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Fwd: Adv.for Teaching Positions
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 23 Sep '04

23 Sep '04

Pravakar Rath <pkrath_99(a)hotmail.com> wrote:From: "Pravakar Rath" To: naglaxman(a)yahoo.com CC: naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com Subject: Adv.for Teaching Positions Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:24:00 +0530 Request for circulation among the LIS Professionals Mizoram University( A Central University estblished in 2001 under an Act in the Parliament) is inviting applications for One position of Lecturer (Open) and One Position of Reader (Open) for its Department of Library and Information Science. The last date of submission of filled in application along with other details is 25th October,2004. Kindly go through the coming Employment News and University News for details including Proforma of Application. Dr Pravakar Rath Professor and Head Department of Library and Information Science Mizoram University (A Central University) Aizawl, 796001 Phone-(0389)2345228 _________________________________________________________________ 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 --------------------------------- Does your mail provider give you a FREE online calendar? Yahoo! does. Get Yahoo! Mail Pravakar Rath <pkrath_99(a)hotmail.com> wrote: From: "Pravakar Rath" To: naglaxman(a)yahoo.com CC: naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com Subject: Adv.for Teaching Positions Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:24:00 +0530 Request for circulation among the LIS Professionals Mizoram University( A Central University estblished in 2001 under an Act in the Parliament) is inviting applications for One position of Lecturer (Open) and One Position of Reader (Open) for its Department of Library and Information Science. The last date of submission of filled in application along with other details is 25th October,2004. Kindly go through the coming Employment News and University News for details including Proforma of Application. Dr Pravakar Rath Professor and Head Department of Library and Information Science Mizoram University (A Central University) Aizawl, 796001 Phone-(0389)2345228 _________________________________________________________________ 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 Does your mail provider give you a FREE online calendar? Yahoo! does. http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/mail/taglines/h/calendar/*http://uk.mail.yahoo.com Get Yahoo! Mail

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DLIS-IATLIS Annual lecture By Dr David F Kohl & one day seminar on digital resources at Osmania University on 29 sept
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 23 Sep '04

23 Sep '04

Dept. of Library & Information Science Osmania University, Hyderabad Cordially invite you to DLIS IATLIS Annual Lecture 2004 on LIBRARY CONSORTIA: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS on Wednesday, the 29th September, 2004 at 11.00 a.m. at New Seminar Hall, Univ. College of Arts & Social Sciences, O.U. Dr. C. S. RAO Advisor (IT), Government of Andhra Pradesh has kindly consented to be the Chief Guest Dr. DAVID F KOHL Dean & University Librarian, Emeritus University of Cincinnati, U.S.A. has kindly consented to deliver the Annual Lecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. N. Laxman Rao Dr. J. Yadagiri Reddy Professor, DLIS, OU Head, DLIS, OU ############################################# Dept. of Library & Information Science Osmania University, Hyderabad in Collaboration with ICSSR Southern Regional Centre and United States Educational Foundation in India Cordially invite you to One day Seminar on MANAGEMENT OF DIGITAL RESOURCES on Thursday, the 30th September, 2004 at 9.45 a.m. at ICSSR Conference Hall, O.U. Library Sri GIREESH SANGHI Member Of Parliament (RS) CMD and Managing Editor, Vaartha and AGA Publications has kindly consented to be the Chief Guest Dr. DAVID F KOHL Dean & University Librarian, Emeritus University of Cincinnati, U.S.A. has kindly consented to deliver the address PROF. M. MUTHA REDDY Registrar Osmania University, Hyderabad will preside -------------------------------------------------------------------Dr. J. Yadagiri Reddy Dr. Masood Ali Khan Prof. N. Laxman Rao Head, DLIS, OU Director, ICSSR -SRC Seminar Director 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 --------------------------------- Does your mail provider give you a FREE online calendar? Yahoo! does. Get Yahoo! Mail Dept. of Library & Information Science Osmania University, Hyderabad Cordially invite you to DLIS IATLIS Annual Lecture 2004 on LIBRARY CONSORTIA: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS on Wednesday, the 29 th September, 2004 at 11.00 a.m. at New Seminar Hall, Univ. College of Arts & Social Sciences, O.U. Dr. C. S. RAO Advisor (IT), Government of Andhra Pradesh has kindly consented to be the Chief Guest Dr. DAVID F KOHL Dean & University Librarian, Emeritus University of Cincinnati, U.S.A. has kindly consented to deliver the Annual Lecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. N. Laxman Rao Dr. J. Yadagiri Reddy Professor, DLIS, OU Head, DLIS, OU ############################################# Dept. of Library & Information Science Osmania University, Hyderabad in Collaboration with ICSSR Southern Regional Centre and United States Educational Foundation in India Cordially invite you to One day Seminar on MANAGEMENT OF DIGITAL RESOURCES on Thursday, the 30 th September, 2004 at 9.45 a.m. at ICSSR Conference Hall, O.U. Library Sri GIREESH SANGHI Member Of Parliament (RS) CMD and Managing Editor, Vaartha and AGA Publications has kindly consented to be the Chief Guest Dr. DAVID F KOHL Dean & University Librarian, Emeritus University of Cincinnati, U.S.A. has kindly consented to deliver the address PROF. M. MUTHA REDDY Registrar Osmania University, Hyderabad will preside ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. J. Yadagiri Reddy Dr. Masood Ali Khan Prof. N. Laxman Rao Head, DLIS, OU Director, ICSSR -SRC Seminar Director Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Informa! tion 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 Does your mail provider give you a FREE online calendar? Yahoo! does. http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/mail/taglines/h/calendar/*http://uk.mail.yahoo.com Get Yahoo! Mail

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Standards for University Libraries in India
by ts kumbar 23 Sep '04

23 Sep '04

Dear Colleages, We are looking for the (latest available) information on the norms/ standards with regard to following prescribed by UGC, AICTE and NAAC for the University Libraries. Ratio: 1. Book Collection: Volumes per student 2. Text Book collection and student ratio 3. Number of journals and student ratio 4. Budget: Money spent per student on reading materials 5. Professional staff and student ratio 6. Library space and student ratio 7. Seats and student ratio 8. Computer workstations available in the library and student ratio 9. Elecronic Resources: articles per student We did spend quite a bit of time in locating this information on the above three academic body sites, but without much success. We would therefore appreciate, if you could kindly enlighten on this with the required information or guide us to any sources that could help us in getting this information. Regards Kumbar ============================================= T S Kumbar DA-IICT Gandhinagar email: ts_kumbar(a)da-iict.org http://www.da-iict.org tel: 079-30510550 Dear Colleages, We are looking for the (latest available) information on the norms/ standards with regard to following prescribed by UGC, AICTE and NAAC for the University Libraries. Ratio: 1. Book Collection: Volumes per student 2. Text Book collection and student ratio 3. Number of journals and student ratio 4. Budget: Money spent per student on reading materials 5. Professional staff and student ratio 6. Library space and student ratio 7. Seats and student ratio 8. Computer workstations available in the library and student ratio 9. Elecronic Resources: articles per student We did spend quite a bit of time in locating this information on the above three academic body sites, but without much success. We would therefore appreciate, if you could kindly enlighten on this with the required information or guide us to any sources that could help us in getting this information. Regards Kumbar ============================================= T S Kumbar DA-IICT Gandhinagar email: mailto:ts_kumbar@da-iict.org ts_kumbar(a)da-iict.org http://www.da-iict.org http://www.da-iict.org tel: 079-30510550

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OpenAccess
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 23 Sep '04

23 Sep '04

Dear Friends There is a full length article by the eminent Science Writer Dr D Balasubramanian in Today's Hindu (23rd Sep 2004)(p16) on "Open Access to Journals : Nobel Movement". He succinctly describes the problems of procuring journal literature. He advocates and supports Arunachalam's plea that GOI should make it mandatory for Government funded research output generated in India (also) be put in open archives by institutions concerned. Best wishes Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631

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Institutional Repositories & IPR
by Sanjay Kataria 23 Sep '04

23 Sep '04

Dear information scientist, Now a days, we are discussing on Design and development of Institutional Repositories but we did not discuss one of major issue i.e Intellectual Property Right. I have some small queries but important which are: 1. If any article/research paper already has published somewhere, Can we put/add the same article in the institutional repositories without permission from the concern publisher when author/scholar/generator of article has been working in the same organization. 2. Who should have intellectual property Right? Author or Publisher. 3. What kind of precaution or point we must keep in mind before putting intellectual property in Institutional Repositories. 4. Any special legal clause, should be followed? 5. Any standard agreement between author/scholar institution and Publishers. I am requesting to all information professional who have started this initiative and other who have specialization in IPR also, Kindly give their valuable opinion and suggestion on the issue. I am looking your valuable suggestion and comments pls. Sanjay Kataria Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology A-10, Sector-62, Noida(UP)-201307,India Sanjay.kataria(a)jiit.ac.in, Information.professional(a)gmail.com Ph.0120-2400971 to 978 Ext.251 09810503341 (Mobile) http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo… Dear information scientist, Now a days, we are discussing on Design and development of Institutional Repositories but we did not discuss one of major issue i.e Intellectual Property Right. I have some small queries but important which are: 1. If any article/research paper already has published somewhere, Can we put/add the same article in the institutional repositories without permission from the concern publisher when author/scholar/generator of article has been working in the same organization. 2. Who should have intellectual property Right? Author or Publisher. 3. What kind of precaution or point we must keep in mind before putting intellectual property in Institutional Repositories. 4. Any special legal clause, should be followed? 5. Any standard agreement between author/scholar institution and Publishers. I am requesting to all information professional who have started this initiative and other who have specialization in IPR also, Kindly give their valuable opinion and suggestion on the issue. I am looking your valuable suggestion and comments pls. Sanjay Kataria Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology A-10, Sector-62, Noida(UP)-201307,India Sanjay.kataria(a)jiit.ac.in, Information.professional(a)gmail.com Ph.0120-2400971 to 978 Ext.251 09810503341 (Mobile)

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Clinics on Consortia
by Dimple Patel 22 Sep '04

22 Sep '04

Dear LIS-FORUM Members, Documentation research and Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), is pleased to announce that Dr.David Kohl, Emeritus, University of Cincinnati and Senior Fulbright Specialist will be visiting faculty. Dr.Kohl is an expert in the area of Library and Information Consortia and has architected the OHIOLINK, which is one of the biggest and successful consortium. He has worked as a consultant to several projects internationally including national projects of Greece and Turkey. Dr.Kohl is presently Senior Fulbright Specialist and has offered consultancy to working, startup and proposed consortia during his stay here in India. We propose to hold a series of clinics to help trash out issues such as planning, design, implementation and negotiations through discussions and exchange of thought. This is an invitation to leaders, members and patrons of consortia to avail this opportunity to strengthen the Indian Consortial Initiatives. Please contact devika(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in for further details. Regards, Dimple Patel, DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, 8th Mile, Mysore Road, RVCE Post, Bangalore - 560059. http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo… Dear LIS-FORUM Members, Documentation research and Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), is pleased to announce that Dr.David Kohl, Emeritus, University of Cincinnati and Senior Fulbright Specialist will be visiting faculty. Dr.Kohl is an expert in the area of Library and Information Consortia and has architected the OHIOLINK, which is one of the biggest and successful consortium. He has worked as a consultant to several projects internationally including national projects of Greece and Turkey. Dr.Kohl is presently Senior Fulbright Specialist and has offered consultancy to working, startup and proposed consortia during his stay here in India. We propose to hold a series of clinics to help trash out issues such as planning, design, implementation and negotiations through discussions and exchange of thought. This is an invitation to leaders, members and patrons of consortia to avail this opportunity to strengthen the Indian Consortial Initiatives. Please contact devika(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in for further details. Regards, Dimple Patel, DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, 8th Mile, Mysore Road, RVCE Post, Bangalore - 560059.

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Need info. ASM HB
by susheela 22 Sep '04

22 Sep '04

Dear professional friends We are planning to subscribe for ASM Hand books Online. In order to know the procedure to subscribe and also the technical issues involved in downloading, can any one suggest me the libraries who have subscribed for ASM Hand books online. Thanks & Regards M.Suseela Tataprojects Limited Hyderabad E-mail: susheela(a)tataprojects.com Dear professional friends We are planning to subscribe for ASM Hand books Online. In order to know the procedure to subscribe and also the technical issues involved in downloading, can any one suggest me the libraries who have subscribed for ASM Hand books online. Thanks & Regards M.Suseela Tataprojects Limited Hyderabad E-mail: mailto:susheela@tataprojects.com susheela(a)tataprojects.com

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MLA and JISC in the UK join DCMI Affiliate Program
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 21 Sep '04

21 Sep '04

MLA and JISC in the UK join DCMI Affiliate Program DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, August 26, 2004The DCMI Directorate has announced that the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) and Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the further and higher education funding bodies in the UK have signed an Affiliate Agreement with the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) enabling the UK to become formally involved in the continued development of the Dublin Core metadata standards. MLA and JISC are the UK's official representatives, presenting the views of all UK public sector institutions at an international level. The Dublin Core was developed for use on the Web and in other information networks across a wide variety of subject areas, languages and economic sectors. Dublin Core has been adopted by several national governments, of which the United Kingdom is the largest. DC has been translated into 25 languages, and has participants from more than 50 countries. DCMI is the maintenance agency for the Dublin Core standard (ISO 15836) and is responsible for its further development, maintenance, standardization and promotion. OCLC serves as the Host for DCMI, and manages its Web site. The signing of the UK Affiliate marks an important step forward for DCMI, and reminds us, as well, that the UK has been a leading contributor to global metadata since 1995. We look forward to their continued influence in the operation and governance of the Initiative. More information DCMI Announcement http://dublincore.org/news/#ukaffiliate Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) http://www.mla.gov.uk/ Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) www.jisc.ac.uk/ Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) http://dublincore.org/ For more information: Makx Dekkers Managing Director Dublin Core Metadata Initiative makx(a)makxdekkers.com Bob Bolander Communications & Programs Manager OCLC Research bolander(a)oclc.org +1-614-761-5207 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! MLA and JISC in the UK join DCMI Affiliate Program DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, August 26, 2004 The DCMI Directorate has announced that the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) and Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the further and higher education funding bodies in the UK have signed an Affiliate Agreement with the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) enabling the UK to become formally involved in the continued development of the Dublin Core metadata standards. MLA and JISC are the UK's official representatives, presenting the views of all UK public sector institutions at an international level. The Dublin Core was developed for use on the Web and in other information networks across a wide variety of subject areas, languages and economic sectors. Dublin Core has been adopted by several national governments, of which the United Kingdom is the largest. DC has been translated into 25 languages, and has participants from more than 50 countries. DCMI is the maintenance agency for the Dublin Core standard (ISO 15836) and is responsible for its further development, maintenance, standardization and promotion. OCLC serves as the Host for DCMI, and manages its Web site. The signing of the UK Affiliate marks an important step forward for DCMI, and reminds us, as well, that the UK has been a leading contributor to global metadata since 1995. We look forward to their continued influence in the operation and governance of the Initiative. More information DCMI Announcement http://dublincore.org/news/#ukaffiliate http://dublincore.org/news/#ukaffiliate Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) http://www.mla.gov.uk/ http://www.mla.gov.uk/ Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ www.jisc.ac.uk/ Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) http://dublincore.org/ http://dublincore.org/ For more information: Makx Dekkers Managing Director Dublin Core Metadata Initiative mailto:makx@makxdekkers.com makx(a)makxdekkers.com Bob Bolander Communications & Programs Manager OCLC Research mailto:bolander@oclc.org bolander(a)oclc.org +1-614-761-5207 Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=21626/*http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun!

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Internet v 2.0
by Ayesha Taranum 21 Sep '04

21 Sep '04

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Fwd: MLAI 2004
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 21 Sep '04

21 Sep '04

dear friends please see the details of MLAI conference laxman rao From: ambuja(a)vsnl.com Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 16:33:17 +0500 Subject: MLAI 2004 To: india-lis(a)infoserv.inist.fr Dear Professionals This year's annual convention of Medical Library Association of India (MLAI 2004) is being hosted by University of Madras, Dr.ALM Post Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chennai. The theme of the Convention is "Information and Knowledge management in Health Sciences: Newer Perspectives". Requesting all Librarians / Information Scientists to participate in the Convention. For further information kindly login www.mlaichennai.org best Regards Ambuja __________________________________ Dr.R.Ambuja Organizing Secretary MLAI 2004 Deputy Librarian University of Madras Dr.ALM Post Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Taramani - Chennai - 600 113 Telephone - 044 - 24926021 Fax - 044 - 24926709 ************************************************************************** INDIA-LIS INDIA-LIS INDIA-LIS INDIA-LIS INDIA-LIS ************************************************************************** To post messages to INDIA-LIS, send messages to: india-lis(a)infoserv.inist.fr To manage your account, change subscription options, or visit the archive: http://infoserv.inist.fr/wwsympa.fcgi/info/india-lis INDIA-LIS requires that subscribers login with a password to change their list profiles. First time users can request a password from the page above. Any questions can be directed to the list moderator at: vkj(a)library.iitkgp.ernet.in <> <> ************************************************************************** INDIA-LIS INDIA-LIS INDIA-LIS INDIA-LIS INDIA-LIS ************************************************************************** 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! dear friends please see the details of MLAI conference laxman rao From: ambuja(a)vsnl.com Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 16:33:17 +0500 Subject: MLAI 2004 To: india-lis(a)infoserv.inist.fr Dear Professionals This year's annual convention of Medical Library Association of India (MLAI 2004) is being hosted by University of Madras, Dr.ALM Post Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chennai. The theme of the Convention is "Information and Knowledge management in Health Sciences: Newer Perspectives". Requesting all Librarians / Information Scientists to participate in the Convention. For further information kindly login http://www.mlaichennai.org www.mlaichennai.org best Regards Ambuja __________________________________ Dr.R.Ambuja Organizing Secretary MLAI 2004 Deputy Librarian University of Madras Dr.ALM Post Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Taramani - Chennai - 600 113 Telephone - 044 - 24926021 Fax - 044 - 24926709 ************************************************************************** INDIA-LIS INDIA-LIS INDIA-LIS INDIA-LIS INDIA-LIS ************************************************************************** To post messages to INDIA-LIS, send messages to: india-lis(a)infoserv.inist.fr To manage your account, change subscription options, or visit the archive: http://infoserv.inist.fr/wwsympa.fcgi/info/india-lis INDIA-LIS requires that subscribers login with a password to change their list profiles. First time users can request a password from the page above. Any questions can be directed to the list moderator ! at: vkj(a)library.iitkgp.ernet.in < > < > ************************************************************************** INDIA-LIS INDIA-LIS INDIA-LIS INDIA-LIS INDIA-LIS ************************************************************************** Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=21626/*http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun!

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Press Release
by Nazrul Azmi 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

The Hamdard Library Organises an inaugral function of its automated library system on september 18, 2004 at 4.00 p.m. at the Hamdard Convention Centre Hall No. 1, inaugrated by Mr. Mohd. Ali Ashraf Fatmi, Honble Union State Minister, HRD. Late Hakim Abdul Hameed Saheb, a renowned physician and humanist, eastablished Jamia Hamdard in 1989. The central bibliographic Resource Centre, Hakim Mohd. Said Central Library boast of more than 1.5 lakh bibliographic records including a marvellous collection of manuscripts in veriety of languges and subjects. To make the collection of library available to the academic community in accordance with the demand of modern automated environment, the university library has undertaken a project of computerising its various activities. To this end we are using the LIBSYS library application software. It is Worth mentioning with a degree of pride that the Jamia Hamdard Library has the unique distinction of achieving a satisfactory level of computerization of all its activities from the book acquisition to its cataloguing, classification and issue to return. It will not be out of place to appreciate our quickest implementation of the intricate processes of automation. Nazrul Islam Azmi HMS Central Library Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo… The Hamdard Library Organises an inaugral function of its automated library system on september 18, 2004 at 4.00 p.m. at the Hamdard Convention Centre Hall No. 1, inaugrated by Mr. Mohd. Ali Ashraf Fatmi, Honble Union State Minister, HRD. Late Hakim Abdul Hameed Saheb, a renowned physician and humanist, eastablished Jamia Hamdard in 1989. The central bibliographic Resource Centre, Hakim Mohd. Said Central Library boast of more than 1.5 lakh bibliographic records including a marvellous collection of manuscripts in veriety of languges and subjects. To make the collection of library available to the academic community in accordance with the demand of modern automated environment, the university library has undertaken a project of computerising its various activities. To this end we are using the LIBSYS library application software. It is Worth mentioning with a degree of pride that the Jamia Hamdard Library has the unique distinction of achieving a satisfactory level of computerization of all its activities from the book acquisition to its cataloguing, classification and issue to return. It will not be out of place to appreciate our quickest implementation of the intricate processes of automation. Nazrul Islam Azmi HMS Central Library Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi

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Re: REFRESHER COURSE AT OSMANIA UNIVERSITY-
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 18 Sep '04

18 Sep '04

I AM SORRY FOR SPELLING MISTAKES. RESENDING THE CORRECTED ONE "Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> wrote:DEAR FRIENDS ACADEMIC STAFF COLLEGE, OSMANIA UNIVERSITY IS ORGANISING A REFRESHER COURSE FOR COLLEGE LIBRARIANS, ASST LIBRARIANS OF UNIVERSITIES AND LECTURERS FROM 22 NOV 2004. THOSE DESIROUS OF ATTENDING THE SAID PROGRAM MAY APPLY TO THE DIRECTOR, ACADEMIC STAFF COLLEGE, OSMANIA UNIVERSITY.HYDERABAD- 500007. 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 --------------------------------- Does your mail provider give you a FREE online calendar? Yahoo! does. Get Yahoo! Mail 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! I AM SORRY FOR SPELLING MISTAKES. RESENDING THE CORRECTED ONE "Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> wrote: DEAR FRIENDS ACADEMIC STAFF COLLEGE, OSMANIA UNIVERSITY IS ORGANISING A REFRESHER COURSE FOR COLLEGE LIBRARIANS, ASST LIBRARIANS OF UNIVERSITIES AND LECTURERS FROM 22 NOV 2004. THOSE DESIROUS OF ATTENDING THE SAID PROGRAM MAY APPLY TO THE DIRECTOR, ACADEMIC STAFF COLLEGE, OSMANIA UNIVERSITY.HYDERABAD- 500007. 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 Does your mail provider give you a FREE online calendar? Yahoo! does. http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/mail/taglines/h/calendar/*http://uk.mail.yahoo.com Get Yahoo! Mail Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=21626/*http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun!

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vinayaka chaviti greetings
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 18 Sep '04

18 Sep '04

hi fellow pofessional friends WISH YOU A HAPPY VINAYAKA CHATHURTHI. gOD VIGNESHWARA WILL BLESS YOU WITH HAPPINESS 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 --------------------------------- ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! hi fellow pofessional friends WISH YOU A HAPPY VINAYAKA CHATHURTHI. gOD VIGNESHWARA WILL BLESS YOU WITH HAPPINESS 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 http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=21626/*http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun!

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LIS forum: Survey
by joydip chandra 17 Sep '04

17 Sep '04

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Re help
by KISHOR 17 Sep '04

17 Sep '04

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Fwd: Open Knowledge Network - A Request for Technical Advice
by Subbiah Arunachalam 17 Sep '04

17 Sep '04

----- Forwarded message from Ken Kitson <ken.kitson(a)oneworld.net> ----- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 19:31:53 +0100 From: Ken Kitson <ken.kitson(a)oneworld.net> Subject: [GKD] Open Knowledge Network - A Request for Technical Advice To: gkd(a)phoenix.edc.org Dear GKD Members, My name is Dr. Ken Kitson, and I am working as the software designer for the Open Knowledge Network <www.openknowledge.net> which is being co-ordinated by One World <www.oneworld.net> with partners in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The primary goal of OKN is to use information technology to stimulate the generation and exchange of local content between disadvantaged communities in the South. As such, key aspects of the software are that: it supports local languages; is easy to install, use and fix; is capable of working offline most of the time; works with relevant communication methods (poor dial-up lines, compact discs, wireless, satellite); runs on both Linux and Windows; uses open-source software and will become an open-source project. We have some pilot software (written in Java and PHP) running in around 30 community computing centres in India and four African countries, working in seven languages. A demonstration site showing the live local content from our network can be seen on the Internet at: <http://london.openknowledge.net:8080/okn/newsheet_eng.html> We are now designing the next release of the software, and would be particularly interested to know if members of the GKD list: - know of any similar projects we might collaborate with, or technology we should investigate - could advise which technology would be best for building up an active open source community in the South (for example, is Java the most popular language) - would be interested in getting involved in contributing technical advice to the OKN programme by joining our discussion group at: <http://www.dgroups.org/groups/okntechnology> Many thanks for your time. Best wishes, Ken Kitson Fwd: Open Knowledge Network - A Request for Technical Advice ----- Forwarded message from Ken Kitson <ken.kitson(a)oneworld.net> ----- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 19:31:53 +0100 From: Ken Kitson <ken.kitson(a)oneworld.net> Subject: [GKD] Open Knowledge Network - A Request for Technical Advice To: gkd(a)phoenix.edc.org Dear GKD Members, My name is Dr. Ken Kitson, and I am working as the software designer for the Open Knowledge Network <www.openknowledge.net> which is being co-ordinated by One World <www.oneworld.net> with partners in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The primary goal of OKN is to use information technology to stimulate the generation and exchange of local content between disadvantaged communities in the South. As such, key aspects of the software are that: it supports local languages; is easy to install, use and fix; is capable of working offline most of the time; works with relevant communication methods (poor dial-up lines, compact discs, wireless, satellite); runs on both Linux and Windows; uses open-source software and will become an open-source project. We have some pilot software (written in Java and PHP) running in around 30 community computing centres in India and four African countries, working in seven languages. A demonstration site showing the live local content from our network can be seen on the Internet at: < http://london.openknowledge.net:8080/okn/newsheet_eng.html http://london.openknowledge.net:8080/okn/newsheet_eng.html > We are now designing the next release of the software, and would be particularly interested to know if members of the GKD list: - know of any similar projects we might collaborate with, or technology we should investigate - could advise which technology would be best for building up an active open source community in the South (for example, is Java the most popular language) - would be interested in getting involved in contributing technical advice to the OKN programme by joining our discussion group at: < http://www.dgroups.org/groups/okntechnology http://www.dgroups.org/groups/okntechnology > Many thanks for your time. Best wishes, Ken Kitson

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Free online access CILIP Journals
by Shyam Prasad pujar 17 Sep '04

17 Sep '04

Sorry for cross-postings, if any. Dear Members, CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals), UK is currently offering free online access to its following journals: Journal of Information Science (1997->) Journal of Librarianship and Information Science (1997->) This offer lasts until November 2004. For more information, please have a look at: http://www.cilip.org.uk/publications/researchjournals/ 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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140-year-old Antique Library floor Tiles on Sale in Rajkot
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 17 Sep '04

17 Sep '04

Facelift on, Lang library parts with pieces of the past http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=99646 Hiral Dave Rajkot, September 15: Besides avid readers, the Lang Library is nowadays drawing antique lovers! The 140-year-old library, which has a vast collection of over one lakh books, many of them rare, has put on sale old clay floor tiles used when the building was built. About 1,000 antique tiles, used in the main room of the historic library, are on sale with the structure undergoing renovation. Librarian Bipin Mehta says, "The tiles have been carefully removed. Of all the tiles, only 1,000 perfect pieces have been selected for sale." Each tile has the manufacturing company's name and year engraved on it. Within four days of placing an advertisement, the Lang Trust which runs the library, has been flooded with enquiries from as far as US and UK besides parts of the State. While some want to add the tiles to their antique collection, many plan to make decorative pieces of them. An official of the Parswanath Co-operative Bank says, "We want some pieces to decorate the bank's garden. Their antique value would add to the beauty." But buyers will have to wait for a month. "We have given prospective buyers a month's time and will fix the rates only after looking at the response," says Mehta. The library has been named after a British general, W Lang who served in Saurashtra from 1856 to 1858. Library officials say Lang started a small library called 'Victoria' for women in a room of the Kothi Compound building. Victoria, with books from Lang's personal collection, soon became popular among women who were not allowed to go to school then. The library was later shifted to Jubilee Baug and thrown open to all. Many books still bear the stamp of Victoria library. The main reading room has been closed since May for renovation. White marble has replaced the old tiles, the wooden ceiling and staircase have received a fresh coat of paint and more lights have been installed in the reading hall. A special study room for university students has been built on the first floor. The monthly fees, however, remains Rs 5, says Mehta. The library owns rare books dating back to the 1800s like the Chambers Encyclopaedia (1888), Exploring and Adventure in Equatorial Africa (1861) besides the oldest Gujarati dictionary. The library is all set computerise its operations. Two computers will be installed to provide readers with information on availability of books and new arrivals, says Mehta. Mehta says plans are also afoot to post the books on internet. "To begin with, English and Gujarati books which are over 100 years old have been selected for the project. Soon, readers will have access to scanned versions of these books on the internet," he says. =============== sent by ========= Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Ph: +91(40)23480053

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Elsevier to forbid document copy dlivery by libraries
by Subbiah Arunachalam 17 Sep '04

17 Sep '04

A friend [Eberhard Hilf] tells me: "Elsevier is going to court in Germany against the University Libraries concerning document copy delivery. The Government intends to forbid document copy delivery in future, allowing documents to be viewed only on-screen in the library. See <http://www.urheberrechtsbuendnis.de> " Too bad for researchers and for Elsevier. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Elsevier to forbid document copy dlivery by libraries A friend [ Eberhard Hilf ] tells me: " Elsevier is going to court in Germany against the University Libraries concerning document copy delivery. The Government intends to forbid document copy delivery in future, allowing documents to be viewed only on-screen in the library. See < http://www.urheberrechtsbuendnis.de http://www.urheberrechtsbuendnis.de > " Too bad for researchers and for Elsevier. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Website on 'Fellowships' updated.
by sangeeta Halijwale 16 Sep '04

16 Sep '04

Dear Members, In reponse to my email to the LIS-FOURM regarding the website on 'fellowships' hosted by me few months back, I got very good feedback from some of you, for which I am highly thankful to you all. I am trying to update the site periodically with new fellowships as and when announced. Below mentioned are the fellowships of the month: General Fellowships: -------- Bharatpetroleum scholarship Indian Oil Department of Culture BD Bangur-endowment scholarship Nirman Shri Brihad Bharatiya Samaj Scholarship Medicine: ---------- Hargobind foundation Social sciences: ---------------- Agatha Harrison Memorial Fellowship for the year 2005-06 Indian Council of Social Science Research International Food Policy Research Institute Phelan Fellowship 2004-05 Furter details you may pl visit http://www.freewebs.com/fellowindia Thanks, Sangeeta Halijwale Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Film City Road Santosh Nagar Goregaon (E) Mumbai - 4000 065 phone: 022-28400919 http://www.igidr.ac.in/lib.htm

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Symposium on Consortia 6th-8th October, 2004
by Dimple Patel 16 Sep '04

16 Sep '04

Hi All, This is for the information of all LIS-FORUM members. Documentation Research and Training Centre in collaboration with Indian Digital Library in Engineering Sciences and Technology (INDEST), IIT Delhi and U.S. Educational Foundation in India (USEFI), is conducting a Symposium on Consortium Approach to Resource Sharing: Issues and Policies, during October 6th - 8th 2004, to be held at DRTC, Bangalore. More information available at: http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/DRTC/consortia/ Regards, Dimple Patel, DRTC, Bangalore. http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo… Hi All, This is for the information of all LIS-FORUM members. Documentation Research and Training Centre in collaboration with Indian Digital Library in Engineering Sciences and Technology (INDEST), IIT Delhi and U.S. Educational Foundation in India (USEFI), is conducting a Symposium on Consortium Approach to Resource Sharing: Issues and Policies, during October 6th - 8th 2004, to be held at DRTC, Bangalore. More information available at: http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/DRTC/consortia/ Regards, Dimple Patel, DRTC, Bangalore.

