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New Video Search facility available @ Google
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Google officially launched video.google.com. Alongside the new site comes a new browser plug-in based on VLC, the open source video player. With the plug-in installed, users can search and view videos marked with a play button (example). Google describe the service as part of their mission to "organize the world's information, and that includes the thousands of programs that play on our TVs every day". The search technology examines transcript and meta-data associated with the video to provide relevant results for the user. The service also offers information like when the next edition of the program will be screened. "Just type in your search term (for instance, ipod or Napa Valley) or do a more advanced search (for instance, title:nightline) and Google Video will search the closed captioning and text descriptions of all the videos in our archive for relevant results. Click on a video title on your results page and you can view still images from the video and, where a transcript is available, short snippets of transcript text." More news available @ - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1831965,00.asp Sreeharsha BG **************************************** The evil of life is really a thoughtless life...!!!

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A wiki to promote self-archiving
by Subbiah Arunachalam 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Friends: Please try this. A wiki to promote self-archiving Ari Friedman has launched SelfArchive.org, a wiki designed to help faculty understand self-archiving and start doing it. Because it's a wiki, you can revise and enlarge it. http://selfarchive.org/ Arun Friends: Please try this. A wiki to promote self-archiving Ari Friedman has launched SelfArchive.org, a wiki designed to help faculty understand self-archiving and start doing it. Because it's a wiki, you can revise and enlarge it. http://selfarchive.org/ http://selfarchive.org/ Arun

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Job Vacancy at SJCBA
by Pallavi gunashekarreddy 27 Jun '05

27 Jun '05

St. Josephs College of Business Administration, Bangalore is looking for Asst. Librarian Qualifications: MLISc or BLISc, Female Candidate Scale of pay: 7000 per Month Expectations/Requirements: Good communication, Good attitude and commitment towards the occupation, Essential computer/IT skills, willing to work in 2nd shift (12.00- to 8 pm) Last Date: July 02, 2005 Candidates are advised to send their resume to sjcba(a)vsnl.net or sprabhuk(a)yahoo.com S. Prabhu Library & Information Manager St. Josephs College of business Administration 18, Residency Road Bangalore 560 025 __________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your friends 'n family snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://in.photos.yahoo.com

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RE: [LIS-Forum] software tools:document management +knowledge management
by Mailing List Manager 27 Jun '05

27 Jun '05

Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:50:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Jack Eapen <jackachachan(a)yahoo.com> Knowledge Tree is an Open Source DMS worth a try. Documentation is commercial. http://kt-dms.sourceforge.net/ Demo is available at http://knowledgetree.jamwarehouse.com/ Jack Visit me at http://www.jackeapen.org -----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, June 23, 2005 12:09 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] software tools:document management +knowledge management Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:47:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Omana <manas_ind55(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Friends, Could you please give me a list of document management and (or) knowledge management tools for an industrial library. Regards Omana.K Librarian GMR Energy Limited Bangalore _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com

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need a book on loan
by Dr. Murari P Tapaswi 27 Jun '05

27 Jun '05

Dear Colleagues, One of the scientists of this institute require following book for consultation for few days which is not available at this institute library. Will you please let us know whether you have this and can send it on loan? Thanks in advance for your help. Fabricius, F. H. 1977. Origin of marine ooids and grapestones. Contributions Sedimentology 7: 1-113. With warm regards, Murari P Tapaswi, NICMAS, National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula 403 004 Goa, India. Fax: 91-(0)832-2450 602; Phone: 91-(0)832-2450 275 (direct); -2450 450 (epbx). URL: www.nio.org also visit: www.mangroveindia.org; www.coastalhazards.info; www.indian-ocean.org

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Careers in New Media Festival, 1-3 July 2005
by Shekhar Krishnan 27 Jun '05

27 Jun '05

Dear All: Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to interested individuals and organisations. For more information and to register, contact Sonia Nazareth at +91.22.2382.1893 or +91.98199.39820 or write to sonia(a)cometmedia.org Best, S.K. _____ Comet Media Foundation presents CAREERS IN NEW MEDIA seminar and exhibition interactive presentations with the finest minds on the hottest topics in New Media DATES: FRIDAY 1st, SATURDAY 2nd and SUNDAY 3rd July 2005 TIME: 10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M. Daily VENUE: Bosco Hall St Andrews Church Compound, Hill Road Bandra West, Mumbai 400050 a COSMOS foundational event CAREERS IN NEW MEDIA is a festival composed of a seminar, an exhibition and scope for many interactions. It aims to create awareness among students about the new and viable professional options unleashed by emerging information and communication technologies. Friday 1 July 2005 NEW MEDIA FOR COMMUNICATIONS Seminar 10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M. Saturday 2 July 2005 NEW MEDIA FOR A NEW WORLD Seminar 10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M. Friday 1 July, Saturday 2 July and Sunday 3 July NEW MEDIA Exhibition 10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M. CAREERS IN NEW MEDIA will have an inter-disciplinary approach, with experts and established professionals from a wide variety of work areas sharing their experiences and visions of the future. This is an unique opportunity for students to interact with experts in order to make a strategic career choices. COSMOS is a recently-launched initiative of the Comet Media Foundation in Mumbai, exploring the complex and densely woven field in which science, technology and society overlap. The educational programme of COSMOS is scheduled to be operational by 2006. For more information on the Comet Media Foundation visit http://www.cometmedia.org The CAREERS IN NEW MEDIA festival is open to all. Entry to the exhibition is free. The seminar presentations require pre- registration, as seats are limited. The registration charges are Rs 200. For more information and to register, contact Sonia Nazareth at +91.22.2382.1893 or +91.98199.39820 or write to sonia(a)cometmedia.org FRIDAY 1 JULY 2005 NEW MEDIA FOR COMMUNICATIONS Seminar (25 minute presentation will be followed by 15 minute question and answer sessions) 10:00 to 10:15 Introduction CHANDITA MUKHERJEE Comet Media Foundation, Documentary Film-Maker 10:15 to 10.45 Keynote Address "the unfolding new media scenario " NINA SABNANI Head, Department of New Media Studies National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad 10.50 to 11:30 "Making it in the games industry" REENA GEORGE Human Resources Manager, Indiagames Ltd, Mumbai HRISHI OBEROI Head of 3D and Console Games, Indiagames Ltd, Mumbai 11:30 to 11.45 BREAK 11:50 to 12:30 "Animation as a career for the future" SHILPA RANADE Faculty Member, Industrial Design Centre (IDC), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai 12:35 to 1:15 "Can writing be a viable career? Exploring web-journalism" KIRAN JONNALAGADDA Blogger and Information Architect, Seacrow Labs, Bangalore 1.20 to 1.30 "The power of the portal: a case study" Z. ANSARI rediff.com 1:30 to 2:15 LUNCH 2:20 to 3:00 "Entrepreneurship in the age of new media: entertainment and commerce" TOBY MORNING Chairman, Urban Technology Ventures, Los Angeles, U.S.A. 3:05 to 3:20 BREAK 3:25 to 4:05 "Opportunities in audio-visual post-production" NEIL SADWELKAR Editor and Editing System Consultant, Technical Consultant to Pixion Studio 4:10 to 4:30 Concluding Remarks NIRMALENDU JAJODIA Software Developer, Board Member, Comet Media Foundation SATURDAY 2 JULY 2005 NEW MEDIA FOR A NEW WORLD Seminar (25 minute presentation will be followed by 15 minute question and answer sessions) 10:00 to 10:20 Introductory Note NIRMALENDU JAJODIA 10:25 to 11:05 "Emerging careers in the new information age" GURUNANDAN BHAT Chief Technologist, Synapse, Goa 11:10 to 11:50 "Future prospects for sound specialists" P. BALARAM Audio Engineer, Audeus Studios, Mukta Arts, Mumbai 11:55 to 12:10 BREAK 12:15 to 12:55 "Careers in e-learning" RUPESH GOEL Head, Simulations, Tata Interactive Systems 1:00 to 1:40 "GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications" VINEET SHROFF Founder-Director, Biond Software, Mumbai 1:40 to 2:25 LUNCH 2:30 to 3:10 "New media as an area of research and training" NISHANT SHAH Research Scholar, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore 3:15 to 3:30 BREAK 3:35 to 4:15 "ICTs, social development and business models" JAYALAKSHMI CHITTOOR Editor, I4D Magazine, Centre for Science Development & Media Studies (CSDMS), New Delhi 4:20 to 4:30 Vote of Thanks INDRANIL CHAKRAVARTY Film-Maker and Project Director, COSMOS New Media Initiative, Comet Media Foundation, Mumbai ABOUT THE SPEAKERS NINA SABNANI teaches Communication Design at National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. After a degree in Fine Arts from Baroda, she studied animation at NID and in the UK. Later, she did a post graduate programme in Television & Film from the USA on a Fulbright Fellowship. She has evolved with the times to embrace a wide range of subjects in her profile. At present she teaches courses in Visual Scripting for Animation, Interaction Design, Linear and non-linear story telling, Games design, Illustration and Multi-sensory Design. http://www.nid.edu REENA GEORGE currently Manager Human Resources at Indiagames, had extensive experience in the IT industry. A part of the dynamic industry of wireless gaming, Reena has taken Indiagames from an 80 member team to over 250 employees in the past one year. She is an active member of the HR Infotech Association, Mumbai. http://www.indiagames.com HRISHI OBEROI is currently Head of the 3D & Console games at Indiagames. He has specialised in computer graphics and animation and has designed and programmed 2D and 3D games for mobile phones. Hrishi is currently producing a console named "Ashoka". He is active in the International Game Developer's Association, Mumbai chapter, organises gaming events like WCG India and speaks in technical forums concerned with games development in India. http://www.indiagames.com SHILPA RANADE is a faculty member at the Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. A gold medallist from Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art, she did her Masters in Visual Communication from IDC, IIT, Mumbai and subsequently completed an M.Phil in Animation from the Royal College of Art, London. Her animation film Mani’s Dying won the critics award at the Bombay International Short Film Festival, 1996 and was nominated for the best British short film award at the British Short Film Festival, 1995. http://www.idc.iitb.ac.in KIRAN JONNALAGADDA is a writer and programmer who works at the crossing of media, technology and the web. Currently a consultant technologist at various organisations, he is also an Independent Research Fellow at Sarai, studying how the user interface affects online communities. He is also a collaborator on the Mumbai Free Map Project of CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust), Mumbai, a member of the Plone Foundation, and a trustee of the Tapovan School in rural Bangalore. An observer and participant in blogging, Kiran is also an occasional journalist and a keen photographer. http://www.seacrow.com http://www.freemap.in TOBY MORNING is an entrepreneur who heads Urban Technology Ventures, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. This group of internet-based companies aims to leverage technology and “serve as a catalyst for creating a more peaceful, healthy, prosperous planet for future generations”. Toby’s passion for music has taken him from event promotion to music distribution and concert promotion to the Internet radio portal djunion.com. Toby’s focus is on developing the company’s internet services, and he is in India investigating various fresh business opportunities with Indian partners. http://urbantechnologyventures.com NEIL SADWELKAR spends most of his waking hours as an editor and edit system consultant, currently at a large post production house called Pixion. Neil started out making sky shows in the Planetarium, moved to 16mm film and then followed video through its evolution as a professional medium. Neil has been associated with documentary and feature film-making in all the possible capacities—sound recordist, editor, camera person, director. He has been a contributing editor at Misenscene, and forum host at the DMN Forums’ Final Cut Pro forum. http://www.sadwelkar.com GURUNANDAN BHATT enjoys working on applications that allow people to organise, share and disseminate data and collaborate in useful, productive and innovative ways. Currently Chief Technologist at Synapse, Goa, a company that “partners with clients to solve their business problems through information-based initiatives” Gurunandan has worked extensively on designing and developing complex yet inexpensive information systems. An ardent proponent of Open Source software, he regularly speaks at events, has authored several books and writes for technology magazines. http://www.plusthought.org BALARAM PONDENKANDATH graduated from FTII Pune in sound recording and sound engineering. He has designed, installed and worked as a recordist at a number of leading sound studios such as Sargam Studio, Audio Bytes of Mumbai, VGP Digital Studios, ABM Digital Studio, Maryan Digital Studio of Chennai and Navodaya of Trivandrum, Jeevan TV satellite channel of Cochin and the dubbing and DTS mixing studios for Easwary Films, Banglore. Currently Balaram is the chief recording engineer at Audeus Studio for Mukta Arts. He consultants with the Music Archive at St. Paul's, Bangalore and does sound engineering for musical shows in India and abroad. http://www.muktaarts.com RUPESH GOEL is Head, Simulations, Tata Interactive Systems, a large developer of custom e-learning solutions. It has a multi-disciplinary team of over 700, including content developers, 3-D animators & modellers, software engineers and instructional designers. TIS e- learning programmes cater to the needs of diverse sectors in the corporate, educational and government arena. Its offerings include business and educational simulations, enterprise applications training, adaptive assessments, story-based learning objects, game- based learning, teacher tools and teaching aids and a host of other applications. http://www.tatainteractive.com VINEET SHROFF trained in aeronautical engineering at IIT Powai. He founded Biond Software in 1994 with Milind Dalvi. Biond is in the space of creating GIS datasets or digital maps for India. His expertise includes procurement and analysis of high-resolution satellite imagery, vectorisation and CAD work, physical field survey and application software development. Vineet is also the founder director of Newreka Chemicals and CEO of Standard Engineers. His special interests include growing exotic fruits. NISHANT SHAH is a researcher in contemporary culture and new digital media based at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore. His interests are in looking at the formation of online communities in the third world through blogging. The construction of identities online and the patterns of social structure that arise due to these activities are of immediate interest to him. Nishant has been designing and teaching courses in contemporary digital cultures for undergraduates at Christ College and St. Joseph's College, Bangalore. His work has been published in various poetry anthologies and he dreams of writing a novel some day. http://www.cscsban.org JAYALAKSHMI CHITTOOR has written extensively on gender, consumer issues, ICT4D, mountain issues and natural resources management and has experimented with new electronic media for community building and networking. Heading the i4d programme of the Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies, she brings out the monthly magazine “i4d” and coordinates two research studies. She also works as regional Asia advisor to Bellanet International, promoting ICT tools to provide opportunities to disadvantaged communities and for providing democratic space in the world of the Internet. http://www.i4d.csdms.in http://www.i4donline.net

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Press release: New international study demonstrates worldwide
by Subbiah Arunachalam 26 Jun '05

26 Jun '05

News from the University of Southampton Ref: 05/117 23 June 2005 New international study demonstrates worldwide readiness for Open Access mandate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A wide-ranging new international study across all disciplines has found that over 80 per cent of academic researchers the world over would willingly comply with a mandate to deposit copies of their articles in an institutional repository. The findings of the study, carried out by Key Perspectives Ltd, for the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the UK, have been greeted by Southampton's Professor Stevan Harnad as 'a historic turning point in the worldwide research community's progress towards 100 per cent Open Access'. The new results are being reported this week at the International Conference on Policies and Strategies for Open Access to Scientific Information in Beijing, China (22-24 June 2005) by Dr Alma Swan of Key Perspectives, along with new findings from Dr Les Carr, of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, the only UK university that already has a self-archiving mandate. Southampton is a leader in the worldwide Open Access movement. The international, cross-disciplinary study on Open Access had 1296 respondents. The main findings are: * The vast majority of authors (81 per cent) would comply willingly with a mandate from their employer or research funder to deposit copies of their articles in an institutional or subject-based repository; a further 14 per cent would comply reluctantly, and only 5 per cent would not comply (highest willingness, US: 88 per cent; UK: 83 per cent; lowest, China: 58 per cent). * 49 per cent of respondents had already self-archived at least one article in the previous three years * 31 per cent of respondents were not yet aware of the possibilities of self-archiving * Use of institutional repositories for self-archiving had doubled since the first survey (2004) ; the University of Southampton has the highest rate of self-archiving in the UK * Only 20 per cent of authors who self-archived reported any degree of difficulty in self-archiving, and this dropped to 9 per cent with subsequent experience. Les Carr's analyses of Southampton web-logs show that it takes 10 minutes for the first paper, and even less for subsequent papers. * Self-archiving is done the most by those researchers who publish the most papers * Researchers' primary purpose in publishing is to have an impact on their fields (i.e., to be read, used, built upon, and cited) In a separate exercise the American Physical Society (APS) and the Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd (IOPP) were asked about their experiences over the last 14 years of existence of arXiv (the open e-print archive which has over 300,000 physics papers deposited). Both publishers said that they could not identify any loss of subscriptions due to arXiv, did not view it as a threat to their own publishing activities and indeed encouraged it. 'These results are hugely important,' said Stevan Harnad, 'and will be highly influential. Currently only 15 per cent of articles are being self-archived worldwide, but we can see from the survey that the overwhelming majority of academic authors everywhere would willingly self-archive if they were asked to do so. The results are already confirmed by the 90% self-archiving rate at Southampton, the first institution to adopt a self-archiving mandate, and by CERN, the world's biggest institution to adopt a self-archiving mandate, with likewise over 90% self-archiving: http://makeashorterlink.com/?W11C2205B http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y24C2105B http://makeashorterlink.com/?O65C4205B 'Universities and research-funders who have hesitated about requiring this now have the clear evidence that a self-archiving mandate would not lead to resistance or resentment. And those who hesitated to mandate out of concern for publishers should note that the publishers with the most and longest experience with author self-archiving welcome it.' On the critical question of whether the optimal route for self-archiving is the central one (as favoured by the US National Institutes of Health) or the distributed institutional model (favoured by the UK), Professor Harnad says that the JISC/Key Perspectives reports provide strong support for the UK Parliamentary Select Committee, which specifically proposed distributed institutional self-archiving. This is now likely to form the basis of a recommendation from Research Councils UK (RCUK), which has been considering the future of Open Access to UK-funded research output. ENDS Notes for Editors 1. Web links for further information Swan, A. and Brown, S. (2005) Open access self-archiving: An author study. Technical Report, External Collaborators, JISC, HEFCE http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10999/ Powerpoints http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/alma-amst.pdf http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/ppts/02-AlmaSwan.ppt Key-stroke study of archiving time: http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10688/ Publisher responses including APS and IOPP: http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11006/ Beijing meeting http://libraries.csdl.ac.cn/Meeting/MeetingID.asp?MeetingID=7&MeetingMenuID= 39 Swan, A. (2005) JISC Open Access Briefing Paper. Technical Report, JISC, HEFCE. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11005/ Swan, A., Needham, P., Probets, S., Muir, A., Oppenheim, C., O'Brien, A., Hardy, R., Rowland, F. and Brown, S. (2005) Developing a model for e-prints and open access journal content in UK further and higher education. Learned Publishing 18(1):pp. 25-40. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11000/ GNU eprints software: http://www.eprints.org/ Citebase http://citebase.eprints.org/ Self-archiving FAQ: http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ OSI Eprints Handbook: http://software.eprints.org/handbook/ Institutional Archives Registry: http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=browse Institutional Self-Archiving Policy Registry http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php Journal Self-Archiving Policy Directory http://romeo.eprints.org/ Bibliography of OA Advantage http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html American Scientist Open Access Forum http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.h tml UK Science and Technology Committee Policy Recommendation: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/3990 3.htm Berlin-3/Southampton Policy Recommendation: http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/outcomes.html 2. The University of Southampton is the home of GNU EPrints software, the most widely used software for building Institutional Repositories, and the JISC (the Joint Information Systems Committee) TARDis (Targeting Academic Research for Deposit and Disclosure) project, which has been investigating the technical, cultural and academic issues which surround institutional repositories. 3. The University of Southampton is a leading UK teaching and research institution with a global reputation for leading-edge research and scholarship. The University has over 20,000 students and over 5000 staff. Its annual turnover is in the region of £270 million. For further information Professor Stevan Harnad (email Harnad(a)soton.ac.uk) Dr Alma Swan (email a.swan(a)talk21.com) Joyce Lewis, Communications Manager, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton (tel.023 8059 5453; j.k.lewis(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk)

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Fwd: Question about Posting
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 26 Jun '05

26 Jun '05

Aileen McHugh <amm(a)press.jhu.edu> wrote: Subject: Question about Posting Would you consider posting the following survey invitation on your listserv? We have received responses from 25 countries, but none from India, and our second largest subscriber base is in India, after the United States. Thank you for your consideration. Best wishes, Aileen McHugh Director, Project MUSE http://muse.jhu.edu **************************************************************************** Apologies for Cross Posting Dear Colleagues and Customers, Many thanks to the more than 400 librarians and library support staff worldwide who have responded to the Project MUSE survey about functionality, interface, and navigation. Your input has been invaluable. Recognizing that June is a busy time of year for librarians and library support staff, we have extended the deadline for the functionality study to June 30. The invitation with the revised deadline follows: **************************************** Project MUSE (http://muse.jhu.edu), a collection of 270 peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences from nearly 60 not-for-profit publishers, invites your participation in a web-based survey on enhancing our functionality, interface, and navigation for our users worldwide. The survey web site is http://muse.jhu.edu/survey. If you have a library-world related blog, please feel free to cross link to this survey. Please complete the survey by Thursday, June 30, 2005. We are sending invitations to our nearly 1200 Project MUSE subscribing libraries throughout the world, but we also invite experts, colleagues, and prospective customers to respond. Multiple responses from individuals in differing roles and at the same library are welcome, since one individual may not be the best person to respond to every question. The survey will take 15 to 30 minutes. You may work on the survey in several sessions. It will save your place if you wish to exit and return, provided no one else accesses the survey from the same browser. Those who complete the survey and include an email address will be entered into a drawing for five gift certificates of $50 each to Amazon.com. For academic libraries in the United States, the survey will ask for your institution's Carnegie Classification. If you would like to look it up before beginning, please follow this link: http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/Classification/ (International, public, and special libraries will not be asked for a Carnegie Classification.) If your library does not subscribe to Project MUSE, sample journal issues and more information about Project MUSE may be accessed online at http://muse.jhu.edu. The search function may be used, and tables of contents and abstracts viewed without a subscription. Trial access to the entire Project MUSE database may be requested for media review and for prospective subscribers by completing the trial request form at http://tools.muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/trial_access.cgi Thank you in advance for your participation. Aileen M. McHugh Director, Project MUSE The Johns Hopkins University Press 2715 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218 Phone: 410-516-6981 Fax: 410-516-6968 amm(a)press.jhu.edu --------------------------------- How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos Aileen McHugh <amm(a)press.jhu.edu> wrote: Subject: Question about Posting Would you consider posting the following survey invitation on your listserv? We have received responses from 25 countries, but none from India, and our second largest subscriber base is in India, after the United States. Thank you for your consideration. Best wishes, Aileen McHugh Director, Project MUSE http://muse.jhu.edu **************************************************************************** Apologies for Cross Posting Dear Colleagues and Customers, Many thanks to the more than 400 librarians and library support staff worldwide who have responded to the Project MUSE survey about functionality, interface, and navigation. Your input has been invaluable. Recognizing that June is a busy time of year for librarians and library support staff, we have extended the deadline for the functionality study to June 30. The invitation with the revised deadline follows: **************************************** Project MUSE (http://muse.jhu.edu), a collection of 270 peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences from nearly 60 not-for-profit publishers, invites your participation in a web-based survey on enhancing our functionality, interface, and navigation for our users worldwide. The survey web site is http://muse.jhu.edu/survey. If you have a library-world related blog, please feel free to cross link to this survey. Please complete the survey by Thursday, June 30, 2005. We are sending invitations to our nearly 1200 Project MUSE subscribing libraries throughout the world, but we also invite experts, colleagues, and prospective customers to respond. Multiple responses from individuals in differing roles and at the same library are welcome, since one individual may not be the best person to respond to every question. The survey will take 15 to 30 minutes. You may work on the survey in several sessions. It will save your place if you wish to exit and return, provided no one else accesses the survey from the same browser. Those who complete the survey and include an email address will be entered into a drawing for five gift certificates of $50 each to Amazon.com. For academic libraries in the United States, the survey will ask for your institution's Carnegie Classification. If you would like to look it up before beginning, please follow this link: http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/Classification/ (International, public, and special libraries will not be asked for a Carnegie Classification.) If your library does not subscribe to Project MUSE, sample journal issues and more information about Project MUSE may be accessed online at http://muse.jhu.edu. The search function may be used, and tables of contents and abstracts viewed without a subscription. Trial access to the entire Project MUSE database may be requested for media review and for prospective subscribers by completing the trial request form at http://tools.muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/trial_access.cgi Thank you in advance for your participation. Aileen M. McHugh Director, Project MUSE The Johns Hopkins University Press 2715 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218 Phone: 410-516-6981 Fax: 410-516-6968 amm(a)press.jhu.edu 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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I am attracted by the honesty of Gandhi than by the glitter and glamour of Google-Prof K.S. Deshpande
by vasanth raj 25 Jun '05

25 Jun '05

Dear SirMadam The Ruby Red day of Dept. of LIS University of Mysore witnessed for "I am attracted by the honesty of Gandhi than by the glitter and glamour of Google."- K. S. Deshpnade. The fullstory covered by The Hindu http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/25/stories/2005062511900300.htm regards ------------------------- Vasantha Raju N --------------------------------- Too much spam in your inbox? Yahoo! Mail gives you the best spam protection for FREE! http://in.mail.yahoo.com Dear SirMadam The Ruby Red day of Dept. of LIS University of Mysore witnessed for "I am attracted by the honesty of Gandhi than by the glitter and glamour of Google."- K. S. Deshpnade. The fullstory covered by The Hindu http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/25/stories/2005062511900300.htm http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/25/stories/2005062511900300.htm regards ------------------------- Vasantha Raju N 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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Publisher's Annoucement - Single Journal Articles
by ++ Mukesh Anand ++ 24 Jun '05

24 Jun '05

Dear Professionals Idea Group Publishing now offers to sell any single journal article or teaching case. Appended below are the details: " Idea Group Publishing offers an extensive collection of research articles and teaching cases that are available for electronic purchase by visiting www.idea-group.com/articles. You will find over 700 journal articles and over 250 case studies from over 20 journals available . The website also offers a new capability of searching journal articles and case studies by category. To take advantage of this new feature, please use the link above to search within these available categories: -Business Process Reengineering -Data and Database Management -Distance Learning -E-commerce -Emerging and Innovative Technologies -End User Computing -Healthcare -Human Side of IT -Information Resource Management -Internet-Based Technologies -IS/IT Planning -IT Education -IT Management -Knowledge Management -Organization Politics and Culture -Software Engineering Tools -Strategic Information Systems Design, Implementation -Systems Planning -Telecommunication and Networking -Virtual Offices -Client Server Technology -Decision Support Systems You can now view the table of contents for each journal so it is easier to locate and purchase one specific article from the journal of your choice. To see a sample, please visit http://www.idea-group.com/journals/toc.asp?ID=199&volume=Vol%2E+18%2C+No%2E…. " Hope the information provided by the publisher will be of help to Libraries and Individuals. ++ Mukesh ++ - - Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing Monitor Information Services # 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Narayanguda, Opp. Deepak Theatre, Hyderabad - 500 029, India Telephone: 040-55787065 Fax: +91-40-27552390 http://www.monitorinfo.com Importers n Distributors of Technical Publications Dear Professionals Idea Group Publishing now offers to sell any single journal article or teaching case. Appended below are the details: " Idea Group Publishing offers an extensive collection of research articles and teaching cases that are available for electronic purchase by visiting http://www.idea-group.com/articles www.idea-group.com/articles . You will find over 700 journal articles and over 250 case studies from over 20 journals available . The website also offers a new capability of searching journal articles and case studies by category. To take advantage of this new feature, please use the link above to search within these available categories: -Business Process Reengineering -Data and Database Management -Distance Learning -E-commerce -Emerging and Innovative Technologies -End User Computing -Healthcare -Human Side of IT -Information Resource Management -Internet-Based Technologies -IS/IT Planning -IT Education -IT Management -Knowledge Management -Organization Politics and Culture -Software Engineering Tools -Strategic Information Systems Design, Implementation -Systems Planning -Telecommunication and Networking -Virtual Offices -Client Server Technology -Decision Support Systems You can now view the table of contents for each journal so it is easier to locate and purchase one specific article from the journal of your choice. To see a sample, please visit http://www.idea-group.com/journals/toc.asp?ID=199&volume=Vol%2E+18%2C+No%2E… http://www.idea-group.com/journals/toc.asp?ID=199&volume=Vol%2E+18%2C+No%2E… . " Hope the information provided by the publisher will be of help to Libraries and Individuals. ++ 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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Hindi software tools and fonts
by Madhuresh 24 Jun '05

24 Jun '05

In a drive to take computers to the masses through local language interfaces, the IT Department today released free Hindi software tools and fonts, and said such software would made available in 22 Indian languages within the next six months. Releasing the software in the Capital, the National Advisory Council (NAC) Chairperson, Ms Sonia Gandhi, said, "With this launch, we have taken one more progressive step. Mr Rajiv Gandhi would have been happy to see the rapid strides that our country is taking in the IT sector, as this was his dream." The software can either be downloaded from the Web site www.ildc.gov.in or ordered in a CD format. The CD contains tools developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), IIIT, Hyderabad, and private companies such as Modular Infotech, Cyberscape Multimedia Ltd, Priya Informatics, Cadgraf Digital System Ltd, C K Technologies, Prologix and Softview. The tools in Hindi include Hindi True Type Fonts (TTF) with Font Driver, UNICODE-compliant Open Type Fonts (OTF) for Hindi, Hindi Language Multifont Keyboard Engine for TTF, Hindi UNICODE-compliant keyboard driver, BharateeyaOO.o in Hindi, Firefox browser in Hindi, GAIM-Multiprotocol Messenger in Hindi, Columba-Hindi e-mail client, Hindi OCR, Hindi dictionary, spellchecker, generic fonts code and storage code converter for Hindi, Assan typing tutor for Hindi and English, Integrated Word Processor, and Hindi language translation tool and text-to-speech system. Full news at http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2005/06/21/stories/2005062103180500. htm 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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Tribute to Prof. Vidyut Khandwala
by jyoti shreeram bhabal 24 Jun '05

24 Jun '05

SHPT School of Library Science Past Students Association, Mumbai Dear all, Prof. (Ms.) Vidyut Khandwala, Ex- University Librarian of SNDT Womens University and Head of SHPT School of Library Science has passed away on 3rd June 2005. Prof. Khandwala distinguished herself by her professional and academic leadership and dynamism. She was responsible for developing the SNDT Womens University Library on modern lines, and for the establishment and growth of the SHPT School of Library Science. Her initiative in library continuing education and extension programmes made SNDT Womens University Library and SHPT School of Library Science landmarks in the field of Library Science. To pay tribute to Late Prof. Vidyut Khandwala and her dynamic contribution in Library and Information Science field, SHPT School of Library Science Past Students Association has organised a condolence meeting on Saturday, 2nd July 2005 at , SNDT Womens University Library, 2nd Floor, 1-Nathibai Thackersey Road, New Marine Lines, Mumbai 400 020 at 4.00 pm. Kindly inform other professionals who are in touch with you. You all are requested to make it convenient to attend. Hon. Secretary SHPT School of Library Science Past Students Association Mumbai. Email- shptsndt(a)bom7.vsnl.net.in Tel. No. 022 22072792 022 22085439 SHPT School of Library Science Past Students Association, Mumbai Dear all, Prof. (Ms.) Vidyut Khandwala, Ex- University Librarian of SNDT Womens University and Head of SHPT School of Library Science has passed away on 3rd June 2005. Prof. Khandwala distinguished herself by her professional and academic leadership and dynamism. She was responsible for developing the SNDT Womens University Library on modern lines, and for the establishment and growth of the SHPT School of Library Science. Her initiative in library continuing education and extension programmes made SNDT Womens University Library and SHPT School of Library Science landmarks in the field of Library Science. To pay tribute to Late Prof. Vidyut Khandwala and her dynamic contribution in Library and Information Science field, SHPT School of Library Science Past Students Association has organised a condolence meeting on Saturday, 2nd July 2005 at , SNDT Womens University Library, 2nd Floor, 1-Nathibai Thackersey Road, New Marine Lines, Mumbai 400 020 at 4.00 pm. Kindly inform other professionals who are in touch with you. You all are requested to make it convenient to attend. Hon. Secretary SHPT School of Library Science Past Students Association Mumbai. Email- shptsndt(a)bom7.vsnl.net.in Tel. No. 022 22072792 022 22085439 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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Library Traineeship in the Resource Centre at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar
by Mailing List Manager 24 Jun '05

24 Jun '05

Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:07:42 +0530 From: ts kumbar <ts_kumbar(a)da-iict.org> Dear Colleagues, We would highly appreciate, if you could kindly bring the following informa= tion to the notice of interested fresh ( with M.L.I.Sc) Graduates in Librar= y and Information Science and recommend the potential candidates. Regards Dr. T S Kumbar Resource centre DA-IICT Gandhinagar Tel. 079-30510550 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= Sub: Openings for the position of Library Trainees in the Resource Centre a t Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, G andhinagar. Gujarat Dear Sir/Madam We take this opportunity to inform you that Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of I= nformation and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), situated at Gandhinagar,= Gujarat, is promoted by the Dhirubhai Ambani Foundation. It has been estab= lished on a 50-acre of land in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The Government of Guja= rat has granted it the University Status under the State Act and is recogni= zed by UGC. The Institute has started functioning since August 2001 with a= batch size of 240 students at Undergraduate level in Information and Commu= nication Technology (ICT). It also offers a variety of masters' and doctora= l programs in ICT and allied areas. The Institute takes young and dynamic postgraduate freshers with minimum fi= rst class in Masters in Library and Information Science, well versed in Com= puter application to Library and Information Services. Duration of Traini= ng is for a period of one year. However, guarantee of continued employment = cannot be given. The trainees gets a fixed stipend between Rs.5000 to Rs.60= 00 depending on their quality etc, per month with no other facilities / ben= efits, as applicable to regular employees, excepting casual leave. Resource= Centre is kept open till mid night on all working days during the semeste= r and 2.00am during examination period and is open on holidays and Sundays.= Selected trainees may have to work during these extended hours on rotation= basis. The Institute has fully computerized in-house operations and services of th= e Resource Centre and provides access to wide variety of digital collection= , catering to the needs of the Faculty/ Staff and students. Plans are on to= convert this Resource Centre into a complete Digital Resource Centre. Reso= urce Centre has recently implemented the electromagnetic technology based s= ecurity systems for reading materials. Interested candidates are requested to send your bio-data by email addresse= d to H. R Officer at hr(a)da-iict.org ( a copy of the same may be marked to = ts_kumbar(a)da-iict.org ). The last date for receiving the application is 3= 0th June, 2005.The short listed candidates will be called for a written tes= t and the interview, the dates for which will be communicated later over th= e email. Yours sincerely Executive Registrar Dhirubhai Ambani Instiute of Information and Communication Technology Post Bag. No.4 Near Indroda Circle Gandhinagar 382009 Gujarat http://www.da-iict.org

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Key Open Access Concepts
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

An excerpt from the Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals (OAB) that provides a brief overview of OA concepts is now available in HTML-tagged format. Additional links have been added, and old links checked and updated. As part of the OAB, it is under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/keyoaconcepts.htm Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston, Library Administration, 114 University Libraries, Houston, TX 77204-2000. E-mail: cbailey(a)uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. 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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RE: [LIS-Forum] software tools:document management +knowledge management
by aparajita＠icicikp.com 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

Dear Sir, You can find a considerable number of free-open source softwares/tools for purpose of document/knowledge management on the following URL, use "digital library" as the search keyword here: http://sourceforge.net/search/ regards Aparajita Suman Information Officer, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA <mailto:aparajita@icicikp.com> Phone - Office: +91(40)23480054 Fax: +91(40)23480007 -----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, June 23, 2005 12:09 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] software tools:document management +knowledge management Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:47:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Omana <manas_ind55(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Friends, Could you please give me a list of document management and (or) knowledge management tools for an industrial library. Regards Omana.K Librarian GMR Energy Limited Bangalore _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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software tools:document management +knowledge management
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:47:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Omana <manas_ind55(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Friends, Could you please give me a list of document management and (or) knowledge management tools for an industrial library. Regards Omana.K Librarian GMR Energy Limited Bangalore

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Vacancy - MAHE , Dubai Campus - Reg
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:08:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Maruthu Pandian <haipandian79(a)yahoo.com> Job Title : Assistant Librarian Organization : Manipal Academy of Higher Education Manipal, Dubai Campus Qualification and Experience - MLISc., with 2+ years of experience. - Candidates with above 4 years of experience need not apply. Expectations/Requirements - Good communication and presentation skills - Good attitude and commitment towards the occupation - Experience in the automated library environment - Essential computer/IT skills - Ability to assist with selection, maintenance, monitoring and promotion of library materials - Customer focused approach - Willing to work in shifts Last Date Candidates are advised to send their resume with their photographs and passport details (preferably by email) on or before 29.06.2005. Those who have applied earlier need not apply again. Contact Details Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE)-Dubai Campus Building No:14, Knowledge Village, P.O.Box.: 500689, Dubai, U.A.E. Tel.: 009714-3664577 Fax.: 009714-3664094 E-Mail: mahehr(a)mahedubai.com Job Profile Primary Job Function To assist in the provision and effective operation of a high quality, accessible library and information service in accordance with best value principles. Main Duties and Responsibilities - To handle the circulation activities with less assistance and minimum supervisory. - To do the Classification (DDC) / Cataloguing (AACR II / MARC) with minimum guidance. - To assist in stock selection, maintenance of appropriate stock and promotion as required for the Library - To maintain files related to various activities of the library - To provide an efficient, friendly and welcoming service to all library users - To take full responsibility for management of services in the absence of the Librarian Regards BM Pandian

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Google Launches Enterprise version of Google Desktop Search
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:50:45 +0530 From: Bhojaraju Gunjal <bhojaraju.g(a)gmail.com> Dear Colleagues, This may be useful for u... Google Launches Enterprise version of Google Desktop Search Google CEO Eric Schmidt Delivers Keynote at Gartner ITXPO Google Mini Arrives in Europe Google Search Appliance Connects to Databases and Content Management Systems Google Launches Enterprise version of Google Desktop Search http://www.google.com/newsletter/gsa/article1_0605.html IT professionals can use Google Desktop Search for Enterprise to extend the power of Google Desktop Search across an entire organization. You can provide desktop search to as many employees as you'd like � while strictly enforcing your security policies. Google Desktop Search for Enterprise integrates with the Google Search Appliance and Google Mini for unified search across your PC, intranet and the Internet itself. Attend a free webinar to learn how you can deploy Google Desktop Search for Enterprise in your organization. Read more.<http://www.google.com/newsletter/gsa/article1_0605.html> Google Search Appliance Connects to Databases and Content Management Systems http://www.google.com/newsletter/gsa/article4_0605.html The Google Search Appliance now connects to relational databases, as well as content management and CRM systems, portals and legacy applications. These enhancements enable customers to provide search across both structured and unstructured data. Read more.<http://www.google.com/newsletter/gsa/article4_0605.html> Thanks & Regards Bhojaraju Gunjal, Librarian � Knowledge Management, Homepage: http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com KM-Forum Moderator : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/ ************************************************************************************************ ICICI OneSource Ltd. 148, Bhaskara Plaza, R.V.Road, V.V.Puram, Bangalore - 560 004, INDIA. Tel:+9180-2650 2540 Ext:103 Fax:+9180-2650 2086 Cell:+91-944 836 9905 E-mail: bhojarajug(a)yahoo.com ************************************************************************************************

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software tools:document management +knowledge management
by Omana 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

Dear Friends, Could you please give me a list of document management and (or) knowledge management tools for an industrial library. Regards Omana.K Librarian GMR Energy Limited Bangalore __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, have fun online and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/

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Job Opportunities at the British Council, Mumbai
by Mailing List Manager 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:57:27 +0530 From: Bhojaraju Gunjal <bhojaraju.g(a)gmail.com> *Job Opportunities at the British Council, Mumbai* The British Council is the United Kingdom's international organisation for educational and cultural relations. We are inviting applications for the following posts that form part of our managerial team in Mumbai. *Public Relations Manager* You will have a minimum of 2 years work experience in corporate communications/journalism. Excellent writing and editing skills are essential. ** *Education Projects Manager * You will have a good first degree in any subject with a minimum of 3 years work experience with excellent communication and management skills. An overview of the Indian and British education system is desirable.** ** *Marketing Manager � Corporates & Educational Institutes* You will have a postgraduate qualification in Marketing and a minimum of 2 years marketing management experience. An overview of the British education system is desirable. ** *Education UK Partnership Manager * You will have a good first degree in any subject with a minimum of 3 years work experience with excellent communication and management skills. An overview of the Indian and British education system is desirable.** Recruitment will be based on the competencies listed in the job description/person specification, which is available along with the British Council application form and organisation profile at the *About Us � Job opportunities <http://www.britishcouncil.org/india-careers.htm>** *section in our website *www.britishcouncil.org.in<http://www.britishcouncil.org.in/> * Please note that no other application form will be accepted. The completed application form should be sent to Head Resources and IT, British Council, C Wing, II Floor, Mittal Tower, Nariman Point, Mumbai 400021. The last date for receipt of applications is *4 July 2005. *Only shortlisted candidates will receive a reply. Thanks & Regards Bhojaraju Gunjal, Librarian � Knowledge Management, Homepage: http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com KM-Forum Moderator : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/ ************************************************************************************************ ICICI OneSource Ltd. 148, Bhaskara Plaza, R.V.Road, V.V.Puram, Bangalore - 560 004, INDIA. Tel:+9180-2650 2540 Ext:103 Fax:+9180-2650 2086 Cell:+91-944 836 9905 E-mail: bhojarajug(a)yahoo.com ************************************************************************************************ Keep in Touch Always !!! ************************************************************************************************

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Libraries resist FBI move
by Mailing List Manager 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 22:44:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Rashid Hussain <ras_botlib(a)yahoo.co.in> Now FBI is focusing on the people who borrowed the book or any information related to Osama Bin Laden after the terrorists attack in US. for detail please have a look on the following article by Jamie Wilson. Focus on people who borrow books on Osama bin Laden The bookish calm of a public library might not seem like the most obvious place to hunt for terrorists, but according to a report the FBI and other U.S. law enforcement agencies involved in counter-terrorism have made more than 200 requests for information about borrowers from libraries since September 11. A list of people who had borrowed a book on Osama bin Laden was among the information to have been demanded since the introduction of the Patriot Act, the legislation that has enhanced the Government's powers to investigate alleged terrorist activity after the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. The power to subpoena library records has been fiercely resisted by the American library association, which believes it could put people off reading certain books or subjects. It commissioned the study after the Justice Department sought to play down the likely number of requests for library records. ``What this says to us is that agents are coming to libraries and they are asking for information at a level that is significant, and the findings are completely contrary to what the Justice Department has been trying to convince the public [of],'' Emily Sheketoff, the executive director of the library association's Washington office, said. The use of the Patriot Act to request information from librarians came to public attention last year when a library in Washington State received a demand for information after a user took out a book on Osama and found a handwritten note in the margin saying: ``Hostility toward America is a religious duty and we hope to be rewarded by God.'' The borrower went to the FBI who in turn went to the library seeking names and information on borrowers who had taken out the biography since 2001. The library turned down the request and fought a subsequent subpoena. Critics claim that the Act is an infringement of civil liberties and that it has increasingly been the subject of debate in Congress. � � Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004 Source: http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/22/stories/2005062200191700.htm Thanks & Regards = = = = = = = = = = = Rashid Hussain Siddiqui Project Assistant Digital Library, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science Jayanagar, Bangalore : 560041 Phone No. : 080-26540930 e-mail : ras.botlib(a)gmail.com Homepage : http://www.drtc.isibang.ac.in/~hussain = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet. � Samuel NIGER (1883-1956) --------------------------------- Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football

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Library Website
by Mailing List Manager 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:46:10 +0530 From: Rupak Chakravarty <rupak2811(a)gmail.com> You can find each and every component which are necessary and desirable in a Library website in the Panjab University Library website. The URL is : www.library.puchd.ac.in <http://www.library.puchd.ac.in> -- Rupak Chakravarty Assistant Librarian Panjab University Library Chandigarh 160014 INDIA

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Request for articles
by Mailing List Manager 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

Date: 21 Jun 2005 05:41:11 -0000 From: Navin Soni <navin_soni(a)rediffmail.com> � Dear Professionals, One of our research fellow wants to have the following articles: 1 UAVs & Ucavs, Vayu aerospace & defence review, IV/2004, p 61. 2 Eurosatory 2004,Vayu aerospace & defence review, IV/2004, p 81. Anybody who have above articles may have please send us a copy on urgent basis With regards Navin Kumar Soni DESIDOC, DRDO Metcalfe House Delhi- 110054 (M) 09868459805

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Re library website its content
by Mailing List Manager 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

Date: 21 Jun 2005 10:29:07 -0000 From: Sharad Jadhav <email2sharad(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Badan, A good library website may contain one or all of following items, described lucidly. A library website should work as a "One Point Access to Library Info". The design of Website should be simple, navigation between pages should be easy. A sitemap provided will helpful for users. Online Catalogue Search Journals Articles Resources Facilities Services Library Forms Library Personnel Library Timings Online Journals New Arrivals Current Awareness List Borrower's Entitlement AV Resources Info Library's F.A.Q. Library Contact Info Any other info may be added as per requirement. Yours sincerely, Sharad Jadhav National Insurance Academy, Pune 411045 Maharashtra sharad7703(a)yahoo.co.in

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Re: library website its content , design and uses in providing services to user
by Mailing List Manager 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:39:08 +0530 From: vishal mali <vishalmali2(a)gmail.com> Dear all The below is a list of some useful articles on Library Website/homepage, which may be solve query of Mr.Badan Barman in some extent. http://www.mardiros.net/design-guidelines.html http://www.igidr.ac.in/lib/paper3.htm http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/eric/papers/primer/toc.html with warm regards. -- VISHAL MALI PROJECT ASSISTANT II NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY PUNE-8

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LIS Alumni of Panjab University, Chandigarh
by Sukhdev Singh 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

Dear Friends, If you are an Alumni of Department of Library and Information Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh, then consider becoming member of PU LIS eGroup. Some of us can meet our lost and forgotten Batch Mates here virtually. Visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pulis/ to become member or email to pulis-subscribe(a)yahoogroups.com --Sukhdev Singh. An Alumni of PU LIS Year - 1986 & 1987

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Even Graduates Can Pursue PhD Now !!!
by Mailing List Manager 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:08:35 +0100 (BST) From: Anand Dodamani <anand_karuni(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear friends, Exciting news! Even a graduate can pursue Ph.D. now ! Yes. A graduate may now be able to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy from Mumbai University. The University apex body, the Management Council, has decided to make graduates eligible for pursuing PhDs from this academic year. However the candidates will have to clear an Aptitude Test conducted by the University Department or Research Centre from where they want to pursue the Ph.D. Earlier graduates were not eligible for the course. Only a post graduate with minimum 60% marks could opt for research. Managing Council has now also decided to relax the eligibility criterion for post graduates. Now a post-graduate with 55% will also be eligible for research. Only Mumbai University has implemented the new PhD guidelines and it was done by vice-chancellor Dr. Vijay Khole. Thanks to the University Authorities for this remarkable decision. Regards, Anand. Mr. Anand Dodamani Librarian Hashu Advani College of Special Education 64/65, Collectors Colony, Chembur, Mumbai 400 074 Cell. 0 + 9821301585 "Good librarians are costly, but bad librarians cost more."anand.

