costs. VAT is payable on electronic publications at the standard rate of 17.5 per cent, whereas printed publications are zero-rated. The Government's conclusion that relief from this burden is not possible is disappointing. RCUK is concerned that VAT makes for an unfair distortion of the research publications market, and undermines the Government's intention to ensure a level playing field in that market. Long-term preservation As we move to new models of publication and dissemination, a key challenge is to ensure that digital media remain as durable as printed material has been in the past, and that the costs of long-term archiving are manageable. This applies also to the preservation of the data underpinning what is published. RCUK draws a distinction between two overlapping purposes: (a) making published material quickly and easily available, free of charge to users at the point of use, and (b) long-term preservation and curation. The British Library, and the other Legal Deposit Libraries, have a critical role to play in the preservation of digital publications. The Research Councils need to engage in a dialogue with the British Library and other stakeholders about issues of long-term preservation and access, including the potential for them to extend their roles in preserving and making accessible research publications and related data in digital formats. Learned Societies RCUK views the Learned Societies as key members of the research community whose work the Research Councils support. RCUK will discuss with the Learned Societies ways in which they can adapt to and exploit new models of publication SUMMARY OF RCUK POSITION STATEMENT ON ACCESS TO RESEARCH OUTPUTS This document summarises the RCUK position on the dissemination of and access to research outputs in the form of journal articles or conference proceedings. A fuller statement of the position is available at http://www.rcuk.ac.uk. The position is founded on four fundamental principles: Ideas and knowledge derived from publicly-funded research must be made available and accessible for public use, interrogation, and scrutiny, as widely, rapidly and effectively as practicable. Effective mechanisms are in place to ensure that published research outputs must be subject to rigorous quality assurance, through peer review. The models and mechanisms for publication and access to research results must be both efficient and cost-effective in the use of public funds. The outputs from current and future research must be preserved and remain accessible not only for the next few years but for future generations. Communication, Access, and Availability The development of Internet technologies providing access to a range of distributed information resources has enabled new possibilities for the delivery of information as an output of research. E-print repositories and open access journals have both developed as part of this change in technology, and RCUK considers that both can help improve access to the results of publicly funded research. RCUK believes that e-print repositories provide an opportunity to enhance access to research publications. Research Councils will work with partners to set out a strategy for developing in particular the network of institutional e-print repositories, and promoting their role. But promotion in itself is not sufficient. Therefore, Research Councils will require for all grants awarded from 1 October 2005 that, subject to copyright and licensing arrangements, a copy of any resultant published journal articles or conference proceedings should be deposited in an appropriate e-print repository (either institutional or subject-based) wherever such a repository is available to the award-holder. Deposit should take place at the earliest opportunity, wherever possible at or around the time of publication. There will be no obligation to set up a repository where none exists at present. Although RCUK sees