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InfoWatch July-Aug 2004
by M.R Lalitha 16 Sep '04

16 Sep '04

Dear LIS-Forum member, The combined July-Aug 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) July-Aug 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In This Issue: 1. Algolib - The Algorithms project's library and other packages of the algorithms project 2. Alkalinity calculator 3. Blinkx [A search tool] 4. BrainBoost - A no-search search engine 5. Computer Knowledge Virus tutorial 6. DASL - The Data and Story Library [An archive of statistical methods] 7. e-Learning Centre - Advice on how to build effective e-learning solutions 8. Electronic definations website 9. ExpatEngineer.net - The Expat Engineering job network 10. Glossary of plasma physics and fusion energy research 11. Hardware-guru [A website for hardware designers] 12. hogan-productions.com - Free computer and Internet books online 13. Matrix Market [A repository of test data for use in comparative studies of algorithms for numerical linear algebra] 14. NASA experimental communications satellites 15. Netscape DevEdge [A resource for web designers] 16. Nist visible cement dataset [A collection of 3-D data sets of cement, Plaster of Paris and common brick material] 17. Ocean Explorer [An educational site to learn about, discover and virtually explore the ocean realm] 18. Open channel software 19. PC Soft Land [Software archive on the Internet] 20. URLinfo [A tool providing information about webpages] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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Digital library for medical college : Kerala
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 16 Sep '04

16 Sep '04

http://www.hindu.com/2004/09/16/stories/2004091607800300.htm Digital library for medical college By Our Staff Reporter KOZHIKODE, SEPT. 15 (2004). The Health Minister, K.K. Ramachandran, will inaugurate the state-of-the-art digital library with high speed Internet connection at the Kozhikode Medical College library here on September 17. Talking to reporters here on Tuesday, the Medical College vice-principal, K. Parvathi, said the digital library would cost Rs. 50 lakhs with facilities of high speed Internet connection and 16 computers. The libraray is funded by the Association of Kerala Medical Graduates (AKMG), an organisation of alumni of the Medical College in the U.S. and Canada. Online medical journal subscriptions and CDs of medical textbooks will be provided. The new digital library is being set by C-DAC, Thiruvananthapuram. C-DAC will run the library for two years, after which the responsibility will be entrusted with the college. Though Internet facility is available in the library from 2001, there are only six computers set up with the assistance from the National Medical Library, New Delhi. Once the library gets 16 computers as part of its digitalisation programme, the library is likely to extend its working hours from the present 12 hours to 16 hours or even round-the-clock. Proposals for additional staff required for this purpose has been send to the Government. The students will be charged a nominal rate of Rs. 5 per hour. Smart cards will be issued to students at a charge which they can use for accessing the Internet. M.P. Veerendrakumar, MP, will distribute the first smart card at the function. The Mayor, Thottathil Ravindran, will preside. K. Ramamoorthy, Principal Secretary, Health, Meenu Hariharan, Director of Medical Education, B. Jayalekshmi, Joint Director of Medical Education, and T.P.M. Zahir, MLA, will attend the function. =====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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[Sigiii-l] ASIST SIG III Announces Winners of 2004 International Paper Contest (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 16 Sep '04

16 Sep '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:03:27 -0400 From: Yin Zhang <yinzhang(a)slis.kent.edu> To: asis-l(a)asis.org, sigiii-l(a)asis.org Subject: [Sigiii-l] ASIST SIG III Announces Winners of 2004 International Paper Contest The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST) International Information Issues Special Interest Group (SIG III) is pleased to announce the top winners of its fifth International Paper Contest. We are delighted to be able to offer eight awards this year. The winners are: 1 Shivanthi Weerasinghe (Sri Lanka) The role of financiers as intermediaries in bridging the information gap of micro entrepreneurs of Sri Lanka 2 G. Thamaraiselvi (India) Digital divide issues 3 K.T. Anuradha (India) Design and development of institutional repositories: A case study 4 S. Majumdar (India) Preservation and conservation of literary heritage: A case study of India 5 (tie) Ayoku A. Ojedokun (Botswana) The evolving sophistication of internet abuses in Africa 5 (tie) Nafiz Zaman Shuva (Bangladesh) Implementing information and communication technology in public libraries of Bangladesh 7 (tie) V S Cholin (India) Study on application of information technology for effective access to resources in Indian university libraries 7 (tie) Ariunaa Bariushanov (Mongolia) Current situation on Mongolian information technology and demand of library automation The theme of this year’s paper contest is "Managing and Enhancing Information: Cultures and Conflicts - The Developing World Perspective." The eight winning papers were selected from 25 papers received for this year’s competition. Each winner will be awarded a two-year individual membership in ASIST. Thanks to the continued generous support from Elsevier Publishers, the first place winner will be rewarded a minimum of $1,000 toward travel, conference registration, and accommodations while attending the ASIST Annual Conference in Providence, Rhode Island, November 13-18, 2004. These winning papers and other submitted papers for the competition will be considered for publication by Elsevier's International Information and Library Review, which is edited by Toni Carbo. Congratulations to the winners! The Contest Committee worked really hard in selecting the winning papers in a short time frame. The Committee this year was composed of Yunfei Du, International Paper Contest co-Chair; Sue O'Neill Johnson, co-Chair and Immediate Past Chair of SIG III; and Nathalie Leroy, co-Chair and SIG III Chair. This year’s judges are: • Suzie Allard, University of Tennessee • Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto • Nathalie Leroy, United Nations • Duncan Omole, The World Bank Their effort makes it possible to maintain this international network of digital scholars and experts on digital libraries and information technology in developing countries. More information about the paper competition is available from the SIG III website under Paper Contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yin Zhang, Ph.D. SIG III Chair-Elect and Communications Officer School of Library and Information Science Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242 email: yinzhang(a)slis.kent.edu phone: 330-672-0010 _______________________________________________ Sigiii-l mailing list Sigiii-l(a)asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigiii-l

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Fw: Invitation- eForum on "OPEN ACCESS to Scholarly Publications: A model for enhanced knowledge management?"
by Dr. M. P. Tapaswi 15 Sep '04

15 Sep '04

This should be of interest to many on LIS-FORUM. Any one can participate. - Tapaswi ----- Original Message ----- From: Vikas Nath To: murari(a)darya.nio.org Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 7:54 PM Subject: Invitation- eForum on "OPEN ACCESS to Scholarly Publications: A model for enhanced knowledge management?" Dear Dr. Tapaswi, We invite you to participate in the upcoming eForum on "OPEN ACCESS TO SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS: A MODEL FOR ENHANCED KNOWLEDGE MANGEMENT?" hosted by the global public goods Network (gpgNet). http://www.gpgnet.net/topic08.php The eForum will run from 20 September through 4 October 2004. To subscribe to this forum, send a blank email to: subscribe-gpgnet-oa(a)groups.undp.org or, go to: http://groups.undp.org/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=gpgnet-oa There exists a rapidly expanding stock of scientific knowledge. Yet, access to this pool of knowledge is often difficult. A primary reason for this is the relatively high price of scholarly journals, their printed and their web-based versions. This situation, it can be argued is both inequitable and inefficient. Initiatives have been undertaken to demonstrate that scientific knowledge need not necessarily be published in forms that make access expensive - or even impossible. It could be provided free of charge - through open access to it - without detrimental effect on scientific knowledge production and preserving the peer-review process that is key to validate scientific results. With open access, fees to meet the publishing costs - when required - are paid up front when articles are accepted by a journal, rather than by the readers. Access to the journal is then provided for free. Today, about 5% of academic publishing follows the open-access model. But the model is quickly gaining ground, including among both for-profit (BioMedCentral -BMC) and not-for-profit (Public Library of Science PloS) publishers. We can also deliver open access through archives or repositories. OA repositories do not perform peer review, but can host and disseminate works that have been peer-reviewed elsewhere. They are built on open-source software and are very inexpensive to launch and maintain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The key points suggested for the debate are: 1. What are the main pros and cons of open-access scholarly publishing? 2. Thinking in particular of scholars in developing countries (and the fact that research grants may not be as easily available for them than for industrial-country scholars), could they face a new disadvantage? What sources will be available to pay these fees when authors cannot get their funder or employer to pay them? Will all open-access journals be able to waive processing fees in cases of economic hardship, as PLoS and BMC do? Should the international aid community maintain a fund/facility to help meet these costs? 3. Is the open-access model of publishing more likely to be successful in some than in other fields? What would determine the likely success? 4. Could the open-access model of knowledge management be applied beyond scholarly academic publishing? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To aid debate on the topic, read a detailed overview of how open access to scholarly publications works by Peter Suber, Open Access Project Director at Public Knowledge, Washington, D.C, available at http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/overview.htm Also read how the Budapest Open Access Initiative defines "Open Access" at http://www.soros.org/openaccess Join us for this debate and share with us - and the global public - your observations on this topic. Inge Kaul Director Office of Development Studies Vikas Nath Manager global public goods Network (gpgNet) Forum United Nations Development Programme 336 East 45 Street New York NY 10017 USA Email: info(a)gpgnet.net URL: http://www.gpgNet.net --- gpgNet.net intends to serve researchers, policymakers, business and civil society as a platform for information exchange and discussion on issues concerning the theory, policy design and practice of providing global public goods. 20 September- 4 October 2004: gpgNet Forum on "Open Access to Scholarly Publications: A Model for Enhanced Knowledge Management?" Subscribe to this forum by sending a blank email to: subscribe-gpgnet-oa(a)groups.undp.org or going to: http://groups.undp.org/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=gpgnet-oa Read background paper to the discussion at http://www.gpgnet.net/topic08.php This should be of interest to many on LIS-FORUM. Any one can participate. - Tapaswi ----- Original Message ----- From: mailto:vikas.nath@undp.org Vikas Nath To: mailto:murari@darya.nio.org murari(a)darya.nio.org Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 7:54 PM Subject: Invitation- eForum on "OPEN ACCESS to Scholarly Publications: A model for enhanced knowledge management?" Dear Dr. Tapaswi, We invite you to participate in the upcoming eForum on "OPEN ACCESS TO SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS: A MODEL FOR ENHANCED KNOWLEDGE MANGEMENT?" hosted by the global public goods Network (gpgNet). http://www.gpgnet.net/topic08.php http://www.gpgnet.net/topic08.php The eForum will run from 20 September through 4 October 2004. To subscribe to this forum, send a blank email to: mailto:subscribe-gpgnet-oa@groups.undp.org subscribe-gpgnet-oa(a)groups.undp.org or, go to: http://groups.undp.org/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=gpgnet-oa http://groups.undp.org/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=gpgnet-oa There exists a rapidly expanding stock of scientific knowledge. Yet, access to this pool of knowledge is often difficult. A primary reason for this is the relatively high price of scholarly journals, their printed and their web-based versions. This situation, it can be argued is both inequitable and inefficient. Initiatives have been undertaken to demonstrate that scientific knowledge need not necessarily be published in forms that make access expensive - or even impossible. It could be provided free of charge - through open access to it - without detrimental effect on scientific knowledge production and preserving the peer-review process that is key to validate scientific results. With open access, fees to meet the publishing costs - when required - are paid up front when articles are accepted by a journal, rather than by the readers. Access to the journal is then provided for free. Today, about 5% of academic publishing follows the open-access model. But the model is quickly gaining ground, including among both for-profit (BioMedCentral -BMC) and not-for-profit (Public Library of Science PloS) publishers. We can also deliver open access through archives or repositories. OA repositories do not perform peer review, but can host and disseminate works that have been peer-reviewed elsewhere. They are built on open-source software and are very inexpensive to launch and maintain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The key points suggested for the debate are: 1. What are the main pros and cons of open-access scholarly publishing? 2. Thinking in particular of scholars in developing countries (and the fact that research grants may not be as easily available for them than for industrial-country scholars), could they face a new disadvantage? What sources will be available to pay these fees when authors cannot get their funder or employer to pay them? Will all open-access journals be able to waive processing fees in cases of economic hardship, as PLoS and BMC do? Should the international aid community maintain a fund/facility to help meet these costs? 3. Is the open-access model of publishing more likely to be successful in some than in other fields? What would determine the likely success? 4. Could the open-access model of knowledge management be applied beyond scholarly academic publishing? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To aid debate on the topic, read a detailed overview of how open access to scholarly publications works by Peter Suber, Open Access Project Director at Public Knowledge, Washington, D.C, available at http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/overview.htm Also read how the Budapest Open Access Initiative defines "Open Access" at http://www.soros.org/openaccess Join us for this debate and share with us - and the global public - your observations on this topic. Inge Kaul Director Office of Development Studies Vikas Nath Manager global public goods Network (gpgNet) Forum United Nations Development Programme 336 East 45 Street New York NY 10017 USA Email: info(a)gpgnet.net URL: http://www.gpgnet.net/ http://www.gpgNet.net --- gpgNet.net intends to serve researchers, policymakers, business and civil society as a platform for information exchange and discussion on issues concerning the theory, policy design and practice of providing global public goods. 20 September- 4 October 2004: gpgNet Forum on "Open Access to Scholarly Publications: A Model for Enhanced Knowledge Management?" Subscribe to this forum by sending a blank email to: mailto:subscribe-gpgnet-oa@groups.undp.org subscribe-gpgnet-oa(a)groups.undp.org or going to: http://groups.undp.org/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=gpgnet-oa http://groups.undp.org/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=gpgnet-oa Read background paper to the discussion at http://www.gpgnet.net/topic08.php http://www.gpgnet.net/topic08.php

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Pter Suber on the NIH Open Access Plan
by Subbiah Arunachalam 15 Sep '04

15 Sep '04

Suber, Peter. "NIH Open-Access Plan: Frequently Asked Questions" (2004) (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/nihfaq.htm). - Peter Suber has written a helpful FAQ about the U.S. House Appropriations Committee's recommendation regarding open access to journal articles that result from NIH grant-funded research. To recap the main points of the recommendation, such articles would be deposited in PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication. If NIH funds were used to support any publication costs, the articles would be made immediately available. Otherwise, they would be made available six months after publication. NIH would develop a plan by 12/1/04 to implement the recommendation in FY 2005. The FAQ clarifies the fine points of the recommendation (e.g., it's up to the researcher, not the publisher, to deposit the article), addresses the main issues that it raises (e.g., would journals lose subscribers as a result of the plan?), compares it to the Public Access to Science Act, discusses the future of the recommendation, and provides action steps for supporters (e.g., use the Public Knowledge Web form to send a fax to your Congressional delegation endorsing the recommendation). He also mentions the Alliance for Taxpayer Access , which the American Association of Law Libraries, the American Library Association, the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries, the Association of College & Research Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries, and many other organizations have recently formed to support the recommendation. - Pter Suber on the NIH Open Access Plan Suber, Peter. "NIH Open-Access Plan: Frequently Asked Questions" (2004) ( http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/nihfaq.htm http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/nihfaq.htm ). - Peter Suber has written a helpful FAQ about the U.S. House Appropriations Committee's recommendation regarding open access to journal articles that result from NIH grant-funded research. To recap the main points of the recommendation, such articles would be deposited in PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication. If NIH funds were used to support any publication costs, the articles would be made immediately available. Otherwise, they would be made available six months after publication. NIH would develop a plan by 12/1/04 to implement the recommendation in FY 2005. The FAQ clarifies the fine points of the recommendation (e.g., it's up to the researcher, not the publisher, to deposit the article), addresses the main issues that it raises (e.g., would journals lose subscribers as a result of the plan?), compares it to the Public Access to Science Act, discusses the future of the recommendation, and provides action steps for supporters (e.g., use the Public Knowledge Web form to send a fax to your Congressional delegation endorsing the recommendation). He also mentions the Alliance for Taxpayer Access , which the American Association of Law Libraries, the American Library Association, the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries, the Association of College & Research Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries, and many other organizations have recently formed to support the recommendation. -

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INFO 2004 (A South India Level LIS Students Meet) on 02 Oct 2004
by Maruthu Pandian 15 Sep '04

15 Sep '04

Dear Friends The Department of Library and Information Science and Alumni Association of Library and Information Science (AALIS) of Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirapalli, organising a South India Level LIS Students Meet ( Info 2004). LIS students are requested to participate in this programme. The programme includes Technical Paper Presentation, Quiz and Ad-Zap. Information regarding the programme is given below, for further details kindly visit the website http://www.geocities.com/aalisbhc . INFO 2004 (A South India Level LIS Students Meet) 02 Oct 2004 (Saturday) GUIDELINES FOR PARTICIPANTS PAPER PRESENTATION (Papyrus Praesentatio) Theme: Emerging Challenges in LIS Education Maximum of Two papers per institute Not more than 2500 words Maximum of 8 minutes for presentation A soft copy & hard copy have to be sent on or before 27 Sep. 2004 in MS-WORD format to aalis(a)rediffmail.com and Organizing Secretary respectively The participants should specify their Name & Institute only on the first page of the paper First paper : Rs. 1,000/- Cash +Rs.250/- worth of book ; Second paper : Rs. 500/- Cash + Rs.250/- worth of book ; Third paper: Rs.500/- worth of book QUIZ (Bregma Touch) � Library and Information Science One team (two participants only) per institute First Place : Rs. 1,000/- Cash + Rs.250/- worth of book ; Second Place : Rs. 500/- Cash + Rs.250/- worth of book ; Third Place : Rs.500/- worth of book AD �ZAP One team (max. of five participants) per institute A creative event to market Library and Information Products & Services . Name of the Products & Services will be given before 10 minutes of the event 5 minutes per team First Place : Rs. 1,000/-Cash + Rs.250/- worth of book ; Second Place : Rs. 500/- Cash + Rs.250/- worth of book ; Third Place : Rs.500/- worth of book GENERAL INFO No Registration fee It is an exclusive meet of Regular Stream of LIS students The Participants should send their registration form through proper channel on or before 27 Sep. 2004 Working Lunch and Tea will be provided No TA/DA and Accommodation will be provided Regards Maruthu Pandian B Alumni Association of Library and Information Science, Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirapalli --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today! Dear Friends � The Department of Library and Information Science and Alumni Association of Library and Information Science (AALIS) of Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirapalli, organising a South India Level LIS Students Meet ( Info 2004). LIS students are requested to participate in this programme. The programme includes Technical Paper Presentation, Quiz and Ad-Zap. Information regarding the programme is given below, for further details kindly visit the website http://www.geocities.com/aalisbhc http://www.geocities.com/aalisbhc . INFO 2004 (A South India Level LIS Students Meet) 02 Oct 2004 (Saturday) � GUIDELINES FOR PARTICIPANTS � PAPER PRESENTATION (Papyrus Praesentatio) Theme: Emerging Challenges in LIS Education Maximum of Two papers per institute Not more than 2500 words Maximum of 8 minutes for presentation A soft copy & hard copy have to be sent on or before 27� Sep. 2004 in MS-WORD format to mailto:aalis@rediffmail.com aalis(a)rediffmail.com and Organizing Secretary respectively The participants should specify� their Name & Institute only on� the first page of the paper First paper : Rs. 1,000/- Cash +Rs.250/- worth of book ; Second paper : Rs. 500/- Cash + Rs.250/- worth of book� ; Third paper: Rs.500/- worth of book � QUIZ (Bregma Touch) � Library and Information Science � One team (two participants only) per institute First Place : Rs. 1,000/- Cash + Rs.250/- worth of book�� ; Second Place : Rs. 500/- Cash + Rs.250/- worth of book ; Third Place : Rs.500/- worth of book � AD �ZAP � One team (max. of five participants) per institute A creative event to market Library and Information Products & Services�. Name of the Products & Services will be given before 10 minutes of the event 5 minutes per team First Place : Rs. 1,000/-Cash + Rs.250/- worth of book ; Second Place : Rs. 500/- Cash + Rs.250/- worth of book ; Third Place : Rs.500/- worth of book � GENERAL INFO � No Registration fee � It is an exclusive meet of Regular Stream of LIS students� The Participants should send their registration form through proper channel on or before 27 Sep. 2004 Working Lunch and Tea will be provided�� No TA/DA�� and� Accommodation will be provided Regards Maruthu Pandian B Alumni Association of Library and Information Science, Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirapalli Do you Yahoo!? http://vote.yahoo.com vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today!

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congratulation on appointment
by Rakesh Gupta 15 Sep '04

15 Sep '04

Congratulation to Mr. Ashish Srivastava on his appointment as a Asstt. Librarian in Kanpur university, Kanpur. Rakesh kumar Gupta Sup (Lib), NHPC Ltd. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! Congratulation to Mr. Ashish Srivastava on his appointment as a Asstt. Librarian in Kanpur university, Kanpur. � � � Rakesh kumar Gupta Sup (Lib), NHPC Ltd. Do you Yahoo!? http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/50x/*http://promotions.yahoo.com/ne… Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers!

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Learning to see
by Aman Jha 14 Sep '04

14 Sep '04

Dear lis-forum members Kindly let me know the availability of the following title in any libraries in India. "Learning To See" by Mike Rother and John Shook. Published by the Lean Enterprise Institute, USA in 1999. Thanks and regards, Aman Jha CII Dear lis-forum members Kindly let me know the availability of the following title in any libraries in India. "Learning To See" by Mike Rother and John Shook. Published by the Lean Enterprise Institute , USA in 1999. Thanks and regards, Aman Jha CII

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A library all about sexual minority
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 14 Sep '04

14 Sep '04

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040913/asp/calcutta/story_3746768.asp A library all about sexual minority NISHA LAHIRI 13th september 2004 : The Telegraph, Calcutta Research work, case studies, journals, magazines, novels, anthologies, folklore... the list from any library. What's different about this one is that it's a resource centre for organisations and individuals involved - either professionally or personally - with sexual minorities. The Calcutta chapter of Saathii, an NGO working in the field, has started the library on its Salt Lake premises. Be it homosexuality, transsexuality or HIV/AIDS, people have free access to either educate, spread awareness or do research. The reference catalogue lists all the material available. When complete, it will also be available online. Partly funded by the Elton John AIDS Foundation - the proposal was sent last year and the funding is for a year, from March 2004 to February 2005 - it has a collection of anything that the Saathii team can lay its hands on. "I used to work in another NGO, where there was a library. People would constantly want books to check that there is a history of homosexuality, that it's not a sin, nor is it illegal in many countries," says Anupam Hazra, one of the two in charge of the library. "So we decided to have one here, for our partner organisations in Calcutta, as well as in Orissa and Manipur, who have far less to work with. Even though they can't access the library, if there is any specific information they want, we will supply it from the support centre," he adds. There are the latest reports from organisations like UNAID, as also journals like Pukaar by the Naz Foundation for South Asian sexual minorities in the UK, and Trikone, published by a similar NGO by the same name in San Francisco. There is fiction and non-fiction work, Indian and otherwise, dealing with historical to personal points of view. Plus, there are the self-help books and information guides, as well as a directory of NGOs in West Bengal connected to HIV/AIDS, Saathii Red Ribbon Pages. The library is not a lending one, but the bonus is a section on multimedia material (videos and VCDs). There are documentaries and docu-features, including Piku Bhalo Aachey by Saathii, Many People Many Desires by a Bangalore-based NGO and Gulabi Aina, which ran into censor trouble in India. A fun feature is the Saap Seedi game, a snakes-and-ladders replica by the Mumbai-based Humsafar Foundation to educate people about the safety factor. "Some of the books are bought, others are donated. The best source is studies and research presented in international conferences," sums up Pawan Dhal of Saathii, at the Sector I, CD block support centre. ========================== 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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Article Needed
by Avinashilingam University 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

Dear Proffessionals, Could any one of you can send me the article Berger, Allen (1993) "Distribution free estimates of efficiency in the US Banking Industry and tests of the standard Assumptions", JOurnal of Productivity Analysis, 4 Sep(1993), 261-292. This will be helpful for my research work. Thanking You Yours sincerely, Sudha http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo… Dear Proffessionals, Could any one of you can send me the article Berger, Allen (1993) "Distribution free estimates of efficiency in the US Banking Industry and tests of the standard Assumptions", JOurnal of Productivity Analysis, 4 Sep(1993), 261-292. This will be helpful for my research work. Thanking You Yours sincerely, Sudha

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Research Libraries' Costs of Doing Business
by B Sreeharsha 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

Hello, Here's an article FY Reference. Though the author, Greenstein, speaks about the research libraries in USA, I feel it also depicts our Indian context. i.e all the I I *s. http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm04510.asp Thanks Harsha Hello, Here's an article FY Reference. Though the author, Greenstein, speaks about the research libraries in USA, I feel it also depicts our Indian context. i.e all the I I *s. http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm04510.asp http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm04510.asp Thanks Harsha

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Life as a library researcher
by Aman Jha 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

<http://oed.com/newsletters/2004-09/library.html> Life as a library researcher A look at the work carried out by an OED researcher at the Bodleian Library. An interesting read. Source: http://oed.com/newsletters/2004-09/library.html 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 http://oed.com/newsletters/2004-09/library.html Life as a library researcher A look at the work carried out by an OED researcher at the Bodleian Library. An interesting read. Source: http://oed.com/newsletters/2004-09/library.html http://oed.com/newsletters/2004-09/library.html 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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(no subject)
by Subbiah Arunachalam 11 Sep '04

11 Sep '04

From: Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] The scholarly communication system that scholars deserve Herbert Van de Sompel, Sandy Payette, John Erickson, Carl Lagoze, and Simeon Warner, Rethinking Scholarly Communication: Building the System that Scholars Deserve, D-Lib Magazine, September 2004. Excerpt: There is growing dissatisfaction with the established scholarly communication system. This dissatisfaction is the result of a variety of factors including rapidly rising subscription prices, concerns about copyright, latency between results and their actual publication, and restrictions on what can be published and how it can be disseminated. The result is a global debate on how to remedy the system's deficiencies, and that debate has inspired concrete initiatives aimed at reforming the process. These are concerned mainly with access issues and seek to alleviate two longstanding problems. The first, known as the "serials crisis," addresses the often prohibitive prices of journal publications that impede access to scholarly materials. The second, known as the "permissions crisis," addresses the restrictions on use of publications once access has been obtained. The "Open Access" movement focuses primarily on these two problems with two different strategies. The self-archiving school strives for a scholar's right to make traditional journal publications freely available in an open repository. The journal-reform school promotes the emergence of new types of journals that are free at the point of use. While the open availability of the results of scholarly endeavors is indeed of fundamental importance to the future of scholarship, it is only one dimension of how the scholarly communication process can be transformed. As Geneva Henry has observed, opportunities abound in the world of 21st century publishing and the discussion on transforming scholarly communication must move beyond the debate of subscription-based vs. open access publication. [...] Our vision is based on our belief that the future scholarly communication system should closely resembleand be intertwined withthe scholarly endeavor itself, rather than being its after-thought or annex. We consider in this article the aspects of the established system that constrain the scholarly endeavor. Based on those considerations, we describe the desired technological characteristics of a future system of scholarly communication. We argue for a scholarly communication system composed of an interoperability substrate allowing flexible composition of the value-adding services that up to now have been vertically locked in the journal publication milieu. In this loosely coupled system, the units of scholarly communication (i.e., data, simulations, informal results, preprints, etc.) could follow a variety of scholarly value chains in which each hub provides a service such as registering results, certifying their validity, alerting scholars to new claims and findings, preserving the scholarly record, and ultimately rewarding scholars for their work. ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Scholarly communication and OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 11 Sep '04

11 Sep '04

>From Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Excellent site on scholarly communication at UC The University of California Office of Scholarly Communication has launched a very useful site, Reshaping Scholarly Communication. It has tips for scholars on how to maximize impact, retain copyright, and influence publishers. It recommends both OA archiving and OA journals. It offers background on the economics of publishing and the open-access alternatives. It links to a wealth of detail about what the University of California itself is doing. And finally, it maintains an incredible table of 3,300+ journals, showing the publisher, the list price, the impact factor, the number of online UC uses, and the average price increase over the past two years. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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New feature in the WHO E-commerce Bookshop home page
by Tomas Allen 10 Sep '04

10 Sep '04

For any librarians or information specialists needing to keep up on the latest WHO publications... All the best, Tomas Allen (please excuse cross postings) New feature in the WHO E-commerce Bookshop home page (http://bookorders.who.int) To receive regular information on new products published by WHO, simply click on "Sign up for regular updates" and provide your e.mail address. It will be registered in our mailing list. Nouveauté sur la page d'accueil du site de la Librarie OMS en ligne (http://bookorders.who.int) Pour recevoir régulièrement des informations sur les nouveautés, simplement cliquer sur "Envoyez moi des informations sur les nouveautés" et indiquer votre adresse électronique. Elle sera enregistrée dans notre liste d'envois. Novedad en la pagína de acceso de la Librería en línea de la OMS (http://bookorders.who.int) Para recibir información sobre novedades, pulse "Deseo recibir información sobre novedades", indique su dirección de correo electronico . Será registrada en nuestras listas de envios. _________________________________________________________________ Holen Sie sich jetzt doch wesentlich mehr Speicher für Ihr Hotmail-Konto! http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=de-ch&DI=1057&XAPID=1581

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Radio talk on 10th September at 9.16 p.m.
by srels 10 Sep '04

10 Sep '04

Dear Sir, Please arrange to announce the following message to the members. Sincerely, Chitra Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, Upstaris, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Ph: 23305109 ; e-mail : srels(a)vsnl.com ; ****** The postponed AIR broadcast of the talk on International Literacy Day by Dr. K.N. Prasad, SRELS, will be broadcast to-day (10th) at 9.16 pm by the Bangalore Station of All India Radio. Dear Sir, Please arrange to announce the following message to the members. Sincerely, Chitra Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, Upstaris, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Ph: 23305109 ; e-mail : mailto:srels@vsnl.com srels(a)vsnl.com ; ****** The postponed AIR broadcast of the talk on International Literacy Day by Dr. K.N. Prasad, SRELS, will be broadcast to-day (10th) at 9.16 pm by the Bangalore Station of All India Radio.

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MyLISA Lecture on Effective Stress Managemenet
by SUNIL M.V. 09 Sep '04

09 Sep '04

Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (MYLISA) & Academy of Information Science (AIS) Mysore Lecture On Effective Stress Management By Dr. Shailaja Shastri, M.A., Ph.D. Counselor International Academy for Creative Teaching (iACT) Bangalore Date: September 11, 2004Time: 3.00 P.M Venue: Seminar Hall Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore You are cordially invited --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Shop for Back-to-School deals on Yahoo! Shopping. Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (MYLISA) & Academy of Information Science (AIS) Mysore � Lecture On Effective Stress Management � By Dr. Shailaja Shastri, M.A., Ph.D. Counselor International Academy for Creative Teaching ( i ACT) Bangalore � Date: September 11, 2004 Time: 3.00 P.M � Venue: Seminar Hall Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore � You are cordially invited � � � Do you Yahoo!? http://shopping.yahoo.com/b:Back%20to%20School%20Sale%202004:96644124;_ylc=… Shop for Back-to-School deals on Yahoo! Shopping .

