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Positions Vacant for Library Professionals
by vijaya kumara 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

MVJ College of Engineering Library, Bangalore requires experienced library professionals with the knowledge of computer applications for the positions of Librarian, Assistant Librarian, and Library Assistant. The candidates who applied for our previous advertisement need to apply once again. Interested candidate may apply with in 10 days to Chief Administration Officer, MVJ College of Engineering, Near ITPL, Channasandra, Bangalore-560 067 Regards Vijayakumar M \ \ | / / \ \ ~ ~ / / | @ @ | ---------------oooo------ (_)-------------oooo------------------ Vijayakumar M, HOD - Library, MVJ College of Engineering (an ISO Certified Institution) Channasandra, Bangalore - 560 067, Karnataka, India Tel:+91-80-28452324 Ext. 234 library(a)mvjeducation.com or coolvg(a)gmail.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. MVJ College of Engineering Library, Bangalore requires experienced library professionals with the knowledge of computer applications for the positions of Librarian, Assistant Librarian, and Library Assistant. The candidates who applied for our previous advertisement need to apply once again. Interested candidate may apply with in 10 days to Chief Administration Officer, MVJ College of Engineering, Near ITPL, Channasandra, Bangalore-560 067 Regards Vijayakumar M \ \ | / / \ \ ~ ~ / / | @ @ | ---------------oooo------ (_)-------------oooo------------------ Vijayakumar M, HOD - Library, MVJ College of Engineering (an ISO Certified Institution) Channasandra, Bangalore - 560 067, Karnataka, India Tel:+91-80-28452324 Ext. 234 mailto:library@mvjeducation.com library(a)mvjeducation.com or mailto:coolvg@gmail.com coolvg(a)gmail.com Yahoo! for Good http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

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Teleos Recognizes India's Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

Teleos Recognizes India's Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 2005--Indian companies dedicated to growth through innovation and knowledge management delivered a year-on-year 38% average Total Shareholder Return, according to Teleos' new "2005 Indian Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) Report." The Winners of the inaugural Indian Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) study, conducted by Teleos in association with The KNOW Network, are (in alphabetical order): -- Eureka Forbes (Consumer products) -- i-flex solutions (IT solutions) -- Infosys Technologies (IT solutions) -- Satyam Computer Services (IT solutions) -- Tata Consultancy Services (IT solutions) -- Tata Steel (Metal fabrication) -- Wipro Technologies (IT solutions) Infosys Technologies has been recognized as the overall 2005 Indian MAKE Winner. A blue ribbon panel of senior Indian business executives and leading Indian-based knowledge management / intellectual capital experts have selected this year's Indian MAKE Winners. The expert panel rated organizations founded and headquartered in India against the MAKE framework of eight key knowledge performance dimensions which are the visible drivers of competitive advantage. The 2005 Indian MAKE Winners have been recognized as leaders in: -- creating a enterprise knowledge-driven culture -- developing knowledge workers through senior management leadership -- delivering knowledge-based products/services/solutions -- maximizing enterprise intellectual capital -- creating an environment for collaborative knowledge sharing -- creating a learning organization -- delivering value based on customer knowledge -- transforming enterprise knowledge into shareholder value According to Rory Chase, managing director of Teleos, "India is emerging as a dynamic center of innovative knowledge management. This inaugural Indian MAKE study serves as a benchmark to recognize those Indian companies which are leaders in effectively transforming enterprise knowledge into wealth-creating ideas, products and solutions. These companies are building portfolios of intellectual capital and intangible assets which will enable them to out-perform their competitors -- both within India and abroad -- in years to come." http://tinyurl.com/8qogs Regards Sreeharsha

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Voluntary Data contribution
by G. K. Manjunath 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

We invite Indian LIS professionals to join our initiative which aims to develop a Free online Database consisting of index to Journal articles with abstract, book reviews and conference papers published in Indian Social Science Journals. For further details, please visit http://oii.igidr.ac.in thanks, g.k.manjunath CHIEF LIBRARIAN INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FILM CITY ROAD ( GEN.VAIDYA MARG ) SANTOSH NAGAR GOREGAON ( EAST ) MUMBAI - 400 065 INDIA

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IFLA-ALP Workshop on Information Literacy at Punjabi University, Patiala.
by harry＠pbi.ac.in 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

****Apologies for cross postings**** IFLA-ALP Workshop on Information Literacy at Punjabi University, Patiala. The Department of Library & Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala is organizing a 5-day international workshop on Information Literacy from 3-7 October 2005. The theme of the workshop is 'Information Skills for Learning'. This is a follow-up workshop, the first one was held in Colombo (Sri Lanka) in November 2004. The following resource persons have confirmed their participation in this IFLA-ALP and Unesco sponsored workshop: Mr. Gerald Brown, Honorary Ambassador of the International Association of School Librarianship, Canada Prof. Russell Bowden (UK) Honorary IFLA Fellow, Sri Lanka Prof. Philip J Calvert, School of Information Management, University of Wellington, New Zealand. Dr Diljit Singh, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Ms. Karen Bonanno, Australian School Libraries Association, Australia. Ms. June Wall, Australian School Libraries Association, Australia. Mrs. Pradeepa Wijetunge, Director, NILIS, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka About 30 foreign delegates from South and South East Asian countries are also participating in this workshop. Library and information professionals in India are invited to participate in this workshop. Only a limited number of seats (25-30) are available for Indian delegates. Applications for participation would be considered on first-come-first-served basis. IFLA and Unesco are sponsoring the International resource persons and delegates. Persons having knowledge/experience in the field of information literacy would be given preference. The registration fee for the workshop is as under: Indian delegates (with accommodation): Rs. 5000/- Indian delegates (without accommodation): Rs. 4000/- Registration fee includes food, workshop kit, and study materials. Modest accommodation would be provided on first-come-first-served basis in the university. In case a an intending participant requires star accommodation in a hotel, he would have to pay for it from his own sources. We would provide the interested persons with list of hotel addresses/phone numbers. Patiala is situated about 250 km north of Delhi and is well connected with rail and road. The nearest airport is Chandigarh (60 km). Punjabi University, the venue of the workshop, is situated 20 km off Rajpura. Rajpura is situated about 30 km from Ambala Cantt. on the Delhi- Amritsar National Highway no.1. The climate generally remains pleasant during first week of October and the temperature during these days remains between 30 degrees celcius (maximum) and 20 degrees celcius (minimum). For further details, interested persons may contact the workshop coordinator at the following address: Dr Jagtar Singh, Project Coordinator and Head Department of Library & Information Science Punjabi University, Patiala 147 002 Tel: 0175-3046179 (work) Email: kindu_jagtar(a)yahoo.co.in, empowering8(a)sify.com, jagtar(a)pbi.ac.in

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Case Material: Provisions of IPR laws
by theresa.williams＠wipro.com 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Tariq As per copyright rules, will have to seek permission from the publishers for each additional copy we need to Xerox for the sessions by paying appropriately on the no of copies . ex: HBS case studies. Regds Theresa Theresa Williams Information Services Division Wipro Technologies 72,Keonics E-city Hosur road Bangalore 560100 Tel:91-80-51381791 91-80-28520408#1791 FAX:91-80-28520478 VOIP:808-5512 Mobile:9845324613 theresa.williams(a)wipro.com -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of tariq22(a)gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 1:35 PM To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Case Material: Provisions of IPR laws Dear All I am looking for provisions of Intellectual Property and Copy Right laws in India with regard to Case MateriaL used in Business School and included in reading list The information I require is that if a case is released for use in courses should it be OR not be openly available in the Library I request you to kindly enlighten me with the requisite provisions AND practices in this regard. Thanks and Regards -- Dr.Tariq Ashraf Librarian Indian Institute of Management Prabandh Nagar, Lucknow 226 013 (India) Ph: 0522-2736944[Direct] Res: 011-55125312 Mobile : 9935-639130 Fax: 91-0522 -2734025-2734027 Email: tariq(a)iiml.ac.in; tariq22(a)gmail.com URL: http://iiml.ac.in Confidentiality Notice The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender at Wipro or Mailadmin(a)wipro.com immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments.

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Wanted - Library and Information Scientists
by Maruthu Pandian 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Dear Members PubSub Concepts Pvt Ltd, requires Library and Information Scinetists for its India Development Centre at NOIDA. Library and Information Scientists ------------------------------------------------ Job Description Librarians and library information scientists having very good knowledge and experience in various aspects of library science including various international standards of classification and Cataloguing. Selected candidates will work on the realtime data collection, acquisition, taxanomies and classification for various domains. Experience in news/media content classification, RSS/XML Feeds, Content Searching on web would be added advantage. Required Skills * Strong in Library and Information Science * Search Engines and Search Strategies. * Classification methodologies * Good Communication Skills Preferred Skills * Online content classification * Computers and Internet * MS-Office and other text/word processing applications * Experience with RSS Feeds and blogs. * SQL Queries. Remuneration * Best in the industry Location * Noida Contact Maruthu Pandian B mpandian(a)pubsub.com __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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Usage of library software by academic libraries
by Ashwini Prabhu 10 Sep '05

10 Sep '05

Hello, I would like to know if anybody has conducted some survey on the which library software, academic libraries are using in Mumbai and an analysis of the same. Ashwini Librarian M.P Shah College Hello, I would like to know if anybody has conducted some survey on the which library software, academic libraries are using in Mumbai and an analysis of the same. Ashwini Librarian M.P Shah College http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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MLA Cunningham International Fellowship for Medical Librarians
by JK Vijayakumar 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Please excuse any duplication. Two Indian Medical librarians received this fellowship from MLA since 1972. The Cunningham Fellowship is a four-month fellowship for health sciences librarians from countries outside the United States and Canada. The award, which provides for observation and supervised work in one or more medical libraries in the United States or Canada, is in the amount of $6,000, with up to $2,000 additional for travel within these two countries. MLA welcome applications for interested individuals from countries other than the USA and Canada. For full information, fact sheets, and application form please go to: http://mlanet.org/awards/grants/index.html The application deadline is Dec. 1, 2005. All the best. J.K.Vijayakumar __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Please excuse any duplication. Two Indian Medical librarians received this fellowship from MLA since 1972. The Cunningham Fellowship is a four-month fellowship for health sciences librarians from countries outside the United States and Canada. The award, which provides for observation and supervised work in one or more medical libraries in the United States or Canada, is in the amount of $6,000, with up to $2,000 additional for travel within these two countries. MLA welcome applications for interested individuals from countries other than the USA and Canada. For full information, fact sheets, and application form please go to: http://mlanet.org/awards/grants/index.html http://mlanet.org/awards/grants/index.html The application deadline is Dec. 1, 2005. All the best. J.K.Vijayakumar __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Fwd: [BOAI] colLib - organizing Open Access documents in LIS]
by Subbiah Arunachalam 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [BOAI] colLib - organizing Open Access documents in LIS From: "Magnus Enger" <Magnus.Enger(a)hibo.no> Date: Fri, September 9, 2005 3:40 pm To: SCHOLCOMM(a)ala.org boai-forum(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk web4lib(a)webjunction.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Apologies for cross-posting! *** Hi! Wouldn't it be nice to have a subject-gateway to all the LIS-related documents that can be found in Open Access repositories? Would you like to collaborate on organizing them? As part of my ongoing masters-degree in "Science of documentation" at the University of Tromsø, Norway, I have created colLib - a prototype of a system for organizing and finding documents that are available in Open Access repositories: http://collib.info/ New metadata are "harvested" daily from open repositories - the newest "records" are available here: http://collib.info/index.php/Special:OaiRecent All the repositories that are harvested are related to "Library and Information Science" - a list of them is available here: http://collib.info/index.php/Special:OaiRepos Metadata are organized through "tags". A tag can for example represent a subject - here is an overview of the subjects that are represented as of today: http://collib.info/index.php/Category:Subjects Tags can also represent other organizing categories, like geography and names of projects and services - here is an overview of the categories so far: http://collib.info/index.php/Category:Top * My colLib If you register as a user of colLib, you can click "watch" at the top of most pages in colLib and have them added to "My colLib", which is your personal "bookshelf" in colLib. This page will give you a list of categories, subjects and posts that you would like to keep an eye on, remember or have easy access to. To register: http://collib.info/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&returnto=Main_Page My colLib: http://collib.info/index.php/Special:MyCollib * RSS A RSS 0.91-feed for the newest records is available here: http://collib.info/xml.php You will also find a link to RSS-feeds for the records that are connected with each tag on the page for that tag. See the article "RSS For Non-Techie Librarians" by Steven M. Cohen for more on RSS: http://www.llrx.com/features/rssforlibrarians.htm * You can contribute! colLib is based on the fact that anyone can contribute to organizing the records. When you look at a post you will allways find a link marked "Click here to add/edit tags". Clicking here will give you the opportunity to change the old tags and/or add new ones. You will find some more information on how to do this here: http://collib.info/index.php/Help:Editing Another way to contribute is to upload documents you have created to one of the repositories that are harvested by colLib. * Feedback is very welcome. You can send an e-mail to magnus(a)enger.priv.no or add a comment here: http://collib.info/index.php/ColLib:Feedback Regards Magnus Enger Magnus Enger Bibliotekar / Librarian Høgskolen i Bodø / Bodø Regional University Biblioteket / The Library N-8049 BODØ Norge / Norway http://www.bibliotek.hibo.no/

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Call for free access to research
by Subbiah Gunasekaran 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Call for free access to research UK universities have joined calls for publicly-funded research to be freely available on the internet. In a position statement, Universities UK supports moves to broaden access away from subscription-based journals and - more recently - websites. The organisation argues that such academic material is vital to national productivity and well-being. Its intervention is the latest in a long-running debate about the public accessiblity of research findings. Universities UK says freeing up research would also increase the number of times it is cited by other academics - which in turn boosts researchers' claims to funding. Cultural health The eight UK research councils, which control most of the public funding, have proposed making free access a condition of getting grants. The president of Universities UK, Professor Drummond Bone, said: "Publicly funded research undertaken in UK universities lies at the heart of a productive economy, as well as supporting the physical, social and cultural health of the nation. "Ensuring that the main outputs of research - ideas and knowledge - are disseminated widely is vitally important. "Universities UK supports moves by the research community and publishers to develop new publishing models that are based on the principle that research outcomes should be disseminated and freely accessed as widely as possible." Rising prices The universities say the subscription-based system of scholarly communication has served the research community well in the past but "now operates at a sub-optimal level". A key problem has been rapidly increasing journal prices - up 58% between 1998 and 2003, compared with a general inflation rate of 11%. Developments in electronic publishing have made possible a fundamental change, they argue. In a report last year, the House of Commons science and technology committee also called for publicly-funded research to be made freely available online in archived digital information banks. Publishers have argued that the cost per page has not increased - they are just being offered increasing amounts of research material. And they say they bear the costs of having research "peer reviewed" - checked by others - and that if this were to end the integrity of research could be compromised. They include not only commercial publishers but not-for-profit learned societies. Universities UK says they play a crucial role and the effect of any change on them should be monitored closely. But it says there are sustainable ways forward, probably involving a mixture of the current system and new ways of doing things, such as having those who fund the research meet the publication costs. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4224072.stm --------- Call for free access to research UK universities have joined calls for publicly-funded research to be freely available on the internet. In a position statement, Universities UK supports moves to broaden access away from subscription-based journals and - more recently - websites. The organisation argues that such academic material is vital to national productivity and well-being. Its intervention is the latest in a long-running debate about the public accessiblity of research findings. Universities UK says freeing up research would also increase the number of times it is cited by other academics - which in turn boosts researchers' claims to funding. Cultural health The eight UK research councils, which control most of the public funding, have proposed making free access a condition of getting grants. The president of Universities UK, Professor Drummond Bone, said: "Publicly funded research undertaken in UK universities lies at the heart of a productive economy, as well as supporting the physical, social and cultural health of the nation. "Ensuring that the main outputs of research - ideas and knowledge - are disseminated widely is vitally important. "Universities UK supports moves by the research community and publishers to develop new publishing models that are based on the principle that research outcomes should be disseminated and freely accessed as widely as possible." Rising prices The universities say the subscription-based system of scholarly communication has served the research community well in the past but "now operates at a sub-optimal level". A key problem has been rapidly increasing journal prices - up 58% between 1998 and 2003, compared with a general inflation rate of 11%. Developments in electronic publishing have made possible a fundamental change, they argue. In a report last year, the House of Commons science and technology committee also called for publicly-funded research to be made freely available online in archived digital information banks. Publishers have argued that the cost per page has not increased - they are just being offered increasing amounts of research material. And they say they bear the costs of having research "peer reviewed" - checked by others - and that if this were to end the integrity of research could be compromised. They include not only commercial publishers but not-for-profit learned societies. Universities UK says they play a crucial role and the effect of any change on them should be monitored closely. But it says there are sustainable ways forward, probably involving a mixture of the current system and new ways of doing things, such as having those who fund the research meet the publication costs. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4224072.stm --------- http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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Urgently looking for a book
by Parinita Samant 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Dear All, This is a very nice forum for discussion. I am new here, and have enjoyed reading all your mails. In fact, that is why I decided to seek your help. I am looking for a book, " Advanced Assembler Language and MVS Interfaces" by Carmine A. Cannatello. Can anyone help me out?? Thanks and Regards Parinita contact me at parinitas(a)hexaware.com

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[LIS-Forum] Version 59, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Version 59 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,480 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals, by the same author, provides much more in-depth coverage of the open access movement and related topics (e.g., disciplinary archives, e-prints, institutional repositories, open access journals, and the Open Archives Initiative) than SEPB does. http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.htm The Open Access Webliography (with Ho) complements the OAB, providing access to a number of Websites related to open access topics. http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 5.3 Other Legal Issues 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Digital Rights Management 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies* Appendix B. About the Author* Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* Digital Libraries* Electronic Books and Texts* Electronic Serials* General Electronic Publishing* Images Legal* Preservation Publishers Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* SGML and Related Standards Further Information about SEPB The HTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be can be searched using Boolean operators. The HTML document includes three sections not found in the Acrobat file: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (biweekly list of new resources; also available by mailing list--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepwlist.htm http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm The Acrobat file is designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 200 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 550 KB. Related Article An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html 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 Open Access Webliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.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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RE: [LIS-Forum] Urgently looking for a book
by Parinita Samant 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Dear All, Thanks for all the help extended by you. I did check Amazon and realized that the price was much more than the publisher's price. So I started hunting for some bookshop/library here in India, which could help me locate the book. Bookfinder.com was an excellant site. Many a times, books that we weed out, may be needed by other Libraries. I was taking just such a chance (one in a million, I know) but, in this way I can communicate with library professionals all over the country!!! Thats something!!!! Thanks and Regards, Parinita HexaVarsity - Library 55919595 Ext. No 9707 -----Original Message----- From: G. K. Manjunath [mailto:gkm@igidr.ac.in] Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 12:57 PM To: ++ Mukesh Anand ++ Cc: Parinita Samant; lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Urgently looking for a book Best way to find rare and out-of-print book is bookfinder.com The book which Mr.Parinita is looking for is availble in two bookshops in US, but at a very exhorbitant price. ( US $ 349/- ISBN 0471361763 ). She may try at http://www.alibris.com http://www.venturapacific.net g.k.manjunath chief librarian IGIDR, MUMBAI. On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, ++ Mukesh Anand ++ wrote: > Ms. Parinita > > The following title of your interest is 'Out of Print', > and no longer available from publisher : > > Advanced Assembler Language and MVS Interfaces: > For IBM Systems and Application Programmers, 2nd Edition > By Carmine Cannatello > Paperback / 816 Pages / John Wiley / August 1999 / 0471361763 > > Hope this information suffice. > > 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 > > = = = = > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Parinita Samant" <parinitas(a)hexaware.com> > To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 4:17 PM > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Urgently looking for a book > > > > Dear All, > > > > This is a very nice forum for discussion. I am new here, and have enjoyed > > reading all your mails. In fact, that is why I decided to seek your help. > > > > I am looking for a book, " Advanced Assembler Language and MVS Interfaces" > > by Carmine A. Cannatello. > > > > Can anyone help me out?? > > > > Thanks and Regards > > Parinita > > contact me at > > parinitas(a)hexaware.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >

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Presentation on the Future of Librarianship
by Gowri Ravindranth 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

To: The Moderator Kindly post this message in LIS forum. The Office of Public Affairs U.S. Consulate General for South India, Madras Library Association (MALA) and Guindy Campus Library, University of Madras Cordially invite you to a presentation on Future of Librarianship By Ms. Wendy Zaman Information Resource Officer American Embassy, New Delhi on Monday, September 12, 2005 at 06:00 p.m. Venue: Guindy Campus Library University of Madras, Chennai 600 025 Program 05.30 p.m. Tea 05.50 p.m. Welcome Address by Dr. Samyuktha Ravi, Deputy Librarian, University of Madras 05.55 p.m. Introduction of the Speaker by Mr. M.K. Jagadish, Director, American Information Resource Center 06:00 p.m. Presentation on Future of Librarianship by Ms. Wendy A. Zaman 06:40 p.m. Q and A 06:55 p.m. Vote of Thanks by Mr. G. Sundar, Joint Secretary, MALA ______________________________________________________ Wendy Zaman Information Resource Officer Wendy Zaman joined the United States Foreign Service as regional Information Resource Officer in February 2003. She arrived in India in December 2004. She works as the consultant for the seven American Information Resource Centers (AIRCs), also known as American Libraries, in the U.S. missions in Chennai, Calcutta, Mumbai and New Delhi, in India, and also in Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. In her previous assignment, she was responsible for the AIRCs in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, she worked as University Librarian in Florida for three years. And before that, she lived throughout Asia and Africa and worked in a variety of libraries, ranging from Universities to international schools to NGOs and consulting firms. Thank you L. R. Gowri Secretary Madras Library Association (MALA)

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Library Executive position at TCS's Pune location
by k.satyanarayana＠tcs.com 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is a world-leading information technology consulting, services, and business process outsourcing organization. Started in 1968, today it has a presence in 32 countries across 5 continents and is one of the world's leading Information Technology companies. Six of the Fortune Top 10 companies are among its valued customers. TCS's Pune Branch is adding one Executive position to its Library & Information Centre. Job Description The person would be responsible for circulation and maintenance of books, journals, magazines and other library documents and would offer SDI (Selective Dissemination of Information), CAS (Current Awareness Services and QBS (Query Based Services). Key Responsibilities Assist the Branch Library and Information Center (BLIC) Head/ Independently handle a satellite library under the supervision of the BLIC Head to achieve the objectives of Library and Information Center namely: i. Provide uninterrupted Library services ii. Provide timely information services iii. Deliver Housekeeping operations to the utmost satisfaction of the customer iv. Create and archive information assets for future use. Experience 4 to 6 years experience in library /documentation / information handling preferably in corporate, scientific and technology environments. Others Flair for IT, good communication and interpersonal skills and willing to work in flexi hours Interested candidates may e-mail their resume to <trddc.library(a)tcs.com> by 30th Sep 2005 Alternatively, hard copies can be posted to: K V Satyanarayana Manager - Library & Information Services Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. 54-B, Hadapsar Industrial Estate Pune - 411013eID:NT0001777A 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 Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is a world-leading information technology consulting, services, and business process outsourcing organization. Started in 1968, today it has a presence in 32 countries across 5 continents and is one of the world's leading Information Technology companies. Six of the Fortune Top 10 companies are among its valued customers. TCS's Pune Branch is adding one Executive position to its Library & Information Centre. Job Description The person would be responsible for circulation and maintenance of books, journals, magazines and other library documents and would offer SDI (Selective Dissemination of Information), CAS (Current Awareness Services and QBS (Query Based Services). Key Responsibilities Assist the Branch Library and Information Center (BLIC) Head/ Independently handle a satellite library under the supervision of the BLIC Head to achieve the objectives of Library and Information Center namely: i. Provide uninterrupted Library services ii. Provide timely information services iii. Deliver Housekeeping operations to the utmost satisfaction of the customer iv. Create and archive information assets for future use. Experience 4 to 6 years experience in library /documentation / information handling preferably in corporate, scientific and technology environments. Others � Flair for IT, good communication and interpersonal skills and willing to work in flexi hours Interested candidates may e-mail �their resume to <trddc.library(a)tcs.com> by 30th Sep 2005 Alternatively, hard copies can be posted to: K V Satyanarayana Manager - Library & Information Services Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. 54-B, Hadapsar Industrial Estate Pune - 411013 eID:NT0001777A � � 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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First Workshop on Eprints in Library and Information Science
by Bhojaraju G 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Apologies for X Postings First Workshop on Eprints in Library and Information Science22 October, 2005 from 13:45 to 19:00Council Chamber, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland The workshop takes place right after the CERN workshop on Innovationsin Scholarly Communication OAI4 http://oai4.web.cern.ch/OAI4/. Itis sponsored by CERN, CILEA and the Polytechnic University ofValencia. The meeting is followed by a reception. The workshop is for activists, friends and folks who want to find outmore about the E-LIS eprints archive for Library and InformationScience (LIS), at http://eprints.rclis.org. E-LIS was formed in 2003to further the open archiving of papers in LIS and related fields. Itis an open-access international eprints archive maintained byvolunteers. It has grown spectacularly well. At the time of writingalmost 3000 eprints have been archived. At the workshop the E-LIS community will discuss technical details ofE-LIS and organizational models for the E-LIS community. Outsiderswill find it interesting to see how a really successful open archiveworks. Some efforts that are related to E-LIS will also be discussed.This workshop will be an important contribution to the development ofopen archiving within LIS scholarly communication. Registration for this event is free, but limited to to the first 150people. See the workshop web site athttp://www.aepic.it/conf/index.php?cf=4 For further details and online registration. Thanks & Regards Bhojaraju G,Librarian – Knowledge ManagementHomepage: http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com ************************************************************ICICI 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@yahoo.com************************************************************Visit & Pl put your comments on Guest BookKM Cyberary: http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com/cyberary.htmlKM-Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/

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Appointed as University Librarian of Bangalore University, Bangalore.
by Dr.P.V.Konnur 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Sorry for the second posting. I had not changed the signature at the end of my mail earlier. Please feel free to contact me in the address given bellow. Thanks. Konnur. Dear Professional Colleagues, I am happy to inform you all that I have reported to my duties as University Librarian of Bangalore University, Bangalore since 6th August 2005. I was earlier working at Goa University as its Librarian since 1999. Your advice and cooperation will go a long way in development of Bangalore University Library. I seek your full support. Thanks, Konnur. Dr.P.V.Konnur, University Librarian, Bangalore University Library, Jnana Bharathi, Bangalore-560 056 Phone: o8o-22961131 080-23215510 ______________________________________________________ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/

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Information about CICTAL Course of the Ignou
by Dr. Nabi Hasan 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

Dear Friends Please send me the information about the IGNOU CICTAL Course. The information avavilable in the prospectus of the IGNOU and at their website is not comprehensive. Regards Dr. Nabi Hasan Assistant Librarian cum 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 --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com Dear Friends Please send me the information about the IGNOU CICTAL Course. The information avavilable in the prospectus of the IGNOU and at their website is not comprehensive. Regards Dr. Nabi Hasan Assistant Librarian cum 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 Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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PLANNER 2005 Website - Corrigendum
by Rajesh Chandrakar 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

Dear Professionals, In my previous announcement of the PLANNER2005, please read the website of the convention as http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/planner05/default.jsp instead of http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/planner05/index.jsp. We are sorry for the inconvenience caused. Other mistakes, if any found, may please be ignored. With best regards, Rajesh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajesh Chandrakar, Commonwealth Professional Fellow 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Professionals, In my previous announcement of the PLANNER2005, please read the website of the convention as http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/planner05/default.jsp http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/planner05/default.jsp instead of http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/planner05/index.jsp http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/planner05/index.jsp . We are sorry for the inconvenience caused. Other mistakes, if any found, may please be ignored. With best regards, Rajesh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajesh Chandrakar, Commonwealth Professional Fellow 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: mailto:rajesh@inflibnet.ac.in rajesh(a)inflibnet.ac.in ; mailto:rchandrakar@gmail.com rchandrakar(a)gmail.com Website: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in http://www.inflibnet.ac.in -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: [LIS-Forum] protection of old manuscripts
by rama.budihal＠wipro.com 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Visit www.namami.nic.in - National Mission for Manuscripts, for conservation, if you are in Karnataka contact ICKPAK - Intach Chitrakala parishat art conservation Centre or Karnataka State Archives in Vidhana Soudha. If you are in Tamil nadu contact State Museum Dr. Jairaj there. If you are in Maharashtra contact BORI. All these are Manuscripts Conservation centres under the National Mission. If you want to digitize contact Mahabharata Samshodhana Pratisthanam, Bangalore - mspblr(a)yahoo.com ________________________________ From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in on behalf of chandru shekar Sent: Tue 9/6/2005 12:31 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] protection of old manuscripts Iam new to this discussion forum. I found it very useful and enjoying very much. I am working as librarian of reputed Ayurvedic medical college. we have good number of old manuscripts. I want to know the methods of preserving of manuscripts viz. fumigation etc.. kindly guide me in this matter chandru __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Confidentiality Notice The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender at Wipro or Mailadmin(a)wipro.com immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. [LIS-Forum] protection of old manuscripts Visit http://www.namami.nic.in www.namami.nic.in - National Mission for Manuscripts, for conservation, if you are in Karnataka contact ICKPAK - Intach Chitrakala parishat art conservation Centre or Karnataka State Archives in Vidhana Soudha. If you are in Tamil nadu contact State Museum Dr. Jairaj there. If you are in Maharashtra contact BORI. All these are Manuscripts Conservation centres under the National Mission. If you want to digitize contact Mahabharata Samshodhana Pratisthanam, Bangalore - mspblr(a)yahoo.com From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in on behalf of chandru shekar Sent: Tue 9/6/2005 12:31 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] protection of old manuscripts Iam new to this discussion forum. I found it very useful and enjoying very much. I am working as librarian of reputed Ayurvedic medical college. we have good number of old manuscripts. I want to know the methods of preserving of manuscripts viz. fumigation etc.. kindly guide me in this matter chandru __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com http://yahoo.shaadi.com _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Confidentiality Notice The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender at Wipro or Mailadmin(a)wipro.com immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments.

