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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

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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. 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/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. 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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! Messenger - all new features - even > more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 07:49:01 -0800 (PST) > From: Smita Chandra <smitac_in(a)yahoo.com> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: [iatlis] Its Indians all > the way...... > To: Kumaresan <sckumaresan(a)yahoo.com>, smitha > kumaresan > <smithakumaresan(a)yahoo.co.in>, sumi sumathy > <sumathysp(a)rediffmail.com>, Udhaya > <nathanudaya(a)optusnet.com.au>, > Vaidhyanathan Subhashini <vudaya(a)hotmail.com>, > vasanth(a)cyours.com, > Renu - Arora <renuarora(a)niscair.res.in>, SALIS > <salis_info(a)yahoogroups.com>, SangeethaPillai - - > <Sangeetha.Pillai(a)symphonysv.com>, sdc trainees > <sdc_guys(a)yahoogroups.com>, Selvaraj Jegan > <jega123(a)rediffmail.com>, > Sheshadri <sheshu150(a)yahoo.co.in>, Shiva > <asiva(a)etamne.com>, Mahesh > <gmahesh(a)niscair.res.in>, Mohan <hrmohan(a)vsnl.com>, > NA Venkatesh > <na_venkatesh(a)yahoo.com>, CIT Staff > <cit_staff(a)yahoogroups.com>, DK > Srinivasan <try_srinivas(a)sancharnet.in>, "Dr. S. > Moses Dennison" > === message truncated === __________________________________ Do you 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

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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. 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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

Dear All, With the New Year is around the corner, we witness another flood of greetings from individuals. As a contribution towards reducing information overload and to save on precious Internet bandwidth and to avoid clogs in networks, shall we have just a single, generic New Year greeting message posted by the moderator of each listserve (lis-forum, corporate librarians, iatlis, nmlis, etc.). Shall we all consider this message as the greeting which conveys the collective best wishes of all members of the group to each one of us. Perhaps, we could follow the same practice in case of other major Indian festivals too. Many thanks 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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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

NEW FREE MANAGEMENT LIBRARY SUBSIDIZED SPONSORED MATERIAL from COMMONWEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION A VERY SPECIAL OFFER: A Library of 20 volumes on Business and Management FREE OF CHARGE to Members of Professional Bodies, Interested individuals, HR Managers ,Libraries, for the cost of Freight charges only From, World Book Centre Gr.Floor,Rakhi Mahal, 209,Sir D V Road,Churchgate, Mumbai-400020,India Tel: 022 22844891 email: wbc(a)hathway.com TITLE DETAILS AND PRICES ARE: 1.GLOBAL ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION-A GUIDE TO AGREEMENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS-BERNARD COLAS PP.557 USD 55 RS.2475 2.THE QUALITY REVOLUTION-BEST PRACTICES FROM WORLD'S LEADING COMPANIES STEVE SMITH PP.388 USD 35 RS.1575 3.MANAGEMENT CONSULTING-THE INSIDE STORY RASSAM AND OATES PP.214 H/B USD 40 RS.1800 4.THE MANUFACTURING ADVANTAGE-NIGEL SLACK PP.214 H/B USD 28 RS.1260 5.SABOTAGE-HOW TO RECOGNIZE AND MANAGE EMPLOYEE DEFIANCE ANALOUI AND KAKABADSE PP.176 USD 25 RS.1125 6.FRAUDBUSTING - How to Identify Corporate Fraud.DAVID PRICE PP.144 H/B USD 24 RS.1080 7.THE COMPETETTIVE WOMAN JANET CAMERON PP.175 USD9.95 RS.450 8.FIT FOR BUSINESS-THE COMPETITIVE EDGE-MATHEW ARCHER PP241 USD 11.95 RS.535 9.POST WAR HISTORY OF THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE NEW UPDATED EDITION GEORGE G.BLAKEY USD 33 RS.1485 10.WOMEN IN TRANSITION-HOW TO GET YOUR LIFE IN SHAPE SARA CLAY PP.177 H/B USD 24.95 RS.1123 11.TURNING PRATICAL COMMUNICATION INTO BUSINESS POWER BY ROY SHEPPARD LBC.PP.145 USD 11.95 RS.538 12.CLOSE MORE SALES DERRICK WHITE PP.151 H/B USD 14 RS.630 13.TROJAN HORSE-ULTIMATE CHALLENGE TO WESTERN INDUSTRY BARRIE G.JAMES PP.284 USD 9.95 RS.267 14.HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR ACCOUNTANT J.L.SPENCER FCA PP.150 USD 12.95 RS.583 15.FROM OUT OF THE BLUE-THREE FORMER IBM'ERS TELL IT AS IT WAS BROAD GLADWIN AND MARVIN PP.258 USD 19 RS.855 16.I'LL BE OVER IN THE MORNING-WINNING BUSINESS IN OTHER COUNTRIES JAMES PILDITCH PP.181 USD 11.95 RS.539 17.HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE WITH TECHNOLOGY ANTHONY B.CAPSTICK PP.208 USD19 RS.855 18.STARTING UP YOUR OWN BUSINESS-101 WAYS TO DO IT FOR LESS ROSS MCBENNETT PP.195 USD10.95 RS.491 19.MARKETING IDEAS FOR THE SMALL BUSINESS P.W.AND P.F STERRETT PP.144 USD10.95 RS.491 20.GETTING IT RIGHT THE SECOND TIME-REMARKETING STRATEGIES BY MICHAEL GERSHMAN PP.270 H/B USD 29 RS.1305 MERCURY Publishers COMMONWEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION,London SPONSORED EDUCATION FOR THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES To Whomsoever it may concern Ref:Free Management Library The total cost of 20 volumes library is $437(Rs.2O,000),but the Publishers with the help of THE COMMONWEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION will make the full set available to the project participants for payment of $110 (Rs.5400) only to include storage despatch,freight charges and inland distribution costs.There will be no payment in foreign currency involved, It is recommended that the offer may be considered favorably as it is a good opportinity to acquire an expensive 20 volume Management Library for a fraction of its actual price. --------------------------------------------- ---------cut here------------------------------------------------ ------------ Acquisition Form(please post/courier with freight charges cheque/draft) Date: To, World Book Centre Rakhi Mahal,Gr.Floor, 209,Sir D V Road,Churchgate Mumbai-400020,India Dear Ms.Novy, REF: Gift of a library of 20 volumes on MANGEMENT AND BUSINESS Published price $437(Rs.20,000) Freight from UK Rs.5400 ONLY. We Want to participate in this valuable project offered with subsidy by American Publishers It is understood that : 1.This 20 volumes will be FREE OF CHARGE 2.We have not to remit the freight charges in any foreign currency.We enclose a cheque/draft payable in Mumbai for Rs.5400 only for freight charges in favor of the distributors 'World Book Centre,Mumbai' 3.We agree not to sell the sets for monetary returns 4.The volumes will be made available to Directors,Managers and Departmental Heads as needed. Thanking you, Yours truly, _______________ (Signature) Full Postal Address where the Management Library is to be sent ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ **************************************** 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 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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Vidyanidhi Training Workshop on Electronic Communication and eScholarship-Dec28-30, 2004
by Shalini R Urs 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

Vidyanidhi is organising 'Training Workshop on Electronic Communication and eScholarship" during December 28-30, 2004. This Training Workshop is meant for Doctoral Students working for their PhD degrees in different institutions/universities in different disciplines- but preferably in Social Sciences. Registration forms are available for downloading at our website. Please note that there is no registration fee. Vidyanidhi will bear the ordinary second class train fare; provide boarding and lodging and course materials in CD format. For more information please visit our website: www.vidyanidhi.org.in <http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/> 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  Vidyanidhi is organising ‘Training Workshop on Electronic Communication and eScholarship” during December 28-30, 2004 . � This Training Workshop is meant for Doctoral Students working for their PhD degrees in different institutions/universities in different disciplines- but preferably in Social Sciences. Registration forms are available for downloading at our website. Please note that there is no registration fee. Vidyanidhi will bear the ordinary second class train fare; provide boarding and lodging and course materials in CD format. For more information please visit our website: http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ www.vidyanidhi.org.in � � � � Shalini -------- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele-91-821-2514699 Fax -91-821-2519209 homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm �

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Contest to Design a Digital Library for Children
by venky 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

An opportunity for Library & Information Professionals to contribute to a Social Cause The Rotary Bangalore West along with the Rotaract Bangalore West is planning establish Rotary Scholastic Centre, a digital library for children at the Govt. Girls School in 13th Cross Malleswaram. The objective of the Project is to inculcate the spirit of learning and pursuit of knowledge by providing a learning centre for children upto the age group of 18 years and also to the Senior citizens above the age group of 60. It is our desire that we empower the children through the Power of knowledge, as we strongly believe that any investment in the development of children is a direct contribution to Nation building. In view of this, Rotary and Rotaract Bangalore West are holding a contest for students and freelancers in the Library and Information field to design a digital library. Ideas/Designs for the digital library are invited from interested parties. The entry which proposes the best idea will implement the library and will also win a grand prize. The specifications for the library are given below. The main layout of the library will be on the Web based model with a main server + backup servers servicing upto 25 clients initially and should be scalable to serve upto 100 clients in the future. The server will have to run a webserver software hosting the pages where in the user at the clientside can run through an index of books sorted according to subjects and can access the book entirely or only parts of its contents based on topic/chapter. A data warehousing software will run in the background and will hold the books in a digitized format. The server side also should be capable of automatically generating index of items added to the Digital repository. Text based Digital documents could be made full text searchable through a suitable interface. When contents from CD are added to the library the server also need to act as CD cache. There is a need to have an intranet running for the local network and a firewall to prevent any intrusions and security threat. The network will be on a WLAN and we need to provide enough encryption on the packets that are sent out to prevent snooping on the network. There should also be an inbuilt mechanism which will keep track of all the books being accessed at any given time and it should be able to generate reports on issues such as no. of books accessed,total no. of hits on server, most frequently accessed books / subjects, internet access times, quantity of data downloads etc. For the internet access, mechanisms must be provided to allow only logged in users to access internet and to monitor the time and usage of the net. Suitable cache must be built into the system to speed up internet access to 'often used sites' On the server side we need automated replication on the backup servers such that there is no downtime experienced in case of failure on the main server. All the softwares that are to be used for the servers as well as web browsing clients should be free/open source software and should be readily upgradeable and should be easy to maintain. The proposed solution could be based on the several flavors of open source DL softwares like Greenstone, D-Space etc. The proposals/design ideas should reach any of the mail ids given below before 31 December 2004. You could also post any queries to: Dr. S. Venkadesan - venky(a)library.iisc.ernet.in Rtn Rajendra Rai - rai(a)bgl.vsnl.net.in Rtr Chinmay Albal - chinmayalbal(a)rediffmail.com Dr. S. Venkadesan Librarian JRD Tata Memorial Library Indian Institute of Science Bangalore-560012 INDIA Ph: +91 80 23601653 + 91 80 22932408 Fax: +91 80 23601653 E-Mail- venky(a)library.iisc.ernet.in venkys(a)gmail.com An opportunity for Library & Information Professionals to contribute to a Social Cause The Rotary Bangalore West along with the Rotaract Bangalore West is planning establish Rotary Scholastic Centre, a digital library for children at the Govt. Girls School in 13th Cross Malleswaram. The objective of the Project is to inculcate the spirit of learning and pursuit of knowledge by providing a learning centre for children upto the age group of 18 years and also to the Senior citizens above the age group of 60. It is our desire that we empower the children through the Power of knowledge, as we strongly believe that any investment in the development of children is a direct contribution to Nation building. In view of this, Rotary and Rotaract Bangalore West are holding a contest for students and freelancers in the Library and Information field to design a digital library. Ideas/Designs for the digital library are invited from interested parties. The entry which proposes the best idea will implement the library and will also win a grand prize. The specifications for the library are given below. The main layout of the library will be on the Web based model with a main server + backup servers servicing upto 25 clients initially and should be scalable to serve upto 100 clients in the future. The server will have to run a webserver software hosting the pages where in the user at the clientside can run through an index of books sorted according to subjects and can access the book entirely or only parts of its contents based on topic/chapter. A data warehousing software will run in the background and will hold the books in a digitized format. The server side also should be capable of automatically generating index of items added to the Digital repository. Text based Digital documents could be made full text searchable through a suitable interface. When contents from CD are added to the library the server also need to act as CD cache. There is a need to have an intranet running for the local network and a firewall to prevent any intrusions and security threat. The network will be on a WLAN and we need to provide enough encryption on the packets that are sent out to prevent snooping on the network. There should also be an inbuilt mechanism which will keep track of all the books being accessed at any given time and it should be able to generate reports on issues such as no. of books accessed,total no. of hits on server, most frequently accessed books / subjects, internet access times, quantity of data downloads etc. For the internet access, mechanisms must be provided to allow only logged in users to access internet and to monitor the time and usage of the net. Suitable cache must be built into the system to speed up internet access to 'often used sites' On the server side we need automated replication on the backup servers such that there is no downtime experienced in case of failure on the main server. All the softwares that are to be used for the servers as well as web browsing clients should be free/open source software and should be readily upgradeable and should be easy to maintain. The proposed solution could be based on the several flavors of open source DL softwares like Greenstone, D-Space etc. The proposals/design ideas should reach any of the mail ids given below before 31 December 2004. You could also post any queries to: Dr. S. Venkadesan - mailto:venky@library.iisc.ernet.in venky(a)library.iisc.ernet.in Rtn Rajendra Rai - mailto:rai@bgl.vsnl.net.in rai(a)bgl.vsnl.net.in Rtr Chinmay Albal - mailto:chinmayalbal@rediffmail.com chinmayalbal(a)rediffmail.com Dr. S. Venkadesan Librarian JRD Tata Memorial Library Indian Institute of Science Bangalore-560012 INDIA Ph: +91 80 23601653 + 91 80 22932408 Fax: +91 80 23601653 E-Mail- mailto:venky@library.iisc.ernet.in venky(a)library.iisc.ernet.in mailto:venkys@gmail.com venkys(a)gmail.com

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new presidnet of INDIAN LIBRARY ASSOCITION
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

dear friends Dr.muthayya Kognurmath, Librarian, Tata Institute of Social sciences, Mumbai is the new president of ILA. after amending the constitution unanimoulsy on 3 Dec 2004at ALL INDIA LIBRARY CONFERENCE, BARODA, he took over as the new President. let all the lirary pofesionals join toether and congratulte him. we all hope that he will e able to some good and costructive work during next 2d half years of his tenure. we also congratulate him on the occsion of his gettting selelcted as librarian of JNU,New Delhi. he is likley to join y end of this month. Dr Kognurmath, I join all othe professional friends to congratulate u. 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 ___________________________________________________________ Win a castle for NYE with your mates and Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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CDS isis
by Casius C Issac 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

I am able to download WINISIS from the appended URL Try out Casius CDS/ISIS Distribution Version Française ci-dessous ------------------------------------------ ** ENGLISH ******************** ------------------------------------------ Dear Sir/Madam, Thank you for requesting a copy of CDS/ISIS for Windows. In order to obtain the software, you may either contact your national distributor listed on: http://www.unesco.org/isis/distributors.html or directly download the installation file from: http://www.unesco.org/isis/files/winisislicense.html after having read and accepted the terms of the distribution licence using the appropriate "accept" button on the bottom of the page. You will then be able to download the full installation of the latest version of CDS/ISIS for Windows (about 2.4 Mbytes). After the installation, please check carefully the README.DOC file (section troubleshooting). We warmly recommend you to subscribe to the CDS/ISIS International mailing list from our website. Access CDS/ISIS On Line DOCUMENTATION at: http://www.unesco.org/isis/files/doc Best regards, CDS/ISIS and IDAMS development team Communication and Information Sector UNESCO ------------------------------------------ QUICK TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE ------------------------------------------ **** "Cannot Run" or "Missing DLLs" messages **** Depending from your Windows installation and/or version, you may get an error message reporting the file CTL3D.DLL (or CTL3DV2.DLL) as missing or a message saying that a "device attached to the system is not working properly". In this case you do have use a DLL file located in \winisis\ctl3dv2 To make Winisis up and running you should copy CTL3D.DLL in the following directory: \windows\system Windows NT or 2000 users should copy that file in the corresponding system directory (C:\WINNT) **** NOTES FOR Windows NT, Windows 2000, WinXP USERS **** Please note that Winisis needs a special property to be set in these environments. Proceed as follows: 1) Drag the Winisis icon onto the desktop to create a shortcut. 2) Click the right mouse button on the desktop Winisis icon. 3) Select the tab "Shortcut" and set "Run in separate memory space". It is the option under the "Target" box. 4) Click ok and always use the shortcut for running Winisis. This will make Winisis stable under Windows NT and Windows 2000, WinXP. *** WINISIS HAS BLOCKED (hang up) **** In case Winisis has blocked, please call the TaskManager (using the CTRL-ALT-DEL keys combination) and then stop the process called NTVDM.EXE. Then you may restart Winisis. ------------------------------------------ ** FRANÇAIS ************************** ------------------------------------------ Monsieur/Madame, Nous vous remercions de votre demande relative à la copie CDS/ISIS sous Windows. Afin d'obtenir le logiciel, vous avez la possibilité soit de contacter votre distributeur national dont l'adresse figure à la page: http://www.unesco.org/isis/distributors.html soit de télécharger directement l'installation à l'adresse suivante: http://www.unesco.org/isis/files/winisislicense.html après avoir lu et accepté les termes de la licence de distribution en utilisant la touche appropriée en bas de page, vous pourrez ainsi accéder au téléchargement du fichier d'installation de la dernière version de CDS/ISIS pour Windows (2.4 Moctets environ). Une fois CDS/ISIS installé, veuillez lire attentivement le fichier 'README.DOC' (la section "résolution des problèmes"). Nous vous conseillons vivement de vous inscrire à la liste de discussion internationale via courrier électronique sur CDS/ISIS dont l'adresse est publiée sur notre site web. Recevez, Madame, Monsieur, l'expression de nos salutations distinguées. L'équipe du développement de CDS/ISIS et IDAMS Secteur de la communication et de i'Information UNESCO --------------------------------------------- GUIDE RAPIDE POUR LA RESOLUTION DES PROBLEMES --------------------------------------------- **** Messages "Impossible d'exécuter" ou "DLL manquante" **** A l'exécution du programme un ou plusieurs messages d'erreur peuvent apparaître, indiquant, par exemple, que le fichier CTL3D.DLL (librairie de liaison dynamique) est introuvable ou qu'une composante du système ne fonctionne pas correctement. Ceci est souvent du à votre installation ou version de Windows. Dans ces cas, vous devez utiliser le fichier DLL situé dans le répertoire: \winisis\ctl3dv2 Pour résoudre le problème vous devez copier/remplacer ce fichier dans le répertorie suivant: \winisis\system Les utilisateur des systèmes Windows NT ou 2000 devraient copier ce fichier dans leur répertoire système, parfois nommé c:\WINNT en lieu de c:\windows **** NOTES POUR LES USAGERS DE WinNT, Win2000 ET WinXP **** Veuillez noter que Winisis nécessite l'activation d'une option particulière pour bien fonctionner sous ces systèmes. Procédez comme suit: 1) Déplacez l'icône de Winisis sur le bureau de Windows afin de créer un raccourci. 2) Sur le bureau de Windows, cliquez le raccourci Winisis utilisant le bouton droit de la souris 3) Sélectionnez l'onglet "Raccourci" et activez l'option "Exécuter dans des zones mémoires différentes". 4) Confirmez avec OK et souvenez-vous de toujours utiliser ce raccourci pour démarrer Winisis. Cette opération rendra Winisis stable sous Windows NT, 2000 et WinXP. *** WINISIS EST BLOQUE (planté) **** Si Winisis est bloqué, exécutez le "Gestionnaire des tâches" utilisant la combinaison de touches "CRTL-ALT-SUPP" sur votre clavier. Puis, arrêtez le processus nommé "NTVDM.EXE". Vous pourrez alors re-démarrer Winisis sans problèmes. I am able to download WINISIS from the appended URL Try out Casius CDS/ISIS Distribution Version Française ci-dessous ------------------------------------------ ** ENGLISH ******************** ------------------------------------------ Dear Sir/Madam, Thank you for requesting a copy of CDS/ISIS for Windows. In order to obtain the software, you may either contact your national distributor listed on: http://www.unesco.org/isis/distributors.html or directly download the installation file from: http://www.unesco.org/isis/files/winisislicense.html after having read and accepted the terms of the distribution licence using the appropriate "accept" button on the bottom of the page. You will then be able to download the full installation of the latest version of CDS/ISIS for Windows (about 2.4 Mbytes). After the installation, please check carefully the README.DOC file (section troubleshooting). We warmly recommend you to subscribe to the CDS/ISIS International mailing list from our website. Access CDS/ISIS On Line DOCUMENTATION at: http://www.unesco.org/isis/files/doc Best regards, CDS/ISIS and IDAMS development team Communication and Information Sector UNESCO ------------------------------------------ QUICK TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE ------------------------------------------ **** "Cannot Run" or "Missing DLLs" messages **** Depending from your Windows installation and/or version, you may get an error message reporting the file CTL3D.DLL (or CTL3DV2.DLL) as missing or a message saying that a "device attached to the system is not working properly". In this case you do have use a DLL file located in \winisis\ctl3dv2 To make Winisis up and running you should copy CTL3D.DLL in the following directory: \windows\system Windows NT or 2000 users should copy that file in the corresponding system directory (C:\WINNT) **** NOTES FOR Windows NT, Windows 2000, WinXP USERS **** Please note that Winisis needs a special property to be set in these environments. Proceed as follows: 1) Drag the Winisis icon onto the desktop to create a shortcut. 2) Click the right mouse button on the desktop Winisis icon. 3) Select the tab "Shortcut" and set "Run in separate memory space". It is the option under the "Target" box. 4) Click ok and always use the shortcut for running Winisis. This will make Winisis stable under Windows NT and Windows 2000, WinXP. *** WINISIS HAS BLOCKED (hang up) **** In case Winisis has blocked, please call the TaskManager (using the CTRL-ALT-DEL keys combination) and then stop the process called NTVDM.EXE. Then you may restart Winisis. ------------------------------------------ ** FRANÇAIS ************************** ------------------------------------------ Monsieur/Madame, Nous vous remercions de votre demande relative à la copie CDS/ISIS sous Windows. Afin d'obtenir le logiciel, vous avez la possibilité soit de contacter votre distributeur national dont l'adresse figure à la page: http://www.unesco.org/isis/distributors.html soit de télécharger directement l'installation à l'adresse suivante: http://www.unesco.org/isis/files/winisislicense.html après avoir lu et accepté les termes de la licence de distribution en utilisant la touche appropriée en bas de page, vous pourrez ainsi accéder au téléchargement du fichier d'installation de la dernière version de CDS/ISIS pour Windows (2.4 Moctets environ). Une fois CDS/ISIS installé, veuillez lire attentivement le fichier 'README.DOC' (la section "résolution des problèmes"). Nous vous conseillons vivement de vous inscrire à la liste de discussion internationale via courrier électronique sur CDS/ISIS dont l'adresse est publiée sur notre site web. Recevez, Madame, Monsieur, l'expression de nos salutations distinguées. L'équipe du développement de CDS/ISIS et IDAMS Secteur de la communication et de i'Information UNESCO --------------------------------------------- GUIDE RAPIDE POUR LA RESOLUTION DES PROBLEMES --------------------------------------------- **** Messages "Impossible d'exécuter" ou "DLL manquante" **** A l'exécution du programme un ou plusieurs messages d'erreur peuvent apparaître, indiquant, par exemple, que le fichier CTL3D.DLL (librairie de liaison dynamique) est introuvable ou qu'une composante du système ne fonctionne pas correctement. Ceci est souvent du à votre installation ou version de Windows. Dans ces cas, vous devez utiliser le fichier DLL situé dans le répertoire: \winisis\ctl3dv2 Pour résoudre le problème vous devez copier/remplacer ce fichier dans le répertorie suivant: \winisis\system Les utilisateur des systèmes Windows NT ou 2000 devraient copier ce fichier dans leur répertoire système, parfois nommé c:\WINNT en lieu de c:\windows **** NOTES POUR LES USAGERS DE WinNT, Win2000 ET WinXP **** Veuillez noter que Winisis nécessite l'activation d'une option particulière pour bien fonctionner sous ces systèmes. Procédez comme suit: 1) Déplacez l'icône de Winisis sur le bureau de Windows afin de créer un raccourci. 2) Sur le bureau de Windows, cliquez le raccourci Winisis utilisant le bouton droit de la souris 3) Sélectionnez l'onglet "Raccourci" et activez l'option "Exécuter dans des zones mémoires différentes". 4) Confirmez avec OK et souvenez-vous de toujours utiliser ce raccourci pour démarrer Winisis. Cette opération rendra Winisis stable sous Windows NT, 2000 et WinXP. *** WINISIS EST BLOQUE (planté) **** Si Winisis est bloqué, exécutez le "Gestionnaire des tâches" utilisant la combinaison de touches "CRTL-ALT-SUPP" sur votre clavier. Puis, arrêtez le processus nommé "NTVDM.EXE". Vous pourrez alors re-démarrer Winisis sans problèmes.