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Fwd: Open Access to Oeuvre of Bosc and of Chanier on Open Access
by Subbiah Arunachalam 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

--- Stevan Harnad <harnad(a)ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:58:25 +0100 > From: Stevan Harnad <harnad(a)ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> > Subject: Open Access to Oeuvre of Bosc and of > Chanier on Open Access > To: > AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM(a)LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG > > (1) There has been dramatic Open Access Progress in > France > > > http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?page=all&country=fr > http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php > > This progress owes a great deal to its earliest and > most dedicated > Hexagonal champion, Helene Bosc (who is reputed to > be retiring > this year, but of course such rumours can never > really be given > much credence de facto even if true de jure when > they concern such > indefatigable individuals). > > Below is a list of some of HB'S pertinent work. See > especially > her recent chapter in Aubry & Janik (2005) and her > website: > http://www.tours.inra.fr/prc/internet/documentation/communication_scientifi… > > (2) Another formidable Open Access champion in > France is Thierry Chanier, > whose work is on the Technology of Information and > Communication > in Education (TICE). His specialty is scientific > publication in the > humanities and social sciences, he has founded > several Open Access > Journals, and now he has written an excellent and > very up-to-date book > on Open Archives and Open Access: > > Chanier, T. (2004) Archives ouvertes et > publication scientifique: > Comment mettre en place l'accès libre aux > résultats de la recherche? > [Open Archives and Scientific Publication: How > to Provide Open Access > to Research Results?] L'Harmatan, Paris. Open > Access Full Text: > http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/documents/archives0/00/00/14/86/index_fr.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Bosc, H. (2005) Archives ouvertes : quinze ans > d'histoire [Open > Archives: Fifteen Years of History]. In Aubry, > C. and Janik, J., > Eds. Les Archives Ouvertes : enjeux et > pratiques. Guide à l'usage > des professionnels de l'information, pages pp. > 27-54. ADBS, Paris. > Open Access Full Text: > http://cogprints.org/4408/ > [In French] English Summary: Both the idea and > the benefits of > providing open access to scientific publications > are now coming to > be understood by a growing number of researchers > who publish in new > open access journals. However, the potential of > the complementary > strategy of self-archiving in Open Archives -- > which could provide > immediate open access to all scientific articles > -- is still > under-utilized. This chapter describes the > various attempts in the > last fifteen years to generalize the > self-archiving practice first > adopted by physicists, who have been providing > open access to their > work since 1991. The benefits of self-archiving > and open archives > are explained. The adoption of the practice of > self-archiving by > researchers and their institutions is still too > slow. The reasons for > this delay are discussed. The official policies > adopted by various > institutions following the Berlin 3 meeting in > Southampton (UK) > now makes it more likely that the practice of > self-archiving will > spread considerably in 2005.The open access > thereby provided will > increase the scientific impact of research > worldwide > > Bosc, H. and Harnad, S. (2005) In a paperless > world a new role > for academic libraries: Providing Open Access. > Learned Publishing. > http://cogprints.org/4200/ > > Bosc, H. (2004) Pour une plus grande visibilité > des travaux des > chercheurs : l'exemple de l'archive ouverte > PhysiologieAnimale > http://cogprints.org/4412/ > > Bosc, H. (2003) La Budapest Open Access > Initiative (BOAI) > pour un libre accès aux résultats de la > recherche. Terminal. > http://cogprints.org/4409/ > > Bosc, H. (2003) Le droit des auteurs à mettre en > accès libre leurs > propres résultats de recherche [Authors' right > to provide open access > to their own research results.]. > http://cogprints.org/4411/ > > Bosc, H (2002) Mise en service d'une archive > numérique. Launching > an archive. > http://cogprints.org/4415/ > http://cogprints.org/4416/ > > Bosc, H. (2001) Partager et utiliser des > connaissances scientifiques: > de la responsabilité individuelle à la > responsabilité collective. INRA > mensuel. > http://cogprints.org/4410/ > > Stevan Harnad ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

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Institutional Repositories - Aggregation?
by M. Paul Pandian 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

Hi, I was looking for a source that may list all the institutional repositories across the world including India. I could not find one. If there is one, please do let me know. We witness quite a few institutional repositories across the globe including India in the last few years. However, the number of articles archived are not very encouraging particularly in India. This is one problem. The other problem is that there is no comprehesive listing of archives that exist today. Even if there is one, searching across archives is another issue. In order to promote the OA, we may have to do the following: 1. Promoting the concept of OA and its benefits in our own organisation ( - aggressively being carried out by Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam and others so that more archives can be setup. More people must join them). 2. Populating the archives that are already setup -- is a very difficult task. There needs to be continous efforts in pursuading the research and academic community for this. 3. A Common aggregated database of all the archives that will harvest metadata from the individual archives and provide a common search interface. May be the individual archive can register with this common aggregated database with harvesting details. This will also enhance the reach out of OA articles. Just a thougt. Thanks. M. Paul Pandian ========================================================================= Scientific Officer (Library) | The Institute of Mathematical Sciences | 4th Cross Road | Cable: MATSCIENCE Central Institutes of Technology Campus| Phone: +91-44-2254 1856 Tharamani | Fax: +91-44-2254 1586 CHENNAI (Madras) | E-mail: pandian(a)imsc.res.in TAMILNADU - 600 113, INDIA | URL:http://www.imsc.res.in/library/Index.php =========================================================================

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 32
by rose shee 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

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. Fw: TB Rajashekar (Subbiah Arunachalam) 2. Fwd: Call for Papers (Prof. N. Laxman Rao.) 3. Science Research Portal (Shyam Prasad pujar) 4. Deep Web Search From Yahoo (Mailing List Manager) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 06:44:27 +0530 From: "Subbiah Arunachalam" Subject: [LIS-Forum] Fw: TB Rajashekar To: , Message-ID: <005c01c57210$ec6ff2d0$791e09c0@Arun> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original ----- Original Message ----- From: "Uhlir, Paul" To: "Subbiah Arunachalam" Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 1:35 AM Subject: RE: TB Rajashekar > Dear Arun, > > Thank you for sharing the background about Raja in memory of his > untimely, tragic death. I had the privilege of meeting him in Paris two > years ago at a Symposium I co-organized with UNESCO and CODATA on Open > Access and the Public Domain. I had very high regard for him and am > saddened by his departure from our midst. I know he will be greatly > missed. > > Best wishes, > > Paul ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:12:16 +0100 (BST) From: "Prof. N. Laxman Rao." Subject: [LIS-Forum] Fwd: Call for Papers To: nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com, ila delhi , iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com, iaslic kolkata , list forum Message-ID: <20050616121216.10387.qmail(a)web60425.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" IRMJ wrote: Subject: Call for Papers Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:03:08 -0400 ****** CALL FOR PAPERS ****** ****** SUBMISSION DUE DATE: JULY 13, 2005 ****** INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT JOURNAL (IRMJ) Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association http://www.idea-group.com/irmj Editor-in-Chief: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. Information Resources Management Association Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) International Editorial Review Board http://www.idea-group.com/irmj MISSION OF IRMJ: Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ). The Journal publishes original material concerned with all aspects of information resources management, managerial and organizational applications, as well as implications of information technology. The primary mission of IRMJ is to be instrumental in the improvement and development of the theory and practice of information resources management, appealing to both practicing managers and academics. It is our further aim to educate organizations on how they can benefit from their information resources and all the tools utilized to gather, process, disseminate, and manage these valuable resources. Coverage of IRMJ: Topics should be drawn from, but not limited to, the following areas, with major emphasis on the managerial and organizational aspects of information resource and technology management: * Application of IT to Operation * Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems Technologies and Issues * Business Process Management and Modeling * Data Warehousing and Mining * Database Management Technologies and Issues * Decision Support and Group Decision Support Systems * Distance Learning Technologies and Issues * Distributed Software Development * E-collaboration * Electronic Commerce Technologies and Issues * Electronic Government * Emerging Technologies Management * End User Computing Issues * Enterprise Resource Planning * Executive Information Systems * Global Information Technology Management * Healthcare Information Technology * Human and Societal Issues in IT Management * Information Technology Education and Training Issues * Information Technology Security and Ethics * IS/IT Education * IT Governance Issues * IT Innovation and Diffusion * IT Management in Public Organizations * IT Management Research and Practice * IT Outsourcing * IT/E-business in Small Businesses * Knowledge Management * MIS Re-engineering Management * Mobile Commerce * Multimedia Computing Technologies and Issues * Object Oriented Technologies and Issues * Project Management * Software Process Improvement * Standards and Standardization Issues * Strategic IT Management * Supply Chain Management * Systems Development and CASE * Telecommunications and Networking Technologies * Virtual Organizations * Virtual Teams * Web Services and Technologies SUBMITTING TO IRMJ: Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished manuscripts will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNALS GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at www.idea-group.com/irmj. All manuscript submissions will be forwarded to at least five members of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal for a double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to irmj(a)idea-group.com by ****** NO LATER THAN JULY 13, 2005. ****** All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. Editor-in-Chief Information Resources Management Journal E-mail: irmj(a)idea-group.com www.idea-group.com/irmj Sent to: naglaxman(a)yahoo.com Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PCcalling worldwide with voicemail 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. Fw: TB Rajashekar (Subbiah Arunachalam) 2. Fwd: Call for Papers (Prof. N. Laxman Rao.) 3. Science Research Portal (Shyam Prasad pujar) 4. Deep Web Search From Yahoo (Mailing List Manager) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 06:44:27 +0530 From: "Subbiah Arunachalam" Subject: [LIS-Forum] Fw: TB Rajashekar To: , Message-ID: <005c01c57210$ec6ff2d0$791e09c0@Arun> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original ----- Original Message ----- From: "Uhlir, Paul" To: "Subbiah Arunachalam" Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 1:35 AM Subject: RE: TB Rajashekar > Dear Arun, > > Thank you for sharing the background about Raja in memory of his > untimely, tragic death. I had the privilege of meeting him in Paris two > years ago at a Symposium I co-organized with UNESCO and CODATA on Open > Access and the Public Domain. I had very high regard for him and am > saddened by his departure from our midst. I know he will be greatly > missed. > > Best wishes, > > Paul ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:12:16 +0100 (BST) From: "Prof. N. Laxman Rao." Subject: [LIS-Forum] Fwd: Call for Papers To: nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com, ila delhi , iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com, iaslic kolkata , list forum Message-ID: <20050616121216.10387.qmail(a)web60425.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" IRMJ wrote: Subject: Call for Papers Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:03:08 -0400 ****** CALL FOR PAPERS ****** ****** SUBMISSION DUE DATE: JULY 13, 2005 ****** INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT JOURNAL (IRMJ) Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association http://www.idea-group.com/irmj Editor-in-Chief: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. Information Resources Management Association Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) International Editorial Review Board http://www.idea-group.com/irmj MISSION OF IRMJ: Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ). The Journal publishes original material concerned with all aspects of information resources management, managerial and organizational applications, as well as implications of information technology. The primary mission of IRMJ is to be instrumental in the improvement and development of the theory and practice of information resources management, appealing to both practicing managers and academics. It is our further aim to educate organizations on how they can benefit from their information resources and all the tools utilized to gather, process, disseminate, and manage these valuable resources. Coverage of IRMJ: Topics should be drawn from, but not limited to, the following areas, with major emphasis on the managerial and organizational aspects of information resource and technology management: * Application of IT to Operation * Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems Technologies and Issues * Business Process Management and Modeling * Data Warehousing and Mining * Database Management Technologies and Issues * Decision Support and Group Decision Support Systems * Distance Learning Technologies and Issues * Distributed Software Development * E-collaboration * Electronic Commerce Technologies and Issues * Electronic Government * Emerging Technologies Management * End User Computing Issues * Enterprise Resource Planning * Executive Information Systems * Global Information Technology Management * Healthcare Information Technology * Human and Societal Issues in IT Management * Information Technology Education and Training Issues * Information Technology Security and Ethics * IS/IT Education * IT Governance Issues * IT Innovation and Diffusion * IT Management in Public Organizations * IT Management Research and Practice * IT Outsourcing * IT/E-business in Small Businesses * Knowledge Management * MIS Re-engineering Management * Mobile Commerce * Multimedia Computing Technologies and Issues * Object Oriented Technologies and Issues * Project Management * Software Process Improvement * Standards and Standardization Issues * Strategic IT Management * Supply Chain Management * Systems Development and CASE * Telecommunications and Networking Technologies * Virtual Organizations * Virtual Teams * Web Services and Technologies SUBMITTING TO IRMJ: Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished manuscripts will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNALS GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at www.idea-group.com/irmj. All manuscript submissions will be forwarded to at least five members of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal for a double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to irmj(a)idea-group.com by ****** NO LATER THAN JULY 13, 2005. ****** All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. Editor-in-Chief Information Resources Management Journal E-mail: irmj(a)idea-group.com www.idea-group.com/irmj Sent to: naglaxman(a)yahoo.com Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PCcalling worldwide with voicemail

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(no subject)
by Dr.H.S.Siddamallaiah 21 Jun '05

21 Jun '05

Karnataka State Library Association ® C/o Canara Bank School of Management Sciences Central College campus Bangalore University, Bangalore-1 No.KALA/AGM/2001-2005/june18 AGM notification Annual General-body Meeting (AGM) of KALA is convened on 9th July 2005, Saturday, at 4.00 PM. All the members are requested to make it convenient to attend the AGM. Venue: Granthangana, City Central Library, RPC layout (near Bus stop) Vijayanagar, Bangalore- 560040 AGENDA: 1. Tabling Annual report 2001- 2005 2. Tabling Audited statement report 2001-2005 3. Election of Governing body members - Election Officer- Sri.N.V.Sathyanarayana, Informatics 4. Official announcement of elected GB members by election officer 5. Presidents Address Ms.Adilaksmi S Secretary, KALA

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Context-based Software Language
by Farooque Shaheen 21 Jun '05

21 Jun '05

A new software language may give computers better comprehension of what their human operators mean. Most people understand instructions well enough to carry out simple tasks. And more complex tasks can be handled when clear instructions are at hand. Computers lack the range of conceptual understanding that humans have, and must be programmed in exacting detail to carry out specific tasks. Researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, along with researchers in France, Germany, Japan, and the UK, have developed a context-based language. The language, released as ISO 18629, has manufacturing environments as its focus. Process planning, validation, scheduling, and control have been mentioned as processes suited for the language. Researchers developing the language programmed in almost 300 concepts like "duration" and "sequence." A computer programmed with this language will function like a rudimentary artificial intelligence, acting on a word's meaning. It will also be able to understand sequence words like "before." Software vendors will have to wait for final ISO approval before they begin designing systems and solutions using the new language. Source: http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20050620ComputersUnders… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 A new software language may give computers better comprehension of what their human operators mean. Most people understand instructions well enough to carry out simple tasks. And more complex tasks can be handled when clear instructions are at hand. Computers lack the range of conceptual understanding that humans have, and must be programmed in exacting detail to carry out specific tasks. Researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, along with researchers in France, Germany, Japan, and the UK, have developed a context-based language. The language, released as ISO 18629, has manufacturing environments as its focus. Process planning, validation, scheduling, and control have been mentioned as processes suited for the language. Researchers developing the language programmed in almost 300 concepts like "duration" and "sequence." A computer programmed with this language will function like a rudimentary artificial intelligence, acting on a word's meaning. It will also be able to understand sequence words like "before." Software vendors will have to wait for final ISO approval before they begin designing systems and solutions using the new language. Source: http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20050620ComputersUnders… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Digital Library Tool Kit
by Roopa E 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Dear Friends, Digital Library tool kit is sponsored by Sun Microsystems, It is Useful for those who are contemplating to setting up digital library & trying to distribute digital content on World Wide web. Please refere to this URL http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/whitepapers/pdf/digital_library… this document will clarify Mrs. Vijayalakshmi R Deshpande doubts Thanks & Regards Roopa. E Mail: roops_e(a)yahoo.co.in _________________________________________________________________ Adore Arshad Warsi? http://server1.msn.co.in/sp05/iifa/ Think he is the funniest?

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Fwd: Statement on Open Access from the Russell Group of UK Universities
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Jun '05

19 Jun '05

The Russell Group, nineteen of the UK's major research-led universities http://www.russellgroup.ac.uk/index1.html http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/documents/rep_distrib.html have released a Statement on Scholarly Communication and Publishing http://www.russellgroup.ac.uk/2005/scholarly_communication.htm echoing the recommendations of the UK Parliamentary Select Committee http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/399… by pledging to "support the development of institutional repositories of research papers... [and to] actively encourage their researchers to deposit their work in them". (Of the Russell Group 84% [16/19] already have institutional repositories.) http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?page=all&country=uk Birmingham http://eprints.bham.ac.uk/ Bristol http://rose.bris.ac.uk/dspace/ Cambridge http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/ Cardiff Edinburgh http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/ Glasgow http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/ Imperial College http://eprints.imperial.ac.uk/ King's College London http://eprints.kcl.ac.uk/ Leeds http://sherpa.leeds.ac.uk/ Liverpool London School of Economics http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/ Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne http://rogue.ncl.ac.uk/ Nottingham http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/ Oxford http://eprints.ouls.ox.ac.uk/ Sheffield http://sherpa.leeds.ac.uk/ Southampton http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/ University College London http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/ Warwick http://eprints.csc.warwick.ac.uk/ ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

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library website its content , design and uses in providing services to user
by badan barman 18 Jun '05

18 Jun '05

Respected all, I am a student of M.L.I.Sc. 4th sem, gauhati university, assam.I want to know each and every aspect of the topic library website its content , design and uses in providing services to user, so request guidance/information/ refference from the LIS-FORUM group.Any information regarding my topic will be of great helpful for me. Thanking you. __________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your friends 'n family snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://in.photos.yahoo.com

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Entrez: the cross-database life science search engine
by Mailing List Manager 17 Jun '05

17 Jun '05

Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:57:41 +0530 From: Rupak Chakravarty <rupak2811(a)gmail.com> Now, 23 databases can be searched simultaneously through Entrez (the life science search engine). It includes PubMEd, Pubchem, Gensat and the likes. URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gquery/gquery.fcgi -- Rupak Chakravarty Assistant Librarian Panjab University Library Chandigarh 160014 INDIA

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Deep Web Search From Yahoo
by Mailing List Manager 17 Jun '05

17 Jun '05

Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:37:44 +0530 From: Farooque Shaheen <Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Deep Web Search From Yahoo A new search service from Yahoo! announced on Thursday will position the internet media company as a distributor and aggregator of paid-for content from an area known as the ?deep web?. In what could prove to be a challenge to online services such as Reed Elsevier's LexisNexis and Dow Jones' and Reuters' Factiva, Yahoo Search Subscriptions is launching with initial content from just seven sources. Subscription services that have signed up with Yahoo include ConsumerReports.org, The Wall Street Journal Online, TheStreet.com and The New England Journal of Medicine. In the coming weeks, Yahoo plans to add content aggregators Factiva and LexisNexis AlaCarte. Source: http://news.ft.com/cms/s/076d0c1e-de89-11d9-92cd-00000e2511c8.html Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Science Research Portal
by Shyam Prasad pujar 17 Jun '05

17 Jun '05

Dear Members, It is a free, publicly available web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals and public science databases. Search can be made by selecting scientific disciplines. It can be accessed at: http://scienceresearch.com/search/index.php Regards, S.M. Pujar ********************************************************************** Shamprasad M. Pujar Assistant Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% * Phone: (022) 28400919-21 Extn: 514 * * Fax: (022) 28402752 * * E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in * * URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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Fwd: Call for Papers
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

IRMJ <irmj(a)idea-group.com> wrote: Subject: Call for Papers Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:03:08 -0400 ****** CALL FOR PAPERS ****** ****** SUBMISSION DUE DATE: JULY 13, 2005 ****** INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT JOURNAL (IRMJ) Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association http://www.idea-group.com/irmj Editor-in-Chief: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. Information Resources Management Association Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) International Editorial Review Board http://www.idea-group.com/irmj MISSION OF IRMJ: Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ). The Journal publishes original material concerned with all aspects of information resources management, managerial and organizational applications, as well as implications of information technology. The primary mission of IRMJ is to be instrumental in the improvement and development of the theory and practice of information resources management, appealing to both practicing managers and academics. It is our further aim to educate organizations on how they can benefit from their information resources and all the tools utilized to gather, process, disseminate, and manage these valuable resources. Coverage of IRMJ: Topics should be drawn from, but not limited to, the following areas, with major emphasis on the managerial and organizational aspects of information resource and technology management: * Application of IT to Operation * Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems Technologies and Issues * Business Process Management and Modeling * Data Warehousing and Mining * Database Management Technologies and Issues * Decision Support and Group Decision Support Systems * Distance Learning Technologies and Issues * Distributed Software Development * E-collaboration * Electronic Commerce Technologies and Issues * Electronic Government * Emerging Technologies Management * End User Computing Issues * Enterprise Resource Planning * Executive Information Systems * Global Information Technology Management * Healthcare Information Technology * Human and Societal Issues in IT Management * Information Technology Education and Training Issues * Information Technology Security and Ethics * IS/IT Education * IT Governance Issues * IT Innovation and Diffusion * IT Management in Public Organizations * IT Management Research and Practice * IT Outsourcing * IT/E-business in Small Businesses * Knowledge Management * MIS Re-engineering Management * Mobile Commerce * Multimedia Computing Technologies and Issues * Object Oriented Technologies and Issues * Project Management * Software Process Improvement * Standards and Standardization Issues * Strategic IT Management * Supply Chain Management * Systems Development and CASE * Telecommunications and Networking Technologies * Virtual Organizations * Virtual Teams * Web Services and Technologies SUBMITTING TO IRMJ: Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished manuscripts will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNALS GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at www.idea-group.com/irmj. All manuscript submissions will be forwarded to at least five members of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal for a double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to irmj(a)idea-group.com by ****** NO LATER THAN JULY 13, 2005. ****** All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. Editor-in-Chief Information Resources Management Journal E-mail: irmj(a)idea-group.com www.idea-group.com/irmj Sent to: naglaxman(a)yahoo.com Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PCcalling worldwide with voicemail IRMJ <irmj(a)idea-group.com> wrote: Subject: Call for Papers Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:03:08 -0400 ****** CALL FOR PAPERS ****** ****** SUBMISSION DUE DATE: JULY 13, 2005 ****** INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT JOURNAL (IRMJ) Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association http://www.idea-group.com/irmj Editor-in-Chief: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. Information Resources Management Association Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) International Editorial Review Board http://www.idea-group.com/irmj MISSION OF IRMJ: Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ). The Journal publishes original material concerned with all aspects of information resources management, managerial and organizational applications, as well as implications of information technology. The primary mission of IRMJ is to be instrumental in the improvement and development of the theory and practice of information resources management, appealing to both practicing managers and academics. It is our further aim to educate organizations on how they can benefit from their information resources and all the tools utilized to gather, process, disseminate, and manage these valuable resources. Coverage of IRMJ: Topics should be drawn from, but not limited to, the following areas, with major emphasis on the managerial and organizational aspects of information resource and technology management: * Application of IT to Operation * Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems Technologies and Issues * Business Process Management and Modeling * Data Warehousing and Mining * Database Management Technologies and Issues * Decision Support and Group Decision Support Systems * Distance Learning Technologies and Issues * Distributed Software Development * E-collaboration * Electronic Commerce Technologies and Issues * Electronic Government * Emerging Technologies Management * End User Computing Issues * Enterprise Resource Planning * Executive Information Systems * Global Information Technology Management * Healthcare Information Technology * Human and Societal Issues in IT Management * Information Technology Education and Training Issues * Information Technology Security and Ethics * IS/IT Education * IT Governance Issues * IT Innovation and Diffusion * IT Management in Public Organizations * IT Management Research and Practice * IT Outsourcing * IT/E-business in Small Businesses * Knowledge Management * MIS Re-engineering Management * Mobile Commerce * Multimedia Computing Technologies and Issues * Object Oriented Technologies and Issues * Project Management * Software Process Improvement * Standards and Standardization Issues * Strategic IT Management * Supply Chain Management * Systems Development and CASE * Telecommunications and Networking Technologies * Virtual Organizations * Virtual Teams * Web Services and Technologies SUBMITTING TO IRMJ: Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished manuscripts will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNALS GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at www.idea-group.com/irmj. All manuscript submissions will be forwarded to at least five members of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal for a double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to irmj(a)idea-group.com by ****** NO LATER THAN JULY 13, 2005. ****** All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. Editor-in-Chief Information Resources Management Journal E-mail: irmj(a)idea-group.com www.idea-group.com/irmj Sent to: naglaxman(a)yahoo.com Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/messenger/*http://uk.messen… Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PC http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/messenger/*http://uk.beta.m… calling worldwide with voicemail

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Fw: TB Rajashekar
by Subbiah Arunachalam 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

----- Original Message ----- From: "Uhlir, Paul" <PUhlir(a)nas.edu> To: "Subbiah Arunachalam" <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 1:35 AM Subject: RE: TB Rajashekar > Dear Arun, > > Thank you for sharing the background about Raja in memory of his > untimely, tragic death. I had the privilege of meeting him in Paris two > years ago at a Symposium I co-organized with UNESCO and CODATA on Open > Access and the Public Domain. I had very high regard for him and am > saddened by his departure from our midst. I know he will be greatly > missed. > > Best wishes, > > Paul

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[BOAI] T.B. Rajashekar, Indian Open Access Pioneer: 1954-2005 (fwd)
by Lohrii Kaini Mahemei 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

********************************************************* Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come - Rabindranath Tagore. Lohrii Kaini Mahemei NCSI,IISc, Bangalore - 560012. Ph# +91-080-22932511,23600271. ********************************************************* Subject: [BOAI] T.B. Rajashekar, Indian Open Access Pioneer: 1954-2005 [Forwarding from Subbiah Arunachalam and N. Balakrishnan. --Peter.] Dr T B Rajashekar - A Tribute Dr Tarikere Basappa Rajashekar, who was the Associate Chairman of the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, was killed in a road accident near Bangalore on 3 June 2005. Raja, as he was known to his close friends, was an achiever. When many others were talking about digital libraries, he started working on building one. He was clear in what he wanted to do and he went about it with dedication and commitment and what is more he knew his limitations and never attempted to do anything in which he did not have the required expertise. He was serious about his work and never would waste his time or energy in fruitless pursuits. When new technologies came in quick succession and transformed the way we handle information, Raja was quick to learn those technologies and apply them intelligently in the areas of database management and information dissemination. Raja's role in the creation of the Nation's first computerized current awareness service in the early 1980s at NCSI is commendable. He was one of the earliest in India to use COBOL and database, in both of which he had a rich experience and knowledge, in library applications. He had an exemplary skill in programming and an innate ability to understand, apply and disseminate newer programming paradigms to stay current all the time. Right from the early days of NCSI, Raja not only led the young team from the front with his insistence on discipline and timely delivery of quality services but also played a key role in capacity building. He was largely responsible for the content and curriculum of the 18-month training programme on information and knowledge management at NCSI, which is unlike any other programme taught anywhere else in India. The curriculum always reflected the most recent developments. Not only did he teach the key courses (information and knowledge organization, digital library and information services in enterprises, internet information resources and services) but also helped his younger colleagues to acquire the skills to teach state-of-the-art courses. Many of the professionals trained by him occupy important positions across the country and elsewhere and have been contributing immensely to the growth of information science. The fact that they stayed in touch with him and continue to hold him in reverence, vindicates the fact that Raja was not only a great and inspiring guru but also a fine gentleman. Raja had become synonymous with NCSI. Raja set up India's first interoperable institutional open access archive, but was dismayed at the rather slow pace at which it was filling. When it was pointed out that he should be more proactive and meet with faculty and talk to them about the archive, he took the suggestion in the right spirit and at the time of his tragic death there were more than 2,000 papers in the archive. He had conducted many training programmes on setting up open access archives. Raja was also largely responsible for marrying the Greenstone digital library software with an earlier version of the Eprints software (when the latter did not support full-text searching), and a few months before his death he and his colleague Francis Jayakanth, in collaboration with researchers at the Old Dominican University, developed two approaches to make CDS-ISIS databases OAI compliant. Raja was also the first in India to set up an e-mail based electronic discussion forum for the library and information science (LIS) professionals. Since its inception in 1994, he moderated the LIS-Forum democratically. Born on 2 November 1954, Raja took his bachelor's degree in library science from the Mysore University and the postgraduate Associateship in documentation and information science from the Documentation Research and Training Centre, Bangalore. After a few years at the National Informatics Centre, New Delhi, he had a brief stint at the British Council Library in New Delhi, where he impressed everyone with his technical savvy. It is then he moved to the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and worked quietly and earned a reputation as a performer. Along the way he also took a doctoral degree from the Poona University. A very shy person, Raja would keep himself away from the limelight. Deeply committed to his family, when he took a sabbatical in 2000 he did not move out of Bangalore. He worked for Informatics (India) Ltd, a Bangalore-based company, and developed an excellent multidisciplinary current awareness tool, an e-journal portal and gateway called J-Gate, to aggregate thousands of journals. He also wrote a series of essays on digital libraries. Raja was on many committees, including the CODATA, and had contributed to the development of INFLIBNET and INDEST. He was also elected Fellow of the Society of Information Science (India). When he was on course to achieve much more, fate has snatched him away from us. The large number of condolence messages received from within the country and elsewhere is an indication of the regard he had earned. Once he remarked to his students, what mattered in life was what one left behind for others to remember and continue. By that yardstick he has done extremely well. The best tribute the LIS professionals in this country could pay to Raja is to set up institutional open access archives as soon as possible and fill them with papers, modernize their curricula and teach their students the values practiced by him. Subbiah Arunachalam & N Balakrishnan ----------------------------- Subbiah Arunachalam is Distinguished Fellow, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai 600 113, India N Balakrishnan is Chairman, Information Sciences Division, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India

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Articles Request
by Arvind Bhadrashetty 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

Dear Professionals, One of our user wants to have the following articles. 1. Stollery J L & Ehwany A A M ;A note on the use of boundary layer model for correlating film cooling data,International Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer, Vol8. No 1, 1965, pp55-65. 1. Stollery J L & Ehwany A A M ;On the use of boundary layer model for correlating film cooling data,International Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer, Vol l0. 1967, pp101-105. Anybody having access to the above articles may please send us the copy. Regards Arvind M Bhadrashetty BrahMos Aerospace Adj To DRDL Rear Gate Kanchanbagh Hyderabad - 500 058 Andhra Pradesh bmkchyd(a)brahmos.com Arvind Bhadrashetty Dear Professionals, One of our user wants to have the following articles. 1. Stollery J L & Ehwany A A M ;A note on the use of boundary layer model for correlating film cooling data,International Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer, Vol8. No 1, 1965, pp55-65. 1. Stollery J L & Ehwany A A M ;On the use of boundary layer model for correlating film cooling data,International Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer, Vol l0. 1967, pp101-105. Anybody having access to the above articles may please send us the copy. Regards Arvind M Bhadrashetty BrahMos Aerospace Adj To DRDL Rear Gate Kanchanbagh Hyderabad - 500 058 Andhra Pradesh bmkchyd(a)brahmos.com 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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Lib Trainees wanted: Mumbai+Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education
by Mailing List Manager 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 01:43:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Puttaraj Choukimath <puttuc(a)yahoo.com> Dear All, GREETINGS. HOMI BHABHA CENTRE FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH National Cetre of the Government of Indlafor Nuclear Science and Mathematics V. N. Purav Marg, Mankhurd, Mumbai - 400 088. Fax: +9 t -22-2556 6803 EmaD: hbcadm(a)hbcse.tifr.res.in Ref.: HBC/EST/Scientific/ 530 tr : + 9 t -22-2558 0036, 2555 47 t 2, 2556 77 t t, 2555 5242 June 7, 2005 NOTICE No. 2/05 LIBRARY TRAINEES Applications are hereby invited from fresh B. Lib.lM. Lib degree holders for induction as Library Trainees in the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education which is a constituent unit of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, an autonomous body ofthe Govt. of India, Department of Atomic Energy. The HBCSE Library houses over 15, 000 books and journals catering to wide range of subjects. The Trainees appointed will thus have hands on experience with the library procedures and exposure to modern techniques of maintaining large scientific libraries. Educational qualifications: Fresh B. Lib / M. Lib., Age: Below 30 years. The tenure of the training will be one year. At the end of which the candidates will be given a certificate of experience. .. The selected candidates will be paid a consolidated honorarium of Rs.5,OOO/-p.m. They may be required to work in shifts and on Saturdays, Sundays and other public holidays. Applications giving full details with the copies of relevant certificates should reach the Sr. Administrative Officer, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, T.I.F.R, V.N. Purav Marg, Mankhurd, Mumbai- 400 088, on or before June 22, 2005 positively. regards, Puttaraj.

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MyDLIS 40-Inagugral -Seminar-Invite
by Shalini R Urs 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

University of Mysore Department of Library and Information Science 40th Anniversary Celebrations June 24, 2005 Seminar On Repositioning the Information Profession in the Market place Inauguration by Prof. K S Deshpande Keynote address by Dr. Madanmohan Rao Editor, 'The Knowledge Management Chronicles' Adjunct Faculty, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore Presided by Prof. J Shashidhara Prasad Hon'ble Vice Chancellor University of Mysore You are cordially invited Venue : Bahadur Institute of Management Sciences Auditorium. --- THE PROGRAM SCHEDULE Session 1 9.30a m-11.00 a m The inaugural session Session 2 11.30 a m -1.00 p m Repositioning the information profession: why and how (invited talks) 1. K.S.Raghavan, DRTC, ISI, Bangalore 2. N.V.Sathyanaryana, CMD, Informatics India, Bangalore 3. M.S.Sridhar, ISRO, Bangalore (Chair: V. G. Talawar) Session 3 2.00 p m-3.30 p m Curriculum transformations : contemporary vs. conventional : a debate 1. M.K.Jagadish, AIRC, Chennai 2. B.P.Prakash, TCS, Mumbai 3. G.K.Manjunath, IGIDR, Mumbai (Moderator : Shalini R Urs) Session 4 4.00 p m-6.00p m Round Table on 'Oaks from Acorns - reflections of the alumni' 1. P.Y.Rajendra Kumar, Director, Public Libraries, Karnataka 2. B.S.Maheshwarappa, Professor, Gulbarga University 3. B. G. Sunder Singh, Scientist, DSIR, GOI 4. T.D.Kemparaju, Professor, Bangalore University 5. Lalitha Aswath, Professor, Bangalore University 6. Ramesh Babu. B, Professor, University of Madras 7. Chikkammallaih, IIM, Bangalore 8. T. Vijaykumar, Novell, Bangalore 9. Ratnakar Aspari, consultant, New Delhi 10. K.S.Chudamani, JRD Tata memorial Library, IISc, Bangalore (Moderator: M Puttannaiah) Session 5 6.0-6.30 pm Felicitations to retired DLIS faculty 7.30p m- 9.30 pm Dinner Shalini -------- 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 homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm  University of Mysore Department of Library and Information Science � 40th Anniversary Celebrations June 24, 2005 � Seminar On Repositioning the Information Profession in the Market place � Inauguration by Prof. K S Deshpande Keynote address by Dr. Madanmohan Rao Editor, ‘The Knowledge Management Chronicles’ Adjunct Faculty, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore � Presided by Prof. J Shashidhara Prasad Hon’ble Vice Chancellor University of Mysore You are cordially invited Venue : Bahadur Institute of Management Sciences Auditorium. --- � THE � PROGRAM SCHEDULE Session 1 �� 9.30a m-11.00 a m � The inaugural session �� Session 2 �� 11.30 a m -1.00 p m Repositioning the information profession: why and how (invited talks) K.S.Raghavan, DRTC, ISI, Bangalore N.V.Sathyanaryana, CMD, Informatics India, Bangalore M.S.Sridhar, ISRO, Bangalore �� (Chair: V. G. Talawar) Session 3 �� 2.00 p m-3.30 p m Curriculum transformations�: contemporary vs. conventional : a debate M.K.Jagadish, AIRC, Chennai B.P.Prakash, TCS, Mumbai G.K.Manjunath, IGIDR, Mumbai ( Moderator : Shalini R Urs ) Session 4 �� 4.00 p m-6.00p m Round Table on ‘Oaks from Acorns - reflections of the alumni’ P.Y.Rajendra Kumar, Director, Public Libraries, Karnataka B.S.Maheshwarappa, Professor, Gulbarga University B. G. Sunder Singh, Scientist, DSIR, GOI T.D.Kemparaju, Professor, Bangalore University Lalitha Aswath, Professor, Bangalore University Ramesh Babu. B, Professor, University of Madras Chikkammallaih, IIM, Bangalore T. Vijaykumar, Novell, Bangalore � Ratnakar Aspari , � consultant, New Delhi � K.S.Chudamani, JRD Tata memorial Library, IISc, Bangalore � (Moderator: M Puttannaiah) Session 5 �� 6.0-6.30 pm Felicitations to � retired DLIS faculty �� 7.30p m- 9.30 � pm �� Dinner � � Shalini -------- 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 homepage:www. vidya nidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm �

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Elsevier?s Scirus Opens Repository Search Service
by Mailing List Manager 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:40:49 +0530 From: Farooque Shaheen <Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com> Institutional repositories of digital data at universities and other =0D research institutions may now receive deeper, more thorough indexing and = =0D full-text delivery through Elsevier?s free, sci-tech search engine, Scirus (http://www.scirus.com). The Scirus engine already reaches content at many institutional repositories, but those joining the new Scirus Repository Search service will receive more extensive and sophisticated indexing of a wider range of content. The repositories will also have access to additional search capabilities on their own Web sites at no cost. The first university to join the Scirus Repository Search service is the University of Toronto?s T-Space collection ( http://tspace.library.utoronto.ca). All of T-Space?s digital files and data are available to the open Web.=0D The new alternative formats for data will stretch beyond Scirus? current non-HTML/XML formats, e.g., PDF, Postscript, PowerPoint, etc. However, for now, Scirus will not offer special handling of images, programs, or data sets beyond better metadata. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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More on ACS vs PubChem
by Subbiah Arunachalam 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Friends: Here are two news stories on the ACS vs PubChem tussle. They appeared in Peter Suber's blog "Open Access News". Scientists around the world, especially those living in the United States should mobilise support for PubChem. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----------------------------------------- More on ACS v. PubChem 1. Stephanie Wright, Dueling Databases, TechnoBiblio, June 13, 2005. Excerpt: 'The dialog this issue has generated has been hot and heavy with PubChem supporters explaining that PubChem is complementary to CAS, not duplicative. CAS supporters are complaining of "unfair, improper competition from the government". Aside from the fact that I'm a librarian and believe that information should be free, I think I'm even more rankled as a taxpayer. ACS Chief Executive Officer, Madeleine Jacobs, wrote in a recent letter to Nobel Laureate Richard Roberts: "The fact that the data collected into PubChem is "public domain" is completely irrelevant. Assembling information and publishing it in a variety of forms is what the private sector does. We believe that taxpayers should not fund the entry of NIH into the information industry more broadly than is necessary to disseminate the information whose creation it funds." What this basically says to me is that as a taxpayer, I can pay for the research but if I want access to it, I have to pay the private sector....The logic in this escapes me. Of course, ACS was perfectly happy with government funding of information products when it accepted NSF funds for the development of the CAS Registry System. This issue is about so much more than NIH vs. ACS. It is yet another example of a dangerous trend. Just look at the Department of Energy's now defunct database, PubScience, shut down by the Software and Information Industry Association. If we let a valuable resource like PubChem (as well as other freely accessible databases: ERIC, Agricola, PubMed) get shut down, we might as well give up on the whole open-access venture and we'll only have ourselves as librarians, and taxpayers, to blame.' 2. Aliya Sternstein, Publishers make appeal to lawmakers in NIH dispute, Federal Computer Week, June 13, 2005. Excerpt: 'American Chemical Society officials are asking lawmakers to rein in those responsible for a federal database of molecular structures because they say it will cut into the society's income from the sale of similar information. The National Institutes of Health created PubChem in 2004 as part of NIH's Roadmap for Medical Research initiative to speed the discovery of new medical treatments....Brian Dougherty, senior adviser to the chief strategy officer at ACS, said the society suggested forming a technical working group to set parameters for PubChem. "NIH has been unwilling to put anything in writing," Dougherty said. "We think this is going to put us out of business if it keeps growing and no parameters are set." NIH officials said they are confused about why ACS insists that PubChem will harm the society's business interests. "What is in common is a relatively small number of compound structures and names," said Christopher Austin, senior adviser to the translational research director at the NIH Chemical Genomics Center at the National Human Genome Research Institute. "ACS has gotten hung up on this," he said. "CAS has 25 million structures. PubChem has about 850,000. PubChem is a subset. Not everything that is in CAS is relevant to biomedical research." NIH officials said narrowing PubChem's focus could slow medical progress. "It would have profoundly negative effects on this new paradigm of making medical discoveries," Austin said.' Friends: Here are two news stories on the ACS vs PubChem tussle. They appeared in Peter Suber's blog "Open Access News". Scientists around the world, especially those living in the United States should mobilise support for PubChem. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----------------------------------------- More on ACS v. PubChem [A] 1. Stephanie Wright, http://www.technobiblio.com/archives/2005/06/dueling_databases.php Dueling Databases , TechnoBiblio , June 13, 2005. Excerpt: 'The http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/acs_pubchem.html dialog this issue has generated has been hot and heavy with PubChem supporters explaining that PubChem is complementary to CAS, not duplicative. CAS supporters are complaining of "unfair, improper competition from the government". Aside from the fact that I'm a librarian and believe that information should be free, I think I'm even more rankled as a taxpayer. ACS Chief Executive Officer, Madeleine Jacobs, wrote in a recent letter to Nobel Laureate Richard Roberts: "The fact that the data collected into PubChem is "public domain" is completely irrelevant. Assembling information and publishing it in a variety of forms is what the private sector does. We believe that taxpayers should not fund the entry of NIH into the information industry more broadly than is necessary to disseminate the information whose creation it funds." What this basically says to me is that as a taxpayer, I can pay for the research but if I want access to it, I have to pay the private sector....The logic in this escapes me. Of course, ACS was perfectly happy with government funding of information products when it accepted NSF funds for the development of the CAS Registry System. This issue is about so much more than NIH vs. ACS. It is yet another example of a dangerous trend. Just look at the Department of Energy's now defunct database, http://www.fcw.com/article78138-11-13-02-Web PubScience, shut down by the Software and Information Industry Association. If we let a valuable resource like PubChem (as well as other freely accessible databases: ERIC, Agricola, PubMed) get shut down, we might as well give up on the whole open-access venture and we'll only have ourselves as librarians, and taxpayers, to blame.' 2. Aliya Sternstein, http://www.fcw.com/article89163-06-13-05-Print Publishers make appeal to lawmakers in NIH dispute , Federal Computer Week , June 13, 2005. Excerpt: 'American Chemical Society officials are asking lawmakers to rein in those responsible for a federal database of molecular structures because they say it will cut into the society's income from the sale of similar information. The National Institutes of Health created PubChem in 2004 as part of NIH's Roadmap for Medical Research initiative to speed the discovery of new medical treatments....Brian Dougherty, senior adviser to the chief strategy officer at ACS, said the society suggested forming a technical working group to set parameters for PubChem. "NIH has been unwilling to put anything in writing," Dougherty said. "We think this is going to put us out of business if it keeps growing and no parameters are set." NIH officials said they are confused about why ACS insists that PubChem will harm the society's business interests. "What is in common is a relatively small number of compound structures and names," said Christopher Austin, senior adviser to the translational research director at the NIH Chemical Genomics Center at the National Human Genome Research Institute. "ACS has gotten hung up on this," he said. "CAS has 25 million structures. PubChem has about 850,000. PubChem is a subset. Not everything that is in CAS is relevant to biomedical research." NIH officials said narrowing PubChem's focus could slow medical progress. "It would have profoundly negative effects on this new paradigm of making medical discoveries," Austin said.'