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India ICT industry at crossroads: Gartner
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

http://www.ciol.com/content/search/showarticle1.asp?artid=74504&nl=2_15033_… India ICT industry at crossroads: Gartner The dwindling government interest in the ICT industry would lead to a re-focus on other industries and India's digital divide would be pronounced Thursday, September 01, 2005 MUMBAI: Indian Information & Communications Technology (ICT) companies may be missing a significant opportunity by concentrating their efforts on India's much-hyped export market and failing to capitalise on the country's burgeoning domestic market, warned Gartner. Speaking at the Gartner Summit India 2005 in Mumbai, analysts said that India continued to have the fastest growing ICT market in the world, and predicted a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19 percent from 2004 through 2008. Though starting from a much smaller base, this is significantly faster growth than the second fastest growing ICT market in the world - China. Gartner estimates that ICT spending in India will surpass US$54.8 billion by 2008, a rise from US$29.5 billion in 2004. "India is one of the few countries in the world where the impact of the services export-oriented business far outweighs that of the domestic side," said Partha Iyengar, research vice president at Gartner. "The overall impact of ICT development in the country is skewed heavily around the unique dynamics of this services export trend, often to the detriment of the domestic opportunity." Whilst some Indian service providers are making a name in certain global markets, such as IT services and business process outsourcing (BPO), it is the global players that are firmly entrenched in the Indian domestic market. Domestic vendors currently account for only 42 percent of total ICT spend in India. Iyengar said, "The dominance of foreign providers in India is driven by a combination of a lack of credible domestic ICT infrastructure providers - other than in the Telecom space - and the benign neglect of the emerging and growing domestic services business by the major Indian service providers. Unless action is taken now, domestic providers could see their share of the Indian market slip further." Iyengar further counseled that India's much prized export-focused industry, currently estimated to be worth around $16.5 billion, could ultimately be under threat if local providers fail to gain ground in the domestic market. According to Gartner, Indian businesses are increasingly turning to multinational brands in the outsourcing of high-profile contracts. Gartner believes that if Indian technology providers have no standing in the local market and are thus unable to compete for these higher-end (transformation oriented) deals, it will hamper their future prospects in pursuing similar deals in international markets. "This scenario creates an interesting range of possibilities on how India's ICT business might unfold over the next few years," said Iyengar. "The possible paths will be predicated by a complex combination of vendor, government and end-user behaviour over the next few years. The impact of outside forces in the form of global treaties or national trade barriers could also have a profound impact on the future growth of ICT in India. So, in a manner of speaking, India is not completely in control of its own destiny with regard to its domestic ICT industry." Gartner has defined three potential scenarios for India's ICT industry in 2010. Each scenario highlights six parameters: Domestic ICT Industry, ICT Export Industry, Social Impact, Political Impact, Overall Economy and ICT Standards. Gartner's first scenario, 'Global ICT Superstar' is characterised by balanced development of both the domestic ICT industry and export strength. It assumes a high level of government support with the India ICT industry driving policy as well as defining new global standards. It would lead to a strong economy and a large majority of the population would stand to benefit. In the second scenario, the domestic ICT industry would continue to be dominated by foreign multinationals and the export market would struggle for survival. According to Gartner, in this scenario, dwindling government interest in the ICT industry would lead to a re-focus on other industries and the country's digital divide would be pronounced. In the third and final scenario, India would cease to be a global ICT player, largely ignoring global standards and protocol. Gartner predicts that this scenario would lead to economic malaise in IT-centric states as the focus on the ICT industry rapidly evaporated. Iyengar concluded, "Clearly the ICT industry in India stands at a crossroads. If technology providers, end-users and government can work together to pursue the path outlined in the first scenario then India will not only prosper but also serve as a model for market development in other emerging countries." Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Chairman, Board of Studies, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science. Vice President, Association of British Scholars(AP Chapter) 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 PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://www.ciol.com/content/search/showarticle1.asp?artid=74504&nl=2_15033_… http://www.ciol.com/content/search/showarticle1.asp?artid=74504&nl=2_15033_… India ICT industry at crossroads: Gartner The dwindling government interest in the ICT industry would lead to a re-focus on other industries and India's digital divide would be pronounced mailto: Thursday, September 01, 2005 MUMBAI: Indian Information & Communications Technology (ICT) companies may be missing a significant opportunity by concentrating their efforts on India's much-hyped export market and failing to capitalise on the country's burgeoning domestic market, warned Gartner. Speaking at the Gartner Summit India 2005 in Mumbai, analysts said that India continued to have the fastest growing ICT market in the world, and predicted a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19 percent from 2004 through 2008. Though starting from a much smaller base, this is significantly faster growth than the second fastest growing ICT market in the world - China. Gartner estimates that ICT spending in India will surpass US$54.8 billion by 2008, a rise from US$29.5 billion in 2004. "India is one of the few countries in the world where the impact of the services export-oriented business far outweighs that of the domestic side," said Partha Iyengar, research vice president at Gartner. "The overall impact of ICT development in the country is skewed heavily around the unique dynamics of this services export trend, often to the detriment of the domestic opportunity." Whilst some Indian service providers are making a name in certain global markets, such as IT services and business process outsourcing (BPO), it is the global players that are firmly entrenched in the Indian domestic market. Domestic vendors currently account for only 42 percent of total ICT spend in India. Iyengar said, "The dominance of foreign providers in India is driven by a combination of a lack of credible domestic ICT infrastructure providers - other than in the Telecom space - and the benign neglect of the emerging and growing domestic services business by the major Indian service providers. Unless action is taken now, domestic providers could see their share of the Indian market slip further." Iyengar further counseled that India's much prized export-focused industry, currently estimated to be worth around $16.5 billion, could ultimately be under threat if local providers fail to gain ground in the domestic market. According to Gartner, Indian businesses are increasingly turning to multinational brands in the outsourcing of high-profile contracts. Gartner believes that if Indian technology providers have no standing in the local market and are thus unable to compete for these higher-end (transformation oriented) deals, it will hamper their future prospects in pursuing similar deals in international markets. "This scenario creates an interesting range of possibilities on how India's ICT business might unfold over the next few years," said Iyengar. "The possible paths will be predicated by a complex combination of vendor, government and end-user behaviour over the next few years. The impact of outside forces in the form of global treaties or national trade barriers could also have a profound impact on the future growth of ICT in India. So, in a manner of speaking, India is not completely in control of its own destiny with regard to its domestic ICT industry." Gartner has defined three potential scenarios for India's ICT industry in 2010. Each scenario highlights six parameters: Domestic ICT Industry, ICT Export Industry, Social Impact, Political Impact, Overall Economy and ICT Standards. Gartner's first scenario, 'Global ICT Superstar' is characterised by balanced development of both the domestic ICT industry and export strength. It assumes a high level of government support with the India ICT industry driving policy as well as defining new global standards. It would lead to a strong economy and a large majority of the population would stand to benefit. In the second scenario, the domestic ICT industry would continue to be dominated by foreign multinationals and the export market would struggle for survival. According to Gartner, in this scenario, dwindling government interest in the ICT industry would lead to a re-focus on other industries and the country's digital divide would be pronounced. In the third and final scenario, India would cease to be a global ICT player, largely ignoring global standards and protocol. Gartner predicts that this scenario would lead to economic malaise in IT-centric states as the focus on the ICT industry rapidly evaporated. Iyengar concluded, "Clearly the ICT industry in India stands at a crossroads. If technology providers, end-users and government can work together to pursue the path outlined in the first scenario then India will not only prosper but also serve as a model for market development in other emerging countries." Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Chairman, Board of Studies, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science. Vice President, Association of British Scholars(AP Chapter) 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! 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protection of old manuscripts
by chandru shekar 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Iam new to this discussion forum. I found it very useful and enjoying very much. I am working as librarian of reputed Ayurvedic medical college. we have good number of old manuscripts. I want to know the methods of preserving of manuscripts viz. fumigation etc.. kindly guide me in this matter chandru __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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Re:[LIS-Forum] Copyright
by Sukhdev Singh 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

1. Nobody should mind a portion of a site being cut and paste along with the source URL and emailed. It only helps the original site to achieve its objective. 2. Only a Public Library [copied under instructions of Librarian / Incharge ] can maintain a copy of a book that is not available through normal book trade in India. This is permited under Indian Copy Right Act. --Sukhdev Singh NIC. http://openmed.nic.in > Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 12:03:23 +0530 > From: Farooque Shaheen <Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Copyright > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: > < > OFD421E43F.80E7E5B3-ON65257074.0022E05B-65257074.0024538C(a)notes.caritor.com > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Dear professionals, > > Is it fair to copy and paste an article or news > etc (indicating source URL) from a website (not paid) and send it to > colleagues and friends? > > > Thanks & Regards, > Farooque Shaheen, > Caritor India Pvt Ltd, > Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 > Mobile-9342507449 > -------------- next part -------------- > Dear professionals, > Is it fair to copy and paste an article or news etc (indicating source > URL) from a website (not paid) and send it to colleagues and friends? > Thanks & Regards, > Farooque Shaheen, > Caritor India Pvt Ltd, > Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 > Mobile-9342507449 > > ------------------------------ > > 2. Only a Public Library [copied under instructions of Librarian / Incharge ] can maintain a copy of a book that is not available through normal book trade in India. This is permited under Indian Copy Right Act. --Sukhdev Singh NIC. http://openmed.nic.in http://openmed.nic.in Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 12:03:23 +0530 From: Farooque Shaheen < mailto:Farooque.Shaheen@caritor.com Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Copyright To: mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: < mailto:OFD421E43F.80E7E5B3-ON65257074.0022E05B-65257074.0024538C@notes.caritor.com OFD421E43F.80E7E5B3-ON65257074.0022E05B-65257074.0024538C(a)notes.caritor.com > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear professionals, Is it fair to copy and paste an article or news etc (indicating source URL) from a website (not paid) and send it to colleagues and friends? Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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RE:protection of old manuscripts
by Rajeev Sharma 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Dear Chandru Shekar You can contact Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts, New Delhi http://ignca.nic.in. Warm Regards Rajeev TCI Ltd . Gurgaon Dear Chandru Shekar You can contact Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts, New Delhi http://ignca.nic.in http://ignca.nic.in . Warm Regards Rajeev TCI Ltd . Gurgaon

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Copyright
by Parinita Samant 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Hi, That is a very valid question the answer of which even I am seeking. Another question that come to mind regarding the copyright laws is, Can Libraries in India keep, display and circulate photocopied books as part of the library collection? I have read somewhere that Libraries can keep upto 3 copies as part of their collection. If yes, does it not violate copyright laws, if it does not, then how so? Eagerly awaiting a reply to this question.....!!! Thanks and Regards, Parinita HexaVarsity - Library 55919595 Ext. No 9707 -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Farooque Shaheen Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 12:03 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Copyright Dear professionals, Is it fair to copy and paste an article or news etc (indicating source URL) from a website (not paid) and send it to colleagues and friends? Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Copyright
by Farooque Shaheen 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Dear professionals, Is it fair to copy and paste an article or news etc (indicating source URL) from a website (not paid) and send it to colleagues and friends? Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 Dear professionals, � � � � � � � � � � � � Is it fair to copy and paste an article or news etc (indicating source URL) from a website (not paid) and send it to colleagues and friends? Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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SALIS Montly Lecture on 'Public Speaking ' - by Mr. Muthiah Ramanathan, Director - Training, of Mind Dynamics
by Arunachalam Hariharan 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS) - Chennai Chapter Monthly Lecture Series Sep 2005 Topic: Public Speaking Speaker: Mr. Muthiah Ramanathan, Director - Training, of Mind Dynamics 10 A.M Venu: Connemara Public Library, Chennai Date: 11 Sep 2005 About the Speaker: Mr. Muthiah Ramanathan, Director - Training, of Mind Dynamics Center also serves as the President of the Hypnotique Circle, Chennai. He is a certified Trainer in N L P from the National Federation of Neuro Linguistic Psychology, Florida, U S A., He also serves as Faculty, in the Academy of Insurance Marketing and Management. He specializes in Behavioural Psychology and Hypno-analysis. Has undergone extensive training in Advanced Transactional Analysis from the I T A A International Transactional Analysis Association. Has presented training programs for more than a decade on Management, H R D, Organizational Behaviour, Psychology, and Personality Development for well over 10,000 people. Has written a Best-seller Book in Tamil on The Powers of the Sub-conscious Mind and Hypnosis, published by Kannadhasan Publications Has created audio-cassettes on Physical and Psychological well-being The Art of Relaxation, Stress Management, Time Management etc. Has presented a series of talks for more than an year on, Self Development in Tamil Radio Television and Tamil Television Network. Conducted programmes for more than 100 organisations ______________________________________________________ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/

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CALL FOR PAPER: PLANNER 2005 - Reminder
by Rajesh Chandrakar 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

Hurry up! Two more weeks left CALL FOR PAPER: PLANNER 2005 It is with great pleasure INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad extends invitation for Call for Paper for 3rd PLANNER 2005 to be held at Assam University, Silchar on November 10-11, 2005. The Convention title and theme are Digital, Collection Development and E-journal Management in Libraries Potential authors and presenters of papers are invited to submit their full papers maximum 10 single spaced pages on or before 20th September 2005 addressing the conference theme and following sub-themes: Digital Collection Development Digital Libraries; Content Creation; Collection Development; Digital Archiving Methods; Knowledge Management; Metadata; Multi Lingual Issues; Open Source Software; Standards-Protocols (OAI - PMH, CrossRef, DOI, OpenURL etc); Institutional repository; Current Issues and Trends in Digital Library E-Journal Management Copyright, Digital Rights Management; Issues in Consortia; Licensing and Pricing Model; E-journals and E-Education; Intellectual property Rights (IPR); Integrating of E-Resources; Web Based Library Portals/Services; Open Archive Initiatives; E-Journal Management; Training and support to staff and Users; Web based services; Network infrastructure and security Full papers (abstract in 150-300 words, max. 6 keywords) along with resume about the author(s) in 100 words, recent passport size Photograph, e-mail, phone, fax, postal address should be submitted in word format by e-mail or floppy to the following address: Dr. T A V Murthy Director INFLIBNET Centre, UGC Gujarat University Campus P.B. 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad - 380 009, (Gujarat) India Phone: +91-79-26304695/8528/5971/5702 Fax:+91-79-26300990/26307816 E-Mail: tav(a)inflibnet.ac.in Dr. TAV Murthy, Editor-in-Cheif, PLANNER 2005 Director Scientist B INFLIBNET Centre, UGC Gujarat University Campus P.B. 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad - 380 009, (Gujarat) India Phone: +91-79-26305702 Fax: +91-79-26300990/26307816 E-Mail: tav(a)inflibnet.ac.in Sh. Rajesh Chandrakar Joint-Conference Coordinator, PLANNER 2005 Scientific & Technical Officer, INFLIBNET Centre, UGC Gujarat University Campus P.B. 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad - 380 009, (Gujarat) India Phone: +91-79-26304695/8528, 26873805(R) Fax: +91-79-26300990/26307816 E-Mail: rajesh(a)inflibnet.ac.in For more information kindly visit the website: http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/planner05/index.jsp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajesh Chandrakar, Commonwealth Professional Fellow 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hurry up! Two more weeks left CALL FOR PAPER: PLANNER 2005 It is with great pleasure INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad extends invitation for Call for Paper for 3 rd PLANNER 2005 to be held at Assam University, Silchar on November 10-11, 2005. The Convention title and theme are Digital, Collection Development and E-journal Management in Libraries Potential authors and presenters of papers are invited to submit their full papers maximum 10 single spaced pages on or before 20 th September 2005 addressing the conference theme and following sub-themes: Digital Collection Development Digital Libraries; Content Creation; Collection Development; Digital Archiving Methods; Knowledge Management; Metadata; Multi Lingual Issues; Open Source Software; Standards-Protocols (OAI PMH, CrossRef, DOI, OpenURL etc); Institutional repository; C urrent Issues and Trends in Digital Library E-Journal Management Copyright, Digital Rights Management ; Issues in Consortia; Licensing and Pricing Model; E-journals and E-Education; Intellectual property Rights (IPR); Integrating of E-Resources; Web Based Library Portals/Services; Open Archive Initiatives; E-Journal Management; Training and support to staff and Users; Web based services; Network infrastructure and security Full papers (abstract in 150-300 words, max. 6 keywords) along with resume about the author(s) in 100 words, recent passport size Photograph, e-mail, phone, fax, postal address should be submitted in word format by e-mail or floppy to the following address: Dr. T A V Murthy Director INFLIBNET Centre, UGC Gujarat University Campus P.B. 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad - 380 009, (Gujarat) India Phone: +91-79-26304695/8528/5971/5702 Fax:+91-79-26300990/26307816 E-Mail: mailto:tav@inflibnet.ac.in tav(a)inflibnet.ac.in Dr. TAV Murthy, Editor-in-Cheif, PLANNER 2005 Director Scientist B INFLIBNET Centre, UGC Gujarat University Campus P.B. 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad - 380 009, (Gujarat) India Phone: +91-79-26305702 Fax: +91-79-26300990/26307816 E-Mail: mailto:tav@inflibnet.ac.in tav(a)inflibnet.ac.in Sh. Rajesh Chandrakar Joint-Conference Coordinator, PLANNER 2005 Scientific & Technical Officer, INFLIBNET Centre, UGC Gujarat University Campus P.B. 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad - 380 009, (Gujarat) India Phone: +91-79-26304695/8528, 26873805(R) Fax: +91-79-26300990/26307816 E-Mail: mailto:rajesh@inflibnet.ac.in rajesh(a)inflibnet.ac.in For more information kindly visit the website: http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/planner05/index.jsp http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/planner05/index.jsp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajesh Chandrakar, Commonwealth Professional Fellow 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: mailto:rajesh@inflibnet.ac.in rajesh(a)inflibnet.ac.in ; mailto:rchandrakar@gmail.com rchandrakar(a)gmail.com Website: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in http://www.inflibnet.ac.in -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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MULISSA Friday Talk - Report
by N.S. Harinarayana 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

Report of the Friday Talk held at Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore. Topic: Information for an open society Speaker: S. Sheshishkar, Informedia, Mysore Date: September 2, 2005 Time: 4 to 5 PM Venue: Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore Organiser: MULISSA Summary of the lecture: Information is a vital resource. Libraries have a natural link with information. Librarians from Kallimachos to Ranganathan have always worked for organization of information. Society at large has no or very little role in the creation and distribution of information However, the balance seems turning towards the society. Any body can create and distribute the information directly. Thanks to the development of technologies like WWW, email, VoIP, IRC etc. The speaker introduced some of those technologies which can be used by any one in an open society. Here the concept open society designates �a society that allows its members considerable freedom in creation and use of information�. We are moving towards Open Society where every one has equal opportunity to participate in creation, distribution, sharing and use of knowledge. There are plenty of opportunities for any to document his/her thoughts. Wikipedia is a huge success story. Any body can contribute to Wikipedia in any language of the world. More than one thousand articles have been placed in Kannada language. (http://kn.wikipedia.org) One can contribute, modify others article and/or record their criticism. Its growth rate is enviable even to the likes of Encyclopedia Britannica. Another technology that encourages every one to contribute is the Web log or Blogs in short. Web logs or blogs are a type of Web content typically created by independent writers (although some reporters for media companies create blogs on newspaper or magazine sites). Some are personal journals; others resemble newsletters or columns. Often, they contain links to other sources of content. Planet Sun is an example and an aggregation of public weblogs written by employees of Sun Microsystems (http://planetsun.org) Bookmarks save the addresses of your favorite sites, so you can return to them quickly without having to retype the address. In some browsers, bookmarks are called favorites. What makes social bookmarks different from bookmarks is its ability to see the bookmarks collected by others. del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others. Open societies does not disrespect the copyrights and intellectual property rights. The contents created could be registered for their flexible copyrights. For example the Creative Commons website (www.opencontent.org) enables copyright holders to grant some of their rights to the public while retaining others through a variety of licensing and contract schemes including dedication to the public domain or open content licensing terms. The intention is to avoid the problems current copyright laws create for the sharing of information. The speaker also provided information about many success stories of open society creation like Project Gutenberg, Wikibooks etc. He said open society might contribute to the already existing information deluge on the Internet. For example by participating in the Open Directory Project � DMOZ, we can provide an organized approach to the resources on Internet. Mr. C.S. Surendra welcomed the gathering and Ms. Chaitra M extended the vote of thanks. The above summary is prepared by Mr. Raghu and Mr. Harish, the first and the third semester students of MLISc respectively under the guidance of Dr. N.S. Harinarayana. -- N.S.Harinarayana Ph.D Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri, Mysore 570 006 Ph: 2419393

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OA & RCUK policy
by Subbiah Arunachalam 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

Friends: Here is something interesting from Peter Suber's blog. Arun --------- OA Working Group comment on the RCUK policy The Open Access Working Group has publicly released its August 23 comment on the draft RCUK policy. Excerpt: We believe that open-access research dissemination is an indispensable part of the overall remedy to the serious problems now facing the system of scholarly communication. Moreover, open access is a necessary ingredient in any plan to fully realize the social benefits of scientific advances. While these advantages are important no matter the source of the funding, it is particularly critical when the research is publicly funded and the resulting output is a public good....Implementation of [the draft] policy will result in taxpayers gaining immediate, full and direct access to the research for which they have already paid. Moreover, such a policy will increase the return on the government's investment in this research; as a result of deposit the research becomes more accessible, discoverable, sharable, and for these reasons, more useful, than toll-access research....We are particularly pleased to note that the Research Council's policy requires grantees to deposit final published articles, greatly enhancing the policy's chances for successfully achieving these important goals and ensuring maximum participation....To further ensure the success of this policy, we would suggest that the Research Councils consider revising the section of the policy that specifically relates to the timing of the deposit of research materials. [The current language in paragraph 14.b] seems to allow publishers, in cases where they have become the copyright-holder, to object to deposit or to demand long delays or embargoes prior to deposit or public release. We encourage the Research Councils to close this loophole before the final draft is finished to ensure that deposit does indeed occur at the desired point, at or around the time of publication. We note that the draft policy exempts researchers from the requirement to deposit their research in instances where they do not have access to an institutional or disciplinary repository. We hope that the Research Councils will implement strategies to encourage the development of repositories in the U.K. in a manner that makes deposit available to all researchers. The OAWG members who signed this comment are the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), the American Library Association (ALA), the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL), the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Medical Library Association (MLA), Public Knowledge (PK), and the Scholarly Publication and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). I participated in the drafting of this comment. Friends: Here is something interesting from Peter Suber's blog. Arun --------- OA Working Group comment on the RCUK policy [A] The http://www.arl.org/sparc/oa/oawg.html Open Access Working Group has publicly released its August 23 http://www.arl.org/sparc/oa/RCUK.html comment on the http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/index.asp draft RCUK policy . Excerpt: We believe that open-access research dissemination is an indispensable part of the overall remedy to the serious problems now facing the system of scholarly communication. Moreover, open access is a necessary ingredient in any plan to fully realize the social benefits of scientific advances. While these advantages are important no matter the source of the funding, it is particularly critical when the research is publicly funded and the resulting output is a public good....Implementation of [the draft] policy will result in taxpayers gaining immediate, full and direct access to the research for which they have already paid. Moreover, such a policy will increase the return on the government's investment in this research; as a result of deposit the research becomes more accessible, discoverable, sharable, and for these reasons, more useful, than toll-access research....We are particularly pleased to note that the Research Councils policy requires grantees to deposit final published articles, greatly enhancing the policys chances for successfully achieving these important goals and ensuring maximum participation....To further ensure the success of this policy, we would suggest that the Research Councils consider revising the section of the policy that specifically relates to the timing of the deposit of research materials. [The current language in paragraph 14.b] seems to allow publishers, in cases where they have become the copyright-holder, to object to deposit or to demand long delays or embargoes prior to deposit or public release. We encourage the Research Councils to close this loophole before the final draft is finished to ensure that deposit does indeed occur at the desired point, at or around the time of publication. We note that the draft policy exempts researchers from the requirement to deposit their research in instances where they do not have access to an institutional or disciplinary repository. We hope that the Research Councils will implement strategies to encourage the development of repositories in the U.K. in a manner that makes deposit available to all researchers. The OAWG members who signed this comment are the American Association of Law Libraries ( http://www.aallnet.org/ AALL ), the American Library Association ( http://www.ala.org/ ALA ), the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries ( http://www.aahsl.org/ AAHSL ), the Association of College & Research Libraries ( http://www.ala.org/acrl/ ACRL ), the Association of Research Libraries ( http://www.arl.org/ ARL ), the Medical Library Association ( http://www.mlanet.org/ MLA ), Public Knowledge ( http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/Public Knowledge PK ), and the Scholarly Publication and Academic Resources Coalition ( http://www.arl.org/sparc/ SPARC ). I participated in the drafting of this comment.