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Interview with Springer's New CEO
by B Sreeharsha 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

Hello, Mr. Derk Haank, Springer's new CEO(also Elsevier's former Chairman) reveals his ideas including OPEN CHOICE, Springer's new strategy for Open Access, and different pricing models for journals, specially for STM Journals. Good one to analyse. http://www.infotoday.com/it/sep04/poynder.shtml Regards Harsha Hello, Mr. Derk Haank, Springer's new CEO(also Elsevier's former Chairman) reveals his ideas including OPEN CHOICE, Springer's new strategy for Open Access, and different pricing models for journals, specially for STM Journals. Good one to analyse. http://www.infotoday.com/it/sep04/poynder.shtml http://www.infotoday.com/it/sep04/poynder.shtml Regards Harsha

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New Publication on IT in Libraries
by D. B. Ramesh 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

Dear sir, A new book entitled "Information Technology Applications in Libraries - A Textbook for Beginners" edited by Prof. M. Mahapatra and myself has been released on 3rd July 2004. I sincerely hope that the book will be quite useful to our professionals. It includes 60 topics with 11 extended notes written by 37 experts in the field. It has xii, 644 pages, hard bound and moderately priced at Rs. 680.00 for India and US$60.00 for abroad (inclusive of postage). Copies can be purchased from the publisher address mentioned below: M/s. Reproprint (P) Ltd., N-5/44, IRC Village, BHUBANESWAR- 751 015, Orissa, India Payment should be made in favour of M/s. Reproprint (P) Ltd., Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India. Thanks. Yours sincerely, Dr. D. B. Ramesh, Head, Library, Regional Research Laboratory, Bhubaneswar-751013, Orissa, India Dear sir, A new book entitled "Information Technology Applications in Libraries - A Textbook for Beginners" edited by Prof. M. Mahapatra and myself has been released on 3rd July 2004. I sincerely hope that the book will be quite useful to our professionals. It includes 60 topics with 11 extended notes written by 37 experts in the field. It has xii, 644 pages, hard bound and moderately priced at Rs. 680.00 for India and US$60.00 for abroad (inclusive of postage). Copies can be purchased from the publisher address mentioned below: M/s. Reproprint (P) Ltd., N-5/44, IRC Village, BHUBANESWAR- 751 015, Orissa, India Payment should be made in favour of M/s. Reproprint (P) Ltd., Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India. Thanks. Yours sincerely, Dr. D. B. Ramesh, Head, Library, Regional Research Laboratory, Bhubaneswar-751013, Orissa, India

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Vacancy notification
by vijayalakshmijs＠ingvysyabank.com 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

National Judicial Academy, Bhopal is looking for Librarian and Library Assistant on Deputation Pay Scale: Librarian: Rs.10000-15200; Library Asst: Rs.5500-9000 Last date: Within 30 days For more information, please have a look at: <http://www.nja.nic.in/opportunities.pdf> [Source: Employment News, August 21-27, 2004] Thanks and regards Vijayalakshmi J S Librarian STC ING Vysya Bank Ltd. PH NO: 26507281 e-mail: vijayalakshmijs(a)ingvysyabank.com

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OCLC/ALISE Library & Information Science Research Grant Program (LISRGP)
by Aman Jha 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

OCLC/ALISE Library & Information Science Research Grant Program (LISRGP) 2005 Call for proposals OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Incorporated and OCLC Research, in collaboration with the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), announce the Library and Information Science Research Grant (LISRG) program for 2005 and invite research proposals. Program description In recognition of the importance of research to the advancement of librarianship and information science, OCLC and ALISE promote independent research that helps librarians integrate new technologies into areas of traditional competence and contributes to a better understanding of the library environment. Project funding The LISRG program provides grant awards of up to $15,000. Monies may be applied to the following costs: * Release time from teaching for the principal investigator * Research assistants * Project-related travel * Equipment, if integral to the research * Other research expenses Staff training, general operating or overhead expenses, and other indirect costs are not funded. Guarantees of cost sharing are not required, although institutional support of projects is anticipated. All costs must be clearly defined in the budget portion of the proposal. Capital equipment cost should be prorated if the useful life of the equipment extends beyond the end of the project. Project duration LISRG program-supported projects are expected to be conducted within approximately one year from the date of the award. Projects should be planned to begin in January 2005. Publication of findings As a condition of the grant, researchers must furnish OCLC a final project report promptly following the completion of the project. OCLC and ALISE may elect to publish and distribute all or portions of the report without restriction. Researchers must include, or cause to be included, recognition of the OCLC/ALISE LISRG grant in all publications of research results of the LISRG project. The results of the research must be nonproprietary and in the public domain. Eligibility Full-time academic faculty, or equivalent, in schools of library and information science are eligible to apply. OCLC and ALISE encourage international proposals and collaborative projects under this program. Proposals must be signed by the principal investigator, by the dean/director (or equivalent) of the school, and by an authorized official of the university. Proposal review procedures Proposals are evaluated by a panel selected by OCLC and ALISE. Occasionally, proposals may be distributed to additional expert reviewers selected by OCLC and ALISE who may advise the panel. The panel's recommendations are forwarded to the vice president of OCLC Research, for final review and funding decisions. The decisions of the vice president of OCLC Research are final. Reviewers consider the following criteria, among others, when evaluating proposals: 1. Does the proposal meet the formal criteria as laid out in the Call for Proposals? Proposals not meeting formal criteria will not be further evaluated and will not be funded. This includes length of proposal, presence of requested signatures, eligibility of requesting institution, presence of budget, and description of role of all investigators. 2. Is the project clearly described, the problem well defined, and the research objectives clearly stated? 3. Is there sufficient review of literature? 4. Is the proposed methodology appropriate and are the investigative procedures clearly explained? 5. What is the significance of the proposed research to either the library and information science community as a whole or to OCLC specifically? 6. Are sufficient resources available? Do the people proposing the research appear capable of conducting the research? Is institutional commitment to support the project apparent? To aid new researchers, priority will be given, when possible, to proposals from junior faculty and applicants who have not previously received LISRG funds. When a decision to award a grant has been made, a research project monitor is assigned by OCLC Research. The research project monitor serves as the point of contact for the LISRG recipient during the duration of the project. Application procedures To apply, complete and submit the following: 1. OCLC/ <http://www.oclc.org/research/grants/lisrgp_proposal.pdf> ALISE LISRG proposal cover page (PDF:25K/1pp.). The principal investigator, dean/director (or equivalent) of the school, and an authorized official of the university must sign the proposal cover page. 2. A double-spaced research proposal. Submit one original and six copies, each stapled in the upper left-hand corner. The proposal should: * Describe the nature, scope, and method of the proposed research * Explain why the research is innovative through reference to related research reported in the literature * Propose the anticipated significance of the research to library and information science * Identify methods that will be used to measure the success of the project * Suggest future research based on the anticipated results of the project * Briefly note dissemination plans 3. Detailed budget that clearly identifies the funding requested and identifies institutional cost sharing. Equipment and travel requests must be explicitly justified. 4. Additional supporting materials such as curricula vitae of project staff, bibliography, project schedule, letters of support. The role and contribution of all investigators should be clearly specified. Applicants should take care that proposals are complete and, including cover page, budget, and supporting materials described above, do not exceed 20 pages. Submit one original and six copies of the complete proposal. Send applications or inquiries to: OCLC/ALISE LISRG Program OCLC Research OCLC Online Computer Library Center 6565 Frantz Road Dublin, OH 43017-3395 USA (614) 764-6000, ext. 6487 Application deadline Applications must be postmarked no later than September 15, 2004, and will be acknowledged upon receipt. Late applications will be returned without review. Grant recipients will be notified by the end of December 2004 and announced at the ALISE '05 National Conference, January 11-14, 2005 in Boston. OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that has provided computer-based cataloging, reference, resource sharing and preservation services to 45,000 libraries in 84 countries and territories. <http://www.alise.org/> ALISE is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote excellence in research, teaching, and service for library and information science education. 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 OCLC/ALISE Library & Information Science Research Grant Program (LISRGP) 2005 Call for proposals OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Incorporated and OCLC Research, in collaboration with the Association for Library and Information Science Education ( ALISE ), announce the Library and Information Science Research Grant ( LISRG ) program for 2005 and invite research proposals. Program description In recognition of the importance of research to the advancement of librarianship and information science, OCLC and ALISE promote independent research that helps librarians integrate new technologies into areas of traditional competence and contributes to a better understanding of the library environment. Project funding The LISRG program provides grant awards of up to $15,000. Monies may be applied to the following costs: Release time from teaching for the principal investigator Research assistants Project-related travel Equipment, if integral to the research Other research expenses Staff training, general operating or overhead expenses, and other indirect costs are not funded. Guarantees of cost sharing are not required, although institutional support of projects is anticipated. All costs must be clearly defined in the budget portion of the proposal. Capital equipment cost should be prorated if the useful life of the equipment extends beyond the end of the project. Project duration LISRG program-supported projects are expected to be conducted within approximately one year from the date of the award. Projects should be planned to begin in January 2005. Publication of findings As a condition of the grant, researchers must furnish OCLC a final project report promptly following the completion of the project. OCLC and ALISE may elect to publish and distribute all or portions of the report without restriction. Researchers must include, or cause to be included, recognition of the OCLC/ ALISE LISRG grant in all publications of research results of the LISRG project. The results of the research must be nonproprietary and in the public domain. Eligibility Full-time academic faculty, or equivalent, in schools of library and information science are eligible to apply. OCLC and ALISE encourage international proposals and collaborative projects under this program. Proposals must be signed by the principal investigator, by the dean/director (or equivalent) of the school, and by an authorized official of the university. Proposal review procedures Proposals are evaluated by a panel selected by OCLC and ALISE . Occasionally, proposals may be distributed to additional expert reviewers selected by OCLC and ALISE who may advise the panel. The panel's recommendations are forwarded to the vice president of OCLC Research, for final review and funding decisions. The decisions of the vice president of OCLC Research are final. Reviewers consider the following criteria, among others, when evaluating proposals: Does the proposal meet the formal criteria as laid out in the Call for Proposals? Proposals not meeting formal criteria will not be further evaluated and will not be funded. This includes length of proposal, presence of requested signatures, eligibility of requesting institution, presence of budget, and description of role of all investigators. Is the project clearly described, the problem well defined, and the research objectives clearly stated? Is there sufficient review of literature? Is the proposed methodology appropriate and are the investigative procedures clearly explained? What is the significance of the proposed research to either the library and information science community as a whole or to OCLC specifically? Are sufficient resources available? Do the people proposing the research appear capable of conducting the research? Is institutional commitment to support the project apparent? To aid new researchers, priority will be given, when possible, to proposals from junior faculty and applicants who have not previously received LISRG funds. When a decision to award a grant has been made, a research project monitor is assigned by OCLC Research. The research project monitor serves as the point of contact for the LISRG recipient during the duration of the project. Application procedures To apply, complete and submit the following: http://www.oclc.org/research/grants/lisrgp_proposal.pdf OCLC/ ALISE LISRG proposal cover page (PDF:25K/1pp.) . The principal investigator, dean/director (or equivalent) of the school, and an authorized official of the university must sign the proposal cover page. A double-spaced research proposal. Submit one original and six copies, each stapled in the upper left-hand corner. The proposal should: Describe the nature, scope, and method of the proposed research Explain why the research is innovative through reference to related research reported in the literature Propose the anticipated significance of the research to library and information science Identify methods that will be used to measure the success of the project Suggest future research based on the anticipated results of the project Briefly note dissemination plans Detailed budget that clearly identifies the funding requested and identifies institutional cost sharing. Equipment and travel requests must be explicitly justified. Additional supporting materials such as curricula vitae of project staff, bibliography, project schedule, letters of support. The role and contribution of all investigators should be clearly specified. Applicants should take care that proposals are complete and, including cover page, budget, and supporting materials described above, do not exceed 20 pages. Submit one original and six copies of the complete proposal. Send applications or inquiries to: OCLC/ ALISE LISRG Program OCLC Research OCLC Online Computer Library Center 6565 Frantz Road Dublin, OH 43017-3395 USA (614) 764-6000, ext. 6487 Application deadline Applications must be postmarked no later than September 15, 2004, and will be acknowledged upon receipt. Late applications will be returned without review. Grant recipients will be notified by the end of December 2004 and announced at the ALISE '05 National Conference, January 11-14, 2005 in Boston. OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that has provided computer-based cataloging, reference, resource sharing and preservation services to 45,000 libraries in 84 countries and territories. http://www.alise.org/ ALISE is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote excellence in research, teaching, and service for library and information science education. 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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Information gathering
by vasanth raj 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

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Digital Library
by ramakanta sahu 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

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World Bank Rolls Out ICT Project For India
by Madhuresh 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

Dear Friends, Some of you might be interested in the following news item published in Financial Express. Internet will finally start benefitting the common man, particularly villagers, in a big way, as part of a government-private sector partnership to promote information and communication technologies (ICT). India Development Gateway (InDG), as the project is known, will facilitate effective use of ICT in the areas of health, primary education, agriculture, among other sectors. Addressing a press conference on the launch of implementation phase of the project here, chairman of governing council of InDG Prof MS Swaminathan, announced the setting up of the Development Gateway Foundation (DGF) research and training (R&T) centre at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore. According to Prof Swaminathan, the DGF R&T Centre will address the major technology domains of Internet technologies, language technologies and speech technologies to address requirements in the application sectors of healthcare, education and agriculture. InDG is a joint initiative of the department of information technology, ministry of communications, World Bank, and DGF, Washington. It has received an initial funding of Rs 2 crore for its implementation phase. InDG plans to operate through its strategic partners in the area of both content development and services. URL: http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=67471 Regards. Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 422 Fax 2852 6285 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://www.aurigene.com/

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`The Best Librarian in India'
by BHOSALE, DEEPALI [AG-Contractor/6020] 04 Sep '04

04 Sep '04

Practising what he preaches - Hindu, August 22, 2004 "We cannot sustain ourselves, unless we contribute to the society in someway or the other. I strongly feel if even one person does his bit towards social good, there will be some change." A will to serve combined with a sense of social justice has been the guiding principle of P. Kalyanasundaram, who has spent over 45 years in social service. A gold medallist in library science, he is also an MA in literature and history. During his 35-year-career as a librarian at the Kumarkurupara Arts College at Srivaikuntam in Tuticorin district, he gave away all his salary for charity and did odd jobs to meet his daily needs. He has also come forward to donate his body and eyes to the Tirunelveli Medical College. The Union Government has acclaimed him as `The Best Librarian in India'. He has also been chosen as `one of the top ten librarians of the world'. The International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, has honoured him as `one of the noblest of the world', while the United Nations Organisation adjudged him as one of the Outstanding People of the 20th Century'. An American organisation has also selected him as the `Man of the Millennium.' Mr. Kalyanasundaram, who has founded a social welfare organisation, `Paalam', shares his experiences in a chat with Prathiba Parameswaran. SIMPLICITY IN life and exemplariness in practice has been the hallmark of Mr. Kalyanasundaram. Born in August 1953 at Melakarivelamkulam in Tirunelveli district, he lost his father at a very young age. It was his mother, who inspired him to serve the poor. When he was at college, the Indo-China war broke out, and he contributed his gold chain to the then Chief Minister, Kamaraj, for the war fund. At this time around, he went to meet Balasubramanian, Editor, Ananda Vikatan. "He sent me away, saying he would write about me the day I donated something I had earned myself. I did not speak a word to anyone about what I had done. I took it as a challenge," Mr. Kalyanasundaram recalls. Ever since he got a job as a librarian in Tuticorin, he has contributed all his salary, pension benefits and ancestral property to social welfare. It was not until 1990, when he received his pension arrears and contributed it to the Collector's Fund, that the then Tiruneveli Collector felicitated him, despite his protests. The `Paalam' serves as a bridge between donors and beneficiaries: it collects money and materials from those willing to donate and distribute them among the weaker sections. It has also contributed to the cyclone relief funds in Tami! l Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, and has helped the earthquake victims in Maharashtra and Gujarat. "We cannot sustain ourselves, unless we contribute towards the society in someway or the other. I strongly feel if even one person does his bit towards social good, there will be some change," he asserts. Mr. Kalyanasundaram feels that one must achieve something in his chosen field. His contribution to library science is immense. A thesis he submitted as part of his post-graduate course to the Madurai Kamaraj University fetched him distinction. He has also hit upon an easy way of tracing and accessing books in libraries. His ability to strike a rapport even with youngsters is remarkable. He cites the instance when he started wearing khadi. At college, he was required to take classes on Gandhianism. "I had to speak about simplicity and everything Gandhi stood for, but I was clad in expensive clothes. That was when I decided to switch over to khadi," he relates. Since then he had always practised what he stood for, making himself a role model for many youths. He was popular among college and school students, and many of them have joined his organisation. He has long-term plans for his organisation. One is the setting up of a nationalised digital library with modern equipment, which could be accessed by people from all walks of life. He also wants to set up an international children's university in Tamil Nadu, with foreign aid. However, he says, a mission has a meaning only when the right people are involved in it. The Directorate of Public Libraries should recruit people with a library science background to be librarians, he says. "And good librarians should have a broad knowledge of everything." Source: http://www.hindu.com/lf/2004/08/22/stories/2004082209260200.htm 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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Fwd: [Agrilib] IFLA Conference in Argentina -Indian delegates
by JK Vijayakumar 04 Sep '04

04 Sep '04

--- "D.B.Eswara Reddy" <devaereddy(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > To: nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com, > iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com, agrilib(a)yahoogroups.com > From: "D.B.Eswara Reddy" <devaereddy(a)yahoo.com> > Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 13:04:47 -0700 (PDT) > Subject: [Agrilib] IFLA Conference in > Argentina -Indian delegates > > Hello: > I am happy to report that this year the IFLA > world > conference was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina > from > 21-28, August 2004. About 3500 delegates from > over 85 > countries attended.About 170 papers on various > aspects > of information literacy were presented. > India was represented by: > Professor.C R Karisiddappa, Ex-President(ILA) > Dr.J.K.Vijaya Kumar (INFLIBNET) > Dr.Leena Shaw (Govt College,Mehidpur,Ujjain) > Mr.R.C.Ahuja, Joint Secretary, Lok Sabha > Secretariat > Mr.Pavan Kumar, Director, Research Wing, Rajya > Sabha > Mr.Raj Kumar, P G Institute of Medical > Education and > Research, Chandigarh > Dr.karisiddappa presented three papers and > Dr > Leena Shaw,and Mr. Raj kumar each one paper. > > We were greatly honored by the Indian > Ambassador in > Argentina,Shri Rinwing Wangdi and Smt Pema > Wangdi who > hosted a dinner to the Indian delegates at > their > residence. > > I, on my part, had detailed discussion with > several > officers of IFLA including the Secretary > General, > coordinator of professional activities,and > Chairperson > of Special Libraries Division, and pleaded for > a > Separate IFLA Section for Agricultural > Libraries.Back > in USA, I am working on this idea and > collecting > letters from IFLA Members from different > countries in > different parts of the world. If approved by > the > Governing Board of IFLA in their meeting in > December, > it may start as a Discussion Group in Oslo, > Norway(2005),continue as a group in Seoul, > Korea > (2006) and start as a Section in Durban, South > Africa > (2007). This will provide another international > forum > for agricultural librarians, information > professionals. > > Thanks > > ===== > Deva Eswara Reddy Ph.D > Assistant Professor > Texas A & M University > College Station, Texas 77843 > Devaereddy(a)yahoo.com > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free > storage! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > > ------------------------ 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/S8XolB/TM > --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Agrilib/ > > <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an > email to: > Agrilib-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com > > <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Radio Talk
by srels 04 Sep '04

04 Sep '04

Dear Sir, The following message may please be announced for the benefit of the lis-forum members. Sincerely, Chitra Devi S Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Ph: 080 - 23305109; E-mail: srels(a)vsnl.com *********** Dr. K.N. Prasad, Executive Officer, Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science will be delivering a talk on All India Radio, Bangalore Station on "INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY" on 8th September 2004 at 9.16 p.m. Dear Sir, The following message may please be announced for the benefit of the lis-forum members. Sincerely, Chitra Devi S Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Ph: 080 - 23305109; E-mail: mailto:srels@vsnl.com srels(a)vsnl.com *********** Dr. K.N. Prasad, Executive Officer, Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science will be delivering a talk on All India Radio, Bangalore Station on " INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY" on 8th September 2004 at 9.16 p.m .

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KALA Monthly Lecture
by I.R.N.Goudar 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Karnataka State Library Association and Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science Cordially invite you for KALA Monthly Lectures by Fulbright Scholars in Information Science & Technology (2003-2004) 1. Mrs.Poornima Narayan, Deputy Head, Information Centre, NAL, Bangalore on " My Experience at UIUC, USA and Visualisation of Indian Aerospace Digital Library" and 2. Dr. M.Krishnamurthy, Librarian,Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore on "Latest Information Services and Practices at UIUC, USA" Date and Time: 07-09-2004, 6.00 PM Venue: Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702,(upstairs), 42 cross, 3rd Block, Rajajinagar Bangalore- 560010 Tel: 23305109 ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED Ms.R.Adilakshmi Dr.H.S.Siddamallaiah General Secretary, KALA President, KALA Tel: 26995031

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by Rajesh K Patil 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

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New arrivals with gif files
by theresa.williams＠wipro.com 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Hello Can any of you please confirm whether we can send image files of the books added during the month along with abstract by downloading the files from Amazon or any other website. Is it a copyright issue. Thanks n regds Theresa Williams Information Services Division Wipro Technologies 72,Keonics E-city Hosur road Bangalore 560100 Tel:91-80-51381791 91-80-28520408#1791 FAX:91-80-28520478 VOIP:808-5512 Mobile:9845324613 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. New arrivals with gif files Hello Can any of you please confirm whether we can send image files of the books added during the month along with abstract by downloading the files from Amazon or any other website. Is it a copyright issue. Thanks n regds Theresa Williams Information Services Division Wipro Technologies 72,Keonics E-city Hosur road Bangalore 560100 Tel:91-80-51381791 91-80-28520408#1791 FAX:91-80-28520478 VOIP:808-5512 Mobile:9845324613 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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WG: [LIS-Forum] Newsletter from MMB Regional Information Centre
by Seth, Renu 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Dear Colleagues, Sorry for the mistake. There is a spelling mistake in the E-mail ID given, here it is once again: info.manager.mmb(a)delhi.goethe.org With best regards, Renu Seth -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. September 2004 17:47 An: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Betreff: [LIS-Forum] Newsletter from MMB Regional Information Centre Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:13:58 +0530 From: "Seth, Renu" <seth(a)delhi.goethe.org> Dear Colleagues, Please find enclosed a newsletter from "Max Mueller Bhavan Regional Information Centre" for LIS professionals. This newsletter is designed to keep you informed about the LIS scenario in Germany. In case you would like to receive this newsletter regularly and would like to be on our mailing list, please write to us at: info.mmanager.mmb(a)delhi.goethe.org With best regards, Renu Seth Librarian Max Mueller Bhavan Regional Information Centre & Library 3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg New Delhi 110001 Telephone +91-11-23329506 librarian.mmb(a)delhi.goethe.org www.goethe.de/newdelhi Newsletter for Librarians & Information Professionals, from the RIC August 2004 Dear Friends! We bring to you the first issue of our newsletter on Information Services, which aims to provide you with the latest in the field of Media & Information in Germany. In the first section of this newsletter, we invite you to browse through DigiBib - an online library. The second section informs you about the latest happenings in the German Library & Information Science sector. In each issue, Literary Projects will introduce you to a web project organized by the Goethe Institute. In this edition we introduce you to www.litrix.de - a portal for promoting contemporary German literature. Meet Cornelia Funke, the 'German J.K. Rowling', and get to know about her fascinating creations in our Author in Focus section. Our separate Corner for Bibliophiles puts you into the current German literary picture and also gives you a foretaste of some of the finest literary pieces being published there today. We would also like to draw your attention to the fact that we have recently started offering our readers the services of the internationally recognized databank Lexis Nexis. This databank is well known as a rich source of articles, which are gathered from newspapers, magazines and journals from all over the world. We will be happy to receive your queries on any topic related to Germany - be it art, culture, literature or science. Your queries will then be processed by our team of professionals and the results will be made available to you. We hope that this newsletter will prove to be interesting and insightful for you. Please do write to us with your valuable suggestions & feedback at the following e-mail address: mailto:online.editor.mmb@delhi.goethe.org Best wishes from The MMB RIC team - DigiBib-The online library from Nordrhein-Westfalen Finding answers with Digibib DigiBib offers you the opportunity to search through different sources of information under one unified interface. Search simultaneously through the catalogues of international libraries as well as through bibliographic databases, from all over the world. DigiBib offers its users:- selected links from the WWW- WWW-Metasearchmachine and much more... http://www4.digibib.netAlthough DigiBib offers information in English language, the search interface is German. Hence, you may face difficulties in accessing it. You are welcome to contact us in case you need help in this regard. - In the News The Dresden medien@age - a Library for the 21st Century For a long time the library of the twentieth century may have been just "a collection of books", but other media forms are becoming increasingly important this century. The medien@age library in Dresden has courageously embraced this change - and has scored points with its target audience along the way. http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/bib/thm/en139876.htm Information Services in Germany Unlike in the Anglo-American countries, information services in libraries in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century initially referred mainly to literary information and less to factual information.For two decades now ever more people in Germany have been asking questions about facts to the information sectors of libraries. Today, highly specialised information teams in the field of general information who have many databases for literature and factual information at their disposal can increasingly be found in the academic and large public libraries. http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/ask/ein/en21811.htm vascoda - the Internet Portal for Scientific Information Being able to access the information lying dormant on the shelves of German libraries with a click of the mouse and download it onto your computer with another click - this is a vision that has just moved one step closer to becoming reality. Since August 2003 the interdisciplinary Internet portal vascoda has been providing access to 37 German libraries, research institutes and information providers. http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/bib/thm/en69733.htm - Literary Projects Litrix.de - German Literature Online Since January 2004, excerpts from outstanding new publications, specimen translations and the latest information on the German book market are available from the online magazine Litrix.de. The magazine is aimed at an international audience and is a major part of a project promoting contemporary German literature abroad. Project partners are the Federal Cultural Foundation, the Goethe-Institut and the Frankfurt Book Fair. www.litrix.de - Author in Focus Portrait of Cornelia Funke Cornelia Funke is currently the most successful German author of books for young people. She was born in 1958 and has sold a million copies of her books for young people and children. She has been compared internationally with JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series. In September 2003 her book "Tintenherz" was released. http://www.goethe.de/in/d/film/e/kubus-e-59-1-f.html - Bibliophile's Corner Lexikon der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur - Revised Germany, the "land of poets and thinkers", has brought forth a great number of writers since time immemorial. So it isn't easy keeping track, especially of the latest names. A newly revised encyclopaedia has arrived to help out. http://www.goethe.de/kug/kue/lit/thm/en96421.htmEncyclopaedia only in German language. Where the Good Guys Still Win German detective stories about FBI agent Jerry Cotton have been an international hit for 50 years. "His leap was an act of desperation, the insane reaction of a cornered killer who has nothing left to lose. He dove smack into the line of fire of my revolver. I had released the safety: all I had to do was pull the trigger. But I chose not to: I have a deep-seated aversion to shooting an unarmed man." http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/buv/thm/en91801.htm "The Wild East" - Young East German authors look back By contrast with the young West Germans who accommodated themselves with Helmut Kohl perfectly well for eight years after the Berlin Wall came down and watched, relaxed and uninterested, as the so-called "Berlin Republic" decayed into "Berlin provinciality", the East Germans of the same age, who have been largely speechless until now, have suddenly appeared from nowhere and are now publishing one book after another. http://www.goethe.de/kug/kue/lit/thm/en72032.htm To unsubscribe from the mailing list, please click here: mailto:online.editor.mmb@delhi.goethe.org?body=unsubscribe _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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CD Sorter
by sainul＠iiitmk.ac.in 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Dear Friends, This is with reference to Rajeev's mail regarding CD Stand. There are some adjustable CD Rack called CD Sorter in which we can insert CDs in-between the existing CDs. More details are available at http://www.cdholdings.com/cdsorter/howcanorder.html I do not know the availability in India. We need to see the durability also. I would like to know if any of our professional colleagues have bought such CD Stands. With regards Sainul Abideen P Librarian IIITM-K Trivandrum This Mail has been sent from: ________________________________________________________________________ Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - Kerala, Park Centre, Techno Park, Thiruvananthapuram - 695 581. Kerala. India. Contact: Website: http://www.iiitmk.ac.in Phone: +91-471-2527567 / 3091334 Fax: +91-471-2527568 ________________________________________________________________________ The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and /or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this in error,please contact the sender and delete the material from anycomputer.