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Scirus and Google index institution archives
by Subbiah Arunachalam 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Friends: All Indian institutinal and central archives may register with both Google and Scirus and reap the benefits. The Unversity of Toronto librarian Marshall (Peter) Clinton, whom I met a few weeks ago at his office, finds linking his university archive with these two search services beneficial. Please read the brief news story appended below. Prof. Balki & Francis (at IISc), Dr Krishnan at NCL, and Ms Naina Pandita at NIC might wish to register their archives with both Scirus and Google, if they have not done so already. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ More on the Elsevier/Scirus repository search service Barbara Quint, Elsevier's Scirus Opens Repository Search Service, Information Today NewsBreaks, June 13, 2005. Excerpt: 'Institutional repositories of digital data at universities and other research institutions may now receive deeper, more thorough indexing and full-text delivery through Elsevier's free, sci-tech search engine, Scirus. The Scirus engine already reaches content at many institutional repositories, but those joining the new Scirus Repository Search service will receive more extensive and sophisticated indexing of a wider range of content. The repositories will also have access to additional search capabilities on their own Web sites at no cost. The first university to join the Scirus Repository Search service is the University of Toronto's T-Space collection. All of T-Space's digital files and data are available to the open Web. Marshall (Peter) Clinton, director of information technology services at the University of Toronto Libraries, said that a similar arrangement with Google preceded Scirus' arrangement by several months. He estimates that both Scirus and Google's improved service has improved access for both on-campus and off-campus users of the T-Space site. Ammy Vogtlander, Scirus' general manager, attributes the development of the Scirus Repository Search service to the fact that "Elsevier understands that an increasing amount of valuable content is currently held in academic repositories." She indicated that working directly with institutional repositories would allow Scirus to reach unique metadata and full-text material. It will also allow Scirus to reach content in alternative formats to journal articles or reports....According to Vogtlander, "We already had full indexing of various sites and institutional repositories, but now, for participating repositories, we will target key reports, have higher quality indexing, better display of results, and more accurate metadata." She found it odd that some institutional repositories, for all their important content, "offer no full text, only metadata."...Google Scholar has introduced linking to "appropriate copy" or restricted access content. (See Library Collections Linked on Google Scholar for Free.) When asked about Google Scholar's clustering and linking, Vogtlander said that Scirus is considering clustering. For now, however, Scirus users will see multiple results ranked on frequency of terms and date. Scirus also can't handle Open URL linking to library-licensed content....Vogtlander seems to see the world in different terms from traditional Elsevier. In reference to the policy of not charging for Scirus' services, even the new Repository Search service, she stated: "We must understand the free service business. There are different business models now, and Web searching is seen as free."' (PS: I like this: Elsevier and Google competing to offer superior indexing of OA repository content. --- Peter Suber in Open Access News, 13 June 2005) Friends: All Indian institutinal and central archives may register with both Google and Scirus and reap the benefits. The Unversity of Toronto librarian Marshall (Peter) Clinton, whom I met a few weeks ago at his office, finds linking his university archive with these two search services beneficial. Please read the brief news story appended below. Prof. Balki & Francis (at IISc), Dr Krishnan at NCL, and Ms Naina Pandita at NIC might wish to register their archives with both Scirus and Google, if they have not done so already. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ More on the Elsevier/Scirus repository search service [A] Barbara Quint, http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb050613-2.shtml Elsevier's Scirus Opens Repository Search Service , Information Today NewsBreaks , June 13, 2005. Excerpt: 'Institutional repositories of digital data at universities and other research institutions may now receive deeper, more thorough indexing and full-text delivery through Elseviers free, sci-tech search engine, http://www.scirus.com/ Scirus . The Scirus engine already reaches content at many institutional repositories, but those joining the new Scirus Repository Search service will receive more extensive and sophisticated indexing of a wider range of content. The repositories will also have access to additional search capabilities on their own Web sites at no cost. The first university to join the Scirus Repository Search service is the University of Toronto's http://tspace.library.utoronto.ca T-Space collection. All of T-Space's digital files and data are available to the open Web. Marshall (Peter) Clinton, director of information technology services at the University of Toronto Libraries, said that a similar arrangement with Google preceded Scirus' arrangement by several months. He estimates that both Scirus and Google's improved service has improved access for both on-campus and off-campus users of the T-Space site. Ammy Vogtlander, Scirus' general manager, attributes the development of the Scirus Repository Search service to the fact that "Elsevier understands that an increasing amount of valuable content is currently held in academic repositories." She indicated that working directly with institutional repositories would allow Scirus to reach unique metadata and full-text material. It will also allow Scirus to reach content in alternative formats to journal articles or reports....According to Vogtlander, "We already had full indexing of various sites and institutional repositories, but now, for participating repositories, we will target key reports, have higher quality indexing, better display of results, and more accurate metadata." She found it odd that some institutional repositories, for all their important content, "offer no full text, only metadata."...Google Scholar has introduced linking to "appropriate copy" or restricted access content. (See http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb050516-1.shtml Library Collections Linked on Google Scholar for Free .) When asked about Google Scholar's clustering and linking, Vogtlander said that Scirus is considering clustering. For now, however, Scirus users will see multiple results ranked on frequency of terms and date. Scirus also can't handle Open URL linking to library-licensed content....Vogtlander seems to see the world in different terms from traditional Elsevier. In reference to the policy of not charging for Scirus' services, even the new Repository Search service, she stated: "We must understand the free service business. There are different business models now, and Web searching is seen as free."' (PS: I like this: Elsevier and Google competing to offer superior indexing of OA repository content. --- Peter Suber in Open Access News , 13 June 2005)

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Red Hat Releases Newest Fedora
by Farooque Shaheen 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Red Hat has released Fedora Core 4, a free version of Linux the company is using to advance virtualization, programming tools and other software at the frontier of open-source development. Among other features, Fedora Core 4--released Monday--comes with the Xen virtualization software, which lets multiple operating systems run on the same computer. Xen competes with software from EMC's VMware and with Microsoft virtual machine products. Fedora Core 4 uses version 2.10 of Gnome or version 3.4 of the KDE graphical desktop software. It includes the Evince software for reading Portable Document Format (PDF) documents, and OpenOffice.org 2.0. It also includes the Global File System (GFS) software for distributing files across a group of computers. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 Red Hat has released Fedora Core 4, a free version of Linux the company is using to advance virtualization, programming tools and other software at the frontier of open-source development. Among other features, Fedora Core 4--released Monday--comes with the Xen virtualization software, which lets multiple operating systems run on the same computer. Xen competes with software from EMC's VMware and with Microsoft virtual machine products. Fedora Core 4 uses version 2.10 of Gnome or version 3.4 of the KDE graphical desktop software. It includes the Evince software for reading Portable Document Format (PDF) documents, and OpenOffice.org 2.0. It also includes the Global File System (GFS) software for distributing files across a group of computers. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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[LIS-Forum] Version 58, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Version 58 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,420 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.arl.org/pubscat/pubs/openaccess/ 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* 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 about 200 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 470 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, Library Administration, 114 University Libraries, Houston, TX 77204-2000. E-mail: cbailey(a)uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. DigitalKoans: http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/ Open Access Bibliography: http://www.arl.org/pubscat/pubs/openaccess/ 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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workshop announcement
by Mailing List Manager 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:41:00 -0400 From: anjrao <anjrao(a)indiatimes.com> Dear sir kindly announce the following workshop events yours sincerely Janardhana Rao A N Librarian M S Ramiah institute of Management Bangalore-54 Email:msriml@rediff.com National Workshop on �Library and Information Services (LIS) for Quality Higher Education A one-day national workshop on �LIS for Quality Higher Education� was jointly organized by the NAAC and the M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Management (MSRIM), Bangalore on May 21, 2005. The MSRIM was the venue. Welcoming the participants to the workshop, Prof. Balachander of MSRIM underlined the need for good academic libraries in the higher education context. During his inaugural address, Prof. V.S. Prasad, Director, NAAC used the occasion to recall his association with the good libraries and librarians in the past and said that for a �learner�, librarian can be the best friend on an educational campus. In any field, limitations were always there but so were opportunities, he felt. The objective of the librarian should always be �total user satisfaction�. Prof. L. M. Patnaik, I.I.Sc, Bangalore, in his Presidential address, said that unlike in past when information sources were scarce, after the advent of internet, the present is characterized by information abundance; one of the key roles of the librarian was to pin-point the user to the appropriate information source and help conserve time and energy of the user. The workshop consisted of five sessions, including the last session earmarked for discussion and feedback. Mr. Anil Gowda of MSRIM made a presentation on �Accreditation and Certification: An Overview of NAAC, NBA and ISO Processes�. Explaining the PDCA (Plan, Do, Check and Act upon) Model for quality, he said that identifying problems correctly is the first step towards quality improvement. During his session on �ISO Certification and Academic Libraries�, Dr. Harish Chandra, Chief Librarian, IIT, Chennai emphasized that library functioning ought to be user-focused. He said that librarian was not just a custodian of books, as may have been the case till recently, but had evolved as an interpreter of thought contents. Pointing out that the IIT, Chennai had a separate website for e-books, he stressed the need for academic libraries to have a vision. Conceding that the �hybrid libraries� will always remain, as only then would the LIS be truly satisfactory, he said �customer satisfaction� and �customer confidence� should continue to guide the library agenda. After mentioning the impressive fact that the consultancy services of his Institute had touched the Rs.30 crore mark, he elaborated on the benefits of ISO Certification for academic libraries and explained the effect measures like �users writing the librarian�s CR�, and �ISO Certification� have had on their library system. Dr. C.R. Karisiddappa, Karnataka University, Dharwad, dealing with �Quality Indicators for LIS: Parameters of NAAC� said that no quality higher education was possible without quality LIS. Dr. Pichappan, Annamalai University explained �e-Learning and Digital Library Practices in enhancing the quality of LIS�. He asserted that quality of research and quality of higher education were inseparably linked. Explaining the technology developments in the library field, he hoped that e-learning would possibly neutralize brain-drain. During the course of the day, Balani Infotech and SSG Systems Ltd. made presentations on �e-Resources� and �Integrated Digital Library and Library Management� respectively. In her valedictory address, Dr. Mariamma Verghese, Senior Education Consultant, NAAC expressed the need for enhancing the use of library as the most crucial learning resource and the need to be in step with the technology of the times for providing good library service. The workshop was hugely attended. About 60 senior library professionals from all over the country and the academic staff of MSRIM and the NAAC participated. The event was coordinated by Mr. Janardhan Rao of MSRIM and Dr. Srinivasa Raghavan of NAAC.

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Fwd: [LISDWD] Karnatak University needs University Librarian
by Dr. R M Vatnal 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Note: forwarded message attached. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. R M VATNAL Head, Computer Section, University Library, Karnatak University, Dharwad - 580 003 INDIA Ph: 0836-2747121 Ext: 313(O) 2770907(R) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Get on-the-go sports scores, stock quotes, news and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/mobile.html

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SHRADDANJALI MEETING
by Mailing List Manager 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 10:54:54 +0000 from: I.R.N. Goudar <goudar#css.nal.res.in> Friends, A reminder about this evening's SHRADDANJALI MEETING. - Goudar SHRADDANJALI MEETING (Request: Please inform about this to friends, colleagues and students personally/through telephone, etc) As you are aware Dr. T.B. Rajashekar, a distinct star of our profession met a tragic accident and passed away on 3rd June 2005. He was given a tearful farewell the next day in the presence good number of his relatives, friends, colleagues and student community. We request you to join us in the CONDOLENCE MEETING arranged to pay homage to the departed soul. Date and Time: Monday, 13th June 2005 at 6.00 pm Venue: "Granthangana" Nagara Kendra Granthalaya West Zone, Hampinagar (RPC Layout) Vijayanagar, Bangalore -560040 (Very near to last RPC Layout Bus Stop Contact No. 23209691 (Chief Librarian, NKG) Meeting Organised by: Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) Department of Public Libraries, Karnataka Sharada Ranganathan Endowment for LIS Society for Information Science (SIS), Bangalore Chapter Students/Friends/Colleagues of Dr. TBR -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@fcss.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html

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Refresher course in LIS
by Dr. Nabi Hasan 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Dear Friends The Sambalpur University is organizing a Refresher course in LIS from 11th July to 31st July 2005. Further information may be obtained from ascsu(a)rediffmail.com Dr. Nabi Hasan Library System Administrator University Library, CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University Palampur (H.P.)- 176 062 (India) Phone: 01894-283184 (Direct), 01894-230361 (O) Cell- 9418149447, 01894-234571 (R) E-Mail: nabihasan(a)rediffmail.com nabihasan(a)gmail.com Web: http://hillagric.ernet.in --------------------------------- 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 Friends The Sambalpur University is organizing a Refresher course in LIS from 11th July to 31st July 2005. Further information may be obtained from mailto:ascsu@rediffmail.com ascsu(a)rediffmail.com Dr. Nabi Hasan Library System Administrator University Library, CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University Palampur (H.P.)- 176 062 (India) Phone: 01894-283184 (Direct), 01894-230361 (O) Cell- 9418149447, 01894-234571 (R) E-Mail: mailto:nabihasan@rediffmail.com nabihasan(a)rediffmail.com mailto:nabihasan@gmail.com nabihasan(a)gmail.com Web: http:// hillagric.ernet.in 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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Promoting OA among teachers and students
by Subbiah Arunachalam 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Friends: In an earlier mail I said that it is important to alert scientists and research students to the papers available for free from the hundreds of OA archives around the world. A friend of mine, Prof. Ganapathy Baskaran of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai (Bhatnagar Award winner for physics), spends about two hours in every workshop he conducts for university and college teachers and research students telling the participants about how to get the best out of the Internet. He actually demonstrates using an Internet connected PC in the classroom how one can learn a great deal from variety of sources and actually download the full text of key papers. We should encourage many others who conduct summer/winter schools and refresher courses to do the same. Clearly many researchers are not aware of important developments like open access and all they need is a little push. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Friends: In an earlier mail I said that it is important to alert scientists and research students to the papers available for free from the hundreds of OA archives around the world. A friend of mine, Prof. Ganapathy Baskaran of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai (Bhatnagar Award winner for physics), spends about two hours in every workshop he conducts for university and college teachers and research students telling the participants about how to get the best out of the Internet. He actually demonstrates using an Internet connected PC in the classroom how one can learn a great deal from variety of sources and actually download the full text of key papers. We should encourage many others who conduct summer/winter schools and refresher courses to do the same. Clearly many researchers are not aware of important developments like open access and all they need is a little push. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Article requested
by Yashwant G Kanade 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Respected Sir/Madam Could you kindly help to get this article? A galling aphid furnishes its home with a built in pipeline to the host food supply by Wool,A.; Aloni,R.; Ben-Zvi,A.; Wollberg,M. (1999) Entomological Experimentalist et Applicata 91(1) 183-186 With Regards Mahua Graduate Student CES, IISc, Bangalore-12 mahua(a)ces.iisc.ernet.in

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Library profile for the souvenir
by gayathri sen 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Dear members, PLEASE TREAT THIS AS PERSONAL REQUEST I request all the Heads/Librairans/Information Officers of major and unique libraries in Bangalore to send a one page profile giving their collections and special services they extend to their users to be published in the NACLIN 2005 souvenir. The libraries may be Research (IISc, NCSI, NAL, CMTI,ISRO,NIMHANS,IIAP, RRI, Kidwai Cancer Research,Forest Research Lab.,ISEC etc.etc) Academic Libraries (Bangalore University, Rajiv Gandhi Institue of Health Scie. IISc etc) Public Libraries (British Library, City Central Library) Corporate libraries (WIPRO, Infosys, Accenture Astra Zenica etc. etc.) This should be submitted on A4 size paper along with the electronic copy sent through e mail, so as to reach the following address before 15th July 2005 The Organising secretary, NACLIN 2005, PES Institute of Technology, 100 Feet Ring Road,BSK III stage, Bangalore -560085 INDIA Tel: 91-80-30918985/26721983 Fax: 91-80-26720886 Mobile: 9341713094 E-mail: librarian_pesit(a)yahoo.co.in Regards, Gayathri Sen Librarian & Head, Central Library PESIT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear members, PLEASE TREAT THIS AS PERSONAL REQUEST I request all the Heads/Librairans/Information Officers of major and unique libraries in Bangalore to send a one page profile giving their collections and special services they extend to their users to be published in the NACLIN 2005 souvenir. The libraries may be Research (IISc, NCSI, NAL, CMTI,ISRO,NIMHANS,IIAP, RRI, Kidwai Cancer Research,Forest Research Lab.,ISEC etc.etc) Academic Libraries (Bangalore University, Rajiv Gandhi Institue of Health Scie. IISc etc) Public Libraries (British Library, City Central Library) Corporate libraries (WIPRO, Infosys, Accenture Astra Zenica etc. etc.) This should be submitted on A4 size paper along with the electronic copy sent through e mail, so as to reach the following address before 15th July 2005 The Organising secretary, NACLIN 2005, PES Institute of Technology, 100 Feet Ring Road,BSK III stage, Bangalore -560085 INDIA Tel: 91-80-30918985/26721983 Fax: 91-80-26720886 Mobile: 9341713094 E-mail: mailto:librarian_pesit@yahoo.co.in librarian_pesit(a)yahoo.co.in Regards, Gayathri Sen Librarian & Head, Central Library PESIT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: Pubchem vs ACS + CAS. Taxpayers support Pubchem
by Subbiah Arunachalam 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Friends: The Alliance of Taxpayers in the USA have come out with support for Pubchem. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ATA broadening its mission to support OA The Alliance for Taxpayer Access was formed in August 2004 to support the NIH policy. Now that the NIH policy has been adopted, the ATA is broadening its mission. Originally the ATA rested on three principles calling for OA to publicly-funded medical research through the NIH. Now it rests on four principles calling for OA to publicly-funded scientific research of all kinds. The change will allow the ATA to defend PubChem against the ACS and to push for OA to research funded by other US agencies, such as the NSF. The member-organizations of the ATA are a wide range of US universities, libraries, and public-interest non-profits. If your US-based organization is not a member, please urge it consider joining. Friends: The Alliance of Taxpayers in the USA have come out with support for Pubchem. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ATA broadening its mission to support OA [A] The http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/ Alliance for Taxpayer Access was formed in August 2004 to support the NIH policy. Now that the NIH policy has been adopted, the ATA is broadening its mission. Originally the ATA rested on three principles calling for OA to publicly-funded medical research through the NIH. Now it rests on four principles calling for OA to publicly-funded scientific research of all kinds. The change will allow the ATA to defend PubChem against the ACS and to push for OA to research funded by other US agencies, such as the NSF. The member-organizations of the ATA are a wide range of US universities, libraries, and public-interest non-profits. If your US-based organization is not a member, please urge it consider joining.

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Pubchem vs ACS + CAS
by Subbiah Arunachalam 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Friends: There is a tussle going on in the United States between the bosses of the Chemical Abstracts Service (a part of the American Chemical Society) and Pubchem, a new service supported by NIH. Now a number of health-related academic libraries have come out openly in support of Pubchem. Chemists and life scientists and librarians around the world should come out openly in support of Pubchem and also write to the members of the American Chemical Society requesting the office bearers of ACS and CAS not to sabotage Pubchem, which provides valuable technical information at no cost. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] AAHSL supports PubChem The Association of Academic and Health Science Libraries has publicly released its June 7 letter in support of PubChem. Excerpt: 'I am writing on behalf of the Association of Academic and Health Science Libraries (AAHSL). AAHSL represents 128 libraries located at the nation's academic health centers responsible for training physicians andother health care professionals, providing clinical care, and conducting NIH-funded and other research. We want to express our enthusiastic support fo continuation of PubChem, a chemical database of immense importance to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). PubChem represents a vital next step for NIH in leveraging its investment in the Human Genome Project, integrating output from the Molecular Libraries Screening Center Netwowrk (MLSCN) and other publicly available data sources, such as NIH's protein structure resources and records of biomedical literature within PubMed and available full-text in the PubMed Central digital archive. PubChem is a powerful tool...that will...lead to medical breakthroughs for clinical treatment of diseases....We believe that [the ACS] concern is unfounded and that the American public is well served by continued development and maintenance of PubChem. By ensuring that publicly financed knowledge is broadly accessible, NIH is enhancing the return on public investment in research and stimulating further innovation by public and private scientific enterprises....It is a mistake to endanger the promise of the [NIH] Roadmap by imposing restrictions on Pubchem that fundamentally undermine its utility. There is simply too much at stake.' Friends: There is a tussle going on in the United States between the bosses of the Chemical Abstracts Service (a part of the American Chemical Society) and Pubchem, a new service supported by NIH. Now a number of health-related academic libraries have come out openly in support of Pubchem. Chemists and life scientists and librarians around the world should come out openly in support of Pubchem and also write to the members of the American Chemical Society requesting the office bearers of ACS and CAS not to sabotage Pubchem, which provides valuable technical information at no cost. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] AAHSL supports PubChem [A] The http://www.aahsl.org/ Association of Academic and Health Science Libraries has publicly released its June 7 http://www.aahsl.org/document/AAHSL_PubChemLetter_June_2005.pdf letter in support of PubChem . Excerpt: 'I am writing on behalf of the Association of Academic and Health Science Libraries (AAHSL). AAHSL represents 128 libraries located at the nation's academic health centers responsible for training physicians andother health care professionals, providing clinical care, and conducting NIH-funded and other research. We want to express our enthusiastic support fo continuation of PubChem, a chemical database of immense importance to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). PubChem represents a vital next step for NIH in leveraging its investment in the Human Genome Project, integrating output from the Molecular Libraries Screening Center Netwowrk (MLSCN) and other publicly available data sources, such as NIH's protein structure resources and records of biomedical literature within PubMed and available full-text in the PubMed Central digital archive. PubChem is a powerful tool...that will...lead to medical breakthroughs for clinical treatment of diseases....We believe that [the ACS] concern is unfounded and that the American public is well served by continued development and maintenance of PubChem. By ensuring that publicly financed knowledge is broadly accessible, NIH is enhancing the return on public investment in research and stimulating further innovation by public and private scientific enterprises....It is a mistake to endanger the promise of the [NIH] Roadmap by imposing restrictions on Pubchem that fundamentally undermine its utility. There is simply too much at stake.'

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JRF and ADIS result of DRTC
by Rashid Hussain 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

DRTC (Documentation Reaserch and Training Center),ISI (Indian Statistical Institute) Result for the Academic year 2005-2006 for the JRF and ADIS courses has come out. For the JRF result you can check the following link http://www.isical.ac.in/~deanweb/jrflibraryintlist05.html And for the ADIS results you can check the following link http://www.isical.ac.in/~deanweb/jrfadisintlist05.html Thanks & Regards = = = = = = = = = = = Rashid Hussain Siddiqui Project Assistant Digital Library, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science Jayanagar, Bangalore : 560041 Phone No. : 080-26540930 e-mail : ras.botlib(a)gmail.com Homepage : http://www.drtc.isibang.ac.in/~hussain = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet. Samuel NIGER (1883-1956) --------------------------------- Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel & more fun for the weekend. Check it out! DRTC (Documentation Reaserch and Training Center),ISI (Indian Statistical Institute) Result for the Academic year 2005-2006 for the JRF and ADIS courses has come out. For the JRF result you can check the following link http://www.isical.ac.in/~deanweb/jrflibraryintlist05.html http://www.isical.ac.in/~deanweb/jrflibraryintlist05.html And for the ADIS results you can check the following link http://www.isical.ac.in/~deanweb/jrfadisintlist05.html http://www.isical.ac.in/~deanweb/jrfadisintlist05.html Thanks & Regards = = = = = = = = = = = Rashid Hussain Siddiqui Project Assistant Digital Library, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science Jayanagar, Bangalore : 560041 Phone No. : 080-26540930 e-mail : ras.botlib(a)gmail.com Homepage : http://www.drtc.isibang.ac.in/~hussain = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet. Samuel NIGER (1883-1956) Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel & more fun for the weekend. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=32658/*http://discover.yahoo.com/weekend.html Check it out!

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Open access archives in Indian institutions
by Subbiah Arunachalam 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

Friends: This is especially meant for those who attended the Open Access Workshops at MSSRF held in May last year in which Prof. T B Rajashekar was a facilitator (in the first workshop). Eight days ago Prof. Rajashekar was killed in a road accident a few miles from Bangalore while he was returning to his office after attending a wedding. May his soul rest in peace. A very large number of people, including many who attended the workshops at Chennai, have sent condolence messages. But the best tribute we could pay a great man like Rajashekar is to follow his example and keep our promise to him. Rajashekar had conducted many other workshops too. In particular, he conducted one on OA especially for INDEST librarians. I would also urge them to set up institutional archives as soon as possible. I know that archives have been set up at NCL, IIMK, NIC-Indian Medlars Centre, etc. Here is the report by Les Carr of the University of Southampton, another facilitator at our workshops, on the two workshops on Open Access held at MSSRF, Chennai in 2004. Virtually every one who attended the workshop promised that s/he will set up an archive within a few months at his/her institution. Now more than a year later, let us take stock. How many archives have been set up and how many papers have been deposited inthem so far? How many of those who attended the MSSRF workshops have not set up an archive so far and what are the reasons? Is there anything that I can do to help. Best wishes. Subbiah Arunachalam ------- Workshop on Open Access http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3650.html Executive Summary: (a) Indian Open Access Workshops a Great Success (b) Open Source Development Company offers pPrints Support for Very Modest Fee (c) Further plans to promote Eprints across India, China and Brazil. The Open Access workshops in Chennai, India 2-4 May 2004 and 6-8 May 2004 were conceived and organised by Subbiah Arunachalam, on a suggestion from Prof. M S Valiathan, President of the Indian National Science Academyand held at the Bioinformatics Centre of the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation The workshops were attended by 50 scientists, research managers and librarians from a wide range of research institutions from India (below). The aim of the workshops was to enable each organisation to set up an institutional EPrints archive; we confidently expect to see at least a dozen sustainable, populated archives to appear within the next three months. More than 150 people applied for the available places which were limited by the requirement to provide hands-on access to computers for instruction in the practical aspects maintaining an EPrints archive. The workshops covered essential background (Open Access philosophy, the theory of the Open Archiving Metadata Protocols, issues of document and metadata formats) but majored on the practical aspects of using, installing and configuring EPrint archives, with a particular focus on the budgetary and management resources required for setting up a pilot project within each organistaion to establish an institutional archive. The participants were all highly motivated and technically very competent. Indian researchers and institutions are particularly keen not only to obtain more access to high quality research, but also to provide access to high quality Indian research which they feel is under-represented in international journals. Many of the participants have Linux servers, excellent network infrastructure and a large number of publications to hand, and consequently anticipate no difficulty in setting up an EPrints server themselves, or in arranging institutional support for doing so. One of the participants was the head of an Open Source Software company operating in the not-for-profit and NGO sector with whom we are in discussion about a service for installing, configuring, maintaining and upgrading EPrints archives. The organiser of the workshop, Professor Subbiah Arunachalam from the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, is next organising a meeting of government officials representing India, China and Brazil to discuss national and international policies for promoting Open Access and Research Archiving. I have been invited to the annual ICCC Electronic Publishing conference in Brazil to give a keynote, to meet Brazilian government officials and to run a workshop on EPrints Archiving. Research Institutes attending Workshops ================================ Bose Institute, Calcutta Central Electro Chemical Research Institute, Karaikudi Central Institute of Psychiatry, Kanke Central Leather Research Institute Central Potato Research Institute Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture Entomology Research Institute Indian Agricultural Research Institute Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute Indian Institute of Technology (reps from each of 5 cities) Indian National Science Association Indian Institute of Astrophysics Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode International Crops research Institute for the semi-Arid Tropics M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation National Academy of Agricultural Sciences National Brain Research Centre, Nainwal National Chemical Laboratory National Informatics Centre National Institute of Nutrition Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology Tuberculosis Research Centre Universities ------------ Anna University Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai Deemed University Govind Ballabh Pant University Of Agriculture and Technology Kerala Agricultural University Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University Shivaji University Tamil Nadu Agricultural University University Of Madras University of Delhi University of Kalyani Other Organisations ---- Mahiti (software developer for civil sector http://www.mahiti.org/) National Agricultural Technology Project (NATP, National Co-ordinator of 104 partners), Sir Ganga Ram Hospital --- Les Carr Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia (IAM) group Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lac/ Friends: This is especially meant for those who attended the Open Access Workshops at MSSRF held in May last year in which Prof. T B Rajashekar was a facilitator (in the first workshop). Eight days ago Prof. Rajashekar was killed in a road accident a few miles from Bangalore while he was returning to his office after attending a wedding. May his soul rest in peace. A very large number of people, including many who attended the workshops at Chennai, have sent condolence messages. But the best tribute we could pay a great man like Rajashekar is to follow his example and keep our promise to him. Rajashekar had conducted many other workshops too. In particular, he conducted one on OA especially for INDEST librarians. I would also urge them to set up institutional archives as soon as possible. I know that archives have been set up at NCL, IIMK, NIC-Indian Medlars Centre, etc. Here is the report by Les Carr of the University of Southampton, another facilitator at our workshops, on the two workshops on Open Access held at MSSRF, Chennai in 2004. Virtually every one who attended the workshop promised that s/he will set up an archive within a few months at his/her institution. Now more than a year later, let us take stock. How many archives have been set up and how many papers have been deposited inthem so far? How many of those who attended the MSSRF workshops have not set up an archive so far and what are the reasons? Is there anything that I can do to help. Best wishes. Subbiah Arunachalam ------- Workshop on Open Access https://mx2.arl.org/Redirect/www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/36… http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3650.html Executive Summary : (a) Indian Open Access Workshops a Great Success (b) Open Source Development Company offers pPrints Support for Very Modest Fee (c) Further plans to promote Eprints across India, China and Brazil. The Open Access workshops in Chennai, India 2-4 May 2004 and 6-8 May 2004 were conceived and organised by Subbiah Arunachalam, on a suggestion from Prof. M S Valiathan, President of the Indian National Science Academyand held at the Bioinformatics Centre of the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation The workshops were attended by 50 scientists, research managers and librarians from a wide range of research institutions from India (below). The aim of the workshops was to enable each organisation to set up an institutional EPrints archive; we confidently expect to see at least a dozen sustainable, populated archives to appear within the next three months. More than 150 people applied for the available places which were limited by the requirement to provide hands-on access to computers for instruction in the practical aspects maintaining an EPrints archive. The workshops covered essential background (Open Access philosophy, the theory of the Open Archiving Metadata Protocols, issues of document and metadata formats) but majored on the practical aspects of using, installing and configuring EPrint archives, with a particular focus on the budgetary and management resources required for setting up a pilot project within each organistaion to establish an institutional archive. The participants were all highly motivated and technically very competent. Indian researchers and institutions are particularly keen not only to obtain more access to high quality research, but also to provide access to high quality Indian research which they feel is under-represented in international journals. Many of the participants have Linux servers, excellent network infrastructure and a large number of publications to hand, and consequently anticipate no difficulty in setting up an EPrints server themselves, or in arranging institutional support for doing so. One of the participants was the head of an Open Source Software company operating in the not-for-profit and NGO sector with whom we are in discussion about a service for installing, configuring, maintaining and upgrading EPrints archives. The organiser of the workshop, Professor Subbiah Arunachalam from the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, is next organising a meeting of government officials representing India, China and Brazil to discuss national and international policies for promoting Open Access and Research Archiving. I have been invited to the annual ICCC Electronic Publishing conference in Brazil to give a keynote, to meet Brazilian government officials and to run a workshop on EPrints Archiving. Research Institutes attending Workshops ================================ Bose Institute, Calcutta Central Electro Chemical Research Institute, Karaikudi Central Institute of Psychiatry, Kanke Central Leather Research Institute Central Potato Research Institute Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture Entomology Research Institute Indian Agricultural Research Institute Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute Indian Institute of Technology (reps from each of 5 cities) Indian National Science Association Indian Institute of Astrophysics Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode International Crops research Institute for the semi-Arid Tropics M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation National Academy of Agricultural Sciences National Brain Research Centre, Nainwal National Chemical Laboratory National Informatics Centre National Institute of Nutrition Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology Tuberculosis Research Centre Universities ------------ Anna University Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai Deemed University Govind Ballabh Pant University Of Agriculture and Technology Kerala Agricultural University Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University Shivaji University Tamil Nadu Agricultural University University Of Madras University of Delhi University of Kalyani Other Organisations ---- Mahiti (software developer for civil sector https://mx2.arl.org/Redirect/www.mahiti.org/ http://www.mahiti.org/ ) National Agricultural Technology Project (NATP, National Co-ordinator of 104 partners), Sir Ganga Ram Hospital --- Les Carr Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia (IAM) group Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton https://mx2.arl.org/Redirect/www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lac/ http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lac/

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Refresher Course in AMU, Aligarh
by ali raza naqvi 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

Dear collegue, I am glad to inform you that the department of Library and Infomration Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh is going to organize UGC sponsored subject refresher courses as per the details given in the attachment The last date of receiving the applications is 30th of June 2005 Thanks Prof. Shabahat Husain Chairman department of Library and Infomration Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh Refreser Course Ist Theme Library and Information Management in Electronic age Schedule 13 July to 2nd Aug. 2005 Course Coordinator Dr. Naushad Ali, PM Refresher Course IInd Theme Organizing Knowledge in Automated Library Schedule 8th to 28th Dec. 2005 Course Coordinator Prof. Shabahat Husain Dear collegue, I am glad to inform you that the department of Library and Infomration Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh is going to organize UGC sponsored subject refresher courses as per the details given in the attachment The last date of receiving the applications is 30th of June 2005 Thanks Prof. Shabahat Husain Chairman department of Library and Infomration Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh Refreser Course Ist Theme Library and Information Management in Electronic age Schedule 13 July to 2nd Aug. 2005 Course Coordinator Dr. Naushad Ali, PM Refresher Course IInd Theme Organizing Knowledge in Automated Library Schedule 8th to 28th Dec. 2005 Course Coordinator Prof. Shabahat Husain 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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Sad demise of our Raja...
by ts kumbar 11 Jun '05

11 Jun '05

Dear Friends, It is exactly a week back on this day ( Saturday) morning, the shocking news about the tragic death of Dr. Rajashekhar shook all of us. Many of us, who are closely known him for long and interacted with him on professional matters, find it hard to take in this news.The fact that, he is physically no more amongst us is not simply sinking in yet in our mind and heart. We have lost in him a thorough and a dedicated professional, a serious researcher, organisation builder, a teacher, a best friend and above all a good human being. It is a great loss to the profession and friends like us. He was one of those very few people, who worked tirelessly to train and prepare the young professionals with expertise in IT application to LIS. The best way to remember and respect this departed soul is to dedicate our efforts towards constantly improving our services by effectively using IT, for which he worked all through his career. Me and all my colleagues at DA-IICT, pray to God Almighty to rest his soul in peace and give a strength to the bereaved family and colleagues at NCSI. Kumbar & Colleagues Resource Centre DA-IICT Gandhinagar Dear Friends, It is exactly a week back on this day ( Saturday) morning, the shocking news about the tragic death of Dr. Rajashekhar shook all of us. Many of us, who are closely known him for long and interacted with him on professional matters, find it hard to take in this news. The fact that, he is physically no more amongst us is not simply sinking in yet in our mind and heart. We have lost in him a thorough and a dedicated professional, a serious researcher, organisation builder, a teacher, a best friend and above all a good human being. It is a great loss to the profession and friends like us. He was one of those very few people, who worked tirelessly to train and prepare the young professionals with expertise in IT application to LIS. The best way to remember and respect this departed soul is to dedicate our efforts towards constantly improving our services by effectively using IT, for which he worked all through his career. Me and all my colleagues at DA-IICT, pray to God Almighty to rest his soul in peace and give a strength to the bereaved family and colleagues at NCSI. Kumbar & Colleagues Resource Centre DA-IICT Gandhinagar

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request for article
by Yashwant G Kanade 11 Jun '05

11 Jun '05

Dear Sir/Madam, Could you kindly help me to get this article please? Johri,B.N.; Konar,R.N. 1956: Floral morphology and embryology of F.religiosa; Phytomorphology 6: 97-111 With Regards Mahua Graduate Student CES, IISc. Bangalore mahua(a)ces.iisc.ernet.in

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DR TB Rajashekhar
by anjali gulati 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

It was shocking to know the sad demise of Dr. TBR. He was my role model and was also an inspiration for several young LIS professionals. My condolences to his bereaved family members. May God rest his soul in peace. Anjali Gulati It was shocking to know the sad demise of Dr. TBR. He was my role model and was also an inspiration for several young LIS professionals. My condolences to his bereaved family members. May God rest his soul in peace. Anjali Gulati 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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Heartfelt condolences to Dr. TBR
by Mailing List Manager 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 15:15:44 +0530 (IST) From: Poornima Narayan <poornima(a)css.nal.res.in> Words fail me to express my grief and sorrow at this gruesome incident. Tears stream down my face when his smiling face looms in front of me. Even in death, he looked so calm and composed. The Information Center at NAL's association with Dr. TBR and NCSI began in the mid '80's which strengthened further over the years. Dr. TBR has always been helpful and has guided us in every endeavor of ours. On the personal front, Dr. TBR's excellent letters of reference helped me in bagging the most prestigious Fulbright award. Thanks to you, Sir for this gesture. At the time of his untimely demise, Dr. TBR was the Principal Investigator for the project on 'Creation of Prototype Digital Archive of Indian Aerospace Research (P DAINER)' Project (IR) with NAL and ADE identified as test beds with me leading the project from our side. Just the previous week we had a detailed discussion regarding the same to be made available through our website. Alas, Dr. TBR is no more to see his dreams come true!! Our prayers to the Almighty to give his family courage and strength to withstand this great loss and may the GREAT SOUL REST IN ETERNAL PEACE! Poornima Narayana -- Poornima Narayana Contact: 080-25086083 (O) Dy Head, ICAST 080-26682781 (R) N.A.L E mail: poornima(a)css.nal.res.in Airport Road prn_1_in(a)yahoo.com Bangalore 560 017 Fax: 080-25268072

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homage to Departed Soul of Dr T B Rajasekhar
by Mailing List Manager 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 15:31:27 +0530 From: INSA Computer Centre <insa(a)vsnl.com> To pay homage to Departed Soul of Dr T B Rajasekhar, Society for Information Science (SIS) is arranging condolence meeting on 17th June at 5 p.m. in the DSIR Auditorium at Department of Science & Technology, Technology Bhavan, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi 110 067. You are requested to make it convenient to participate. Usha Mujoo-Munshi Ramesh Kundra

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Re: [LIS-Forum] IBM Computers to Create Virtual Brain
by Roopa E 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Dear friends This articles was published on June 6, 2005 in beatnews & it is available at www.betanews.com. Beta News is an software newsform, where in we can search the articles by title or company name. We have free access to this newsform Thanks & Regards Roopa. E Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd Hyderabad Mail: roopa.eswarappa(a)accenture.com Ph: 55926166 >From: Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna(a)i2.com >To: "Roopa E" <roops_e(a)hotmail.com> >Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] IBM Computers to Create Virtual Brain >Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 09:52:02 +0530 > > > > > >Dear Roopa, > Its really an eye-opener article. Thanks for sending such an >informative. It would be of great help had if yu sent the article source so >that we could have explored much more abt it..... > >Thanks >Regards > ,,, > ( ',') ><|"|> >_/"|_ > >**************************************** >Sreeharsha BG >KM Group >i2 Technologies >‘One i2 Place’ >#132 / 133, DivyaSree Technopolis >Yamalur Post, Off Airport Road, >Bangalore 560 037. >Phone: +91-80-3028 8016 >Handfone: +9198867 26915 >Email: sreeharsha_gopalakrishna(a)i2.com >visit us @ www.i2.com >**************************************** >It is better to be beautiful than good. But…it is better to be good than >to >be ugly....!!! > > > > "Roopa E" > <roops_e@hotmail. > com> To > Sent by: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > lis-forum-bounces cc > @ncsi.iisc.ernet. > in Subject > [LIS-Forum] IBM Computers to Create > Virtual Brain > 06/07/2005 06:19 > PM > > > > > > > > >Dear Friends, > >Now we may have a chance to see real 5th generation computers or we may >call >it has 6th generation computers. IBM, in partnership with scientists at >Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne's (EPFL) Brain and >Mind Institute will begin simulating the brain's biological systems and >output the data as a working 3-dimensional model that will recreate the >high-speed electro-chemical interactions that take place within the brain's > >interior. > >These include cognitive functions such as language, learning, perception >and >memory in addition to brain malfunction such as psychiatric disorders like >depression and autism. > >"Modeling the brain at the cellular level is a massive undertaking because >of the hundreds of thousands of parameters that need to be taken into >account," said Professor Henry Markram, the EPFL project leader. > >"IBM has unparalleled experience in biological simulations and the most >advanced supercomputing technology in the world. With our combined >resources >and expertise we are embarking on one of the most ambitious research >initiatives ever undertaken in the field of neuroscience." > >At EPFL, over a decade of knowledge accumulated from wet lab experiments >has >been consolidated into a set of empirical data on the >Microsoft-architecture >of brain's neocortex. The first phase of the project -- nicknamed "Blue >Brain" -- will focus directly on the neocortex, which makes up >approximately >85 percent of the human brain. > > >From there, the modeling will expand to other regions of the brain and, >if > >successful, shed light on the relationships between genetic, molecular and >cognitive functions of the brain. > >IBM will equip Blue Brain with four Blue Gene super computer racks. The >system will occupy the floor space of roughly four refrigerators with a >peak >performance of 22.8 teraflops. > >IBM's Blue Gene systems are presently the world's fastest supercomputers, >achieving a peak performance of 5.7 teraflops per single rack system. Each >rack occupies one square meter and energy consumption is reduced from >previous IBM systems, changing the economics of super computing and >prompting IBM to start its Capacity on Demand service where computing power > >is leased out to customers in a time share type model. > >Under its agreement with IBM, EPFL has entered into a Capacity on Demand >type sharing arrangement were IBM says computing power will be leased out >to >other research projects ranging from post-CMOS technology studies to build >smaller transistors to examining folding proteins and their role in >diseases >like Creutzfeldt-Jakob. > > >Roopa. E > >Library > >Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd > >Building 1B, Raheja Mind Space > >Madhapur, Hyderabad - 500 581 > >Ph: 040 - 55926166 > >_________________________________________________________________ >Millions of marriage proposals. >http://www.bharatmatrimony.com/cgi-bin/bmclicks1.cgi?74 Find your match on >BharatMatrimony.com > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum _________________________________________________________________ Millions of marriage proposals. http://www.bharatmatrimony.com/cgi-bin/bmclicks1.cgi?74 Find your match on BharatMatrimony.com

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for the loss of gentle/excellent teacher
by Mailing List Manager 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Date: 9 Jun 2005 08:53:04 -0000 From: chinmaya rout <chinmaya_kumar(a)rediffmail.com> � �We are extremely shocked to know about the Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar !!!! �May the gentle and greatman soul rest in peace. Praying god to provide the full strengh to bear the loss for the library science at NCSI. We lost a thorough digital library professional and a fine gentleman/excellent teacher for ever. Chinmaya Kumar Rout Trainee ICMR Hqrs. Library Ansarinagar New Delhi\110029 ckrout(a)rediffmail.com Raj Kumar Mallik Research Asst. ICMR New Delhi-110029 rajk329(a)yahoo.co.in

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Yahoo Launches Sorting Tool For Search Results :Intent-driven Search
by Mailing List Manager 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 09:34:00 +0530 From: Rupak Chakravarty <rupak2811(a)gmail.com> *Mindset* - *Find* the results you like. - *Sort* the way you need. Yahoo Inc. has released in beta a tool that sorts search results according to whether they are commercial or more informational, such as from academic or research-oriented sources. Called Mindset, <http://mindset.research.yahoo.com/> the tool is available through the Yahoo Research Labs site Yahoo Next. <http://next.yahoo.com/> Mindset appears as a slider on the top of Yahoo search results. The midpoint of the slider is the default setting that shows the order of results matching Yahoo's normal listing. Moving the slider to the right rearranges the results so non-commercial information is listed first. Moving it to the left, and the results are re-sorted in favor of shopping results. Mindset is based on two different types of technical research, text classification and machine learning. The former refers to classifying documents automatically into different subject categories, while the latter is based on algorithms that can improve a computer's ability to perform a task the more times the machine does it. Machine learning is used in Mindset to score search results on a continuous scale ranging from "very commercial" to "very non-commercial," officials with the Sunnyvale, Calif., entertainment portal said. The new tool can be tried on Yahoo, and does not require downloading software. For more information visit : http://mindset.research.yahoo.com/faq.php -- Rupak Chakravarty Assistant Librarian Panjab University Library Chandigarh 160014 INDIA

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TBR: My Guru & Navigator!
by Venkataramana Rao D 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

An unfortunate demise of Dr. TB Rajashekar is a great loss to his family, friends, colleagues, professionals. 10 years ago I was his student and colleague too; especially I lot my Guru and Navigator. My colleagues M Phahalada Rao and Staff express their deep condolence. D. Venkataramana Rao JRC Sarma Technical Information Center Defence Electronics Research Laboratory (DLRL) DRDO, Hyderabad --------------------------------- Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM & more. Check it out! An unfortunate demise of Dr. TB Rajashekar is a great loss to his family, friends, colleagues, professionals. 10 years ago I was his student and colleague too; especially I lot my Guru and Navigator. My colleagues M Phahalada Rao and Staff express their deep condolence. D. Venkataramana Rao JRC Sarma Technical Information Center Defence Electronics Research Laboratory (DLRL) DRDO, Hyderabad Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM & more. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=32660/*http://discover.yahoo.com/online.html Check it out!