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Call for papers, Library quality, IFLA conference, Oslo 2005
by JK Vijayakumar 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

Mike Heaney <michael.heaney(a)ouls.ox.ac.uk> wrote: From: Mike Heaney Subject: Call for papers, Library quality, IFLA conference, Oslo 2005 Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 15:14:13 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) [Apologies for cross-posting] Call for papers: Library quality in the institutional environment, Open Program sponsored jointly by the IFLA sections for University and Research Libraries and for Statistics and Evaluation at the World Library and Information Congress / 71st IFLA Conference, Oslo, 14-18 August 2005. What is quality for a university library - for a public library - for a national library? This is the first call for papers on the pursuit, identification and measurement of quality in all types of libraries. Papers may be in English, French, German, Russian or Spanish. Papers should be no more than 30 minutes in duration. Proposals for papers (giving title and abstract) should be submitted to Sue McKnight (IFLA University and Research Libraries Section), sue.mcknight(a)ntu.ac.uk or Michael Heaney (IFLA Statistics and Evaluation Section), michael.heaney(a)ouls.ox.ac.uk by 15 January 2005. Successful proposers will be notified by 31 January 2005 and must supply the full text of papers by 1 April. See the congress website at http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/index.htm for further details of the congress, including conference fees, accommodation and travel. Michael Heaney Head of Service Assessment & Planning Oxford University Library Services Clarendon Building, Bodleian Library Oxford OX1 3BG UK Tel +44 (0)1865 277 236 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com

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Call for Submissions for Book on _Usage Statistics for E-Serials_ (Haworth)
by Gerry Mckiernan 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

Colleagues/ Please find below a Call for Submissions for book on __Usage Statistics for E-Serials_ (Haworth) posted on behalf of my colleague David Fowler (dfowler(a)iastate.edu) our Electronic Resources Coordinator NOTE: Please direct ALL queries to David (*not* me) ; Thanks! Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu ****************************************************************************************************** I am editing a book for Haworth Press entitled "USAGE STATISTICS OF E-SERIALS". This book is a volume in the series "Haworth Series on Serials Librarianship and Continuing Resources". It will be a collection of essays by various library and publishing professionals such as yourself, concerning the current environment in libraries for the acquisition, development and utilization of usage statistics for e-serials. This will look at both the benefits and problems associated with the current and future state of usage statistics. I would like to invite interested people to write a paper for this collection. If you have a relevant topic in mind, please feel free to share your idea with me; Otherwise, I have prepared a list of several topics that could be relevant to this book that you may want to consider; please find this listing at the bottom of this message. We are projecting to have all manuscripts completed by the end of April 2004, so that editing and publishing tasks can be accomplished. I would be pleased and honored to have some of you contribute your thoughts to this project. Please contact me about your interest at dfowler(a)iastate.edu and also let me know if I can answer any questions for you. Sincerely, Dave Fowler OUTLINE "USAGE STATISTICS OF E-SERIALS" Edited by David C. Fowler Topic Ideas: How are e-serials usage statistics actually utilized? Evaluating the costs of paid e-journals with statistics (acquisitions, cataloging time, etc.) Evaluating the actual costs of "Free" e-journals with statistics (acquisitions, cataloging time, etc.) Strategies when confronted with usage statistics problems by vendors. How do libraries allot staff for e-serials statistics management (a survey?) Current and future trends in electronic journal statistics. Consortial arrangements for e-serials: When to use Problems and solutions in promoting e-serial usage to customers Issues with standardization of usage statistics. What are the different methods of evaluating the quality and usefulness of e-serials statistics? Interlibrary loan statistics and collection development. What is the next step in developing usage statistics? How do libraries disseminate usage statistics? Licensing and usage statistics. Deriving usage statistics from local library management software. ******************************************************************************************************

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Listservs in Botany
by harinarayana＠lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

This is the reply for Sunil's question. You can visit http://public.srce.hr/botanic/cisb/Edoc/flora/subject/botnews.html for listservs on Botany. You can also search google under "Listservs" "Botany" > 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 Library for Visually Impaired: Mumbai > (Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com) > 2. Re: Fw: WEBSITE FOR YOU (Sukhdev Singh) > 3. Congratulations to Dr.Muttayya Sir (Bhojaraju G.) > 4. Botanist Forum (SUNIL M.V.) > 5. Commonwealth Professional Fellowship to Mr Rajesh Chandrakar > of INFLIBNET (JK Vijayakumar) > 6. On institutional archives (Subbiah Arunachalam) > 7. Pest control In the Library (vasanth raj) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 11:18:57 +0530 > From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com > Subject: [LIS-Forum] New Library for Visually Impaired: Mumbai > To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Message-ID: <DBF3A0D52B21954A91869AF702D1A32C083A6C(a)ikpex01.ikp.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > New library in Mumbai for visually impaired > PTI (HIndustan Times) > Mumbai, December 4 > > http://www.htnext.com/news/5922_1137458,001500230001.htm > > > A library for the visually impaired was opened at the Victoria Memorial > School for the blind here today. > > The state-of-the-art library was inaugurated by Justice Radhakrishnan of > Bombay High Court. Claimed to be the first of its kind in the country, the > library has Braille books, 'talking' books such as recorded cassettes and > CDs, has Reading Machines, an enlargement equipment to help those with low > vision. > > It also provides access to Internet and has space for listening to music > and read-aloud sessions. Workshops, lectures and discussions on topics of > general interest will be periodically organised, the school Principal > Shalan Chavan said. > > Established in 1902 for the benefit of the blind, the Victoria Memorial > school today has a strength of 100 residential students and 20 day > scholars from different parts of the country and the demand for admission > continues, Chavan said. > > ============================================= > 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 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 11:23:20 +0530 > From: Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Fw: WEBSITE FOR YOU > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Cc: Lata Suresh <lata(a)iihmr.org> > Message-ID: <c13c8522041205215320ed2462(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > Paying up Rs. 300/- for putting up personal profile..??? > Perhaps, People are not aware of the hazards of exposing themselves on > net. > > ---sukhdev > > >> Subject: >> WEBSITE FOR YOU >> Dear friends, the website for you. >> http://www.worldlibrarians.com/ >> http://www.worldlibrarians.com/ >> > > > > > >> first phase and then all around the world. You can enjoy the >> specializtion of the web site, send your photograh and deatils as per >> online form available on the site alongwith the registration fee of Rs. >> 300/- to the said company. >> Now show your presence on the internet in this digital era. >> Post your resume, reserve a separate web page for you on >> worldlibrarians.com don't leave yourself behind join the world >> librarians community and share your thoughts and experience with other >> librarians.. >> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:04:34 +0530 > From: "Bhojaraju G." <bhojaraju.g(a)icicionesource.com> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Congratulations to Dr.Muttayya Sir > To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, <lisdwd(a)yahoogroups.co.in> > Cc: muttayya(a)vsnl.com > Message-ID: > <74E8CF516D0CDF44BBE51626E484B5EA0B9D4A(a)blrmail.icicionesource.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part > -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: not available > Type: image/jpeg > Size: 1712 bytes > Desc: image003.jpg > Url : > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20041206/1b71123d… > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 04:46:51 -0800 (PST) > From: "SUNIL M.V." <libra_sunil(a)yahoo.com> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Botanist Forum > To: lisforum <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Message-ID: <20041206124651.96817.qmail(a)web50707.mail.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > Dear Friends, > > > > Is their any Forum in the area of Botany as LIS-forum for Library and > Information Science? > > > > > > > Sunil MV > > Librarian > > SDM Institute for Management Development > > No. 1, Chamundi Hill Road > > Siddartha Nagar, Mysore > > Phone : 0821 - 2420490/491 2429722/161 > > Fax: 0821-2425557 > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. Learn more. >

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Re : [LIS-Forum] Botanist Forum
by Bhojaraju G. 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

Hi Sunil, Pl refer http://jagor.srce.hr/botanic/cisb/Edoc/flora/subject/botnews .html http://garden-gate.prairienet.org/newsgrps.htm Thanks and Regards Bhojaraju G. Librarian - Knowledge Management www.bhojarajug.cjb.net <http://www.bhojarajug.cjb.net/> _____ <http://www.icicionesource.com/> Tel: +91 (80) 2841 9240 Ext. : 9029 | Cell: +91 94483 69905 | Fax: +91 (80) 2841 1566 | bhojaraju.g(a)icicionesource.com <mailto:bhojaraju.g@icicionesource.com> | www.icicionesource.com <http://www.icicionesource.com/> ICICI OneSource Ltd. (First Ring) | Unit 1-6, II Floor, Innovator Block, International Technology Park (ITPL), Whitefield Road, Bangalore - 560006, India. Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 04:46:51 -0800 (PST) From: "SUNIL M.V." <libra_sunil(a)yahoo.com> View Contact Details <http://address.mail.yahoo.com/yab?.rand=17014&v=SA&A=t&em=l ibra_sunil(a)yahoo.com&.done=http%3a%2f%2fus.f128.mail.yahoo.c om%2fym%2fShowLetter%3fMsgId%3d1037%5f3272460%5f215695%5f300 1%5f612%5f0%5f46129%5f1496%5f1088988593%26Idx%3d3%26YY%3d293 97%26inc%3d200%26order%3ddown%26sort%3ddate%26pos%3d0%26view %3da%26head%3db%26box%3dInbox> To: "lisforum" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: <http://us.f128.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=1037_3272 460_215695_3001_612_0_46129_1496_1088988593&Idx=3&YY=29397&i nc=200&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b&box=Inbox#at tachments#attachments> [LIS-Forum] Botanist Forum Dear Friends, Is their any Forum in the area of Botany as LIS-forum for Library and Information Science? Sunil MV Librarian SDM Institute for Management Development No. 1, Chamundi Hill Road Siddartha Nagar, Mysore Phone : 0821 - 2420490/491 2429722/161 Fax: 0821-2425557 ***************************************************************************************************** The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, you must not read, use or disseminate the information contained in this email. ****************************************************************************************************  Hi Sunil, � Pl refer http://jagor.srce.hr/botanic/cisb/Edoc/flora/subject/botnews.html http://jagor.srce.hr/botanic/cisb/Edoc/flora/subject/botnews.html � http://garden-gate.prairienet.org/newsgrps.htm http://garden-gate.prairienet.org/newsgrps.htm � Thanks and Regards � Bhojaraju G. Librarian – Knowledge Management http://www.bhojarajug.cjb.net/ www.bhojarajug.cjb.net http://www.icicionesource.com/ cid:image002.jpg@01C4DC7A.3ADADFC0 Tel: +91 (80) 2841 9240 Ext. :�9029� | Cell: +91 94483 69905 | Fax: +91 (80) 2841 1566 | mailto:bhojaraju.g@icicionesource.com bhojaraju.g(a)icicionesource.com � | http://www.icicionesource.com/ www.icicionesource.com �ICICI OneSource Ltd. (First Ring)� � | Unit 1-6, II Floor, Innovator Block, International Technology Park (ITPL), Whitefield Road , Bangalore - 560006, India . � � Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 04:46:51 -0800 (PST) From: %20http://messenger.yahoo.com/messenger/download/index.html cid:image003.gif@01C4DC7A.3ADADFC0 �"SUNIL M.V." <libra_sunil(a)yahoo.com>�� http://address.mail.yahoo.com/yab?.rand=17014&v=SA&A=t&em=libra_sunil@yahoo… cid:image004.gif@01C4DC7A.3ADADFC0 View Contact Details To: "lisforum" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: http://us.f128.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=1037_3272460_215695_3001_… cid:image005.gif@01C4DC7A.3ADADFC0 [LIS-Forum] Botanist Forum � Dear Friends, � � Is their any Forum in the area of Botany as LIS-forum for Library and Information Science?� � � � � � Sunil MV � Librarian � SDM Institute for Management Development � No. 1, Chamundi Hill Road � Siddartha Nagar, Mysore � Phone : 0821 - 2420490/491 2429722/161 � Fax: 0821-2425557 � � ***************************************************************************************************** The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, you must not read, use or disseminate the information contained in this email. ****************************************************************************************************

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Botanist Forum
by SUNIL M.V. 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

Dear Friends, Is their any Forum in the area of Botany as LIS-forum for Library and Information Science? Sunil MV Librarian SDM Institute for Management Development No. 1, Chamundi Hill Road Siddartha Nagar, Mysore Phone : 0821 - 2420490/491 2429722/161 Fax: 0821-2425557 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. Learn more. Dear Friends, � Is their any Forum in the area of Botany as LIS-forum for Library and Information Science?� � � Sunil MV Librarian SDM Institute for Management Development No. 1, Chamundi Hill Road Siddartha Nagar, Mysore Phone : 0821 - 2420490/491 2429722/161 Fax: 0821-2425557 Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=29917/*http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 Learn more.

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I-DLR's new address
by Shyam Prasad pujar 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

Dear Members, Please note that I-DLR (Interactive Digital Library Resource Information System) has moved to new address. Now it is available at: http://www.coe.missouri.edu/~DL/iDLR/index.php Regards, S.M. Pujar ********************************************************************** Shamprasad M. Pujar Assistant Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% * Phone: (022) 28400919-21 Extn: 514 * * Fax: (022) 28402752 * * E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in * * URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Botanist Forum
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

dear sunil, please go to google. select groups at the top. then type sci.bio.botany in search box. you can go to a discussion group (international) on botany. Vyasamoorthy, P -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of SUNIL M.V. Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 6:17 PM To: lisforum Subject: [LIS-Forum] Botanist Forum Dear Friends, Is their any Forum in the area of Botany as LIS-forum for Library and Information Science? Sunil MV Librarian SDM Institute for Management Development No. 1, Chamundi Hill Road Siddartha Nagar, Mysore Phone : 0821 - 2420490/491 2429722/161 Fax: 0821-2425557 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. Learn more.

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Postponement of Refresher Course in LIS at Punjabi University, Patiala.
by harry＠pbi.ac.in 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

Kindly excuse for cross-postings. Dear professional colleagues The refresher curse in Library & Information science to be organised by the Department of Library & Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala (Punjab) from 8 - 28 December 2004 has been postponed due to some unavoidable circumstances. The new dates for organizing this refresher course would be announced as soon as these are finalized. HPS Kalra +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Harinder Pal Singh Kalra, Lecturer Department of Library & Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala 147 002 Punjab. India. Tel: +91-175 -304 6179 (work) -228 6548 (home), +91-98729 84729 (mobile) Email: harry(a)pbi.ac.in, hps253(a)yahoo.co.uk http://www.universitypunjabi.org/pages/dlis/dlis.htm http://www.universitypunjabi.org/pages/dlis/vlib.htm http://www.universitypunjabi.org/pages/dlis/salin/salin.htm ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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CDS/ISIS Windows version
by Seshu Sripada 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

Seshu Could you please send the cds/isis windows version full by cd if is free? where can I find. Thanks 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Seshu Could you please send the cds/isis windows version full by cd if is free? where can I find. Thanks 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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CALL FOR BEST STUDENT PAPER
by Shyam Prasad pujar 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

From: i.m.johnson(a)rgu.ac.uk Subject: CALL FOR BEST STUDENT PAPER K. G. Saur Verlag Munich, Germany Announces the 2005 annual award for Best LIBRI Student Paper Since 1950, through 55 volumes, 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 LIBRI's goal of publishing the best articles from the next generation of library and information science professionals. We are proud once again to recognize the very best article with this special award. Students at all levels* are invited to submit articles with clarity and authority. There is no stated theme. Research papers should address one of the significant issues facing today's librarians and information professionals. Case studies, best practices, and pure research papers are all welcome. Length: approx. 5000 words Language: English Deadline: May 31, 2005 The best paper will be selected by a independent panel consisting of selected members of the Editorial Board, the Advisory Board and other international experts. Submissions will be judged on the basis of * originality of thought and observation * depth of research and scholarship * topicality of problems addressed * the international readership of the journal The article will be published in the 2005:3 issue. The author of the winning article will be honoured with an award of 500.00 USD and with a complementary subscription to LIBRI for 2006. If the quality of competition warrants, some papers may be designated as honourable mention and the authors will receive complementary subscriptions to Libri for 2006. The normal provision to the author of 25 offprints applies to all winners. Manuscripts should be sent to the LIBRI Editorial Office, Statsbiblioteket, Universitetsparken, DK 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. Electronic submissions are encouraged and may be submitted to libri(a)statsbiblioteket.dk <mailto:libri@statsbiblioteket.dk > . Author instructions are available at the LIBRI site at http://www.librijournal.org/authorinst.html. * Exception: Senior information scholars returning to school for additional degrees outside the field of library and information science are not eligible for this award.

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Pest control In the Library
by vasanth raj 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

Dear Sir/Madam To control the pest in the library u can use the following chemicals for different kind of insects. Cockroaches: Gemexene or D.D.T whiteants/termites: Corbon bisulphide, corbon tetrachloride Fungus: Thymol crystals(100grams Ether(4 grms) benzene(400cc) mercuries bichloride(4 grams) Silver fish: A misture of sodium floride and flour can be used to control the pest. Its better to provide space, ventilation, apropriate temperature and humidity level in the library and regular cleaning will help u to keep insects away.Please avoid chemical pesticides. it's harmful to the user as well as staff. Regards Vasantha Raju N e-mail gooche_1981(a)yahoo.co.in Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Sir/Madam To control the pest in the library u can use the following chemicals for different kind of insects. Cockroaches: Gemexene or D.D.T whiteants/termites: Corbon bisulphide, corbon tetrachloride Fungus: Thymol crystals(100grams Ether(4 grms) benzene(400cc) mercuries bichloride(4 grams) Silver fish: A misture of sodium floride and flour can be used to control the pest. Its better to provide space, ventilation, apropriate temperature and humidity level in the library and regular cleaning will help u to keep insects away.Please avoid chemical pesticides. it's harmful to the user as well as staff. Regards Vasantha Raju N e-mail mailto:gooche_1981@yahoo.co.in gooche_1981(a)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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On institutional archives
by Subbiah Arunachalam 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

Friends: Prof. Fytton Rowlands writes: "... ... mandatory deposition in institutional repositories, each one operated by an independent university, but all networked together by means of the OAI-PMH, might be more reassuring to Americans." But despite the prolific and persuasive writings on this subject by Peter Suber, Stevan Harnad, Leslie Chan and others, there are not many iopen access institutional archives either in North America or in Europe (including the UK). And we are always told that scientists go be reason, logic and evidence! When it comes to publishing, disseminating information, etc. most scientists and scientific institutions are anything but unscientific. How are we going to convince them of the great value of open access institutional archiving? Some of us in India are trying really hard to convince our science managers (mostly in the government), vice chancellors, directors of research labs, professors and scientists who publish frequently, doctoral students and librarians of the great advantages of setting p institutional archives in India. The progress is at snail's pace! I sometimes wonder if we are holding a much larger number of conferences and workshops on open access than setting up working institutional archives. The situation is somewhat similar to poverty reduction. here are a number of conferences on the subject, but very little action on the ground. It might help if we enforce a code of conduct: Anyone wanting to organise a conference on open access should do so only after he/she sets up at least five institutional rchives and populates them with at least 50% ofthe institution's published papers! Arun Friends: Prof. Fytton Rowlands writes: "... ... mandatory deposition in institutional repositories, each one operated by an independent university, but all networked together by means of the OAI-PMH, might be more reassuring to Americans." But despite the prolific and persuasive writings on this subject by Peter Suber, Stevan Harnad, Leslie Chan and others, there are not many iopen access institutional archives either in North America or in Europe (including the UK). And we are always told that scientists go be reason, logic and evidence! When it comes to publishing, disseminating information, etc. most scientists and scientific institutions are anything but unscientific. How are we going to convince them of the great value of open access institutional archiving? Some of us in India are trying really hard to convince our science managers (mostly in the government), vice chancellors, directors of research labs, professors and scientists who publish frequently, doctoral students and librarians of the great advantages of setting p institutional archives in India. The progress is at snail's pace! I sometimes wonder if we are holding a much larger number of conferences and workshops on open access than setting up working institutional archives. The situation is somewhat similar to poverty reduction. here are a number of conferences on the subject, but very little action on the ground. It might help if we enforce a code of conduct: Anyone wanting to organise a conference on open access should do so only after he/she sets up at least five institutional rchives and populates them with at least 50% ofthe institution's published papers! Arun

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Commonwealth Professional Fellowship to Mr Rajesh Chandrakar of INFLIBNET
by JK Vijayakumar 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

Congratulations to Mr Rajesh Chandrakar, our colleague from INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad. He has been awarded with Commonwealth Professional Fellowship and he will be working at Middlesex University under the guidance of Dr Alan Hopkinson during January - April 2005. He is with INFLIBNET Centre since 1997 as Scientific and Technical Officer and actively inolved in activities, especially related to Union Database Managament, Bibliographic Standards, Multi Lingual Solutions, SOUL Software Development and Networking and Quality Control Group. He holds Bachelor degree in Science, Master degree in Library and Information Science and PGDCA. He is the Convenor of MARC21 Core Group of INFLIBNET Centre, nominated an Alternate representative of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Technical Committee MSD5and an Alternate Voting Representative to NISO (National Information Standards Organization), USA. He is widely published in International refereed journals and conferences and he is the Joint-Convener of International CALIBER-2005. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Mike.Bray(a)britishcouncil.org> To: <rajesh(a)inflibnet.ac.in>; <rchandrakar(a)yahoo.com> Cc: <Emily.Thomas(a)in.britishcouncil.org> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 6:49 PM Subject: Professional Fellowship award Dear Mr Chandrakar, I was pleased to hear from the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission that you have been offered a Commonwealth Professional Fellowship Award at Middlesex University tenable from 5 January 2005 to 15 April 2005. I have sent you letters today with administrative details about your Professional Fellowship award. To save a little time, I am enclosing electronic versions here. I have also enclosed your UK Work Permit which will be necessary for obtaining a visa. Please let me know if you need any further information at this stage. Best wishes Mike Bray British Council, Manchester ---------------------------------- Mike Bray Contract Officer, CCAG T +44 (0)161 957 7398 F +44 (0)161 957 7488 mike.bray(a)britishcouncil.org __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Congratulations to Dr.Muttayya Sir
by Bhojaraju G. 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

Congratulations to Dr.Muttayya Sir Dear Sir, Congratulations on your New Assignment as ILA President. I join all Bangalore Library Professional friends to convey you the Best Wishes on this Occasion. With Warm Regards Bhojaraju G. Librarian - Knowledge Management www.bhojarajug.cjb.net <http://www.bhojarajug.cjb.net/> _____ <http://www.icicionesource.com/> Tel: +91 (80) 2841 9240 Ext. : 9029 | Cell: +91 94483 69905 | Fax: +91 (80) 2841 1566 | bhojaraju.g(a)icicionesource.com <mailto:bhojaraju.g@icicionesource.com> | www.icicionesource.com <http://www.icicionesource.com/> ICICI OneSource Ltd. (First Ring) | Unit 1-6, II Floor, Innovator Block, International Technology Park (ITPL), Whitefield Road, Bangalore - 560006, India. ***************************************************************************************************** The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, you must not read, use or disseminate the information contained in this email. ****************************************************************************************************  Congratulations to Dr.Muttayya Sir � Dear Sir, � Congratulations on your New Assignment as ILA President. � I join all Bangalore Library Professional friends to convey you the Best Wishes on this Occasion. � With Warm Regards � Bhojaraju G. Librarian – Knowledge Management http://www.bhojarajug.cjb.net/ www.bhojarajug.cjb.net http://www.icicionesource.com/ cid:image003.jpg@01C4DB8B.BF995290 Tel: +91 (80) 2841 9240 Ext. :�9029� | Cell: +91 94483 69905 | Fax: +91 (80) 2841 1566 | mailto:bhojaraju.g@icicionesource.com bhojaraju.g(a)icicionesource.com � | http://www.icicionesource.com/ www.icicionesource.com �ICICI OneSource Ltd. (First Ring)� � | Unit 1-6, II Floor, Innovator Block, International Technology Park (ITPL), Whitefield Road , Bangalore - 560006, India . � ***************************************************************************************************** The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, you must not read, use or disseminate the information contained in this email. ****************************************************************************************************

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Fw: WEBSITE FOR YOU
by Lata Suresh 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

----- Original Message ----- From: Lata Suresh To: lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 3:12 PM Subject: WEBSITE FOR YOU Dear friends, the website for you. http://www.worldlibrarians.com/ created by Dr.S.A.N.Inamdar,LIBRARIAN, WALCHAND COLEGE OF ENGG., VISHRAMBAG, SANGLI 416 415 , under this site they are planning to build a web directory of librarian in India at first phase and then all around the world. You can enjoy the specializtion of the web site, send your photograh and deatils as per online form available on the site alongwith the registration fee of Rs. 300/- to the said company. Now show your presence on the internet in this digital era. Post your resume, reserve a separate web page for you on worldlibrarians.com don't leave yourself behind join the world librarians community and share your thoughts and experience with other librarians.. regards LATA SURESH Librarian Indian Institute of Health Management Research 1, Prabhu Dayal Marg Sanganer Airport Jaipur - 302011 RAJASTHAN INDIA Phone : 91-141-2791431-34 ext 328 Fax : 91-141-2792138 Email : lata(a)iihmr.org or iihmr(a)iihmr.org URL : http://www.iihmr.org ----- Original Message ----- From: mailto:lata@iihmr.org Lata Suresh To: mailto:lis-forum-request@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 3:12 PM Subject: WEBSITE FOR YOU Dear friends, the website for you. http://www.worldlibrarians.com/ http://www.worldlibrarians.com/ created by Dr.S.A.N.Inamdar,LIBRARIAN, WALCHAND COLEGE OF ENGG., VISHRAMBAG, SANGLI 416 415 , under this site they are planning to build a web directory of librarian in India at first phase and then all around the world. You can enjoy the specializtion of the web site, send your photograh and deatils as per online form available on the site alongwith the registration fee of Rs. 300/- to the said company. Now show your presence on the internet in this digital era. Post your resume, reserve a separate web page for you on worldlibrarians.com don't leave yourself behind join the world librarians community and share your thoughts and experience with other librarians.. regards LATA SURESH Librarian Indian Institute of Health Management Research 1, Prabhu Dayal Marg Sanganer Airport Jaipur - 302011 RAJASTHAN INDIA Phone : 91-141-2791431-34 ext 328 Fax : 91-141-2792138 Email : mailto:lata@iihmr.org lata(a)iihmr.org or mailto:iihmr@iihmr.org iihmr(a)iihmr.org URL : http://www.iihmr.org http://www.iihmr.org

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New Library for Visually Impaired: Mumbai
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

New library in Mumbai for visually impaired PTI (HIndustan Times) Mumbai, December 4 http://www.htnext.com/news/5922_1137458,001500230001.htm A library for the visually impaired was opened at the Victoria Memorial School for the blind here today. The state-of-the-art library was inaugurated by Justice Radhakrishnan of Bombay High Court. Claimed to be the first of its kind in the country, the library has Braille books, 'talking' books such as recorded cassettes and CDs, has Reading Machines, an enlargement equipment to help those with low vision. It also provides access to Internet and has space for listening to music and read-aloud sessions. Workshops, lectures and discussions on topics of general interest will be periodically organised, the school Principal Shalan Chavan said. Established in 1902 for the benefit of the blind, the Victoria Memorial school today has a strength of 100 residential students and 20 day scholars from different parts of the country and the demand for admission continues, Chavan said. ============================================= 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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loss of books
by Nagesh Hadimani 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

Dear friends, there is one question, is librarian responsible for the loss of books i n the big libraries or the whole staff is responsible for it. If any amendemnts in ugc and other library act. please inform me about that. Thanks >> > vijaykumar mulimani > >> > Librarian > >> > Sangameshwar college, > >> > Solapur.413001 > >> > ph:(o)0217-2315588 ext.25 > >> > >

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Pest Controls in library
by Sasireka Govindaraj 04 Dec '04

04 Dec '04

Dear Professional Friends, i wish to know about "Pest Controls in Library". kindly let me know about the same... kind regards, G.Sasireka Librarian Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Engineering College Perambalur, Tamilnadu. ===== Regards, G.Sasireka ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony

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[lisnet] MSU to host All-India Library Conference
by K Prakash 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

MSU to host All-India Library Conference Express New Service Vadodara, November 28: Hansa Mehta Library of MS University will play host to the 50th All India Library Conference of Indian Library Association from December 1. The conference is the first of its kind in Vadodara. The four-day conference - 'Knowledge Organisation in Digital Environment in Libraries' - will be inaugurated on December 1 and see participants all over the world. Over 300 librarians, information scientists, researchers, scholars and students of Library and Information Science are expected to participate in the conference. ''We have already received 109 paper presentations for the event. This is an opportunity for us to learn different library methods practiced around the world,'' said Kautilya H Shukla, the University librarian at MSU. The Hansa Mehta library has 7.5 lakh books to its credit and serves the distinction of being the largest university library system in the country. Though digitalisation of the library has been doing rounds, so far nothing has materialised. Shukla said that entire membership and accounting procedures are computerised but operations are still being done manually. Shukla further added that new technologies have given birth to concepts like digital libraries, e-libraries and virtual libraries that require re-engineering of knowledge organisations in the library. ''Quick access to information using digital devices or electronic media are unavoidable across the globe and library cannot be an exception,'' he said. He added that the authorities are considering digitalisation of the Hansa Mehta library soon. With best wishes/ regards. Bye. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- K PRAKASH Scientific/Technical Officer-I Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre An Inter-University Centre of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Post Box No.4116, Navrangpura, AHMEDABAD - 380 009 India # Tel.: 91 - 079 - 2630 5971 / 2630 4695 Extn: 38; Fax: 2630 0990(Off.); 2676 3724(Res.) # Email: prakash(a)inflibnet.ac.in; prakash_k(a)yahoo.com # URL: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ ; http://www.prakashk.netfirms.com/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/_o7wlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lisnet/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: lisnet-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

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help requested on purchasing a good digital scanner
by Sunita Barve 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

We would like to buy one good digital flatbed scanner for our library which will have the following facilities and which will be with price range from Rs. 50000/- to Rs. 80000/-. 1. Color scanning 2. Negative film scanning 3. Slide scanning 4. Transparancy scanning 5. OCR facility 6. Scanning area from A4 to A3 page size 7. Book scanning facility We already have one "ACER Scanner Scan Premio ST" which we bought in 2002 but now after two years there may be something new available in the market with advanced features. Can any one of you suggest any good scanner available in the market and which you are using for scanning documents in your library with above facilities. Regards, Sunita Barve Library-In-Charge National Centre for Radio Astrophysics Post Bag No. 3, Pune Univ. Campus Pune 411 007, INDIA Phone : 91-20-25697107 FAX : 91-20-5697257 Email :sunitab@ncra.tifr.res.in

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Dr.T.A.V.Murthy - selected for the Dr.Harish Chandra - Sushila Chandra Best Librarian Award 2004
by JK Vijayakumar 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR BELOVED DIRECTOR Dr T A V MURTHY --- Arunachalam Hariharan <hariharan_ah(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 03:52:15 -0800 (PST) > Subject: [digilib_india] Dr.T.A.V.Murthy - > selected for the Dr.Harish Chandra - Sushila > Chandra Best Librarian Award 2004 > > > Dear All, > > Selection process for the Best Librarian award > instituted in the name of Dr.Harish Chandra - Sushila Chandra is over. Selection was > based on criteria such as > > Numbers of > > 1. Papers presented in the national and > international > conferences > > 2. Articles published in national and > international > journals > > 3. Invited talks at various levels > > 4. Books authored, edited, reviewed > > 5. Contribution to the profession > > 6. Contribution to the Society/Nation > > 7. Innovative services developed/introduced > > 8. Projects undertaken > > 9. Seminars/conferences organised > > 10. Number of researches guided > > 11. Educational qualifications, service > rendered in > various capacity (at all levels) and so on. > > Selection Committee is pleased to announce the > name of > > Dr.T.A.V.Murthy, Director, INFLIBNET for this > award > for the year 2004. > > Let us all congratulate Dr.T.A.V.Murthy, > Director, > INFLIBNET for getting selected for the award - > for his > outstanding contribution to the profession and > distinguished service > > Let us all thank Dr. Harish Chandra for > sponsoring > the award. > > Convener, > Award Committee, > Dr.Harish Chandra - Sushila Chandra Best > Librarian > Award 2004 > SALIS > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com

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READIT-2005 Conference
by Jayakumar, C 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