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Buying CD Rack - help required
by Rajeev K R 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Hi, I would like to get the phone numbers of vendors who deals with CD - Rack (For keeping the CD's in the shelf.). If you know any vendors in Bangalore, please send me the phone numbers. We do have approximately 750 + CDs and currently it is kept in the ordinary shelf. So if you have any suggestions in buying the CD Rack, please let me know. With Warm Regards Rajeev K R Library & Information Center Sasken Communication Technologies Limited 139/25, Ring Road, Domlur Bangalore - 560071 India Email: krr(a)sasken.com Tel: + 91 80 25355501 Extn: 2021 Fax: + 91 80 25351133 URL: www.sasken.com SASKEN BUSINESS DISCLAIMER This message may contain confidential, proprietary or legally Privileged information. In case you are not the original intended Recipient of the message, you must not, directly or indirectly, use, Disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message and you are requested to delete it and inform the sender. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender unless otherwise stated. Nothing contained in this message shall be construed as an offer or acceptance of any offer by Sasken Communication Technologies Limited ("Sasken") unless sent with that express intent and with due authority of Sasken. Sasken has taken enough precautions to prevent the spread of viruses. However the company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email

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RE: [LIS-Forum] scanning books and copyright laws
by Byrappa, Ananda (Research) 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Thanks, Sathya. LOCKSS(Lot of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe)is an interesting project. But it apprars to me that, the scope of the project is limited to crawling, preserving and providing access to digital content. I did not see anything about converting "print" to "digital". Please let me know if my understanding is not correct. But, it sounds like a promising initiative for archiving subscribed digital content provided the publishers allow us to do the following: - To provide permission to collect, preserve and provide access to their content - Give permission to LOCKSS crawler to collect the content through a publisher manifest Thanks for letting us know about an interesting digital project, LOCKSS (http://lockss.stanford.edu) Regards, Anand ______________________________________________________________________________________ Ananda T Byrappa e-mail: ananda.byrappa(a)ge.com Whitney Knowledge Centre, GE Global Research Work: +91-80-25032618 DCom:8*9012618 John F. Welch Technology Center Fax: +91-80-28412114 Address: EPIP, Phase-II, Hoodi Village, Whitefield Rd., Bangalore 560066, INDIA -----Original Message----- From: sathya [mailto:sathya@informindia.co.in] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 5:31 PM To: Byrappa, Ananda (Research) Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] scanning books and copyright laws Anand U wld find it interesting to study LOCKSS project of Stanford University. There are certain conditions under which digitization can be permissible. LCKSSS is one. Sathya -------------------------------------------------- N V Sathyanarayana Chairman & Managing Director Informatics (India) Ltd Bangalore 560003, India Phone : 91-80-23365940 www.informindia.co.in -------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Byrappa, Ananda (Research) [mailto:ananda.byrappa@ge.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 11:53 AM To: radha_inf(a)yahoo.co.in Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] scanning books and copyright laws Anuradha, Copyright law does not allow you to scan the books even for academic and research purpose. You need to take written permission from the publisher/copyright holder to digitize any book. Its unlikely that you get a permission from them. As an alternative, you may want to consider online books like knovel, netlibrary, e-brary, 24/7 etc for subscription. Again they may not fill your requirements as these e-book models are still evolving (slowly!) There are security methods to control accessing digital documents. For example, British Library(BL), London is recently started using 'secured document delivery' method for their electronic document delivery service. Which allows end users to access the document only one time. You may wish to visit BL website for more details Regards, Anand ________________________________________ Ananda T. Byrappa Whitney Knowledge Centre GE India Technology Centre Pvt.Ltd., 122, EPIP, Phase 2, Hoodi Village, Whitefield Road, Bangalore - 560066, INDIA Phone : +91-80-2503-2618, DialCom: 8*901 2618 Fax : +91-80-2841-2114, Email : Ananda.Byrappa(a)ge.com

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Fwd: An Invitation to Submit
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

IRMA <irma(a)irma-international.org> wrote:From: "IRMA" To: Subject: An Invitation to Submit Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:38:16 -0400 2005 IRMA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CONFERENCE THEME: MANAGING MODERN ORGANIZATIONS WITH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY www.irma-international.org TIME AND LOCATION: May 15-18, 2005 U.S. Grant Hotel San Diego, California, USA IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Deadline October 4, 2004 Notification of Acceptance/Rejections November 26, 2004 Final Submission Due January 10, 2005 Early Registration Ends January 10, 2005 Conference Period May 15-18, 2005 TRACKS AND TRACK CHAIRS/CO-CHAIRS: Full-length papers, research-in-progress proposals (abstracts/summaries), and panel, workshop, tutorial or symposium proposals focusing on different aspects of information technology are invited to be considered for the 51 tracks of IRMA2005 International. For a complete list of tracks and track chairs/co-chairs, please visit: www.irma-international.org/conferences/2005/tracks.asp. SUBMISSION CATEGORIES AND GUIDELINES: Submissions for the IRMA2005 International Conference may be submitted in the following categories: 1. Full Length Submissions 2. Research-in-Progress Submissions 3. Panel, Workshop, Tutorial and Symposium Submissions For more information on submission categories and complete submission guidelines, please visit: www.irma-international.org/conferences/2005/submission.asp. IRMA MEMBERSHIP: To learn more about IRMA membership benefits and services, or to join IRMA, please visit IRMA's website at www.irma-international.org. SEND ALL INQUIRIES AND SUBMISSIONS TO: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, program chair 2005 IRMA International Conference E-mail: irmaconf(a)irma-international.org Sent to: naglaxman(a)yahoo.com Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com --------------------------------- Does your mail provider give you a FREE online calendar? Yahoo! does. Get Yahoo! Mail IRMA <irma(a)irma-international.org> wrote: From: "IRMA" To: Subject: An Invitation to Submit Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:38:16 -0400 2005 IRMA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CONFERENCE THEME: MANAGING MODERN ORGANIZATIONS WITH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY www.irma-international.org TIME AND LOCATION: May 15-18, 2005 U.S. Grant Hotel San Diego, California, USA IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Deadline October 4, 2004 Notification of Acceptance/Rejections November 26, 2004 Final Submission Due January 10, 2005 Early Registration Ends January 10, 2005 Conference Period May 15-18, 2005 TRACKS AND TRACK CHAIRS/CO-CHAIRS: Full-length papers, research-in-progress proposals (abstracts/summaries), and panel, workshop, tutorial or symposium proposals focusing on different aspects of information technology are invit! ed to be considered for the 51 tracks of IRMA2005 International. For a complete list of tracks and track chairs/co-chairs, please visit: www.irma-international.org/conferences/2005/tracks.asp. SUBMISSION CATEGORIES AND GUIDELINES: Submissions for the IRMA2005 International Conference may be submitted in the following categories: 1. Full Length Submissions 2. Research-in-Progress Submissions 3. Panel, Workshop, Tutorial and Symposium Submissions For more information on submission categories and complete submission guidelines, please visit: www.irma-international.org/conferences/2005/submission.asp. IRMA MEMBERSHIP: To learn more about IRMA membership benefits and services, or to join IRMA, please visit IRMA's website at www.irma-international.org. SEND ALL INQUIRIES AND SUBMISSIONS TO: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, program chair 2005 IRMA International Conference E-mail: irmaconf(a)irma-international.org Sent to: naglaxman(a)yahoo.com Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com Does your mail provider give you a FREE online calendar? Yahoo! does. http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/mail/taglines/h/calendar/*http://uk.mail.yahoo.com Get Yahoo! Mail

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 17, Issue 18
by Mailing List Manager 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:12:26 +0530 From: chauhan <chauhan(a)inflibnet.ac.in> Dear Anuradha Ji, In true sense your two questions are very much relevant to the present time. Question 1: ("If i want to scan few books and make availabe to our patrons that is for academic and research purpose only --- what about the copywright act.") Answer: This is the first and last question of any professional who want to digitize his/her library or some documents. If you want to scan few books you have to ask the publisher or as well as author of that particular book in due respect of copyright act. Question 2: ("Once i digitize the book and if it is made availabe - How to controlthat inf is not copied or printed out or made any changes the person who ever is accessing the document.") Answer: Violation of copyright is not a new thing, we are dealing with this since the inception of these copyright laws, and in digital environment violation of these IPR laws is very easy. We can not change this because this is depending on the attitude of the 'violator'. Anyhow, you can take the example of "Online Journals", we are accessing these e-journals through login- password or through IP addresses. Most of the publishers are using some special software to make control over the usage of their journals. Through the help of that software they can provide you the complete statistics regarding browsing, downloading etc. (means what and where a particular user is accessing right now). Right now, especially in India, we are in the entrance of the digital environment. Everyone has thousands of queries regarding this digital environment. Exploration and interaction are two key features to get answers. With kind regards S Kumar ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mailing List Manager" <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 1:38 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 17, Issue 18 > Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 06:03:52 +0100 (BST) > From: "[iso-8859-1] anuradha" <radha_inf(a)yahoo.co.in> > > > Dear professionals > I will be thankful if any of you reply to my questions. > > 1. If i want to scan few books and make availabe to our patrons that is > for academic and research purpose only --- what about the copywright act....

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Re: [LIS-Forum] What is best about BL ?
by Mailing List Manager 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:23:59 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Just visit the nearest British Library. You will know what is good about it. I am using - not often as I would want to - the BCL for more than 4 decades and I work closely with them. They have always lived up to my expectations. Arun --- Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > > Date: 25 Aug 2004 09:22:22 -0000 > From: Rajesh K Patil <rajeshbcd(a)rediffmail.com> > > Dear All, > > Many academic, public and special Libraries have > automated their > operations over a period of time. Just like BL's > they too have used > LIBSYS. It would be interesting to know as to what > is best about British > Libraries ? > > Regards. > > Rajesh

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Newsletter from MMB Regional Information Centre
by Mailing List Manager 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:13:58 +0530 From: "Seth, Renu" <seth(a)delhi.goethe.org> Dear Colleagues, Please find enclosed a newsletter from "Max Mueller Bhavan Regional Information Centre" for LIS professionals. This newsletter is designed to keep you informed about the LIS scenario in Germany. In case you would like to receive this newsletter regularly and would like to be on our mailing list, please write to us at: info.mmanager.mmb(a)delhi.goethe.org With best regards, Renu Seth Librarian Max Mueller Bhavan Regional Information Centre & Library 3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg New Delhi 110001 Telephone +91-11-23329506 librarian.mmb(a)delhi.goethe.org www.goethe.de/newdelhi Newsletter for Librarians & Information Professionals, from the RIC August 2004 Dear Friends! We bring to you the first issue of our newsletter on Information Services, which aims to provide you with the latest in the field of Media & Information in Germany. In the first section of this newsletter, we invite you to browse through DigiBib - an online library. The second section informs you about the latest happenings in the German Library & Information Science sector. In each issue, Literary Projects will introduce you to a web project organized by the Goethe Institute. In this edition we introduce you to www.litrix.de - a portal for promoting contemporary German literature. Meet Cornelia Funke, the 'German J.K. Rowling', and get to know about her fascinating creations in our Author in Focus section. Our separate Corner for Bibliophiles puts you into the current German literary picture and also gives you a foretaste of some of the finest literary pieces being published there today. We would also like to draw your attention to the fact that we have recently started offering our readers the services of the internationally recognized databank Lexis Nexis. This databank is well known as a rich source of articles, which are gathered from newspapers, magazines and journals from all over the world. We will be happy to receive your queries on any topic related to Germany - be it art, culture, literature or science. Your queries will then be processed by our team of professionals and the results will be made available to you. We hope that this newsletter will prove to be interesting and insightful for you. Please do write to us with your valuable suggestions & feedback at the following e-mail address: mailto:online.editor.mmb@delhi.goethe.org Best wishes from The MMB RIC team - DigiBib-The online library from Nordrhein-Westfalen Finding answers with Digibib DigiBib offers you the opportunity to search through different sources of information under one unified interface. Search simultaneously through the catalogues of international libraries as well as through bibliographic databases, from all over the world. DigiBib offers its users:- selected links from the WWW- WWW-Metasearchmachine and much more... http://www4.digibib.netAlthough DigiBib offers information in English language, the search interface is German. Hence, you may face difficulties in accessing it. You are welcome to contact us in case you need help in this regard. - In the News The Dresden medien@age - a Library for the 21st Century For a long time the library of the twentieth century may have been just "a collection of books", but other media forms are becoming increasingly important this century. The medien@age library in Dresden has courageously embraced this change - and has scored points with its target audience along the way. http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/bib/thm/en139876.htm Information Services in Germany Unlike in the Anglo-American countries, information services in libraries in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century initially referred mainly to literary information and less to factual information.For two decades now ever more people in Germany have been asking questions about facts to the information sectors of libraries. Today, highly specialised information teams in the field of general information who have many databases for literature and factual information at their disposal can increasingly be found in the academic and large public libraries. http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/ask/ein/en21811.htm vascoda - the Internet Portal for Scientific Information Being able to access the information lying dormant on the shelves of German libraries with a click of the mouse and download it onto your computer with another click - this is a vision that has just moved one step closer to becoming reality. Since August 2003 the interdisciplinary Internet portal vascoda has been providing access to 37 German libraries, research institutes and information providers. http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/bib/thm/en69733.htm - Literary Projects Litrix.de - German Literature Online Since January 2004, excerpts from outstanding new publications, specimen translations and the latest information on the German book market are available from the online magazine Litrix.de. The magazine is aimed at an international audience and is a major part of a project promoting contemporary German literature abroad. Project partners are the Federal Cultural Foundation, the Goethe-Institut and the Frankfurt Book Fair. www.litrix.de - Author in Focus Portrait of Cornelia Funke Cornelia Funke is currently the most successful German author of books for young people. She was born in 1958 and has sold a million copies of her books for young people and children. She has been compared internationally with JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series. In September 2003 her book "Tintenherz" was released. http://www.goethe.de/in/d/film/e/kubus-e-59-1-f.html - Bibliophile's Corner Lexikon der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur - Revised Germany, the "land of poets and thinkers", has brought forth a great number of writers since time immemorial. So it isn't easy keeping track, especially of the latest names. A newly revised encyclopaedia has arrived to help out. http://www.goethe.de/kug/kue/lit/thm/en96421.htmEncyclopaedia only in German language. Where the Good Guys Still Win German detective stories about FBI agent Jerry Cotton have been an international hit for 50 years. "His leap was an act of desperation, the insane reaction of a cornered killer who has nothing left to lose. He dove smack into the line of fire of my revolver. I had released the safety: all I had to do was pull the trigger. But I chose not to: I have a deep-seated aversion to shooting an unarmed man." http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/buv/thm/en91801.htm "The Wild East" - Young East German authors look back By contrast with the young West Germans who accommodated themselves with Helmut Kohl perfectly well for eight years after the Berlin Wall came down and watched, relaxed and uninterested, as the so-called "Berlin Republic" decayed into "Berlin provinciality", the East Germans of the same age, who have been largely speechless until now, have suddenly appeared from nowhere and are now publishing one book after another. http://www.goethe.de/kug/kue/lit/thm/en72032.htm To unsubscribe from the mailing list, please click here: mailto:online.editor.mmb@delhi.goethe.org?body=unsubscribe

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 17, Issue 18
by Mailing List Manager 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:12:51 +0530 From: Manish Mankad <Manish.Mankad(a)unilever.com> As for your query 2: Acrobet exchange (6.0) which u will use to convert the scanned file to pdf, has the options to select before you save the file. These include 'No print', "no editing", 'No copy" etc..you may choose an appropriate option to limit the unsolicited dissemination. -Manish Mankad Information Services Ext: 208/460 Tel: 022 28276208 Hindustan Lever research Centre B.D. Sawant Marg Andheri (E), Mumbai 400099 INDIA -----Original Message----- From: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 1:38 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 17, Issue 18 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 06:03:52 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] anuradha" <radha_inf(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear professionals I will be thankful if any of you reply to my questions. 1. If i want to scan few books and make availabe to our patrons that is for academic and research purpose only --- what about the copywright act. 2. Once i digitize the book and if it is made availabe - How to control that inf is not copied or printed out or made any changes the person who ever is accessing the document. Like this i am having unlimited queries. Whom should i contact at hyderabad who can clear my doubts. Anuradha

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suggestions for weeding out of Old materials
by Mailing List Manager 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 06:49:51 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] sreenivasgowda G" <gubbisrinivas26(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear all, We are working on the issue of weeding out of old course material and multiple copies of some old books which are not being used by the users consecutively( no touch status). Can you please guide us with regard to the 'principles' or 'guidelines' in dealing with such issues? Thanking u with warm regards Gubbisrinivas Librarian ESSAE-TAPMI Academy Koramangala Bangalore-34

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Librarian vacancies in Bangalore
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

Dear Friends: I wish to bring the following advt to the attention of LIS-Forum members. Normally I desist forwarding (Routine) Job vacancies because there are better paper based avenues open to us. However this specific advt calls for TEN posts of Librarians at Junior level-- therefore it is interesting. Moreover bacause of mis-spelling the name of the vacancy (Job position) as "Librariran", most of you would miss it if you search under "Librarian" . Hence this 'service'! Please DO NOT send resumes to me! I have nothing to do with Career Network either. Vyasamoorthy, P =============================================================== From: www.jobstreet.com Librariran(Bangalore) Advertised: 16-8-04 | Closing Date: 15-10-04 Requirements: Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor of Art, Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Science , Master of Art , Master of Commerce or Master of Science in Library Management or equivalent. At least 1 year(s) of working experience in the related field is required for this position. Applicants should be Indian citizens or hold relevant residence status. Preferably junior executives specializing in Education or equivalent. 10 Full-Time positions available. Contact us: Career Network, 56/B-34, 1st Main road, Vyalikaval, Bangalore-560003. PH:23462321 E-mail:cn_resumes@yahoo.co.uk ========================================= 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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scanning books and copyright laws
by Byrappa, Ananda (Research) 31 Aug '04

31 Aug '04

Anuradha, Copyright law does not allow you to scan the books even for academic and research purpose. You need to take written permission from the publisher/copyright holder to digitize any book. Its unlikely that you get a permission from them. As an alternative, you may want to consider online books like knovel, netlibrary, e-brary, 24/7 etc for subscription. Again they may not fill your requirements as these e-book models are still evolving (slowly!) There are security methods to control accessing digital documents. For example, British Library(BL), London is recently started using 'secured document delivery' method for their electronic document delivery service. Which allows end users to access the document only one time. You may wish to visit BL website for more details Regards, Anand ________________________________________ Ananda T. Byrappa Whitney Knowledge Centre GE India Technology Centre Pvt.Ltd., 122, EPIP, Phase 2, Hoodi Village, Whitefield Road, Bangalore - 560066, INDIA Phone : +91-80-2503-2618, DialCom: 8*901 2618 Fax : +91-80-2841-2114, Email : Ananda.Byrappa(a)ge.com -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 12:00 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 17, 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. Forthcoming library event: PLANNER- 2004 (premchand) 2. RE: "First computerised library in country to be inaugurated" (Mailing List Manager) 3. What is best about BL ? (Mailing List Manager) 4. report location (Mailing List Manager) 5. The Times of India (Mailing List Manager) 6. Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 17, Issue 18 (Mailing List Manager) 7. Journal enquiry (Vrushali Rane) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:46:42 +0530 From: "premchand" <premchand(a)inflibnet.ac.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Forthcoming library event: PLANNER- 2004 To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: <009901c48e61$4d0fa7a0$0501a8c0@premchand> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Dear professionals, INFLIBNET is organizing second convention i.e. PLANNER -2004 (Promotion of library Automation and Networking in North East Region.) at Imphal in collaboration with Manipur University, Imphal, during 4-5 November, 2004. The theme of PLANNER 2004 is: Content creation, access and management in networked environment. Sub themes of Convention are : 1 Digitization , Archiving and Indexing 2 Networking and Access 3 Content Management Last date for submission of paper is 18th Sep, 2004 We earnestly solicit your partnership, involvement and participation to make the above event a grand success. . Prem Chand INFLIBNET Centre ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:32:30 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] "First computerised library in country to be inaugurated" To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0408301331020.1833(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Already Sathya and Vyasamoorthy have rightly pointed out that the Gandhinagar library IS NOT THE FIRST to computerise. A simple verification of facts was all that was needed. But then who cares for facts at a time when what matters is one has to SOMEHOW be seen as the first, truth be damned. But why this fetish about being first. All we want is libraries should serve the local communities in the best possible manner. They are not running a race competing with each other. All of them want to serve their clientele and we should hel them do that. Is there anything more we can ask for? Subbiah Arunachalam -----Original Message----- From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com [mailto:Vyasamoorthy@icicikp.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 2:27 PM To: prakash(a)inflibnet.ac.in; lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] "First computerised library in country to be inaugurated" Dear Sri Prakash, City Central Library, Hyderabad developed its OPAC containing around 3.6 lac titles (including branches) long ago.... ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:33:23 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] What is best about BL ? To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0408301332530.1833(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: 25 Aug 2004 09:22:22 -0000 From: Rajesh K Patil <rajeshbcd(a)rediffmail.com> Dear All, Many academic, public and special Libraries have automated their operations over a period of time. Just like BL's they too have used LIBSYS. It would be interesting to know as to what is best about British Libraries ? Regards. Rajesh ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:34:50 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] report location To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0408301333460.1833(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:58:00 +0530 From: Rajeev Sharma <bic.crpo(a)tcil.com> Sir / Madam Does any information center/ library has the following report Title:Indian Logistics Market Date Published: 20 Jul 2004. Publisher: Frost & Sullivan Regards Rajeev Kr. Sharma Officer - Information Services Business Information Center Transport Corporation of India Ltd. ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:36:38 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] The Times of India To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0408301335560.1833(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:49:21 +0530 From: Puttaraj A Choukimath <puttuc(a)yahoo.com> Interesting news 4 u 2 work un-inturrupted with ur COMPs! Good Day, Puttaraj. A.C. AL, TISS, Mumbai. Please click on the link below to go to the page. If you think someone you know would like to read it too, do mail it to them. Check This Out!!! Log on to : http://www.timesofindia.com ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:38:18 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 17, Issue 18 To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0408301337180.1833(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 06:03:52 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] anuradha" <radha_inf(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear professionals I will be thankful if any of you reply to my questions. 1. If i want to scan few books and make availabe to our patrons that is for academic and research purpose only --- what about the copywright act. 2. Once i digitize the book and if it is made availabe - How to control that inf is not copied or printed out or made any changes the person who ever is accessing the document. Like this i am having unlimited queries. Whom should i contact at hyderabad who can clear my doubts. Anuradha ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:13:08 +0530 From: Vrushali Rane <librarian(a)nmims.edu> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Journal enquiry To: "'lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in'" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: <468F3D82FB31D71197040004ACB81A6B810582@NTSERVER> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear All, Hi! Can anyone tell me where do I get the back issues ie from 1980-1993 of 'The Journal of Portfolio Management'. Your help in this regard will be highly appreciated. Thanks & Regards 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 ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum End of LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 17, Issue 21 *****************************************

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RE: [LIS-Forum] A library for the spiritual-minded
by HENAG 31 Aug '04

31 Aug '04

Pls find the details below, Chinmaya Mission, #2, 13th avenue Harrington Road, Chetpet, Chennai - 600031. Phone - 28365202 / 28365046. Regards, Hena S Gupta Infosys Technologies Ltd -----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: Friday, August 27, 2004 9:53 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; >; lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] A library for the spiritual-minded Please see the news item quoted below. Can someone from Chennai give me the correct address and cantact particulars of this library? Thanks. Vyasamoorthy, P ============================================================ http://newstodaynet.com/26aug/rf11.htm A library for the spiritual-minded NT Bureau Chennai, Aug 26: The Central Chinmaya Mission Trust has opened a library at Chinmaya Heritage Centre here with books on religion, vedanta and sacred scriptures of country for the benefit of the spiritual-minded. The library was inaugurated by Prof S P Thyagarajan, Vice Chancellor, University of Madras, in the presence of Swami Mitrananda, Acharya, Chinmaya Mission, Chennai. Books on philosophy, education, yoga, medidation, biography and auto-biography of great saints, philosophers and statesmen, self-discovery and development and other similar subjects are available there. The library has already received books from leading publishing houses including Sri Ramakrishna Math, Anandashram, Kanhangad (Kerala), Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Sri Gaudiya Math, Krishnamurti Foundation India, Sri Ramanashramam, Tiruvannamalai, Sadhu Vaswani Mission, Pune, Sri Satya Sai Publications Trust, Chennai, the Theosophical Publishing House and Yogoda Satsanga Society of India, Rachi. =======================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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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 17, Issue 18
by Mailing List Manager 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 06:03:52 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] anuradha" <radha_inf(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear professionals I will be thankful if any of you reply to my questions. 1. If i want to scan few books and make availabe to our patrons that is for academic and research purpose only --- what about the copywright act. 2. Once i digitize the book and if it is made availabe - How to control that inf is not copied or printed out or made any changes the person who ever is accessing the document. Like this i am having unlimited queries. Whom should i contact at hyderabad who can clear my doubts. Anuradha

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The Times of India
by Mailing List Manager 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:49:21 +0530 From: Puttaraj A Choukimath <puttuc(a)yahoo.com> Interesting news 4 u 2 work un-inturrupted with ur COMPs! Good Day, Puttaraj. A.C. AL, TISS, Mumbai. Please click on the link below to go to the page. If you think someone you know would like to read it too, do mail it to them. Check This Out!!! Log on to : http://www.timesofindia.com

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report location
by Mailing List Manager 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:58:00 +0530 From: Rajeev Sharma <bic.crpo(a)tcil.com> Sir / Madam Does any information center/ library has the following report Title:Indian Logistics Market Date Published: 20 Jul 2004. Publisher: Frost & Sullivan Regards Rajeev Kr. Sharma Officer - Information Services Business Information Center Transport Corporation of India Ltd.

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What is best about BL ?
by Mailing List Manager 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

Date: 25 Aug 2004 09:22:22 -0000 From: Rajesh K Patil <rajeshbcd(a)rediffmail.com> Dear All, Many academic, public and special Libraries have automated their operations over a period of time. Just like BL's they too have used LIBSYS. It would be interesting to know as to what is best about British Libraries ? Regards. Rajesh

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RE: [LIS-Forum] "First computerised library in country to be inaugurated"
by Mailing List Manager 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Already Sathya and Vyasamoorthy have rightly pointed out that the Gandhinagar library IS NOT THE FIRST to computerise. A simple verification of facts was all that was needed. But then who cares for facts at a time when what matters is one has to SOMEHOW be seen as the first, truth be damned. But why this fetish about being first. All we want is libraries should serve the local communities in the best possible manner. They are not running a race competing with each other. All of them want to serve their clientele and we should hel them do that. Is there anything more we can ask for? Subbiah Arunachalam -----Original Message----- From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com [mailto:Vyasamoorthy@icicikp.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 2:27 PM To: prakash(a)inflibnet.ac.in; lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] "First computerised library in country to be inaugurated" Dear Sri Prakash, City Central Library, Hyderabad developed its OPAC containing around 3.6 lac titles (including branches) long ago....

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Journal enquiry
by Vrushali Rane 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

Dear All, Hi! Can anyone tell me where do I get the back issues ie from 1980-1993 of 'The Journal of Portfolio Management'. Your help in this regard will be highly appreciated. Thanks & Regards 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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Forthcoming library event: PLANNER- 2004
by premchand 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

Dear professionals, INFLIBNET is organizing second convention i.e. PLANNER -2004 (Promotion of library Automation and Networking in North East Region.) at Imphal in collaboration with Manipur University, Imphal, during 4-5 November, 2004. The theme of PLANNER 2004 is: Content creation, access and management in networked environment. Sub themes of Convention are : 1 Digitization , Archiving and Indexing 2 Networking and Access 3 Content Management Last date for submission of paper is 18th Sep, 2004 We earnestly solicit your partnership, involvement and participation to make the above event a grand success. . Prem Chand INFLIBNET Centre

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About Bibliometry and the five laws of S. R. Ranghanathan
by Carlos Vílchez Román 27 Aug '04

27 Aug '04

Hi everybody, Sorry if this message has been posted before. My name is Carlos Vílchez-Román, a Peruvian librarian, faculty member of the Library and Information Science School of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. I have finished a study about library and information science research in Peruvian universities, but I have some doubts with the theory framework, especially this: The bibliometric laws (Bradford, Zipf and Lotka) and the five laws of Ranghanatan could be considered part of the Lakatos' hard core? As you know, Imre Lakatos coined the term "scientific research programs", as a conceptual alternative to the Kuhn's paradigm. Since this topic is highly controversial I want to know different perspectives. Any information would be appreciated. Best regards, Carlos Vílchez-Román Peruvian Librarian --------------------------------------------------------------- Banco de Crédito BCP - Dedicados a hacerte la Banca más simple. Visita nuestra Banca por Internet http://www.viabcp.com ---------------------------------------------------------------

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A library for the spiritual-minded
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 27 Aug '04

27 Aug '04

Please see the news item quoted below. Can someone from Chennai give me the correct address and cantact particulars of this library? Thanks. Vyasamoorthy, P ============================================================ http://newstodaynet.com/26aug/rf11.htm A library for the spiritual-minded NT Bureau Chennai, Aug 26: The Central Chinmaya Mission Trust has opened a library at Chinmaya Heritage Centre here with books on religion, vedanta and sacred scriptures of country for the benefit of the spiritual-minded. The library was inaugurated by Prof S P Thyagarajan, Vice Chancellor, University of Madras, in the presence of Swami Mitrananda, Acharya, Chinmaya Mission, Chennai. Books on philosophy, education, yoga, medidation, biography and auto-biography of great saints, philosophers and statesmen, self-discovery and development and other similar subjects are available there. The library has already received books from leading publishing houses including Sri Ramakrishna Math, Anandashram, Kanhangad (Kerala), Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Sri Gaudiya Math, Krishnamurti Foundation India, Sri Ramanashramam, Tiruvannamalai, Sadhu Vaswani Mission, Pune, Sri Satya Sai Publications Trust, Chennai, the Theosophical Publishing House and Yogoda Satsanga Society of India, Rachi. =======================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: IEEE to Introduce New Browser Requirements in 2005
by Byrappa, Ananda (Research) 27 Aug '04

27 Aug '04

This may be of interest to you... Regards, Anand -----Original Message----- From: m.spada(a)ieee.org [mailto:m.spada@ieee.org] Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 12:16 AM To: Byrappa, Ananda (Research) Subject: IEEE to Introduce New Browser Requirements in 2005 IEEE TO INTRODUCE NEW BROWSER REQUIREMENTS IN 2005 New Web browser requirements will go into effect in January 2005 to support a major upgrade of the IEEE Xplore (TM) online delivery system. The new requirements are based on IEEE Xplore usage statistics that indicate the most highly used browsers and browser compatibility with required elements of the new design. IEEE Xplore may not function if the requirements identified below are not followed. BASIC REQUIREMENTS - Internet browser - Connection to an Internet Service Provider - For best dial-up performance, a 56.6 or higher modem is recommended - Adobe® Acrobat Reader 5.X or higher - Direct parallel or LAN-attached printer with at least 300 dpi resolution - Compatible mouse PLATFORM AND BROWSER REQUIREMENTS > WINDOWS - Internet Explorer 5.X or higher - Netscape 7.X or higher - Opera 7.23 - Mozilla Firebird > MAC - Internet Explorer 5.2.3 - Netscape 7.1 > UNIX - Internet Explorer 5.X or higher - Netscape 7.X or higher OTHER REQUIREMENTS The following options must be enabled within the browser: - Cookies - JavaScript - CSS styles IEEE Xplore powers online subscriptions for IEEE members, as well as institutional online collections like the IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (IEL). The interface also enables access to more than 1,000,000 free technical-paper abstracts, as well as individual article purchases online. More than 900 current IEEE standards are also available through the interface. Please do not reply to this automated message. For more information, contact onlinesupport(a)ieee.orgMichael Spada ______________________________________________________________________________________ Ananda T Byrappa e-mail: ananda.byrappa(a)ge.com Whitney Knowledge Centre, GE Global Research Work: +91-80-25032618 DCom:8*9012618 John F. Welch Technology Center Fax: +91-80-28412114 Address: EPIP, Phase-II, Hoodi Village, Whitefield Rd., Bangalore 560066, INDIA

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TCA Review: "Project Euclid: Mathematics and Statistics Journals"
by Gerry Mckiernan 26 Aug '04

26 Aug '04

Colleagues/ I am pleased to announce the publication of my review of "Project Euclid: Mathematics and Statistics Journals" in _The Charleston Advisor_ (6:1) (July 2004): 24-31, 35-37). I'll self-archived a copy of the article at [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/ProjectEuclid.pdf ] "By providing current and forthcoming access to more than 30 significant mathematical and statistics journals within a common framework, Project Euclid has clearly realized its primary goal of addressing "the unique needs of independent and society journals through a collaborative partnership with scholarly publishers, professional societies, and academic libraries." Through its range of access and distribution plans and its associated varied subscription options, Project Euclid has achieved its goal of providing low cost access to its component journals." "In addition to providing free search and access to abstracts with article references, Project Euclid offers a variety of user-centered browse, search, and display functionalities ... . Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu "In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act." --- George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] (1903-1950) British author

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Web Feeds for Enhanced Governmental Information Services
by Gerry Mckiernan 26 Aug '04

26 Aug '04

Colleagues/ Once again I seek the Wisdom of the Web for recommendations of governmental information services that do/could/would benefit from the addition of general or specific Web feeds (e.g., RSS, Atom, etc.). For examples of libraries that offer enhanced services, please see _RSS(sm): Rich Site Services_, one of my latest registries available at [ 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." For those new to Web Feeds, please See and Read Any and All items of potential interest the RSS(sm) General Bibliography at [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/GenBib.htm ] I am particularly interested in the *specific* information services offered by the following federal entities that might benefit from a WebFeed MakeOver [:-) : Library of Congress National Agricultural Library National Library of Education Defense Technical Information Center Air Force ,Army, Navy Executive Office of the President Governmental Printing Office (GPO) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) National Science Foundation (NSF) National Technical Information Service (NTIS) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) (Department of Energy) Smithsonian Institution U.S. Information Agency BTW: I am aware of the Most Excellent registry edited by Ray Mathews called _RSS in Government_ at [ http://www.rssgov.com/ ] Thanks in Advance!!! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Enhanced Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu "In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act." --- George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] (1903-1950) British author

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Position Announcement--Database Designer
by prafulla tv 25 Aug '04

25 Aug '04

Position Announcement NISC Export Services (NES) Private Limited invites applications for the position of DATABASE DESIGNER. 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 would be responsible for the design of various database products, using latest information and communication technologies. NES is looking for candidates who have a BLISc or MLISc or any other equivalent degree. 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. Good typing skills are required as the working environment involves online computer use for access to offices worldwide. 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 Applications are accepted until position is filled. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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RE: [LIS-Forum] "First computerised library in country to be inaugurated"
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

Dear Sri Prakash, City Central Library, Hyderabad developed its OPAC containing around 3.6 lac titles (including branches) long ago. They used TLMS package. It has mutilingual support except for Urudu. For Urudu they have used English transliteration. While OPAC is available for public use in the library premises, circulation module is for library staff only. Circulation involves bar coded membership cards and bar coded labels for books. Branches are yet to be linked up, though the branch library data is with central library ints OPAC. Internet has been made available in City Central Library for a very long time (3-4 years?). Dr Rama Reddy of UOHYD was the adivisor/consultant for the automation project. Moreover the same library takes part in the famous Million Books Project of Carnegy Mellon University -- Several Thousand books have been digitised and amde available for public using good sophisticated digital scanning set up. Bangalore too has some public libraries fully automated. If you talk of non-State funded public libraries British Library Automation is the Best by all standards. Best wishes VYasamoorthy, P -----Original Message----- From: K Prakash [mailto:prakash@inflibnet.ac.in] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 12:07 PM To: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] "First computerised library in country to beinaugurated" Dear Sir, They have used SOUL s/w developed by INFLIBNET Centre. First in the sense may be"First among the public libraries". 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: [LIS-Forum] "First computerised library in country to be inau gurated"
by sathya 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