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LIBRARIANS ARE DOING SCIENTIFIC WORK
by Aloor Thomas Francis 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

Librarians are doing Scientific Work Mr. Gautam Bahl revealed the following: As per the letter dated 9th May, 2005 of ministry of HRD, Deptt. of secondary and higher education to The Secretary, U.G.C. has denied to to revise the Career Advancement Scheme for Librarians and Physical Education Teachers on the following reasons: 1. No absolute parity of these categories of personnel involved in the subject case with teachers in universities and colleges has been conceded. 2. The Rastogi committee has recommended different treatment to categories of teachers on the one hand and categories like Astt. Registrars, Librarians, physical education instructors on the other in Universities and colleges, in whose cases the committee had recommended only for the continuance of the existing CAS / existing path of carrier advancement including the continuance of existing residency period; there is no case/scope for considering benefits over and above these recommendations. In this regard, I think that the recommendation of the UGC and decision of the Govt. of India on the matter is highly unscientific and biased. All the research agencies of the Govt. of India such as DRDO, CSIR, ISRO, DAE, etc. give full parity to their library professionals with their other scientists. In these agencies, the designation, scale of pay, career advancement scheme, retirement age, etc. are same to all categories, including librarians. If the Govt. of India is providing parity to the librarians of its research agencies, why the UGC is denying the similar parity to its Librarians. Moreover, the recruitment qualifications and other terms are same for teachers and librarians. It is not justifiable to equate the librarians with the Assistant/Deputy Registrars. I strongly believe that, this may be the reason to change the designation of librarians by the Govt. of Andra Pradesh into Lecturers/Assistant Professors. In the Agricultural Universities in India, the designation of Physical Education Teachers is Assistant/Associate Professors as in the case of other teachers. In these context, how the UGC can enforce its new rules ?. The act of the UGC will finally reflect in the quality of education and research. In future, this field will become unattractive to the best candidates. So, it is the duty of everybody to get it rectified the decision of the UGC. A.T. FRANCIS ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN KERALA AGTRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: UGC Career Advancement for Library Professionals
by gautam bahl 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

Dear Mr. Francis, The latest information I have on this matter is: As per the letter dated 9th May, 2005 of ministry of HRD, Deptt. of secondary and higher education to The Secretary, U.G.C in reply to letter No. F 3-1/94 (PS) - 7 dated 5th feb, 2001 regarding CAS for Assistant Librarians/College Librarians, Astt. Director of Physical Education, College DPEs and Astt. Registrars, the ministry has clearly denied to agree to a revised CAS to the above mentioned categories citing following reasons: 1. No absolute parity of these categories of personnel involved in the subject case with teachers in universities and colleges has been conceded. 2. The Rastogi committee has recommended different treatment to categories of teachers on the one hand and categories like Astt. Registrars, Librarians, physical education instructors on the other in Universities and colleges, in whose cases the committee had recommended only for the continuance of the existing CAS / existing path of carrier advancement including the continuance of existing residency period; there is no case/scope for considering benefits over and above these recommendations. If you need a copy of the aforesaid letter, please mail me your postal address. Some of the professional associations in the North India are gearing up to fight this matter for details you can contact Mr I B Verma General Secreatary, Chandigarh Librarians Association (CLA) Mobile 0-9814721417 e-mail vermaib(a)yahoo.co.in With regards, Gautam Bahl Librarian T.S Central State Library, Sec 17, Chandigarh. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear Mr. Francis, The latest information I have on this matter is: As per the letter dated 9 th May, 2005 of ministry of HRD, Deptt. of secondary and higher education to The Secretary, U.G.C in reply to letter No. F 3-1/94 (PS) - 7 dated 5th feb, 2001 regarding CAS for Assistant Librarians/College Librarians, Astt. Director of Physical Education, College DPEs and Astt. Registrars, the ministry has clearly denied to agree to a revised CAS to the above mentioned categories citing following reasons: 1. No absolute parity of these categories of personnel involved in the subject case with teachers in universities and colleges has been conceded. 2. The Rastogi committee has recommended different treatment to categories of teachers on the one hand and categories like Astt. Registrars, Librarians, physical education instructors on the other in Universities and colleges, in whose cases the committee had recommended only for the continuance of the existing CAS / existing path of carrier advancement including the continuance of existing residency period; there is no case/scope for considering benefits over and above these recommendations. If you need a copy of the aforesaid letter, please mail me your postal address. Some of the professional associations in the North India are gearing up to fight this matter for details you can contact Mr I B Verma General Secreatary, Chandigarh Librarians Association (CLA) Mobile 0-9814721417 e-mail http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pulis/post?postID=EZzbiiORN7CgJnJRQoqr3dcLbew… vermaib(a)yahoo.co.in With regards, Gautam Bahl Librarian T.S Central State Library, Sec 17, Chandigarh . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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IJITAM: call for papers submission
by Puttaraj Choukimath 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

Hi All, Greetings. http://www.vit.ac.in/ A new Internationa Journal Information Technology: Applications and Management (IJITAM) Dedicated to: Innovative and Path Breaking Applications, Strategic and Futuristic Technology Management, Achieving Excellence and Improved Productivity in Industry Sector, Optimal Utilization of Research and Development Resources, Collaborative Research and Use of ICT in Education etc. Effective and Efficient Decision Making for Responsive Governance Integrated Processes and Workflow Management for Corporate Governance Systems Approach for Managing ICT Infrastructure 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 --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail for Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. Hi All, Greetings. http://www.vit.ac.in/ http://www.vit.ac.in/ A new Internationa Journal Information Technology: Applications and Management (IJITAM) Dedicated to: Innovative and Path Breaking Applications, Strategic and Futuristic Technology Management, Achieving Excellence and Improved Productivity in Industry Sector, Optimal Utilization of Research and Development Resources, Collaborative Research and Use of ICT in Education etc. Effective and Efficient Decision Making for Responsive Governance Integrated Processes and Workflow Management for Corporate Governance Systems Approach for Managing ICT Infrastructure 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: mailto:puttuc@yahoo.com puttuc(a)yahoo.com , mailto:choukimath@tiss.edu choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: http://www.tiss.edu www.tiss.edu 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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S R RANGANATHAN'S DAY CELEBRATION
by vasappa gowda 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

"Dakshina Kannada and Kodagu Library,Mangalore " is celebrating Dr. S R Ranganatha's Day on 04th Sept,2005(Sunday) at 10 AM at St.Aloysius College, Mangalore. Dr. Kemparaju, Professor, Dept. of LIS, Bangalore University will give key note address. Prof. Narahari, President, Karnataka State College Teachers Association will be the chief guest. Prof. Eugine Lobo, Principal, St.Aloysius College, Mangalore will precide over the function. Sri. Mohandas, retired librarian, NITK, Surathkal and Sri. Ram Sherigar,Librarian, Poornaprajna College, Udupi will be honoured for their retirement. And Dr. T. Y.Mallaiah, Deputy Librarian, Mangalore University and Dr. Purushathama Gowda, Sr. Assistant Librarian, Mangalore University will be felicitated for their award of Doctoral Degree in LIS. ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED VASAPPA GOWDA, SR. LIBRARIAN, BESANT EVENING COLLEGE, MANGALORE-575003, KARNATAKA STATE,INDIA. e-mail vasgowda(a)yahoo.co.in Ph (0824) 2491204(O) (0824) 2497109(R) --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com " Dakshina Kannada and Kodagu Library,Mangalore " is celebrating Dr. S R Ranganatha's Day on 04th Sept,2005(Sunday) at 10 AM at St.Aloysius College, Mangalore. Dr. Kemparaju, Professor, Dept. of LIS, Bangalore University will give key note address. Prof. Narahari, President, Karnataka State College Teachers Association will be the chief guest. Prof. Eugine Lobo, Principal, St.Aloysius College, Mangalore will precide over the function. Sri. Mohandas, retired librarian, NITK, Surathkal and Sri. Ram Sherigar,Librarian, Poornaprajna College, Udupi will be honoured for their retirement. And Dr. T. Y.Mallaiah, Deputy Librarian, Mangalore University and Dr. Purushathama Gowda, Sr. Assistant Librarian, Mangalore University will be felicitated for their award of Doctoral Degree in LIS. ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED VASAPPA GOWDA, SR. LIBRARIAN, BESANT EVENING COLLEGE, MANGALORE-575003, KARNATAKA STATE,INDIA. e-mail mailto:vasgowda@yahoo.co.in vasgowda(a)yahoo.co.in Ph (0824) 2491204(O) (0824) 2497109(R) Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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Libraries Offering Audiobook Downloads
by Subbiah Gunasekaran 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

Dear Members: Please read the article. ---- Libraries Offering Audiobook Downloads By Michael Hill August 29, 2005 Associated Press Writer GUILDERLAND, N.Y. (AP) -- A new way to borrow audiobooks from the library involves no CDs, no car trips, no fines and no risk of being shushed. Rather, public libraries from New York City to Alameda, Calif., are letting patrons download Tom Clancy techno-thrillers, Arabic tutorials and other titles to which they can listen on their computers or portable music players -- all without leaving home. Librarians say such offerings help libraries stay relevant in the digital age. Barbara Nichols Randall, director of the Guilderland Public Library in suburban Albany, said the library considered the needs of younger readers and those too busy to visit. "This is a way for us to have library access 24/7," she said. There's still one big hitch, though: The leading library services offer Windows-friendly audiobook files that can't be played on Apple Computer Inc.'s massively popular iPod player. Vendors such as OverDrive Inc. and OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) Inc.'s NetLibrary have licensing deals with publishers and provide digital books using Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media Audio format, which includes copyright protections designed to help audiobooks stand apart from the often lawless world of song swapping. A patron with a valid library card visits a library Web site to borrow a title for, say, three weeks. When the audiobook is due, the patron must renew it or find it automatically "returned" in a virtual sense: The file still sits on the patron's computer, but encryption makes it unplayable beyond the borrowing period. "The patron doesn't have to do anything after the lending period," said Steve Potash, chief executive of OverDrive. "The file expires. It checks itself back into the collection. There's no parts to lose. It's never damaged. It can never be late." Potash said about 1,000 libraries have signed up for OverDrive's audiobook service since its debut late last year. NetLibrary, teaming up with Recorded Books, launched a similar service in January and counts 200 library customers. Libraries offering audiobook downloads range from large institutions in New York and Los Angeles to smaller ones for Cleveland, Ohio, Maricopa County, Ariz., North Little Rock, Ark. and Omaha, Neb. The Hawaii State Public Library System signed up earlier this month. Guilderland pays NetLibrary about $6,000 a year for more than 850 titles. Randall considers that a good deal, noting that a single audiobook can cost the library up to $80 when bought on CD. Under the NetLibrary program, Guilderland gets a set number of downloads for all titles each year, and a single title can be borrowed by multiple patrons simultaneously as long as the cap hasn't been reached. Downloads over the cap cost extra. Patrons must provide their own audio players, although they may listen on their home computers if they do not have one. Other libraries make different arrangements. OverDrive, for example, generally takes a more traditional approach. When a copy is checked out, no other patron may download it until the borrowing period ends. It's still unclear what impact such services will have on audiobook download sales from companies such as Audible Inc., although one analyst suggested it could inspire more sales as patrons buy for keeps a title they had borrowed. "It's certainly smart for the publishers to do this," said Phil Leigh, a senior analyst with Inside Digital Media. Digital downloads are a part of a natural progression for libraries, which have evolved from lending books to cassettes and videotapes to CDs and DVDs. OverDrive recently launched a video download service for libraries. Librarians say they had little interest in audiobook downloads just a few years ago, but they have since noticed what everyone else has: the ubiquity of people sporting earbuds on streets, buses and malls. Nearly 28 million portable audio players were sold last year, according to In-Stat, a technology research company. With more than 21 million sold, the iPod remains the signature portable player. But it uses the Advanced Audio Coding format with FairPlay, its own digital rights management system and one incompatible with Windows' technology. Just as the lack of a standard digital audio format has fragmented the music download market, it affects audiobooks. Users of iPods can still listen to books purchased through sources such as audible.com or Apple's own iTunes Music Store, but the library services, for now, are geared toward computers and devices that support Windows Media Audio files. OverDrive files can be burned to CDs and converted to iPod friendly formats, but NetLibrary's cannot. Marge Gammon of NetLibrary said that despite iPod's cache, the company wanted a product that could be played on a range of devices. OverDrive's Potash notes there's a growing market of portable audio players, some priced lower then $50 (Regular iPod models start at $299, though the Minis start at $199 and Shuffles at $99). Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris said the company has no plans to change its copy-protection formats and would not comment on the incompatibility issue. Librarians say they have heard complaints from iPod users, but there's little they can do beyond waiting for the industry to sort out its differences. One California library shunned the download services completely, largely because of iPod's popularity. Instead, Newport Beach Public Library bought 15 iPod Shuffles and loaded them up with audiobooks from iTunes to loan out. Patrons are liable for any loss or damage, though librarian Genesis Hansen said there's been no problems so far. http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/08/ap/ap_082905.asp?trk=nl ----- Thanks S.Gunasekaran Dear Members: Please read the article. ---- Libraries Offering Audiobook Downloads By Michael Hill August 29, 2005 Associated Press Writer GUILDERLAND, N.Y. (AP) -- A new way to borrow audiobooks from the library involves no CDs, no car trips, no fines and no risk of being shushed. Rather, public libraries from New York City to Alameda, Calif., are letting patrons download Tom Clancy techno-thrillers, Arabic tutorials and other titles to which they can listen on their computers or portable music players -- all without leaving home. Librarians say such offerings help libraries stay relevant in the digital age. Barbara Nichols Randall, director of the Guilderland Public Library in suburban Albany, said the library considered the needs of younger readers and those too busy to visit. "This is a way for us to have library access 24/7," she said. There's still one big hitch, though: The leading library services offer Windows-friendly audiobook files that can't be played on Apple Computer Inc.'s massively popular iPod player. Vendors such as OverDrive Inc. and OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) Inc.'s NetLibrary have licensing deals with publishers and provide digital books using Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media Audio format, which includes copyright protections designed to help audiobooks stand apart from the often lawless world of song swapping. A patron with a valid library card visits a library Web site to borrow a title for, say, three weeks. When the audiobook is due, the patron must renew it or find it automatically "returned" in a virtual sense: The file still sits on the patron's computer, but encryption makes it unplayable beyond the borrowing period. "The patron doesn't have to do anything after the lending period," said Steve Potash, chief executive of OverDrive. "The file expires. It checks itself back into the collection. There's no parts to lose. It's never damaged. It can never be late." Potash said about 1,000 libraries have signed up for OverDrive's audiobook service since its debut late last year. NetLibrary, teaming up with Recorded Books, launched a similar service in January and counts 200 library customers. Libraries offering audiobook downloads range from large institutions in New York and Los Angeles to smaller ones for Cleveland, Ohio, Maricopa County, Ariz., North Little Rock, Ark. and Omaha, Neb. The Hawaii State Public Library System signed up earlier this month. Guilderland pays NetLibrary about $6,000 a year for more than 850 titles. Randall considers that a good deal, noting that a single audiobook can cost the library up to $80 when bought on CD. Under the NetLibrary program, Guilderland gets a set number of downloads for all titles each year, and a single title can be borrowed by multiple patrons simultaneously as long as the cap hasn't been reached. Downloads over the cap cost extra. Patrons must provide their own audio players, although they may listen on their home computers if they do not have one. Other libraries make different arrangements. OverDrive, for example, generally takes a more traditional approach. When a copy is checked out, no other patron may download it until the borrowing period ends. It's still unclear what impact such services will have on audiobook download sales from companies such as Audible Inc., although one analyst suggested it could inspire more sales as patrons buy for keeps a title they had borrowed. "It's certainly smart for the publishers to do this," said Phil Leigh, a senior analyst with Inside Digital Media. Digital downloads are a part of a natural progression for libraries, which have evolved from lending books to cassettes and videotapes to CDs and DVDs. OverDrive recently launched a video download service for libraries. Librarians say they had little interest in audiobook downloads just a few years ago, but they have since noticed what everyone else has: the ubiquity of people sporting earbuds on streets, buses and malls. Nearly 28 million portable audio players were sold last year, according to In-Stat, a technology research company. With more than 21 million sold, the iPod remains the signature portable player. But it uses the Advanced Audio Coding format with FairPlay, its own digital rights management system and one incompatible with Windows' technology. Just as the lack of a standard digital audio format has fragmented the music download market, it affects audiobooks. Users of iPods can still listen to books purchased through sources such as audible.com or Apple's own iTunes Music Store, but the library services, for now, are geared toward computers and devices that support Windows Media Audio files. OverDrive files can be burned to CDs and converted to iPod friendly formats, but NetLibrary's cannot. Marge Gammon of NetLibrary said that despite iPod's cache, the company wanted a product that could be played on a range of devices. OverDrive's Potash notes there's a growing market of portable audio players, some priced lower then $50 (Regular iPod models start at $299, though the Minis start at $199 and Shuffles at $99). Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris said the company has no plans to change its copy-protection formats and would not comment on the incompatibility issue. Librarians say they have heard complaints from iPod users, but there's little they can do beyond waiting for the industry to sort out its differences. One California library shunned the download services completely, largely because of iPod's popularity. Instead, Newport Beach Public Library bought 15 iPod Shuffles and loaded them up with audiobooks from iTunes to loan out. Patrons are liable for any loss or damage, though librarian Genesis Hansen said there's been no problems so far. http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/08/ap/ap_082905.asp?trk=nl ----- Thanks S.Gunasekaran http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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Need Marc21 Experts
by kss 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

We may shortly need experts in Marc21 and Library Congress Subject classification system capable of undertaking Cataloging work in Indic languages (Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu) on demand basis. Those interested may send the details to kss(a)informindia.co.in K S Subba Rao Director Informatics India Ltd. 337 Karuna Complex Sampige Road Malleshwaram Bangalore 560 003

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MULISSA - Friday Talk
by harinarayana＠lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

Mysore University Library and Information Science Students Association (MULISSA) ivites you to the Friday Talk. Details given below: Speaker : Mr. S. Shashishekar Topic : Information for an open society Date : September 2, 2005 Time : 4 PM Venue : Department of Library and Information Science, Manasagangotri Abstract: The lecture intends to discuss the internet ways of information generation including blogs, wikis, the legal aspects, technical aspects amongst other points. Harinarayana Faculty Advisor MULISSA

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UGC Career Advancement for Library Professionals
by Aloor Thomas Francis 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

Dear Professionals, As per the 1996 Pay Revision, the UGC has reduced the redisency period from eight years to six years for teachers, but retained as eight for librarians. If there is any change, I would like to know the present rules of the UGC regarding the career advancement of University Assistant Librarians and College Librarians to Senior Grande and Selection Grade. A.T. FRANCIS ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN KERALA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Corporation Bank to Gift Hi-Tech Library to City
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

News -- Mangalore: Corporation Bank to Gift Hi-Tech Library to City http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=14176&n_tit=Mangalore%3A+… Daijiworld News Network - Mangalore (SS) Mangalore, Aug 31: The city will soon be gifted with a state-of-the-art public library. Thanks to Corporation Bank, this venture is a part of its centenary year celebrations. The foundation stone laying ceremony was held on Tuesday, August 30, here. V K Chopra, bank chairman and managing director, laid the foundation stone. The library to be constructed near Mangala stadium here, will consist of three floors, with books stored on the first floor. It will have separate sections for administration and a multipurpose reading hall. The reading hall, reference and periodicals sections, will be housed on the ground floor. The numismatic and philatelic museum will also be based on the ground floor, while the internet and video conferencing systems will be in the basement. Each floor will have an area of 3700 to 4000 square feet each. The construction will be completed by February 2006, a release from the bank said. Facilities like book lending and retrieval will be computerized. An ATM counter will be a part of the structure too. Audio visual equipments for conducting discussions and exchange of knowledge among similarly facilitated libraries all over the world, will also be available. The Bank has intentions to set up libraries in nearly 25 other villages in the country, by the end of this year. 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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Late Dr. T B Rajashekar's collection project
by PRASANNA TS 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

Dear Professionals Its almost three months now since Dr. T B Rajashekar, erstwhile Associate Chairman, NCSI, IISc, Bangalore, departed from us so unexpectedly. He was a born leader, a great visionary, an excellent teacher, an eminent Scientist, and one of the pioneers of the OAI and Digital Libraries movement in the country. Each and every publication/presentaion of his carries a great wealth of information and knowledge. We should ensure that all his works should be preserved for the posterity. We at NCSI-NET, a professional group comprising of present Students, Project assistants, Alumni and Staff of NCSI, are initiating few projects to carry forward his vision and work. Part of this initiative includes, putting together all his publications, presentations, and course materials. We are working to bring all his works in an online volume or in a CD form. We have already started working on it and collected some his publications from his Personal Computer, NCSI server and from Web. We request you to please let us know if any of you have worked with him in the past in writing a paper, making a presentation and so on. If so, we will get in touch with you in a separate mail indicating the format in which we would like to have the details of your work with Dr. T B Rajashekar. Or, we would appreciate if you could provide us at least the following details: Title of the work, format (pdf, ppt, etc), Source (Conf, journal etc), Co-authors, Year, etc. We are planning to bring out this volume on his Birth anniversary i.e. 2nd November. Hence we don't have much time and request you to get back to Mr. T S Prasanna (t.s.prasanna(a)intel.com OR prasan_ts(a)yahoo.com ) OR Rajendra Babu(rajendra.babu(a)capco.com), on or before 10th September 2005. Your response before 10th September would be highly appreciated. Thanks and Regards, NCSI-NET co-coordinators. --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page Dear Professionals Its almost three months now since Dr. T B Rajashekar, erstwhile Associate Chairman, NCSI, IISc, Bangalore, departed from us so unexpectedly. He was a born leader, a great visionary, an excellent teacher, an eminent Scientist, and one of the pioneers of the OAI and Digital Libraries movement in the country. Each and every publication/presentaion of his carries a great wealth of information and knowledge. We should ensure that all his works should be preserved for the posterity. We at NCSI-NET, a professional group comprising of present Students, Project assistants, Alumni and Staff of NCSI, are initiating few projects to carry forward his vision and work. Part of this initiative includes, putting together all his publications, presentations, and course materials. We are working to bring all his works in an online volume or in a CD form. We have already started working on it and collected some his publications from his Personal Computer, NCSI server and from Web. We request you to please let us know if any of you have worked with him in the past in writing a paper, making a presentation and so on. If so, we will get in touch with you in a separate mail indicating the format in which we would like to have the details of your work with Dr. T B Rajashekar. Or, we would appreciate if you could provide us at least the following details: Title of the work, format (pdf, ppt, etc), Source (Conf, journal etc), Co-authors, Year, etc. We are planning to bring out this volume on his Birth anniversary i.e. 2nd November. Hence we don't have much time and request you to get back to Mr. T S Prasanna (t.s.prasanna(a)intel.com OR prasan_ts(a)yahoo.com ) OR Rajendra Babu(rajendra.babu(a)capco.com), on or before 10th September 2005. Your response before 10th September would be highly appreciated. Thanks and Regards, NCSI-NET co-coordinators. 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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The European Library
by Saiful Amin 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Greetings! The European Library (TEL) is a very interesting project I found today while surfing. It has a federated search engine to search 43 European national library catalogues for a whopping 11 million records! The search results are also very well presented and quite fast. Source: http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/index.htm Regards, Saiful Some details from their website: WHAT IS THE EUROPEAN LIBRARY? The European Library webservice is a portal which offers access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals.... - both digital and non-digital) of the 43 national libraries of Europe. It offers free searching and delivers digital objects - some free, some priced. The Vision of the European Library is: Provision of equal access to promote world-wide understanding of the richness and diversity of European learning and culture. The Mission of the European Library is: The European Library exists to open up the universe of knowledge, information and cultures of all Europe's national libraries. WHO IS THE EUROPEAN LIBRARY FOR? The European Library service is aimed at informed citizens world-wide (both professional and non-professional) who want a powerful and simple way of finding library materials. Moreover, it is expected to attract researchers as there is a vast virtual collection of material from all disciplines. It offers anyone with an interest a simple route to access European cultural resources. WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT THE EUROPEAN LIBRARY? *It brings together disparate collections on your desktop and will allow for cross-collection searching *It presents integrated results and will deliver digital objects *It enables types of collection-level searching which would otherwise be impossible *It is a major contribution to research both in making resources widely available and by making possible new connections through exploitation of a huge virtual library collection. *The European Library encourages new research! -- 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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Question: Ranganathan & Information Logistics
by Alireza Noruzi 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Dear Indian Colleagues, Im looking for the precise bibliographic information of Ranganathan's definition of "Information Logistics - as a branch of information management - deals with information flows inside of an organisation. The goal is the optimization of availability and retention time of information. Information logistics concerns the provision of the right information at the right time in the right form and quality for the right user, at the right place." According to my knowledge the definition is dated 1954, but I can not detect a publication from that year. Can anybody help me in detecting the primary source of that definition? Kind regards A. Noruzi www.nouruzi.itgo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear Indian Colleagues, Im looking for the precise bibliographic information of Ranganathan's definition of " Information Logistics - as a branch of information management - deals with information flows inside of an organisation. The goal is the optimization of availability and retention time of information. Information logistics concerns the provision of the right information at the right time in the right form and quality for the right user, at the right place." According to my knowledge the definition is dated 1954, but I can not detect a publication from that year. Can anybody help me in detecting the primary source of that definition? Kind regards A. Noruzi www.nouruzi.itgo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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InfoVision-2005
by I.R.N.Goudar 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Dear Professionals, LIS profession is facing the challenge of repositioning and redefining our skills and responsibilities.If one sees the latest program schedule of InfoVision 2005 (www.infovision2005.org/prgmstrc.html) which is just 3 weeks away, it looks like a great treat for LIS professionals. This great summit presents a galaxy of international and Indian speakers from both academia and industry. Ronald Larsen from Pitsburg's School of Information Science, Judith Turner, the editor of Journal of Electronic Publishing, speakers from Google and Yahoo, Sify and Rediff, and the publishing visionaries like Derk Haank from Springer who is credited with ScienceDirect success in his his earlier position at Elsevier are few to name. This is an opportunity to LIS professionals to interact with many more from LIS Profession, IT Industry, Content Creaters and so on. The Organisers have also announced a concessional registration fee of Rs. 5000/- for delegates from academic institutions. I suggest and urge my professional colleagues to take a look at the program and not to miss the event. 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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Ctrl+C
by Thapar, Amit 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Dear all, We copy various data by ctrl+c for pasting elsewhere. This copied data is stored in clipboard and is accessible from the net by a combination of JavaScript's and ASP. Just try this: 1) Copy any text by ctrl+c 2) Click the Link: http://www.friendlycanadian.com/applications/clipboard.htm 3) You will see the text you copied on the Screen which was accessed by this web page. Do not keep sensitive data (like passwords, creditcard numbers, PIN etc.) in the clipboard while surfing the web. It is extremely easy to extract the text stored in the clipboard to steal your sensitive information. Solution To Avoid This To avoid this, do the following: Tools 1. Go to internet options->security 2. Press custom level 3. In the security settings, select disable under Allow paste operations via script. Now the contents of your clipboard are safe. with regards, Amit Thapar Library & Information Centre National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research (NIPER) Sector-67, Phase-10 S.A.S.Nagar (Mohali) -160062, Punjab, INDIA Phone: 0172-2214682-87 Ext. 2073 Cell: 09417419457 e-mail: amitt(a)niper.ac.in URL: http://www.niper.ac.in/ LOVE is like a CIGAR "It starts with a fire..... continues with smoke.....and ends in ashes... But dont worry - I am chain smoker" "All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism." "Rain drop falling from the sky has nothing in mind except to hit the earth. No matter how tough the drop is, it still reaches its destiny! Be positive always, best of luck... " Dear all, We copy various data by ctrl+c for pasting elsewhere. This copied data is stored in clipboard and is accessible from the net by a combination of JavaScript's and ASP. Just try this: 1) Copy any text by ctrl+c 2) Click the Link: http://www.friendlycanadian.com/applications/clipboard.htm http://www.friendlycanadian.com/applications/clipboard.htm 3) You will see the text you copied on the Screen which was accessed by this web page. Do not keep sensitive data (like passwords, creditcard numbers, PIN etc.) in the clipboard while surfing the web. It is extremely easy to extract the text stored in the clipboard to steal your sensitive information. Solution To Avoid This To avoid this, do the following: Tools 1. Go to internet options->security cid:028201c5ad57$7a90d800$cc0ea8c0@niper.ac.in 2. Press custom level cid:028401c5ad57$7a90d800$cc0ea8c0@niper.ac.in 3. In the security settings, select disable under Allow paste operations via script . Now the contents of your clipboard are safe. with regards, Amit Thapar Library & Information Centre National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research (NIPER) Sector-67, Phase-10 S.A.S.Nagar (Mohali) -160062, Punjab, INDIA Phone: 0172-2214682-87 Ext. 2073 Cell: 09417419457 e-mail: mailto:amitt@niper.ac.in amitt(a)niper.ac.in URL: http://www.niper.ac.in/ http://www.niper.ac.in/ LOVE is like a CIGAR "It starts with a fire..... continues with smoke.....and ends in ashes... But dont worry - I am chain smoker" "All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism." "Rain drop falling from the sky has nothing in mind except to hit the earth. No matter how tough the drop is, it still reaches its destiny! Be positive always, best of luck... "