Dear Professionals, READIT-2005 Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam - 603 102, Tamil Nadu, India; 16-18 March, 2005 Madras Library Association - Kalpakkam Chapter (MALA-KC) and Scientific Information Resource Division (SIRD), Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam is organizing a National Conference on "REcent ADvances in Information Technology - 2005 (READIT-2005)" during 17-18th March,2005. The theme of the conference is "Digital Libraries to Knowledge Systems". A pre-conference tutorial is also being arranged on the following topics "Advanced Methods & Technologies for Content Management" and "Application of Open Source solutions for Digital Libraries" on 16th March, 2005 For further details Please visit the conference info. site : http://www.readit-2005.org or write to readit(a)igcar.ernet.in With best wishes, C. Jayakumar Digital Resources Scientific Information Resource Division (SIRD) Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) Kalpakkam - 603 102 India Phone & Fax : +91 4114 280096 email : jay(a)igcar.ernet.in

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Library Positions at TCS Hyderabad
by kishore.ingale＠tcs.com 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

Library Positions at TCS, Hyderabad Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) is the world-leading information technology consulting, services, and business process outsourcing organization. Started in 1968, today it has a presence in 32 countries across 5 continents and is one of the world's leading Information Technology companies. Six of the Fortune Top 10 companies are among the valued customers. Deccan Park, TCS's world class facility at Madhapur in Hyderabad houses about 3000 software professionals. We are in the process of strengthening the library services and urgently require the following. 1) Asst Manager - Library & Information Services (one post) MLISc (or equivalent) is a must, spl programs like NCSI, PGDLAN will be an advantage. 8 to 12 years of relevant experience, exposure to latest IT & management tools, should be able to handle a branch library. 2)Officer - Library & Information Services ( two posts) MLISc or (equivalent), Experience: 0 to 3 years Flair for IT, good communication skills are a prerequisite. The remuneration will match the best in industry. All positions are permanent with one year probationary. Interested may e-mail their resumes to < delphine.almeida(a)tcs.com> by 10 th Dec. 2004. Alternatively , hard copies can be posted at 'Ms Delphine Almeida , Library & Information Centre , Tata Consultancy Services , 10 th Floor , Air India Building , Nariman Point , Mumbai 400021 '. (Those who have responded to us in the last 3-4 weeks need not apply) Thanks & Regards, BP Prakash Assistant General Manager Corporate Library & Information Centre Tata Consultancy Services 10th floor, Air India building Nariman Point, Mumbai-400 021 Ph 91 22 5668 9294 DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this message is intended only and solely for the addressed individual or entity indicated in this message and for the exclusive use of the said addressed individual or entity indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person) and may contain legally privileged and confidential information belonging to Tata Consultancy Services Limited. It must not be printed, read, copied, disclosed, forwarded, distributed or used (in whatsoever manner) by any person other than the addressee. Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying is strictly prohibited and may constitute unlawful act and can possibly attract legal action, civil and/or criminal. The contents of this message need not necessarily reflect or endorse the views of Tata Consultancy Services limited on any subject matter. Any action taken or omitted to be taken based on this message is entirely at your risk and neither the originator of this message nor Tata Consultancy Services Limited takes any responsibility or liability towards the same. Opinions, conclusions and any other information contained in this message that do not relate to the official business of Tata Consultancy Services limited shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by Tata Consultancy Services Limited or any affiliate of Tata Consultancy Services Limited. If you have received this message in error, you should destroy this message and may please notify the sender by e-mail. Thank you. Library Positions at TCS, Hyderabad Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) is the world-leading information technology consulting, services, and business process outsourcing organization. Started in 1968, today it has a presence in 32 countries across 5 continents and is one of the world's leading Information Technology companies. Six of the Fortune Top 10 companies are among the valued customers. Deccan Park, TCS's �world class facility at Madhapur in Hyderabad houses about 3000 software professionals. We are in the process of strengthening the library services and urgently require the following. 1) Asst Manager - Library & Information Services (one post) MLISc (or equivalent) is a must, spl programs like NCSI, PGDLAN will be an advantage. 8 to 12 years of relevant experience, exposure to latest IT & management tools, should be able to handle a branch library. 2)Officer - Library & Information Services ( two posts) MLISc or (equivalent), Experience: �0 to 3 years Flair for IT, good communication skills are a prerequisite. The remuneration will match the best in industry. All positions are permanent with one year probationary. Interested may �e-mail �their resumes �to < delphine.almeida(a)tcs.com> by 10 th Dec. 2004. Alternatively , hard copies can be posted at 'Ms Delphine Almeida , Library & Information Centre , Tata Consultancy Services , 10 th Floor , Air India Building , Nariman Point , Mumbai 400021 '. (Those who have responded to us in the last 3-4 weeks need not apply) Thanks & Regards, BP Prakash Assistant General Manager Corporate Library & Information Centre Tata Consultancy Services 10th floor, Air India building Nariman Point, Mumbai-400 021 Ph 91 22 5668 9294 DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this message is intended only and solely for the addressed individual or entity indicated in this message and for the exclusive use of the said addressed individual or entity indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person) and may contain legally privileged and confidential information belonging to Tata Consultancy Services Limited. It must not be printed, read, copied, disclosed, forwarded, distributed or used (in whatsoever manner) by any person other than the addressee. Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying is strictly prohibited and may constitute unlawful act and can possibly attract legal action, civil and/or criminal. The contents of this message need not necessarily reflect or endorse the views of Tata Consultancy Services limited on any subject matter. Any action taken or omitted to be taken based on this message is entirely at your risk and neither the originator of this message nor Tata Consultancy Services Limited takes any responsibility or liability towards the same. Opinions, conclusions and any other information contained in this message that do not relate to the official business of Tata Consultancy Services limited shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by Tata Consultancy Services Limited or any affiliate of Tata Consultancy Services Limited. If you have received this message in error, you should destroy this message and may please notify the sender by e-mail. Thank you.

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MyLISA December Lecture
by SUNIL M.V. 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

Dear Professionals, Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (MyLISA) cordially invite you for the talk on Topic: "NAAC Accreditation: A Librarian�s Perspective� Speaker : Mr. Ronal Prakash Cutinha, Librarian, St. Philomina's College, Mysore Venue: Vidyanidhi Seminar Hall, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore. Date & Time: 4th December 2004 & 4.00 pm to 5.00 pm MyLISA --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. Dear Professionals, � Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (MyLISA) cordially invite you for�the talk on Topic : " NAAC Accreditation: A Librarian�s Perspective�� Speaker : Mr. Ronal Prakash Cutinha, Librarian, St. Philomina's College, Mysore � Venue :��Vidyanidhi Seminar Hall, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore. Date & Time: ��4th December 2004 & 4.00 pm to 5.00 pm MyLISA 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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An arizona-based repository for LIS papers
by Subbiah Arunachalam 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

Friends: Those of you who do not have an open access archive at your institution, you may deposit your papers (full twext) in http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/information.html . This is a Digital Library of Information Science and Technology, a repository of full-text electronic resources in the domains of Library and Information Science (LIS) and Information Technology (IT). Our friends from NIC have deposited some of their papers in this archive. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Friends: Those of you who do not have an open access archive at your institution, you may deposit your papers (full twext) in http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/information.html http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/information.html . This is a Digital Library of Information Science and Technology, a repository of full-text electronic resources in the domains of Library and Information Science (LIS) and Information Technology (IT). Our friends from NIC have deposited some of their papers in this archive. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Need an article that seems to refer me.
by Sukhdev Singh 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

Dear Members, While searching Google Scholar, I hit upon on the following article that seems to refer me in some context of CDS/ISIS. ------------------------------------------------------------- CDS/ISIS Information Author: Hopkinson A. Source: Information Development, March 2003, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 9-12(4) Publisher: SAGE Publications --------------------------------------------------------------- However, I do not have access to its fulltext. Will someone having the above journal/article verify it? Following is the hit result from Google Scholar: ========================================== http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100&hl=en&lr=&q=sukhdev+information+d… [PDF] CDS/ISIS INFORMATION NEWU WEBSITE, D EXCHANGE, S PAR ... Information Development, vol ... Sukhdev Singh, Principal Systems Analyst, Biblio- graphic Informatics Division, National Informatics Centre, New Delhi, has pointed ... Information Development, 2003 - ingenta.com ========================================= Thanks in advance. Sukhdev Singh.

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voilating copy right act
by vasanth raj 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

Dear sir, Yes with out prior permission of the author u cant digitise it. If u do so definitely it is violating of copy right act. The author of that text book can take a legal action. If the author died and the material is 60 years of old after the death of the author then that text book will be concedered as public property.U can take the photo copy of some pages of that text book under the term "fair use". Vasantha Raju N e-mail : gooche _1981(a)yahoo.co.in Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear sir, Yes with out prior permission of the author u cant digitise it. If u do so definitely it is violating of copy right act. The author of that text book can take a legal action. If the author died and the material is 60 years of old after the death of the author then that text book will be concedered as public property.U can take the photo copy of some pages of that text book under the term "fair use". Vasantha Raju N e-mail : gooche mailto:_1981@yahoo.co.in _1981(a)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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Lecture on Internet Informetrics
by I.R.N.Goudar 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

Dear Professionals, The Society for Information Science, Bangalore Chapter cordially invite you for an interesting lecture. Topic: Discussions on Informetrics of the Internet and other Social Networks Speaker: Dr. (Prof.) Leo Egghe LUC Library Limburgs Universitair Centrum Universitaire Campus, B-3590 Diepenbeek Belgium Venue: British Library, Prestige Takt, 23 Kasturba Road, Bangalore Date & Time: Tuesday the 7th December 04 at 4 p.m. Prof. I.K. Ravichandra Rao I.R.N. Goudar President Secretary Society for Information Science, Bangalore Chapter -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html with regards, I.K. Ravichandrar Rao _________________________________________________________________ NRIs! http://creative.mediaturf.net/creatives/citibankrca/rca_msntagofline.htm Choose values with free money transfers!

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FW: Is I voilating copy right act ?
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

Dear Mr Vijaykumar Please find out the year in which the book was published and the year of death of author. Copyright for the book exists from the date of creation/publication of the book through out the lifetime of the author and up to fifty years after the death of the author - (enjoyed by his heirs). This means that during an author's lifetime and upto fifty years after his death, you can not copy without obtaining a permission to do so. In simpler terms, as of today (- we are in 2004), books whose authors are dead and gone before 1954 are safe to be copied. Once the copyright expires as indicated here, You can freely digitise and make available digitised version for use among your customers. This applies to Books published in India. Merely because a book has gone out of print you can not copy or digitise a book. ICICI Knowledge Park houses an Intellectual Property Cell dealing with Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks etc. For further help you may contact : Mr Subhajit Shah at: subhajit(a)icicikp.com Hope this is useful. 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 <mailto:subhajit@icicikp.com> -----Original Message----- From: vijaya kumara [mailto:vijayakumar71@yahoo.co.in] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 3:33 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com; nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com Subject: [iatlis] Is I voilating copy right act ? Dear Professionals. To fullfill the library user need, I searched a book to purchase, but I came to know from the different book distributor is "The Book which I am searching is out of print" But I find the same book with my professional friend, then I thought to digitize the same book for the benefit of our library users. If i do, is I voilating copy right act ? Kindly let me know on this aspect. Based on your/ professional suggestion, I will contiune. Waiting for your kind reply Regards Vijayakumar *************************************************************************************** Vijayakumar M, HOD - Library, MVJ College of Engineering, (ISO Certified Institute), Bangalore-560 067 080 - 28452324 Ext. 234 <mailto:library@mvjeducation.com> library(a)mvjeducation.com _____ Do you Yahoo!? Take <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/mobile/*http://mobile.yahoo.com/mai…> Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. Yahoo! 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This means that during an author's lifetime and upto fifty years after his death, you can not copy without obtaining a permission to do so. In simpler terms, as of today (- we are in 2004), books whose authors are dead and gone before 1954 are safe to be copied. Once the copyright expires as indicated here, You can freely digitise and make available digitised version for use among your customers. This applies to Books published in India. Merely because a book has gone out of print you can not copy or digitise a book. ICICI Knowledge Park houses an Intellectual Property Cell dealing with Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks etc. For further help you may contact : Mr Subhajit Shah at: mailto:subhajit@icicikp.com subhajit(a)icicikp.com Hope this is useful. 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 mailto:subhajit@icicikp.com -----Original Message----- From: vijaya kumara [mailto:vijayakumar71@yahoo.co.in] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 3:33 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com; nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com Subject: [iatlis] Is I voilating copy right act ? Dear Professionals. To fullfill the library user need, I searched a book to purchase, but I came to know from the different book distributor is "The Book which I am searching is out of print" But I find the same book with my professional friend, then I thought to digitize the same book for the benefit of our library users. If i do, is I voilating copy right act ? Kindly let me know on this aspect. Based on your/ professional suggestion, I will contiune. Waiting for your kind reply Regards Vijayakumar *************************************************************************************** Vijayakumar M, HOD - Library, MVJ College of Engineering, (ISO Certified Institute), Bangalore-560 067 080 - 28452324 Ext. 234 mailto:library@mvjeducation.com library(a)mvjeducation.com 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! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=1291tml1t/M=298184.5639630.6699735.3001176/D=gr… http://us.a1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/a/ne/netflix/111704_1104_g_300250a.gif http://us.adserver.yahoo.com/l?M=298184.5639630.6699735.3001176/D=grplch/S=… Yahoo! 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FW: Special Lectures on Informetrics at DRTC
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

-----Original Message----- From: DRTC General [mailto:drtc@ns.isibang.ac.in] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 12:23 PM To: raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Special Lectures on Informetrics INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research and Training Centre 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore - 59 Cordially invites you to attend the Special lectures on Informetrics. The lectures will be held at DRTC Class Room on the following dates at the ISI Campus: Name of the Speaker : Dr. Leo Egghe, LUC Library, Limburgs Universitair Centrum Universitaire Campus, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium 1. Topic: A Universal method of information retrieval evaluation: the "missing" link M and the universal IR surface. Date & Time 3rd December 2004, 11:30 A.M. 2. Topic: The First and nth citation distributions and applications. Date & Time 6th December 2004, 11:30 A.M 3. Topic: Duality revisited: construction of fractional frequency distributions based on two Dual Lotka Laws. Date & Tim 8th December 2004, 11.30 A.M. (I.K. RAVICHANDRA RAO) Professor and Head, DRTC

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Is I voilating copy right act ?
by Aman Jha 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

Dear Mr Kumar If a document/book is copyrighted, please read the copyright instructions carefully and go ahead with the instruction only. Digitization is another kind of reproduction method and you need to take prior aproval from author or publisher. Aman Jha Librarian CII -----Original Message----- From: vijaya kumara [mailto:vijayakumar71@yahoo.co.in] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 10:03 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com; nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com Subject: [LIS-Forum] Is I voilating copy right act ? Dear Professionals. To fullfill the library user need, I searched a book to purchase, but I came to know from the different book distributor is "The Book which I am searching is out of print" But I find the same book with my professional friend, then I thought to digitize the same book for the benefit of our library users. If i do, is I voilating copy right act ? Kindly let me know on this aspect. Based on your/ professional suggestion, I will contiune. Waiting for your kind reply Regards Vijayakumar *************************************************************************************** Vijayakumar M, HOD - Library, MVJ College of Engineering, (ISO Certified Institute), Bangalore-560 067 080 - 28452324 Ext. 234 library(a)mvjeducation.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone.

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WebJunction - Online Community of Libraries.
by Sukhdev Singh 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

Dear Members, The following link could be of your interest. http://webjunction.org It is an online community of libraries and other agencies with the aim to share knowledge and experience to provide the broadest public access to information technology. It is from parterners like OCLC. Perhaps someone can evaluate it for the benefit of LIS-FORUM Community. Regards Sukhdev Singh

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eProfile of Marcus P. Zillman in _Library Hi Tech News_
by Gerry Mckiernan 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

eProfile of Marcus P. Zillman in _Library Hi Tech News_ I am pleased to announce the publication and availability of my latest eProfile in _Library Hi Tech News_ - "Z as in Zillman." '"Z as in Zillman" is a descriptive review of the publications and (mostly free) information resources and services provided by Zillman: "Z as in Zillman," Library Hi Tech News 21, no. 9 (November 2004): 25-30. Self-archived at [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/Zillman.pdf ] The products and services I profile in my review include: *** Zillman Columns *** [ http://www.zillmancolumns.com ] "Since 1996, Zillman has also published regular columns that focus on timely Web topics (www.zillmancolumns.com) In 2004, for example, his columns included: * Student Research Resources on the Internet (October) * Grid and Distributed Computing Resources on the Internet (September) * Financial Sources on the Internet (August) * Data Mining Resources on the Internet (July) * Healthcare Resources on the Internet (June) * eCommerce Resources on the Internet (May) * Survey Resources on the Internet (April) * Privacy Resources and Sites on the Internet (March) * Finding People Resources and Sites on the Internet (February) * Finding Experts on the Internet (January) *** Awareness Watch* Newsletter *** [ http://www.awarenesswatch.com ] As exemplified by the Awareness Watch* Newsletter (www.awarenesswatch.com) a major theme in the work of Zillman is related to current awareness about quality information Web resources. His Awareness Watch* Newsletter is "a free monthly publication that * highlight[s] * . First published in December 2003, issues of this newsletter have profiled a range of Web sites and resources that include: * Anti-Virus, AntiHoax, AntiMyth, AntiFraud, AntiChain Letter and Anti-Spam sites on the Internet * Browsers and Information Visualization Tools * Business Intelligence Resources * Deep web and the Invisible web * Demographics and Statistics Resources * Information Alerts * Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Management and Knowledge Harvesting Sources * Niched Blog Search Engines, Blog Directories, and Web-based News Aggregators * Quality Information Resources, and * Subject Directories, Gateways, and Portals. *** Subject Tracer* Information Blogs *** [ http://www.subjecttracer.com ] One of the most innovative publication series developed by Zillman is his Subject Tracer* Information Blogs (www.subjecttracer.com) As described by Zillman, "a subject tracer is a blog created with the help of bots that monitor/collect the latest information on a subject on the Net" and "then update the [Subject Tracer*] blogs after determining the quality and competency of the source and data" (Murali, 2004). *** Books *** Zillman's publication efforts are not limited to compilations of quality Web-based resources. He is also the author of two major books: Internet Sources* Manual and Mining the Invisible Web. The Internet Sources* Manual (www.internetsources.info) is "a 378 page manual listing all the very latest and greatest sources and [Web] sites * that have been compiled over the [course] of the last ten years *. ." [SNIP] Coauthored with Sundar Kadayam, Mining the Invisible Web (www.miningtheinvisibleweb.com) provides a comprehensive and detailed review of significant Hidden Web resources and the tools necessary to identify and harvest such resources. *** Internet MiniGuides * *** [ http://www.internetminiguide.com/ ] Many of the topics found in Zillman's Web-based compilations are covered more extensively in a 'miniguide' series. The current Internet MiniGuides (www.internetminiguide.com) include: * Academic Resources * Advertising, Marketing, and Public Relations Resources * Business Resources * Competitive Intelligence Resources * Education and Distance Learning Resources * Healthcare Resources * International Trade Resources * Legal Resources, and * Security Resources. Each Internet MiniGuide contains "... hundreds of the very best links to relevant and competent resources. All links are listed with complete URLs and verified for activation. The resources, services that are profiled include White Papers [http://www.whitepapers.us/] Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet [http://listentomarcus.blogspot.com/] Watch Marcus* [ http://www.watchmarcus.com/ ] and a personal blog [ http://www.zillman.us/ ]. Thanks (again) Marcus for All Your Great Resources and Services!!! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Marked Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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[ARL-EJOURNAL] eProfile of Marcus P. Zillman in _Library Hi Tech
by Gerry Mckiernan 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

eProfile of Marcus P. Zillman in _Library Hi Tech News_ I am pleased to announce the publication and availability of my latest eProfile in _Library Hi Tech News_ - "Z as in Zillman." '"Z as in Zillman" is a descriptive review of the publications and (mostly free) information resources and services provided by Zillman: "Z as in Zillman," Library Hi Tech News 21, no. 9 (November 2004): 25-30. Self-archived at [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/Zillman.pdf ] The products and services I profile in my review include: *** Zillman Columns *** [ http://www.zillmancolumns.com ] "Since 1996, Zillman has also published regular columns that focus on timely Web topics (www.zillmancolumns.com) In 2004, for example, his columns included: * Student Research Resources on the Internet (October) * Grid and Distributed Computing Resources on the Internet (September) * Financial Sources on the Internet (August) * Data Mining Resources on the Internet (July) * Healthcare Resources on the Internet (June) * eCommerce Resources on the Internet (May) * Survey Resources on the Internet (April) * Privacy Resources and Sites on the Internet (March) * Finding People Resources and Sites on the Internet (February) * Finding Experts on the Internet (January) *** Awareness Watch* Newsletter *** [ http://www.awarenesswatch.com ] As exemplified by the Awareness Watch* Newsletter (www.awarenesswatch.com) a major theme in the work of Zillman is related to current awareness about quality information Web resources. His Awareness Watch* Newsletter is "a free monthly publication that * highlight[s] * . First published in December 2003, issues of this newsletter have profiled a range of Web sites and resources that include: * Anti-Virus, AntiHoax, AntiMyth, AntiFraud, AntiChain Letter and Anti-Spam sites on the Internet * Browsers and Information Visualization Tools * Business Intelligence Resources * Deep web and the Invisible web * Demographics and Statistics Resources * Information Alerts * Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Management and Knowledge Harvesting Sources * Niched Blog Search Engines, Blog Directories, and Web-based News Aggregators * Quality Information Resources, and * Subject Directories, Gateways, and Portals. *** Subject Tracer* Information Blogs *** [ http://www.subjecttracer.com ] One of the most innovative publication series developed by Zillman is his Subject Tracer* Information Blogs (www.subjecttracer.com) As described by Zillman, "a subject tracer is a blog created with the help of bots that monitor/collect the latest information on a subject on the Net" and "then update the [Subject Tracer*] blogs after determining the quality and competency of the source and data" (Murali, 2004). *** Books *** Zillman's publication efforts are not limited to compilations of quality Web-based resources. He is also the author of two major books: Internet Sources* Manual and Mining the Invisible Web. The Internet Sources* Manual (www.internetsources.info) is "a 378 page manual listing all the very latest and greatest sources and [Web] sites * that have been compiled over the [course] of the last ten years *. ." [SNIP] Coauthored with Sundar Kadayam, Mining the Invisible Web (www.miningtheinvisibleweb.com) provides a comprehensive and detailed review of significant Hidden Web resources and the tools necessary to identify and harvest such resources. *** Internet MiniGuides * *** [ http://www.internetminiguide.com/ ] Many of the topics found in Zillman's Web-based compilations are covered more extensively in a 'miniguide' series. The current Internet MiniGuides (www.internetminiguide.com) include: * Academic Resources * Advertising, Marketing, and Public Relations Resources * Business Resources * Competitive Intelligence Resources * Education and Distance Learning Resources * Healthcare Resources * International Trade Resources * Legal Resources, and * Security Resources. Each Internet MiniGuide contains "... hundreds of the very best links to relevant and competent resources. All links are listed with complete URLs and verified for activation. The resources, services that are profiled include White Papers [http://www.whitepapers.us/] Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet [http://listentomarcus.blogspot.com/] Watch Marcus* [ http://www.watchmarcus.com/ ] and a personal blog [ http://www.zillman.us/ ]. Thanks (again) Marcus for All Your Great Resources and Services!!! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Marked Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <ARL-EJOURNAL(a)arl.org>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <ARL-EJOURNAL-off(a)arl.org> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <ARL-EJOURNAL-digest(a)arl.org> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <ARL-EJOURNAL-index(a)arl.org> Send administrative queries to <ARL-EJOURNAL-request(a)arl.org> Vist the web archive at <https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/ARL-EJOURNAL/>

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KALA Vetarans Day
by I.R.N.Goudar 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

Dear Professionals, Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) proposes to felicitate all the veteran Librarians (already retired/retiring before January 29, 2005). Vetaran Librarians to be felicitated include Librarians: 1. From Karnataka/out side Karnataka, but served/serving in Karnataka. 2. From Karnataka served and serving any where in the world. The probable date for this program is January 29, 2005. IN THIS CONTEXT I REQUEST YOU TO KINDLY INTIMATE ME THE DETAILS OF VETARAN LIBRARIANS KNOWN TO YOU IRRESPECTIVE OF WHETHER ONE HAS SERVED YOUR ORGANISATION OR NOT, PREFERABLY WITH DETAILS LIKE POSTAL ADDRESS, TELEPHONE NUMBER, E-MAIL ADDRESS, ETC. I also request all the professionals in Karnataka to communicate their willingness to work as member of the Organizing Committee or Volunteers of the event. I feel that respectful felicitation to all senior professionals is responsibility of all of us. I sincerely request all the fellow professionals to be part of this respectful event, the details of which will be intimated later. With regards Dr.H.S.Siddamallaiah, Ph.D. President, KALA Principal Librarian and Information Officer NIMHANS, Bangalore-560029, India phone: 91-080-26995031 91-080-26995035 91-080- 26995031 www.nimhans.kar.nic.in www.nimhans.kar.nic.in/ila

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Fw: [bytesforall_readers] $100 Green/Solar PC
by Subbiah Arunachalam 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Here is a news story of great interest to poor countries. Please spread the word. Arun SolarPC Announces the $100 green PC & promotes world harmony* http://openflows.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/28/2330243 *If SolarPC's were the standard PC in the US every year it would result in the saving of more than 138 million barrels of imported oil, prevent 25 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions and landfills would have a reduction of more than 100 tons of e-waste! A Maintenance Free PC until 2025 LAS VEGAS, November 18, 2004 -- SolarPC today announced the availability of a $100 PC called the SolarLite. It is a solid-state computer targeted at organizations that require the efficiency of a maintenance free Internet PC. The SolarLite was also created to offer an ecologically and economically viable method to provide information to billions of disadvantaged people around the world. In addition, it serves as a response to last month's challenge by Microsoft's Steve Ballmer for the computer industry to build a $100 PC. In conjunction with the SolarLite announcement, SolarPC circulated details regarding the Global Education Link (GEL) project, an initiative with the goal of giving away a million SolarLite computers to schools in poor countries around the world. The objective of the GEL project is to improve education in third world countries and thereby encourage self-sufficiency and promote world harmony. According to K-12 education specialist Dr. James Johnson, "The Global Education Link project has the potential to break down the barriers that prevent people in the developing world from getting a good education. The recent release of the FireFox Internet browser makes the timing of this announcement extremely auspicious. The open source FireFox browser provides a solid foundation for the development of non-proprietary educational software. It will facilitate the creation of thousands of educational programs that can be distributed to millions of students at no cost. This is a fantastic opportunity to leverage technology that will make the world a better place." "This is the twenty first century equivalent of teaching people how to fish," stated Gary Reynolds, spokesperson for SolarPC, "A standardized, well designed, easy to maintain, low cost PC is the key to unlocking the educational potential of the electronic age. The SolarLite is a fully featured, book sized (9" x 7" x 1.75") machine that weighs approximately three pounds. It features a rugged no-moving-parts design that includes a Compact Flash drive loaded with dozens of software programs, plus links to free development software and educational programs. The design and construction of the SolarLite is consistent with the goal of an environmentally friendly computer. It uses a lightweight, recyclable, aluminum case that has a 20-year warranty. Its VIA chipset based "long-life" motherboard is a "green" lead free product. Like all SolarPC computers, the SolarLite operates on 12 volt DC power and can be run from a solar panel, car battery, or human powered (with a bicycle-based generator). The cool and quiet SolarLite uses approximately 10 watts of energy, just a fraction of what a standard PC consumes. The minimum order quantity for the SolarLite is 100,000 units. Photos and details relating to the SolarLite and the Global Education Link project can be found at www.solarlite.org. SolarLite software is provided by DS Linux, one of the top ten Linux distributions in the world. Additional data about DS Linux is located at: www.dslos.com. More information regarding VIA Technologies can be viewed at: www.via.com.tw. Here is a news story of great interest to poor countries. Please spread the word. Arun SolarPC Announces the $100 green PC & promotes world harmony* http://openflows.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/28/2330243 http://openflows.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/28/2330243 *If SolarPC's were the standard PC in the US every year it would result in the saving of more than 138 million barrels of imported oil, prevent 25 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions and landfills would have a reduction of more than 100 tons of e-waste! A Maintenance Free PC until 2025 LAS VEGAS, November 18, 2004 -- SolarPC today announced the availability of a $100 PC called the SolarLite. It is a solid-state computer targeted at organizations that require the efficiency of a maintenance free Internet PC. The SolarLite was also created to offer an ecologically and economically viable method to provide information to billions of disadvantaged people around the world. In addition, it serves as a response to last month's challenge by Microsoft's Steve Ballmer for the computer industry to build a $100 PC. In conjunction with the SolarLite announcement, SolarPC circulated details regarding the Global Education Link (GEL) project, an initiative with the goal of giving away a million SolarLite computers to schools in poor countries around the world. The objective of the GEL project is to improve education in third world countries and thereby encourage self-sufficiency and promote world harmony. According to K-12 education specialist Dr. James Johnson, "The Global Education Link project has the potential to break down the barriers that prevent people in the developing world from getting a good education. The recent release of the FireFox Internet browser makes the timing of this announcement extremely auspicious. The open source FireFox browser provides a solid foundation for the development of non-proprietary educational software. It will facilitate the creation of thousands of educational programs that can be distributed to millions of students at no cost. This is a fantastic opportunity to leverage technology that will make the world a better place." "This is the twenty first century equivalent of teaching people how to fish," stated Gary Reynolds, spokesperson for SolarPC, "A standardized, well designed, easy to maintain, low cost PC is the key to unlocking the educational potential of the electronic age. The SolarLite is a fully featured, book sized (9" x 7" x 1.75") machine that weighs approximately three pounds. It features a rugged no-moving-parts design that includes a Compact Flash drive loaded with dozens of software programs, plus links to free development software and educational programs. The design and construction of the SolarLite is consistent with the goal of an environmentally friendly computer. It uses a lightweight, recyclable, aluminum case that has a 20-year warranty. Its VIA chipset based "long-life" motherboard is a "green" lead free product. Like all SolarPC computers, the SolarLite operates on 12 volt DC power and can be run from a solar panel, car battery, or human powered (with a bicycle-based generator). The cool and quiet SolarLite uses approximately 10 watts of energy, just a fraction of what a standard PC consumes. The minimum order quantity for the SolarLite is 100,000 units. Photos and details relating to the SolarLite and the Global Education Link project can be found at www.solarlite.org. SolarLite software is provided by DS Linux, one of the top ten Linux distributions in the world. Additional data about DS Linux is located at: www.dslos.com. More information regarding VIA Technologies can be viewed at: www.via.com.tw.

