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Yahoo Launches Contextual Search
by Farooque Shaheen 04 Feb '05

04 Feb '05

Yahoo is offering a new search service designed to help people find more-relevant content online. The Y!Q service (next.yahoo.com) offers "contextual" search that analyzes the page being read and gives a list of related search results. Instead of starting a search from a text box, a person would search while reading a specific page. Simply highlight relevant portions of text on the page and run a "related search," and Y!Q analyzes the page, extracts the most relevant concepts and uses those as inputs. For detail ?http://yq.search.yahoo.com/splash/start.html#news? Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor (India) Pvt Ltd. Bull Temple Road Bangalore-04 Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 Yahoo is offering a new search service designed to help people find more-relevant content online. The Y!Q service (next.yahoo.com) offers "contextual" search that analyzes the page being read and gives a list of related search results. Instead of starting a search from a text box, a person would search while reading a specific page. Simply highlight relevant portions of text on the page and run a "related search," and Y!Q analyzes the page, extracts the most relevant concepts and uses those as inputs. For detail “http://yq.search.yahoo.com/splash/start.html#news” Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor (India) Pvt Ltd. Bull Temple Road Bangalore-04 Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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NATIONAL SEMINAR ON DEVELOPMENT OP PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN INDIACALL FOR PAPERS
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 04 Feb '05

04 Feb '05

NATIONAL SEMINAR ON DEVELOPMENT OP PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN INDIACALL FOR PAPERS The City Granthalaya Samstha, Hyderabad is organizing a 3day i.e. 28 feb-2 Mar 2005 on NATIONAL SEMINAR ON DEVELOPMENT OP PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN INDIA. The sub themes are Use of IT in public libraries Impact studies such as Library legislation, RRRLF. Conservation, Preservation , Computerisation and digitization in public libraries Continuing education programs Generation of resources Development of infrastructure coordination and resource sharing among public libraries and other libraries Modernisation of public libraries Any other related / relevant topic All the professionals are requested to contribute a paper on any of the sub themes. The contributors are also requested to present their experiences and case studies, which will go a long way in sharing the knowledge as well as development of the public libraries in India. They are also requested to restrict the the paper to 3000 words. The papers may please be sent both hard copy and soft copy on or before 20 Feb 2005 to Mrs. M .Alivelu, Secretary, City Granthalaya Samstha, Ashoknagar, HYDERABAD- 500020 You may also send softcopy to naglaxman(a)yahoo.com The organizers are planning to bring out the papers in the book form, therefore, if u can send the paper with in the date, it will be possible to include them in the book. Further, the contributors should accept for editing their articles. Looking forward for better response Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com --------------------------------- How much mail storage do you get for free? Yahoo! Mail gives you 250MB! Get Yahoo! Mail NATIONAL SEMINAR ON DEVELOPMENT OP PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN INDIA CALL FOR PAPERS The City Granthalaya Samstha, Hyderabad is organizing a 3day i.e. 28 feb- 2 Mar 2005 on NATIONAL SEMINAR ON DEVELOPMENT OP PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN INDIA . The sub themes are Use of IT in public libraries Impact studies such as Library legislation, RRRLF. Conservation, Preservation , Computerisation and digitization in public libraries Continuing education programs Generation of resources Development of infrastructure coordination and resource sharing among public libraries and other libraries Modernisation of public libraries Any other related / relevant topic All the professionals are requested to contribute a paper on any of the sub themes. The contributors are also requested to present their experiences and case studies , which will go a long way in sharing the knowledge as well as development of the public libraries in India . They are also requested to restrict the the paper to 3000 words. The papers may please be sent both hard copy and soft copy on or before 20 Feb 2005 to Mrs. M .Alivelu, Secretary, City Granthalaya Samstha, Ashoknagar, HYDERABAD- 500020 You may also send softcopy to mailto:naglaxman@yahoo.com naglaxman(a)yahoo.com The organizers are planning to bring out the papers in the book form, therefore, if u can send the paper with in the date, it will be possible to include them in the book. Further, the contributors should accept for editing their articles. Looking forward for better response Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com How much mail storage do you get for free? Yahoo! Mail gives you 250MB! http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/mail/taglines/hotmail_com/storage/*http://uk.mail.ya… Get Yahoo! Mail

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Disruptive Scholarship Blog Launched
by Gerry Mckiernan 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Colleagues/ I am pleased to inform you of the creation of a New Blog devoted to the theme of my Wiki-based alternative authoring/review/publishing model I call 'Disruptive Scholarship' The Disruptive Scholarship blog is located at [ http://disruptivescholarship.blogspot.com ] The Disruptive Scholarship model is sketched in the first posting to the blog. I Welcome Any and All Comments on MyPosting(s) and Look Forward to Exploring the Future of Scholarly Communication, Review, and Publishing. [Of course, the Disruptive Scholarship Blog will in time be replaced by the Disruptive Scholarship Wiki :-)] Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Disruptive Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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NPR:'PodCasting' to Music, Talk Fans Online
by Gerry Mckiernan 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Colleagues/ Another NPR feature about Podcasting ! MUst Be A Treand! - Two Days-in-A-Row - WOW! | 'PodCasting' to Music, Talk Fans Online Listen to this story... by Robert Smith Day to Day, February 1, 2005 · NPR's Robert Smith reports on the rise of "podcasts" -- amateur music and talk shows created by the users of Apple's popular iPod personal music devices and other digital music players. Whole "shows" of music and talk can be downloaded from the Internet to individual players automatically, and some of the show hosts have become celebrities among the burgeoning podcast audience. [ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4473787 ] A (second) Opportunity for Libraries/Librarians ? /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Featured Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 23, Issue 4
by xahoor sofi 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Dear Collegues Can anybody furnish me the inormation about the expert personality on school library evelopment in India. it will be highly appreciated if the contact or Email address of the same may be mailed. xahoor_sofi(a)yahoo.co.uk zahoor_61(a)hotmail.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. Discussion forum for LIS professionals. History and number. (G. K. Manjunath) 2. Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 23, Issue 2 (monica sharma) 3. Technical Support Analysis--Position Announcement (Prafulla Chandra) 4. Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 22, Issue 25 (Lata Suresh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 13:36:25 +0530 (IST) From: "G. K. Manjunath" Subject: [LIS-Forum] Discussion forum for LIS professionals. History and number. To: Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear Friends, I would like to know, which was the world's first discussion forum to be initiated for Library and Information professionals and the year of its inception. List of readings on this topic ( History of Discussion forum for LIS professionals and total number of forums existing) will be highly appreciated. thanks in advance, g.k.manjunath ************************************************** CHIEF LIBRARIAN INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FILM CITY ROAD ( GEN.VAIDYA MARG ) SANTOSH NAGAR GOREGAON ( EAST ) MUMBAI - 400 065 INDIA e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm phone 91-22-28490653 ************************************************ ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 00:55:09 -0800 (PST) From: monica sharma Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 23, Issue 2 To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20050202085509.24511.qmail(a)web41004.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii hello one of my friends wants to study in one of the european countries.is tofel sufficient or gre also is required.are there any other criteria required? thank you --- 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: Website on Karnatak University's Question > Papers Archive > (Shalini R Urs) > 2. Manuscript Library of Calcutta University > (Farooque Shaheen) > 3. Re: Website on Karnatak University's Question > Papers > (ashish jagdish kanal) > 4. Query ! (Swati Chavare) > 5. Position at Accenture, Hyderabad > (prabhakara.prabhu(a)accenture.com) > 6. Need a Library Intern (Augustine, Doncy (HP > Labs India)) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:29:55 +0530 > From: "Shalini R Urs" > Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Website on Karnatak > University's Question > Papers Archive > To: "'santosh hulagabali'" , > > Message-ID: <001901c5078c$61fccae0$0a05a8c0@laptop> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > The hosting of question paper archive of an > University by some one else at another institution > raises the issue of > IPR. Questions papers are the intellectual assets of > that university > Has the permission been obtained from the concerned > university > authorities to host the archive ? > > 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: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On > Behalf Of santosh > hulagabali > Sent: 28 January 2005 14:46 > To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Website on Karnatak > University's Question Papers > Archive > > Dear Members, > > I have designed and hosted a website on 'Karnatak > University's Question > Papers Archive'. The website, "Question Papers > Archive", has been > specifically designed for Karnatak University's > Social Science student > community. The site comprises semester question > papers of all Social > Science departments of the university. These > question papers are > representative of Post-Graduate examination used in > the past exams. > > The site is designed in partial fulfillment of the > training programme > for > librarianship at Indira Gandhi Institute of > Development Research, > Mumbai. > > I sincerely thank Mr. G. K. Manjunath, Chief > Librarian , Mr. S. M. > Pujar, Assistant Librarian, IGIDR, Mumbai for thier > guidance and > motivation through out my project work. > > I intend to update it as frequently as possible. It > can be accessed at: > > http://qparchive.cjb.cc > > May I reqeust you all to please give your valuable > suggestions for > further improvement of the site? > > Regards, > > Santosh > > > > > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > Santosh C.Hulagabali > Library and Documentation Assistant > Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research > (IGIDR) Library > Film City Road, Gen. A. K. Vaidya Marg > Santosh Nagar, Goregaon (E) > MUMBAI -400 065 > http://www.igidr.ac.in > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life > partneronline. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:46:17 +0530 > From: Farooque Shaheen > > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Manuscript Library of Calcutta > University > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > The Manuscript Library of Calcutta University has > been identified as one > of the 22 Manuscript Resource Centres (MRC) in the > country > by the National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM). You > can access full > article on > http://www.hinduonnet.com/holnus/004200502011045.htm > > Thanks & Regards, > Farooque Shaheen, > Caritor (India) Pvt Ltd. > Bull Temple Road. > Bangalore-04, > Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 > Mobile-9342507449 > Dear Collegues Can anybody furnish me the inormation about the expert personality on school library evelopment in India. it will be highly appreciated if the contact or Email address of the same may be mailed. mailto:xahoor_sofi@yahoo.co.uk xahoor_sofi(a)yahoo.co.uk zahoor_61(a)hotmail.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. Discussion forum for LIS professionals. History and number. (G. K. Manjunath) 2. Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 23, Issue 2 (monica sharma) 3. Technical Support Analysis--Position Announcement (Prafulla Chandra) 4. Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 22, Issue 25 (Lata Suresh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 13:36:25 +0530 (IST) From: "G. K. Manjunath" Subject: [LIS-Forum] Discussion forum for LIS professionals. History and number. To: Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear Friends, I would like to know, which was the world's first discussion forum to be initiated for Library and Information professionals and the year of its inception. List of readings on this topic ( History of Discussion forum for LIS professionals and total number of forums existing) will be highly appreciated. thanks in advance, g.k.manjunath ************************************************** CHIEF LIBRARIAN INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FILM CITY ROAD ( GEN.VAIDYA MARG ) SANTOSH NAGAR GOREGAON ( EAST ) MUMBAI - 400 065 INDIA e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm phone 91-22-28490653 ************************************************ ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 00:55:09 -0800 (PST) From: monica sharma Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 23, Issue 2 To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20050202085509.24511.qmail(a)web41004.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii hello one of my friends wants to study in one of the european countries.is tofel sufficient or gre also is required.are there any other criteria required? thank you --- 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: Website on Karnatak University's Question > Papers Archive > (Shalini R Urs) > 2. Manuscript Library of Calcutta University > (Farooque Shaheen) > 3. Re: Website on Karnatak University's Question > Papers > (ashish jagdish kanal) > 4. Query ! (Swati Chavare) > 5. Position at Accenture, Hyderabad > (prabhakara.prabhu(a)accenture.com) > 6. Need a Library Intern (Augustine, Doncy (HP > Labs India)) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:29:55 +0530 > From: "Shalini R Urs" > Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Website on Karnatak > University's Question > Papers Archive > To: "'santosh hulagabali'" , > > Message-ID: <001901c5078c$61fccae0$0a05a8c0@laptop> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > The hosting of question paper archive of an > University by some one else at another institution > raises the issue of > IPR. Questions papers are the intellectual assets of > that university > Has the permission been obtained from the concerned > university > authorities to host the archive ? > > 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: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On > Behalf Of santosh > hulagabali > Sent: 28 January 2005 14:46 > To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Website on Karnatak > University's Question Papers > Archive > > Dear Members, > > I have designed and hosted a website on 'Karnatak > University's Question > Papers Archive'. The website, "Question Papers > Archive", has been > specifically designed for Karnatak University's > Social Science student > community. The site comprises semester question > papers of all Social > Science departments of the university. These > question papers are > representative of Post-Graduate examination used in > the past exams. > > The site is designed in partial fulfillment of the > training programme > for > librarianship at Indira Gandhi Institute of > Development Research, > Mumbai. > > I sincerely thank Mr. G. K. Manjunath, Chief > Librarian , Mr. S. M. > Pujar, Assistant Librarian, IGIDR, Mumbai for thier > guidance and > motivation through out my project work. > > I intend to update it as frequently as possible. It > can be accessed at: > > http://qparchive.cjb.cc > > May I reqeust you all to please give your valuable > suggestions for > further improvement of the site? > > Regards, > > Santosh > > > > > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > Santosh C.Hulagabali > Library and Documentation Assistant > Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research > (IGIDR) Library > Film City Road, Gen. A. K. Vaidya Marg > Santosh Nagar, Goregaon (E) > MUMBAI -400 065 > http://www.igidr.ac.in > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life > partneronline. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:46:17 +0530 > From: Farooque Shaheen > > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Manuscript Library of Calcutta > University > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > The Manuscript Library of Calcutta University has > been identified as one > of the 22 Manuscript Resource Centres (MRC) in the > country > by the National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM). You > can access full > article on > http://www.hinduonnet.com/holnus/004200502011045.htm > > Thanks & Regards, > Farooque Shaheen, > Caritor (India) Pvt Ltd. > Bull Temple Road. > Bangalore-04, > Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 > Mobile-9342507449 >

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 23, Issue 2 (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Dear All Kindly ignore the following message circulated on lis-forum. It just happened by sheer oversight and my due apologies! Regards -Moderator ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 00:55:09 -0800 (PST) From: monica sharma <monirsharma(a)yahoo.com> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 23, Issue 2 hello one of my friends wants to study in one of the european countries.is tofel sufficient or gre also is required.are there any other criteria required? thank you --- lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in wrote: > Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to > lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >

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MyLISA Monthly Lecture - February 2005
by SUNIL M.V. 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Dear Professional, Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (MyLISA) Invites you for A Seminar on �Intellectual Property Rights in Cyberspace� By Prof. C.S. Somu Professor of Business Law SDM Institute for Management Development, Mysore. on 5th February 2005 at 4.00pm VENUE Vidyanidhi Seminar Hall Department of Library and Information Science Manasagangotri, University of Mysore Mysore - 570 005 MyLISA --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term' Dear Professional, � Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (MyLISA) � Invites you for � A Seminar on �Intellectual Property Rights in Cyberspace� � By �� Prof. C.S. Somu Professor of Business Law SDM Institute for Management Development, Mysore. � on 5th February 2005 at 4.00pm � VENUE Vidyanidhi Seminar Hall Department of Library and Information Science Manasagangotri, University of Mysore Mysore - 570 005 MyLISA � �� Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=30648/*http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/ji… Jib Jab's 'Second Term'

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NCSI-NET: Talk on Scholarly Publishing by Prof. Jean-Claude Guedon, 5th February 2005, 11.15 AM
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

NCSI-NET (Network of Alumni and Staff of NCSI, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) Cordially invites you to a talk on SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING: (Current developments and issues related to Open Access Publishing and Institutional Repositories) By Prof. Jean-Claude Guedon Department of Comparative Literature University of Montreal Montreal, Canada On 5th February 2005 (Saturday) Time: 11.15 A.M. Venue: NCSI Lecture Hall, NCSI, IISc Coffee: 10.45 11.15 A.M. RSVP: Mr. Madhuresh Singhal (madhuresh_s(a)aurigene.com) or Mr. T.S. Prasanna (t.s.prasanna(a)intel.com), NCSI-Net Coordinators ----------------------------------------- ABOUT THE SPEAKER Jean-Claude Guédon holds his doctorate in the History of Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and is currently Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Montreal. He is also member of the Information Sub-Board of the Open Society Institute. He became interested in electronic publishing in the late '80's when he began thinking about what an electronic journal would be like. Thanks to help from Apple Canada, his University and several granting agencies, he was able to launch the first Canadian scholarly e-Journal, Surfaces, in the Fall of 1991. Prof. Guedons interest in both theoretical and practical issues regarding electronic publishing has led him to produce numerous papers on the subject as well as to present at conferences worldwide. He has been actively engaged in projects pushing the boundaries of scholarly communication including serving on the steering committees of the Canadian National Site Licensing Project and the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. He has lectured extensively on related topics in various seminars and meetings organized by prestigious agencies including the National Library of Medicine, Association of Research Libraries, Open Society Institute, IFLA, Society of Scholarly Publishers, OCED-IMHE, and so on. He is widely identified with the open archive philosophy, but also with calls to revise the evaluation process of scientific papers and has tried to help SPARC's battle to create change and competition. In December 2001, Prof. Guedon was invited by the Soros Foundation to participate in the meeting that has given rise to the Budapest open access initiative (http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml). His other areas of interest include the Internet and the relationship between arts and technology. He has written several publications in French in this area and one of his books La Planète Cyber. Internet et cyberespace, published in Paris by Gallimard in 1996, has been a minor best seller in the French-speaking world. Some related publications by Prof. Guedon: "The Green and Gold Roads to Open Access: The Case for Mixing and Matching". Serials Review. Volume 30, No. 4, December 2004, Pages 257-381. (doi:10.1016/j.serrev.2004.09.005) In Oldenburgs Long Shadow: Librarians, Research Scientists, Publishers, and the Control of Scientific Publishing(Presented in the May 2001 ARL Membership Meeting) (http://www.arl.org/arl/proceedings/138/guedon.html) ------------------------------------------------------------- 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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AMRITA COLLOQUIUM ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES (ACDL-2005)
by JK Vijayakumar 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

AMRITA COLLOQUIUM ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES (ACDL-2005) on 5th February 2005 at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham- Deemed University, Coimbatore, India For more details visit http://www.amrita.edu/acdl/ Introduction Digital Libraries (DL) offer unlimited potential, where the rapid application of digital technologies to generate, modify, replicate and search information has resulted in dramatic growth in the quantum of digital information. Digital resources are being created, as the technology available at an affordable cost to the libraries. Building-up digital collection and infrastructure required to access them is a challenge that every library has to deal with today. As an Amrita University Initiative through Amrita Colloquium on Digital Libraries - 2005 (ACDL-2005), we would like to introduce different experiences in DL technologies and managing the Digital Collection in Libraries. Each Panelist will present their experiences on Creation and Management of Digital Libraries and E-Resources. After each presentation, participants will get enough time to interact with the panelists. Participation to ACDL-2005 is open for Librarians, Assistant Librarians and Information Science professionals at a nominal fee of Rs. 100/- Registration is based on first come first serve and whoever interested have to contact the organizers by e-mail or post with their name, affiliation and other contact details, on or before 3 February, 2005. Panelists Dr Erdmute Lapp, Bochum University, Germany Prof Edward Proctor, South West Missouri University, USA Dr Tamara Pianos, University of Hanover, Germany Dr Harish Chandra, IIT Madras, India Dr P Pichappan, Annamalai University, India Mr. M.G. Sreekumar, IIM Kozhikode, India Contact Coordinator - ACDL 2005 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai, Coimbatore - 641 105 Phone: 91-422-2656422 Fax: 91-422-2656274 E-Mail: pr(a)amrita.edu Web: www.amrita.edu/acdl __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 22, Issue 25
by Lata Suresh 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Try this it works !!! 3. If you want to increase your hotmail space to 25 MB first and then to 250 MB. (Jay H) Jayadev P Hiremath, Librarian, IBS, Kuwait has shared a very good information. In case you are in hurry you can do this otherwise you can wait till May 2005. Microsooft/Hotmail is planning to provide 250MB space to rest of the world as well. Hope they should be able to provide this till May-2005.I am sorry to rush email in your account. 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RE: Information/Sources on Orphans in India required (Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com) 2. re:International Workshop on Digital Resources Management, February 11, 2005, at M.S Ramaiah Institute of management Bangalore-560054 (shivaraj) 3. If you want to increase your hotmail space to 25 MB first and then to 250 MB. (Jay H) 4. _Free/OpenSource /LowCost Journal Management Software?_ Part II (Gerry Mckiernan) 5. Additions to WikiBibliography (Gerry Mckiernan) 6. http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=6791 (Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com) 7. Website on Karnatak University's Question Papers Archive (santosh hulagabali) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:25:59 +0530 From: <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Information/Sources on Orphans in India required To: <pranjals(a)mastek.com> Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <DBF3A0D52B21954A91869AF702D1A32C083B64(a)ikpex01.ikp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" My recent experiences with Mr Sanjay Bapat and www.indianngos.com has been very disappointing-- they just do not bother to respond queries! Vyasamoorthy, P -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of pranjals(a)mastek.com Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:20 AM To: salman_38h(a)rediffmail.com Cc: Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Information/Sources on Orphans in India required Hi Salman NGOs will be in a position to give you this information You can visit http://www.indianngos.com/ and can contact Sanjay Bapat Sanjay(a)IndianNGOs.com Regards, Pranjal Sule Assistant Manager- Information Repository Mastek Ltd Tel.No. 55914662 -----Original Message----- From: salman haider [mailto:salman_38h@rediffmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:56 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Information/Sources on Orphans in India required Dear All, I am preparing a social welfare business plan. As part of this plan, I require reports/details of the areas mentioned below. Could you please assist? 1) Demographic profile of orphans in India 2) Profiling of orphanages in India - in terms of total estimated orphanages, average number of inmates, expenses incurred per inmate etc. In the second topic, I am basically trying to understand the demand and supply details, how well on an average these orphans are cared for etc. Thanks a lot. Salman Salman Haider Consultant Learning Resource Centre Indian School of Business Hyderabad-19 Mail: salman_haider(a)isb.edu Phone (Office Desk): 040-23187962 _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 04:33:53 -0800 (PST) From: shivaraj <cshivaraj(a)yahoo.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] re:International Workshop on Digital Resources Management, February 11, 2005, at M.S Ramaiah Institute of management Bangalore-560054 To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20050128123353.86714.qmail(a)web13827.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Please put plain text message of the following...attchment is not downloadable... --- M S RAMAIAH INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT MSRIT Post New BEL Road Bangalore-560054 E-mail: msriml@rediffmail.com,msrim@vsnl.com Phone: 080-23608230,23606909 Fax-08023601947 In association with Digital Information Research Foundation # 2 Srinivasa Moorthy Avenue Chenni-600020 Phone;080-23355204,9845872417 E-Mail: Chandrappas(a)yahoo.com Dear Member Sub: International Workshop on Digital Resources Management, February 11, 2005, at M.S Ramaiah Institute of management Bangalore-560054 This workshop is specially designed for the librarians/ Information specialists, computer specialists. About the workshop : Information availability in digital form has been increasing quite rapidly in the last few years. In practice we have to deal with many types of digital documents such as text-based word-processed documents, e-mail messages, spreadsheets, presentations, scanned image documents, website (hypertext) documents, multimedia documents, digital audio and video, and dynamically interlinked documents. Increasing availability of various types documents currently tend to blur the boundaries between types of stored information, and increase the problems of capturing and retaining all elements of files. Digital information overload is the recent phenomena and people have been working to evolve suitable mechanism to address this issue. We do not currently have universal standard in digital information management however guidelines are available based on best practices. The virtual archives of the future will be maintained not through accessioning, preservation and provision of on-site access to information, but through the control of information about stored information, and its use to ensure relation, disposition and access. Course Contents: · E-information transaction and resources · E-mail discussion forums, list servers, group mails, and professional discussion lists · Digital information archiving · Customization and personalization of digital resources · Digital access management · Digital resources for e-learning · Digital resources processing, metadata and intelligent search and so on. · Integrating web resources in digital library Workshop Expert: Prof. Edward Proctor, Associate Professor in Library and Information Science, South West Missouri State University, USA Registration and Participation: The workshop can accommodate maximum of 30 participants only. Registration Fee: Rs. 500/- per Participant. Interested Members confirm your participation by E-mail, Fax or Phone before 7th Feb 2005, along with DD/cheque/cash for Rs. 500/- favouring M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Management, payable at Bangalore. The workshop fee includes working lunch and course materials. Thanking you Yours truly, Janardhana Rao Dr. S Chandrappa Librarian Organizing Secretary MSRIM Mobile: 9880021875 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term'

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Technical Support Analysis--Position Announcement
by Prafulla Chandra 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Position Announcement NISC Export Services (NES) Private Limited invites applications for positions of TECHNICAL SUPPORT ANALYST in its Technical Support Department. NES and its affiliates together comprise one of the foremost database access, production and publishing companies in the world. NESs 100+ database products, published online (BiblioLine) or on CD-ROM (NISC DISCover) and print, cover most areas of the universe of knowledgearts & humanities, earth sciences, environment, social sciences, life sciences and technology. Based in Hyderabad, the successful candidate will handle, using latest information and communication technologies, queries pertaining to technical support received from customers all over the world. NES is looking for candidates who have at least a Masters degree in English, Mass Communication, Journalism or any related subject. Candidates with MPhil or PhD degree in the relevant subject would be preferred. Good typing skills are required as the working environment involves online computer use for access to offices worldwide. In addition, the candidates should possess the ability --to communicate in a formal, clear, empathetic and pleasant style, with excellent command of written and spoken English. --to handle a wide variety of modern communication media in a professional manner, conforming to standards of international business communication with respect to etiquette and pronunciation. --to understand and answer, with speed and accuracy, technical queries from customers. --to maintain good public relations with customers, both actual and potential. --to collect, organize, store and deliver information resources required for technical support. --to enjoy interactions with customers hailing from diverse national backgrounds and serve them in a most user-friendly manner. --If you are not a resident of Hyderabad and are willing to relocate, please indicate that at the top of your resume. Apart from on-job training inputs, NES provides a comfortable, pleasant and enjoyable work environment with bright career prospects and exciting opportunities to realize ones potentialities. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. NES considers applications from candidates who had appeared for examinations and awaiting announcement of results, Please submit a letter of application, resume, and names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of three references to: The Managing Director NISC Export Services Co. Pvt. Ltd. 3rd Floor, Ballad Estates, St. Anns Road, Tarnaka Hyderabad 500 017 Email: hrd(a)nisc.co.in Phone: +91 40 27001517 For more info about NISC, please visit www.nisc.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 23, Issue 2
by monica sharma 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

hello one of my friends wants to study in one of the european countries.is tofel sufficient or gre also is required.are there any other criteria required? thank you --- 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: Website on Karnatak University's Question > Papers Archive > (Shalini R Urs) > 2. Manuscript Library of Calcutta University > (Farooque Shaheen) > 3. Re: Website on Karnatak University's Question > Papers > (ashish jagdish kanal) > 4. Query ! (Swati Chavare) > 5. Position at Accenture, Hyderabad > (prabhakara.prabhu(a)accenture.com) > 6. Need a Library Intern (Augustine, Doncy (HP > Labs India)) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:29:55 +0530 > From: "Shalini R Urs" <shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in> > Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Website on Karnatak > University's Question > Papers Archive > To: "'santosh hulagabali'" <santoshlib(a)yahoo.co.in>, > <LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Message-ID: <001901c5078c$61fccae0$0a05a8c0@laptop> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > The hosting of question paper archive of an > University by some one else at another institution > raises the issue of > IPR. Questions papers are the intellectual assets of > that university > Has the permission been obtained from the concerned > university > authorities to host the archive ? > > 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: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On > Behalf Of santosh > hulagabali > Sent: 28 January 2005 14:46 > To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Website on Karnatak > University's Question Papers > Archive > > Dear Members, > > I have designed and hosted a website on 'Karnatak > University's Question > Papers Archive'. The website, "Question Papers > Archive", has been > specifically designed for Karnatak University's > Social Science student > community. The site comprises semester question > papers of all Social > Science departments of the university. These > question papers are > representative of Post-Graduate examination used in > the past exams. > > The site is designed in partial fulfillment of the > training programme > for > librarianship at Indira Gandhi Institute of > Development Research, > Mumbai. > > I sincerely thank Mr. G. K. Manjunath, Chief > Librarian , Mr. S. M. > Pujar, Assistant Librarian, IGIDR, Mumbai for thier > guidance and > motivation through out my project work. > > I intend to update it as frequently as possible. It > can be accessed at: > > http://qparchive.cjb.cc > > May I reqeust you all to please give your valuable > suggestions for > further improvement of the site? > > Regards, > > Santosh > > > > > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > Santosh C.Hulagabali > Library and Documentation Assistant > Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research > (IGIDR) Library > Film City Road, Gen. A. K. Vaidya Marg > Santosh Nagar, Goregaon (E) > MUMBAI -400 065 > http://www.igidr.ac.in > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life > partneronline. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:46:17 +0530 > From: Farooque Shaheen > <Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Manuscript Library of Calcutta > University > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: > > <OFC5ABACCE.B75C506D-ON65256F9B.001C3253-65256F9B.001D7B24(a)notes.caritor.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > The Manuscript Library of Calcutta University has > been identified as one > of the 22 Manuscript Resource Centres (MRC) in the > country > by the National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM). You > can access full > article on > http://www.hinduonnet.com/holnus/004200502011045.htm > > Thanks & Regards, > Farooque Shaheen, > Caritor (India) Pvt Ltd. > Bull Temple Road. > Bangalore-04, > Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 > Mobile-9342507449 >

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Discussion forum for LIS professionals. History and number.
by G. K. Manjunath 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Dear Friends, I would like to know, which was the world's first discussion forum to be initiated for Library and Information professionals and the year of its inception. List of readings on this topic ( History of Discussion forum for LIS professionals and total number of forums existing) will be highly appreciated. thanks in advance, g.k.manjunath ************************************************** CHIEF LIBRARIAN INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FILM CITY ROAD ( GEN.VAIDYA MARG ) SANTOSH NAGAR GOREGAON ( EAST ) MUMBAI - 400 065 INDIA e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm phone 91-22-28490653 ************************************************

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IATLIS Conferences
by ravija srivastava 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Can you please provide me with the detailed information on IATLIS annual confrences, especially the next two, if planned as yet, as regards the following details: 1.dates 2.venue 3.theme 4.subtopics With due regards Ravija Srivastava Lecturer DLISc, Univ. of Mumbai, Mumbai. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com � � Can you please provide me with the detailed information on IATLIS annual confrences, especially the next two, if planned as yet, as regards the following details: � 1.dates 2.venue 3.theme 4.subtopics � With due regards Ravija Srivastava Lecturer DLISc, Univ. of Mumbai, Mumbai. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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by Appasaheb Naikal 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

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Disruptive Scholarship
by Gerry Mckiernan 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Disruptive Scholarship As defined by the Wikipedia, "[a] disruptive technology is a lower performance or less expensive product or process that gains a foothold in the low end, less demanding part of an existing market, and then successively moves up-market through performance improvements until finally displacing the market incumbents. Disruptive technologies are usually introduced to the market by small startup enterprises." The term Disruptive Technology was coined by Clayton M. Christensen and described in his 1997 book The Innovator's Dilemma. [MORE] [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_technology ] In considering the nature of the Wiki [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki ] and the increasing range of applications [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/WikiBib.htm ], I have begun to speculate further about the Wiki as *the* platform for The Next Generation e-Journal [ http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/0408/0173.html ] and the transformation of the review process. I hereby invite Any and All of my Web Colleagues to Critically Review the scenarios outlined below in which I sketch the probable future [:-)] of scholarly communication, review, and publishing ['Disruptive Scholarship'] in the WikiWorld. Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Disruptive Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu Presented for Your Consideration: In view of its collaborative features and functionalities, and the nature and character of alternative methods of quality management outlined, the wiki environment (McKiernan 2005) could provide an outstanding framework for preparing, editing, reviewing, assessing, and publishing for a range of scholarly work, including manuscripts, articles, journals, and monographs (Guest 2003). In one possible wiki-based publication scenario, authors would prepare a manuscript draft using locally-installed wiki engine software (or a free or commercial wiki service) that best suits their needs or preferences. In a first stage review, colleagues would be invited to participate in a review of the draft. At this stage, the author can choose to allow first-stage reviewers to edit the text, or limit participation to a discussion space. At a second stage, known specialists in the field(s) covered by the manuscript could be invited to review the revised first stage version. As in the first stage review, second stage reviewers would be granted open permission to edit the manuscript text, or be restricted to commenting on its content. At a third - and perhaps final stage - the author could request that others (such members of a professional electronic discussion list) review and edit and/or comment on the new, revised version. After final review, the revised final stage version could be locked from future discussion or editing. The locking of the final version could constitute formal publication of the work. Alternatively, the author/editor in chief at some later time could unlock the published version and invite any reader to discuss and/or edit it, thereby creating a 'living', dynamic, potentially ever-changing-and improving document by doing so. In this general scenario, there would be no editorial evaluation or judgment of the initial or subsequent versions of an original manuscript by an editor or editorial board; at each stage, the author would serve as both author and editor in chief, and ultimately as publisher of his/her work. The significance and value of the work would be based on a variety of metrics that could include a matrix of such measures as citation pattern, linking volume, and access statistics (McKiernan 2004). REFERENCES David G. Guest, "Four Futures for Scientific and Medical Publishing. It's a Wiki Wiki World," BMJ 326 (April 26, 2003): 932. Available at <http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/326/7395/932/a> (9 January 2005). Gerry McKiernan, "Peer Review in the Internet Age: Five (5) Easy Pieces," Against the Grain 16, no. 3 (June 2004): 50, 52-55. Self-archived at [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/FiveEasyPieces.pdf ](8 January 8, 2005). Gerry McKiernan, "SandBox(sm). WikiBibliography," January 6, 2005 [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/WikiBib.htm ] (9 January 2005).

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NPR:Personal Radio Via Podcasting Grows More Popular
by Gerry Mckiernan 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Colleagues/ Great Overview of Podcasting with Great Links! Opportunities for Libraries/Librarians? /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Coded Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu Personal Radio Via Podcasting Grows More Popular [ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4472935 ] All Things Considered, January 31, 2005 · Adam Curry, the former MTV VJ, is the star of a new broadcasting medium. His show, Daily Source Code, claims some 50,000 listeners -- but can't be heard on the traditional airwaves. Instead, it's a podcast, so-called because it's delivered via the Internet directly to iPods and other personal listening devices. The podcast pushes the range of personal online rantings to something close to an international radio broadcast. And as NPR's Nathan Santamaria reports, the quality is low, but the hopes are high. Selected Podcasts * Adam Curry's Daily Source Code * Michael W. Geoghegan's Reel Reviews * The Whole Truth: 'The New Testament in a Year' * The Dawn and Drew Show (Note: Adult Content May be Offensive to Some Listeners) * Mr. X's Morning Commute * Grape Radio: 'Sharing a Tremendous Enthusiasm for Wine' * Coverville: 'The Best and Worst of Cover Songs' Public Radio Podcasts * NPR's 'On the Media' * WGBH's 'Morning Stories' * American Public Media's 'Future Tense' * American Public Media's 'Weekend America' * Public Radio Exchange * 'Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything' * 'Democracy Now'

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Need a Library Intern
by Augustine, Doncy (HP Labs India) 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Hello All, HP Labs India is looking for a library intern for a one month project. The candidate should be familiar with computer applications and capable of handling modern tools and techniques. We prefer freshers from library/information science domain with very good communication skills. If anyone is looking for a project for their students, this would be ideal. A stipend will be given as per industry standards. Candidates may please send their resumes to doncy(a)hp.com. Thanks Doncy _____________________________________________ HP Labs India, 24, Salarpuria Arena, Hosur Main Road, Adugodi Bangalore - 560 030 E-Mail: doncy(a)hp.com URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/india/ Hello All, � HP Labs India�is looking for a library intern for a one month�project. The candidate should be familiar with computer applications�and capable of handling modern tools and techniques. We prefer freshers from library/information science domain with very good communication skills.�If anyone�is�looking for a project for their students, this would be ideal.�A stipend will be given as per industry standards. � Candidates may please send their resumes to mailto:doncy@hp.com doncy(a)hp.com . � Thanks � Doncy _____________________________________________ HP Labs India, 24, Salarpuria Arena, Hosur Main Road, Adugodi Bangalore - 560 030 � E-Mail: mailto:doncy@hp.com doncy(a)hp.com URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/india/ http://www.hpl.hp.com/india/ � �

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Position at Accenture, Hyderabad
by prabhakara.prabhu＠accenture.com 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Accenture Services, Hyderabad has an opening for the position of an Associate-Information Resource Centre on contract basis. Salary to commensurate with qualification and experience. Qualification / Job Requirements: B.Sc with D.L.I.Sc/B.L.I.Sc/M.L.I.Sc in Library & Information Science, 6 months - 2 years work experience, a passion for customers/library users, resourceful abilities,teamwork and good communication skills. Preference be given to persons with IT and global exposure. The job will require: -- Book procurement, cataloging, circulation -- Managing magazines and online databases resources -- Providing Document Delivery Service (DDS) -- Provide Reference & Referral Service -- Computer Skills: Scanning, OCR, MS Office Tools, Web based searches,Web & Associated technologies Interested candidates may send their updated CV to me by 3.00PM Wednesday, 2nd February 2005. Best Regards ********************************************************** Prabhakara Prabhu Lead - Information Resource Centre Accenture - India Delivery Centres Bangalore Phone: +91- 80- 5138 4718 Email: prabhakara.prabhu(a)accenture.com *********************************************************** This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited.

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Query !
by Swati Chavare 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Dear All, Looking for the following articles : 1) Business Today : India's Best Business Schools : 12th OCt 2003 Pg : 44-108. 2) Business India : 29th Sept - 12th Oct 2003. In this was looking for article Quality Quest : Pg 57-132. Would be highly obliged if anyone cud send me the articles. With Regards Swati Corporate Librarian Radhakrishna Foodland Pvt Ltd Radhakrishna House, Majiwade Village Rd, Majiwade, Thane - 400 601. 55986364(O) Dear All, Looking for the following articles : 1) Business Today : India's Best Business School s : 12th OCt 2003 Pg : 44-108. 2) Business India : 29th Sept - 12th Oct 2003. In this was looking for article Quality Quest : Pg 57-132. Would be highly obliged if anyone cud send me the articles. With Regards Swati Corporate Librarian Radhakrishna Foodland Pvt Ltd Radhakrishna House, Majiwade Village Rd, Majiwade, Thane - 400 601. 55986364(O)

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Re: Website on Karnatak University's Question Papers
by ashish jagdish kanal 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Dear Santosh, Let me first wish u all the best for ur endeavor. As it is u are working under one of the best guidance of Mr. G. K. Manjunath, Chief Librarian & Mr. S. M. Pujar, Assistant Librarian. I would like to suggest some points which I hope will be of help u in ur website development & give a professional touch to it: 1. The color coordination of all the pages should be consistent (inclusive of the Title, Tables, etc). The acknowledgement, contact & request page looks entirely diff. than the rest of the website. 2. In the contacts page u can add the links of the other portions of ur site (About Karnataka University, Social Science faculty, etc). 3. With regards to the Quotes (its a nice idea), but all the pages should be having one and better still if u can link with some website from where u can get the Quotes automatically updated, try out http://www.quotationspage.com/yourpage.html . 4. W.r.t copyright year u should put it in all the pages, better while making diff. pages for the site make a model page and keep just changing the content and the requisite links only (P.s.: this will save a lot of time and energy and will also give a consistent look to ur web pages). 5. There is a lot of space left vacant near the bottom of ur pages, just scrape the vacant space and try to cover the page in a way that will give it a more professional look. 6. Its a tendency of us information professionals to either go in for very subdued colors or very bright colors, (correct me if Iam wrong), but when a person visits a site he/she is basically attracted to the sites which have proper color coordination. Very subdued ones gives it a dull feel and very bright ones irritates the patron to the level that he/she cannot sustain to browse through the web pages for long because of the eye strain. Better go in for colors which give a pleasant feel as well as are sober and less strain to the eyes. 7. Regular updating of the website is the key aspect of making the efforts borne fruitful. I am submitting some of my suggestions over here if, any suggestions are there please update me too (for all my fellow professionals). Heres wishing u all the very best again Santosh for ur website development. Best Regards, Ashish J. Kanal -----------------------------------------------------------------------Ashish J. Kanal Librarian Heavy Water Plant (Baroda) Department of Atomic Energy Mob: 09327220940 Dear Santosh, Let me first wish u all the best for ur endeavor. As it is u are working under one of the best guidance of Mr. G. K. Manjunath, Chief Librarian & Mr. S. M. Pujar, Assistant Librarian. I would like to suggest some points which I hope will be of help u in ur website development & give a professional touch to it: 1. The color coordination of all the pages should be consistent (inclusive of the Title, Tables, etc). The acknowledgement, contact & request page looks entirely diff. than the rest of the website. 2. In the contacts page u can add the links of the other portions of ur site (About Karnataka University, Social Science faculty, etc). 3. With regards to the Quotes (its a nice idea), but all the pages should be having one and better still if u can link with some website from where u can get the Quotes automatically updated, try out http://www.quotationspage.com/yourpage.html . 4. W.r.t copyright year u should put it in all the pages, better while making diff. pages for the site make a model page and keep just changing the content and the requisite links only (P.s.: this will save a lot of time and energy and will also give a consistent look to ur web pages). 5. There is a lot of space left vacant near the bottom of ur pages, just scrape the vacant space and try to cover the page in a way that will give it a more professional look. 6. Its a tendency of us information professionals to either go in for very subdued colors or very bright colors, (correct me if Iam wrong), but when a person visits a site he/she is basically attracted to the sites which have proper color coordination. Very subdued ones gives it a dull feel and very bright ones irritates the patron to the level that he/she cannot sustain to browse through the web pages for long because of the eye strain. Better go in for colors which give a pleasant feel as well as are sober and less strain to the eyes. 7. Regular updating of the website is the key aspect of making the efforts borne fruitful. I am submitting some of my suggestions over here if, any suggestions are there please update me too (for all my fellow professionals). Heres wishing u all the very best again Santosh for ur website development. Best Regards, Ashish J. Kanal -----------------------------------------------------------------------Ashish J. Kanal Librarian Heavy Water Plant (Baroda) Department of Atomic Energy Mob: 09327220940 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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Manuscript Library of Calcutta University
by Farooque Shaheen 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

The Manuscript Library of Calcutta University has been identified as one of the 22 Manuscript Resource Centres (MRC) in the country by the National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM). You can access full article on http://www.hinduonnet.com/holnus/004200502011045.htm Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor (India) Pvt Ltd. Bull Temple Road. Bangalore-04, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 The Manuscript Library of Calcutta University has been identified as one of the 22 Manuscript Resource Centres (MRC) in the country �by the National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM). You can access full article on � http://www.hinduonnet.com/holnus/004200502011045.htm Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor (India) Pvt Ltd. Bull Temple Road. Bangalore-04, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Website on Karnatak University's Question Papers Archive
by santosh hulagabali 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

Dear Members, I have designed and hosted a website on 'Karnatak University's Question Papers Archive'. The website, "Question Papers Archive", has been specifically designed for Karnatak University's Social Science student community. The site comprises semester question papers of all Social Science departments of the university. These question papers are representative of Post-Graduate examination used in the past exams. The site is designed in partial fulfillment of the training programme for librarianship at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai. I sincerely thank Mr. G. K. Manjunath, Chief Librarian , Mr. S. M. Pujar, Assistant Librarian, IGIDR, Mumbai for thier guidance and motivation through out my project work. I intend to update it as frequently as possible. It can be accessed at: http://qparchive.cjb.cc May I reqeust you all to please give your valuable suggestions for further improvement of the site? Regards, Santosh * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Santosh C.Hulagabali Library and Documentation Assistant Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) Library Film City Road, Gen. A. K. Vaidya Marg Santosh Nagar, Goregaon (E) MUMBAI -400 065 http://www.igidr.ac.in Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Members, I have designed and hosted a website on 'Karnatak University's Question Papers Archive'. The website, "Question Papers Archive", has been specifically designed for Karnatak University's Social Science student community. The site comprises semester question papers of all Social Science departments of the university. These question papers are representative of Post-Graduate examination used in the past exams. The site is designed in partial fulfillment of the training programme for librarianship at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai. I sincerely thank Mr. G. K. Manjunath, Chief Librarian , Mr. S. M. Pujar, Assistant Librarian, IGIDR, Mumbai for thier guidance and motivation through out my project work. I intend to update it as frequently as possible. It can be accessed at: http://qparchive.cjb.cc/ http://qparchive.cjb.cc May I reqeust you all to please give your valuable suggestions for further improvement of the site? Regards, Santosh * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Santosh C.Hulagabali Library and Documentation Assistant Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) Library Film City Road, Gen. A. K. Vaidya Marg Santosh Nagar, Goregaon (E) MUMBAI -400 065 http://www.igidr.ac.in/ http://www.igidr.ac.in http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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For introverted Librarians
by Jay H 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

Public Speaking Handbook for Librarians and Information Professionals by Sarah R. Statz Paperback: 175 pages Publisher: McFarland & Company (July, 2003) ISBN: 0786415460 US $ 39.95 Editorial Reviews >From Booklist "One of the core competencies for librarians today is communication skills." This quotation from Maggie Weaver opens Statz's book. In two sections, "The Speaking Process" and "The Speaking Environment," Statz shares her own and others' experiences with public-speaking interaction. She does not promise to make it easy but rather to help librarians find their own voices. "The Speaking Process" is a textbook of the principles of preparation and delivery. These chapters focus on listening as well as speaking. "The Speaking Environment" discusses specific situations such as interviewing, instruction, meetings, and presentations. Appendixes of professional interviews, software tips, and bibliographic references make this a book that could be used in a teaching situation or as a reference for the professional shelf in any library. RBB Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Product Description: Now more than ever, librarians need good communication skills. They are no longer unseen collectors, classifiers, and cultural guardians. Information professionals are doing more public speaking at conferences, in meetings, classes, book talks and countless other situations, but many of them dislike, even fear, the thought of getting up in front of a group of people and giving a presentation. Librarians and other information professionals can find in this work help in overcoming their hesitation. Part one offers basic principles for better speech preparation and delivery, discussing such topics as the importance of good listening skills to being a good speaker, doing the necessary research beforehand, applying organizational skills to a presentation, engaging an audience, practicing a presentation before actually giving it, and putting oneself at ease, among others. Part Two discusses the specific situations in which librarians often have to communicate, including interviews, interpersonal communication, library instruction, meetings and presentations to large groups. Reviews : Sarah Statz's Public Speaking Handbook for Librarians and Information Professionals is a terrific resource for any librarian who counts workshops, book talks, bibliographic instruction, story times, presentations, or discussion groups among their job responsibilities. It is also a useful tool for any library employee seeking to improve their day-to-day interactions with library users. This well-written handbook is divided into two distinctive parts. The first part provides basic strategies and suggestions suitable for anyone preparing to speak before a group. The second section focuses specifically on the world of library professionals and the situations in which improved public speaking skills can positively impact self-representation as well as the quality of service provided in the library. I found that the author's enthusiasm for the topic, keen sense of humor, conversational writing style, and well-researched approach make this handbook uniquely enjoyable to read. A busy professional will also appreciate the practical length of the book, the nicely annotated suggestions for further reading (included with many of the chapters), and "The Speaker's Bookshelf" in the appendices. It is clear that the author has carefully done her research and applied it to her own experience working in the library world. As a public librarian, I have referred to this book many times and have always found it to be useful. I believe that any library professional will find this handbook to be an asset to their personal reference shelf.