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Case Material: Provisions of IPR laws
by tariq22＠gmail.com 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Dear All I am looking for provisions of Intellectual Property and Copy Right laws in India with regard to Case MateriaL used in Business School and included in reading list The information I require is that if a case is released for use in courses should it be OR not be openly available in the Library I request you to kindly enlighten me with the requisite provisions AND practices in this regard. Thanks and Regards -- Dr.Tariq Ashraf Librarian Indian Institute of Management Prabandh Nagar, Lucknow 226 013 (India) Ph: 0522-2736944[Direct] Res: 011-55125312 Mobile : 9935-639130 Fax: 91-0522 -2734025-2734027 Email: tariq(a)iiml.ac.in; tariq22(a)gmail.com URL: http://iiml.ac.in Dear All I am looking for provisions of Intellectual Property and Copy Right laws in India with regard to Case MateriaL used in Business School and included in reading list The information I require is that if a case is released for use in courses should it be OR not be openly available in the Library I request you to kindly enlighten me with the requisite provisions AND practices in this regard. Thanks and Regards -- Dr.Tariq Ashraf Librarian Indian Institute of Management Prabandh Nagar, Lucknow 226 013 (India) Ph: 0522-2736944[Direct] Res: 011-55125312 Mobile : 9935-639130 Fax: 91-0522 -2734025-2734027 Email: mailto:tariq@iiml.ac.in tariq(a)iiml.ac.in ; mailto:tariq22@gmail.com tariq22(a)gmail.com URL: http://iiml.ac.in http://iiml.ac.in

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Intern for couple of months
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Dear Professionals, We are looking for an intern for a period of 3 months. Could you please refer any of your students having strong DDC, Cataloging Communication & Computer skills Stipend would be ~ Rs. 5000 PM. Suitable candidates please send in their updated CV to this mail id. Thanks **************************************** Sreeharsha BG i2 Technologies ‘One i2 Place’ #132 / 133, DivyaSree Technopolis Yamalur Post, Off Airport Road, Bangalore 560 037. Phone: +91-80-3028 8016 Handfone: +91-98867 26915 Email: sreeharsha_gopalakrishna(a)i2.com visit us @ www.i2.com ****************************************

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Sharing your book collection with strangers !!!
by Jayadev P Hiremath 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

FYI. Regards. Jayadev P Hiremath http://www.bookcrossing.com/ bookcrossing n. the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise. Let's get right down to it. You know the feeling you get after reading a book that speaks to you, that touches your life, a feeling that you want to share it with someone else? BookCrossing.com gives you a simple way to share books with the world, and follow their paths forever! http://www.mybookyourbook.co.uk mybookyourbook can best be described as an on-line co-operative library. Each member contributes a small number of book titles to the central database at mybookyourbook with these books remaining on their own shelf until requested by another member. Imagine a catalogue consisting of several thousand books spread throughout the country! The more members, the greater the choice of books. www.paperbackswap.com What is PaperBackSwap? We are a group of real people who have formed a Club to swap paperback books with each other. No gimmicks. No spam. No advertising. No kidding. We are not a large corporation trying to sell you something. We're just a group of real folks who wanted a way of trading paperbacks with each other through the U.S. mail. Please read the testimonials and you will understand that this book club is for rea

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FW: mylibrary@ockham
by Madhuresh 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

FYI. Index of various subjects and topics like Library Science (4100 articles), Life Science (35,000 articles), Mathematics (150,000 articles), Medicine (15,000 articles), Theses (182,000), Journals (1500 Open Access), Articles (57,000), EBooks (1200) etc. is available. All these can be searched separately as well as with a single Master Index. Just do a search and see the various functionalities and options it offers. From: emorgan(a)nd.edu Date: August 24, 2005 08:12:23 EDT [Please excuse the cross-posting.] Thanks to the GREAT work of Xiaorong Xiang (a Ph.D student here at Notre Dame in Computer Science), we have all but finished the development work on MyLibrary@Ockham. See: http://mylibrary.ockham.org/ MyLibrary@Ockham uses MyLibrary to collect, organize, and cache more than 430,000 records harvested from various scholarly OAI archives. The system then uses reports written against the database to find things like all the items classified as articles or all the items classified as medicine. These reports are sent to an indexer (Plucene), and finally an SRU interface was created allowing people to search the index. The SRU interface sports a number of cool features including: * lists of suggested alternative spellings with ASPELL * lists of possible synonyms using WordNet * lists of statistically created keyword The point of all this work is three-fold: 1) to demonstrate how digital library collections and services can be easily implemented using standard protocols and open source software 2) to address the perennial problem of "finding more like this one" 3) to demonstrate how the library profession can collect, organize, archive, and disseminate scholarly content if it is published using open access publishing techniques For more information about the system as well as to see how the content is organized, see: http://mylibrary.ockham.org/?cmd=about http://mylibrary.ockham.org/?cmd=facets Fun! -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame 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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Faculty positions
by ++ Mukesh Anand ++ 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Dear colleague FYI The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at San Diego State University is looking to fill a few positions for next academic year: * Biomathematics/Dynamical Systems (Tenure track, Assistant Prof) * Chair (open field and open rank) * Algebra and/or Discrete Mathematics (Tenure track, Assistant Prof) Would you be so kind in distributing/posting this information for any potential candidates within your department/center? The html versions of the job postings can be found at: http://nlds.sdsu.edu/search2005.html ++ 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 colleague FYI The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at San Diego State University is looking to fill a few positions for next academic year: * Biomathematics/Dynamical Systems (Tenure track, Assistant Prof) * Chair (open field and open rank) * Algebra and/or Discrete Mathematics (Tenure track, Assistant Prof) Would you be so kind in distributing/posting this information for any potential candidates within your department/center? The html versions of the job postings can be found at: http://nlds.sdsu.edu/search2005.html http://nlds.sdsu.edu/search2005.html ++ 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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InfoVision-2005
by Mailing List Manager 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:01:23 +0000 From: Ravichandra Rao.I.K. <ikrrao(a)hotmail.com> � The first ever-global summit InfoVision-2005, will be held in Bangalore for practicing Information Professionals � both from Industries and Academia. � It is being organized with an objective to provide an opportunity for the LIS Professionals to interact with the leaders in the field. � The summit is organized by IIT-B and Informatics, Bangalore for two days from 15 th September 2005. The summit focuses on: �� . IT & IM � E-learning & digital libraries � IPM � ideologies, legalities and technologies � Polity framework for information society � E-publishing � KM etc � Those who have not yet registered, may kindly contact the Secretariat of the InfoVision-2005. � For details, see : � http://www.infovision2005.org/ I.K. RAVICHANDRA RAO Member, Organizing Committee

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On the advantages of OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Friends in Africa: Universities and research labs in Africa needs OA more than anyone else. Friends of OA would like to hear your voices supporting and demanding OA. Best wishes. Arun ----- Response to Olivieri In the August 27 issue of the Times Higher Education Supplement, Stephen Pinfield and Paul Ayris have a letter to the editor responding to Rene Olivieri's article of August 19, Making a pig's ear of an unscientific free-for-all. Excerpt: It is ironic that Rene Olivieri's criticism of supporters of open access...often lapsed into the polemical when this was a label he was trying to pin on his opponents. Despite his calls for the current debate to be more scientific, he omitted to mention many of the relevant facts. In particular, he failed to acknowledge the anomalies of the current system of research publishing. Universities generate research papers, give them away free of charge to publishers and then buy them back at high prices. Researchers give away their services as authors, referees and editorial board members all free of charge and yet their institutions have to buy back the value they have added. Prices are high because (as the Office of Fair Trading has observed) price competition does not properly operate in the academic periodicals market. This means institutions cannot afford to purchase all of the periodicals they would like and so researchers do not have easy access to all of the literature they need. Furthermore, society in general cannot get access to research funded by public money. Researchers want their work to be read and cited, and yet the impact their work can make is being limited. The rise of the Web, which makes wide distribution of content quick and easy, is making the system - which was developed a paper-based world - look anachronistic. Open access has the potential to overcome many of these problems. It is not just an interesting theory. There are a number of working examples, ranging from institutional databases of research papers to new peer reviewed journals. Many mainstream publishers are themselves experimenting with open access models and funding bodies are investing in experiments and studies to see what the future holds. Increasingly, research funders and governments are coming to see the benefits. Better communication means better science. Widening access will benefit the scientific community but will also bring benefits to health care, knowledge transfer and the public understanding of science. Empirical evidence of these benefits is beginning to emerge. Further work should be encouraged for the benefit of the academic community and society in general. Rather than try to turn back the oncoming tide, publishers such as Mr Olivieri would be better advised to ride the wave. Stephen Pinfield is the Deputy Chief Information Officer and Director of Research and Learning Resources at the University of Nottingham. Paul Ayris is the Director of Library Services and Copyright Officer at University College London. Friends in Africa: Universities and research labs in Africa needs OA more than anyone else. Friends of OA would like to hear your voices supporting and demanding OA. Best wishes. Arun ----- Response to Olivieri [A] In the August 27 issue of the http://www.thes.co.uk/current_edition/ Times Higher Education Supplement , Stephen Pinfield and Paul Ayris have a letter to the editor responding to http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2005_08_14_fosblogarchive.html#a11245643… Rene Olivieri's article of August 19, http://www.thes.co.uk/current_edition/story.aspx?story_id=2024070 Making a pig's ear of an unscientific free-for-all . Excerpt: It is ironic that Rene Olivieri's criticism of supporters of open access...often lapsed into the polemical when this was a label he was trying to pin on his opponents. Despite his calls for the current debate to be more scientific, he omitted to mention many of the relevant facts. In particular, he failed to acknowledge the anomalies of the current system of research publishing. Universities generate research papers, give them away free of charge to publishers and then buy them back at high prices. Researchers give away their services as authors, referees and editorial board members all free of charge and yet their institutions have to buy back the value they have added. Prices are high because (as the Office of Fair Trading has observed) price competition does not properly operate in the academic periodicals market. This means institutions cannot afford to purchase all of the periodicals they would like and so researchers do not have easy access to all of the literature they need. Furthermore, society in general cannot get access to research funded by public money. Researchers want their work to be read and cited, and yet the impact their work can make is being limited. The rise of the Web, which makes wide distribution of content quick and easy, is making the system which was developed a paper-based world look anachronistic. Open access has the potential to overcome many of these problems. It is not just an interesting theory. There are a number of working examples, ranging from institutional databases of research papers to new peer reviewed journals. Many mainstream publishers are themselves experimenting with open access models and funding bodies are investing in experiments and studies to see what the future holds. Increasingly, research funders and governments are coming to see the benefits. Better communication means better science. Widening access will benefit the scientific community but will also bring benefits to health care, knowledge transfer and the public understanding of science. Empirical evidence of these benefits is beginning to emerge. Further work should be encouraged for the benefit of the academic community and society in general. Rather than try to turn back the oncoming tide, publishers such as Mr Olivieri would be better advised to ride the wave. Stephen Pinfield is the Deputy Chief Information Officer and Director of Research and Learning Resources at the University of Nottingham. Paul Ayris is the Director of Library Services and Copyright Officer at University College London.

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Infovision promotion
by Mailing List Manager 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

KM thoughts at InfoVision 2005 Knowledge Management is a discipline, which is in the limelight today. But, traditional LIS profession has been in the business of KM since the very beginning. Besides cross-functional collaboration for organizational strategic impact, the processes of classification and cataloguing systems form the basis of KM. Content management, one of the most critical aspects of KM is an extension and expansion of information processes in libraries. InfoVision - www.infovision2005.org <http://www.infovision2005.org/> is bringing a world-renowned expert in KM - Dr. Richard McDermoott. ( http://www.mcdermottconsulting.com <http://www.mcdermottconsulting.com/> ). Dr Dermott is a widely sought after speaker in the KM world. Join us at InfoVision to know what is new in the world of KM With Regards, Kottai Head - KM Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab

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coverage of OA documents by search engines
by Mailing List Manager 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 07:09:09 +0530 (IST) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: According to a recent posting by Eberhard Hilf, "the scientific OA documents on local institutes servers are barely covered by retrieval engines" and DOAJ lists only a part of OA journals. The OA supporters should coax search engines to cover OA documents in all OA repositories and persuade DOAJ and other similar services to cover OA journals far more comprehensively. Arun

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Fw: [IAMSLIC:5359] H index to quantify an individual's scientific output
by M.P.Tapaswi 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

Sorry for cross-posting but should be of interest to the ones interested in citation studies. - Tapaswi ----- Original Message ----- From: Susan Berteaux To: iamslic(a)ucdavis.edu Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 1:37 AM Subject: [IAMSLIC:5359] H index to quantify an individual's scientific output This morning a faculty member asked about a new factor which he had just read about in Science that measures the impact or stature of individual scientists. It's called the H Index after Jorge Hirsch who proposed it. For any researcher the h number is the largest number for which it is true that the researcher has h publications with at least h citations. For example, an eminent physicist has the very high h number of 110 because he has 110 publications with at least 110 citations. The article goes on to say that the h index can be easily found using WoK and then sorting by "times cited". There's more information at: http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/9/8/9/1 This page also provides a link to the original article by Hirsch, "An index to quantify an individual's scientific output". Note that the examples given were from a 20 year backfile so I'm not sure how that translates if your backfiles don't go back that far. -- Susan ============================================== Susan S. Berteaux...Head, Science & Technology Library Syracuse University...Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 Ph: 315/443-9766...Fax: 315/443-5549...Email: ssbertea(a)syr.edu Sorry for cross-posting but should be of interest to the ones interested in citation studies. - Tapaswi ----- Original Message ----- From: mailto:Ssbertea@syr.edu Susan Berteaux To: mailto:iamslic@ucdavis.edu iamslic(a)ucdavis.edu Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 1:37 AM Subject: [IAMSLIC:5359] H index to quantify an individual's scientific output This morning a faculty member asked about a new factor which he had just read about in Science that measures the impact or stature of individual scientists. It's called the H Index after Jorge Hirsch who proposed it. For any researcher the h number is the largest number for which it is true that the researcher has h publications with at least h citations. For example, an eminent physicist has the very high h number of 110 because he has 110 publications with at least 110 citations. The article goes on to say that the h index can be easily found using WoK and then sorting by "times cited". There's more information at: http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/9/8/9/1 http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/9/8/9/1 This page also provides a link to the original article by Hirsch, "An index to quantify an individual's scientific output". Note that the examples given were from a 20 year backfile so I'm not sure how that translates if your backfiles don't go back that far. -- Susan ============================================== Susan S. Berteaux...Head, Science & Technology Library Syracuse University...Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 Ph: 315/443-9766...Fax: 315/443-5549...Email: mailto:ssbertea@syr.edu ssbertea(a)syr.edu

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Information
by habiburrehman khan 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

Dear Members I would like to know if Jharkhand,Chattisgarh and Uttaranchal have state central public library. Habibur Rahman Khan Librarian Ingraham Institute,Aligarh Mob:09412065835 E-Mail:habibamu@yahoo.co.in Dear Members I would like to know if Jharkhand,Chattisgarh and Uttaranchal have state central public library. Habibur Rahman Khan Librarian Ingraham Institute,Aligarh Mob:09412065835 E-Mail:habibamu@yahoo.co.in http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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UNDP-APDIP Launches New Series: APDIPe-Notes]
by Satish Munnolli 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

appologies cross posting UNDP-APDIP is pleased to announce the launch of a new series entitled "APDIP e-Note" The first two APDIP e-Notes are now available on our website: www.apdip.net/apdipenote/ ======================================================================= APDIP e-Notes are brief documents that present analyses of specific issues related to information and communication technologies (ICTs) for sustainable human development in the Asia-Pacific region. This series introduces readers to the who, what, where, why and how of a wide range of current issues related to ICTs such as e-governance, free and open source software, ICTs and poverty alleviation, Internet governance and many others. The first two APDIP e-Notes are now available on our website www.apdip.net/apdipenote/ * APDIP e-Note 1 - Voices from Asia Pacific: Internet governance for sustainable human development * APDIP e-Note 2 - Do Governments Actually Believe that ICT Can Help Alleviate Poverty? A perspective from Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers In these PDF documents, the bullet points in the blue box are clickable and will take you to the related sections of the e-Notes. The URLs are also clickable. APDIP e-Notes are being developed by the United Nations Development Programme's Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (UNDP-APDIP), based at the UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok, Thailand. UNDP-APDIP also brings out the following series that might interest you: - Digital Review of Asia Pacific offers comprehensive reports and useful analyses of how 29 economies/countries are using ICTs in business, government and civil society. The latest edition, 2005-2006, details developments and challenges facing the ICT industry in the Asia-Pacific region. It is an essential guide for ICT-related policy development, planning, research and project implementation. - e-Primers for the Information Economy, Society, and Polity Series introduces concepts, issues and trends surrounding the information economy. Titles include: e-Commerce and e-Business; e-Government; Genes, Technology and Policy; ICTs for Poverty Alleviation; ICT in Education; the Information Age; Legal and Regulatory Issues; and Nets, Webs and the Information Infrastructure. Coming soon is one on Internet Governance. - e-Primers on Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) Series serves as introductory documents to FOSS issues. Titles include: FOSS: A General Introduction; FOSS: Education; FOSS: Government Policy; and FOSS: Localization. A draft of the FOSS: Open Standards e-Primer is now available online for public review and feedback at: http://www.apdip.net/news/foss-open-standards-primer-draft - UNDP-APDIP ICT4D Series seeks to provide concrete research and analysis on the strengths and weaknesses that are evident in ICT4D policies across the region. It focuses on applications of ICT policies and its impact in accelerating social and economic development. All UNDP-APDIP publications are available online at: www.apdip.net/publications We would welcome any feedback on our publications. Please send feedback and queries to: Christine Apikul Programme Specialist, UNDP-APDIP christine(a)apdip.net ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <gkd(a)mail.edc.org> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <majordomo(a)mail.edc.org>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Wanadoo vous informe que cet e-mail a ete controle par l'anti-virus mail. Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete detecte. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.15/81 - Release Date: 24/08/2005 -- ================================================================= Dr. Michel J. Menou Consultant in ICT policies and Knowledge & Information Management Adviser of Somos@Telecentros board http://www.tele-centros.org Member of the founding steering committee of Telecenters of the Americas Partnership http://www.tele-centers.net/ B.P. 15 49350 Les Rosiers sur Loire, France Email: Michel.Menou(a)wanadoo.fr Phone: +33 (0)2 41511043 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ciber/peoplemenou.php ================================================================== -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.15/81 - Release Date: 24/08/2005 _______________________________________________ Sigiii-l mailing list Sigiii-l(a)asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigiii-l Satish S Munnolli Librarian ACTREC Kharghar Navi Mumbai

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SALIS - Seminar on 'Library - Centre for Knowledge Managment - announcement
by Arunachalam Hariharan 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

Seminar on 'Library - Center for Knowledge Management' Jointly Organised By Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS) Tirunelveli Chapter & Heavy Water Plant, Tuticorin Department of Atomic Energy Government of India Date: 17.09.2005 Time:9.30 A.M. 5.30 P.M Venue Heavy Water Plant Colony Guest House Tuticorin 628 007 About the Seminar - Knowledge Management(KM) is one of the emerging disciplines and being applied in many areas including Libraries. Libraries are becoming KM centers in order to deliver the right information to the organization in right time to achieve the organizational goal. The objective of the seminar is to focus the attention of working LIS professionals to know about: -Knowledge Management: overview -KM components and tools -Benefits of KM -KM Resources -Services in KM Centres -KM skills for Librarians -To enable institutions to initiate building KM Centres in Libraries -Role of Librarians as Knowledge Managers Faculty Experienced faculty members from reputed institutions Eligibility Library and Information Science professionals Course Fee Rs.100/- Seminar Co-ordinator Ms. K. Vinitha Librarian, National Engineering College, Kovilpatti Programme 08.30-09.30 AM Registration 09.30-10.30 AM Inaugural session Inauguration Shri M.S.N.Sastry Chief General Manager, Heavy Water Plant, Tuticorin Keynote Address 10.30-11.00 AM Tea Break 11.00-11.45 PM Role of DAE in Quality of life 11.45-12.30 PM Technical Session I KM: overview 12.30-01.15 PM Technical Session II KM components and tools 01.15-02.00 PM Lunch Break 02.00-02.45 PM Technical Session III KM Initiatives 02.45-03.30 PM Technical Session IV Setting-up KM Centres in Libraries 03.30-03.45 PM Tea Break 03.45-04.30 PM Technical Session V Role of Librarians as Knowledge Manager 04.30-05.30 PM Valediction Registration Form Name : Designation : Organisation : Address for : Communication E-mail : Tel: (off) Res: Are you a member of SALIS : Yes/No Fee particulars Enclosed Rs.------- DD/Cheque bearing no. --------dated --- drawn in favour of SALIS payable at Chennai ** Cash also may be accepted in person ** Outstation payment shall be made by DD only Last Date for the receipt of registration form is 12 09.2005 Signature of the Signature of the Sponsoring Authority participant Completed registration form(s) can be sent to (multiple copies can be Xeroxed): Mr. N.Somasundaram Scientific Officer(Library) & Organising Secretary Heavy Water Plant HWP Colony P.O. Tuticorin 628 007 Phone : Off :0461-2355057 Extn 4218 , Res 0461 2331925, Mobile: 9443295564 E-mail: library(a)tuticorin.heavywaterboard.org ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Journal article required - Reg.
by Sasireka Govindaraj 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

Dear Professionals, One of our research scholar is in urgent need of the articles below and we would be grateful if electronic copies of the same could be sent at the earliest. subject: Mechanical Engineering An energy-distribution strategy in fat-cutiing wire EDM, "Journal of Materials Processing Technology", Volume 55, Issue 3-4, December 1995, Pages 380-390. Y.F.Luo We would be most grateful for your kind help. Kind Regards G.Sasireka Librarian Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Engineering College Perambalur - 621 212 Tamilnadu Regards, G.Sasireka ____________________________________________________ Send a rakhi to your brother, buy gifts and win attractive prizes. Log on to http://in.promos.yahoo.com/rakhi/index.html

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PLoS journals - friendly to developing countries
by Subbiah Arunachalam 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

Friends: Here is a note from Prof. Peter Suber. Arun More OSI support for PLoS memberships from developing countries I would have blogged this July 20 press release earlier but I didn't discover it until today: The Open Society Institute (OSI) and the Public Library of Science (PLoS) are pleased to announce the continuation of their PLoS Institutional Memberships for developing and transitional countries. Both OSI and PLoS are committed to promoting scholarly communication through open access publishing and support for PLoS Institutional Memberships is one way we can work together on this globally important issue. Authors affiliated with OSI-sponsored Member Institutions receive a complete waiver on the publication charge for all PLoS journals. So if your paper is accepted for publication, you pay nothing, and your paper will be published and made available for readers throughout the world.