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SHIVAGANARADHANE By Mrs.TBR
by I.R.N.Goudar 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Dr.TBR: SHIVAGANARADHAE Shivaganaradhane (9th day rites) have been arranged to pray for the soul of Late Dr. T B Rajashekar (Associate Chairman, NSCI, IISc) Date and Time: Saturday, 11 June 2005 at 11.00 am. Venue: Sri Sharanaseva Samaja, No. 94/C, 1st 'R' Block Rajajinagar (Beside Iscon Temple), Bangalore-10 Smt. Parvathi Rajashekar

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FW:Raja is no more- sad demise of Rajashekar
by Shalini R Urs 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Outpouring of grief and tributes from the international community .... -----Original Message----- From: Jean-Claude Guédon [mailto:jean.claude.guedon@umontreal.ca] Sent: 08 June 2005 20:30 To: Shalini R Urs Subject: Re: Raja is no more- sad demise of Rajashkar Dear Shalini, Many thanks for taking the time to inform me about Raja's tragic death. I have known this for a couple of days now and I have felt totally devastated since. He was such a warm, gentle, yet energetic man and his values sounded so right. When I spoke in front of his students and colleagues, he offered me a lovely elephant sculpture. When I heard about his death, all I could think of doing was to touch this elephant, as if I wanted to find a way to get in touch with him one last time. Life is so, so very fragile, Shalini. And death can be so absurd and unjust for some worthy individuals. Very warmly, Jean-Claude Le mercredi 08 juin 2005 à 20:13 +0530, Shalini R Urs a écrit : > Dear Jean, > I am sorry to inform you that our dear friend Raja- Dr.T.B.Rajashekar of IISc was killed in a > road accident on Friday...since then I as in a state of shock...only > since this morning I am slowly getting back to some kind of > normalcy...as life has to go on... > > > > Shalini > -------- > 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 > homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm > >

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Tribute to Rajshekar
by gayathri sen 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Dr.Rajshekar, You were the star and the guiding spirit for many in our profession. Simple and unassuming, discipline and dedication were your hallmarks. Ever helpful, you were always there with your support and advice. NACLIN 2005 will miss you tremendously. But I know you are somewhere there, overseeing everything and see that everything goes well. Swami Vivekananda guided you and you had discreetly put his picture in your room at NCSI. But, We never thought you too will leave all of us so young like Swamiji. Swamiji continues to inspire thousands of youngsters by his spirit and you too will do this for very many in our profession. Your absence, is the personal loss of a friend, philosopher and guide to me, a great loss to the profession and a greater void for your family. My tributes to you Rajshekar. You will always live in our hearts. Gayathri Sen Librarian & Head, PESIT Central Library Organising Secretary NACLIN 2005 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dr.Rajshekar, You were the star and the guiding spirit for many in our profession. Simple and unassuming, discipline and dedication were your hallmarks. Ever helpful, you were always there with your support and advice. NACLIN 2005 will miss you tremendously. But I know you are somewhere there, overseeing everything and see that everything goes well. Swami Vivekananda guided you and you had discreetly put his picture in your room at NCSI. But, We never thought you too will leave all of us so young like Swamiji. Swamiji continues to inspire thousands of youngsters by his spirit and you too will do this for very many in our profession. Your absence, is the personal loss of a friend, philosopher and guide to me, a great loss to the profession and a greater void for your family. My tributes to you Rajshekar. You will always live in our hearts. Gayathri Sen Librarian & Head, PESIT Central Library Organising Secretary NACLIN 2005 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar - from all @ NCSI-NET
by Babu Rajendra 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Dear All, Destiny had dealt a major blow on all of us with the untimely and unfortunate demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (http://144.16.72.189/raja/). An immeasurable loss not only to his family and friends, but to colleagues, professionals and to NCSI. NCSI-NET (an association of Past/present students and staff of NCSI - ), which was his brainchild, is like a ship without its captain. We had organized NCSI-NET meeting on Saturday, 4th June, as part of our monthly meeting plan. On 3rd he went to attend a marriage of his relatives, while he was rushing to return to Bangalore, his family asked him to stay back, to which he said "No, I have NCSI-NET meeting tomorrow and I have to attend". The alumni association never organized a meet without him (for more details see the attached message below). He was always there when we needed him and adjusted his schedule to match ours. The Agenda for the meeting on 4th June was a Brainstorming on "How to make a better professionals and Leaders: what it takes". The leadership aspect was added by him and he was to guide us with the same. But for the unfortunate event which has left us in a state of shock. NCSI-net was born in Feb 2001, and in his introductory talk he shared his vision. Three levels of contribution being: 1. We work as professionals to serve ourselves. 2. Start contributing to our organizations where we work 3. Start contributing to Society The net surged along with this vision in mind. In early 2005 Dr. Thimmappa Hegde, Neuro Surgeon, Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore, spoke to us on Work-life balance. After the talk, Sir shared his observations to few of us through e-mail. A few among the 20 points, he shared were: 12. We are all going to end up as mounted photographs one day! So, what we expect others to think of us when we are gone? 14. What legacy we want to leave behind? As all of us know, he was a man of multi facets. He was our leader, mentor, guide, teacher, friend and idol who was always there with us. What he also taught us was never to loose focus, confidence and passion for the profession. We have lost you in person sir, but you shall always remain in our hearts with your values and inspiration. He always wanted NCSI-NET to surge ahead irrespective of his presence. We have now come to a state where we have to take lead forward. We at, NCSI-NET pray God to rest your soul in peace and give us the strength and courage to keep your vision going forward. NCSI-Net is organizing a condolence meeting on the Friday 10 June 2005, at 6:30. Exactly a week after the unfortunate accident. A humble request to all NCSIans to be there to pay our respects to the man, who has a major stake in what we are today. NCSI-NET coordinators > ======================= > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dr. T.B. Rajashekar [mailto:raja@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] > Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 10:04 AM > To: Babu Rajendra; 'Prasanna, T S' > Subject: RE: Next NCSI-NET Meeting > > That's fine, Babu. I will be there. > > Another aspect I think we need to think about is what makes people to > become leaders? How does one develop leadership qualities? How our > trainees can become good information/library profession leaders? > > Best wishes on your efforts > > Rajashekar > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Babu Rajendra [mailto:Rajendra.Babu@capco.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 4:35 PM > > To: raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; Prasanna, T S > > Subject: RE: Next NCSI-NET Meeting > > > > Dear Sir, > > > > Thanks for the mail. As desired by you, we would like to post phone > the meeting to 4th June 2005 to accommodate Srinivas's talk on KM > implementation and Brainstorming. The programme for the meeting > remains unchanged. We shall be really grateful, if you could kindly > make to this meeting. > > > > If you have any further suggestions, please let us know. > > > > Warm Regards, > > Rajendra Babu and Prasanna. > H Rajendra Babu Financial Research Analyst Capco. Salarpuria Annexe, 351/5 - 10 Luskar, Hosur Road, Bangalore- 560 034 T-+91-80-51997351 http://www.capcoinstitute.com/ Capco Institute is the research arm of Capco Capco is the first services and technology solutions provider exclusively focused on forming the future of the financial markets. We unite thought leadership and practical application to improve profitability for our clients. ************************************************************************ The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender of this email immediately. You should not copy, use or disseminate the information contained in the email. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Capco. http://www.capco.com/ ************************************************************************ Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar - from all @ NCSI-NET Dear All, Destiny had dealt a major blow on all of us with the untimely and unfortunate demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar ( http://144.16.72.189/raja/ http://144.16.72.189/raja/ ). An immeasurable loss not only to his family and friends, but to colleagues, professionals and to NCSI. NCSI-NET (an association of Past/present students and staff of NCSI - ), which was his brainchild, is like a ship without its captain. We had organized NCSI-NET meeting on Saturday, 4th June, as part of our monthly meeting plan. On 3rd he went to attend a marriage of his relatives, while he was rushing to return to Bangalore, his family asked him to stay back, to which he said "No, I have NCSI-NET meeting tomorrow and I have to attend”. The alumni association never organized a meet without him (for more details see the attached message below). He was always there when we needed him and adjusted his schedule to match ours.� The Agenda for the meeting on 4th June was a Brainstorming on "How to make a better professionals and Leaders: what it takes". The leadership aspect was added by him and he was to guide us with the same. But for the unfortunate event which has left us in a state of shock. NCSI-net was born in Feb 2001, and in his introductory talk he shared his vision. Three levels of contribution being: 1. We work as professionals to serve ourselves. 2. Start contributing to our organizations where we work 3. Start contributing to Society The net surged along with this vision in mind. In early 2005 Dr. Thimmappa Hegde, Neuro Surgeon, Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore, spoke to us on Work-life balance. After the talk, Sir shared his observations to few of us through e-mail. A few among the 20 points, he shared were: 12. We are all going to end up as mounted photographs one day! So, what we expect others to think of us when we are gone? 14. What legacy we want to leave behind? � As all of us know, he was a man of multi facets. He was our leader, mentor, guide, teacher, friend and idol who was always there with us. What he also taught us was never to loose focus, confidence and passion for the profession. We have lost you in person sir, but you shall always remain in our hearts with your values and inspiration. He always wanted NCSI-NET to surge ahead irrespective of his presence. We have now come to a state where we have to take lead forward. We at, NCSI-NET pray God to rest your soul in peace and give us the strength and courage to keep your vision going forward. NCSI-Net is organizing a condolence meeting on the Friday 10 June 2005, at 6:30. Exactly a week after the unfortunate accident. A humble request to all NCSIans to be there to pay our respects to the man, who has a major stake in what we are today. NCSI-NET coordinators ======================= -----Original Message----- From: Dr. T.B. Rajashekar [ mailto:raja@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in mailto:raja@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ] Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 10:04 AM To: Babu Rajendra; 'Prasanna, T S' Subject: RE: Next NCSI-NET Meeting That's fine, Babu. I will be there. Another aspect I think we need to think about is what makes people to become leaders? How does one develop leadership qualities? How our trainees can become good information/library profession leaders? Best wishes on your efforts Rajashekar > -----Original Message----- > From: Babu Rajendra [ mailto:Rajendra.Babu@capco.com mailto:Rajendra.Babu@capco.com ] > Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 4:35 PM > To: raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; Prasanna, T S > Subject: RE: Next NCSI-NET Meeting > > Dear Sir, > > Thanks for the mail. As desired by you, we would like to post phone the meeting to 4th June 2005 to accommodate Srinivas's talk on KM implementation and Brainstorming . The programme for the meeting remains unchanged. We shall be really grateful, if you could kindly make to this meeting.�� > > If you have any further suggestions, please let us know. > > Warm Regards, > Rajendra Babu and Prasanna. H Rajendra Babu Financial Research Analyst Capco. Salarpuria Annexe, 351/5 - 10 Luskar, Hosur Road, Bangalore- 560 034 T-+91-80-51997351 http://www.capcoinstitute.com/ http://www.capcoinstitute.com/ Capco Institute is the research arm of Capco Capco is the first services and technology solutions provider exclusively focused on forming the future of the financial markets. We unite thought leadership and practical application to improve profitability for our clients. ************************************************************************ The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender of this email immediately. You should not copy, use or disseminate the information contained in the email. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Capco. http://www.capco.com/ ************************************************************************

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a great loss of Dr. T.B Rajasekar
by Venkataraman Geetha 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

May the gentle and greatman soul rest in peace. Praying god to provide the full strengh to bear the loss. and to recover from the wounds and injuries. V.Geetha Lecturer (SG) in LIS,bishop heber collge, Trichy __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel and more fun for the weekend. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/weekend.html

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CLARIFICATION
by Vijayalakshmi R Deshpande 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Dear sir, We have lot of delegates copies in the form of CD. we would like to know whether this could be uploaded in our digital library of cpri which is in LAN? if not what can be done for the use of CD ? Thanking you Yours faithfully, (V.R.DESHPADE) SENIOR LIBRARIAN CENTRAL POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE P.B.NO. 8066, SADASHIVANAGAR POST BANGALORE - 560 080

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Sad demise of of Dr TB Rajeshekar- Condolences from EDUTECH.
by Sathish 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

It is with a sense of shock and disbelief that we at EDUTECH have received this sad news. Dr. Rajasekhar was a great source of inspiration to us. His contribution to the development of Information infrastructure in the country cannot be over emphasized. The Information professional fraternity in the country has lost a true leader. Our prayers are with the family & all his colleagues to give them the strength to cope with this great loss. On Behalf of everybody at EDUTECH. Regards, Sathish Muthuswamy Marketing Manager Edutech India 8, Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600 006, India Tel: +91 44 28330999 Fax: +91 44 28331777 GSM: + 91 98403 21215 www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong."

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Conference on Legal Aspects of Open Source Software at NLSIU
by madhu ks 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Dear Professional, The Law and Technology Committee of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, is organising its annual conference Consilience (http://www.nls.ac.in/students/consilience/index.htm) in Bangalore on the 8th and 9th July, 2005. The aim of Consilience is to bring together scholars, industry stakeholders, legal experts, and policy-makers to address issues that have been earmarked for them after intensive research. This year's theme is Free/Open Source Software (FOSS), and we intend to have the following conference tracks - o FOSS - An Introduction o Role of FOSS in developing countries o FOSS Business Models o Legal Aspects of FOSS We envisage a robust dialogue and thorough analysis of these issues relating to free/open source software, including its uses in ICT for development. We expect the conference to result in a recommendation paper/declaration having the potential to effect formulation of a comprehensive policy by the Indian Government concerning FOSS. For any other clarifications contact, E-mail: consilience(a)nls.ac.in Visit Our Website: http://www.nls.ac.in/students/consilience/index.htm Madhu K S Library Assistant NLSIU, Bangalore --------------------------------- Free antispam, antivirus and 1GB to save all your messages Only in Yahoo! Mail: http://in.mail.yahoo.com Dear Professional, The Law and Technology Committee of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore , is organising its annual conference Consilience ( http://www.nls.ac.in/students/consilience/index.htm http://www.nls.ac.in/students/consilience/index.htm ) in Bangalore on the 8th and 9th July, 2005. The aim of Consilience is to bring together scholars, industry stakeholders, legal experts, and policy-makers to address issues that have been earmarked for them after intensive research. This year's theme is Free/Open Source Software (FOSS), and we intend to have the following conference tracks - o FOSS - An Introduction o Role of FOSS in developing countries o FOSS Business Models o Legal Aspects of FOSS We envisage a robust dialogue and thorough analysis of these issues relating to free/open source software, including its uses in ICT for development. We expect the conference to result in a recommendation paper/declaration having the potential to effect formulation of a comprehensive policy by the Indian Government concerning FOSS. For any other clarifications contact, E-mail: https://mail.nls.ac.in/src/compose.php?send_to=consilience%40nls.ac.in consilience(a)nls.ac.in Visit Our Website: http://www.nls.ac.in/students/consilience/index.htm http://www.nls.ac.in/students/consilience/index.htm Madhu K S Library Assistant NLSIU, Bangalore Free antispam, antivirus and 1GB to save all your messages Only in Yahoo! Mail: http://in.mail.yahoo.com

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Controversy over Pubchem
by Rashid Hussain 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

A freely accessible public database of chemical information, produced by a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), is at the center of a controversy over publicly subsidized data competing with commercial information providers. The American Chemical Society (ACS), said to be the largest scientific society in the world, has voiced strenuous objections to the creation and availability of PubChem. The PubChem database provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. It is designed for medical researchers and is a component of NIHs Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative. Since it was unable to resolve the controversy directly with the NIH, ACS has met with members of Congress about the issues. PubChem is one of several databases developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) as part of the Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative. Created in 2004, it is a freely accessible database that provides information about small molecules. It is designed for use as a research tool for biomedical researchers and serves as a starting point in the development of new medications. According to the NCBI, the database contains approximately 850,000 chemical samples contributed from public sources. The database will grow when researchers add data from publicly funded sources. It will not include patents. Initially the database will contain chemically diverse small molecules. Over time the collection will be modified by screening for biological assays and other biological information to provide a working set of molecules for use in studying biology and disease. Thanks & Regards = = = = = = = = = = = Rashid Hussain Siddiqui Project Assistant Digital Library, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science Jayanagar, Bangalore : 560041 Phone No. : 080-26540930 e-mail : ras.botlib(a)gmail.com Homepage : http://www.drtc.isibang.ac.in/~hussain = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet. Samuel NIGER (1883-1956) --------------------------------- Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel & more fun for the weekend. Check it out! A freely accessible public database of chemical information, produced by a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), is at the center of a controversy over publicly subsidized data competing with commercial information providers. The American Chemical Society (ACS), said to be the largest scientific society in the world, has voiced strenuous objections to the creation and availability of PubChem. The PubChem database provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. It is designed for medical researchers and is a component of NIHs Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative. Since it was unable to resolve the controversy directly with the NIH, ACS has met with members of Congress about the issues. PubChem ! is one of several databases developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) as part of the Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative. Created in 2004, it is a freely accessible database that provides information about small molecules. It is designed for use as a research tool for biomedical researchers and serves as a starting point in the development of new medications. According to the NCBI, the database contains approximately 850,000 chemical samples contributed from public sources. The database will grow when researchers add data from publicly funded sources. It will not include patents. Initially the database will contain chemically diverse small molecules. Over time the collection will be modified by screening for biological assays and other biological information to provide a working set of molecules for use in studying biology and disease. Thanks & Regards = = = = = = = = = = = Rashid Hussain Siddiqui Project Assistant Digital Library, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science Jayanagar, Bangalore : 560041 Phone No. : 080-26540930 e-mail : ras.botlib(a)gmail.com Homepage : http://www.drtc.isibang.ac.in/~hussain = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet. Samuel NIGER (1883-1956) Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel & more fun for the weekend. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=32658/*http://discover.yahoo.com/weekend.html Check it out!

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FW: ICADL 2005 - Condolence message
by Shalini R Urs 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

FYI Shalini -------- 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 homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm -----Original Message----- From: Rachanee_ungrangsi [mailto:rachanee@shinawatra.ac.th] Sent: 08 June 2005 13:21 To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: ICADL 2005 - Condolence message Dear All, It is with profound sadness that we write to inform you that one of our PC members, Dr.TB Rajashekhar, passed away. He is a professor at Indian Institute of Science, India and has served on many committees including ICADL2005. We would like to take this opportunity to convey our condolences to Dr.TB Rajashekhar. ICADL2005 Organizers

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Promoting open Access
by Sourav Chakraborty 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Dear Mr.Arunachalam, This is really a good input. Thanks a lot. Regards, Sourav Chakraborty Aunwesha Knowledge Technologies Phone:+91 33 2357 7183 Fax:+91 33 2357 1739/7183 Mobile:098302 81140 email:sourav@aunwesha.com web:http://www.aunwesha.com On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 Subbiah Arunachalam wrote : >Friends: > >Promoting open access has at least two parts. One is to set up an archive at one's own institution, as Rajashekar had done at IISc, and populate it with the institution's research papers quickly. The second part is to help the faculty and students (and researchers in general) to take advantage of the increasing number of papers in the world's open archives. > >Please tell all your clients (research scientists, professors and students) to search for papers relevant to their work using >http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister;page=simple http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister;page=simple >. > >There are >5,475,850 records > from >480 institutions >as of 5 June 2005. And the number is increasing every day. > >Best wishes. > >Arun > > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Dear Mr.Arunachalam, This is really a good input. Thanks a lot. Regards, Sourav Chakraborty Aunwesha Knowledge Technologies Phone:+91 33 2357 7183 Fax:+91 33 2357 1739/7183 Mobile:098302 81140 email:sourav@aunwesha.com web:http://www.aunwesha.com On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 Subbiah Arunachalam wrote : >Friends: > >Promoting open access has at least two parts. One is to set up an archive at one's own institution, as Rajashekar had done at IISc, and populate it with the institution's research papers quickly. The second part is to help the faculty and students (and researchers in general) to take advantage of the increasing number of papers in the world's open archives. > >Please tell all your clients (research scientists, professors and students) to search for papers relevant to their work using >http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister;page=simple http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister;page=simple >. > >There are >5,475,850 records > from >480 institutions >as of 5 June 2005. And the number is increasing every day. > >Best wishes. > >Arun > > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum 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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A great loss
by Francis Jayakanth 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Dear Member: The untimely demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar is a great loss to his family, friends, colleagues, professionals and students. The condolence messages are pouring in. I take this opportunity to thank all of you who have been expressing your heartfelt condolences. I have had a great fortune of being associated with TBR as a colleague for more than 17 years. It was delightful and challenging working with him. With his passing away, I have lost a mentor and a great colleague. As Arun has rightly said, "we have lost a stalwart". - Francis NCSI, IISc, Bangalore

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Sad demise of Dr T.B.Rajasekhar
by Mailing List Manager 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 15:21:38 +0530 From: Bhojaraju Gunjal <bhojaraju.g(a)gmail.com> It is a great loss to the LIS and Knowledge Management profession as Dr.T.B.Rajashekar was associated with LIS and Knowledge Management profession. He was a great scholar and a nice human being. I had nice interactions with him whenever we met. Lets all pray God, may the departed soul rest in peace. News about the accident of Dr.T B Rajashekar is avaialble at http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/05/stories/2005060518470300.htm Bhojaraju G, Librarian, Knowledge Management, Homepage: http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com KM-Forum Moderator : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/ ************************************************************************************************ ICICI OneSource Ltd. 148, Bhaskara Plaza, R.V.Road, V.V.Puram, Bangalore - 560 004, INDIA. Tel:+9180-2650 2540 Ext:103 Fax:+9180-2650 2086 Cell:+91-944 836 9905 E-mail: Bhojaraju.G(a)gmail.com ************************************************************************************************

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Consultation on Electronic Thesis Online(India) .... within 15th June, 2005.
by K Prakash 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

source:http://www.ugc.ac.in/new_initiatives/consultation_electronic.html Consultation on Electronic Thesis Online(India) In line with international trend to preserve and centrally maintain repositories of electronic thesis and make them generally accessible, UGC plans to put in place a regulatory policy and an implementation mechanism for maintaining standards, archiving, accessing doctoral research from the Indian universities. Electronic Theses Online will not only ensure easy archive and access of Indian Doctoral theses but also help raise the standard of research. This would overcome serious problem of duplication of research and poor quality resulting from the 'poor visibility' and the 'unseen' factor in research output. In the above context, draft UGC(Submission of Metadata and Full-text of Doctoral Theses in Electronic Format) Regulations, 2005 along with a write up on current scenario, major issues, data standards and implementation process have been prepared. Before these are finalized, inputs from different stakeholders are invited on the Draft Regulations & Implementation Process with Annexure(s). Please send your specific inputs to pagarwal(a)ugc.ac.in within 15th June, 2005. With best regards. Bye. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- K PRAKASH Scientific/Technical Officer-I Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre An Inter-University Centre of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Post Box No.4116, Navrangpura, AHMEDABAD - 380 009 India # Tel.: 91-079-2630 5971/2630 4695 Extn: 38(Off.); 2676 3724(Res.); Fax: 91-079-2630 0990 # Email: prakash(a)inflibnet.ac.in; prakash_k(a)yahoo.com # URL: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ ; http://www.prakashk.netfirms.com/

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Panjab University Library Staff:Condolences
by Rupak Chakravarty 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Information Science Community, All Panjab University Library Staff express their deep condolence on the sad demise of Dr. T.B. Rajshekhar. The vaccuum will never be filled. -- Rupak Chakravarty Assistant Librarian Panjab University Library Chandigarh 160014 INDIA Information Science Community, All Panjab University Library Staff express their deep condolence on the sad demise of Dr. T.B. Rajshekhar. The vaccuum will never be filled. -- Rupak Chakravarty Assistant Librarian Panjab University Library Chandigarh 160014 INDIA

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Fw: [DDN] Radical Reference
by Subbiah Arunachalam 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Friends: I received this message this morning. Will young Indian librarians be interested in such an initiative? Arun >I just learned about this group. It seem similar to the Internet Public > Library initiative http://www.ipl.org/ but plays a more activist role > than IPL. > SIobhan > > Mission Statement: Radical Reference is a collective of volunteer > library workers who believe in social justice and equality. We support > activist communities, progressive organizations, and independent > journalists by providing professional research support, education and > access to information. We work in a collaborative virtual setting and > are dedicated to information activism to foster a more egalitarian > society. > > > That's the official line. Here's "the rest of the story." Radical > reference originated as a service provided by volunteer library workers > from all over the United States to assist demonstrators and activists at > the convergence surrounding the Republican National Convention in New > York City August 29-September 2, 2004. We are evolving, expanding our > services, and continuing to utilize our professional skills and tools to > answer information needs from the general public, independent > journalists, and activists. Service will be provided via this web site, > blog, e-mail, chat, phone, in the street and Ouija board. > http://www.radicalreference.info/ > > > Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, MSLIS > Community Outreach Liaison > National Network of Libraries of Medicine - MidContinental Region > Creighton University Health Sciences Library > 2500 California Plaza > Omaha, NE 68178 > 402-280-4156/800-338-7657 > siobhan(a)creighton.edu > http://nnlm.gov/mcr/ (NN/LM MCR Web Site) > http://medstat.med.utah.edu/blogs/BHIC/ (Web Log) > http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/siobhanchamp-blackwell (Digital > Divide Network Profile) > > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE(a)mailman.edc.org > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-request(a)mailman.edc.org > with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.

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Great loss to LIS profession
by d.v. patwardhan 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Dear sir, I was deeply moved by reading the e-mailed news of Dr.TBR, whom I am associating for more than 20 years. Both as my friend and as a member of LIS profession he was friendly, helpful, humane and a first class intellecutal. May his soul rest in peace. d.v.patwardhan Librarian, Global Academy of Technology, Bangalore-560098 __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Get on-the-go sports scores, stock quotes, news and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/mobile.html

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IBM Computers to Create Virtual Brain
by Roopa E 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Dear Friends, Now we may have a chance to see real 5th generation computers or we may call it has 6th generation computers. IBM, in partnership with scientists at Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne's (EPFL) Brain and Mind Institute will begin simulating the brain's biological systems and output the data as a working 3-dimensional model that will recreate the high-speed electro-chemical interactions that take place within the brain's interior. These include cognitive functions such as language, learning, perception and memory in addition to brain malfunction such as psychiatric disorders like depression and autism. "Modeling the brain at the cellular level is a massive undertaking because of the hundreds of thousands of parameters that need to be taken into account," said Professor Henry Markram, the EPFL project leader. "IBM has unparalleled experience in biological simulations and the most advanced supercomputing technology in the world. With our combined resources and expertise we are embarking on one of the most ambitious research initiatives ever undertaken in the field of neuroscience." At EPFL, over a decade of knowledge accumulated from wet lab experiments has been consolidated into a set of empirical data on the Microsoft-architecture of brain's neocortex. The first phase of the project -- nicknamed "Blue Brain" -- will focus directly on the neocortex, which makes up approximately 85 percent of the human brain. >From there, the modeling will expand to other regions of the brain and, if successful, shed light on the relationships between genetic, molecular and cognitive functions of the brain. IBM will equip Blue Brain with four Blue Gene super computer racks. The system will occupy the floor space of roughly four refrigerators with a peak performance of 22.8 teraflops. IBM's Blue Gene systems are presently the world's fastest supercomputers, achieving a peak performance of 5.7 teraflops per single rack system. Each rack occupies one square meter and energy consumption is reduced from previous IBM systems, changing the economics of super computing and prompting IBM to start its Capacity on Demand service where computing power is leased out to customers in a time share type model. Under its agreement with IBM, EPFL has entered into a Capacity on Demand type sharing arrangement were IBM says computing power will be leased out to other research projects ranging from post-CMOS technology studies to build smaller transistors to examining folding proteins and their role in diseases like Creutzfeldt-Jakob. Roopa. E Library Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd Building 1B, Raheja Mind Space Madhapur, Hyderabad - 500 581 Ph: 040 - 55926166 _________________________________________________________________ Millions of marriage proposals. http://www.bharatmatrimony.com/cgi-bin/bmclicks1.cgi?74 Find your match on BharatMatrimony.com

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Publicly funded research must be available via open access
by Subbiah Arunachalam 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Friends: On the occasion of their silver jubilee, Informatics India have brought out a collection of essays entitled "Turning pages: Reflections in Info-times". Commenting on the NIH initiative (PubMed Central), Dr K Satyanarayana of ICMR says that India and other developing countries should invest in similar open access initiatives of their own. About three years ago, I was invited to inaugurate a workshop on electronic handling of information at the Tuberculosis Research Centre at Chennai and I had a chance to discuss with a senior IT-savvy official of ICMR the need to set up interoperable institutional open access archives at each one of the ICMR labs. She was very enthusiastic. For some reason, as far as I know, no ICMR lab has set up one so far. We should analyse what holds us back from translating our intentions into reality. Fortunately, the Indian MEDLARS Centre at NIC has now come up with an archive [for biomedical research] called OpenMED and last week I had a chance to meet Mr Sukhdev Singh who demonstrated the archive and its various features. Mr Singh has also offered to help OneWorld South Asia set up an archive for development literature. Subbiah Arunachalam Friends: On the occasion of their silver jubilee, Informatics India have brought out a collection of essays entitled "Turning pages: Reflections in Info-times". Commenting on the NIH initiative (PubMed Central), Dr K Satyanarayana of ICMR says that India and other developing countries should invest in similar open access initiatives of their own. About three years ago, I was invited to inaugurate a workshop on electronic handling of information at the Tuberculosis Research Centre at Chennai and I had a chance to discuss with a senior IT-savvy official of ICMR the need to set up interoperable institutional open access archives at each one of the ICMR labs. She was very enthusiastic. For some reason, as far as I know, no ICMR lab has set up one so far. We should analyse what holds us back from translating our intentions into reality. Fortunately, the Indian MEDLARS Centre at NIC has now come up with an archive [for biomedical research] called OpenMED and last week I had a chance to meet Mr Sukhdev Singh who demonstrated the archive and its various features. Mr Singh has also offered to help OneWorld South Asia set up an archive for development literature. Subbiah Arunachalam

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Sad and sudden demise of Dr. TBR
by babu ramesh 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

The sad and sudden demise of Dr. TB Rajasekhar is a great shock and unrecoverable loss to the entire library and information profession in the country. Dr. TBR and myself were classmates at DRTC during 1976-77. He always encouraged me and helped me during my DRTC studies. May his soul rest in peace. DB Ramesh Head Library RRL Bhubaneswar Dr. D. B. Ramesh, M.Sc., M.L.I.S., Ph.D Head, Library & Documentation REGIONAL RESEARCH LABORATORY (CSIR) BHUBANESWAR - 751 013, Orissa, India Tel: 91-0674-581635-434 (O); 421335 (Res.) dbramesh(a)rrlbhu.res.in __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Stay in touch with email, IM, photo sharing and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/stayintouch.html

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Promoting open Access
by Subbiah Arunachalam 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Friends: Promoting open access has at least two parts. One is to set up an archive at one's own institution, as Rajashekar had done at IISc, and populate it with the institution's research papers quickly. The second part is to help the faculty and students (and researchers in general) to take advantage of the increasing number of papers in the world's open archives. Please tell all your clients (research scientists, professors and students) to search for papers relevant to their work using http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister;page=simple. There are 5,475,850 records from 480 institutions as of 5 June 2005. And the number is increasing every day. Best wishes. Arun Friends: Promoting open access has at least two parts. One is to set up an archive at one's own institution, as Rajashekar had done at IISc, and populate it with the institution's research papers quickly. The second part is to help the faculty and students (and researchers in general) to take advantage of the increasing number of papers in the world's open archives. Please tell all your clients (research scientists, professors and students) to search for papers relevant to their work using http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister;page=simple http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister;page=simple . There are 5,475,850 records from 480 institutions as of 5 June 2005. And the number is increasing every day. Best wishes. Arun

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Copyright Clearance Center Introduces Compliance Solution
by Farooque Shaheen 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Copyright Clearance Center, a provider of copyright licensing and compliance solutions, has unveiled CopyRight Plus, a desktop solution that helps companies make it easier and faster for their employees to comply with copyright law. CopyRight Plus is a customizable, secure, Web-based solution; employees can easily access it through their company?s intranet. CopyRight Plus enables all employees to quickly verify their company?s worldwide copyright licensing coverage from Copyright Clearance Center for various uses of content from print and electronic journals, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, and other materials. In addition, CopyRight Plus gives companies an efficient and consistent way to educate employees about their corporate compliance policies and responsibilities. Copyright Clearance Center also announced that pharmaceutical company Pfizer, Inc. recently became the first customer to implement the new desktop solution for its 120,000-plus employees located in at least 150 countries around the globe. Source: Copyright Clearance Center Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 Copyright Clearance Center, a provider of copyright licensing and compliance solutions, has unveiled CopyRight Plus, a desktop solution that helps companies make it easier and faster for their employees to comply with copyright law. CopyRight Plus is a customizable, secure, Web-based solution; employees can easily access it through their company’s intranet. CopyRight Plus enables all employees to quickly verify their company’s worldwide copyright licensing coverage from Copyright Clearance Center for various uses of content from print and electronic journals, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, and other materials. In addition, CopyRight Plus gives companies an efficient and consistent way to educate employees about their corporate compliance policies and responsibilities. Copyright Clearance Center also announced that pharmaceutical company Pfizer, Inc. recently became the first customer to implement the new desktop solution for its 120,000-plus employees located in at least 150 countries around the globe. Source: Copyright Clearance Center Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Great loss
by syed mahe rizvi 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

All the student of Library Science Deptt., Aligarh Muslim University express their deep condolence on the sudden demise of the great intellectual. He will sure be known by his contribution to information science. The vacuum, however will never be filled. May Almighty, rest his soul in peace and give strenght to the family to bear a great loss. Regards Syed Mahe Zafar Rizvi Library Internee, Central Library, IIT, Bombay smz_rizvi(a)rediffmail.com All the student of Library Science Deptt., Aligarh Muslim University express their deep condolence on the sudden demise of the great intellectual. He will sure be known by his contribution to information science. The vacuum, however will never be filled. May Almighty, rest his soul in peace and give strenght to the family to bear a great loss. Regards Syed Mahe Zafar Rizvi Library Internee, Central Library, IIT, Bombay smz_rizvi(a)rediffmail.com 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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Digital Library Gateway for LIS
by Mailing List Manager 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 12:44:18 +0530 (IST) From: Krishnamurthy M <krish(a)ns.isibang.ac.in> Indian Statistical Institute Library introduced a new interface, Digital Library Gateway for LIS,which enables to seach information E-Journals, E-books, LIS Schools etc., Read this news item at following url: http://www.isibang.ac.in/library/index.htm M.Krishnamurthy -- Dr.M.Krishnamurthy Librarian Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road R.V.C.E. Post Bangalore 560059 Ph:91-80-8483002/3/4/4 Fax: 91-80-8484265

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Condolences from DLIS-BHU
by Aditya Tripathi 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

It is shocking for us that Dr. Rajshekar is no more with us. He will be always remembered as one of the great scholars and source of inspiration in the field of libray science. We pray almighty for the departed soul to rest in peace and courage to his family members to bear the loss. -- Faculty Department of Library & Information Science Banaras Hindu University Varanasi-221005

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RE: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 16 : Digital Divide among Librarians.
by K A. Sardesai 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Hi Subscriber, The views expressed by you are really true.about academic Librarians and corporate Librarians.I feel this divide is moreever spread among it professionals and Librarians. The job opprunities have been created for these professionals having literarry knowledge of Library functions and thus this divide is increasing like dissolving post for Librarians even we achieved the skills of It and new developments in computer applications. We expect some solutions from Such forums. sardesai kshipra -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-request@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 12:32 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 16 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. XML and MS-Office (Jai Haravu) 2. Re: Sad and Unfortunate demise of Dr T B Rajashekar (Puttaraj Choukimath) 3. {Blocked Content} Digital divide not librarians divide (mohanck1) 4. Re: Sad demise of Dr T B Rajasekhar (Rupak Chakravarty) 5. Sad demise of Dr.T.B. Rajashekhar (prakash gouda) 6. TBR: a tribute (harinarayana(a)lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in) 7. OpenISIS is Dead:: GNI is the next generation (Saiful Amin) 8. (no subject) (Sanjay Singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: 6 Jun 2005 12:05:13 -0000 From: "Jai Haravu" <haravu(a)newgenlib.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] XML and MS-Office To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Cc: siddartha(a)newgenlib.com Message-ID: <20050606120513.29265.qmail(a)mail.rediffmailpro.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Dear List emmbers Mr. Farooque Shaheen has informed us of an important development that MS-Office will now have XML as its underlying format. I think Microsoft has at long last realized that using a proprietary format is no longer sustainable in a fast changing and globalized world. Incidentally, Microsoft is not doing anything new. Sun Microsystems' OpenOffice already uses XML as its format and so is tnerefore considered to be future proof. In this connection, I would like to let members know that in our library automation software, NewGenLib, we already have integrated OpenOffice as the software for all form letters and reports that are possible to be produced from within its functional modules. Best regards. Haravu On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 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. XML will be the default file format for next MS > Office > (Mailing List Manager) > > > --------------------------------------------------------- > -------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 11:45:08 +0530 (IST) > From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] XML will be the default file > format for next MS > Office > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0506021144460.6498(a)ncsi.iisc.- > ernet.in> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:43:56 +0530 > From: Farooque Shaheen <Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com> > > Microsoft Corp. announced that the next version of its > Office software > will use Internet-friendly XML technology as the > default file format for > documents created in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. > The new format will make it easier for other programs > to read Office > documents, an improvement the software titan says is > aimed at boosting > workers' productivity. > XML, short for eXtensible Markup Language, is designed > for sharing diverse > data across different systems with a uniform > appearance. Previously, > Office saved files in a format that doesn't always > translate well when > opened in other programs. > The current version, Office 2003, already supports XML > but some users have > complained that it is clunky and documents don't always > translate well > from that format either. > A full dig on this matter can be found here. > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/200- > 5/06/01/AR2005060101974.html > > 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 27, Issue 2 > **************************************** ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 05:05:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Puttaraj Choukimath <puttuc(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad and Unfortunate demise of Dr T B Rajashekar To: Navin Soni <navin_soni(a)rediffmail.com>, lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20050606120506.47030.qmail(a)web32212.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 It is unbelievable, painful and shocking bad news for us. God must had not been in his seat. We have lost a great icon of our LIS community and ofcourse a good mentor and a kind human being. Our deep condolance to his Family and we pray may his soul rest in peace. Still, He will be with us for ever. Mrs.Uma and Mr.Puttaraj CHOUKIMATH __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 18:19:22 +0530 From: "mohanck1" <mohanck1(a)indiatimes.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] {Blocked Content} Digital divide not librarians divide To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: <200506061243.SAA24231(a)WS0005.indiatimes.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Warning: This message has had one or more attachments removed Warning: (msg-23089-485.html). Warning: Please read the "NCSI-Attachment-Warning.txt" attachment(s) for more information. Dear Sir/Madam, Information and Communicatin technologies(ICTs) have affected the library and information science and the profession emmensly.Today we have to implement and practice the habit of uising new technologies in capturing , storage and organising informatiom.Yes the benefit of ICT in capturing and dessimination customer.These are all disscused over the years and we have been trying to adopt/adapt to the present web scenario.And most of the Educational and research Instititution have automated their libraries and they have their own digital library to satisify their internal and external clientele. But at the same time the penetration of IT into the library proffession has slowly creating a gap within LISC profession.Today we have all witnessed that plenty of discussion, seminars, conferences are taking place all over the world to modify and train the library profession ,eventhough the gap seems to be widen over the years. The employment structure of library profession is very diffe! rent one comapre to other profession.Libraries are the house of knowledge ,to capture, organise and to dessiminate information skilled library professionals are very much required there is no doubt it. Educational institutions , corporate firms and other organisations have providing enormous opportunities for Library and Information graduates.But the thing is, if once we get into the job as a school librarian or college librarian it is very difficult to keep up abreast with new developments ,the lack of infrastructure, willingness of librarians, lack of mangement support and all plays a crucial role to keep abreast with new developmets, today high proportion rate of schools and colleges have not provide any facility to librarians to learn and perform his work using new technologies.And most of the seminars and conferences are all centered to corporate and well known institutions not for school are college librarians. this is slowly creating a huge problem that is Librarians di! vide.Today we have to address this issue and carry the LIS profession to more hiegts with providing equal opportunity to everyone. Regards mohanck Indiatimes Email now powered by APIC Advantage. Help! Help

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He has outsoared the shadow of our night..........
by Jack Eapen 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Clean Clean DocumentEmail MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} It’s really a shock to the Information Science Community in India I remember his enriching lectures at workshops and seminarsand when I approached him with specific problems related to Greenstone, thesolutions I received were not available in any documentation or mailing list Young professionals like me will certainly be at loss thedeparture of this master trainer and a model professional. To mourn the death of John Keats, Shelley wrote the poem"Adonais". Let me borrow the following lines: "He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men call delight, Can touch him not and torture not again; >From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain; Nor, when the spirit's self has ceased to burn, With sparkless ashes load anunlamented urn, "He lives, he wakes – It is Death isdead, not he; With Regards, Jack Eapen Environmental Health Project (EHP India) F-9/4, Vasant Vihar New Delhi-57 Ph:011-5101 0920,2614 9771/81 (Ext.245) Fax:011-5166 9281 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EHP India is the USAID Supported Urban Health Program in India -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.2 - Release Date: 6/4/2005 --------------------------------- Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM & more. Check it out!  It’s really a shock to the Information Science Community in India I remember his enriching lectures at workshops and seminars and when I approached him with specific problems related to Greenstone, the solutions I received were not available in any documentation or mailing list Young professionals like me will certainly be at loss the departure of this master trainer and a model professional. To mourn the death of John Keats, Shelley wrote the poem " Adonais ". Let me borrow the following lines: "He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men call delight, Can touch him not and torture not again; >From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain; Nor, when the spirit's self has ceased to burn, With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn, "He lives, he wakes – It is Death is dead, not he; With Regards, Jack Eapen Environmental Health Project ( EHP India ) F-9/4, Vasant Vihar New Delhi-57 Ph:011-5101 0920,2614 9771/81 (Ext.245) Fax:011-5166 9281 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EHP India is the USAID Supported Urban Health Program in India -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.2 - Release Date: 6/4/2005 Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM & more. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=32660/*http://discover.yahoo.com/online.html Check it out!