advantages in the deposit of material in institutional repositories, Research Councils will leave to authors the choice of which is the most appropriate repository for their publications. Research Councils will also encourage, but not formally oblige, award-holders to deposit articles arising from grants awarded before 1 October 2005. By the end of 2008, RCUK will review the development of e-print repositories and the requirement to deposit. Full implementation of the above requirements depends upon copyright and licensing practice, and RCUK will engage the publishing industry and other partners to develop effective policy and practice in this area. Quality Assurance Rigorous, high-quality peer review remains the guarantor of quality whatever the medium of publication, and must be the norm as new models develop. There is no reason in principle why emerging publication and dissemination models should adversely affect either the key processes or the quality of peer review. E-print repositories that carry published material must make a clear distinction between articles that have been peer-reviewed and those that have not and also between different pre-print versions. RCUK will work with the managers of e-print repositories to develop a standard for making clear to all users the distinction between pre-prints and post-prints. Cost-effectiveness The costs of communication and dissemination are an integral part of the costs of research itself, however they are met. Research Councils are interested in ensuring that the mechanisms of communication, and the financial models that support them, are as efficient and effective as possible. Councils recognise that, although e-print repositories provide clear benefits, they also impose costs on institutions and on the bodies that provide the necessary co-ordination and support for networking, interoperability and preservation. Adoption of an author-pays publication model is also likely to lead to some shift in costs, small initially, but probably larger in the longer-term. Councils will ensure that applicants for grants are allowed, subject to justification of cost-effectiveness, to include in the costing of their projects the predicted costs of any publication in author-pays journals. Such charges will be one of the elements of Full Economic Costs. VAT is payable on electronic publications at the standard rate of 17.5 per cent, whereas printed publications are zero-rated. The Governments conclusion that relief from this burden is not possible is disappointing. RCUK is concerned that VAT makes for an unfair distortion of the research publications market, and undermines the Governments intention to ensure a level playing field in that market. Long-term preservation As we move to new models of publication and dissemination, a key challenge is to ensure that digital media remain as durable as printed material has been in the past, and that the costs of long-term archiving are manageable. This applies also to the preservation of the data underpinning what is published. RCUK draws a distinction between two overlapping purposes: (a) making published material quickly and easily available, free of charge to users at the point of use, and (b) long-term preservation and curation. The British Library, and the other Legal Deposit Libraries, have a critical role to play in the preservation of digital publications. The Research Councils need to engage in a dialogue with the British Library and other stakeholders about issues of long-term preservation and access, including the potential for them to extend their roles in preserving and making accessible research publications and related data in digital formats. Learned Societies RCUK views the Learned Societies as key members of the research community whose work the Research Councils support. RCUK will discuss with the Learned Societies ways in which they can adapt to and exploit new models of publication