There is already a public library in Bangalore to claim credit as the first library. Last year, the City Central Library (West), Vijayanagar, launched itself as a computerized library with internet connectivity, OPAC etc. Sathya -------------------------------------------------- N V Sathyanarayana Chairman & Managing Director Informatics (India) Ltd Bangalore 560003, India Phone : 91-80-23365940 www.informindia.co.in -------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com [mailto:Vyasamoorthy@icicikp.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 10:00 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] "First computerised library in country to be inaugurated" Forwarded for the information of Lis-forum members. What is 'First' about this Shaik only knows! ================== http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=96567 First computerised library in country to be inaugurated 23rd August 2004. Bashir Pathan Gandhinagar, August 22: The Gandhinagar District Library will earn the distinction of being the first computerised library in the country, when it will be thrown open for the general public at a function here on August 24, to be organised by the State Youth and Culture Department. The computerisation of the library, with Internet connectivity, has been done by the State Directorate of Libraries, under a project funded by Kolkata-based Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation under the Union Human Resources Development Ministry. It is envisaged, under the project, to introduce computerisation in all government district libraries in the state. Director of Libraries A F Shaikh told Express Newsline on Saturday that computerisation of district libraries in five of the 26 districts was over, which included Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, Mehsana, Bharuch and Junagadh. The Gandhinagar library would be the first to be inaugurated on August 24 by Education Minister Anandiben Patel, who also holds the Youth and Culture portfolio. Shaikh said the process of computerising the remaining district libraries was on and would be over by March next year, while the computerisation of two central libraries - one each in Gandhinagar and Vadodara - would be completed under the project by the end of this year. All district and central libraries would have internet facilities and be connected with the G-SWAN (Gujarat State Wide Area Network) under the Centre-aided project. ''Once the system is in place, a book-lover will be able to avail a book of his choice sitting at home from any district library. He has to just surf a list of books posted by the Directorate on the Internet and place an order for that book,'' he explained. Asked, the director said postal charges for dispatching of books to the readers would be borne by the concerned government district library authorities. The reader has to dole out a meagre Rs 40 as one-time deposit to register himself with the government library of a district. The directorate has received a Rs 1.50-crore grant from the Kolkata-based Foundation under the project to purchase computers, hardware, software, colour TVs, VCRs and create other infrastructure facilities at the district and central libraries being computerised with internet linking. The Foundation has accepted the government's proposal to provide grant of Rs 4 lakh to help charitable trusts set up taluka or village-level libraries. The government has also plans to computerise its nine brail libraries in Bhavnagar, Porbandar, Visnagar, Idar, Bhachau, Ahmedabad and, Mehamdabad. ================================================= 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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"First computerised library in country to be inaugurated"
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

Forwarded for the information of Lis-forum members. What is 'First' about this Shaik only knows! ================== http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=96567 First computerised library in country to be inaugurated 23rd August 2004. Bashir Pathan Gandhinagar, August 22: The Gandhinagar District Library will earn the distinction of being the first computerised library in the country, when it will be thrown open for the general public at a function here on August 24, to be organised by the State Youth and Culture Department. The computerisation of the library, with Internet connectivity, has been done by the State Directorate of Libraries, under a project funded by Kolkata-based Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation under the Union Human Resources Development Ministry. It is envisaged, under the project, to introduce computerisation in all government district libraries in the state. Director of Libraries A F Shaikh told Express Newsline on Saturday that computerisation of district libraries in five of the 26 districts was over, which included Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, Mehsana, Bharuch and Junagadh. The Gandhinagar library would be the first to be inaugurated on August 24 by Education Minister Anandiben Patel, who also holds the Youth and Culture portfolio. Shaikh said the process of computerising the remaining district libraries was on and would be over by March next year, while the computerisation of two central libraries - one each in Gandhinagar and Vadodara - would be completed under the project by the end of this year. All district and central libraries would have internet facilities and be connected with the G-SWAN (Gujarat State Wide Area Network) under the Centre-aided project. ''Once the system is in place, a book-lover will be able to avail a book of his choice sitting at home from any district library. He has to just surf a list of books posted by the Directorate on the Internet and place an order for that book,'' he explained. Asked, the director said postal charges for dispatching of books to the readers would be borne by the concerned government district library authorities. The reader has to dole out a meagre Rs 40 as one-time deposit to register himself with the government library of a district. The directorate has received a Rs 1.50-crore grant from the Kolkata-based Foundation under the project to purchase computers, hardware, software, colour TVs, VCRs and create other infrastructure facilities at the district and central libraries being computerised with internet linking. The Foundation has accepted the government's proposal to provide grant of Rs 4 lakh to help charitable trusts set up taluka or village-level libraries. The government has also plans to computerise its nine brail libraries in Bhavnagar, Porbandar, Visnagar, Idar, Bhachau, Ahmedabad and, Mehamdabad. ================================================= 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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Self-Archiving Policy By Journal
by Shyam Prasad pujar 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

Dear Members, Following site provides information about publishers, who are allowing self archiving. Just enter title of the journal in search box to know the details. You may also browse through the list of publishers. The site is still under construction, may add many more titles in the future. Presently it includes around 8689 titles from 100 publishers. http://romeo.eprints.org You may please inform about this site to faculty, research scholars and students of your organization. Regards, Pujar

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University of Mysore-Library School- Alumni Association
by Shalini R. Urs 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

Dear Friends, The Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore was established on June 24, 1965 and has entered its 40th year of fruitful existence and contribution to society in general and to LIS profession in particular. At the threshold of crossing a milestone such as the 40th anniversary, it is time for the DLIS to introspect and prospect. We would like to collect as complete data as possible about our alumni and interact with them with a view to know where we stand in terms of our true 'contributions' to the LIS profession - our alumni and their contributions. In this context, the DLIS, University of Mysore intends to revitalize its Alumni Association- which has been kind of dormant for very long. We have christened the same as MULSAA ( Mysore University Library School Alumni Association) We have created a facility for the alumni of the DLIS- University of Mysore to upload their details online. Please visit the website- www.vidyanidhi.org.in/mulsaa Please note that there is no 'registration fee' For more information about your Alma Mater please visit- www.lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in You are also welcome to send your latest CV by mail to my colleague Dr.N.S.Harinarayana - harinarayana(a)lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in You are most welcome to send your CV by post as well- please down load the registration form I also request all our alumni to spread the good word-communicate this message to all their classmates and friends from the Mysore LIS School Join MULSAA and help us know ourselves better ---- 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

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WEBLIS: Library Integrated System (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 10:22:42 +0530 (IST) From: Shyam Prasad pujar <pujar(a)igidr.ac.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: WEBLIS: Library Integrated System Dear Members, UNESCO has released WEBLIS, a Web based Library Integrated System based on CDS/ISIS. It has been distributed as free-ware. The system has been developed by the Institute for Computer and Information Engineering (ICIE), Poland. The current version of WEBLIS, available in English, consists of the following modules: 1. Cataloguing system (books, papers from book, papers from journals, journals, miscellaneous -slides, photos, audio, video, etc) 2. OPAC -on-line public access catalogue- (basic and advanced search, history, saving queries function, and ISIS Query language facilities, thesaurus based search) 3. LOAN module (hold/reserve, loan/ renew, automatic claiming by e-mail or a traditional mail in word form, urgent task lists) 4. Statistical module (the main goal of the program is to generate statistical data aggregated from the CDS/ISIS databases). The software and documentation can be downloaded at: Software: http://www.unesco.org/isis/files/weblis.zip Documentation: http://www.unesco.org/isis/files/weblisdoc.zip 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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University of Mysore -Informatics Endowment Lecture Series on DL-3
by Shalini R. Urs 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

Department of Studies in Library and Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri, Mysore 570006 INFORMATICS Endowment Lecture Series on Digital Libraries 3 Privacy- Preserving Data Mining by Dr. Jayant Haritsa Supercomputer Education & Research Centre and Department of Computer Science & Automation Indian Institute of Science Bangalore Guest of Honour Sri. N.V. Sathyanarayana Chairman and Managing Director INFORMATICS (India) Ltd., Bangalore Prof. J. Shashidhara Prasad Vice Chancellor University of Mysore, Mysore Presides You are cordially invited Date : 27th August 2004 Time : 3.00 P.M. Venue: Einstein Auditorium Department of Studies in Physics Manasagangotri, Mysore 6 Dr. Shalini. R. Urs Professor & Chairperson ------- Abstract of the talk : Data mining services require accurate input data for their results to be meaningful, but privacy concerns may influence users to provide spurious information. In this talk, we discuss whether users can be encouraged to provide correct information by ensuring that the mining process cannot, with any reasonable degree of certainty, violate their privacy. Specifically, we present a scheme, based on matrix-theoretic distortion of user data, that can simultaneously provide a high degree of privacy to the user, retain a high level of accuracy in the mining results, and be efficient with respect to its response times. The performance of the scheme is validated against representative real and synthetic datasets. ------ About the Speaker Jayant Haritsa is on the faculty of the Supercomputer Education & Research Centre and the Department of Computer Science & Automation at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He received the BTech degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Madras), and the MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin (Madison). His research interests are in database systems. He is a recipient of the Swarnajayanti Fellowship from the Government of India, and the Sir C V Raman Young Scientist Award from the Government of Karnataka. ---- Bovet the Lecture series Informatics Endowment Lecture Series on Digital Libraries was instituted by Informatics India Ltd., Bangalore at the Department of Studies in Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, in the year 2000 The Inaugural lecture on Beyond Search Engines: Putting information back in the centre stage of information technology was delivered by Prof. S Sadagopan, Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore on November 10, 2001 The second lecture on Digital library: Technology, Law, the Society and the four Cs was delivered by Prof. N Balakrishnan, Head, Division of Information Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore on October 24, 2002 ---------------- Dr. Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele:91-821-2514699 Fax :91-821-2519209

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WHO Health Leadership Service Accepting Applicants
by Tomas Allen 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

Please excuse cross-posting. We would greatly appreciate you distributing this information and our call for applications to members of your institution whom you consider might be interested. Librarians being the great "brokers of information", I am sure that you know of people that are quality applicants. Thank you very much for your help. Tomas Allen WHO Library ******************************************************************************* World Health Organization's new young professionals programme, the Health Leadership Service (HLS), is now accepting applications until 15th September. The Health Leadership Service is recruiting promising young health professionals from around the world and will provide them with the opportunity to work and learn for two years within WHO. Mentored by senior WHO staff, these young professionals will form part of the next generation of health leaders. Eight to ten 'HLS Officers' will be recruited as WHO staff under a two-year non-renewable fixed-term appointment. Women and nationals of developing countries are particularly encouraged to apply For more information, and to apply, please go to http://www.who.int/health_leadership or email directly to HLSMailbox(a)who.int The Health Leadership Service secretariat EIP/HRH/LMF WHO 20 Avenue Appia 1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland ********************************************************************************************* _________________________________________________________________ So wird man Teil einer riesigen Chatgemeinde, die ihrer Zeit voraus ist. http://messenger.msn.ch?DI=1057&XAPID=2532

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Suggestion needed
by Mahesh G T 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

Dear Professionals, our library has a good collection of books as well as serials,even we have maintained the AICTE norms of collection,actualy we have quite lot of multiple copies rather titles,we r planning (demand from management) to weed out some old editions of the same titles,but the irony is that some of the old edition of the title is usefull for some extent say "Advertising Management" by Batra and others,currently we have its eleventh edition,but still students felt in need of 5th,6th editions of the title,we have come across like same situation for several titles, so could anyone plz help me out in how far it is better to weed out the old editions, is it worth to weed out the multiple copies,(old editions) does it not affect the collection development,and is there any weeding out policy, considering the above case. thanking you, Mahesh G T Alliance Business Academy, Bangalore. MB No - 9844182965. ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony

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reference required
by Rajeev Sharma 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

Dear Sir/ Madam Please give details of any recent study (2003/2004) regarding the opportunities in pharmaceutical sector for logistics/Transportation. Regards Rajeev Kr. Sharma Officer - Information Services Business Information Center Transport Corporation of India Ltd.

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need information
by vijayalakshmijs＠ingvysyabank.com 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

Dear professional friends, I want the information about the library stationary suppliers or vendors who are at Bangalore. I want to buy some acrylic folders to our library. Expecting positive replies from all of you. Thanks and regards Vijayalakshmi J S Librarian STC ING Vysya Bank Ltd. PH NO: 26507281

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Differential Pricing for Books in Foreign Currency
by I.R.N.Goudar 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

Dear friends, The differencial pricing for books in foreign currency has become a matter of concern to librarians, especially after EU adopted currency Euro. I wish to share our experience and invite your experience, comments, suggestions in the matter. Recently we purchased "Handbook of Nanotechnology" by Bhushan, B published by Springer(ISBN : 3-540-01218-4). While processing processing the invoice, we have noticed the following discrepancies : 1. The price mentioned in the invoice (EURO 249.00) and the price mentioned by the requester (USD 199.00) although different both are correct. 2. The price proof produced by the vendor, taken from the WEB (URL not given) 3. We visited the Springer site at http://www.springeronline.com/ and noticed different prices when checked depending upon the route as follows - Europe General, Asia, Africa: EURO 249.00 Germany: EURO 266.43 United Kingdom: Pound 191.50 North America, South America: USD 199.00 Switzerland: SFr 421.00 4. Amazon sells this book at the price USD 199.00, As you can see there is a huge difference in price of about Rs 5000. When enquired the vendors tell us that they procure through European sources and hence charge in EURO. Even if we give handling and postage charges to Amazon we not only save good amount, but get the document faster. In this particular case since the basic cost is more Amazon could be a solution. But why should we give such high prices? Can we not force the publishers to adopt single price? Why not Vendors use their US contacts to supply books at US $ price? Another interesting thing we notice is some Vendors publish the publishers catalogue locally to suit them. This is the case with journals too. We face problems while passing the bills as our accounts raise objections in such cases. How should we satisfy audits? One possibility is that we can demand the original invoice received by Vendors from publishers. Friends you too would have come across many such situations. Your reactions please! Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road http://www.icast.org.in/staff1.htm BANGALORE-560 017 India

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RE: application for the LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

Dear Friends: Sometime ago I forwarded a few announcements regarding vacancies for Librarians that appeared in 'unusual' channels. Quite a few have taken advantage of this. However many have sent copies of their resume/biodata to me as well. I have absolutely nothing to do with such advertisements except that I have forwarded them to lis-forum. Kindly do NOT send resumes to me. To avoid confusion, I am also explicitly indicating at the bottom of my postings: "sent by" above my signature. Those interested in knowing about library vacancies may see www.naukri.com, www.monster.com etc. Quite a few do appear there. Best wishes Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631

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WEBLIS: Library Integrated System
by Shyam Prasad pujar 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

Dear Members, UNESCO has released WEBLIS, a Web based Library Integrated System based on CDS/ISIS. It has been distributed as free-ware. The system has been developed by the Institute for Computer and Information Engineering (ICIE), Poland. The current version of WEBLIS, available in English, consists of the following modules: 1. Cataloguing system (books, papers from book, papers from journals, journals, miscellaneous -slides, photos, audio, video, etc) 2. OPAC -on-line public access catalogue- (basic and advanced search, history, saving queries function, and ISIS Query language facilities, thesaurus based search) 3. LOAN module (hold/reserve, loan/ renew, automatic claiming by e-mail or a traditional mail in word form, urgent task lists) 4. Statistical module (the main goal of the program is to generate statistical data aggregated from the CDS/ISIS databases). The software and documentation can be downloaded at: Software: http://www.unesco.org/isis/files/weblis.zip Documentation: http://www.unesco.org/isis/files/weblisdoc.zip 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] Lalu urged to launch library in trains
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

Dear Friends Please refer to replies of Smt Vasumati, Dr GK Manjunath and Henag on the above topic. AH Wheeler has the large(st) network of railway station bookstalls in India. AHW or some such network can Collaborate with Railways and run "sales-cum-loans" extension counters in long distance trains. Audio video CD printed books and magazines may be sold and/or hired. Entire cost of a book is paid in advance. If you want to retain the book you just walk away. If you have finished the book and want to return it you can do it and pay only a lending fee (get back bulk of your money). This way the bookseller can reach a larger number of customers. Railways can provide book space for stalls or libraries inside trains without really investing on stocks. Maintenance cost of in-train libraries by contract employees can be borne by railways or shared with book shop network. There is no point in talking these things among ourselves. Lalu must be informed through proper channel! Can someone influential in Delhi take it up? Regards Vyasamoorthy, P

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Lalu urged to launch library in trains
by HENAG 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

This cannot run for long as the reading habit in general people is very very less, those who like to read carry their own book or purchase from the platform vendors or hawkers and build their own collection at home after reading in train.Reading book from library may not work . Rather they can plan for a stall cum library in each long distance train which may be beneficial and may be successful.Stall cum Library should have audio /video facility which will attract people , specially the young generation .Instead of buying book/ cassettes from Platform they will buy from the stall. Stall also should have facility for cassette player which maybe given on rent and the deposit should be kept so that they would return. Also they need to publicize a lot, on each compartment there should be an advertisement mentioning about it, so that everyone knows about it. Libray /stall compartment should be painted differently so that it attracts people and generates the awareness of the containers. Hena S Gupta Infosys Central Library Electronics city. -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Vasumathi Sriganesh Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 2:40 PM To: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com; lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Lalu urged to launch library in trains Another interesting one by Dr. Vyasamoorthy! Years ago - in the mid 1970s- the Coromandel Express running between (then) - Calcutta and Madras had this facility. You "bought" a book and when you returned it to the "library" - you were refunded the cost of the book less a reading fee. But for some reason, the scheme ran only for a year or two and was withdrawn. It would really be good to have such a facility on all long distance trains. Regards Vasumathi Sriganesh Director, QMed Services Pvt. Ltd. A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099, India Ph: 91-22-28229223 Fax: 91-22-28224358 Email: vasu(a)qmedin.com, Web: www.qmedin.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 11:52 AM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Lalu urged to launch library in trains Do you think this may come true? Shoud not Library Associations follow it up with Lalu? ====================================================================== ================ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/783491.cms Lalu urged to launch library in trains P K SURENDRAN TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ MONDAY, JULY 19, 2004 05:59:04 PM ] THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Do trains encourage reading habit which is sliding worldwide? Yes, says a highcourt lawyer who has approached Railway Minister to introduce lending library in long-distance trains. Johnson Manayani has, in his letter to Lalu Prasad Yadav, urged him to set a portion of a coach in long journey trains to help passengers pass their time profitably by reading novels or journals of their choice. "This not only encourages reading habits but earn the railway additional revenue". The library can take a deposit for the book and charge a reading fee. Deposit could be given back when a book is returned at the end of the journey or later. The Railway cannot lose. It could gain. ========= A Question unrelated: The URL given above, if clicked from the message window leads to an error page. However the same URL if cut & Pasted into URL window afresh into the browser, gets loaded properly. WHY? 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 _______________________________________________ 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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Lalu urged to launch library in trains
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 17 Aug '04

17 Aug '04

Do you think this may come true? Shoud not Library Associations follow it up with Lalu? ====================================================================================== http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/783491.cms Lalu urged to launch library in trains P K SURENDRAN TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ MONDAY, JULY 19, 2004 05:59:04 PM ] THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Do trains encourage reading habit which is sliding worldwide? Yes, says a highcourt lawyer who has approached Railway Minister to introduce lending library in long-distance trains. Johnson Manayani has, in his letter to Lalu Prasad Yadav, urged him to set a portion of a coach in long journey trains to help passengers pass their time profitably by reading novels or journals of their choice. "This not only encourages reading habits but earn the railway additional revenue". The library can take a deposit for the book and charge a reading fee. Deposit could be given back when a book is returned at the end of the journey or later. The Railway cannot lose. It could gain. ========= A Question unrelated: The URL given above, if clicked from the message window leads to an error page. However the same URL if cut & Pasted into URL window afresh into the browser, gets loaded properly. WHY? 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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NACLIN 2004
by Mailing List Manager 17 Aug '04

17 Aug '04

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:03:14 +0100 (WETS) From: "Sangeeta Kaul, Network Manager, DELNET" <sangs(a)delnet.ren.nic.in> Seventh National Convention on Library and Information Networking NACLIN 2004 Theme Quality Information in the Internet Era November 23-26, 2004 Venue University of Pune, Pune Jointly Organised by DELNET Developing Library Network Jayakar Library 40, Max Mueller Marg Dept. of Lib. & Inf. Sc. Lodhi Estate University of Pune New Delhi-110003 Pune - 411007 E-mail : hkkaul(a)delnet.ren.nic.in E-mail: skpatil(a)unipune.ernet.in Web : www.delnet.nic.in Web: www.unipune.ernet.in Quality Information in the Internet Era The major concern today for libraries is that the users, including the students and teachers, have begun to use Web resources for everything. They gain access to a large number of resources without understanding that most of the content on the Web is not peer-reviewed. But there is variety on the Web, they can easily download the content, shape it and finally use it. These Web resources are mostly self-published and subjective in nature. The users do not have the patience to do extensive research in order to get an objective view on a given issue. As the number of hits on a given subject on the Web are generally very large in number, the users cannot go through all of them. The users, thus, access a few hits, collect some information and use it. As a result, the use of the traditional libraries has begun to decline in certain subject areas and if remedial measures are not taken it will be difficult for the users to get access to quality information. This trend, on one hand, is reducing the capacities of researchers for research and on the other, affecting the role of libraries as the centres of knowledge. The libraries need to grow as Knowledge Centres and use methods that evolve high quality information in their given fields. The Librarians and Infor mation Officers will have to develop critical assessment skills and have to gain access to virtual and printed collections through networks, search engines, subject guides, directories, meta-indexes, and through other resources on the Web. Evaluation of Internet resources in each discipline is going to be a specialised job in future. It will include the defining of selection criteria including the organisation of selected material and a host of technical methodologies that will enable the users to have a ccess to quality information. The Librarians and Information Officers need to monitor regularly the growth of Information Technology tools and techniques. It is with this concern that the National Convention on Library and Information Networking (NACLIN 2004) being organised by DELNET in collaboration with the University of Pune is going to discuss various issues on the subject. DELNET-Developing Library Network DELNET, a major resource-sharing library network in South Asia covers a wide spectrum of member-libraries and their resources. DELNET is committed to pool the information about resources scattered in the libraries in the country and consolidate informatio n through union catalogues, union lists and other databases. This is being done to satisfy the major information requirements of students, researchers, scholars and the public in the country. DELNET services also support the research activities in India a s we regularly supply suitable content and information materials to libraries and their users. DELNET has now more that 750 member institutions in India and outside India. The DELNET database resources have now reached around four million records. The DEL NET services have become more popular in the country especially with the effective Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Services which are provided to libraries across the country and also to the member-libraries outside the country. ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF PUNE -THE HOST The University of Pune, the leading university in India was established as a result of long and sustained demand for a separate university in Maharashtra. The university made a humble beginning in 1949 with 8 postgraduate centres with 180 students and 23 affiliated colleges with 8,000 undergraduate students. It has now more than 44 postgraduate departments, 334 affiliated colleges and 157 recognised institutions having 25,000 post-graduate and 1,60,000 undergraduate students. Located on a spacious 411- acre campus with a majestic Gothic main building surrounded by magnificent trees and refreshing greenery, the University of Pune has developed into a main seat of higher learning in the city of Pune. The University of Pune has been instrumental in the rapid spread of education in rural areas and among the weaker sections of the society. The presence of the institutions of national importance including the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Inter University Centre for Astronomy and As trophysics (IUCAA), Education Media Research Centre (EMRC), Bioinformatics Centre and UGC Regional Centre has been made this campus a place of vigorous academic pursuits and intense intellectual activities. The University of Pune has been awarded a Five Star by NAAC and under potential for excellence scheme of the UGC, University of Pune made excellent progress. Jayakar Library The University Library named after Dr. Mukund Ramrao Jayakar, the first Vice-Chancellor of Pune University started in 1950 with books donated by Dr. Jayakar himself. Located in a spacious building (with 44,000 sq.ft. area) with a huge reading hall it is very close to the main building of the university. The Jayakar Library is rich in its collection and services. It has a collection of over 4,24,000 volumes covering all types of reading materials. The rare books and manuscript collection in the library is an invaluable asset for the scholars. The library receives more than 1,500 periodicals in print as well as online access and has a strong collection of audio-visual materials including CD-ROMs, etc. Jayakar Library plans to move into the electronic in formation era in a big way. The University of Pune has participated in the UGC INFONET Programme which facilitates access to E-journals of world collections along with JSTOR, J-Gate, Muse and other famous international databases of world. Presently Jayakar Library is implementing tw o projects, viz. 1. Pune University Digital Library: A part of "Millions of Books on the Web Project" in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, USA and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. So far 2142 books were scanned. 2. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Technology) Technology, which is non-contact, non-line-of-sight nature and is based on smart labels. RFID will be helpful for - A) Tag & Verify item Information B) Manage books on the self C) Keep an accurate inventory D) Deter theft Jayakar Library of Pune University is the first in India to implement this technology at such a large scale. Department of Library & Information Science In 1958, the University of Pune instituted a one-year diploma course in Library Science. Subsequently, the Dept. of Library & Information Science was set up under the Faculty of Mental, Moral & Social Science in 1978. Previously the Department had condu cted Bachelor of Library & Information Science (B.Lib.I.Sc.); Master of Library & Information Science (M.Lib.I.Sc.) One year regular and two-year vacational, Ph.D. in Library Science. So far 28 students have been awarded Ph. D. in Library Science. In th e year 2002 the Department has introduced two-year integrated MLISc course with the semester and credit system. NACLIN 2004 The National Convention is scheduled for four days. The first two days are exclusively designed for conducting tutorials by experts on the following topics: * Metadata * Search Engines * Data Mining * Language Databases The next two days will focus on the theme of the National Convention: "Quality Information in the Internet Era". This theme is divided into several sub-themes as detailed below: Evaluation of Online Information Resources, Information Audit, Search Engine Strategies, Quality Information Management, Information Gateways, Quality Information for Quality Life, Quality Collection Development in the Digital Era, Information Intermediar ies, IPR Issues and Quality Information, Hidden Web/Invisible Web, Building Quality resources on the Web, Analysis of Quality Information and Information Seeking Patterns. Submission of Papers Participants are welcome to contribute papers for presentation at the National Convention on the above sub-themes or related themes. The papers should be based on research surveys, case studies or action plans rather than theoretical explanations. Papers should reach the Director, DELNET, 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate New Delhi-110003 on or before October 31, 2004. They should be submitted on A4 size paper along with an electronic copy or sent through E-mail. Papers should contain the name of the auth or, designation, title of the article, abstract, name of the affiliating institute, mailing address, telephone number, fax number and E-mail address. The contributors will be communicated about the acceptance of the paper by Director, DELNET to enable the m to present their papers. Please ensure that the paper submitted should not have already been published elsewhere. The editors will have the right to edit the papers before acceptance is communicated. Participation Fees (India and SAARC Countries) The following will be the charges for Registration and Tutorials. Members of DELNET Rs.2,500/- Non-Members and Participants from Industries from any part of the country Rs.4,000/- Library professionals from Maharashtra Rs. 2,000/- College and University Students Rs.1,000/- Accompanying Persons Rs.1,500/- each Non-SAARC Countries Members US $ 100 Non-Members US $ 200 Accompanying Persons US $ 75 each Participation fee includes fee for attending the tutorials and the National Convention, including kit, tea, lunch and dinner. Accommodation Arrangements are being made to accommodate a limited number of delegates in the institutional guest houses/hostels furnished with minimum amenities. Delegates may indicate the request for accommodation in the registration form. This will be done on a fi rst- come-first-served basis. In case, sufficient guest house/hostel accommodation is not found, efforts will be made to accommodate delegates in nearby hotels at reasonable rates. Those who wish to stay only in hotels may kindly contact the Organising Secretary before October 31, 2004. Location Pune, rightly called "Queen of the Deccan", is located at an altitude of 646 m. from the sea level and is 192 kms from Mumbai, surrounded on all sides by mountains from the Sahayadri range (Western Ghats). This city has been settled on the confluence of two rivers called Mutha and Mula. Pune is a historical city with great traditions. For almost a century, the Pune city served as 'de facto' capital of the Maratha Empire which dominated much of the history of India during the 18th century. Climate The climate in the month of November is pleasant ranging from 11 to 20 degrees. The temperature will be moderate and evenings will be pleasant. Delegates are advised to come prepared accordingly. Return Reservation All the participants are advised to make their reservations on their own in advance to avoid last minute inconvenience. Sightseeing Visits to some of the historically prominent places will be arranged separately on November 27, 2004 at an extra cost based on the distance and duration of the trip and also the number of delegates. NACLIN - 2004 Seventh National Convention on Quality Information in the Internet Era Date : November 23-26, 2004 Venue: University of Pune, Pune REGISTRATION FORM Name (in BLOCK Letters) : Mr./Ms./Dr.____________________________________ Designation: ____________________________________________________________ Organisation: ___________________________________________________________ Address : _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________Pin _____________________ Phone : Office : __________ Resi. : _____________ Cell No. ____________ Fax : ___________________ E-mail :________________________________________ Accompanying person(s) : ______________ Accommodation required : Yes/No, if yes, please mention the dates from __________ to ___________ I am enclosing DD No. _____________ dated ___________ for Rs. ____________drawn on _______________________towards participation fee Rs. ___________ and accommodation Rs. 1000/- as an advance (if needed) Place : Date : Signature : On-the-spot Registration is available The filled-in registration forms may be mailed to the Organising Secretary, NACLIN 2004, C/o The Librarian, Jayakar Library, University of Pune, Pune-411007 along with the demand draft (payable at Pune)drawn in favour of "The Registrar, University of Pune ". Addresses for the Communication Registration/Accommodation Dr. S. K. Patil Organising Secretary, NACLIN 2004 University Librarian and Head, Department of Library & Information Science University of Pune Ganeshkhind Pune-4110007 Maharashtra Tel : 020-25693648, 25695549 Fax : 020-25693648 E-mail : skpatil(a)unipune.ernet.in sureshpatil(a)hotmail.com Submission of Papers Dr. H. K. Kaul Director DELNET 40, Max Mueller Marg Lodhi Estate New Delhi-110003 Tel : 91-11-24619325, 24610802 Fax : 91-11-24619325 Mobile : 9891016667 E-mail : hkkaul(a)delnet.ren.nic.in kaul_h_k(a)hotmail.com _______________________________________________________________________________ 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 ________________________________________________________________________________

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Journal Information
by noufal palliparamban 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

Dear members Let me know any library in India subscribg this journal "Acta Cienc. Indica Math" please regards Noufal. IITK ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony

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Kerala's oldest library is manned by lepers
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