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TBR - Great Loss
by I.R.N.Goudar 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Friends, When I heard the telephone ringing at my residence during the odd hour at 4.45 am on 4th I could lift the phone with unknown fear. It carried the shocking news intimating untimely and sad demise of my friend and professional colleague Dr. TBR due to tragic accident the previous evening. Since my digital organizer was new it had very few numbers to inform friends, colleagues and students of Dr. Rajashekar. I could inform as many as I could using BSNL Telephone Directory including NCSI colleagues and in turn requesting them to inform others. I am sorry if I could not inform some of you in time due to nonavailabilty of telephone number. In spite of being Saturday a good number people could give their last respect and tearful farewell to TBR. The news spread like a wild fire and phone calls were flooded from all corners of the country for 2-3 days. TBR and myself were classmates and housemates at DRTC. Even as a student he was hard working and dedicated to the professional cause. He was more fond of developmental and academic activities than routine administration. His contributions to the professional developments both at national and international level are remarkable. He was associated with NAL in a big way by way of helping us to deliver lecture in workshops, conferences and having common projects. He helped us to develop our institutional repository using E-Prints (Will be announced soon). Probably we have been the major beneficiary of his services through seven of his students and even now four are with us. Most of the Digital library activities and related services, open archive movements in the country had the benefit of his expertise. DL related conferences used his service for tutorials. More than anything else he was very calm, but with charismatic qualities. To tell in one sentence his death is a great loss to his family, friends, LIS and IT profession and many past, present and prospective students of NCSI. We had a condolence meeting at our Information Centre and like wise I got the news of similar meetings already held and also planned shortly in different parts of the country. May the Almighty give the strengths to all of us and specially his family members to bear this irreplaceable loss and may Raju's soul rest in peace. 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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Sad demise of Dr.T B Rajashekar
by setty iim 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

This is very bad news for all. My almighty rest his soul in peace & give strength to his family to bear the loss. Regards, ========================================================================= "Leadership Through Innovation and Technology" ========================================================================= ANKASETTY K Librarian Dept:Computer Science & Automation Indian Institute of Science Bangalore - 560 012. __________________________________________________________ Free antispam, antivirus and 1GB to save all your messages Only in Yahoo! Mail: http://in.mail.yahoo.com

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Google new service- Google Sitemaps
by Farooque Shaheen 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Google, this time with its new service called Google Sitemaps aimed at webmasters. The programme allows website owners to feed their pages they'd like to have included in Google's web index and also allows them to indicate how often their websites need to be revisited. Google Sitemaps is intended for all website owners, from those with a single web page to companies with millions of ever-changing pages. According to Google, Google Sitemaps is an experiment in web crawling. It is a way of informing Google crawlers. By placing a Sitemap-formatted file on a web server, a web master can enable the crawlers to find out what pages are present and which have recently changed, and to crawl the site according. A full dig on this matter can be found at " http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1390144,004400100011.htm" Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 Google, �this time with its new service called Google Sitemaps aimed at webmasters. The programme allows website owners to feed their pages they'd like to have included in Google's web index and also allows them to indicate how often their websites need to be revisited. �Google Sitemaps is intended for all website owners, from those with a single web page to companies with millions of ever-changing pages. According to Google, Google Sitemaps is an experiment in web crawling. It is a way of informing Google crawlers. �By placing a Sitemap-formatted file on a web server, a web master can enable the crawlers to find out what pages are present and which have recently changed, and to crawl the site according. A full dig on this matter can be found at "http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1390144,004400100011.htm" Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Requiem to a dear friend- Raju
by Shalini R Urs 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

My dear friend and classmate. When I said 'Bye Raju' last Monday I did not realize it would turn out to be 'Good Bye' When you sent that last mail on June 1st - 'See you on 24th', I never imagined that . 24th may come and go but we will not be seeing each other... It never occurred to me - that I will be writing this requiem to you I am not going to sing paeans about your professional accomplishments - that is well known I am not going to write a personal eulogy either. I am only writing to express my anguish and melancholy... This is just to say, I will miss your quiet presence and support in our professional Collaborative endeavors Your alma mater- DLIS-Mysore is proud of you and misses you We will miss you dearly on 24th June- its 40th anniversary Good bye dear friend Shalini -------- 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 homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm  My dear friend and classmate… When I said 'Bye Raju' last Monday I did not realize it would turn out to be ‘Good Bye’ When you sent that last mail on June 1st – ‘See you on 24th’, I never imagined that … 24th may come and go but we will not be seeing each other... It never occurred to me – that I will be writing this requiem to you I am not going to sing paeans about your professional accomplishments – that is well known I am not going to write a personal eulogy either… I am only writing to express my anguish and melancholy... This is just to say, I will miss your quiet presence and support in our professional Collaborative endeavors Your alma mater- DLIS-Mysore is proud of you and misses you We will miss you dearly on 24th June- its 40th anniversary � Good bye dear friend � � Shalini -------- 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 homepage:www. vidya nidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm �

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Alma Swan's Author Study on Self archiving
by Subbiah Arunachalam 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Friends: Here is the Executive Summary of the study by Alma Swan that will be published by JISC. Your comments are welcome. The full report is available at www.keyperspectives.co.uk/OpenAccessArchive/2005_Open_Access_Report.pdf or at http://cogprints.org/4385/ Subbiah Arunachalam --------- Open access self-archiving: An author study May 2005 Alma Swan and Sheridan Brown Key Perspectives Limited 48 Old Coach Road, Playing Place, TRURO, Cornwall, TR3 6ET, UK EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This, our second author study on open access, was carried out to determine the current state of play with respect to author self-archiving behaviour. The survey was carried out during the last quarter of 2004. There were 1296 respondents. The survey also briefly explored author experiences and opinions on publishing in open access journals to follow up our previous study on this topic for JISC and the Open Society Institute. Many of the findings reported here match those of that previous study. For example, the main reasons for authors publishing their work in open access journals are the principle of free access for all and their perceptions that these journals reach larger audiences, publish more rapidly and are more prestigious that the toll-access (subscription-based) journals that they have traditionally published in. The principal reasons why authors have not published in open access journals are that they are unfamiliar with any in their field and that they cannot identify a suitable one in which to publish their work. These reasons, and their rank order, exactly match the findings from our survey that was specifically on open access publishing last year. The purpose of this present study, however, was to move the focus onto self-archiving, the alternative means of providing open access to scholarly journal articles. Almost half (49%) of the respondent population have self-archived at least one article during the last three years in at least one of the three possible ways - by placing a copy of an article in an institutional (or departmental) repository, in a subject-based repository, or on a personal or institutional website. More people (27%) have so far opted for the last method - putting a copy on a website - than have used institutional (20%) or subject-based (12%) repositories, though the main growth in self-archiving activity over the last year has been in these latter two more structured, systematic methods for providing open access. Use of institutional repositories for this purpose has doubled and usage has increased by almost 60% for subject-based repositories. Postprints (peer-reviewed articles) are deposited more frequently than preprints (articles prior to peer review) except in the longstanding self-archiving communities of physics and computer science. There are some differences between subject disciplines with respect to the level of self-archiving activity and the location of deposit (website, institutional or subject-based repositories). Self-archiving activity is greatest amongst the most prolific authors, that is, those who publish the largest number of papers. There is still a substantial proportion of authors unaware of the possibility of providing open access to their work by self-archiving. Of the authors who have not yet self-archived any articles, 71% remain unaware of the option. With 49% of the author population having self-archived in some way, this means that 36% of the total author population (71% of the remaining 51%), has not yet been appraised of this way of providing open access. Authors have frequently expressed reluctance to self-archive because of the perceived time required and possible technical difficulties in carrying out this activity. The findings here show that 20% of authors found some degree of difficulty with the first act of depositing an article in a repository, but that this dropped to 9% for subsequent depositions. Similarly, 23% of authors took more than an hour to deposit their first article in a repository, but only 13% took this long subsequently, with most taking a few minutes. Another author worry regarding self-archiving is the danger of infringing agreed copyright agreements with publishers. Only 10% of authors currently know of the SHERPA/RoMEO list of publisher permissions policies with respect to self-archiving, where clear guidance as to what a publisher permits is provided. Where permission is understood by the author to be required, it seems it is being sought (this accounts for around 17% of self-archiving cases); where it is not known if permission is required, authors are not seeking it and are self-archiving without it. Communicating their results to peers remains the primary reason for scholars publishing their work; in other words, they publish to have an impact on their field. Nonetheless, more than half still do not know what the citation rate is for their most recent articles. Almost all (98%) of authors use some form of bibliographic service to locate articles of interest in closed archives such as publisher websites, but only a much smaller proportion of people (up to 30%) are yet using the specialised OAI search engines to navigate the open access repositories. Nevertheless, at the time of this survey, 72% of authors were using Google to search the web for scholarly articles: the subsequent arrival of GoogleScholar, which indexes the content of open access repositories as well as general websites, and thus retrieves formally-archived open access material, can be expected have a bearing on the level to which open access archives are searched in future and consequently on the eventual impact of articles deposited therein. The vast majority of authors (81%) would willingly comply with a mandate from their employer or research funder to deposit copies of their articles in an institutional or subject-based repository. A further 13% would comply reluctantly; 5% would not comply with such a mandate. Alma Swan Key Perspectives Ltd Truro, UK 27 May 2005 Friends: Here is the Executive Summary of the study by Alma Swan that will be published by JISC. Your comments are welcome. The full report is available at http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/OpenAccessArchive/2005_Open_Access_R http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/OpenAccessArchive/2005_Open_Access_R www.keyperspectives.co.uk/OpenAccessArchive/2005_Open_Access_R eport.pdf or at http://cogprints.org/4385/ http://cogprints.org/4385/ Subbiah Arunachalam --------- Open access self-archiving: An author study May 2005 Alma Swan and Sheridan Brown Key Perspectives Limited 48 Old Coach Road, Playing Place, TRURO, Cornwall, TR3 6ET, UK EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This, our second author study on open access, was carried out to determine the current state of play with respect to author self-archiving behaviour. The survey was carried out during the last quarter of 2004. There were 1296 respondents. The survey also briefly explored author experiences and opinions on publishing in open access journals to follow up our previous study on this topic for JISC and the Open Society Institute. Many of the findings reported here match those of that previous study. For example, the main reasons for authors publishing their work in open access journals are the principle of free access for all and their perceptions that these journals reach larger audiences, publish more rapidly and are more prestigious that the toll-access (subscription-based) journals that they have traditionally published in. The principal reasons why authors have not published in open access journals are that they are unfamiliar with any in their field and that they cannot identify a suitable one in which to publish their work. These reasons, and their rank order, exactly match the findings from our survey that was specifically on open access publishing last year. The purpose of this present study, however, was to move the focus onto self-archiving, the alternative means of providing open access to scholarly journal articles. Almost half (49%) of the respondent population have self-archived at least one article during the last three years in at least one of the three possible ways by placing a copy of an article in an institutional (or departmental) repository, in a subject-based repository, or on a personal or institutional website. More people (27%) have so far opted for the last method putting a copy on a website than have used institutional (20%) or subject-based (12%) repositories, though the main growth in self-archiving activity over the last year has been in these latter two more structured, systematic methods for providing open access. Use of institutional repositories for this purpose has doubled and usage has increased by almost 60% for subject-based repositories. Postprints (peer-reviewed articles) are deposited more frequently than preprints (articles prior to peer review) except in the longstanding self-archiving communities of physics and computer science. There are some differences between subject disciplines with respect to the level of self-archiving activity and the location of deposit (website, institutional or subject-based repositories). Self-archiving activity is greatest amongst the most prolific authors, that is, those who publish the largest number of papers. There is still a substantial proportion of authors unaware of the possibility of providing open access to their work by self-archiving. Of the authors who have not yet self-archived any articles, 71% remain unaware of the option. With 49% of the author population having self-archived in some way, this means that 36% of the total author population (71% of the remaining 51%), has not yet been appraised of this way of providing open access. Authors have frequently expressed reluctance to self-archive because of the perceived time required and possible technical difficulties in carrying out this activity. The findings here show that 20% of authors found some degree of difficulty with the first act of depositing an article in a repository, but that this dropped to 9% for subsequent depositions. Similarly, 23% of authors took more than an hour to deposit their first article in a repository, but only 13% took this long subsequently, with most taking a few minutes. Another author worry regarding self-archiving is the danger of infringing agreed copyright agreements with publishers. Only 10% of authors currently know of the SHERPA/RoMEO list of publisher permissions policies with respect to self-archiving, where clear guidance as to what a publisher permits is provided. Where permission is understood by the author to be required, it seems it is being sought (this accounts for around 17% of self-archiving cases); where it is not known if permission is required, authors are not seeking it and are self-archiving without it. Communicating their results to peers remains the primary reason for scholars publishing their work; in other words, they publish to have an impact on their field. Nonetheless, more than half still do not know what the citation rate is for their most recent articles. Almost all (98%) of authors use some form of bibliographic service to locate articles of interest in closed archives such as publisher websites, but only a much smaller proportion of people (up to 30%) are yet using the specialised OAI search engines to navigate the open access repositories. Nevertheless, at the time of this survey, 72% of authors were using Google to search the web for scholarly articles: the subsequent arrival of GoogleScholar, which indexes the content of open access repositories as well as general websites, and thus retrieves formally-archived open access material, can be expected have a bearing on the level to which open access archives are searched in future and consequently on the eventual impact of articles deposited therein. The vast majority of authors (81%) would willingly comply with a mandate from their employer or research funder to deposit copies of their articles in an institutional or subject-based repository. A further 13% would comply reluctantly; 5% would not comply with such a mandate. Alma Swan Key Perspectives Ltd Truro, UK 27 May 2005

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Paying respects to Dr TB Rajashechar
by mallikamh mallikamh 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Dear Friends, It is sure that we have lost a big ray of hope to library science profession. He was the source of inspiration to all junior library science professionals to go for modernisation of their library. I am also one among such persons. I pay my deep respects to him. Mallikas MH Librarian SSIT Tumkur --------------------------------- Too much spam in your inbox? Yahoo! Mail gives you the best spam protection for FREE! http://in.mail.yahoo.com Dear Friends, It is sure that we have lost a big ray of hope to library science profession. He was the source of inspiration to all junior library science professionals to go for modernisation of their library. I am also one among such persons. I pay my deep respects to him. Mallikas MH Librarian SSIT Tumkur 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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Condolenses to Dr. TB Rajasekhar
by M Koteswara Rao 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

It was a shocking news that Dr T B Rajashekar in no more with us. He is one of DRTC's most illustrous alumni who has contributed immensely to the LIS profession particularly Digital libraries and open archives movement. He is a gentleman with simple personality and extraordinary knowledge of ICT. It is indeed a great loss to our LIS profession and NCSI Bangalore in particular. Kindly pass on my heartfelt condolences to his berieved family. May his soul rest in peace. Koteswara Rao IIT Madras

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{Blocked Content} Fw: [c3net] Brazil adopts open source software
by Subbiah Arunachalam 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Warning: This message has had one or more attachments removed Warning: (msg-15480-34.html). Warning: Please read the "NCSI-Attachment-Warning.txt" attachment(s) for more information. BBC NEWS | Business | Brazil adopts open-source softwareFriends: I received this mail from my friend Hebron (Tanzania). Brazil's government has taken a bold and sensible step. Even in India the country's President is in favour of Open Source Software, but he has not succeeded (so far) in persuading the central and the state governments to adopt a policy as Brazil has done. Hebron: OA is different from Open Source Software, although there are some parallels. I have been requesting Open Source Software champions to champion the cause of OA as well. Best wishes. Arun ---------------------------------------------------------------- Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 6:37 PM Subject: [c3net] Brazil adopts open source software Dear Friends, I am not sure if this piece of information found space in our dgroup. Our colleague (in Tanzania) Mr. S. Ntiro posted it today to a local dgroup. Arun, I can see the global coalition on OA will soon assume a new dimension (Brazil taking the lead). This is very great news. Other developing countries need to develop policies that target at building the local capacity on OA. Sorry for any cross-posting. Hebron -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Home TV Radio Talk Where I Live A-Z Index Low Graphics version | Change edition Contact us | Help News Front Page World UK England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Business Market Data Your Money E-Commerce Economy Companies Fact Files Politics Health Education Science/Nature Technology Entertainment ----------------- Have Your Say Magazine In Pictures Week at a Glance Country Profiles In Depth Programmes Last Updated: Thursday, 2 June, 2005, 22:47 GMT 23:47 UK E-mail this to a friend Printable version Brazil adopts open-source software By Steve Kingstone BBC News, Sao Paulo Brazil says it's cheaper not to use Microsoft In Brazil's Ministry for Cities, staff are busily at work. The scene is much like any other modern office: an open-plan work space crammed with desks, telephones and computers. But there's one big difference. The word 'Microsoft' is nowhere in sight. Instead, computers here now use the Linux operating system. It has many similar functions to Microsoft's Windows - but unlike Windows, it is available for free. Increasingly, Brazil's government ministries and state-run enterprises are abandoning Windows in favour of 'open-source' or 'free' software, like Linux. Money saving "The number one reason for this change is economic," says Sergio Amadeu, who runs the government's National Institute for Information Technology. He explains that, for every workstation, the government is currently paying Microsoft fees of around 1200 Brazilian reais ($500; £270). "If you switch to open source software, you pay less in royalties to foreign companies," explains Amadeu. "And that can count for a lot in a country like Brazil, which still has a long way to develop in the IT sector." I think free software will encourage Mr Gates to reinvent his business Jose Luiz de Cerqueira Cesar Global Organisation for Free Software Overall, the government reckons it could save around $120m a year by switching from Windows to open-source alternatives. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is studying a draft decree which, if approved, would make the change compulsory for federal departments. Global development issue For Mr da Silva, this is a vital development issue in a country where nine out of ten people have never used the internet. Through tax breaks, his government is subsidising the sale of computers to low-income families. For as little as $550, paid in instalments, they can buy a basic machine which operates using open-source software. "Open-source alternatives are a great opportunity for developing countries," says Jose Luiz de Cerqueira Cesar, head of IT at Banco do Brasil. "If computer users within a geographical region pool their expertise, they can develop software that is perfectly suited to their needs." Mr Cerqueira Cesar is a leading light behind the newly-created "Global Organisation for Free Software," which has been set up by a broad coalition of Brazilian businesses and NGOs. More details are being released this week at an International Forum on Free Software, in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre. The aim of the new organisation is to encourage greater cooperation and the sharing of ideas among governments, businesses and individuals within the developing world. On a smaller scale, that is already happening in Brazil, which has seen some ingenious attempts to span the so-called "digital divide" between the developed and developing worlds. Computers in the favelas One successful example is the "Recycling Goal" project, which extends computer technology into the shanty-towns or "favelas" on the outskirts of Sao Paulo. When all the costs and benefits are taken together, we think Microsoft offers the best value Microsoft Brazil "We have 80 computers here, all donated by Brazilian businesses," says the project organiser, Dalton Martins. Around him, children and teenagers from the Sacadura Cabral favela are tapping away on brightly-painted keyboards. Dalton explains that open-source software is an essential to the project: partly because it drastically reduces costs; and partly because it can be modified to suit local needs. "We use Linux," he says, "which means we've been able to customise the graphics and language content. Life has a special reality here, and we need to build technology that works for the community." Dalton adds that Windows does not offer the same level of flexibility, because its source code - the raw material of a program or operating system - is kept secret. Microsoft fights back So what does Microsoft's founder, and the world's richest man, make of this challenge? For Lula, free software is a development issue On the face of it, Bill Gates does not have much to worry about. More than 90% of the world's personal computers still use the Windows operating system. But there are signs of nerves. In January, Mr Gates unsuccessfully sought a private meeting with President Lula at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In a written statement, Microsoft's Brazil office told the BBC: "We strongly believe that governments and computer users should be free to choose whichever software and other technology best meets their needs. But when all the costs and benefits are taken together, we think Microsoft offers the best value." The statement adds that open-source software can entail hidden costs, for features over and above the basic operating package. Microsoft executives have also questioned the security of software whose source code is freely available. To back up its value-for-money pledge, Microsoft recently launched a stripped-down, cheaper version of Windows XP in Brazil. And in April it announced a new credit deal for companies investing in Windows software, in partnership with Bradesco Bank. But the corporation's battle with Brazil is only just beginning. UN Battle The government here has its eye on a UN summit on information technology, to take place in Tunisia in November. Already, Brazilian diplomats are pushing for a final declaration that would stress the advantages of open-source software. They have won the backing of India and are now canvassing broader support from the developing world. "It would be wrong to portray this as a personal war against Bill Gates," cautions Mr Cerqueira Cesar. "But I think free software will encourage Mr Gates to reinvent his business. The world of technology is opening up; there are hundreds of thousands of people working to improve free software. The old, closed model must adapt in order to survive." 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Condolences - Dr TB Rajashekar
by Mahendra N Jadhav 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

We the Central Library staff of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay are extremely shocked to know about the Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar !!!! We lost a thorough digital library professional and a fine gentleman/excellent teacher . I met him thrice at INDEST Meet and INDEST-NCSI workshop on Institutional repositories- e-prints. He was totally responsible for OAI and Instituional repositories. May His Soul Rest in Peace. My condolances to his bereaved family members and NCSI staff. Mr. Mahendra N. Jadhav Assistant Librarian Reference and Computer Applications section Central Library, IIT Bombay, Powai Mumbai - 400076

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 14
by leelesh divya 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

I am very sorry to hear the sad demises of Dr.T.B.R. May his soul rest in peace. M.N.Divya Librarian, SFGC, Bangalore-64 leeleshdivya(a)yahoo.com 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: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 10 (Lata Suresh) 2. LIbrary Networking in India (sarandha singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 14:09:49 +0530 From: "Lata Suresh" Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 10 To: Message-ID: <000601c56a74$03ecac40$12acca0a@latalibrary> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" We the library staff of Indian Institute of Health Management Research are extremely shocked to know about the sudden and untimely demise of Dr. T.B. Rajasekhar. His contributions to the profession will be remembered forever. Our condolences to his family and also to all the NCSI members. May his soul rest in peace. Lata Suresh Librarian Indian Institute of Health Management Research 1, Prabhu Dayal MArg Sanganer Airport Jaipur 302033 RAJASTHAN, INDIA Tel : 91-0141-2791431-34 Fax: 91-0141-2792138 Email : lata(a)iihmr.org OR iihmr(a)iihmr.org ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 1:37 PM Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 10 Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in You can reach the person managing the list at lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 5 (Siva Chidambaram) 2. Sad demise of Dr T B Rajasekhar (theresa.williams(a)wipro.com) 3. Sad Demise of Dr. TBR (M. Paul Pandian) 4. Re: Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (Jayakumar, C) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 12:26:18 +0530 From: "Siva Chidambaram" Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 5 To: Message-ID: <005301c56a64$e2715840$886464c0@Siva> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Dear Colloquies and fellows Really our country last a good INFORMATION SCIENCE TEACHER AND INSTITUTIONAL BUILDER (NCSI). Please accept my unbelievable tragetic and deepest condolence to his family members and NCSI. ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 10:56 AM Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 5 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: Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (Subbiah Arunachalam) 2. Re: Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (Subbiah Arunachalam) 3. Re: Condolence from KAU on the demise of Dr. Rajashekahr (Aloor Thomas Francis) 4. Condolence - from library staff IGIDR, Mumbai (G. K. Manjunath) 5. This is very tragic (K M Haneefa) 6. Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (HENAG) 7. Re: Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (Jitender Sharma) 8. Heart felt condolences (SCKumaresan) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 14:03:21 +0530 From: "Subbiah Arunachalam" Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar To: "Jobish P" , "Prof N. Balakrishnan" , Message-ID: <005c01c568e0$6fc45cf0$791e09c0@Arun> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Dear Prof. Balakrishnan/ Prof. Menon/ Francis: Kindly accept my heart felt condolences. Please convey the same to Mrs Rajashekar and other members of his family. Raja was one of the best information professionals of our country and had earned a reputation around the world. He played an important role in training young professionals in modern information dissemination tchniques and in promoting the open access culture in India. His passing away is a great loss to the profession. RIP. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jobish P" To: Cc: ; Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:15 AM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar > > > > We are very sad to inform you that Dr. T B Rajashekar, Associate Chairman > of NCSI expired on 3-6-05 in an accident. His body will be brought to his > residence at 10.15 A M today(4-6-05). The funeral is expected to take > place by 3 PM today. > > Residence Address > > #676 > 4th Cross, Near Swimming Pool > Mahalakshmi Layout > Bangalore > > Burial Ground : > > Chamarajpet > Near TR Mills > > (Left turn after the end of 5th main) > > > CHAIRMAN > NCSI > > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 15:48:53 +0530 From: "Subbiah Arunachalam" Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar To: "Stevan Harnad" , "Prof N. Balakrishnan" , "Niranjan V Joshi" , Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, oa-india(a)dgroups.org Message-ID: <00ad01c568ef$07ca0640$791e09c0@Arun> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Yes Stevan, it is the same Raja. Melissa of OSI and UNESCO had recognised his worth and invited him to some conferences and workshops. I always thought he was very good in his work. In fact, I had to face some harsh comments from other Indian colleagues when I mentioned in a discussion list that NCSI was a good training centre for young Indian librarians. He is no more. Why should such an accomplished expert die when he has so much more to give to the rest of us, I do not understand. Nature's ways are inscrutable. Arun ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stevan Harnad" To: "Subbiah Arunachalam" Cc: "Les Carr" Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 3:20 PM Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar > Dear Arun, > > Can this really be Raja, whom I know, who did so much to set up the > IIS archive? who helped host Les Carr's visit to India? > > A great loss of a dedicated man, in his prime. > > If possible, please convey my condolences to his family, and my gratitude > and appreciation for all his important work. > > Stevan > > On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Subbiah Arunachalam wrote: > >> Dear Prof. Balakrishnan/ Prof. Menon/ Francis: >> >> Kindly accept my heart felt condolences. Please convey the same to Mrs >> Rajashekar and other members of his family. Raja was one of the best >> information professionals of our country and had earned a reputation >> around >> the world. He played an important role in training young professionals in >> modern information dissemination tchniques and in promoting the open >> access >> culture in India. His passing away is a great loss to the profession. >> RIP. >> >> Arun >> [Subbiah Arunachalam] >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jobish P" >> To: >> Cc: ; >> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:15 AM >> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar >> >> > We are very sad to inform you that Dr. T B Rajashekar, Associate >> > Chairman >> > of NCSI expired on 3-6-05 in an accident. His body will be brought to >> > his >> > residence at 10.15 A M today(4-6-05). The funeral is expected to take >> > place by 3 PM today. >> > >> > Residence Address >> > >> > #676 >> > 4th Cross, Near Swimming Pool >> > Mahalakshmi Layout >> > Bangalore >> > >> > Burial Ground : >> > >> > Chamarajpet >> > Near TR Mills >> > >> > (Left turn after the end of 5th main) >> > >> > >> > CHAIRMAN >> > NCSI >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > LIS-Forum mailing list >> > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >> > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 03:34:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Aloor Thomas Francis Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: Condolence from KAU on the demise of Dr. Rajashekahr To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20050604103452.74992.qmail(a)web54501.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Dear professionals, Dr.TB Rajashekahr was a great prefessional with novel ideas. His contributions are remarkable. His demise is a great loss to the entitre profession. iisc.ernet.in wrote: Library prefessionals in the Kerala Agricultural University and myself express our deep condolence. A.T. Francis Assistant Librarian Kerala Agricultural University Thrissur - 680 656 francisaloor(a)yahho.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 22:04:30 +0530 (IST) From: "G. K. Manjunath" Subject: [LIS-Forum] Condolence - from library staff IGIDR, Mumbai To: Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII We are deeply saddened by the sudden demise of Dr.T.B.Rajashekhar. It is shocking and unbelievable. We have lost an eminent information scientist and a dedicated teacher. Our condolences to his family and also to all the NCSI members. G.K.Manjunath S.M.Pujar Sangeeta H Vinita H Library staff IGIDR, Mumbai ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 02:41:16 -0700 (PDT) From: K M Haneefa Subject: [LIS-Forum] This is very tragic To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, digilib_india(a)yahoogroups.com, iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com, nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com, dlrg(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in Message-ID: <20050604094116.42650.qmail(a)web33509.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Friends, I am deeply shocked to know the unexpected death news of Dr. T B Rajashekar......... This is very tragic....................... Myself and my department would like to express our deepest condolences and sympathies to the family of Dr. T B Rajashekar. May ALLAH rest his soul in peace and give strength to his family to bear this loss. K M Haneefa Lecturer Department of Library & Information Science University of Calicut, Kerala E-mail : haneefcalicut(a)yahoo.com Phone No: 09895842431 --------------------------------- Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM & more. Check it out! I am very sorry to hear the sad demises of Dr.T.B.R. May his soul rest in peace. M.N.Divya Librarian, SFGC, Bangalore-64 mailto:leeleshdivya@yahoo.com leeleshdivya(a)yahoo.com 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: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 10 (Lata Suresh) 2. LIbrary Networking in India (sarandha singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 14:09:49 +0530 From: "Lata Suresh" Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 10 To: Message-ID: <000601c56a74$03ecac40$12acca0a@latalibrary> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" We the library staff of Indian Institute of Health Management Research are extremely shocked to know about the sudden and untimely demise of Dr. T.B. Rajasekhar. His contributions to the profession will be remembered forever. Our condolences to his family and also to all the NCSI members. May his soul rest in peace. Lata Suresh Librarian Indian Institute of Health Management Research 1, Prabhu Dayal MArg Sanganer Airport Jaipur 302033 RAJASTHAN, INDIA Tel : 91-0141-2791431-34 Fax: 91-0141-2792138 Email : lata(a)iihmr.org OR iihmr(a)iihmr.org ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 1:37 PM Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 10 Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in You can reach the person managing the list at lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 5 (Siva Chidambaram) 2. Sad demise of Dr T B Rajasekhar (theresa.williams(a)wipro.com) 3. Sad Demise of Dr. TBR (M. Paul Pandian) 4. Re: Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (Jayakumar, C) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 12:26:18 +0530 From: "Siva Chidambaram" Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 5 To: Message-ID: <005301c56a64$e2715840$886464c0@Siva> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Dear Colloquies and fellows Really our country last a good INFORMATION SCIENCE TEACHER AND INSTITUTIONAL BUILDER (NCSI). Please accept my unbelievable tragetic and deepest condolence to his family members and NCSI. ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 10:56 AM Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 5 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: Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (Subbiah Arunachalam) 2. Re: Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (Subbiah Arunachalam) 3. Re: Condolence from KAU on the demise of Dr. Rajashekahr (Aloor Thomas Francis) 4. Condolence - from library staff IGIDR, Mumbai (G. K. Manjunath) 5. This is very tragic (K M Haneefa) 6. Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (HENAG) 7. Re: Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (Jitender Sharma) 8. Heart felt condolences (SCKumaresan) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 14:03:21 +0530 From: "Subbiah Arunachalam" Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar To: "Jobish P" , "Prof N. Balakrishnan" , Message-ID: <005c01c568e0$6fc45cf0$791e09c0@Arun> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Dear Prof. Balakrishnan/ Prof. Menon/ Francis: Kindly accept my heart felt condolences. Please convey the same to Mrs Rajashekar and other members of his family. Raja was one of the best information professionals of our country and had earned a reputation around the world. He played an important role in training young professionals in modern information dissemination tchniques and in promoting the open access culture in India. His passing away is a great loss to the profession. RIP. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jobish P" To: Cc: ; Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:15 AM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar > > > > We are very sad to inform you that Dr. T B Rajashekar, Associate Chairman > of NCSI expired on 3-6-05 in an accident. His body will be brought to his > residence at 10.15 A M today(4-6-05). The funeral is expected to take > place by 3 PM today. > > Residence Address > > #676 > 4th Cross, Near Swimming Pool > Mahalakshmi Layout > Bangalore > > Burial Ground : > > Chamarajpet > Near TR Mills > > (Left turn after the end of 5th main) > > > CHAIRMAN > NCSI > > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 15:48:53 +0530 From: "Subbiah Arunachalam" Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar To: "Stevan Harnad" , "Prof N. Balakrishnan" , "Niranjan V Joshi" , Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, oa-india(a)dgroups.org Message-ID: <00ad01c568ef$07ca0640$791e09c0@Arun> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Yes Stevan, it is the same Raja. Melissa of OSI and UNESCO had recognised his worth and invited him to some conferences and workshops. I always thought he was very good in his work. In fact, I had to face some harsh comments from other Indian colleagues when I mentioned in a discussion list that NCSI was a good training centre for young Indian librarians. He is no more. Why should such an accomplished expert die when he has so much more to give to the rest of us, I do not understand. Nature's ways are inscrutable. Arun ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stevan Harnad" To: "Subbiah Arunachalam" Cc: "Les Carr" Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 3:20 PM Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar > Dear Arun, > > Can this really be Raja, whom I know, who did so much to set up the > IIS archive? who helped host Les Carr's visit to India? > > A great loss of a dedicated man, in his prime. > > If possible, please convey my condolences to his family, and my gratitude > and appreciation for all his important work. > > Stevan > > On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Subbiah Arunachalam wrote: > >> Dear Prof. Balakrishnan/ Prof. Menon/ Francis: >> >> Kindly accept my heart felt condolences. Please convey the same to Mrs >> Rajashekar and other members of his family. Raja was one of the best >> information professionals of our country and had earned a reputation >> around >> the world. He played an important role in training young professionals in >> modern information dissemination tchniques and in promoting the open >> access >> culture in India. His passing away is a great loss to the profession. >> RIP. >> >> Arun >> [Subbiah Arunachalam] >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jobish P" >> To: >> Cc: ; >> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:15 AM >> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar >> >> > We are very sad to inform you that Dr. T B Rajashekar, Associate >> > Chairman >> > of NCSI expired on 3-6-05 in an accident. His body will be brought to >> > his >> > residence at 10.15 A M today(4-6-05). The funeral is expected to take >> > place by 3 PM today. >> > >> > Residence Address >> > >> > #676 >> > 4th Cross, Near Swimming Pool >> > Mahalakshmi Layout >> > Bangalore >> > >> > Burial Ground : >> > >> > Chamarajpet >> > Near TR Mills >> > >> > (Left turn after the end of 5th main) >> > >> > >> > CHAIRMAN >> > NCSI >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > LIS-Forum mailing list >> > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >> > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 03:34:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Aloor Thomas Francis Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: Condolence from KAU on the demise of Dr. Rajashekahr To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20050604103452.74992.qmail(a)web54501.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Dear professionals, Dr.TB Rajashekahr was a great prefessional with novel ideas. His contributions are remarkable. His demise is a great loss to the entitre profession. iisc.ernet.in wrote: Library prefessionals in the Kerala Agricultural University and myself express our deep condolence. A.T. Francis Assistant Librarian Kerala Agricultural University Thrissur - 680 656 francisaloor(a)yahho.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 22:04:30 +0530 (IST) From: "G. K. Manjunath" Subject: [LIS-Forum] Condolence - from library staff IGIDR, Mumbai To: Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII We are deeply saddened by the sudden demise of Dr.T.B.Rajashekhar. It is shocking and unbelievable. We have lost an eminent information scientist and a dedicated teacher. Our condolences to his family and also to all the NCSI members. G.K.Manjunath S.M.Pujar Sangeeta H Vinita H Library staff IGIDR, Mumbai ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 02:41:16 -0700 (PDT) From: K M Haneefa Subject: [LIS-Forum] This is very tragic To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, digilib_india(a)yahoogroups.com, iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com, nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com, dlrg(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in Message-ID: <20050604094116.42650.qmail(a)web33509.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Friends, I am deeply shocked to know the unexpected death news of Dr. T B Rajashekar......... This is very tragic....................... Myself and my department would like to express our deepest condolences and sympathies to the family of Dr. T B Rajashekar. May ALLAH rest his soul in peace and give strength to his family to bear this loss. K M Haneefa Lecturer Department of Library & Information Science University of Calicut, Kerala E-mail : haneefcalicut(a)yahoo.com Phone No: 09895842431 --------------------------------- Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM & more. Check it out!

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SHRADDANJALI MEETING: DR. TBR
by I.R.N.Goudar 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Friends SHRADDANJALI MEETING (Request: Please inform about this to friends, colleagues and students personally/through telephone, etc) As you are aware Dr. T.B. Rajashekar, a distinct star of our profession met a tragic accident and passed away on 3rd June 2005. He was given a tearful farewell the next day in the presence good number of his relatives, friends, colleagues and student community. We request you to join us in the CONDOLENCE MEETING arranged to pay homage to the departed soul. Date and Time: Monday, 13th June 2005 at 6.00 pm Venue: "Granthangana" Nagara Kendra Granthalaya West Zone, Hampinagar (RPC Layout) Vijayanagar, Bangalore -560040 (Very near to last RPC Layout Bus Stop Contact No. 23209691 (Chief Librarian, NKG) Meeting Organised by: Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) Department of Public Libraries, Karnataka Sharada Ranganathan Endowment for LIS Society for Information Science (SIS), Bangalore Chapter Students/Friends/Colleagues of Dr. TBR -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Condolence- Message on sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar
by Suresh Chauhan 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Dear All, Sudden demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar, well know as Raja, is a great loss to our profession. His contribution to our profession is invaluable. Death is the only truth of this life which no body want to accept. We have lost a true and virtual young professional who was determined to give his best to library profession. Physically he is not with us but with his remarkable work and achievements he will remain alive in our thoughts and minds. May God bless his soul in peace. ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Suresh K Chauhan project Scientist (LS) INFLIBNET Centre (An IUC of UGC) Gujarat University Campus Ahmedabad- Gujarat 380 009, INDIA Telephone: 079-26305971/26304695, Extn. 43 Office Website: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in Dear All, Sudden demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar, well know as Raja, is a great loss to our profession. His contribution to our profession is invaluable. Death is the only truth of this life which no body want to accept. We have lost a true and virtual young professional who was determined to give his best to library profession. Physically he is not with us but with his remarkable work and achievements he will remain alive in our thoughts and minds. May God bless his soul in peace. ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Suresh K Chauhan project Scientist (LS) INFLIBNET Centre (An IUC of UGC) Gujarat University Campus Ahmedabad- Gujarat 380 009, INDIA Telephone: 079-26305971/26304695, Extn. 43 Office Website: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in http://www.inflibnet.ac.in

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(no subject)
by Sanjay Singh 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Dear Friends, We are deeply shocked to know the unexpected death news of Dr. T B Rajashekar. Myself and my department would like to express our deepest condolences and sympathies to the family of Dr. T B Rajashekar. May God rest his soul in peace. -- --- Sanjay Singh Scientific Officer / 'D' Scientific Information Resource Division, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu 603102 (India) Email: sanjjay(a)igcar.ernet.in, sanjjay(a)gmail.com Phone: 0091 4114 280096 (O), 09443237155 (R) Fax: 0091 4114 280096 ---

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OpenISIS is Dead:: GNI is the next generation
by Saiful Amin 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Hi, Well, I was shocked to read the first few lines, you might be too... http://openisis.org/Doc/ OpenISIS project is 'finished', and will not be in development. GNI would be based on it. GNI, true to it's OSS tradition is a recursive acronym, stands for "GNI is NOT ISIS"! Best regards, Saiful -- 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." Well, I was shocked to read the first few lines, you might be too... http://openisis.org/Doc/ http://openisis.org/Doc/ OpenISIS project is 'finished', and will not be in development. GNI would be based on it. GNI, true to it's OSS tradition is a recursive acronym, stands for "GNI is NOT ISIS"! Best regards, Saiful -- 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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TBR: a tribute
by harinarayana＠lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

It is extremely sad to know a very shocking news on the Saturday morning. One of my colleagues informed me. I know T.B. Rajashekar, popularly known as TBR, since I passed my master's degree. He invited me to attend an interview for some post in INFLIBNET, way back in 1989. Later, TBR helped me a lot in my research project also. Whenever, I had some technical issues to be solved, invariably I depended on him. Recently he helped one of my students also to choose the area for his Ph.D research. I find short of words to express my grief. An information professional par excellence is no more with us. May the almighty rest the soul in peace. Harinarayana Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore

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Sad demise of Dr.T.B. Rajashekhar
by prakash gouda 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Dear Professionals, Library & Information Science profession have lost a great personality, eminent information scientist and a dedicated teacher.It is a biggest loss for LIS profession. My heartfelt condolences to his family and NCSI. May God rest his soul in peace. PRAKASHGOUDA SU LIBRARIAN S.NIJALIGAPPA MEDICAL COLLEGE HSK HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTRE NAVANAGAR, BAGALKOT-587102 gouda_prakash(a)rediffmail.com Dear Professionals, Library & Information Science profession have lost a great personality, eminent information scientist and a dedicated teacher.It is a biggest loss for LIS profession. My heartfelt condolences to his family and NCSI. May God rest his soul in peace. PRAKASHGOUDA SU LIBRARIAN S.NIJALIGAPPA MEDICAL COLLEGE HSK HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTRE NAVANAGAR, BAGALKOT-587102 gouda_prakash(a)rediffmail.com 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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Sad demise of Dr T B Rajasekhar
by Sangeeta Kaul, Network Manager, DELNET 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

I am pained to inform you that Dr T B Rajasekhar, Associate Chairman, NCSI, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore died in a road accident yesterday night in Bangalore. We are extremely shocked to know about the sudden, untimely demise of a young bright professional whose contributions to the profession will be remembered forever, this listserv through which I am informing you about his sad, tragic demise was one of his early contributions to the professionals in the country. May God give peace to the departed soul and give strength and courage to the family members to bear the loss. with prayers Sangeeta Kaul

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{Blocked Content} Digital divide not librarians divide
by mohanck1 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Warning: This message has had one or more attachments removed Warning: (msg-23089-485.html). Warning: Please read the "NCSI-Attachment-Warning.txt" attachment(s) for more information. Dear Sir/Madam, Information and Communicatin technologies(ICTs) have affected the library and information science and the profession emmensly.Today we have to implement and practice the habit of uising new technologies in capturing , storage and organising informatiom.Yes the benefit of ICT in capturing and dessimination customer.These are all disscused over the years and we have been trying to adopt/adapt to the present web scenario.And most of the Educational and research Instititution have automated their libraries and they have their own digital library to satisify their internal and external clientele. But at the same time the penetration of IT into the library proffession has slowly creating a gap within LISC profession.Today we have all witnessed that plenty of discussion, seminars, conferences are taking place all over the world to modify and train the library profession ,eventhough the gap seems to be widen over the years. The employment structure of library profession is very diffe! rent one comapre to other profession.Libraries are the house of knowledge ,to capture, organise and to dessiminate information skilled library professionals are very much required there is no doubt it. Educational institutions , corporate firms and other organisations have providing enormous opportunities for Library and Information graduates.But the thing is, if once we get into the job as a school librarian or college librarian it is very difficult to keep up abreast with new developments ,the lack of infrastructure, willingness of librarians, lack of mangement support and all plays a crucial role to keep abreast with new developmets, today high proportion rate of schools and colleges have not provide any facility to librarians to learn and perform his work using new technologies.And most of the seminars and conferences are all centered to corporate and well known institutions not for school are college librarians. this is slowly creating a huge problem that is Librarians di! vide.Today we have to address this issue and carry the LIS profession to more hiegts with providing equal opportunity to everyone. Regards mohanck Indiatimes Email now powered by APIC Advantage. Help! Help

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XML and MS-Office
by Jai Haravu 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Dear List emmbers Mr. Farooque Shaheen has informed us of an important development that MS-Office will now have XML as its underlying format. I think Microsoft has at long last realized that using a proprietary format is no longer sustainable in a fast changing and globalized world. Incidentally, Microsoft is not doing anything new. Sun Microsystems' OpenOffice already uses XML as its format and so is tnerefore considered to be future proof. In this connection, I would like to let members know that in our library automation software, NewGenLib, we already have integrated OpenOffice as the software for all form letters and reports that are possible to be produced from within its functional modules. Best regards. Haravu On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 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. XML will be the default file format for next MS > Office > (Mailing List Manager) > > > --------------------------------------------------------- > -------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 11:45:08 +0530 (IST) > From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] XML will be the default file > format for next MS > Office > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0506021144460.6498(a)ncsi.iisc.- > ernet.in> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:43:56 +0530 > From: Farooque Shaheen <Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com> > > Microsoft Corp. announced that the next version of its > Office software > will use Internet-friendly XML technology as the > default file format for > documents created in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. > The new format will make it easier for other programs > to read Office > documents, an improvement the software titan says is > aimed at boosting > workers' productivity. > XML, short for eXtensible Markup Language, is designed > for sharing diverse > data across different systems with a uniform > appearance. Previously, > Office saved files in a format that doesn't always > translate well when > opened in other programs. > The current version, Office 2003, already supports XML > but some users have > complained that it is clunky and documents don't always > translate well > from that format either. > A full dig on this matter can be found here. > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/200- > 5/06/01/AR2005060101974.html > > 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 27, Issue 2 > ****************************************