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Fwd: Journal Publishing and Author Self-Archiving
by Subbiah Arunachalam 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

--- Stevan Harnad <harnad(a)ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote: > Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:25:44 +0100 > From: Stevan Harnad <harnad(a)ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> > Subject: Journal Publishing and Author > Self-Archiving > To: > AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM(a)LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG > > Journal Publishing and Author Self-Archiving: > Peaceful Co-Existence and Fruitful Collaboration > > A (shorter) UK-only version was co-signed by: > > Tim Berners-Lee (UK, Southampton & US, MIT) > Dave De Roure (UK, Southampton) > Stevan Harnad (UK, Southampton & Canada, > UQaM) > Derek Law (UK, Strathclyde) > Peter Murray-Rust (UK, Cambridge) > Charles Oppenheim (UK, Loughborough) > Nigel Shadbolt (UK, Southampton) > Yorick Wilks (UK, Sheffield) > > http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/18-guid.html > > This longer version is also signed by: > > Subbiah Arunachalam (India, MSRF) > Helene Bosc (France, INRA, ret.) > Fred Friend (UK, University College, London) > Andrew Odlyzko (US, University of Minnesota) > Peter Suber (US, Earlham) > > Please also see the version with hyperlinks: > > http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/20-guid.html > > SUMMARY: The UK Research Funding Councils (RCUK) > have proposed > that all RCUK fundees should self-archive on the > web, free for > all, their own final drafts of journal articles > reporting their > RCUK-funded research, in order to maximise their > usage and > impact. ALPSP (a learned publishers' > association) now seeks > to delay and block the RCUK proposal, auguring > that it will > ruin journals. All objective evidence from the > past decade and > a half of self-archiving, however, shows that > self-archiving > can and does co-exist peacefully with journals > while greatly > enhancing both author/article and journal > impact, to the benefit > of both. Journal publishers should not be trying > to delay and > block self-archiving policy; they should be > collaborating with > the research community on ways to share its vast > benefits. > > > This is a public reply, co-signed by the above, to > the August 5, > 2005, public letter by Sally Morris, Executive > Director of ALPSP > (Association of Learned and Professional Society > Publishers) to > Professor Ian Diamond, Chair, RCUK (Research > Councils UK), concerning > the RCUK proposal to mandate the web self-archiving > of authors' > final drafts of all journal articles resulting from > RCUK-funded > research, making them freely accessible to all > researchers worldwide > who cannot afford access to the official journal > version, in order > to maximise the usage and impact of the RCUK-funded > research findings. > > It is extremely important that the arguments and > objective evidence > for or against the optimality of research > self-archiving policy be > aired and discussed openly, as they have been for > several years > now, all over the world, so that policy decisions > are not influenced > by one-sided arguments from special interests that > can readily be > shown to be invalid. Every single one of the points > made by the > ALPSP below is incorrect -- incorrect from the > standpoint of both > objective evidence and careful logical analysis. We > accordingly > provide a point by point rebuttal here, along with a > plea for an > end to publishers' efforts to block or delay > self-archiving policy > -- a policy that is undeniably beneficial to > research and researchers, > as well as to their institutions and the public that > funds them. > Publishers should collaborate with the research > community to share > the benefits of maximising research access and > impact. > > (Please note that this is not the first time the > ALPSP's points > have been made, and rebutted; but whereas the > rebuttals take very > careful, detailed account of the points made by > ALPSP, the ALPSP > unfortunately just keeps repeating its points > without taking any > account of the detailed replies. By way of > illustration, the prior > ALPSP critique of the RCUK proposal (April 19) was > followed on July > 1 by a point-by-point rebuttal. The reader who > compares the two > cannot fail to notice certain recurrent themes that > ALPSP keeps > ignoring in their present critique. In particular, 3 > of the 5 > examples that ALPSP cites below as evidence of the > negative effects > of self-archiving on journals turn out to have > nothing at all to > do with self-archiving, exactly as pointed out in > the earlier > rebuttal. The other 2 examples turn out to be > positive evidence for > the potential of sharing the benefits through > cooperation and > collaboration between the research and publishing > community, rather > than grounds for denying research and researchers > those benefits > through opposition.) > > The RCUK draft proposal is at: > http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/statement.pdf > > All quotes below are from: > > ALPSP response to RCUK's proposed position > statement > on access to research outputs > http://www.alpsp.org/news/rcuk/default.htm > > which was addressed to: Professor Ian Diamond, > Research Councils > UK Secretariat on 5th August, 2005: > > > ALPSP: "Although the mission of our publisher > members is to > > disseminate and maximise access to research > information" > > The principle of maximising access to research > information is indeed > the very essence of the issue at hand. The reader of > the following > statements and counter-statements should accordingly > bear this > principle in mind while weighing them: Unlike the > authors of books > or of magazine and newspaper articles, the authors > of research > journal articles are not writing in order to sell > their words, but > in order to share their findings, so other > researchers can use and > build upon them, in order to advance research > progress, to the > benefit of the public that funded the research. This > usage and > application is called research impact. Research > impact is a measure > of research progress and productivity: the influence > that the > findings have had on the further course of research > and its > applications; the difference it has made that a > given piece of > research has been conducted at all, rather than > being left unfunded > and undone. Research impact is the reason the public > funds the > research and the reason researchers conduct the > research and report > the results. Research that makes no impact may as > well not have > been conducted at all. One of the primary indicators > -- but by no > means the only one -- of research impact is the > number of resulting > pieces of research by others that make use of a > finding, by citing > it. Citation counts are accordingly quantitative > measures of research > impact. (The reader is reminded, at this early point > in our critique, > that it is impossible for a piece of research to be > read, used, > applied and cited by any researcher who cannot > access it. Research > access is a necessary (though not a sufficient) > condition for > research impact.) > > Owing to this central importance of impact in the > research growth > and progress cycle, the authors of research are > rewarded not by > income from the sales of their texts, like normal > authors, but by > 'impact income' based on how much their research > findings are used, > applied, cited and built upon. Impact is what helps > pay the author's > salary, what brings further RCUK grant income, and > what brings RAE > (Research Assessment Exercise) income to the > author's institution. > And the reason the public pays taxes for the RCUK > and RAE to use > to fund research in the first place is so that that > research can > benefit the public -- not so that it can generate > sales income for > publishers. There is nothing wrong with research > also generating > sales income for publishers. But there is definitely > something wrong > if publishers try to prevent researchers from > maximising the impact > of their research, by maximising access to it. For > whatever limits > research access limits research progress; to repeat: > access is a > necessary condition for impact. > > Hence, for researchers and their institutions, the > need to 'maximise > access to research information' is not just a pious > promotional > slogan: Whatever denies access to their research > output is denying > the public the research impact and progress it paid > for and denying > researchers and their institutions the impact income > they worked > for. Journals provide access to all individuals and > institutions > that can afford to subscribe to them, and that is > fine. But what > about all the other would-be users -- those > researchers world-wide > whose institutions happen to be unable to afford to > subscribe to > the journal in which a research finding happens to > be published? > There are 24,000 research journals and most > institutions can afford > access only to a small fraction of them. Across all > fields tested > so far (including physics, mathematics, biology, > economics, > business/management, sociology, education, > psychology, and philosophy), > articles that have been self-archived freely on the > web, thereby > maximising access, have been shown to have 50%-250+% > greater citation > impact than articles that have not been > self-archived. Is it > reasonable to expect researchers and their > institutions and funders > to continue to renounce that vast impact potential > in an online age > that has made this impact-loss no longer necessary? > Can asking > researchers to keep on losing that impact be > seriously described > as 'maximising access to research information'? Now > let us see on > what grounds researchers are being asked to renounce > this impact: > > > ALPSP: "we find ourselves unable to support RCUK's > proposed > > position paper on the means of achieving this. We > continue to > > stress all the points we made in our previous > response, dated 19 > > April, and are insufficiently reassured by RCUK's > reply. We are > > convinced that RCUK's proposed policy will > inevitably lead to the > > destruction of journals." > > If it were indeed true that the RCUK's policy will > inevitably lead > to the destruction of journals, then this > contingency would definitely > be worthy of further time and thought. > > But there is in fact no objective evidence > whatseover in support > of this dire prophecy. All evidence (footnote 1) > from 15 years of > self-archiving (in some fields having reached 100% > self-archiving > long ago) is exactly the opposite: that > self-archiving and journal > publication can and do continue to co-exist > peacefully, with > institutions continuing to subscribe to the journals > they can afford, > and researchers at the institutions that can afford > them continuing > to use them; the only change is that the author's > own self-archived > final drafts (as well as earlier pre-refereeing > preprints) are now > accessible to all those researchers whose > institutions could not > afford the official journal version (as well as to > any who may wish > to consult the pre-refereeing preprints). In other > words, the > self-archived author's drafts, pre- and > post-refereeing, are > supplements to the official journal version, not > substitutes for > it. > > In the absence of any objective evidence at all to > the effect that > self-archiving reduces subscriptions, let alone > destroys journals, > and in the face of 15 years' worth of evidence to > the contrary, > ALPSP simply amplifies the rhetoric, elevating pure > speculation to > a putative justification for continuing to delay and > oppose a policy > that is already long overdue and a practice that has > already been > amply demonstrated to deliver something of immense > benefit to > research, researchers, their institutions and > funders: dramatically > enhanced impact. All this, ALPSP recommends, is to > be put on hold > because some publishers have the 'conviction' that > self-archiving > will destroy journals. > > > ALPSP: "A policy of mandated self-archiving of > research articles > > in freely accessible repositories, when combined > with the ready > > retrievability of those articles through search > engines (such as > > Google Scholar) and interoperability (facilitated > by standards > > such as OAI-PMH), will accelerate the move to a > disastrous > > scenario." > > The objective evidence from 15 years of continuous > self-archiving > by physicists (even longer by computer scientists) > has in fact > tested this grim hypothesis; and this cumulative > evidence affords > not the slightest hint of any move to a 'disastrous > scenario.' > Throughout the past decade and a half, final drafts > of hundreds of > thousands of articles have been made freely > accessible and readily > retrievable by their authors (in some fields > approaching 100% of > the research published). And these have indeed been > extensively > accessed and retrieved and used and applied and > cited by researchers > in those disciplines, exactly as their authors > intended (and far > more extensively than articles for which the > authors' drafts had > not been made freely accessible). Yet when asked, > both of the large > physics learned societies (the Institute of Physics > Publishing in > the UK and the American Physical Society) responded > very explicitly > that they could identify no loss of subscriptions to > their journals > as a result of this critical mass of self-archived > and readily > retrievable physics articles (footnote 1). The > ALPSP's doomsday > conviction does not gain in plausibility by merely > being repeated, > ever louder. > > Google Scholar and OAI-PMH do indeed make the > self-archived supplements > more accessible to their would-be users, but that is > the point: The > purpose of self-archiving is to maximise access to > research > information. (Some publishers may still be in the > habit of reckoning > that research is well-served by access-denial, but > the providers > of that research -- the researchers themselves, and > their funders > -- can perhaps be forgiven for reckoning, and > acting, otherwise.) > > > ALPSP: "Librarians will increasingly find that > 'good enough' > > versions of a significant proportion of articles > in journals are > > freely available; in a situation where they lack > the funds to > > purchase all the content their users want > [emphasis added] it is > > inconceivable that they would not seek to save > money by cancelling > > subscriptions to those journals. As a result, > those journals will > > die." > > First, please note the implicit premise here: Where > research > institutions 'lack the funds to purchase all the > content their > researchers want,' the users (researchers) should do > without that > content, and the providers (researchers) should do > without the usage > and impact, rather than just giving it to one > another, as the RCUK > proposes. And why? Because researchers giving their > own research > to researchers who cannot afford the journal version > will make the > journals die. > > Second, RCUK-funded researchers publish in thousands > of journals > all over the world -- the UK, Europe and North > America. Their > publications, though important, represent the output > of only a small > fraction of the world's research population. Neither > research topics > nor research journals have national boundaries. > Hence it is unlikely > that a 'significant proportion' of the articles in > any particular > journal will become freely available purely as a > consequence of the > RCUK policy. > > Third, journals die and are born every year, since > the advent of > journals. Their birth may be because of a new niche, > and their > demise might be because of the loss or saturation of > an old niche, > or because the new niche was an illusion. Scholarly > fashions, > emphases and growth regions also change. This is > ordinary intellectual > evolution plus market economics. > > Fourth (and most important), as we have already > noted, physics > journals already do contain a 'significant > proportion' of articles > that have been self-archived in the physics > repository, arXiv -- > yet librarians have not cancelled subscriptions > (footnote 1) despite > a decade and a half's opportunity to do so, and the > journals continue > to survive and thrive. So whereas ALPSP may find it > subjectively > 'inconceivable,' the objective fact is that > self-carving is not > generating cancellations, even where it is most > advanced and has > been going on the longest. > > Research libraries -- none of which can afford to > subscribe to all > journals, because they have only finite journals > budgets -- have > always tried to maximise their purchasing power, > cancelling journals > they think their users need less, and subscribing to > journals they > think their users need more. As objective > indicators, some may use > (1) usage statistics (paper and online) and (2) > citation impact > factors, but the final decision is almost always > made on the basis > of (3) surveys of their own users' recommendations > (footnote 2). > Self-archiving does not change this one bit, because > self-archiving > is not done on a per-journal basis but on a > per-article basis. And > it is done anarchically, distributed across authors, > institutions > and disciplines. An RCUK mandate for all RCUK-funded > researchers > to self-archive all their articles will have no net > differential > effect on any particular journal one way or the > other. Nor will > RCUK-mandated self-archiving exhaust the contents of > any particular > journal. So librarians' money-saving and > budget-balancing > subscription/cancellation efforts may proceed apace. > Journals will > continue to be born and to die, as they always did, > but with no > differential influence from self-archiving. > > But let us fast-forward this speculation: The RCUK > self-archiving > mandate itself is unlikely to result in any > individual journal's > author-archived supplements rising to anywhere near > 100%, but if > the RCUK model is followed (as is quite likely) by > other nations > around the world, we may indeed eventually reach > 100% self-archiving > for all articles in all journals. That would > certainly be optimal > for research, researchers, their institutions, their > funders, and > the tax-paying public that funds the funders. Would > it be disastrous > for journals? A certain amount of pressure would > certainly be taken > off librarians' endless struggle to balance their > finite journal > budgets: The yearly journal selection process would > no longer be a > struggle for basic survival (as all researchers > would have online > access to at least the author-self-archived > supplements), but market > competition would continue among > publisher-added-values, which > include (1) the paper edition and (2) the official, > value-added, > online edition (functionally enriched with XML > mark-up, citation > links, publisher's PDF, etc.). The market for those > added values > would continue to determine what was subscribed to > and what was > cancelled, pretty much as it does now, but in a > stabler way, without > the mounting panic and desperation that struggling > with balancing > researchers' basic inelastic survival needs has been > carrying with > it for years now (the 'serials crisis'). > > If, on the other hand, the day were ever to come > when there was no > longer a market for the paper edition, and no longer > a market for > some of the online added-values, then surely the > market can be > trusted to readjust to that new supply/demand > optimum, with publishers > continuing to sell whatever added values there is > still a demand > for. One sure added-value, for example, is peer > review. Although > journals don't actually perform the peer review > (researchers do it > for them, for free), they do administer it, with > qualified expert > editors selecting the referees, adjudicating the > referee reports, > and ensuring that authors revise as required. It is > conceivable > that one day that peer review service will be sold > as a separate > service to authors and their insitutions, with the > journal-name > just a tag that certifies the outcome, instead of > being bundled > into a product that is sold to users and their > institutions. But > that is just a matter of speculation right now, when > there is still > a healthy demand for both the paper and online > editions. Publishing > will co-evolve naturally with the evolution of the > online medium > itself. But what cannot be allowed to happen now is > for researchers' > impact (and the public's investment and stake in it) > to be held > hostage to the status quo, under the pretext of > forestalling a > doomsday scenario that has no evidence to support it > and all evidence > to date contradicting it. > > > ALPSP: "The consequences of the destruction of > journals' viability > > are very serious. Not only will it become > impossible to support > > the whole process of quality control, including > (but not limited > > to) peer review" > > Notice that the doomsday scenario has simply been > taken for granted > here, despite the absence of any actual evidence for > it, and despite > all the existing evidence to the contrary. Because > it is being > intoned so shrilly and with such 'conviction', it is > to be taken > at face value, and we are simply to begin our > reckoning with accepting > it as an unchallenged premise: but that premise is > without any > objective foundation whatsoever. > > As ALPSP mentions peer review, however, is this not > the point to > remind ourselves that among the many > (unquestionable) values that > the publisher does add, peer-review is a rather > anomalous one, being > an unpaid service that researchers themselves are > rendering to the > publisher gratis (just as they give their articles > gratis, without > seeking any payment)? > > As noted above, peer review and the certification of > its outcome > could in principle be sold as a separate service to > the author-institution, > instead of being bundled with a product to the > subscriber-institution; > hence it is not true that it would be 'impossible to > support' peer > review even if journals' subscription base were to > collapse entirely. > But as there is no evidence of any tendency toward a > collapse of > the subscription base, this is all just hypothetical > speculation > at this point. > > > ALPSP: "but in addition, the research community > will lose all the > > other value and prestige which is added, for both > author and > > reader, through inclusion in a highly rated > journal with a clearly > > understood audience and rich online > functionality." > > Wherever authors and readers value either the paper > edition or the > rich online functionality -- both provided only by > the publisher > -- they will continue to subscribe to the journal as > long as they > can afford it, either personally or through their > institutional > library. As noted above, this clearly continues to > be the case for > the physics journals that are the most advanced in > testing the > waters of self-archiving. Publishers who add > sufficient value create > a product that the market will pay for (by the > definition of supply, > demand and sufficient-value). However, surely the > interests of > research and the public that funds it are not > best-served if those > researchers (potential users) who happen to be > unable to afford the > particular journal in which the functionally > enriched, value-added > version is published are denied access to the basic > research finding > itself. Even more important and pertinent to the > RCUK proposal: The > fundee's and funder's research should not be denied > the impact > potential from all those researchers who cannot > afford access. > > Researchers have always given away all their > findings (to their > publishers as well as to all requesters of reprints) > so that other > researchers could further advance the research by > using, applying > and building upon their findings. Access-denial has > always limited > the progress, productivity and impact of science and > scholarship. > Now the online age has at last made it possible to > put an end to > this needless access-denial and resultant > impact-loss; the RCUK is > simply the first to propose systematically applying > the natural, > optimal, and inevitable remedy to all research > output. > > Whatever publisher-added value is truly value > continues to be of > value when it co-exists with author self-archiving. > Articles continue > to appear in journals, and the enriched > functionality of the official > value-added online edition (as well as the paper > edition) are still > there to be purchased. It is just that those who > could not afford > them previously will no longer be deprived of access > to the research > findings themselves > > > ALPSP: "This in turn will deprive learned > societies of an important > > income stream, without which many will be unable > to support their > > other activities -- such as meetings, bursaries, > research funding, > > public education and patient information -- which > are of huge > > benefit both to their research communities and to > the general > > public." > > (Notice, first, that this is all still predicated on > the truth of > the doomsday conviction -- 'that self-archiving will > inevitably > destroy journals' -- which is contradicted by all > existing evidence.) > > But insofar as learned-societies 'other activieties' > are concerned, > there is a very simple, straight-forward way to put > the proposition > at issue: Does anyone imagine that -- if a > trade-off, either/or > choice point were ever actually reached -- > researchers would knowingly > and willingly choose to continue subsidising learned > societies' > admirable good works -- meetings, bursaries, > research funding, > public education and patient information -- at the > cost of their > own lost research impact? > > The ALPSP doomsday 'conviction', however, has no > basis in evidence, > hence there no either/or choice needs to be made. > All indications > to date are that learned societies will continue to > publish journals > -- adding value and successfully selling that > added-value -- in > peaceful co-existence with RCUK-mandated > self-archiving. But entirely > apart from that, ALPSP certainly has no grounds for > asking researchers > to renounce maximising their own research impact for > the sake of > financing learned societies' good works (like > meetings, bursaries > and public education) -- good works that could > finance themselves > in alternative ways that were not parasitic on > research progress, > if circumstances were ever to demand it > > The ALPSP letter began by stating that the mission > of ALPSP publisher > members is to 'disseminate and maximise access to > research information'. > Some of the journal-publishing learned societies do > indeed affirm > that this is their mission; yet by their restrictive > publishing > practices they actively contradict it, and defend > the resulting > inescapable contradiction by pleading a disaster > scenario (very > like the one ALPSP repeatedly invokes) in the name > of protecting > the publishing profits that support all of the > society's other > activities. Yet this is not the attitude of > forward-thinking, > member-oriented societies that understand properly > what researchers > in their fields need and know how to deliver it. > Here is a quote > from Dr Elizabeth Marincola, Executive Director of > the American > Society for Cell Biology, a sizeable but not huge > society (10,000 > members; many US scientific and medical societies > have over 100,000 > members): > > "I think the more dependent societies are on > their publications, > the farther away they are from the real needs of > their > members. If they were really doing good work and > their > members were aware of this, then they wouldn't > be so fearful'' > When my colleagues come to me and say they > couldn't possibly > think of putting their publishing revenues at > risk, I think > 'why haven't you been diversifying your revenue > sources all > along and why haven't you been diversifying your > products > all along?' The ASCB offers a diverse range of > products so > that if publications were at risk financially, > we wouldn't > lose our membership base because there are lots > of other > reasons why people are members." (Footnote 3) > > This perfectly encapsulates why we should not be too > credulous about > the dire warnings emanating from learned societies > to the effect > that self-archiving will damage research and its > dissemination. The > dissemination of research findings should, as > avowed, be a high-priority > service for societies -- a direct end in itself, not > just a trade > activity to generate profit so as to subsidise other > activities, > at the expense of research itself. > > > ALPSP: "The damaging effects will not be limited > to UK-published > > journals and UK societies; UK research authors > publish their work > > in the most appropriate journals, irrespective of > the journals' > > country of origin." > > The thrust of the above statement is rather unclear: > The RCUK-mandated > self-archiving itself will indeed be distributed > across all journals, > worldwide. Hence, if it had indeed been 'damaging', > that damage > would likewise be distributed (and diluted) across > all journals, > not concentrated on any particular journal. So what > is the point > being made here? > > But in fact there is no evidence at all that > self-archiving is > damaging to journals, rather than co-existing > peacefully with them; > and a great deal of evidence that it is extremely > beneficial to > research, researchers, their institutions and their > funders. > > > ALPSP: "We absolutely reject unsupported > assertions that > > self-archiving in publicly accessible repositories > does not and > > will not damage journals. Indeed, we are > accumulating a growing > > body of evidence that the opposite is the case > [emphasis added], > > even at this early stage" > > We shall now examine whose assertions need to be > absolutely rejected > as unsupported, and whether there is indeed 'a > growing body of > evidence that the opposite is the case'. > > What follows is the ALPSP's 5 pieces of putative > evidence in support > of their expressed 'conviction' that self-archiving > will damage > journals. Please follow carefully, as the first two > pieces of > evidence [1]-[2] -- concerning usage and citation > statistics -- > will turn out to be positive evidence rather than > negative evidence, > and the last three pieces of evidence [3]-[5] -- > concerning journals > that make all of their own articles free online -- > turn out to have > nothing whatsoever to do with author self-archiving: > > > ALPSP: "For example: [1] Increasingly, librarians > are making use > > of COUNTER-compliant (and therefore comparable) > usage statistics > > to guide their decisions to renew or cancel > journals. The Institute > > of Physics Publishing is therefore concerned to > see that article > > downloads from its site are significantly lower > for those journals > > whose content is substantially replicated in the > ArXiV repository > > than for those which are not." > > How does example [1] show that 'the opposite is the > case'? As has > already been reported above, the Institute of > Physics Publishing > (UK) and the American Physical Society have both > stated publicly > that they can identify no loss of subscriptions as a > result of > nearly 15 years of self-archiving by physicists! > (Moreover, publishers > and institutional repositories can and will easily > work out a > collaborative system of pooled usage statistics, all > credited to > the publisher's official version; so that is no > principled obstacle > either.) > > The easiest thing in the world for Institutional > Repositories (IRs) > to provide to publishers (along with the link from > the self-archived > supplement in the IR to the official journal version > on the publisher's > website -- something that is already dictated by > good scholarly > practice) is the IR download statistics for the > self-archived version > of each article. These can be pooled with the > download statistics > for the official journal version and all of it > (rightly) credited > to the article itself. Another bonus that the > self-archived supplements > already provide is enhanced citation impact -- of > which it is not > only the article, the author, the institution and > the funder who > are the co-beneficiaries, but also the journal and > the publisher, > in the form of an enhanced journal impact factor > (average citation > count). It has also been demonstrated recently that > download impact > and citation impact are correlated, downloads in the > first six > months after publication being predictive of > citations after 2 > years. > > All these statistics and benefits are there to be > shared between > publishers, librarians and research institutions in > a cooperative, > collaborative atmosphere that welcomes the benefits > of self-archiving > to research and that works to establish a system > that shares them > among the interested parties. Collaboration on the > sharing of the > benefits of self-archiving is what learned societies > should be > setting up meetings to do -- rather than just trying > to delay and > oppose what is so obviously a substantial and > certain benefit to > research, researchers, their institutions and > funders, as well as > a considerable potential benefit to journals, > publishers and > libraries. If publishers take an adversarial stance > on self-archiving, > all they do is deny themselves of its potential > benefits (out of > the groundless but self-sustaining 'conviction' that > self-archiving > can inevitably bring them only disaster). Its > benefits to research > are demonstrated and incontestable, hence will > incontestably prevail. > (ALPSP's efforts to delay the optimal and inevitable > will not redound > to learned societies' historic credit; the sooner > they drop their > filibustering and turn to constructive cooperation > and collaboration, > the better for all parties concerned.) > > > ALPSP: "[2] Citation statistics and the resultant > impact factors > > are of enormous importance to authors and their > institutions; > > they also influence librarians' > renewal/cancellation decisions. > > Both the Institute of Physics and the London > Mathematical Society > > are therefore troubled to note an increasing > tendency for authors > > to cite only the repository version of an article, > without > > mentioning the journal in which it was later > published." > > Librarians' decisions about which journals to renew > or cancel take > into account a variety of comparative measures, > citation statistics > being one of them (footnote 2). Self-archiving has > now been analysed > extensively and shown to increase journal article > citations > substantially in field after field; so journals > carrying self-archived > articles will have higher impact factors, and will > hence perform > better under this measure in competing for their > share of libraries' > serials budgets. This refutes example [2]. > > As to the proper citation of the official journal > version: This is > merely a question of proper scholarly practice, > which is evolving > and will of course adapt naturally to the new > medium; a momentary > lag in scholarly rigour is certainly no argument > against the practice > of self-archiving or its benefits to research and > researchers. > Moreover, publishers and institutional repositories > can and will > easily work out a collaborative system of pooled > citation and > reference statistics -- all credited to the official > published > version. So that is no principled obstacle either. > This is all just > a matter of adapting scholarly practices naturally > to the new medium > (and is likewise inevitable). It borders on the > absurd to cite > something whose solution is so simple and obvious as > serious grounds > for preventing research impact from being maximised > by universal > self-archiving! > > > ALPSP: "[3] Evidence is also growing that free > availability of > > content has a very rapid negative effect on > subscriptions. Oxford > > University Press made the contents of Nucleic > Acids Research > > freely available online six months after > publication; subscription > > loss was much greater than in related journals > where the content > > was free after a year. The journal became fully > Open Access this > > year, but offered a substantial reduction in the > publication > > charge to those whose libraries maintained a print > subscription; > > however, the drop in subscriptions has been far > more marked than > > was anticipated." > > This is a non-sequitur, having nothing to do with > self-archiving, > one way or the other (as was already pointed out in > the prior > rebuttal of APLSP's April critique of the RCUK > proposal): This > example refers to an entire journal's contents -- > the official > value-added versions, all being made freely > accessible, all at once, > by the publisher -- not to the anarchic, > article-by-article > self-archiving of the author's final draft by the > author, which is > what the RCUK is mandating. This example in fact > reinforces what > was noted earlier: that RCUK-mandated self-archiving > does not single > out any individual journal (as OU Press did above > with one of its > own) and drive its self-archived content to 100%. > Self-archiving > is distributed randomly across all journals. Since > journals compete > (somewhat) with one another for their share of each > institution's > finite journal acquisitions budget, it is > conceivable that if one > journal gives away 100% of its official, value-added > contents online > and the others don't, that journal might be making > itself more > vulnerable to differential cancellation (though not > necessarily: > there are reported examples of the exact opposite > effect too, with > the free online version increasing not only > visibility, usage and > citations, but thereby also increasing > subscriptions, serving as > an advertisement for the journal). But this is in > any case no > evidence for cancellation-inducing effects of > self-archiving, which > involves only the author's final drafts and is not > focussed on any > one journal but randomly distributed across all > journals, leaving > them to continue to compete for subscriptions > amongst themselves, > on the basis of their relative merits, exactly as > they did before. > > > ALPSP: "[4] The BMJ Publishing Group has noted a > similar effect; > > the journals that have been made freely available > online on > > publication have suffered greatly increased > subscription attrition, > > and access controls have had to be imposed to > ensure the survival > > of these titles." > > Exactly the same reply as above: The risks of making > 100% of one > journal's official, value-added contents free online > while all other > journals are not doing likewise has nothing > whatosever to do with > anarchic self-archiving, by authors, of the final > drafts of their > own articles, distributed randomly across journals. > > > ALPSP: "[5] In the USA, the Institute for > Operations Research and > > the Management Sciences found that two of its > journals had, without > > its knowledge, been made freely available on the > Web. For one > > of these, an established journal, they noted a > subscriptions > > decline which was more than twice as steep as the > average for > > their other established journals; for the other, a > new journal > > where subscriptions would normally have been > growing, they declined > > significantly. While the unauthorised free > versions have now been > > removed, it is too early to tell whether the > damage is permanent." > > Exactly the same artifact as in the prior two cases. > (The trouble > with self-generated Doomsday Scenarios is that they > tend to assume > such a grip on the imagination that their > propounders cannot > distinguish objective evidence from the > 'corroboration' that comes > from merely begging the question or changing the > subject!) > > In all three examples, whole journals were made > freely available, > all at once, in their entirety, along with all the > added value and > rich online functionality that a journal provides. > This is not at > all the same as authors self-archiving only their > own final drafts > (which are simply their basic research reports), and > doing so on a > single-article (rather than a whole-journal) basis. > Yet the latter > is all that the RCUK proposes to mandate. Hence > examples [3]-[5] > are really a misleading conflation of two altogether > different > matters, creating the illusion of support for what > is in fact an > untenable conclusion on which they actually have no > bearing one way > or the other. > > [Moreover -- even though it has nothing at all to do > with what the > RCUK is mandating --if one does elect to look at > evidence from > whole-journal open access then there are many more > examples of > journals that have benefited from being made freely > available: > Molecular Biology of the Cell's subscriptions, for > example, have > grown steadily after free access was provided by its > publisher, The > American Society for Cell Biology (footnote 3). That > journal also > enjoys a high impact factor and healthy submissions > by authors, > encouraged by the increased exposure their articles > receive. The > same has happened for journals published by other > societies (footnote > 4).] > > > ALPSP: "In addition, it is increasingly clear that > this is exactly > > how researchers are already using search engines > such as Scirus > > and Google Scholar: Greg R. Notess, Reference > Librarian, Montana > > State University, in a recent article in > Information Today (Vol > > 29, No 4) writes 'At this point, my main use of > both [Scirus and > > Google Scholar] is for finding free Web versions > of otherwise > > inaccessible published articles.'" > > This is merely a repetition of ALPSP's earlier point > about OAI and > Google Scholar. Reply: Yes, these wonderful new > resources do increase > access to the self-archived supplements: but that's > the point! To > maximise research access, usage and impact. > > Other search engines that retrieve free access > articles (such as > citebase, citeseer and OAIster) likewise serve the > research community > by enabling any unsubscribed researchers to find and > access drafts > of articles they could not otherwise use because > they are accessible > only by subscription. ISI's Web of Knowledge and > Elsevier's Scopus, > both paid services, find the authors' free versions > as well as the > journals' subscription-only versions, which > researchers can then > use whenever they or their institutions can afford > subscription, > license, or pay-per-view access; Elsevier's Scirus, > a free service, > likewise retrieves both, as does Google itself (if > at least the > reference metadata are made web-accessible). All > these services do > indeed help to maximise access, usage and impact, > all to the benefit > of the impact of that small proportion of current > research that > happens to be spontaneously self-archived already > (15%). The RCUK > mandate will increase this benefit systematically to > that remaining > 85% of UK research output that is still only > accessible today to > those who can afford the official journal version. > > > ALPSP: "'I found a number of full-text articles > via Google Scholar > > that are PDFs downloaded from a publisher site and > then posted > > on another site, free to all.'" > > This point, on the other hand, is not about author > self-archiving, > but about pirating and bootleg of the publisher's > official version. > RCUK is not mandating or condoning anything like > that: The policy > pertains only to authors' own final drafts, > self-archived by them > -- not to the published version poached by 3rd party > consumers, > which is called theft. (Hence this point is > irrelevant.) > > > ALPSP: "'Both Scirus and Scholar were also useful > for finding > > author-hosted article copies, preprints, e-prints, > and other > > permutations of the same article.'" > > Exactly as one would hope they would be, if one > hopes to 'maximise > access to research'. > > > ALPSP: "In the light of this growing evidence of > serious and > > irreversible damage, each publisher must have the > right to establish > > the best way of expanding access to its journal > content that is > > compatible with continuing viability." > > So far no evidence whatsoever of 'serious and > irreversible damage' > (or indeed of any damage) caused by author > self-archiving has been > presented by ALPSP. (This is unsurprising, because > in reality no > such evidence exists, and all existing evidence is > to the contrary.) > > Of course publishers can and should do whatever they > wish in order > to expand access to their journal content and remain > viable. But > they certainly have no right to prevent researchers, > their institutions > and their funders from likewise doing whatever they > can and wish > in order to expand the access to, and the impact of, > their own > research findings -- nor to expect them to agree to > keep waiting > passively to see whether their publishers will one > day maximise > their access and impact for them. > > 100% self-archiving is already known to be both > doable and to enhance > research impact substantially; self-archiving has > also been co-existing > peacefully with journals for over a decade and a > half (including > in those fields where 100% self-archiving has > already been reached) > ; 100% self-archiving overall is already well > overdue, and years' > worth of research impact have already been > needlessly lost waiting > for it. ALPSP has given no grounds whatsoever for > continuing this > delay for one moment longer. It has merely aired a > doomsday scenario > of its own imagination and then adduced 'evidence' > in its support > that is obviously irrelevant and defeasible.What is > certain is that > research impact cannot be held hostage to > publishers' anxieties, > simply on the grounds of their subjective intensity. > > > ALPSP: "This is not best achieved by mandating the > earliest > > possible self-archiving, and thus forcing the > adoption of untried > > and uncosted publishing practices." > > Self-archiving in October 2005 is not 'the earliest > possible > self-archiving' It is self-archiving that is already > at least a > decade overdue. And it has nothing to do with > untried and uncosted > publishing practices: Self-archiving is not a > publishing practice > at all; it is a researcher practice. And it has been > tried and > tested -- with great success and great benefits for > research progress > -- for over 15 years now. What is needed today is > more self-archiving > -- 100% -- not more delay. > > Or does the 'earliest possible' here refer not to > when the RCUK > self-archiving mandate is at last implemented, but > how early the > published article should be self-archived? If so, > the answer from > the point of view of research impact and progress is > unambiguous: > The final draft should be self-archived and made > accessible to all > potential users immediately upon acceptance for > publication (prefinal > preprint drafts even earlier, if the author wishes). > No research > usage or progress should be held back arbitrarily > for 3, 6, 12 or > more months, for any reason whatsoever. > > It cannot be stressed enough just how crucial it is > for RCUK to > resist any pressure to impose or allow any sort of > access-denial > period, of any length, during which unpaid access to > research > findings would be embargoed -- findings that the > RCUK has paid for, > with public money, so that they can be immediately > reported, used, > applied and built upon, for the benefit of the > public that paid for > it, not so that they can be embargoed, for the > benefit of assuaging > publishers' subjective fears about 'disaster > scenarios' for which > there does not exist a shred of objective evidence. > Any delay that > is allowed amounts to an embargo on research > productivity and > progress, at the expense of the interests of the > tax-paying public. > That is exactly what happened recently to the US > National Institutes > of Health's public access policy, setting US > research access and > impact back several years. > > Fortunately, there is a simple compromise that will > completely > immunise the RCUK mandate from any possibility of > being rendered > ineffectual in this way: > > What all RCUK-funded researchers should be > required to self-archive > in their own Institutional Repositories (IRs) > immediately upon > acceptance for publication are: > > (1) each article's metadata > (author name, date, article title, journal name, > etc.). > > plus > > (2) each article's final draft (full-text) > > That fulfills the RCUK requirement. The > access-setting, however, > can then be given two options: > > (OA) Open Access > (both the metadata and the full-text are made > freely accessible to everyone webwide) > > or (IA) Institutional Access > (the metadata are freely accessible webwide but > the full-text is > made accessible only to the fundee's > institution, its employees, > and its funders, such as the RCUK and RAE, for > record-keeping, > grant-fulfillment and performance-assessment > purposes). > > The RCUK fundee is strongly encouraged (but not > required) to set > access to OA immediately. > > As 90% of journals have already given article > self-archiving their > official green light, 90% of articles can have their > access set to > OA immediately. For the remaining 10%, the author > can set access > to IA initially, but of course each article's > metadata (author, > title, journal, etc.) will immediately be openly > accessible webwide > to all would-be users, just as the metadata of the > OA 90% are. > That's enough data so that would-be users can > immediately email the > author for an 'eprint' (the author's final draft) if > they cannot > afford to access the journal version. The author can > keep emailing > eprints to each would-be user until either the > remaining 10% of > journals update their policy or the author tires of > doing all those > needless keystrokes and sets articleaccess to OA. In > the meanwhile, > however, 100% of RCUK-funded research will be > immediately accessible > webwide, 90% of it directly, and 10% of it with > author mediation, > maximising its access and impact. Nature can take > care of the rest > at its leisure. > > > ALPSP: "It is clearly unrealistic to consult > adequately with all > > those likely to be affected over the summer > holiday period, and > > we therefore urge you to extend the consultation > period and to > > defer, for at least 12 months, the introduction of > any mandate > > for authors to self-archive. In the meantime, we > would like to > > take up RCUK's expressed willingness to engage > with both publishers > > and learned societies, beginning with a meeting in > early September > > with representatives of ALPSP; we propose one of > the following > > dates: 5th September, 6th September, 7th > September, 8th September > > We look forward to a reply at your earliest > convenience. Yours > > sincerely Sally Morris, Chief Executive" > > The consultation has been going on since long before > 'the summer > holiday period' and there has already been far more > delay and far > more research impact needlessly lost than anyone can > possibly > justify. Some members of the publishing community > are quite leisurely > about continuing to prolong this needless loss of > research impact > and progress in order to continue debating, but the > research community > itself is not (as indicated, for example, by the > ill-fated demand > for open access -- by a deadline of September 1, > 2001 -- on the > part of the 34,000 researchers who signed the PloS > petition). > > RCUK should go ahead and implement its > immediate-self-archiving > mandate, with no further delay or deferral, and then > meet with ALPSP > and other interested parties to discuss and plan how > the UK > Institutional Repositories can collaborate with > journals and their > publishers in pooling download and citation > statistics, and in other > other ways of sharing the benefits of maximising UK > research access > and impact. Any further pertinent matters and > developments can be > discussed as well -- but not at the cost of further > delaying what > is indisputably the optimal and inevitable (and long > overdue) outcome > for research, researchers, their institutions, and > their funders > -- and for the public, which funds the research on > the understanding > that its use and applications are meant to be > maximised to benefit > the public's interests, not minimised to protect > other parties' > from imaginary threats to their interests. > > (A shorter UK version of this critique -- > http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/18-guid.html > -- > has been co-signed by the following UK senior > researchers [in > boldface] and sent as hard copy to the recipients of > the ALPSP > statement. The present longer analysis has also been > co-signed by > some prominent international supporters of the RCUK > initiative.) > > Tim Berners-Lee (UK, Southampton & US, MIT) > Dave De Roure (UK, Southampton) > Stevan Harnad (UK, Southampton & Canada, UQaM) > Derek Law (UK, Strathclyde) > Peter Murray-Rust (UK, Cambridge) > Charles Oppenheim (UK, Loughborough) > Nigel Shadbolt (UK, Southampton) > Yorick Wilks (UK, Sheffield) > > Subbiah Arunachalam (India, MSRF) > Helene Bosc (France, INRA, ret.) > Fred Friend (UK, University College, London) > Andrew Odlyzko (US, University of Minnesota) > Peter Suber (US, Earlham) > > References > > 1. Swan, A (2004). Re: Open Access vs. NIH Back > Access and Nature's > Back-Sliding. American Scientist Open Access Forum: > 3 February 2005. > > 2. Personal communication from a UK University > Library Director: > 'I know of no HE library where librarians make > cancellation or > subscription decisions. Typically they say to the > department/faculty > 'We have to save X,000" from your share of the > serials budget: what > do you want to cut?'. These are seen as academic > --not metrics-driven > -- judgements, and no librarian makes those academic > judgements, > as they are indefensible in Senate' [S]uch decisions > are almost > always wholly subjective, not objective, and have > nothing to do > with the existence or otherwise of repositories.' > > 3. The society lady: an interview with Elizabeth > Marincola. Open > Access Now: 6 October 2003 > > 4. Walker, T (2002) Two societies show how to profit > by providing > free access. Learned Publishing 15: 279-284. > > Copies of ALPSP open letter were also sent to: > The Lord Sainsbury > of Turville Parliamentary Under Secretary of > State for Science > and Innovation Department of Trade and Industry, > Professor Sir > Keith O'Nions Director General of Research > Councils Office of > Science and Technology Dr. Astrid Wissenburg > RCUK Secretariat, > Professor Colin Blakemore Medical Research > Council, Frances > Marsden Arts and Humanities Research Council, > Professor Julia > Goodfellow Biotechnology and Biological Research > Council, > Professor Richard Wade Particle Physics & > Astronomy Research > Council, Professor Alan Thorpe Natural > Environment Research > Council, Professor John O'Reilly Engineering and > Physical > Sciences Research Council, Professor John Wood > Council for the > Central Laboratory of the Research Councils, > Andrea Powell Chair > of ALPSP Council, (Director of Publishing, CAB > International) > ___________________________________________________________ Does your mail provider give you FREE antivirus protection? 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Mysore University Students Association Formation
by harinarayana＠lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