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http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=6791
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

This source might interest members if the Forum. Extract from the above cited web page: District level forecasts of meteorological parameters(maximum/minimum temperature, wind speed and direction, rainfall, humidity fields, surface pressure field etc.) will be put by the Centre on its web site www.ncmrwf.gov.in for the benefit of general public and different sectors of economy shall be launched by him. There has been a pressing demand for such a product for quite some time. =================== 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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Additions to WikiBibliography
by Gerry Mckiernan 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

Colleagues/ I am pleased to announce that _WikiBibliography_ ,my Web-based bibliography of significant works about wikis and their uses and application, has now surpassed the 50 entries point! _WikiBibliography_ is located at [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/WikiBib.htm ] In most cases, citations are linked to their respective full-text sources. Among the notable recent additions (and links) are significant theses, technical sites, and reports from TheCorporateWorld. As Always, nominations of additional quality/substantive citations/sources are Most Welcome! Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan 50+ Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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_Free/OpenSource /LowCost Journal Management Software?_ Part II
by Gerry Mckiernan 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

Colleagues/ In addition to the two Free/OpenSource /LowCost Journal Management = Software/Systems I noted in a previous posting, namely _epress_ [ = http://www.epress.ac.uk/ ] and _Open Journal Systems_=20 [ http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/ojs/ ], I was reminded of a third, notably DPubS = (Digital Publishing System) developed by specialists at the Cornell = University Library with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation [ = http://dpubs.org/ ] =20 An overview article by Terry Ehling, Director of Electronic Publishing at = Cornell University Library, appeared in the December 2004 _ARL Bimonthly Report_ (237):=20 "The Development of an Open Source Publishing System at Cornell and Penn = State Universities" [ http://www.arl.org/newsltr/237/opensource.html ] With additional support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and=20 "In collaboration with the Pennsylvania State University, Cornell will = enhance and extend the DPubS software, which was developed to deliver = Project Euclid, also a Mellon Foundation-supported scholarly communications= initiative. Project Euclid supports cost efficient distribution of serial = literature in mathematics and statistics, and now DPubS will be enhanced = and released as a general-purpose publishing platform for scholarly = literature in diverse fields. It will support peer review, have extensive = administrative functionality, and will provide interoperability with open = source repository systems such as Fedora* and DSpace*.=20 [ http://dpubs.org/ ] Thanks Charles et al. for reminding me about DPubS! BTW: Project Euclid, which I reviewed in _The Charleston Advisor_ last = July, uses=20 a version of the DPubS software "Project Euclid: Mathematics and Statistics Journals" [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/ProjectEuclid.pdf ] Regards,=20 /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and=20 Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer Iowa State University Library=20 Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu =20

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Fwd: Re: Wales university ousting librarians
by Smita Chandra 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

Hello ! Some food for thought and action.... For those of us in the government sector, we might as well read the archives about VSNL. Thanks, Smita Note: forwarded message attached. ********************************************************************************** Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218 Maharashtra, INDIA Ph.: 91-022-27484137 (9.30AM-6.00PM, excluding Sat/Sun) Fax: 91-022-27480763 Email : iiglib(a)iigs.iigm.res.in (official) smitac_in(a)yahoo.com (personal) ********************************************************************************** --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. Hello ! Some food for thought and action.... � For those of us in the government sector, we might as well read the archives�about VSNL. � Thanks, � Smita Note: forwarded message attached. **********************************************************************************� Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218 Maharashtra, INDIA Ph .: 91-022-27484137 (9.30AM-6.00PM, excluding Sat/Sun) Fax : 91-022-27480763 Email : mailto:iiglib@iigs.iigm.res.in iiglib(a)iigs.iigm.res.in �(official) �� mailto:smitac_in@yahoo.com smitac_in(a)yahoo.com �(personal) ********************************************************************************** Do you Yahoo!? http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/virus/*http://promotions.yahoo.com/… Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.

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If you want to increase your hotmail space to 25 MB first and then to 250 MB.
by Jay H 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

Dear All, Try it, it works !!! Best regards. Jayadev P Hiremath Librarian IBS, Kuwait If you want to increase your hotmail space to 25 MB first and then to 250 MB... follow the steps ... Steps are 1. Login your hotmail account and go to options. 2. Go to "Personal" 3. Click "My Profile 4. Change Country to "United States 5. Wait for browser to load United States settings 6. Change the state to "Florida" and zip code "33332" 7. Click "update 8. Click "Continue 9. Go to "Language" and make sure it's "English [At this stage.. the default is ENGLISH.. don't click ok.. just copy the link below into the browser and hit enter.Paste this link in the same browser.] http://by17fd.bay17.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/Accountclose 11. Wait until the Screen says you're Hotmail is Closed and ready to be deleted. 11. Click "Close Account". Don't panic, it won't close your account. You can reactivate and your mails also will be safe. 12. Go back to login page and re login to your hotmail account..!! You will get a screen mentioning an Account has been reserved for you or something like that, on that screen click Activate and follow the screens and one screen you can click on Free hotmail link, once you do that you will get an option to subscribe to various news letters, don't check any boxes and click continue, and you are all set. You can now change back your Country to your original one. Your account size will now increase to 25 MB which later becomes 250 MB.

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re:International Workshop on Digital Resources Management, February 11, 2005, at M.S Ramaiah Institute of management Bangalore-560054
by shivaraj 28 Jan '05

28 Jan '05

Please put plain text message of the following...attchment is not downloadable... --- M S RAMAIAH INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT MSRIT Post New BEL Road Bangalore-560054 E-mail: msriml@rediffmail.com,msrim@vsnl.com Phone: 080-23608230,23606909 Fax-08023601947 In association with Digital Information Research Foundation # 2 Srinivasa Moorthy Avenue Chenni-600020 Phone;080-23355204,9845872417 E-Mail: Chandrappas(a)yahoo.com Dear Member Sub: International Workshop on Digital Resources Management, February 11, 2005, at M.S Ramaiah Institute of management Bangalore-560054 This workshop is specially designed for the librarians/ Information specialists, computer specialists. About the workshop : Information availability in digital form has been increasing quite rapidly in the last few years. In practice we have to deal with many types of digital documents such as text-based word-processed documents, e-mail messages, spreadsheets, presentations, scanned image documents, website (hypertext) documents, multimedia documents, digital audio and video, and dynamically interlinked documents. Increasing availability of various types documents currently tend to blur the boundaries between types of stored information, and increase the problems of capturing and retaining all elements of files. Digital information overload is the recent phenomena and people have been working to evolve suitable mechanism to address this issue. We do not currently have universal standard in digital information management however guidelines are available based on best practices. The virtual archives of the future will be maintained not through accessioning, preservation and provision of on-site access to information, but through the control of information about stored information, and its use to ensure relation, disposition and access. Course Contents: � E-information transaction and resources � E-mail discussion forums, list servers, group mails, and professional discussion lists � Digital information archiving � Customization and personalization of digital resources � Digital access management � Digital resources for e-learning � Digital resources processing, metadata and intelligent search and so on. � Integrating web resources in digital library Workshop Expert: Prof. Edward Proctor, Associate Professor in Library and Information Science, South West Missouri State University, USA Registration and Participation: The workshop can accommodate maximum of 30 participants only. Registration Fee: Rs. 500/- per Participant. Interested Members confirm your participation by E-mail, Fax or Phone before 7th Feb 2005, along with DD/cheque/cash for Rs. 500/- favouring M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Management, payable at Bangalore. The workshop fee includes working lunch and course materials. Thanking you Yours truly, Janardhana Rao Dr. S Chandrappa Librarian Organizing Secretary MSRIM Mobile: 9880021875 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term' Please put plain text message of the following...attchment is not downloadable... � --- M S RAMAIAH INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT MSRIT Post New BEL Road Bangalore-560054 E-mail: mailto:msriml@rediffmail.com,msrim@vsnl.com msriml@rediffmail.com,msrim@vsnl.com Phone: 080-23608230,23606909 Fax-08023601947 In association with Digital Information Research Foundation # 2 Srinivasa Moorthy Avenue Chenni-600020 Phone;080-23355204,9845872417 E-Mail: mailto:Chandrappas@yahoo.com Chandrappas(a)yahoo.com Dear Member � Sub: International Workshop on Digital Resources Management, February 11, 2005, at M.S Ramaiah Institute of management Bangalore-560054 This workshop is specially designed for the librarians/ Information specialists, computer specialists. About the workshop : Information availability in digital form has been increasing quite rapidly in the last few years. In practice we have to deal with many types of digital documents such as text-based word-processed documents, e-mail messages, spreadsheets, presentations, scanned image documents, website (hypertext) documents, multimedia documents, digital audio and video, and dynamically interlinked documents. Increasing availability of various types documents currently tend to blur the boundaries between types of stored information, and increase the problems of capturing and retaining all elements of files. Digital information overload is the recent phenomena and people have been working to evolve suitable mechanism to address this issue. We do not currently have universal standard in digital information management however guidelines are available based on best practices. The virtual archives of the future will be maintained not through accessioning, preservation and provision of on-site access to information, but through the control of information about stored information, and its use to ensure relation, disposition and access. Course Contents: ��E-information transaction and resources ��E-mail discussion forums, list servers, group mails, and professional discussion lists ��Digital information archiving ��Customization and personalization of digital resources ��Digital access management ��Digital resources for e-learning ��Digital resources processing, metadata and intelligent search and so on. ��Integrating web resources in digital library � Workshop Expert: Prof. Edward Proctor, Associate Professor in Library and Information Science, South West Missouri State University, USA � Registration and Participation: The workshop can accommodate maximum of 30 participants only. Registration Fee: Rs. 500/- per Participant. Interested Members confirm your participation by E-mail, Fax or Phone before 7th Feb 2005, along with DD/cheque/cash for Rs. 500/- favouring M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Management, payable at Bangalore. The workshop fee includes working lunch and course materials. � Thanking you Yours truly, Janardhana Rao�� Dr. S Chandrappa Librarian�� Organizing Secretary�� MSRIM Mobile: 9880021875 Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=30648/*http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/ji… Jib Jab's 'Second Term'

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Information/Sources on Orphans in India required
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 28 Jan '05

28 Jan '05

My recent experiences with Mr Sanjay Bapat and www.indianngos.com has been very disappointing-- they just do not bother to respond queries! Vyasamoorthy, P -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of pranjals(a)mastek.com Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:20 AM To: salman_38h(a)rediffmail.com Cc: Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Information/Sources on Orphans in India required Hi Salman NGOs will be in a position to give you this information You can visit http://www.indianngos.com/ and can contact Sanjay Bapat Sanjay(a)IndianNGOs.com Regards, Pranjal Sule Assistant Manager- Information Repository Mastek Ltd Tel.No. 55914662 -----Original Message----- From: salman haider [mailto:salman_38h@rediffmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:56 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Information/Sources on Orphans in India required Dear All, I am preparing a social welfare business plan. As part of this plan, I require reports/details of the areas mentioned below. Could you please assist? 1) Demographic profile of orphans in India 2) Profiling of orphanages in India - in terms of total estimated orphanages, average number of inmates, expenses incurred per inmate etc. In the second topic, I am basically trying to understand the demand and supply details, how well on an average these orphans are cared for etc. Thanks a lot. Salman Salman Haider Consultant Learning Resource Centre Indian School of Business Hyderabad-19 Mail: salman_haider(a)isb.edu Phone (Office Desk): 040-23187962 _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Query !
by Swati Chavare 28 Jan '05

28 Jan '05

Dear All, Was looking for an article entitled " Evolution and the Extinction of Self : N Vaghul: " from the Journal "IIMB Management Review" March 2003 Vol.15, no. 1. Would be highly obliged if anyone could locate and send it to me. With Regards Swati Corporate Librarian Radhakrishna Foodland Pvt Ltd Radhakrishna House, Majiwade Village Rd, Majiwade, Thane - 400 601. 55986364(O) ********************************************************************** The information contained in this E-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this E-mail by anyone else is unauthorized. The recipient acknowledges that Radhakrishna Foodland Pvt. Ltd. (RFPL) is unable to exercise control or ensure or guarantee the integrity of/over the contents of the information contained in E-mail transmissions and further acknowledges that any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and no binding nature of the message shall be implied or assumed unless the sender does so expressly with due authority of RFPL. If you are not the intended recipient, any form of disclosure, production, distribution or any action taken or refrained from in reliance on this E- mail is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please notify the sender immediately. This E-mail is scanned for viruses and is believed to be free of any known virus and Trojans, but RFPL does not guarantee the same. www.rkfoodland.com ********************************************************************** Dear All, Was looking for an article entitled " Evolution and the Extinction of Self : N Vaghul: " from the Journal "IIMB Management Review" March 2003 Vol.15, no. 1. Would be highly obliged if anyone could locate and send it to me. With Regards Swati Corporate Librarian Radhakrishna Foodland Pvt Ltd Radhakrishna House, Majiwade Village Rd, Majiwade, Thane - 400 601. 55986364(O) ********************************************************************** The information contained in this E-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this E-mail by anyone else is unauthorized. The recipient acknowledges that Radhakrishna Foodland Pvt. Ltd. (RFPL) is unable to exercise control or ensure or guarantee the integrity of/over the contents of the information contained in E-mail transmissions and further acknowledges that any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and no binding nature of the message shall be implied or assumed unless the sender does so expressly with due authority of RFPL. If you are not the intended recipient, any form of disclosure, production, distribution or any action taken or refrained from in reliance on this E- mail is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please notify the sender immediately. This E-mail is scanned for viruses and is believed to be free of any known virus and Trojans, but RFPL does not guarantee the same. www.rkfoodland.com **********************************************************************

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International Workshop on Digital Resources Management, February 11, 2005, at M.S Ramaiah Institute of management Bangalore-560054
by shivaraj 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

M S RAMAIAH INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT MSRIT Post New BEL Road Bangalore-560054 E-mail: msriml@rediffmail.com.msrim@vsnl.com Phone: 080-23608230,23606909 Fax-08023601947 In association with Digital Information Research Foundation # 2 Srinivasa Moorthy Avenue Chenni-600020 Phone;080-23355204,9845872417 E-Mail: Chandrappas(a)yahoo.com Dear Members Sub: International Workshop on Digital Resources Management, February 11, 2005, at M.S Ramaiah Institute of management Bangalore-560054 This workshop is specially designed for the librarians/ Information specialists, computer specialists. About the workshop : Information availability in digital form has been increasing quite rapidly in the last few years. In practice we have to deal with many types of digital documents such as text-based word-processed documents, e-mail messages, spreadsheets, presentations, scanned image documents, website (hypertext) documents, multimedia documents, digital audio and video, and dynamically interlinked documents. Increasing availability of various types documents currently tend to blur the boundaries between types of stored information, and increase the problems of capturing and retaining all elements of files. Digital information overload is the recent phenomena and people have been working to evolve suitable mechanism to address this issue. We do not currently have universal standard in digital information management however guidelines are available based on best practices. The virtual archives of the future will be maintained not through accessioning, preservation and provision of on-site acc! ess to information, but through the control of information about stored information, and its use to ensure relation, disposition and access. Course Contents: � E-information transaction and resources � E-mail discussion forums, list servers, group mails, and professional discussion lists � Digital information archiving � Customization and personalization of digital resources � Digital access management � Digital resources for e-learning � Digital resources processing, metadata and intelligent search and so on. � Integrating web resources in digital library Workshop Expert: Prof. Edward Proctor, Associate Professor in Library and Information Science, South West Missouri State University, USA Registration and Participation: The workshop can accommodate maximum of 30 participants only. Registration Fee: Rs. 500/- per Participant. Interested Members confirm your participation by E-mail, Fax or Phone before 7th Feb 2005, along with DD/cheque/cash for Rs. 500/- favouring M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Management, payable at Bangalore. The workshop fee includes working lunch and course materials. Thanking you Yours truly, Janardhana Rao Dr. S Chandrappa Librarian Organizing Secretary MSRIM Mobile: 9880021875 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term' M S RAMAIAH INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT MSRIT Post New BEL Road Bangalore-560054 E-mail: msriml@rediffmail.com.msrim@vsnl.com Phone: 080-23608230,23606909 Fax-08023601947 In association with Digital Information Research Foundation # 2 Srinivasa Moorthy Avenue Chenni-600020 Phone;080-23355204,9845872417 E-Mail: mailto:Chandrappas@yahoo.com Chandrappas(a)yahoo.com mailto:Chandrappas@yahoo.com Dear Members Sub: International Workshop on Digital Resources Management, February 11, 2005, at M.S Ramaiah Institute of management Bangalore-560054 This workshop is specially designed for the librarians/ Information specialists, computer specialists. About the workshop : Information availability in digital form has been increasing quite rapidly in the last few years. In practice we have to deal with many types of digital documents such as text-based word-processed documents, e-mail messages, spreadsheets, presentations, scanned image documents, website (hypertext) documents, multimedia documents, digital audio and video, and dynamically interlinked documents. Increasing availability of various types documents currently tend to blur the boundaries between types of stored information, and increase the problems of capturing and retaining all elements of files. Digital information overload is the recent phenomena and people have been working to evolve suitable mechanism to address this issue. We do not currently have universal standard in digital information management however guidelines are available based on best practices. The virtual archives of the future will be maintain! ed not through accessioning, preservation and provision of on-site access to information, but through the control of information about stored information, and its use to ensure relation, disposition and access. Course Contents: � �� E-information transaction and resources � �� E-mail discussion forums, list servers, group mails, and professional discussion lists � �� Digital information archiving � �� Customization and personalization of digital resources � �� Digital access management � �� Digital resources for e-learning � �� Digital resources processing, metadata and intelligent search and so on. � �� Integrating web resources in digital library Workshop Expert: Prof. Edward Proctor, Associate Professor in Library and Information Science, South West Missouri State University, USA Registration and Participation: The workshop can accommodate maximum of 30 participants only. Registration Fee: Rs. 500/- per Participant. Interested Members confirm your participation by E-mail, Fax or Phone before 7th Feb 2005, along with DD/cheque/cash for Rs. 500/- favouring M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Management, payable at Bangalore. The workshop fee includes working lunch and course materials. Thanking you Yours truly, Janardhana Rao�� Dr. S Chandrappa Librarian�� Organizing Secretary�� MSRIM Mobile: 9880021875 Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=30648/*http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/ji… Jib Jab's 'Second Term'

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Digital Libraries for Academic Excellence with Special Refere
by SHRI RAM 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

Dear Sir/Madam, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida is organizing a guest lecture on Digital Libraries for Academic Excellence with Special Reference to Science & Technology Sector on 31st January 2005 at 11.AM, the guest speaker is one of the distinguished librarian of the country Dr. Harish Chandra, Librarian, IIT Madras. We are confident that this lecture will be useful for all the Academicians, Research Scholars, Students and Library Professionals. Further we are also sure that many of our fellow librarians in the institutions around NCR are striving to make their library services more active and relevant to their users. I therefore extend this cordial invitation to you as Library Professional and all other persons who are interested in working and usage of Libraries to join us for the participation and active interaction. Organiser "Sanjay Kataria" Shri Ram Learning Resource Center Jaypee University of Information Technology Waknaghat, Distt-Solan (HP) PIN-173 215, Phone: 01792 239 242 Dear Sir/Madam, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida is organizing a guest lecture on Digital Libraries for Academic Excellence with Special Reference to Science & Technology Sector on 31st January 2005 at 11.AM, the guest speaker is one of the distinguished librarian of the country Dr. Harish Chandra, Librarian, IIT Madras. We are confident that this lecture will be useful for all the Academicians, Research Scholars, Students and Library Professionals. Further we are also sure that many of our fellow librarians in the institutions around NCR are striving to make their library services more active and relevant to their users. I therefore extend this cordial invitation to you as Library Professional and all other persons who are interested in working and usage of Libraries to join us for the participation and active interaction. Organiser "Sanjay Kataria" Shri Ram Learning Resource Center Jaypee University of Information Technology Waknaghat, Distt-Solan (HP) PIN-173 215, Phone: 01792 239 242 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] Information/Sources on Orphans in India required
by pranjals＠mastek.com 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

Hi Salman NGOs will be in a position to give you this information You can visit http://www.indianngos.com/ and can contact Sanjay Bapat Sanjay(a)IndianNGOs.com Regards, Pranjal Sule Assistant Manager- Information Repository Mastek Ltd Tel.No. 55914662 -----Original Message----- From: salman haider [mailto:salman_38h@rediffmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:56 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Information/Sources on Orphans in India required Dear All, I am preparing a social welfare business plan. As part of this plan, I require reports/details of the areas mentioned below. Could you please assist? 1) Demographic profile of orphans in India 2) Profiling of orphanages in India - in terms of total estimated orphanages, average number of inmates, expenses incurred per inmate etc. In the second topic, I am basically trying to understand the demand and supply details, how well on an average these orphans are cared for etc. Thanks a lot. Salman Salman Haider Consultant Learning Resource Centre Indian School of Business Hyderabad-19 Mail: salman_haider(a)isb.edu Phone (Office Desk): 040-23187962

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Academic and Scholalr Search Engines and Sources | Deep Web Research |
by Gerry Mckiernan 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

Colleagues/ On behalf of my WebColleague, Marcus P. Zillman, I am pleased to announce his latest resource guide: Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004/12/academic-and-scholar-search-engines.html Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation white paper titled "Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources' is a 32 page research paper listing selected resources both new and existing that will help anyone who is attempting to find academic and scholarly information and knowledge available on the Internet. Each source is described along with the URL address than can be accessed. It is freely available as a .pdf file (966KB) at the above link and authored by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. In addition, Marcus recently published an article in LLRX(r) that is also WorthTheRead: "Deep Web Research 2005" [ http://www.llrx.com/features/deepweb2005.htm ] BTW: For my eProfile of Marcus Zillman please see my latest _Library Hi Tech News_ column [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/Zillman.pdf ] Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Deep Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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ICONES PLANTARUM INDIAE ORIENTALIS
by Prafulla Chandra 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

Dear All, We are looking for a copy of the following title: ICONES PLANTARUM INDIAE ORIENTALIS, by R. Wight. 6 volumes bound in 3 physical volumes. Although a reprint of the ORIGINAL EDITION is available in the market, we are looking for the ORIGINAL EDITION PUBLISHED DURING THE BRITISH RULE IN INDIA. Wight served in Chennai and was associated with the Madras Horiticultural Society. Any useful pointers on vendors of old books or on personal collections of individuals are welcome. The above book is required for Dharma Vana Arboretum, a not-for- profit, international arboretum being developed near Hyderabad over an area of 450+ acres to provide shelter to hundreds of endangered tree species of the tropics. Many thanks in advance for your support and cooperation to our DVA project. Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Searching the TV programs - The Google way
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

Dear Professionals, Google has launched its Beta version of Google Video - the new search facility to search the TV programs, online. Give any TV program name as a key word - we get the brief information about the show. The best part of it is, On the left hand side of the result page, we get links about the show, upcoming episodes of the show, and if we still want to know more abt the show, there is a Google hyperlink which gives the result. Since its still in its early stage not much videos are uploaded, yet. Here is a brief account about Google Video Search: ==================================================================================== Google Tunes Into TV Google Video Enables Users to Search TV Content From PBS, the NBA, Fox News, C-SPAN, and others Mountain View, Calif. January 25, 2005 Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the availability of Google Video, a new service that enables users to search the content of television programs from leading TV content providers including PBS, the NBA, Fox News, and C-SPAN, among others. This announcement demonstrates Google's commitment to creating innovative technologies that provide access to a greater diversity of the world's information. "What Google did for the web, Google Video aims to do for television," said Larry Page, Google co-founder and president of Products. "This preview release demonstrates how searching television can work today. Users can search the content of TV programs for anything, see relevant thumbnails, and discover where and when to watch matching television programs. We are working with content owners to improve this service by providing additional enhancements such as playback." The Google Video beta (http://www.google.com/video) enables users to search across the closed captioning content of a growing number of TV programs that Google began indexing in December, 2004. Entering a query such as iPod will return a list of relevant television programs with still images and text excerpts from the exact point in the program where the search phrase was spoken. Google Video offers these additional search features: Preview page: Displays up to five still video images and five short text segments from the closed captioning of each program. Upcoming episodes: Shows when the program will be aired next. Search within the show: Enables searching for specific words within a given program. Program details: Offers program and episode information including channel, date and time. Change location: Finds the next time and channel where a program will air locally according to zip code. For television channels and content producers, Google Video can increase viewership by providing Google users with information on future airings of relevant programs. "For more than three decades PBS and local PBS stations have pioneered the use of state-of-the-art technology to use media to inform, engage, entertain, and educate the American public," said Pat Mitchell, President and CEO of PBS. "Today we are proud to join with Google, a company that continues to achieve new levels of technical innovation with the launch of Google Video, a new service that increases the reach and impact of PBS content." "NBA fans are tech savvy early adopters," said NBA Commissioner David Stern. "With our partnership with Google on the pioneering Google Video service, we enhance our ability to meet the needs of NBA fans, delivering to them content and information in a new and innovative way." This early-stage release of Google Video does not include Google AdWords advertising or playback options. For more information, please visit http://www.google.com/video. ==================================================================================== **************************************** Sreeharsha BG Knowledge Management Group i2 Technologies software Pvt. Ltd. 5th Floor, Diamond District, Airport Road, Bangalore-8 PH: 25047319 **************************************** Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever

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Kindly put the following advt in the lis-forum. Thank you. Moun a Raju for Informatics (India) Ltd., Bangalore.
by Mouna Raju 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

INFORMATICS www.informindia.co.in is looking for suitable candidates for the post of "PROJECTS COORDINATOR - SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT" Role & Responsibilities * Project Coordination * Vendor Management * Infrastructure and Technology Management Knowledge & Experience * Project Management & Costing Skills * Programming Skills * Knowledge of Information Products & Content Development * Post Graduate or BE in Computers & Information Science * Preferred Age Group 28-35 Remuneration Package: Rs.25,000/- to Rs.40,000/- per month Selected candidate should be willing to give a minimum 2-3 years of commitment guarantee to work in the Company. For more details contact: Mr S Sathya Prakash Divisioanl Manager - Operations & & HRD Informatics (India) Ltd P B No. 360, Malleswaram Bangalore 560 003, India Phone: 91 80 23365940, Fax: 91 80 23344598; mailto:ssp@informindia.co.in

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vacancy for library trainee/intern in IBM,Bangalore
by shanmugaprabha s 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

Dear members, Here is an announcement for a library trainee/intern vacancy in IBM. Vacancy title : Library trainee/intern Company : IBM, Bangalore Qualification : B.L.I.Sc/ Diploma in Library Science/ C.L.I.Sc.(freshers preferred) Duration : 3 to 4 months Salary : As per the standards Location : Bangalore Local candidates with good communication skills are requested to apply immediately. Please send your resumes to ssprabha(a)rediffmail.com ! With regards, S.Shanmuga Prabha, IBM Global Services India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore. Phone number: 080 22063371 Dear members, Here is an announcement for a library trainee/intern vacancy in IBM. Vacancy title : Library trainee/intern Company : IBM, Bangalore Qualification : B.L.I.Sc/ Diploma in Library Science/ C.L.I.Sc.(freshers preferred) Duration : 3 to 4 months Salary : As per the standards Location : Bangalore Local candidates with good communication skills are requested to apply immediately. Please send your resumes to ssprabha(a)rediffmail.com ! With regards, S.Shanmuga Prabha, IBM Global Services India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore. Phone number: 080 22063371 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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Google wants to offer cheap phone calls by broadband
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

Google wants to offer cheap phone calls by broadband Richard Wray Guardian Google is the latest dotcom business looking to increase its revenues by offering broadband internet users the ability to make cheap phone calls over the web. The California-based internet search engine is doing some searching of its own, looking for a "strategic negotiator" to help the company deal with telecoms companies to put together "a global backbone network" which will help it increase the services it can provide. Google, which carries almost half of all internet search queries globally, is one of many companies looking to offer residential customers the chance to use their existing broadband internet connections to make cheap phone calls using technology called voice over internet protocol (VoIP). Internet service providers Wanadoo and AOL are already looking at using the technology to increase the revenues they make from their existing internet access customers. For Google, which was unavailable for comment yesterday, providing a telephony service would give the search engine its first chance to gain an insight into who uses its website. The information would improve the service it offers to its advertisers. Industry observers reckon that through VoIP Google would also be able to add new functions such as click to dial - where an advertiser's web-page has a special button that connects an internet phone straight to a call centre. At its most basic level, VoIP offers free calling. Services such as Skype and Gossiptel allow broadband users to download software on to their computers and call other broadband users with exactly the same software for free regardless of where they are. But problems arise when VoIP users wish to call or be called by people who are not using the same technology or who are on mobile phone networks. To connect a call across networks incurs an interconnect fee which shatters the ideal of free internet phone calls as the VoIP service provider finds itself having to pay for the privilege of being part of the international telephony market. VoIP specialist Vonage launched a broadband telephony service in the UK from ?9.99 offering unlimited calling to landline phones in the UK and Ireland. At Christmas BT ran a promotion offering a year's free internet calls to new broadband customers along with a free VoIP headset. **************************************** Sreeharsha BG Knowledge Management Group i2 Technologies software Pvt. Ltd. 5th Floor, Diamond District, Airport Road, Bangalore-8 Ph: 25047319 ****************************************

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Free/OpenSource /LowCost Journal Management Software?
by Gerry Mckiernan 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

_Free/OpenSource /LowCost Journal Management Software?_ For a future eProfile for my _Library Hi Tech News_ column, I am greatly interested in learning of Any and All Free/OpenSource/LowCost Journal Management Software/Systems Among the software/systems I have identified are epress [ http://www.epress.ac.uk/ ] "The epress journal management system helps editors and publishers of academic journals organise the flow of submissions, book reviews and journal issues. It is a web-based system which means that editors and publishers can work anywhere in the world where there is Internet access. The system prompts users through all the stages of journal administration, from selecting and inviting referees, chasing late reports, sending decision letters to authors, to publishing an issue. Although primarily deigned for managing electronic journals, it is also invaluable for conventional paper-based journals. For electronic journals, it manages notifications of new issues, generating RSS news feeds and files for content alert services. There are many other features that are invaluable for journal editors and publishers." AND Open Journal Systems [ http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/ojs/ ] "Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research. OJS assists with every stage of the refereed publishing process, from submissions through to online publication and indexing. Through its management systems, its finely grained indexing of research, and the context it provides for research, OJS seeks to improve both the scholarly and public quality of referred research. OJS is open source software made freely available to journals worldwide for the purpose of making open access publishing a viable option for more journals, as open access can increase a journal's readership as well as its contribution to the public good on a global scale ... " This planned eProfile will complement one devoted to commercial systems in which I profiled in my column a two-and-half years ago: "Web-based Journal Manuscript Management and Peer-Review Systems and Services" _Library Hi Tech News_ 19, no. 7 (August 2002): 31-43. Self-archived at: [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/PeerSoft.pdf ] . TIA! Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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Information/Sources on Orphans in India required
by salman haider 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

Dear All, I am preparing a social welfare business plan. As part of this plan, I require reports/details of the areas mentioned below. Could you please assist? 1) Demographic profile of orphans in India 2) Profiling of orphanages in India in terms of total estimated orphanages, average number of inmates, expenses incurred per inmate etc. In the second topic, I am basically trying to understand the demand and supply details, how well on an average these orphans are cared for etc. Thanks a lot. Salman Salman Haider Consultant Learning Resource Centre Indian School of Business Hyderabad-19 Mail: salman_haider(a)isb.edu Phone (Office Desk): 040-23187962 Dear All, I am preparing a social welfare business plan. As part of this plan, I require reports/details of the areas mentioned below. Could you please assist? 1) Demographic profile of orphans in India 2) Profiling of orphanages in India in terms of total estimated orphanages, average number of inmates, expenses incurred per inmate etc. In the second topic, I am basically trying to understand the demand and supply details, how well on an average these orphans are cared for etc. Thanks a lot. Salman Salman Haider Consultant Learning Resource Centre Indian School of Business Hyderabad-19 Mail: salman_haider(a)isb.edu Phone (Office Desk): 040-23187962 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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New ISBN with 13 digits
by Satish Munnolli 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

appologies for cross posting A new International Standard Book Number (ISBN) has been approved and will come into effect as of 1 January 2007 requiring that all books published after this date will carry the new 13-digit ISBN. Plans have been prepared to facilitate the smooth transition on a global level and is necessitated by the dwindling of the numbers available to meet the growing demands of publishers and publications worldwide. The ISBN came into existence in 1970 as the internationally recognized identification system for the publishing and book sector. A unique identifier is attributed to each monographic publication from production and facilitates ordering and inventory by booksellers, libraries, publishers and the like as, in addition to enabling the collection of data it also contributes to the management of rights. The revised ISO standard, which is scheduled to published early in 2005, is the first time the structure has changed since its inception and revised implementation guidelines explaining in the process detail can be downloaded from http://www.isbn-international.org/en/download/implementation-guidelines-04.… Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer A Grant-in-aid Centre of the DAE, Govt. of India. Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410208 Ph: 2740 5026; Fax: 2741 2894 Email: smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in appologies for cross posting A new International Standard Book Number (ISBN) has been approved and will come into effect as of 1 January 2007 requiring that all books published after this date will carry the new 13-digit ISBN. Plans have been prepared to facilitate the smooth transition on a global level and is necessitated by the dwindling of the numbers available to meet the growing demands of publishers and publications worldwide. The ISBN came into existence in 1970 as the internationally recognized identification system for the publishing and book sector. A unique identifier is attributed to each monographic publication from production and facilitates ordering and inventory by booksellers, libraries, publishers and the like as, in addition to enabling the collection of data it also contributes to the management of rights. The revised ISO standard, which is scheduled to published early in 2005, is the first time the structure has changed since its inception and revised implementation guidelines explaining in the process detail can be downloaded from http://www.isbn-international.org/en/download/implementation-guidelines-04.… http://www.isbn-international.org/en/download/implementation-guidelines-04.… Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer A Grant-in-aid Centre of the DAE, Govt. of India. Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410208 Ph: 2740 5026; Fax: 2741 2894 Email: mailto:smunnolli@actrec.res.in smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in

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DELNET's Invitation for a Lecture on ISO 9001 Applications in Libraries and Information Centres
by Sangeeta Kaul, Network Manager, DELNET 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

DELNET Developing Library Network cordially invites you, your colleagues and friends to the lecture on ISO 9001 Applications in Libraries and Information Centres by Dr. Harish Chandra Librarian, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai (The Central Library has been awarded ISO 9001:2000 Certification by RWTUV, Germany) on Monday, January 31, 2005 at 3:00 p.m. at India International Centre (Conference Room I) 40 Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 Tea : 2:30 P. M. RSVP 24610802 " Become a Possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they are always there" Norman Vincent Peale _______________________________________________________________________________ Sangeeta Kaul Network Manager DELNET India International Centre 40 Lodi Estate New Delhi-110003 INDIA Tel.: 91-11-24610802, 24619328 FAX : 91-A11-24619325 Web : www.delnet.nic.in ________________________________________________________________________________

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INFLIBNET databases
by Prafulla Chandra 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

We are unable to access Books, Serials, Thesis, etc. databases provided on the INFLIBNET web site. Can somebody thrown light on this. This has been the situation for the past several days. T.V. Prafulla Chandra --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Thank you! Reg.. "POPULAR SCIENCE BOOKS BY INDIAN AUTHORS"
by A.V. Nagarathna 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

Dear LIS Professionals, I would like to thank all the LIS Professionals on this forum and special thanks are due to the following members: Dr.K.N. Prasad Dr.Puttaraj Choukimath Dr. Casius C. Issac Dr. Benny Dr. Prafulla Chandra If I have missed any other names unintentionally, I would like to thank them too. ------------------ I completely agree with the views of Dr. Prafulla Chandra, in lacking a single comprehensive information resource pointer/url to our publications on the internet. In fact, I was little hesitated to put this query on this forum. Before doing this, I tried to visit all the publishers web sites on the internet as well as sent request to all the book vendors to provide the updated catalogue. Since, I did not wanted to miss any of the books authored by Indian, I was tempted to put this query on this forum. I would also like to thank the NCSI for considering my request and forwarding my query to the forum. Thank you all for your guidance. Best regards, A.V. Nagarathna Documentation Centre Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research Jakkur, Bangalore 560064, Karnataka. P.S.: I continue to welcome if there are any more inputs to my querry, since the excercise is still going on.

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Fwd: [sla-kiie] Free library marketing newsletter- no strings attached
by Smita Chandra 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

Hello, Please find enclosed details of a free Library Marketing Newsletter, a topic in recent discussion at the forum. Thanks, Smita Note: forwarded message attached. ********************************************************************************** Office: Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218 Maharashtra, INDIA Ph.: 91-022-27484137 (9.30AM-6.00PM, excluding Sat/Sun) Fax: 91-022-2748076 ********************************************************************************** --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term' Hello, � Please find enclosed details of�a free�Library�Marketing Newsletter, a topic in recent discussion at the forum. Thanks, � Smita Note: forwarded message attached. ********************************************************************************** Office : Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218 Maharashtra, INDIA Ph .: 91-022-27484137 (9.30AM-6.00PM, excluding Sat/Sun) Fax : 91-022-2748076 ********************************************************************************** Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=30648/*http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/ji… Jib Jab's 'Second Term'

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Two More Journals!! Now medIND provides free & fulltext access to 30
by Sukhdev Singh 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

Dear Forum Members We have added two more journal to the medIND. These are: 1.Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2.Indian Journal of Gastroenterology Perhaps you know that medIND [ http://medind.nic.in ] provides free & fulltext universal access to 30 Medical Journals published from India. You DO NOT NEED any Registration / User ID or stuff like that to access these. We thank these journals for signing MOUs with us to make this possible. Regards Sukhdev Singh, BID, NIC, New Delhi. INDIA http://indmed.nic.in & http://medind.nic.in

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Re: [nmlis] Abscence of recognition - Who will bell the cat?
by Smita Chandra 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

Dear professionals, Vasu (as we in Mumbai know her) has so precisely pointed out areas for revamping in the education being imparted to LIS students. I wish to share with you my perceptions on a major area of learning in LIS, namely MARC. While we have a course work on it in library schools, how many of us have actually been inducted into the training of cataloging using MARC (school or after words). Not that it hinders our work, but with the divergent plethora of libraries we work in, I am sure a very basic training would have gone a long way. No wonder we have no Labs from LIS departments specifically on say Metadata or Digital Preservation (I may please be corrected). Sometime back, I heard this at a lecture and also from major players (ethical and knowledgable) of our field, that we in India, need to start building our libraries from the very basic, by educating people to "read". We are not a society where people read to gather information. People do not "use" libraries because they do not know what to read either. I feel we need to work towards : 1. Project work for school students, such that it includes the usage of libraries. We need people representing us, to make effective statements with major bodies like the UGC, NCERT, etc, etc. Same goes the case with our IT policy. 2. Our personal appearence makes the first impression on people, for we talk later. Likewise, how effective will a "Hi-Tech Library" be, with dusty, cramped, and dark shelves? We Indians support supperior technical jargon, nothing less. For eg., if we convey people that a conference on libraries is being organized, no body would probably even listen out, but, if we were to modify and say a conference on "information management and digitial libraries" is being organized, they would be more than awed. The way our national newspapers cover any course work, or conference with the above mentioned terminology is proof to that. Maybe, we need to cash on the trend since we are already at such sinking depths, for that is what works here ! 2. More International exposure of professionals in libraries of the schools, colleges, museums. We need activities for creating libraries and introducing reading programs, just like they are doing it in Africa. Please check, worldlibraries.org/itw/itwoverview.shtml, to get an idea of what I am stating. 3. Working in correlation with major international associations, not only for conferences and conferring 'yet another' international award, but also, for training courses and workshops in India. We do not need technically loaded concepts for basics, but very fundamental skills to strive. It is not difficult to understand and implement new technology, until we learn to put forth our requirements to our respective managements, which can happen only when we prove our efficiency. 4. Somedays back, we saw a message posted about a new certificate course at UIUC available also via their LEEP program (distance education). We need our library schools to partner with major schools from all over the world, so that we can do something similar in our country. The list is long and as it comes to mind I might just keep jotting down, but I hope this is enough for a weekend (an early one this time :-)). I have seen people from most fields who choose to remain mediocres the rest of their lives. And I am talking to you about CAs, doctors, engineers, scientists who just do not excell, after all remember it is not our profession which runs (ruins) this country, but our bureaucrats and technocrats. Excellence in all fields are exceptions, but having a high morale about our profession and ourselves is not. Thanks for hearing me out, Cheers, Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai Vasumathi Sriganesh <vasu(a)qmedin.com> wrote: I think N. Sreeharsha has hit the nail on the head. "...............Okay, now who is going to tie the bell on the cat's tail"? a). I am not on the IATLIS list, since I am not a teacher in LIS. I request those who are on the IATLIS list to send a mail to that list members, our ideas about i) Standardization of a Two year MLIS, scrapping BLIS, and introduction of a short course of Certificate in LIS ii) Make Language and communication a VERY STRONG focus in the MLIS course iii) Focus on Marketing Information Services iv) Improve Management and Technology based subjects v) Introduce an element on ethics, copyright and legal issues v) Make a compulsory element of a Summer Training (or whichever months are best). This training should be something, where students do a serious project, which has good impact for the Institution (Eg - developing an area of the library website). They should not be given only those jobs that normally get sidelined in a library. I am aware that some libraries take students for internship projects, and give them only shelving and clerical work. Such jobs could be given to certificate students. The objective is to have a one year plan and have the right course, with the right syllabus, WITH a plan for some upgrade every year. We need to bring IT and Management people to be involved. b) Admission to the above "new" MLIS course. We need to plan to get professional entrance tests created. And to market the course by - Proper ads in the papers - Talking to career counsellors to talk / write about the course - Any other innovative methods - even talking to Degree students about the course - Market it to other subject teachers - eg degree course teachers, so that they may recommend this course to students c) Interaction with the Industry. This should be done with an objective of having jobs ready for the first batch of students. The course and calibre of students should be marketed to the industry, by telling them that by employing people with such training, their organization would have xyz benefits. d) In terms of UGC and funding and implementing such changes, I think the best thing to do, is to have a group of us making a proper plan and asking for an appointment with the President of India. He loves children, he loves education and he loves libraries. If we get his blessings for this change, I think things can move. As I said, in the beginning, I am not a teacher of Lib. Sc. For those who do not know me, I am not a working librarian either (I was for about 7 years) I am an entrepreneur - and I feel very very strongly for the profession. I am willing to spend time and money on this entire "belling the cat" exercise. I am willing to take plenty of initiatives (what I already have done, is to employ three librarians, and am giving them salaries, working environment and teaching - to the best of my ability) This entire thing requires huge effort and commitment, and importantly sacrifices. The biggest sacrifice being giving up one's ego and not worrying about getting a name for this entire activity. Whoever heads this activity should not think that his/her name is important. And anyone who wants to work for this should be ready for doing a lot. Any more takers? Vasumathi Sriganesh Director, QMed Services Pvt. Ltd. A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099, India Ph: 91-22-28229223 Fax: 91-22-28224358 Mobile: 98211-14510 Email: vasu(a)qmedin.com, Web: www.qmedin.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nmlis/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: nmlis-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term' Dear professionals, Vasu (as we in Mumbai know her)�has so�precisely pointed out areas for�revamping�in the education being imparted to LIS students. I wish to share with you my perceptions on a major area of learning in LIS, namely MARC. While we have a course work on it in library schools, how many of us have actually been inducted�into the training of cataloging using�MARC (school or after words). Not that�it hinders our�work, but with the divergent plethora of libraries we work in, I am sure a very basic training would have gone a long way.�No wonder we have no Labs from LIS departments specifically on say Metadata or Digital Preservation (I may please be corrected).� � Sometime back, I�heard this at�a lecture and�also from major players (ethical and knowledgable) of our field, that we in India, need to start building�our libraries from the very basic, by educating people to "read".�We are not a society where people read to gather information. People do not "use" libraries because they do not know what to read either.� � I feel we need to work towards : � 1.�Project work for school students, such that�it includes the usage of libraries. We need ��people representing us, to make effective statements with major bodies like the UGC, �� NCERT, etc, etc. Same goes the case with our IT policy. � 2. Our personal appearence makes the first impression on people, for we talk later. Likewise, ��how effective will a "Hi-Tech Library"�be, with dusty, cramped, and dark shelves? We Indians ��support�supperior technical�jargon, nothing less. For eg., if we convey people that a �� conference on�libraries is being organized, no body would probably even listen out, but, �� if we were to�modify and say a conference on "information management and digitial libraries" �� is being�organized, they would�be more than awed. The way our national�newspapers �� cover�any course work, or conference with the above mentioned terminology is proof to that. �� Maybe, we need to cash on the trend since we are already at such sinking depths, for that� �� is what works here !� � 2. More International exposure of professionals�in libraries�of the�schools, colleges, museums. �� We need�activities�for creating libraries and introducing reading programs, just like they are �� doing it in Africa. Please check,� http://worldlibraries.org/itw/itwoverview.shtml worldlibraries.org/itw/itwoverview.shtml , to get an idea of�� what�I am stating. � 3.�Working in correlation with�major international associations, not only�for conferences and� �� conferring 'yet another' international award, but also, for training courses and workshops in�� India.�We do not�need technically loaded concepts for basics, but very�fundamental skills to �� strive. It is not�difficult to�understand and implement�new technology, until�we learn to put �� forth our�requirements to our respective managements, which can happen only when we �� prove our�efficiency.�� 4.�Somedays back, we saw a message posted about a new certificate course at UIUC �� available�also via their LEEP program (distance education). We need our library schools to �� partner�with major schools from all over the world, so that we can do something�similar in �� our�country. � The list is long and as it comes to mind I might just keep jotting down, but I hope this is enough for a weekend (an early one this time :-)). � I have seen people from most fields who choose�to remain�mediocres the rest of their lives. And I am talking to you about CAs, doctors, engineers, scientists who just do not excell, after all remember it is not our profession which runs (ruins) this country, but our bureaucrats and technocrats. Excellence in all fields are exceptions, but having a high morale about our profession and ourselves is not. � Thanks for hearing me out, � Cheers, � Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai Vasumathi Sriganesh <vasu(a)qmedin.com> wrote: I think N. Sreeharsha has hit the nail on the head. � "...............Okay, now who is going to tie the bell on the cat's tail"? � � a). I am not on the IATLIS list, since I am not a teacher in LIS. I request those who are on the IATLIS list to send a mail to that list members, our ideas about � i) Standardization of a�Two year MLIS, scrapping BLIS, and introduction of a short course of Certificate in LIS ii) Make Language and communication a VERY STRONG focus in the MLIS course iii) Focus on Marketing Information Services iv) Improve Management and Technology based subjects v) Introduce�an element�on ethics, copyright and legal issues v) Make a compulsory element of a Summer Training (or whichever months are best). This training should be something, where students do a serious project, which has�good impact for the Institution (Eg - developing an area of the library website). They should not be given only those jobs that normally get sidelined in a library. I am aware that some libraries take students for internship projects, and give them only shelving and clerical work. Such jobs could be given to certificate students. � The objective is to have a one year plan and have the right course, with the right syllabus,�WITH a plan for some�upgrade every year. We need to bring IT and Management people to be involved. � b) Admission to the above "new" MLIS course. We need to plan to get professional entrance tests created. And to market the course by - Proper ads in the papers - Talking to career counsellors to talk / write about the course - Any other innovative methods - even talking to Degree students about the course - Market it to other subject teachers - eg degree course teachers, so that they may recommend this course to students � � c) Interaction with the Industry. This should be done with an objective of having jobs ready for the first batch of students. The course and calibre of students should be marketed to the industry, by telling them that by employing people with such training, their organization would have� xyz benefits. � d) In terms of UGC and funding and implementing such changes, I think the best thing to do, is to have a group of us making a�proper plan�and asking for an appointment with the President of India. He loves children, he loves education and he loves libraries. If we get his blessings for this change, I think things can move. � � As I said, in the beginning, I am not a teacher of Lib. Sc. For those who do not know me, I am not a working librarian either (I was for about 7 years) I am an entrepreneur - and I feel very very strongly for the profession. � I am willing to spend time and money on this entire "belling the cat" exercise. I am willing to take plenty of initiatives (what I already have done, is to employ three librarians, and am giving them salaries, working environment and teaching - to the best of my ability) This entire thing requires huge effort and commitment, and importantly sacrifices. The biggest sacrifice being giving up one's ego and not worrying about getting a name for this entire activity. Whoever heads this activity should not think that his/her name is important. And anyone who wants to work for this should be ready for doing a lot. � Any more takers? � Vasumathi Sriganesh Director, QMed Services Pvt. Ltd. A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099, India Ph: 91-22-28229223�� Fax: 91-22-28224358 Mobile: 98211-14510 Email: mailto:vasu@qmedin.com vasu(a)qmedin.com ,�� Web: http://www.qmedin.com/ www.qmedin.com � � � Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nmlis/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nmlis/ � To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: mailto:nmlis-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com?subject=Unsubscribe nmlis-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com � Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Yahoo! Terms of Service . Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=30648/*http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/ji… Jib Jab's 'Second Term'

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Free Online U.N. Docs (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:32:14 -0800 (PST) From: Grace-Ellen McCrann <gemscot(a)yahoo.com> To: diglib(a)infoserv.inist.fr, TEI-L(a)listserv.brown.edu, web4lib(a)sunsite3.berkeley.edu, asis-l(a)asis.org Cc: Grace-Ellen McCrann <gemscot(a)yahoo.com> Subject: [DIGLIB] Free Online U.N. Docs 19 January 2005 Dear Everybody, The Official Documents of the United Nations (ODS) are now available for free at: http://documents.un.org/welcome.asp?language=E This database used to be available only by subscription. The bulk of the docs currently in the database are from 1993 onwards, but older docs are added all the time. �ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards.� This database does NOT contain the UN Treaty Series or the UN Sales Publications. As of this writing there are approximately 800,000 docs in this database. The UN hopes to add approximately 100,000 docs per year. Almost all these docs are available in each of the UN�s six official languages. Kind regards, Grace-Ellen Grace-Ellen McCrann Chief, Government Documents & Reference Divisions The City College of New York Cohen Library, 2nd Floor 138th Street & Convent Avenue New York, NY 10031 (212) 650 5073 gemscot(a)yahoo.com

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lis job oppertunities in india
by ravi kumar 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

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How make collection of VCD/Data CD available on local network
by Sharad Jadhav 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

Dear all, What is the latest technology for making available a collection of Video CDs/ Data CDs on local network of library. What are the hardware/ software requirements/ specifications for the same? Is CD Server/ CD Mirror Server is the only option, and if yes, where one can get the details thereof. Experts' comments would me most valuable for the above query. With regards, Sharad Jadhav ------------------------------------------------ Library & Information Centre, National Insurance Academy Baner Road, Balewadi, Pune, Maharashtra, India sharad(a)niapune.com email2sharad(a)rediffmail.com ------------------------------------------------ Dear all, What is the latest technology for making available a collection of Video CDs/ Data CDs on local network of library. What are the hardware/ software requirements/ specifications for the same? Is CD Server/ CD Mirror Server is the only option, and if yes, where one can get the details thereof. Experts' comments would me most valuable for the above query. With regards, Sharad Jadhav ------------------------------------------------ Library & Information Centre, National Insurance Academy Baner Road, Balewadi, Pune, Maharashtra, India sharad(a)niapune.com email2sharad(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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Query
by Mrs. Vaishnav 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

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Posting the query " Information on Engg.Education in India /Karnataka"
by vijaykumar nayak 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

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LC partnerships provide education resources in cataloging (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:02:54 -0500 From: John D Byrum <jbyr(a)loc.gov> To: ifla-l(a)infoserv.inist.fr, AUTOCAT(a)listserv.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: [IFLA-L] LC partnerships provide education resources in cataloging LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PARTNERSHIPS PROVIDE EDUCATION RESOURCES IN CATALOGING The Library of Congress has launched a Web-based learning center to promote core competency curriculum development for 21st century cataloging practitioners. The Cataloger's Learning Workshop (www.loc.gov/catworkshop/) is a cataloging and metadata training resource portal that features a discussion group, links to cataloging training providers and publishers, online training courses and suggested readings in bibliographic control. The Cataloger's Learning Workshop is hosted by the Cataloging Distribution Service (CDS) of the Library of Congress. "The Cataloger's Learning Workshop site provides one-stop access to a growing body of authoritative cataloging education resources," said Kathryn Mendenhall, chief of CDS. "Cataloging practitioners as well as training providers will benefit from the easy access to information about these new courses." The Cataloger's Learning Workshop grew out of an effort that began at the 2000 Library of Congress conference "Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium." Conferees produced an action plan with several ambitious goals, such as providing appropriate training and education to improve bibliographic control of Web resources. A number of groups have been working with the Library of Congress to bring the Cataloger's Learning Workshop to reality, including the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) - a division of the American Library Association (ALA) - and the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC). "Collaborating with the Library of Congress on this project enables ALCTS to better support the educational needs of its membership and the library community as a whole," said Charles Wilt, executive director of ALCTS. "These courses will provide up-to-date information to practicing professionals and others at both the local and regional level." A number of workshops and curricula are being developed to address Web bibliographic control training and continuing education. Training materials distribution is handled by CDS, while workshop organization and support logistics are managed through ALCTS and other organizations. As a result of this cooperative effort, Library, PCC and ALCTS officials expect that there will be more library practitioners who are better prepared to provide access to Web and other new library materials. The customer and member focus of these organizations ensures that high quality training will be provided at reasonable cost. The Cataloging Distribution Service of the Library of Congress has provided publications and services to the international cataloging community on a cost-recovery basis for more than 100 years. The Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, a division of the American Library Association, is the national association for information providers who work in collections, preservation and technical services. ALCTS' interests include acquisition, cataloging, collection development and preservation of all library materials in all formats. Additional information about ALCTS' continuing education is available at www.ala.org/ala/alcts/ under "continuing education." The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) is an international cooperative effort aimed at expanding access to library collections by providing useful, timely, and cost-effective cataloging that meets mutually accepted standards of libraries around the world. Additional information about PCC is available at www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/.