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Sad and Unfortunate demise of Dr T B Rajashekar
by Navin Soni 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Sir, Its really painful to hear that Dr T B rajashekar is no mre with all of us. I had never met him only heard about his dedication to his work and i make a great image in my mind and always try to met him personally and want to talk to him. My many friends are his students. I can only image his great personalty and expertise in his work by seeing his students work in digital enviroinment. Its really a great loss to Indian Digital Library Movement which i think take a lot time to fill the gap. My deep condolance to his Family and also to NCSI family and praying God may his soul rest in peace Navin Kumar Soni DESIDOC, DRDO Metcalfe House Delhi- 110054 (M) 09868459805 Sir, Its really painful to hear that Dr T B rajashekar is no mre with all of us. I had never met him only heard about his dedication to his work and i make a great image in my mind and always try to met him personally and want to talk to him. My many friends are his students. I can only image his great personalty and expertise in his work by seeing his students work in digital enviroinment. Its really a great loss to Indian Digital Library Movement which i think take a lot time to fill the gap. My deep condolance to his Family and also to NCSI family and praying God may his soul rest in peace Navin Kumar Soni DESIDOC, DRDO Metcalfe House Delhi- 110054 (M) 09868459805 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: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 4
by rose shee 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

my warm hello to all the members i m a new member.i hv got many useful inf by this system .i want to thank mr. rashid for his valuable inf on MINDSET. mlis-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. Automation and networking of all Government College Libraries in AP (Mailing List Manager) 2. New .xxx domain will be reserved for porn (Mailing List Manager) 3. Yahoo! comes out with intelligent search tool (Mailing List Manager) 4. Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (Jobish P) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 13:21:39 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager Subject: [LIS-Forum] Automation and networking of all Government College Libraries in AP To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 11:28:48 +0530 From: ramshirish.m(a)tcs.com Dear All here is a good news for Government College students of Andhra Pradesh. INFLIBNET is funding the automation and networking of all College Libraries of Andhra Pradesh. Read this news item at following URL: http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/03/stories/2005060317570500.htm Ramshirish Mamidala Library and Information Centre Tata Consultancy Services Limited 1, Software Units Layout Madhapur Hyderabad 500 081 Ph: 040 - 5567 2533 / 2531 Mailto: ramshirish.m(a)tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 13:23:21 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager Subject: [LIS-Forum] New .xxx domain will be reserved for porn To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 12:38:41 +0530 From: Farooque Shaheen The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) yesterday approved a plan for pornographic Web sites to use new addresses that end with ".xxx," something numerous groups and U.S. political leaders have been seeking to try to prevent sexually explicit content from landing on the screens of young Internet users. ICANN, the nonprofit organization that oversees technical matters related to the Internet, said it will begin negotiations with ICM Registry Inc. to resolve commercial and technical issues associated with operating the .xxx top-level domain (TLD). The decision in favor of establishing a virtual red-light district for providers of pornographic content and their customers represents a U-turn for ICANN, which rejected ICM's first application for the .xxx TLD in November 2000. Reasons for the objection are published in a document available on ICANN's Web site. A full dig on this matter can be found at.. http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/websitemgmt/story/0,10801,10… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 17:34:09 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager Subject: [LIS-Forum] Yahoo! comes out with intelligent search tool To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 02:16:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Rashid Hussain Yahoo! introduced a new search tool, Mindset, which enables users to search and to sort the search results on the basis of commercial or informational value. The beta version, available as an online tool, allows the users to view what they want unlike existing search tools that give mega piles of unorganized information. In Mindset, search queries can be adjusted by moving a slider located on top of the search page, to the left or right to determine the nature of results wanted -- commercial or informational. It is significant that Yahoo! has quietly come out with this innovative tool after the much-publicized personalized Google home page was launched a couple of days back. Mindset is located on the Yahoo Research Labs' site Yahoo Next. The default setting of the slider shows results based on Yahoo's normal listing, while moving it to the right will make the results arranged on an informational basis and to the left on a commercial basis. Yahoo said Mindset is based on machine learning process, which carries out the search through algorithms developed so that the results are thrown on a continuous scale raging from "very commercial" to "very non-commercial". = = = = = = = = = = = Rashid Hussain Siddiqui ADIS 2nd Year Student Documentation Research & Training Centre(DRTC) Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalore : 560059 Phone No. : 080-28483975 ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 10:15:44 +0530 (IST) From: Jobish P Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar To: broadcast(a)iisc.ernet.in Cc: ncsi-net(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII We are very sad to inform you that Dr. T B Rajashekar, Associate Chairman of NCSI expired on 3-6-05 in an accident. His body will be brought to his residence at 10.15 A M today(4-6-05). The funeral is expected to take place by 3 PM today. Residence Address #676 4th Cross, Near Swimming Pool Mahalakshmi Layout Bangalore Burial Ground : Chamarajpet Near TR Mills (Left turn after the end of 5th main) CHAIRMAN NCSI ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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 27, Issue 4 **************************************** --------------------------------- Free antispam, antivirus and 1GB to save all your messages Only in Yahoo! Mail: http://in.mail.yahoo.com my warm hello to all the members i m a new member.i hv got many useful inf by this system .i want to thank mr. rashid for his valuable inf on MINDSET. mailto:mlis-forum-request@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in mlis-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. Automation and networking of all Government College Libraries in AP (Mailing List Manager) 2. New .xxx domain will be reserved for porn (Mailing List Manager) 3. Yahoo! comes out with intelligent search tool (Mailing List Manager) 4. Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (Jobish P) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 13:21:39 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager Subject: [LIS-Forum] Automation and networking of all Government College Libraries in AP To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 11:28:48 +0530 From: ramshirish.m(a)tcs.com Dear All here is a good news for Government College students of Andhra Pradesh. INFLIBNET is funding the automation and networking of all College Libraries of Andhra Pradesh. Read this news item at following URL: http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/03/stories/2005060317570500.htm Ramshirish Mamidala Library and Information Centre Tata Consultancy Services Limited 1, Software Units Layout Madhapur Hyderabad 500 081 Ph: 040 - 5567 2533 / 2531 Mailto: ramshirish.m(a)tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 13:23:21 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager Subject: [LIS-Forum] New .xxx domain will be reserved for porn To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 12:38:41 +0530 From: Farooque Shaheen The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) yesterday approved a plan for pornographic Web sites to use new addresses that end with ".xxx," something numerous groups and U.S. political leaders have been seeking to try to prevent sexually explicit content from landing on the screens of young Internet users. ICANN, the nonprofit organization that oversees technical matters related to the Internet, said it will begin negotiations with ICM Registry Inc. to resolve commercial and technical issues associated with operating the .xxx top-level domain (TLD). The decision in favor of establishing a virtual red-light district for providers of pornographic content and their customers represents a U-turn for ICANN, which rejected ICM's first application for the .xxx TLD in November 2000. Reasons for the objection are published in a document available on ICANN's Web site. A full dig on this matter can be found at.. http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/websitemgmt/story/0,10801,10… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 17:34:09 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager Subject: [LIS-Forum] Yahoo! comes out with intelligent search tool To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 02:16:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Rashid Hussain Yahoo! introduced a new search tool, Mindset, which enables users to search and to sort the search results on the basis of commercial or informational value. The beta version, available as an online tool, allows the users to view what they want unlike existing search tools that give mega piles of unorganized information. In Mindset, search queries can be adjusted by moving a slider located on top of the search page, to the left or right to determine the nature of results wanted -- commercial or informational. It is significant that Yahoo! has quietly come out with this innovative tool after the much-publicized personalized Google home page was launched a couple of days back. Mindset is located on the Yahoo Research Labs' site Yahoo Next. The default setting of the slider shows results based on Yahoo's normal listing, while moving it to the right will make the results arranged on an informational basis and to the left on a commercial basis. Yahoo said Mindset is based on machine learning process, which carries out the search through algorithms developed so that the results are thrown on a continuous scale raging from "very commercial" to "very non-commercial". = = = = = = = = = = = Rashid Hussain Siddiqui ADIS 2nd Year Student Documentation Research & Training Centre(DRTC) Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalore : 560059 Phone No. : 080-28483975 ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 10:15:44 +0530 (IST) From: Jobish P Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar To: broadcast(a)iisc.ernet.in Cc: ncsi-net(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII We are very sad to inform you that Dr. T B Rajashekar, Associate Chairman of NCSI expired on 3-6-05 in an accident. His body will be brought to his residence at 10.15 A M today(4-6-05). The funeral is expected to take place by 3 PM today. Residence Address #676 4th Cross, Near Swimming Pool Mahalakshmi Layout Bangalore Burial Ground : Chamarajpet Near TR Mills (Left turn after the end of 5th main) CHAIRMAN NCSI ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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 27, Issue 4 **************************************** Free antispam, antivirus and 1GB to save all your messages Only in Yahoo! Mail: http://in.mail.yahoo.com

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Sad demise of Dr Rajasekhar
by Shahab 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

How shocked I am to hear of Dr. T B Rajasekhar's sudden demise! I met him once at our Foundation. It was Open Access Workshop in May 2004. He was very good in teaching. He was calm and patient. He listened to all the issues patiently and replied with clarity. I found him a man who was very clear in what he did. His demise is an irreparable loss to the information profession and the cause of Open Access in India. S M Shahabuddin M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Chennai How shocked I am to hear of Dr. T B Rajasekhar's sudden demise! I met him once at our Foundation. It was Open Access Workshop in May 2004. He was very good in teaching. He was calm and patient. He listened to all the issues patiently and replied with clarity. I found him a man who was very clear in what he did. His demise is an irreparable loss to the information profession and the cause of Open Access in India. S M Shahabuddin M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Chennai 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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Our profession has lost a great person Dr. T B Rajshekar
by ishwar bandi 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar What a great loss to the profession !! It's an irrepairable loss. My heatfelt condolences to the bereaved family and all his colleagues in Bangalore and elsewehere. I C Bandi Librarian Donbosco Institute of Technology Kurl, Mumbai-400 070 --------------------------------- How much free photo storage do you get? Store your friends n family photos for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. http://in.photos.yahoo.com Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar What a great loss to the profession !! It's an irrepairable loss. My heatfelt condolences to the bereaved family and all his colleagues in Bangalore and elsewehere. I C Bandi Librarian Donbosco Institute of Technology Kurl, Mumbai-400 070 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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GOOD PROFESSIONAL
by akhtar hussain 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Dear Friends, I am deeply shocked to know the unexpected death news of Dr. T B Rajashekar......... This is very tragic....................... Dear friends Myself and my department would like to express our deepest condolences and sympathies to the family of Dr. T B Rajashekar. "WHO HAD BEEN SOURCE OF INSPIRATION & ENCOURAGE FOR LIS PROFESSIONALS" May ALLAH rest his soul in peace and give strength to his family to bear this loss. AKHTAR HUSSAIN Faculty Department of Library & Information Science, Ch.Charan Singh University, Meerut Dear Friends, I am deeply shocked to know the unexpected death news of Dr. T B Rajashekar......... This is very tragic....................... Dear friends Myself and my department would like to express our deepest condolences and sympathies to the family of Dr. T B Rajashekar. "WHO HAD BEEN SOURCE OF INSPIRATION & ENCOURAGE FOR LIS PROFESSIONALS" May ALLAH rest his soul in peace and give strength to his family to bear this loss. AKHTAR HUSSAIN Faculty Department of Library & Information Science, Ch.Charan Singh University, Meerut 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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Sad Demise of Dr. TBR
by M. Paul Pandian 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Dear All, It is a great loss for the entire library community. Dr. TBR was one of the great experts in the field and made significant contributions in the areas of digital libraries and allied areas. Our deepest condolences to his family and the NCSI staff and friends. M. Paul Pandian Institute of Mathematical Sciences CIT Campus, Taramani Chennai Dear All, It is a great loss for the entire library community. Dr. TBR was one of the great experts in the field and made significant contributions in the areas of digital libraries and allied areas. Our deepest condolences to his family and the NCSI staff and friends. M. Paul Pandian Institute of Mathematical Sciences CIT Campus, Taramani Chennai http://www.imsc.res.in/library/library/Index.php

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Young Library scientist
by akhtar hussain 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Dear Librar y& Information Science Professionals I am deeply shocked to know the unexpected death news of Dr. T B Rajashekar by newspapers This is very tragic....................... Myself and my department would like to express our deepest condolences and sympathies to the family of Dr. T B Rajashekar. "WHO HAD BEEN SOURCE OF INSPIRATION AND ENCOURAGE TO ME" May ALLAH rest his soul in peace and give strength to his family to bear this loss. AKHTAR HUSSAIN Faculty, Department of Library & Information Science Ch.Charan Singh University, MEERUT (U P) E-mail ID:ahussain_47@yahoo.co.in M.N.09412596514 Dear Librar y& Information Science Professionals I am deeply shocked to know the unexpected death news of Dr. T B Rajashekar by newspapers This is very tragic....................... Myself and my department would like to express our deepest condolences and sympathies to the family of Dr. T B Rajashekar. "WHO HAD BEEN SOURCE OF INSPIRATION AND ENCOURAGE TO ME" May ALLAH rest his soul in peace and give strength to his family to bear this loss. AKHTAR HUSSAIN Faculty, Department of Library & Information Science Ch.Charan Singh University, MEERUT (U P) E-mail ID:ahussain_47@yahoo.co.in M.N.09412596514 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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Sad Demise of Dr. TBR
by Malathy S 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Dear Professionals, It is a great loss for the entire LIS community. His contributions will be long remembered. Let god give strength for his family and friends to recover from this unfortunate shock. Malathy & All Library Staff of ISRO Satellite Centre Library Airport Road Bangalore - 17 Adore Arshad Warsi? http://g.msn.com/8HMBENIN/2752??PS=47575 Think he is the funniest? Vote now@Samsung IIFA Awards!

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (fwd)
by Jobish P 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 14:17:08 +0530 From: T R B Sarma <trbsarma(a)isec.ac.in> To: Jobish P <jobish_p(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar We were shocked after hearing this heart pain news. All the library professionals, especially Bangalore based library professionals lost a soft professional collegue and an intellegent expert in the filed of library and information technology. We express our heart felt condolences to his family members and NCSI community. Staff members of ISEC Library, Bangalore. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jobish P" <jobish_p(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: <broadcast(a)iisc.ernet.in> Cc: <ncsi-net(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:15 AM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar > > > > We are very sad to inform you that Dr. T B Rajashekar, Associate Chairman > of NCSI expired on 3-6-05 in an accident. His body will be brought to his > residence at 10.15 A M today(4-6-05). The funeral is expected to take > place by 3 PM today. > > Residence Address > > #676 > 4th Cross, Near Swimming Pool > Mahalakshmi Layout > Bangalore > > Burial Ground : > > Chamarajpet > Near TR Mills > > (Left turn after the end of 5th main) > > > CHAIRMAN > NCSI > > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >

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by Vara Lakshmi Rudrabhatla 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Its a great shock for all participants of UN4IM. He was with us till last Monday, we are not able to believe the news. Dr Rajasekhar is a professional par excellence and a very good teacher. His loss is irrepairable to the profession. Our condelences to the family and members of NCSI. -- Dr. RSR Varalakshmi Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Science., Andhra University. Visakhapatnam. _________________________________________________________________ Think Rani is the best? http://server1.msn.co.in/sp05/iifa/ Make sure she wins the award.

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Raja
by Subbiah Arunachalam 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Ayesha Taranum said: "He shall always live in our hearts and we have to now, ensure we give back the same decidcation and commitment to the profession to which he dedicated his life and made us what we are today." Let us all remember it. That is the best way to pay our tribut to Rajashekar. Arun Ayesha Taranum said: " He shall always live in our hearts and we have to now, ensure we give back the same decidcation and commitment to the profession to which he dedicated his life and made us what we are today. " Let us all remember it. That is the best way to pay our tribut to Rajashekar. Arun

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Sad demise of Dr.T.B.Rajashekar -A power behind the forum
by ganeshtk 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Dear All, It is very sad to note that Dr.T.B.Rajashekar a power behind the LIS FORUM expired. May god give full strength to both his and NCSI family GANESHA T.K. CISED BANGALORE __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 10
by Lata Suresh 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

We the library staff of Indian Institute of Health Management Research are extremely shocked to know about the sudden and untimely demise of Dr. T.B. Rajasekhar. His contributions to the profession will be remembered forever. Our condolences to his family and also to all the NCSI members. May his soul rest in peace. Lata Suresh Librarian Indian Institute of Health Management Research 1, Prabhu Dayal MArg Sanganer Airport Jaipur 302033 RAJASTHAN, INDIA Tel : 91-0141-2791431-34 Fax: 91-0141-2792138 Email : lata(a)iihmr.org OR iihmr(a)iihmr.org ----- Original Message ----- From: <lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 1:37 PM Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 10 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: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 5 (Siva Chidambaram) 2. Sad demise of Dr T B Rajasekhar (theresa.williams(a)wipro.com) 3. Sad Demise of Dr. TBR (M. Paul Pandian) 4. Re: Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (Jayakumar, C) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 12:26:18 +0530 From: "Siva Chidambaram" <schidambaram(a)nipfp.org.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 5 To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: <005301c56a64$e2715840$886464c0@Siva> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Dear Colloquies and fellows Really our country last a good INFORMATION SCIENCE TEACHER AND INSTITUTIONAL BUILDER (NCSI). Please accept my unbelievable tragetic and deepest condolence to his family members and NCSI. ----- Original Message ----- From: <lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 10:56 AM Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 5 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: Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (Subbiah Arunachalam) 2. Re: Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (Subbiah Arunachalam) 3. Re: Condolence from KAU on the demise of Dr. Rajashekahr (Aloor Thomas Francis) 4. Condolence - from library staff IGIDR, Mumbai (G. K. Manjunath) 5. This is very tragic (K M Haneefa) 6. Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (HENAG) 7. Re: Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (Jitender Sharma) 8. Heart felt condolences (SCKumaresan) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 14:03:21 +0530 From: "Subbiah Arunachalam" <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar To: "Jobish P" <jobish_p(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, "Prof N. Balakrishnan" <balki(a)serc.iisc.ernet.in>, <agmenon(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: <005c01c568e0$6fc45cf0$791e09c0@Arun> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Dear Prof. Balakrishnan/ Prof. Menon/ Francis: Kindly accept my heart felt condolences. Please convey the same to Mrs Rajashekar and other members of his family. Raja was one of the best information professionals of our country and had earned a reputation around the world. He played an important role in training young professionals in modern information dissemination tchniques and in promoting the open access culture in India. His passing away is a great loss to the profession. RIP. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jobish P" <jobish_p(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: <broadcast(a)iisc.ernet.in> Cc: <ncsi-net(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:15 AM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar > > > > We are very sad to inform you that Dr. T B Rajashekar, Associate Chairman > of NCSI expired on 3-6-05 in an accident. His body will be brought to his > residence at 10.15 A M today(4-6-05). The funeral is expected to take > place by 3 PM today. > > Residence Address > > #676 > 4th Cross, Near Swimming Pool > Mahalakshmi Layout > Bangalore > > Burial Ground : > > Chamarajpet > Near TR Mills > > (Left turn after the end of 5th main) > > > CHAIRMAN > NCSI > > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 15:48:53 +0530 From: "Subbiah Arunachalam" <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar To: "Stevan Harnad" <harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk>, "Prof N. Balakrishnan" <balki(a)serc.iisc.ernet.in>, "Niranjan V Joshi" <nvjoshi(a)ces.iisc.ernet.in>, <franc(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, oa-india(a)dgroups.org Message-ID: <00ad01c568ef$07ca0640$791e09c0@Arun> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Yes Stevan, it is the same Raja. Melissa of OSI and UNESCO had recognised his worth and invited him to some conferences and workshops. I always thought he was very good in his work. In fact, I had to face some harsh comments from other Indian colleagues when I mentioned in a discussion list that NCSI was a good training centre for young Indian librarians. He is no more. Why should such an accomplished expert die when he has so much more to give to the rest of us, I do not understand. Nature's ways are inscrutable. Arun ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stevan Harnad" <harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> To: "Subbiah Arunachalam" <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Cc: "Les Carr" <lac(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 3:20 PM Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar > Dear Arun, > > Can this really be Raja, whom I know, who did so much to set up the > IIS archive? who helped host Les Carr's visit to India? > > A great loss of a dedicated man, in his prime. > > If possible, please convey my condolences to his family, and my gratitude > and appreciation for all his important work. > > Stevan > > On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Subbiah Arunachalam wrote: > >> Dear Prof. Balakrishnan/ Prof. Menon/ Francis: >> >> Kindly accept my heart felt condolences. Please convey the same to Mrs >> Rajashekar and other members of his family. Raja was one of the best >> information professionals of our country and had earned a reputation >> around >> the world. He played an important role in training young professionals in >> modern information dissemination tchniques and in promoting the open >> access >> culture in India. His passing away is a great loss to the profession. >> RIP. >> >> Arun >> [Subbiah Arunachalam] >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jobish P" <jobish_p(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >> To: <broadcast(a)iisc.ernet.in> >> Cc: <ncsi-net(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:15 AM >> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar >> >> > We are very sad to inform you that Dr. T B Rajashekar, Associate >> > Chairman >> > of NCSI expired on 3-6-05 in an accident. His body will be brought to >> > his >> > residence at 10.15 A M today(4-6-05). The funeral is expected to take >> > place by 3 PM today. >> > >> > Residence Address >> > >> > #676 >> > 4th Cross, Near Swimming Pool >> > Mahalakshmi Layout >> > Bangalore >> > >> > Burial Ground : >> > >> > Chamarajpet >> > Near TR Mills >> > >> > (Left turn after the end of 5th main) >> > >> > >> > CHAIRMAN >> > NCSI >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > LIS-Forum mailing list >> > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >> > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 03:34:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Aloor Thomas Francis <francisaloor(a)yahoo.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: Condolence from KAU on the demise of Dr. Rajashekahr To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20050604103452.74992.qmail(a)web54501.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Dear professionals, Dr.TB Rajashekahr was a great prefessional with novel ideas. His contributions are remarkable. His demise is a great loss to the entitre profession. iisc.ernet.in wrote: Library prefessionals in the Kerala Agricultural University and myself express our deep condolence. A.T. Francis Assistant Librarian Kerala Agricultural University Thrissur - 680 656 francisaloor(a)yahho.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 22:04:30 +0530 (IST) From: "G. K. Manjunath" <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Condolence - from library staff IGIDR, Mumbai To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.30.0506051906030.510634-100000(a)brahma.igidr.ac.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII We are deeply saddened by the sudden demise of Dr.T.B.Rajashekhar. It is shocking and unbelievable. We have lost an eminent information scientist and a dedicated teacher. Our condolences to his family and also to all the NCSI members. G.K.Manjunath S.M.Pujar Sangeeta H Vinita H Library staff IGIDR, Mumbai ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 02:41:16 -0700 (PDT) From: K M Haneefa <haneefcalicut(a)yahoo.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] This is very tragic To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, digilib_india(a)yahoogroups.com, iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com, nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com, dlrg(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in Message-ID: <20050604094116.42650.qmail(a)web33509.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Friends, I am deeply shocked to know the unexpected death news of Dr. T B Rajashekar......... This is very tragic....................... Myself and my department would like to express our deepest condolences and sympathies to the family of Dr. T B Rajashekar. May ALLAH rest his soul in peace and give strength to his family to bear this loss. K M Haneefa Lecturer Department of Library & Information Science University of Calicut, Kerala E-mail : haneefcalicut(a)yahoo.com Phone No: 09895842431 --------------------------------- Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM & more. Check it out!

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Sad demise of Dr TBR
by P Venkata Rao 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

It was shocking to know the sad demise of Dr.T B Rajsekhar at a time when everybody is looking at him as a great professional. May his soul rest in peace. My hearfelt condolences to his family. __________________________________________ P Venkata Rao Librarian M G State Institute of Public Administration, Punjab Institutional Area, Sector 26 Chandigarh 160019, India ----------------------------------------------------------- Phone: 91-172-2793588/91 Extn: 220 Fax: 91-172-2793588/91 Extn: 400 Email: pvrao(a)mgsipap.org ___________________________________________ It was shocking to know the sad demise of Dr.T B Rajsekhar at a time when everybody is looking at him as a great professional. May his soul rest in peace. My hearfelt condolences to his family. __________________________________________ P Venkata Rao Librarian M G State Institute of Public Administration, Punjab Institutional Area, Sector 26 Chandigarh 160019, India ----------------------------------------------------------- Phone: 91-172-2793588/91 Extn: 220 Fax: 91-172-2793588/91 Extn: 400 Email: pvrao(a)mgsipap.org ___________________________________________

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Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar
by Suresh Horakeri 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Dear Professionals, I am shocked to know death news of Dr.T.B. Rajashekhar. It's a great loss for library professionals. We cannot forget his contributions in this field. I met him last time at SIT,Tumkur during STTP course, I can not forget his frindly talk with me, I am very sorry to hear a sad news about death of Sri Dr TB Rajashekhar, May God give peace to the departed soul and give strength and courage to the family members to bear the loss. SDHorakeri BVB College of Engg & Tech, Hubli --------------------------------- Discover Yahoo! Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, have fun online & more. Check it out! Dear Professionals, I am shocked to know death news of Dr.T.B. Rajashekhar. It's a great loss for library professionals. We cannot forget his contributions in this field. I met him last time at SIT,Tumkur during STTP course, I can not forget his frindly talk with me, I am very sorry to hear a sad news about death of Sri Dr TB Rajashekhar, May God give peace to the departed soul and give strength and courage to the family members to bear the loss. SDHorakeri BVB College of Engg & Tech, Hubli Discover Yahoo! Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, have fun online & more. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=32657/*http://discover.yahoo.com/ Check it out!

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 10
by Thampi K E 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Untimely sad demise of Dr.Rajesekarji made a big Gap in the feild of dedicated mission oriented Library and IT professionals On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 13:37:45 +0530, lis-forum-request 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: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 5 (Siva Chidambaram) > 2. Sad demise of Dr T B Rajasekhar (theresa.williams(a)wipro.com) > 3. Sad Demise of Dr. TBR (M. Paul Pandian) > 4. Re: Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (Jayakumar, C) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 12:26:18 +0530 > From: "Siva Chidambaram" <schidambaram(a)nipfp.org.in> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 5 > To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Message-ID: <005301c56a64$e2715840$886464c0@Siva> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Dear Colloquies and fellows > > Really our country last a good INFORMATION SCIENCE TEACHER AND INSTITUTIONAL > BUILDER (NCSI). > Please accept my unbelievable tragetic and deepest condolence to his > family members and NCSI. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 10:56 AM > Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 5 > > 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: Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (Subbiah Arunachalam) > 2. Re: Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (Subbiah Arunachalam) > 3. Re: Condolence from KAU on the demise of Dr. Rajashekahr > (Aloor Thomas Francis) > 4. Condolence - from library staff IGIDR, Mumbai (G. K. Manjunath) > 5. This is very tragic (K M Haneefa) > 6. Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (HENAG) > 7. Re: Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (Jitender Sharma) > 8. Heart felt condolences (SCKumaresan) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 14:03:21 +0530 > From: "Subbiah Arunachalam" <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> > Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar > To: "Jobish P" <jobish_p(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, "Prof N. Balakrishnan" > <balki(a)serc.iisc.ernet.in>, <agmenon(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Message-ID: <005c01c568e0$6fc45cf0$791e09c0@Arun> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Dear Prof. Balakrishnan/ Prof. Menon/ Francis: > > Kindly accept my heart felt condolences. Please convey the same to Mrs > Rajashekar and other members of his family. Raja was one of the best > information professionals of our country and had earned a reputation around > the world. He played an important role in training young professionals in > modern information dissemination tchniques and in promoting the open access > culture in India. His passing away is a great loss to the profession. RIP. > > Arun > [Subbiah Arunachalam] > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jobish P" <jobish_p(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > To: <broadcast(a)iisc.ernet.in> > Cc: <ncsi-net(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:15 AM > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar > > > > > > > > > We are very sad to inform you that Dr. T B Rajashekar, Associate Chairman > > of NCSI expired on 3-6-05 in an accident. His body will be brought to his > > residence at 10.15 A M today(4-6-05). The funeral is expected to take > > place by 3 PM today. > > > > Residence Address > > > > #676 > > 4th Cross, Near Swimming Pool > > Mahalakshmi Layout > > Bangalore > > > > Burial Ground : > > > > Chamarajpet > > Near TR Mills > > > > (Left turn after the end of 5th main) > > > > > > CHAIRMAN > > NCSI > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 15:48:53 +0530 > From: "Subbiah Arunachalam" <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> > Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar > To: "Stevan Harnad" <harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk>, "Prof N. Balakrishnan" > <balki(a)serc.iisc.ernet.in>, "Niranjan V Joshi" > <nvjoshi(a)ces.iisc.ernet.in>, <franc(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, oa-india(a)dgroups.org > Message-ID: <00ad01c568ef$07ca0640$791e09c0@Arun> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Yes Stevan, it is the same Raja. Melissa of OSI and UNESCO had recognised > his worth and invited him to some conferences and workshops. I always > thought he was very good in his work. In fact, I had to face some harsh > comments from other Indian colleagues when I mentioned in a discussion list > that NCSI was a good training centre for young Indian librarians. He is no > more. Why should such an accomplished expert die when he has so much more to > give to the rest of us, I do not understand. Nature's ways are inscrutable. > > Arun > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stevan Harnad" <harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> > To: "Subbiah Arunachalam" <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> > Cc: "Les Carr" <lac(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> > Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 3:20 PM > Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar > > > Dear Arun, > > > > Can this really be Raja, whom I know, who did so much to set up the > > IIS archive? who helped host Les Carr's visit to India? > > > > A great loss of a dedicated man, in his prime. > > > > If possible, please convey my condolences to his family, and my gratitude > > and appreciation for all his important work. > > > > Stevan > > > > On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Subbiah Arunachalam wrote: > > > >> Dear Prof. Balakrishnan/ Prof. Menon/ Francis: > >> > >> Kindly accept my heart felt condolences. Please convey the same to Mrs > >> Rajashekar and other members of his family. Raja was one of the best > >> information professionals of our country and had earned a reputation > >> around > >> the world. He played an important role in training young professionals in > >> modern information dissemination tchniques and in promoting the open > >> access > >> culture in India. His passing away is a great loss to the profession. > >> RIP. > >> > >> Arun > >> [Subbiah Arunachalam] > >> > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Jobish P" <jobish_p(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > >> To: <broadcast(a)iisc.ernet.in> > >> Cc: <ncsi-net(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > >> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:15 AM > >> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar > >> > >> > We are very sad to inform you that Dr. T B Rajashekar, Associate > >> > Chairman > >> > of NCSI expired on 3-6-05 in an accident. His body will be brought to > >> > his > >> > residence at 10.15 A M today(4-6-05). The funeral is expected to take > >> > place by 3 PM today. > >> > > >> > Residence Address > >> > > >> > #676 > >> > 4th Cross, Near Swimming Pool > >> > Mahalakshmi Layout > >> > Bangalore > >> > > >> > Burial Ground : > >> > > >> > Chamarajpet > >> > Near TR Mills > >> > > >> > (Left turn after the end of 5th main) > >> > > >> > > >> > CHAIRMAN > >> > NCSI > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > LIS-Forum mailing list > >> > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > >> > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > >> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 03:34:52 -0700 (PDT) > From: Aloor Thomas Francis <francisaloor(a)yahoo.com> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: Condolence from KAU on the demise of Dr. > Rajashekahr > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: <20050604103452.74992.qmail(a)web54501.mail.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Dear professionals, > > Dr.TB Rajashekahr was a great prefessional with novel > ideas. His contributions are remarkable. His demise > is a great loss to the entitre profession. > iisc.ernet.in wrote: > > Library prefessionals in the Kerala Agricultural > University and myself express our deep condolence. > > A.T. Francis > Assistant Librarian > Kerala Agricultural University > Thrissur - 680 656 > francisaloor(a)yahho.com > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 22:04:30 +0530 (IST) > From: "G. K. Manjunath" <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Condolence - from library staff IGIDR, Mumbai > To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Message-ID: > <Pine.OSF.4.30.0506051906030.510634-100000(a)brahma.igidr.ac.in> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > We are deeply saddened by the sudden demise of Dr.T.B.Rajashekhar. It is > shocking and unbelievable. > > We have lost an eminent information scientist and a dedicated teacher. > Our condolences to his family and also to all the NCSI members. > > G.K.Manjunath > S.M.Pujar > Sangeeta H > Vinita H > > Library staff > IGIDR, Mumbai > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 02:41:16 -0700 (PDT) > From: K M Haneefa <haneefcalicut(a)yahoo.com> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] This is very tragic > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, digilib_india(a)yahoogroups.com, > iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com, nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com, dlrg(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in > Message-ID: <20050604094116.42650.qmail(a)web33509.mail.mud.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear Friends, > > I am deeply shocked to know the unexpected death news of Dr. T B > Rajashekar......... > > This is very tragic....................... > > Myself and my department would like to express our deepest condolences and > sympathies to the family of Dr. T B Rajashekar. > > May ALLAH rest his soul in peace and give strength to his family to bear > this loss. > > K M Haneefa > Lecturer > Department of Library & Information Science > University of Calicut, Kerala > E-mail : haneefcalicut(a)yahoo.com Phone No: 09895842431 > > --------------------------------- > Discover Yahoo! > Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM & more. 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sorry
by ytv 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

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Sad Demise
by Krishna Maraddi 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

It is shoking and unbelieveble. We have lost an eminent and dedicated teacher. Our condolence to his family. Krishna Maraddi Librarian SKSVMA CET Laxmeshwar Dist: Gadag __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com It is shoking and unbelieveble. We have lost an eminent and dedicated teacher. Our condolence to his family. Krishna Maraddi Librarian SKSVMA CET Laxmeshwar Dist: Gadag __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Condolences - Dr TB Rajashekar
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Could not believe when I heard the sad news of Dr TB Rajashekar's passing away in an accident. We at VIC of ICICI Knowledge Park, Hyderabad gained a lot with his involvement in our project -- his team developed a very useful Online library of web resources for us. He was a thorough professional and a fine gentleman. An irreparable personal loss to me. May His Soul Rest in Peace. My condolences to his bereaved family members. 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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Condolence - from Thomson Scientific
by Mehrotra, Ajay (TS - Asia) 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

We at Thomson Scientific are deeply saddened by the sudden and untimely demise of Dr.T.B.Rajashekhar. Please convey our heartfelt condolences to his family and all at NCSI. Ajay Mehrotra Thomson Scientific - India

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LIbrary Networking in India
by sarandha singh 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Introduction The explosion in the amount of literature that is available, increases among the number of users and their different needs, and the application of electronic media are forcing libraries to construct and participate in networks. Magnetic tapes, floppy disks, and CD-ROMs provide enough data storage capacity. Retrieval through telecommunications networks and access to international databases are available for searching for information on various subjects. With the advent of networks, remote transmission of texts and graphics, video clips and animated clips are also possible. Definitions: A library network is broadly described as a group of libraries coming together with some agreement of understanding to help each other with a view to satisfying the information needs of their clientele. UNISIST II working document defines Information Network as a set of inter-related information systems associated with communication facilities, which are cooperating through more or less formal agreements in order to implement information handling operations to offer better services to the users. The National Commission on Libraries & Information Science in its National Programme Document (1975) defines a network as Two or more libraries engaged in a common pattern of information exchange, through communications for some functional purpose. Objectives: To promote and support adoption of standards in library operations. To create databases for projects, specialists and institutions to provide online information services To improve the efficiency of housekeeping operations To coordinate with other regional, national & international network for exchange of information and documents To generate new services and to improve the efficiency of existing ones Network Development in India: Some factors that are responsible for the development of library and information networks in India are: The report of the working group of the planning commission on modernization of library services and informatics for the seventh five year plan, 1985-90 The National Policy on Library & Information systems document (1986) accepted by the ministry of HRD, Government of India. The report on national policy on university libraries prepared by the Association of Indian Universities (1987) The UGC report on information systems for science and technology under the Department of Science & Industrial Research (DSIR) Government of India has been vigorously promoting an integrated approach to library automation and networking Limitations in Network Development A network may fail in the early stages if there is not proper planning or if adequate funds are not available. Moreover, a common memorandum of agreement signed by the participating libraries at the institutional level is essential for the success of a network venture. On a more practical level, catalog data must be in a standard, machine readable form for it to be shared and exchanged. And, finally, a continuous flow of external assistance is crucial for the network's survival. Types of Networks: Presently, there are three types of computer networks: LAN MAN WAN Local Area Network (LAN): A LAN is a number of related computers and electronic devices that share information over a transmission media. A typical use of LAN is to tie together personal computers in an office so that they can all use a single printer and a file server. The LAN can be within a building or a campus wide network. Metropolitan Area Network (MAN): Attempts are being made to develop this type of network in metropolitan areas such Delhi, Calcutta, Bangalore, Madras, etc. Wide Area Network (WAN): A large-scale network, involving offices in different cities and countries is referred to as WAN, which is specially designed to interconnect data transmission devices over wide geographical areas. Categories of Network Library networks have been divided into two categories: general network and specialized network. The latter can further be divided into metropolitan network and countrywide network. General Networks in India NICNET: Title: National Information Center Network Sponsor: Planning Commission, Govt. of India. Membership: Four national and regional nodes, 32 state and union territory nodes; seventy cities and towns Services: Bulk file transfer; teleconferencing; full text and bibliographic retrieval services Application: ICMRNIC Center; MEDLARS in India; Chemical Abstracts database INDONET: Title: INDONET data Network Sponsor: CMC Ltd (1986) = Informatics India Ltd (1989) Membership: Commercial computer network Services: Database services such as DIALOG, COMPUSERVE; IP; SHARP Applications: ACME; file transfer; international gateway I - NET (VIKRAM): Title: I - NET Sponsor: Dept. of Telecommunications, Govt. of India Connectivity: Packet switched public data network covering nine cities Services: Information exchange through e-mail / FTP; Bibliographic databases Specialized Networks Metropolitan Networks CALIBNET: Title: Calcutta Libraries Network Sponsor: NISSAT - Govt. of India Applications: Cataloging; serials control; acquisitions; circulation Services: CAS; SDI; union catalog; partial database; editing and retrieval of records; global information; search; full-text document delivery; library automation; CALIBNET INFO Services BONET: Title: Bombay Library Network Sponsor: NISSAT & NCST (1994) Objective: To promote cooperation among libraries in Bombay Services: online catalog; online document delivery; IRS; interlibrary loan; dissemination of information DELNET: Title: Developing Library Network Sponsor: NISSAT & NIC (1988) Objective: To promote resource sharing; develop a network of libraries; collect, store, disseminate information Members: 165 Institutions, 600 Libraries, 15 States in India, 5 from outside India Services: resource sharing; free Software; ICE online facility; books database; thesis database; Indian specialists; database ADINET: Title: Ahmedabad Library Network Sponsor: NISSAT, DSIR (1994) & INFLIBNET Objective: To bring cooperation among its regional libraries; to develop databases; to integrate scientific and technical information systems Members: nine libraries Services: library automation; library holdings; database in progress MYLIBNET: Title: Mysore Library Network Sponsor: NISSAT (1994) Objective: Developing software tools; conducting seminar; workshops/training programs; conduct surveys Host Site: CFTRI, Mysore Members: 116 Institutions Services: MYLIB Database; E-journals; food patents; CFTRI Library Bulletin; public services. Countrywide Area Network: DESINET: Title: Defence Science Information Network Sponsor: DESIDOC, Delhi Activity: Focus on scientific, research and defense communities ERNET: Title: Educational and Research Network Sponsor: Dept. of Electronics, Govt. of India; UNESCO (Financial assistance from UNDP) Members: eight institutions (5 IITs, IISc., National Centre for Software Technology - Bombay, CCI wing of Dept. of Electronics) Services: Communication services such as e-mail, file transfer, remote log on, database access, bulletin board etc., SIRNET: Title: Scientific and Industrial Research Network Sponsor: CSIR (Commissioned Agency- NCST, Bombay) Members: 40 labs and R&D Institutions Applications: scientific communication; leather technology; natural products; food technology; medicinal Plants VIDYANET: Title: VIDYANET (Dedicated Communication Computer Net) Sponsor: TATA Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay Objectives: To provide rapid means of communications by linking computers at various institutions in India to similar networks outside the country; to stimulate corporate research, the day-to-day exchange of research information and the execution of joint projects and publications Services: File transfer facility; sharing of computer resources and access to remote applications, databases, libraries, etc. BTISNET: Title: BTISNET (Specialized Information Network) Sponsor: Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. Connectivity: 10 Specialized Information Centres in genetic engineering, plant tissue culture; photosynthesis and plant molecular biology; cell transformation ; bio-process engineering. Services: Data processing using applications software; online communication access; facsimile facility INFLIBNET: Title: Information Library Network Sponsor: UGC (1991) Connectivity: computer communication network of universities and R&D; libraries and bibliographic information centers throughout the country Members: 200 Universities; 400 College libraries; 200 R&D libraries Services: catalog service; database Services; document supply services; e-mail; BBS: audio and video conferencing, etc. BALNET: Title: Bangalore Library Network Sponsor: JRD;. Tata Memorial Library (1995) Members: 100 Libraries MALIBNET: Title: Madras Library Network Sponsor: INSDOC & NISSAT (1993) Members: 15 Libraries Activity: Two important databases, a directory database of current serials in Madras and a contents database covering articles published in 300 journals available in Madras libraries. Conclusion: During the recent period quite a large number of libraries and information centers are forming networks. The advent of computer networking as an accepted part of the library and information infrastructure has had a very significant impact on the way in which library and information systems are perceived. India is thus on the threshold to a new era of computer communication networks both for general purposes and for library and information purposes. References: Malwad (N.M), et al, eds.. Digital Libraries: Dynamic Storehouse of Digitized Information : Papers Presented at the SIS '96 15th Annual Convention and Conference 18-20 January, 1996. Bangalore: New Age International Publishers, 1996. Aswal, R.S., ed. (2003). Information Networks in India. NewDelhi: Ess Ess Publication. Baruah, A. (2002). Computer Networking in Libraries. Delhi; Kalpaz, 2002. Jain, N.K, ed. (1998). 50 Years: Library and Information services in India. Nair, R. Raman. Internet for Library and Information Services.Nair www.delnet.nic.in/Del-files/Nacline.htm www.mylibnet.org Best Regards, Sarandha Singh ADIS 2nd year Student Documentation Research and Training Center ISI,Bangalore-59,India. phone: +91-80-28483975 email: sarandha(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in website: http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/~sarandha _______________________________________________________ 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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Condolences
by Krishna Maraddi 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

It is shocking and unbelievable. We have lost an eminent and a dedicated teacher Dr. T B Rajashekar My condolences to his family. Krishna Maraddi Librarian SKSVMA CET Laxmeshwar Dst: Gadag __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com It is shocking and unbelievable. We have lost an eminent and a dedicated teacher Dr. T B Rajashekar My condolences to his family. Krishna Maraddi Librarian SKSVMA CET Laxmeshwar Dst: Gadag __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Condolences
by Krishna Maraddi 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

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sad demise of Dr. T.B. Rajashekhar
by Vijayalakshmi R Deshpande 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Dear All It is a shocking news. It is unfortunate to have lost one of the eminent person in Information Science field. CPRI LIBRARY STAFF express heartfelt condolences and sympathy to his bereaved family. May almighty rest his soul in peace and give strength to his family to bear the loss. CPRI LIBRARY STAFF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTRE, CENTRAL POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, P.B.NO.8066, PROF. C.V. RAMAN AVENUE, SADASHIVANAGAR POST, BANGALORE - 560 080

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Condolence
by DRTC General 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

6.6.205 We the faculty and students of Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) deeply grieve the sudden and sad demise of Dr. T. B. Rajashekar, one of our distinguished alumni. His contribution to the field of Library and Information Science are quite significant and all of us are proud of him. Faculty & Students of DRTC

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A noble soul departs
by Ayesha Taranum 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Hello, No words can express the loss and the void Dr. T.B.Rajashekar has left on all our lives. His untimely death is a big blow, which has left all of us shattered. A fantastic human being and a dedicated profession. He touched all our lives in his special way. I had the fortune of being his student and his colleague as well...i cherish each day that i have spent with him and all that remains now, are memories. May his Soul rest in peace, and may the Lord give his family the strength to bear this loss. He shall always live in our hearts and we have to now, ensure we give back the same decidcation and commitment to the profession to which he dedicated his life and made us what we are today. We shall always miss u Sir. Regards, -- Ayesha __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Demise of Dr T.B.Rajasekhar (fwd)
by Jobish P 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 08:42:40 +0530 From: Nagarajan K S <ngrjn(a)vsnl.com> To: jobish_p(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Demise of Dr T.B.Rajasekhar Extremely sad to learn about the gruesome accident that prematurely extinguished the life of Dr Rajasekhar. It was Prof. Neelameghan (formerly of the Division of BDA, UNESCO and former Head of the DRTC, Bangalore) who first gave me the sad news by phone in the morning of Sat.4th June; later Dr Christina Louis of the IAP called from the RRI around 2 pm on the same subject. I had a visitor from Boston for the better part of the day (an NRI, and a long-time family friend), who was leaving for Madras by the evg. Shatabdi enroute USA. Nevertheless I took some flowers and reached the residence of Rajasekhar a little after 3 pm, only to find that he body had been taken away for the crematorium. I left the flowers with some children in the house, being taken care of by a lady next doormentioning my name to that lady. I am so sad that a dynamic young professional who had achieved much and who had so much more to give of his leadership to his colleagues & dedication to the profession has passed away. May his soul rest in peace. Nagarajan (Retd. / former Head, Regional Centre, INSDOC, IISc Campus,Bangalore) Res. Phone: 2334 0922

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Sad demise of Dr. TB Rajashekhar
by Sainul Abideen P 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Dear Colleagues, I am deeply pained to hear the news of sad demise of Dr. TB Rajashekhar. Loss of Dr Rajshekhar has created huge gap in the profession, which cannot be healed soon. He was always an inspiration to the Library professionals. His dedicated service to the profession will be always remembered. My hearty condolence to his family members and friends. Sainul Abideen P Librarian IIITMK Park Centre, Technopark Karyavattom PO Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India www.iiitmk.ac.in http://sainul.tripod.com

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 5
by Siva Chidambaram 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Dear Colloquies and fellows Really our country last a good INFORMATION SCIENCE TEACHER AND INSTITUTIONAL BUILDER (NCSI). Please accept my unbelievable tragetic and deepest condolence to his family members and NCSI. ----- Original Message ----- From: <lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 10:56 AM Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 5 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: Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (Subbiah Arunachalam) 2. Re: Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (Subbiah Arunachalam) 3. Re: Condolence from KAU on the demise of Dr. Rajashekahr (Aloor Thomas Francis) 4. Condolence - from library staff IGIDR, Mumbai (G. K. Manjunath) 5. This is very tragic (K M Haneefa) 6. Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (HENAG) 7. Re: Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (Jitender Sharma) 8. Heart felt condolences (SCKumaresan) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 14:03:21 +0530 From: "Subbiah Arunachalam" <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar To: "Jobish P" <jobish_p(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, "Prof N. Balakrishnan" <balki(a)serc.iisc.ernet.in>, <agmenon(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: <005c01c568e0$6fc45cf0$791e09c0@Arun> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Dear Prof. Balakrishnan/ Prof. Menon/ Francis: Kindly accept my heart felt condolences. Please convey the same to Mrs Rajashekar and other members of his family. Raja was one of the best information professionals of our country and had earned a reputation around the world. He played an important role in training young professionals in modern information dissemination tchniques and in promoting the open access culture in India. His passing away is a great loss to the profession. RIP. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jobish P" <jobish_p(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: <broadcast(a)iisc.ernet.in> Cc: <ncsi-net(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:15 AM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar > > > > We are very sad to inform you that Dr. T B Rajashekar, Associate Chairman > of NCSI expired on 3-6-05 in an accident. His body will be brought to his > residence at 10.15 A M today(4-6-05). The funeral is expected to take > place by 3 PM today. > > Residence Address > > #676 > 4th Cross, Near Swimming Pool > Mahalakshmi Layout > Bangalore > > Burial Ground : > > Chamarajpet > Near TR Mills > > (Left turn after the end of 5th main) > > > CHAIRMAN > NCSI > > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 15:48:53 +0530 From: "Subbiah Arunachalam" <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar To: "Stevan Harnad" <harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk>, "Prof N. Balakrishnan" <balki(a)serc.iisc.ernet.in>, "Niranjan V Joshi" <nvjoshi(a)ces.iisc.ernet.in>, <franc(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, oa-india(a)dgroups.org Message-ID: <00ad01c568ef$07ca0640$791e09c0@Arun> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Yes Stevan, it is the same Raja. Melissa of OSI and UNESCO had recognised his worth and invited him to some conferences and workshops. I always thought he was very good in his work. In fact, I had to face some harsh comments from other Indian colleagues when I mentioned in a discussion list that NCSI was a good training centre for young Indian librarians. He is no more. Why should such an accomplished expert die when he has so much more to give to the rest of us, I do not understand. Nature's ways are inscrutable. Arun ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stevan Harnad" <harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> To: "Subbiah Arunachalam" <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Cc: "Les Carr" <lac(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 3:20 PM Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar > Dear Arun, > > Can this really be Raja, whom I know, who did so much to set up the > IIS archive? who helped host Les Carr's visit to India? > > A great loss of a dedicated man, in his prime. > > If possible, please convey my condolences to his family, and my gratitude > and appreciation for all his important work. > > Stevan > > On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Subbiah Arunachalam wrote: > >> Dear Prof. Balakrishnan/ Prof. Menon/ Francis: >> >> Kindly accept my heart felt condolences. Please convey the same to Mrs >> Rajashekar and other members of his family. Raja was one of the best >> information professionals of our country and had earned a reputation >> around >> the world. He played an important role in training young professionals in >> modern information dissemination tchniques and in promoting the open >> access >> culture in India. His passing away is a great loss to the profession. >> RIP. >> >> Arun >> [Subbiah Arunachalam] >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jobish P" <jobish_p(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >> To: <broadcast(a)iisc.ernet.in> >> Cc: <ncsi-net(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:15 AM >> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar >> >> > We are very sad to inform you that Dr. T B Rajashekar, Associate >> > Chairman >> > of NCSI expired on 3-6-05 in an accident. His body will be brought to >> > his >> > residence at 10.15 A M today(4-6-05). The funeral is expected to take >> > place by 3 PM today. >> > >> > Residence Address >> > >> > #676 >> > 4th Cross, Near Swimming Pool >> > Mahalakshmi Layout >> > Bangalore >> > >> > Burial Ground : >> > >> > Chamarajpet >> > Near TR Mills >> > >> > (Left turn after the end of 5th main) >> > >> > >> > CHAIRMAN >> > NCSI >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > LIS-Forum mailing list >> > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >> > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 03:34:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Aloor Thomas Francis <francisaloor(a)yahoo.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: Condolence from KAU on the demise of Dr. Rajashekahr To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20050604103452.74992.qmail(a)web54501.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Dear professionals, Dr.TB Rajashekahr was a great prefessional with novel ideas. His contributions are remarkable. His demise is a great loss to the entitre profession. iisc.ernet.in wrote: Library prefessionals in the Kerala Agricultural University and myself express our deep condolence. A.T. Francis Assistant Librarian Kerala Agricultural University Thrissur - 680 656 francisaloor(a)yahho.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 22:04:30 +0530 (IST) From: "G. K. Manjunath" <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Condolence - from library staff IGIDR, Mumbai To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.30.0506051906030.510634-100000(a)brahma.igidr.ac.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII We are deeply saddened by the sudden demise of Dr.T.B.Rajashekhar. It is shocking and unbelievable. We have lost an eminent information scientist and a dedicated teacher. Our condolences to his family and also to all the NCSI members. G.K.Manjunath S.M.Pujar Sangeeta H Vinita H Library staff IGIDR, Mumbai ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 02:41:16 -0700 (PDT) From: K M Haneefa <haneefcalicut(a)yahoo.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] This is very tragic To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, digilib_india(a)yahoogroups.com, iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com, nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com, dlrg(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in Message-ID: <20050604094116.42650.qmail(a)web33509.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Friends, I am deeply shocked to know the unexpected death news of Dr. T B Rajashekar......... This is very tragic....................... Myself and my department would like to express our deepest condolences and sympathies to the family of Dr. T B Rajashekar. May ALLAH rest his soul in peace and give strength to his family to bear this loss. K M Haneefa Lecturer Department of Library & Information Science University of Calicut, Kerala E-mail : haneefcalicut(a)yahoo.com Phone No: 09895842431 --------------------------------- Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM & more. Check it out!