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A news story on the South-South Exchange Traveling Workshop
by Subbiah Arunachalam 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Friends: Here is an interesting news story written by one of the participants of the South-South Exchange Traveling Workshop conducted by MSSRF in October 2004. Please visit: http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/98468/1/ Best wishes. Arun Friends: Here is an interesting news story written by one of the participants of the South-South Exchange Traveling Workshop conducted by MSSRF in October 2004. Please visit: http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/98468/1/ http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/98468/1/ Best wishes. Arun

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A talk by Jeremy Webb at MSSRF, 10 December 2004
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Friends: The Bioinformatics Centre at MSSRF is hosting a talk by Mr Jeremy Webb, Editor of New Scientist on 10 December. Please see the attachment. Tea will be served at 1100 hrs and the talk will commence at 1130 hrs. All are welcome. Subbiah Arunachalam Distinguished Fellow, MSSRF Friends: The Bioinformatics Centre at MSSRF is hosting a talk by Mr Jeremy Webb, Editor of New Scientist on 10 December. Please see the attachment. Tea will be served at 1100 hrs and the talk will commence at 1130 hrs. All are welcome. Subbiah Arunachalam Distinguished Fellow, MSSRF

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Last Date Extented for Receipt Papers for International CALIBER-2005 - Now the last date is 15-12-2004
by K Prakash 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Last Date Extented for Receipt Papers for International CALIBER-2005. Keeping in view the request received from the various professionals across the country, editorial committee has decided to extend the last date of receipt of full paper for International CALIBER - 2005 from 30th November 2004 to 15th December 2004. Website for International CALIBER-2005 is available at http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/caliber2005/index.jsp CALL FOR PAPERS International CALIBER 2005 invites contributed papers and case studies on various aspects of the conference theme Multilingual Computing and Information Management in Networked Digital Environment and listed below sub-themes of the conference: Multilingual Computing and Natural Language Processing Multilingual Computing- Encoding issues, Scripts, Fonts. Character recognition and other challenges, Natural Language Processing, Multilingual Indexing Tool, Multilingual and Multimedia Access Content Management and Information Management Content Structuring and XML- Web Cataloguing, Metadata, Dublin Core, EAD, TEI, XML, Crosswalk, Automatic Classification, Document Clustering, Methodologies, Techniques, Indexing, Retrieval, Content Management, Multimedia Digital Information Processing and Interoperability Archiving, Digitization, Preservation, Information Retrieval, Digital Library Architecture, System Scalability, Systems Design, Distributed solutions, WebServices and Interoperability - Agents related to digital Information, Crossdomain searching, Browsing, Metasearch, OpenURL Framework OAI-PMH. Digital Libraries and Services Digital Library Development Issues, Digital Library Services, Digital Library and E-learning, Digital Library Applications. Subject Gateways, Library Portals, Digital Library Consortia, Wide area and high-speed Networks. Detailed Guidelines and Editorial policy for CALIBER 2005 are available in the conference website http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/caliber2005/callforpapers.jsp Important dates Receipt of Full Papers: December 15, 2004 Intimation to Authors: December 30, 2004 Last Date for Registration: January 7, 2005 Convention Dates: February 2-4, 2005 Contacts For Paper Submission Dr. T.A.V. Murthy Editor-in-Chief Director INFLIBNET Centre (An IUC of UGC) Gujarat University Campus PB 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad - 380 009, (Gujarat) India Phone: +91-79-26304695/8528/5971/0002 Fax: +91-79-26300990/26307816 E-Mail: tav(a)inflibnet.ac.in or caliber2005(a)inflibnet.ac.in Registration and Accommodation Dr. (Mrs.) M.D. Baby Organizing Secretary, CALIBER-2005 Librarian Cochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin University P.O. Kochi - 682 022, (Kerala) India Phone: +91-484-2577595 E-mail: caliber2005(a)cusat.ac.in or ul(a)cusat.ac.in Queries Can Also be Sent to Mr. S.M. Salgar Chairman, CALIBER-2005, Scientist -G, INFLIBNET Centre (An IUC of UGC) Gujarat University Campus PB 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad - 380 009, (Gujarat) India Phone: +91-79-26304695/8528/5971/0002 Fax: +91-79-26300990/26307816 E-Mail: salgar(a)inflibnet.ac.in For more details on International CALIBER-2005 visit http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/caliber2005/index.jsp With best wishes/ regards. Bye. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- K PRAKASH Scientific/Technical Officer-I Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre An Inter-University Centre of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Post Box No.4116, Navrangpura, AHMEDABAD - 380 009 India # Tel.: 91 - 079 - 2630 5971 / 2630 4695 Extn: 38; Fax: 2630 0990(Off.); 2676 3724(Res.) # Email: prakash(a)inflibnet.ac.in; prakash_k(a)yahoo.com # URL: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ ; http://www.prakashk.netfirms.com/

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On open access
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Friends: Here is a note from Stevan Harnad which would be of interest to all those interested in open access. Arun -------- SENSE ABOUT SCIENCE Peer review and the acceptance of new scientific ideas http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/peerreview/ Summary of above report: (1) "If it (peer review) ain't broke, don't fix it" and (2) "Caveat emptor to journalists -- if you use non-peer-reviewed information" On the relation between peer-review reform and the open access (OA) movement: None! OA is about providing free online access to all peer-reviewed journal articles (2.5 million articles a year, from 24,000 peer-reviewed journals). OA is about freeing those articles from online access tolls, not about freeing them from peer review! For more details, do the following search in Google: amsci "simon says" peer review In a nutshell: (1) Historical fact 1: The pre-refereeing preprint always comes before the refereed postprint (2) Historical fact 2: Since well before the internet, some areas of physics shared their preprints amongst themselves well before publication (3) Historical fact 3: With the advent of the internet and web, those same physicists took (quite naturally) to sharing their preprints -- *and postprints* -- via the internet (since 1991). http://arxiv.org (4) Historical fact 4: That practice -- of self-archiving preprints and postprints -- (not unique to physicists, but done most systematically by them) grew, and is still growing today, but not nearly fast enough (even among physicists). End of the catalogue of indisputable facts. Now we move to the area of interpretation and speculation: (5) Interpretation/Speculation 1: Some have hypothesized -- and Paul Ginsparg, the one who wrote the software for the physics Arxiv, was among the ones who made this hypothesis, but so has the mathematician and analyst of electronic publication developments, Andrew Odlyzko -- that the success and usefulness of preprint-self-archiving implies that peer-review (hence postprints) may either not be necessary at all (and done only to satisfy the demands of the author's tenure committee) or (6) Interpretation/Speculation 2: that peer review can be implemented as a kind of (optional?) "overlay," on top of preprints, possibly in the form of post-hoc peer commentary. But what needs to be carefully noted is that the empirical facts are equally compatible with a much simpler hypothesis, which is that it is extremely useful to the impact, productivity and progress of research to make both postprints (definitely) and preprints (optionally) open-access, by self-archiving them, and that this benefit has *absolutely nothing* to do with any hypothetical and untested reforms one might or might not one day wish to make of the peer-review system -- which has continued, absolutely unchanged, since self-archiving began in 1991, with virtually every preprint also being submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal, hence also generating the revised, corrected, peer-reviewed postprint meeting the journal's quality standards, *exactly* as it had and has done all along! *Empirically* the only change has been open-access to preprints and postprints. The rest is all interpretation and untested speculation. For the sake of OA, it is extremely important to disentangle all that interpretation/speculation from the facts, which are that providing OA to one's postprints (all of them) and preprints (those one chooses to make OA) has great benefits, so not only 20% but 100% of postprints (and, optionally, preprints) should be made OA in this way. Entangling this theory-independent truth with untested conjectures about ways of reforming peer review simply serves to delay the long overdue passage from 20% OA to 100% OA still longer, needlessly. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#7.Peer In fact, the over-emphasis on preprint self-archiving (as if it were a *substitute*, rather than merely an optional *supplement* to postprint self-archiving, which in turn is a supplement to toll-access) was one of several of the incoherent components in the original e-biomed proposal that made it fail, generated opposition (from both publishers and those who did not want peer review tampered with needlessly) and eventually led to the non-optimal form of the NIH proposal we have now (with a 6-month embargo and only central archiving and only NIH-funded biomed) instead of the univeral self-archiving of 100% of postprints (and optionally, whatever percentage of preprints authors also choose to self-archive) that we need, that is still so long overdue, and that we are *at last* moving toward today! All this was already pointed out in the 1999 comments on the original e-biomed: http://www.nih.gov/about/director/ebiomed/com0509.htm#harn45 (1999) http://www.nih.gov/about/director/ebiomed/comment.htm Pertinent Prior American Scientist Topic Threads: Re: A Note of Caution About "Reforming the System" (2001) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1178.html Re: Science Article (Roberts et al.) and Science Editorial (2001) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1241.html Re: Self-Selected Vetting vs. Peer Review: Supplement or Substitute? (2003) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2889.html Stevan Harnad Moderator, American Scientist Open Access Forum Chaire de recherche du Canada Centre de neuroscience de la cognition (CNC) Université du Québec à Montréal Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3P8 tel: 1-514-987-3000 2461# fax: 1-514-987-8952 harnad(a)uqam.ca http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ Friends: Here is a note from Stevan Harnad which would be of interest to all those interested in open access. Arun -------- SENSE ABOUT SCIENCE Peer review and the acceptance of new scientific ideas http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/peerreview/ http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/peerreview/ Summary of above report: (1) "If it (peer review) ain't broke, don't fix it" and (2) "Caveat emptor to journalists -- if you use non-peer-reviewed information" On the relation between peer-review reform and the open access (OA) movement: None! OA is about providing free online access to all peer-reviewed journal articles (2.5 million articles a year, from 24,000 peer-reviewed journals). OA is about freeing those articles from online access tolls, not about freeing them from peer review! For more details, do the following search in Google: amsci "simon says" peer review In a nutshell: (1) Historical fact 1: The pre-refereeing preprint always comes before the refereed postprint (2) Historical fact 2: Since well before the internet, some areas of physics shared their preprints amongst themselves well before publication (3) Historical fact 3: With the advent of the internet and web, those same physicists took (quite naturally) to sharing their preprints -- *and postprints* -- via the internet (since 1991). http://arxiv.org/ http://arxiv.org (4) Historical fact 4: That practice -- of self-archiving preprints and postprints -- (not unique to physicists, but done most systematically by them) grew, and is still growing today, but not nearly fast enough (even among physicists). End of the catalogue of indisputable facts. Now we move to the area of interpretation and speculation: (5) Interpretation/Speculation 1: Some have hypothesized -- and Paul Ginsparg, the one who wrote the software for the physics Arxiv, was among the ones who made this hypothesis, but so has the mathematician and analyst of electronic publication developments, Andrew Odlyzko -- that the success and usefulness of preprint-self-archiving implies that peer-review (hence postprints) may either not be necessary at all (and done only to satisfy the demands of the author's tenure committee) or (6) Interpretation/Speculation 2: that peer review can be implemented as a kind of (optional?) "overlay," on top of preprints, possibly in the form of post-hoc peer commentary. But what needs to be carefully noted is that the empirical facts are equally compatible with a much simpler hypothesis, which is that it is extremely useful to the impact, productivity and progress of research to make both postprints (definitely) and preprints (optionally) open-access, by self-archiving them, and that this benefit has *absolutely nothing* to do with any hypothetical and untested reforms one might or might not one day wish to make of the peer-review system -- which has continued, absolutely unchanged, since self-archiving began in 1991, with virtually every preprint also being submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal, hence also generating the revised, corrected, peer-reviewed postprint meeting the journal's quality standards, *exactly* as it had and has done all along! *Empirically* the only change has been open-access to preprints and postprints. The rest is all interpretation and untested speculation. For the sake of OA, it is extremely important to disentangle all that interpretation/speculation from the facts, which are that providing OA to one's postprints (all of them) and preprints (those one chooses to make OA) has great benefits, so not only 20% but 100% of postprints (and, optionally, preprints) should be made OA in this way. Entangling this theory-independent truth with untested conjectures about ways of reforming peer review simply serves to delay the long overdue passage from 20% OA to 100% OA still longer, needlessly. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#7.Peer http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#7.Peer In fact, the over-emphasis on preprint self-archiving (as if it were a *substitute*, rather than merely an optional *supplement* to postprint self-archiving, which in turn is a supplement to toll-access) was one of several of the incoherent components in the original e-biomed proposal that made it fail, generated opposition (from both publishers and those who did not want peer review tampered with needlessly) and eventually led to the non-optimal form of the NIH proposal we have now (with a 6-month embargo and only central archiving and only NIH-funded biomed) instead of the univeral self-archiving of 100% of postprints (and optionally, whatever percentage of preprints authors also choose to self-archive) that we need, that is still so long overdue, and that we are *at last* moving toward today! All this was already pointed out in the 1999 comments on the original e-biomed: http://www.nih.gov/about/director/ebiomed/com0509.htm#harn45 http://www.nih.gov/about/director/ebiomed/com0509.htm#harn45 (1999) http://www.nih.gov/about/director/ebiomed/comment.htm http://www.nih.gov/about/director/ebiomed/comment.htm Pertinent Prior American Scientist Topic Threads: Re: A Note of Caution About "Reforming the System" (2001) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1178.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1178.html Re: Science Article (Roberts et al.) and Science Editorial (2001) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1241.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1241.html Re: Self-Selected Vetting vs. Peer Review: Supplement or Substitute? (2003) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2889.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2889.html Stevan Harnad Moderator, American Scientist Open Access Forum Chaire de recherche du Canada Centre de neuroscience de la cognition (CNC) Université du Québec à Montréal Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3P8 tel: 1-514-987-3000 2461# fax: 1-514-987-8952 http://uk.f113.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=harnad@uqam.ca&YY=51694&order=d… harnad(a)uqam.ca http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/

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Fw: Science in UK Department for Internatl. Devt.
by Subbiah Arunachalam 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

----- Original Message ----- From: EPT To: scitechcom(a)parliament.uk Cc: enquiry(a)dfid.gov.uk ; chan(a)utsc.utoronto.ca ; Subbiah Arunachalam ; Stevan Harnad Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:55 PM Subject: Science in UK Department for Internatl. Devt. MESSAGE TO DR. IAN GIBSON, Chair S&T Ctee cc Hilary Benn, DFiD From members of the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT) http://www.epublishingtrust.org and Stevan Harnad November 23rd 2004 Dear Dr Gibson, Access to research publications by developing country scientists We have read the comments from your Committee on the Department for International Development report (The use of science in UK International Development Policy, 13th Report of Session 2003-2004) and refer particularly to paragraphs 76 and 133. In these, your comments emphasise the importance of access to research information, the need for digitisation of publications and open access publishing. However, we are very disappointed to see that no reference to Open Access Archiving was made. As you will be aware from our written submission to your 10th Report, Scientific 'Publications: Free for all?', the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development strongly advocates policies to establish institutional archives. This very low cost opportunity has many benefits for science not possible with OA Publishing (OA Archiving will spread knowledge across departments, institutes and countries; OA Archiving can take place almost immediately, whereas the progress of OA Publishing is inevitably far slower; OA Archiving is endorsed by over 90% of publishers, whereas most remain opposed to OA Publishing; OA Archiving can be mandated, whereas OA Publishing cannot). Moreover, OA Archiving can straight away increase the visibility of locally generated research, so important for the development of a strong science base in the less advantaged regions and for the creation of a global digital library that includes the 'missing research'. We know that your Committee fully understands the benefits to be derived from OA Archiving, but we would ask that the Committee ensures that DFiD is made fully aware of these and their huge potential impact on science in information-starved regions. We have in the past tried to inform DFiD about the advantages of institutional archives, but have met with little success. The Department is currently supporting the distribution of subsidised printed journals to some developing countries (but these programmes exclude those where any journals are currently sold by the commercial publishers, eg India) and, while this has short-term benefits, it is clearly not the long-term solution to information poverty. We would hope that DFiD's future programmes would support the sustainable option of training in the establishment of OA archives. The signatories to this letter, and many others, now have substantial experience in running OA workshops that, in our view, will make a tremendous impact on the international inclusion of the science communities in poorer countries. We are heartened that the University of Namibia has very recently established an OA policy and its own OA Archive; some 20 other OA Archives in developing country institutes are also registered in the OA Archives registry. The process has begun and is shown to be feasible; the support of DFiD would substantially speed the process to the benefit of health, agriculture and other essential scientific work in these regions. We hope that your Committee can encourage DFiD in this work, and are available to provide further information/experience at any time. With kind regards, Professor Subbiah Arunachalam, MSSRF Chennia, India, EPT Trustee Professor Leslie Chan, University of Toronto, Canada, EPT Trustee Professor Stevan Harnad, University of Southampton, UK Barbara Kirsop, Secretary, Electronic Publishing Trust for Development, UK ----- Original Message ----- From: mailto:EPT@biostrat.demon.co.uk EPT To: mailto:scitechcom@parliament.uk scitechcom(a)parliament.uk Cc: mailto:enquiry@dfid.gov.uk enquiry(a)dfid.gov.uk ; mailto:chan@utsc.utoronto.ca chan(a)utsc.utoronto.ca ; mailto:arun@mssrf.res.in Subbiah Arunachalam ; mailto:harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk Stevan Harnad Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:55 PM Subject: Science in UK Department for Internatl. Devt. MESSAGE TO DR. IAN GIBSON, Chair S&T Ctee cc Hilary Benn, DFiD From members of the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT) http://www.epublishingtrust.org http://www.epublishingtrust.org and Stevan Harnad November 23rd 2004 Dear Dr Gibson, Access to research publications by developing country scientists We have read the comments from your Committee on the Department for International Development report (The use of science in UK International Development Policy, 13 th Report of Session 2003-2004) and refer particularly to paragraphs 76 and 133. In these, your comments emphasise the importance of access to research information, the need for digitisation of publications and open access publishing. However, we are very disappointed to see that no reference to Open Access Archiving was made. As you will be aware from our written submission to your 10 th Report, Scientific Publications: Free for all?, the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development strongly advocates policies to establish institutional archives. This very low cost opportunity has many benefits for science not possible with OA Publishing (OA Archiving will spread knowledge across departments, institutes and countries; OA Archiving can take place almost immediately, whereas the progress of OA Publishing is inevitably far slower; OA Archiving is endorsed by over 90% of publishers, whereas most remain opposed to OA Publishing; OA Archiving can be mandated, whereas OA Publishing cannot). Moreover, OA Archiving can straight away increase the visibility of locally generated research, so important for the development of a strong science base in the less advantaged regions and for the creation of a global digital library that includes the 'missing research'. We know that your Committee fully understands the benefits to be derived from OA Archiving, but we would ask that the Committee ensures that DFiD is made fully aware of these and their huge potential impact on science in information-starved regions. We have in the past tried to inform DFiD about the advantages of institutional archives, but have met with little success. The Department is currently supporting the distribution of subsidised printed journals to some developing countries (but these programmes exclude those where any journals are currently sold by the commercial publishers, eg India) and, while this has short-term benefits, it is clearly not the long-term solution to information poverty. We would hope that DFiDs future programmes would support the sustainable option of training in the establishment of OA archives. The signatories to this letter, and many others, now have substantial experience in running OA workshops that, in our view, will make a tremendous impact on the international inclusion of the science communities in poorer countries. We are heartened that the University of Namibia has very recently established an OA policy and its own OA Archive; some 20 other OA Archives in developing country institutes are also registered in the OA Archives registry. The process has begun and is shown to be feasible; the support of DFiD would substantially speed the process to the benefit of health, agriculture and other essential scientific work in these regions. We hope that your Committee can encourage DFiD in this work, and are available to provide further information/experience at any time. With kind regards, Professor Subbiah Arunachalam, MSSRF Chennia, India, EPT Trustee Professor Leslie Chan, University of Toronto, Canada, EPT Trustee Professor Stevan Harnad, University of Southampton, UK Barbara Kirsop, Secretary, Electronic Publishing Trust for Development, UK

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PLANNER-2004
by Prem Chand 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Dear friends INFLIBNET has recently organised PLANNER 2004 in collaboration with Manipur University , Imphal. Following is a brief report of the PLANNER-2004 Second Convention entitled PLANNER – 2003 (Promotion of Library Automation and Networking in North Eastern Region) was organized by INFLIBNET in collaboration with Manipur University, Imphal during 4-5 November , 2004 The convention was initiated by INFLIBNET to boost the automation and networking of libraries in North East Region. The convention was attended by the chairperson of the Manipur Human Rights Commission, Justice WA Shishak as the chief guest, vice-chancellor of university, Prof N Bijoy as the president and deputy director of UGC Bangladesh, Mr. Abdul Awal as the guest of honour. Other important participants included chief coordinator, Prem Chand, university deans and staff of Manipur University. The convention was inaugurated by Shri W A Shishak, chairperson of the Manipur Human Rights Commission and former Chief Justice of Chatisgarh and Himacahl Pradesh. The chief guest, Sh.W A Shishak remarked that the present generation are fortunate to be born in the computer age. He was optimistic that the ongoing endeavor of bringing INFLIBNET to the north-eastern states will ensure the passage of the region among successful states in the field of communication. It will also benefit information seekers, scholars and academicians, he added. In his inaugural address he expressed his happiness to know about PLANNER and appreciated the steps taken for North East Region by INFLIBNET. He emphasized that North East needs special attention and PLANNER is step in this direction. On the occasion, Sh.W A Shishak released Conference proceeding and Prof N Bijoy, Vice Chancellor , Manipur University released a souvenir. He appreciated the efforts and initiatives taken by the Director INFLIBNET Dr T A V Murthy who rightly and timely thought of bringing first convention of PLANNER-2004 to Manipur. Prof N Bijoy Singh in his speech expressed that the theme of the convention, content creation, access and management in networked environment holds potential to bring immense benefit to the librarians. He further stated that libraries have many added roles in the arena of disseminating information through the latest technologies. The traditional concept of a library, which brought to mind a place to access paper records and books had been redefined to one that houses the most advanced media facilities, including CD-ROM, internet, virtual library and remote access to a wide range of network. Consequently, librarians and information professionals have to increasingly dispense their traditional duties combined with tasks involving continuously evolving technologies, he added. Shri Abdul Awal Deputy Director, UGC Bangladesh in his address stated that INFLIBNET had a vision to bridge libraries in different universities through a computer based networking system in India. The Bangladesh UGC is moved by the success of the programme being launched by INFLIBNET, Shri Awal added and forwarded his wish to make contact chain network between Bangladesh and India. Ch. Radhyshyam Singh, University librarian and organizing Secretary welcomed the delegates. Shri Prem Chand, Scientist- C and Chief Coordinator proposed vote of thanks and highlighted he efforts of INFLIBNET and UGC for modernization of libraries by launching UGC- INFONET and e-journal consortium The professionals and the participants of this Second Convention PLANNER-2004 have taken this opportunity for updating their knowledge and experiences. More than 150 professionals from Manipur and other states and also from neighboring country Bangladesh have taken part in this convention. The bio-data of the authors recorded in the seminar-volume shows that they are from Kashmir, UP, MP, Gujarat, Karnatak, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Assam, besides, obviously from the host state Manipur; eighteen out of thirty four authors are women; 34 papers are authored by nine Information Scientists, twelve library-professionals, thirteen university teachers and seven Ph.D. research scholars. Besides there is also a paper from a Principal and a member of governing board , INFLIBNET As shown, all thirty four papers are grouped under three separate category entitled as ‘Digitization’, ‘Networking’ and ‘Content Management’. The papers are presented at separate three sessions under the supervision of three separate Chairman, supported by the rapporteurs. Sh. V D Srivastva, Librarian of Silchar university and Sh. A K M Mufizur Rahaman, Programme coordinator, Community Development Centre, Dhaka were the chairman of different sessions. Besides, the Cambridge University Press, Balani Infotech and INFORMATICS, Bangalore have demonstrated their products on e- resources covered under UGC-INFONET. The participants are given opportunities for interaction. The interactions, the queries and the suggestions from the participants have made every session lively. A tutorials was also arranged to familiarize the delegates with the processes and technical know-how of network and digitization techniques. About 40 delegates registered for tutorials on“ How to set up a LAN” . Sh R K Jotin Singh, Information Scientist , Manipur University delivered lecture on the topic. The convention concluded with valedictory function in which a book entitled “Library Without Walls “ written by Dr. A P Singh and Dr. T A V Murthy was released by Prof. Bijoy Singh. Dr. Murthy in his concluding speech highlighted the role of INFLIBNET and its endeavour to serve the academic community in India through network environment. He urged faculty members to use millions of articles which are being offered under E-Journal consortium launched under UGC- INFONET. Dr. Lahari acted as Rapporteur General for the convention. The Rapporteur General read the recommendations emerging out of the deliberations. (Prem Chand) Scientist-C Prem Chand Scientist- C INFLIBNET(Information and Library Network) Centre An IUC of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Navrangpura, PB No.4116 AHMEDABAD-380009 India # Tel. 91-079-26305971 / 26304695; 26923507 (Res.) FAX: 079-26300990, 26307816 email: premc65_chand(a)yahoo.co.in http://www.inflibnet.ac.in Dear friends INFLIBNET has recently organised PLANNER 2004 in collaboration with Manipur University , Imphal. Following is a brief report of the PLANNER-2004 Second Convention entitled PLANNER – 2003 (Promotion of Library Automation and Networking in North Eastern Region) was organized by INFLIBNET in collaboration with Manipur University, Imphal during 4-5 November , 2004 The convention was initiated by INFLIBNET to boost the automation and networking of libraries in North East Region. The convention was attended by the chairperson of the Manipur Human Rights Commission, Justice WA Shishak as the chief guest, vice-chancellor of university, Prof N Bijoy as the president and deputy director of UGC Bangladesh, Mr. Abdul Awal as the guest of honour. Other important participants included chief coordinator, Prem Chand, university deans and staff of Manipur University. The convention was inaugurated by Shri W A Shishak, chairperson of the Manipur Human Rights Commission and former Chief Justice of Chatisgarh and Himacahl Pradesh. The chief guest, Sh.W A Shishak remarked that the present generation are fortunate to be born in the computer age. He was optimistic that the ongoing endeavor of bringing INFLIBNET to the north-eastern states will ensure the passage of the region among successful states in the field of communication. It will also benefit information seekers, scholars and academicians, he added. In his inaugural address he expressed his happiness to know about PLANNER and appreciated the steps taken for North East Region by INFLIBNET. He emphasized that North East needs special attention and PLANNER is step in this direction. On the occasion, Sh.W A Shishak released Conference proceeding and Prof N Bijoy, Vice Chancellor , Manipur University released a souvenir. He appreciated the efforts and initiatives taken by the Director INFLIBNET Dr T A V Murthy who rightly and timely thought of bringing first convention of PLANNER-2004 to Manipur. Prof N Bijoy Singh in his speech expressed that the theme of the convention, content creation, access and management in networked environment holds potential to bring immense benefit to the librarians. He further stated that libraries have many added roles in the arena of disseminating information through the latest technologies. The traditional concept of a library, which brought to mind a place to access paper records and books had been redefined to one that houses the most advanced media facilities, including CD-ROM, internet, virtual library and remote access to a wide range of network. Consequently, librarians and information professionals have to increasingly dispense their traditional duties combined with tasks involving continuously evolving technologies, he added. Shri Abdul Awal Deputy Director, UGC Bangladesh in his address stated that INFLIBNET had a vision to bridge libraries in different universities through a computer based networking system in India. The Bangladesh UGC is moved by the success of the programme being launched by INFLIBNET, Shri Awal added and forwarded his wish to make contact chain network between Bangladesh and India. Ch. Radhyshyam Singh, University librarian and organizing Secretary welcomed the delegates. Shri Prem Chand, Scientist- C and Chief Coordinator proposed vote of thanks and highlighted he efforts of INFLIBNET and UGC for modernization of libraries by launching UGC- INFONET and e-journal consortium The professionals and the participants of this Second Convention PLANNER-2004 have taken this opportunity for updating their knowledge and experiences. More than 150 professionals from Manipur and other states and also from neighboring country Bangladesh have taken part in this convention. The bio-data of the authors recorded in the seminar-volume shows that they are from Kashmir, UP, MP, Gujarat, Karnatak, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Assam, besides, obviously from the host state Manipur; eighteen out of thirty four authors are women; 34 papers are authored by nine Information Scientists, twelve library-professionals, thirteen university teachers and seven Ph.D. research scholars. Besides there is also a paper from a Principal and a member of governing board , INFLIBNET As shown, all thirty four papers are grouped under three separate category entitled as ‘Digitization’, ‘Networking’ and ‘Content Management’. The papers are presented at separate three sessions under the supervision of three separate Chairman, supported by the rapporteurs. Sh. V D Srivastva, Librarian of Silchar university and Sh. A K M Mufizur Rahaman, Programme coordinator, Community Development Centre, Dhaka were the chairman of different sessions. Besides, the Cambridge University Press, Balani Infotech and INFORMATICS, Bangalore have demonstrated their products on e- resources covered under UGC-INFONET. The participants are given opportunities for interaction. The interactions, the queries and the suggestions from the participants have made every session lively. A tutorials was also arranged to familiarize the delegates with the processes and technical know-how of network and digitization techniques. About 40 delegates registered for tutorials on“ How to set up a LAN” . Sh R K Jotin Singh, Information Scientist , Manipur University delivered lecture on the topic. The convention concluded with valedictory function in which a book entitled “Library Without Walls “ written by Dr. A P Singh and Dr. T A V Murthy was released by Prof. Bijoy Singh. Dr. Murthy in his concluding speech highlighted the role of INFLIBNET and its endeavour to serve the academic community in India through network environment. He urged faculty members to use millions of articles which are being offered under E-Journal consortium launched under UGC- INFONET. Dr. Lahari acted as Rapporteur General for the convention. The Rapporteur General read the recommendations emerging out of the deliberations. (Prem Chand) Scientist-C Prem Chand Scientist- C INFLIBNET(Information and Library Network) Centre An IUC of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Navrangpura, PB No.4116 AHMEDABAD-380009 India # Tel. 91-079-26305971 / 26304695; 26923507 (Res.) FAX: 079-26300990, 26307816 email: mailto:premc65_chand@yahoo.co.in premc65_chand(a)yahoo.co.in http://www.inflibnet.ac.in http://www.inflibnet.ac.in