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(Fwd) [IFLA-L] Supercourse
by Prafulla Chandra 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

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Evolution of an Information Society - Book is available
by Sangeeta Kaul, Network Manager, DELNET 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

Dear Mr Shashi Kumar This is with reference to your request for a book entitled "Evolution of an Information Society" edited by A E Cawkell (Aslib, 1987) needed by the students of the Dept of LIS at the University of Mysore. I would like to inform you that we have been able to locate this book in our database and the title was found to be available with IGNOU library. We will be glad to send the book on Interlibrary loan for a period of two weeks to the Department. We may be able to send it to Dr (Mrs) Shalini Urs, Head, DLISc. Please confirm. I look forward to hearing from you soon. with kind regards Yours sincerely Sangeeta Kaul " Become a Possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they are always there" Norman Vincent Peale _______________________________________________________________________________ Sangeeta Kaul Network Manager DELNET India International Centre 40 Lodi Estate New Delhi-110003 INDIA Tel.: 91-11-24610802, 24619328 FAX : 91-11-24619325 Web : www.delnet.nic.in ________________________________________________________________________________ On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in wrote: > > Today's Topics: > > 2. Evolution of information soiety (shashi kumar) > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 06:26:34 +0000 (GMT) > From: shashi kumar <aashashi(a)yahoo.co.in> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Evolution of information soiety > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: <20050117062634.73118.qmail(a)web8502.mail.in.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear Sir/Madam/Friends, > I kindly requesting you i.e in our library "Evolution of information society" was written by "C.A.Cawkell" is not found.we have a part of syllabus in our 4th semester,so i kindly need this book. if you have this book please send me full text/ a xerox copy or inform me.When you send this book, it helps 40 members of our classmates. > Bibliographical details of this book is as follows: > Cawkell, C.A; Evolution of information society;london:ASLIB publications,1987. > > > with warm regards, > Shashikumar > Dept.of Library and Information science, > manasagangothri > Mysore. > > Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. >

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RMCI 2005 (fwd)
by K.S. Chudamani 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:40:15 +0530 (IST) From: K.S. Chudamani <ksc(a)library.iisc.ernet.in> To: lis_forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: RMCI 2005 I am planning to organize a session on risk management in informatics and cyberinformatics at The 2nd. Symposium on Risk-Management and Cyber-Informatics RMCI'05 In the context of: The 9th World Multi-Conference on SYSTEMICS, CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATICS SCI 2005 http://www.cyberinformatics.org/rmci05/ July 10-13, 2005, Orlando, Florida (USA) The Rosen Plaza Hotel, http://www.rosenplaza.com/frames1.html Program Committee Chair: Michael J. Savoie General Chair: Dale Zinn Organizing Committee Chair: Belkis Sanchez Preliminary PROGRAM COMMITTEE: William Lesso (USA) Dale Zinn (USA) Michael Savoie (USA) Hsing-Wei Chu (USA) Nagib Callaos (USA) Belkis Snchez (Venezuela) Jorge Fernandez (USA) Mohamed Loutfi (UK) Jos Vicente Carrasquero (Venezuela) ACTIVE PARTICIPATION Those interested in participating in: The organization of Invited Session(s) The organization of Focus Symposium The reviewing process The symposium promotion Recommending scholars/researchers in order to have an active participation and/or submit the papers. Proposing Organizations/Institutes/Universities as Academic/Scientific Co-Sponsors. The session details are Risk Management in Informatics and Cybernetics Software Risk Management Software security, safety, and reliability Security, Certification and Insurance Cyberspace risk management and Insurance Coverage Information Services Risk Management Risk Management of the electronic Workplace Network Liability Risks Management and Cyber Risks Telecom risk management Testing and Software Assurance and Certification Applying Informatics and Cybernetics in Risk Management Modeling And Simulation Applications for Risk Assessment and Mitigation Decision Support Systems for Risk Management Collective Decision/Judgment Support for Public Risk Management Anticipatory Systems. Foresight and Risk Management Financial and Economic Risk Modeling and Simulation Econometric and Stochastic Volatility models Optimizing Volatility Opportunities Credit Risk Modeling Quantitative Risk Assessment Optimum Portfolio Management Those who are interested may send an extended abstract of 300-500 words on or before 26th jan 2005 to me. For other details please visit the website at http://www.cyberinformatics.org/rmci05/ Thanking you Chudamani K S Indian Institute of Science JRD Tata Memorial library Bangalore 560012

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Library science gets some spotlight, needs more
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

Library science gets some spotlight, needs more http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=114167# Chandigarh, January 15: It is a science all right, but a neglected one. Also, its potential is always understated. At the Satkal Annual Function 2004 held at the Government Museum and Art Gallery in collaboration with the British Library today, a discussion and lecture on library and information services in India turned out to be quite interesting. The post-Ranganathan (the name comes from the pioneer in library science) period is pretty dismal and no concrete steps are being taken in this field. With private/foreign libraries roping in most of the people as members, and a small country like Singapore coming up with the world’s best library set-up, there is still a lot to work on. The lecture: The former head of the Library & Information Services, British Council, P. Jayarajan, spoke on the ‘Glorious past, Stagnant Present, Uncertain Future’ of the library world. ‘‘The public library system is in a shambles. There is lack of resources, support, skill and consolidation. What we need is vision, a SWOT analysis to face the challenges of today,’’ he said. ‘‘To get the libraries out of the namesake category, we have to attract their users, especially non-users,’’ he added. Speaking of he emphasised the need for information professionals, upgrading skills, public relations and managerial know-how. Services, infrastructure, skills and partnership are the need of the hour, he said Awardees 2004: Each has made a vital contribution to the field of library science. Here’s a lowdown on their activities: Recipient of the Punjab National Librarian Award, Dr E. Rama Reddy: The University Librarian for Indira Gandhi Memorial Library, University of Hyderabad, Dr Reddy is an expert in managerial aspects of the subject and has been associated with the compilation of topical biographies. He has a vision: India as an informative society. Recipient of Young Librarian Award, M.G. Sreekumar: Librarian at the IIMK, his computerised brain and a digital vision has turned IIMK into a vibrant digital information system. He has conducted trainings on e-Publishing, digital libraries and medical informatics. He has also created an e-learning platform for doctors and the medical fraternity in India. Recipient of Woman Librarian Award, Veena Chawla: Library Director, American Resource Information Centre, Delhi, she has been awarded for outstanding performance, exhibiting a high level of professionalism and dedication, especially at the international level. Meanwhile, due to almost no response to the Ranganathan Quiz, two participants, Richa Gupta and Anil Siwach, were presented mementoes. The feedback: It is a pity that libraries in Indian universities are not getting the weight that is due to them: Prof G.S. Randhawa, former V-C of GNDU ‘‘Having a digitalised library won’t work in a country like India where there are frequent power shutdowns. In schools, there are time constraints, so traditional libraries are better,’’ say librarians of various schools **************************************** Sreeharsha BG Knowledge Management Group i2 Technologies software Pvt. Ltd. 5th Floor, Diamond District, Airport Road, Bangalore-8 PH: 25047319 **************************************** This too will pass...!!!

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Re: [nmlis]Abscence of recognition to Librarians -- inactivity of Library Association
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 17 Jan '05

17 Jan '05

hi I appreciate the anguih of Mrs Rangashri, i think she hould not get excited about the lapses from the associations and professionals. after all many things matter, such as environment, training, traditions--what not. I will appreciate Mrs. rangashri , if she can also send communications through egroup, to enable to share her ideas and knowledge. let us join our hands to make our professiona great. let us not fight but learn from the past and improve ourselves in terms of productivity and image. please do not accuse any one, we all ae responsible for everry thing as we are also part of the profession. thanks laxman rao --- Rangashri Kishore <rangashrik(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Dear Vasumathi, > > I sincerely appreciate your efforts to highlight the issues concerning > Librarians. > You have rightly pointed out the serious lapses in our professional > attitude. Very few are actually thinking in this direction. I would like > to introduce myself, > I belong to a family of Librarians! I am the third generation who > followed this line and I am proud to be in this line. I have found > during my experience of working in various Libraries of repute it is > just not sufficient to remain within the sphere of Librarianship alone > ..it is important to realize that we have the skills that can be applied > for enriching all other professionals. For example, I have tried to use > training Mentally ill patients in Librarianship which has helped them in > getting employed in school Libraries. I was instrumental in setting up > homes for mentally challenged in India and I realized that as a > significant part of their rehabilitation Library skills can be applied > -which I found very successful and satisfying. One has to walk that > extra mile to get recognition in our field. > > I thus received three International Awards.. > > FIRST ASIAN WINNER OF ASCLA EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE AWARD FOR THE YEAR 1999 > FROM ALA. > http://archive.ala.org/ascla/awards_recent.html#1999 > > LEARNINGTIMES INNOVATIVE INFORMATION SERVICES AWARD FOR THE YEAR 2003 > FROM USA. ( Two Indian Librarians one myself and the other is Kaushik > Purohit of Reliance Industries..Jamnagar was confered along with 6 other > Librarians from all over the world..that too we had the honour of > sharing this with Hillary Clinton) > http://www.libraryconference.com/awards.shtml > > IFLA/ALP IN 1996 FOR MY WORK ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SUPPORT FOR > LITERACY EFFORTS FOR WOMEN IN BANGKOK. > > Having won all these accolades it is a shame that no Library > Associations in India ever approached me to know more about it so that > others in our profession can get motivated although this was widely > publicised in Newspapers in 1999. None ever came forward to support my > efforts for these causes. I had to personally apporach and be a self > advocate for all the achievements. Come to think of it that someone in > US is able to confer these awards to persons working in India while in > our own country people hardly realize the value of this profession. > > These are my views and I welcome people to comments. > > With warm regards, > Rangashri Kishore > > > > > Vasumathi Sriganesh <vasu(a)qmedin.com> wrote: > Dear friends > > There are many sides to this: > > There is no question that we are one of the most under-rated breed of > professionals. In a country that has had Dr. SRR, it is an irony that > the maximum percentage of population would not have heard of the need > for a professional degree to be a librarian - let alone anything else. > > Having said that - what have we done about it ourselves? > > a) Have we pushed up our own standards? I am sorry to say that a > majority of librarians are unable to communicate well, or market > themselves well > > b) Do we market our profession to school and college children? How many > of us would encourage our children to take up the same profession? > Most young people tell me that when they were in college they hardly > used a library - they then accidentally heard about Lib Sc and joined > the course > > c) Majority of our conferences have papers of no real value - they are > accepted because we need participants, and participants will get a TA/DA > only if their papers are accepted, so we accept papers. Most speakers > have no sense of time - they overshoot, they "read" the paper and do not > "present" it, very often there is nothing new. > Many participants do not attend all sessions - more time is spent > sight-seeing. How many actually go back and implement something new in > their library? > > d) How many of us have attempted to show our organizations that they the > library is a terribly important entity? And that the collection is being > used to the best? > > I am sure there are a million more questions that can be added. Like > Prof Laxman Rao, I do not aim to hurt any individual. I will blame > myself too. > It is a vicious circle. We are unable to prove ourselves, so we are > badly positioned and paid. Thus we cannot attract the best talent, and > when we dont get the best, we do not prove ourselves. > > Where do we break this circle? > > For a start, can all of us do something in our own sphere and control? > Go BEYOND what we are paid for, do our best for our organizations and > readers - not expecting immediate rewards? If we can get something for > ourselves - great - if not - can we work hard and sow the seeds for the > future generations? And can we improve at things like conferences? If we > can say YES, to at least some of these, only then we have some hope. > > It would be very good, if we can have some ideas coming in as to how we > can tackle all this positively! > > Regards > > Vasumathi Sriganesh > Director, QMed Services Pvt. Ltd. > A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road > Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099, India > Ph: 91-22-28229223 Fax: 91-22-28224358 > Mobile: 98211-14510 > Email: vasu(a)qmedin.com, Web: www.qmedin.com > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Smita Chandra > To: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com ; naglaxman(a)yahoo.com ; > jagatram2001(a)yahoo.co.in ; iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com ; > nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 3:59 PM > Subject: [nmlis] Re: [iatlis] Abscence of recognition to Librarians -- > inactivity of Library Association > > > Dear Professionals : > > I wish to echo the sentiments of Dr.Laxman Rao & Dr.Vyasamoorthy. We are > an unheard community because we wish to be heard without speaking out or > we talk alone ! I guess this says it all about our professional > associations and about the state of libraries in our country hence. > > Thanks, > > Smita Chandra > Librarian > Indian Institute of Geomagnetism > New Mumbai. INDIA > > vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com wrote: > Dr Laxman Rao's observations are provoking and show his deep concern & > anguish at the present state of affairs. I agree with him. Charity > begins at home. As a simple step, Why not we think of revitalising > ALSD? Can ALSD take up projects of interest to Library Community? Can it > become confident and resourecful enough to accept assignments from > Private libraries/Info centers? Can such projects be self-financed by > selling services & consultancy? People in charge may express their > views. Vyasamoorthy, P > > > > > --------------------------------- > From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. [mailto:naglaxman@yahoo.com] > Sent: Thu 1/13/2005 6:03 PM > To: sushil sharma; iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com; nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com > Subject: [iatlis] Re: Welcome to nmlis > > > > > hi > it is a big issue. in our state, the college librarians have been > designated as lect in lib sc. the univ staff have been designated as > prof, > associ prof and asst prof. earlier ugc had given equivalent status, now > the age of retirement is differrent. it is unfortunate. the lirarians > responsibility had been enormously increased in the context of distance > education and they should be in better recognition than teachersand > otherr > staff. > it is also unfortunate, in spite of all the new developments, librarians > are unable to prove that they are essential and nothing can happen with > out them. they are also swimming in the same stream like teachers,other > employeees leaving their responsibilities to the air. ofcourse, every > one > is not like. i am only stating majority. when the government does ot > have > the responsibility or accountability except the authority and power, how > we can expect support from the govt to rectify, the education system. > prvate orgns are doing better, as no out side involvment and therefore, > they play with employees. however, please understand that i am not > interested to criticise are comment on any one. > what r the reasons? it may be parents non-involvement, politicians > involvments, caste, religion and regional feelings--what not many? who > has > to bell the cat? i think the profession as a whole has to show to the > world like in other countries- that librarians are essential services, > and > nothing less than that. it is possile with our services and recognition. > i > know that the facilities are not given but expectations are high. we > have > to do our best with in the given environmet. > > > === message truncated === ===== 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 ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Evolution of information soiety
by shashi kumar 17 Jan '05

17 Jan '05

Dear Sir/Madam/Friends, I kindly requesting you i.e in our library "Evolution of information society" was written by "C.A.Cawkell" is not found.we have a part of syllabus in our 4th semester,so i kindly need this book. if you have this book please send me full text/ a xerox copy or inform me.When you send this book, it helps 40 members of our classmates. Bibliographical details of this book is as follows: Cawkell, C.A; Evolution of information society;london:ASLIB publications,1987. with warm regards, Shashikumar Dept.of Library and Information science, manasagangothri Mysore. Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Sir/Madam/Friends, I kindly requesting you i.e in our library " Evolution of information society" was written by " C.A.Cawkell" is not found.we have a part of syllabus in our 4th semester,so i kindly need this book. if you have this book please send me full text/ a xerox copy or inform me.When you send this book, it helps 40 members of our classmates. Bibliographical details of this book is as follows: Cawkell, C.A; Evolution of information society;london:ASLIB publications,1987. with warm regards, Shashikumar Dept.of Library and Information science, manasagangothri Mysore. http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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URL link for POPSI and PRECIS Tutorial
by Seshu Sripada 17 Jan '05

17 Jan '05

Dear colleagues, Please provide url link contains tutorial on Postulate based permuted subject indexing (POPSI) AND Preserved context index system (Precis) Thanks & Regards Seshu -----------------------SOFTPRO DISCLAIMER------------------------------ Information contained in this E-MAIL and any attachments are confidential being proprietary to SOFTPRO SYSTEMS is 'privileged' and 'confidential'. If you are not an intended or authorised recipient of this E-MAIL or have received it in error, You are notified that any use, copying or dissemination of the information contained in this E-MAIL in any manner whatsoever is strictly prohibited. Please delete it immediately and notify the sender by E-MAIL. In such a case reading, reproducing, printing or further dissemination of this E-MAIL is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. SOFTPRO SYSYTEMS does not REPRESENT or WARRANT that an attachment hereto is free from computer viruses or other defects. The opinions expressed in this E-MAIL and any ATTACHEMENTS may be those of the author and are not necessarily those of SOFTPRO SYSTEMS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear colleagues, Please provide url link contains tutorial on Postulate based permuted subject indexing (POPSI) AND Preserved context index system (Precis) Thanks & Regards Seshu -----------------------SOFTPRO DISCLAIMER------------------------------ Information contained in this E-MAIL and any attachments are confidential being proprietary to SOFTPRO SYSTEMS is 'privileged' and 'confidential'. If you are not an intended or authorised recipient of this E-MAIL or have received it in error, You are notified that any use, copying or dissemination of the information contained in this E-MAIL in any manner whatsoever is strictly prohibited. Please delete it immediately and notify the sender by E-MAIL. In such a case reading, reproducing, printing or further dissemination of this E-MAIL is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. SOFTPRO SYSYTEMS does not REPRESENT or WARRANT that an attachment hereto is free from computer viruses or other defects. The opinions expressed in this E-MAIL and any ATTACHEMENTS may be those of the author and are not necessarily those of SOFTPRO SYSTEMS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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SEEKING INFORMATION OR LITERATURE FOR AN ARTICLE IN AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 16 Jan '05

16 Jan '05

Dear professional friends, i have bee assigned to prepare an exhustive article on THE DEVELOPMENT AND FUTURE OF LIBRARY NETWORKING EFFORTS IN INDIA AND SOUTH ASIAN REGION. Any professional has access to either documetary or non-documentary information may please send it to me. the support and help of the professionals will go a long way in preaparing an updated and complete article. thanks laxman rao ===== Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

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Goa varsity develops GOALNET linking 22 college libraries
by Benny 16 Jan '05

16 Jan '05

Dear Colleagues The following news item may be of interest to some of you visit the following URL for more information. http://www.deepikaglobal.com/ENG3_sub.asp?ccode=ENG3&newscode=88961 Regards Benny www.tisb.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- Goa varsity develops GOALNET linking 22 college libraries Goa University being a partner in the UGC-Infonet programme has free access to more than 2000 electronic journals covering all subjects. The library had also organized several training programmes for the user community and college librarians through e-journal consortium. ''The library in association with Carnegie Mellon University and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore had under the Universal Digital Library project initiated digitization of manuscripts and books, in particular the documents pertaining to the history and culture of the State in 2003,'' the Professor said.

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Best librarian award for Veena, Sreekumar : Tribune News Service
by JK Vijayakumar 16 Jan '05

16 Jan '05

Full Story available at http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050116/cth1.htm#12 Best librarian award for Veena, Sreekumar Tribune News Service Chandigarh, January 15 The board of trustees of Satinder Kaur Ramdev Memorial Trust for Advancement of Librarianship (SATKAL) and the British Library today gave away the best librarian awards in three categories. The awards were presented at a special function organised at Government Museum Auditorium, Sector 10. Prof G.S. Randhawa, former Vice-Chancellor, Guru Nanak Dev University, inaugurated the function and gave away the awards. While Veena Chawla, Director, American Information Centre, New Delhi, bagged the SATKAL Woman Librarian Award for this year, the Young Librarian Award went to the versatile M.G. Sreekumar, currently Librarian and Head, Development of Digital Libraries at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode. A mathematics graduate from the University of Kerala, Sreekumar pursued his Bachelors in Library and Information Science from the University of Kerala. The recipient of Fulbright award in 1996, Sreekumar went to study at the University of Maryland at College Park and at the National Library of Medicine, USA. A vibrant professional, Sreekumar has been instrumental in the creation of a sound digital system at IIMK, Kozhikode. He now leads several national level research projects in library and information science, and information technology areas. Recently Sreekumar has successfully created an E-learning platform for doctors and the medical fraternity in India, funded by the WHO office in New Delhi. The National Librarian award was presented to Dr E Rama Reddy, Founder Librarian of the Indira Gandhi Memorial Library, University of Hyderabad, who has to his credit several best librarian awards. He is also considered among the best library automation experts in India. Well attended and organised, the function saw valuable suggestions from experts in the field of library sciences. The vote of thanks was extended by Mr Sushant Banerjee, Organising Secretary, SATKAL. -------------------------- Another Full story available at http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050116/cth1.htm#11 Future of library science not bright Aditi Tandon Tribune News Service, Chandigarh, January 15 If statistics are to be believed, the future of library and information science does not appear to be very bright in India. Rough estimates suggest that out of 1,000 libraries, not more than 10 were fully automated in this age of technology. And worse, of the 30,000 librarians that come out of the plethora of library schools in India, few are trained well enough to be recruited without being sent for a re-training. This and much more plagues the discipline which has evolved in other parts of the world. While Singapore leads the world in public library system which is just a decade old, UK spends exorbitantly in reviewing the functioning of its National Library which fetches it a huge revenue. In a recently commissioned review of the National Library, UK, independent consultants reported that against every pound that the British Government spent on the National Library, the library gave it back 4.4 times more money! In India, however, the libraries are low on priority when resource allocation is decided. The reasons, experts attending the annual function of SATKAL (Satinder Kaur Ramdev Memorial Trust for Advancement of Librarianship) and The British Library, Chandigarh, held at Government Museum auditorium today, say are many. �The most significant is failure to catch up with the most basic of systems, including the public library system. The state of public libraries is sorry, even the librarians which our universities produce know very little about high quality services. Our courses are outdated, our consolidation of technology poor,� said Mr P. Jayarajan, eminent librarian and former Head, Library and Information Services, British Council India who was present at the function which also witnessed a panel discussion on the required changes in library science syllabi. Among the panelists were Prof H.R, Chopra, Head, Library Science Department, PU, Mr A.R. Sethi, Head Librarian, PU Library. K.C. Ramola, Librarian, Centre-State Library and Ms Devinder Kaur, Librarian, Punjabi University, Patiala. Dissecting the scenario of library and information services in India, Mr Jayarajan, who is now working on retrospective conversion and library automation at prestigious libraries like the Nehru Memorial Library, said, �We have been wasting time. In the 1980s we talked about library automation but not more than 10 Indian libraries are automated; in the1990s we talked about library networks, but I cannot list a single credible network expect DELNET; now are talking about digital libraries but that is not the answer. We must become user friendly by offering high quality services. We must also target non users. Traditional methods are fine but computers have to come in, whether or not public libraries like it�. Another challenge, the expert said, was from new age media like TV, Internet, choices of news channels, upmarket book shops, distribution centres that bring you any book you want. �In such a scenario, we need to change our curriculum, impart library skills to ensure that we churn out fine talent and not mass graduates,� he said adding that the profile of a librarian must be improved by honouring the profession in the first place. President Abdul Kalam a great library user --------------------------------- Eminent librarian Mr P. Jayarajan took the occasion to tell the audience about President Abdul Kalam�s love for libraries. He recalled, �When the President was working at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram, he was a frequent library user. So much so that he would not leave the library even after everyone had gone. The library management had to give him a duplicate key for easy access�. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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hi all
by xahoor sofi 15 Jan '05

15 Jan '05

Fellow Professionals Our profession has contributed tremendously to almost every educational endeavour. However, our school libraries have not recieved the treatment that they deserved. Our union govt. is launching various mass education programmes like Sarva Shikhsha Abhiyan/ Rashtriya Saksharta Mission/ TLC etc. However, least consideration is given to the libraries in institutions who carry forward these programmes. I request all of you to advocate a programme for libraries which i suggest should be named Sarva Pustakalia Abhiyan. Hope you all start you efforts from today onwards. Zahoo Ahmad Research Scholar University of Kashmir Dept. of Lib. & Information Science. zahoor_sofi(a)yahoo.co.uk xahoor_61(a)hotmail.com --------------------------------- ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! Fellow Professionals Our profession has contributed tremendously to almost every educational endeavour. However, our school libraries have not recieved the treatment that they deserved. Our union govt. is launching various mass education programmes like Sarva Shikhsha Abhiyan/ Rashtriya Saksharta Mission/ TLC etc. However, least consideration is given to the libraries in institutions who carry forward these programmes. I request all of you to advocate a programme for libraries which i suggest should be named Sarva Pustakalia Abhiyan. Hope you all start you efforts from today onwards. Zahoo Ahmad Research Scholar University of Kashmir Dept. of Lib. & Information Science. mailto:zahoor_sofi@yahoo.co.uk zahoor_sofi(a)yahoo.co.uk mailto:xahoor_61@hotmail.com xahoor_61(a)hotmail.com http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/mail/taglines/default/messenger/*http://uk.messenger… ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun!

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career opportunities after M.Phil.
by Achar 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

Dear Mrs.Vaishnav, After M.Phil., /NET, you can apply Ph.D. in IGNOU in March every year. Also, you can try with universities for teaching profession. You can write articles and apply for fellowships with foreign universities. This will take you to world of opportunities. You can take up small time consultance for library set up or teaching with open universities, correspondance courses,refresher courses etc. Hope this will help you in continuing education. All the best. Achar Librarian Ohio-manipal School of Business Bangalore Dear Mrs.Vaishnav, After M.Phil., /NET, you can apply Ph.D. in IGNOU in March every year. Also, you can try with universities for teaching profession. You can write articles and apply for fellowships with foreign universities. This will take you to world of opportunities. You can take up small time consultance for library set up or teaching with open universities, correspondance courses,refresher courses etc. Hope this will help you in continuing education. All the best. Achar Librarian Ohio-manipal School of Business Bangalore

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Libraries affected by the Tsunami
by vasanth raj 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

Dear Madam, Please refere The LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 22, Issue 3 dated 6th Jan 2005, there is Sri Lankan Libraries Call for Assistance, or contact VUpali Amarasiri, Director General, National Library and Documentation Services Board (NLDSB), 14, Independence Avenue, Colombo 7. Sri Lanka. Website http://www.natlib.lk or http://www.lankapage.com E-mail: dg(a)mail.natlib.lk Tel. +94 11 2687581 Fax: +94 11 2685201 Regards Vasantha Raju N Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Madam, Please refere The LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 22, Issue 3 dated 6th Jan 2005, there is Sri Lankan Libraries Call for Assistance, or contact VUpali Amarasiri, Director General, National Library and Documentation Services Board (NLDSB), 14, Independence Avenue, Colombo 7. Sri Lanka. Website http://www.natlib.lk/ http://www.natlib.lk or http://www.lankapage.com/ http://www.lankapage.com E-mail: http://in.f83.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=dg@mail.natlib.lk&YY=92862&order… dg(a)mail.natlib.lk Tel. +94 11 2687581 Fax: +94 11 2685201 Regards Vasantha Raju N http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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FW: [LIS-Forum] Popular Science Books
by Benny 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

<<ATT25085.txt>> Dear Nagarathna Please visit the following URL for some excellent books on Popular Science http://www.scholastic.ca/education/library/encyclopedias/popscience.html These books are published by the Grolier International Inc. Best wishes Benny M.D. -----Original Message----- From: Casius C Issac To: NCSI LIS forum Sent: 1/13/05 12:34 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Popular Science Books Dear Nagarathna The following publishers have lot of popular science books National Book Trust Delhi Kerala Shastra Sahithya Parishad (Malayalam ) Trichur, Kerala Centre for science and environment Delhi Regards Casius <<ATT25085.txt>>

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Popular Science Books
by Casius C Issac 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

Dear Nagarathna The following publishers have lot of popular science books National Book Trust Delhi Kerala Shastra Sahithya Parishad (Malayalam ) Trichur, Kerala Centre for science and environment Delhi Regards Casius Dear Nagarathna The following publishers have lot of popular science books National Book Trust Delhi Kerala Shastra Sahithya Parishad (Malayalam ) Trichur, Kerala Centre for science and environment Delhi Regards Casius

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Regarding "POPULAR SCIENCE BOOKS BY INDIAN AUTHORS"
by A.V. Nagarathna 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

Dear LIS Professionals, I am looking for information relating to list of Popular Science Books authored/edited by Indians (all languages if possible). I request you to provide me the source where I can find this information. Thank you all for your help. Best regards, A.V. Nagarathna Documentation Centre Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research Jakkur, Bangalore 560064, Karnataka.

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Help required for literature.
by vasanth raj 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

Dear Manjunath, There will be enormous resources is avilable on impact of technology on library resources and services. You may get some information if u visit the following sites www.infolibrarian.com www.doaj.org http://www.informedlibrarian.com/ilosearch.cfm (10-16 Jan) and plenty of books are avialable on tecnological impact on libraries. Regards Vasantha Raju N Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Manjunath, There will be enormous resources is avilable on impact of technology on library resources and services. You may get some information if u visit the following sites http://www.infolibrarian.com www.infolibrarian.com http://www.doaj.org www.doaj.org http://www.informedlibrarian.com/ilosearch.cfm http://www.informedlibrarian.com/ilosearch.cfm (10-16 Jan) and plenty of books are avialable on tecnological impact on libraries. Regards Vasantha Raju N http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Libraries affected by the Tsunami
by Gowri Ravindranth 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

Friends: We would appreciate if you could let us know if you are aware of any libraries/museums which might have been affected affected by the tsunami in South India. Please provide contact details to Mr. M. K. Jagadish, Director, American Information Resource Center, Chennai 600 006. Tel: 044 - 28112000 Extn. 3000 Email: mailto:MysoreJK@state.gov MysoreJK(a)state.gov Regards L. R. Gowri Reference Librarian, AIRC, Chennai 600 006 Trailblazer Narain Karthikeyan. Know more about him n his life. http://g.msn.com/8HMAENIN/2755??PS=47575 Stay in the loop with Tata Racing!

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Yahoo Desktop Search
by Farooque Shaheen 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

Yahoo releases beta version of PC search software available at no charge through the site http://desktop.yahoo.com. Yahoo's application uses X1 Technologies Inc.'s search engine to index emails, attachments, documents, music, images, videos and other content. X1 claims to scan more than 200 different file types, including Outlook email, PDF, HTML, text, ZIP, MP3 and Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. Yahoo Desktop Search currently only works with computers running Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser on Windows XP and Windows 2000 operating systems. I found it better than Ask Jeeves,Microsoft and Google desktop search in terms of customization, speed, instant preview and various types of files it searches. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor (India) Pvt Ltd. Bull Temple Road. Bangalore. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 Yahoo releases beta version of PC search software available at no charge through the site http://desktop.yahoo.com . Yahoo's application uses X1 Technologies Inc.'s search engine to index emails, attachments, documents, music, images, videos and other content. X1 claims to scan more than 200 different file types, including Outlook email, PDF, HTML, text, ZIP, MP3 and Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. Yahoo Desktop Search currently only works with computers running Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser on Windows XP and Windows 2000 operating systems . I found it better than Ask Jeeves,Microsoft and Google desktop search in terms of customization, speed, instant preview and various types of files it searches. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor (India) Pvt Ltd. Bull Temple Road. Bangalore. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Request of vendor sources for audio-visual cassettes (Sanjay Kataria)
by SHRI RAM 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

Dear Sanjay! One of the best source of the audio vidual library is the CEC (Consortium for Educational Communication), New Delhi. The CEC has classis collection of audio and video cassettes materials on the varous educational program. If desired details of the resources available i can send you the some of catalogue available with me. or directly contact: Ms Jayeja Krishnan Librarian Audio-Vidual Library Consortium for Educational Communication Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, Natinal Science Center Delhi or Marketing Division of the same I hope this information might be usefull for you. good luck shri ram On Tue, 11 Jan 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. New developments in biochemistry (vasanth raj) > 2. Enquiry (xahoor sofi) > 3. Software for converting Hard copy to Adobe pdf file > (Pradeep P Kavi) > 4. RE: Software for converting Hard copy to Adobe pdf file > (Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com) > 5. Re: Software for converting Hard copy to Adobe pdf file > (K.S. Chudamani) > 6. Re: Software for converting Hard copy to Adobe pdf file > (vijaya kumara) > 7. Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 22, Issue 6 (Tarun Chaturvedi) > 8. Request of vendor sources for audio-visual cassettes > (Sanjay Kataria) > 9. Information Professional (Farooque Shaheen) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:41:42 +0000 (GMT) > From: vasanth raj <gooche_1981(a)yahoo.co.in> >Subject: [LIS-Forum] New developments in biochemistry >To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Message-ID: <20050110074142.90542.qmail(a)web8302.mail.in.yahoo.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >Dear Sir/Madam > >I think you can find some information on Bio chemistry if you scroll like Current contents(ISI product)wherein you can trace the various journal article contents relating to Biochem, American Chemical Abstracts, Nature, Elsevier science directory, And for that matter you can search in google scholar also.But biochemistry is huge one, the prolifiration of information in that kind of field is unbelievable.Everyday there will be a new thing like.. > >Regards > > >Vasantha Raju N > >Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. > Dear Sanjay! One of the best source of the audio vidual library is the CEC (Consortium for Educational Communication), New Delhi. The CEC has classis collection of audio and video cassettes materials on the varous educational program. If desired details of the resources available i can send you the some of catalogue available with me. or directly contact: Ms Jayeja Krishnan Librarian Audio-Vidual Library Consortium for Educational Communication Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, Natinal Science Center Delhi or Marketing Division of the same I hope this information might be usefull for you. good luck shri ram On Tue, 11 Jan 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. New developments in biochemistry (vasanth raj) > 2. Enquiry (xahoor sofi) > 3. Software for converting Hard copy to Adobe pdf file > (Pradeep P Kavi) > 4. RE: Software for converting Hard copy to Adobe pdf file > (Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com) > 5. Re: Software for converting Hard copy to Adobe pdf file > (K.S. Chudamani) > 6. Re: Software for converting Hard copy to Adobe pdf file > (vijaya kumara) > 7. Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 22, Issue 6 (Tarun Chaturvedi) > 8. Request of vendor sources for audio-visual cassettes > (Sanjay Kataria) > 9. Information Professional (Farooque Shaheen) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:41:42 +0000 (GMT) > From: vasanth raj <gooche_1981(a)yahoo.co.in> >Subject: [LIS-Forum] New developments in biochemistry >To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Message-ID: <20050110074142.90542.qmail(a)web8302.mail.in.yahoo.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >Dear Sir/Madam > >I think you can find some information on Bio chemistry if you scroll like Current contents(ISI product)wherein you can trace the various journal article contents relating to Biochem, American Chemical Abstracts, Nature, Elsevier science directory, And for that matter you can search in google scholar also.But biochemistry is huge one, the prolifiration of information in that kind of field is unbelievable.Everyday there will be a new thing like.. > >Regards > > >Vasantha Raju N > >Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. >

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Request of vendor sources for audio-visual cassettes
by pranjals＠mastek.com 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

Hi, The following are the contact details and website address of Multimedia HRD Pvt Ltd. 22042281 / 22826312 / 22040127 info(a)multimediahrd.com www.multimediahrd.com Regards, Pranjal Sule Assistant Manager- Information Repository Mastek Ltd Tel.No. 55914662 -----Original Message----- From: theresa.williams(a)wipro.com [mailto:theresa.williams@wipro.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 1:58 PM To: katariasanjay2001(a)yahoo.com; LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Request of vendor sources for audio-visual cassettes Sanjay You may contact Ajay Agrwawal,HRDmultimedia ,Bombay for audio visual materials. The address is as furnished below: Address: Multi Media HRD Pvt. Ltd. Plot No. 20, New India Coop Society Road No.12, JVPD Scheme Vile Parle (West), Mumbai - 400 049. India. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ e-mail: info(a)multimediahrd.com Fax: 91-22-2283 6478 Tel: 91-22-2204 2281 / 2282 6312 / 2204 0127 Regards Theresa Theresa Williams Information Services Division Wipro Technologies 72,Keonics E-city Hosur road Bangalore 560100 Tel:91-80-51381791 91-80-28520408#1791 FAX:91-80-28520478 VOIP:808-5512 Mobile:9845324613 MASTEK "Making a valuable difference" Mastek in NASSCOM's 'India Top 20' Software Service Exporters List. In the US, we're called MAJESCO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual and not that of Mastek Limited, unless specifically indicated to that effect. Mastek Limited does not accept any responsibility or liability for it. This e-mail and attachments (if any) transmitted with it are confidential and/or privileged and solely for the use of the intended person or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. This e-mail and its attachments have been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. It is the responsibility of the recipient to run the virus check on e-mails and attachments before opening them. If you have received this e-mail in error, kindly delete this e-mail from all computers. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Request of vendor sources for audio-visual cassettes
by Sanjay Kataria 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

Dear Information Scientist, I am going to set-up an audio-visual centre in our library, In this regards i need your help and suggestions. Kindly provide some of good sources of vendors or provide the list of audio & visual on following areas: Personality Development Fictions Scientific Discovery Communications skill Educational movies on IT, ECE, Bio-Technology, CS etc. other informative for engineering students & faculty members. I am looking your valuable suggestions and prompt reply please. Thanks & Regards ==*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* Sanjay Kataria Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of InformationTechnology (Deemed University) A-10, Sector-62, Noida (UP) 201307 India Ph. 0120-2400973 to 978 Ext. 251 09810503341 (Mobile) E-mail: lib_scholar(a)rediffmail.com, katariasanjay2001(a)yahoo.com Website: www.jiit.ac.in --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. Dear Information Scientist, I am going to set-up an audio-visual centre in our library, In this regards i need your help and suggestions. Kindly provide some of good sources of vendors or provide the list of audio & visual on following areas: Personality Development Fictions Scientific Discovery Communications skill Educational movies on IT, ECE, Bio-Technology, CS etc. other informative for engineering students & faculty members. I am looking your valuable suggestions and prompt reply please. Thanks & Regards ==*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* Sanjay Kataria Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of InformationTechnology (Deemed University) A-10, Sector-62, Noida (UP) 201307 India Ph. 0120-2400973 to 978 Ext. 251 09810503341 (Mobile) E-mail: lib_scholar(a)rediffmail.com, mailto:katariasanjay2001@yahoo.com katariasanjay2001(a)yahoo.com Website: www.jiit.ac.in Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=29916/*http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 Learn more.

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Help required for literature.
by Manjunath K 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

Dear Professional Colleagues, I am doing a research study on "Impact of Technology on Quality of Service in Management and Technical Libraries in Karnataka" In this study I am going to study impact of technology on tangibles, reliability of the services and responsiveness and assurance of staff. Now I am looking for looking for literature published particularly on impact of technology on library resources and services, Type of technology based facilities and services introduced in the library. I will be grateful if you can help me to locate research papers on this topic. With best wishes, manjunath __________________________________________________ Dr. Manjunatha K Librarian T.A. Pai Management Institute Manipal - 576 104 Udupi Dist. Karnataka State, India Phone: 91-0820-2573551(off) 2575161(Res) email: manjunath(a)mail.tapmi.org; manju_tapmi(a)yahoo.com web: www.tapmi.org <http://www.tapmi.org/> _______________________________________ Help required for literature. Dear Professional Colleagues, I am doing a research study on "Impact of Technology on Quality of Service in Management and Technical Libraries in Karnataka" In this study I am going to study impact of� technology on tangibles, reliability of the services and responsiveness and assurance of staff. Now I am looking for looking for literature published particularly on impact of technology on library resources and services, Type of technology based facilities and services introduced in the library. I will be grateful if you can help me to locate research papers on this topic. With best wishes, manjunath __________________________________________________ Dr. Manjunatha K Librarian T.A. Pai Management Institute Manipal - 576 104 Udupi Dist. Karnataka State, India Phone: 91-0820-2573551(off) 2575161(Res) email: mailto:manjunath@mail.tapmi.org manjunath(a)mail.tapmi.org ; mailto:manju_tapmi@yahoo.com manju_tapmi(a)yahoo.com web: http://www.tapmi.org/ www.tapmi.org _______________________________________

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Request of vendor sources for audio-visual cassettes
by theresa.williams＠wipro.com 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

Sanjay You may contact Ajay Agrwawal,HRDmultimedia ,Bombay for audio visual materials. The address is as furnished below: Address: Multi Media HRD Pvt. Ltd. Plot No. 20, New India Coop Society Road No.12, JVPD Scheme Vile Parle (West), Mumbai - 400 049. India. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ e-mail: info(a)multimediahrd.com Fax: 91-22-2283 6478 Tel: 91-22-2204 2281 / 2282 6312 / 2204 0127 Regards Theresa Theresa Williams Information Services Division Wipro Technologies 72,Keonics E-city Hosur road Bangalore 560100 Tel:91-80-51381791 91-80-28520408#1791 FAX:91-80-28520478 VOIP:808-5512 Mobile:9845324613 -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Sanjay Kataria Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 10:10 AM To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Request of vendor sources for audio-visual cassettes Dear Information Scientist, I am going to set-up an audio-visual centre in our library, In this regards i need your help and suggestions. Kindly provide some of good sources of vendors or provide the list of audio & visual on following areas: Personality Development Fictions Scientific Discovery Communications skill Educational movies on IT, ECE, Bio-Technology, CS etc. other informative for engineering students & faculty members. I am looking your valuable suggestions and prompt reply please. Thanks & Regards ==*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* Sanjay Kataria Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of InformationTechnology (Deemed University) A-10, Sector-62, Noida (UP) 201307 India Ph. 0120-2400973 to 978 Ext. 251 09810503341 (Mobile) E-mail: lib_scholar(a)rediffmail.com, katariasanjay2001(a)yahoo.com Website: www.jiit.ac.in --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. 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] Software for converting Hard copy to Adobe pdf file
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

After reading others' responses, I realise that I misunderstood the question from Kavi of Thaper Institute. Sorry. However I hope the info provided is useful to others. Vyasamoorthy, P -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 3:16 PM To: pradeepkavi(a)yahoo.com Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Software for converting Hard copy to Adobe pdf file Try pdfcamp/pdfwriter available from: http://www.verypdf.com/pdfcamp/pdfcamp.htm It costs just USD 30/- and a free download for testing/evaluating is available. PDFcamp(pdf writer) is the quick and easy PDF creation software that converts any type of printable Windows document, including DOC, XLS, PPT, TXT and even HTML, to a universally accepted PDF (Portable Document Format) file with the click of a button. This gives users a convenient and simple way to share any type of Windows document. PDFcamp(pdf writer) installs and operates as a printer driver, making the creation of PDF documents as easy as printing. PDFcamp(pdf writer) answers the need of corporations and individuals for a low-cost, easy to implement, easy to use and fast working PDF creation solution. I have used a few tools from verypdf and they are excellant. Vyasamoorthy, P -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Pradeep P Kavi Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 2:19 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Software for converting Hard copy to Adobe pdf file Dear All, I would like to know whether there are any alternative software other than Adobe Capture software for converting Hard copy to Adobe pdf file. Do let me know the details. Thanks in advance Pradeep.P.kavi ===== Pradeep.P.Kavi Information Scientist Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology (Deemed University) Patiala - 147004 Punjab Phone (Off) 0175-2393349, (Res) 0175-2393479 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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ILOSearch at no charge this week
by Shyam Prasad pujar 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 22, Issue 6
by Tarun Chaturvedi 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

Dear Mr. Madhuresh, Its really a pleasure to know that we had such a lecture delivered about optimising practices & manging our job accommodating personal & household responsibilities. Can you please post this lecture (either in audio-visual mode or in text) on this forum which would benefit all those who could not attend it. Thanks & Regards, Tarun Chaturvedi Librarian Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur ----- Original Message ----- Message: 3 Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 11:43:46 +0530 From: "Madhuresh" <madhuresh_s(a)aurigene.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] NCSI-Net Meeting on 08-01-2005 To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Dear All, You are cordially invited for next NCSI-NET meeting, which is going to be held on Saturday 08th of January 2005 by 03:00 PM at NCSI. The speaker will be Dr. Thimappa Hegde, Director, Narayana Hrudayalaya Institute of Neurosciences.