Kerala's oldest library is manned by lepers Alleppy (Kerala) | July 23, 2004 3:14:59 PM IST http://www.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=43686&cat=India Believe it or not! Lepers are manning an old library in Kerala's Alleppy District. The library is said to house a huge stock of ancient books, records and a huge stock of 16th century palm leaf manuscripts situated in Alleppy district with a collection of some ancient books, records and palm leaf manuscripts dating back to the 16th century. Run by the Leprosy Sanatorium, the library is presently home to about 400 lepers who have been tasked with the responsibility of looking after the rare books and manuscripts. K.G, Narayan, a leprosy patient and caretaker of the library, said that though there are several old records and manuscripts, maintenance is a problem as there are very few educated patients left. "Here we have many kinds of old records and manuscripts and the paintings inside are all drawn by the patients. We preserve it and take great care of the manuscripts. Most of the educated in- patients have already left the sanatorium, here there is no one to man this place now," he said. There are nearly four million leprosy patients in the country, and they are amongst the high-risk communities in need of massive support. (ANI) Believe it or not! Lepers are manning an old library in Kerala's Alleppy District. The library is said to house a huge stock of ancient books, records and a huge stock of 16th century palm leaf manuscripts situated in Alleppy district with a collection of some ancient books, records and palm leaf manuscripts dating back to the 16th century. Run by the Leprosy Sanatorium, the library is presently home to about 400 lepers who have been tasked with the responsibility of looking after the rare books and manuscripts. K.G, Narayan, a leprosy patient and caretaker of the library, said that though there are several old records and manuscripts, maintenance is a problem as there are very few educated patients left. "Here we have many kinds of old records and manuscripts and the paintings inside are all drawn by the patients. We preserve it and take great care of the manuscripts. Most of the educated in- patients have already left the sanatorium, here there is no one to man this place now," he said. There are nearly four million leprosy patients in the country, and they are amongst the high-risk communities in need of massive support. (ANI) =============================================== Sent in by: Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, 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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Modi to dedicate digitised library to State on Aug 15
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

Modi to dedicate digitised library to State on Aug 15 http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=95105 Express News Service Vadodara, August 10: A NETWORKED library with digitised journals and thesis at the Anand Agricultural University (AAU) would be dedicated to the region by Chief Minister Narendra Modi during Independence Day celebrations on August 14. The E-library that has come up under National Agricultural Research System (NARS) is one of its kind in western India and is expected to cater to research needs in Agricultural Sciences of a large community of students and faculty alike. AAU V-C Professor M C Varshneya informed that the comprehensive library would provide all important agricultural databases ranging from journals, biological abstracts, current contents, J-CCC, CMIE, J-gate, Agris, Agricola, Winspire on members' desktops. University sources informed that the staff members and students have been trained in LIBSYS software for operating the library and that it has been connected with other agricultural university campuses in the state at Junagadh, Dantiwada and Navsari. The V-C hoped that the facility would give a fillip to research activities on campus by connecting student community from across the region, thereby increasing exchange of ideas. ================= Sent by Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA

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KVS - INFLIBNET IN SERVICE TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIANS
by Mailing List Manager 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:31:25 +0530 From: K Prakash <prakash(a)inflibnet.ac.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in KVS - INFLIBNET IN SERVICE TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIANS On Library Automation, Networking and E-Resources Management Organised by INFLIBNET Centre 28 May - 17 June 2004 REPORT Kendriya Vidyalayas were established in the year 1963-64 starting with = 20 schools and now they are 871 in number having enrolment of about 8 = lakh students and more than 40,000 teachers. They are spread all over = the country. Kendriya Vidyalayas were conceived and came into being as = pacesetters. The recruitment of staff is a nation-wide affair with a = high degree of choice for quality. A carefully conceived curriculum, a = uniformly split-up syllabus, text-books and the teachers' guides = prepared by the NCERT and the CBSE, updated teaching methods, = well-planned co-curricular activities, games and sports, library service = etc. all these and more are integral features of Kendriya Vidyalayas. The Principal of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sanghatan, Gandhinagr has asked = INFLIBNET Centre to conduct the training programme for KVS School = Librarians. The training programme was named as "KVS - INFLIBNET = In-Service Training Programme For School Librarians On Library = Automation, Networking and E-Resources Management" with three weeks = duration, specially designed for kendriya vidyalaya school Library = professionals. Discussions were held with senior staff of KVS and = INFLIBNET technical staff for designing this kind of specialized course. = The topics were selected keeping in view of the objectives of this = programme, i.e., creating awareness about the most modern technologies = and nurturing IT culture in KVS Librarians. The following are the broad = topics selected in which specialized and comprehensive lectures and = practicals conducted; * Personality Development & Communication. * Basics of Computer and Hardware * Bibliographic Standards * WINISIS and GENISIS * Library Management Software Systems and SOUL * Planning for LAN in Libraries * Networking Security Issues * Mail Server and Web Server Configurations & Applications * Website Designing and Hosting * Digital Libraries Creation using Green Stone * Impact of INTERNET and Identification of Resources * INTERNET Resources and Gateways for School Libraries * Archiving and IPR Issues, etc. Study tours to different Libraries, like Indian Institute of Management, = Ahmedabad to understand the proper implementation of modern = technologies, were also arranged for the participants. Projects and = assignments were assigned to participants compulsory, which have to be = completed and presented using PowerPoint prior the concluding session. = Projects component and assignment were as follows; * About Library and its services * SOUL Software - Each Module * Designing of Library Websites * Creation of Digital Library using Green Stone Software * Searching and Identification of Internet Resources * Evaluating the Programme * Future Plans In addition to the project Pre-test and Post-tests were also conducted = for participants to evaluate their awareness about the IT applications. = There were 45 participants from different Regions across the country = viz. Ahmedabad (6), Bangalore (3), Bhubaneswar (7), Chennai (5), = Hyderabad (6), Kolkata (10), Mumbai (4) and Silchar (4) attended the = training programme. During the three weeks 51 lectures were scheduled. Three lectures were = handled by the external resource persons viz. Sh. Satish Deshpande and = Sh. D R Kulkarni from British Council Library, Ahmedabad and Dr. S S = Shirurmath, Librarian, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Five = lectures were handled by KVS faculty and remaining 44 lectures were = taken by the INFLIBNET faculty members. During the training programme Lectures were organized in the morning = sessions and afternoon sessions were meant for practical, so all the = participants have spent sufficient amount of time in the Computer Lab = and each participant got one computer to practice. Participants have opportunity to visit Gandhinagar and Ahhmedabad. = Participants were highly enthusiastic to learn new things and active in = both the lectures and practical sessions, hence the whole program = emerged out as very interactive one. We have provided a reading material and handouts and other presentations = by resource persons and "internet resources for school librarians" which = are given in the CD-ROM. The inaugural function of the training programme was held on May 28, = 2004. The training programme was inaugurated by Prof. Ilaben Naik, Dean = of Faculty Education from Gujarat Vidyapeeth, Ahmedabad. She also gave a = key note address, in her address she highlighted the importance of = information technology in delivering the library services. Dr. T AV = Murthy gave a presidential remarks and Sh. S M Salgar, Senior Scientist = of INFLIBNET Centre briefed about the training programme course = contetnts. Mrs. Vinita Sharma, Prinicipal, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Space = Application Centre, Ahmedabad furnished perspectives of training = programme on behalf of KVS. Prior to the concluding day on June 16, 2004, all participants were = requested to present their assignments, project work about their = library, services, what they have learnt and future plans. The = concluding session held on June 17, 2004. Sh. O V S Sikarvar, Principal, = KVS Ahmedabad welcomed the august gathering. Report on the training = programme, was presented by Sh K Prakash, Course Coordinator. Two = participants have given a course feedback and they have very much = satisfied with the training programme. Dr T A V Murthy, Director, = INFLIBNET Centre distributed the certificates and gave a presidential = address. Sh. P K Koul, Education Officer, KVS and Sh. S M Salgar, Senior = Scientist, INFLIBNET also spoke on this occasion. The programme was very successful and all participants were happy in = learning new things. Dr T A V Murthy was the course Director and Mr K = Prakash and Mr H G Hosamani were acted as the course coordinators. K Prakash Course Coordinator 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,=20 AHMEDABAD - 380 009 India =20 # Tel.: 91 - 079 - 2630 5971 / 2630 4695 Extn: 38; Fax: 2630 0990(Off.); = 2676 3724(Res.)=20 # Email: prakash(a)inflibnet.ac.in; prakash_k(a)yahoo.com=20 # URL: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ ; http://www.prakashk.netfirms.com/

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(no subject)
by I.R.N.Goudar 13 Aug '04

13 Aug '04

Dear Professionals, Following news item which appeared in The Times of India (12-08-2004) needs attention of LIS Community: We have to be very cautious even if we plan to destroy print books and journals after buying e-version/digitising of concerned documents. In this case reason mentioned is not digitising. ICSSR `transforms' itself: Dumps burns journals, books By Akshaya Mukul/TNN New Delhi: Prospective researchers beware: Do not venture anywhere near the documentation centre and library of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), for it has dumped - some say even burnt - thousands of Indian and foreign academic journals, books, dissertations, census reports and gazettes from its priceless collection. Also, a piece of advice to President APJ. Abdul Kalam, who on Thursday delivers the ICSSR's prestigious Vikram Sarabhai memorial lecture on 'Dynamics of Societal Transformation'. Pause for a while and ask ICSSR if transformation means cutting off old ties. For ICSSR has done precisely that. Rationale: Its National Social Science Documentation Centre (NASSDOC) has been transformed and moved to an ultra-modern building which presumably had no space for these works. In real terms, insiders in NASSDOC say, the loss has been immense. It had a collection of nearly two lakh Indian and foreign periodicals/journals of which barely 15,000 to 20,000 have survived. NASSDOC also had a collection of nearly 40,000 books of which barely 10,000 are left. From its collection of thousands of PhD dissertations collected from all over the country, barely 800 have made it to the new building. A large number were burnt and the remaining are in an advanced state of decay in ICSSR's godown. How has it affected ICSSR's standing as a repository of all knowledge in social science? From its collection of journals/periodicals, it used to cater to researchers all over the world. Any researcher could ask for a photocopy of articles which ICSSR used to send on a small payment. Similarly, dissertations were bought from all over the country by ICSSR after paying a small amount to the researcher. In turn, these dissertations became reference material for others. But for the past few months, scholars from India and abroad have been doing the rounds of NASSDOC only to be told to come later. ICSSR has even stopped buying dissertations. ICSSR chairman VR. Panchamukhi who, despite having a questionnaire from this reporter, dwelt for more than an hour on how he has changed everything for good, is an acquaintance of PM Manmohan Singh. He was unsure about the crucial question and asked ICSSR's directors, in front of this reporter, on what had happened. Panchamukhi then repeated what they told him: "Nothing has been burnt. There was very little space ... so may be books, journals and dissertations were dumped here ... Some even gifted to our institutions in Allahabad and Mhow." But he added: "I will set up an inquiry to find out who did it." The answer came from one of his senior associates who opposed the dumping move and drew the parallel from the burning of the library of Alexandria: "The mystery would exist not for lack of suspects but from an excess of them." -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Mails Importing
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

I carefully went through Yahoo!Mail Help information. It is clearly stated that transfering messages from one Yahoo!Mail Account to another yahoo!mail account is NOT possible. Vyasamoorthy, P -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Mailing List Manager Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 5:19 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Mails Importing Date: 12 Aug 2004 07:03:46 -0000 From: Dimple Patel <dimplerp(a)rediffmail.com> hi, choose the Addresses tab, on the right side of the screen you will find the export/import option...rest of the steps are pretty easy to follow... i have found this option really very useful many a times... regds, dimple. On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 Mailing List Manager wrote : > >Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 00:33:04 -0700 (PDT) > From: Sheshadri K.N <sheshu150(a)yahoo.co.in> > >Dear Professional colleagues, > Is it possible to import all mails from one Yahoo account to another > Yahoo account? If possible,can any of you help me in this comcern? > >With regards > >SHESHADRI.K.N >Assistant Librarian >ETA-NET >Bits-Pilani Campus >Dubai, UAE >E-mail:sheshu150@yahoo.co.in > > > > > > > > > > > > >--------------------------------- >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! >_______________________________________________ >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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Urgently needed infn
by Mailing List Manager 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:37:10 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] vijaykumar nayak" <vijay_vtulib(a)yahoo.co.in> Sir/madam, I need the article on Library Networking and Consortia Development Please fowrd the same Regards Vijay

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Mails Importing
by Mailing List Manager 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

Date: 12 Aug 2004 07:03:46 -0000 From: Dimple Patel <dimplerp(a)rediffmail.com> hi, choose the Addresses tab, on the right side of the screen you will find the export/import option...rest of the steps are pretty easy to follow... i have found this option really very useful many a times... regds, dimple. On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 Mailing List Manager wrote : > >Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 00:33:04 -0700 (PDT) > From: Sheshadri K.N <sheshu150(a)yahoo.co.in> > >Dear Professional colleagues, > Is it possible to import all mails from one Yahoo account to another > Yahoo account? If possible,can any of you help me in this comcern? > >With regards > >SHESHADRI.K.N >Assistant Librarian >ETA-NET >Bits-Pilani Campus >Dubai, UAE >E-mail:sheshu150@yahoo.co.in > > > > > > > > > > > > >--------------------------------- >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Institutional Repositories as a research topic
by Mailing List Manager 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

Date: 11 Aug 2004 12:36:19 -0000 From: Sanjay Kataria <lib_scholar(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Information Scientists Kindy advise me that the topic mentioned below could be research topic or not. "Design & Development of Insitutional Respositories with some of special reference". I am looking your valuable suggestions and comments. Best regards Sanjay Kataria Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology A-10,Sector-62, Noida (UP)201307 Ph. 0120-2400971 to 978 Ext. 251 Ph. 9810503341 E-mail: katariasanjay2001(a)yahoo.com lib_scholar(a)rediffmail.com sanjay.kataria(a)jiitindia.org

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Re:Infn on tech.Uni in foreign countries
by Mailing List Manager 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:31:39 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] vijaykumar nayak" <vijay_vtulib(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Colleagues, I need the Information on Technological Universities list in Austrelia,Indonesia,U.K,USA,Netherlands. And also I need Organsation Structure and Goverance In These Universities. Please send me web address for the same Regards Vijay Nayak

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FW: [LIS-Forum] ATTENTION - MESSAGE FROM LIS-FORUM MODERATOR
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

Dear Members I hope you have gone through this message sent yesterday (given below) - else I request you to kindly go through the same. We seek your cooperation in making LIS-Forum a useful mailing list. Mr. Francis Jayakanth, who was moderating LIS-Forum all these days, is now away on Fulbright Fellowship in USA. Ms. K. Thulasi, another technical staff member of NCSI, has taken over the role of moderator. There could be minor glitches during the transition period - please bear with us. Thanks and 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 -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Mailing List Manager Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 5:53 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] ATTENTION - MESSAGE FROM LIS-FORUM MODERATOR Dear Lis-Forum user, We appreciate your interest in making use of the lis-forum to meet your professional needs. However, we would like to bring the following points to your attention in order to make lis-forum reach a wider audience. 1. Since many lis-forum members use text-based e-mail clients to read their e-mails, we request all members who wish to send messages to lis-forum for distribution, to send them in plain text form only. Messages in html and other non-text formats require editing by the moderator to convert these to plain text. Since number of postings to lis-forum is increasing, we find it very difficult to spend time on this. Henceforth, messages, which are not in plain text format, will be returned to the sender and will not be approved for distribution. If you are using web-based mail clients, please configure them to format and send messages in plain text format, when you send messages to lis-forum. 2. We also request you not to send any attachments with your message. Sometimes we receive messages also as attachments! Since attachments may carry viruses and since we cannot be opening each attachment to check the contents, we request you to ensure that the body of your mail contains your message in plain text form and that there are no attachments. You may request interested forum members to contact you directly to receive any attachments. Henceforth, messages with attachments will be returned to the sender and will not be approved for distribution. Increasingly many organizations use spam mail filter programs on their mail servers. Many of these are configured to eliminate non-text messages and messages with attachments. This is another good reason why you should avoid these in your mails! And finally, please post messages only to lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in and not to mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in since this account is basically meant for lis-forum owner for administrative purpose. Please co-operate for the smooth and efficient running of the lis-forum! Thanks Moderator _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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ATTENTION - MESSAGE FROM LIS-FORUM MODERATOR
by Mailing List Manager 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Dear Lis-Forum user, We appreciate your interest in making use of the lis-forum to meet your professional needs. However, we would like to bring the following points to your attention in order to make lis-forum reach a wider audience. 1. Since many lis-forum members use text-based e-mail clients to read their e-mails, we request all members who wish to send messages to lis-forum for distribution, to send them in plain text form only. Messages in html and other non-text formats require editing by the moderator to convert these to plain text. Since number of postings to lis-forum is increasing, we find it very difficult to spend time on this. Henceforth, messages, which are not in plain text format, will be returned to the sender and will not be approved for distribution. If you are using web-based mail clients, please configure them to format and send messages in plain text format, when you send messages to lis-forum. 2. We also request you not to send any attachments with your message. Sometimes we receive messages also as attachments! Since attachments may carry viruses and since we cannot be opening each attachment to check the contents, we request you to ensure that the body of your mail contains your message in plain text form and that there are no attachments. You may request interested forum members to contact you directly to receive any attachments. Henceforth, messages with attachments will be returned to the sender and will not be approved for distribution. Increasingly many organizations use spam mail filter programs on their mail servers. Many of these are configured to eliminate non-text messages and messages with attachments. This is another good reason why you should avoid these in your mails! And finally, please post messages only to lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in and not to mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in since this account is basically meant for lis-forum owner for administrative purpose. Please co-operate for the smooth and efficient running of the lis-forum! Thanks Moderator

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Request to post it in LIS-FORUM
by Mailing List Manager 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:19:54 +0530 From: D. B. Ramesh <dbramesh(a)rrlbhu.res.in> Dear LIS-FORUM Memebrs, A new book entitled "Information Technology Applications in Libraries - = A Textbook for Beginners" edited by Prof. M. Mahapatra and myself has = been released on 3rd July.=20 The brochure is attatched hetrewith for your kind perusal and reference. = We sincerely hope that the book will be quite useful to our = professionals. It includes 60 topics with 11 extended notes written by = 37 experts in the field. It has xii, 644 pages, hard bound and = moderately priced at US$60.00 (inclusive of postage). I shall be highly obliged to you if could kindly procure the book for = your organisation from the publisher address mentioned below: M/s. Reproprint (P) Ltd., N-5/44, IRC Village, BHUBANESWAR- 751 015, Orissa, India Payment should be made in favour of M/s. Reproprint (P) Ltd., = Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India. Regards. DB Ramesh Head Library & Documnetation Regional Research Laboratory BHUBANESWAR-751 013, Orissa, India

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Our new magazine for children
by Mailing List Manager 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:55:21 +0530 From: sumita panse <sumita_panse(a)hotmail.com> Bharatiya vidya Bhavan Mumbai has launched new magazine for children called DIMDIMA which is aimed at the age group betn 8-16. We also have website www.dimdima.com This magazine is informative as well as entertaining becau it carries jokes, puzzles, comics stories also. This can be good reading for schools, college libraries. Subscription details are available on request or on our website. Thanks sumita Panse Librarian Amrita bharati, Bhartiya vidya bhavan

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Training in Librarianship in CSE, Delhi
by Mailing List Manager 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:00:01 +0530 From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Extract from: [Newsletter from CSE, India] - August 10 edition Training program on Library, Information Management & Documentation (Sept.6-10, 2004) Contact: Kiran Pandey (kiran(a)cseindia.org) (Last date for receiving nominations: August 16, 2004) 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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Librarian Mananagement Specialist Vacancy in CSE Delhi
by Mailing List Manager 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:57:40 +0530 From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com WAnted: LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST CSE, a leading public interest, non-profit organisation, seeks a Specialist in Library Management to head its Environmental Resources Unit, which is the most comprehensive environment information and documentation facility. Candidate must possess ability to develop, administer and manage an integrated, modern digital library and possess vision to cater to the increasing demands of an information intensive organisation. Ability to manage IT infrastructure, network and application development will be an added advantage. Doctorate/ Masters in Library Information Science, with minimum 5 years of experience, ability to independently manage projects and develop information products is essential. Must possess excellent leadership and communication skills. Salary will be commensurate with experience. Apply within 7 days General Manager, Programme Management and Administration Centre for Science and Environment 41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi-110062 Fax: +91 (011) 29955879 E-mail: jgupta(a)cseindia.org <mailto:jgupta@cseindia.org> Website: www.cseindia.org <http://www.cseindia.org/joinus-index.htm> 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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Journal information
by Mailing List Manager 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:27:56 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] noufal palliparamban" <noufalkodur(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear friends Please let me know any libarry in india subscribibg to the jounal "Compost Science and Utilization" looking forward to hearing from you. regards Noufal.P.P Digital Library Division Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

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IASLIC STUDY CIRCLE --- 12/08/2004
by Mailing List Manager 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:53:37 +0530 From: Dr. Arun K. Chakraborty <akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in> INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF SPECIAL LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION CENTRES(I A S L IC) P- 291 C I T Scheme, No.6M, Kankurgachi, Kolkata – 700 054Tel : 2352 – 9651 / e- mail : iaslic(a)vsnl.net, url: http://www.iaslic.org N O T I C E 276th IASLIC Study Circle meeting will be held on Thursday, 12th August, 2004 at 6-30 P.M. in the IASLIC Office, Kolkata 700 054. Shri Subhashish Mukhopadhyay, Corporate Quality Head & Ethics Counsellor, TRF Limited, Kolkata has kindly given consent to deliver a lecture on the topic : Information Support for Strategic Planning. Shri Ramkrishna Saha, Ex-Chief Librarian, Jadavpur University, Kolkata will preside over the meeting. You are cordially invited to attend the meeting along with your colleagues. (Dr. Arun Kumar Chakraborty) Secretary, IASLIC Study Circle akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in Dated : 22nd July, 2004 DR. ARUN KUMAR CHAKRABORTY LIBRARIAN BOSE INSTITUTE, KOLKATA, INDIA MAIN CAMPUS : 93/1 A.P.C. ROAD, KOLKATA 700 009 INDIA PH : 91-33-2350 2402/03, 6619,6702 FAX : 91-33-2350 6790 CENTENARY CAMPUS : P1/12 CIT SCHEME - VII-M, KOLKATA 700 054 INDIA PH : 91-33-2337 9544, 9416, 9219 FAX : 91-33-2334 3886 Ph (Res) : 33-2672 1192, 3892 E-MAIL : akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in, arunchkr(a)vsnl.net.in, c_arunk(a)hotmail.com

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Embedded Motherboard
by Mailing List Manager 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:15:28 +0530 From: PAKO Communication Pvt.Ltd <sales(a)pakoindia.com> Dear All, We would like to introduce ourselves to you as one of the leading IPC products Distributor in India . Single Board Computer 19" Rack Mountable Chasis KVM Switches Embedded Motherboard PAKO offers many embedded SBCs in EBX, PC/104, 5.25" and 3.5" form factors. They include whole functions that you need on-board We also support for Win CE and XP - Embedded Devlopment. Regards Vinayak Pandit PAKO COMMUNICATIONS PVT LTD. B1 Mangalmurti Complex , Near Deepak Nitrate Ltd., Sinhagad Road , Pune - 411030. CALL: 020-24250666 / 24250999 FAX: 91-20-24250164

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Mails Importing
by Mailing List Manager 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 00:33:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Sheshadri K.N <sheshu150(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Professional colleagues, Is it possible to import all mails from one Yahoo account to another Yahoo account? If possible,can any of you help me in this comcern? With regards SHESHADRI.K.N Assistant Librarian ETA-NET Bits-Pilani Campus Dubai, UAE E-mail:sheshu150@yahoo.co.in --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers!

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Convert ur 6 Mb yahoo id to 100Mb
by Mailing List Manager 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 21:48:10 -0700 (PDT) From: "[iso-8859-1] Sheshadri K.N" <sheshu150(a)yahoo.co.in> Hello Mr.Banda Shankar Thank you for your instructions,I tried to convert from 6 MB to 100 MB as you said,I could convert it easily and now I am having 100 MB. thanks again with regards SHESHADRI.K.N Assistant Librarian ETA-NET Bits-Pilani Campus Dubai, UAE E-mail:sheshu150@yahoo.co.in

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INDEST-NCSI Workshop on Institutional Repositories: Workshop Report
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Dear All I am giving below a brief report of the INDEST-NCSI Workshop on Institutional Repositories, held at IISc during 27-29 July 2004. Regards Rajashekar ----------------------------- INDEST-NCSI Workshop on Institutional Repositories: Workshop Report A training workshop on Institutional Repositories was successfully conducted during 27-29 July 2004 at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Participants from twenty-one leading academic research institutions in India were imparted training in setting up institutional e-print archives using the EPrints open source software. Participating institutions included Indian Institutes of Technology, Indian Institutes of Management and National Institutes of Technology. The workshop was organized and conducted by the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in association with the Digital Library Research Group, Computer Science Department, Old Dominion University, USA. The workshop was sponsored by the INDEST Consortium, a programme of the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Government of India. The main objective of the workshop was to fulfill a recommendation of the INDEST consortium to the member institutions to set up OAI-compliant digital research archives of their research publications, following the model already set up at Indian Institute of Science (http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/), and to work towards establishment of a virtual research archive using the OAI inter-operability framework. It was strongly felt that this would facilitate improved visibility and impact of research output of these organizations and supplement the existing scholarly publishing system. This initiative is an extension of the INDEST consortium's initial goal of provision of shared access to licensed e-resources like bibliographic databases and e-journals (http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/). Workshop programme and content: The workshop was conducted in a training laboratory equipped with 20 workstations with Linux Red Hat 9.0 operating system. Each participant was provided with a CD-ROM prepared by NCSI especially for the workshop. The CD-ROM consisted of EPrints (version 2.3.4) and other related software (Apache, MySQL, dependent Perl modules, etc.); presentations made in the workshop; sample documents to be used in lab sessions; and resources related to institutional repositories, metadata, and OAI. Participants used a shell scripts developed by NCSI for automating the process of installing EPrints and other required software. The workshop sessions covered the following topics: - Overview of OAI framework and introduction to OAI-PMH - Institutional repository software features and functionality - Overview of EPrints software and EPrints-based archives - EPrints software installation and test archive set up - Document submission, moderation, search and browse - Archive configuration and customization (home page, subjects, metadata) - Automatic metadata extraction - OAI in action harvesting demonstration using local DSPace and EPrints archives and ARC service provider set up - Repository policies, content enrichment and advocacy Workshop inauguration and valedictory: On first day morning, Prof. R.S. Sirohi, Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Chairman, National Steering Committee, INDEST Consortium, inaugurated the workshop. Prof. Goverdhan Mehta, Director, Indian Institute of Science, was the Chief Guest. On third day evening, Prof. P. Balaram, Chairman, Division of Biological Science, Indian Institute of Science, and Editor of Current Science journal published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, chaired the valedictory session. Workshop evaluation: All the participants were successful in installing the required software and set up test e-print archives on their workstations. They also went through the document submission and approval processes. They also experimented with simple customization changes to the test archives. In a formal feedback gathered, most participants felt confident of setting up e-print archives in their institutions. Many expressed the need for further help and suggested more hands-on time in future workshops. On a scale of 1-5 (1-very poor, 5- very good), workshop content got average rating of 4.7, logistics arrangement got 4.4, and overall assessment got 4.5. A major suggestion was to make available faster machines in the training lab, compared to the slow PII machines that we made available to the participants! Workshop Website: More details about the workshop including workshop programme, presentations, resources and other related content is available at the workshop website - http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/indest-ncsi-ir/ Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Associate Chairman National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 560 012 (India) (Workshop Coordinator) E-Mail: raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

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Invitation: Function and Lecture
by I.R.N.Goudar 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Karnataka State Library Association (Regd.), Bangalore University and Society for information science (SIS), Bangalore Chapter Cordially invites you to the 112th Birth Anniversary of Dr.S.R.Ranganathan and Prof. M.A.Gopinath Annual Lecture Series Topic1: The Library and Rich Media by Dr Srinivasan Ramani Research Director, HP Labs India President, International Council for Computer Communication Chairman of the Governing Board - INFLIBNET Topic 2: Relevance of Dr.S.R. Ranganathan by SHRI. N.V.SATHYANARAYAN Chairman and Managing Director Informatics India Ltd., Bangalore. Presided by: Dr.Katre Shankunthala, Registrar, Bangalore University Date: 12 August 2004, Time: 5.30 p.m.-7.00 p.m. Venue: Jnana Jyothi- Seminar hall, Central College Campus, Bangalore University, Bangalore. Dr.H.S.Siddamallaiah I.R.N. Goudar President, KALA Secretary, SIS Bangalore, Chapter -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Convert ur 6 Mb yahoo id to 100Mb
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 23:02:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Banda Shankar <bandashankar(a)yahoo.co.in> Respected all, Here is a way to convert your yahoo.co.in/.com from 6MB to 100MB if u have not done it. Follow the steps 1. Login to your Yahoo! Mail account 2. If you see only 6MB, go to Mail Options 3. Select Account Information from the left of the screen 4. You'll be asked for your password again. Enter it. 5. You will see the Membership Information page 6. Copy your url into notepad. 7. Copy the below url page also into notepad http://edit.yahoo.com/config/set_intl?.child=&.scrumb=2hPLZhYEBSq&.done=htt… 8. Copy your scrumb code (this should be the last 11characters of your url after "scrumb=") from your url and replace it in the two places of my url(above one) where the scrumb code is. Copy this url (modified url, which has your scrumb code) back into your browser. Hit Enter.. 9. Change your settings to English - US 10. Accept the New User Agreement 11. You will be logged out 12. Go to mail.yahoo.com and re logon 13, You will now see a 100MB mailbox 14. Enjoy Banda Shankar Student, DRTC Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore-560 059 URL: http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/~banda

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Celebrating software freedom!
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 10:49:59 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> SOUTH AFRICA: SOFTWARE FREEDOM DAY, 28TH AUGUST 2004 http://www.softwarefreedomday.org.za/ The first Software Freedom Day will be held in South Africa on August 28th. Linux user groups, companies, organisations and individuals from around South Africa will get together to celebrate free and open source software in numerous events to be held throughout the country. The day aims to increase awareness about free software and it is hoped it will become an annual event. Subbiah Arunachalam Distinguished Fellow M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Tel: +91-44-5528 4776, 2254 1229, 2254 2791 Fax:+91-44-2254 1319

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RE: [LIS-Forum] OA and copyright
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 19:11:16 +0530 From: sathya <sathya(a)informindia.co.in> A good example Arun. It is like, you see the movie because you have read the book that the movie is based on; or you buy the book to read because a movie is made out of it. The underlying factor is not the "Book" or the "Movie", but the "Economics". One medium fuels the market (or need) for the other. "Pricing" is only an exchange factor; it could be "Nil", or it could be any sum. The concept of OA is not new to the society. How much do you pay for your morning newspaper? The Newspaper publishing houses are real big. The sales revenues of the Hindu which wrote the recent editorial on OA runs into a few thousand million Rupees. What you pay may not even cover the cost of the ink incurred by the Hindu! How much do you pay for your favorite movie you watch on the TV? This is "Pure OA". The publishing industry is the corner stone of knowledge economy. It is quite concerned about the "OA wave" and its impact on scholarly journals market but is surely not as worried as the proponents of OA want them to feel threatened. According to Welcome Foundation's report on "Economic Analysis of Scientific Research Publishing (2003), the money spent by all the UK academic libraries for buying scholarly journals is around 0.35 percent of UK's publishing industry turnover! To quote this report -- "Academic journals are a small and peculiar part of this (publishing) world. They are vitally important for the dissemination of knowledge but tiny in the context of publishing turnover". There is lot of merit in moving scholarly journals to OA Model in the new technology environment. Springer has followed suit with the "author-pays" model of PLoS, by offering to declare any article to Open Access if author pays a fee. Don't forget, a large number of journals published today by commercial publishers are those started by various professional societies and sold of to commercial publishers as they found it hard to sustain. The challenge before us is to find a viable economic model that sustains. It is important to focus on this challenge without getting lost in the emotional tirades of who makes how much profit? Sathya -------------------------------------------------- N V Sathyanarayana Chairman & Managing Director Informatics (India) Ltd Bangalore 560003, India Phone : 91-80-23365940 www.informindia.co.in -------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message-----From: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 6:15 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] OA and copyright Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:44:26 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends, in particular Sathya: Please see this news item from Peter Suber's blog: More on Lessig's Free Culture Give It Away and They'll Buy It <http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2004/julaug/farm/news/lessig.ht ml>, Stanford Magazine, July/August 2004. On Lawrence Lessig's new book, Free Culture, which is available in both open-access <http://www.free-culture.cc/> and priced/printed <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1594200068/qid=1091586887/sr= 1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-2808347-4161631?v=glance&s=books> editions. Excerpt: "You can pay $25 for Lawrence Lessig's new book. Or you can download it for free. What's the catch? None, according to Lessig, a law professor who specializes in intellectual property and is the author of Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. A memo Lessig wrote to his publisher convinced Penguin Books that releasing Free Culture online actually would increase sales of hardcove copies. Which may be true: there have been more than 180,000 downloads --and Penguin is on its third printing." Subbiah Arunachalam Distinguished Fellow M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Tel: +91-44-5528 4776, 2254 1229, 2254 2791 Fax:+91-44-2254 1319