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mdp for management libraries
by Vrushali Rane 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

One Day Seminar on Information Resources for Management Libraries <<...>> December 11, 2004 10.00am - 5.00pm Organized by NMIMS (Deemed University) Venue NMIMS MDP Centre Organising Secretary Ms. Vrushali Rane Librarian librarian(a)nmims.edu Introduction and Objective There are large numbers of information resources available in the market and on Internet. Librarian needs to identify those resources that will be actually required by their clients. It is a challenge for Librarians how best they can make the selection and uses these vast resources to fulfill the growing demand of its clientele. With the help of these resources Librarian can give out various services to its clientele. Librarian should connect to their users and make their services valuable and visible to their community. In view of the above this one-day seminar will provide detailed information on all the resources available on the web and in the market. The seminar will give inputs as to what is the best for a management library and how to go about accessing and procuring it. Methodology Experienced professionals from Library and information Science area will conduct the session. The main instrument of learning will be the online demos, discussions and presentations. Expected Participants Professionals from Library and Information Science, working in Management libraries, will immensely benefit from this programme. Registration Form One Day Seminar on Information Resources for Management Libraries December 11, 2004 Venue: MDP Centre, NMIMS Name: Designation: Address: Tel:Off: E-mail: Date: Signature: (Photocopy this form for additional copies, if needed) Seminar Schedule 09.30-10.00 Registration and Tea 10.00-10.30 Inaugural address by the Vice Chancellor 10.30-11.45 Information Resources - Overview (Prof.Rajhans) 11.45-12.00 Tea Break 12.00-13.00 Electronic Information Resource -Assessment (Prof.Rajhans) 13.00-14.00 Lunch 14.00-15.00 Electronic Info Resources on web - (Vrushali Rane) 15.00-15.30 Demo of E-resources with NMIMS - (Vrushali Rane) 15.30-15.45 Tea Break 15.45-16.45 NMIMS Library tour 16.45 -17.00 Concluding Session From, Vrushali Rane Librarian Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (Deemed University) V.L.Mehta Road, JVPD Scheme, Vile Parle(W), Mumbai 400056. Tel: 26134577/26183688/26143177 Fax:26114512 E-Mail:librarian@nmims.edu

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DOI System on track to become an ISO standard
by Rajesh Chandrakar 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

DOI System on track to become an ISO standard At the recent ISO TC46 meeting in Washington, the DOI System was accepted as a formal work item to become an ISO standard. This standardisation will be within TC46/SC9, the ISO body responsible for "information content identifiers" such as ISBN, ISSN, ISTC, ISRC, etc. The formal approved resolution reads: "SC 9 invites the International DOI Foundation to submit a formal proposal and preliminary draft for an ISO standard on the Digital Object Identifier. SC 9 further invites the International DOI Foundation to nominate a Project Leader for this work and authorizes the SC 9 Secretariat to establish a new Working Group for this project if such WG is deemed necessary after consultation with the Project Leader." The IDF will be the nominated registration authority for this standard. The DOI system uses several existing standards-based components which have been brought together and further developed to provide a consistent system: the standardisation within ISO (ISO TC46/SC9) will use these underlying standards as normative references, and therefore will be a relatively concise summary. It will: codify a top level description of components; refer to those components (Syntax, Handle, Data Dictionary) as normative references; separate the existing "DOI Handbook" into formal standard (ISO) and operating manual; provide further assurances to users on governance and intent through ISO conformance; and show that DOI supports (does not compete with) other identifier schemes, offering the option of adding Internet actionability in a standard way. For further information please contact n.paskin(a)doi.org or the ISO/TC46/SC9 Secretariat at iso.tc46.sc9(a)lac-bac.gc.ca DOI System on track to become an ISO standard At the recent ISO TC46 meeting in Washington, the DOI System was accepted as a formal work item to become an ISO standard. This standardisation will be within TC46/SC9, the ISO body responsible for "information content identifiers" such as ISBN, ISSN, ISTC, ISRC, etc. The formal approved resolution reads: "SC 9 invites the International DOI Foundation to submit a formal proposal and preliminary draft for an ISO standard on the Digital Object Identifier. SC 9 further invites the International DOI Foundation to nominate a Project Leader for this work and authorizes the SC 9 Secretariat to establish a new Working Group for this project if such WG is deemed necessary after consultation with the Project Leader." The IDF will be the nominated registration authority for this standard. The DOI system uses several existing standards-based components which have been brought together and further developed to provide a consistent system: the standardisation within ISO (ISO TC46/SC9) will use these underlying standards as normative references, and therefore will be a relatively concise summary. It will: codify a top level description of components; refer to those components (Syntax, Handle, Data Dictionary) as normative references; separate the existing "DOI Handbook" into formal standard (ISO) and operating manual; provide further assurances to users on governance and intent through ISO conformance; and show that DOI supports (does not compete with) other identifier schemes, offering the option of adding Internet actionability in a standard way. For further information please contact mailto:n.paskin@doi.org n.paskin(a)doi.org or the ISO/TC46/SC9 Secretariat at mailto:iso.tc46.sc9@lac-bac.gc.ca iso.tc46.sc9(a)lac-bac.gc.ca

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RFID tags
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Following news on the use of RFID Tags in Pune University Library might be interesting. Someone from Pune University can post a comprehensive paper on RFID installation & usage for the benefit of others. ========== TAGS TO KEEP TABS Business Standard At Pune University's Jayakar library, members don't return books to a librarian or register the books they borrow at a counter behind which the librarian sits. He or she simply places a smart card on one of the three "readers" or devices in the library and the books are automatically registered in his or her account. Half the 4.25 lakh documents, books and periodicals in the library have an electronic label that costs Rs 50 pasted on them. In addition, two electronically monitored antennae have been set up at the library's entrance and exit. If a book is unauthorisedly sneaked out of the library, a buzzer sounds at the entrance. To be sure, books can still be pilfered. Says S K Patil, head of Pune University's library and information science department: "If someone tears off the page of the document where the electronic label is fixed, there is little we can do. The technology is akin to installing a large padlock on one's door. If a thief enters the house through the window, the robbery cannot be averted." The technology in question, introduced at the library in August this year, is Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). Many say that not much RFID work has taken place here. Poppycock, we say. Sure, RFID is still in its infancy. But consider the following: - The Chitale Dairy at Bhiwladi in Maharashtra's Sangli district has installed RFID to monitor the feeding patterns of cattle and bison. An electronic tag is attached to the neck of cattle for this purpose. - Pantaloon Retail India is in discussions with Wipro on introducing RFID at its Tarapore factory for the next two months. If the pilot project helps save costs, the retail major will give Wipro the go ahead for implementing the technology in phases, starting with its warehouse at Tarapore. Says Chinar Deshpande, chief information officer, Pantaloon Retail India: "Suppliers will have to become RFID-compliant eventually, if the technology is to be implemented for individual items. But, unlike Wal-Mart, we cannot force this technology on suppliers as the Indian retail supply market is not that mature. For now, it will be implemented only for Pantaloon's in house manufacturing and warehousing." - Nearly 45 colleges in Pune that fall under the three deemed universities or education trusts, including the R P Vidyapeeth, D Y Patil Prathisthan and Maharashtra Academy of Engineering, and the Baroda-based Babaria Institute of Technology, have introduced student identity RFID cards that allow students access to hostels and monitor their classroom attendance. Each student will swipe his card at a reader to record his attendance. Attendance data can be uploaded on the Internet and accessed by parents. "For the hostel, a turnstile gate can be set up at which students will swipe cards. At the press of a button, the number of students there as well as visitors to the hostel can be found out," notes Aashim A Patil, CEO of the Pune-based Infotek Software & Systems, which supplied RFID software to the Pune University library and to the other educational institutes in Maharashtra. sent in by======================================== Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631

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Vaccancy Advt
by Mailing List Manager 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 13:15:03 +0530 From: geetha.v(a)tcs.com Tata Consultancy Services is looking for a bright and enthusiastic librarian for their new location near ITPL at Bangalore. Qualification : MLISc, with an ability to independently set up the library & handle the user requirements. Desired Skills : Excellent communication skills,Computer knowledge, should be a proactive service provider & a good team player. Experience 0 - 2 years Salary : As per the Industry standard Please mail your resume before 30/12/2004 Geetha Venkatraman Tata Consultancy Services Limited SJM Towers, No. 18, Seshadri Road,6th Cross, Gandhinagar Bangalore - 560 009,Karnataka India (Ph :5660 6007) Mailto: geetha.v(a)tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com

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Request to IR expert to advise & comments
by Sanjay Kataria 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Dear Information Scientist, I want to take a initiative on design & develop the Institutional Repository but i have some queries to all expert and experienced on same, which as follows: 1. There is number of open source software for development of Institutional Repository which one is most users friendly 2. What is grantee for up-gradation of the software from source organization 3 Data Security / Permission on LAN or WAN Environment 4. What about the Copy Right Issue or Intellectual Property Right Issues 5. What skills are required to operate or customized the software 6. What type of infrastructure required / Preplanning for Hardware or software, scanner etc. 7. Which format should be used to save the data/ for easy search 8. Other technical aspect, we should keep in mind before starting. 9. Kindly mention the Role of the librarian/ Role of the faculty/ Role of the institute I am looking your valuable suggestions and advise on above points. Thanks & Regards ==*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* Sanjay Kataria Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of InformationTechnology (Deemed-to-be-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, sanjay.kataria(a)jiit.ac.in Website: www.jiit.ac.in, http://www.geocities.com/katariasanjay2001 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Discover all that�s new in My Yahoo! Dear Information Scientist, I want to take a initiative on design & develop the Institutional Repository but i have some queries to all expert and experienced on same, which as follows: 1. There is number of open source software for development of Institutional Repository which one is most users friendly 2. What is grantee for up-gradation of the software from source organization 3 Data Security / Permission on LAN or WAN Environment 4. What about the Copy Right Issue or Intellectual Property Right Issues 5. What skills are required to operate or customized the software 6. What type of infrastructure required / Preplanning for Hardware or software, scanner etc. 7. Which format should be used to save the data/ for easy search 8. Other technical aspect, we should keep in mind before starting. 9. Kindly mention the Role of the librarian/ Role of the faculty/ Role of the institute I am looking your valuable suggestions and advise on above points. Thanks & Regards ==*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* Sanjay Kataria Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of InformationTechnology (Deemed-to-be-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, mailto:sanjay.kataria@jiit.ac.in sanjay.kataria(a)jiit.ac.in Website: http://www.jiit.ac.in, www.jiit.ac.in, http://www.geocities.com/katariasanjay2001 http://www.geocities.com/katariasanjay2001 Do you Yahoo!? Discover all that�s new in http://my.yahoo.com My Yahoo!

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Submission
by venky 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Contest to Design a Digital Library The Rotary Bangalore West along with the Rotaract Bangalore West is planning establish Rotary Scholastic Centre, a digital library for children at the Govt. Girls School in 13th Cross Malleswaram. The objective of the Project is to inculcate the spirit of learning and pursuit of knowledge by providing a learning centre for children upto the age group of 18 years and also to the Senior citizens above the age group of 60. It is our desire that we empower the children through the Power of knowledge, as we strongly believe that any investment in the development of children is a direct contribution to Nation building. In view of this, Rotary and Rotaract Bangalore West are holding a contest for students and freelancers to design a digital library. Ideas/Designs for the digital library are invited from interested parties. The team which proposes the best idea will implement the library and will also win a grand prize. The specifications for the library are given below. The main layout of the library will be on the Web based model with a main server + backup servers servicing upto 25 clients initially and should be scalable to serve upto 100 clients in the future. The server will have to run a webserver software hosting the pages where in the user at the clientside can run through an index of books sorted according to subjects and can access the book entirely or only parts of its contents based on topic/chapter. A data warehousing software will run in the background and will hold the books in a digitized format. The server side also should be capable of automatically generating index of items added to the Digital repository. Text based Digital documents could be made full text searchable through a suitable interface. When contents from CD are added to the library the server also need to act as CD cache. There is a need to have an intranet running for the local network and a firewall to prevent any intrusions and security threat. The network will be on a WLAN and we need to provide enough encryption on the packets that are sent out to prevent snooping on the network. There should also be an inbuilt mechanism which will keep track of all the books being accessed at any given time and it should be able to generate reports on issues such as no. of books accessed,total no. of hits on server, most frequently accessed books / subjects, internet access times, quantity of data downloads etc. For the internet access, mechanisms must be provided to allow only logged in users to access internet and to monitor the time and usage of the net. Suitable cache must be built into the system to speed up internet access to 'often used sites' On the server side we need automated replication on the backup servers such that there is no downtime experienced in case of failure on the main server. All the softwares that are to be used for the servers as well as web browsing clients should be free/open source software and should be readily upgradeable and should be easy to maintain. The proposed solution could be based on the several flavors of open source DL softwares like Greenstone, D-Space etc. The proposals/design ideas should reach any of the mail ids given below before 1 December 2004. You could also post any queries to: Dr. S. Venkadesan - venky(a)library.iisc.ernet.in Rtn Rajendra Rai - rai(a)bgl.vsnl.net.in Rtr Chinmay Albal - chinmayalbal(a)rediffmail.com Dr. S. Venkadesan Librarian JRD Tata Memorial Library Indian Institute of Science Bangalore-560012 INDIA Ph: +91 80 23601653 + 91 80 22932408 Fax: +91 80 23601653 E-Mail- venky(a)library.iisc.ernet.in venkys(a)gmail.com Contest to Design a Digital Library The Rotary Bangalore West along with the Rotaract Bangalore West is planning establish Rotary Scholastic Centre, a digital library for children at the Govt. Girls School in 13th Cross Malleswaram. The objective of the Project is to inculcate the spirit of learning and pursuit of knowledge by providing a learning centre for children upto the age group of 18 years and also to the Senior citizens above the age group of 60. It is our desire that we empower the children through the Power of knowledge, as we strongly believe that any investment in the development of children is a direct contribution to Nation building. In view of this, Rotary and Rotaract Bangalore West are holding a contest for students and freelancers to design a digital library. Ideas/Designs for the digital library are invited from interested parties. The team which proposes the best idea will implement the library and will also win a grand prize. The specifications for the library are given below. The main layout of the library will be on the Web based model with a main server + backup servers servicing upto 25 clients initially and should be scalable to serve upto 100 clients in the future. The server will have to run a webserver software hosting the pages where in the user at the clientside can run through an index of books sorted according to subjects and can access the book entirely or only parts of its contents based on topic/chapter. A data warehousing software will run in the background and will hold the books in a digitized format. The server side also should be capable of automatically generating index of items added to the Digital repository. Text based Digital documents could be made full text searchable through a suitable interface. When contents from CD are added to the library the server also need to act as CD cache. There is a need to have an intranet running for the local network and a firewall to prevent any intrusions and security threat. The network will be on a WLAN and we need to provide enough encryption on the packets that are sent out to prevent snooping on the network. There should also be an inbuilt mechanism which will keep track of all the books being accessed at any given time and it should be able to generate reports on issues such as no. of books accessed,total no. of hits on server, most frequently accessed books / subjects, internet access times, quantity of data downloads etc. For the internet access, mechanisms must be provided to allow only logged in users to access internet and to monitor the time and usage of the net. Suitable cache must be built into the system to speed up internet access to 'often used sites' On the server side we need automated replication on the backup servers such that there is no downtime experienced in case of failure on the main server. All the softwares that are to be used for the servers as well as web browsing clients should be free/open source software and should be readily upgradeable and should be easy to maintain. The proposed solution could be based on the several flavors of open source DL softwares like Greenstone, D-Space etc. The proposals/design ideas should reach any of the mail ids given below before 1 December 2004. You could also post any queries to: Dr. S. Venkadesan - mailto:venky@library.iisc.ernet.in venky(a)library.iisc.ernet.in Rtn Rajendra Rai - mailto:rai@bgl.vsnl.net.in rai(a)bgl.vsnl.net.in Rtr Chinmay Albal - mailto:chinmayalbal@rediffmail.com chinmayalbal(a)rediffmail.com Dr. S. Venkadesan Librarian JRD Tata Memorial Library Indian Institute of Science Bangalore-560012 INDIA Ph: +91 80 23601653 + 91 80 22932408 Fax: +91 80 23601653 E-Mail- mailto:venky@library.iisc.ernet.in venky(a)library.iisc.ernet.in mailto:venkys@gmail.com venkys(a)gmail.com

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Overview about Google Scholar
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

Dear Professionals, This is in continuation with my earlier mail. Here is a bird's eye view about Google scholar which launched couple of days ago. ************************************************************************************ The world of on-line "scholarly" research is changing today as Google introduces Google Scholar. This specialized new interface -- which will NOT be linked from Google's main search page -- will allow users to search a treasure chest of "scholarly material." As you've read here many times, Google is brilliant (that is, ingenious at marketing and trying new things), and this is yet another example of their savvy. This is something that some other large web engine(s) could have done years ago to help separate themselves from other players and also provide a useful service. No one did it. Now, others will likely play catch-up with Google. Basically, users of Google Scholar can, via a single search location, access content from "scholarly" materials found on the OPEN WEB that they've found in the Google crawl of the web. Btw, it might also be time to take another look at what has traditionally thought of as "scholarly" since some of the material in Google Scholar is not "scholarly" using a traditional definition. Some basic facts: + In a nutshell, Google has built an algorithm that makes a calculated guess at to *what it thinks* is a scholarly content mined from the OPEN WEB, and then makes it accessible via the Google Scholar interface. + Precisely what makes something "scholarly" enough to be included in Google Scholar, Google will not say. And this is not an insignificant omission. Librarians, especially academic librarians, are *always* being asked to provide "scholarly" material, even if customers aren't quite sure what this means. Their instructor told them they needed articles from "scholarly journals," so this is precisely what they ask for at the library. As librarians, we may try to educate them about how "refereed publications" work, but let's face it. What most of these folks really want is to quickly download an appropriate article and beat feet out of the library. And if they think they can get what they need from Google, the odds are slim that they will bother with library resources at all. College students AND professors might not know that library databases exist, but they sure know Google. The database vendors don't always make it easy for us, either. For example, when searching Gale databases such as InfoTrac OneFile or Expanded Academic ASAP, you see a check box that you can fill in if you want to restrict your search to "refereed publications." How many of our customers know what a "refereed publication" is? Does any instructor ever ask his or her students to find articles from "refereed publications"? What's up with this? More facts: + Material accessible via Google Scholar can also be in the main Google index. + Google Scholar results pages *will not contain advertising* -- at least for now. + Some examples of material from major publishers whose material you'll find (we know Google has been working with many)? Google will not provide us with a complete list, but look for content from ACM, IEEE, and yes, Open Worldcat material from OCLC. We also don't know precisely what is and is not available, date ranges, etc. * In some cases Google will be crawling and searching the full text of an article but users will either have to have a subscription to the content or pay for access to an individual articles. + VERY COOL! For many citations, you'll find a direct link to other articles in the Google Scholar database that cite the article you've selected. Yes, Google Scholar is a citation database too! This reminds me of two specialized databases that focus on specific types of scholarly content accessible on the open web that have been on-line for many years and remain EXCELLENT tools. 1) CiteSeer (focuses on computer science material, info tech content) 2) SmealSearch (focuses on business material) + Some material, let's say from Open Worldcat, isn't always scholarly in the way many people think of it. For example: ++ Here are many John Grishman books. ++ Although we're honored, we don't consider this blog to be a "scholarly" resource. ++ Academic librarians will be sad to learn that it's impossible to limit to only "peer-reviwed" material. + How big is the Google Scholar database? Google isn't saying. As Google makes this announcement and word spreads about a "scholarly search tool" -- ESPECIALLY in the academic community -- we think the use of specialty databases (the ones university libraries offer and spend $$$ for) will drop. It's worth watching to see if people begin paying for material located via Google Scholar that they can get *free* from a specialty database they may not know is available via their public or academic library. Might this be a golden opportunity for the library community to tell people -- look, we have access to this stuff and MUCH MUCH MORE? We have better ways to search it, and you might not even have to pay for it? Well, yeah...but if what we've seen in the past is any indication, this is not going to happen. Maybe this time it will be different. Bottom line: It's very difficult to compete with the Google marketing machine. In the meantime, we'll be extremely interested in the response to Google Scholar from fee-based database publishers. Some might ask, are specialized database tools still necessary? Info pros know they are but we sure haven't done a good job of explaining why. It will also be interesting to see if *any* of the press/chatter about Google Scholar makes even a small mention of specialized subscription databases, free access to these via libraries, and the fact that what Google is offering is merely the tip of the "scholarly" info iceberg. Is all of this yet another nail in the coffin for library resources and maybe librarians? Too early to tell, of course. Kudos to Google for doing so but the library community could (should?) have done something similar years ago. Why didn't we? When big announcements come from Google and web engines, we often get nervous and...sometimes upset with our profession. Not this time, however. It's just not worth it. This is BIG news and something that should have been around for years. It's going to be interesting what transpires moving forward. Finally, specialized databases are still valuable for many types of searching, including searching for "scholarly material." Why? A few examples: + Limit to material published by date + Ability to view more than 1000 results. The Google cutoff of 1000 results is still in place with Google Scholar + Google is constantly crawling the web but we don't know how often the Google Scholar database is being refreshed with new content + Searching using a controlled vocabulary/subject searching + Ability to limit by publisher affiliation + You can limit by author with author: but you can only use a last name. First names and initials are not searchable when using author:. + Proximity operators + Gobs and gobs of content, Google Scholar still doesn't have it all. Example: While you're find John Grisham books, you will NOT find material (both current and archived) from MANY newspapers, trade publications, and general interest periodicals. + I'm sure you can add many more examples of what's NOT there Again, it's one thing for the info pro to understand all of this, it's something else for the typical searcher. Stay tuned, this is going to be interesting. ************************************************************************************ Sreeharsha BG Knowledge Management Group i2 Technologies software Pvt. Ltd. 5th Floor, Diamond District, Airport Road, Bangalore-8 PH: 25047319 Work does not require effort if its of ones interest....:-)

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Kalam emphasises need for digitalisation of books
by BHOSALE, DEEPALI [AG-Contractor/6020] 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

123Bharath.com, November 19, 2004 Kalam emphasises need for digitalisation of books Maharashtra, India > Mumbai, Nov 18 : President A P J Abdul Kalam today emphasised the need for digitalisation of books in libraries for its preservation and making it availabile to maximum number of people. "The digitalisation of books of the library is very vital. The mission should be to make availabe books to maximum public and digitalisation would enable free access to books by the public," Kalam said inaugurating the concluding function of the bi-centenary celebrations of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai. It would also help in preserving old books, Kalam said, adding the digitalisation of books has started in 2003 at 23 centres and is progressing in the right direction. The Asiatic society should also be part of it, he said, adding, he would ask authorities concerned to include the 200-year-old Society in the programme so that there can be preservation and dissemination of its vast knowledge. PTI Source: http://www.123bharath.com/news/index.php?action=fullnews&id=37691 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

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Workshop on Network Configuration and Management
by K Prakash 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Workshop on Network Configuration and Management Duration: 13 - 17 December, 2004 Venue: Vigyan Bhavan, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur More details can be had from http://www.mlsu.org/workshop/ncm.htm Contact on email: suic(a)mlsu.org or tsbohra(a)mlsu.org Contact Mobile No: 094144 72094 With best wishes/ regards. Bye. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- K PRAKASH Scientific/Technical Officer-I Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre An Inter-University Centre of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Post Box No.4116, Navrangpura, AHMEDABAD - 380 009 India # Tel.: 91 - 079 - 2630 5971 / 2630 4695 Extn: 38; Fax: 2630 0990(Off.); 2676 3724(Res.) # Email: prakash(a)inflibnet.ac.in; prakash_k(a)yahoo.com # URL: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ ; http://www.prakashk.netfirms.com/

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RE: [oa-india] And Google Scholar Includes medIND
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Dear All So also eprints@iisc, the IISc e-prints archive! Enter 'eprints@iisc' in Google Scholar search box. Regards Rajashekar T.B. Rajashekar NCSI, IISc > -----Original Message----- > From: Sukhdev Singh [mailto:esukhdev@hotmail.com] > Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 2:07 PM > To: Discussion Group for Open Access Workshop India > Subject: [oa-india] And Google Scholar Includes medIND > > > Dear Members > > As expected, Google Scholar includes medIND. > Have a try!!, Visit http://www.scholar.google.com/ and input > keyword 'medind'. > > medIND (http://medind.nic.in) has full text of 28 Indian > Biomedical Journals. > > Regards > Sukhdev Singh > National Informatics Centre > New Delhi > > Dgroups is a joint initiative of Bellanet, DFID, Hivos, ICA, > IICD, OneWorld, UNAIDS and World Bank > --- You are currently subscribed to oa-india as: > raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > leave-oa-india-143982O(a)dgroups.org

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And Google Scholar Includes medIND
by Sukhdev Singh 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Dear Members As expected, Google Scholar includes medIND. Have a try!!, Visit http://www.scholar.google.com/ and input keyword 'medind'. medIND (http://medind.nic.in) has full text of 28 Indian Biomedical Journals. Regards Sukhdev Singh National Informatics Centre New Delhi

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Digital Libraries Master's Program and Fellowships
by Shyam Prasad pujar 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Dear Members, This program with limited fellowships is open for International students. It could be of interest to some of you. Regards, S.M. Pujar IGIDR, Mumbai =============================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:58:33 +0100 (MET) From: daalbert(a)slis.indiana.edu To: diglib(a)infoserv.inist.fr Subject: [DIGLIB] Digital Libraries Master's Program The School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at Indiana University, Bloomington (IUB) announces a new Master's program with emphasis on Digital Libraries. The program is funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (http://www.imls.gov) It has been developed as a collaboration among the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, Bloomington (http://www.slis.indiana.edu) the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/) and the Digital Library Program at Indiana University (http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/) For the first year of the program, SLIS-IUB invites applicants for five fellowships to support a complete Master's degree with internship experience. More information about the program can be found at the Digital Libraries Education Program website (http://lair.indiana.edu/research/dlib/)