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inquiry of efforts
by Tejaswini Mulay 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

Dear all, i wish to know whether there is any law or standards in India to make libraries and their resources easily availbale to the physically disabled. Since i came across some laws in other countries only. and also whether there any practical or research efforts being taken up in India in any of the libraries you know. Tejaswini Mulay Trainee, Bioinformatics Centre University of Pune. Dear all, i wish to know whether there is any law or standards in India to make libraries and their resources easily availbale to the physically disabled. Since i came across some laws in other countries only. and also whether there any practical or research efforts being taken up in India in any of the libraries you know. Tejaswini Mulay Trainee, Bioinformatics Centre University of Pune. 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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Enquiry
by xahoor sofi 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Hi Iam a research scholar working on the operations and services of " school libraries". i have submitted my research proposal and am i doing research. i need some source that would give me the necessary reading matter. Kindly help. zahoor ahmad post graduate department of library and information science, university of kashmir (J&K) India. --------------------------------- ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! Hi Iam a research scholar working on the operations and services of " school libraries". i have submitted my research proposal and am i doing research. i need some source that would give me the necessary reading matter. Kindly help. zahoor ahmad post graduate department of library and information science, university of kashmir (J&K) India. http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/mail/taglines/default/messenger/*http://uk.messenger… ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun!

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Software for converting Hard copy to Adobe pdf file
by Pradeep P Kavi 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Dear All, I would like to know whether there are any alternative software other than Adobe Capture software for converting Hard copy to Adobe pdf file. Do let me know the details. Thanks in advance Pradeep.P.kavi ===== Pradeep.P.Kavi Information Scientist Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology (Deemed University) Patiala - 147004 Punjab Phone (Off) 0175-2393349, (Res) 0175-2393479 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Software for converting Hard copy to Adobe pdf file
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Try pdfcamp/pdfwriter available from: http://www.verypdf.com/pdfcamp/pdfcamp.htm It costs just USD 30/- and a free download for testing/evaluating is available. PDFcamp(pdf writer) is the quick and easy PDF creation software that converts any type of printable Windows document, including DOC, XLS, PPT, TXT and even HTML, to a universally accepted PDF (Portable Document Format) file with the click of a button. This gives users a convenient and simple way to share any type of Windows document. PDFcamp(pdf writer) installs and operates as a printer driver, making the creation of PDF documents as easy as printing. PDFcamp(pdf writer) answers the need of corporations and individuals for a low-cost, easy to implement, easy to use and fast working PDF creation solution. I have used a few tools from verypdf and they are excellant. Vyasamoorthy, P -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Pradeep P Kavi Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 2:19 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Software for converting Hard copy to Adobe pdf file Dear All, I would like to know whether there are any alternative software other than Adobe Capture software for converting Hard copy to Adobe pdf file. Do let me know the details. Thanks in advance Pradeep.P.kavi ===== Pradeep.P.Kavi Information Scientist Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology (Deemed University) Patiala - 147004 Punjab Phone (Off) 0175-2393349, (Res) 0175-2393479 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Information Professional
by Farooque Shaheen 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

An interesting article "Search! Is your job in lexicon?" published in The Hindu Business Line. It talks about The way that information professionals describe their own discipline. This is also available in internet edition. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/ew/2005/01/10/stories/2005011000300400.… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor (India) Pvt Ltd. Bull Temple Road. Bangalore-04, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 An interesting article "Search! Is your job in lexicon?" published in The Hindu Business Line. It talks about The way that information professionals describe their own discipline . This is also available in internet edition. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/ew/2005/01/10/stories/2005011000300400.… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor (India) Pvt Ltd. Bull Temple Road. Bangalore-04, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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New developments in biochemistry
by vasanth raj 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Dear Sir/Madam I think you can find some information on Bio chemistry if you scroll like Current contents(ISI product)wherein you can trace the various journal article contents relating to Biochem, American Chemical Abstracts, Nature, Elsevier science directory, And for that matter you can search in google scholar also.But biochemistry is huge one, the prolifiration of information in that kind of field is unbelievable.Everyday there will be a new thing like.. Regards Vasantha Raju N Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Sir/Madam I think you can find some information on Bio chemistry if you scroll like Current contents(ISI product)wherein you can trace the various journal article contents relating to Biochem, American Chemical Abstracts, Nature, Elsevier science directory, And for that matter you can search in google scholar also.But biochemistry is huge one, the prolifiration of information in that kind of field is unbelievable.Everyday there will be a new thing like.. Regards Vasantha Raju N http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Bio chemistry
by lak shmi 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

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need information about DLIS in south India
by srini vas 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

respected sir/medium i am srinivas student of university of mysore department of library & information science. i am creating database of LIS schools in south india. so i need information about u r LIS department. i need informations like 1. year of establishment of the department 2. telephone no , fax , email adderess ,website 3.chairperson of the department 4. faculty members of the department and there qualification with designation 5. syllabus for both MLISc & BLISc( only name of the each paper of all the semister). 6 do u have programmes like Ph.D, M.Phil & certificate cources. because now i am in 4th semister so this is my project work. i hope u will not disappoint me sir/medium thanking you srinivas.p.s --- 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. ELPUB Digital Library: Free Access to Elpub > conference papers > (Gerry Mckiernan) > 2. FW: DLIS BHU Announces National Workshop (Dr. > T.B. Rajashekar) > 3. Documentation_about_'Unix_for_librarians' > (Carlos V?lchez Rom?n) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 12:33:42 -0600 > From: "Gerry Mckiernan" <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] ELPUB Digital Library: Free > Access to Elpub > conference papers > To: <lita-l(a)ala1.ala.org>, <arl-ejournal(a)arl.org>, > <asis-L(a)asis.org>, > <diglib(a)infoserv.inist.fr>, > <LIS-E-JOURNALS(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK>, > <SERIALST(a)LIST.UVM.edu>, > <BUSLIB-L(a)LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.edu>, > <CHMINF-L(a)LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU>, > <LIBREF-L(a)LISTSERV.KENT.EDU>, > <STS-L(a)LISTSERV.UTK.edu>, > <VPIEJ-L(a)LISTSERV.VT.edu>, > <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, > <web4lib(a)sunsite3.berkeley.edu>, > <ELDNET-L(a)u.washington.edu>, > <nhc(a)u.washington.edu>, > <COLLDV-L(a)usc.edu> > Message-ID: <s1de81c2.060(a)129.186.11.21> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > Colleagues/ > > I have discovered that Bob Martens of Vienna > University Of Technology > has created a database that provides > access to all of the conference papers presented at > the ELPUB > [Electronic Publishing] conferences dating from > 1997, the year of the > first ELPUB Conference. > > ELPUB Digital Library is available at [ > http://elpub.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Home ] > > There are a variety of search and browse options > that provide FREE > access to the Full Text of included papers! > "The use is free of charge. Access to advanced > features (article > upload, creation of collections, discussion forums, > ratings, reviews, > etc.) is subject to **user registration** and login. > > > [ http://elpub.scix.net/cgi-bin/users/Add ] > > IMHO, many of the papers presented at previous ELPUB > conferences have > consistently reported cutting/bleeding edge > developments in all areas of > Electronic Publishing and are well worth the read. > As of today, nearly > 300 papers are available! > > BTW: The 2005 ELPUB will be held June 8-10, 2005 > and will be hosted by > the Research Group on Document Architectures > (DocArch) of the Katholieke > Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven). > The conference will > take place at the Arenberg Castle, a beautiful > 16th-Century castle > situated in an impressively green scenery in > Heverlee near the city of > Leuven. > > [ http://www.elpub.net/page.php?edi_id=317 ] > > The list of suggested topics for the 2005 conference > is quite wide > ranging > > [ http://www.elpub.net/page.php?edi_id=314 ] > > Thanks Bob for this Very Important Service !!! > > Regards. > > /Gerry > > Gerry McKiernan > ElPub Librarian > Iowa State University > Ames IA 50011 > > gerrymck(a)iastate.edu > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 17:03:59 +0530 > From: "Dr. T.B. Rajashekar" > <raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] FW: DLIS BHU Announces National > Workshop > To: "Lis-Forum $E-mail$" > <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Message-ID: > <000601c4f575$f2a20660$bd481090@Rajashekar> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: aditya tripathi > [mailto:adityatripathi@hotmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 11:32 AM > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Subject: DLIS BHU Announces National Workshop > > > Dear Professionals, > Department of Library and Information Science, > Banaras Hindu > University is hosting three days �National Workshop > on Web > Applications to Libraries and Information Centres� > from 2nd � 4th > March 2005. Following topics would be covered during > workshop: > - Introduction to Internet Technology > - Overview of HyperText MarkUp Language > - E-publishing > - Digitization: Optical Character Recognition, Audio > Capture etc. > - Creation of Digital Library with WWWISIS > > The workshop is targeted for Working Librarians, > Teachers, Research > Scholars and Students with basic knowledge of IT. > Workshop is > confined to limited number of participants. > > Registration is > Rs. 2000/- per participant > The DD / Cash payable in favour of �National > Workshop on Web Applications to > Libraries and Information Centres, Dept. of Library > & Information Science, > B.H.U�, payable at Varanasi. > > For any further information please contact: > aditya(a)bhu.ac.in > adityatripathi(a)hotmail.com > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > REGISTRATION FORMAT > > 1. Name > > 2. Designation > > 3. Organization > > 4. Address (Correspondence) > > 5. Accommodation Required Yes/No > > 6. Telephone Number > Office : > Residence: > Mobile : > === message truncated === __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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INFORMATICS Seminars
by T.B Rajashekar 09 Jan '05

09 Jan '05

---------- Forwarded Message ----------- From: Sanjay Grover <sanjay(a)informindia.co.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 17:32:35 +0530 Subject: Please announce this in the NCSI LIS FORUM ! THANKS ( Sanjay Grov er for Informatics (I) Limited) INFORMATICS has scheduled a series of seminars on e-content -- "from e-journals to e-books" at the following locations: New Delhi - 17th January 2005 -Hotel Hyatt Regency Ahmedabad - 18th January 2005 -Hotel Le Meridian Hyderabad - January 20, 2005 -Hotel Green Park Chennai - January 21, 2004 -Hotel Le Royal Meridian Informatics is organizing the above four seminars in association with the following publishers: Springer Science + Business Media John Wiley & Sons CABI Publishing OVID Technologies Please visit www.informindia.co.in for more details or email your confirmation to events(a)informindia.co.in Thanks and Regards Sanjay Grover Vice President - Sales and Marketing Informatics (I) Limited 337, Karuna Complex, Sampige Road, Malleswaram Bangalore, India 560003 Phone : 91-80-23365940 Fax : 91-80-23344598 www.informindia.co.in Mobile : 9845516020 ===============================WE AIM AT CUSTOMER SATISFACTION ======================== ------- End of Forwarded Message -------

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Documentation_about_'Unix_for_librarians'
by Carlos Vílchez Román 08 Jan '05

08 Jan '05

Hi everybody, Sorry for the cross-posting My name is Carlos Vilchez-Roman, head of the Automation Office of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) Library university, located in Lima, Peru. I am writing you for the following: the next month Ill be giving a training course called UNIX for librarians. I think this course will be very helpful because our ILS is running on a UNIX Tru64 box. Sadly theres no material available in Spanish about this topic. I have only found a book titled UNIX and libraries and an article published in Computers in Libraries, 16 (10), 34-36. In Amazon.com the book is out of print (I only work with Amazon. They give me a guarantee). For that reason Id ask you if you know a website (or PDF files) where I can get documentarion about training courses on UNIX and librarians. Any information would be appreciated. Thanks for your time. Cordially yours, Carlos Vílchez-Román Head of Automation Office Library university UNMSM  Hi everybody, Sorry for the cross-posting My name is Carlos Vilchez-Roman, head of the Automation Office of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) Library university, located in Lima, Peru. I am writing you for the following: the next month I’ll be giving a training course called “UNIX for librarians”. I think this course will be very helpful because our ILS is running on a UNIX Tru64 box. Sadly there’s no material available in Spanish about this topic. I have only found a book titled ‘UNIX and libraries’ and an article published in Computers in Libraries, 16 (10), 34-36. In Amazon.com the book is out of print (I only work with Amazon. They give me a guarantee). For that reason I’d ask you if you know a website (or PDF files) where I can get documentarion about training courses on “UNIX and librarians”. Any information would be appreciated. Thanks for your time. Cordially yours, Carlos Vílchez-Román Head of Automation Office Library university – UNMSM

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FW: DLIS BHU Announces National Workshop
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 08 Jan '05

08 Jan '05

-----Original Message----- From: aditya tripathi [mailto:adityatripathi@hotmail.com] Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 11:32 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: DLIS BHU Announces National Workshop Dear Professionals, Department of Library and Information Science, Banaras Hindu University is hosting three days National Workshop on Web Applications to Libraries and Information Centres from 2nd 4th March 2005. Following topics would be covered during workshop: - Introduction to Internet Technology - Overview of HyperText MarkUp Language - E-publishing - Digitization: Optical Character Recognition, Audio Capture etc. - Creation of Digital Library with WWWISIS The workshop is targeted for Working Librarians, Teachers, Research Scholars and Students with basic knowledge of IT. Workshop is confined to limited number of participants. Registration is Rs. 2000/- per participant The DD / Cash payable in favour of National Workshop on Web Applications to Libraries and Information Centres, Dept. of Library & Information Science, B.H.U, payable at Varanasi. For any further information please contact: aditya(a)bhu.ac.in adityatripathi(a)hotmail.com ------------------------------------------------------ REGISTRATION FORMAT 1. Name 2. Designation 3. Organization 4. Address (Correspondence) 5. Accommodation Required Yes/No 6. Telephone Number Office : Residence: Mobile : e-mail : 7. Payment Details DD/Cash DD No. : Bank : Branch : Amount : Date : Signature -------------------------------------------------------- Coordinator Prof. H. N. PRASAD Head Deptt. of Library and Information Science Banaras Hindu University Varanasi- 221 005 Tel: +91 542 2307140 (Off) +91 542 2575233 (Res) Organising Secretary Aditya Tripathi Lecturer Department of Library & Information Science Banaras Hindu University Varanasi-221 005 Tel: +91 542 2277086 (R) +91 542 2307140 (Off) +91 9935471165 (Mobile) ---------------------------------------------------- 1. Contribute to DRTC LIS Open Digital Library https://drtc.isibang.ac.in 2. Join today Digital Library Discussion Forum http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg _________________________________________________________________ The MS Office product suite. Make efficiency a habit. http://www.microsoft.com/india/office/experience/ Simplify your life.

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ELPUB Digital Library: Free Access to Elpub conference papers
by Gerry Mckiernan 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

Colleagues/ I have discovered that Bob Martens of Vienna University Of Technology has created a database that provides access to all of the conference papers presented at the ELPUB [Electronic Publishing] conferences dating from 1997, the year of the first ELPUB Conference. ELPUB Digital Library is available at [ http://elpub.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Home ] There are a variety of search and browse options that provide FREE access to the Full Text of included papers! "The use is free of charge. Access to advanced features (article upload, creation of collections, discussion forums, ratings, reviews, etc.) is subject to **user registration** and login. [ http://elpub.scix.net/cgi-bin/users/Add ] IMHO, many of the papers presented at previous ELPUB conferences have consistently reported cutting/bleeding edge developments in all areas of Electronic Publishing and are well worth the read. As of today, nearly 300 papers are available! BTW: The 2005 ELPUB will be held June 8-10, 2005 and will be hosted by the Research Group on Document Architectures (DocArch) of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven). The conference will take place at the Arenberg Castle, a beautiful 16th-Century castle situated in an impressively green scenery in Heverlee near the city of Leuven. [ http://www.elpub.net/page.php?edi_id=317 ] The list of suggested topics for the 2005 conference is quite wide ranging [ http://www.elpub.net/page.php?edi_id=314 ] Thanks Bob for this Very Important Service !!! Regards. /Gerry Gerry McKiernan ElPub Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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NCSI-Net Meeting on 08-01-2005
by Madhuresh 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

Dear All, You are cordially invited for next NCSI-NET meeting, which is going to be held on Saturday 08th of January 2005 by 03:00 PM at NCSI. The speaker will be Dr. Thimappa Hegde, Director, Narayana Hrudayalaya Institute of Neurosciences. Synopsis: In today's scenario with greater pressures at work and the availability of laptop computers and mobile telephones, more and more of our waking hours is focussed on work often even while travelling or at home. Life is multidimensional. A complete man/woman is one who is not only good at work but also is able to lead a fulfilled family and social life. The talk will address on how to balance work and life, a way to lead a successful as well as satisfying life. About the Speaker Dr. Thimappa Hegde is a senior consultant neurosurgeon and working presently as the Director, Narayana Hrudayalaya Institute of Neurosciences. He was earlier the Additional Professor of Neurosurgery at NIMHANS Bangalore. He had his basic medical and neurosurgical training in India & later acquired specialized training in the United States of America, Japan and the Netherlands. He has authored 30 scientific publications in leading journals and has written one book on the history of neurosciences. His interests include the history of medicine and the humanities of medicine, trekking and travelling, having travelled to various places connected with the life of Buddha and Adi Shankaracharya. He has also trekked to various places in the Indian Himalayas. Dr. Hegde has been awarded "Outstanding Citizen Award" by the Lions Club of Bangalore and was selected as a member of the Group Study Exchange Program of the Rotary International to visit USA and Canada in 1997. He was invited by the Vatican to speak at an International Meeting in Nov 1999 at the Vatican City and had a special audience with the POPE His Holiness John Paul II. Please confirm your presence to Prasanna (t.s.prasanna(a)intel.com) or Madhuresh (madhuresh_s(a)aurigene.com). Regards NCSI-Net Coordinators Note: NCSI-NET is a network of National Center for Science Information (NCSI) employees and alumni and organizes presentations/talks every month for its members.

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Digital library initiatives in Bioinformetics in India
by vasanth raj 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

Dear sir, At present as i know there is no digital library initiatives in bioinformetics in India.But Digital library of India are now developing a gateway to provide information realting to science. regards Vasantha Raju n Vasantha Raju N Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear sir, At present as i know there is no digital library initiatives in bioinformetics in India.But Digital library of India are now developing a gateway to provide information realting to science. regards Vasantha Raju n Vasantha Raju N http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Some good Websites and News Items
by Madhuresh 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

IOSN (http://www.iosn.net/): The International Open Source Network (IOSN) is a Center of Excellence for FOSS in the Asia-Pacific Region. It shapes its activities around Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) technologies and applications. Via a small secretariat, the IOSN is tasked specifically to facilitate and network FOSS advocates and human resources in the region. The vision is that developing countries in the Asia-Pacific Region can achieve rapid and sustained economic and social development by using affordable yet effective FOSS ICT solutions to bridge the digital divide. IOSN is an initiative of the Asia-Pacific Information Development Programme (APDIP), which has been supporting the strategic and effective use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) for poverty alleviation and sustainable human development in the Asia-Pacific region since 1997. The site offers FOSS resources categorized by the country, News items, Events, Organizations and other articles. The site also gives the details of localization effort like developing/developed s/w in various Indian languages, Training Materials, Documentation, Tutorials, FOSS in Education, FOSS and Government etc. FreshPatents (http://www.freshpatents.com/): A good website for tracking new patents and technologies. It gives the latest published US patent applications each week BEFORE the USPTO decision to grant/deny. One can register with it freely to monitor any keyword and when it finds any match, it will send an email. One can also search and browse by Location (currently it shows 355 applications from India); Industry; Inventors (Inventors directory); and Agents (Patent Agents & Law Firms Directory) and allows search in Title/Abstract. ************************************************************************ ******************************************** PCtvt to bridge the digital divide R RAVICHANDRAN Hyderabad, Jan 4: If all goes well, soon India will find the deployment of the most-talked-about PCtvt, the low-cost one-in-all multi-function information appliance with the potential to function as a TV, PC, video phone, IP phone and multimedia, in villages across the country soon. Expected to bridge the digital divide and to educate the economically and educationally weaker sections in the country - particularly those in the villages - the PCtvt, being developed by the Carnegie Mellon University in collaboration with International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) of Hyderabad and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) of Bangalore, will provide an affordable technology to empower the rural folk by giving more importance to voice, video communication than reading and writing. Speaking to FE here, Praveen Garimella, director of the PCtvt project in India and part of the Carnegie Mellon University team working on this project said: "The PCtvt is a new device to bridge the digital divide for those economically weaker classes with easy affordability to communicate through audio and video." Eminent robotics expert Professor Raj Reddy of the Carnegie Mellon University was instrumental in the project. Expected to carry a low price tag of $250 when commercially launched across the globe, PCtvt has been designed in a special way by equipping it with multi-lingual applications, communication and entertainment, video/IP phone systems, web camera and all entertainment applications like cable channels viewing, personal video recorder, talking newspaper, etc to enable the poor masses to enjoy and communicate with the rest of world, Mr Garimella said further. "With functions like remote TV system, speech recognition, keyboard, mouse, cell phone, web camera and all iconic interfaces, an illiterate can learn and understand things fast with voice-mail and video help if not through email and text-based help," the official said adding it has a radically simple design with one minute training time, double-click model and three modes of communication - video, audio and text in both synchronous and asynchronous modes. Based on a study, it was found that for most people in a village, entertainment and communication are of greater importance than PC functionality. "Poverty and illiteracy are no longer a barrier in using and benefiting from technology and the PCtvt is the simplified and easy appliance to help bridge the digital divide," Mr Garimella pointed out. With the multi-lingual applications and software, a villager can communicate and enjoy the entertainment in different languages of their choice. "Currently, the appliance has been designed to use in four Indian languages - Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi - and will add other languages once the product is commercially launched," he said. http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=78816 ************************************************************************ ******************************************* SAARC to set up traditional knowledge digital library New Delhi, Jan 3 The member-countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) have decided to set up a traditional knowledge digital library (TKDL) with a view to protect the region from any possible acts of biopiracy and misappropriation of traditional knowledge in the near future. A model legal framework has been drafted and circulated to member-countries for framing notional legislation recognising TKDL. Speaking to FE, director of Saarc Documentation Centre (SDC) Dr VK Gupta said, "The TKDL database will be provided to patent offices across the globe under non-disclosure agreement. This will help them to examine the case before granting patent rights on any subject pertaining to traditional knowledge. Even if they, by mistake, grant patent rights over any aspect of traditional knowledge which is already documented and given to them, this can be challenged without payment of any fees and the concerned patent office will be under obligations to revoke the wrongly granted patent rights. Otherwise the cost of challenging a single patent right in patent offices in the US and Europe equals to the total investment required for setting up of a TKDL." India is the only country in the world to set up a TKDL and we are urging all countries in the South Asia to set up a common TKDL for the region, he said. Mr Gupta said India needs to enact appropriate legislation to protect traditional knowledge from infringement. "So far we have Biological Diversity Act to protect bio recourses. But there are other aspects of traditional knowledge like traditional medicines, foods, farm practices, architecture and construction, tribal knowledge and traditional expressions like handicrafts, handloom, folk music, museum which need similar protection through law," he said. The TKDL set up in India has already documented the public domain knowledge on Ayurveda (36,000 slokas) in a digitised format and the information is available in English, Spanish, German, French and Japanese. It has a traditional knowledge resource classification system based on the international patent classification. It provides information classified under sections, classes, sub-classes, groups and sub-groups and has expanded one IPC group related to medicinal plants to about 5000 sub-groups. The cost involved in documenting Ayurveda slokas was Rs 1.25 crore. The decision to set up a Saarc TKDL was taken at a two-day workshop convened by jointly SDC, National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR) last week in Delhi, said Dr Gupta. The Saarc TKDL will also have an innovative uniform structured traditional knowledge resource classification (TKRC) for systematic arrangement, dissemination and retrieval which may be TK independent of region or country. The framework will encompass various aspects of traditional knowledge including materials used for treatment like plants, animal products, minerals, their generic or specific method of preparations or designs, their dosage, mode and time of administration, therapeutic action or indication or application of traditional knowledge. With respect to components of biodiversity digital library (CBDL), TKDL will be created using the taxonomic hierarchical structure of Whittaker's five kingdom classification, namely, Monera, Protoctista, Fungi, Animalia and Plantae and modern phylogenetic classification system. http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=78706 Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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(Fwd) Mantex Newsletter - January 2005
by Prafulla Chandra 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Here's is an interesting newsletter from The British Library. Perhaps, you may wish to subscribe. ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:44:42 GMT To: prafulla(a)nisc.co.in Subject: Mantex Newsletter - January 2005 Send reply to: news(a)mantex.co.uk From: news(a)mantex.co.uk -------- MANTEX NEWSLETTER -------- Number 100 - January 2005 - ISSN 1470-1863 Happy New Year to all our Subscribers!! Anniversary issue - 100 and going strong Spelling - Research - Software - Design 0----- "Oxford A-Z of Spelling" - new book You'd imagine it was hard to make a book on spelling interesting, but Oxford University Press have done it. This is a beginner's guide to the rules and the exceptions of spelling in English. It covers all the basics without once going into any jargon or elaborate rules which would put off the very people the book is aimed at. Highly recommended for beginners - and I think it would be very useful to anybody using English as another language. Full review and details at - http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/oxf-azspel.htm 0----- Pub Quiz - Question #1 Which ingredient turns curry yellow? 0----- Weird Facts #1 No piece of square dry paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. [Go on - try it! - Bet you can't.] 0----- "How to Find Information" - new book Did you know that even though Google has four billion web pages in its database, the Internet contains only a small fraction of the world's total information. This is a guide for anyone who wants to develop really serious research skills. Naturally it tells you how to search on the Web, but it's built on a solid foundation of library research and data retrieval skills. There is even advice on how to identify your own information needs, how to interpret your search results, and how to keep up with the latest trends. Full review at - http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/rumsey.htm 0----- Pub Quiz - Question #2 Who invented the aqualung? 0----- Weird Facts #2 French was the official language of England for over 600 years. [C'est vrai!] 0----- "OpenOffice.org Writer" - new book OpenOffice is the f.r.e.e software which is an alternative to the very expensive Microsoft Office. Writer is the word-processor in this suite, and a direct rival to Word. There's a new book from Jean Hollis Weber which is the 'missing manual' for Writer - and most importantly it comes with a CD-ROM which contains the whole of the OpenOffice suite. The book explains all the features and menu options of the Writer program - and in particular where it differs from Word. If you want to make a switch into using open source software, this would be an excellent place to start. Most importantly, having the OpenOffice suite on CD saves you a 50MB+ download. details at - http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/weber.htm 0----- Pub Quiz - Question #3 If it's heavy in Scotland, what is it in England? 0----- Weird Facts #3 The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but can't fly. 0----- "CSS Cookbook" - new book This is a book of solutions to common problems in using cascading style sheets. It starts as a beginner's guide and then goes on to more advanced features. First a problem is specified (You want to indent the first line of a paragraph) and then it shows the CSS code to achieve this, followed by an illustrative screen shot. There's an explanation of how and why it works as it does, and there are web links to online tutorials and official specifications directly related to that topic. Full review at - http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/schmitt.htm 0----- Pub Quiz - Question #4 What is a shooting star? 0----- Weird Facts #4 Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. [Here's looking at you, kid.] 0----- "Dictionary of Modern Design" - new book Design buffs will be interested in a huge new work of reference from Oxford University Press. Actually, it's closer to an encyclopedia than a dictionary - because each entry is like a short essay. It covers a vast range of topics - from individual designers, painters, and architects, through artistic movements and fashions, to famous products. Full review at - http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/woodham.htm 0----- Pub Quiz - Question #5 What is the world's longest river? 0----- Weird Facts #5 A housefly regurgitates its food after eating, and then eats it again. [The fly is a bit like a cow then?] 0----- Online Democratic Dictionaries British publisher Collins has launched an online dictionary that will enable Internet users to debate new words. Users can suggest new words and argue over whether they should be added to the print version of the dictionary. You can log on to and suggest a new word, then wait for positive or negative feedback from other dictionary fans. Words submitted thus far, 'Arab street', 'contrasexual', 'cyberathletics, 'Ingerland', 'manny' and 'podcasting' are likely to be included in the next printed version. http://www.collins.co.uk/wordexchange There's also an online Wikipedia encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia You could also try the FreeDictionary.com at http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ 0----- Pub Quiz - Question #6 On what date was Jesus Christ conceived? 0----- Weird Facts #6 W is the only letter in the English alphabet to have not one but three syllables. 0----- F.r.e.e Web Design Tutorials Rachna Asirvatham writes from Bangalore India to announce her company's f.r.e.e design tutorials. And very stylish they are too. Tips and tricks for Dreamweaver and Fireworks; how to deal with style sheets; clever use of tables; special effects in Flash; and lots of sensible advice, all delivered in a visually attractive manner. http://www.entheosweb.com/website_design/default.asp 0----- Pub Quiz - Question #7 What's the common name for iron oxide? 0----- Weird Facts #7 The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. [Lhooq again if you don't believe me.] 0----- "Windows XP Power Hound" - new book XP is now the world's most popular operating system - and thank goodness it's more stable than its predecessors. But did you know that it contains lots and lots of hidden tools, utilities, and settings? It's possible to customise the desktop; you can add bells and whistles to just about any of its functions; and there are powerful software programs just below the surface of the comic-book interface. All of these are explained in Preston Gralla's guidance handbook from O'Reilly's 'Missing Manual' series. If you are an XP user but would like to see what more it can do for you in terms of power and efficiency, have a look at his recommendations. Full details and review at - http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/gralla-2.htm 0----- Pub Quiz - Question #8 What is the world's biggest baby? 0----- Weird Facts #8 Brigham Young University (Utah) has an undergraduate course on ballroom dancing. 0----- A Message from Albia - Blogspot I've just come across a wonderful satirical blog featuring news from Albia - a 'constitutional monarchy' located on 'the edge of Europe'. It's written in spoof inflated eighteenth-century manner and purports to be written by someone who is living in a cupboard at his local cybercafe, after being evicted from home by his wife. The nation is ruled by Queen Dowdi, who has a son the Heir Apparent Prinz Yusslez. He is in love with his favourite horse, Kamella. Albia is governed by Prime Minister Kiznya Schlopp, head of the Krep Proti. His Home Secretary Fanatik Loon was recently in hot water after siring children with his no-longer-Thai-bride-to-be, Yu Fam Ism. Start with the Albia gazeteer and factbook, then work your way up through the archives. It's great fun. http://albia.blogspot.com He is due to change this address at some point, so if it doesn't work, try the following: http://www.messagefromalbia.com 0----- Pub Quiz - Question #9 What is the capital of Nepal? 0----- Weird Facts #9 The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters. [That's a third of it then in 'Aloha'] 0----- "XML Hacks" - new book This is a roll-up-your-sleeves guide that explains XML in a complete set of practical tips, tricks, and tools for the web developers. It starts from the basics of an XML document and how its content can be displayed in a browser using style sheets. There's also a brief discussion of the free tools available for XML editing, and where to find validators to check your results. Each explication or hack covers a single topic, and each one is followed by suggestions for further reading, free downloadable resources, and web links to tutorials. Full review at - http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/fitzgerald.htm 0----- Pub Quiz - Question #10 When was the Prague Spring? 0----- Weird Facts #10 Westward Ho! is the only English place name to end in a punctuation mark. [Yes - it's named after the book.] 0----- Feedback + Corrections ** That Amazon search facility ** Martin Hampton writes from Portsmouth to say "Guys - was that a porky pie about Amazon in the last newsletter? Damned if I can make it 'look inside' books. Sorry Martin! We forgot to mention that so far it only works at Amazon.com [For non-UK readers, porky pies = lies.] ** English Grammar - again ** Damian Grant wrote from Lille to suggest that the one of our reviews contained a grammatical error. Here's the sentence: "Are you one of those people who wonder where the apostrophe should go?" Andrew Wyllie replies from Bristol "No: it is clear that the verb here has to agree with 'people' not with 'one', so 'wonder' is correct." But Andrew goes on to reveal another problem: "Before Mantex indulges in a collective hug of self-satisfaction, however... David Mamet's surname is spelt with two m's not three." Ooops! ** "Handwritten" - new book ** The link to Stephen Heller's new book on hand-produced fonts got mangled in the last issue. For those interested in new forms of typography, go to - http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/heller-2.htm 0----- PUB QUIZ - ANSWERS #1. Which ingredient turns curry yellow? ANSWER: Tumeric #2. Who invented the aqualung? ANSWER: Jaques Cousteau #3. If it's heavy in Scotland, what is it in England? ANSWER: Bitter beer #4. What is a shooting star? ANSWER: A meteorite #5. What is the world's longest river? ANSWER: The Nile #6. On what date was Jesus Christ conceived? ANSWER: 25 March 0000 #7. What's the common name for iron oxide? ANSWER: Rust #8. What is the world's biggest baby? ANSWER: The blue whale calf #9. What is the capital of Nepal? ANSWER: Kathmandu #10. When was the Prague Spring? ANSWER: 1968 0----- COMING SOON Blogging - get started 'The Modern Movement 1910-1940' 'Web Services Essentials' 'Dictionary of Design since 1900' 'Oxford Spellchecker and Dictionary' 'Graphic Design School' 'PC Hacks' (c) Copyright 2004, MANTEX All Rights Reserved PO Box 100 Tel +44 0161 432 5811 Manchester Fax +44 0161 443 2766 M20 6GZ UK www.mantex.co.uk If you like this newsletter, PLEASE FORWARD IT to friends and colleagues. New subscribers should register at the following address -- http://www.mantex.co.uk/newslet.htm BACK ISSUES featuring news items, reviews, and product details at - http://www.mantex.co.uk/news/archive.htm Please retain the copyright and list-joining information. It may be posted, in its entirety or partially, to newsgroups or mailing lists, so long as the copyright and list-joining information remains. 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Website Design Tutorial
by Prafulla Chandra 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Rachna Asirvatham had announced her company's f.r.e.e design tutorials. And very stylish they are too. Tips and tricks for Dreamweaver and Fireworks; how to deal with style sheets; clever use of tables; special effects in Flash; and lots of sensible advice, all delivered in a visually attractive manner. http://www.entheosweb.com/website_design/default.asp --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Webology: an OPEN ACCESS journal, New Issue
by AliReza Noruzi 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Dear All, [Apologies for cross-postings] We are pleased to inform you that the second issue of Webology, an international OPEN ACCESS journal, is published and is available ONLINE now. It serves as a forum for discussion and experimentation. Webology publishes scholarly articles, essays and reviews, and encourages the participation of academics and practitioners alike. The journal is available at: http://www.webology.ir/ The second issue of Webology contains the following papers: Title: Editorial Note Author: Yazdan Mansourian URL: http://www.webology.ir/2004/v1n2/editorial2.html ---------------------------------------------- Title: A Study of Web Search Trends Author: Dr. Amanda Spink & Dr. Bernard J. Jansen URL: http://www.webology.ir/2004/v1n2/a4.html ---------------------------------------------- Title: Personal Homepages as an Information Resource Author: Shant Narsesian URL: http://www.webology.ir/2004/v1n2/a5.html ---------------------------------------------- Title: Shifts in search engine development: A review of past, present and future trends in research on search engines Author: Saeid Asadi & Hamid R. Jamali M. URL: http://www.webology.ir/2004/v1n2/a6.html ---------------------------------------------- Title: Metadata and the Web Author: Mehdi Safari URL: http://www.webology.ir/2004/v1n2/a7.html ---------------------------------------------- Title: Application of Ranganathan's Laws to the Web Author: AliReza Noruzi URL: http://www.webology.ir/2004/v1n2/a8.html ---------------------------------------------- Title: Book Review of: Web Search: Public Searching of the Web / by Dr. Amanda Spink & Dr. Bernard J. Jansen Author: Yazdan Mansourian URL: http://www.webology.ir/2004/v1n2/bookreview1.html ---------------------------------------------- Subscribe to the journal of Webology: http://www.webology.ir/eTOCs.html ------------------------------------------------ Yours sincerely, A. Noruzi Department of Information Science University of Paul Cezanne, France noruzi @ crrm.u-3mrs.fr --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. Dear All, [Apologies for cross-postings] We are pleased to inform you that the second issue of Web o logy , an international OPEN ACCESS journal, is published and is available ONLINE now. It serves as a forum for discussion and experimentation. Web o logy publishes scholarly articles, essays and reviews, and encourages the participation of academics and practitioners alike. The journal is available at: http://www.webology.ir/ http://www.webology.ir/ � The second issue of Web o logy contains the following papers: � Title: Editorial Note Author: Yazdan Mansourian URL: http://www.webology.ir/2004/v1n2/editorial2.html http://www.webology.ir/2004/v1n2/editorial2.html � �---------------------------------------------- � Title: A Study of Web Search Trends Author: Dr. Amanda Spink & Dr. Bernard J. Jansen URL: http://www.webology.ir/2004/v1n2/a4.html http://www.webology.ir/2004/v1n2/a4.html � � ---------------------------------------------- � Title: Personal Homepages as an Information Resource Author: Shant Narsesian URL: http://www.webology.ir/2004/v1n2/a5.html http://www.webology.ir/2004/v1n2/a5.html � ---------------------------------------------- � Title: Shifts in search engine development: A review of past, present and future trends in research on search engines Author: Saeid Asadi & Hamid R. Jamali M. URL: http://www.webology.ir/2004/v1n2/a6.html http://www.webology.ir/2004/v1n2/a6.html � ---------------------------------------------- � Title: Metadata and the Web Author: Mehdi Safari URL: http://www.webology.ir/2004/v1n2/a7.html http://www.webology.ir/2004/v1n2/a7.html � ---------------------------------------------- � Title: Application of Ranganathan's Laws to the Web Author: AliReza Noruzi URL: http://www.webology.ir/2004/v1n2/a8.html http://www.webology.ir/2004/v1n2/a8.html � ---------------------------------------------- � Title: Book Review of : Web Search: Public Searching of the Web / by Dr. Amanda Spink & Dr. Bernard J. Jansen Author: Yazdan Mansourian URL: http://www.webology.ir/2004/v1n2/bookreview1.html http://www.webology.ir/2004/v1n2/ bookreview1.html �� ---------------------------------------------- � Subscribe to the journal of Webology : http://www.webology.ir/eTOCs.html http://www.webology.ir/eTOCs.html � ------------------------------------------------ � Yours sincerely, � A. Noruzi Department of Information Science University of Paul Cezanne , France noruzi �@� crrm.u-3mrs.fr Do you Yahoo!? http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/security/*http://promotions.yahoo.c… Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we.

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Scholarly Journals Prices - Selected Trends and Comparisons
by Manish Amte 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Wish you a very Happy New Year ! The following information may be of use to you all. LISU ( Library and Information Unit ) of Loughborough University recently carried out a project "Scholarly Journals Prices - Selected Trends and Comparisons". This project was commissioned by Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press studied general trends in academic journal prices for a range of publishers. In addition, a detailed analysis of trends in biomedical journal prices was undertaken. The project analysed price data on around 6,000 journals from 12 named scholarly publishers, taken over a 5-year period (2000 -2004, plus 1993 as a base year).The complete report is available at http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/dils/lisu/pages/publications/oup.html . Best regards Manish Amte Marketing Manager ************************************************* Cambridge University Press-Foundation Books Pvt Ltd CAMBRIDGE HOUSE ,4381/4 , Ansari Road , Daryaganj , New Delhi -110 002 Tel : +91 11 23285851-2 , 2327496 , 23288533 Fax: +91 11 23288534 Web : http://journals.cambridge.org *************************************************

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Vacancy at American Embassy
by Sangeeta Kaul, Network Manager, DELNET 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Dear Professional Colleagues Wishing you all a very Happy New Year !! I am forwarding herewith a notification about a job opening at Public Affairs Office, American Embassy, New Delhi. The last date for applying is January 7, 2005. Thanking you Yours faithfully Sangeeta Kaul " Become a Possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they are always there" Norman Vincent Peale _______________________________________________________________________________ Sangeeta Kaul Network Manager DELNET India International Centre 40 Lodi Estate New Delhi-110003 INDIA Tel.: 91-11-24610802, 24619328 FAX : 91-11-24619325 Web : www.delnet.nic.in ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:20:51 +0530 From: "Dutta, Kala A" <DuttaKA(a)state.gov> To: "'sangs(a)delnet.ren.nic.in'" <sangs(a)delnet.ren.nic.in> Subject: Vacancy Notice Dear Sangeeta: As discussed, I am forwarding the vacancy notice to you. The U.S. Embassy, New Delhi is seeking an individual for the position of Supervisory Technical Services Librarian (Chief Cataloger). Attached is the vacancy announcement for this position. <<Supv Tech Serv Lib, DLN-720006- Re-advt Dec.doc>> Wish you a happy new year, Kala. Kala Anjan Dutta Reference Librarian American Information Resource Center Public Affairs Section, American Embassy 24 Kasturba Gandhi Marg New Delhi 110001 Tel. 23316841/2123 Fax. 23329499 Email: duttaka(a)state.gov

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READIT-2005
by Jayakumar, C 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

January 3, 2005 In view of the natural calamity caused by the recent Tsunami in Kalpakkam and other parts of India, the READIT-2005 conference scheduled for March 2005 stands suspended. The new dates will be announced later. Inconvenience caused is deeply regretted. M. Somasekharan Convener - READIT-2005 http://www.readit-2005.org

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Digital Library in Bioinformatics
by SHRI RAM 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Dear Collegues! If any one have any idea on digital library initiative in Bioinformatics in India. please let me know! thanking you all! Shri Ram Learning Resource Center Jaypee University of Information Technology Waknaghat, Distt-Solan (HP) PIN-173 215, Phone: 01792 239 242 Dear Collegues! If any one have any idea on digital library initiative in Bioinformatics in India. please let me know! thanking you all! Shri Ram Learning Resource Center Jaypee University of Information Technology Waknaghat, Distt-Solan (HP) PIN-173 215, Phone: 01792 239 242 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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(Fwd) Lecture on Tsunami
by Prafulla Chandra 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>------- Forwarded message follows ------- </color>Date sent: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>Tue, 4 Jan 2005 13:29:53 -0800 (PST)</color> From: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>Jacquelyn Oshman <<ramapoadm(a)yahoo.com></color> <bold>Subject: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>Lecture on Tsunami</bold></color> To: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>ifla-l(a)infoserv.inist.fr</color> <underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param>[ Double-click this line for list subscription options ]</underline></color> This was sent to the Rutgers School of Library and Information Science Listserve: dear friends, we have created a lecture on the science of tsunami. It was developed by disaster experts from Iran, Russia and the US. I would like your help to have this distributed to the Libraries of the world as i am not sure how best to approach this. Experts included meteorologists and geologists. www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec18071/index.htm If you would like the powerpoint files, please contact me. This is a part of our Supercourse, which is the global sharing of powerpoint lectures on prevention. www.pitt.edu/~super1/ thanks so much. We would appreciate any comments. ron (Supercourse www.pitt.edu/~super1/) Ronald E. LaPorte, Ph.D. Director, Disease Monitoring and Telecommunications WHO Collaborating Centre Professor of Epidemiology 3512 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA phone: 412 383 2746 Fax: 412 383 1026 Email addresses: ronlaporte(a)aol.com, ghnetron(a)gmail.com ===== ramAPOADM (Jackie) 147 Augusta Street South Amboy, NJ 08879 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail <color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>------- End of forwarded message ------- <nofill> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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_Technology Review_: What*s Next for Google
by Gerry Mckiernan 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

Colleagues/ An **extensive review** about Google has been published in the January 2005 issue of MIT's _Technology Review_: "What's Next for Google" Running the Web's best search engine isn't enough: Google wants to organize all digital information. That means war with Microsoft. [ http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/01/issue/ferguson0105.asp ] Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Organized Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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CII Library website
by Aman Jha 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

Dear all Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Library website is now available on the web for your reference. Please visit http://www.mycii.org/library or www.ciionline.org/library for more information. Website is very simple and allows you to access & search Online Catalogue of the library. You can also search and request for CII reports, conference proceedings and publications. In-house designed web-based software in which we have catalogued our books is very simple to search and retrieve records. Would appreciate your feedback. Thanks and regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon 122015 (Haryana) Tel: 0124-5014060-67 • Fax: 0124-5014080 Email: aman.jha(a)ciionline.org http://www.ciionline.org CII Library website Dear all Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Library website is now available on the web for your reference. Please visit http://www.mycii.org/library http://www.mycii.org/library or www.ciionline.org/library for more information. Website is very simple and allows you to access & search Online Catalogue of the library. You can also search and request for CII reports, conference proceedings and publications. In-house designed web-based software in which we have catalogued our books is very simple to search and retrieve records. Would appreciate your feedback. Thanks and regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon 122015 (Haryana) Tel: 0124-5014060-67 • Fax: 0124-5014080 Email: aman.jha(a)ciionline.org http://www.ciionline.org http://www.ciionline.org

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Sri Lankan Libraries Call for Assistance
by noufal palliparamban 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

Dear Friends, Please read and d to needful Sri Lankan Libraries Call for Assistance 03-01-2005 (IFLA) A large number of school libraries, community libraries, children libraries, public libraries, libraries belonging to religious institutions have either been completely destroyed or severely affected says W. A. Abeysinghe, Chairman of the Sri Lankan National Library and Documentation Boards (NLDSB) in an appeal for help published by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) today. The full text of the appeal reads as follows: Sri Lanka plunged into crisis as giant tidal waves lashed the southern, northern, and eastern coasts of the country causing over 12000 deaths and massive lost of property. The sudden rise in sea-level, a phenomenon known as tsunami, had been unleashed by a massive earthquake measured at 8.9 Richter scale, near northern Sumatra, Indonesia at 6.58 a.m. (Sri Lankan time) on Sunday 26th December 2004. According to the US Geological survey this was the fifth largest quake for a century and the biggest for 40 years. A wall of water as high as 50 feet triggered by the earthquake hit the Sri Lankan coast around 9.45 a.m. (Sri Lankan time). In some areas in Sri Lanka the killer waves had traveled as far as 5 kilometers inland and sucked in almost everything standing in its way. It is estimated that over one million people in the country have been affected by this phenomenal tragedy. Amidst this catastrophe a large number of school libraries, community libraries, children libraries, public libraries, libraries belong to religious institutions and a large number of private/home libraries in the affected areas have either been completely destroyed or severely affected. In this hour of calamity the National Library and Documentation Services Board (NLDSB) of Sri Lanka seeks assistance from the international community and especially from the IFLA members to reconstruct/repair the damaged libraries and the restoration of the damaged books and other library material. According to the preliminary estimates the damage to the buildings and to the other infrastructure facilities is huge and donations in the form of either library material or financial assistance are sought from the international library community. Monetary donations can be sent to: the NLDSB account no. 00251620073963 at the Peoples Bank, Park Street Branch, Colombo, Sri Lanka. For further details please contact: Upali Amarasiri, Director General, National Library and Documentation Services Board (NLDSB), 14, Independence Avenue, Colombo 7. Sri Lanka. Website http://www.natlib.lk or http://www.lankapage.com E-mail: dg(a)mail.natlib.lk Tel. +94 11 2687581 Fax: +94 11 2685201 Many thanks in advance for your support! W.A.Abeysinghe Chairman National Library and Documentation Services Board, Sri Lanka Upali Amarasiri Director General National Library and Documentation Centre and National library and Documentation Services Board, Sri Lanka Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Friends, Please read and d to needful Sri Lankan Libraries Call for Assistance 03-01-2005 (IFLA) A large number of school libraries, community libraries, children libraries, public libraries, libraries belonging to religious institutions have either been completely destroyed or severely affected says W. A. Abeysinghe, Chairman of the Sri Lankan National Library and Documentation Boards (NLDSB) in an appeal for help published by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) today. The full text of the appeal reads as follows: Sri Lanka plunged into crisis as giant tidal waves lashed the southern, northern, and eastern coasts of the country causing over 12000 deaths and massive lost of property. The sudden rise in sea-level, a phenomenon known as tsunami, had been unleashed by a massive earthquake measured at 8.9 Richter scale, near northern Sumatra, Indonesia at 6.58 a.m. (Sri Lankan time) on Sunday 26th December 2004. According to the US Geological survey this was the fifth largest quake for a century and the biggest for 40 years. A wall of water as high as 50 feet triggered by the earthquake hit the Sri Lankan coast around 9.45 a.m. (Sri Lankan time). In some areas in Sri Lanka the killer waves had traveled as far as 5 kilometers inland and sucked in almost everything standing in its way. It is estimated that over one million people in the country have been affected by this phenomenal tragedy. Amidst this catastrophe a large number of school libraries, community libraries, children libraries, public libraries, libraries belong to religious institutions and a large number of private/home libraries in the affected areas have either been completely destroyed or severely affected. In this hour of calamity the National Library and Documentation Services Board (NLDSB) of Sri Lanka seeks assistance from the international community and especially from the IFLA members to reconstruct/repair the damaged libraries and the restoration of the damaged books and other library material. According to the preliminary estimates the damage to the buildings and to the other infrastructure facilities is huge and donations in the form of either library material or financial assistance are sought from the international library community. Monetary donations can be sent to: the NLDSB account no. 00251620073963 at the Peoples Bank, Park Street Branch, Colombo, Sri Lanka. For further details please contact: Upali Amarasiri, Director General, National Library and Documentation Services Board (NLDSB), 14, Independence Avenue, Colombo 7. Sri Lanka. Website http://www.natlib.lk or http://www.lankapage.com E-mail: dg(a)mail.natlib.lk Tel. +94 11 2687581 Fax: +94 11 2685201 Many thanks in advance for your support! W.A.Abeysinghe Chairman National Library and Documentation Services Board, Sri Lanka Upali Amarasiri Director General National Library and Documentation Centre and National library and Documentation Services Board, Sri Lanka http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/TEMPLATE/images/spacer_tr.gif http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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MyLISA Monthly Lecture
by SUNIL M.V. 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

Dear Professionals, Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (MyLISA) Invites you for A Lecture on �Science Indicators: A Bird�s Eye View� By Dr. Geetha Seetharam Food Science and Technology Information Services Central Food Technological Research Institute Mysore � 570 020 on 8th January 2005 at 4.00pm Venue:Vidyanidhi Seminar HallDept. of Library and Information Science,Manasagangothri, Mysore-6 you are cordially invited MyLISA --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. Dear Professionals, � � Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (MyLISA) � Invites you for � A Lecture on �Science Indicators: A Bird�s Eye View� � By �� Dr. Geetha Seetharam Food Science and Technology Information Services Central Food Technological Research Institute Mysore � 570 020 � on�8th January 2005 at� 4.00pm� �� Venue: Vidyanidhi Seminar Hall Dept. of Library and Information Science, Manasagangothri, Mysore-6 � you are cordially invited � MyLISA Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/spamguard/*http://promotions.yahoo.… Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard .