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Access to Research Outputs
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

Friends: Please visit http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/cover.asp for a statement on access to research outputs released by the Research Councils UK. This is something that research councils/ funding agencies/ governments in every developing country should adopt. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Covering note on Access to Research Outputs: Further Consultation Details. Research Councils UK (RCUK) is a strategic partnership through which the UK's eight Research Councils work together to champion the research, training and innovation they support. Dissemination of and access to UK research outputs is crucial to ensure impact of RCUK funded research. The development of internet technologies providing access to a range of distributed information resources has enabled new possibilities for the delivery of information as an output of research. E-print repositories and open access journals have both developed as part of this change in technology, and RCUK considers that both can help improve access to the results of publicly funded research. RCUK is therefore further consulting on its proposed position on access to research outputs. The position is based on four principles: a.. Ideas and knowledge derived from publicly-funded research must be made available and accessible for public use, interrogation, and scrutiny, as widely, rapidly and effectively as practicable. b.. Effective mechanisms are in place to ensure that published research outputs must be subject to rigorous quality assurance, through peer review. c.. The models and mechanisms for publication and access to research results must be both efficient and cost-effective in the use of public funds. d.. The outputs from current and future research must be preserved and remain accessible not only for the next few years but for future generations. Specifically, it proposes to: a.. Require for all grants awarded from 1 October 2005 that, subject to copyright and licensing arrangements, a copy of any resultant published journal articles or conference proceedings should be deposited in an appropriate e-print repository (either institutional or subject-based) wherever such a repository is available to the award-holder. Deposit should take place at the earliest opportunity, wherever possible at or around the time of publication. b.. Research Councils will also encourage, but not formally oblige, award-holders to deposit articles arising from grants awarded before 1 October 2005. c.. Councils will ensure that applicants for grants are allowed, subject to justification of cost-effectiveness, to include in the costing of their projects the predicted costs of any publication in author-pays journals. The statement is intended as a broad framework, which will serve as the basis for RCUK to draw up more detailed guidance and to determine good practice, in close collaboration with a range of key stakeholders as set out in this document. By the end of 2008, RCUK will review its framework. RCUK has already undertaken extensive consultation with key stakeholders, including universities, publishers (profit, no-for-profit, open access), JISC, the British Library, HEFCE, and learned societies, to inform its current position. RCUK is very pleased with the useful feedback received and would like to thank everyone who has commented so far. The current proposed statement is now being circulated for a final round of public consultation. RCUK would in specific welcome further comments from learned societies. The deadline for this round of consultation is 31 August 2005. Responses should be sent to Drs. Astrid Wissenburg. Friends: Please visit http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/cover.asp http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/cover.asp for a statement on access to research outputs released by the Research Councils UK. This is something that research councils/ funding agencies/ governments in every developing country should adopt. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Covering note on Access to Research Outputs: Further Consultation Details. Research Councils UK (RCUK) is a strategic partnership through which the UKs eight Research Councils work together to champion the research, training and innovation they support. Dissemination of and access to UK research outputs is crucial to ensure impact of RCUK funded research. The development of internet technologies providing access to a range of distributed information resources has enabled new possibilities for the delivery of information as an output of research. E-print repositories and open access journals have both developed as part of this change in technology, and RCUK considers that both can help improve access to the results of publicly funded research. RCUK is therefore further consulting on its proposed position on access to research outputs. The position is based on four principles: Ideas and knowledge derived from publicly-funded research must be made available and accessible for public use, interrogation, and scrutiny, as widely, rapidly and effectively as practicable. Effective mechanisms are in place to ensure that published research outputs must be subject to rigorous quality assurance, through peer review. The models and mechanisms for publication and access to research results must be both efficient and cost-effective in the use of public funds. The outputs from current and future research must be preserved and remain accessible not only for the next few years but for future generations. Specifically, it proposes to: Require for all grants awarded from 1 October 2005 that, subject to copyright and licensing arrangements, a copy of any resultant published journal articles or conference proceedings should be deposited in an appropriate e-print repository (either institutional or subject-based) wherever such a repository is available to the award-holder. Deposit should take place at the earliest opportunity, wherever possible at or around the time of publication. Research Councils will also encourage, but not formally oblige, award-holders to deposit articles arising from grants awarded before 1 October 2005. Councils will ensure that applicants for grants are allowed, subject to justification of cost-effectiveness, to include in the costing of their projects the predicted costs of any publication in author-pays journals. The statement is intended as a broad framework, which will serve as the basis for RCUK to draw up more detailed guidance and to determine good practice, in close collaboration with a range of key stakeholders as set out in this document. By the end of 2008, RCUK will review its framework. RCUK has already undertaken extensive consultation with key stakeholders, including universities, publishers (profit, no-for-profit, open access), JISC, the British Library, HEFCE, and learned societies, to inform its current position. RCUK is very pleased with the useful feedback received and would like to thank everyone who has commented so far. The current proposed statement is now being circulated for a final round of public consultation. RCUK would in specific welcome further comments from learned societies. The deadline for this round of consultation is 31 August 2005. Responses should be sent to mailto:astrid.wissenburg@esrc.ac.uk Drs. Astrid Wissenburg .

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Indian OpenOffice roll-out continues / Sonia Gandhi has launched the latest stage of the Indian government's large-scale open source initiative.
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