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Help to locate a journal
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 05:39:23 -0700 (PDT) From: raghavendra patil <raghapatil(a)yahoo.com> Dear Professional , this journal is available in IIT Roorkee. With Regards Raghav,Ahmedabad. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: From: mkrao Dear Colleagues, Please let me know if any library in India is subscribing to the journal- "EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing". Koteswara Rao Deputy Librarian IIT Madras

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Help to locate a journal
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 18:02:50 +0530 From: rajesh chandrakar <rajesh(a)inflibnet.ac.in> Cc: tav(a)inflibnet.ac.in Dear Dr. Koteswara Rao, According to INFLIBNET's current serial database, which can also be accessed through the website http://caliber2004.inflibnet.ac.in:7001/cgi-bin/serial/serial.jsp, following two institutes are subscribing the "EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing" journal. Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, and Space Application Centre, Ahmedabad thanking you. Rajesh ----- Original Message ----- > > From: mkrao <mkrao(a)iitm.ac.in> > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > Dear Colleagues, > > Please let me know if any library in India is subscribing to > the journal- "EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing". > > Koteswara Rao > Deputy Librarian > IIT Madras

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Help to locate a journal (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

From: mkrao <mkrao(a)iitm.ac.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Dear Colleagues, Please let me know if any library in India is subscribing to the journal- "EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing". Koteswara Rao Deputy Librarian IIT Madras

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OA and copyright
by Mailing List Manager 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:44:26 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends, in particular Sathya: Please see this news item from Peter Suber's blog: More on Lessig's Free Culture Give It Away and They'll Buy It <http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2004/julaug/farm/news/lessig.ht ml>, Stanford Magazine, July/August 2004. On Lawrence Lessig's new book, Free Culture, which is available in both open-access <http://www.free-culture.cc/> and priced/printed <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1594200068/qid=1091586887/sr= 1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-2808347-4161631?v=glance&s=books> editions. Excerpt: "You can pay $25 for Lawrence Lessig's new book. Or you can download it for free. What's the catch? None, according to Lessig, a law professor who specializes in intellectual property and is the author of Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. A memo Lessig wrote to his publisher convinced Penguin Books that releasing Free Culture online actually would increase sales of hardcove copies. Which may be true: there have been more than 180,000 downloads --and Penguin is on its third printing." Subbiah Arunachalam Distinguished Fellow M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Tel: +91-44-5528 4776, 2254 1229, 2254 2791 Fax:+91-44-2254 1319

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OA journalism
by Mailing List Manager 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:48:29 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> To: oa-india(a)dgroups.org, lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Friends: If you are interested in Internet journalism, here is a book you might wish to read. I found it in Peter Suber's blog. OA book on OA journalism Dan Gillmor's We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wemedia/book/> published by O'Reilly, has also been issued under a Creative Commons license, and you can download the book chapters in .pdf. Gillmor explores how the internet offers alternatives to traditional media, particularly through weblogs and web-based publishing. (Source: Joho the Blog <http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/002915.html>) Subbiah Arunachalam Distinguished Fellow M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Tel: +91-44-5528 4776, 2254 1229, 2254 2791 Fax:+91-44-2254 1319

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 17, Issue 2
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 11:47:23 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] anuradha" <radha_inf(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Professionals, I did my MLIS from osmania university, Hyderabad. I have 2years of work experience in traditional and modern libray. I would like to know what are the job oppurtunities in bangalore in this profession. I am also attaching my resume. Anuradha

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[lisnet] eJDS -The Free electronic Journals Delivery Service Programme
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 08:14:06 -0700 (PDT) From: JK Vijayakumar <vjkjk(a)yahoo.com> Sorry for Cross Postings! eJDS -The Free electronic Journals Delivery Service Programme The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics /TWAS Donation Programme, Italy in collaboration with the ICTP Scientific Computer Section and ICTP Library, is developing a prototype information retrieval system called `eJournals Delivery Service'. The goal is to distribute individual scientific articles via e-mail to world scientists who do not have access to sufficient bandwidth to download material from the internet in a timely manner and/or cannot afford the connection. Providing scientists with current literature will support their ongoing research. eJDS is geared to facilitate the access to current scientific literature for free. Several publishing companies have enthusiastically adhered to this programme, with rules which depend on the publisher. Visit the site at http://www.ejds.org/ ------------------ J. K. Vijayakumar INFLIBNET Ahmedabad

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Help Needed
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 14:28:21 +0530 From: vijayalakshmijs(a)ingvysyabank.com Cc: HENAG(a)infosys.com Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Help Needed Dear Tejasvi, IIMB gives apprenticeship training to those who passed out from that particular academic year means only for freshers. You may also apply to IISC for apprenticeship or you may request librarian at IIMB to work as a honorary worker if time permits to you. And you can visit some of the educational institutions or companies like wipro, Infosys , IBM , ..... which are having the library and discuss and then implement the necessary steps which are suitable for your library. Thanks and regards Vijayalakshmi J S Librarian STC ING Vysya Bank Ltd. PH NO: 26507281 e-mail: vijayalakshmijs(a)ingvysyabank.com <mailto:vijayalakshmijs@ingvysyabank.com> -----Original Message----- Date: 3 Aug 2004 09:48:24 -0000 From: thejasvi tv <tvthejasvi(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Professionals, Can any of you guide me as to where I can get some professional training in Bangalore? I very much require this training as I have graduated in LIS through the distance education mode. Thanking you all and awaiting your responses/advise. Regards Thejasvi.

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Forwarded mail....
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 08:27:05 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] sreenivasgowda G" <gubbisrinivas26(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Tejaswi I completely agree with Hena Gupta's suggestion , you go and meet IIMB Librarian and also can apply for IISc, NAL, ISRO and BIOLOGICAL Infosceince Libraries for Apprintice. Thanking you with warm regards Gubbisrinivas Librarian gubbisrinivas(a)essae-tapmi.org Thanking you with warm regards G.Sreenivas

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Open Archives
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 08:06:42 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Anyone anywhere in the world (with Internet access) can access papers posted on the institutional archives/ repositories and NOT JUST those within the same institution. To keep oneself updated with developments in OA, please read "Open Access News" edited by Peter Suber or follow the prolific writings of Stevan Harnad. Both of them are known for their clarity. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --- Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > > Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:12:16 +0530 > From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com > > > Following Comments from the latest issue (119) of > Internet Resources = > Newsletter is interesting: > This in reality means that only that institution > which has the ...

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CD-ROM's on engineering reference books
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 00:00:19 -0700 (PDT) From: shastry gm <shastrygm(a)yahoo.com> I need popular publishers website.And also i need answer to the following question. i.e where to get popular engineering reference booksin CD-ROM form. thanking you From, G.M. Nagaraja Shastry Department of Library SIT Tumkur

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MyLISA- Monthly Lectures-August 7
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 12:23:19 +0530 (IST) From: Shalini R. Urs <shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in> Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (MyLISA) ------- Lecture On Joharis Window: A self-awareness model (This management concept helps you to know yourself and others even better) by Mr. Krishnamurthy V Chief Executive Officer, Parivarthan Former Deputy General Manager, State Bank of Travancore Former Assistant General Manager, State Bank of Mysore --- Venue: Seminar Hall Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Date: August 7, 2004 Time: 4:30 PM ---- You are cordially invited --- Dr. Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele:91-821-2514699 Fax :91-821-2519209

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Help Needed
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 14:36:12 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> hi what do u mean by professional training? if u want u can meet some librarian and join as a trainee. u may get some remuneration and in some cases even if it is free do join and then it will help u in due course of ur career. laxman rao Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: Date: 3 Aug 2004 09:48:24 -0000 From: thejasvi tv Dear Professionals, Can any of you guide me as to where I can get some professional training in Bangalore? I very much require this training as I have graduated in LIS through the distance education mode. Thanking you all and awaiting your responses/advise. Regards Thejasvi. Thejasvi.T.V Statistical assistant and SDI Nexant Inc. Bangalore. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com ---------------------------------

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Open Archives
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05 Aug '04

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:12:16 +0530 From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Following Comments from the latest issue (119) of Internet Resources = Newsletter is interesting: This in reality means that only that institution which has the = respository will benefit & not outsiders. Is my interpretation right? =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D There's a lot of interest just now in the Report of the House of Commons = Science and Technology Select Committee, available at: = http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/3= 9902.htm=20 which recommends that all UK higher education institutions establish = institutional repositories on which their published output can be stored = and from which it can be read, free of charge, online. This is much to = be welcomed, though its one thing to have the results of research = available within institutional repositories, and quite another thing to = be able to find such material. Links to items on the Report appear in = various parts of this month's Newsletter.=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal,=20 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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Re: [LIS-Forum] Help Needed
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 11:27:03 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] vijaya kumara" <vijayakumar71(a)yahoo.co.in> Libraries of the following Institutes will provide training in the field of Library and Information Science National Aerospace Laboratories Indian Institute of Management British Library Indian Institute of Austrophysics Indian Institute of Science N C S I and others good luck Vijayakumar M Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: Date: 3 Aug 2004 09:48:24 -0000 From: thejasvi tv Dear Professionals, Can any of you guide me as to where I can get some professional training in Bangalore? I very much require this training as I have graduated in LIS through the distance education mode. Thanking you all and awaiting your responses/advise. Regards Thejasvi. Thejasvi.T.V Statistical assistant and SDI Nexant Inc. Bangalore. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum ***************************************************************************************

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Invitation
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 13:00:36 +0530 From: Srels <srels(a)blr.vsnl.net.in> Dear Sir, Please arrange to announce the following invitation to the benefit of the members. K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 ************************************************************ The Board of Trustees of the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS), Bangalore cordially invites you to the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment Lectures (24) (2004) on NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INTELLIGENT INFORMATION RETRIEVAL by Prof. K. Narayana Murthy, Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad on 9, 10, and 11 August 2004 at 6.00 p.m. each day at Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, `Upstairs', 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh Director, Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore will inaugurate RSVP: Ph: (080) 23305109 E-mail: srels(a)vsnl.com

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Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] need information
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 07:52:44 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Saiful Amin" <saifulamin(a)yahoo.com> Hi, I felt the LIS Gateway [http://www.lisgateway.com/] also quite informative. The site was developed by LIS Dept, Aligarh Muslim University, as a UGC sponsored project. The website explaines itself as: "LISGateway.com provides searchable and browsable catalogue of Internet based resources related to Library & Information Science. It encourages the exploitation of publishers material by providing free access to quality web resources. The data pages establishes links mainly to site, which have produced e-journals, e-books, reference resources etc. It improves the effectiveness of Internet searching and will serve as a source of information for LIS people. Users would be directed to high quality of Internet resources rather than to have evaluate, filter and organize the resources themselves." Regards, Saiful --- Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > > Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:08:49 +0100 (BST) > From: "[iso-8859-1] chandrakant gangurde" > <gangurdechandrakant(a)yahoo.co.in> > > Dear Salman, > > There is website useful and gives relevant information about > library. You > can go through it http://www.information-professional.com this > websites by > which you can search choosing by search engine like > yahoo/Google/MSN. etc. > > Chandrakant Gangurde > Sir Dorabji Tata Memeorial Library > Deonar > Mumbai-88

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New subscription request to list LIS-Forum from nagaraj@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 12:48:18 +0530 From: lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Your authorization is required for a mailing list subscription request approval: For: nagaraj(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in List: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in At your convenience, visit: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/admindb/lis-forum to process the request.

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eJDS -The Free electronic Journals Delivery Service Programme
by JK Vijayakumar 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

Sorry for Cross Postings! eJDS -The Free electronic Journals Delivery Service Programme The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics /TWAS Donation Programme, Italy in collaboration with the ICTP Scientific Computer Section and ICTP Library, is developing a prototype information retrieval system called `eJournals Delivery Service'. The goal is to distribute individual scientific articles via e-mail to world scientists who do not have access to sufficient bandwidth to download material from the internet in a timely manner and/or cannot afford the connection. Providing scientists with current literature will support their ongoing research. eJDS is geared to facilitate the access to current scientific literature for free. Several publishing companies have enthusiastically adhered to this programme, with rules which depend on the publisher. Visit the site at http://www.ejds.org/ ------------------ J. K. Vijayakumar INFLIBNET Ahmedabad __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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New version of MDID, open source digital image database software
by Shyam Prasad pujar 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:45:45 -0400 From: Sandy Maxfield <maxfiesl(a)jmu.edu> To: diglib(a)infoserv.inist.fr Subject: [DIGLIB] New version of MDID, open source digital image database software MDID 2 NOW AVAILABLE! We are very pleased to announce that the initial release of the new version of the Madison Digital Image Database (MDID 2) software is now available to the general public. Developed at James Madison University, the MDID system brings the digital image library into the teaching and learning process. Visit the MDID web site (http://mdid.org <http://mdid.org/> ) where you can have some fun playing with the MDID 2 online demo, find more information about MDID 2, and download the software. Continuing the tradition of a shared educational software resource, MDID 2 is distributed free of charge under an open source license. New Features in MDID 2 . Multiple collections and custom catalogs . Cross-collection searching . Personal collections and favorites . Enhanced light table . Flexible slideshow management . Enhanced slideshow viewer . Packaged slideshows for offline viewing . Data exchange through XML MDID 2 development was funded in part by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Enjoy! Sandy ---------------------------------------- Sandy Maxfield Director of Library Public Services, Instructional Technology, and Distance Learning James Madison University, MSC 1703 Harrisonburg, VA 22807 Email: maxfiesl(a)jmu.edu Phone: 540.568.6923 Fax: 540.568.6339

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Help Needed
by HENAG 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

Hello Tejasvi, Please try at IIMB [Indian Institute of Management Bangalore], Bannerghatta Road. Send an application to the Librarian for apprenticeship. You will be getting good exposure to the traditional work alongwith online database services and online jounal article retrieval process. Regards Hena S Gupta Infosys Technologies Ltd. -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Mailing List Manager Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 11:50 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Help Needed Date: 3 Aug 2004 09:48:24 -0000 From: thejasvi tv <tvthejasvi(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Professionals, Can any of you guide me as to where I can get some professional training in Bangalore? I very much require this training as I have graduated in LIS through the distance education mode. Thanking you all and awaiting your responses/advise. Regards Thejasvi. Thejasvi.T.V Statistical assistant and SDI Nexant Inc. Bangalore. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Master of Information Management course at University of Mysore-call for applications
by Mailing List Manager 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 19:05:37 +0530 (IST) From: Shalini R. Urs <shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in> Applications are invited for the Master of Information Management Programme at the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore.The last date for receiving filled in applications and admissions is August 9th, 2004.This is a new 4 semester Programme offered by the DLIS of the University of Mysore. For course content and other details visit our Website- http://www.lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in You can also contact the undersigned for more information Dr. Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele:91-821-2514699 Fax :91-821-2519209

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Help Needed
by Mailing List Manager 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

Date: 3 Aug 2004 09:48:24 -0000 From: thejasvi tv <tvthejasvi(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Professionals, Can any of you guide me as to where I can get some professional training in Bangalore? I very much require this training as I have graduated in LIS through the distance education mode. Thanking you all and awaiting your responses/advise. Regards Thejasvi. Thejasvi.T.V Statistical assistant and SDI Nexant Inc. Bangalore.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] need information
by Mailing List Manager 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:08:49 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] chandrakant gangurde" <gangurdechandrakant(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Salman, There is website useful and gives relevant information about library. You can go through it http://www.information-professional.com this websites by which you can search choosing by search engine like yahoo/Google/MSN. etc. Chandrakant Gangurde Sir Dorabji Tata Memeorial Library Deonar Mumbai-88 -------------Original Message------------------------------------ From: salman haider Dear All, I like to know if there is any other website like "www.inforlibrarian.com" which has more information for LIS professionals. Thanks & Regards Salman Haider Consultant Indian School of Business Library Hydrerabad _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Robot Librarians
by Mailing List Manager 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:40:40 +0530 From: HENAG <HENAG(a)infosys.com> Dear All, Similar to this there is an article in a magazine called "Technology Tomorrow" published by ICFAI University, Hyderabad, the article is about a 'snakebot' - a robot like a snake will enter in your room when your door is closed and will work on your computer. It does not require the door to be open, it can move through the space available between the door and the floor. How strange ? Now even the computer engineers will be jobless if this is the way technology going to improve ( a joke apart). Probably I may give you the exact issue date & No of the publication if anyone wants it. Hena S Gupta Infosys Technologies Ltd, Hosur Road, Electronics City. ---------- Original message ---------- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:36:38 +0530 (IST) From: Poornima Narayan <poornima(a)css.nal.res.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Robot Librarians Dear Professionals Came across an interesting article which has appeared in today's (30th July 2004) Indian Express (Youth Express). If Robots are going to manage the future libraries, what is the future of L & IS Professionals? Robot Librarians ******* A group of robotics researchers at University Jaume I in Spain is working on a robot librarian. The prototype has cameras, sensors and grippers so it can locate and collect a book. The hope is that one day, teams of service robots could work in libraries.....

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(no subject)
by Mailing List Manager 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Tue, 3 Aug 2004 16:35:44 +0530 "Shalini R.Urs" shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in Dear friends, Please read the complete report before jumping to conclusions- the Sabo bill and the NIH policy is still in the 'debate' stage and there is no conclusive evidence to say that 'NIH research to be open access'. If you read the whole piece, you will understand the undercurrents of the issues.This is a case of typical 'double speak'. The article begins with the usual brouhaha bait by Zehrouni, Director of NIH, about 'public needs to have access to what they have paid for', but he is quick to add - let me quote > But Zerhouni tried to assure participants that the government was not yet > creating a mandate and that their views would be taken into account before > the policy was finalized. He also distanced himself from the House report, > saying that NIH did not prepare it, even though the wording was "inspired" > by deliberations within the agency. ---- > Zerhouni said that individual repositories tend to fade out. He also told > participants that NIH had no intention of becoming a journal publisher and > the public is aware of the value of journals' peer reviews. ---- The issue of scholarly publishing, copyright , etc cannot be resolved by rhetorical positioning alone but by dispassionate understanding of the implications and realities.Let us understand the basics of copyrights, right. The first copyright act-the Statute of Queen Anne of 1710 introduced the concept of author being the owner of copyright. The original purpose was to exercise central authority to control publishing and generate tax revenue for the government! But then soon copyrights evolved and the aim of copyrights is to provide stimulus for creativity Copyright is not just about economic rights but about also about paternity rights. The copyrights also cover the right of paternity by which authors have the right to claim authorship of their works ensuring that their names are mentioned in connection with it. The right of integrity is another dimension of the copyright. It is not without reason that the word 'author' etymologically means father. If 'copyrights' are banned then what incentive will a scientist have to publish? The forces and incentives that help produce creative or intellectual works are diverse. In the end, if bills like Sabo bill if passed then few scholars would spend their time and efforts to publish. One critical difference between the Government 'banning copyright' and authors assigning / transferring certain rights to publishers is- while the latter is voluntary the former is not. Actually it amounts to 'taking away' the rights and potentially has all the ingredients of governments hegemony over academe. Second and more complicated issue is of paternity rights. Like all rights copyrights also have the 'responsibility' dimension. Can the government own responsibility for everything that is written and published by the scientists/scholars? Imagine a scenario like this- Salman Rushdie were to be a Professor at some university and publish 'The Satanic Verses' , will his university be held responsible for his writings ? Will the university be banned and face the death threat from Iranian clergy ? Organisations cannot own up the responsibility for one scholar's writings. Do not think that the scenario of 'Satanic Verses' is only in literature but it could well be in sciences as well. Imagine the classic case of Galileo's treatise 'Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems' proving the logical superiority of the Copernican theory for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Roman Catholic Church, and eventually died a recluse under house arrest.Would the University of Padua where Galileo served as a professor of Mathematics would have been held responsible for his writings and served a life sentence? Finally friends- this piece is written as part of my professional interests to air my views on the topic by me-Shalini Urs- a professor at an Indian University and these are my views and I not only own copyrights but also am liable to be held responsible for these views. My university's views on this issue if and when decided will only be expressed as an official policy statement with the authority and official seal of the University of Mysore! Shalini -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr.Shalini R.Urs Director Information & Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore- 570006 India Ph : 91-821-2514699 Fax: 91-821-2519209 Website:http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO)
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Dear LIS-Forum members I am giving below details of a new journal in the area of metadata. Many of you may be interested in this. 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 ===================================================================== International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO) Inderscience Publishers - ISSN (Online): 1744-263X - ISSN (Paper): 1744-2621 First, preliminary call for papers, July 2004 https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=152 ===================================================================== IJMSO aims at publishing research advances and discussions about meta-data in a broad sense, and about their associated semantics and ontological structures. IJMSO takes a multi-disciplinary perspective, with an emphasis on domain-specific ontologies and organisational, human interaction and social issues regarding metadata annotation, use and assessment. IJMSO also intends to cover Semantic Web research, as a concrete metadata-intensive technological framework in which shared and standardised semantics are a critical issue. Objectives ----------- The main objective of IJMSO is to provide an open forum in which several disciplines converge and provide their perspectives regarding the complex topic of metadata creation, use and assessment. Those disciplines include Digital Libraries, the Semantic Web, Library Science and Knowledge Management, among others. Readership ----------- IJMSO aims at being an open forum for researchers, practitioners, managers and policy makers in the field of metadata,informing current practices with recent innovations. Contents --------- IJMSO publishes original research papers providing significant results, and also short communications about innovative ideas and news, announcements and reviews regarding the topics of the journal. Articles describing schemas or ontologies for concrete applications or domains are also welcomed, provided that a digital version of the final artefact is submitted to be made publicly available. Subject Coverage ----------------- Subjects covered include, but are not limited to: Metadata design and semantics Quality of metadata Evaluation and applications of metadata standards Metadata annotation practices Ontological and knowledge-based approaches to metadata Ontologies and standard catalogues specific to business or professional domains Semantic Web and Ontologies in Library Science and Digital Libraries Metadata-based information retrieval and browsing Organisational and social aspects of Semantic Web and related technologies Submissions ------------ Visit http://www.inderscience.com for information on submission. Contributions synthesizing existing knowledge and clearly describing research directions are sought for the first issue. Deadline for submission for the *first issue is October 1st 2004*.

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Proceedings of SPIE
by noufal palliparamban 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Dear friends May I know about libraries subscribibg proceedings of SPIE please? Looking forward to hearing from you soon, please Noufal.P.P Computer Aided Reference Service IIT Kanpur ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony

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Good article
by Ayesha Taranum 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Hello, � Read a good article published in "Interactions" The whiteboard: What's in a Word? The Semantics of Usability by Bruce G. Allen, Elizabeth Buie Volume 9, Number 2 (2002), Pages 17-21 Abstract: When you say something is intuitive, do you mean that absolutely everybody understands it right away? If you say a program is logical, what help is that to a user? Does user-friendly mean anything these days? (Did it ever?) Interactions, as many of us know is a magazine on applied human-computer interaction (HCI) published by ACM. Regards, -- Ayesha Ayesha Taranum Executive - Information Services DSL Software Ltd. The Senate, #33/A Ulsoor Road, Bangalore - 560 042 Ph: +91 80 51246800 xtn: 6790 email: ayesha.taranum(a)dslsoft.net __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Thanks
by Mailing List Manager 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:22:18 +0530 From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Dear Moderator, I thank you for putting an end to this unwanted digression in the thread = "Autonomous Institutions". On second reading of my initial posting, I do = find that it contains a few lines of very sweeping generalisation of = Govt sector employees and that it has hurt some of my colleagues, for = which I regret and apologise.=20 My mails to franc(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in are bouncing while the ones sent to = the LIST go through. I wonder why?!=20 Regards Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal,=20 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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Free Access to science Publications
by Mailing List Manager 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:04:12 +0530 From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Following Editorial in The Hindu of 3/8/2004 supports our cause. (I = think 'For' in the title is a typo; it should be 'free') [Free?] FOR ACCESS TO SCIENCE PUBLICATIONS=20 IN JULY, THE movement for `open access' got an important boost when the = Appropriations Committee of the United States' House of Representatives = and the Science & Technology Committee of the United Kingdom's House of = Commons recommended measures that would help make scientific journal = publications available more freely online. Scientists are judged by = their research output. Each year they publish more than a million papers = in approximately 16,000 science, technology and medical journals put out = by more than 2,000 publishers worldwide. Commercial publishers have a = dominant presence, with Reed Elsevier having a 28 per cent market share. = There has been a growing feeling that neither the public, which pays for = much of the science that is published, nor the scientists, who receive = no payment either for their papers or for carrying out the `peer review' = that ensures that quality is maintained in journals, benefit by limiting = access to the papers through journal subscriptions. Not only are = journals expensive; there is mounting criticism that journal costs have = been rising exorbitantly. The Commons' S&T Committee noted that = commercial scientific journal publishers enjoyed "substantially higher" = profit margins than the academic, educational and professional = publishing sector as a whole. And this was happening at a time libraries = were obliged to cut down on journal subscriptions in order to keep = within budgets. The problem is particularly acute for scientific = institutions in developing countries such as India. Another issue that = has been raised is that the larger public has little access to the = scientific research that their tax money makes possible.=20 The limitations of the `subscriber pays' system has led some to attempt = an `author pays' model for scientific journals. BioMed Central, which = was established in 2001, has now over 100 journals in biology and = medicine. [Public Library of Science] PLoS Biology, launched in October = 2003, has the ambition of joining the front ranks of scientific = journals; PLoS Medicine is to be launched soon. Prominent public and = private research sponsors such as the Wellcome Trust in the U.K., the = Max Planck Society in Germany, and the Centre National de la Recherche = Scientifique (CNRS) in France, have announced their support for such a = system of open access. But `author pays' publishing currently accounts = for merely five per cent of the total journal market. The Commons' S & T = Committee recommended that another alternative needs to be explored and = supported - storing published work electronically in institutional = archives. Just a month before the Committee published its report, = Elsevier announced that scientists publishing in its journals would be = allowed to post the final text of their articles on a personal or = institutional website. Over 80 per cent of the journal publishers allow = such archiving. The House Appropriations Committee suggested that copies = of articles published from research supported by the National Institutes = of Health be deposited within six months of publication in PubMed = Central, a free digital archive of life science literature.=20 The Commons' Committee recommended that "all U.K. higher education = institutions establish institutional repositories on which their = published output can be stored and from which it can be read, free of = charge, online"; and that "Research Councils and other Government = funders mandate their funded researchers to deposit a copy of all of = their articles in this way." It is an idea that India - where research = is overwhelmingly supported by the Government - must adopt with = conviction and enthusiasm. The software for such archiving is available = free of cost and has been used to establish an e-print archive at the = Indian Institute of Science. Not only must more such institutional = repositories be established; scientists need to take the lead in = ensuring that their papers are suitably archived. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal,=20 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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Re: [LIS-Forum] Re: Norms of AICTE for selection as Librarian, Dep.Librarian And Asst.Libn
by Mailing List Manager 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 13:42:19 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> it is same like univs. u can see on AICTE website, u may get as the qualifications required were given Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 11:57:13 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] vijaykumar nayak" Dear Colleagues, I need infn on Norms of AICTE for selection as a LIBN,DEPUTYLIBN,And ASSTLIBN.in UNiversitues and Engg.colleges. Reply soon Thanking u Vijay Nayak _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com ---------------------------------

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Robot Librarians
by Mailing List Manager 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 11:12:56 +0530 (IST) From: Poornima Narayan <poornima(a)css.nal.res.in> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:36:38 +0530 (IST) From: Poornima Narayan <poornima(a)css.nal.res.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Robot Librarians Dear Professionals Came across an interesting article which has appeared in today's (30th July 2004) Indian Express (Youth Express). If Robots are going to manage the future libraries, what is the future of L & IS Professionals? Robot Librarians ******* A group of robotics researchers at University Jaume I in Spain is working on a robot librarian. The prototype has cameras, sensors and grippers so it can locate and collect a book. The hope is that one day, teams of service robots could work in libraries. The question of safety is what has been deterring the use of robots outside of the factory to work in domains surrounded by people, explains Professor Angel del Pobil. Mixing robots and humans in an unstructured, uncontrolled environment, where there are all manner of obstacles to negotiate, could have unpredictable results. Professor Pobil thinks libraries are the best place to start introducing robots into public spaces, or at least to start showing that the technology is possible and works. The robot is a mobile manipulator which means that it is a vehicle with three wheels, Professor Pobil says. It has an arm with seven joints, two fingers which form a gripper, and two micro cameras on its wrist. Four sensors built into its gripper senses the force it is applying. When it receives a request for a book, its voice recognition software matches the titles with the book's classification code in the database. It can then search the database to identify which bookshelf to go to. Because the database will only give an approximate location, the robot will navigate its way to the bookshelf, using its infrared and laser guidance system, and scan books within a four-metre radius. Once it is in there, it starts using its cameras, says the professor. By moving the arm with the cameras, it takes an image of the bookshelf. It can read the labels and the position of the book using its image processing and optical recognition software. Once the book is located, it has to grasp it and take it off the bookshelf. For this, the team had to develop special fingertips like nails, with one nail longer than the other. Professor Pobil says there is quite a possibility that teams of robots could, in about five years' time, realistically perform searching and fetching tasks. They could even mill around doing their work at night, working on library inventories, or identifying missing books, or mapping libraries. However, he does not imagine that at any stage they will be replacing librarians and demanding payment for overdue books. A separate team in Japan is working on a similar robotic librarian automat, but their project is more concerned with developing robots that can be controlled remotely over the web in order to scan and read books. -Courtesy BBC Online -- Poornima Narayana Contact: 080-5086083 (O) Dy Head, ICAST 080-6682781 (R) N.A.L E mail: poornima(a)css.nal.res.in Airport Road prn_1_in(a)yahoo.com Bangalore 560 017 Fax: 080-5268072

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need information
by Mailing List Manager 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

Date: 31 Jul 2004 19:22:53 -0000 From: salman haider <salman_38h(a)rediffmail.com> � Dear All, I like to know if there is any other website like "www.inforlibrarian.com" which has more information for LIS professionals. Thanks & Regards Salman Haider Consultant Indian School of Business Library Hydrerabad