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Saarc TKDL
by Rajeev Sharma 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

SAARC to set up traditional knowledge digital library URL: http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=78706 Rajeev Transport Corporation of India Ltd. Gurgaon SAARC to set up traditional knowledge digital library URL: http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=78706 http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=78706 Rajeev Transport Corporation of India Ltd. Gurgaon

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Pew Internet Survey: State of Blogging (and RSS!)
by Gerry Mckiernan 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

Colleagues/ Jan 2005 Pew Internet & American Life Project Blog readership shoots up 58% in 2004 6 million Americans get news and information fed to them through RSS aggregators By the end of 2004 blogs had established themselves as a key part of online culture. Two surveys by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in November established new contours for the blogosphere and its popularity: * 7% of the 120 million U.S. adults who use the internet say they have created a blog or web-based diary. That represents more than 8 million people. * 27% of internet users say they read blogs, a 58% jump from the 17% who told us they were blog readers in February. This means that by the end of 2004 32 million Americans were blog readers. Much of the attention to blogs focused on those that covered the recent political campaign and the media. And at least some of the overall growth in blog readership is attributable to political blogs. Some 9% of internet users said they read political blogs "frequently" or "sometimes" during the campaign. * 5% of internet users say they use RSS aggregators or XML readers to get the news and other information delivered from blogs and content-rich Web sites as it is posted online. This is a first-time measurement from our surveys and is an indicator that ***_this application is gaining an impressive foothold_***. * The interactive features of many blogs are also catching on: 12% of internet users have posted comments or other material on blogs. * At the same time, for all the excitement about blogs and the media coverage of them, blogs have not yet become recognized by a majority of internet users. Only 38% of all internet users know what a blog is. The rest are not sure what the term "blog" means. 1 [ http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_blogging_data.pdf ] Blog On! (with RSS!) /Gerry BTW: "Our first query on the use of RSS aggregators and XML readers shows that 5% of online Americans have RSS aggregators or XML readers that feed them content. They are classic early adopters: veteran internet users, well-educated, and relatively heavy online news consumers" (p. 4) /Gerry Gerry McKiernan RSS Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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Scientific
by nazim malik 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

Dear colleagues, Where can I find the information about scientific and technical libraries in India Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear colleagues, Where can I find the information about scientific and technical libraries in India http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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A news story on NALLAVADU
by Subbiah Arunachalam 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

Friends: Mr Vijayakumar (in the following news story) was a former volunteer of the Nallavadu knowledge centre. Nalladu is one of a dozen infomation villages in Pondicherry where MSSRF has set up knowledge centres. There is a marked difference in the way coastal villages coped with the recent tsunami disaster - In Nagapattinam and Karaikal there was very little coordination and considerable chaos, whereas the four coastal knowledge centre villages presented a picture of orderliness. The villagers used the databases stored in the knowledge centre computers in organizing relief measures and for distributing aid and material received from government and other sources. In two villages, Nallavadu and Veerampattinam, the local people used the public address system not only to warn people about the disastrous vents but also to announce relief measures. Often people criticise these knowledge centres as donor-supported and unlikely to be sustainable. On the tragic 26th of December, the knowledge centres proved their great value. Especially, newspaper after newspaper criticised the government for not having an early warning system as some of the Pacific rim countries have. Arun ----- PHONE CALL SAVED SCORES OF INDIAN VILLAGERS FROM TSUNAMI By Chin Saik Yoon in Penang, Malaysia. December 2004 The tsunami that struck the coastal communities of several Asian countries on 26 December has been made even more tragic as news begin to break of how a small number of technicians, monitoring the progress of the waves across the seas using the latest ICT systems, had found themselves unable to warn communities standing in harms way. This was not the case with Vijayakumar Gunasekaran, a 27-year old son of a fisherman from Nallavadu village, Pondicherry on the eastern coast of India, who works in Singapore. He had access only to a radio and television on the morning of 26 December. Vijayakumar followed the news of the earthquake in Aceh, Indonesia as it unfolded over the radio and television in Singapore. As the seriousness of the disaster in Aceh sank in he began to worry about the safety of his family living along the Indian coastline facing Aceh. He decided to phone home. Muphazhaqi, his sister answered the phone. She told him that seawater was seeping into their home when he asked what was happening in Nallavadu. Vijayakumar realised at once that his worst fears were rapidly materialising. He asked his sister to quickly leave their home and to also tell other villagers to evacuate the village. I said to her: "Run out and shout the warning to others" he told the Digital Review of Asia Pacific over the telephone from his apartment in Singapore. Her warning reached a couple of quick-thinking villagers who broke down the doors of the community centre set up by the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) where a public address system used routinely to announce sea conditions to the fishermen was housed. The warning from Vijayakumar, collaborated at this time by a second overseas telephone call from Gopu, another villager working abroad, was broadcasted across the village using the loud-speaker system. The village's siren was sounded immediately afterwards for the people to evacuate. No one was killed in this village as a result of the timely warnings. Nallavadu is home to 500 families and about 3,630 people. While all lives were saved, the tsunami destroyed 150 houses and 200 fishing boats in the village according to MSSRF. [This report was first published at http://www.digital-review.org on 1 January 2005] Friends: Mr Vijayakumar (in the following news story) was a former volunteer of the Nallavadu knowledge centre. Nalladu is one of a dozen infomation villages in Pondicherry where MSSRF has set up knowledge centres. There is a marked difference in the way coastal villages coped with the recent tsunami disaster - In Nagapattinam and Karaikal there was very little coordination and considerable chaos, whereas the four coastal knowledge centre villages presented a picture of orderliness. The villagers used the databases stored in the knowledge centre computers in organizing relief measures and for distributing aid and material received from government and other sources. In two villages, Nallavadu and Veerampattinam, the local people used the public address system not only to warn people about the disastrous vents but also to announce relief measures. Often people criticise these knowledge centres as donor-supported and unlikely to be sustainable. On the tragic 26th of December, the knowledge centres proved their great value. Especially, newspaper after newspaper criticised the government for not having an early warning system as some of the Pacific rim countries have. Arun ----- PHONE CALL SAVED SCORES OF INDIAN VILLAGERS FROM TSUNAMI By Chin Saik Yoon in Penang, Malaysia. December 2004 The tsunami that struck the coastal communities of several Asian countries on 26 December has been made even more tragic as news begin to break of how a small number of technicians, monitoring the progress of the waves across the seas using the latest ICT systems, had found themselves unable to warn communities standing in harms way. This was not the case with Vijayakumar Gunasekaran, a 27-year old son of a fisherman from Nallavadu village, Pondicherry on the eastern coast of India, who works in Singapore. He had access only to a radio and television on the morning of 26 December. Vijayakumar followed the news of the earthquake in Aceh, Indonesia as it unfolded over the radio and television in Singapore. As the seriousness of the disaster in Aceh sank in he began to worry about the safety of his family living along the Indian coastline facing Aceh. He decided to phone home. Muphazhaqi, his sister answered the phone. She told him that seawater was seeping into their home when he asked what was happening in Nallavadu. Vijayakumar realised at once that his worst fears were rapidly materialising. He asked his sister to quickly leave their home and to also tell other villagers to evacuate the village. I said to her: "Run out and shout the warning to others" he told the Digital Review of Asia Pacific over the telephone from his apartment in Singapore. Her warning reached a couple of quick-thinking villagers who broke down the doors of the community centre set up by the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) where a public address system used routinely to announce sea conditions to the fishermen was housed. The warning from Vijayakumar, collaborated at this time by a second overseas telephone call from Gopu, another villager working abroad, was broadcasted across the village using the loud-speaker system. The village's siren was sounded immediately afterwards for the people to evacuate. No one was killed in this village as a result of the timely warnings. Nallavadu is home to 500 families and about 3,630 people. While all lives were saved, the tsunami destroyed 150 houses and 200 fishing boats in the village according to MSSRF. [This report was first published at http://www.digital-review.org on 1 January 2005]

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Digital Library of Mathematics
by Krishnamurthy M 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore Center Library (http://library.isibang.ac.in:8080/dspace) is pleased to announce that digital library of mathematics and statistics to provide an open platform and make access to digital information. Dspace helps create, design, index and retrieve digital information. Dspace allows scientists and faculties to upload digital information from any corner. So, in this context we offer those who are interest to upload their literature, abstract and article paper to our digital library of mathematics are welcome. Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore Center Library focuses on Mathematical Statistics, Quality Management, Economic Analysis, Documentation and Information Science.(http://www.isibang.ac.in/library) 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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Information.
by Seshu Sripada 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

Dear colleagues, Where can I find the information about Seminars/Conference Proceedings/ Technical briefing purely related to IT related (Software Development) session. -----------------------SOFTPRO DISCLAIMER------------------------------ Information contained in this E-MAIL and any attachments are confidential being proprietary to SOFTPRO SYSTEMS is 'privileged' and 'confidential'. If you are not an intended or authorised recipient of this E-MAIL or have received it in error, You are notified that any use, copying or dissemination of the information contained in this E-MAIL in any manner whatsoever is strictly prohibited. Please delete it immediately and notify the sender by E-MAIL. In such a case reading, reproducing, printing or further dissemination of this E-MAIL is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. SOFTPRO SYSYTEMS does not REPRESENT or WARRANT that an attachment hereto is free from computer viruses or other defects. The opinions expressed in this E-MAIL and any ATTACHEMENTS may be those of the author and are not necessarily those of SOFTPRO SYSTEMS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear colleagues, Where can I find the information about Seminars/Conference Proceedings/ Technical briefing purely related to IT related (Software Development) session. -----------------------SOFTPRO DISCLAIMER------------------------------ Information contained in this E-MAIL and any attachments are confidential being proprietary to SOFTPRO SYSTEMS is 'privileged' and 'confidential'. If you are not an intended or authorised recipient of this E-MAIL or have received it in error, You are notified that any use, copying or dissemination of the information contained in this E-MAIL in any manner whatsoever is strictly prohibited. Please delete it immediately and notify the sender by E-MAIL. In such a case reading, reproducing, printing or further dissemination of this E-MAIL is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. SOFTPRO SYSYTEMS does not REPRESENT or WARRANT that an attachment hereto is free from computer viruses or other defects. The opinions expressed in this E-MAIL and any ATTACHEMENTS may be those of the author and are not necessarily those of SOFTPRO SYSTEMS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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WikiBibliography Now Available
by Gerry Mckiernan 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

WikiBibliography Now Available Colleagues/ I am pleased to announce the inauguration of a new Web bibliography titled _WikiBibliography_ . _WikiBibliography_ is devoted to significant articles, presentations, reports, as well as audio and video programs, Web sites, and other key "publications" about Wikis in general and their select applications and uses. As defined by the Wikipedia, a 'wiki' is "a website (or other hypertext document collection) that allows a user to add content, * but also allows that content to be edited by anyone. The term Wiki can also refer to the collaborative software used to create such a site * Wiki (with a capital 'W') and WikiWikiWeb are sometimes used to refer specifically to the Portland Pattern Repository, the first-ever wiki. Proponents of this usage suggest using a lower-case 'w' for wikis in general. Wiki wiki comes from the Hawaiian term for 'quick' or 'super-fast'" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki ]. _WiKiBibliography_ is located at: [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/WikiBib.htm ] As of this evening, it contains 30 major entries, most linked to their respective full text documents. At this time, I would most appreciate learning of Any and All Other ***significant*** publications for potential inclusion in this compilation. While I am particularly interested in applications and uses of Wikis in corporations, colleges and universities, and libraries, substantial works about Wikis in general as well as applications in other organizations, are also of interest. BTW: I have identified secondary works from database searches that I will review in the coming weeks and add to _WikiBibliography_, if of value. BTW2: WikiBibliography will complement a planned registry titled _SandBox(sm)_ that will be established at [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/SandBox.htm ]. [In the near future, I plan to post a call for significant corporate, educational, and/or library Wikis for potential inclusion in _SandBox(sm)_ . However, those Innovators and Early Adopters Amongst Us [:-)] who would like to nominate resources for _SandBox(sm)_ at this time are welcome to do so in response to this posting]. TIA!!! (Again) Happy New Year! Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan WikiLibrarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu P.S. For those over 50 (such as myself) who enjoyed early TV serials, please click on the SandBox WikiBiliography image for several HighFlyingAdventures [:-)

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SATKAL - Satinder Kaur Ramdev Memorial Trust for
by Casius C Issac 31 Dec '04

31 Dec '04

Dear Sangeetha Can we have the professional profile of theseaward winners Regards Casius Dear Sangeetha Can we have the professional profile of theseaward winners Regards Casius

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Conference
by R.B.Jatkar 31 Dec '04

31 Dec '04

Dear Professionals Fifth State Level Conference on Qualitative Services in Academic Libraries Organized by Library and Information Science Study Circle, Amravati 444603 Maharashtra is being held on 22nd and 23rd January 2005 at Amravati. For details contact: Dr.Kherde,Vice-President, mohan_kherde(a)rediffmail.com or Mr.Prakash Jain ,cell 9822240450. Dear Professionals Fifth State Level Conference on Qualitative Services in Academic Libraries Organized by Library and Information Science Study Circle, Amravati 444603 Maharashtra is being held on 22nd and 23rd January 2005 at Amravati. For details contact: Dr.Kherde,Vice-President, mohan_kherde(a)rediffmail.com or Mr.Prakash Jain ,cell 9822240450. 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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Knowledge Processing Outsourcing: The next biz area
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 31 Dec '04

31 Dec '04

KPO: The next big opportunity Shyamal Majumdar | BS | December 31, 2004 | 12:01 IST Knowledge process outsourcing is widely predicted to be the buzzword in the New Year; here's why. According to a recent study by Evalueserve, the global KPO market is expected to grow at a cumulative annual growth rate (CAGR) of 46 per cent, from $1.2 billion in 2003 to $17 billion in 2010. Compare this with the prediction for the low-end outsourcing services market. This is expected to have a CAGR of 26 per cent, from $ 7.7 billion to $39.8 billion in the same period. Evalueserve says India provided $3.5 billion of BPO and KPO (but non-IT) services in 2003 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 36 per cent during 2004 to 2010. Hence, it is likely to earn $30 billion in 2010 by providing these services. The high-end KPO opportunities are immense for Indian firms. For instance, look at some of the figures pertaining to intellectual property research. Drafting and filing of patent applications in the US is quite expensive. A typical application costs about $10,000 to $15,000 to draft and file with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Cost savings from offshoring even a portion of the patent drafting process can easily save up to 50 per cent of the cost for the end client, according to Alok Aggarwal, chairman of Evalueserve. Quite predictably, law firms such as Patent Metrix, Cantor-Colburn and Schwegman, Lundberg, and Woessner & Kluth, have already set up offices in India, and quite a few others are joining hands with Indian companies to cash in on the emerging opportunity. Offshoring R&D in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology is another area where there is enormous potential for KPO. Aggarwal says destinations such as India offer significant cost advantages (as much as 40 to 60 per cent) in the areas of contract research and clinical trials. Companies such as AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline have recently set up drug discovery centres at low-cost destinations to offshore R&D activities. Chip design and embedded systems is another critical area. A paper presented by Aggarwal says the reason why all major integrated design manufacturers such as Motorola, Intel, Analog Devices, National Semiconductor, IBM, Cisco, Cypress Semiconductor, Nokia and Philips have set up offshore design centres is simple. The compensation for a chip design engineer with a master's degree and five years' experience is about $7,000 a month in the US. An engineer with the same qualification and experience in India gets about $1,200 a month. Naturally, the cost savings in KPO is enormous. For example, data-mining services companies can save as much as 60 to 70 per cent on analytics and inventory management costs by off-shoring them. The cost differential between PhDs/engineers in the US and India is almost $60,000 to $80,000. Companies like Evalueserve, GE Caps, MarketRx have set up centres at low-cost destinations to provide these services. And more are expected to follow soon. A major reason why companies in India will have no option but to move up the value chain from BPO to KPO is quite simple. By 2010, India may have become too costly to provide low-end services at competitive costs. For example, Evalueserve says Indian salaries have increased at an average of 14 per cent a year. If this trend continues, they are expected to increase 2.5 times the current salaries (in constant dollars) by FY 2010, thereby reducing the cost-arbitrage benefit from the present 40 to 25 per cent. This, the low-end work may move to relatively cheaper countries like Ukraine, the Czech Republic and Malaysia. Moreover, commoditisation of BPO services will further boost the transition of present low-end destinations to the higher end of the value chain. The better margins expected at the higher end of the value chain might act as a deterrent for companies in accepting low-end work. The number of professionals working in the offshore industry is expected to increase as more and more companies decide to become involved in BPO and KPO. This will further drive the trend towards the migration of low-end services to high-end services, especially as offshore service vendors (as well as professionals working in this sector) gain experience and capabilities to provide high-value services. During 2000 to 2003, the US offshored 2,38,000 IT service jobs. Evalueserve predicts that this is likely to increase to 7,75,000 jobs by FY 2010. Further, by the end of March 2004, the US had offshored about 1,36,000 BPO (non-IT) jobs, mostly in the call centre segment. Forrester predicts that it is likely to offshore 1.314 million BPO (non-IT) jobs by FY 2010 **************************************** Sreeharsha BG Knowledge Management Group i2 Technologies software Pvt. Ltd. 5th Floor, Diamond District, Airport Road, Domlur, Bangalore-8 PH: 25047319 **************************************** An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in... A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves

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RE: Spam:Re: [nmlis] Internet Archive to build alternative to Google
by Madhuresh 31 Dec '04

31 Dec '04

This is the reply of Mr. Prafulla's mail. Well, the images will be there in the book. Actually books are being scanned and stored in TIFF format and also OCR is being done to create the text. You may like to see at http://www.dli.ernet.in/ where you can find the TIFF, HTML and Text version of the book. I am not sure why it is being called as Text-based. The reason may be that they are creating the text format also and allowing the search inside the book using the index created by OCR software. However there is little ambiguity. Project document says that keyword search is allowed but document will be delivered only in image format. Text will be used only for creating the index and searching. But Digital Library of India website is not allowing the keyword search (only Title and Author search with some browse options) and giving the full document in image as well as text format. I saw this scanning work almost 2 and half year back in Digital Library of IISc and there they were using Minolta overhead Book Scanner, which can scan 10,000 pages in a day in 3 shifts. Also this is overhead book scanner so there is no need to open the binding of the book. Also, after that they were doing OCR (probably using Abby FineReader s/w). Someone related to project may throw more light on this. You may like to see the following pages in order to have more details about the project. http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/MBP_FAQ.html and http://www.ulib.org/html/index.html Thanks and Regards Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Prafulla Chandra [mailto:prafulla@nisc.co.in] Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 2:49 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; Madhuresh Subject: Spam:Re: [nmlis] Internet Archive to build alternative to Google Dear Friends, This has reference to Mr Madhuresh's email reproduced below. How about the images contained in the books digitised? Are they going to be excluded or included? What does the phrase 'text- based' in the following extract mean? Can we search full-text of the books digitised by any key word? Ten major international libraries have agreed to combine their digitised book collections into a free text-based archive hosted online by the not-for-profit Internet Archive. All content digitised and held in the text archive will be freely available to online users. Thank you Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, <nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com>, <india-lis(a)infoserv.inist.fr> From: "Madhuresh" <madhuresh_s(a)aurigene.com> Date sent: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:36:28 +0530 Subject: [nmlis] Internet Archive to build alternative to Google [ Double-click this line for list subscription options ] Dear Friends, This announcement didn't get much attention in comparison to Google's announcement. Internet Archive is hosting the digitized book collections of 10 International libraries including the library of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. See below news item taken from http://www.iwr.co.uk/IWR/1160176 Internet Archive to build alternative to Google Ten international libraries agree to add digitised book collections to not-for-profit Internet Archive's new Text Archive project By Mark Chillingworth [21-12-2004] Ten major international libraries have agreed to combine their digitised book collections into a free text-based archive hosted online by the not-for-profit Internet Archive. All content digitised and held in the text archive will be freely available to online users. Two major US libraries have agreed to join the scheme: Carnegie Mellon University library and The Library of Congress have committed their Million Book Project and American Memory Projects, respectively, to the text archive. The projects both provide access to digitised collections. The Canadian universities of Toronto, Ottawa and McMaster have agreed to add their collections, as have China's Zhejiang University, the Indian Institute of Science, the European Archives and Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt. In a statement, the Internet Archive describes the Text Archive as an Open Access archive that will "ensure permanent and public access to our published heritage". Over a million books have been committed to the Text Archive by the member institutes, with 50,000 available in the first quarter of 2005. The San Francisco-based Internet Archive was founded in 1996 to build a library for the internet that offered access to historical collections. It's most well-known online project is the Wayback Machine, which harvests snapshots of freely-available websites. 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Information on library & Infn Science Thesis
by Pallavi gunashekarreddy 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

New Year Greetings to all!! For Information regarding LIS Thesis u can visit the mentioned below sites.But this does not cover full fledged Information, partly it will be helpful in your research work. www.lisgateway.com ( Aligrah Muslim University) www.vidyanidhi.org.in (Mysore University) Best Wishes, Pallavi, T.G St. Joseph's College of Business Administrstion, Bangalore ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony

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requesting for information about lis schools
by srini vas 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

respected sir/medium iam creating a database of LIS schools in south india.so i need information about all library &information science department. like faculty members,qualification &desigation,fax,telephone nunmber of the department,syllabus for both MLISc,BLISc. thanking you srinivas dos in LIS mysore --- 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. The Manthan Award 2004 for best e-content > initiative > (JK Vijayakumar) > 2. Fwd: NASSDOC Workshop for Librarians and > Social Scientists > (Prof. N. Laxman Rao.) > 3. Re: [iatlis] Its Indians all the way...... > (Smita Chandra) > 4. Information om Library And Infn. Science > Thesis (vijaykumar nayak) > 5. Call for LIBRI's "Best student papper of 2005" > (shashi kumar) > 6. SATKAL AWARDS FOR 2004 (Sangeeta Kaul, Network > Manager, DELNET) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 04:41:24 -0800 (PST) > From: JK Vijayakumar <vjkjk(a)yahoo.com> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] The Manthan Award 2004 for best > e-content > initiative > To: Lis-Forum <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Cc: digilibindia <digilib_india(a)yahoogroups.com>, > corporatelibrns > <corporatelibrns(a)yahoogroups.com>, AGRILIB > <agrilib(a)yahoogroups.com> > Message-ID: > <20041229124125.9579.qmail(a)web54604.mail.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > The Manthan Award 2004, India will be organized > by Digital Empowerment Foundation, India and > PlaNet Finance India, inspired by WSA - the World > Summit Award in order to select quality e-Content > and promote creativity and innovation in the > development of new media applications in India. > > Visit http://www.manthanaward.com/ for more > details. > > --J K Vijayakumar (INFLIBNET) > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:16:57 +0000 (GMT) > From: "Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Fwd: NASSDOC Workshop for > Librarians and Social > Scientists > To: nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com, iaslic kolkata > <iaslic(a)vsnl.net>, > iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com, list forum > <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Message-ID: > <20041229151657.83838.qmail(a)web60409.mail.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > --- "M.K.Singh" <mksingh(a)iiml.ac.in> > > Subject: NASSDOC Workshop for Librarians and > Social Scientists > > Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:08:24 +0530 > > > > > A Very Happy New Year 2005 > > > > May I take the liberty of requesting you to please > post the following > > news-item along with the attachments, to as many > LIS User > > Groups/Bulletin Boards, as you are familiar > > with/coordinating/monitoring, like the following? > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Dear Colleagues > > > > A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR 2005 > > > > It gives me pleasure to inform all my colleagues > in the profession as > > well as academia that on a request from National > Social Science > > Documentation Centre of ICSSR, IIM Lucknow has > agreed to organize a > > four day workshop (without any registration Fee) > for Librarians, Social > > Scientists and Research Scholars, in the area of > Acess to Social Science > > Information in Digital Environment during February > 7-10, 2005. > > > Since this programme is designed to accommodate a > participant strength > > of 20-25, registrations will be confirmed on the > basis of > > first-come-first-serve basis. > > > for further details plese contact> > > > > M.K.Singh > > > Assistant Librarian > > > Indian Institute of Management > > Prabandh Nagar > > > Off Sitapur Road > > > Lucknow 226 013 (India) > > > > Phone: 91-0522- 2734101-20 Ext. 6965 (O) > > 91-0522-2766746 & 2766097 (R), > 9415010875(Mobile) > > > > email: mksingh(a)iiml.ac.in > > Fax: 91-0522 -2734025-2734027 > > URL: http://iiml.ac.in > > > > ===== > 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 > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > > ALL-NEW Yahoo! 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SATKAL AWARDS FOR 2004
by Sangeeta Kaul, Network Manager, DELNET 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

SATKAL - Satinder Kaur Ramdev Memorial Trust for Advancement of Librarianship is pleased to announce the names of the SATKAL Awardees for the year 2004 Punjab National Librarian Award : Dr. E Rama Reddy University Librarian Indira Gandhi Memorial Library University of Hyderabad Hyderabad Young Librarian Award : Shri M G Sreekumar Librarian Indian Institute of Management Calicut. Woman Librarian Award : Mrs Veena Chawla Library Director American Information Resource Centre American Centre Library New Delhi. The Awards will be presented during the Satkal Annual Function-2004 which will be held in Chandigarh on January 15, 2005. Our Heartiest Congratulations to all of them!! Devinder Kaur President SATKAL & University Librarian Punjabi University Patiala

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Call for LIBRI's "Best student papper of 2005"
by shashi kumar 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

Dear sir/madam/friends, I kindly inform you that, since 1950 LIBRI International Journal of Libraries and Information Services has been a leader among scholarly journals in the international library world. As part of its strategy to remain one of the premier library journals, LIBRI is issuing a call for "Best Student Paper of 2005." This competition supports the goal of publishing the best articles from the next generation of library and information science professionals. So If you are intresting to publishing the paper or more informaion please visit the website: http://www.librijournal.org/award.html For author Instructions and addresses visit: http://www.librijournal.org/authorinst.html Thanking you, Shashikumar Dept.of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Mysore. Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear sir/madam/friends, I kindly inform you that, since 1950 LIBRI International Journal of Libraries and Information Services has been a leader among scholarly journals in the international library world. As part of its strategy to remain one of the premier library journals, LIBRI is issuing a call for " Best Student Paper of 2005." This competition supports the goal of publishing the best articles from the next generation of library and information science professionals. So If you are intresting to publishing the paper or more informaion please visit the website: http://www.librijournal.org/award.html http://www.librijournal.org/award.html For author Instructions and addresses visit: http://www.librijournal.org/authorinst.html http://www.librijournal.org/authorinst.html Thanking you, Shashikumar Dept.of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Mysore. http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Internet Archive to build alternative to Google
by Madhuresh 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

Dear Friends, This announcement didn't get much attention in comparison to Google's announcement. Internet Archive is hosting the digitized book collections of 10 International libraries including the library of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. See below news item taken from http://www.iwr.co.uk/IWR/1160176 Internet Archive to build alternative to Google Ten international libraries agree to add digitised book collections to not-for-profit Internet Archive's new Text Archive project By Mark Chillingworth [21-12-2004] Ten major international libraries have agreed to combine their digitised book collections into a free text-based archive hosted online by the not-for-profit Internet Archive. All content digitised and held in the text archive will be freely available to online users. Two major US libraries have agreed to join the scheme: Carnegie Mellon University library and The Library of Congress have committed their Million Book Project and American Memory Projects, respectively, to the text archive. The projects both provide access to digitised collections. The Canadian universities of Toronto, Ottawa and McMaster have agreed to add their collections, as have China's Zhejiang University, the Indian Institute of Science, the European Archives and Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt. In a statement, the Internet Archive describes the Text Archive as an Open Access archive that will "ensure permanent and public access to our published heritage". Over a million books have been committed to the Text Archive by the member institutes, with 50,000 available in the first quarter of 2005. The San Francisco-based Internet Archive was founded in 1996 to build a library for the internet that offered access to historical collections. It's most well-known online project is the Wayback Machine, which harvests snapshots of freely-available websites. Announced 24 hours after Google's tie-up with the university libraries of Oxford, Stanford, Michigan and Harvard, and the New York Public Library, the Internet Archive project is likely to be seen as the first of many alternatives to the Google Print library. Internet Archive said: "Commercial companies are currently working with libraries to digitise materials as well. We are encouraging these efforts and hope most of these materials will also be available through Text Archives." Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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Information om Library And Infn. Science Thesis
by vijaykumar nayak 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

Dear colleagues, I need the information on list of Library and Information Science thesis which are accepted by UGC Is there any Web source for the same which can provide the above datails Thanking you Vijay Nayak Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear colleagues, I need the information on list of Library and Information Science thesis which are accepted by UGC Is there any Web source for the same which can provide the above datails Thanking you Vijay Nayak http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Re: [iatlis] Its Indians all the way......
by Smita Chandra 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

Nice to know this, but what are they doing for the 'Indian Library Scenario' ? Maybe we can lead them to pool together their expertise and resources for libraries here !?! If there is anybody willing to start this as a project, I'd most like to help. Best wishes, Smita C. Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai.INDIA Kumaresan <sckumaresan(a)yahoo.com> wrote: 'Indians in US are superachievers' December 29, 2004 10:15 IST The right wing Republican magazine 'National Review' praises Indian Americans as 'superachievers' who are reportedly switching from the Democratic to the Republican party in increasing numbers. "They may be the most prosperous ethnic group in America. By any measure, they are among the most successful. And they are waking up to politics, which portends big things ahead. Republicans, in particular, have reason to be excited," review writer Jay Nordingler says. An Indian-American moment may be coming. This community we're talking South Asia, not 'Native American' numbers about two million, and they are the fastest-growing such community in the nation. Their median income is $60,000 (as against the general American one, about USD 39,000), the magazine says. "They boast something like 200,000 millionaires. They are extraordinarily educated, leaders in many professions. They include about 40,000 doctors, a staggering figure to which you can add about 12,000 medical students and interns." Famous small-business owners, Indian Americans preside over nearly 40 percent of hotels in the US. In short, this is a group of American superachievers. And Republicans think and hope that this group is ripe for their party, it says. The thinking goes like this: "Indian Americans are entrepreneurial, hard-working, striving, traditionalist, family-oriented, religious, assimilationist and patriotic. What could be better?" And what are their issues? Tax reform and regulation, particularly as they affect small businesses; free trade, which includes a robust defence of outsourcing..., the magazine says. "Have a Nice Day" S.C.Kumaresan Senior Librarian BITS, Pilani - Dubai Campus, P.O. Box: 500022, Block No.11, Knowledge Village, Dubai - UAE Phone. 0097143664575 - 77, Fax. 009714 3664580. Mobile. 00971508829462 ================================================================= The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge. -- Sir William Arthur Lewis. ================================================================= --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. Yahoo! Groups SponsorADVERTISEMENT --------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iatlis/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: iatlis-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Jazz up your holiday email with celebrity designs. Learn more. Nice to know this,�but what are they doing for the 'Indian Library Scenario' ? Maybe we can�lead them�to�pool�together their expertise and resources for libraries here�!?!� If there is anybody willing to start this as a project, I'd most like to help. � Best wishes, � Smita C. Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai.INDIA Kumaresan <sckumaresan(a)yahoo.com> wrote: 'Indians in US are superachievers' December 29, 2004�10:15 IST The right wing Republican magazine 'National Review' praises Indian Americans as 'superachievers' who are reportedly switching from the Democratic to the Republican party in increasing numbers. "They may be the most prosperous ethnic group in America. By any measure, they are among the most successful. And they are waking up to politics, which portends big things ahead. Republicans, in particular, have reason to be excited," review writer Jay Nordingler says. An Indian-American moment may be coming. This community we're talking South Asia, not 'Native American'� numbers about two million, and they are the fastest-growing such community in the nation. Their median income is�$60,000 (as against the general American one, about USD 39,000), the magazine says. "They boast something like 200,000 millionaires. They are extraordinarily educated, leaders in many professions. They include about 40,000 doctors, a staggering figure to which you can add about 12,000 medical students and interns." Famous small-business owners, Indian Americans preside over nearly 40 percent of hotels in the US. In short, this is a group of American superachievers. And Republicans think and hope that this group is ripe for their party, it says. The thinking goes like this: "Indian Americans are entrepreneurial, hard-working, striving, traditionalist, family-oriented, religious, assimilationist and patriotic. What could be better?" And what are their issues? Tax reform and regulation, particularly as they affect small businesses; free trade, which includes a robust defence of outsourcing..., the magazine says. "Have a Nice Day" � S.C.Kumaresan Senior Librarian BITS, Pilani - Dubai Campus , P.O. Box: 500022, Block No.11, Knowledge Village, Dubai - UAE Phone. 0097143664575 - 77, Fax. 009714 3664580. Mobile. 00971508829462 � ================================================================= The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge. -- Sir William Arthur Lewis. ================================================================= Do you Yahoo!? http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/mobile/*http://mobile.yahoo.com/mai… Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. Yahoo! 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Fwd: NASSDOC Workshop for Librarians and Social Scientists
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

--- "M.K.Singh" <mksingh(a)iiml.ac.in> > Subject: NASSDOC Workshop for Librarians and Social Scientists > Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:08:24 +0530 > > A Very Happy New Year 2005 > > May I take the liberty of requesting you to please post the following > news-item along with the attachments, to as many LIS User > Groups/Bulletin Boards, as you are familiar > with/coordinating/monitoring, like the following? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dear Colleagues > > A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR 2005 > > It gives me pleasure to inform all my colleagues in the profession as > well as academia that on a request from National Social Science > Documentation Centre of ICSSR, IIM Lucknow has agreed to organize a > four day workshop (without any registration Fee) for Librarians, Social > Scientists and Research Scholars, in the area of Acess to Social Science > Information in Digital Environment during February 7-10, 2005. > Since this programme is designed to accommodate a participant strength > of 20-25, registrations will be confirmed on the basis of > first-come-first-serve basis. > for further details plese contact> > > M.K.Singh > Assistant Librarian > Indian Institute of Management > Prabandh Nagar > Off Sitapur Road > Lucknow 226 013 (India) > > Phone: 91-0522- 2734101-20 Ext. 6965 (O) > 91-0522-2766746 & 2766097 (R), 9415010875(Mobile) > > email: mksingh(a)iiml.ac.in > Fax: 91-0522 -2734025-2734027 > URL: http://iiml.ac.in ===== 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 ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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The Manthan Award 2004 for best e-content initiative
by JK Vijayakumar 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

The Manthan Award 2004, India will be organized by Digital Empowerment Foundation, India and PlaNet Finance India, inspired by WSA - the World Summit Award in order to select quality e-Content and promote creativity and innovation in the development of new media applications in India. Visit http://www.manthanaward.com/ for more details. --J K Vijayakumar (INFLIBNET) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Special library functions.
by Seshu Sripada 28 Dec '04

28 Dec '04

Hi Could you please provide the any special library functions which are different to public libraries. Seshu -----------------------SOFTPRO DISCLAIMER------------------------------ Information contained in this E-MAIL and any attachments are confidential being proprietary to SOFTPRO SYSTEMS is 'privileged' and 'confidential'. If you are not an intended or authorised recipient of this E-MAIL or have received it in error, You are notified that any use, copying or dissemination of the information contained in this E-MAIL in any manner whatsoever is strictly prohibited. Please delete it immediately and notify the sender by E-MAIL. In such a case reading, reproducing, printing or further dissemination of this E-MAIL is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. SOFTPRO SYSYTEMS does not REPRESENT or WARRANT that an attachment hereto is free from computer viruses or other defects. The opinions expressed in this E-MAIL and any ATTACHEMENTS may be those of the author and are not necessarily those of SOFTPRO SYSTEMS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hi Could you please provide the any special library functions which are different to public libraries. Seshu -----------------------SOFTPRO DISCLAIMER------------------------------ Information contained in this E-MAIL and any attachments are confidential being proprietary to SOFTPRO SYSTEMS is 'privileged' and 'confidential'. If you are not an intended or authorised recipient of this E-MAIL or have received it in error, You are notified that any use, copying or dissemination of the information contained in this E-MAIL in any manner whatsoever is strictly prohibited. Please delete it immediately and notify the sender by E-MAIL. In such a case reading, reproducing, printing or further dissemination of this E-MAIL is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. SOFTPRO SYSYTEMS does not REPRESENT or WARRANT that an attachment hereto is free from computer viruses or other defects. The opinions expressed in this E-MAIL and any ATTACHEMENTS may be those of the author and are not necessarily those of SOFTPRO SYSTEMS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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ILA
by Seshu Sripada 28 Dec '04

28 Dec '04

Hi, Could you please provide a link for Indian Library Association web site url. I would like to know the complete details. Seshu -----------------------SOFTPRO DISCLAIMER------------------------------ Information contained in this E-MAIL and any attachments are confidential being proprietary to SOFTPRO SYSTEMS is 'privileged' and 'confidential'. If you are not an intended or authorised recipient of this E-MAIL or have received it in error, You are notified that any use, copying or dissemination of the information contained in this E-MAIL in any manner whatsoever is strictly prohibited. Please delete it immediately and notify the sender by E-MAIL. In such a case reading, reproducing, printing or further dissemination of this E-MAIL is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. SOFTPRO SYSYTEMS does not REPRESENT or WARRANT that an attachment hereto is free from computer viruses or other defects. The opinions expressed in this E-MAIL and any ATTACHEMENTS may be those of the author and are not necessarily those of SOFTPRO SYSTEMS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hi, Could you please provide a link for Indian Library Association web site url. I would like to know the complete details. Seshu -----------------------SOFTPRO DISCLAIMER------------------------------ Information contained in this E-MAIL and any attachments are confidential being proprietary to SOFTPRO SYSTEMS is 'privileged' and 'confidential'. If you are not an intended or authorised recipient of this E-MAIL or have received it in error, You are notified that any use, copying or dissemination of the information contained in this E-MAIL in any manner whatsoever is strictly prohibited. Please delete it immediately and notify the sender by E-MAIL. In such a case reading, reproducing, printing or further dissemination of this E-MAIL is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. SOFTPRO SYSYTEMS does not REPRESENT or WARRANT that an attachment hereto is free from computer viruses or other defects. The opinions expressed in this E-MAIL and any ATTACHEMENTS may be those of the author and are not necessarily those of SOFTPRO SYSTEMS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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(no subject)
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 28 Dec '04

28 Dec '04

Google Designs an Engine for Eggheads With its Scholar research software, the Web giant hopes to tap into a new source of traffic -- and revenue. By Chris Gaither Times Staff Writer December 27, 2004 After raking in billions of dollars helping the masses search the Web, Google Inc. is targeting academics like Daniel Branton. The Harvard University biology professor has used Google for years to locate sensors and other laboratory equipment. But it wasn't very good at finding peer-reviewed research papers and other academic publications. That changed with the recent release of Google Scholar. The specialized search engine uncovers papers better than Google.com, Branton said, and is simpler to use than the expensive databases in Harvard's vaunted libraries. "I found that I could find, in a much more rapid fashion, what I was looking for by just putting in a few keywords," he said. "Even if it had a bit of advertising, I wouldn't mind." That's exactly what Google was hoping the professor would say. Google Scholar doesn't feature ads, but one day it just might. Along with rivals Yahoo Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., Google is in hot pursuit of the egghead crowd as a new source of traffic — and revenue. They all see opportunity in scholarly information, a $12-billion business long dominated by publishers such as Reed Elsevier and Thomson Corp. The Web companies are aiming to snag scholars before they head to subscription services to do research. To do that, the companies have to equip their search engines to scour some of the billions of pages locked away in subscription sites, hidden corners of the Web and books. "The search engine market is very competitive," said Ed Pentz, executive director of CrossRef, a nonprofit organization in Lynnfield, Mass., that works to make scholarly papers available to the public. "This is the next stage, and it's prestigious, high-quality content. It expands the range of what they can offer users." It also gives search engine companies more pages on which to place ads. Google generates nearly $3 billion a year serving up targeted ads tied to keywords, and the Mountain View, Calif., company says it could sell even more if it could just find relevant pages to put them on. If it does, advertisers will probably pay extra to deliver their highly targeted messages directly to potential customers such as Branton, said Chuck Richard, a vice president with market research firm Outsell Inc. When the Harvard professor uses Google Scholar to find papers on his specialty, nanotube biology, companies that sell the $6,000 humidity sensors he favors might be willing to pay a pretty penny to have their ads appear on his computer screen. "They're not trying to get the average person," Richard said. "One of the strengths is it calls the right people to it." Google Scholar relies on the same index of websites as Google's mainstream search engine but ranks those websites differently. The regular search engine uses a system called PageRank, which turns the Internet into a huge popularity contest. When a user enters a query into Google, Web pages are ranked in large part according to the number of times they are linked to by other websites. That approach presents problems when it comes to specialized research, because the most relevant papers may not be the most popular. Studies that would be useful to scientists may live in obscurity on the Web, buried beneath hundreds of sites that command more links. So Google Scholar doesn't rely on how many websites link to a particular paper or book. Instead, it examines who wrote it, who published it and how many other scholarly works cited it. Based on those sorts of criteria, dissertations, peer-reviewed papers and other scholarly literature can float to the top of search results. The newest Google search engine has received mixed reviews. Branton and others complain that, unlike nearly all other scholarly databases, Google won't disclose what sources it draws from, so academics can't know what they're missing. It also appears to be incomplete. In an online review, Peter Jacso of the University of Hawaii at Manoa's library and information science program wrote that a search for all records from the medical research database PubMed returned only 879,000. The database actually contains 15 million records. "Like its popular counterpart, searching Google Scholar is easy," he wrote. "Finding the gems is difficult." Anurag Acharya, a former computer science professor at UC Santa Barbara who created Google Scholar, said the 1-month-old program would improve as Google got feedback from users. Google is working to collect more scholarly information by expanding its Google Print program to digitize some or all of the books in five research libraries, including those at Harvard. The task will take years. But when it's finished, Google says, millions of books will be available for academics — and others — to search. That mirrors efforts at other big Internet companies. Amazon has scanned more than 200,000 books in the last year as part of its Search Inside the Book program. Last month the Seattle-based online retailer capitalized on that investment by quietly introducing Amazon.com Citations to help drive sales of scholarly texts. Now, when Amazon provides descriptive information about a book, it includes a list of other books that are mentioned in the text, footnotes or bibliography. If the book is cited in other texts, those are mentioned as well. "It's yet another way for people to find related books," said Bill Carr, Amazon's director of digital media. Carr declined to say whether sales have grown as a result. As for Yahoo, it's enlarging its searchable index to include more Web pages from sources such as the National Science Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution. Among other items, the Sunnyvale, Calif., company's 9-month-old Content Acquisition Program has netted nearly 100,000 digital documents about ancient Babylon from UCLA's Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. "There's no question that we are getting much wider publicity as a result of it," said Bob Englund, a professor of Assyriology and director of the cuneiform library. In addition, Yahoo has recalibrated its system for gauging the importance of a website to raise the visibility of academic papers and documents. Because they tend to deal with esoteric subjects, few other sites link to them — a situation that would normally relegate an online document to obscurity. Instead, Yahoo relies on publishers like Englund to identify the keywords and other descriptors that will boost their obscure material in search results. Google, analysts say, has been the most aggressive in its efforts to tap into the academic market. "It's very shrewd," said John Tinker, an analyst with ThinkEquity Partners. "It keeps differentiating them from Microsoft, and it keeps them intellectually ahead of Yahoo." Both Google and Yahoo were founded by computer science graduate students from Stanford University. While Yahoo has evolved into an online media company — its chief executive, Terry Semel, ran the Warner Bros. studio before going to Silicon Valley — Google has stuck close to its roots. Its fevered courtship of engineers, scientists and mathematicians has made for a workforce attuned to the needs of the academic market. "This is one way we give back to the community," said Acharya, the professor-turned-Google engineer. The scholarly search engine could pave the way for similar services targeting other research-heavy professions, analysts say. Logical candidates include Google Doctor and Google Lawyer. "I see it as an opening that can be further developed," said David Garrity, an analyst with investment firm Caris & Co. "Google can certainly hold itself out as being the site where people can go to gain not only breadth but depth of information." **************************************** Sreeharsha BG Knowledge Management Group i2 Technologies software Pvt. Ltd. 5th Floor, Diamond District, Airport Road, Bangalore-8 PH: 25047319 **************************************** Nahi Jnanena sadrusham....pavithramiha vidyathe

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Greetings & Canon of Parsimony
by Prafulla Chandra 27 Dec '04

27 Dec '04

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Romila Thapar- library consortium
by vasanth raj 27 Dec '04

27 Dec '04

Dear sir/Madam, The eminent historian of India Romila Thapar has explained the improvements of library facilities in Indian schools and She also mentioned the need of library consortia in India.It is great that such scholar has rise the need of library consortia in India., which is very important to provide information to large masses with cost effectiveness. For further information: See the THE Hindu " Insight " 26th Dec 2004. Vaantha Raju N E-mail: gooche_19812yahoo.co.in. Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear sir/Madam, The eminent historian of India Romila Thapar has explained the improvements of library facilities in Indian schools and She also mentioned the need of library consortia in India.It is great that such scholar has rise the need of library consortia in India., which is very important to provide information to large masses with cost effectiveness. For further information: See the THE Hindu " Insight " 26th Dec 2004. Vaantha Raju N E-mail: gooche_19812yahoo.co.in. http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Tsunami
by Subbiah Arunachalam 27 Dec '04

27 Dec '04

Dear Friends: Christmas and the New Year are occasions for joy and happiness. But unfortunately the earthquake (which did not cause much damage in my city) and the tsunami that followed it, which had devastated the lives of tens of thousands of people in my home state and neighbouring states in India as well as millions in South and South East Asia have rudely interrupted the season of joy and merriment. 14,000 people have lost their lives according to BBC. The figure may go up. Millions have lost their homes and possessions. Chennai is coming back to normal. The government has started to deal with the situation with some seriousness. But the Met office has issued a warning that there may be another tsunami attack any time. What have we done to deserve Nature's fury of such intensity, I wonder. Arun Dear David and friends at First Voice International: We appreciate your concern. The earthquake at 0640 yesterday and the tsunami that followed after a couple of hours have devastaed the state of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry. There has been heavy loss of property and possessions in many coastal villages (including Veerampattinam and Nallavadu). One of our villages, Moorthikuppam, is completly inundated and there could be a few deaths. Many fishermen who went into the sea at Veerampattinam, Nallavadu, Thankatchimadam, etc. are yet to return. We are constantly monitoring the situation through all communication channels. Fortunately, all our knowledge centres are safe although some of them are surrounded by water. Our staff and volunteers in the field stations are also safe. Arun

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‘First reports’: The importance of being certain
by Sukhdev Singh 27 Dec '04

27 Dec '04

Dear Friends There is a good editorial on the issue of False "First-Reported Cases" It has been published in ENT Journal, May 2004 and is available from the following link : http://www.entjournal.com/Past_Issues.htm?ID=3133 The editorial stresses the need for authors as well as journal reviews/editors to be cafeful while making a claim of a first report. They need to do a comprehensive literature search to be certain. Although most cases of false "firstedness" are inadvertent. Such false claims have at least a few undesirable consequences. For instance, the earlier work of others is not given proper credit. Additionally, the chronology of the medical record becomes confusing with the presence of multiple "first-reported cases" on the same topic. Such errors may be particularly embarrassing to authors making false claims. And journal editors' credibility takes a beating. Furthermore, for literature searches should not be limited solely MEDLINE/PubMed. These needs to comprehensive spanning to multiple databases and sources. Dr. Summers and Dr. Kaminski, has also highlighted a case where IndMED produced a more contemporary result than PubMed. IndMED is an Indexing service covering Indian Bio-Medical Journals, http://indmed.nic.in. Thanks Sukhdev Singh, NIC.