Friends: Please spread the word! Other developing countries may follow India's example. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Subject: Indian OpenOffice roll-out continues / Sonia Gandhi has launched the latest stage of the Indian government's large-scale open source initiative. Indian OpenOffice roll-out continues Ingrid Marson, ZDNet UK, June 24, 2005 http://www.zdnetindia.com/techzone/enterprise/stories/124095.html Sonia Gandhi has launched the latest stage of the Indian government's large-scale open source initiative. Following the popularity of CDs containing Tamil Language versions of open source software, the Indian government is giving away millions of Hindi Language CDs. Last month, ZDNet UK reported that the Indian government would distribute 3.5m free CDs containing Tamil Language versions of open source applications, including the Firefox browser and the OpenOffice.org productivity suite. Within a month the project had received requests for 85,000 CDs, thousands of downloads from its Web site, and had attracted the attention of the President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam. This week the government started distributing CDs in Hindi, according to R.K.V.S. Raman, a researcher at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, an organisation involved in the production of the CD. The initiative has been funded by the Indian government, which hopes to encourage the use of computers. It plans to distribute 3.5 million copies of the Hindi Language CDs. The Hindi CDs were officially launched by Sonia Gandhi, the president of the Indian Congress party, in a ceremony that was also attended by the Indian IT Minister and local journalists. The CDs are available for both the Windows and Linux operating systems. This is important as Windows is the most popular desktop operating system in India, said Raman. The project hopes that once people are used to the open source software, they will find it easier to migrate to Linux. "While packaging the CD we kept in mind that most of the current end users are hooked on to Windows and would need to be acclimatised to same set of tools on both platforms," said Raman in a mailing list posting. "In [the] future when the transition occurs to Linux, people [will] have [the] same set tools thus making [the] transition smooth." While many of the applications available on the CD were released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), the fonts were not released under this license. Raman explained to ZDNet UK that this was to protect the intellectual property of the companies that had donated the fonts. The CD can be freely copied and redistributed, but the fonts cannot be packaged with other software, according to Raman. The next stage of the project is to distribute CDs containing applications in Punjabi, a popular Indian language. This launch is due to happen in August and as Punjabi is also spoken in Pakistan, the project hopes to hold launch events in both countries.

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CAS
by Mailing List Manager 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

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A science site
by Subbiah Arunachalam 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Friends: You may find this site useful: http://scienceresearch.com/search/index.php Arun Friends: You may find this site useful: http://scienceresearch.com/search/index.php http://scienceresearch.com/search/index.php Arun

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Ph.D to Mr. K M Haneefa
by Jobish P 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Dear all, It is a pleasure to inform you that Mr. K M Haneefa, Lecturer, Department of Library & Information Science, University of Calicut, Kerala (E-mail:haneefcalicut@yahoo.com) has been awarded Doctor of Philosophy in Library & Information Science from the University of Calicut. His research topic was the "Application of Information and Communication Technologies in Special Libraries in Kerala". Hearty congratulations to Dr. K M Haneefa. Regards, Jobish P

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OCLC Begins Pilot Project on E-Serials
by Farooque Shaheen 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

OCLC will begin a pilot project later this month designed to make it easier library staff and patrons to find and use full-text electronic journals in library collections. The pilot will involve 20 libraries and four partners--TDNet, EBSCO, Serials Solutions and Ex Libris. The pilot will make e-serials as visible as print materials in WorldCat and will expose those records to searchers on the open Web through the Open WorldCat program. During the pilot, OCLC will receive monthly holdings statements representing the eserials collections of participating libraries from partners in the pilot or, in some cases, directly from the libraries. OCLC will automatically set and maintain those holdings in WorldCat, the OCLC online union catalog, on behalf of the participating libraries. This collaboration will allow pilot libraries to efficiently contribute their e-serials collections to WorldCat and ensure that these holdings are current and accurate. Source: http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=8149 Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 OCLC will begin a pilot project later this month designed to make it easier library staff and patrons to find and use full-text electronic journals in library collections. The pilot will involve 20 libraries and four partners--TDNet, EBSCO, Serials Solutions and Ex Libris. The pilot will make e-serials as visible as print materials in WorldCat and will expose those records to searchers on the open Web through the Open WorldCat program. During the pilot, OCLC will receive monthly holdings statements representing the eserials collections of participating libraries from partners in the pilot or, in some cases, directly from the libraries. OCLC will automatically set and maintain those holdings in WorldCat, the OCLC online union catalog, on behalf of the participating libraries. This collaboration will allow pilot libraries to efficiently contribute their e-serials collections to WorldCat and ensure that these holdings are current and accurate. Source: http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=8149 Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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