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Google service for Scholars
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Dear Professionals, The leading Search Engine - Google is doing a bit of service to the scholar community. Pls read the article appeared on NY Times.Kudos to the Indian who led the team http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/technology/18google.html SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17 - Google Inc. plans to announce on Thursday that it is adding a new search service aimed at scientists and academic researchers. Google Scholar, which was scheduled to go on-line Wednesday evening at scholar.google.com, is a result of the company's collaboration with a number of scientific and academic publishers and is intended as a first stop for researchers looking for scholarly literature like peer-reviewed papers, books, abstracts and technical reports. Google executives declined to say how many additional documents and books had been indexed and made searchable through the service. While the great majority of recent scholarly papers and periodicals are indexed on the Web, many have not been easily accessible to the public. The engineer who led the project, Anurag Acharya, said the company had received broad cooperation from academic, scientific and technical publishers like the Association of Computing Machinery, Nature, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the On-line Computer Library Center. PS: Its live and pretty amazing. See the "about" section at http://www.scholar.google.com/ for some suggestions as to how to use it Thanks Sreeharsha BG Knowledge Management Group i2 Technologies software Pvt. Ltd. 5th Floor, Diamond District, Airport Road, Bangalore-8 PH: 25047319 Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them....:-)

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Wanted Library Assistant
by d.v. patwardhan 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

dear Library Professional Colleagues, A post of Library Assistant is vacant at the Library of Global Academy of Technology, a three year old but well established Engineering college with student strength more than 1200. Qualification: Any graduate with the knowledge of MS-Office. The Applicants will be called for an interview. No TA or DA will be paid to attend the interview. The selected candidate will be entrusted with jobs such as processing newly received books, circulation of documents, reader assistance, maintaining reference section, user assistance, etc. He should also be ready to work in evening shift duty (1 P.M. to 8 P.M.) one week in a month. If you know any suitable candidate, then please direct him to send his resume along with copies of marks cards to: The Principal, Global Academy of Technology, Ideal Homes Township, Rajajeshwarinagar, Bangalore-560098, Tel: 28603158; fax: 28603157 The candidates should write �Application for the post of Library Assistant� on the envelope. Thanks, D.V.Patwardhan Librarian, Global Academy of Technology, Ideal Homes Township, Rajajeshwarinagar, Bangalore-560098 Tel: 080-23409434 (Res. after 6.30 p.m.) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com

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ICFAI PUBLICATION MEET
by vasanth raj 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Dear Sir/Madam/Friends. ICFAI University, has established its national college at 1/3, K.B arcade, Hunsur Road. Mysore. THis colege has been functioning dor the past seven months and has 220 students pursuing mangement education. we have well qualified and experincied faculty handlning all subject of Management. We would be delighted to have interaction with your faculties on subjects of matual interest and benefit.ICFAI got its own publication division from where 40 journals are published monthly/ querterly. Thier publications inclued subjects like finance, HR, Marketing, Banking Insurence, Entrepeunership, EPR, etc........ In addition to this ICFAI publication also brings out text books in finance, economics and mangement. In order to give an idea about ICFAI and its activities, We are organising an "ICFAI PUBLICATION MEET" in our college premises. Kindly, depute as many faculties as posible, to come to uur ICFAI publication meet. The Book meet will be open from 10.00 am to 6:00 pm on friday the 19th of November 2004. For registration please contact 5288835/5559394 and registar yourself Wish you a happy and gain full reading Vasantha Raju N Librarian ICFAI national college Mysore Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Sir/Madam/Friends. ICFAI University, has established its national college at 1/3, K.B arcade, Hunsur Road. Mysore . THis colege has been functioning dor the past seven months and has 220 students pursuing mangement education. we have well qualified and experincied faculty handlning all subject of Management. We would be delighted to have interaction with your faculties on subjects of matual interest and benefit.ICFAI got its own publication division from where 40 journals are published monthly/ querterly. Thier publications inclued subjects like finance, HR, Marketing, Banking Insurence, Entrepeunership, EPR, etc........ In addition to this ICFAI publication also brings out text books in finance, economics and mangement. In order to give an idea about ICFAI and its activities, We are organising an " ICFAI PUBLICATION MEET " in our college premises. Kindly, depute as many faculties as posible, to come to uur ICFAI publication meet. The Book meet will be open from 10.00 am to 6:00 pm on friday the 19th of November 2004. For registration please contact 5288835/5559394 and registar yourself Wish you a happy and gain full reading Vasantha Raju N Librarian ICFAI national college 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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Google Product for Scholars
by Farooque Shaheen 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Web search leader Google Inc. on Wednesday unveiled Google Scholar, a new search product aimed at helping users search scholarly literature such as technical reports, theses and abstracts. Google Scholar, at http://scholar.google.com, searches a specific subset of Google's index and covers a wide swath of fields, from medicine and physics to economics and computer science Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor (India) Pvt Ltd. Bangalore, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 Web search leader Google Inc. �on Wednesday unveiled Google Scholar, a new search product aimed at helping users search scholarly literature such as technical reports, theses and abstracts. Google Scholar, at http://scholar.google.com, searches a specific subset of Google's index and covers a wide swath of fields, from medicine and physics to economics and computer science Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor (India) Pvt Ltd. Bangalore, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Radio Talk on E-Mail
by I.R.N.Goudar 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Dear Professionals, All India Radio, Bangalore, Mysore, Bhadravathi, etc will broadcast a radio talk on " Know about E-Affairs: Electronic Mail as a Quick and Effective Means of Communication" by Mrs Poornima Narayana, Deputy Head, ICAST Date: 19th November 2004 (Friday) at 9.16 pm Please Note: This talk was supposed to be broadcast two weeks back itself, but was postponed due to overlap in recording -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-5086081 Head, Information Centre for 91-80-5235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-5268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road http://www.icast.org.in/staff1.htm BANGALORE-560 017 India

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RE: [LIS-Forum] [*]: Photo library
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Dear Mr Jha, You may find Picasa Photo Organisor at www.picasa.com useful for indexing and searching image/photo collections. It is free. Google uses it for indexing images. If you download and use it I would extensively, Iwould like to benefit by your feedback. I used it some months ago. It searches and indexes all images in all local drives/folders that are specified. As my collection is not picture specific I did not use it much. Best Wishes Dr P Vyasamoorthy -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Aman Jha Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 5:16 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] [*]: Photo library Importance: High Friends We are in search of a good photograph / digital document indexing software. Any reference? I would also love to have your expert opinion on how to make a good digital photo library. Shall be grateful, if any one could provide me reference to any literary work. 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

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What is WWP?
by Augustine, Doncy (HP Labs India) 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Hello LIS Forum Members, Could anyone please tell me what does "wwp" in http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/ mean? Thanks in advance. Doncy ----------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard Labs India Ph: +91-80-2504 2259 24, Salarpuria Arena E-Mail: doncy(a)hp.com Hosur Main Road, Adugodi URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/india/ Bangalore - 560 030 -----------------------------------------------------

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NCSI-NET Meeting on 20th November 2004
by Madhuresh 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Dear All, You all are cordially invited for next NCSI-NET meeting, which will be held on 20th of November'2004 by 11:00 AM at NCSI Seminar Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. There will be a product presentation and demo on "Arogya" by Mr. Mumtaz Ahmed Khan along with Mr. R.Balamurugan and Dr. Amarnarayan of NAL. Mr. Mumtaz Khan is from second batch of NCSI TRAINING PROGRAMME. He is working as Scientist 'C', Information Management Division, NAL, Bangalore. Synopsis: Arogya is Web based Health Information Management System developed for the Health Center of NAL (applicable for all CSIR Labs). It is developed using Java and Developer as front end and Oracle 9i as back end. The software has got several modules right from the doctor diagnosis till dispensing of medicine and other investigations which are carried out within the health center. Further it also takes care of outside investigations, consultations and hospitalization. The software is developed by Dr. Amarnarayan, R.Balamurugan, Mumtaz Ahmed Khan, Mrs. Palguni and Dr. S. Bhogle. The talk will be a demo and technical presentation of the software. 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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[*]: Photo library
by Aman Jha 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Friends We are in search of a good photograph / digital document indexing software. Any reference? I would also love to have your expert opinion on how to make a good digital photo library. Shall be grateful, if any one could provide me reference to any literary work. 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 Friends We are in search of a good photograph / digital document indexing software. Any reference? I would also love to have your expert opinion on how to make a good digital photo library. Shall be grateful, if any one could provide me reference to any literary work. 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

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Free WHO Medicines Bookshelf CD-ROM
by Tomas Allen 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Free WHO Medicines Bookshelf CD-ROM We are pleased to announce the latest version of the WHO Medicines Bookshelf CD-ROM, containing over 350 medicines-related publications, in English, French and Spanish, taken primarily from materials published by the World Health Organization's Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy (EDM). The Bookshelf covers: - access to essential medicines - rational use of medicines - national drug policy - quality and safety issues - traditional medicine. Core publications from other sources are also included on the CD-ROM, with the kind permission of the organizations concerned. For those in areas where Internet access is particularly slow or is unavailable, we have designed the Bookshelf to serve as a self-contained medicines information resource. The Library includes the WHO Model Formulary, and the Library interface serves as a seamless gateway to a wide range of useful web sites, such as WHO clinical guidelines and United Nations price information resources, among many others. The Bookshelf is available free of charge. For a copy, or questions about multiple copies and distribution, please write to : EDM Documentation Centre, Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy Health Technology and Pharmaceuticals World Health Organization Avenue Appia 20 CH-1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland Fax: +41 22 791 47 30 e-mail: edmdoccentre(a)who.int _________________________________________________________________ So können Sie zu jeder Zeit die besten Suchfunktionen nutzen - die MSN Toolbar. http://toolbar.msn.ch?&DI=165&XAPID=2170

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A new version of Dublin Core Services
by Saiful Amin 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ernesto Giralt <egh_cu(a)yahoo.es> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 09:57:57 -0800 (PST) Subject: [XML4LIB] A new version of Dublin Core Services. To: Multiple recipients of list <xml4lib(a)sunsite3.berkeley.edu> Hi all, and sorry for the crossposting. A new version - 0.2(beta)- of Dublin Core Services/Describethis (http://www.describethis.com) has been published. This new version, as main feature, brings us an automatic generator of keywords: DCS incorporates now a dictionary of 5300 words in 11 different languages, included Catalan, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Italian, among others, that permits to recognize and generate keywords automatically. The system applies analitic algorithms to find the best terms that better describe a given resource. The new terms generated are added to the ones already included in the document, although these are marked visually to avoid confusions with the terms proposed by the own authors. In the case of the HTML documents that do not have included these type of metadata, the list of generated keywords can be used as a guide and a valid proposal for the publishers and authors of these contents. The current version delivers some corrected and improved features. Among these, can be emphasized the following ones: - The new list of metadata types and variants found in the documents HTML now includes more than 70 elements in 3 different languages - The service has incorporated a new parser to recognize and extract the metadata for the Creative Commons licenses (see http://creativecommons.org) - The RDF converter and generator has been improved to produce a valid and more complete document. - Now DCS has applied Web Standards to all the documents generated (XML, XHTML and RDF) to include the elements that indicate the type of document (DOCTYPE) and language marks. - The HTML documents parser now is capable of recognizing metadata placed in other tags than traditional tags like META, concretely the LINK tag and the comments embedded in the body of the text. In addition, due to the successful application in the blogs network, our development team has dedicated special attention to the metadata and particular characteristics of this "type" of online content. With these changes and improvements the already existing references to DescribeThis and the future ones will have a metadata extraction results more extensive and detailed. For the following version, DescribeThis will include: - An editor for Dublin Core registers and collections. - A multilingual and improved interface for DescribeThis - at present are almost ready the first versions in Spanish and Catalan - - Selected dictionaries and thesauri to be applied to improve the automatically generated/extracted results - Features for user subscription and register, so that results can be closest to the needs and personal profile of each one. We wish to thank to the specialists and users in general that have sent us valuable messages with recommendations, critics and advice. In special to Daniel O'Connor, Paula A Markes and Eva Méndez, to whom we must thank for many of the changes and improvements. Again, thanks to all. We will continue working to improve our services and products. ---------------------------------------------- Dublin Core Services is a set of web services that offers tools for the description and automated analysis of online resources. Through the interface that provides DescribeThis (http://www.describethis.com) it allows the management and individual processing of the metadata collections that have been extracted or generated from the resources. The site offers an easy-to-use interface to indicate the resource to analyze and simple options to download the results like XML, XHTML or RDF files. Send your messages to support(a)describethis.com. -- ! Ernesto Giralt Team of Development of Dublin Core Services. -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 GSM: +91 98407 76214 Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong."

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Open archive initiative, society driven archive- India
by Sukhdev Singh 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

First of all, I would like to disagree with your assumption that these efforts would "Reduce Digital Divide". Infact it will increase the divide as those who HAVE Digital Access will get more than HAVE-NOTs. Anyway, Digital Divide is a different problem; let us not mix it with Open Access. Now let us come to the problem of users visiting the Libraries. Ok, Whether We like it or not, but let us face it!! Fewer and fewer people would be visiting libraries for information. But the Question is how do we attract users to the Library. I think we need to understand our user more carefully now. Instead of asking, why the users are not visiting the library? We should rather ask, WHAT THE HELL BRINGS THIS USER TO THE LIBRARY?? Find out, why users are still coming to library, and then invest major portion of the resources to satisfy who still come. Thus Moral of the story is "GIVE! WHAT THEY WANT, NOT WHAT YOU WANT TO GIVE!!" Am I talking different than what "EVERY READER HIS/HER BOOK" says?. ---Sukhdev Singh On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 vasanth raj wrote : > Dear sir/madam/ friends, > >We are all talking more about the open archive initiative , author self archiving, society driven archive, e-prints etc.... Yes its really reduce the barrier of " Digital divide". If very thing avialble on the web,author started to put their full text freely. Its very easy to access.But what about the libraries. Its certainly reduced the user's to visit library.How we can attract large number of users to library in this "Electronic Global Village"?. > >Vasantha Raju N >Dept. Library and Information science >University of Mysore >Mysore >e-mail: gooche _1981(a)yahoo.co.in First of all, I would like to disagree with your assumption that these efforts would "Reduce Digital Divide". Infact it will increase the divide as those who HAVE Digital Access will get more than HAVE-NOTs. Anyway, Digital Divide is a different problem; let us not mix it with Open Access. Now let us come to the problem of users visiting the Libraries. Ok, Whether We like it or not, but let us face it!! Fewer and fewer people would be visiting libraries for information. But the Question is how do we attract users to the Library. I think we need to understand our user more carefully now. Instead of asking, why the users are not visiting the library? We should rather ask, WHAT THE HELL BRINGS THIS USER TO THE LIBRARY?? Find out, why users are still coming to library, and then invest major portion of the resources to satisfy who still come. Thus Moral of the story is "GIVE! WHAT THEY WANT, NOT WHAT YOU WANT TO GIVE!!" Am I talking different than what "EVERY READER HIS/HER BOOK" says?. ---Sukhdev Singh On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 vasanth raj wrote : > Dear sir/madam/ friends, > >We are all talking more about the open archive initiative , author self archiving, society driven archive, e-prints etc.... Yes its really reduce the barrier of " Digital divide". If very thing avialble on the web,author started to put their full text freely. Its very easy to access.But what about the libraries. Its certainly reduced the user's to visit library.How we can attract large number of users to library in this "Electronic Global Village"?. > >Vasantha Raju N >Dept. Library and Information science >University of Mysore >Mysore >e-mail: gooche _1981(a)yahoo.co.in 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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InfoWatch Oct 2004
by M.R Lalitha 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Dear LIS-Forum member, The October 2004 issue of InfoWatch is now online, bringing you details of new Internet sites related to Science and Engineering. You can access the complete issue on the NCSI Web server at the URL : http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/infowatch/iw.php You will also find earlier issues of InfoWatch here. For your convenience, the table of contents is given below. If you wish to be on the mailing list of InfoWatch to receive the complete issue by e-mail, let us know. Also mention your format preference - html or text. Regards -Lalitha M.R lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ------------------------------------------------------------------------ InfoWatch Tracking Networked Scientific Information Sources and Services (An electronic update service brought to you by NCSI) Oct 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In This Issue: 1. Active Sequences Collection (ASC) [A collection of active protein sequences] 2. Artificial intelligence depot 3. Central Internet database [Reports on radioactive waste, contaminated media and spent nuclear fuel] 4. Chip history center [Computer chip making's virtual museum] 5. Engineers and sustainable development 6. IBM software library 7. Machine Learning Network Online Service (MLnet OiS) 8. myElectrical [A resource in electrical engineering, control and computing] 9. NASA's Near-Earth Objects (NEO) site 10. Natural Language Software Registry (NLSR) 11. Nobel Prizes for 2004 12. OWL - Web Ontology Language 13. ProcessLibrary.com - Free process information 14. Protocol dictionary - Network protocol suite directory and index 15. Pureperformance.com - Tweaks and tips for Windows XP/2000, Windows 9x/ME 16. SigLab - Graphical signal calculator [A tool for analysis of signal processing simulation results] 17. Stratospheric Processes And their Role in Climate (SPARC) 18. Switching-Mode Power Supply (SMPS) Technology knowledgebase [A website about power supply design for power supply designers] 19. TechOnLine - Educational resources for electronics engineers 20. Web Standards Project (WaSP) 21. Whole Building Design Guide {WBDG) - A building professional's gateway to design techniques and technologies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ About InfoWatch : InfoWatch is a monthly electronic newsletter, brought out by the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012, INDIA. Information in the newsletter is collected and verified by NCSI staff.The newsletter aims to raise awareness of new sources of information on the Internet, particularly those which are relevant for higher education and research. Some items may be of relevance only to the IISc community.Resources reported here have been taken from various discussion lists and other network tools and no special claims are made for accuracy or originality. Most of the sources cited in the newsletter were checked at the time of publication, however it is possible that some of the resources are no longer available. We welcome comments about the newsletter and suggestions for resources to be featured. Please e-mail your comments to Infowatch editors: Ms. K. Thulasi (thulasi(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) & Ms. M. R. Lalitha (lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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DRTC-Seminar
by ras botlib 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research and Training Center 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalor DRTC Seminar on "Metadata Formats and Standards" by Rashid Hussain Abstract Metadata is a characterization of the individual Information Object in the collection of a library. An element of metadata describes an information resource, or helps provide access to an information resource. A variety of metadata information schemas have been developed promising greater flexibility in the discovery and access to digitized sources, especially on the web. This seminar will present the various metadata formats, applications of metadata standards and explores the future of metadata standards for digital libraries. Venue :DRTC Classroom Date :18th Nov 2004(Thursday) Time :2 P.M. All are cordially invited Dr. A.R.D. Prasad Seminar Coordinator DRTC, ISI = = = = = = = = = = = Rashid Hussain Siddiqui ADIS 2nd Year Student Documentation Research & Training Centre(DRTC) Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalore 560059 Phone No.: 080-28483975 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com �� INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE ��Documentation Research and Training Center �� 8 th Mile Mysore Road Bangalor �� DRTC Seminar �� on � ��"Metadata Formats and Standards" �� by � �� Rashid Hussain � ��Abstract � � Metadata is a characterization of the individual Information Object in the collection of a library. An element of metadata describes an information resource, or helps provide access to an information resource. A variety of metadata information schemas have been developed promising greater flexibility in the discovery and access to digitized sources, especially on the web. This seminar will present the various metadata formats, applications of metadata standards and explores the future of metadata standards for digital libraries. �� Venue �: DRTC Classroom �� Date��: 18 th Nov 2004(Thursday) �� Time �� : 2 P.M. � �� All are cordially invited � �� Dr. A.R.D. Prasad �� Seminar Coordinator �� DRTC, ISI = = = = = = = = = = = Rashid Hussain Siddiqui ADIS 2nd Year Student Documentation Research�& Training Centre(DRTC) Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalore� �560059 Phone No.: 080-28483975 Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. http://www.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com

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Asia Source: Tech camp for the voluntary sector
by Smita Chandra 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Apologies for cross-posting. --Smita C., Librarian, Indian Inst.of Geomagnetism _______________________________________________________ From: "Sunil Abraham" <sunil(a)mahiti.org> To: "India Egov" <India-egov(a)yahoogroups.com>; "ict4dnews" <nitobserver(a)sdnp.undp.org>; "wsis telecentres" <telecentres(a)wsis-cs.org> Cc: <projects(a)mahiti.org> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 7:53 PM Subject: [Telecentres] Asia Source: Tech camp for the voluntary sector [Details and Form] Dear Friends, Please apply if you are interested in Free/Open Source Software and Development. AND/OR Please forward to your colleagues from the voluntary sector in South Asia / South East Asia. Thanks, Sunil -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Asia Source: Tech camp for the voluntary sector [Details and Form] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bangalore, India. January 28th to February 4th 2005. Asia Source hopes to bring together over 100 people from 20 countries to increase the use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) amongst the voluntary sector in South and South East Asia. This week long event will bring together NGOs and NGO technology support professionals working at the grassroots level across the region to learn new skills, exchange tips, and share experiences. Together with regionally and globally renowned experts and specialists they will look at the use of FOSS within the non-profit sector from both an access and a content perspective. Offering participants the opportunity to explore the practical technical side of FOSS whilst providing a conceptual backdrop. Asia Source will be the first event of its kind in the region, bringing together regional non-profit professionals with a rights based focus, it will invite those from both the technical and content end of the spectrum to focus on the practical elements of FOSS deployment. Participants with a range of expertise will be provided with a space for intensive peer learning. They will be given the opportunity to develop their understanding of FOSS, learn how to select and apply alternative technologies, and be provided with the skills and tools to utilise this within the context of their daily work. They will also be encouraged to explore the challenges and the future potential of FOSS adoption within the social context. During this 'camp' style event, participants will take part in a range of sessions. From planning and helping an NGO to migrate to FOSS, to sharing tips and techniques on using FOSS tools for content development, advocacy and campaigning. In parallel to this they will look beneath user-level scenarios, and break-down tricky issues such as localisation techniques and how to develop total cost of ownership models. Four themes will flow throughout the event 1. 'FLOSSophy' for NGOs 2. Migration and Access 3. Tools for content and communication 4. Localisation Asia Source will be held in a small artists community on the outskirts of Bangalore. Its aim is to become a community building event, with the potential to seed connections and future partnerships across borders and between skillsets. The event is co-organised by Mahiti.org (Bangalore) and the Tactical Technology Collective (Amsterdam). The event is guided by an advisory board of established non-profit and FOSS professionals from across the South and South East Asian region. Asia Source belongs to a larger family of Source Events that seek to increase the viability of FOSS use by the non-profit sector. Other source events have taken place in South East Europe, Southern Africa and are planned in 2005 in Western Africa. For more information please visit http://www.tacticaltech.org/asiasource or http://www.mahiti.org/asiasource Participants will be selected by the advisory board based on their interest and experiences. There will be a small registration fee for the event. A limited number of travel and registration fee scholarships will be available and may be applied for on application. If you have any questions please write to asiasource(a)tacticaltech.org. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Asia Source: Application Form ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please send the application to asiasource(a)tacticaltech.org. The deadline for sending applications is 19th of November 2004. We will confirm receipt of the application immediately and will ask you to check and reserve (if you do not have to pay for this) your flight to Bangalore, India. We will also ask people who need visas to check how they can apply for it. As we have limited space and funds, we cannot accept all participant applications and cannot reimburse the expenses for all of them. Between the 19th of November and 3rd of December 2004 we will personally inform each applicant by email if we are able to invite him/her and in some cases reimburse expenses. Dates:- Asia Source is a week-long meeting, to be held January 28th - February 4th 2005 in Bangalore, India. If you would like to participate, you will need to attend the entire event, which means arriving in Bangalore on or before January 27th and leaving on or after February 5th. Fees and subsidies:- Participants will arrange for their own travel to Bangalore, India. Once there, transport to the venue from the airport in Bangalore will be provided. All meals and accommodation during the meeting will be provided, for the modest participation fee of US$ 75. There are a limited number of participation fee subsidies available to cover this US$ 75 for those who are not able to raise the funds. Travel subsidies are also available for participants who would not otherwise be able to attend the meeting. Please apply as soon as possible for subsidies as there availability is limited. Who should attend? This is an event for experienced professionals actively working with the non-profit sector in South and South East Asian countries. To be eligible to attend, you will need to answer the questions below, providing detailed information about projects you have worked on. The application deadline is November 19th, 2004. We are interested in all kinds of non-profit and technical experience, but areas of particular focus will include the following: 1. Localisation and multi-language projects 2. The use of technology within monitoring or campaigning projects 3. The use of technology for organising and collaborating 4. Audio/video, streaming media and/or radio 5. Innovative use of technology within non-profit projects 6. Experience deploying FOSS operating systems or applications Demonstrating that you have worked on projects in one or more of the above areas will make your application stronger. All participants at Asia Source are required to be proficient desktop users of computers, have been involved in at least one NGO/technology project before and to have an existing awareness of the concept of Free and Open Source Software. Applications from women are highly encouraged by the event organisers. Application Questions:- Please answer the following questions. You do not need to write long responses, but please provide us with enough information to understand your skills and interests, and to have a sense of why you want to attend Asia Source and what you can contribute to the event. Please provide answers to all the following questions. 1) Basic personal information: a. Name: b. Gender: c. Nationality: d. Country where you live and work now: e. E-mail address: f. Telephone and emergency contact number(s): g. Anything else we should know about you (allergies, diet, medical condition, special needs): h. Do you need a visa to come to India? 2) What is your experience of working with non-profit organisations/the voluntary sector. What kinds of projects and initiatives have you worked on? 3) Have you been involved with any technology projects for non-profit or civil society organizations? If so please briefly explain them. 4) Where are you from, where do you live now, and what is your current professional affiliation (organization you work for, mission of the organization, position you have in the organization, is your organization a non-profit, etc.)? 5) Please describe your current technical expertise and ability. 6) Why are you interested in attending Asia Source; what do you hope to learn? 7) Asia Source participants are encouraged to teach as well as to learn. What tutorials, development sessions or discussions would you like to lead (or help lead)? 8) Will you need to receive a participation fee subsidy in order to attend Asia Source? If so, please explain why. 9) Will you need to receive a travel subsidy in order to attend Asia Source? If so, please explain why and estimate how much your round-trip travel to Bangalore will cost. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Sunil Abraham, sunil(a)mahiti.org http://www.mahiti.org 314/1, 7th Cross, Domlur Bangalore - 560 071 Karnataka, INDIA Ph/Fax: +91 80 51150580. Mob: (60) 1-6311-1330 Currently on sabbatical with APDIP/UNDP Manager - International Open Source Network Wisma UN, Block C Komplex Pejabat Damansara. Jalan Dungun, Damansara Heights. 50490 Kuala Lumpur. P. O. Box 12544, 50782, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tel: (60) 3-2091-5167, Fax: (60) 3-2095-2087 sunil(a)apdip.net http://www.iosn.net http://www.apdip.net "A world opened up by communications cannot remain closed up in a feudal vision of property" - Gilberto Gil, Minister of Culture, Brazil __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Apologies for cross-posting. --Smita C., Librarian, Indian Inst.of Geomagnetism _______________________________________________________ � From: "Sunil Abraham" < http://us.f509.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=sunil@mahiti.org&YY=71434&order… sunil(a)mahiti.org > To: "India Egov" < http://us.f509.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=India-egov@yahoogroups.com&YY=7… India-egov(a)yahoogroups.com >; "ict4dnews" < http://us.f509.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=nitobserver@sdnp.undp.org&YY=71… nitobserver(a)sdnp.undp.org >; "wsis telecentres" < http://us.f509.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=telecentres@wsis-cs.org&YY=7143… telecentres(a)wsis-cs.org > Cc: < http://us.f509.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=projects@mahiti.org&YY=71434&or… projects(a)mahiti.org > Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 7:53 PM Subject: [Telecentres] Asia Source: Tech camp for the voluntary sector [Details and Form] Dear Friends, Please apply if you are interested in Free/Open Source Software and Development. AND/OR Please forward to your colleagues from the voluntary sector in South Asia / South East Asia. Thanks, Sunil � -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Asia Source: Tech camp for the voluntary sector [Details and Form] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bangalore, India. January 28th to February 4th 2005. Asia Source hopes to bring together over 100 people from 20 countries to�increase the use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) amongst the�voluntary sector in South and South East Asia.��This week long event will bring together NGOs and NGO technology�support� professionals working at the grassroots level across the region to learn�new skills, exchange tips, and share experiences. Together with� regionally and globally renowned experts and specialists they will look�at the use of FOSS within the non-profit sector from both an access�and�a content perspective. Offering participants the opportunity to explore�the practical technical side of FOSS whilst providing a� conceptual�backdrop. Asia Source will be the first event of its kind in the region,�bringing together regional non-profit professionals with a rights based focus, it�will invite those from both the technical and content end of the� spectrum to focus on the practical elements of FOSS deployment. Participants with a range of expertise will be provided with a space for�intensive peer learning. They will be given the opportunity to develop�their understanding of FOSS, learn how to select and apply alternative�technologies, and be provided with the skills and tools to utilise�this�within the context of their daily work. They will also be encouraged to�explore the challenges and the future potential of FOSS adoption�within�the social context. During this 'camp' style event,� participants will take part in a range�of sessions. From planning and helping an NGO to migrate to FOSS, to� sharing tips and techniques on using FOSS tools for content development,�advocacy and campaigning. In parallel to this they will look beneath�user-level scenarios, and break-down tricky issues such as�localisation�techniques and how to develop total cost of ownership models. Four themes will flow throughout the event �� 1. 'FLOSSophy' for NGOs �� 2. Migration and Access �� 3. Tools for content and communication �� 4. Localisation Asia Source will be held in a small artists community on the outskirts of Bangalore. Its aim is to become a community building event, with the�potential to seed connections and future partnerships across borders and�between skillsets. The event is co-organised by Mahiti.org (Bangalore) and the Tactical Technology Collective (Amsterdam). The event is guided by an advisory�board of established non-profit and FOSS professionals from across the�South and South East Asian region.� Asia Source belongs to a larger�family of Source Events that seek to increase the viability of FOSS use�by the non-profit sector. Other source events have taken place in South�East Europe, Southern Africa and are planned in 2005 in Western Africa. For more information please visit http://www.tacticaltech.org/asiasource http://www.tacticaltech.org/asiasource or http://www.mahiti.org/asiasource http://www.mahiti.org/asiasource Participants will be selected by the advisory board based on their� interest and experiences. There will be a small registration fee for the�event. A limited number of travel and registration fee scholarships will�be available and may be applied for on application. If you have any questions�please write to http://us.f509.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=asiasource@tacticaltech.org&YY=… asiasource(a)tacticaltech.org . -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Asia Source: Application Form � ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please send the application to http://us.f509.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=asiasource@tacticaltech.org&YY=… asiasource(a)tacticaltech.org . The deadline for sending applications is 19th of November 2004. We will confirm receipt of the application immediately and will ask you to check and reserve (if you do not have to pay for this) your flight to Bangalore, India. We will also ask people who need visas to check how they can apply for it. As we have limited space and funds, we cannot accept all�participant applications and cannot reimburse the expenses for all of�them. Between the 19th of November and 3rd of December 2004 we will� personally inform each applicant by email if we are able to invite� him/her and in some cases reimburse expenses. Dates:- Asia Source is a week-long meeting, to be held January 28th - February 4th 2005 in Bangalore, India. If you would like to participate, you will need to attend the entire event, which means�arriving in Bangalore on or before January 27th and leaving on or�after February 5th. Fees and subsidies:- Participants will arrange for their own travel to Bangalore, India. Once there, transport to the venue from the airport in Bangalore will be provided. All meals and accommodation during the meeting will be provided, for the modest participation fee of US$ 75. There are a limited number of participation fee subsidies available to cover this US$ 75 for those who are not able to raise the�funds. Travel subsidies are also available for participants who�would not otherwise be able to attend the meeting. Please apply as�soon as possible for subsidies as there availability is limited.� � Who should attend? This is an event for experienced professionals actively working with the�non-profit sector in South and South East Asian countries. To be� eligible to attend, you will need to answer the questions below,� providing detailed information about projects you have worked on. The� application deadline is November 19th, 2004. We are interested in all kinds of non-profit and technical experience, but areas of particular� focus will include the following: �� 1. Localisation and multi-language projects �� 2. The use of technology within monitoring or campaigning projects �� 3. The use of technology for organising and collaborating �� 4. Audio/video, streaming media and/or radio �� 5. Innovative use of technology within non-profit projects �� 6. Experience deploying FOSS operating systems or applications Demonstrating that you have worked on projects in one or more of the above areas will make your application stronger. All participants at Asia Source are required to be proficient desktop users of computers, have been involved in at least one NGO/technology project before and to have an existing awareness of the concept of Free�and Open Source Software. Applications from women are highly encouraged by the event organisers. Application Questions:- Please answer the following questions. You do not need to write long responses, but please provide us with enough information to understand�your skills and interests, and to have a sense of why you want to attend�Asia Source and what you can contribute to the event. Please provide answers to all the following questions. �1) Basic personal information: �� a. Name: �� b. Gender: �� c. Nationality: �� d. Country where you live and work now: �� e. E-mail address: �� f. Telephone and emergency contact number(s): �� g. Anything else we should know about you (allergies, diet, �� medical condition, special needs): �� h. Do you need a visa to come to India? �2) What is your experience of working with non-profit organisations/the�voluntary sector. What kinds of projects and initiatives have you�worked on? �3) Have you been involved with any technology projects for non-profit or�civil society organizations? If so please briefly explain them. �4) Where are you from, where do you live now, and what is your current�professional affiliation (organization you work for, mission of the�organization, position you have in the organization, is your organization a non-profit, etc.)? �5) Please describe your current technical expertise and ability. �6) Why are you interested in attending Asia Source; what do you hope�to�learn? �7) Asia Source participants are encouraged to teach as well as to learn.�What tutorials, development sessions or discussions would you like to�lead (or help lead)? �8) Will you need to receive a participation fee subsidy in order to attend Asia Source? If so, please explain why. �9) Will you need to receive a travel subsidy in order to attend Asia Source? If so, please explain why and estimate how much your round-trip travel to Bangalore will cost. � -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Sunil Abraham, http://us.f509.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=sunil@mahiti.org&YY=71434&order… sunil(a)mahiti.org http://www.mahiti.org/ http://www.mahiti.org 314/1, 7th Cross, Domlur Bangalore - 560 071 Karnataka, INDIA Ph/Fax: +91 80 51150580. Mob: (60) 1-6311-1330 Currently on sabbatical with APDIP/UNDP Manager - International Open Source Network Wisma UN, Block C Komplex Pejabat Damansara. Jalan Dungun, Damansara Heights. 50490 Kuala Lumpur. P. O. Box 12544, 50782, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tel: (60) 3-2091-5167, Fax: (60) 3-2095-2087 mailto:sunil@apdip.net sunil(a)apdip.net http://www.iosn.net/ http://www.iosn.net http://www.apdip.net/ http://www.apdip.net "A world opened up by communications cannot remain closed up in a feudal�vision of property" - Gilberto Gil, Minister of Culture, Brazil __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Fwd: Opportunity to voice your thoughts on the NIH Public Access Policy
by Smita Chandra 13 Nov '04