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Library Furniture Supplier
by Librarian JUIT 26 Dec '04

26 Dec '04

Dear Mr Rajiv Sharma The Furniture and other library related materials can be obtained from J N Engineering Company A-1/32-B Chankya Place Street Number 9 Pankha Road PO Uttam Nagar New Delhi PH 559808 (old No plz add 2) Regards! On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 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. library furniture supplier (Rajeev Sharma) > 2. Radio frequency info (Prafulla Chandra) > 3. Harish Chandra- Sushila Chandra Best Librarian Award 2004 > (Sanjay Kataria) > 4. Librarians exhorted to hone their skills (MLAI -2004 Report) > (JK Vijayakumar) > 5. ICSU Assessment Panel report on Scientific Data and > Information (Dr. T.B. Rajashekar) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:04:27 +0530 > From: "Rajeev Sharma" <bic.crpo(a)tcil.com> >Subject: [LIS-Forum] library furniture supplier >To: "LIS-FORUM" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >Message-ID: <002c01c4e71e$bce9f1a0$f1ab9385@oracle> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >Madam/ Sir > >Please give the addresses of library furniture supplier in Delhi and NCR. > >Thanks and Regards, > >Rajeev Kumar Sharma > >Officer - Information Services >Business Information Center >------------------------------------------------------- >Transport Corporation of India Ltd. >TCI House, >69, Institutional Area >Sector 32, Gurgaon >Haryana, 122001 >India >Tel: +91 124 2381603 to 607 Ext. 104 >Fax: +91 124 2381611 >Email: bic.crpo(a)tcil.com >Visit us at: www.grouptci.com >------------------------------------------------------- > Dear Mr Rajiv Sharma The Furniture and other library related materials can be obtained from J N Engineering Company A-1/32-B Chankya Place Street Number 9 Pankha Road PO Uttam Nagar New Delhi PH 559808 (old No plz add 2) Regards! On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 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. library furniture supplier (Rajeev Sharma) > 2. Radio frequency info (Prafulla Chandra) > 3. Harish Chandra- Sushila Chandra Best Librarian Award 2004 > (Sanjay Kataria) > 4. Librarians exhorted to hone their skills (MLAI -2004 Report) > (JK Vijayakumar) > 5. ICSU Assessment Panel report on Scientific Data and > Information (Dr. T.B. Rajashekar) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:04:27 +0530 > From: "Rajeev Sharma" <bic.crpo(a)tcil.com> >Subject: [LIS-Forum] library furniture supplier >To: "LIS-FORUM" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >Message-ID: <002c01c4e71e$bce9f1a0$f1ab9385@oracle> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >Madam/ Sir > >Please give the addresses of library furniture supplier in Delhi and NCR. > >Thanks and Regards, > >Rajeev Kumar Sharma > >Officer - Information Services >Business Information Center >------------------------------------------------------- >Transport Corporation of India Ltd. >TCI House, >69, Institutional Area >Sector 32, Gurgaon >Haryana, 122001 >India >Tel: +91 124 2381603 to 607 Ext. 104 >Fax: +91 124 2381611 >Email: bic.crpo(a)tcil.com >Visit us at: www.grouptci.com >------------------------------------------------------- >

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Google: We've fixed desktop search tool flaw
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 24 Dec '04

24 Dec '04

Google: We've fixed desktop search tool flaw December 21, 2004 By Dan Ilett and Graeme Wearden Special to CNET News.com Google says it has fixed a flaw that could have allowed hackers to search the contents of PCs running the company's desktop search tool. According to a statement issued Monday by the Web search company, it has rolled out a fix for the vulnerability. The flaw in the tool was discovered in late November by a Rice University computer scientist and two of his students. A Google representative said, "We were made aware of this vulnerability with the Google Desktop Search software and have since fixed the problem so that all current and future users are secure." Dan Wallach, an assistant professor of computer science at Rice University, discovered the vulnerability while working with graduate students Seth Fogarty and Seth Nielson. Wallach describes it as a composition flaw--where a security weakness is caused by the interaction of several separate components. According to The New York Times, which first reported the discovery of the flaw, Wallach, Fogarty and Nielson found that the Google desktop tool looks for traffic that appears to be going to Google.com and then inserts results from a user's hard disk for a particular search. They managed to trick the Google desktop search program into inserting those results into other Web pages where an attacker could read them. This would only work after a user had visited an attacker's Web site, upon which a Java program (as created by the Rice group) would be able to fool the Google desktop software into providing the user's search information. The program was able to do anything with the results, including transmitting them back to the attacking site. The disclosure of this flaw comes just days after research company Gartner warned businesses to steer clear of Google's desktop search tool until a more robust, enterprise-ready version is released. Security experts have also warned that virus writers could use desktop search tools to make their malware more efficient. Dan Ilett and Graeme Wearden of ZDNet UK reported from London. ===== 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 ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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A Must Hear: BBC Radio 4: Open Access / Open Archives / Self-Archiving
by Gerry Mckiernan 23 Dec '04

23 Dec '04

Colleagues/ BBC: "Publish or be Damned_ Perhaps The Most Important Overview/Review on Open Access / Open Archives / Self-Archiving) Ever [:-) With All the Key Players [Yep - All!] Run Time: ~ 38 Minutes Season's Greetings! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Open Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu P.S. Posted on liblicense-l [ http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0412/msg00151.html ] Thanks! Alison Macdonald ********************Peace******************************* This Tuesday evening [12-21], BBC's Radio 4 has aired a programme on the open access debate ... [snip] The programme will be repeated on Boxing Day (Sunday 26th at 5.00 pm ... ..., but it is also available, to all, on the web for a week (I'm not sure whether that's seven days from today, 21 Dec, or from Sunday, 26 Dec) at the following URL - look under _P_ for "Publish or be Damned_: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml

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Congratulations to Prof. Chandrasekhar Rao, who joined as Dean, BRAOU
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 23 Dec '04

23 Dec '04

hello professional friends we all are proud of Prof Chandrasekhar Rao, who had been appointed as Dean, faculty of soc. sc, BRAOU. hardly very few LIS teaches were appointed as Deans. It is really great achievemet for Prof VCR. on behalf of my self, IATLIS and all othe professionals, i congratulate him and wich him all the success in his endeavours. probably u may be aware that he i also incharge of comper centre andfirs person to introduce courses through e-earning. all the best to Prof. VCR laxman rao --- chanrasekhar v <vcsra0(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Dear Professional colleagues, > Our University has appointed me as Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences. I > reported to the duty today. The Faculty of Social Sciences consists of > seven departments: economics, history, political science, public > administration, sociology, public relations and library & information > science. The appointment is for a period of three years. > > - Prof. V Chandrasekhar Rao > Head, Dept. of Lib & Inf Sci > Dr B R Ambedkar Open University > Prof. G Ram Reddy marg > Road No.46, Jubilee Hills, > Hyderabad - 500 033 > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. ===== 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 ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Larry Sangers Knowledge Free-for-All
by Subbiah Gunasekaran 23 Dec '04

23 Dec '04

Dear Memebers: Please read the article below. Thanks Guna ----------------------- Larry Sangers Knowledge Free-for-All By Wade Roush January 2005 Wikipedia is the worlds newest, largest, most varied, most participatory, and most controversial encyclopedia. It is composed and edited entirely by volunteer netizens; as of November 2004, there were some 29,000 Wikipedians writing for it in 109 different languages. The sites massive archive, including 380,000 articles in English alone, puts even Britannica to shame. If you dont see an article addressing your passion for miniature-teapot collecting, dont fret. Just write one. Among Wikipedias many unusual aspects is that its cocreator, Larry Sanger, is a professional epistemologista philosopher who explores the very nature and sources of knowledge and who, like many before him, once questioned the possibility of knowing anything with certainty. Sanger says that as a bookish teenager growing up in Anchorage, AK, he decided to model himself after Descartes and become a devout doubter, believing only the things that he could directly perceive or that could be logically derived from what he perceived. These were the thoughts of a 17-year-old, smiles Sanger, whos now 36. But eventually, he says, he began to realize that some truths cannot be observed: If the very project of seeking the truth required that I assumed something, then I would assume that. This more pragmatic view sustained him through his college and graduate years as a philosophy student and even became the focus of his dissertation. But by that time, Sanger says, he was also becoming intrigued by the Internet and its possibilities as a publishing medium. And this convergence of interests helped him to realize that a newly invented type of website called a wikia forum that allows a user to add content...but also allows that content to be edited by any other user, to quote the Wikipedia definitioncould be used to assemble the contributions of thousands of amateurs into a reasonably truthful online encyclopedia. How? The subject of an encyclopedia is received knowledge, Sanger says, not absolute knowledge. The former, he says, consists of the sort of claims one can make in the form It is generally known that.... It could be false, but it could still be generally known, in the sense that people thought it was true. This idea underlay the nonbias policy that Sanger instituted for Nupedia, the expert-written online encyclopedia he was hired to edit in 2000. The policy says that contentious subjects should be described in a way that fairly represents every partys point of view. Wikipedia kept the policy when it spun off of Nupedia, and Sanger cites it as a main reason for the new sites success. Nonbias is a difficult ideal to live up to. Indeed, the most common complaint against Wikipedia is that it is unreliable; since anyone can publish or edit any article instantly, theres nothing except the diligence of other contributors to keep favoritism, misinformation, vandalism, or sheer stupidity out of the encyclopedias pages. But Wikipedias staff of volunteers is better than any full-time staff you could imagine, because there are so many people involved, Sanger says. Any malicious or mistaken entry is going to be instantly noticed and corrected. But theres a second complaint against Wikipedia that bothers Sanger more deeplythe fractiousness among Wikipedians themselves. Sanger says participants often become embroiled in revert wars in which overprotective authors undo the changes others try to make to their articles. He says hes afraid that this kind of behavior drives away academics and other experts whose contributions would otherwise raise Wikipedias quality. Sanger may be speaking from the heart. He left Wikipedia in 2002 when funding for his position ran out and no longer contributes, in part because of the lingering sting of some particularly nasty revert wars. He now lives in a suburb of Columbus, and lectures in the philosophy department at Ohio State University, his alma mater. To build a public encyclopedia, you dont need faith in the possibility of knowledge, he says. What you have to have faith in is human beings being able to work together. http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/01/issue/forward30105.asp?trk=nl Dear Memebers: Please read the article below. Thanks Guna ----------------------- Larry Sangers Knowledge Free-for-All By Wade Roush January 2005 Wikipedia is the worlds newest, largest, most varied, most participatory, and most controversial encyclopedia. It is composed and edited entirely by volunteer netizens; as of November 2004, there were some 29,000 Wikipedians writing for it in 109 different languages. The sites massive archive, including 380,000 articles in English alone, puts even Britannica to shame. If you dont see an article addressing your passion for miniature-teapot collecting, dont fret. Just write one. Among Wikipedias many unusual aspects is that its cocreator, Larry Sanger, is a professional epistemologista philosopher who explores the very nature and sources of knowledge and who, like many before him, once questioned the possibility of knowing anything with certainty. Sanger says that as a bookish teenager growing up in Anchorage, AK, he decided to model himself after Descartes and become a devout doubter, believing only the things that he could directly perceive or that could be logically derived from what he perceived. These were the thoughts of a 17-year-old, smiles Sanger, whos now 36. But eventually, he says, he began to realize that some truths cannot be observed: If the very project of seeking the truth required that I assumed something, then I would assume that. This more pragmatic view sustained him through his college and graduate years as a philosophy student and even became the focus of his dissertation. But by that time, Sanger says, he was also becoming intrigued by the Internet and its possibilities as a publishing medium. And this convergence of interests helped him to realize that a newly invented type of website called a wikia forum that allows a user to add content...but also allows that content to be edited by any other user, to quote the Wikipedia definitioncould be used to assemble the contributions of thousands of amateurs into a reasonably truthful online encyclopedia. How? The subject of an encyclopedia is received knowledge, Sanger says, not absolute knowledge. The former, he says, consists of the sort of claims one can make in the form It is generally known that.... It could be false, but it could still be generally known, in the sense that people thought it was true. This idea underlay the nonbias policy that Sanger instituted for Nupedia, the expert-written online encyclopedia he was hired to edit in 2000. The policy says that contentious subjects should be described in a way that fairly represents every partys point of view. Wikipedia kept the policy when it spun off of Nupedia, and Sanger cites it as a main reason for the new sites success. Nonbias is a difficult ideal to live up to. Indeed, the most common complaint against Wikipedia is that it is unreliable; since anyone can publish or edit any article instantly, theres nothing except the diligence of other contributors to keep favoritism, misinformation, vandalism, or sheer stupidity out of the encyclopedias pages. But Wikipedias staff of volunteers is better than any full-time staff you could imagine, because there are so many people involved, Sanger says. Any malicious or mistaken entry is going to be instantly noticed and corrected. But theres a second complaint against Wikipedia that bothers Sanger more deeplythe fractiousness among Wikipedians themselves. Sanger says participants often become embroiled in revert wars in which overprotective authors undo the changes others try to make to their articles. He says hes afraid that this kind of behavior drives away academics and other experts whose contributions would otherwise raise Wikipedias quality. Sanger may be speaking from the heart. He left Wikipedia in 2002 when funding for his position ran out and no longer contributes, in part because of the lingering sting of some particularly nasty revert wars. He now lives in a suburb of Columbus, and lectures in the philosophy department at Ohio State University, his alma mater. To build a public encyclopedia, you dont need faith in the possibility of knowledge, he says. What you have to have faith in is human beings being able to work together. http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/01/issue/forward30105.asp?trk=nl 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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Invitation for a Lecture
by Sangeeta Kaul, Network Manager, DELNET 23 Dec '04

23 Dec '04

DELNET Developing Library Network cordially invites you to the lecture on UNESCO : Communication & Information in Asia by Dr. Susanne Ornager Advisor for Communication & Information in Asia & Pacific, UNESCO on Monday, January 3, 2005 at 6:30 p.m. at India International Centre (Conference Room I) 40 Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 Dr. Gulshan Rai Executive Director, ERNET India Ministry of Communications & IT, Govt. of India has kindly agreed to preside RSVP 24610802

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Re: library furniture supplier
by Indira Koneru 23 Dec '04

23 Dec '04

Mr. Rajeev Sharma, U can capture pertinent information from the following link http://www.infolibrarian.com/sup.htm#furniture Indira Koneru (Faculty Associate) Dept. of Lib. Science ICFAI University 25, Nagarjuna Hills Hyderabad - 082. ----- Original Message ----- From: <lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 12:00 PM Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 21, Issue 24 > Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to > lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > You can reach the person managing the list at > lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. library furniture supplier (Rajeev Sharma) > 2. Radio frequency info (Prafulla Chandra) > 3. Harish Chandra- Sushila Chandra Best Librarian Award 2004 > (Sanjay Kataria) > 4. Librarians exhorted to hone their skills (MLAI -2004 Report) > (JK Vijayakumar) > 5. ICSU Assessment Panel report on Scientific Data and > Information (Dr. T.B. Rajashekar) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:04:27 +0530 > From: "Rajeev Sharma" <bic.crpo(a)tcil.com> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] library furniture supplier > To: "LIS-FORUM" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Message-ID: <002c01c4e71e$bce9f1a0$f1ab9385@oracle> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Madam/ Sir > > Please give the addresses of library furniture supplier in Delhi and NCR. > > Thanks and Regards, > > Rajeev Kumar Sharma > > Officer - Information Services > Business Information Center > ------------------------------------------------------- > Transport Corporation of India Ltd. > TCI House, > 69, Institutional Area > Sector 32, Gurgaon > Haryana, 122001 > India > Tel: +91 124 2381603 to 607 Ext. 104 > Fax: +91 124 2381611 > Email: bic.crpo(a)tcil.com > Visit us at: www.grouptci.com > ------------------------------------------------------- >

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Virtual Information Centre
by Seshu Sripada 23 Dec '04

23 Dec '04

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The future of rural computing and connectivity
by Subbiah Arunachalam 23 Dec '04

23 Dec '04

Friends: The recent Forrester reporter on PC growth has made some interesting observations, especially relevant to those of us who are working with the rural poor. We need to pay attention to wireless technologies, Linux and other open source software, and low-cost rugged computers and communication devices. "The personal computer market in India will see a massive boom by 2010, according to a new report by Forrester Research. India, says the report, will add 80 million (8 crore) new PC users by 2010. Despite gaining prominence as a center for outsourcing, India today has one of the lowest adoption rates in the world. However, PC adoption will grow at a 37 per cent annual rate through the end of the decade." "Rural mass market -- It'll be a long-term challenge for the PC industry to attract this segment to the PC platform; they are likely to choose PC alternatives, such as smartphones. This group is rural, low-income, and very price-sensitive. They lack community infrastructure, funding, communications, and reliable power sources to support PC platforms." "The other important factor is the Windows versus Linux battle. The advantage goes to Linux, says Forrester. Establishing the Windows platform in these new markets will be an uphill battle. No Windows legacy in these markets means that local manufacturers can drive down prices by installing Linux instead." "The third factor is the battle between the wired and the wireless providers. Forrester says the advantage goes to wireless. Investments in landline networks outside major city centers won't pay off, so rural populations must wait for new wireless technologies like WiMAX and 3G GSM networks." Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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On open access - a recent article by a freelance science writer
by Subbiah Arunachalam 22 Dec '04

22 Dec '04

Friends: Here is an article from SLATE. Barbara and Leslie, we may enlist her as a cosignatory in our future articles! Regards. Arun http://www.slate.com/id/2111023/ medical examiner Health and medicine explained. Open Access Should scientific articles be available online and free to the public? By Amanda Schaffer Posted Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2004, at 1:21 PM PT If you're like most Americans, chances are at some point you've searched online for medical or health-related information. In fact, of Americans with Internet access, more have used the Web to answer health-related queries (66 percent) than to check sports scores (43 percent), hunt for a job (42 percent), or find a date (9 percent), according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project. There is clearly no shortage of medical and pseudomedical information available online. But some physicians and members of Congress have pointed out that much of the best literature, published in prestigious, peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine, is not immediately available for free to the public-and they have begun to argue that it should be. To the consternation of journal publishers-many of them not-for-profit associations that rely heavily on journal subscription fees for their revenue-the National Institutes of Health has thrown its considerable weight behind the notion of free access to biomedical research. In September, NIH Director Elias Zerhouni proposed that all NIH-funded scientists provide full-text copies of their research papers to PubMed Central, an online government archive, once these papers have been accepted (and thus vetted) by peer-reviewed journals; PubMed Central would then post the work, citing both the author and the journal where it first appeared, six months after publication. (The original plan called for immediate access but was mitigated in response to publishers' outcry.) The initiative is expected to cost roughly $2 million to $4 million per year, a small fraction of the NIH's total budget. As the NIH considers final guidelines, a vitriolic debate has erupted in the scientific community: How best to balance the needs of journal publishers against those of scientists, students, and members of the general public who would benefit from unfettered access? Increased access is a worthwhile enterprise. Highly accessible, electronic archives are simply too valuable to scientists-and, by extension, to the public who may eventually benefit from their work-not to establish and support as a matter of public policy. Scientists at large research universities have access to many journals, but increasingly there are gaps in library collections, and not all publications are easily searchable. The problem is of course even worse outside of major institutions and in countries other than the United States. A more robust public database would go a long way toward speeding and enhancing scientific work. (There is, in fact, precedent for this approach to biological data. Click here to read more.) The public would also benefit directly from greater access. True, not every hair-splitting research paper in, say, cell biology or biochemistry will be of interest to the populace at large. But for patients who have rare diseases or are considering controversial therapies, access to cutting-edge medical research may be vital-especially since new work is accruing so quickly that even the most assiduous general practitioners may have a hard time keeping abreast of it all. In addition, it doesn't make sense for journals to charge fees for access to primary research articles when that research is supported largely by public funding. Academic scientists, some backed by hundreds of thousands of dollars of public moneys, provide their findings and articles to most journals for free. Peer-reviewers, who perform the crucial quality-control work, also offer comments on research papers for no charge. In other words, journals receive what are in effect large subsidies from the rest of the scientific community, which in turn receives significant funding from taxpayers, through organizations such as the NIH. As a matter of basic fairness, members of the public who wish to read about this research should be able to do so without paying further charges. The movement for free online access to science research dates back as far as 1991, before most of us had even heard of the Internet. (Click here to read more.) In recent years, the project has gained considerable momentum. In 2000, Harold Varmus, then director the NIH, established PubMed Central; later that year, Varmus, along with biologists Patrick Brown and Michael Eisen, also founded the Public Library of Science, or PLoS, an advocacy organization dedicated to promoting open access. In an early effort to sway existing journals, Varmus and other key players tried to convince scientists not to publish in-or even to subscribe to-journals that did not provide articles to PubMed Central; over 30,000 scientists signed a letter in which they made this pledge. Not surprisingly, few adhered to it: With so much of a scientist's career resting on his or her publication in prestigious forums, few could afford to displease, let alone categorically abandon, the highly respected traditional journals. So, in an attempt to establish a competing venue-one that would attract the best scientists and demonstrate that open access could be compatible with very high quality-PLoS members decided to launch their own peer-reviewed journals. PLoS Biology appeared in October 2003, followed by PLoS Medicine in October 2004. PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine exemplify the philosophy of open access and thus differ from traditional forums such as JAMA, NEJM, and Science in several ways: 1) In addition to providing its content for immediate unrestricted use, PLoS allows authors to retain their copyrights-most magazines control copyrights and profit from any reprints-but requires them to sign a broad licensing agreement that allows their work to be reproduced as long as they are given proper credit through citation. (Scientists do not receive payments or royalties from article publications in either old-style or open-access journals.) 2) PLoS provides all content to PubMed Central. 3) PLoS relies on an alternate business model-instead of earning money through subscriptions and online access fees (a "subscriber-pays" model), PLoS charges authors or their funding agencies a publication fee of $1,500 (an "author-pays" model). Varmus argues that such payments can be folded into laboratory research budgets, and several major funding institutions, such as the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, have agreed to supplement publication costs for their researchers. PLoS has also promised to waive fees for authors who are unable to pay. In theory at least, "author-pays" seems a viable economic model, according to a recent analysis by the Wellcome Trust. How have the PloS publications fared thus far? It's still hard to say, since the PLoS journals have had so little time to establish a track record of important or highly cited articles. Some researchers may doubt that work offered to the public for free will command the same respect as content people pay for. But if any journal is well-positioned for success, the PLoS vehicles are: Both have received plenty of media buzz, and Nobel Prize winners and other rock star scientists populate the PLoS board of directors. There are a few other publishers and journals that have adopted some elements of open access. But most traditional journals have resisted calls to post articles in PubMed Central, even with delays of six months. Only around 160 journals currently offer full-text articles through PubMed Central, out of the roughly 4,000 that are indexed annually by the National Library of Medicine. It would thus be virtually impossible for a scientist to build a first-rate career by publishing entirely in these forums, however sympathetic he or she might be to the goals of open access. (Some of the biggest names, such as JAMA, NEJM, and Science, have begun to make some content available for free on their own Web sites.) If the NIH decides to implement its proposed policy-and an announcement is expected sometime this month-the open-access movement will receive a crucial shot in the arm. Not only will many more articles be available through PubMed Central, but the call by advocates for faster free access (without the six-month delay) will likely grow louder. Some journal publishers will no doubt rethink their business strategies, in order to compensate for actual or expected revenue losses. Of course, it is hard not to sympathize with traditional journal publishers, who for years have been careful stewards of the scientific literature, editing articles and selecting scientists to participate in peer review. But the change would not necessarily mean their demise. Many scientists (and science writers) would likely still subscribe to publications like, say, Science and Nature, largely for the valuable extras they offer, such as news blurbs and research summaries published each week. Journals could continue to charge fees for these features, even while adopting open access policies for new research. This is a story, then, about adapting to the digital world: How should we harness its enormous possibilities while trying to reckon with vested interests that stand to lose in the transition? Ultimately, the potential benefits of open access, for both scientists and the public, are too significant not to pursue aggressively. At a time when technical material is accumulating more quickly than ever before, extensive online databases can help scientists do the most informed work possible. At a time, too, when patients are asked to participate much more actively in health care decision-making, better access to information is crucial. The NIH's proposed compromise, in which articles are posted to PubMed Central six months after publication, is a reasonable one. But it is only a first step toward a larger goal-namely, true open access, immediately upon publication, for as much scientific work as possible. Amanda Schaffer is a science writer living in Brooklyn, New York. Friends: Here is an article from SLATE. Barbara and Leslie, we may enlist her as a cosignatory in our future articles! Regards. Arun http://www.slate.com/id/2111023/ http://www.slate.com/id/2111023/ medical examiner Health and medicine explained. Open Access Should scientific articles be available online and free to the public? By Amanda Schaffer Posted Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2004, at 1:21 PM PT If you're like most Americans, chances are at some point you've searched online for medical or health-related information. In fact, of Americans with Internet access, more have used the Web to answer health-related queries (66 percent) than to check sports scores (43 percent), hunt for a job (42 percent), or find a date (9 percent), according to the http://www.pewinternet.org/trends/Internet_Activities_4.23.04.htm Pew Internet and American Life Project . There is clearly no shortage of medical and pseudomedical information available online. But some physicians and members of Congress have http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A64389-2004Sep5?language=printer pointed out that much of the best literature, published in prestigious, peer-reviewed journals such as the http://jama.ama-assn.org/ Journal of the American Medical Association and the http://content.nejm.org/current.shtml New England Journal of Medicine , is not immediately available for free to the publicand they have begun to argue that it should be. To the consternation of journal publishersmany of them not-for-profit associations that rely heavily on journal subscription fees for their revenuethe National Institutes of Health has thrown its considerable weight behind the notion of free access to biomedical research. In September, NIH Director Elias Zerhouni proposed that all NIH-funded scientists provide full-text copies of their research papers to http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/ PubMed Central , an online government archive, once these papers have been accepted (and thus vetted) by peer-reviewed journals; PubMed Central would then post the work, citing both the author and the journal where it first appeared, six months after publication. (The original plan called for immediate access but was mitigated in response to publishers' outcry.) The initiative is expected to cost roughly $2 million to $4 million per year, a small fraction of the NIH's total budget. As the NIH considers final guidelines, a vitriolic debate has erupted in the scientific community: How best to balance the needs of journal publishers against those of scientists, students, and members of the general public who would benefit from unfettered access? Increased access is a worthwhile enterprise. Highly accessible, electronic archives are simply too valuable to scientistsand, by extension, to the public who may eventually benefit from their worknot to establish and support as a matter of public policy. Scientists at large research universities have access to many journals, but increasingly there are gaps in library collections, and not all publications are easily searchable. The problem is of course even worse outside of major institutions and in countries other than the United States. A more robust public database would go a long way toward speeding and enhancing scientific work. (There is, in fact, precedent for this approach to biological data. Click [A] http://www.slate.com/id/2111023/sidebar/2111025/ here to read more.) The public would also benefit directly from greater access. True, not every hair-splitting research paper in, say, cell biology or biochemistry will be of interest to the populace at large. But for patients who have rare diseases or are considering controversial therapies, access to cutting-edge medical research may be vitalespecially since new work is accruing so quickly that even the most assiduous general practitioners may have a hard time keeping abreast of it all. In addition, it doesn't make sense for journals to charge fees for access to primary research articles when that research is supported largely by public funding. Academic scientists, some backed by hundreds of thousands of dollars of public moneys, provide their findings and articles to most journals for free. Peer-reviewers, who perform the crucial quality-control work, also offer comments on research papers for no charge. In other words, journals receive what are in effect large subsidies from the rest of the scientific community, which in turn receives significant funding from taxpayers, through organizations such as the NIH. As a matter of basic fairness, members of the public who wish to read about this research should be able to do so without paying further charges. The movement for free online access to science research dates back as far as 1991, before most of us had even heard of the Internet. (Click [A] http://www.slate.com/id/2111023/sidebar/2111026/ here to read more.) In recent years, the project has gained considerable momentum. In 2000, Harold Varmus, then director the NIH, established PubMed Central; later that year, Varmus, along with biologists Patrick Brown and Michael Eisen, also founded the http://www.plos.org/ Public Library of Science , or PLoS, an advocacy organization dedicated to promoting open access. In an early effort to sway existing journals, Varmus and other key players tried to convince scientists not to publish inor even to subscribe tojournals that did not provide articles to PubMed Central; over 30,000 scientists signed a letter in which they made this pledge. Not surprisingly, few adhered to it: With so much of a scientist's career resting on his or her publication in prestigious forums, few could afford to displease, let alone categorically abandon, the highly respected traditional journals. So, in an attempt to establish a competing venueone that would attract the best scientists and demonstrate that open access could be compatible with very high qualityPLoS members decided to launch their own peer-reviewed journals. http://www.plosbiology.org/plosonline/?request=index-html&issn=1545-7885 PLoS Biology appeared in October 2003, followed by http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=index-html&issn=1549-1676 PLoS Medicine in October 2004. PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine exemplify the philosophy of http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTD002766.html open access and thus differ from traditional forums such as JAMA , NEJM , and Science in several ways: 1) In addition to providing its content for immediate unrestricted use, PLoS allows authors to retain their copyrightsmost magazines control copyrights and profit from any reprintsbut requires them to sign a broad http://www.plos.org/journals/license.html licensing agreement that allows their work to be reproduced as long as they are given proper credit through citation. (Scientists do not receive payments or royalties from article publications in either old-style or open-access journals.) 2) PLoS provides all content to PubMed Central. 3) PLoS relies on an alternate business modelinstead of earning money through subscriptions and online access fees (a "subscriber-pays" model), PLoS charges authors or their funding agencies a publication fee of $1,500 (an "author-pays" model). Varmus argues that such payments can be folded into laboratory research budgets, and several major funding institutions, such as the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, have agreed to supplement publication costs for their researchers. PLoS has also promised to waive fees for authors who are unable to pay. In theory at least, "author-pays" seems a viable economic model, according to a recent analysis by the http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTD003185.html Wellcome Trust . How have the PloS publications fared thus far? It's still hard to say, since the PLoS journals have had so little time to establish a track record of important or highly cited articles. Some researchers may doubt that work offered to the public for free will command the same respect as content people pay for. But if any journal is well-positioned for success, the PLoS vehicles are: Both have received plenty of media buzz, and Nobel Prize winners and other rock star scientists populate the PLoS board of directors. There are a few [A] http://www.slate.com/id/2111023/sidebar/2111027/ other publishers and journals that have adopted some elements of open access. But most traditional journals have resisted calls to post articles in PubMed Central, even with delays of six months. Only around 160 journals currently offer full-text articles through PubMed Central, out of the roughly 4,000 that are indexed annually by the National Library of Medicine. It would thus be virtually impossible for a scientist to build a first-rate career by publishing entirely in these forums, however sympathetic he or she might be to the goals of open access. (Some of the biggest names, such as JAMA , NEJM , and Science , have begun to make some content [A] http://www.slate.com/id/2111023/sidebar/2111028/ available for free on their own Web sites .) If the NIH decides to implement its proposed policyand an announcement is expected sometime this monththe open-access movement will receive a crucial shot in the arm. Not only will many more articles be available through PubMed Central, but the call by advocates for faster free access (without the six-month delay) will likely grow louder. Some journal publishers will no doubt rethink their business strategies, in order to compensate for actual or expected revenue losses. Of course, it is hard not to sympathize with traditional journal publishers, who for years have been careful stewards of the scientific literature, editing articles and selecting scientists to participate in peer review. But the change would not necessarily mean their demise. Many scientists (and science writers) would likely still subscribe to publications like, say, Science and Nature , largely for the valuable extras they offer, such as news blurbs and research summaries published each week. Journals could continue to charge fees for these features, even while adopting open access policies for new research. This is a story, then, about adapting to the digital world: How should we harness its enormous possibilities while trying to reckon with vested interests that stand to lose in the transition? Ultimately, the potential benefits of open access, for both scientists and the public, are too significant not to pursue aggressively. At a time when technical material is accumulating more quickly than ever before, extensive online databases can help scientists do the most informed work possible. At a time, too, when patients are asked to participate much more actively in health care decision-making, better access to information is crucial. The NIH's proposed compromise, in which articles are posted to PubMed Central six months after publication, is a reasonable one. But it is only a first step toward a larger goalnamely, true open access, immediately upon publication, for as much scientific work as possible. Amanda Schaffer is a science writer living in Brooklyn, New York.

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ICSU Assessment Panel report on Scientific Data and Information
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 22 Dec '04

22 Dec '04

Dear All ICSU (International Council for Science) has just published the report of the ICSU/CSPR Assessment Panel on Scientific Data and Information. Online access to this and other related publications of ICSU are available at: http://www.icsu.org/2_resourcecentre/RESOURCE_list_base.php4?rub=9 The Assessment Panel was constituted by ICSU/CSPR in 2003, and charged with both assessing the strategic issues in this arena and reviewing ICSUs current activities. The report contains several observations and recommendations made by the panel, based on its assessment of current and emerging scenario in scientific data and information. A key recommendation is that ICSU should develop a long-term strategic framework for scientific data and information (policies, practices and infrastructure). An essential component of this framework is to establish an international Scientific Data and Information Forum (SCiDIF) involving all the key stakeholders. Though the report is directly addressed to ICSU in facilitating its future planning and policy making, I believe the report content will be of interest to much wider audience at different levels, including policy makers, planners, managers of scientific data and information systems, and also teachers, professionals and students in this area. You are welcome to distribute this publication/ link to whomever you feel would find it useful. Your comments and suggestions are most welcome. 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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Harish Chandra- Sushila Chandra Best Librarian Award 2004
by Sanjay Kataria 21 Dec '04

21 Dec '04

Dear Information Scientists, I would like to share the great news about "Harish Chandra- Sushila Chandra Best Librarian Award 2004" has been presented on 18th Dec. 04 during one Seminar at Tagore Engineering Collage, Chennai, Organized by SALIS, (Chennai Chapter) and TEC Chennai. About the Award This award is constituted by Dr. Harish Chandra, Librarian, IIT Medras, Channai and will be awarded in every year by SALIS to eminent library professional contributed their outstanding work to enhance the library and information Science in India. Harish Chandra- Sushila Chandra Best Librarian Award for the year 2004 has been awarded to Dr. T A V Murthy, Director, INFLIBNET, Ahemdabad for his outstanding contribution I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Dr Murthy for his outstanding contribution in profession on behalf of all library & Information Scientists Thanks & Regards ==*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* Sanjay Kataria Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of InformationTechnology (Deemed University) A-10, Sector-62, Noida (UP) 201307 India Ph. 0120-2400973 to 978 Ext. 251 09810503341 (Mobile) E-mail: lib_scholar(a)rediffmail.com, katariasanjay2001(a)yahoo.com Website: www.jiit.ac.in --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. Dear Information Scientists, I would like to share the great news about "Harish Chandra- Sushila Chandra Best Librarian Award 2004" has been presented on 18th Dec. 04 during one Seminar at Tagore Engineering Collage, Chennai, Organized by SALIS, (Chennai Chapter) and TEC Chennai. About the Award This award is constituted by Dr. Harish Chandra, Librarian, IIT Medras, Channai and will be awarded in every year by SALIS to eminent library professional contributed their outstanding work to enhance the library and information Science in India. Harish Chandra- Sushila Chandra Best Librarian Award for the year 2004 has been awarded to Dr. T A V Murthy, Director, INFLIBNET, Ahemdabad for his outstanding contribution I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Dr Murthy for his outstanding contribution in profession on behalf of all library & Information Scientists � Thanks & Regards ==*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* Sanjay Kataria Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of InformationTechnology (Deemed University) A-10, Sector-62, Noida (UP) 201307 India Ph. 0120-2400973 to 978 Ext. 251 09810503341 (Mobile) E-mail: lib_scholar(a)rediffmail.com, katariasanjay2001(a)yahoo.com Website: www.jiit.ac.in Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/spamguard/*http://promotions.yahoo.… Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard .

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library furniture supplier
by Rajeev Sharma 21 Dec '04

21 Dec '04

Madam/ Sir Please give the addresses of library furniture supplier in Delhi and NCR. Thanks and Regards, Rajeev Kumar Sharma Officer - Information Services Business Information Center ------------------------------------------------------- Transport Corporation of India Ltd. TCI House, 69, Institutional Area Sector 32, Gurgaon Haryana, 122001 India Tel: +91 124 2381603 to 607 Ext. 104 Fax: +91 124 2381611 Email: bic.crpo(a)tcil.com Visit us at: www.grouptci.com ------------------------------------------------------- Madam/ Sir Please give the addresses of library furniture supplier in Delhi and NCR. Thanks and Regards, Rajeev Kumar Sharma Officer - Information Services Business Information Center ------------------------------------------------------- Transport Corporation of India Ltd. TCI House, 69, Institutional Area Sector 32, Gurgaon Haryana, 122001 India Tel: +91 124 2381603 to 607 Ext. 104 Fax: +91 124 2381611 Email: mailto:bic.crpo@tcil.com bic.crpo(a)tcil.com Visit us at: http://www.grouptci.com www.grouptci.com -------------------------------------------------------

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Radio frequency info
by Prafulla Chandra 20 Dec '04

20 Dec '04

Dear All, I would like to know the frequency details of Hindi programmes of Srilanka Broadcasting Corporation (formerly Radio Ceylon). Particularly, I am interested in their Bhoole bisre geet programme (7.30 am). Also, is there any web source which provides the programme schedule of various AIR Radio channels. Thank you Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Fw: [BOAI] GNU EPrints 2.3.7 released
by Subbiah Arunachalam 20 Dec '04

20 Dec '04

----- Original Message ----- From: "Stevan Harnad" <harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> Newsgroups: bionet.journals.note To: "AmSci Forum" <american-scientist-open-access-forum(a)amsci.org> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 7:16 PM Subject: [BOAI] GNU EPrints 2.3.7 released > Below is the announcement of the release of the latest version > of the GNU Eprints OAI-compliant OA-Archive-creating software: > http://software.eprints.org/ > > If your institution has created an OAI-compliant OA Archive (with this or > any other software), please register your institutional OA Archive(s) at: > > http://archives.eprints.org/index.php?action=analysis > > and please register your institutional OA self-archiving policy at: > > http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > From: Christopher Gutteridge <cjg(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> > > EPrints 2.3.7 released. > http://software.eprints.org/ > > The style of the default archive has been overhauled to be neater and > make better use of stylesheets. See http://demoprints.eprints.org/ for a > look at the new style. > > This release adds the option to make required file formats depend on the > type of eprint, rather than have one setting for the entire archive. > This means that in one archive an eprint about a book may not require > any formats at all, one about a presentation may require powerpoint, and > a normal article require PDF. > > Version 2.3.0 to 2.3.6 of EPrints required the "libapreq" library, this > library proved difficult for some users to install, so in response to > our users comments, from 2.3.7 is no longer used. > > Also 2.3.7 sees the addition of a XSLT style sheet to makes human > readable view of the OAI interface in Internet Explorer or Mozilla > browsers. eg. http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/perl/oai2?verb=Identify > > -- > Christopher Gutteridge -- cjg(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk -- +44 (0)23 8059 4833 > University of Southampton, School of Electronics and Computer Science >

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NYTimes: The Fox Is in Microsoft's Henhouse (and Salivating)
by Gerry Mckiernan 19 Dec '04

19 Dec '04

Colleagues/ Firefox is on Fire! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Classic Overnight Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 The Fox Is in Microsoft's Henhouse (and Salivating) By RANDALL STROSS Published: December 19, 2004 [ http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/business/yourmoney/19digi.html ] FIREFOX is a classic overnight success, many years in the making. Published by the Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit group supporting open-source software that draws upon the skills of hundreds of volunteer programmers, Firefox is a Web browser that is fast and filled with features that Microsoft's stodgy Internet Explorer lacks. Firefox installs in a snap, and it's free. [snip] With Firefox, open-source software moves from back-office obscurity to your home, and to your parents', too. (Your children in college are already using it.) It is polished, as easy to use as Internet Explorer and, most compelling, much better defended against viruses, worms and snoops. [more]

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NYTimes: Questions and Praise for Google Web Library
by Gerry Mckiernan 18 Dec '04

18 Dec '04

Questions and Praise for Google Web Library By FELICIA R. LEE [ http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/18/books/18libr.html ] Published: December 18, 2004 When Randall C. Jimerson, the president of the Society of American Archivists, heard of Google's plan to convert certain holdings at Oxford University and at some of the leading research libraries in the United States into digital files, freely searchable over the Web, he asked, "What are they thinking?" Mr. Jimerson had worries. Who would select the material? How would it be organized and identified to avoid mountains of decontextualized excerpts? Would Google users eventually forgo the experience of holding a book, actually seeing a historical document, the serendipity of slow research? But in recent interviews, many scholars and librarians applauded the announcement by Google, the operator of the world's most popular Internet search service, to digitize some of the collections at Oxford, the University of Michigan, Stanford and the New York Public Library. [snip] [MUCH MORE] /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Thinking Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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Candidates for RSS/Web Feed Registries | Major New RSS
by Gerry Mckiernan 17 Dec '04

17 Dec '04

Colleagues/ I am greatly interested in learning of additional candidates for any one of my Web feed registries: _RSS(sm): Rich Site Services_ [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS.htm ] RSS(sm): Rich Site Services is a categorized registry of library services that are delivered or provided through RSS/XML, Atom, or other types of Web feeds. RSS is an initialism for RDF Site Summary / Rich Site Summary / Really Simple Syndication. In general, for each entry, the home institution library is listed, as is a hotlinked entry for the item. When available, a link to the feed, or an associated information page, is provided. ************************************************************************ _eFeeds_ [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/eFeeds.htm ] _eFeeds(sm): Web Feeds from Electronic Journals_ is a categorized registry of electronic journals that offer RSS/XML, Atom, or other Web feeds. Publisher-specific and vendor Web feeds are categorized in a separate category. ************************************************************************ _B-Feeds(sm)_ [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/B-Feeds.htm ] _B-Feeds(sm): Web Feeds for Books and Monographs_ is a categorized registry of sites that offer RSS/XML, Atom, or other Web feeds, to compilations, directories, lists, reviews, or other relevant sources for/or about academic or scholarly books or monographic works. ************************************************************************ RSS/Web Feeds _General Bibliography_ [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/GenBib.htm ] ************************************************************************ In addition, I wish to note the publication and self-archived availability of an *Most Excellent* review article on RSS by Judith Wusteman (Department of Library and Information Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland) "RSS: The Latest Feed", _Library Hi Tech_ vol 22, no 4, pp. 404 - 413, 2004. Abstract The number of library-related RSS and Atom applications is increasing daily. But, as yet, the formats and technology involved are far from stable. This article looks at the current state of the field, discusses future developments and considers implications for the library [ http://www.ucd.ie/wusteman/lht/wusteman-rss.html ] Thanks (again) Judith, and Thanks (again) for citing my work {:-) Seasons Greetings! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Irish Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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Indian Agricultural Statistics
by Sharad Jadhav 17 Dec '04

17 Dec '04

Dear Member, Indian Agricultural Statistics is available @ http://agricoop.nic.in/Agristatistics.htm http://agricoop.nic.in/ Best Regards, Sharad Jadhav ------------Original Message----------- Dear All I shall be thankful if any one of you provides me the details about latest agricultural statistics of India, Indian agriculture position vs. Other countries agriculture position and any other such relevant material. Eagerly looking for your replies Regards Jitender Sharma Librarian NIILM CMS & UNIVERSITY B-II/66, MCIE, Sher Shah Suri Marg Badarpur, New Delhi - 110044 Tel: 91-011-29891529/39, 29893143 (Dir.) Fax: 91-011-29894212 E-mail: jsharma(a)niilm.com, jitendersharma(a)hotmail.com Dear Member, Indian Agricultural Statistics is available @ http://agricoop.nic.in/Agristatistics.htm http://agricoop.nic.in/ Best Regards, Sharad Jadhav ------------Original Message----------- Dear All I shall be thankful if any one of you provides me the details about latest agricultural statistics of India, Indian agriculture position vs. Other countries agriculture position and any other such relevant material. Eagerly looking for your replies Regards Jitender Sharma Librarian NIILM CMS & UNIVERSITY B-II/66, MCIE, Sher Shah Suri Marg Badarpur, New Delhi - 110044 Tel: 91-011-29891529/39, 29893143 (Dir.) Fax: 91-011-29894212 E-mail: jsharma(a)niilm.com, jitendersharma(a)hotmail.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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Need latest agricultural statistics
by Jitender Sharma 17 Dec '04

17 Dec '04

Dear All I shall be thankful if any one of you provides me the details about latest agricultural statistics of India, Indian agriculture position vs. Other countries agriculture position and any other such relevant material. Eagerly looking for your replies Regards Jitender Sharma Librarian NIILM CMS & UNIVERSITY B-II/66, MCIE, Sher Shah Suri Marg Badarpur, New Delhi - 110044 Tel: 91-011-29891529/39, 29893143 (Dir.) Fax: 91-011-29894212 E-mail: jsharma(a)niilm.com, jitendersharma(a)hotmail.com

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RE: Need Agri stat info
by BHOSALE, DEEPALI [AG-Contractor/6020] 17 Dec '04