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (fwd)
by Jobish P 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 00:09:03 +0530 From: Sankaraiah <sankaraiah(a)vsnl.net> To: Jobish P <jobish_p(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar What a great loss to the profession !! It's an irrepairable loss. My heatfelt condolences to the bereaved family and all his colleagues in Bangalore and elsewehere. Sankaraiah President, Madras Library Assn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jobish P" <jobish_p(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: <broadcast(a)iisc.ernet.in> Cc: <ncsi-net(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:15 AM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar > > > > We are very sad to inform you that Dr. T B Rajashekar, Associate Chairman > of NCSI expired on 3-6-05 in an accident. His body will be brought to his > residence at 10.15 A M today(4-6-05). The funeral is expected to take > place by 3 PM today. > > Residence Address > > #676 > 4th Cross, Near Swimming Pool > Mahalakshmi Layout > Bangalore > > Burial Ground : > > Chamarajpet > Near TR Mills > > (Left turn after the end of 5th main) > > > CHAIRMAN > NCSI > > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Dr. T B R is no more (fwd)
by Jobish P 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 03:06:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Dr. R M Vatnal <vatnal(a)yahoo.com> To: Jobish P <jobish_p(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, ncsi-net(a)lncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Dr. T B R is no more Dear members, It is very sad news for all LIS professionals in India and abroad. The Digital Libray expert teacher and NCSI Associate Chairman Dr. T B Rajashekar is no more. It is great loss. We the product of NCSI remember all his efforts to modernise the librarianship in India. We pray GOD to rest his soul in peace. --- Jobish P <jobish_p(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > > > > We are very sad to inform you that Dr. T B > Rajashekar, Associate Chairman > of NCSI expired on 3-6-05 in an accident. His body > will be brought to his > residence at 10.15 A M today(4-6-05). The funeral is > expected to take > place by 3 PM today. > > Residence Address > > #676 > 4th Cross, Near Swimming Pool > Mahalakshmi Layout > Bangalore > > Burial Ground : > > Chamarajpet > Near TR Mills > > (Left turn after the end of 5th main) > > > CHAIRMAN > NCSI > > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. R M VATNAL Head, Computer Section, University Library, Karnatak University, Dharwad - 580 003 INDIA Ph: 0836-2747121 Ext: 313(O) 2770907(R) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel and more fun for the weekend. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/weekend.html

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (fwd)
by Jobish P 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 06:07:29 +0000 From: Roopa E <roops_e(a)hotmail.com> To: jobish_p(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar Hi I am truly shocked to hear from you about Dr. Rajashekar. What a tragedy! I am deeply saddened by this tragedy. I think we all professional need to, keep silence for a minute & pray for his soul to rest in peace. I request you to fix up the time for the same. Roopa. E Accenture Hyderabad. >From: Jobish P <jobish_p(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >To: broadcast(a)iisc.ernet.in >CC: ncsi-net(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar >Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 10:15:44 +0530 (IST) > > > > >We are very sad to inform you that Dr. T B Rajashekar, Associate Chairman >of NCSI expired on 3-6-05 in an accident. His body will be brought to his >residence at 10.15 A M today(4-6-05). The funeral is expected to take >place by 3 PM today. > >Residence Address > >#676 >4th Cross, Near Swimming Pool >Mahalakshmi Layout >Bangalore > >Burial Ground : > >Chamarajpet >Near TR Mills > >(Left turn after the end of 5th main) > > >CHAIRMAN >NCSI > > > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum _________________________________________________________________ Send nudges, winks �n more. http://messenger.msn.co.in The all new MSN Messenger!

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Heartfelt condolence to Dr. TBR's family
by Subbiah Gunasekaran 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Dr. T.B.R's demise is unbelievable. It's a great loss for information profession. He was a role model for young professionals. My heartfelt condolence to his family. My his sould rest in peace. S. Gunasekaran Dr. T.B.R's demise is unbelievable. It's a great loss for information profession. He was a role model for young professionals. My heartfelt condolence to his family. My his sould rest in peace. S. Gunasekaran 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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Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar
by HENAG 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

This is a very very shocking news to all of us. A great loss is occurred to us , we all cannot forget his contribution in this field. It is still fresh and green in our memory while he addressed us in Infosys annual library seminar last year in the month of June . We could learn a lot from him in our profession. We all on behalf of Infosys Library pray for his soul to be in rest in peace and convey our condolence to his family & friends to get strength to bear with this unfortunate loss. Infosys Library Staff Infosys Central libray Electronics City Hosur Road Bangalore - 560 100 -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Jobish P Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:16 AM To: broadcast(a)iisc.ernet.in Cc: ncsi-net(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar We are very sad to inform you that Dr. T B Rajashekar, Associate Chairman of NCSI expired on 3-6-05 in an accident. His body will be brought to his residence at 10.15 A M today(4-6-05). The funeral is expected to take place by 3 PM today. Residence Address #676 4th Cross, Near Swimming Pool Mahalakshmi Layout Bangalore Burial Ground : Chamarajpet Near TR Mills (Left turn after the end of 5th main) CHAIRMAN NCSI _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum ******************* CAUTION - Disclaimer ****************** This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. Further, you are not to copy, disclose, or distribute this e-mail or its contents to any other person and any such actions are unlawful. 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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Condolences
by Anil Kumar 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Dear All It is not only shocking but also unfortunate that our profession has lost a bright and nice professional like Rajashekar. He had made meaningful contribution to the library profession through his teaching and training initiatives. On the forefront of Digital Library movement in India, Dr. Rajashekar was the bastion of new generation librarianship in the country. For young professionals he was not only inspiring but also a guide to many. May his soul rest in peace and may god give the necesssary courage to the bereaved family members. Our condolences to NCSI community also. H Anil Kumar and Staff Nirma University Ahmedabad H. Anil Kumar Chief Librarian Nirma University Post Chandlodia Ahmedabad 382 481 Ph: (02717) 241900-04 Fax: (02717) 241916 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Fw: [oa-india] Re: Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar
by Subbiah Arunachalam 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

----- Original Message ----- From: K P Eashwar To: Discussion Group for Open Access Workshop India Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 10:04 AM Subject: [oa-india] Re: Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar I have been a silent participant of this discussion forum ever since it started. I feel very sad about the sudden demise of Dr Rajashekar, with whom I have had the opportunity to interact a couple of times. May God give enough strength to his family to recover from this terrible loss. K P Eashwar K P Eashwar TERI Press eshukp(a)teri.res.in >>> naina(a)nic.in 06/06/05 09:47am >>> We at NIC would miss Dr Rajashekar without whom we wouldn't have been able to develop our OpenMED@NIC. This the last mail we got from him after we launched the Archive.....and we wish to dedicate the launching in his memory. Naina and others from Indian MEDLARS Centre New Delhi, India > > From: Dr. T.B. Rajashekar <raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Date: May 19, 2005 12:43 PM > Subject: RE: OpenMED, http://openmed.nic..in , your comments please > To: Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> > Cc: franc(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, filbert(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > Excellent! Congratulations to you and your colleagues on this success. > > As you go along I am sure you will add additional features like browse by > author, eprint type, etc. > > I liked the copyright related info/disclaimer you have put. > > I am sure your effort will add to the OA movement in India. > > Best wishes from all of us at NCSI. > > Regards > > Rajashekar > Dgroups is a joint initiative of Bellanet, DFID, Hivos, ICA, IICD, OneWorld, UNAIDS and World Bank --- You are currently subscribed to oa-india as: eshukp(a)teri.res.in To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% Dgroups is a joint initiative of Bellanet, DFID, Hivos, ICA, IICD, OneWorld, UNAIDS and World Bank --- You are currently subscribed to oa-india as: arun(a)mssrf.res.in To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-oa-india-137598Y(a)dgroups.org ----- Original Message ----- From: mailto:eshukp@teri.res.in K P Eashwar To: mailto:oa-india@dgroups.org Discussion Group for Open Access Workshop India Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 10:04 AM Subject: [oa-india] Re: Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar I have been a silent participant of this discussion forum ever since it started. I feel very sad about the sudden demise of Dr Rajashekar, with whom I have had the opportunity to interact a couple of times. May God give enough strength to his family to recover from this terrible loss. K P Eashwar K P Eashwar TERI Press mailto:eshukp@teri.res.in eshukp(a)teri.res.in >>> naina(a)nic.in 06/06/05 09:47am >>> We at NIC would miss Dr Rajashekar without whom we wouldn't have been able to develop our OpenMED@NIC. This the last mail we got from him after we launched the Archive.....and we wish to dedicate the launching in his memory. Naina and others from Indian MEDLARS Centre New Delhi, India > > From: Dr. T.B. Rajashekar <raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Date: May 19, 2005 12:43 PM > Subject: RE: OpenMED, http://openmed.nic.in/ http://openmed.nic..in , your comments please > To: Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> > Cc: franc(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, filbert(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > Excellent! Congratulations to you and your colleagues on this success. > > As you go along I am sure you will add additional features like browse by > author, eprint type, etc. > > I liked the copyright related info/disclaimer you have put. > > I am sure your effort will add to the OA movement in India. > > Best wishes from all of us at NCSI. > > Regards > > Rajashekar > Dgroups is a joint initiative of Bellanet, DFID, Hivos, ICA, IICD, OneWorld, UNAIDS and World Bank --- You are currently subscribed to oa-india as: eshukp(a)teri.res.in To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% Dgroups is a joint initiative of Bellanet, DFID, Hivos, ICA, IICD, OneWorld, UNAIDS and World Bank --- You are currently subscribed to oa-india as: arun(a)mssrf.res.in To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-oa-india-137598Y(a)dgroups.org

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Fw: [oa-india] Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar
by Subbiah Arunachalam 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

----- Original Message ----- From: "Naimur Rahman" <naimur.rahman(a)oneworld.net> To: <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 10:17 AM Subject: FW: [oa-india] Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar > Prof. Arun, > > I am deeply saddened to learn about Dr. Rajasekhar's sad demise. > Although I hadn't met him (and now will never meet him), I did learn a > lot from his contributions in OA-India list. His passing away is indeed > a loss to information science and open access in India. > > Please convey our condolence to Dr. Rajasekshar's family. > > Regards, > Naimur > > -----Original Message----- > From: Subbiah Arunachalam [mailto:arun@mssrf.res.in] > Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 2:03 PM > To: Discussion Group for Open Access Workshop India > Cc: franc(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Subject: [oa-india] Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar > > Dear Prof. Balakrishnan/ Prof. Menon/ Francis: > > Kindly accept my heart felt condolences. Please convey the same to Mrs > Rajashekar and other members of his family. Raja was one of the best > information professionals of our country and had earned a reputation > around > the world. He played an important role in training young professionals > in > modern information dissemination tchniques and in promoting the open > access > culture in India. His passing away is a great loss to the profession. > RIP. > > Arun > [Subbiah Arunachalam] > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jobish P" <jobish_p(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > To: <broadcast(a)iisc.ernet.in> > Cc: <ncsi-net(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:15 AM > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar > > >> >> >> >> We are very sad to inform you that Dr. T B Rajashekar, Associate > Chairman >> of NCSI expired on 3-6-05 in an accident. His body will be brought to > his >> residence at 10.15 A M today(4-6-05). The funeral is expected to take >> place by 3 PM today. >> >> Residence Address >> >> #676 >> 4th Cross, Near Swimming Pool >> Mahalakshmi Layout >> Bangalore >> >> Burial Ground : >> >> Chamarajpet >> Near TR Mills >> >> (Left turn after the end of 5th main) >> >> >> CHAIRMAN >> NCSI >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LIS-Forum mailing list >> LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >> http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > Dgroups is a joint initiative of Bellanet, DFID, Hivos, ICA, IICD, > OneWorld, UNAIDS and World Bank > --- You are currently subscribed to oa-india as: > naimur.rahman(a)oneworld.net > To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-oa-india-137593T(a)dgroups.org > >

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Re: [bytesforall_readers] Introducing: FSUG, Bangalore
by Subbiah Arunachalam 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Dear Rakesh and Friends: Congrats on your work to promote Free Software. I have a suggestion. You may also promote open access to scientific and scholarly journal literature. For a clear idea of open access and its tremendous benefits, please look up "Open Access News" the daily blog of Prof. Peter Suber. Or, if you live in Bangalore, visit NCSI at IISc and talk to Mr Francis Jayakanth. If you live in New Delhi, visit NIC and meet Mr Sukhdev Singh or Dr Naina Panditha. They are running 'OpenMED' an open access archive for biomedical literature. If you are in Bombay, you may talk to Dr D K Sahu of MedKnow Publications. Thanks and best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred(a)bytesforall.org> To: <bytesforall_readers(a)yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 10:03 AM Subject: [bytesforall_readers] Introducing: FSUG, Bangalore > Self-description. From "Rakesh 'Arky' Ambati" <rakesh_ambati(a)yahoo.com> > > Free Software User Group-Bangalore http://bangalore.gnu.org.in/ an > active group of Free Software enthusiasts, GNU users and students. We > started FSUG two years ago with a view to mentor, help the use Free > Software in Schools and colleges and for common good. > > Recently we have made a successful public campaign to adopt Free > Software Solution in educational courses by Visveswaraiah > Technological University. > http://bangalore.gnu.org.in/?VTU-FLOSS_Campaign > > Currently we are working on creating a massive directory of Indian Free > Software Projects, consisting of all the contributions from Indian > Sub-continent. http://bangalore.gnu.org.in/?IndianFreeSoftwareProjects > > END OF FORWARDED MSG > .......................................................................... > Frederick (FN) Noronha | Freelance Journalist | Mobile +91 9822 122436 > Tel +91.832.2409490 | http://fn.swiki.net | http://www.bytesforall.net > .......................................................................... > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers/ > > <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > bytesforall_readers-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com > > <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > >

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Dr. TBR - Heartfelt condolences from TCS
by bp.prakash＠tcs.com 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

This is really shocking and un bearable loss to our fraternity. Dr Rajshekar was instrumental in very many initiatives, be it academics, research or the industry. I still remember the starting days of NCSI (1983) with Dr Raj, Harish, tulsi, Kapaleaswaran, Seena & others . Both NCSI and Dr Rajshekar grew to great heights, complimenting each other's strengths & success. It will certainly create a void and wd take a long time to come to terms. Our respectful condolences to his family both at home and work. ( Will someone give more details of the unfortunate incident / accident ?) Bp Prakash Tata Consultancy Services Limited Mailto: bp.prakash(a)tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you This is really shocking and un bearable loss to our fraternity. Dr Rajshekar was instrumental in very many initiatives, be it academics, research or the industry. I still remember the starting days of NCSI �(1983) with Dr Raj, Harish, tulsi, Kapaleaswaran, Seena & others . Both NCSI and Dr Rajshekar grew to great heights, complimenting each other's strengths & success. It will certainly create a void and wd take a long time to come to terms. Our respectful condolences to his family both at home and work. � ( Will someone give more details of the unfortunate incident / accident ?) Bp Prakash Tata Consultancy Services Limited Mailto: bp.prakash(a)tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you

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Great Teacher no more !
by Dr. R M Vatnal 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

It is great loss for LIS profession in India. He was great teacher. As a NCSI'an, we all remember his personality and dedication to the profession. We pray GOD to REST HIS SOUL IN PEACE AND strengthen his family to over come the loss. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. R M VATNAL Head, Computer Section, University Library, Karnatak University, Dharwad - 580 003 INDIA Ph: 0836-2747121 Ext: 313(O) 2770907(R) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Stay in touch with email, IM, photo sharing and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/stayintouch.html

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Sad demise of Dr T B Rajasekhar
by theresa.williams＠wipro.com 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Hello friends It is shocking news for the whole library community to loose such a pioneer in the field whose contributions are great! We are very sad about the untimely and sad demise of Dr.Rajashekar. More over it is so fresh and green in our memories as he was invited as a guest speaker 2 yrs ago to address us. We, all the team members express our deep condolences to the bereaved family . May God strenghthen the family to bear this loss and comfort them at this moment of grief. May his soul rest in peace. Regards Theresa ISD Wipro Technologies 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 -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Sangeeta Kaul, Network Manager, DELNET Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 2:26 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr T B Rajasekhar I am pained to inform you that Dr T B Rajasekhar, Associate Chairman, NCSI, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore died in a road accident yesterday night in Bangalore. We are extremely shocked to know about the sudden, untimely demise of a young bright professional whose contributions to the profession will be remembered forever, this listserv through which I am informing you about his sad, tragic demise was one of his early contributions to the professionals in the country. May God give peace to the departed soul and give strength and courage to the family members to bear the loss. with prayers Sangeeta Kaul _______________________________________________ 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.

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RE: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 5
by Sankar_kandepedu 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

This is very bad news for all. Heart felt condolences from Satyam computer Services Ltd., Library Team. Regards, Sankar Kandepedu Tel: +91 80 23460616 x 4997 -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 10:56 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 5 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: Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (Subbiah Arunachalam) 2. Re: Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (Subbiah Arunachalam) 3. Re: Condolence from KAU on the demise of Dr. Rajashekahr (Aloor Thomas Francis) 4. Condolence - from library staff IGIDR, Mumbai (G. K. Manjunath) 5. This is very tragic (K M Haneefa) 6. Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (HENAG) 7. Re: Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar (Jitender Sharma) 8. Heart felt condolences (SCKumaresan) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 14:03:21 +0530 From: "Subbiah Arunachalam" <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar To: "Jobish P" <jobish_p(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, "Prof N. Balakrishnan" <balki(a)serc.iisc.ernet.in>, <agmenon(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: <005c01c568e0$6fc45cf0$791e09c0@Arun> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Dear Prof. Balakrishnan/ Prof. Menon/ Francis: Kindly accept my heart felt condolences. Please convey the same to Mrs Rajashekar and other members of his family. Raja was one of the best information professionals of our country and had earned a reputation around the world. He played an important role in training young professionals in modern information dissemination tchniques and in promoting the open access culture in India. His passing away is a great loss to the profession. RIP. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jobish P" <jobish_p(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: <broadcast(a)iisc.ernet.in> Cc: <ncsi-net(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:15 AM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar > > > > We are very sad to inform you that Dr. T B Rajashekar, Associate Chairman > of NCSI expired on 3-6-05 in an accident. His body will be brought to his > residence at 10.15 A M today(4-6-05). The funeral is expected to take > place by 3 PM today. > > Residence Address > > #676 > 4th Cross, Near Swimming Pool > Mahalakshmi Layout > Bangalore > > Burial Ground : > > Chamarajpet > Near TR Mills > > (Left turn after the end of 5th main) > > > CHAIRMAN > NCSI > > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 15:48:53 +0530 From: "Subbiah Arunachalam" <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar To: "Stevan Harnad" <harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk>, "Prof N. Balakrishnan" <balki(a)serc.iisc.ernet.in>, "Niranjan V Joshi" <nvjoshi(a)ces.iisc.ernet.in>, <franc(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, oa-india(a)dgroups.org Message-ID: <00ad01c568ef$07ca0640$791e09c0@Arun> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Yes Stevan, it is the same Raja. Melissa of OSI and UNESCO had recognised his worth and invited him to some conferences and workshops. I always thought he was very good in his work. In fact, I had to face some harsh comments from other Indian colleagues when I mentioned in a discussion list that NCSI was a good training centre for young Indian librarians. He is no more. Why should such an accomplished expert die when he has so much more to give to the rest of us, I do not understand. Nature's ways are inscrutable. Arun ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stevan Harnad" <harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> To: "Subbiah Arunachalam" <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Cc: "Les Carr" <lac(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 3:20 PM Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar > Dear Arun, > > Can this really be Raja, whom I know, who did so much to set up the > IIS archive? who helped host Les Carr's visit to India? > > A great loss of a dedicated man, in his prime. > > If possible, please convey my condolences to his family, and my gratitude > and appreciation for all his important work. > > Stevan > > On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Subbiah Arunachalam wrote: > >> Dear Prof. Balakrishnan/ Prof. Menon/ Francis: >> >> Kindly accept my heart felt condolences. Please convey the same to Mrs >> Rajashekar and other members of his family. Raja was one of the best >> information professionals of our country and had earned a reputation >> around >> the world. He played an important role in training young professionals in >> modern information dissemination tchniques and in promoting the open >> access >> culture in India. His passing away is a great loss to the profession. >> RIP. >> >> Arun >> [Subbiah Arunachalam] >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jobish P" <jobish_p(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >> To: <broadcast(a)iisc.ernet.in> >> Cc: <ncsi-net(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:15 AM >> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar >> >> > We are very sad to inform you that Dr. T B Rajashekar, Associate >> > Chairman >> > of NCSI expired on 3-6-05 in an accident. His body will be brought to >> > his >> > residence at 10.15 A M today(4-6-05). The funeral is expected to take >> > place by 3 PM today. >> > >> > Residence Address >> > >> > #676 >> > 4th Cross, Near Swimming Pool >> > Mahalakshmi Layout >> > Bangalore >> > >> > Burial Ground : >> > >> > Chamarajpet >> > Near TR Mills >> > >> > (Left turn after the end of 5th main) >> > >> > >> > CHAIRMAN >> > NCSI >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > LIS-Forum mailing list >> > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >> > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 03:34:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Aloor Thomas Francis <francisaloor(a)yahoo.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: Condolence from KAU on the demise of Dr. Rajashekahr To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20050604103452.74992.qmail(a)web54501.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Dear professionals, Dr.TB Rajashekahr was a great prefessional with novel ideas. His contributions are remarkable. His demise is a great loss to the entitre profession. iisc.ernet.in wrote: Library prefessionals in the Kerala Agricultural University and myself express our deep condolence. A.T. Francis Assistant Librarian Kerala Agricultural University Thrissur - 680 656 francisaloor(a)yahho.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 22:04:30 +0530 (IST) From: "G. K. Manjunath" <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Condolence - from library staff IGIDR, Mumbai To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.30.0506051906030.510634-100000(a)brahma.igidr.ac.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII We are deeply saddened by the sudden demise of Dr.T.B.Rajashekhar. It is shocking and unbelievable. We have lost an eminent information scientist and a dedicated teacher. Our condolences to his family and also to all the NCSI members. G.K.Manjunath S.M.Pujar Sangeeta H Vinita H Library staff IGIDR, Mumbai ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 02:41:16 -0700 (PDT) From: K M Haneefa <haneefcalicut(a)yahoo.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] This is very tragic To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, digilib_india(a)yahoogroups.com, iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com, nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com, dlrg(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in Message-ID: <20050604094116.42650.qmail(a)web33509.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Friends, I am deeply shocked to know the unexpected death news of Dr. T B Rajashekar......... This is very tragic....................... Myself and my department would like to express our deepest condolences and sympathies to the family of Dr. T B Rajashekar. May ALLAH rest his soul in peace and give strength to his family to bear this loss. K M Haneefa Lecturer Department of Library & Information Science University of Calicut, Kerala E-mail : haneefcalicut(a)yahoo.com Phone No: 09895842431 --------------------------------- Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM & more. Check it out!

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Condolances - Dr TB Rajashekar
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Could not believe when I heard the sad news of Dr TB Rajashekar's passing away in an accident. We at VIC of ICICI Knowledge Park, Hyderabad gained a lot with his involvement in our project -- his team developed a very useful Online library of web resources for us. He was a thorough professional and a fine gentleman. An irreparable personal loss to me. May His Soul Rest in Peace. My condolances to his bereaved family members. 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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Sad demise of Dr.T.B.Rajashekar - Lose of An Inspiration
by Sukhdev Singh 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

I am greatly pained to hear the sad demise of Dr.T.B.Rajashekar. It was difficult to believe as only few days back he replied to my personal email commenting on OpenMED [ http://openmed.nic.in ]. Dr. Rajashekar was the key inspiration to me for OpenMED. He was one of the great professional we had in our times. His contribution to the profession and his inspiration to many young professionals, especially for initiating the Open Access Movement in India, will be remembered for ages. My heart felt condolences for bereaved family and pray almighty for his soul to rest in peace. --Sukhdev Singh, Principal Systems Analyst, Bibliographic Informatics Division, National Informatics Centre, New Delhi

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Re: SadDemise of Dr. T.B. Rajashekar
by sibli＠nic.in 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

It is very difficult to believe that Dr. T.B. Rajashekar is no more. He was such a nice personality, dynamic person and pioneer in the field of Library and Informatin Science. I was one of his students as NCSI trainee during 1991-92 batch. I have known him very closely and have a great respect for him. May his soul rests in peace. Md. Sibli Sirajee Senior Systems Analyst NIC, New Delhi

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Dr T B Rajashekar
by Prafulla Chandra 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Dear All, I vaguely remember having a glimpse of Dr T B Rajashekar during the Caliber meet held at the University of Madras. Although I didn't have any opportunity to meet him personally or to talk to him, I could form a mental picture of the type of person he was through his rare but measured, sensitive and considerate postings to the LIS- Forum, which he moderated so successfully with tremendous impact. For some inexplicable reasons, over the years my heart was filled with admiration, affection and high respect for this humane personality who provided inspiring leadership to many a LIS professional like me. During my earlier years, I used to copy and paste some messages to LIS-Forum. This used to create problems. Dr Rajashekar sent a detailed reply on the proper procedure to be followed while posting messages. I repeated the same mistakes a couple of times. Even then, he didn't spike even a single message of mine. He used to send a personal message, marked with utmost politeness and considerateness. It is very rare to find such finest human qualities these days. When I first learnt about this shocking news on Saturday, it was a numbing experience. I felt as if we have lost one of our family members. The news is particularly more painful in the light of the fact that our National Knowledge Commission has just been constituted. Dr Rajashekar would be made significant contribution to its activities had he been alive. I express my heartfelt condolensces to the members of the bereaved family. 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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Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar
by Jobish P 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

We are very sad to inform you that Dr. T B Rajashekar, Associate Chairman of NCSI expired on 3-6-05 in an accident. His body will be brought to his residence at 10.15 A M today(4-6-05). The funeral is expected to take place by 3 PM today. Residence Address #676 4th Cross, Near Swimming Pool Mahalakshmi Layout Bangalore Burial Ground : Chamarajpet Near TR Mills (Left turn after the end of 5th main) CHAIRMAN NCSI

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Automation and networking of all Government College Libraries in AP
by Mailing List Manager 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 11:28:48 +0530 From: ramshirish.m(a)tcs.com Dear All here is a good news for Government College students of Andhra Pradesh. INFLIBNET is funding the automation and networking of all College Libraries of Andhra Pradesh. Read this news item at following URL: http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/03/stories/2005060317570500.htm Ramshirish Mamidala Library and Information Centre Tata Consultancy Services Limited 1, Software Units Layout Madhapur Hyderabad 500 081 Ph: 040 - 5567 2533 / 2531 Mailto: ramshirish.m(a)tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com

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DRTC Students' colloquium
by nupur ag 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Indian Statistical Institute Documentation Research and Training Centre 8th Mile Mysore Road, R.V. College PO. Banglore- 560059 DRTC Students' Colloquium on Information Service in Digital Environment Abstract The environment in which the information services are to be provided have changed significantly. These changes are mostly the result of technological changes i.e. emphasis on the use of modern information technology, developments of computer technology and telecommunication technology. Thus the concept of libraries has changed and digital library is an emerging trend in the present information technology era. There are different types of digital information services and almost all are converging in the services provided by the digital libraries. Digital information service, though looks easy to be provided, poses its own challenges in terms of metadata, digital collection development, copyright, preservation, cost, technology obsolescence, etc. In the colloquium we are going to discuss the issues relating to different types of digital information services, how are they provided, how they are going to help in research and education and the importance of open sources. Speakers Topics 1. Nupur Agrawal Information services in digital environment: Overview 2. Rajib Mitra Types of Digital information services. 3. Pradyot Bharatkar Open access initiatives for digital information services. 4. Jagdish Rai Digital information services promoting research and education. Venue: DRTC classroom Date: 10th June 2005 Time: 2.00 pm Dr. Devika P. Madalli DRTC --------------------------------- Too much spam in your inbox? Yahoo! Mail gives you the best spam protection for FREE! http://in.mail.yahoo.com Indian Statistical Institute Documentation Research and Training Centre 8 th Mile Mysore Road, R.V. College PO. Banglore- 560059 DRTC Students' Colloquium on Information Service in Digital Environment Abstract The environment in which the information services are to be provided have changed significantly. These changes are mostly the result of technological changes i.e. emphasis on the use of modern information technology, developments of computer technology and telecommunication technology. Thus the concept of libraries has changed and digital library is an emerging trend in the present information technology era. There are different types of digital information services and almost all are converging in the services provided by the digital libraries. Digital information service, though looks easy to be provided, poses its own challenges in terms of metadata, digital collection development, copyright, preservation, cost, technology obsolescence, etc. In the colloquium we are going to discuss the issues relating to different types of digital information services, how are they provided, how they are going to help in research and education and the importance of open sources. Speakers Topics 1. Nupur Agrawal Information services in digital environment: Overview 2. Rajib Mitra Types of Digital information services. 3. Pradyot Bharatkar Open access initiatives for digital information services. 4. Jagdish Rai Digital information services promoting research and education. Venue: DRTC classroom Date: 10 th June 2005 Time: 2.00 pm Dr. Devika P. Madalli DRTC 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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ICT Links
by Ramakanta Sahu 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Dear All, Please forward me the web resources on Indian Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and related links. Best Regards, Ramakant --------------------------------- 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, Please forward me the web resources on Indian Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and related links. Best Regards, Ramakant 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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Re: [SI] Re: [DDN]The Personal vs the Social Computer Was: Updateonthe Simputer
by Subbiah Arunachalam 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Thanks very much Franck. Please do something to improve the English language interface so that non-French speakers can also get the maximum benefit from this service. Arun Franck Laloe wrote: > In this line, I would like to add that, in France, the CNRS (national > research agency covering almost all disciplines) with INRIA (nationtal > agency for computer science) started a few years ago an ArXive like > system, called Hal. The system is automatically connected to ArXiv, but > covers more disciplins. There are articles in physics and maths, but also > education, history, archeology, computer science, etc.. The metadata are > more structured than in ArXiv, so that automatic extractions of the > production of laboratories, institutes, universities, etc.. is possible. > It can also provide multiple environments, and create "collections", etc.. > You can have a look at: > > http://hal.ccsd.cnrs.fr/ > > > but, unfortunately, for lack of time the English version of the interface > is not very good for the moment. The whole archive is only starting, and > for the moment contains altogether about 10 000 full text documents, which > is only the beginning, but the input flux is constantly increasing. > > best wishes > > Franck > > > > > _______________________________________________________________ > Franck Laloë, LKB, Dept physique de l'ENS, 24 rue Lhomond, F 75005 Paris > (France) > tel et fax 33 (1) 47 07 54 13 -- laloe(a)ens.fr > > _______________________________________________ > SI mailing list > SI(a)wsis-cs.org > http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/si

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OA in New Zealand
by Subbiah Arunachalam 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Thanks very much Arthur for circulating the good news. A number of countries (and institutions) are implementing open access policies and are setting up open access archives. Whatever may be the benefit to those countries and institutions, one thing is for sure. Scientists and research students in developing countries, where libraries are poor, will gain access to all these archives. And that will certainly have a beneficial impact on the science they do. Thanks once again. I am sure many vice chancellors and directors of research laboratories in India, China, Brazil, and other developing countries will take to open access soon. Recently the Indian MEDLARS centre at the National Informatic Centre in New Delhi set up OpenMED, an archive for biomedical research. We are keenly looking forward to it getting populated with papers quickly. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --- Arthur Sale <ahjs(a)OZEMAIL.COM.AU> wrote: > On Thursday, I hosted a delegation of four senior > people from New Zealand > who were visiting Australia with a view to drawing > up an OA implementation > policy for New Zealand. The plan is to do a whole of > country approach, > covering research from the universities, the Crown > research institutes, > polytechnics and other sources of research. The > working party will write its > report shortly after its Australian visit, when it > visited Queensland, the > national capital Canberra, Tasmania and Australia in > a week-long visit. > > I understand that New Zealand has recently signed > the Berlin Declaration on > behalf of all NZ universities. Now they are about to > implement it. > Arthur > Arthur Sale 127 Tranmere Road, Howrah, Tasmania 7018, AUSTRALIA > Phone (03) 6247 1331 (International replace '(03)' > by '+61-3-') or Mobile 04 > 1947 1331 Thanks very much Arthur for circulating the good news. A number of countries (and institutions) are implementing open access policies and are setting up open access archives. Whatever may be the benefit to those countries and institutions, one thing is for sure. Scientists and research students in developing countries, where libraries are poor, will gain access to all these archives. And that will certainly have a beneficial impact on the science they do. Thanks once again. I am sure many vice chancellors and directors of research laboratories in India, China, Brazil, and other developing countries will take to open access soon. Recently the Indian MEDLARS centre at the National Informatic Centre in New Delhi set up OpenMED, an archive for biomedical research. We are keenly looking forward to it getting populated with papers quickly. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --- Arthur Sale < ahjs(a)OZEMAIL.COM.AU > wrote: > On Thursday, I hosted a delegation of four senior > people from New Zealand > who were visiting Australia with a view to drawing > up an OA implementation > policy for New Zealand. The plan is to do a whole of > country approach, > covering research from the universities, the Crown > research institutes, > polytechnics and other sources of research. The > working party will write its > report shortly after its Australian visit, when it > visited Queensland, the > national capital Canberra, Tasmania and Australia in > a week-long visit. > > I understand that New Zealand has recently signed > the Berlin Declaration on > behalf of all NZ universities. Now they are about to > implement it. > Arthur > Arthur Sale 127 Tranmere Road, Howrah, Tasmania 7018, AUSTRALIA > Phone (03) 6247 1331 (International replace '(03)' > by '+61-3-') or Mobile 04 > 1947 1331

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Fw: [bytesforall_readers] Urdu keyboard bookmarklet
by Subbiah Arunachalam 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Friends: FireFox allows typing in a language withou the language keyboard. At least it is possible for Urdu, commonly spoken in Northwest India and Pakistan. Please check if such a facility is available for other languages, especially the many African languages. Someone in the list may please alert Prof. Adama Samasekou; I am unable to reach him by email. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred(a)bytesforall.org> To: <bytesforall_readers(a)yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 12:00 AM Subject: [bytesforall_readers] Urdu keyboard bookmarklet > From: jess body <jessbody(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Announce: release -- Urdu keyboard bookmarklet > > This FireFox bookmarklet allows you to write in Urdu on the web without > the > need for systems' Urdu keyboard. Open a webpage with a input-box where you > can > write. Write pretending that you are writing with Urdu phonetic > keyboard. Click on the URDU button on the FireFox toolbar and the text in > the box will magically convert to Urdu. This "bookmarklet keyboard" works > in > the FireFox web browser on all operating systems. > > Get the bookmarklets from http://geocities.com/urdutext/ > > This FireFox Urdu keyboard, for example, works on the following sites: > > GOOGLE > GOOGLE-GROUPS > JANG > GMAIL (BASIC HTML MODE) > > On GOOGLE's search box, for example, type: > aslam elikm > > Now click on the URDU button (the bookmarklet) on the FireFox bookmarks > toolbar. The text will convert to Urdu: > ???^(3)U`"??U`... ?^(1)U`"U^OEU'(c)U`... > > When writing assume the CRULP's phonetic keyboard layout. > > For sites, where the bookmarklet won't work, there is a second PAD > bookmarklet, which opens a TEXTPAD window, in which you can write, and > then > convert to Urdu with the first bookmarklet. The Urdu text can then be > CUT-n-PASTE anywhere. > > The bookmarklets are written in javascript, so the script can be inspected > (and modified). The bookmarklet can be modified to support other non-Latin > languages by replacing the ASCII-to-Unicode table. > > FN > .......................................................................... > Frederick (FN) Noronha | Freelance Journalist | Mobile +91 9822 122436 > Tel +91.832.2409490 | http://fn.swiki.net | http://www.bytesforall.net > .......................................................................... > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers/ > > <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > bytesforall_readers-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com > > <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > >

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Re: Condolence from KAU on the demise of Dr. Rajashekahr
by Aloor Thomas Francis 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

Dear professionals, Dr.TB Rajashekahr was a great prefessional with novel ideas. His contributions are remarkable. His demise is a great loss to the entitre profession. iisc.ernet.in wrote: Library prefessionals in the Kerala Agricultural University and myself express our deep condolence. A.T. Francis Assistant Librarian Kerala Agricultural University Thrissur - 680 656 francisaloor(a)yahho.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar
by Subbiah Arunachalam 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

Yes Stevan, it is the same Raja. Melissa of OSI and UNESCO had recognised his worth and invited him to some conferences and workshops. I always thought he was very good in his work. In fact, I had to face some harsh comments from other Indian colleagues when I mentioned in a discussion list that NCSI was a good training centre for young Indian librarians. He is no more. Why should such an accomplished expert die when he has so much more to give to the rest of us, I do not understand. Nature's ways are inscrutable. Arun ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stevan Harnad" <harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> To: "Subbiah Arunachalam" <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Cc: "Les Carr" <lac(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 3:20 PM Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar > Dear Arun, > > Can this really be Raja, whom I know, who did so much to set up the > IIS archive? who helped host Les Carr's visit to India? > > A great loss of a dedicated man, in his prime. > > If possible, please convey my condolences to his family, and my gratitude > and appreciation for all his important work. > > Stevan > > On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Subbiah Arunachalam wrote: > >> Dear Prof. Balakrishnan/ Prof. Menon/ Francis: >> >> Kindly accept my heart felt condolences. Please convey the same to Mrs >> Rajashekar and other members of his family. Raja was one of the best >> information professionals of our country and had earned a reputation >> around >> the world. He played an important role in training young professionals in >> modern information dissemination tchniques and in promoting the open >> access >> culture in India. His passing away is a great loss to the profession. >> RIP. >> >> Arun >> [Subbiah Arunachalam] >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jobish P" <jobish_p(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >> To: <broadcast(a)iisc.ernet.in> >> Cc: <ncsi-net(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:15 AM >> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dr. T B Rajashekar >> >> > We are very sad to inform you that Dr. T B Rajashekar, Associate >> > Chairman >> > of NCSI expired on 3-6-05 in an accident. His body will be brought to >> > his >> > residence at 10.15 A M today(4-6-05). The funeral is expected to take >> > place by 3 PM today. >> > >> > Residence Address >> > >> > #676 >> > 4th Cross, Near Swimming Pool >> > Mahalakshmi Layout >> > Bangalore >> > >> > Burial Ground : >> > >> > Chamarajpet >> > Near TR Mills >> > >> > (Left turn after the end of 5th main) >> > >> > >> > CHAIRMAN >> > NCSI >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > LIS-Forum mailing list >> > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >> > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >>

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This is very tragic
by K M Haneefa 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

Dear Friends, I am deeply shocked to know the unexpected death news of Dr. T B Rajashekar......... This is very tragic....................... Myself and my department would like to express our deepest condolences and sympathies to the family of Dr. T B Rajashekar. May ALLAH rest his soul in peace and give strength to his family to bear this loss. K M Haneefa Lecturer Department of Library & Information Science University of Calicut, Kerala E-mail : haneefcalicut(a)yahoo.com Phone No: 09895842431 --------------------------------- Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM & more. Check it out! Dear Friends, I am deeply shocked to know the unexpected death news of Dr. T B Rajashekar......... This is very tragic....................... Myself and my department would like to express our deepest condolences and sympathies to the family of Dr. T B Rajashekar. May ALLAH rest his soul in peace and give strength to his family to bear this loss. K M Haneefa Lecturer Department of Library & Information Science University of Calicut, Kerala E-mail : mailto:haneefcalicut@yahoo.com haneefcalicut(a)yahoo.com Phone No: 09895842431 Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM & more. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=32660/*http://discover.yahoo.com/online.html Check it out!