13 Nov '04

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Open archive initiative, society driven archive- India
by vasanth raj 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Dear sir/madam/ friends, We are all talking more about the open archive initiative , author self archiving, society driven archive, e-prints etc.... Yes its really reduce the barrier of " Digital divide". If very thing avialble on the web,author started to put their full text freely. Its very easy to access.But what about the libraries. Its certainly reduced the user's to visit library.How we can attract large number of users to library in this "Electronic Global Village"?. Vasantha Raju N Dept. Library and Information science University of Mysore Mysore e-mail: gooche _1981(a)yahoo.co.in Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear sir/madam/ friends, We are all talking more about the open archive initiative , author self archiving, society driven archive, e-prints etc.... Yes its really reduce the barrier of " Digital divide". If very thing avialble on the web,author started to put their full text freely. Its very easy to access.But what about the libraries. Its certainly reduced the user's to visit library.How we can attract large number of users to library in this "Electronic Global Village"?. Vasantha Raju N Dept. Library and Information science University of Mysore Mysore e-mail: gooche _1981(a)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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BEST IATLIS WOMAN LIS PROFESSIONAL AWARD-2004
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 11 Nov '04

11 Nov '04

Dear Professional friends I am happy to inform u that Mrs ( Dr) Ush Mujoo-Munshi has been selected for this year's IATLIS BEST WOMAN LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL AWARD to be presented AT IATLIS NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2004 to be held at NAGPUR on 18 th November 2004. I congratulate her on behalf of all the professional frieds for getting the award. laxman rao --------------------------------- Dear All! Season's Best Greetings ! This is in continuation with the minutes of the meeting pertaining to Framework Regulatation for E-Repositories of Doctoral Theses held on October 6, 2004 at UGC, New Delhi, which I hope you all must have received by now. An early receipt of the inputs from the identified members regarding various activities will be highly appreciated, which would help us to incorporate the requisite inputs and finalise the draft. Looking forward to receiving your inputs at the earliest. With personal regrads, Usha Mujoo-Munshi --------------------------------- Screensavers unlimited! Funny, serious, religious. Take your pick! ===== 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 ___________________________________________________________ Moving house? Beach bar in Thailand? New Wardrobe? Win 10k with Yahoo! Mail to make your dream a reality. Get Yahoo! Mail http://uk.mail.yahoo.com

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Nomination Invited for SIS Fellowship and SIS Young Information Scientist
by JK Vijayakumar 11 Nov '04

11 Nov '04

Announcement from SIS Newsletter SISCOM Vol. 25 No. 1-2, July-September 2004 --------------------- Nomination Invited for SIS Fellowship -------------------------- The Society for Information Science (SIS)awards SIS fellowships every year in recognition of the outstanding contributions made by the SIS members in the areas of information sciences and information technology. Nominations are hereby invited for the award of these SIS Fellowships for the year 2004. Nominations may be sent by individuals, Head of institutions, and university departments SIS Fellows, Life Members of SIS, etc along with complete biodata of the nominee, including his/her main contributions to the field and should reach the Secretary, Society for information Science (SIS)c/o National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies(NISTADS), Dr. K. S. Krishnan Marg, New Delhi-110012 by 30 November, 2004. Self-nominations or nominations without bio-data etc will not be considered. ------------------------- Nominations invited for Young Information Scientist ------------------------- The Young Information Scientist Award was instituted in 1989 in memory of Late Shri A. S Raizada who was the prominent information scientist and the founder Secretary of SIS, Nominations are invited for this award for the year 2004. Nominations may be forwarded to the Secretary, SIS by 30 November 2004 by individuals Professors, Head of Departments institutional Heads SIS Fellows, Life members of SIS Head of libraries librarians library officers etc along with complete biodata of the nominee including his contributions to the fields Self Nominations or nominations without biodata will not accepted The age of the nominee should not be more than 35 years on 30 November, 2004. Please send the biodata to the secretary Society for information Sciences (SIS) C/O National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS), Dr. K.S. Krishnan Marg, New Delhi-110012 by 30 November, 2004. More details are available at SISCOM Latest issue at http://sis-india.netfirms.com/sis6.htm or SIS website at http://sis-india.netfirms.com/awards.htm These awards will be conferred during SIS-2005 at Andhra University. Visit http://sis-india.netfirms.com/sis2005.htm ----------- Posted by JK Vijayakumar, INFLIBNET __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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IFLA- 2005: Grant to support delegates from developing countries
by Shyam Prasad pujar 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 17:57:15 +1100 From: Ian Smith <I.Smith(a)latrobe.edu.au> To: cpdwl(a)infoserv.inist.fr Subject: For information: Oslo Conference - 2005. Grant to support delegates from developing countries Norad Travel Grant - IFLA Oslo 2005 The Norwegian Library Association is pleased to announce the availability of the Norad Travel Grant, to support a number of delegates from developing countries to attend the World Library and Information Congress, 71st IFLA General Conference and Council: Oslo, Norway, 14 - 18 August 2005. Applications, including professional curriculum vitae and information on present occupation should be submitted as soon as possible and should be received by the IFLA 2005 Oslo Secretariat not later than 1 February, 2005. Criteria for allocation of the Norad Travel Grant * Candidates must be nationals of the Norad co-operation countries: Tanzania, Mozambique, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi, Bangladesh, Angola, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Mali, Nigeria, South Africa, Nepal, India, Indonesia, China, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, East Timor, Palestine, Guatemala and Nicaragua. * Priority to applicants who are not regular IFLA conference attendees. * Wide geographic distribution. * General quality of application. * Professional background and experience: level of education, positions held and professional experience in general. Type of library experience is also considered in order to get balance between all sectors of library and information work. * Committed letter of application and a well-presented CV. Priority will be given to younger professionals with a minimum of 5 years of experience in the field of libraries and members of national professional associations. Contact Application forms can be requested from the IFLA 2005 Oslo Secretariat: IFLA 2005 Oslo Malerhaugveien 20 0661 OSLO, Norway Fax: +47 22 67 23 68 E-mail: IFLA2005(a)norskbibliotekforening.no Web: http://www.ifla2005oslo.no ======================================= Ian Smith i.smith(a)latrobe.edu.au Senior Librarian (Personnel) Telephone: 61 3 9479 1918 La Trobe University Library Fax: 61 3 9479 3018 BUNDOORA VIC. 3086 AUSTRALIA =======================================

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Let's unite!
by r asha 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

Dear Hena, This is really a good idea, hope you received lot of mail reply to this. If the zonal wise is not fesiable, at least Bangalore IT companies can meet every Quarter/half yearly. Interested people can send a mail to Hena, to take it further. Hena, i would like to include my name in this list. Regards, Asha.R Aztec Software & Technology Services Ltd Maruthi Chambers 17/9C & 17/4C, Hosur Road Rupena Agrahara Bangalore-560068 Ph :- 080-51100582 - 86 e-mail: ashar(a)aztec.soft.net >From: "HENAG" <HENAG(a)infosys.com> >To: "prafulla tv" <tallurivpc(a)yahoo.com>, <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Let's unite! >Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:18:18 +0530 > >Hi all, > >Thanks , a very good idea . Someone will have to convene the group with a >selected topic for discussion . >Who will take care of it , We may meet every Quarter/ half yearly Zone >wise . > >We will have to decide for expenses, for venue topic and so on . I can >volunteer myself actively for helping the convennor. Onus would be on the >convennor to decide the venue and the budget collection procedure. > >Let the interested members reply for it then it can be decided how we go >about it . South zone --- (Hyderabad, Tamilnadu, Kerala, Karnataka, >Chennai)may Join together for meeting. > > >Regards >Hena S Gupta >Infosys Technologies Lts > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >[mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of prafulla tv >Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 6:51 PM >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Subject: [LIS-Forum] Let's unite! > > >Dear All, >Here's an email posted by Shri Prakash to Corporate >Librarians Group: > >_________________________________________ >It is better to work under one group, instead of >having so many groups of same profession.Since, most >of the same members are appearing in so many >groups.So, according to me, all the professional >group should come under one umbrella.We can share our >ideas and professional opportunities and difficulties >with one another. > >We should encourage more and more professionals, to >join this group. At least one member should invite one >professional. > >Kindly share your view, regarding the unification of >Librarians group. > > >With regards >Prakash Gouda >Dy. Librarian >FORE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT >B-18, QUTAB. INSTT. AREA >NEW DELHI-110016 > >__________________________________________ > >How about using LIS-FORUM as the single communication >point by all Indian LIS professionals: teachers as >well as practising library professionals. LIS-FORUM >has excellent institutional base and good service >track record. Perhaps, it has the largest number of >subscribers among all Indian LIS email lists. > >Let's avoid posting same messages to multiple lists. >Its sheer wastage of time and Internet bandwidth. > >These are some of the issues which we need to think >about: >How can we improve the quality of postings? >How to increase participation of all Indian LIS >professionals? > >Is it not high time to provide to the Indian general >public/foreign correspondents a single communication >point from where they can address Indian LIS >profession. > >We subscribe to multiple lists with a hope to receive >new content but not just repetition of the same >message. > > >Thank you >Sincerely > >T.V. Prafulla Chandra > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Regards, R.Asha Ph-3105574 & 3229474 e-mail: rashaimrlib(a)hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ The all-new MSN Search. Get fast and precise results. http://search.msn.co.in Try it now!

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Medical Journals seeking FDI
by Sukhdev Singh 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

This is an interesting story and it concerns us. I only wish, I could find out what could be actual motive behind it. Medical Publishing in India has been (like others disciplines) restricted to Society/Academic publications. So far commercial ventures in scholarly publications are concerned, the picture is not so bright. IJCP Group (Indian Journal of Clinical Practice http://www.ijcpgroup.com/) does publish some good "Popular" medical content. However, one attempt by India Today Group to publish "Indian Journal of Applied Medicine" could not survive more than one year perhaps. The Society/Academic medical publications are available at ridiculously low price, just few hundred rupees per annum. No wonder, more and more of them are available through "Free Access". [Free Access here means without any cost to end-user however it does not mean "Open Access"]. In this Free Access Arena, we are also playing some role. We have a project, medIND (http://medind.nic.in) which aims to provide single point full text free access to Indian Medical Journals. Do not take it as a compilation of some links...It has full text contents of 27 medical journals. These are not just any journals!! These are indexed journals. Indexed either with us ( IndMED, http://indmed.nic.in) or with MEDLINE. There are some other private ventures providing Free Access to Indian Medical Journals. I know few, Indmedica (http://indmedica.com/) Indegene (http://www.indegene.com/Corporate/home.html) and Bioline International (http://www.bioline.org.br/) More and more Journals themselves are having their own online presence. Some of these do provide full text and free access. Thanks to MEDKNOW Publications (http://www.medknow.com/) In the Arena of "Open Access" (Free Access with Redistribution Rights) we do have plans. Please, wait for some few months; you will soon hear something about it, in this FORUM. Though it is a different model, but we are confident to make it a success with our experience and strategy. Regards Sukhdev Singh Principal Systems Analyst Bibliographic Informatics Division (Indian Medlars Centre) National Informatics Centre A-Block, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110003 http://indmed.nic.in On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com wrote : >Please see the following news item on many journals (among other periodicals) form India seeking Foreign Direct Investment. If this happens, even Indian journals would start asking for heavy copyright fees for supplying Journal articles. In this context pushing hard for starting Open Archives including legal measures supporting this facility is needed. >Regards >Vyasamoorthy, P > >=============== > >http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=73117 > >NEW DELHI: Around 60 publications, across news and specialty categories, are awaiting foreign investment, according to sources. While most of these are English newspapers/magazines, regional publications are also making a pitch for foreign investment, it is learnt. > >Many of these applications, mainly specialty/technical journals, are understood to be in the process of getting the government nod. Medical journals form a large chunk of publications seeking foreign investment, sources said. > >When contacted, a senior official in the information and broadcasting ministry, refused to share any information regarding the pending applications. "I cannot indicate numbers or names," he told FE. He, however, added that very often there was a delay in clearing applications, as companies did not furnish sufficient information. > >Under normal circumstances, clearances/comments from various ministries take about a month or so. Besides the administrative ministry - I&B - others consulted, through an inter-ministerial committee, include finance, commerce and industry, external affairs and home. Depending on the subject matter of the publication, comments from ministries such as health and sports could also be sought, it is learnt. In addition, companies are required to get clearance from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB). > >Among the media groups which have already been granted clearance for foreign investment include Business Standard, Hindustan Times, Living Media and Bennett Coleman. Among others, Bennett Coleman's application to publish Wall Street Journal from India is still being examined. Earlier, Cybermedia's request to publish BusinessWeek from the country was not considered by the government. > >Sources indicated that till the International Herald Tribune (IHT) issue is resolved, the government may not like to deal with news publications. Hyderabad-based Midram Publications had started printing IHT from India a few months ago, stirring a controversy. As per current government norms, foreign news publications cannot be printed in India. > >Foreign investment was allowed in print media around two years ago. While up to 26% foreign direct investment is allowed in news, specialty and technical journals can go up to 74% foreign investment. > >================== > >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 http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo… This is an interesting story and it concerns us. I only wish, I could find out what could be actual motive behind it. Medical Publishing in India has been (like others disciplines) restricted to Society/Academic publications. So far commercial ventures in scholarly publications are concerned, the picture is not so bright. IJCP Group (Indian Journal of Clinical Practice http://www.ijcpgroup.com/) does publish some good "Popular" medical content. However, one attempt by India Today Group to publish "Indian Journal of Applied Medicine" could not survive more than one year perhaps. The Society/Academic medical publications are available at ridiculously low price, just few hundred rupees per annum. No wonder, more and more of them are available through "Free Access". [Free Access here means without any cost to end-user however it does not mean "Open Access"]. In this Free Access Arena, we are also playing some role. We have a project, medIND (http://medind.nic.in) which aims to provide single point full text free access to Indian Medical Journals. Do not take it as a compilation of some links...It has full text contents of 27 medical journals. These are not just any journals!! These are indexed journals. Indexed either with us ( IndMED, http://indmed.nic.in) or with MEDLINE. There are some other private ventures providing Free Access to Indian Medical Journals. I know few, Indmedica (http://indmedica.com/) Indegene (http://www.indegene.com/Corporate/home.html) and Bioline International (http://www.bioline.org.br/) More and more Journals themselves are having their own online presence. Some of these do provide full text and free access. Thanks to MEDKNOW Publications (http://www.medknow.com/) In the Arena of "Open Access" (Free Access with Redistribution Rights) we do have plans. Please, wait for some few months; you will soon hear something about it, in this FORUM. Though it is a different model, but we are confident to make it a success with our experience and strategy. Regards Sukhdev Singh Principal Systems Analyst Bibliographic Informatics Division (Indian Medlars Centre) National Informatics Centre A-Block, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110003 http://indmed.nic.in On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com wrote : >Please see the following news item on many journals (among other periodicals) form India seeking Foreign Direct Investment. If this happens, even Indian journals would start asking for heavy copyright fees for supplying Journal articles. In this context pushing hard for starting Open Archives including legal measures supporting this facility is needed. >Regards >Vyasamoorthy, P > >=============== > >http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=73117 > >NEW DELHI: Around 60 publications, across news and specialty categories, are awaiting foreign investment, according to sources. While most of these are English newspapers/magazines, regional publications are also making a pitch for foreign investment, it is learnt. > >Many of these applications, mainly specialty/technical journals, are understood to be in the process of getting the government nod. Medical journals form a large chunk of publications seeking foreign investment, sources said. > >When contacted, a senior official in the information and broadcasting ministry, refused to share any information regarding the pending applications. "I cannot indicate numbers or names," he told FE. He, however, added that very often there was a delay in clearing applications, as companies did not furnish sufficient information. > >Under normal circumstances, clearances/comments from various ministries take about a month or so. Besides the administrative ministry - I&B - others consulted, through an inter-ministerial committee, include finance, commerce and industry, external affairs and home. Depending on the subject matter of the publication, comments from ministries such as health and sports could also be sought, it is learnt. In addition, companies are required to get clearance from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB). > >Among the media groups which have already been granted clearance for foreign investment include Business Standard, Hindustan Times, Living Media and Bennett Coleman. Among others, Bennett Coleman's application to publish Wall Street Journal from India is still being examined. Earlier, Cybermedia's request to publish BusinessWeek from the country was not considered by the government. > >Sources indicated that till the International Herald Tribune (IHT) issue is resolved, the government may not like to deal with news publications. Hyderabad-based Midram Publications had started printing IHT from India a few months ago, stirring a controversy. As per current government norms, foreign news publications cannot be printed in India. > >Foreign investment was allowed in print media around two years ago. While up to 26% foreign direct investment is allowed in news, specialty and technical journals can go up to 74% foreign investment. > >================== > >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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Announcements from SIS-2005
by JK Vijayakumar 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

Hello Colleagues, Greetings!! Organising committee selected following professionals as main resource persons for SIS-2005. Conference Director: Prof M.P.Satija, Dept. of Library and Information Science, Sri Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar Tutorials: *Dspace: Dr A.R.D.Prasad, Professor, D.R.T.C., Bangalore. *E-Publishing: Dr M.G.Sreekumar Librarian, IIM Kozhikode Theme Papers: 1. Dr E.Rama Reddy University Librarian, Central University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. 2. Dr Harishchandra Librarian, IIT Madras Chennai. 3. Prof C R Karisiddappa Dept. of Library and Information Science Karnatka University, Dharwad. 4. Prof Roshan Lal Raina Librarian, IIM Lucknow Lucknow. 2. Announcements: The Organizing Committee resolved to facilitate the participants from SAARC countries to pay the registration and accomodation amounts in Rupees on par with Indian participants i.e.Rs 1200 and and Rs 600/. The Organizing Committee would like to encourage the young LIS professionals by sponsoring two Research Scholars and two MLIS students for free participation in the Conference and they will be paid T.A. by train (Second class sleeper) in shortest route possible. The Heads of Departments of LIS are requested to nominate suitable candidates. For updates on SIS-2005, visit the conference site at http://sis-india.netfirms.com/sis2005.htm -------------- Prof. RSR Varalakshmi Organising Secretary SIS-2005 Professor and HOD, Dept. of Library and Information Science., Andhra University. Visakhapatnam. E-Mail - rvsn4321(a)yahoo.co.in Phone - 91 891 2844385-7(O); 91 891 2535251(R) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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Library automation discussed at PLANNER convention
by JK Vijayakumar 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

Library automation discussed at convention The Imphal Free Press http://www.kanglaonline.com/index.php?template=headline&newsid=20385&typeid… IMPHAL, Nov 4: The second convention of Promotion of Library Automation and Networking in North Eastern Region, PLANNER began today at the Centenary Hall, Manipur University under the theme Content Creation, Access and Management in Networked Environment. The two-day event is being organised by INFLIBNET centre, UGC based in Ahmedabad. The opening day�s programme was attended by the chairperson of the Manipur Human Rights Commission, Justice WA Shishak as the chief guest, vice-chancellor of university, Prof N Bijoy as the president and deputy director of UGC Bangladesh, Abdul Awal as the guest of honour. Other important participants included chief coordinator, Premchand, university deans and staff. On the occasion, WA Shishak released a book and Prof N Bijoy released a souvenir. In his address, Abdul Awal stated that INFLIBNET had a vision to bridge libraries in different universities through a computer based networking system. The Bangladesh UGC is moved by the success of the programme being launched by INFLIBNET, Awal added and forwarded his wish to make contact chain network between Bangladesh and India. The chief guest, WA Shishak remarked that the present generation are fortunate to be born in the computer age. He was optimistic that the ongoing endeavor of bringing INFLIBNET to the north-eastern states will ensure the passage of the region among successful states in the field of communication. It will also benefit information seekers, scholars and academicians, he added. Prof N Bijoy showed conviction that the theme of the convention, content creation, access and management in networked environment holds potential to bring immense benefit to the librarians. He further stated that libraries have many added roles in the arena of disseminating information through the latest technologies. The traditional concept of a library, which brought to mind a place to access paper records and books had been redefined to one that houses the most advanced media facilities, including CD-ROM, internet, virtual library and remote access to a wide range of network. Consequently, librarians and information professionals have to increasingly dispense their traditional duties combined with tasks involving continuously evolving technologies, he added. Nowadays, librarians need to have complete information of a wide variety of sources, both scholarly and public information related. At the same time, they are required to keep pace with changing trends in publication, computers and media in order to oversee the selection and organisation of library materials. He later mentioned that due to the enhanced information gathering capacity of new communication systems, libraries have been entrusted a valuable role in providing information to scholars and readers alike. http://www.kanglaonline.com/index.php?template=headline&newsid=20385&typeid… -- JK Vijayakumar, INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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NRI starts mobile library at village in Punjap
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=105678 NRI starts mobile library at village Anupam Bhagria Ludhiana, November 3: It is a dream come true for NRI Dr Jaswant Singh who started Pahiyanwali Library Sewa at his native village Judahan. He has used his more than 15 years of experience of serving as librarian in the US for the mobile library. The library has more than 1,600 books on all subjects, one trained driver and a part-time library manager. Dr Jaswant Singh said, ''I along with my wife Jasjit Kaur who is also serving as librarian in the US made 90 per cent efforts while the 10 per cent contribution we got from other NRIs. The library has been set by the Anant Education and Rural Development Trust with an investment of Rs 22 lakh and its annual expenditure will be between Rs 5 lakh and 6 lakh, which will also be incurred by the Trust.'' To begin with, the library which was inaugurated today by Prof Prithpal Singh Kapoor, will go in three villages on every Thursday, said Dr Amarjit Singh, member of the Trust, who retired as the Head of Department of Journalism, Languages and Culture from Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. He said, ''Today, the library visited villages Judahan, Rangoowal and Phallowal, where books were issued to readers and they were also given the time table of the mobile library, so that more people can know about the timings of the library, so that they may get the books issued and return them.'' Dr Jaswant Singh said, ''Next Thursday, we will go to the same villages and collect the issued books. This way every Thursday we will cover three new villages and slowly we will visit more villages on other days of the week.'' Dr Jaswant Singh, who was a lecturer at Malwa Training College, Ludhiana, went to Canada in the mid-sixties and from here he moved to the US in the '70s and worked as a librarian there for more than 15 years. He said, ''For five months, I stay in India and for seven months in the US. In my absence, the other members of the Trust, Dr Amarjit Singh, Ved Prakash, a retired teacher, Manmohan Singh Virdi, a PCO owner, and Manmohan Singh Gujjarwal, who will see legal aspects and other problems of the library, will take care of the library.'' Jaswant Singh who regrets that the Punjab Public Library Act is not being passed by the state government as it is still lying pending in the office of the Education Secretary. If this is passed, any village can open a library, they can do so with the help of the state government, locals and NRIs. Since 1993, I have been urging the officers of the Punjab government to pass this Act, but in vain.'' 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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by vasanth raj 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