17 Dec '04

with reference to Need latest agricultural statistics (Jitender Sharma) Dear Jitender, Your query is too broad in nature. Still you can try indiaagristat.com. Besides, for current scenario you can go through CMIE reports[Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, contact @022-26870595] Thanks & Regards, Ms. Deepali Bhosale Consultant - Library & Info Services Monsanto India Limited Mumbai [Bombay] Tel: 91-022-28247220 Fax: 91-022-28244707 email: deepali.bhosale(a)monsanto.com http://www.monsantoindia.com -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-request@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 6:20 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 21, Issue 21 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. Address info (Prafulla Chandra) 2. Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 21, Issue 20 (Lata Suresh) 3. Need latest agricultural statistics (Jitender Sharma) 4. Vacancy at NES (Prafulla Chandra) 5. Workshop on 29th December 2004 (upasana surinder saijpal) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 00:20:00 +0530 From: "Prafulla Chandra" <prafulla(a)nisc.co.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Address info To: tbgri(a)sancharnet.in, lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com, iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com, corporatelibrns(a)yahoogroups.com Message-ID: <41C22630.12684.B7A771@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Dear All, I'm looking for contact details (telephone number, web address, email ID, etc.) of the following institution: National Cactus and Succulent Botanical Garden and Research Centre Sector 5, Panchkula Haryana, India Any help in this regard would be appreciated. Thank you Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:47:38 +0530 From: "Lata Suresh" <lata(a)iihmr.org> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 21, Issue 20 To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: smshahabuddin(a)rediffmail.com Message-ID: <000a01c4e408$8333d520$0100007f(a)mantraonline.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 7. MRC (Shahab) S M Shahabuddin Programme Associate M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Chennai Dear Mr. Shahabuddin, The address of Malaria Research Centre is as below. Email of the Director is also provided. Please log on to the following site to view the publications of MRC. http://icmr.nic.in/icmrsql/lstpub.asp?insno=000287 Malaria Research Centre 22, Sham Nath Marg Delhi-110054. Tel.No. : 91-11-22533201 Fax No. : 91-11-22515086 Grams : ANOPHELES E-mail address : director(a)mrcindia.org ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:08:40 +0530 From: "Jitender Sharma" <jsharma(a)niilm.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Need latest agricultural statistics To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, <knowinfo(a)yahoogroups.com>, <nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com>, <india-lis(a)infoserv.inist.fr>, <ncsi-net(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com, corporatelibrns(a)yahoogroups.com Message-ID: <WorldClient-F200412171408.AA08400031(a)niilm.com> Dear All I shall be thankful if any one of you provides me the details about latest agricultural statistics of India, Indian agriculture position vs. Other countries agriculture position and any other such relevant material. Eagerly looking for your replies Regards Jitender Sharma Librarian NIILM CMS & UNIVERSITY B-II/66, MCIE, Sher Shah Suri Marg Badarpur, New Delhi - 110044 Tel: 91-011-29891529/39, 29893143 (Dir.) Fax: 91-011-29894212 E-mail: jsharma(a)niilm.com, jitendersharma(a)hotmail.com ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 04:57:26 +0530 From: "Prafulla Chandra" <prafulla(a)nisc.co.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Vacancy at NES To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <41C26736.3168.ADDD37@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear All, Here's a position announcement from NES. Please send your applications to the following email ID only: hrd(a)nisc.co.in Thanks T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor ______________________________________________ Position Announcement NISC Export Services (NES) Private Limited invites applications for the position of QUALITY ASSURANCE ANALYST in its Quality Control Department. NES and its affiliates together comprise one of the foremost database access, production and publishing companies in the world. NES's 100+ database products, published online (BiblioLine) or on CD-ROM (NISC DISCover) and print, cover most areas of the universe of knowledge-arts & humanities, earth sciences, environment, social sciences, life sciences and technology. Based in Hyderabad, the successful candidate will play a key role in monitoring and testing the quality of various database products, using latest information and communication technologies. NES is looking for candidates with excellent English skills having the following qualifications / experience: ____________________________________________________ 1) Master's degree in Library and Information Science or Associateship in Documentation and Information Science (DRTC) or Associateship in Information Science (INSDOC) or any equivalent degree OR 2) Experience of working in a Call Centre. In case of applicants from Call Centres, those possessing a BLISc degree would be preferred, although it is not an essential requirement. ____________________________________________________ Good typing skills are required as the working environment involves online computer use for access to offices worldwide. In addition, the candidates should possess the ability --to communicate in a formal, clear, empathetic and pleasant style, with excellent command of written and spoken English. --to handle a wide variety of modern communication media in a professional manner, conforming to standards of international business communication with respect to etiquette and pronunciation. If you are not a resident of Hyderabad and are willing to relocate, please indicate that at the top of your resume. Apart from on-job training inputs, NES provides a comfortable, pleasant and enjoyable work environment with bright career prospects and exciting opportunities to realize one's potentialities. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. NES considers applications from candidates who had appeared for examinations and awaiting announcement of results. Please submit a letter of application, resume, and names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of three references to: The Managing Director NISC Export Services Co. Pvt. Ltd. 3rd Floor, Ballad Estates, St. Ann's Road, Tarnaka Hyderabad 500 017 Email: hrd(a)nisc.co.in Phone: +91 40 27001517 For more info about NISC, please visit www.nisc.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: 17 Dec 2004 06:13:21 -0000 From: "upasana surinder saijpal" <usaijpal(a)rediffmail.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Workshop on 29th December 2004 To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20041217061321.11601.qmail(a)webmail27.rediffmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Skipped content of type multipart/alternative

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Malaria Research
by Casius C Issac 17 Dec '04

17 Dec '04

Dear Shahabhudin MRC Comes under the direct funding of ICMR ( Indian Council of medical Research ) . I Used to work in ICMR 10 years back . At that time MRC does not have a professional librarian . ICMR's P & I division had done lot of scientometric studies on malaria reserach and are still doing . You may contact the following scientist at ICMR to get what all areas have covered by them . I belive they can give a list of publication of on immediate basis Dr K Sathyanarayana Dr N K Jain or Dr Divya Srivastava I don't have their email id's but Dr Arunachalam of M S Swaminathan Research Foundation also a pioneer in scientometric studies will have their email Id's contacts With regards Casius Date: 17 Dec 2004 06:33:39 -0000 From: "Shahab" <smshahabuddin(a)rediffmail.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] MRC To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20041217063339.7999.qmail(a)webmail9.rediffmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear all members: I am working on mapping Malaria research in India - a scientometric study. And as I know, Malaria Research Centre, with its head quarter at New Delhi and field stations at several places in the country, is devoted to research on malaria in India. I want to contact the librarian at Malaria Research Centre for getting some information about the centre's work and publications, but I could not locate his/her email ID. Could anyone please help me in this regard. Thanks and regards to all, S M Shahabuddin Programme Associate M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Chennai Dear Shahabhudin MRC Comes under the direct funding of ICMR ( Indian Council of medical Research ) . I Used to work in ICMR 10 years back . At that time MRC does not have a professional librarian . ICMR's P & I division had done lot of scientometric studies on malaria reserach and are still doing . You may contact the following scientist at ICMR to get what all areas have covered by them . I belive they can give a list of publication of on immediate basis Dr K Sathyanarayana Dr N K Jain or Dr Divya Srivastava I don't have their email id's but Dr Arunachalam of M S Swaminathan Research Foundation also a pioneer in scientometric studies will have their email Id's contacts With regards Casius Date: 17 Dec 2004 06:33:39 -0000 From: "Shahab" < mailto:smshahabuddin@rediffmail.com smshahabuddin(a)rediffmail.com > Subject: [LIS-Forum] MRC To: mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: < mailto:20041217063339.7999.qmail@webmail9.rediffmail.com 20041217063339.7999.qmail(a)webmail9.rediffmail.com > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear all members: I am working on mapping Malaria research in India - a scientometric study. And as I know, Malaria Research Centre, with its head quarter at New Delhi and field stations at several places in the country, is devoted to research on malaria in India. I want to contact the librarian at Malaria Research Centre for getting some information about the centre's work and publications, but I could not locate his/her email ID. Could anyone please help me in this regard. Thanks and regards to all, S M Shahabuddin Programme Associate M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Chennai

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 21, Issue 20
by Lata Suresh 17 Dec '04

17 Dec '04

7. MRC (Shahab) S M Shahabuddin Programme Associate M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Chennai Dear Mr. Shahabuddin, The address of Malaria Research Centre is as below. Email of the Director is also provided. Please log on to the following site to view the publications of MRC. http://icmr.nic.in/icmrsql/lstpub.asp?insno=000287 Malaria Research Centre 22, Sham Nath Marg Delhi-110054. Tel.No. : 91-11-22533201 Fax No. : 91-11-22515086 Grams : ANOPHELES E-mail address : director(a)mrcindia.org

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MRC
by Shahab 17 Dec '04

17 Dec '04

Dear all members: I am working on mapping Malaria research in India - a scientometric study. And as I know, Malaria Research Centre, with its head quarter at New Delhi and field stations at several places in the country, is devoted to research on malaria in India. I want to contact the librarian at Malaria Research Centre for getting some information about the centre's work and publications, but I could not locate his/her email ID. Could anyone please help me in this regard. Thanks and regards to all, S M Shahabuddin Programme Associate M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Chennai Dear all members: I am working on mapping Malaria research in India - a scientometric study. And as I know, Malaria Research Centre, with its head quarter at New Delhi and field stations at several places in the country, is devoted to research on malaria in India. I want to contact the librarian at Malaria Research Centre for getting some information about the centre's work and publications, but I could not locate his/her email ID. Could anyone please help me in this regard. Thanks and regards to all, S M Shahabuddin Programme Associate 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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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 21, Issue 16
by AR 17 Dec '04

17 Dec '04

Dear Professionals, I have come accross to many advt for different post of librarian in US . The eligibility is MLISC. But they consider only ALA accredited MLISC. I would like to know why they dont consider the Indian University (any other) Awarded MLISC Degree, is it not standard according to thier syllabus or is it same for all subjects. If so why can't we change our syllabus to International level. How come they consider MCA, MBA, B.E. etc. best wishes Anuradha --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. Dear Professionals, � I have come accross to many advt for different post of librarian in US . The eligibility is MLISC. But they consider only ALA accredited MLISC. I would like to know why they dont consider the Indian University (any other) Awarded MLISC Degree, �is it not standard according to�thier syllabus or is it same for all subjects. If so why can't we change our syllabus�to International level. � How come they consider MCA, MBA, B.E. etc. best wishes Anuradha Do you Yahoo!? http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/mobile/*http://mobile.yahoo.com/mai… Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone.

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reply: library standards
by Tejaswini Mulay 17 Dec '04

17 Dec '04

Mr. Kumaresan I have not come across any specific "library space standards" in India atleast. But there are standards in other countries, which are followed.But what i want to suggest is, there are space,furniture and equipment standards for making libraries accessible to the disabled, which could be followed, and will also work for other normal people.I had come across some of these references during my seminar paper on "Adaptive technologies : facilitating access to information for the disabled." please note that these standards have not been made in India. Check the following links: http://www.access-board.gov/ http://www.disabilityindia.org/ http://www.rit.edu/~easi/itd/itdv02n4/article2.htm Tejaswini Mulay Trainee, Bioinformatics centre University of Pune Mr. Kumaresan I have not come across any specific "library space standards" in India atleast. But there are standards in other countries, which are followed.But what i want to suggest is, there are space,furniture and equipment standards for making libraries accessible to the disabled, which could be followed, and will also work for other normal people.I had come across some of these references during my seminar paper on "Adaptive technologies : facilitating access to information for the disabled." please note that these standards have not been made in India. Check the following links: http://www.access-board.gov/ http://www.disabilityindia.org/ http://www.rit.edu/~easi/itd/itdv02n4/article2.htm Tejaswini Mulay Trainee, Bioinformatics centre University of Pune 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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Workshop on 29th December 2004
by upasana surinder saijpal 17 Dec '04

17 Dec '04

Dear LIS Forum Members Our college is organising a workshop for librarians on Soft Skills for Information Professionals scheduled for the 29th December 2004. The complete programme schedule is attached with the letter. Kindly confirm your participation on or before 24th December 2004. Looking forward to your active participation Regards Upasana saijpal Librarian Smt.kapila khandvala College of Education Juhu Road,Santacruz(W) Mumbai 400054 26608747 usaijpal(a)yahoo.com Dear LIS Forum Members Our college is organising a workshop for librarians on Soft Skills for Information Professionals scheduled for the 29th December 2004. The complete programme schedule is attached with the letter. Kindly confirm your participation on or before 24th December 2004. Looking forward to your active participation Regards Upasana saijpal Librarian Smt.kapila khandvala College of Education Juhu Road,Santacruz(W) Mumbai 400054 26608747 usaijpal(a)yahoo.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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Re: set standards
by Mangesh Ghodke 17 Dec '04

17 Dec '04

Hi Suman, I appreciate your concern about our appointments as library professional. Here i would like to add that we should not combine the recruitment rules & regulations of different types of library i.e. for College & University library there are set standards laid by UGC & AICTE (One has to gothrough the rules of governing body). In the academic library these appointments (about qualification, pay)may vary institution to institution eg. Aided or Non-aided, Type of institution, nature of vacancy. Yes, your concern can be well fit for the Special/Corporate libraries. In these libraries the parent organisation advertise as per their requirement. It is the experience which counts in these libraries. like even a B.lib. qualified person raise upto Manager level (these are in cases of old employee of various corporate libraries). But still in these libraries Librarian plays different roles than the traditional librarian and the post also like Information officer, Sr. Officer, Manager etc. Some of the library professional (Govt. as well as Corporate sector) are getting handsome salary which we have not imagine. Thus we have to make a room for future library professionals. Thanks & Regards, Mangesh G. Pidilite Industries Ltd., Mumbai Board line: 28357000 Ext. 7832 site: www.pidilite.com Message: 1 Date: 15 Dec 2004 06:49:50 -0000 From: "aprajita suman" <aprajita_drtc(a)rediffmail.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: set standards To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20041215064950.6502.qmail(a)webmail47.rediffmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Ms. Suman, What you r trying to indicate is true. Also, are payscals related to degree? or seniority? there are no set rules on this. In my case, I have done B.L.I.Sc. after 14 yrs of my earlier M.A. I did this degree in 1992. Despite having one degree of masters, I am always in dilemma if I will need to do my M.Lib. at some point of time? Does M.A.+Blisc lead to equal opportunities & financial returns? or M.lib. helps even for more & better job opportunities? Also we don't have many opportunities to get trained for digitization's, etc due to job & home pressures, since all these seminars are outstation, full day and so on & so forth. If they are scheduled part time/evenings many of us can benefit. regards, Mrs. Vaishnav (Consulting Librarian-Godrej) Mumbai ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ====================== "The information contained in this communication is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and others authorised to receive it. It may contain confidential or legally privileged information. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by responding to this email and then delete it from your system. The contents of this email do not necessarily represent the views or policies of Pidilite Industries Limited." Hi Suman, I appreciate your concern about our appointments as library professional. Here i would like to add that we should not combine the recruitment rules & regulations of different types of library i.e. for College & University library there are set standards laid by UGC & AICTE (One has to gothrough the rules of governing body). In the academic library these appointments (about qualification, pay)may vary institution to institution eg. Aided or Non-aided, Type of institution, nature of vacancy. Yes, your concern can be well fit for the Special/Corporate libraries. In these libraries the parent organisation advertise as per their requirement. It is the experience which counts in these libraries. like even a B.lib. qualified person raise upto Manager level (these are in cases of old employee of various corporate libraries). But still in these libraries Librarian plays different roles than the traditional librarian and the post also like Information officer, Sr. Officer, Manager etc. Some of the library professional (Govt. as well as Corporate sector) are getting handsome salary which we have not imagine. Thus we have to make a room for future library professionals. Thanks & Regards, Mangesh G. Pidilite Industries Ltd., Mumbai Board line: 28357000 Ext. 7832 site: www.pidilite.com Message: 1 Date: 15 Dec 2004 06:49:50 -0000 From: "aprajita �suman" <aprajita_drtc(a)rediffmail.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: set standards To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20041215064950.6502.qmail(a)webmail47.rediffmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" � Dear Ms. Suman, What you r trying to indicate is true. Also, are payscals related to degree? or seniority? there are no set rules on this. In my case, I have done B.L.I.Sc. after 14 yrs of my earlier M.A. I did this degree in 1992. Despite having one degree of masters, I am always in dilemma if I will need to do my M.Lib. at some point �of time? Does M.A.+Blisc lead to equal opportunities & financial returns? or M.lib. helps even for more & better job opportunities? Also we don't have many opportunities to get trained for digitization's, etc due to job & home pressures, since all these seminars are outstation, full day and so on & so forth. If they are scheduled part time/evenings many of us can benefit. regards, Mrs. Vaishnav (Consulting Librarian-Godrej) Mumbai ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ====================== "The information contained in this communication is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and others authorised to receive it. It may contain confidential or legally privileged information. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by responding to this email and then delete it from your system. The contents of this email do not necessarily represent the views or policies of Pidilite Industries Limited."

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Another Service from Google - Google Suggest
by Madhuresh 17 Dec '04

17 Dec '04

Just go to Google Suggest URL http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1 As you type into the search box, Google Suggest guesses what you're typing and offers suggestions in real time. This is similar to Google's "Did you mean?" feature that offers alternative spellings for your query after you search, except that it works in real time. For example, if you type "bass," Google Suggest might offer a list of refinements that include "bass fishing" or "bass guitar." Similarly, if you type in only part of a word, like "progr," Google Suggest might offer you refinements like "programming," "programming languages," "progesterone," or "progressive." You can choose one by scrolling up or down the list with the arrow keys or mouse. By suggesting more refined searches up front, Google Suggest can make your searches more convenient and efficient by keeping you from having to reformulate your query. Google Suggest might offer suggestions that you will find novel or intriguing. Regards. Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560 100 India Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 422 Fax 2852 6285 Mobile 098861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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Vacancy at NES
by Prafulla Chandra 17 Dec '04

17 Dec '04

Dear All, Here's a position announcement from NES. Please send your applications to the following email ID only: hrd(a)nisc.co.in Thanks T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor ______________________________________________ Position Announcement NISC Export Services (NES) Private Limited invites applications for the position of QUALITY ASSURANCE ANALYST in its Quality Control Department. NES and its affiliates together comprise one of the foremost database access, production and publishing companies in the world. NESs 100+ database products, published online (BiblioLine) or on CD-ROM (NISC DISCover) and print, cover most areas of the universe of knowledgearts & humanities, earth sciences, environment, social sciences, life sciences and technology. Based in Hyderabad, the successful candidate will play a key role in monitoring and testing the quality of various database products, using latest information and communication technologies. NES is looking for candidates with excellent English skills having the following qualifications / experience: ____________________________________________________ 1) Masters degree in Library and Information Science or Associateship in Documentation and Information Science (DRTC) or Associateship in Information Science (INSDOC) or any equivalent degree OR 2) Experience of working in a Call Centre. In case of applicants from Call Centres, those possessing a BLISc degree would be preferred, although it is not an essential requirement. ____________________________________________________ Good typing skills are required as the working environment involves online computer use for access to offices worldwide. In addition, the candidates should possess the ability --to communicate in a formal, clear, empathetic and pleasant style, with excellent command of written and spoken English. --to handle a wide variety of modern communication media in a professional manner, conforming to standards of international business communication with respect to etiquette and pronunciation. If you are not a resident of Hyderabad and are willing to relocate, please indicate that at the top of your resume. Apart from on-job training inputs, NES provides a comfortable, pleasant and enjoyable work environment with bright career prospects and exciting opportunities to realize ones potentialities. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. NES considers applications from candidates who had appeared for examinations and awaiting announcement of results. Please submit a letter of application, resume, and names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of three references to: The Managing Director NISC Export Services Co. Pvt. Ltd. 3rd Floor, Ballad Estates, St. Anns Road, Tarnaka Hyderabad 500 017 Email: hrd(a)nisc.co.in Phone: +91 40 27001517 For more info about NISC, please visit www.nisc.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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NPR: Google's Plan Prompts a Question: What's on the Web?
by Gerry Mckiernan 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

Colleagues/ NPR: Google's Plan Prompts a Question: What's on the Web? This week, the search engine Google announced plans to digitize millions of library books and make them searchable online. Are we getting closer to the day when most of the world's knowledge is a click away? [ http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=5&prgDate=current ] Key Players interviewed, e.g., Michael Keller (Stanford Univesrity and High Wire Press), Brewster Kale (Internet Archive), Paul Gerhardt (BBC Creative Archive) This is a *VERY* Important episode of _Talk of the Nation_ and IMHO is a Must Hear ! [38' 10''] Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan GoogleScanned Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerymck(a)iastate.edu

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Address info
by Prafulla Chandra 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

Dear All, I'm looking for contact details (telephone number, web address, email ID, etc.) of the following institution: National Cactus and Succulent Botanical Garden and Research Centre Sector 5, Panchkula Haryana, India Any help in this regard would be appreciated. Thank you Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Providing hyperlinks
by Sharad Jadhav 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

Dear Members, Dear Members, Thanks for your replies to my query that whether providing hyperlinks violates the copyright of the owner. Most of them were of the view that it does not. It was also suggested that the disclaimer of the site should be read/ consulted, but it may not possible if we are giving numerous links (Say 100) and check each sites disclaimer. Some of the IT experts say that it definitely violates and prior permission is required before hyper linking their site. Is it? Best regards, Sharad Jadhav, National Insurance Academy, Library Services, Pune 45 Dear Members, Dear Members, Thanks for your replies to my query that whether providing hyperlinks violates the copyright of the owner. Most of them were of the view that it does not. It was also suggested that the disclaimer of the site should be read/ consulted, but it may not possible if we are giving numerous links (Say 100) and check each sites disclaimer. Some of the IT experts say that it definitely violates and prior permission is required before hyper linking their site. Is it? Best regards, Sharad Jadhav, National Insurance Academy, Library Services, Pune 45 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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Search Engine for Open Access Articles in LIS
by Sukhdev Singh 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

DRTC has provided a Search Engine to Access to LIS articles / Literature. Have a look at http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/sdl Regards Sukhdev Singh, NIC

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About server
by swarna gowri 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

Dear Sir/Madam, I want to know about the servers, types of servers, how it works, what is the capacity and differences between the servers. B.Swarnagowri Asst.Librarian SDM Institute for Management Development Mysore email:swarnagowrib@yahoo.co.in ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony

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First open source training centre sets up in South Africa
by Madhuresh 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

Dear Members, You may like to read following 2 news items related to Open Source. 1. Community centre runs open source ICDL http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=389&s=news 2. World's first open source television programme http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=381 I am copying it below for member's convenience. Community centre runs open source ICDL The Mogalakwena HP i-community in South Africa's Limpopo province is one of the first training centres worldwide to offer an open source software version of the International Computer Driving Licence(ICDL). The ICDL is recognised internationally as a benchmark of end-user computer skills. There is a unique quality to the HP i-community certification in that it is the only one in Africa which is centred purely on open source software, says Imraan Jassat, head of capacity building at the project. "We are delivering on an overwhelming demand from those 3000 individuals who have already gone through the HP i-community open source software training, for an internationally recognised certification. Specifically, they are certified on their knowledge and capabilities in open source software, such as OpenOffice and other tools and applications." Ninety-eight percent of the trainers at the HP i-community have already passed the ICDL foundation examination and achieved certification. The ICDL foundation course certifies that the holder is fully competent in the use of a personal computer and common computer applications and knows the essential concepts of IT. The syllabus is designed to be entirely vendor-independent which gives candidates the flexibility to acquire core skills that are suitable to a range of software environments. The ICDL is a test of practical skills and competencies and consists of seven separate modules covering computer theory and practice. Module One is a theoretical test of computing knowledge at a general level and Modules Two to Seven test skills covering such topics as concepts of information technology (IT), using a computer and managing files, word processing, spreadsheets, database, presentation and information and communication. These tests can be attempted in any order and at any time and must be successfully completed within a maximum duration of three years. A skills card is issued documenting the results of the tests, and when all seven modules are successfully completed, the skills card is sent to the national ICDL licensee and a personalised certificate is issued. "We have always known that certification would be a logical part of the skills transfer process, but we have been on the lookout for the appropriate certification. Though the ICDL gives us what we need for international recognition of those skills, we still need to find the appropriate level within it for the HP i-community, because it is so rich and diverse. Of course one of the key advantages to certification on open source software is that people can learn an application that is freely available, is in line with international standards, and most importantly, copies can be distributed without fear of breaking copyright laws," says Jassat. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------- World's first open source television programme The South Africa-based Go Open Source campaign is filming the world's first television series dedicated to open source software. The 13-episode Go_Open will air on SABC 2 every Saturday at 17:30 from November 20. The Go_Open series is sponsored by the Go Open Source campaign. Go Open Source is funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation, HP, Canonical and the CSIR. The programme will showcase success stories, interviews with top local and international free software pioneers and the latest products and news from the open source world. "Contrary to popular belief, open source software is not only the domain of technically skilled users, since it makes a difference in the lives of everyday people from all walks of life," says Mark Shuttleworth, South African Internet billionaire and investor in Go Open Source. "Another myth is that open source software is niche in its focus. Open source applications cover the entire spectrum of computer use, consisting of operating systems, productivity suites, web browsers, e-mail clients, Internet tools and multimedia applications," he says. "Go_Open will aim to blow these myths out of the water once and for all, using real world examples that could not have happened in any other way than through the use of open source." Regards. Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560 100 India Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 422 Fax 2852 6285 Mobile 098861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 21, Issue 18
by rudrakant sollapur 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

Thank U for sending the informaions. I think I don`t need all these to my future. So i request U not to send any more messeges Thanking You Rudrakant 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: Calcutta University Library: Teachers' misuse libraryfacilities (G. K. Manjunath) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:09:21 +0530 (IST) From: "G. K. Manjunath" Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Calcutta University Library: Teachers' misuse libraryfacilities To: Puttaraj Choukimath Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Even banks fail to recover loans. Inspite of all strict rules and regulations, most of the banks have a very high Non-peforming assets ( NPA ) and even big industrialists are defaulters!! The Non Performing Assets(NPA) of 27 public sectorbanks shot up to Rs.56,608 crore in september 2001 ( source http://eastindiavyapaar.com/trade/bank/bank_non_perf_assets.htm ) It does not mean that we have to follow this wrong example. We have plenty of rules and regulations. Most of us fail at implementation level. G.K.Manjunath IGIDR, MUMBAI On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Puttaraj Choukimath wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I think ... > We should work like banks: they lend money we lend books! > > Books are LOANED ... they have to be returned without fail. > > While giving the membership only it should be specified that what action would be taken for any overdues/misuse/mutilation etc. > And, these specifications/terms and conditions of 'LOANS' (with the > approval of authorities or committees) should carefully/clearly be > drafted, and duly signed by the users. > Taking NOC should be made compulsary, if any user has to leave the > institution. > > There should be proper "Understanding-Cooperation-Communication" between "Library-Academic Section-Accounts". > > ... > > if any other others are also welcome to share ... thank you all. > > Puttaraj. > Thank U for sending the informaions. I think I don`t need all these to my future. So i request U not to send any more messeges Thanking You Rudrakant lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in wrote: Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 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: Calcutta University Library: Teachers' misuse libraryfacilities (G. K. Manjunath) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:09:21 +0530 (IST) From: "G. K. Manjunath" Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Calcutta University Library: Teachers' misuse libraryfacilities To: Puttaraj Choukimath Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Even banks fail to recover loans. Inspite of all strict rules and regulations, most of the banks have a very high Non-peforming assets ( NPA ) and even big industrialists are defaulters!! The Non Performing Assets(NPA) of 27 public sectorbanks shot up to Rs.56,608 crore in september 2001 ( source http://eastindiavyapaar.com/trade/bank/bank_non_perf_assets.htm ) It does not mean that we have to follow this wrong example. We have plenty of rules and regulations. Most of us fail at implementation level. G.K.Manjunath IGIDR, MUMBAI On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Puttaraj Choukimath wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I think ... > We should work like banks: they lend money we lend books! > > Books are LOANED ... they have to be returned without fail. > > While giving the membership only it should be specified that what action would be taken for any overdues/misuse/mutilation etc. > And, these specifications/terms and conditions of 'LOANS' (with the > approval of authorities or committees) should carefully/clearly be > drafted, and duly signed by the users. > Taking NOC should be made compulsary, if any user has to leave the > institution. > > There should be proper "Understanding-Cooperation-Communication" between "Library-Academic Section-Accounts". > > ... > > if any other others are also welcome to share ... thank you all. > > Puttaraj. >

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Library Standards reg.
by SCKumaresan 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

Dear Professional Friends, Greetings. I have a very urgent requirement of knowing the standars to follow in a library in the following aspects 1. Ratio of Books, Periodicals as against the students and faculty an institutional Library should have. 2. Any standard or specifications on library space, facility and equipments for a Library. I guess there are specifications laid down by UGC and AICTE, are they available on the net? If so kindly let me know their addresses. I also would like to know the standards followed internationall esp. American and the British standards. Can any one help me find out this. I have to make a presentation for in this regard to our Director by next Wednesday. I thank you very much iin advance for u r kind help. Bye Best Regards 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. 0097158829462 Dear Professional Friends, Greetings. I have a very urgent requirement of knowing the standars to follow in a library in the following aspects 1. Ratio of Books, Periodicals as against the students and faculty an institutional Library should have. 2. Any standard or specifications on library space, facility and equipments for a Library. I guess there are specifications laid down by UGC and AICTE, are they available on the net? If so kindly let me know their addresses. I also would like to know the standards followed internationall esp. American and the British standards. Can any one help me find out this. I have to make a presentation for in this regard to our Director by next Wednesday. I thank you very much iin advance for u r kind help. Bye Best Regards 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. 0097158829462 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: set standards
by aprajita suman 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

Dear Ms. Suman, What you r trying to indicate is true. Also, are payscals related to degree? or seniority? there are no set rules on this. In my case, I have done B.L.I.Sc. after 14 yrs of my earlier M.A. I did this degree in 1992. Despite having one degree of masters, I am always in dilemma if I will need to do my M.Lib. at some point of time? Does M.A.+Blisc lead to equal opportunities & financial returns? or M.lib. helps even for more & better job opportunities? Also we don't have many opportunities to get trained for digitization's, etc due to job & home pressures, since all these seminars are outstation, full day and so on & so forth. If they are scheduled part time/evenings many of us can benefit. regards, Mrs. Vaishnav (Consulting Librarian-Godrej) Mumbai Dear Ms. Suman, What you r trying to indicate is true. Also, are payscals related to degree? or seniority? there are no set rules on this. In my case, I have done B.L.I.Sc. after 14 yrs of my earlier M.A. I did this degree in 1992. Despite having one degree of masters, I am always in dilemma if I will need to do my M.Lib. at some point of time? Does M.A.+Blisc lead to equal opportunities & financial returns? or M.lib. helps even for more & better job opportunities? Also we don't have many opportunities to get trained for digitization's, etc due to job & home pressures, since all these seminars are outstation, full day and so on & so forth. If they are scheduled part time/evenings many of us can benefit. regards, Mrs. Vaishnav (Consulting Librarian-Godrej) Mumbai 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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Int. Training Program on INFORMATION; grants available
by Shyam Prasad pujar 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:39:32 +0100 From: Paul Nieuwenhuysen <pnieuwen(a)vub.ac.be> To: Paul.Nieuwenhuysen(a)vub.ac.be Subject: Int. Training Program on INFORMATION; grants available An International Training Program on "INFORMATION": STIMULATE Scientific and Technological Information Management in Universities and Libraries: an Active Training Environment (Edition 5) Announcement Information about this training program can be found on the WWW starting from: http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/itp/ The program is planned to take place mainly in Brussels, Belgium, from June to August 31, 2005 The initiative has been approved by the Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR) and is sponsored by the Belgian Government (the directorate named DGOS since December 2002). This fits in a series of similar international training activities that have been organized since 1991, named MIST 1, 2, 3, KNOW-HOW, and STIMULATE 1, 2, 3 and 4. This initiative is aimed primarily at persons with a university degree (Bachelor or Master), who work in universities, information and documentation centers, and libraries, including of course university libraries, and who have a few years of practical experience. The term Active Training Environment in the title of the training program reflects our wish to create an environment in which each participant is stimulated to get involved actively, supported by the lecturers and the infrastructure provided by the training program. This fits well into the general, worldwide trend away from "teaching" to "learning management". Aims: The main aim of this International Training Program is to offer a stimulating learning environment to participants, who have a function as information intermediary in the area of science and technology, so as to sharpen their skills in collecting, storing, retrieving, presenting and managing information, which can be of great benefit to the teaching and research activities going on in their institute and to the further development of their organisation and region. More specific objectives are: -- to provide participants with a clearer view on the importance of information in general and for their environment in particular, -- to guide them in retrieving information that is publicly accessible on an international scale, and -- to learn them to store, organise, present, manage, publish information resources at personal, institutional, regional or national level. After being actively involved in this International Training Program, every participant will have improved the ability -- to appreciate and explain the importance of access to information for their organisation -- to retrieve information from the Internet -- to present information to users and potential users, using appropriate information technology -- to store information for later retrieval and access by potential users, using information technology -- to train interested persons in the use and management of information, using appropriate presentation techniques -- to apply quantitative methods in decision making related to information systems and services -- to contribute to the planning of the (further) development of an information service -- to communicate through the Internet with users of information, information providers, colleagues,� Contents: It is our intention to organise the sessions in such a way that --the first month = introduction level, --the second month = intermediate level, and --the third month = more advanced level. Thanks to this approach and organisation, it may make sense to participate exceptionally during only one or two of the three months, depending on expertise. However, the available scholarships are granted only to persons who will participate for the full three months. To start with, the participants are offered an orientation tour of the University and the Library. Then some of the following subjects are covered. Of course, due to the limited available time, not all the mentioned subjects can be discussed in each training program, but a SELECTION will be made by the organisers, depending on the availability of suitable expert lecturers. Information and communication technology for information centers and libraries: Microcomputer systems: hardware. Microcomputer operating systems. Microcomputer systems: applications software. Text editing; word processing; desktop publishing. Presentation of data, using a microcomputer. Creating charts to present information. Data communication; computer networks. Internet. Internet services. Electronic mail. World-Wide Web; hypertext and hypermedia. Disks for computers. CD-ROM. CD-ROM in a local area network. CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW. Image processing; graphics file formats; photo/image editing. Multimedia / Hypermedia. Data-communications networks and librarians. Selecting and procuring a computer system; writing a proposal for a computer implementation. Providing access to information through public Internet workstations. Client-server systems. Methods for access to databases through Internet: telnet, http/WWW, Z39.50 and ISO239.50, Open Archives Initiative - Metadata Harvesting Protocol� Information sources: Introductory concepts about information. Internet-based information resources: introduction. Bibliographic databases. The information industry and the information market. Online information retrieval and database searching; search tactics and strategies. Internet search engines. Information available free of charge. Online access databases about journal articles. Electronic newsletters and journals. Computer-network based interest groups. Patent information. Online systems versus CD-ROM. Citation searching. Theoretical and quantitative aspects of information retrieval. Evaluating the quality of information sources. Evaluation of information retrieval strategies and systems. Information storage and retrieval: Basic, fundamental, theoretical concepts. Software packages for local storage and retrieval of bibliographic information. Introduction to the ISIS software package family for information storage and retrieval. The application of ISIS: searching, editing data in a database, output of selected data to file or printer; developing a database structure; indexing data for fast retrieval; ISIS for Windows; WINISIS; history and future of ISIS; programming in ISIS. Formats: MARC; application of MARC in ISIS. Databases (and ISIS in particular) through the WWW. Downloading of information and record format conversion: principles. Downloading of information and record format conversion. Library automation. Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs). Archives and records management. Archives in the domain of science and technology. Geographic Information Systems (GIS): an introduction. Web technology and applications: Developing a web site; HTML, CSS, XML, XSL; intranets; developing an intranet. Information architecture. Evaluating web sites. Dynamic web pages. Developing co-operative community WWW sites; Web contents management systems. Setting up an electronic newsletter. Extensions of the classical WWW. (Client-based and server-based). Document+program hybrid systems. Management in information centers and libraries: Statistics for information science and for library management. Business plans for libraries and information centers. Using spreadsheets in the management of libraries and information centers. Collection development. Consortia of libraries for the acquisition of electronic journals and databases. Scientific writing methods. ISBD = International Standard Bibliographic Description. Formats for computer-based cataloguing; MARC formats. National libraries and national bibliographies. Knowledge organisation: subject classification schemes; thesaurus systems, ontologies. Citation analysis. Assessing the influence of scientific journals; citations and impact factors. The bibliometric laws. Scientometrics. Management of a library and information service. Architecture of libraries. Orientation of information users; relations with information users. Interlibrary lending and co-operation; document delivery: an introduction. Development of a national or regional information network. The information society. Cultural aspects of the information society and information technology transfer. Copyright; information security; trans-border data flow. Writing a project proposal (for instance related to the establishment of an information network). Conservation/preservation of printed documents. Conservation/preservation of digital documents. Informetric aspects of the Internet. Artificial intelligence and knowledge representation in information science. Electronic journals: implementation in a library. Integration of e-learning environments and library services. Libraries involvement in scientific publishing. International co-operation projects. About half of the time, the participants are guided by experts who are invited to the university. They use the other half time to solve problems, to make exercises, to use microcomputers and the Internet, to prepare discussions, for self study... Besides the formal, guided course activities, the participants have access like any regular student at our university --to several rooms equipped with microcomputers connected to the Internet, --to the university library which offers printed material, CD-ROMs and PCs with Internet access, --to the university restaurant and to sport facilities at low student prices. In addition to the courses taking place at the university campus, study visits are organised. Possible visits: --to the Royal (National) Library, in Brussels, Belgium --to the European Patent Office in Brussels, Belgium --to the Information Service of the Geology Department of the Royal Museum on Africa, in Tervuren near Brussels, Belgium --to the inter-university postgraduate school on information and library science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium --to the library of the University of Antwerp in Wilrijk, Belgium --to the human sciences library of the University of Antwerp in old Antwerp city, Belgium --to the old central library and to the modern science and technology library of the KUL (university) in Leuven, Belgium --to the VLIZ marine science information and documentation center near the sea coast in Oostende / Ostend, Belgium --to the library of the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerpen / Antwerp, Belgium --to the library of the University of Gent / Ghent, Belgium --to the Documentation Department of the KIT (the Royal Tropical Institute), and to the high school on libraries, documentation and information, both in Amsterdam, Nederland / The Netherlands --to IFLA headquarters and the National, Royal Library in Den Haag / The Hague, in Nederland / The Netherlands More culturally oriented guided visits are also organised; these may include trips to the old cities of Brussels, Antwerp, Bruges, Amsterdam, and to the North Sea coast. At the end of the course, each participant completes a presentation supported by slides managed on computer, with constructive comments on the training program experienced and with concrete recommendations to the director of their own organisation. Social activities planned: -- Welcome reception with drinks and appetizers. -- Evening with tasting of some of the world famous Belgian beers and some Belgian food. -- Farewell gathering with drinks and appetizers. Participation and registration; tuition fee and costs: Grants: Participation is free of charge (!) for 14 participants from developing countries, who are selected by the organisers, VL.I.R. (the Flemish Inter-university Council) and DGOS. They also receive a grant to cover the costs of accommodation and an airplane return ticket. The detailed grant application form is available as a PDF file through the Internet from http://www.vlir.be/ There you can also find an explanation of the procedures to apply for the grant. That PDF file can be printed with the suitable program provided free of charge by Adobe through the WWW: http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html Grant applications must be received by VLIR before the end of February! (Do NOT send requests for a grant or any other correspondence about the grants to the organisers, but only to VLIR: scholarships(a)vlir.be) If this procedure is not suitable for you, you can ask your local Belgian embassy for a printed version of the application form for the grant, or you can ask more information through email: scholarships(a)vlir.be (or Maarten.Timmermans(a)vlir.be). The ideal participant applying for a grant is younger than 40 years, and will be able to apply what has been learned directly in a professional scientific or technical environment afterwards. Normal registration: Besides the persons who receive a grant from the Belgian Government through VLIR, 6 persons can participate after paying a tuition fee that is small in comparison with similar programs. The costs mentioned do NOT include air travel, meals and accommodation, but do include transport from the airport upon arrival, course materials, study visits and social activities. The cost of living in Belgium is not exceptional. -To participate during the full period: 2400 Euros -Exceptionally, persons who cannot participate for the whole period can nevertheless participate during 2 months only (1800 Euros) or during 1 month only (1000 Euros). It makes a lot of sense to attend for instance the first month or the first two months only. It makes less sense to participate only during the second or the third month, as introductions to some activities or topics may be missed. -To participate to particular items selected from the program: 30 Euros per half day. To register and pay the tuition fee, send the form (see below) by classical mail together with an international bank transfer / bank cheque / bank draft, payable to University Library V.U.B., Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 BRUSSEL, Belgium, with no need for any bank account numbers. If however this simple procedure is NOT suitable for you, then you can transfer the required sum of money to the following bank account of the V.U.B.: Fortis Bank located at Warandeberg 3 in B-1000 Brussel, Belgium, account number 001-0686459-66 or IBAN = BE07 0010 6864 5966 and do not forget (!) to mention as a remark: for WD006240 BIBL WER3 The money received by the VUB must be transferred internally to this account of the University Library. (Without this remark, the money may be not retraceable.) We recommend you to register as early as possible: �first come, first served�: the arrival of your participation fee determines who can participate. Accommodation: The organisers of the Program normally book a single, cheap, basic room in advance as accommodation for each participant, unless a participant writes us that he/she wants to take care of accommodation personally, for instance by staying with a friend or by renting a room that offers more luxury. Participants pay for their own accommodation. If we can book many weeks in advance, then we can normally find basic accommodation for about 300 euro per month; however, a late receipt of the tuition fee forces us to book a more expensive room. Medical insurance: It is recommended that participants are covered during their stay by a full medical insurance. In Belgium, this costs about 40 euro per month. Contact: E-mail (Internet): stimulate at vub.ac.be or Paul.Nieuwenhuysen at vub.ac.be (or Patrick.Vanouplines at vub.ac.be ) (change at in @ when you want to use one of these addresses.) Fax 32 2 629 2693 (or 2282) Tel. 32 2629 2429 (or 2609) Telex 61051 vubco-b Classical mail: Paul NIEUWENHUYSEN (or Patrick VANOUPLINES) STIMULATE-ITP, University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, BELGIUM Location: The training is mainly organized at the University Library of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (V.U.B). The campus is located south of the older centre of the city of Brussels, and can easily be reached by Metro (subway), tram and bus. Information about Brussels (and Belgium) can be found through the WWW; see for instance: http://www.agenda.be/ http://www.ilotsacre.be/site/en/default_en.htm http://www.interknowledge.com/belgium/ http://www.jack-travel.com/ http://www.timeout.com/brussels/ http://www.trabel.com/brussel/brussels-touristattractions.htm http://www.virtourist.com/europe/brussels/index.html http://www.visitbelgium.com/ Trips are perhaps organised to places in neighbouring countries like The Netherlands and France. Therefore, participants should try to obtain also a visa for those countries (a so called Schengen-visa). Other information: Language used is English. The course director is Dr. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and guest professor at Universiteit Antwerpen, Science and technology librarian, and Head of the information and documentation department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Other official supervisors and co-promoters of this program are --Prof. Dr. Ludo Simons, University of Antwerp, who has been the president of the Steering Committee of the inter-university postgraduate study program on Information and Library Science until October 2004.. --Prof. Dr. Raf Dekeyser, K.U.L., Leuven, a physics professor who has been head of the K.U.L. university library, one of the largest libraries of Belgium, until October 2004. An official, formal Steering Committee is composed of members from the co-operating universities in Flanders, to plan the organisation, the program and the budget; this committee reports to VLIR. Participants obtain a certificate when they have participated actively and successfully. Participants should of course bring a notebook or laptop computer, if they have one available. Ideally they should buy or rent a personal notebook computer as soon as they arrive. Feel free to distribute this document; this version is dated 12 December 2004. REGISTRATION FORM to STIMULATE, University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (V.U.B.), Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 BRUSSEL, Belgium I want to participate. Therefore I send this as a letter and pay the registration fee as described in the announcement of the International Training Program. (So the following is NOT the form to apply for a grant. Do not send this unless you pay the registration fee.) a. Family name (surname): ............................... (married female participants please fill in maiden-name as well as name of husband) b. First or given names (according to your official passport): .............. Personal address: ................................... ..................................................... Country:............................................. Electronic mail address Telephone, fax, telex: Date of birth: Place of birth: Nationality: Sex: male / female Present employment: a. Name and address of employer: ................. ............................................... ............................................... b. Since: ../../.. c. Position � function - specialization d. Telephone, fax, telex and/or e-mail of the employer: Education - studies: Name of institute Degree Date Knowledge of English: writing: ........ speaking: ........ reading: ....... Have you been abroad earlier? Please specify: Duties that you will carry out after returning to your country: ................................................................. ................................................................. Please book a room for me OR Do NOT book a room for me; I will take care myself of accommodation I take care of a medical insurance myself OR Please see that I am covered by a medical insurance for my stay in Belgium which will cost about 40 euro/month. Date and signature: Please include a recent photograph, as this will simplify identifying you upon arrival.

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BBC supports open access
by Subbiah Arunachalam 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

More on the BBC Creative Archive Project Alison Perrett, Bringing the past to life, Sp!ked, December 8, 2004. Excerpt: 'The BBC Creative Archive Project aims to give British internet users free access to the corporation's priceless back-catalogue of programmes and music recordings, providing it is for non-commercial use. Up until now, no broadcaster had sought to digitise an archive on this scale, let alone give its audience the tools and freedom to download and share the content....The vision for the Creative Archive flows from the highest echelons of the BBC. The idea of Creative Archive project was launched publicly at the 2003 Edinburgh TV Festival, by then BBC director-general Greg Dyke. The current director-general Mark Thompson has also fully embraced this vision and seeks to have the project endorsed within the BBC Royal Charter, due to be renewed in 2006. One BBC policy document that gives full support to digitisation initiatives, and specifically the Creative Archive, states: "Digital exclusion is a form of social waste. This is why the BBC will always be on the side of universal provision, open access and unencryption." More on the BBC Creative Archive Project [A] Alison Perrett, http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CA7FD.htm Bringing the past to life , Sp!ked , December 8, 2004. Excerpt: 'The BBC Creative Archive Project aims to give British internet users free access to the corporation's priceless back-catalogue of programmes and music recordings, providing it is for non-commercial use. Up until now, no broadcaster had sought to digitise an archive on this scale, let alone give its audience the tools and freedom to download and share the content....The vision for the Creative Archive flows from the highest echelons of the BBC. The idea of Creative Archive project was launched publicly at the 2003 Edinburgh TV Festival, by then BBC director-general Greg Dyke. The current director-general Mark Thompson has also fully embraced this vision and seeks to have the project endorsed within the BBC Royal Charter, due to be renewed in 2006. One BBC policy document that gives full support to digitisation initiatives, and specifically the Creative Archive, states: "Digital exclusion is a form of social waste. This is why the BBC will always be on the side of universal provision, open access and unencryption."