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Heart felt condolences
by SCKumaresan 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

Dear Professionals, I am greatly pained to hear the sad demise of Dr.T.B.Rajashekar. He was one of the great professional we had in our times. His contribution to the profession and his inspiration to many young professionals will be remembered for ages. My heart felt condolences bereaved family and pray almighty for his soul to rest in peace. S.C.Kumaresan S.C.Kumaresan SeniorLibrarian, BITS - Pilani, Dubai Campus, P.O. Box No.500022. Block 11, Knowledge Village, Dubai, UAE Tele(009714)3664575/76, Fax(009714)3664580 Mobile. 00971508829462 Dear Professionals, I am greatly pained to hear the sad demise of Dr.T.B.Rajashekar. He was one of the great professional we had in our times. His contribution to the profession and his inspiration to many young professionals will be remembered for ages. My heart felt condolences bereaved family and pray almighty for his soul to rest in peace. S.C.Kumaresan S.C.Kumaresan SeniorLibrarian, BITS - Pilani, Dubai Campus, P.O. Box No.500022. Block 11, Knowledge Village, Dubai, UAE Tele(009714)3664575/76, Fax(009714)3664580 Mobile. 00971508829462 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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Indian Information and Communication Technology (ICT) History
by Ramakanta Sahu 03 Jun '05

03 Jun '05

Dear All, Please forward me the web resources on Indian Information and Communication Technology (ICT) History and ICT related links. Best Regards, Ramakant --------------------------------- 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, Please forward me the web resources on Indian Information and Communication Technology (ICT) History and ICT related links. Best Regards, Ramakant 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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Yahoo! comes out with intelligent search tool
by Mailing List Manager 03 Jun '05

03 Jun '05

Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 02:16:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Rashid Hussain <ras_botlib(a)yahoo.co.in> Yahoo! introduced a new search tool, Mindset, which enables users to search and to sort the search results on the basis of commercial or informational value. The beta version, available as an online tool, allows the users to view what they want unlike existing search tools that give mega piles of unorganized information. In Mindset, search queries can be adjusted by moving a slider located on top of the search page, to the left or right to determine the nature of results wanted -- commercial or informational. It is significant that Yahoo! has quietly come out with this innovative tool after the much-publicized personalized Google home page was launched a couple of days back. Mindset is located on the Yahoo Research Labs' site Yahoo Next. The default setting of the slider shows results based on Yahoo's normal listing, while moving it to the right will make the results arranged on an informational basis and to the left on a commercial basis. Yahoo said Mindset is based on machine learning process, which carries out the search through algorithms developed so that the results are thrown on a continuous scale raging from "very commercial" to "very non-commercial". = = = = = = = = = = = Rashid Hussain Siddiqui ADIS 2nd Year Student Documentation Research & Training Centre(DRTC) Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalore : 560059 Phone No. : 080-28483975

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New .xxx domain will be reserved for porn
by Mailing List Manager 03 Jun '05

03 Jun '05

Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 12:38:41 +0530 From: Farooque Shaheen <Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com> The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) yesterday approved a plan for pornographic Web sites to use new addresses that end with ".xxx," something numerous groups and U.S. political leaders have been seeking to try to prevent sexually explicit content from landing on the screens of young Internet users. ICANN, the nonprofit organization that oversees technical matters related to the Internet, said it will begin negotiations with ICM Registry Inc. to resolve commercial and technical issues associated with operating the .xxx top-level domain (TLD). The decision in favor of establishing a virtual red-light district for providers of pornographic content and their customers represents a U-turn for ICANN, which rejected ICM's first application for the .xxx TLD in November 2000. Reasons for the objection are published in a document available on ICANN's Web site. A full dig on this matter can be found at.. http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/websitemgmt/story/0,10801,10… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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10 reasons why you should be a Googler
by Mailing List Manager 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 23:09:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Rashid Hussain <ras_botlib(a)yahoo.co.in> Source: The Economic Times You simply can't miss IT. An important part of your time on the net, this is an entity that you use for reasons more than one. Yup! We are talking about Google, the search engine that has completely revolutionised internet search and emerged as a lifesaver for all net-savvy folks.And at a time when companies are on a hiring spree, one does tend to get confused about which company to join. Pay, designation, work profile, culture and brand vale are some of the factors that can determine which job to settle for. The internet search engine company's website enlists 10 reasons why geeks should be joining the young company Top 10 Reasons to Work at Google 1. Lend a helping hand. With millions of visitors every month, Google has become an essential part of everyday life#8212;like a good friend#8212;connecting people with the information they need to live great lives. 2. Life is beautiful. Being a part of something that matters and working on products in which you can believe is remarkably fulfilling. 3. Appreciation is the best motivation, so we've created a fun and inspiring workspace you'll be glad to be a part of, including on-site doctor and dentist; massage and yoga; professional development opportunities; on-site day care; shoreline running trails; and plenty of snacks to get you through the day. 4. Work and play are not mutually exclusive. It is possible to code and pass the puck at the same time. 5. We love our employees, and we want them to know it. Google offers a variety of benefits, including a choice of medical programs, company-matched 401(k), stock options, maternity and paternity leave, and much more. 6. Innovation is our bloodline. Even the best technology can be improved. We see endless opportunity to create even more relevant, more useful, and faster products for our users. Google is the technology leader in organizing the world#8217;s information. 7. Good company everywhere you look. Googlers range from former neurosurgeons, CEOs, and U.S. puzzle champions to alligator wrestlers and former-Marines. No matter what their backgrounds Googlers make for interesting cube mates. 8. Uniting the world, one user at a time. People in every country and every language use our products. As such we think, act, and work globally#8212;just our little contribution to making the world a better place. 9. Boldly go where no one has gone before. There are hundreds of challenges yet to solve. Your creative ideas matter here and are worth exploring. You'll have the opportunity to develop innovative new products that millions of people will find useful. 10. There is such a thing as a free lunch after all. In fact we have them every day: healthy, yummy, and made with love. Full article avialable at http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1126514.cms = = = = = = = = = = = Rashid Hussain Siddiqui ADIS 2nd Year Student Documentation Research & Training Centre(DRTC) Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalore : 560059 Phone No. : 080-28483975

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XML will be the default file format for next MS Office
by Mailing List Manager 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:43:56 +0530 From: Farooque Shaheen <Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com> Microsoft Corp. announced that the next version of its Office software will use Internet-friendly XML technology as the default file format for documents created in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The new format will make it easier for other programs to read Office documents, an improvement the software titan says is aimed at boosting workers' productivity. XML, short for eXtensible Markup Language, is designed for sharing diverse data across different systems with a uniform appearance. Previously, Office saved files in a format that doesn't always translate well when opened in other programs. The current version, Office 2003, already supports XML but some users have complained that it is clunky and documents don't always translate well from that format either. A full dig on this matter can be found here. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/01/AR200506010… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Library of Congress Joins Internet2
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 09:37:51 +0530 From: Farooque Shaheen <Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com> The Library of Congress (LC; http://www.loc.gov) has become a member of Internet2 (http://www.internet2.edu) and will connect to Internet2's high-performance Abilene Network. Led by more than 200 U.S. universities working with industry and government, Internet2 develops and deploys advanced network applications and technologies for research and higher education. According to the announcement, the LC plans to collaborate with the Internet2 community and leverage its advanced network infrastructure to facilitate wide-scale digital preservation projects, to enhance the development of an Internet-based database of U.S. newspapers, and to assist with its educational outreach programs. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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OCLC Improves Digital Collection Management Software
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 10:06:42 +0530 From: Farooque Shaheen <Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com> OCLC announced the latest release of CONTENTdm, its digital collection management software for libraries and other cultural heritage institutions. The new version, to be released in June, was developed in close consultation with CONTENTdm user groups and features increased security and other enhancements. CONTENTdm software offers a complete set of tools to store, manage, and deliver digital collections?such as historical documents, photos, newspapers, audio, and video?on the Web. Newest features include: � Fast multiple document entry � Increased security for items and collections to better protect copyrighted or other restricted materials � Detailed reports that show how online items and collections are being used � Additional digital repository features � Linking to WorldCat for worldwide visibility of digital collections CONTENTdm is distributed by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, the world?s largest library cooperative. Metadata for many of these digital collections is being added to the WorldCat database of items held in libraries. Once in WorldCat, special collection items can be found by searching the database or searching the Web. Items in WorldCat can now be discovered through search engines like Google and Yahoo! Search as part of the OCLC Open WorldCat program. To see examples of digital collections managed with CONTENTdm software, visit http://www.contentdm.com/customers Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Cooperation
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 00:39:09 -0500 From: Ghulam Jeelani Shah <jeelani4(a)lycos.com> Respected Sir It is here to mention the deteriorating situation of libraries in cities in general and far flung areas in particular.I am from Srinagar,J & K.The district library here although is a huge building but unable to satisfy the basic needs of its users.Same is the situation of city central library and other public libraries.The main cause is the lack of professional interest and desire to enlighten the name of our profession.Our colleagues working in such libraries work there for the sake of duty but not for the sake of their profession.We actually have forgotten the importance of our profession and we are still treating it from its traditional perspective.Perhaps either we do not know or we deliberately keep our eyes closed in front of the fact that western world went for full automation of their collection in the last century.But we are not able to provide the satisfactory reference services to our users.It is not the case that there is nothing in our hands although we have financial barriers and we have limited manpower,we can go for the cooperation-cooperation with our colleagues,with other libraries either at local level or regional level and even at national level.This can at least help us to reach that satisfactory level where our users will feel that their needs are fulfilled to some extent.So have a pause-THINK-and join hands.Remember if we will let our users to read,we will let our Nation to lead. Thanks, Yours Obediently Ghulam Jeelani Shah Teaching Assistant Deptt. of Library & Information Science University of Kashmir --

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Article Request
by Mailing List Manager 31 May '05

31 May '05

Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 09:56:01 +0530 From: Satyaranjan Sahu <satya(a)darya.nio.org> Respected Lis members, One of our researchers is in urgent need of the following article. Please send a soft copy of the article if you have in your library. Kharin, G. S. 1974. The phosphatic rocks of the submarine Jan Mayen Ridge (North Atlantic) and their relation to vulcanism. Lithol. Miner. Resour., 9, 32-35. Thanking you with regards Satya ---------------------------------------------------- Satyaranjan Sahu NIO Library (NICMAS) National Institute of Oceanography Dona Paula, Goa - 403 004 Phone - 0832 - 2450 370 (O) -------------------------------------------------------

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Libraries: How they stack up? An OCLC report snapshot
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 31 May '05

31 May '05

Dear All You may be interested in this OCLC report snapshot. http://www5.oclc.org/downloads/community/librariesstackup. "This report, Libraries: How they stack up, provides a snapshot of the economic impact of libraries. The report contains some interesting comparisons of library economics and activities to other sectors, professions and destinations in the worldwide economy." (from the report head). I thank Prof. Neelameghan for bringing this to my attention. Regards Rajashekar ------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Associate Chairman Tel: +91-80-23600271, 23601427 National Centre for Science Fax: +91-80-23601426, 23600683 Information (NCSI) E-Mail: raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Indian Institute of Science URL: http://144.16.72.189/raja/ BANGALORE-560012 (India) ------------------------------------------------------------- SciGate: http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/ The IISc Science Information Portal

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IFLA Travel Grant Winners - 2005
by JK Vijayakumar 30 May '05

30 May '05

The National Organising Committee of IFLA announced candidates selected for an IFLA 2005 Oslo Travel Grant to attend the World Library and Information Congress, 71st IFLA General Conference, August 14 - 18, 2005. The list is available at http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/grant-e.htm#Oslo Winners from Asian region are AHMED, S.M. Zabed, Bangladesh MUNSHI, M. Nasiruddin, Bangladesh RAHMAN Milon, MD. Mujibur, Bangladesh GUPTA, Geetika Kumar, India WIDAJATMI, Wenny, Indonesia SOEMARTO, Indira Irawati, Indonesia MORADI S. S. Shima, Iran LIU, Jia, China DIAW, Boubacar, Mali CAMARA, Lamine, Mali NEUPANE, Chiranjibi, Nepal GIRI, Kamal, Nepal SHAKYA, Raju, Nepal THAPA, Prakash Kumar, Nepal PARIYAR, Kesh Bahadur, Nepal EJAZ, Muhammad Anwar, Pakistan AMEEN, Kanwal, Pakistan BANDARANIAKE, Dassanyake, Sri Lanka SENEVIRATNE, Thushari M., Sri Lanka WIJAYARATNE, Anusha, Sri Lanka Congrats to the winners. Read more about IFLA 2005 at http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/index.htm ----------------- J K Vijayakumar Standing Committee Member IFLA Univ Libraries Section __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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About 40th year of DLIS- Hurry Up tp register !!!
by Mailing List Manager 30 May '05

30 May '05

Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 05:01:45 -0700 (PDT) From: khaiser nikam <khaisernikam(a)yahoo.com> Dear All , U know by now that prof. shalini Urs, our chairperson is organizing aone day seminar on "Repositioning information profession for market placea". plz visit this link to register http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/dlis/htmlfiles/reg_form.html. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Khaiser Nikam, Reader and Managemnet Consultant Dos LIS , Uni Mysore Mysore

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Alumni of DLIS, Mysore
by harinarayana＠lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in 28 May '05

28 May '05

Dear Alumni/Friends, Here we have the 40th year grand celebrations of the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore. It is said that life begins at forty. I think it is very much true of our Department. It is grown to be a adult and overcome its infancy in the IT era. To keep with the context, the Chaiperson of our Department Prof. Shalini R. Urs with the support and encourage of Department Faculty and the Alumni is organizing a one day seminar on Repositioning the information profession for the market place on June 24, 2005. The details of the seminar and programme are as follows: The Program Schedule Session 1 The inaugural session 9.30 -11.00 am Inauguration of the 40th anniversary and the seminar Session 2 11.30 am -1.00 pm Repositioning the information profession : why and how (invited talks) 1. K.S.Raghavan 2. N.V.Sathyanaryana 3. M.S.Sridhar (Chair: V. G. Talawar) Session 3 2.00 pm 3.30 pm Curriculum Transformations : contemporary Vs. conventional : a Debate 1. T.B.Rajashekar 2. M.K.Jagadish 3. B.P.Prakash 4. G.K.Manjunath (Moderator : Shalini Urs) Session 4 4.00 pm - 6.00pm Round Table on Oaks from Acorns- reflections of the alumni 1. P.Y.Rajendra Kumar 2. B.S.Maheshwarappa 3. B. G. Sundar Singh 4. T.D.Kemparaju 5. Lalitha Ashwath 6. Ramesh Babu 7. Chikkammallaih 8. T. Vijaykumar 9. Chandran 10. Ratnakar 11. K.S.Chudamani (Moderator: Puttannaiah) Session 5 6.00- 6.30 pm Felicitations to retired DLIS faculty 7.30 9.30 pm : Dinner On behalf of the Department Council and Chairperson, I take this opportunity to invite all alumni of the Department and take active part in the event. Kindly send your contact address to enable us to send the printed invitation. Kindly enroll as member of Mystor University Library Science Students Association (MULSAA) at http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/mulsaa/ Please inform your friends also and confirm your participation. Contact: Dr. Khaiser Nikam khaisernikam(a)rediffmail.com Mobile: 9845328672

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Deputy Librarian Vacancy in Goa University
by Dr.P.V.Konnur 28 May '05

28 May '05

Dear Friends, Goa University has avertised the post of Deputy Librarian. The following is the extract of the advertisement. You may also visit their website at: http://goauniversity.org/vacancies.php Thanks, Konnur. Applications are invited in the prescribed form (available in Adm.Section IV on payment of Rs.50/-) in triplicate, for temporary posts Deputy Librarian The application should reach the Registrar, Goa University, Taleigao Plateau, Goa 403 206 on or before 11/06/2005. D) Deputy Librarian : One Post The minimum qualification required is Masters degree in Library Science/ Information Science/ Documentation with atleast 55% of the marks or its equivalent grade of B in the UGC seven point scale and a consistently good academic record, five years experience as an Assistant University Librarian/College Librarian and evidence of innovative library service and organization of published work. If candidates fulfilling the requirement for the post of Deputy Librarian are not available, suitable candidate from amongst the candidates may be selected for the post of Assistant Librarian. The University reserves the right of accepting/rejecting applications received after the last date fixed for receipt of applications. The posts being of purely temporary nature, the selected candidates will have no right of appointment to other permanent vacancies, which may occur in the University from time to time. The minimum qualifications and the scale of pay will be as prescribed by the University Grants Commission. Consolidated salary of Rs.8000/- per month shall be paid to candidates selected for the posts at (C) above. Place: Taleigao Plateau (Prof. Jayant S. Budkuley) Date: / /2005. REGISTRAR Dr.P.V.Konnur, University Librarian, Goa University Library, Taleigao Plateau, Goa - 403 206. Phone: 0832-2456031 (O) 0832-2451008 (R) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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refresher course in Jammu University
by sangeeta gupta 28 May '05

28 May '05

Unfortunately We could not start the refresher course as per schdule due to lack of participants. the new darte for the course is now 12th september 2005. Hopefully this time we will be able to do it. nDepartment of Library Science,University of Jammu in > collaboration with the Academic Staff > College,Kashmir > University is organizing a Three weeks Refresher > Course in Library and Information Science from 12thSeptember 2005.The thrust area of the Refresher Course > would > be " Knowledge Management in Academic Libaries" > All interested eligible teachers/library staff > should please get themselves deputed for the said > course.An application form is attached alongwith > terms and conditions. completed application forms > should reach the office on or before 15th july 2005. > > Dr.Sangita Gupta Prof.I.V.Malhan > Course Coordinator Course Director > Reader Head,DLIS > Department of Library Science Univ. Of Jammu > University of Jammu > Jammu 180006 > mobile 09419134620 > > I AM SENDING THE TEXT FILE TO AVOID THE > INCONVENIENCE > > > ACADEMIC STAFF COLLEGE > > UNIVERSITY OF KASHMIR > HAZRATBAL, SRINANAGR 190006 > APPLICATION FOR ORIENTATION/REFRESHER COURSE > Course for which application made (Attach two > photo) > 1. Orientation Course�� > 2. Refresher Course in��.. > I. PERSONAL INFORMATION > 1. Name of the teacher: Mr/Miss/Mrs/Dr�� > > 2. Date of birth: �� > 3. Sex�� > 4. Qualification: PG��..MPhil��.PhD��BEd��MEd�� > 5. Residential address�� > ��. > Phone No:��(O)��.(R)��. > II. DETAILS OF EMPLOYMENT > 1. Designation�� > 2. > Deptt./College��............................................... > > 3. Please indicate the discipline�� > 4. Affiliated with University��.. > 5. Official address��. > �� > 6. State��. > 7. Zone��. > III. DETAILS OF TEACHING /EXTENSION EXPERIENCE > 3.1 Date of first appointment��.. > 3.2 Date of regular appointment��. > 3.3 Status of present appointment: Permanent/ > Probationer/ Temporary/ Adhoc > 3.4 Teaching/ Extension Experience (In years): > UG��PG��.. > IV. DETAILS OF RESEARCH EXPERINCE (IF ANY) > 4.1 Area of specialization��. > 4.2 Title of research work (if > any)��.. > 4.3 No. of publications (if any)��. > 4.4 No. of the research projects completed (if > any)�� > V. DETAILS OF PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE IN ATTENDING > ORIENTATION/REFRESHER COURSE > 5.1 Have you attended and general orientation: a) > Duration: 4 weeks/3 weeks > If yes, Please indicate > b) From��..to��. > c) Name of the ASC��. > > > 5.2 Have you attended and general refresher course: > a) > Duration: 4 weeks/3 weeks > If yes, Please indicate > b) From��..to��. > c) Name of the ASC��. > 5.3 Details of application made for any other course > in the ASC............................. > �� > 5.4 Would you like that any specific topic/s having > relevance to the modern technology/trend in the > subject should be included in the course? > a) If yes: Please specify: > 1��..2��3�� > 5.5 Would you like to present a paper in any of the > session? > If yes: Please specify the topics of your interest. > I hereby undertake to participate in the course and > do > the assignment work during the course under the > guidance of Resource Person and abide by the rules > and > regulations of University/UGC. > The particulars given above are correct. > Status: 1. Part time��....2 Adhoc��3. > Temporary��. > 3. On probation��5. Permanent��.. > > > > > > Date:��. > Signature of the applicant > > > CERTIFICATE OF RECOMMENDATION FROM THE > HEAD/PRINCIPAL > 1. I recommend > Dr./Mr./Mrs/Ms�� > > .......................................................................................................................................... > for the course in��.. He/She > will > be relieved in time to participate in the above > mentioned course, at Academic Staff College, if > selected. > 2) Certified that this college/Deptt. Is affiliated > to�� > University for the last 5 years and is recommended > under section 12(F) of the UGC Act. > 3) Certified that the particulars given above are > true > and correct and nothing has been concealed there to. > > Date��. > Office seal�� Signature of the Head/Principal > TERMS AND CONDITIONS > 1. Teachers of the University and > affiliated/recognized colleges with six or less than > six years of service are eligible for General > Orientation Course. > 2. Teachers with five or more than five years of > service are eligible for refresher course > 3. Teachers who have not attended any General > Orientation Course can apply for the Refresher > course > provided they have service of two years or more. > 4. Teachers who have attended one General > Orientation > Course are not eligible for the second one. > 5. Teachers who have attended two Courses while in a > particular pay scale are not eligible for the > course. > 6. Gap between two successive courses should not be > less than one year. > 7. The course is full time. Attendance and active > participation for each session is an essential > requirement. However, the certification shall be > issued on the basis of actual participation and > performance. > 8. Three week course shall be for a minimum period > of > 108 hours and four week course shall be for a > minimum > period of 144 hours. > 9. To and fro 2nd class railway/Bus fare from the > place of posting shall be paid to non-local teachers > selected for the course. However, the payment shall > be > made on the production of tickets/money receipts. > The > non-local participants shall be entitled to an > amount > of Rs. 150/- per day towards board, lodging and > refreshment. > 10. The participants shall have to submit a detailed > Self-Assessment report along with the evaluation > report of the course. > 11. The participants shall have to submit a detailed > Self-assessment report along with the Evaluation > report of the course. > 12. Every participant shall have to pay an admission > fee f Rs. 500/- (Non-refundable) in the shape of > Bank > Draft in favor of Registrar, University of Kashmir > and > to deposit in the office of the Academic Staff > College > at the time of the admission. > > Sd/- > Director, Academic Staff College, > University of Kashmir, > Srinagar. > > > Waiting for the quick response > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html

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Global Access to Indian Research: Indian STM Journals Online
by Sukhdev Singh 27 May '05

27 May '05

NIC's databases, IndMED [http://indmed.nic.in] and medIND [http://medind.nic.in], has figured in an article of Ms Lalitha Kumari, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology. Her article entitled "Global Access to Indian Research: Indian STM Journals Online" has surveyed various information resources from India in the area of Science, Technology and Medicine. The article published in "Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Spring 2005" is available as fulltext from the following URL : http://www.istl.org/05-spring/article3.html --Sukhdev Singh, NIC.

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Do libraries still matter? and Value of libraries
by Shyam Prasad pujar 26 May '05

26 May '05

Dear Members, Interesting articles, please go through. Do Libraries Still Matter? http://www.carnegie.org/reporter/10/books/index.html The Value of Libraries: Impact, Normative Data, & Influencing Funders http://www.imakenews.com/sirsi/e_article000396335.cfm?x=b4TcM1g,b2rpmkgK,w Regards, S.M. Pujar ********************************************************************** Shamprasad M. Pujar Assistant Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% * Phone: (022) 28400919-21 Extn: 514 * * Fax: (022) 28402752 * * E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in * * URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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Open Access
by Mailing List Manager 26 May '05

26 May '05

Date: 25 May 2005 11:39:36 -0000 From: Shahab <smshahabuddin(a)rediffmail.com> Peer Pressure Scholarly Journals' Premier Status Is Diluted by Web More Research Is Free Online Amid Spurt of Start-Ups; Publishers' Profits at Risk A Revolt on UC's Campuses By BERNARD WYSOCKI JR. BERKELEY, Calif. -- From a stool at Yali's caf, near the University of Cali= fornia campus, Michael Eisen is loudly trashing the big players in academic= publishing. Hefty subscription fees for journals are blocking scientific p= rogress, he says, and academics who think they have full access to timely l= iterature are kidding themselves. "They're just wrong," Dr. Eisen says. He = suggests scholarly journals be free and accessible to everyone on the Web. This may sound like the ranting of a campus radical, but Dr. Eisen is a wel= l known computational biologist at a nearby national laboratory and a Berke= ley faculty member. He is also a co-founder of a nonprofit startup called t= he Public Library of Science, which produces its own scholarly journals, in= competition with established publishers, distributed free online. It's a campus twist on a raging Internet-era debate about who should contro= l information and what it should cost. For decades, traditional scholarly j= ournals have held an exalted and lucrative position as arbiters of academic= excellence, controlling what's published and made available to the wider c= ommunity. These days, research is increasingly available on free university= Web sites and through start-up outfits. Scholarly journals are finding the= ir privileged position under attack. The 10-campus University of California system has emerged as a hotbed of in= surgency against this $5 billion global market. Faculty members are competi= ng against publishers with free or inexpensive journals of their own. Two U= C scientists organized a world-wide boycott against a unit of Reed Elsevier= -- the Anglo-Dutch giant that publishes 1,800 periodicals -- protesting it= s fees. The UC administration itself has jumped into the fray. It's urging = scholars to deposit working papers and monographs into a free database in a= ddition to submitting them for publication elsewhere. It has also battled w= ith publishers, including nonprofits, to lower prices.=20 "We have to take back control from the publishers," says Daniel Greenstein,= associate vice provost for the UC system, which spends $30 million a year = on scholarly periodicals. The clash between academics and publishers was exacerbated last year when t= he taxpayer-funded National Institutes of Health proposed that articles res= ulting from NIH grants be made available free online. That prompted protests from Reed Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons Inc. and sever= al nonprofit publishers such as the American Diabetes Association, which ar= gued such a move would hurt their businesses. The NIH retreated and in February made the program voluntary. It now asks a= uthors to post on an NIH Web site any articles based on NIH grants within 1= 2 months of publication. The debate comes at a time when it's easier than ever to find scholarly art= icles by using simple Internet tools such as Google. In late 2004, Google I= nc., in Mountain View, Calif., launched Google Scholar, a free service that= can search for peer-reviewed articles as well as theses, abstracts and other scholarly material, much of it in scien= tific fields. Traditional publishers argue that the expensive process of selecting and ed= iting journals is a necessary filter to help scholars sift through vast amo= unts of research. The nonprofit publisher of the prestigious Science magazi= ne makes content available free after 12=20 months. Other publishers note that with a combination of free abstracts, fr= ee distribution to the developing world and public-library subscriptions, m= uch of the globe already has access to what they produce. "The vast majority -- 90% of researchers in the world -- have access online= to our material," says Karen Hunter, senior vice president at Elsevier, th= e science and medical division of Reed Elsevier that publishes the company'= s journals. Elsevier's scholarly journals bring in about $1.6 billion in an= nual revenue with an operating-profit margin of about 30%. Publishers have been entrenched in academia for decades. One big concern, t= he U.K.'s Taylor & Francis Group, now part of T&F Informa PLC, was founded = in the 18th century. The venerable nonprofit Science was founded in the 188= 0s by Thomas Edison. The industry became firmly established in the 1950s an= d 1960s in the wake of the Soviet space program, whose success spurred a wa= ve of scientific publishing. Although learned societies such as the American Physical Society hold sway = at the top of the prestige pyramid, commercial publishers have created a se= cond tier, producing thousands of niche periodicals from Addictive Behavior= s to Zoology, both Elsevier titles. Scholars are generally grateful that pu= blishers take the risk of starting new titles, which often take years to br= eak even.=20 The publishers' prestige derives from the rigorous system of peer review, i= n which a journal's editorial board will select experts in a field to vet a= rticles. At some top scholarly journals, less than 10% of submitted articl= es make it into a publication. In turn, the peer- review system lends authority to a scholar's work, and has long been a spri= ngboard to academic advancement.=20 In the late 1990s, Dr. Eisen was studying the yeast genome, a booming field= that has a large overlap with the human genome and 200 journals publishing= related research. He wanted all these journal articles freely available at= his fingertips, an impossible request because many are behind subscription= barriers. Some scholars think publishing should operate like the Linux computer opera= ting system, where programmers build on each other's work in an ongoing, co= llaborative project. In the scholarly realm, a database called arXiv -- pro= nounced "archive," as if the "x" were the Greek letter "chi" -- has become = a repository of scholarship in the physics field. It's owned and operated b= y Cornell University and partially supported by the National Science Founda= tion. If the UC administration has its way, something like that would be th= e norm throughout academia. To experienced publishers, much of the open-access talk seems naive. "A l= ot of this is self-righteous talk," says Alan Leshner, executive publisher = of Science and chief executive of its nonprofit parent, the American Associ= ation for the Advancement of Science. He says giving away content isn't a= viable business model because of the tremendous costs of putting out rep= utable journals. He notes that Science gets 12,000 submissions and publishes 800 articles a = year on a $10 million editorial budget. That averages more than $10,000 per= published article, a high number because of the costs associated with hand= ling the unusually large number of submissions the journal receives. Indust= ry experts say typical per-article costs are between $3,000 and $4,000. If open access takes off, information will flow faster, but publishers will= make less money. Among those who would be hurt is Reed Elsevier. Sami Ka= ssab, analyst at investment house Exane BNP Paribas in London, estimates th= at such a movement could sharply cut the company's profit margin on perio= dicals to between 10% and 15% of revenue, from the current 30% or more. Currently, the open-access movement makes up between 1% and 2% of the marke= t, experts say. While that number seems small, the concept is assuming an i= mportant role channeling academic discontent. "There's a lot of sentiment that work is being taken advantage of by the co= mmercial publishers," says Alessandro Lizzeri, associate professor of econo= mics at New York University and editor of Elsevier's Journal of Economic Th= eory. He says that while editors get little compensation for their work, au= thors and reviewers -- aside from prestige -- usually get nothing or just a nominal fee.=20 Prof. Lizzeri says that two of the 40 members of his editorial board resign= ed recently because the journal isn't free to readers. "If half the board r= esigns I'm in trouble," he says. These rumblings hit the University of California early on. In October 2003,= faculty members made a rare display of solidarity with the university admi= nistration. Two scientists at the University of California at San Francisco= staged a protest over a $91,000 bill from Elsevier's Cell Press unit for o= ne year's access to six biology journals. The two professors called for a w= orld-wide boycott, urging fellow scholars at UC and beyond to refuse to ser= ve as authors, editors or peer reviewers at the six periodicals in question. Their timing couldn't have been better for the university administration, w= hich was just about to begin negotiations with the Reed Elsevier unit over = a new contract. In the late 1990s, all UC campuses had banded together in= to a single buying consortium. In 2002, the university hired Dr. Greenste= in, a history professor turned expert on digital libraries. With the stat= e of California's budget crisis forcing him to trim library spending to $= 62 million a year, Dr. Greenstein wanted to take a hard line. "It was the opening shot, really, in struggling head-on with this world of = scientific publishing," says Keith Yamamoto, executive vice dean at UCSF me= dical school and one of the boycott's leaders. The university was paying Elsevier $10.3 million a year for print and onlin= e subscriptions to most of its 1,800 journals. The university demanded a 25= % reduction and at one point threatened to walk away from the table. As the negotiations grew tense, faculty at other UC campuses started to chi= me in sympathetically. The UC Santa Cruz faculty senate passed a resolution= urging faculty to boycott Elsevier journals by refusing to submit articles= or to serve on periodical boards. "That alarmed us," says a Reed Elsevier spokeswoman in Amsterdam. More than= 100 UC faculty members serve as senior editors of Elsevier journals and ab= out 1,000 serve on editorial boards. The publisher fanned out across the ca= mpuses, drumming up support among friendly faculty with breakfasts and ot= her meetings. The spokeswoman says the company concluded that most UC fac= ulty members didn't know about the boycott call or didn't support it. The negotiations dragged on for two months and grew testy. In late 2003, = the university won a 25% price reduction to $7.7 million a year for 1,200 E= lsevier periodicals. Elsevier agreed to throw the six biology journals into= the deal. "They got a very, very good deal," acknowledges Reed Elsevier's Ms. Hunter.= She says the company got some concessions, too. UC gave up access to sever= al hundred periodicals, for example. UC says Elsevier unilaterally added th= e titles into the arrangement before negotiations started and says it doesn= 't care about their removal. Suddenly, the UC negotiation was the buzz of the academic library world and= an inspiration for others to follow suit. One UC librarian, Catherine Cand= ee, says a university negotiator elsewhere "called us up and said, 'Thank y= ou, you saved us $1 million.' " ----------------- Write to Bernard Wysocki Jr. at bernie.wysocki(a)wsj.com

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Librarian position at IIM Indore
by Mailing List Manager 26 May '05

26 May '05

Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 16:43:46 +0530 From: Antony Jose <ajose(a)mdi.ac.in> Dear Colleagues, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore is looking for a LIBRARIAN in the pay scale of 12000 � 375 � 16500. They are looking for a young and techno-savvy librarian who is below 45 years of age. For more information, visit HYPERLINK "http://www.iimidr.ac.in/iim/pages/news/librarian.jsp"http://www.iimidr.ac.in/iim/pages/news/librarian.jsp Antony Jose Chief Librarian Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon --

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The Importance of Open Access, Open Source, and Open Standards for Libraries
by Mailing List Manager 26 May '05

26 May '05

Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 12:18:53 +0530 From: Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> "..Open access, open source software, and open standards are three concepts that have been receiving increased attention lately in the library world. Open access is seen by some as a possible solution to the increasing price of serials and as a way for governmental funding agencies to receive a better return on investment. Open source software can benefit libraries by lowering initial and ongoing costs, eliminating vendor lock-in, and allowing for greater flexibility. Open standards allow for interoperability to exist between diverse library resources and eases data migration between systems. All three of these concepts are important to libraries individually and they can be even more beneficial when they are leveraged simultaneously.." By Edward M. Corrado Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Spring 2005. http://www.istl.org/05-spring/article2.html ---------- Sukhdev Singh, Bibliographic Informatics Division, National Informatics Centre, A-Block, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road New Delhi

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DLIST Advisory Board and DL-Harvest Established
by Anita S. Coleman 25 May '05

25 May '05

*****Apologies for cross posting***** Name: Anita Coleman Phone: (520) 621-3565 Email: asc(a)u.arizona.edu We are pleased to announce the establishment of an Advisory Board for DLIST, Digital Library for Information Science and Technology, and delighted to invite the community to explore DL-Harvest. The members of the first DLIST Advisory Board are: Subiah Arunachalam, Distinguished Fellow, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India Julia Blixrud, Assistant Executive Director, Association for Research Libraries, Washington, DC Rachel Bower, Co-Director, The Internet Scout Project, Madison, Wisconsin Michael Gorman, Dean of Library Services, California State University, Fresno, California Birger Hjorland, Research Professor, Royal School of Library and Information Science Copenhagen, Denmark Christopher Khoo, Programme Director and Associate Professor, School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Scott Nicholson, Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York Biographical sketches of the DLIST Advisory Board members are available at http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/advisoryboard.html. The Advisory Board is helping DLIST build a dynamic public domain for the library and information professions and disciplines. DL-Harvest is a federated archive, an open aggregator service of DLIST. It brings together full-text, scholarly materials in the Information Sciences from many different OAI-PMH compliant repositories. DL-Harvest is using PKP Harvester with software improvements for flow control, sets, and advanced searching, that have been developed by DLIST Graduate Research Assistant, Joseph Roback. Besides DLIST, the current list of 11 archives harvested includes selective harvesting from ArXiV. DL-Harvest is available at http://dlharvest.sir.arizona.edu. DLIST, http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/, is a service of the School of Information Resources and Library Science and the Learning Technologies Center, University of Arizona. Seed monies for DLIST are from the University of Arizona College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Proposition 301 funded initiative of the Internet Technology Commerce and Design Institute, now the Arizona Center for Information Science and Technology. DLIST is running on EPrints2 archive-creating software, which generates eprints archives that are compliant with the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting OAI v2.0.

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Digital Libraries Program at IIM Kozhikode (July 14-16, 2005)
by mgsree＠iimk.ac.in 25 May '05

25 May '05

Dear Colleagues: I am happy to inform you that IIM Kozhikode is organizing a three-day programme on Digital Libraries at IIM Kozhikode during July 14-16, 2005. The details of the programme is available at "http://www.iimk.ac.in/digitallib.htm". Programme brochures are available on request from the MDP office of IIMK. Soft copy of the brochure is available at "http://www.iimk.ac.in/dl-2005-brochure.pdf" for downloading. The programme will impart the latest trends in digital library technologies. Eminent faculty from the fields of information science and information technology are handling the sessions. Hands on labs will be conducted at IIMK. For any further information please feel free to contact me or our MDP Office (E-Mail : mdp(a)iimk.ac.in). With regards, M.G. Sreekumar Co-ordinator, MDP on Digital Libraries M G Sreekumar Librarian & Head, Center for Development of Digital Libraries (CDDL) Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode Kunnamangalam P.O Kozhikode, Kerala, India-673 571 ----------------------------------------- Phone : +91 495 2803001/2 Ext. 140 Fax : +91 495 2803010/11 Email : mgsree(a)iimk.ac.in Web : www.iimk.ac.in ========================================= -- M G Sreekumar Librarian & Head, Center for Development of Digital Libraries (CDDL) Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode Kunnamangalam P.O Kozhikode, Kerala, India-673 571 ----------------------------------------- Phone : +91 495 2809140 Fax : +91 495 2803010/11 Email : mgsree(a)iimk.ac.in Web : www.iimk.ac.in =========================================

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Google gets personal
by Madhuresh 25 May '05

25 May '05

Google unveiled a new service on Thursday that lets users combine some of the company's internet offerings into a single package, a move that takes it closer to the portal model used by rivals such as Yahoo! and Microsoft's MSN. The new personalised Google homepage, which allows users to select elements they want to add to the pagesite, also represents the first alternative Google offers to its distinctive clutter-free search engine. Under a project labelled "Fusion", the company said the personalised homepage was part of a series of moves it was planning to bring its fast-growing range of services closer together. Until now, Google has offered each of its web services, from its news service to Gmail, on a standalone basis, rather than as part of an integrated package of services for internet users. The option to personalise web pages has already become a big draw for some other internet companies. According to comScore Networks, which measures web traffic, a quarter of the visitors to Yahoo! also visit My Yahoo!, the company's personalised service. Explaining the decision to offer an alternative to the familiar stripped-down Google web site, Marissa Mayer, director of consumer products, said that Google now offered enough "push" services of its own, which deliver information automatically to users, to make it worth aggregrating the information in a single place. Users of the new homepage, available in test form, can add boxes containing things like the latest news headlines from Google News, the latest messages received in their Gmail accounts and information supplied by Google's weather service. Google said the new service would eventually incorporate web content and services provided by other companies. Like My Yahoo!, the company said it planned to let users select "feeds" of information from other websites to display on the homepage. It also hoped to offer internet email services by other companies, though technical issues still needed to be resolved, Ms Mayer added. John Battelle, a University of California professor and author of The Search, a forthcoming book on the industry, says Google's move renders moot its previous statements about not playing in the same game as Yahoo, America Online and Microsoft. "This is tying together all their services into one, integrated interface and gives Google a platform to think strategically for the future," Battelle said. Yahoo, the Internet's most visited Web site, attracted 98.7 million users in March, according to Internet measurement service Nielsen/NetRatings. Google was No. 4, with 75.1 million users. Yahoo's MyYahoo attracted 21 million users in March, Nielsen says. Google executives spent much time Thursday talking about its mission of organizing the world's information. CEO Eric Schmidt said he looks at it as a "300-year" problem and said Google has much work to do. Google believes one big growth area is working on translating languages for Web sites. Executives showed examples of how Google is tackling that. Google Vice President Alan Eustace noted that when Google can serve all 198 languages represented in the United Nations, "It really will usher in an era when everyone will have access to all the world's information." Google showed off new 3-D mapping technology for "Google Earth," a site coming next month. It offers aerial satellite views of anywhere on the planet, similar to Google's current map product, but more detailed. "You can travel anywhere in the world now, for free," Google co-founder Sergey Brin said, in demonstrating the product. "I've never been to the Grand Canyon. But now I don't have to." The news items taken from Financial Times and USA Today. 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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MyDLIS-40th anniversary-June 24- Seminar on 'Repositioning the information profession..."
by Shalini R Urs 24 May '05

24 May '05

A personal invitation to all the alumni of the University of Mysore- Department of Library and Information Science, to participate in the 40th anniversary. For more details visit the website - www.lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in <http://www.lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in/> We look forward to your participation . --------- University of Mysore Department of Library and Information Science Manasagangotri, Mysore Seminar on repositioning the information profession for the market place June 24, 2005 (40th anniversary celebratory event) The University of Mysore embarked its library education programme by establishing the Department of Library Science on June 24, 1965. Anniversaries are moments to introspect and prospect. We have done our bit, but still have miles to go and promises to keep. We have had our share of trials, triumphs and tribulations. As a mark of its 40th year anniversary, the Department of Library and Information Science (DLIS) is celebrating its fruitful presence by organising a seminar on 'Repositioning the information profession in the market place'. The information profession is in a constant state of flux. Several factors have engendered such a scenario. Information is all pervasive and is the legitimate concern of many a discipline from anthropology to zoology. The confusion between the content and the container (McLuhian Media vs. Message) technologies is another factor. The Technology centric character has challenged the profession to adopt and adapt. Consequently, the profession of information is constantly engaged in a process of finding its niche and quite often faces competition from other claimants to the information domain. The market driven nature of the profession, places its own demands and necessitates nimble footedness in the balancing act. The present age of transformative Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has accentuated the complexity of finding the equilibrium. Given this backdrop, library schools around the world are engaged in evolving diverse strategies to confront the challenges before the LIS education. Seizing the opportunity of its 40th year anniversary celebrations, the DLIS, Mysore is organising this seminar to reflect on the issues challenging the profession and seek pointers and directions from its alumni in shaping its strategy for the future. ---- Shalini -------- 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 homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm  A personal invitation to all the alumni of the University of Mysore- Department of Library and Information Science, to participate in the 40 th anniversary. For more details visit the website – http://www.lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in/ www.lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in We look forward to your participation . � � --------- University of Mysore Department of Library and Information Science Manasagangotri, Mysore � Seminar on repositioning the information profession for the market place June 24, 2005 (40 th anniversary celebratory event) � The University of Mysore embarked its library education programme by establishing the Department of Library Science on June 24, 1965 . Anniversaries are moments to introspect and prospect. � We have done our bit, but still have miles to go and promises to keep. We have had our share of trials, triumphs and tribulations. As a mark of its 40 th year anniversary, the Department of Library and Information Science (DLIS) is celebrating its fruitful presence by organising a seminar on ‘Repositioning the information profession in the market place’. � The information profession is in a constant state of flux. Several factors have engendered such a scenario. Information is all pervasive and is the legitimate concern of many a discipline from anthropology to zoology. The confusion between the content and the container (McLuhian Media vs. Message) technologies is another factor. The Technology centric character has challenged the profession to adopt and adapt. Consequently, the profession of information is constantly engaged in a process of finding its niche and quite often faces competition from other claimants to the information domain. The market driven nature of the profession, places its own demands and necessitates nimble footedness in the balancing act. The present age of transformative Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has accentuated the complexity of finding the equilibrium. Given this backdrop, library schools around the world are engaged in evolving diverse strategies to confront the challenges before the LIS education. � Seizing the opportunity of its 40 th year anniversary celebrations, the DLIS, Mysore is organising this seminar to reflect on the issues challenging the profession and seek pointers and directions from its alumni in shaping its strategy for the future. ---- � � Shalini -------- 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 homepage:www. vidya nidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm �

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Need for focused advocacy to promote OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 24 May '05

24 May '05

Friends: Here is an item from Peter Suber's blog. Despite so much being written about open access, a very large proportion of researchers is not aware of it even in an advanced country like Germany. please read on. --- Spreading the word about OA Richard Seitmann, "Open access" is practically unknown among scientists as an alternative for publications, Heise Online, May 24, 2005. Excerpt: 'The secretary-general of the conference of deans of higher education (HRK), Christiane Ebel-Gabriel, explained today at the opening of the symposium with the title " The Future of Scientific Communication -- Open Access", which will be taking place today and tomorrow in Göttingen, that directors of institutions of higher education will have to "see ensuring access to scientific publications and research results as a strategic task much more than they currently do." Two years ago, the HRK called for a refocus of scientific publications and information exchanges in light of the crisis among journals at the time because skyrocketing subscription prices both for conventional and electronic scientific journals had been leading people to cancel their subscriptions, paradoxically making access to published research results even harder despite the Internet. "The financial pressure on the field of science continues to grow," Ebel-Gabriel explained. She regretted that the current alternatives for publication in "open access" journals and on institute servers have not been used to the full. The secretary-general quoted figures from a still unpublished study (PowerPoint file) by the German Research Society, which found that three of four scientists surveyed and more than 85% of social scientists and professors of the humanities are not aware that open access is one possibility for publication.' ---- So what is needed is focused advocacy and awareness campaigns. And some real action on the ground - I mean setting up open access archives and filling them with papers! Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Publishers Protest Google Library Project
by Mailing List Manager 24 May '05

24 May '05

Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 10:11:16 +0530 From: Farooque Shaheen <Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com> A group of academic publishers is challenging GoogleInc?s plan to scan millions of library books into its internet search engine index,highlithing fears that the ambitious project will violet copyrights and stifle future sales. In a letter scheduled to deliver to google, the Association of American University Presses described the online search engine?s library project as a troubling financial threat to its membership- 125 nonprofit publishers of academic journals and scholarly books. A full dig on this matter can be found here-- http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8A96J600.htm?campaign_id=apn_… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Temporary Vaccancy --- Bose Institute, Kolkata
by Mailing List Manager 24 May '05

24 May '05

Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 16:10:55 +0530 From: Dr. Arun K. Chakraborty <akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in> Dear Colleague This advertisement has appeared in "The Statesman" on 20th May, 2005 Bose Institute, Kolkata ADV.No.BI/Lib/Ad-hoc-Professional - 2005 The Directer, Bose Institute invites application for engaging “Library Project Assistant” in the project : “Computerization of Bose Institute Library”, under the guidance of the Librarian of the Institute, purely on temporary basis initially for a period of six months at a consolidated remuneration of Rs.5,000 (Rupees five thousand) p.m. Walk-in-interview will be held on 1st June, 2005 at 11.30 a.m. in the Committee Room, Centenary Campus of Bose Institute, P-1/12, C.I.T. Scheme VII-M, Kankurgachi, Kolkata – 700 054. Interested candidates having MLISc. / ADISc. Degree (desirable working knowledge of CDS/ISIS software or any other Library Software or experience in computerization / Digitization of Library), are requested to appear in person directly for the interview with application along with two copies of Bio- data, Xerox copies of supporting testimonials and original certificates. (Age limit – 32 yrs.) Acting Registrar Bose Institute DR. ARUN KUMAR CHAKRABORTY LIBRARIAN BOSE INSTITUTE, KOLKATA, INDIA MAIN CAMPUS : 93/1 A.P.C. ROAD, KOLKATA 700 009 INDIA PH : 91-33-2350 2402/03, 6619,6702 FAX : 91-33-2350 6790 CENTENARY CAMPUS : P1/12 CIT SCHEME - VII-M, KOLKATA 700 054 INDIA PH : 91-33-2337 9544, 9416, 9219 FAX : 91-33-2334 3886 Ph (Res) : 33-2672 1192, 3892 E-MAIL : akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in, arunchkr(a)vsnl.net.in, c_arunk(a)hotmail.com

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