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APINESS vs APNICNET
by Seshu Sripada 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Hi Could you please clarify me for APINESS- Asian Pacific Information Centre for Social sciences and APNIC.NET (http://www.apnic.net/info/about.html) both are same are different. If it is different please give the url link for APINESS. 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 clarify me for APINESS- Asian Pacific Information Centre for Social sciences and APNIC.NET ( http://www.apnic.net/info/about.html http://www.apnic.net/info/about.html ) both are same are different. If it is different please give the url link for APINESS. 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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Medical Journals seeking FDI
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Please see the following news item on many journals (among other periodicals) form India seeking Foreign Direct Investment. If this happens, even Indian journals would start asking for heavy copyright fees for supplying Journal articles. In this context pushing hard for starting Open Archives including legal measures supporting this facility is needed. Regards Vyasamoorthy, P =============== http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=73117 NEW DELHI: Around 60 publications, across news and specialty categories, are awaiting foreign investment, according to sources. While most of these are English newspapers/magazines, regional publications are also making a pitch for foreign investment, it is learnt. Many of these applications, mainly specialty/technical journals, are understood to be in the process of getting the government nod. Medical journals form a large chunk of publications seeking foreign investment, sources said. When contacted, a senior official in the information and broadcasting ministry, refused to share any information regarding the pending applications. "I cannot indicate numbers or names," he told FE. He, however, added that very often there was a delay in clearing applications, as companies did not furnish sufficient information. Under normal circumstances, clearances/comments from various ministries take about a month or so. Besides the administrative ministry - I&B - others consulted, through an inter-ministerial committee, include finance, commerce and industry, external affairs and home. Depending on the subject matter of the publication, comments from ministries such as health and sports could also be sought, it is learnt. In addition, companies are required to get clearance from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB). Among the media groups which have already been granted clearance for foreign investment include Business Standard, Hindustan Times, Living Media and Bennett Coleman. Among others, Bennett Coleman's application to publish Wall Street Journal from India is still being examined. Earlier, Cybermedia's request to publish BusinessWeek from the country was not considered by the government. Sources indicated that till the International Herald Tribune (IHT) issue is resolved, the government may not like to deal with news publications. Hyderabad-based Midram Publications had started printing IHT from India a few months ago, stirring a controversy. As per current government norms, foreign news publications cannot be printed in India. Foreign investment was allowed in print media around two years ago. While up to 26% foreign direct investment is allowed in news, specialty and technical journals can go up to 74% foreign investment. ================== 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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TAPIR arrives for ETD Projects using DSpace
by JK Vijayakumar 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Good news for users of DSpace for their ETD Projects. The Edinburgh University initiative "EUL-DSpace Add-On" may now be referred to as TAPIR - Theses Alive Plugin for Institutional Repositories has been developed at Edinburgh University Library to help provide an E-Thesis service within an institution using DSpace. It has been developed as part of the Theses Alive! Project under funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), as part of the Focus on Access to Institutional Resources (FAIR) Programme. You can find more on The Tapir, including a download of the source code, at its home on SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/tapir-eul. Or visit the site http://www.thesesalive.ac.uk/dsp_home.shtml for more details. You can also read two articles on TAPIR at Aridane http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue41/jones/ and http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/jones/ ---- J. K. Vijayakumar INFLIBNET __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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"Reed Elsevier: Science Friction" - A Citicorp Report
by Subbiah Arunachalam 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Citicorp report on Elsevier and open access On October 8, Citigroup Smith Barney issued a 56 page report, _Reed Elsevier: Science Friction_, analyzing the STM journal industry and the market position of Reed Elsevier. The authors are Rogan Angelini-Hurll, Marc Sugarman, Roberto Odierna, and Tom Singlehurst, in consultation with Vighnesh Padiachy. The report is not online, so I can't link to it. But here is my summary of its main conclusions, or at least the main conclusions of interest to proponents of open access. * During 2004, Reed Elsevier profits will grow more slowly than the STM publishing sector overall. Moreover, constrained library budgets and increased government scrutiny exert pricing pressure on the whole STM sector. Consequently Citicorp is downgrading its rating of Elsevier stock from Hold/Medium Risk to Sell/Medium Risk and lowering its price target from 500p to 450p. * Growth in the Reed Elsevier science division will slow down in the short term and require new investment. However, the rise of OA institutional repositories will create new risks for that investment. * Most libraries have finished switching over to electronic delivery, so Elsevier's premium for ejournals will no longer bring in much revenue. At the same time, more and more libraries want out of the big deal. * Open access is rising in popularity and will not go away. OA archives and OA journals are increasing in number and usage, and governments are considering policies that would mandate OA to taxpayer-funded research. * The market will move towards upfront-funded OA journals. However, several factors will slow the transition, which will therefore be evolutionary rather than revolutionary. For the short or medium term, but not the long term, the transition to upfront funding for journals will cost more than the present system. Governments may be reluctant to reduce research funding in order to pay for OA. To support their journals, society publishers might have to give up revenue now used for other purposes. OA journals will not have the benefit of funding from corporate users that conventional journals currently enjoy. * The STM journal market is peculiar. Journals don't pay authors. Readers don't pay journals; because libraries pay on behalf of readers, readers know the quality but rarely the cost of what they read. Journals don't compete directly with one another and have a monopoly on the distribution of their own articles. Unlike other consumers, libraries spend up to the limit of their budgets. * Publishers explain their price increases by citing increased costs, increased volume, increased usage, and increased investment in infrastructure for electronic publishing. However, when examined closely (details in the report), these explanations are misleading and unpersuasive. Citicorp believes that price increases are mainly due to a desire to maintain high profit margins. * If the price per article is falling, it is due to greater volume, clever bookkeeping, and bundling, and does not result in lower costs for subscribers. * Library budgets are maxed out. If publishers continue to raise prices, libraries will have to purchase smaller and smaller percentages of the published literature. * Universities are starting to understand that rising journal prices and journal use of copyright are reducing access to research. At the same time universities are starting to see the benefits of open access as an alternative to the current system. (At this point, the report offers a table based on my list of University Actions Against High Journal Prices, <http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/lists.htm#actions>.) However, while universities protest high prices, and some endorse open access, most renew their Elsevier subscriptions. * OA advocates are correct to argue that OA removes access barriers, increases the visibility and impact of authors and their work, increases a funding agency's return on investment, relieves library budgets, brings access to non-academics, and provides a business model that scales with research funding rather than with library funding. * On the downside, the "author-pays" model may not be economically sustainable, may not transfer from biomedicine to other fields, may "penalize" high-output research institutions and countries (though this "penalty" may be "more than recouped" through OA efficiencies), and may not generate revenue needed for post-publication expenses such as long-term preservation and upgrading technology. * Government intervention is justified by the use of public money to fund research, to fund researcher salaries, and to fund the purchase of journal subscriptions. * Today the level of knowledge about open access among scientists is low, but this will change. Universities are starting to educate their faculty about OA and to recommend it (in part) as a solution to library budget problems. Large and conspicuous government-sponsored OA initiatives are imminent in the U.S. and U.K. Successful OA journals are rising in usage and repute. ___________________________________________________________ Win a castle for NYE with your mates and Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Radio Talk on E-mail Communication
by I.R.N.Goudar 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Hello Lis-forum members, You may like to listen to a Radio Talk on " Know about E-Affairs: E-mail as a Quick and Effective Means of Communication" by Mrs. Poornima Narayana, Deputy Head, ICAST, NAL, Bangalore All India Radio, Bangalore, Bhadravathi, Mysore, etc On 3rd Nov 2004 (Wednesday) at 9.16 pm -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-5086081 Head, Information Centre for 91-80-5235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-5268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road http://www.icast.org.in/staff1.htm BANGALORE-560 017 India

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SLA-MAHD Travel Grant to attend SLA conference in Toronto
by JK Vijayakumar 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Original Message ----- From: Martha McPhail To: ifla-l(a)infoserv.inist.fr Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 12:26 AM Subject: travel grant to SLA conference in Toronto IFLA Colleagues: The Museums, Arts and Humanities Division of the Special Libraries Association is offering a travel grant to attend the SLA annual conference in Toronto, Canada, June 5-9, 2005. The grant is specifically for arts or humanities librarians from developing countries. Past awardees have come from Nicaragua, the Philippines, and Trinidad and Tobago. Application information and criteria are available on the SLA website: http://www.sla.org/division/dmah/Travel%20Grant.htm Martha McPhail Past-chair, Museums, Arts and Humanities Division, 2004/2005 Special Libraries Association http://www.sla.org/division/dmah/ E-Mail: mmcphail(a)mail.sdsu.edu San Diego State University 619-594-6736 ---- Posted by JK Vijayakumar __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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search full text article
by monawwer eqbal 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Dear Sir/Madam I am research scholar of department of library and information science AMU akigarh,UP. I am doing PhD on "Total quality Management in central university library :A Study".Please help me to search fulltext articles on the Internet. or get me information in which web sites I can get this inforamation. With regards MONAWWER EQBAL AMU ALIGARH Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Sir/Madam I am research scholar of department of library and information science AMU akigarh,UP. I am doing PhD on "Total quality Management in central university library :A Study".Please help me to search fulltext articles on the Internet. or get me information in which web sites I can get this inforamation. With regards MONAWWER EQBAL AMU ALIGARH 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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Workshop on DSpace, HTML and Mylibrary
by G. K. Manjunath 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Workshop on DSpace, HTML and Mylibrary December 27, 2004 to January 1, 2005 Organizers and Venue Library Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen Vaidy Marg, Film City Road, Santosh Nagar, Goregaon (E) MUMBAI-400 065 For further details please visit http://www.igidr.ac.in/lib/dlw.htm 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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interactive Medical Library
by vasanth raj 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Dear sir/madam/ Friends There is a interactive Medical library at "Medical futures India" in Mysore which is exclusively for medical student , doctors and research schlors of health sciences. If you are intrested to visit that Library you can visit to following address. Interactive Medical library doctor's corner Gokulam 3rd stage Mysore Vasantha Raju N dept of library and Inforamation science University of Mysore Mysore Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear sir/madam/ Friends There is a interactive Medical library at "Medical futures India" in Mysore which is exclusively for medical student , doctors and research schlors of health sciences. If you are intrested to visit that Library you can visit to following address. Interactive Medical library doctor's corner Gokulam 3rd stage Mysore Vasantha Raju N dept of library and Inforamation 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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SLA-PAM International Award Member Call for Nominations
by JK Vijayakumar 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

----- Original Message ----- From: Debra K. Bailey Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 12:02 AM Subject: SLA-PAM International Award Member Call for Nominations International Membership Award Call for Nominations for 2005-2006 The Physics Astronomy Mathematics (PAM) Division of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) is now calling for nominations for the International Membership Award. The SLA-PAM Division will present this award to a librarian from the Developing World; it provides a two-year SLA membership, for the years 2005 and 2006. For more information, please visit the following web page: http://www.sla.org/division/dpam/manual/awards/pamimadetails.html Nominations should be submitted to the chair of the International Relations Committee of the PAM Division (address below) by December 31, 2004 and the award will be announced in January 2005. Objective The purpose of the award is to provide an opportunity for a librarian from the Developing World to be an active member of SLA and of SLA-PAM. Components The award will provide SLA membership, including PAM Division affiliation, for a period of two years (2005-2006). The award recipient will serve as a member of PAM's International Relations Committee (IRC) during the term of the award. PAM will normally fund the award recipient to attend SLA's annual conference during the first year of the award. The award recipient will prepare a short report on the state of scientific information/libraries in his/her country, to be presented to the membership at the annual SLA conference either in person or in writing. The award recipient will also prepare a final report reflecting on his/her experience with PAM and providing recommendations for future improvements to the award program; this report is to be sent before the end of the second year of the award to the PAM Executive Board and PAM IRC. Qualifications The nominee must reside and work in a developing country and have basic English skills. The nominee must be working currently in a library, information center, library school or other information-related capacity, in one of the subject areas relevant to PAM: physics, astronomy, mathematics or computer science. The nominee will not normally have had a previous opportunity to become actively involved in SLA, such as by attending an SLA conference, or other professional library association meeting in the U.S. Nomination Process Self nominations are encouraged. Nomination documentation should include: A letter highlighting the candidate's professional career and qualifications and explaining why this person should be granted the award; The candidate's current professional resume [see resume guide at http://www.jobweb.com/Resumes_Interviews/default.htm if desired]; Contact information for the nominee: name, position, business address, and (if possible) email address. Nominations are to be submitted by 31 December 2004 to the PAM IRC chair, and the award recipient will be announced in January 2005. Selection Process The selection will be made by the PAM Executive Board in consultation with the PAM IRC chair. Address nominations to: Debra Bailey Chair, SLA-PAM International Relations Committee Fondren Library MS255 Rice University P.O. Box 1892 Houston, TX 77251-1892 Phone: 713-348-2350 Fax: 713-348-5859 Email: dbailey(a)rice.edu __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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MyLISA - November Lecture
by SUNIL M.V. 29 Oct '04

29 Oct '04

Mysore Librarian and Information Scientists Association (MyLISA) A Lecture on �Open Access and Institutional Repositories� By M G Sreekumar Librarian & Head Center for Development of Digital Libraries (CDDL) Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode Kunnamangalam P.O., Kozhikode, Kerala, India-673 571 You are cordially invited Date : 06.11.2004 Time : 3.30 P.M Venue : Dept. of Library and Information Science, Manasagangothri, Mysore-6 Sunil MV Librarian SDM Institute for Management Development No. 1, Chamundi Hill Road Siddartha Nagar, Mysore Phone : 0821 - 2420490/491 2429722/161 Fax: 0821-2425557 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. Mysore Librarian and Information Scientists Association ( MyLISA) � A Lecture on �Open Access and Institutional Repositories� � By M G Sreekumar Librarian & Head Center for Development of Digital Libraries (CDDL) Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode Kunnamangalam P.O., Kozhikode , Kerala, India-673 571 � You are cordially invited � Date � �� : 06.11.2004 Time � � � : 3.30 P.M Venue : Dept. of Library and Information Science, Manasagangothri, Mysore-6 Sunil MV Librarian SDM Institute for Management Development No. 1, Chamundi Hill Road Siddartha Nagar, Mysore Phone : 0821 - 2420490/491 2429722/161 Fax: 0821-2425557 Do you Yahoo!? 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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Fw:CoLIS 5 - call for contributions
by JK Vijayakumar 28 Oct '04

28 Oct '04

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call] CoLIS 5 Context: Nature, Impact and Role Fifth International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/colis5/ University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK 4-9 June 2005 CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIAL, WORKSHOP AND DOCTORAL FORUM CONTRIBUTIONS CoLIS 5 is the fifth in the series of international conferences whose general aim is to provide a broad forum for critically exploring and analysing research in areas such as computer science, information science and library science. The theme for CoLIS 5 will be the nature, impact and role of context within information-centred research and technologies. Context is a complex, dynamic, and multi-dimensional concept that influences both humans and machines: how they behave individually and how they interact with each other. In CoLIS 5 we will take an interdisciplinary approach to the issue of context to help us define the theoretical approaches to modelling and understanding context, to incorporate contextual reasoning within information access technology and to develop a shared framework for promoting the exploration of context. Contributions are invited that address issues such: the relationship between context and information, investigations of context in information seeking environments, models of context and relevance, contextual issues in interactive information retrieval, and contextual evaluations of information technologies. CoLIS5 is particularly interested in technical issues involved in modelling context, and methodologies for providing and evaluating context-sensitive technologies for information access. Submissions CoLIS 5 invites submissions of high quality research papers, proposals for half or full day tutorials, proposals for one day workshops and contributions to the Doctoral Forum. All submissions will be reviewed by the international program committee. All accepted research papers will be published in the conference proceedings by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Submissions guidelines for all types of contributions, including a full list of topic areas, are available at the conference website: http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/colis5/ Important dates 7 February 2005: Deadline for all submissions. 7 March 2005: Author notification 21 March 2005: Final camera-ready copy 4 June 2005: Doctoral Forum day 5 June 2005: Tutorials 6-8 June 2005: Plenary conference 9 June 2005: Workshops Invited speakers Prof. David Blair, University of Michigan Business School and Prof. Elisabeth Davenport, Napier University School of Computing Organisation Conference Chairs: Fabio Crestani. University of Strathclyde, UK Ian Ruthven. University of Strathclyde, UK. Tutorials chair: Monica Landoni. University of Strathclyde, UK. Workshops Chair: Jonathan Furner. University of California, Los Angeles, US. Doctoral Forum Chair: Pia Borlund. Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark. About the venue Glasgow is Scotland's largest city and the cultural, commercial and convention capital of Scotland. Surrounded by some of the most breathtaking scenery in Western Europe, the city is one of the liveliest and most cosmopolitan destinations in Europe. Glasgow boasts world famous art collections, the best shopping in the United Kingdom outside London, and the most vibrant nightlife in Scotland. For more information please visit the conference website at http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/colis5/ -------------- Ian Ruthven Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Strathclyde Glasgow G1 1XH Email: Ian.Ruthven(a)cis.strath.ac.uk Tel: +44 141 548 3098 Fax: +44 141 552 5330 http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/people/biography/ir/ CoLIS 5 - http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/colis5/ ---------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Mandating OA around the corner?
by Sukhdev Singh 28 Oct '04

28 Oct '04

This is exactly what I had experienced with our Online database IndMED [Bibliographic Database of Indian Journals, available freely from http://indmed.nic.in] As more and more people became aware of/User of IndMED, the request for the full text of the indexed article started increasing. To my surprise, they were even requesting articles which were from journals which had online presence and the full text available for free. May be people were not aware about these?. Putting links to such articles along with the references came to mind. I experimented, but soon realised that these journal sites did reorganisation of their content quite often. Hence the links "evaporated" in no time. It was too much to expect them to use PURLs, DOI etc. So leaving the link to the home pages was a practical way to inform IndMED users about online availability of journals. This helped to some extent but problems did not end even here. These journals changed their host and domain names. I had to put extra effort to keep track of their domains and modify our database. And once it also happened that a journal's domain name was purchased by some "unwanted content" provider. Since August 2003, NIC has a project called medIND (http://medind.nic.in) It has been designed to serve as "backend" for IndMED (I am using term 'backend' just because I could not find better word). It aims to host full content of the journals indexed in IndMED/PubMed. Here NIC takes the responsibility to digitalize and host the journals for free. In return the journal becomes freely accessible to the users. The contents of these journals are organised using a File Naming and Organising Policy. The same policy has been implemented to generate links on the fly in the IndMED database. It ensures, one-to-one link between the Reference and the Full Text of the articles. As a Design Policy, these would be persistent to end users. I hope, Bio-Medical Community will be less frustration while searching for Indian Bio-Medical Literature. But still, there is need for Open Access Archive for Indian Medical Literature. And we will make it happen very soon. ATLEAST I BELIEVE IT!!! Thanks SUKHDEV SINGH, NIC. -----Original Message----- Friends: Here is a short message from Stevan Harnad that I received recently. I thought all of you might find it usful. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] -----Original Message----- From: Stevan Harnad [mailto:harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk] The Science Advisory Board, an international panel of 22,319 life science and medical professionals formed in 1997, has conducted a survey on "What makes searching scientific and medical literature online frustrating?": > Scientists Frustrated with Limited Access to Full-Text Documents > http://www.scienceboard.net/community/news/news.214.html > > While scientists often cite staying abreast of developments in their > field as the most common reason for reading scientific literature, > it is by far from the only reason. "Scientists perceive their > ability to access scientific and medical literature almost as an > unalienable right of their profession," observes Tamara Zemlo, > Ph.D., MPH, Director of The Science Advisory Board. The Internet > has reinforced this perception by increasing the speed and ease by > which these searches can be conducted. > > To find out what is the biggest obstacle to this ubiquitous scientific > practice, members of The Science Advisory Board participated in a poll > to address, "What makes searching scientific and medical literature > online frustrating?: Almost 80% of the 1,400 respondents stated that > limited access to full-text documents was the most annoying aspect > of online literature searches. It far exceeded the other complaints > of broken hypertext links, copyright restrictions and inadequate > search engines. > > Such sentiments will be sweet music to the ears of Public Library of > Science (PLoS) founders who espouse the philosophy that unrestricted > access to scientific and medical literature will accelerate progress > in these critical fields. Their model of offering full-text and data > of published research article--available free of charge anywhere > in the world--is still being tested. Time will tell whether the > scientists, who in theory embrace the nobility of this idea, will > choose to publish their own findings in such a venue. It continues to amaze, how researchers, despite their mounting frustration, remain blind (or paralyzed) with respect to the obvious! Why on earth would they want to keep waiting, passively, frustrated, for the eventual outcome of the test of a new cost-recovery model in order to gain access at last to one another's full-text articles, when they can already provide that access themselves, right now, by self-archiving their own articles? http://www.arl.org/scomm/subversive/toc.html There is no question but that the research community fervently desires Open Access: Already back in 2001, for example, 34,000 biologists worldwide signed the PLoS open letter to that effect, essentially threatening to stop publishing in and refereeing for journals if they did not provide Open Access. http://www.plos.org/about/letter.html But while researchers have proved willing and able to perform the requisite keystrokes for signing open letters, declarations and surveys clamouring for Open Access to be provided for them, it looks as if they are not yet ready to perform the few additional keystrokes it would take to actually provide that Open Access for themselves -- even when over 90% of their journals have already given them the green light to go ahead and do so, with their blessing! http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php It looks as if nothing less than a self-archiving mandate from their funders and employers will manage to induce the thirsty research cavalry, having been duly led to the waters of Open Access Self-Archiving, to actually stoop to drink, at last! http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php (Historians will have a jolly time sorting out why this was the case: why researcher inertia kept itself waiting, thirsty, needlessly, and despite mounting frustration, for over a decade, before grasping the optimal and inevitable that had been within their reach all along!) http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december99/12harnad.html http://www.infotoday.com/IT/oct04/poynder.shtml Stevan Harnad http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo… This is exactly what I had experienced with our Online database IndMED [Bibliographic Database of Indian Journals, available freely from http://indmed.nic.in] As more and more people became aware of/User of IndMED, the request for the full text of the indexed article started increasing. To my surprise, they were even requesting articles which were from journals which had online presence and the full text available for free. May be people were not aware about these?. Putting links to such articles along with the references came to mind. I experimented, but soon realised that these journal sites did reorganisation of their content quite often. Hence the links "evaporated" in no time. It was too much to expect them to use PURLs, DOI etc. So leaving the link to the home pages was a practical way to inform IndMED users about online availability of journals. This helped to some extent but problems did not end even here. These journals changed their host and domain names. I had to put extra effort to keep track of their domains and modify our database. And once it also happened that a journal's domain name was purchased by some "unwanted content" provider. Since August 2003, NIC has a project called medIND (http://medind.nic.in) It has been designed to serve as "backend" for IndMED (I am using term 'backend' just because I could not find better word). It aims to host full content of the journals indexed in IndMED/PubMed. Here NIC takes the responsibility to digitalize and host the journals for free. In return the journal becomes freely accessible to the users. The contents of these journals are organised using a File Naming and Organising Policy. The same policy has been implemented to generate links on the fly in the IndMED database. It ensures, one-to-one link between the Reference and the Full Text of the articles. As a Design Policy, these would be persistent to end users. I hope, Bio-Medical Community will be less frustration while searching for Indian Bio-Medical Literature. But still, there is need for Open Access Archive for Indian Medical Literature. And we will make it happen very soon. ATLEAST I BELIEVE IT!!! Thanks SUKHDEV SINGH, NIC. -----Original Message----- Friends: Here is a short message from Stevan Harnad that I received recently. I thought all of you might find it usful. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] -----Original Message----- From: Stevan Harnad [mailto:harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk] The Science Advisory Board, an international panel of 22,319 life science and medical professionals formed in 1997, has conducted a survey on "What makes searching scientific and medical literature online frustrating?": > Scientists Frustrated with Limited Access to Full-Text Documents > http://www.scienceboard.net/community/news/news.214.html > > While scientists often cite staying abreast of developments in their > field as the most common reason for reading scientific literature, > it is by far from the only reason. "Scientists perceive their > ability to access scientific and medical literature almost as an > unalienable right of their profession," observes Tamara Zemlo, > Ph.D., MPH, Director of The Science Advisory Board. The Internet > has reinforced this perception by increasing the speed and ease by > which these searches can be conducted. > > To find out what is the biggest obstacle to this ubiquitous scientific > practice, members of The Science Advisory Board participated in a poll > to address, "What makes searching scientific and medical literature > online frustrating?: Almost 80% of the 1,400 respondents stated that > limited access to full-text documents was the most annoying aspect > of online literature searches. It far exceeded the other complaints > of broken hypertext links, copyright restrictions and inadequate > search engines. > > Such sentiments will be sweet music to the ears of Public Library of > Science (PLoS) founders who espouse the philosophy that unrestricted > access to scientific and medical literature will accelerate progress > in these critical fields. Their model of offering full-text and data > of published research article--available free of charge anywhere > in the world--is still being tested. Time will tell whether the > scientists, who in theory embrace the nobility of this idea, will > choose to publish their own findings in such a venue. It continues to amaze, how researchers, despite their mounting frustration, remain blind (or paralyzed) with respect to the obvious! Why on earth would they want to keep waiting, passively, frustrated, for the eventual outcome of the test of a new cost-recovery model in order to gain access at last to one another's full-text articles, when they can already provide that access themselves, right now, by self-archiving their own articles? http://www.arl.org/scomm/subversive/toc.html There is no question but that the research community fervently desires Open Access: Already back in 2001, for example, 34,000 biologists worldwide signed the PLoS open letter to that effect, essentially threatening to stop publishing in and refereeing for journals if they did not provide Open Access. http://www.plos.org/about/letter.html But while researchers have proved willing and able to perform the requisite keystrokes for signing open letters, declarations and surveys clamouring for Open Access to be provided for them, it looks as if they are not yet ready to perform the few additional keystrokes it would take to actually provide that Open Access for themselves -- even when over 90% of their journals have already given them the green light to go ahead and do so, with their blessing! http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php It looks as if nothing less than a self-archiving mandate from their funders and employers will manage to induce the thirsty research cavalry, having been duly led to the waters of Open Access Self-Archiving, to actually stoop to drink, at last! http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php (Historians will have a jolly time sorting out why this was the case: why researcher inertia kept itself waiting, thirsty, needlessly, and despite mounting frustration, for over a decade, before grasping the optimal and inevitable that had been within their reach all along!) http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december99/12harnad.html http://www.infotoday.com/IT/oct04/poynder.shtml Stevan Harnad

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applicants please check for the qualifications
by SCKumaresan 28 Oct '04

28 Oct '04

Dear Friends, Greetings to all. I have received a number of resumes in response to my earier mail for the post of Librarian. All the applicant have excellant qualifications, however none of them has mentioned anything about their elequonce in "Arabic" Please be informed that this is very important that the Librarian has to interact with students who have little or no knowledge in English. so please make sure that you are quite elequent in arabic and then apply. Moreover candidates who have over 20 years of experience and drawing more than 25,000 rupees salary may think twice before you applly, because Universities here are not that big like in india and as far as professional growth is concerned its almost nil. (This is purely my personnel opinion and kind suggestion based on my experience.) Those quilifed applications would be forwarded to the University Authorities and they would be reviewd by them and if shortlisted you will hear from them directly. Thank you 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… Dear Friends, Greetings to all. I have received a number of resumes in response to my earier mail for the post of Librarian. All the applicant have excellant qualifications, however none of them has mentioned anything about their elequonce in "Arabic" Please be informed that this is very important that the Librarian has to interact with students who have little or no knowledge in English. so please make sure that you are quite elequent in arabic and then apply. Moreover candidates who have over 20 years of experience and drawing more than 25,000 rupees salary may think twice before you applly, because Universities here are not that big like in india and as far as professional growth is concerned its almost nil. (This is purely my personnel opinion and kind suggestion based on my experience.) Those quilifed applications would be forwarded to the University Authorities and they would be reviewd by them and if shortlisted you will hear from them directly. Thank you 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

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Fultext articles
by Krishna Maraddi 28 Oct '04

28 Oct '04

Dear Sir/Madam I am Krishna Maraddi, Librarian of SKSVMAgadi College of Engg.&Tech. Laxmeshwar, of Karnataka. I am doing PhD on "Networking of College Libraries", Please help me to search fulltext articles on the Internet. or get me information in which web sites I can get this inforamation. With regards KRISHNA MARADDI --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. Dear Sir/Madam � I am Krishna Maraddi, Librarian of SKSVMAgadi College of Engg.&Tech. Laxmeshwar,�of Karnataka. I am doing PhD on "Networking of College Libraries", Please help me to search fulltext articles on the Internet. or get me information in which web sites I can get this inforamation. � With regards KRISHNA MARADDI 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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