In a recently held meeting of the faculty members and students of MLISc and MIM, Mysore University Library and Information Science Students Association (MULISSA) for the year 2005-06 was formed. The following are the office bearers for the current batch: President Prof. Shalini R. Urs, Chairperson, Dept of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore Faculty Advisor Dr. N.S. Harinarayana,Dept of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore Secretary Sri. Surendra C.S, 3rd Semester MLISc Joint Secretary Sri. Sunil Kumar, 3rd Semester MLISc Treasurer Kum. Smitha A P, 1st Semester MLISc Members Kum. Rekha H R, 3rd Semester MLISc Kum. Chaitra M, 3rd Semester MIM Sri. Siddalingaswamy B 1st Semester MLISc Sri. Nagashayana M V 1st Semester MLISc The inauguration of the MULISSA has been organized on the Friday, August 26, 2005 at 4 PM at the Department of Library and Information Science. Prof. H.S. Umesh, Principal, Saradavilas Teachers College, University of Mysore, Mysore has kindly agreed to inaugurate the association's activities for the current year. All are cardially invited. N.S.Harinarayana Faculty Advisor

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InfoVision 2005
by venky 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

The count down for dating with InfoVision 2005 - www.infovision2005.org -- has begun. This is the first ever global Summit in India for practicing Information Professionals of different hues from the different segments - libraries, industry, and the academia. It is a good opportunity for the LIS Professionals to listen to and interact with people from other information professions. Information handling is inescapably dominated by IT today and going to be more so in the converging digital world. The event like InfoVision Summit is the right kind of opportunity to understand the information world from many different perspectives. Join at InfoVision to expand your horizon of Information World. PS: Academic organizations are given concessional rate of registration. Dr. S. Venkadesan JRD Tata Memorial Library Indian Institute of Science Bangalore-560012 The count down for dating with InfoVision 2005 http://www.infovision2005.org/ www.infovision2005.org -- has begun. This is the first ever global Summit in India for practicing Information Professionals of different hues from the different segments - libraries, industry, and the academia. It is a good opportunity for the LIS Professionals to listen to and interact with people from other information professions. Information handling is inescapably dominated by IT today and going to be more so in the converging digital world. The event like InfoVision Summit is the right kind of opportunity to understand the information world from many different perspectives. Join at InfoVision to expand your horizon of Information World. PS: Academic organizations are given concessional rate of registration. Dr. S. Venkadesan JRD Tata Memorial Library Indian Institute of Science Bangalore-560012

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Candidates for network management (fwd)
by I.R.N.Goudar 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:39:55 +0530 (IST) From: Dr.Dinah Geethalathai <dinah(a)css.nal.res.in> To: goudar(a)css.nal.res.in Subject: candidates for network management Dear Sir, Consequent to our telephonic conversation this morning I am sending my requirements for a suitable candidate to work with me as Project Assistant in the area of Network Security/Network Management. Qualifications : B.E. (Computer Science) or B.E. (Electronics & Communication) with knowledge of Networking Salary : Rs.6000/- p.m. With warm regards, C. DINAH GEETHALATHAI Head, Computer Support Services National Aerospace Laboratories Bangalore - 560017 Tel: 080-25086015

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InfoWatch Jul-Aug 2005
by M.R Lalitha 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

Dear LIS-Forum member, The July-August 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) Jul-Aug 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In This Issue: 1. BioCyc - A collection of pathway/genome databases 2. Corrosion Doctors' Web site [Educational information modules in corrosion science and engineering] 3. ElectronicsInfoline - Free electronics schematics from around the world 4. Encyclopedia of Life classification (EOL) [Proteome database, analysis and visualization tools, genomics and sequence analysis] 5. Encyclopedia of sustainable development 6. Freewares in chemistry from Advanced Chemistry Development Lab 7. Gene Map Annotator and Pathway Profiler - GenMAPP [A tool for bioinformatics community] 8. i-mass.com - International Mass spcetrometry web resource 9. itmWEB - information technology management WEB 10. KurzweilAI.Net [A source for artificial intelligence research based on man-machine merger] 11. Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis (LAMBDA) - NASA's data center for Cosmic Microwave Background research 12. MEMS and nanotechnology clearinghouse - A information resource for the MEMS and Nanotechnology development community 13. OpenCores.org - Free open source IP codes and chip design 14. OSdata.com - Server Operating System technical comparison 15. Pauling File- Basic database for crystal structures 16. Pioneering EE patents 17. Plate motion calculator [Program to calculate the tectonic plate motion at any location on Earth] 18. ResearchChannel - A consortium of research universities and corporate research divisions 19. Reshaping scholarly communication [Alternatives for cost effective publishing] 20. WindowsNetworking.com - World of windows networking ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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apprentice-training programme in Special Library at bangalore
by Mailing List Manager 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 05:31:46 -0700 (PDT) From: alex arun <antony_alex2k(a)yahoo.com> Dear Friends, There is an apprentice-training programme in Special Library at bangalore. Those who interested please go through following message Alex Christ College Greetings from DVK Central Library, Bangalore! Let me introduce my institution and myself. I am Fr. John Neelankavil, working as the librarian here in Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram Central Library, Bangalore. We have a library with around 45,000 Square Feet area with almost all the modern facilities. We have a plan to start training cum apprenticeship programme to the graduates and postgraduates of Library and Information Science. The calculated duration will be of one year and we will able to support the students with an attractive stipend. For more details:E-Mail: dvklibrary(a)yahoo.com Yours truly, Fr. John Neelankavil, CMI Library Director

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Google starts online talk service
by ++ Mukesh Anand ++ 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Google starts online talk service Google, the world's most used search engine, is set to take on online voice and instant messaging service providers such as Skype, Microsoft and Yahoo. The firm has released a free service called Google Talk, which lets e-mail account holders talk to each other via a PC, microphone and speakers. Google Talk will be based on open software, meaning the firm will allow its technology to be integrated into other websites and applications. A trial version of Google Talk can be found at: http://www.google.com/talk/ ++ Mukesh ++ Google starts online talk service Google, the world's most used search engine, is set to take on online voice and instant messaging service providers such as Skype, Microsoft and Yahoo. The firm has released a free service called Google Talk, which lets e-mail account holders talk to each other via a PC, microphone and speakers. Google Talk will be based on open software, meaning the firm will allow its technology to be integrated into other websites and applications. A trial version of Google Talk can be found at: http://www.google.com/talk/ ++ Mukesh ++

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Google's new search tool
by Mailing List Manager 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:41:19 +0300 From: Jayadev P Hiremath <jayadevph(a)gmail.com> San Francisco, reuters: Google Inc, on Monday, unveiled a new computer and Web search tool using self-updating navigation and personal information software that puts it in more direct competition with Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL. The creator of the world's most popular Web search system said it was branching out beyond pure search to help users manage e-mail, instant messages, news headlines and music. Google Desktop 2, as the new search software is known, helps users locate information stored on their own hard disk, on office network drives they may use and on the Web.

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request for an article
by Mailing List Manager 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 23:23:23 -0700 (PDT) From: vijaya kumara <vijayakumar71(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Professionals One of our research scholar urgently needs the folowing review article, if any one of you find the same, kindly provide us or let me know where we can get it. Amylolytic enzymes: molecular aspects of their properties. 2001 Mar;20(1):7-32. Review. PMID: 11508823 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Authors :Horvathova V, Janecek S, Sturdik E. With warm regards Dr. Vijayakumar M Vijayakumar M, HOD - Library, MVJ College of Engineering (an ISO Certified Institution) Channasandra, Bangalore - 560 067, Karnataka, India Tel:+91-80-28452324 Ext. 234 library(a)mvjeducation.com or coolvg(a)gmail.com --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page --0-829267109-1124519003=:36915 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="NCSI-Attachment-Warning.txt" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="NCSI-Attachment-Warning.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This is a message from the MailScanner E-Mail Virus Protection Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The original e-mail message contained potentially dangerous content, which has been removed for your safety. The content is dangerous as it is often used to spread viruses or to gain personal or confidential information from you, such as passwords or credit card numbers. If you wish to receive a copy of the original email, please e-mail helpdesk and include the whole of this message in your request. Alternatively, you can call them, with the contents of this message to hand when you call. At Sat Aug 20 12:35:41 2005 the content filters said: MailScanner: Found a script in HTML message Note to Help Desk: Look on the NCSI MailScanner in /var/spool/MailScanner/q= uarantine/20050820 (message j7K75YZV022790). --=20 Postmaster MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support --0-829267109-1124519003=:36915--

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IATLIS ^V Motiwale LIS Teacher Award 2005- call for nominations
by Mailing List Manager 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:33:43 +0100 (BST) From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> Nominations are invited form the teachers of Library & Information Science for the award of IATLIS � Motiwale Best LIS Teacher Award 2005. Executive Council Members of IATLIS are not eligible for being nominated for the award. The nominee should have at least 10 years of teaching experience at the post-graduate level and should be presently in service. A person can receive the award only once and one person can nominate only one LIS Teacher at a time. The nominations have to be accompanied by Bio-Data, list of publications, details of professional activities, achievements / contribution to LIS Profession including contribution to the IATLIS. An Award Committee will consider the nominations. The award will not be given in case majority of the Committee Members feel that the nominations are not worth considering. Nomination in quadruplicate with all the required documents should reach Dr. S. Sudarshan Rao, Dept. of Library and Information Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad-500 007 on or before 17th October, 2005. 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 ---------------------------------

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"KM Cyberary" - a gateway to Knowledge Resources by Bhojaraju
by Mailing List Manager 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:13:11 +0530 From: Bhojaraju G <bhojaraju.g(a)gmail.com> *Apologies for Cross-Postings* Dear Colleagues, ** This is to seek your feedback on my work which i started 2 years back. Its an accumulation of e-resources on KM & other subjects. This give links to various useful e-resources on Knowledge Management, Librarianship, Philosophy, Health, Technology, ITES/BPO/ ITIL, Call Centers, Business Information etc. *"KM Cyberary" - a gateway to Knowledge Resources by Bhojaraju* URL : http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com/cyberary.html Blog : http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/bhojarajug I hope this may be of some help for your information searching. If possible try to add in your websites and also ask ur colleagues/friends to make use of this "KM Cyberary". Pl dont forget to put your feedback on the same under Guest Book of my site. Awaiting for your kind feedback. Pl let me know if need any changes on this. 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, RV Road, VV Puram, Bangalore-560004, INDIA. Cell:+91-944 836 9905 E-mail: Bhojaraju.G(a)gmail.com, bhojarajug(a)yahoo.com ************************************************************************************************

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For Conversion Rates
by shridhar Mayannavar 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Dear sir, I am working in Government Orgnaization as Assi. Librarian There is any source for "CONVERSION RATE FOR BOOKS AND JOURNALS" other than GOOD Office Committee.In the good office committe they not giving Conversion Rate list for Past months. If there is any sites which are providing past conversion rates, please send this information. thanking you, Shridhar. B.M. Dear sir, I am working in Government Orgnaization as Assi. Librarian There is any source for "CONVERSION RATE FOR BOOKS AND JOURNALS" other than GOOD Office Committee.In the good office committe they not giving Conversion Rate list for Past months. If there is any sites which are providing past conversion rates, please send this information. thanking you, Shridhar. B.M. http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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details about funding agency
by Mailing List Manager 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Date: 19 Aug 2005 07:15:25 -0000 From: bedarata dash <vedadash(a)rediffmail.com> sir, our engineering college is seven years old college and our library have a collection of 22,000no. of engineering books.But our library is not so developed for that reason i need some help that is there any funding agency where we can get any financial help that Ican make my library as E-Library.Please kindly suggest me something in this matter. Bedarata Dash Librarian SIET,Cuttack, Orissa vedadash(a)indiatimes.com

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Nothing great about Google
by kss 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

I wish to draw the attention of the forum members to the reply we have received from the Google team: "----Original Message----- From: help(a)google.com [mailto:help@google.com] Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 6:59 AM To: guhamba Subject: Re: [#31137165] Discrepancy in the no. of search results indicated and present for "www.reporter.org" Thank you for your note. Google provides only the 1000 most relevant search results for a query, even when there are more than 1000 matches. (Due to variations in our estimates of results, we may occasionally display slightly fewer than 1000.) We try to make your search experience so efficient that it's not necessary to scroll past the first ten listings. We understand that some individuals would like to see more than 1000 results, but this isn't common, and it would heavily tax our system to provide these results for everyone. Regards, The Google Team" >From the above reply, it is very clear that we can access only the first 1000 or less than 1000 hits in any Google search even though the number of hits indicated may be as high as 50,000+. If that be the case, if Yahoo indexing is better than Google, the first 1000 results of Yahoo would be better than that of Google. In other words, if we wish to carry out effective Internet search, we should carry out searches using couple of well known searches rather than Google only. K S Subba Rao Director Informatics International Projects Division Informatics India Ltd 337 Karuna Complex Sampige Road Malleshwaram Bangalore 560 003 India Tel: +91-80-23464878 Fax: +91-80-23344598 www.informindia.co.in