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"Automatio of Libraries-MyLISA- SDM-IMD- A possitive output
by vasanth raj 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

Dear Sir/madam Here I am pleased to inform you that the MyLISA(Mysore Library and Information Scienctist Association)in collabration with SDM_IMD conducted a 4 days workshop on "Automation of Libraries" for its memebrs from 11th to 14 th of Dec 2004.The work shop statred with the basics of computers. We learnt how to utilize the maximum of MS Word in dail library operations Eg: Creating a template of Indent form etc.Second day we learnt how to create a database using MS-Access.On 13th they taught us to develop a database using WINISIS software using MARC.And developing digital library using GSDL(green stone opensource software) and Library manager.(open source). On the fourth and last day they taught us how to select a library software and informed us about the criteria one should consider while selecting a library software.The important aspects of this workshop was the validectory function, where our honourable president Pro.Shalini R Urs gave key note address on Future technologies in Information Management.IN her speech our president mentioned that in future the LIST Serve could be a future libray , where in information can be exchanged or provided in a fraction of second.As the Kalvin Warwick a computing scientist has reightly pointed out that " The human race which has dominated the world, perhaps 10,000 years will going to see its domination come to an end".On the whole the workshop was highly rewarding to participted librarins and LIS professionals aspiring to acquire computer knowledge in the field of Library and Information science. The output was remarkable that The participant of the workshop decided to automate thier library using existing system.MR. Nagaraja Rao who is a 70 years old who's zeal for learning things inspired us to know more.Many thanks to the People of SDM-IMd Library for thier exeptional hospitality and MyLISA to conduct this workshop. Regards, Vasntha Raju N e-mail:gooche_1981@yahoo.co.in. Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Sir/madam Here I am pleased to inform you that the MyLISA(Mysore Library and Information Scienctist Association)in collabration with SDM_IMD conducted a 4 days workshop on "Automation of Libraries" for its memebrs from 11th to 14 th of Dec 2004.The work shop statred with the basics of computers. We learnt how to utilize the maximum of MS Word in dail library operations Eg: Creating a template of Indent form etc.Second day we learnt how to create a database using MS-Access.On 13th they taught us to develop a database using WINISIS software using MARC.And developing digital library using GSDL(green stone opensource software) and Library manager.(open source). On the fourth and last day they taught us how to select a library software and informed us about the criteria one should consider while selecting a library software.The important aspects of this workshop was the validectory function, where our honourable president Pro.Shalini R Urs gave key note address on Future technologies in Information Management.IN her speech our president mentioned that in future the LIST Serve could be a future libray , where in information can be exchanged or provided in a fraction of second.As the Kalvin Warwick a computing scientist has reightly pointed out that " The human race which has dominated the world, perhaps 10,000 years will going to see its domination come to an end".On the whole the workshop was highly rewarding to participted librarins and LIS professionals aspiring to acquire computer knowledge in the field of Library and Information science. The output was remarkable that The participant of the workshop decided to automate thier library using existing system.MR. Nagaraja Rao who is a 70 years old who's zeal for learning things inspired us to know more.Many thanks to the People of SDM-IMd Library for thier exeptional hospitality and MyLISA to conduct this workshop. Regards, Vasntha Raju N e-mail:gooche_1981@yahoo.co.in. http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Google digitizing selected libraries
by Subbiah Arunachalam 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

Here is a news item of interest to all research and higher education librarians. Arun Google Print has added a new question to its FAQ: I'm a librarian. How can I get Google to come and scan my library? Sorry, but we're not expanding our relationships with libraries at this time. However, we may expand to add additional libraries in the future. If you're interested in letting us know about your library's special collection, please email us at print-support(a)google.com and include the size of your collection, any specialization or special content, how much of your content is already digital, and what languages you cover. Here is a news item of interest to all research and higher education librarians. Arun http://print.google.com/ Google Print has added a http://print.google.com/googleprint/about.html#13 new question to its http://print.google.com/googleprint/about.html FAQ : I'm a librarian. How can I get Google to come and scan my library? Sorry, but we're not expanding our relationships with libraries at this time. However, we may expand to add additional libraries in the future. If you're interested in letting us know about your library's special collection, please email us at mailto:print-support@google.com print-support(a)google.com and include the size of your collection, any specialization or special content, how much of your content is already digital, and what languages you cover.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Set standards for qualification & experience
by I N Nargund 14 Dec '04

14 Dec '04

Dear Sir, As for selecting the candidates based on their PhD qualification one has to ascertain the content and quality of the research carried out. This is open for discussion. I N Nargund Scientific Officer, RMP BARC, MYSORE On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 aprajita suman wrote : > >Respected professionals, >Today I came across one very interesting notification for the post of "Library Assistant", where the desired qualification and experience are mentioned as follows: >Librarian - First class M.Lib. Information Science with "atleast 15 years experience". Desirable M.Phil/Ph.D degree. >Library Asst- First class M.Lib. Inf. Sc. With at least 2 years experience Or B.Lib, "with 10 years experience". >HERE, THE NOTABLE POINT IS THE QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE DESIRED FOR THE POST OF LIBRARIAN AND LIBRARY ASSISTANT. >In this regard, I invite the suggestions of the respected professionals, isnt there any set standard for the desirable qualifications and experience for a particular post in the library.Why can't the library professionals' associations take up this issue? Why should we be guided by the whims of the respective organisations and their managements? >Suggestions of the professionals will serve as guidelines for young professionals for furtherance of their career. >With regards, >Aparajita Suman, >Junior Research Fellow, >Technical Information Centre, >Defense Research and Development Laboratory, >Hyderabad >http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo… >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Dear Sir, As for selecting the candidates based on their PhD qualification one has to ascertain the content and quality of the research carried out. This is open for discussion. I N Nargund Scientific Officer, RMP BARC, MYSORE On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 aprajita suman wrote : > >Respected professionals, >Today I came across one very interesting notification for the post of "Library Assistant", where the desired qualification and experience are mentioned as follows: >Librarian - First class M.Lib. Information Science with "atleast 15 years experience". Desirable M.Phil/Ph.D degree. >Library Asst- First class M.Lib. Inf. Sc. With at least 2 years experience Or B.Lib, "with 10 years experience". >HERE, THE NOTABLE POINT IS THE QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE DESIRED FOR THE POST OF LIBRARIAN AND LIBRARY ASSISTANT. >In this regard, I invite the suggestions of the respected professionals, isnt there any set standard for the desirable qualifications and experience for a particular post in the library.Why can't the library professionals' associations take up this issue? Why should we be guided by the whims of the respective organisations and their managements? >Suggestions of the professionals will serve as guidelines for young professionals for furtherance of their career. >With regards, >Aparajita Suman, >Junior Research Fellow, >Technical Information Centre, >Defense Research and Development Laboratory, >Hyderabad >http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo… >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum 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] Calcutta University Library: Teachers' misuse libraryfacilities
by HENAG 14 Dec '04

14 Dec '04

Dear All, This is almost the same case happens everywhere, the librarians' hands are tight to impose any strict rules like fine implementation etc... One policy libraries can implement with the prior permission from the authority ----- send 3-6 reminders on a regular basis having an interval, keep the reminder #along with the reminder in the subject line itself, if the book/s still not returned by the professor/s then send a final mail mentioning that we are force to deduct the amount from the salary to replace the book as we are assuming that the book issued by you is lost , and give copy to accounts department along with the attachment of the reminders. This amount can be accumulated under one head for library and library can purchase the same book/s or the books on high demand utilizing this amount. If the authority is keen to recover the loss then good to implement this policy , prior to implement this policy please put a notice publicly in your premise and try to inform all regarding the change in the policy of possessing books more than 6 months after the due date . I 'm sure this will surely bring back all the books . For rare books charge the price three times of the cost.Try to Convince the authority saying enough time/reminder is given to return, it is charged only after 6 months . Regards Hena S Gupta Infosys Central Library Infosys Technologies Ltd. Hosur Road, Electronics City Phone # 080-51165196, FAX# 080-28520742 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 Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 9:55 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Calcutta University Library: Teachers' misuse libraryfacilities Please read the following news item. Situation must be similar in other institutions of 'Higher' learning. I feel it is high time we concentrate on this menace and take steps to put books to better use than merely allowing monopolisation by a few users. Vyasamoorthy, P =================== http://www.telegraphindia.com/1041212/asp/bengal/story_4118695.asp CU library lists full, not shelves OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Calcutta, Dec. 11: Valuable books and journals have disappeared from Calcutta University's library as the borrowers have "conveniently" forgotten to return them. Flooded by complaints from students and teachers on important books that are off the shelves for years, the university authorities have begun an exercise to trace them. But the effort may have come too late. Many of the missing books were borrowed nearly 30 years ago and the borrowers are either retired or dead. At best, a few of the habitual defaulters may be traced and only a few books recovered. "We cannot deny that there are some teachers and scholars who are in the habit of not returning books after borrowing them from the university's libraries. We are working out measures to stop the practice," said Saumitra Sarkar, the librarian. Bound by rules, the university cannot fine a teacher if he or she returns a book late. "We recently introduced a system of giving repeated reminders to defaulting teachers. We are now working on steps that may be taken if the reminders do not work," said Sarkar. To get books back from research scholars in time, the authorities have introduced fines. Earlier, only students had to pay a fine if they failed to return their books on the stipulated date. Last year, the university increased the rate of fines for students. They are now charged 10 paise for every day's delay in the first week and a rupee a day after that. The scholars are now being fined at the same rate. University sources said the catalogues in its central and departmental libraries show a large number of books, but they are never found on the racks. In all, Calcutta University has nearly 12 lakh text and reference books. In addition, the libraries house maps, journals, theses and commission reports. A student alleged: "Often a rare book issued to a teacher is never returned to the library." "We have also come across teachers who borrowed books at the time of joining and never gave them back." Another student alleged that many of the teachers have in their possession books that are not available anywhere else in the country. At present, a section of teachers of the varsity's geography department are up in arms against the authorities for not taking action against at least three retired teachers who did not allegedly return about a dozen rare maps. =======================sent by ================ Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631 _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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interesting news item
by Krishnan 14 Dec '04

14 Dec '04

*from the that's-a-lot-of-library dept.* FJCsar writes /"According to an e-mail sent today to Harvard students, Google will collaborate with Harvard's libraries on a pilot project to digitize a substantial number of the 15 million volumes held in the University's extensive library system <http://lib.harvard.edu/>, which is second only to the Library of Congress in the number of volumes it contains. Google will provide online access to the full text of those works that are in the public domain. In related agreements, Google will launch similar projects with Oxford, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the New York Public Library. As of 9 am on December 14, a FAQ detailing the Harvard pilot program with Google will be available at hul.harvard.edu <http://hul.harvard.edu/>."/ from the that's-a-lot-of-library dept. FJCsar writes "According to an e-mail sent today to Harvard students, Google will collaborate with Harvard's libraries on a pilot project to digitize a substantial number of the 15 million volumes held in the University's http://lib.harvard.edu/ extensive library system , which is second only to the Library of Congress in the number of volumes it contains. Google will provide online access to the full text of those works that are in the public domain. In related agreements, Google will launch similar projects with Oxford, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the New York Public Library. As of 9 am on December 14, a FAQ detailing the Harvard pilot program with Google will be available at http://hul.harvard.edu/ hul.harvard.edu ."

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Management books on discount price
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 14 Dec '04

14 Dec '04

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Google to scan books from big libraries
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 14 Dec '04

14 Dec '04

Google To Scan Books From Big Libraries SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Google Inc. is trying to establish an online reading room for five major libraries by scanning stacks of hard-to-find books into its widely used Internet search engine. The ambitious initiative announced late Monday gives Mountain View, Calif.-based Google the right to index material from the New York public library as well as libraries at four universities _ Harvard, Stanford, Michigan and Oxford in England. The Michigan and Stanford libraries are the only two so far to agree to submit all their material to Google's scanners. The New York library is allowing Google to include a small portion of its books no longer covered by copyright while Harvard is confining its participation to 40,000 volumes so it can gauge how well the process works. Oxford wants Google to scan all its books originally published before 1901. Scanning books so they can be read through computers isn't new. Both Google and Amazon.com already have programs that offer online glimpses of new books while an assortment of other sites for several years have provide digital access to some material in libraries scattered around the country. But Google's latest commitment could have the biggest impact yet, given the breadth of material that the company hopes to put into its search engine, which has become renowned for its processing speed, ease of use and accuracy. ``It's a significant opportunity to bring our material to the rest of the world,'' said Paul LeClerc, president of the New York Public Library. ``It could solve an old problem: If people can't get to us, how can we get to them?'' Librarians are also excited about the prospect of creating a digital record for the reams of valuable material written long before computers were conceived. ``This is the day the world changes,'' said John Wilkin, a University of Michigan librarian working with Google. ``It will be disruptive because some people will worry that this is the beginning of the end of libraries. But this is something we have to do to revitalize the profession and make it more meaningful.'' The project gives Google's search engine another potential drawing card as it faces stiffening competition for Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN. Attracting visitor traffic is crucial to Google's financial health because the company depends on revenue generated by people clicking on advertising links posted next to the main body of search results. Scanning the library books figures to be a daunting task, even for a cutting edge company such as Google, whose online index of 8 billion Web pages already has revolutionized the way people look for information. Michigan's library alone contains 7 million of its library volumes _ about 132 miles of books. Google hopes to get the job done at Michigan within six years, Wilkin said. Harvard's library is even larger with 15 million volumes. Virtually all of that material will be off limits Google shows it can scan the material without losing or damaging anything, said Harvard professor Sidney Verba, who also is director of the university's library. ``The librarians at Harvard are very punctilious about protecting their great treasures,'' Verba said. The project also poses other prickly issues, such as how to convert material written in foreign languages, and the issue of protecting copyrighted books. As it does with new books already included in its search engine, Google will only allow its users to view the bibliographies or other snippets of copyrighted books scanned from the libraries. The search engine will provide unrestricted access to all material in the public domain _ work no longer covered by copyrights. The books scanned from libraries will be included in the same Google index the spans the Web. By throwing everything into the same pot, Google risks burying the library book results far below the Web documents containing the same search terms term, reducing the usefulness of the feature, said Danny Sullivan, editor of Search Engine Watch, an industry newsletter. **************************************** Sreeharsha BG Knowledge Management Group i2 Technologies software Pvt. Ltd. 5th Floor, Diamond District, Airport Road, Bangalore-8 PH: 25047319 **************************************** Nahi Jnanena sadrusham....

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Google Library Collections
by Farooque Shaheen 14 Dec '04

14 Dec '04

Google has reached agreements with Harvard University, The University of Michigan, Stanford University, Oxford University, and The New York Public Library to scan their books and make the digitized contents searchable. Up to 50 million titles are involved, including titles held in common by the libraries. The project, which will probably take five or more years to complete, will deliver a database of volumes that Google users can search. Users will be able to download entire volumes in the database that are not under copyright protection. Books under copyright will be excerpted at varying lengths, depending on whether Google has agreements with their publishers to carry longer excerpts. In addition, books under copyright will have links to Amazon.com , Barnes & Noble and Google's own shopping Web site, Froogle, thereby encouraging users to buy the volumes. There will also be links to local libraries and Alibris, a well-known Web site to buy used and out-of-print books. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor (India) Pvt Ltd. Bull Temple Road. Bangalore-19, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 Google has reached agreements with Harvard University, The University of Michigan, Stanford University, Oxford University, and The New York Public Library to scan their books and make the digitized contents searchable. Up to 50 million titles are involved, including titles held in common by the libraries. The project, which will probably take five or more years to complete, will deliver a database of volumes that Google �users can search. Users will be able to download entire volumes in the database that are not under copyright protection. Books under copyright will be excerpted at varying lengths, depending on whether Google has agreements with their publishers to carry longer excerpts. In addition, books under copyright will have links to Amazon.com , Barnes & Noble �and Google's own shopping Web site, Froogle, thereby encouraging users to buy the volumes. There will also be links to local libraries and Alibris, a well-known Web site to buy used and out-of-print books . Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor (India) Pvt Ltd. Bull Temple Road. Bangalore-19, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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International Conference in Mumbai
by anita pujari 14 Dec '04

14 Dec '04

� Dear Professionals, Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC) was established in 1955 & is completing 50 years of its existence. To commemorate its Golden Jubilee year,� IASLIC is hosting an International Conference on Information Management in a Knowledge Society{ICIM2005}. The city of Mumbai will be the venue of this International Conference scheduled for Feb.21-25, 2005. The complete details are available on� http://www.icim2005.org/index.htm http://www.icim2005.org/index.htm A recent coverage on this International Conference in Education Times, a supplement to The Times of India is worth a read http://epaperdaily.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JTS8yMDA0LzEyL… http://epaperdaily.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JTS8yMDA0LzEyL… ICIM-2005 will focus on four themes, viz., Knowledge Society, Information Management, Knowledge Management and Digital Libraries and is expected to be just the place to be in, amongst prominent national & international experts & delegates, meeting-sharing-deliberating & learning. Hope you will be there too. warm regards Anita Pujari Convenor - Media & Publicity Committee ICIM2005 ----------------- Chief Manager TIMES ARCHIVES - Centre for Knowledge The Times Group http://email.indiatimes.com/apic/ Connect to the future with http://email.indiatimes.com/apic/images/logosmall.gif Advantage

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Enquiry: Free Journal transaction Software
by salma 14 Dec '04

14 Dec '04

Dear all, Can u pls let me know if you have come accross any good freeware s/w for the Journals transactions, it shud be a standalone version, not Client/Server based, Currently we are using Libsys software, which is not customized as per our environment, wherein we have multiple locations like 13 locations in Bangalore, few in chennai, hyderabad, gurgaon etc..this is not meeting our requirement.. Do intimate if u have any ideas/suggestions to automate the journals transactions which meets the multilocation requirement. Thanx and Regards _______________________________________________ Salma Khan Sr. Executive Information Services WIPRO Technologies, K-312, 5th block, Kormangala Bangalore - 560095 91-80-25538301 (X - 2571) 25538470 (D) 8 salma.khan(a)wipro.com Voip: 8062003; Fax: 91-80-25538301 ______________________________________________________ There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness 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. Dear all, Can u pls let me know if you have come accross any good freeware s/w for the Journals transactions, it shud be a standalone version, not Client/Server based, Currently we are using Libsys software, which is not customized as per our environment, wherein we have multiple locations like 13 locations in Bangalore, few in chennai, hyderabad, gurgaon etc..this is not meeting our requirement.. Do intimate if u have any ideas/suggestions to automate the journals transactions which meets the multilocation requirement. Thanx and Regards _______________________________________________ Salma Khan Sr. Executive Information Services WIPRO Technologies, K-312, 5th block, Kormangala Bangalore - 560095 91-80-25538301 (X - 2571) 25538470 (D) 8 mailto:salma.khan@wipro.com salma.khan(a)wipro.com Voip: 8062003; Fax: 91-80-25538301 ________________________________________________ ______ There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness 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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Providing Hypelinks on webpages.
by Sharad Jadhav 14 Dec '04

14 Dec '04

Dear Members, 1. Is providing hyperlinks on your web page violates the copyright, or special permission is needed from the owner of the website for hyperlinking. 2. And if there is no copyright violation, hyperlinking the exact documnet/page on the website is permitted. (e.g www.acdxyz.com/resources/current.pdf) Best regards, Sharad Jadhav National Insurance Academy, Library, Balewadi, Baner Road, NIA PO, addr Pune 411 045, Maharashtra. INDIA Dear Members, 1. Is providing hyperlinks on your web page violates the copyright, or special permission is needed from the owner of the website for hyperlinking. 2. And if there is no copyright violation, hyperlinking the exact documnet/page on the website is permitted. (e.g www.acdxyz.com/resources/current.pdf) Best regards, Sharad Jadhav National Insurance Academy, Library, Balewadi, Baner Road, NIA PO, addr Pune 411 045, Maharashtra. INDIA 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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PubSub - Matching Service
by Madhuresh 14 Dec '04

14 Dec '04

Dear Professional friends, I just want to share the free service offered by Pubsub (http://www.pubsub.com/). Read below to know more about it. PubSub is a matching service that instantly notifies you when new content is created that matches your query. Using a proprietary Matching Engine, PubSub is able to read millions of data sources on your behalf and notify you instantly whenever a match is made. PubSub's Internet-scale matching engine is a "prospective" search tool that complements traditional "retrospective" search engines. PubSub's prospective search matches user requests against new documents as they're published-in real time, all the time. Traditional search stores data and then allows finding documents within that store of data. PubSub operates by first storing subscription query, and then watching for new information that matches it. Query will be checked against every piece of new information passing through their Matching Engine. It is the Internet's most comprehensive blog-monitoring service tracking more than 6.5 million Weblogs as well as 50,000 USENET newsgroups, all SEC/EDGAR filings, press releases from major wire services, and FAA airport delay alerts. The PubSub service is compatible with any information delivery system that can be accessed from the Internet - including email, SMS, PDA/mobile devices and Instant Messaging networks - allowing to select where, when, and how you want to receive your information. PubSub's RSS and ATOM feeds are compatible with Web-based news aggregators like Bloglines and My Yahoo! as well as desktop aggregators like NewsGator, FeedDemon, and Gush. One can also download Pubsub sidebar available for Internet Explorer and Firefox, so there will be no need to visit the website to check the new results of defined query. It will automatically display new results in the sidebar that matches with our query. This free service will be very useful for the information professionals who have to monitor the news items about their company/competitive company as well as for current happening in their areas of interest. Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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Set standards for qualification & experience
by aprajita suman 14 Dec '04

14 Dec '04

Respected professionals, Today I came across one very interesting notification for the post of "Library Assistant", where the desired qualification and experience are mentioned as follows: Librarian - First class M.Lib. Information Science with "atleast 15 years experience". Desirable M.Phil/Ph.D degree. Library Asst- First class M.Lib. Inf. Sc. With at least 2 years experience Or B.Lib, "with 10 years experience". HERE, THE NOTABLE POINT IS THE QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE DESIRED FOR THE POST OF LIBRARIAN AND LIBRARY ASSISTANT. In this regard, I invite the suggestions of the respected professionals, isnt there any set standard for the desirable qualifications and experience for a particular post in the library.Why can't the library professionals' associations take up this issue? Why should we be guided by the whims of the respective organisations and their managements? Suggestions of the professionals will serve as guidelines for young professionals for furtherance of their career. With regards, Aparajita Suman, Junior Research Fellow, Technical Information Centre, Defense Research and Development Laboratory, Hyderabad Respected professionals, Today I came across one very interesting notification for the post of "Library Assistant", where the desired qualification and experience are mentioned as follows: Librarian - First class M.Lib. Information Science with "atleast 15 years experience". Desirable M.Phil/Ph.D degree. Library Asst- First class M.Lib. Inf. Sc. With at least 2 years experience Or B.Lib, "with 10 years experience". HERE, THE NOTABLE POINT IS THE QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE DESIRED FOR THE POST OF LIBRARIAN AND LIBRARY ASSISTANT. In this regard, I invite the suggestions of the respected professionals, isnt there any set standard for the desirable qualifications and experience for a particular post in the library.Why can't the library professionals' associations take up this issue? Why should we be guided by the whims of the respective organisations and their managements? Suggestions of the professionals will serve as guidelines for young professionals for furtherance of their career. With regards, Aparajita Suman, Junior Research Fellow, Technical Information Centre, Defense Research and Development Laboratory, Hyderabad 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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Software Cd's Cataloguing
by Seshu Sripada 13 Dec '04

13 Dec '04

Dear friends Could you please help for Cataloguing of Softwares like Cd's we are getting software cd's in a month 20-30 cds' Some of the cd's contains exactly the name of softwares , for those we can catalogue it but ... some like Technical Information Cd-- titled it contains like SMS(System Management Server), Content Management Server(CMS), Share Point Portal Server.... about all these topics like Plan, technical notes , then how to catalogue like this multiple subject areas. If any one know pl.let me know the solution. Seshu -----------------------SOFTPRO DISCLAIMER------------------------------ Information contained in this E-MAIL and any attachments are confidential being proprietary to SOFTPRO SYSTEMS is 'privileged' and 'confidential'. If you are not an intended or authorised recipient of this E-MAIL or have received it in error, You are notified that any use, copying or dissemination of the information contained in this E-MAIL in any manner whatsoever is strictly prohibited. Please delete it immediately and notify the sender by E-MAIL. In such a case reading, reproducing, printing or further dissemination of this E-MAIL is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. SOFTPRO SYSYTEMS does not REPRESENT or WARRANT that an attachment hereto is free from computer viruses or other defects. The opinions expressed in this E-MAIL and any ATTACHEMENTS may be those of the author and are not necessarily those of SOFTPRO SYSTEMS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear friends Could you please help for Cataloguing of Softwares like Cd's we are getting software cd's in a month 20-30 cds' Some of the cd's contains exactly the name of softwares , for those we can catalogue it but ... some like Technical Information Cd-- titled it contains like SMS(System Management Server), Content Management Server(CMS), Share Point Portal Server.... about all these topics like Plan, technical notes , then how to catalogue like this multiple subject areas. If any one know pl.let me know the solution. Seshu -----------------------SOFTPRO DISCLAIMER------------------------------ Information contained in this E-MAIL and any attachments are confidential being proprietary to SOFTPRO SYSTEMS is 'privileged' and 'confidential'. If you are not an intended or authorised recipient of this E-MAIL or have received it in error, You are notified that any use, copying or dissemination of the information contained in this E-MAIL in any manner whatsoever is strictly prohibited. Please delete it immediately and notify the sender by E-MAIL. In such a case reading, reproducing, printing or further dissemination of this E-MAIL is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. SOFTPRO SYSYTEMS does not REPRESENT or WARRANT that an attachment hereto is free from computer viruses or other defects. The opinions expressed in this E-MAIL and any ATTACHEMENTS may be those of the author and are not necessarily those of SOFTPRO SYSTEMS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Calcutta University Library: Teachers' misuselibraryfacilities
by Aman Jha 13 Dec '04

13 Dec '04

Dear firends I think imposing fine or getting back the cost of book (including processing fee + the cost of sending reminders) is not enough. Circulation team needs to be strengthened in such a way that this situation should not arise in future in such a big library like university library where all the staff are skilled and users are all bonafide members of the institution i.e.; teachers/staff and students. In a user-library relationship, few users are always in search of breaking the rules of library by taking advantage of the weaknesses of the system built by that particular team/staff. "Many of the missing books were borrowed nearly 30 years ago and the borrowers are either retired or dead." In this case, I am sure there is something lacking in the library's circulation team. Circulation team has to be a complete professional. If someone has borrowed from you, it is not someone else but you are responsible for getting that back. I don't want to say that users have no responsibility. But, it is the library authority who is 100% responsible. Regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon 122015 (Haryana) Tel: 0124-5014060-67 * Fax: 0124-5014080 -----Original Message----- From: HENAG [mailto:HENAG@infosys.com] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 6:32 AM To: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com; lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Calcutta University Library: Teachers' misuselibraryfacilities Dear All, This is almost the same case happens everywhere, the librarians' hands are tight to impose any strict rules like fine implementation etc... One policy libraries can implement with the prior permission from the authority ----- send 3-6 reminders on a regular basis having an interval, keep the reminder #along with the reminder in the subject line itself, if the book/s still not returned by the professor/s then send a final mail mentioning that we are force to deduct the amount from the salary to replace the book as we are assuming that the book issued by you is lost , and give copy to accounts department along with the attachment of the reminders. This amount can be accumulated under one head for library and library can purchase the same book/s or the books on high demand utilizing this amount. If the authority is keen to recover the loss then good to implement this policy , prior to implement this policy please put a notice publicly in your premise and try to inform all regarding the change in the policy of possessing books more than 6 months after the due date . I 'm sure this will surely bring back all the books . For rare books charge the price three times of the cost.Try to Convince the authority saying enough time/reminder is given to return, it is charged only after 6 months . Regards Hena S Gupta Infosys Central Library Infosys Technologies Ltd. Hosur Road, Electronics City Phone # 080-51165196, FAX# 080-28520742 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 Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 9:55 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Calcutta University Library: Teachers' misuse libraryfacilities Please read the following news item. Situation must be similar in other institutions of 'Higher' learning. I feel it is high time we concentrate on this menace and take steps to put books to better use than merely allowing monopolisation by a few users. Vyasamoorthy, P =================== http://www.telegraphindia.com/1041212/asp/bengal/story_4118695.asp CU library lists full, not shelves OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Calcutta, Dec. 11: Valuable books and journals have disappeared from Calcutta University's library as the borrowers have "conveniently" forgotten to return them. Flooded by complaints from students and teachers on important books that are off the shelves for years, the university authorities have begun an exercise to trace them. But the effort may have come too late. Many of the missing books were borrowed nearly 30 years ago and the borrowers are either retired or dead. At best, a few of the habitual defaulters may be traced and only a few books recovered. "We cannot deny that there are some teachers and scholars who are in the habit of not returning books after borrowing them from the university's libraries. We are working out measures to stop the practice," said Saumitra Sarkar, the librarian. Bound by rules, the university cannot fine a teacher if he or she returns a book late. "We recently introduced a system of giving repeated reminders to defaulting teachers. We are now working on steps that may be taken if the reminders do not work," said Sarkar. To get books back from research scholars in time, the authorities have introduced fines. Earlier, only students had to pay a fine if they failed to return their books on the stipulated date. Last year, the university increased the rate of fines for students. They are now charged 10 paise for every day's delay in the first week and a rupee a day after that. The scholars are now being fined at the same rate. University sources said the catalogues in its central and departmental libraries show a large number of books, but they are never found on the racks. In all, Calcutta University has nearly 12 lakh text and reference books. In addition, the libraries house maps, journals, theses and commission reports. A student alleged: "Often a rare book issued to a teacher is never returned to the library." "We have also come across teachers who borrowed books at the time of joining and never gave them back." Another student alleged that many of the teachers have in their possession books that are not available anywhere else in the country. At present, a section of teachers of the varsity's geography department are up in arms against the authorities for not taking action against at least three retired teachers who did not allegedly return about a dozen rare maps. =======================sent by ================ Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631 _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Fw: Costs of setting up an institutional OA archive
by Subbiah Arunachalam 13 Dec '04

13 Dec '04

Friends: What do you think it would cost to set up and run an interoperable open access institutional archive (similar to the IISc eprints archive) in your institution? Mr Richard Poynder of the UK has quoted some figures, but they appear to me as needlessly high. I welcome your estimates. Arun ----- Original Message ----- From: EPT To: Richard Poynder ; 'Subbiah Arunachalam' ; harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk ; peters(a)earlham.edu ; 'Leslie Chan' ; richard.poynder(a)journalist.co.uk Cc: aswan(a)keyperspectives.co.uk Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 7:37 PM Subject: Re: Costs of setting up an institutional OA archive All, We have to be very careful we are comparing apples with apples. You could cost the setting up figure by including every institutional contribution that the accountants demand (the obvious hardware and staff time, but also including institutional overheads, departmental contributions to general services, and the many other bits and pieces that costing exercises could require), or you could cost it at the very basic level where the work is done as a student exercise or is absorbed in some on-going project and the archive uses pre-existing hardware with spare capacity. I am astounded by some of the figures quoted and am certain that organisations in developing and emerging countries that are fully aware of the benefts of OA to their scientific development will do it within their existing budgets. Let's hear it from India, Namibia, Mexico, Brazil and China. Barbara ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Poynder To: 'Subbiah Arunachalam' ; harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk ; peters(a)earlham.edu ; 'Leslie Chan' ; 'EPT' ; richard.poynder(a)journalist.co.uk Cc: aswan(a)keyperspectives.co.uk Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 7:47 AM Subject: RE: Costs of setting up an institutional OA archive Hi Arun, Absolutely, the more data collected on costs the better I would think. The figures I quoted come from a study done by Alma Swan. See: (http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4018.html). The full report is at http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/OpenAccessArchive/E-prints_delivery_model.…. I would certainly be interested in details of any similar studies. Best wishes, Richard Poynder Friends: Richard Poynder says in his article in Information Today: "Indeed, libraries are finding that they have to not only continue paying traditional journal subscriptions, but they have to pay OA membership fees too. And to cap it all off, many are also being asked to create institutional repositories-a process costing anywhere from $7,000 to $2.5 million in setup fees and at least $40,000 a year in running costs." Are these figures OK? We should collect data from all the institutional archives operating now (in the world as a whole) as well as look at the costs of centralised archives such as Cornell's arXiv. At least in India, setting up of an institutional archive would cost much less. Dr T B Rajashekar of NCSI-IISc, Dr A R D Prasad of DRTC-ISI, Dr D K Sahu of MedKnow, Ms Naina Panditha of NIC, Mr Sreekumar of IIMK, Prof. B Viswanathan of Catlysis Society of India, and Dr Krishnan of NCL may kindly comment on this point. Regards. Arun Friends: What do you think it would cost to set up and run an interoperable open access institutional archive (similar to the IISc eprints archive) in your institution? Mr Richard Poynder of the UK has quoted some figures, but they appear to me as needlessly high. I welcome your estimates. Arun ----- Original Message ----- From: mailto:EPT@biostrat.demon.co.uk EPT To: mailto:aotg20@dsl.pipex.com Richard Poynder ; mailto:arun@mssrf.res.in 'Subbiah Arunachalam' ; mailto:harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk ; mailto:peters@earlham.edu peters(a)earlham.edu ; mailto:chan@utsc.utoronto.ca 'Leslie Chan' ; mailto:richard.poynder@journalist.co.uk richard.poynder(a)journalist.co.uk Cc: mailto:aswan@keyperspectives.co.uk aswan(a)keyperspectives.co.uk Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 7:37 PM Subject: Re: Costs of setting up an institutional OA archive All, We have to be very careful we are comparing apples with apples. You could cost the setting up figure by including every institutional contribution that the accountants demand (the obvious hardware and staff time, but also including institutional overheads, departmental contributions to general services, and the many other bits and pieces that costing exercises could require), or you could cost it at the very basic level where the work is done as a student exercise or is absorbed in some on-going project and the archive uses pre-existing hardware with spare capacity. I am astounded by some of the figures quoted and am certain that organisations in developing and emerging countries that are fully aware of the benefts of OA to their scientific development will do it within their existing budgets. Let's hear it from India, Namibia, Mexico, Brazil and China. Barbara ----- Original Message ----- From: mailto:aotg20@dsl.pipex.com Richard Poynder To: mailto:arun@mssrf.res.in 'Subbiah Arunachalam' ; mailto:harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk ; mailto:peters@earlham.edu peters(a)earlham.edu ; mailto:chan@utsc.utoronto.ca 'Leslie Chan' ; mailto:EPT@biostrat.demon.co.uk 'EPT' ; mailto:richard.poynder@journalist.co.uk richard.poynder(a)journalist.co.uk Cc: mailto:aswan@keyperspectives.co.uk aswan(a)keyperspectives.co.uk Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 7:47 AM Subject: RE: Costs of setting up an institutional OA archive Hi Arun, Absolutely, the more data collected on costs the better I would think. The figures I quoted come from a study done by Alma Swan. See: ( http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4018.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4018.html ). The full report is at http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/OpenAccessArchive/E-prints_delivery_model.… http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/OpenAccessArchive/E-prints_delivery_model.… . I would certainly be interested in details of any similar studies. Best wishes, Richard Poynder Friends: Richard Poynder says in his article in Information Today : "Indeed, libraries are finding that they have to not only continue paying traditional journal subscriptions, but they have to pay OA membership fees too. And to cap it all off, many are also being asked to create institutional repositoriesa process costing anywhere from $7,000 to $2.5 million in setup fees and at least $40,000 a year in running costs." Are these figures OK? We should collect data from all the institutional archives operating now (in the world as a whole) as well as look at the costs of centralised archives such as Cornell's arXiv. At least in India, setting up of an institutional archive would cost much less. Dr T B Rajashekar of NCSI-IISc, Dr A R D Prasad of DRTC-ISI, Dr D K Sahu of MedKnow, Ms Naina Panditha of NIC, Mr Sreekumar of IIMK, Prof. B Viswanathan of Catlysis Society of India, and Dr Krishnan of NCL may kindly comment on this point. Regards. Arun

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Regarding ProQuest Digital Commons
by Sukhdev Singh 13 Dec '04

13 Dec '04

In the first look it seems that ProQuest is offering "service" rather then "Technology". It would unfair to compare it with Open Source technology like EPrints. -Sukhdev Singh NIC > Friends: > > A commercial firm has entered the Open Access fray! ProQuest offers the necessary support through its new service called Digital Commons. Already half a dozen US universities/colleges use this technology. Will someone compare this service with the freely available eprints technology of the Southampton University? Best wishes. > > Arun > [Subbiah Arunachalam] >

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Calcutta University Library: Teachers' misuse library facilities
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 13 Dec '04

13 Dec '04

Please read the following news item. Situation must be similar in other institutions of 'Higher' learning. I feel it is high time we concentrate on this menace and take steps to put books to better use than merely allowing monopolisation by a few users. Vyasamoorthy, P =================== http://www.telegraphindia.com/1041212/asp/bengal/story_4118695.asp CU library lists full, not shelves OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Calcutta, Dec. 11: Valuable books and journals have disappeared from Calcutta University's library as the borrowers have "conveniently" forgotten to return them. Flooded by complaints from students and teachers on important books that are off the shelves for years, the university authorities have begun an exercise to trace them. But the effort may have come too late. Many of the missing books were borrowed nearly 30 years ago and the borrowers are either retired or dead. At best, a few of the habitual defaulters may be traced and only a few books recovered. "We cannot deny that there are some teachers and scholars who are in the habit of not returning books after borrowing them from the university's libraries. We are working out measures to stop the practice," said Saumitra Sarkar, the librarian. Bound by rules, the university cannot fine a teacher if he or she returns a book late. "We recently introduced a system of giving repeated reminders to defaulting teachers. We are now working on steps that may be taken if the reminders do not work," said Sarkar. To get books back from research scholars in time, the authorities have introduced fines. Earlier, only students had to pay a fine if they failed to return their books on the stipulated date. Last year, the university increased the rate of fines for students. They are now charged 10 paise for every day's delay in the first week and a rupee a day after that. The scholars are now being fined at the same rate. University sources said the catalogues in its central and departmental libraries show a large number of books, but they are never found on the racks. In all, Calcutta University has nearly 12 lakh text and reference books. In addition, the libraries house maps, journals, theses and commission reports. A student alleged: "Often a rare book issued to a teacher is never returned to the library." "We have also come across teachers who borrowed books at the time of joining and never gave them back." Another student alleged that many of the teachers have in their possession books that are not available anywhere else in the country. At present, a section of teachers of the varsity's geography department are up in arms against the authorities for not taking action against at least three retired teachers who did not allegedly return about a dozen rare maps. =======================sent by ================ Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631

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Fw: Information for Open Access article (part II) re: ProQuest Digital Commons
by Subbiah Arunachalam 13 Dec '04

13 Dec '04

Friends: A commercial firm has entered the Open Access fray! ProQuest offers the necessary support through its new service called Digital Commons. Already half a dozen US universities/colleges use this technology. Will someone compare this service with the freely available eprints technology of the Southampton University? Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Poynder To: arun(a)mssrf.res.in Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 2:52 PM Subject: FW: Information for Open Access article (part II) re: ProQuest Digital Commons Arun, This is what ProQuest sent me a while back in case it is of interest. The University of Pennsylvania may be able to give you some insight into how much this is costing them. Richard -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: McLean, Austin [mailto:Austin.McLean@il.proquest.com] Sent: 09 November 2004 15:47 To: richard.poynder(a)journalist.co.uk Subject: Information for Open Access article (part II) re: ProQuest Digital Commons Dear Mr. Poynder, I read with interest your article on Open Access in the latest issue of "Information Today." I noted that you are planning on providing the publisher's view and reaction to Open Access in the next issue. I want to be sure that you are aware of ProQuest's recent activities in the Open Access arena. At the ALA annual meeting ProQuest announced a new service offering, called Digital Commons, an OAI-compliant service powered by technology supplied by The Berkeley Electronic Press. This service allows an institution to create a robust institutional repository (IR) at a reasonable cost. In addition Digital Commons offers: a.. Immediate content - All of an academic library's dissertation and theses will be immediately uploaded by ProQuest. b.. Increases the visibility of scholars, research units, and the research itself c.. Creates new discovery paths via Google and OAI d.. Manages peer-reviewed series, working papers, monographs, and many other publication types e.. Incorporates non-static resources (sound and video files, data sets, executables) f.. Gives permanence to your intellectual heritage g.. Offers insights into readership levels with usage statistics h.. Provides customized email alerts i.. For a full list of features, click here. Digital Commons@ offers benefits to the entire scholarly community: a.. Institutions-a showcase for the full range of research conducted under university auspices b.. Departments, institutes, centers, etc.-a central repository for otherwise scattered research c.. Researchers-highly visible platforms for personal scholarship, plus statistics on readership d.. Readers-the institution's intellectual output in a single, easily navigable source, with customized daily alerts But don't just take my word for it - read why the University of Pennsylvania chose Digital Commons. We like to say that Digital Commons is the quickest, easiest way to launch an IR. There's no need for special technical skills or HTML training, no need to enlist local hardware, software, or systems experts. You get all this: a.. HTML templates, PDF conversion, XML exporting b.. Browsing and full-text searching c.. Institutional site branding, custom cover sheets d.. Data transfer to third-party indexing services and much more The following Digital Commons sites are active: a.. Trinity University DigitalCommons@Trinity b.. Stevens Institute of Technology DigitalCommons@Stevens c.. Boston College: iScholarship@Boston College d.. Dickinson College: DigitalCommons@Dickinson e.. University of New Brunswick: DigitalCommons@UNB f.. University of Pennsylvania: ScholarlyCommons@Penn g.. Carleton College Repository (Minnesota): DigitalCommons @CarletonCollege Other IRs that use the Bepress technology: a.. California Digital Library ( http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/ ) b.. Florida State: http://dscholarship.lib.fsu.edu/ c.. New England Law Library Repository, including University of Connecticut, Cornell and Yale http://lsr.nellco.org I'm happy to discuss Digital Commons further if it would assist you with your research. I'm looking forward to reading part II of your article next month. Best regards, Austin McLean Director, Scholarly Communication and Dissertations Publishing ProQuest Information and Learning 300 N. Zeeb Road Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346 Phone: 800-521-0600 x3270 Fax: 603-806-6109 email: austin.mclean(a)il.proquest.com @page Section1 {size: 8.5in 11.0in; margin: 1.0in .5in 1.0in 1.0in; mso-header-margin: .5in; mso-footer-margin: .5in; mso-paper-source: 0; } P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } LI.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } DIV.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } A:link { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; text-underline: single } SPAN.MsoHyperlink { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; text-underline: single } A:visited { COLOR: #606420; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; text-underline: single } SPAN.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { COLOR: #606420; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; text-underline: single } P.MsoPlainText { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: "Courier New"; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } LI.MsoPlainText { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: "Courier New"; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } DIV.MsoPlainText { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: "Courier New"; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } P { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; COLOR: black; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto } SPAN.EmailStyle19 { COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-style-type: personal-compose; mso-style-noshow: yes; mso-ansi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial } SPAN.SpellE { mso-style-name: ""; mso-spl-e: yes } SPAN.GramE { mso-style-name: ""; mso-gram-e: yes } DIV.Section1 { page: Section1 } OL { MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in } UL { MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in } Friends: A commercial firm has entered the Open Access fray! ProQuest offers the necessary support through its new service called Digital Commons. Already half a dozen US universities/colleges use this technology. Will someone compare this service with the freely available eprints technology of the Southampton University? Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----- Original Message ----- From: mailto:aotg20@dsl.pipex.com Richard Poynder To: mailto:arun@mssrf.res.in arun(a)mssrf.res.in Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 2:52 PM Subject: FW: Information for Open Access article (part II) re: ProQuest Digital Commons Arun, This is what ProQuest sent me a while back in case it is of interest. The University of Pennsylvania may be able to give you some insight into how much this is costing them. Richard From: McLean, Austin [mailto:Austin.McLean@il.proquest.com] Sent: 09 November 2004 15:47 To: mailto:richard.poynder@journalist.co.uk richard.poynder(a)journalist.co.uk Subject: Information for Open Access article (part II) re: ProQuest Digital Commons Dear Mr. Poynder, I read with interest your article on Open Access in the latest issue of Information Today. I noted that you are planning on providing the publishers view and reaction to Open Access in the next issue. I want to be sure that you are aware of ProQuests recent activities in the Open Access arena. At the ALA annual meeting ProQuest announced a new service offering, called Digital Commons, an OAI-compliant service powered by technology supplied by The Berkeley Electronic Press. This service allows an institution to create a robust institutional repository (IR) at a reasonable cost. In addition Digital Commons offers: Immediate content - All of an academic library's dissertation and theses will be immediately uploaded by ProQuest. Increases the visibility of scholars, research units, and the research itself Creates new discovery paths via Google and OAI Manages peer-reviewed series, working papers, monographs, and many other publication types Incorporates non-static resources (sound and video files, data sets, executables) Gives permanence to your intellectual heritage Offers insights into readership levels with usage statistics Provides customized email alerts For a full list of features, http://www.umi.com/umi/digitalcommons/features.shtml click here . Digital Commons@ offers benefits to the entire scholarly community: Institutionsa showcase for the full range of research conducted under university auspices Departments, institutes, centers, etc.a central repository for otherwise scattered research Researchershighly visible platforms for personal scholarship, plus statistics on readership Readersthe institution's intellectual output in a single, easily navigable source, with customized daily alerts But don't just take my word for it - http://repository.upenn.edu/whybepress.html read why the University of Pennsylvania chose Digital Commons . We like to say that Digital Commons is the quickest, easiest way to launch an IR. There's no need for special technical skills or HTML training, no need to enlist local hardware, software, or systems experts. You get all this: HTML templates, PDF conversion, XML exporting Browsing and full-text searching Institutional site branding, custom cover sheets Data transfer to third-party indexing services and much more [A] The following Digital Commons sites are active: Trinity University http://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/ DigitalCommons@Trinity Stevens Institute of Technology http://digitalcommons.stevens.edu/ DigitalCommons@Stevens Boston College : http://ischolarship.bc.edu iScholarship @Boston College Dickinson College : http://digitalcommons.dickinson.edu Digital Commons@Dickinson University of New Brunswick : http://digitalcommons.hil.unb.ca Digital Commons@UNB University of Pennsylvania : http://repository.upenn.edu Scholarly Commons@Penn Carleton College Repository ( Minnesota ): http://digitalcommons.carleton.edu DigitalCommons @CarletonCollege Other IRs that use the Bepress technology: California Digital Library ( http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/ http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/ ) Florida State : http://dscholarship.lib.fsu.edu/ http://dscholarship.lib.fsu.edu/ New England Law Library Repository, including University of Connecticut , Cornell and Yale http://lsr.nellco.org/ http://lsr.nellco.org Im happy to discuss Digital Commons further if it would assist you with your research. Im looking forward to reading part II of your article next month. Best regards, Austin McLean Director, Scholarly Communication and Dissertations Publishing ProQuest Information and Learning 300 N. Zeeb Road Ann Arbor , MI 48106-1346 Phone: 800-521-0600 x3270 Fax: 603-806-6109 email: austin.mclean(a)il.proquest.com

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Costs of setting up an institutional OA archive
by Subbiah Arunachalam 12 Dec '04

12 Dec '04

Friends: Richard Poynder says in his article in Information Today: "Indeed, libraries are finding that they have to not only continue paying traditional journal subscriptions, but they have to pay OA membership fees too. And to cap it all off, many are also being asked to create institutional repositories-a process costing anywhere from $7,000 to $2.5 million in setup fees and at least $40,000 a year in running costs." Are these figures OK? We should collect data from all the institutional archives operating now (in the world as a whole) as well as look at the costs of centralised archives such as Cornell's arXiv. At least in India, setting up of an institutional archive would cost much less. Dr T B Rajashekar of NCSI-IISc, Dr A R D Prasad of DRTC-ISI, Dr D K Sahu of MedKnow, Ms Naina Panditha of NIC, Mr Sreekumar of IIMK, Prof. B Viswanathan of Catlysis Society of India, and Dr Krishnan of NCL may kindly comment on this point. Regards. Arun Friends: Richard Poynder says in his article in Information Today : "Indeed, libraries are finding that they have to not only continue paying traditional journal subscriptions, but they have to pay OA membership fees too. And to cap it all off, many are also being asked to create institutional repositoriesa process costing anywhere from $7,000 to $2.5 million in setup fees and at least $40,000 a year in running costs." Are these figures OK? We should collect data from all the institutional archives operating now (in the world as a whole) as well as look at the costs of centralised archives such as Cornell's arXiv. At least in India, setting up of an institutional archive would cost much less. Dr T B Rajashekar of NCSI-IISc, Dr A R D Prasad of DRTC-ISI, Dr D K Sahu of MedKnow, Ms Naina Panditha of NIC, Mr Sreekumar of IIMK, Prof. B Viswanathan of Catlysis Society of India, and Dr Krishnan of NCL may kindly comment on this point. Regards. Arun

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Congrats to Dr M M Koganurmath
by T.A.V. Murthy 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

Dear Professionals, I take the privilage of congratulating Dr Muttayya M Koganurmath, University Librarian of TISS, Mumbai on his appointment as President of the prestigeous Indian Library Association. On behlf of INFLIBNET and SIS fraternity, and on my personal level I welcome him to this coveted elevation. We assure him to have full support of all professional activities. We wish him a successful tenure. Dr. T A V Murthy Director Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre (An IUC of University Grants Commission) Nr. Gujarat University Guest House Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380 009 INDIA Tele.# (079) 2630-4695 / 2630-8528 / 2630-5702 Fax # (079) 2630-0990 / 2630-7816 Dear Professionals, I take the privilage of congratulating Dr Muttayya M Koganurmath, University Librarian of TISS, Mumbai on his appointment as President of the prestigeous Indian Library Association. On behlf of INFLIBNET and SIS fraternity, and on my personal level I welcome him to this coveted elevation. We assure him to have full support of all professional activities. We wish him a successful tenure. Dr. T A V Murthy Director Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre (An IUC of University Grants Commission) Nr. Gujarat University Guest House Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380 009 INDIA Tele.# (079) 2630-4695 / 2630-8528 / 2630-5702 Fax # (079) 2630-0990 / 2630-7816

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INFLIBNET demo of Libsys
by Seshu Sripada 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

Inflibnet sends any demonstration Libris package cd with a free of cost. Please let me know details (if any ) seshu -----------------------SOFTPRO DISCLAIMER------------------------------ Information contained in this E-MAIL and any attachments are confidential being proprietary to SOFTPRO SYSTEMS is 'privileged' and 'confidential'. If you are not an intended or authorised recipient of this E-MAIL or have received it in error, You are notified that any use, copying or dissemination of the information contained in this E-MAIL in any manner whatsoever is strictly prohibited. Please delete it immediately and notify the sender by E-MAIL. In such a case reading, reproducing, printing or further dissemination of this E-MAIL is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. SOFTPRO SYSYTEMS does not REPRESENT or WARRANT that an attachment hereto is free from computer viruses or other defects. The opinions expressed in this E-MAIL and any ATTACHEMENTS may be those of the author and are not necessarily those of SOFTPRO SYSTEMS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Inflibnet sends any demonstration Libris package cd with a free of cost. Please let me know details (if any ) seshu -----------------------SOFTPRO DISCLAIMER------------------------------ Information contained in this E-MAIL and any attachments are confidential being proprietary to SOFTPRO SYSTEMS is 'privileged' and 'confidential'. If you are not an intended or authorised recipient of this E-MAIL or have received it in error, You are notified that any use, copying or dissemination of the information contained in this E-MAIL in any manner whatsoever is strictly prohibited. Please delete it immediately and notify the sender by E-MAIL. In such a case reading, reproducing, printing or further dissemination of this E-MAIL is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. SOFTPRO SYSYTEMS does not REPRESENT or WARRANT that an attachment hereto is free from computer viruses or other defects. The opinions expressed in this E-MAIL and any ATTACHEMENTS may be those of the author and are not necessarily those of SOFTPRO SYSTEMS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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