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Discussion on problems faced by the Govt. & Aided College Librarians - organised by SALIS
by Arunachalam Hariharan 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Dear friends, SALIS Tiruchi Chapter is organising a one day programme to discuss various issues/problems of Govt. & Aided College Librarians. You are invited to participate in the discussion. Details are given below: Topic ' Discussion on problems faced by the Govt. & Aided College Librarians' such as loss of book/stock verification, filling-up posts, etc Date 3.9.2005 Venue Bishop Heber College Library, Tiruchi17 Time 10.30 AM. Lunch: 1.00.PM. Registration: Free Co-ordinators: To participate in the programme, please contact Mr. Jesudas Manalan, Librarian, BHC & Secretary, SALIS Tiruchi Chapter (Res: 0431-2774924 ) or Mr S.Swaminathan (Cell: 9842993535). Or send E-mail to salis_info(a)yahoo.co.in All are welcome -------------------------------------------- A.Hariharan SALIS __________________________________ 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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Report of the SALIS Vellore Chapter inauguration
by Arunachalam Hariharan 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Proceeding of the SALIS Inaugural Function at Vellore held on 7th August 2005 The meeting of the SALIS under the chairmanship of Mr.Hariharan, President, SALIS was organized at Millennium Plaza, Gandhi Nagar, Vellore at 10.30 am. Sunday 7th August 2005. The following members were present. Mr. A. Hariharan, S.E.R.C, Chennai Mr. V. Newton CMC, Vellore Mr. G.G. Sivakumar, R.M.K. Engineering College,Chennai Mrs. Vasantha Vivekanandan, CMC, Vellore Mr. R.G. Solomon, CMC, Vellore Ms. Regina Antony, CMC, Vellore Mr. P. Manuelraj, CMC, Vellore Mr. Karunai Raghavan, St. Peter's Engineering College, Avadi Mr. I. Azariah Jebakumar, CMC, Vellore Mr. Joyson Soundrarajan, CMC,Vellore Mr. Hemaanandan, TPGIT, Vellore Ms. D. Chithra, MK Jain College, Vaniyambadi Ms. A. Arockia Mary, DKM College, Vellore Ms. K. Jacqulin, DKM College, Vellore Ms. Aariefa Basheer, Islamiah Womens Arts and Science College, Vaniyambadi Mr. D.P. Dhinakaran, Priyadharshini Engr. College, Vaniyambadi Ms. P. Vijayalakshmi, Auxilium College, Vellore Ms. K. Kalaichelvi, VIT, Vellore Mrs. Rachel Charles, SLRTC Karigiri, Vellore Mr. R. Manikandan, College of Education, Katpadi Mrs. Esther Aaron, College of Nursing, CMC, Vellore Mr. A. Vijayakumar, RUHSA Library, CMC, Vellore Ms. Nirmala, RUHSA Library, CMC, Vellore Mr. L. Amarsanth, VIT, Vellore Mrs. Kalpana Parthiban, VIT, Vellore Mr. J. Varadharajalu, VIT, Vellore Mrs. Y. Meega Ebenezer, CMC, Vellore Mrs. Manimala Ravi, CMC, Vellore Mr. Damodaran. S, CHTC, CMC, Vellore Mr. D. Samuel Raja , CMC, Vellore Mrs. Jerylene Mary Vanathi, , College of Nursing, CMC, Vellore Mr. K. Nelson NIthiakumar, CMC, Vellore Mrs. Victoria Thomas, CMC, Vellore Mrs. J. Premila, CMC, Vellore Mr. K.P. Chakkaravarthy, CMC, Vellore Mr. A. Daniel Rajkumar, College of Nursing, CMC, Vellore Mr. S. Elumalai, VIT, Vellore Ms. V. Beulah Nirmaline, Kings Matriculation School, Kasam, Vellore Mr. D. Asadullah, Islamiah College, Ambur Mrs. Vimala Jayakaran, , College of Nursing, CMC, Vellore The Vice-President Mr. Sivakumar, welcomed the gathering Mr. Hariharan Chairman explained the objectives and the activities of the society. Then the thrust need of the society was explained to the members. Mr. Srikanth, President, Vellore Online Pvt. Ltd. gave a Power Point Presentation on the Impact of IT in Libraries Services. He explained various new Technology which can be introduce in the day-today routines of the library. Mr. Hariharan explained the regulations of the society and then there was a open discussion on the formation of the Vellore Chapter and its future activities. The members from Vellore Institute of Technology encouraged the members by promise to provide all Infra structure to conduct meeting/workshop. The members from Christian Medical College, Vellore were willing to co-ordinate the activities for updating the knowledge in I.T. for the improvement of library services in their own working places. Formation of Committee: The chairman requested Mr .V. Newton, Senior Librarian to be the Chair-Person of Vellore Chapter. After discussion with Mr. V. Newton and other Senior Professional Colleagues the following members were nominated as office bearers and committee members. Chairman: Mr. V. Newton, CMC Vellore Vice-Chairman: Mr. A. G. Hemaanandan, TPGIT, Vellore Mr. Dhinakaran D.P., Priyadharshini Engr. College, Vaniyambadi Mrs. Vijayalakshmi P. Auxilium College, Vellore. Secretary: Mr. Varatharajalu, VIT, Vellore Joint Secretary Mrs. Vasantha Vivekanandan, CMC Vellore Treasurer Mr. R. Manikantan, Govt. College of Education, Katpadi Joint Treasurer Mr. R. Gnanaraj Solomon, CMC Vellore Executive Committee Members: Mrs. Kalpana Parthiban, VIT, Vellore Mrs. Aarifa Basheer, Islamiah Womens Arts and Science College, Vaniyambadi Mr. Vijayakumar, RUHSA Library, Vellore Ms. Regina Anatony, CMC, Vellore Ms. Vimala Jeyakaran, College of Nursing, CMC Vellore Ms. Chitra D, MK Jain College, Vaniyambadi Ms. Rachel Charles, SLRTC Karigiri, Vellore Programme Action Group: Mr. Joyson Soundrarajan D. [Co-ordinator] CMC Vellore Mr. Manuelraj P.CMC Vellore Mr. Amarchanth, VIT, Vellore PRO: Mr. Senthil, Librarian, Ida Scudder School, Vellore Professional Advisors: Mr. A. Hariharan, Chairman, SALIS Mrs. K. Kalaichelvi, VIT Vellore Mr. V. Newton, the Co-ordinator and the Vice-President of SALIS, proposed the Vote of thanks. The meeting was concluded with a Fellowship Lunch. ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Innovative library in B'desh wins award
by Subbiah Arunachalam 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Friends: Hearty congratulations to our friends in B'desh for their innovative project and for the award they have won. Friends in C3net, one of you should win this awrd next year! Arun 8.16.05 Bangladeshi Organization Receives Award for Using Traditional Boats and River Networks to Deliver Access to Information Technology 2005 Access to Learning Award recognizes Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha's outreach to impoverished, remote communities OSLO-The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today presented its 2005 Access to Learning Award of US $1 million to Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha, a nongovernmental organization in Bangladesh, for its pioneering approach to bridging the digital divide and its commitment to providing free public access to computers and the Internet. Through the use of indigenous boats converted into mobile libraries, schools, and the Mobile Internet Educational Units on Boats program, Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha provides educational services, access to technology, and computer training to poor communities in a Northern Bangladesh watershed. The boats, which anchor at remote villages, rely on generators or solar energy and mobile phones for Internet access. "All our program activities are concentrated in and around the rivers using a familiar vehicle for people to approach technology. Our boat libraries are crucial to the progress of the villages along the river basins," said Abul Hasanat Mohammed Rezwan, executive director of Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha and founder of the boat project. Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha is dedicated to alleviating poverty among the poorest people in the Nandakuja-Atrai-Boral Watershed, serving 86,500 families and an area covering over 240 kilometers crossed by thousands of rivers, tributaries and streams. The Access to Learning Award will enable the organization to sustain its services and expand programs to meet an increasing demand. "Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha is bringing technology to people most in need," said Martha Choe, director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Libraries Program. "This organization's perseverance and ingenuity is a testament to the value of and demand for public access computing throughout the world. Its efforts will have long-lasting impact for generations to come." Relying on skilled volunteers, Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha educates men, women, and children on issues ranging from agricultural practices and to micro enterprise and literacy. Farmers learn about strategies for productive and sustainable farming and the ecological hazards of pesticides. Throughout the year, they are able to connect with educators via onboard e-mail and check current farm prices online to remain competitive in the local market. "Seeing a computer, let alone touching it, was beyond our wildest imagination," said Abdul Azad, a farmer who travels an hour to the docked boat library from the remote village of Kalinagar. Students who would otherwise be unable to attend school during the monsoon season continue their education through the year using the libraries' onboard field staff. With literacy rates in Bangladesh at only 42 percent, Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha is making a significant impact on educating young people, especially girls. In fact, over 70 percent of the program's beneficiaries are women. In a highly competitive job market coupled with pervasive poverty, student participants are eager to learn technological skills they hope will translate to a career later on. Although Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha manages to keep operational costs low, the program - which does not receive government funds - must continually seek outside funding to cover the costs and the increasing demands for the program. Over the next five years, the program hopes to double its capacity. The annual Access to Learning Award, now in its sixth year, recognizes the innovative efforts of libraries, organizations or library agencies outside the United States in providing no-cost public access to this technology. Last year's award was granted to China Evergreen Rural Library Service Center and Aarhus Public Libraries in Denmark. Past recipients include the Smart Cape Access Project of Cape Town, South Africa (2003), the BibloRed library network of Bogotá, Colombia (2002), the Proyecto Bibliotecas Guatemala (Probigua) and the Biblioteca del Congreso de la Nación Argentina (both in 2001) and the Helsinki City Library of Finland (2000). The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) administers the Access to Learning Award. An international advisory committee of librarians and information technology experts evaluated the applicants' efforts to make technology freely accessible to the public, train the public in using technology, educate staff on technology use and reach out to underserved communities. # # # The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (www.gatesfoundation.org) works to promote greater equity in four areas: global health, education, public libraries and support for at-risk families in Washington State and Oregon. The Seattle-based foundation joins local, national and international partners to ensure that advances in these areas reach those who need them most. The foundation is led by Bill Gates' father, William H. Gates, Sr., and Patty Stonesifer. The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is an independent, nonprofit organization that works to expand access to information, however recorded and preserved, as a public good. In partnership with other organizations, CLIR helps create services that expand the concept of "library," and supports the providers and preservers of information. Through projects, programs and publications, CLIR works to maintain and improve access to information for generations to come both in the United States and around the world. On the Internet: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: www.gatesfoundation.org Council on Library and Information Resources: www.clir.org Friends: Hearty congratulations to our friends in B'desh for their innovative project and for the award they have won. Friends in C3net, one of you should win this awrd next year! Arun 8.16.05 Bangladeshi Organization Receives Award for Using Traditional Boats and River Networks to Deliver Access to Information Technology 2005 Access to Learning Award recognizes Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangsthas outreach to impoverished, remote communities OSLOThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today presented its 2005 Access to Learning Award of US $1 million to Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha, a nongovernmental organization in Bangladesh, for its pioneering approach to bridging the digital divide and its commitment to providing free public access to computers and the Internet. Through the use of indigenous boats converted into mobile libraries, schools, and the Mobile Internet Educational Units on Boats program, Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha provides educational services, access to technology, and computer training to poor communities in a Northern Bangladesh watershed. The boats, which anchor at remote villages, rely on generators or solar energy and mobile phones for Internet access. All our program activities are concentrated in and around the rivers using a familiar vehicle for people to approach technology. Our boat libraries are crucial to the progress of the villages along the river basins, said Abul Hasanat Mohammed Rezwan, executive director of Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha and founder of the boat project. Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha is dedicated to alleviating poverty among the poorest people in the Nandakuja-Atrai-Boral Watershed, serving 86,500 families and an area covering over 240 kilometers crossed by thousands of rivers, tributaries and streams. The Access to Learning Award will enable the organization to sustain its services and expand programs to meet an increasing demand. Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha is bringing technology to people most in need, said Martha Choe, director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations Global Libraries Program. This organizations perseverance and ingenuity is a testament to the value of and demand for public access computing throughout the world. Its efforts will have long-lasting impact for generations to come. Relying on skilled volunteers, Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha educates men, women, and children on issues ranging from agricultural practices and to micro enterprise and literacy. Farmers learn about strategies for productive and sustainable farming and the ecological hazards of pesticides. Throughout the year, they are able to connect with educators via onboard e-mail and check current farm prices online to remain competitive in the local market. Seeing a computer, let alone touching it, was beyond our wildest imagination, said Abdul Azad, a farmer who travels an hour to the docked boat library from the remote village of Kalinagar. Students who would otherwise be unable to attend school during the monsoon season continue their education through the year using the libraries onboard field staff. With literacy rates in Bangladesh at only 42 percent, Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha is making a significant impact on educating young people, especially girls. In fact, over 70 percent of the programs beneficiaries are women. In a highly competitive job market coupled with pervasive poverty, student participants are eager to learn technological skills they hope will translate to a career later on. Although Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha manages to keep operational costs low, the program which does not receive government funds must continually seek outside funding to cover the costs and the increasing demands for the program. Over the next five years, the program hopes to double its capacity. The annual Access to Learning Award, now in its sixth year, recognizes the innovative efforts of libraries, organizations or library agencies outside the United States in providing no-cost public access to this technology. Last years award was granted to China Evergreen Rural Library Service Center and Aarhus Public Libraries in Denmark. Past recipients include the Smart Cape Access Project of Cape Town, South Africa (2003), the BibloRed library network of Bogotá, Colombia (2002), the Proyecto Bibliotecas Guatemala (Probigua) and the Biblioteca del Congreso de la Nación Argentina (both in 2001) and the Helsinki City Library of Finland (2000). The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) administers the Access to Learning Award. An international advisory committee of librarians and information technology experts evaluated the applicants efforts to make technology freely accessible to the public, train the public in using technology, educate staff on technology use and reach out to underserved communities. # # # The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ( http://www.gatesfoundation.org www.gatesfoundation.org ) works to promote greater equity in four areas: global health, education, public libraries and support for at-risk families in Washington State and Oregon. The Seattle-based foundation joins local, national and international partners to ensure that advances in these areas reach those who need them most. The foundation is led by Bill Gates' father, William H. Gates, Sr., and Patty Stonesifer. The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is an independent, nonprofit organization that works to expand access to information, however recorded and preserved, as a public good. In partnership with other organizations, CLIR helps create services that expand the concept of library, and supports the providers and preservers of information. Through projects, programs and publications, CLIR works to maintain and improve access to information for generations to come both in the United States and around the world. On the Internet: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: http://www.gatesfoundation.org www.gatesfoundation.org Council on Library and Information Resources: http://www.clir.org www.clir.org

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Richard Gere--Contact details
by T.V. Prafulla Chandra 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

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Regading Conversion Rate
by PRASHANTA KUMAR 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Dear Shridhar & all LIS Professionals, The RBI (Reserve Bank of India ) site is proving a conversion rate the terminology used as RBI REFERENCE RATE and also archives. The site address as below http://www.rbi.org.in/home.aspx , Thanks & Regards, Prashanta ********* IHBT, (CSIR), Govt. of India Library , Palampur, HP, Pin 176061 Mobile- 94181 84421 --------------------------------- Check out Yahoo! India Rakhi Special for Rakhi shopping, contests and lots more. http://in.promos.yahoo.com/rakhi/index.html Dear Shridhar & all LIS Professionals, The RBI (Reserve Bank of India ) site is proving a conversion rate the terminology used as RBI REFERENCE RATE and also archives. The site address as below http://www.rbi.org.in/home.aspx http://www.rbi.org.in/home.aspx , Thanks & Regards, Prashanta ********* IHBT, (CSIR), Govt. of India Library , Palampur, HP, Pin 176061 Mobile- 94181 84421 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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InfoVision-early bird closes on 25th August Register online - avail early bird offer
by Shalini R Urs 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

Attention all fellow information professionals! The early bird offer for InfoVision 2005 closes on 25th August. We have been receiving enquires in this regard- please register online before 25th 5.30 Pm to avail the early bird offer. Payments may be sent later. Do not miss the opportunity to listen to and interact with a galaxy of experts across the information domain including digital library and e publishing. International and national. Experts include: 1. Dr. R. A. Mashelkar, Director General, CSIR. 2. Prof. Ronald Larsen, Dean, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, USA, well known expert in digital libraries and cross lingual information retrieval 3. Prof. Jean Claude Guedon, University of Montreal, Open access advocate 4. Prof. Nick Moore, Acumen consulting, UK, author, UNESCO consultant and ICT and information Society expert 5. Prof. Andrew Large, McGill University, Canada- author of books on digital libraries and UNESCO consultant. 6. Prof. Ingeborg Soveberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, digital libraries and information retrieval expert 7. Dr. P. Anandan, MD, Microsoft Research India, Video motion analysis expert 8. Prof. Prabhuddha Ganguli, Advisor - Vision IPR 9. Dr. Eric Van De Velde, Director, Library Information Technology, CALTECH, USA, the Open URL expert 10. Dr. Sugata Mitra, NIIT, New Delhi, The E-Learning expert - well known for the his Hole in the Wall experiments Visit the website www.infovision2005.org -- Prof. Shalini Urs Coordinator- InfoVision 2005

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Re: [LIS-Forum] For Conversion Rates
by vijaya kumara 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

Hi Sridhar, You can use the following URL/ web pages to convert one currency to another Currency calculator: http://www.x-rates.com/calculator.html Ten year currency converter: http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/rates/exchform.html Currency converter: http://www.x-rates.com/ The Universal Currency converter: http://www.xe.com/ucc/ 164 Currency Converter : http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic Regards Dr. Vijayakumar M \ \ | / / \ \ ~ ~ / / | @ @ | ---------------oooo------ (_)-------------oooo------------------ Vijayakumar M, HOD - Library, MVJ College of Engineering (an ISO Certified Institution) Channasandra, Bangalore - 560 067, Karnataka, India Tel:+91-80-28452324 Ext. 234 library(a)mvjeducation.com or coolvg(a)gmail.com --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page Hi Sridhar, You can use the following URL/ web pages to convert one currency to another Currency calculator: http://www.x-rates.com/calculator.html http://www.x-rates.com/calculator.html Ten year currency converter: http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/rates/exchform.html http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/rates/exchform.html Currency converter: http://www.x-rates.com/ http://www.x-rates.com/ The Universal Currency converter: http://www.xe.com/ucc/ http://www.xe.com/ucc/ 164 Currency Converter : http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic Regards Dr. Vijayakumar M \ \ | / / \ \ ~ ~ / / | @ @ | ---------------oooo------ (_)-------------oooo------------------ Vijayakumar M, HOD - Library, MVJ College of Engineering (an ISO Certified Institution) Channasandra, Bangalore - 560 067, Karnataka, India Tel:+91-80-28452324 Ext. 234 mailto:library@mvjeducation.com library(a)mvjeducation.com or mailto:coolvg@gmail.com coolvg(a)gmail.com 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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Information about Free library software
by meh jab 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Can anybody provide information or Websites related to free Library Software. Thanks in advance. Mehjabeen Khan (Librarian) Aishabai college of education Mumbai --------------------------------- Check out Yahoo! India Rakhi Special for Rakhi shopping, contests and lots more. http://in.promos.yahoo.com/rakhi/index.html Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Can anybody provide information or Websites related to free Library Software. Thanks in advance. Mehjabeen Khan (Librarian) Aishabai college of education Mumbai 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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IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellows for 2006 - Announced
by Rajesh Chandrakar 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

I am affraid, no one from India. It seems that European and American Communities, not taking more from India. However, India list under Developing Countries. I have observations. Lets have a look: Compare with the selection of the IFLA Travel Grants, where only one from India but more than one from other countries. You can also look at the ASIST International Paper Contest, where so far no one held first place where the money involves. But, I appreaciate that more than two papers from India are being selected for best paper every year. Fullbright for Indian professionals in Library and Information Science has closed now. For Commonwealth Fellowship compare to other countries, India has got less number of fellowships. What do you want to say about this? 2006 class of Fellows named at IFLA annual conference OCLC, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and the American Theological Library Association named the IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellows for 2006 in Oslo, Norway during the World Library and Information Congress: 71st IFLA General Conference and Council. They are: a.. Ms. Maria Cherrie, Librarian, Trinidad & Tobago National Library and Information System Authority, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago b.. Mrs. Janete Estevão, Head Librarian, O Boticário Franchising S/A, São José dos Pinhais, Paraná, Brazil c.. Mr. Festus Ngetich, College Librarian, Kenya Highlands Bible College, Kericho, Kenya d.. Mr. Roman Purici, Director, Information Resource Center, U.S. Embassy, Chisinau, Moldova e.. Mr. Salmubi, Head of Library, The State Polytechnic of Ujung Pandang, Makassar, Indonesia View news release ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajesh Chandrakar, Commonwealth Professional Fellow 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am affraid, no one from India. It seems that European and American Communities, not taking more from India. However, India list under Developing Countries. I have observations. Lets have a look: Compare with the selection of the IFLA Travel Grants, where only one from India but more than one from other countries. You can also look at the ASIST International Paper Contest, where so far no one held first place where the money involves. But, I appreaciate that more than two papers from India are being selected for best paper every year. Fullbright for Indian professionals in Library and Information Science has closed now. For Commonwealth Fellowship compare to other countries, India has got less number of fellowships. What do you want to say about this? 2006 class of Fellows named at IFLA annual conference http://www.ifla.org/ http://www5.oclc.org/downloads/design/abstracts/08222005/ifla.jpg http://www.atla.com/atlahome.html http://www5.oclc.org/downloads/design/abstracts/08222005/atla.jpg OCLC, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and the American Theological Library Association named the IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellows for 2006 in Oslo, Norway during the World Library and Information Congress: 71st IFLA General Conference and Council. They are: Ms. Maria Cherrie, Librarian, Trinidad & Tobago National Library and Information System Authority, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago Mrs. Janete Estevão, Head Librarian, O Boticário Franchising S/A, São José dos Pinhais, Paraná, Brazil Mr. Festus Ngetich, College Librarian, Kenya Highlands Bible College, Kericho, Kenya Mr. Roman Purici, Director, Information Resource Center, U.S. Embassy, Chisinau, Moldova Mr. Salmubi, Head of Library, The State Polytechnic of Ujung Pandang, Makassar, Indonesia http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/200518.htm View news release ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajesh Chandrakar, Commonwealth Professional Fellow 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: mailto:rajesh@inflibnet.ac.in rajesh(a)inflibnet.ac.in ; mailto:rchandrakar@gmail.com rchandrakar(a)gmail.com Website: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in http://www.inflibnet.ac.in -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Award for Public Libraries Outside the United States (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:05:55 -0400 From: Barbara Kountouzi <varvarak(a)mail.med.upenn.edu> To: ifla-l(a)infoserv.inist.fr Subject: [IFLA-L] award for Public Libraries Outside the United States Public Libraries Outside the United States Invited to Apply for Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award Deadline: February 28, 2006 The Council on Library and Information Resources ( http://www.clir.org/ ) welcomes applications for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ( http://www.gatesfoundation.org/ ) Access to Learning Award for 2006. Each year, the program presents an award of up to $1 million to a public library or similar organization outside the United States that has an innovative program offering the public free access to information technology. Preference will be given to institutions that the Gates Foundation has not funded in the past. U.S. libraries are not eligible to apply. A library offers free public access if it allows all members of the public, including children and young adults, to use its facilities free of charge (without membership or Internet fees). Organizations should show how they make information technology available to the public free of charge and what kinds of technology training they offer to the public and staff. Preference will be given to organizations that reach out to underserved populations, such as poor or disabled patrons, or those from minority groups. A library's programs are considered innovative if they provide access to information technology and services that were previously unavailable to the community. The programs could be relatively new, small ones or long-term, larger initiatives. Program guidelines, an application form, and a list of previous recipients are available at the CLIR Web site. RFP Link: http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/3902/clir For additional RFPs in Science/Technology, visit, http://fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_science.jhtml

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New eGroup for Medical Librarians
by Sukhdev Singh 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

Dear Friends, Here is a new eGroup for Medical Librarians. http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/medlib/ "Place for Medical Librarians and Information Scientist to discuss professional issues. However, it will avoid carrying purely Interlibrary Loan Requests" To Subscribe one may either visit the following link: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/medlib/ or send an email to medlib-subscribe(a)yahoogroups.com --Sukhdev Singh. NIC, http://openmed.nic.in

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1GB File Transfer...!
by Thapar, Amit 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

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Open Access to Maps and Public Geo-Data
by Shekhar Krishnan 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Dear All: :: apologies for cross-posting :: In the wake of the massive floods since 26 July in Mumbai and Maharashtra, a crisis of civic infrastructure and public health has emerged in the city and state, in which the right of citizens to information about their environments is of crucial public importance. Very few citizens of India enjoy open access to maps, satellite imagery, and other geographic information. Collected and brokered by national mapping and space imaging agencies, this geo-data is an essential for understanding civic issues such as planning, housing, infrastructure. Open access to this information can provide a platform for public action, reducing costs and promoting innovation by facilitating citizens' engagement with their local environments and authorities. The Open Knowledge Foundation is hosting a forum at http://okfn.org/ geo/manifesto.php about Open Access to State-Collected Geo-Spatial Data. * All government-collected maps, geographic information and spatial data are public property, and should be open; that is, available for free distribution and re-use under a share-alike license. * Online mapping projects creating freely re-usable geo-data should offer a compatible open license. * Common, standard formats for describing and exchanging geo-data should be adopted internationally. * Ultimately, all state-collected information should be freely available in the public domain, in a structured machine-readable format and in an open standard. Please read the manifesto and, if you agree with the statements it contains, sign up to support it at http://okfn.org/geo/ manifesto.php#signup For more information on the changing policies on maps and geo-data in India, see the 19 May 2005 release of the Press Information Bureau of the Government of India on http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp? relid=9388 _____ CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust) B-43, Shravasti Goregaon-Malad Link Road Malad (West), Mumbai 400064 India http://www.crit.org.in http://www.freemap.in http://www.mappinghacks.com

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Urine-Powered Micro Battery
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/mech-tech/dn7850 Pee-powered battery smaller than a credit card 18:10 15 August 2005 NewScientist.com news service Shaoni Bhattacharya The first urine-powered paper battery has been created by physicists in Singapore. The credit-card sized unit could be a useful power source for cheap healthcare test kits for diseases like diabetes, and could even be used in emergency situations to power a cellphone, they say. Testing urine can reveal the identity of illnesses, and the new paper battery could allow the sample being tested to also power the diagnostic device. We are striving to develop cheap, disposable credit-card sized biochips for disease detection, says Ki Bang Lee, at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore. Our battery can be easily integrated into such devices, supplying electricity on contact with biofluids such as urine or blood. Current biochips need an external reader such as a laser scanner or an external source of power, such as conventional batteries, to perform diagnostic tests. Lees technology houses both the sensors and the battery on one plastic chip. One more drop This design circumvents many of the problems encountered by researchers attempting to shrink down more conventional battery systems for use with bioMEMS devices utilising bio-microelectromechanical systems. Many researchers have tried to design power sources or batteries for systems or bioMEMS devices. However, they have done this by reducing the size of conventional, bulky power systems or batteries, explains Lee. They faced a lot of problems, including difficulties in getting sufficient electrical energy, he adds. The urine-powered battery was able to generate a voltage of about 1.5 volts with a corresponding power of 1.5 micro-watts using just 0.2 millilitres of urine, says Lee. And if a second droplet of urine was added 15 hours after the battery was first activated, the replenished urine could generate still more electricity. The battery is currently suited for use with disposable devices it is not yet ready to power laptops or iPods. "But if, for example, we place a small cellular phone or transmitter on a plastic card, the chip will work as a disposable biofluid-activated means of communication in an emergency, Lee told New Scientist. In this case, the size will be less than that of a credit card. Wrapped sandwich The battery is made of a layer of filter paper steeped in copper chloride, sandwiched between strips of magnesium and copper. This sandwich is then laminated in plastic to hold the whole package together. The resulting battery is just 1 millimetre thick and 60 by 30 mm across slightly smaller than a credit card. To activate the battery, a drop of urine is added and soaks through the sandwiched filter paper. The chemicals dissolve and react to produce electricity. The magnesium layer acts as the anode, losing its electrons. And the copper chloride acts as the cathode, mopping up the electrons. But Lee adds that the voltage, current and capacity of the battery could be improved by different designs or by switching the electrode or electrolyte materials used. He believes the system could be used in home-based health test kits. The long-term goal is for people to be able to buy disposable biochips for a disease test from any pharmacy, he says. Journal reference: Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/15/9/S06) 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 --------------------------------- To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://www.newscientist.com/channel/mech-tech/dn7850 http://www.newscientist.com/channel/mech-tech/dn7850 Pee-powered battery smaller than a credit card 18:10 15 August 2005 NewScientist.com news service Shaoni Bhattacharya The first urine-powered paper battery has been created by physicists in Singapore. The credit-card sized unit could be a useful power source for cheap healthcare test kits for diseases like diabetes, and could even be used in emergency situations to power a cellphone, they say. Testing urine can reveal the identity of illnesses, and the new paper battery could allow the sample being tested to also power the diagnostic device. We are striving to develop cheap, disposable credit-card sized biochips for disease detection, says Ki Bang Lee, at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore. Our battery can be easily integrated into such devices, supplying electricity on contact with biofluids such as urine or blood. Current biochips need an external reader such as a laser scanner or an external source of power, such as conventional batteries, to perform diagnostic tests. Lees technology houses both the sensors and the battery on one plastic chip. One more drop This design circumvents many of the problems encountered by researchers attempting to shrink down more conventional battery systems for use with bioMEMS devices utilising bio-microelectromechanical systems. Many researchers have tried to design power sources or batteries for systems or bioMEMS devices. However, they have done this by reducing the size of conventional, bulky power systems or batteries, explains Lee. They faced a lot of problems, including difficulties in getting sufficient electrical energy, he adds. The urine-powered battery was able to generate a voltage of about 1.5 volts with a corresponding power of 1.5 micro-watts using just 0.2 millilitres of urine, says Lee. And if a second droplet of urine was added 15 hours after the battery was first activated, the replenished urine could generate still more electricity. The battery is currently suited for use with disposable devices it is not yet ready to power laptops or iPods. "But if, for example, we place a small cellular phone or transmitter on a plastic card, the chip will work as a disposable biofluid-activated means of communication in an emergency, Lee told New Scientist . In this case, the size will be less than that of a credit card. Wrapped sandwich The battery is made of a layer of filter paper steeped in copper chloride, sandwiched between strips of magnesium and copper. This sandwich is then laminated in plastic to hold the whole package together. The resulting battery is just 1 millimetre thick and 60 by 30 mm across slightly smaller than a credit card. To activate the battery, a drop of urine is added and soaks through the sandwiched filter paper. The chemicals dissolve and react to produce electricity. The magnesium layer acts as the anode, losing its electrons. And the copper chloride acts as the cathode, mopping up the electrons. But Lee adds that the voltage, current and capacity of the battery could be improved by different designs or by switching the electrode or electrolyte materials used. He believes the system could be used in home-based health test kits. The long-term goal is for people to be able to buy disposable biochips for a disease test from any pharmacy, he says. Journal reference: Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/15/9/S06) 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 To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/security_centre/*http://uk.… Yahoo! Security Centre .

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Alexandria library gets Indian touch
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

hi we are proud to know about Dr Swaminathan's nomination to Alexandria library Alexandria library gets Indian touch Chennai, Aug. 21: Egypt has enlisted the services of a renowned Indian scientist to help re-create the great ancient library of Alexandria and to guide its evolution as a world-class referral and res-earch institution on par with the Library of Congress in Washington. Dr M.S. Swaminathan, the father of the Indian Green Revolution, is the only Asian to become a member of the elite board of trustees putting together the Bibliotheca Alexandria, inaugurated in October 2002 at the very spot where Ptolemy I (Soter) had built the ancient library of Alexandria in 288 BC. The $220-million project envisaged putting up a 10-storey concrete cylinder, a third part of which is below the sea level, inclined at an angle of eight degrees a structural masterpiece and an awesome knowledge pool much like its predecessor that was one of the greatest wonders of ancient world. When Suzanne Mubarak, wife of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who is the driving force behind the Bibliotheca Alexandria project, asked me to be part of its board, I readily agreed as it was a very challenging task and I felt I could contribute to make this huge institution user-friendly. I had suggested a braille section for the blind and it was done, Dr Swaminathan told this newspaper. http://www.deccan.com/Nation/NationalNews.asp#Alexandria%20library%20gets%2… 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 --------------------------------- How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos hi we are proud to know about Dr Swaminathan's nomination to Alexandria library [A] Alexandria library gets Indian touch Chennai, Aug. 21: Egypt has enlisted the services of a renowned Indian scientist to help re-create the great ancient library of Alexandria and to guide its evolution as a world-class referral and res-earch institution on par with the Library of Congress in Washington. Dr M.S. Swaminathan, the father of the Indian Green Revolution, is the only Asian to become a member of the elite board of trustees putting together the Bibliotheca Alexandria, inaugurated in October 2002 at the very spot where Ptolemy I (Soter) had built the ancient library of Alexandria in 288 BC. The $220-million project envisaged putting up a 10-storey concrete cylinder, a third part of which is below the sea level, inclined at an angle of eight degrees a structural masterpiece and an awesome knowledge pool much like its predecessor that was one of the greatest wonders of ancient world. When Suzanne Mubarak, wife of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who is the driving force behind the Bibliotheca Alexandria project, asked me to be part of its board, I readily agreed as it was a very challenging task and I felt I could contribute to make this huge institution user-friendly. I had suggested a braille section for the blind and it was done, Dr Swaminathan told this newspaper. http://www.deccan.com/Nation/NationalNews.asp#Alexandria%20library%20gets%2… http://www.deccan.com/Nation/NationalNews.asp#Alexandria%20library%20gets%2… 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 How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/photos/*http://uk.photos.ya… Get Yahoo! Photos

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[Fwd: [bytesforall_readers] Free to use and free to edit, Wikipedia is growing fast...]
by Subbiah Arunachalam 21 Aug '05

21 Aug '05

Friends: I received it in the mail today. Best wishes. Arun ---- Free to use and free to edit, Wikipedia is growing fast. Now its founder has announced a series of new projects, writes Sean Dodson Thursday August 11, 2005 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1546162,00.html In less than five years, what started out as a small side project with a budget of a few thousand pounds has grown into one of the web's greatest success stories. Wikipedia, the open, editable encyclopedia, and its sister projects have gone from absolutely nothing to 22m entries in less than half a decade. In doing so, Wikipedia - the centrepiece of the Wikimedia empire - has become the most detailed encyclopedia in history. And its breathtaking pace has yet to show any sign of slowing. As an online knowledge database, Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org) has one significant advantage over its expert, professional predecessors: anyone is free to edit it. Equally, anybody is free to delete entries or add new ones. The system works by using editable web pages known as wikis (hence the name), which let ordinary users make changes as they see fit. And, in handing this power to the people, Wikipedia has become more than just a hobby - for some it is almost a religion. Last Friday, the movement held its first ever international conference, Wikimania, in a youth hostel in Frankfurt, with 400 delegates who'd flown in from all over the world. The Wikimedia Foundation is to knowledge what the Open University is to academia, except it operates on an annual budget of $800,000 (Â£450,000) and - perhaps most surprisingly - with a staff of just one person. It is written and administered by a legion of volunteers who work for free. Tens of thousands of devotees, self-confessed wikimaniacs, squirrel away at the world's information, trying to cover "the sum of all human knowledge" in every language spoken by humans - and a few, such as Sanskrit and Old English, that are long dead. As well as the encyclopedia, the foundation also offers a dictionary, a taxonomy of the species and a nascent news service. All operate under the same ideals of openness and public cooperation without the need of financial incentive. At Wikimania, Jimmy Wales, the movement's founder, identified the next pieces of the jigsaw likely to fall into place. In his keynote address, Wales named a list of things "that should be free". While not quite commandments, they amount to 10 ideas about how the "Free Culture Movement", as he termed it, could extend the wiki ethic beyond the pages of its ever-growing encyclopedia. Among the projects under discussion are an online atlas charted by members of the public; a repository of classical music to be performed by student orchestras; a file format to rival the mighty MP3; an online curriculum stretching from kindergarten to university; and an archive of images of paintings by the old masters. In short, Wikipedia is to spread its wings over many more forms of culture. What's more, there are already 10,000 book "modules" being collaboratively written within the pages of Wikipedia. Soon, they will be published under the foundation's banner thanks to a deal with an "on demand" publisher. It could, says Wales, signal a whole new kind of book publishing. He also urged his hardcore following - the various volunteer "chapter heads" who administer the wiki projects and police the site for copyright violations and mindless vandalism - to go forth and multiply. This is important to Wales because while Wikipedia is becoming a wider movement theoretically open to anyone, only an elite of users actually bother. According to the movement's own statistics, there are 3,800 hardcore users making more than 100 edits a month, and another 18,000 who make at least five. Then there is a long tail of casual users who use Wikipedia as just another authoritative source - as they might have once used Britannica or Microsoft's Encarta, making the odd edit only if the urge takes them. As the movement gets bigger, its organisation becomes more difficult. Already there are Wikimedia "chapters" in Germany and France, who help organise fundraising and hand out administration tasks. A UK chapter (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK) is also beginning to form, with a small group of wikipedians meeting in central London every couple of months. One of its regulars, Dave Gerard, a part-time volunteer editor and full-time computer system administrator, freely admits he is "addicted" to Wikimedia and spends several hours every day on work related to the site. Like most editors, his primary motivation is to do "some public good". "I've been filling my head with information for decades," he says. "This is a chance to get it all back out again." He is not alone. Ever since the library of Alexandria was built, the dream of amassing vast quantities of information has inspired the world. "What we're doing," says Wales, is building "a world in which every person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge." Just as astonishingly, he thinks it will take just a decade to achieve this ambition. According to Wales, there are more than 22m Wikimedia entries extending across 200 languages. The aim is to provide for "every language in the world spoken by at least one million people" by 2015. If this sounds like chaos, think again: it's more akin to the ideas that fired the imaginations of 19th century political radicals such as Matthew Arnold and Mikael Bakunin. It is anarchy representing a self-regulating cooperative of free thinkers acting voluntarily for a greater common good - and it works in practice, too. There is a rumour, started by a factual error in Time Magazine, that the Wikipedia entries for US presidential candidates George Bush and John Kerry were "frozen" during last year's election campaign, so fierce was invective-laden spam being slapped around by both sides. In fact, the page was closed "less than 2% of the time," according to Wales. Even in the heat of battle, Wikipedia can be relied upon as an impartial and trustworthy source. It should stay that way. Wikipedia will, says Wales, never carry a commercial advertisement, nor rely on government funding. The Wikimedia Foundation is paid for by contributions from charitable foundations and its reading public. Help comes from all quarters: Yahoo recently donated its old servers (banks of which reside in clusters in Paris, Amsterdam and Florida) and the Foundation holds bandwidth-buying fundraising drives. In February, wikimaniacs were so keen to stump up the cash that they overshot their target of $75,000 (Â£42,000) in just a few days. The organisation's entire budget is also online. In more ways than one, Wikimedia is an open book. Which is why it is easy to discover that there are 600,000 articles in the English language volume alone - not counting another 70,000 entries on its sister Wiktionary. More than 1,250 new articles - over 500 an hour - are added every day, and entries are becoming ever more detailed. The average number of edits - the inevitable revisions and corrections - in the English encyclopedia is now more than 10, with the entries increasing in quality as the project matures. That it achieves all this on it's small annual budget is astounding. The fact that it only employs one person is doubly so. Wales started Wikipedia in January 2001, as an offshoot to a failed commercial encyclopedia, Nupedia. He made his first fortune from his days treading the Chicago trading floors in futures and options, and made another with a dotcom that peddled content - including soft porn -in the late 90s. He now describes himself as "independently wealthy". Given that background, it's unsurprising that very little content gets censored. And the site takes a provocative stance on the copyright of old paintings, allowing images to be posted freely on the site. "I've told the National Portrait Gallery I'll see them in court," says Wales. It has so far avoided any serious trouble, though Wikipedia has twice been blocked from China - "We don't know if this was just a mistake" - and once from Saudi Arabia, but only for a few hours in each instance. In February 2002, most participants of the Spanish Wikipedia broke away to establish the rival Enciclopedia Libre, but there is now talk of welcoming them back. It could be said that the mark of a good technology is when Microsoft starts "borrowing" your ideas. Microsoft's Encarta announced in April that it was adopting wiki-style open editing for its for-profit encyclopedia. Others, such as the Free Encyclopedia, have copied the ideas pretty much wholesale. So can the other encyclopedias hope to match Wikipedia's pace? Maybe not, because Wikipedia has become something else. "Books like the Encyclopedia Britannica are nothing else than simple knowledge compendiums without any political soul," says Jean-Baptiste Soufron, a legal adviser to the Wikimedia Foundation. "I am convinced that Wikipedia is the only real encyclopedia of our days because it's the only one that relies on a real political goal: to pursue freedom over content and information." Links Wiktionary www.wiktionary.org Jimmy's blog http://blog.jimmywales.com Wiki Statistics http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Statistics_overview [Thanks to Eddie Fernandes <eddie at fernandes.u-net.com> for sending this in. -FN]

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Book Request
by Siva Chidambaram 20 Aug '05

20 Aug '05

Dear professionals/fellows Could you please tell me the following book is available in your Library. Preferably in New Delhi. Rao, U. R., 1996. Space technology for sustainable development. 564pp, ISBN 0 07 462368 0, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing, New Delhi. Thanks with regards ****************************************************** S.Siva Chidambaram Librarian National Institute of Public Finance and Policy 18/2 Satsang Vihar Marg, Special Institutional Area Near J.N.U. East Gate, New Delhi - 110067 India Phone:91-11-26569303,26569780,26569784 Fax: 91-11-26852548 Email:ss_chidambaram@yahoo.com.in ***************************************************** Dear professionals/fellows Could you please tell me the following book is available in your Library. Preferably in New Delhi. Rao, U. R., 1996. Space technology for sustainable development. 564pp, ISBN 0 07 462368 0, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing, New Delhi. Thanks with regards ****************************************************** S.Siva Chidambaram Librarian National Institute of Public Finance and Policy 18/2 Satsang Vihar Marg, Special Institutional Area Near J.N.U. East Gate, New Delhi - 110067 India Phone:91-11-26569303,26569780,26569784 Fax: 91-11-26852548 Email:ss_chidambaram@yahoo.com.in *****************************************************

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KALA: Dream/Agenda
by I.R.N.Goudar 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

Dear friends, Myself and my team of newly elected office bearers of KALA (Karnataka State Library Association) thank all those who have sent greetings and also all members of KALA for having reposed confidence in us and entrusted the important responsibility. The team is very cohesive with representation from different types of libraries including public, college, industry, school, research institute and university (library and department). Over the years KALA has seen many ups and downs. It has glorious history of having great personalities from public life, educationists, industrialists like late H. Narasimhaiah, S.R. Kanti and A.C. Devegowda as its office bearers. The erstwhile Mysore Library Association started by Dr. Ranganathan lead for establishing our Association in its present name KALA. There is strong professional link between Dept. of Public Libraries and KALA. We have a dream of making KALA as a model Professional Association with the following Agenda, set for ourselves, a few being already in the list of KALA objectives: 1. Increase the membership base 2. Make the Association its name worth - Membership and activities beyond Bangalore - Membership of Karnataka LIS people working out of state 3. Enrolling other professional people having strong link with LIS 4. Divisional/District representatives to reach entire state and beyond 5. Functional Committees and Special Interest Groups 6. Reviving monthly lectures/ Round table discussions 7. Organising Workshops and Seminars 8. Developing links with all State/National and other Library Associations including ILA, IASLIC, SIS, etc 9. Work closely with other local Associations like CLA, SLA, ITLA, BSLG and also SRELS 10. Set up a e-mail discussion group 11. Establish cordial and functional relation with Publishing industry and vendors 12. Take up the matter concerned to status of LIS profession in the matter concerned to salary, representation in different committees, etc 13. Setting up of KALA Web site 14. Reviving KALA News Letter 15. Generating revenue to meet the expenses of KALA Activities 16. Entrust young LIS professionals with the responsibility of carrying forward the KALA's mission and activities more vigorously 17. Prepare LIS Professionals to cope up with the Digital Era 18. Using KALA's good relation with Dept of Public Libraries, work with them for literacy at village level and promote library cause 19. Try to have it own office place for KALA 20. Associate with NGO's to promote school libraries We will come up with detailed action plan soon after we take charge of KALA. We thank all earlier Presidents, Secretaries and other office bearers for their contributions and support for KALA and its activities and seek their guidance in our endeavor. We seek suggestions, guidance and help from members of all forums and associations. Once again we thank all of you. I.R.N. Goudar President, KALA on behalf of all Office Bearers -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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SALIS Awards for the year 2005 - announcement - reg
by Arunachalam Hariharan 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

Nominations are invited for the following SALIS Awards for the year 2005. SALIS 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 the convener 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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Fw: [bytesforall_readers] Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha, a Bangladesh NGO, today received the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's annual Access to Learning Award and US $1 million for its innovative approach to providing free public access to computers and
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication Promoting Communication Technology for a Fairer World Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha, a Bangladesh NGO, today received the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's annual Access to Learning Award and US $1 million for its innovative approach to providing free public access to computers and the Internet Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha, a Bangladesh NGO, today received the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's annual Access to Learning Award and US $1 million for its innovative approach to providing free public access to computers and the Internet. Through the use of indigenous boats converted into mobile libraries, schools, and the Mobile Internet Educational Units on Boats program, Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha provides educational services, access to technology, and computer training to poor communities in a Northern Bangladesh watershed. The boats, which anchor at remote villages, rely on generators or solar energy and mobile phones for Internet access. Abul Hasanat Mohammed Rezwan is the executive director of Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha and founder of the boat project. The project's web site is www.interconnection.org/sss/ Relying on skilled volunteers, Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha educates men, women, and children on issues ranging from agricultural practices and to micro enterprise and literacy. Farmers learn about strategies for productive and sustainable farming and the ecological hazards of pesticides. Throughout the year, they are able to connect with educators via onboard e-mail and check current farm prices online to remain competitive in the local market. Students who would otherwise be unable to attend school during the monsoon season continue their education through the year using the libraries' onboard field staff. With literacy rates in Bangladesh at only 42 percent, Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha is making a significant impact on educating young people, especially girls. In fact, over 70 percent of the program's beneficiaries are women. The annual Access to Learning Award, now in its sixth year, recognizes the innovative efforts of libraries, organizations or library agencies outside the United States in providing no-cost public access to this technology. For more information, visit www.clir.org <http://www.clir.org/> or www.gatesfoundation.org <http://www.gatesfoundation.org/> . Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication Promoting Communication Technology for a Fairer World Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha, a Bangladesh NGO, today received the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's annual Access to Learning Award and US $1 million for its innovative approach to providing free public access to computers and the Internet Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha, a Bangladesh NGO, today received the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's annual Access to Learning Award and US $1 million for its innovative approach to providing free public access to computers and the Internet. Through the use of indigenous boats converted into mobile libraries, schools, and the Mobile Internet Educational Units on Boats program, Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha provides educational services, access to technology, and computer training to poor communities in a Northern Bangladesh watershed. The boats, which anchor at remote villages, rely on generators or solar energy and mobile phones for Internet access. Abul Hasanat Mohammed Rezwan is the executive director of Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha and founder of the boat project. The project's web site is http://www.interconnection.org/sss/ www.interconnection.org/sss/ Relying on skilled volunteers, Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha educates men, women, and children on issues ranging from agricultural practices and to micro enterprise and literacy. Farmers learn about strategies for productive and sustainable farming and the ecological hazards of pesticides. Throughout the year, they are able to connect with educators via onboard e-mail and check current farm prices online to remain competitive in the local market. Students who would otherwise be unable to attend school during the monsoon season continue their education through the year using the libraries' onboard field staff. With literacy rates in Bangladesh at only 42 percent, Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha is making a significant impact on educating young people, especially girls. In fact, over 70 percent of the program's beneficiaries are women. The annual Access to Learning Award, now in its sixth year, recognizes the innovative efforts of libraries, organizations or library agencies outside the United States in providing no-cost public access to this technology. For more information, visit http://www.clir.org/ www.clir.org < http://www.clir.org/ http://www.clir.org/ > or http://www.gatesfoundation.org/ www.gatesfoundation.org < http://www.gatesfoundation.org/ http://www.gatesfoundation.org/ > .

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info needed in connection with libraries of various states of INDIA
by abhijit bhowmick 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Friends, I need the following data in connection with the libraries of different States of INDIA. I need the information to study the Indian picture of Library Services. INFO NEEDED Name of the State : Number of Libraries : Total number of the members of the libraries : Annual report, if any, of Library Department : Whether the State Central Library of the State is computerized : e-mail address of any contact person of the SCL : May I get help from anybody. Abhijit Kr Bhowmick District Library Officer, Howrah West Bengal Contact : a_k_b(a)vsnl.net --------------------------------- Check out Yahoo! India Rakhi Special for Rakhi shopping, contests and lots more. http://in.promos.yahoo.com/rakhi/index.html Friends, I need the following data in connection with the libraries of different States of INDIA. I need the information to study the Indian picture of Library Services. INFO NEEDED Name of the State : Number of Libraries : Total number of the members of the libraries : Annual report, if any, of Library Department : Whether the State Central Library of the State is computerized : e-mail address of any contact person of the SCL : May I get help from anybody. Abhijit Kr Bhowmick District Library Officer, Howrah West Bengal Contact : http://in.f83.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=a_k_b@vsnl.net&YY=11413&order=do… a_k_b(a)vsnl.net 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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request for article
by Yashwant G Kanade 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Dear Members, Below are some of papers for which i am looking for soft/hard copies. Latest publications in similar areas would help me a lot. 1.Agricultural applications of expert systems concepts ARTICLE Agricultural Systems, Volume 31, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 3-18 Pierce Jones 2.Intelligent information systems for production management in agriculture and horticulture ARTICLE Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 5, Issue 1, August 1989, Pages 131-136 Toyoki Kozai and Takehiko Hoshi 3.Expert systems: Applications to agriculture and farm management ARTICLE Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Volume 2, Issue 3, February 1988, Pages 173-182 R. Doluschitz and W. E. Schmisseur 4.Expert systems for agriculture ARTICLE Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Volume 1, Issue 1, October 1985, Pages 31-40 J. M. McKinion and H. E. Lemmon Waiting for your repsonse. With Warm Regards Yashwant G Kanade CES.IISc., Bangalore-12 kanade(a)ces.iisc.ernet.in

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RE: [LIS-Forum] M.Phil in Library and Information Science
by Mailing List Manager 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:40:05 +0530 From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Information provided by Mouni is very useful. It brings to our knowledge not only about MPhil Courses by distance mode in LIS but, at a more basic level, about universities we did not know. Thanks Vyasamoorthy, P -----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: Thursday, August 18, 2005 11:02 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] M.Phil in Library and Information Science Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:59:51 +0530 From: mouni(a)nitt.edu In response to Mr. Pravesh Choudary, ISM, Dhandbad request, the following information is furnished for enabling him to do M.Phil. in Library and Information Science. The following UGC authorised and reputed Universitites in Tamil Nadu offer the M.Phil. degree course through distance mode. 1. Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu 2. Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu 3. Vinayaga Mission (Deemed University), Salem, Tamil Nadu 4. SASTRA University, Vallen, Tamil Nadu The candidate who possess masters degree in Library and Information Science is eligibile for admission. There are many study centres at major cities for these universities in our country. Application can also be had from the study centres and filled in application form can also be submitted through the study centres. The duration of the course is 1 year. There are 3 theory papers and one dissertation and via. The candidate can choose any authorised guide by the universitity. Many faculty of the LIS department of our country have been authorised to guide the M.Phil dissertation. For more details the study centres of the universities or websites of the universities concerned may be visited or the Registrars of the universities can be cantacted. P. Mounissamy Central Library National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli-620 015 Tamil Nadu _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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KALA office bearers/corrections (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:57:35 +0530 From: Dr.H.S.Siddamallaiah <sidda(a)nimhans.kar.nic.in> Karnataka State Library Association (R) C/o Library and Information Center, NIMHANS, Bangalore- 560029 No.kala/05/2005-2006 Dated 17-08-2005 I am happy to announce the name of the newly elected office bearers of the KALA for two years (2005-2007). Dr.H.S.Siddamallaiah President KALA ------------- President Mr. IRN Goudar Head, ICAST National Aerospace Laboratories Bangalore Vice - President Dr. Y.M.Patil Libraraian Raman Research Institute Bangalore Vice - President Mr. Marana Basrie Chief Librarian City Central Library South Zone, Bangalore General Secretary Dr. T.D.Kemparaju Professor, Dept LIS Bangalore Univ. Tresureer Mr. Desai Goudar Librarian DSERT, Bangalore Joint Secretary Dr. M. Krishnamurthy, Librarian, Indian Statistical Inst Bangalore Joint Secretary Ms. Kota Saraswathi Librarian PG Centre Surana College Bangalore ----------

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Dr. S.R. Ranganathan's Birthday Celebrations
by Ratnakar Aspari 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Kindly circulate the following message on lis-forum. With best wishes A. Ranakar New Delhi __________________________________ RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE, New Delhi Cordially invites you to 113th Birthday Celebration of Dr. S.R. Ranganathan at the Auditorium of Hall No. VII Pragati Maidan, New Delhi On August 27th , 2005 Saturday at 2.00 P.M. Dr. Abdul Rehman Kamruddin Secretary General, Tipu Sultan Advanced Study & Research Centre, Mysore and Former Advisor, UNESCO & UNIDO will deliver Ranganathan Memorial Lecture on "RELEVANCE & IMPACT OF Dr. S R Ranganathan CONTRIBUTION IN DIGITAL ERA". Hon'ble Shri A. Rehman Khan, Deputy Speaker, Rajya Sabha will be the Chief Guest. SUBHASH DESHMUKH Programme Coordinator. Job hunting? Get the right one! http://g.msn.com/8HMBENIN/2740??PS=47575 Log on to timesjobs TODAY

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M.Phil in Library and Information Science
by Mailing List Manager 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:59:51 +0530 From: mouni(a)nitt.edu In response to Mr. Pravesh Choudary, ISM, Dhandbad request, the following information is furnished for enabling him to do M.Phil. in Library and Information Science. The following UGC authorised and reputed Universitites in Tamil Nadu offer the M.Phil. degree course through distance mode. 1. Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu 2. Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu 3. Vinayaga Mission (Deemed University), Salem, Tamil Nadu 4. SASTRA University, Vallen, Tamil Nadu The candidate who possess masters degree in Library and Information Science is eligibile for admission. There are many study centres at major cities for these universities in our country. Application can also be had from the study centres and filled in application form can also be submitted through the study centres. The duration of the course is 1 year. There are 3 theory papers and one dissertation and via. The candidate can choose any authorised guide by the universitity. Many faculty of the LIS department of our country have been authorised to guide the M.Phil dissertation. For more details the study centres of the universities or websites of the universities concerned may be visited or the Registrars of the universities can be cantacted. P. Mounissamy Central Library National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli-620 015 Tamil Nadu

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newly elected office bearers of KALA
by Mailing List Manager 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:55:12 +0530 From: Dr.H.S.Siddamallaiah <sidda(a)nimhans.kar.nic.in> Karnataka State Library Association (R) C/o Library and Information Center, NIMHANS, Bangalore- 560029 No.kala/05/2005-2006 Dated 17-08-2005 I am happy to announce the name of the newly elected office bearers of the KALA for two years (2005-2007) Mr.IRN Goudar President Dr.Y.M.Patil Vice - President Mr.Marana Basrie Vice - President Dr.T.D.Kemparaju Genaral Secretary Mr.Patawardan Treasurer Dr.Anjanappa Joint Secretary Ms.Kota Saraswathi Joint Secretary Dr.H.S.Siddamallaiah President KALA

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OpenMED@NIC crosses 500 Mark
by Sukhdev Singh 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Dear Members, The OpenMED@NIC which was launched just two months back now has than 500 articles. It is an open access self-archiving international archive for Medical and Allied Sciences [including Bio-Medical, Medical Informatics, Dental, Nursing and Pharmaceutical Sciences]. The earliest article dates back to 1952. It is available from the URL http://openmed.nic.in and provide free facility for authors / journals to archive their published / unpublished articles or other research related documents. Institutions can also register and build their Institutional Repositories on OpenMED@NIC. Almost all search engines and other OAI service providers index data from http://openmed.nic.in . This ensures maximum visibility and exposure to articles/documents archived at OpenMED. SO, DO YOU SELF-ARCHIVE? --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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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

Dear All, Please give Publisher details of the Journal "Training and Management". Thanks in anticipation. Yours truly VIPIN SATI 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…

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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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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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