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NIH research to be open access - What about India?
by Mailing List Manager 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 18:18:17 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> > Friends: > > Here is an article (from The Scientist) on a hot topic. In the USA soon > all research funded by NIH will be available free on the Internet. When > will Indian funding agencies start insisting on such open access to > research funded by them? Best wishes. > > Arun > [Subbiah Arunachalam] > > > > July 29, 2004 > NIH research to be open access > > Publishers and editors meet Zerhouni plans for publicly available papers > with exasperation | By Paula Park <paulapark52(a)hotmail.com> > > > WASHINGTON, DC-National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Elias Zerhouni > indicated at a gathering of 43 scientific journal publishers and editors > Wednesday (July 28) that eventually all NIH-financed research will be > freely available to the public. > > Zerhouni stopped short of setting deadlines for depositing full-text > materials in the searchable PubMed database, as recommended in a House > Appropriations Committee report > <http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040721/01> released earlier this > month. Instead, he asked the publishing executives to inform him how best > to manage material so that the public can freely use it. > > "The public needs to have access to what they've paid for," Zerhouni told > commercial and nonprofit publishing executives at a meeting he called on > the NIH campus. Congress, he said, also demanded evidence of the agency's > productivity. "I need to manage the portfolio," he said. "The status quo > just can't stand." > > The executive conference was the first of several planned meetings that > will lead to the creation of an approach public access, which NIH will > publish in the Federal Register for comment before it becomes official > policy, Zerhouni said. He would not say when the policy-making would > begin, but the Appropriations Committee report requested that NIH produce > some language by December 1. > > That report recommended that papers resulting from NIH-funded research be > deposited jn PubMed 6 months after their publication in a journal. Papers > for which NIH pays publishing costs would be deposited immediately upon > publication. Last year, a member of Congress introduced a bill > <http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20030716/04/> that would have banned > copyright on all publications based on federally funded research; that > bill has been in committee since last fall. > > Several meeting participants expressed exasperation with the House report, > which they termed a "government mandate." Paul W. Kincade, president of > the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology, told The > Scientist that he resented the "coercion." Others grumbled that the > government couldn't tell publishers what to do. > > "They were a little startled by the language," Pat Schroeder, president > and executive director of the Association of American Publishers, > explained diplomatically in the meeting. She likened the report's > recommendations to the "federal government putting down its thumb." > > But Zerhouni tried to assure participants that the government was not yet > creating a mandate and that their views would be taken into account before > the policy was finalized. He also distanced himself from the House report, > saying that NIH did not prepare it, even though the wording was "inspired" > by deliberations within the agency. > > Beyond the policy-making process, the executives fretted that if all > information is available in a government database, subscriptions will > fall. Many executives reported that they are trying some forms of open > access, making material available at no charge 6 months or a year after > publication. But setting a single date could be harmful to some and not > others, some said. > > Alan Leshner <http://www.aaas.org/press/leshner-bio.shtml>, chief > executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of > Science, which publishes Science, told Zerhouni that releasing articles 6 > months after publication didn't worry him. "But if any part of the > publication has been paid out of NIH grants... [it] must be given > immediate open access... most of us in the room are much more concerned > about that." > > Brian D. Crawford, vice president and publishing director of Life and > Medical Sciences for Wiley, predicted that under the proposed policy, > journal numbers would dwindle, and more material would be published solely > on the PubMed site. "This would lead to a constricted ability to publish," > he added. "The unintended consequence for NIH could be less access, not > more." > > Judith Bond, president of the American Society for Biochemistry and > Molecular Biology, questioned PubMed's reliability and suggested NIH use > multiple repositories. "PubMed Central has had a lot of technical > problems," she added, questioning whether NIH would be technically > prepared to meet the suggested mandate. > > Zerhouni said that individual repositories tend to fade out. He also told > participants that NIH had no intention of becoming a journal publisher and > the public is aware of the value of journals' peer reviews. > > Not all participating publishers were anxious about the proposed policy. > PNAS editor-in-chief Nicholas R. Cozzarelli > <http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/BMB/cozzarellin.html> told Zerhouni that > depositing material would be "no problem." "We would endorse it and see it > as an advancement of science, and education," he added. "We can do it, > other journals can do it. It will just take time." > > Links for this article > A. McCook, "Open access to US govt work urged," The Scientist, July 21, > 2004. > <http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040721/01> > > C. Zandonella, "Sabo bill assessed," The Scientist, July 16, 2003. > <http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20030716/04/> > > Alan I. Leshner > <http://www.aaas.org/press/leshner-bio.shtml> > > Nicholas R. Cozzarelli > <http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/BMB/cozzarellin.html> > > > >

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Re: Norms of AICTE for selection as Librarian, Dep.Librarian And Asst.Libn
by Mailing List Manager 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 11:57:13 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] vijaykumar nayak" <vijay_vtulib(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Colleagues, I need infn on Norms of AICTE for selection as a LIBN,DEPUTYLIBN,And ASSTLIBN.in UNiversitues and Engg.colleges. Reply soon Thanking u Vijay Nayak

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Open Content and Access for Digital Scholarship
by Mailing List Manager 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:07:07 -0500 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> Colleagues/ I am pleased to announce the availability of the revised version of my PowerPoint presentation from the recently concluded WiLSWorld 2004 Conference [ http://www.wils.wisc.edu/events/wworld04/ ] _Open Content and Access for Digital Scholarship_ "The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) provides an application-independent interoperability framework based on metadata harvesting. There are two classes of participants in the OAI-PMH framework: Data Providers and Service Providers. Data Providers administer systems that support the OAI-PMH as a means of exposing metadata from digital collections or repositories; while Service Providers use metadata harvested via the OAI-PMH as a basis for building value-added services. In this presentation we will profile several major OAI-PMH Data and Service Providers, and describe and discuss their innovative content, features, and functionalities." The REVISED and CORRECTED presentation has been self-archived at: [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OpenContent.ppt ] BTW:This is a LARGE file [11MB] and Long Presentation [130+ Slides] For your Late-Friday-Afternoon, Late-July Reading-and -Viewing-Pleasure! Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan OAI-Compliant Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu "The Revolution Will NOT be Blogged"

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info on santhal tribes
by Mailing List Manager 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:54:36 +0530 From: sumita panse <sumita_panse(a)hotmail.com> Does any library have information on present status of SANTHAL tribes? It might be in the form of journal article or social case study. I would like to know at the earliest. sumita Content researcher Bhartiya vidya bhavan Mumbai

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Autonomous Institutions : Position of Librarians
by Mailing List Manager 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:09:42 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] suresh kumar" <nsureshfcri(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear sir, In the best of my knowledge,in many autonomous organisations- situation is very pathetic.There are no formal rule of law and procedure/regulations for anything . The administrave ministry become a silent spectator to the activities of these organisations. Head of organisation will look forward to get guidelines form Ministry. Service Rules are mixure of Both FRSR and CSIR or similar organisations.In order to implement any Govt. of Inidia ofer,clearence from Governing council/Body required.The members of these Governing bodies are Top officers from Ministry and other Govt. organisations- least bothered about the autonomous bodies/its activities/employees.The failure is not marginal.But I agree that in the case of Hard work, the said advantage?/pressure is there in every autonomous organisation than Govt.since it functions like a private organisation.Similarly there are many autonomous organisations free from all these evils also. thanks Sureshkumar, Librarian,Fluid Control Research Institute(Govt. of India) Palakkad -kerala. nsureshfcri(a)yahoo.co.in --- Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:05:57 +0530 > From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com > > Dear Friends: > > There is a plea from some quarters for help / > protection/ standardization > of pay scales, stream-lining promotion policy etc in > Autonomous > Institutions, especially for Librarians. > > Those in Autonomous institutions are at an advantage > over regular > government departments. Only those who are contended > with doing the > routine, collecting salary + perks etc at the end of > the month would enter > govt service. Those who desire to show their > competency, work hard, > improve themselves and the organization they serve > will choose private > organizations. Autonomous institutions under govt > give you the advantage > of both worlds. In an autonomous unit you need to > convince only one or two > bosses at the most and your line is clear for moving > up. In govt set ups > all employees are same; there is not much scope for > merit, intelligence or > hard work. Promotion is ensured by sitting in the > same seat for some years > at a stretch. Whether one deserves or not he would > get increments, salary > revision along with others. > > If you are capable you can move faster than the rest > in an autonomous > unit. If you just want to be mediocre, nobody > prevents you from being so > nor or you sacked for that. Why then crib? I do not > understand. > > Vyasamoorthy, P > _______________________________________________

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A case of sour grapes Re: RE: [LIS-Forum] Autonomous Institutions : Position of Librarians (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

Date: 30 Jul 2004 08:22:48 -0000 From: Rajesh K Patil <rajeshbcd(a)rediffmail.com> Moderator's Note ---------------- Rajesh has a valid point. One shouldn't generalize things, especially when it comes to competency. We all have our own unique cracks and flaws. I request all the members to eschew such remarks in future. Let's not debate on it any further. Thanks for your cooperation, - Moderator -------Note ends here----------- � Hi, I don't think it is right to generalize that all Librarians in Government Service are incompetent. Even private sector has incompetent people. To be specific, my interaction with ICICI bank has been extremely disappointing. Hence, please avoid making such statements. Regards. Rajesh Thu, 29 Jul 2004 Mailing List Manager wrote : >Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:05:57 +0530 > From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com > >Dear Friends: > >There is a plea from some quarters for help / protection/ standardization >of pay scales, stream-lining promotion policy etc in Autonomous >Institutions, especially for Librarians. > >Those in Autonomous institutions are at an advantage over regular >government departments. Only those who are contended with doing the >routine, collecting salary + perks etc at the end of the month would enter >govt service. Those who desire to show their competency, work hard, >improve themselves and the organization they serve will choose private >organizations. Autonomous institutions under govt give you the advantage >of both worlds. In an autonomous unit you need to convince only one or two >bosses at the most and your line is clear for moving up. In govt set ups >all employees are same; there is not much scope for merit, intelligence or >hard work. Promotion is ensured by sitting in the same seat for some years >at a stretch. Whether one deserves or not he would get increments, salary >revision along with others. > >If you are capable you can move faster than the rest in an autonomous >unit. If you just want to be mediocre, nobody prevents you from being so >nor or you sacked for that. Why then crib? I do not understand. > >Vyasamoorthy, P >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Electronic Library
by Mailing List Manager 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:40:26 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] narayan ghosh" <narayanghosh(a)yahoo.co.uk> This is to write an article titled "Electronic Library: a bare necessity for professional institutions". To establish my logic I require some live example of Libraries digitized their documents or subscribing resources in electronic forms. Please help urgently. N.Ghosh National Institute of Management Calcutta Kolkata

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Autonomous Institutions : Position of Librarians
by Mailing List Manager 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:05:57 +0530 From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Dear Friends: There is a plea from some quarters for help / protection/ standardization of pay scales, stream-lining promotion policy etc in Autonomous Institutions, especially for Librarians. Those in Autonomous institutions are at an advantage over regular government departments. Only those who are contended with doing the routine, collecting salary + perks etc at the end of the month would enter govt service. Those who desire to show their competency, work hard, improve themselves and the organization they serve will choose private organizations. Autonomous institutions under govt give you the advantage of both worlds. In an autonomous unit you need to convince only one or two bosses at the most and your line is clear for moving up. In govt set ups all employees are same; there is not much scope for merit, intelligence or hard work. Promotion is ensured by sitting in the same seat for some years at a stretch. Whether one deserves or not he would get increments, salary revision along with others. If you are capable you can move faster than the rest in an autonomous unit. If you just want to be mediocre, nobody prevents you from being so nor or you sacked for that. Why then crib? I do not understand. Vyasamoorthy, P

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RE: RE: [LIS-Forum] RE: The Sabo Bill and Open Access
by Mailing List Manager 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:50:10 +0530 From: Manish Mankad <Manish.Mankad(a)unilever.com> I have some comments on Mr. Sathya;s and Mr. Bukhari's observations on OAI. Firstly, let us be clear on the issue of free access ( i.e OAI type) v/s value added access ( i.e paid like CA, WOS etc)..The current Contents is useful only when all the TOCs are cross linked for search purposes else as Mr. Bukhari suggests it has little more to offer. Going further, OAI holds a great future only if has a good search mechanism. Coming to scientist's recognition of his/her work, again that can be viewd into 2 parts: Firstly, as Mr. Bukhari suggests, OAI will improve the knowledge buildup by mutual sharing thereby avoid costly duplication.. this can percolate down to students' level where at present the concerned institutes might not have enough funds to go for those journals ( and that benefits none but publishers ONLY) Secondly, if the information is of IPR type, it will any not appear in the journals before it is registered with the patent authorities. hence fear of loosing a commercial value does not arise. -Manish Mankad Information Services Ext: 208/460 Tel: 022 28276208 Hindustan Lever research Centre B.D. Sawant Marg Andheri (E), Mumbai 400099 INDIA -----Original Message----- Date: 29 Jul 2004 06:36:58 -0000 From: afsar bukhari <bukhari_786(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Friends, I would like to share some of my views in connection with �Sabo Bill & Open Access� as pointed out by Mr. Sathya do chemists world over subscribe �..databases like CA will be superfluous. In present day environment, how many libraries are subscribing to Current Contents of ISI? CC gives alerts of recently published articles. When we have TOC email alerts of journals freely available, then, is it worth going for current contents? Both of them are almost achieving the same objective. It is also worth here to ask how many scientists are looking at CC Moreover, they are rigid in the sense that scientists should go to the library to refer them (because individuals cannot afford to subscribe to them at such prices). What I feel is, future of these services like CA, CC etc in Open Access Environment will depend on what unique features they are offering to the users compared to what is available freely. Regarding the copyright issue Again in the present model, authors of articles do not enjoy copyright. It is the publisher who retains it and makes profit at the cost of library�s displeasure. A primary fact, which should not be forgotten, is: Author publishes his/her work to increase its visibility that offers him recognition in the field. If the article has wider access, it will also stop re-inventing the wheel. And regarding the other apprehension raised by Mr. Sathya If a scientist desires to publish a book out of his research work, will any publisher be willing to pick it up. Yes I agree with this because Sabo bill clearly states Any Federal department or agency that enters into a funding agreement with any person for the performance of scientific research substantially funded by the Federal Government shall include in the agreement a provision that states that copyright protection under this title is not available for any work produced pursuant to such research under the agreement�. The implication of this would be, publisher would have to make the book freely available. In this connection my suggestion is, let the supporters of Open Access (Publishers or National Academies) come forward to accept such manuscripts and make it available in electronic format on net. If any body desires to have its printed version, let an on demand order� be placed with the publisher This is already into practice. At National Academic Press (www.nap.edu) most of the titles are freely available on the net in html or pdf format. And if you like, you can order a title in print at a reasonable price. Looking forward to others views which would enrich my further understanding Happy Reading & Warm regards S.A.A. Bukhari Librarian Shantha Biotechnics Pvt Ltd Medchal Hyderabad www.shanthabiotech.com library.factory(a)shanthabiotech.com On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 sathya wrote : >Question-1 > >Do Chemists world over subscribe to Arun's view that Databases like Chemical >Abstracts will become superfluous as OAI initiative matures covering a large >part of journal content? > >Question-2 > >Saboo bill is a threat to the academic freedom of the scientists which gives >them benefit of copyright for their published research works even though >money is spent by their respective institutes for doing research (be it >federal funding or others)? Are the scientist-authors willing to loose this >academic freedom? This issue which is at the heart of freedom of expression, >a very fundamental individual rights. If a scientist desires to publish a >book out of his research work, will any publisher be willing to pick it up >once the Saboo bill is passed as an act? > >Sathya >-------------------------------------------------- >N V Sathyanarayana >Chairman & Managing Director >Informatics (India) Ltd >Bangalore 560003, India >Phone : 91-80-23365940 >www.informindia.co.in >-------------------------------------------------- > >-----Original Message----- > From: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] >Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 6:31 PM >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] RE: The Sabo Bill and Open Access > >Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:26:27 +0100 (BST) > From: "[iso-8859-1] Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> > >Sathya asks how would champions of OA like to deal >with secondary services [sucha as Chemical Abstracts]? > >I have not yet read his editorial and I will wait till >the print version arrives, but in the meantime let me >do a bit of loud thinking. > >The main purpose of OA in general is to make primary >research findings available free to anyone who cares >to read them. Especially final versions of refereed >papers. This goal can be achieved two ways: OAP and >OAA. There are now more than a thousand OAP journals. >Many of them charge a fee upfront from the authors >(who in turn charge it to their funding agencies). >This model is the 'author pays' model of BMC and PLoS. >There are others [like Current Science and Pramana] >which do not charge any fee from the authors or >readers. They charge a subscription fee to print >subscribers and probably get grants from funding >agencies. > >In the OAA approach, authors deposit the full text of >their papers [preprints, final accepted versions of >papers, and postprints] in archives - either a central >archive such as arXiv or an institutional archive. As >the institutional archives are interoperable, to the >searcher it would appear as if all these papers are >located in one distant server; one does not have to >search several servers. What is important to note is >that OAA has adopted the key features of secondary >services such as the use of metadata tags to make a >search for relevant documents. > >If all researchers deposit their papers in >institutional archives [as recommended recently by the >UK House of Commons S&T Committee] anyone having a >decent Internet connection can access any of those >papers deposited anywhere in the world using metadata >[keywords, etc]. > >This is what the secondary services try to achieve >partially. Imagine that I access the print version of >Chemical Abstracts. Using keywords, I can locate >papers of my interest. If I use the electronic version >[SciFinder] I can not only find out papers of my >interest but often can navigate my way to the actual >documents themselves, as SciFinder has agreements with >many primary journals. > >In a perfect world, the secondary services will become >superfluous. My guess is if the archiving habit picks >up [as it has to a large extent in physics], many >scientists will find it less and less necessary to go >to secondary services. A clear example of what >advances in technology can do to the ways in which we >acquire knowledge. > >The Sabo Bill, as proposed by Congressman Martin Sabo, >has a few loopholes as pointed out in some discussion >lists. Peter Suber has suggested some improvements. >With those improvements, if accepted by the US >Congress, the Bill will do a lot of good. > >Of course OA will not cover secondary services. > >Arun > > >--- Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >wrote: > Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:32:45 +0530 > > From: sathya <sathya(a)informindia.co.in> > > > > Hi Arun > > > > Our Feb 2004 editorial in U&I focuses on Martin > > Saboo's bill and its > > implications - "OAI and the Copyright Battle" > > http://www.informindia.co.in/u&i/Feb2004/u&i.htm > > > > A QUESTION(that haunts me), to Forum members. > > > > What should be the OAI's approach to "Indexes and > > database Aggregations"? > > For example, "Chemical Abstracts" and "the Journal > > of American Chemical > > Society" are different species of knowledge-animal, > > of entirely different > > value. > > Please note, a new separate Act is enacted recently > > by US Government to > > copyright protect databases, while Saboo's bill > > seeks to take-out federally > > funded (substantially) research publications out of > > copyright. > > > > Sathya > > -------------------------------------------------- > > N V Sathyanarayana > > Informatics > > www.informindia.co.in > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > > > > > >___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! >Messenger - all new features - even more fun! >http://www.allnewmessenger.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 _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Re: RE: [LIS-Forum] RE: The Sabo Bill and Open Access
by Mailing List Manager 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

Date: 29 Jul 2004 06:36:58 -0000 From: afsar bukhari <bukhari_786(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Friends, I would like to share some of my views in connection with �Sabo Bill & Open Access� as pointed out by Mr. Sathya do chemists world over subscribe �..databases like CA will be superfluous. In present day environment, how many libraries are subscribing to Current Contents of ISI? CC gives alerts of recently published articles. When we have TOC email alerts of journals freely available, then, is it worth going for current contents? Both of them are almost achieving the same objective. It is also worth here to ask how many scientists are looking at CC Moreover, they are rigid in the sense that scientists should go to the library to refer them (because individuals cannot afford to subscribe to them at such prices). What I feel is, future of these services like CA, CC etc in Open Access Environment will depend on what unique features they are offering to the users compared to what is available freely. Regarding the copyright issue Again in the present model, authors of articles do not enjoy copyright. It is the publisher who retains it and makes profit at the cost of library�s displeasure. A primary fact, which should not be forgotten, is: Author publishes his/her work to increase its visibility that offers him recognition in the field. If the article has wider access, it will also stop re-inventing the wheel. And regarding the other apprehension raised by Mr. Sathya If a scientist desires to publish a book out of his research work, will any publisher be willing to pick it up. Yes I agree with this because Sabo bill clearly states Any Federal department or agency that enters into a funding agreement with any person for the performance of scientific research substantially funded by the Federal Government shall include in the agreement a provision that states that copyright protection under this title is not available for any work produced pursuant to such research under the agreement�. The implication of this would be, publisher would have to make the book freely available. In this connection my suggestion is, let the supporters of Open Access (Publishers or National Academies) come forward to accept such manuscripts and make it available in electronic format on net. If any body desires to have its printed version, let an on demand order� be placed with the publisher This is already into practice. At National Academic Press (www.nap.edu) most of the titles are freely available on the net in html or pdf format. And if you like, you can order a title in print at a reasonable price. Looking forward to others views which would enrich my further understanding Happy Reading & Warm regards S.A.A. Bukhari Librarian Shantha Biotechnics Pvt Ltd Medchal Hyderabad www.shanthabiotech.com library.factory(a)shanthabiotech.com On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 sathya wrote : >Question-1 > >Do Chemists world over subscribe to Arun's view that Databases like Chemical >Abstracts will become superfluous as OAI initiative matures covering a large >part of journal content? > >Question-2 > >Saboo bill is a threat to the academic freedom of the scientists which gives >them benefit of copyright for their published research works even though >money is spent by their respective institutes for doing research (be it >federal funding or others)? Are the scientist-authors willing to loose this >academic freedom? This issue which is at the heart of freedom of expression, >a very fundamental individual rights. If a scientist desires to publish a >book out of his research work, will any publisher be willing to pick it up >once the Saboo bill is passed as an act? > >Sathya >-------------------------------------------------- >N V Sathyanarayana >Chairman & Managing Director >Informatics (India) Ltd >Bangalore 560003, India >Phone : 91-80-23365940 >www.informindia.co.in >-------------------------------------------------- > >-----Original Message----- > From: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] >Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 6:31 PM >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] RE: The Sabo Bill and Open Access > >Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:26:27 +0100 (BST) > From: "[iso-8859-1] Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> > >Sathya asks how would champions of OA like to deal >with secondary services [sucha as Chemical Abstracts]? > >I have not yet read his editorial and I will wait till >the print version arrives, but in the meantime let me >do a bit of loud thinking. > >The main purpose of OA in general is to make primary >research findings available free to anyone who cares >to read them. Especially final versions of refereed >papers. This goal can be achieved two ways: OAP and >OAA. There are now more than a thousand OAP journals. >Many of them charge a fee upfront from the authors >(who in turn charge it to their funding agencies). >This model is the 'author pays' model of BMC and PLoS. >There are others [like Current Science and Pramana] >which do not charge any fee from the authors or >readers. They charge a subscription fee to print >subscribers and probably get grants from funding >agencies. > >In the OAA approach, authors deposit the full text of >their papers [preprints, final accepted versions of >papers, and postprints] in archives - either a central >archive such as arXiv or an institutional archive. As >the institutional archives are interoperable, to the >searcher it would appear as if all these papers are >located in one distant server; one does not have to >search several servers. What is important to note is >that OAA has adopted the key features of secondary >services such as the use of metadata tags to make a >search for relevant documents. > >If all researchers deposit their papers in >institutional archives [as recommended recently by the >UK House of Commons S&T Committee] anyone having a >decent Internet connection can access any of those >papers deposited anywhere in the world using metadata >[keywords, etc]. > >This is what the secondary services try to achieve >partially. Imagine that I access the print version of >Chemical Abstracts. Using keywords, I can locate >papers of my interest. If I use the electronic version >[SciFinder] I can not only find out papers of my >interest but often can navigate my way to the actual >documents themselves, as SciFinder has agreements with >many primary journals. > >In a perfect world, the secondary services will become >superfluous. My guess is if the archiving habit picks >up [as it has to a large extent in physics], many >scientists will find it less and less necessary to go >to secondary services. A clear example of what >advances in technology can do to the ways in which we >acquire knowledge. > >The Sabo Bill, as proposed by Congressman Martin Sabo, >has a few loopholes as pointed out in some discussion >lists. Peter Suber has suggested some improvements. >With those improvements, if accepted by the US >Congress, the Bill will do a lot of good. > >Of course OA will not cover secondary services. > >Arun > > >--- Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >wrote: > Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:32:45 +0530 > > From: sathya <sathya(a)informindia.co.in> > > > > Hi Arun > > > > Our Feb 2004 editorial in U&I focuses on Martin > > Saboo's bill and its > > implications - "OAI and the Copyright Battle" > > http://www.informindia.co.in/u&i/Feb2004/u&i.htm > > > > A QUESTION(that haunts me), to Forum members. > > > > What should be the OAI's approach to "Indexes and > > database Aggregations"? > > For example, "Chemical Abstracts" and "the Journal > > of American Chemical > > Society" are different species of knowledge-animal, > > of entirely different > > value. > > Please note, a new separate Act is enacted recently > > by US Government to > > copyright protect databases, while Saboo's bill > > seeks to take-out federally > > funded (substantially) research publications out of > > copyright. > > > > Sathya > > -------------------------------------------------- > > N V Sathyanarayana > > Informatics > > www.informindia.co.in > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > > > > > >___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! >Messenger - all new features - even more fun! >http://www.allnewmessenger.com >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Help - reg.
by Mailing List Manager 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 07:31:04 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] suresh kumar" <nsureshfcri(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear members, It is a great question - What is that the Government is expected to do in the service matters of library professionls in autonomous bodies under various ministries( nearly 130 institutions under various Ministries). It is essential to appoint a high power committee by our professional associations like ILA, IASLIC etc to study the problems in detail and act/represent accordingly. I also invite your attention to the issues prevailing in many autonomous organisations regarding the service conditions/salary structure/promotion avenues/ library grading/post and scale upgradation in tune with the Govt of India order on 4th and 5th CPC recommendations etc of Employees in these organisation. As you are aware, these organisations are not yet referred to the purview of CAT in service matters and hence there are number of service matter grievances and representations are pending with Management for a long. It is a big question as to which forum these employees should approach to protect their legitimate claims. It would be a different position if the remedy is a private law remedy as per the wishes of the Management.Hence I request all members intervention, who is actively associated with professional associations like ILA,IASLIC in this matter. I would also like to hear the views of Office bearers of these associations in this regard and let us know what they are going to do for these poor professioanl collegues. thanks, Sureshkumar, Librarian,Fluid Control Research Institute( Govt. Of India), Palakkad- Kerala. nsureshfcri(a)yahoo.co.in --- Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:30:32 +0530 > From: rajesh chandrakar <rajesh(a)inflibnet.ac.in> > > Dear Professionals, > > This is biggest problem of our profession. Every > where, wherever you go > their is no clear cut guidelines for the practising > library professionals. > Because of this, our professionals are ruining their > career. Is any > association out there, who can take care pains of > our professional > colleagues? > > regards, > Rajesh >

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RE: [LIS-Forum] RE: The Sabo Bill and Open Access
by Mailing List Manager 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:56:10 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Till recently, every commercial publisher of journals took away the copyright for the intellectual content produced by scientists supported often by public funds! Authors were asked to sign a form transferring copyright to the journal publisher! Is that what Sathya means by academic freedom? I thought it was taking undue advantage of scientists who have worked hard to produce some novel findings with the support of funding agencies. It is thanks to movements such as the OA movement authors are now able to retrieve copyright for their creations. Besides, OA advocates are not asking the journals to close down, despite the fact the major publishers earn profits far higher than most average companies in any other business, and the journal subscription prices are rising much faster than the general inflation rate. In fact, Stevan Harnad has written on this issue may be a hundred times. Reverting to copyright, there are many developments in recent years and I wish the LIS community invite experts such as Karim Shankar and Lawrence, both B'lore based, for detailed discussions. Indeed, Sathya could invite one of them to give the Informatics Annual Lecture. Or Dr Prasad of the Ranganathan Centre or the Karnataka Library Association could invite them for a discussion with LIS professionals. About scientists publishing books based on their research: Even now there are books which are merely collections of published articles. These are published by well-known publishers and I presume they do make a profit from such ventures. Most monographs today are based on published research and they are not the same as a collection of papers reporting the research. This situation will continue even in the open access regime. Besides, as Harnad keeps reminding us research papers are willingly given away by authors, whereas books are normally not. Arun -----Original Message----- From: sathya [mailto:sathya@informindia.co.in] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 3:37 PM To: 'Mailing List Manager'; lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] RE: The Sabo Bill and Open Access Question-1 Do Chemists world over subscribe to Arun's view that Databases like Chemical Abstracts will become superfluous as OAI initiative matures covering a large part of journal content? Question-2 Saboo bill is a threat to the academic freedom of the scientists which gives them benefit of copyright for their published research works even though money is spent by their respective institutes for doing research (be it federal funding or others)? Are the scientist-authors willing to loose this academic freedom? This issue which is at the heart of freedom of expression, a very fundamental individual rights. If a scientist desires to publish a book out of his research work, will any publisher be willing to pick it up once the Saboo bill is passed as an act? Sathya -------------------------------------------------- N V Sathyanarayana Chairman & Managing Director Informatics (India) Ltd Bangalore 560003, India Phone : 91-80-23365940 www.informindia.co.in -------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 6:31 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] RE: The Sabo Bill and Open Access Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:26:27 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Sathya asks how would champions of OA like to deal with secondary services [sucha as Chemical Abstracts]? I have not yet read his editorial and I will wait till the print version arrives, but in the meantime let me do a bit of loud thinking. The main purpose of OA in general is to make primary research findings available free to anyone who cares to read them. Especially final versions of refereed papers. This goal can be achieved two ways: OAP and OAA. There are now more than a thousand OAP journals. Many of them charge a fee upfront from the authors (who in turn charge it to their funding agencies). This model is the 'author pays' model of BMC and PLoS. There are others [like Current Science and Pramana] which do not charge any fee from the authors or readers. They charge a subscription fee to print subscribers and probably get grants from funding agencies. In the OAA approach, authors deposit the full text of their papers [preprints, final accepted versions of papers, and postprints] in archives - either a central archive such as arXiv or an institutional archive. As the institutional archives are interoperable, to the searcher it would appear as if all these papers are located in one distant server; one does not have to search several servers. What is important to note is that OAA has adopted the key features of secondary services such as the use of metadata tags to make a search for relevant documents. If all researchers deposit their papers in institutional archives [as recommended recently by the UK House of Commons S&T Committee] anyone having a decent Internet connection can access any of those papers deposited anywhere in the world using metadata [keywords, etc]. This is what the secondary services try to achieve partially. Imagine that I access the print version of Chemical Abstracts. Using keywords, I can locate papers of my interest. If I use the electronic version [SciFinder] I can not only find out papers of my interest but often can navigate my way to the actual documents themselves, as SciFinder has agreements with many primary journals. In a perfect world, the secondary services will become superfluous. My guess is if the archiving habit picks up [as it has to a large extent in physics], many scientists will find it less and less necessary to go to secondary services. A clear example of what advances in technology can do to the ways in which we acquire knowledge. The Sabo Bill, as proposed by Congressman Martin Sabo, has a few loopholes as pointed out in some discussion lists. Peter Suber has suggested some improvements. With those improvements, if accepted by the US Congress, the Bill will do a lot of good. Of course OA will not cover secondary services. Arun --- Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:32:45 +0530 > From: sathya <sathya(a)informindia.co.in> > > Hi Arun > > Our Feb 2004 editorial in U&I focuses on Martin > Saboo's bill and its > implications - "OAI and the Copyright Battle" > http://www.informindia.co.in/u&i/Feb2004/u&i.htm > > A QUESTION(that haunts me), to Forum members. > > What should be the OAI's approach to "Indexes and > database Aggregations"? > For example, "Chemical Abstracts" and "the Journal > of American Chemical > Society" are different species of knowledge-animal, > of entirely different > value. > Please note, a new separate Act is enacted recently > by US Government to > copyright protect databases, while Saboo's bill > seeks to take-out federally > funded (substantially) research publications out of > copyright. > > Sathya > -------------------------------------------------- > N V Sathyanarayana > Informatics > www.informindia.co.in > -------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://www.allnewmessenger.com _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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RE: [LIS-Forum] RE: The Sabo Bill and Open Access
by Subbiah Arunachalam 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Till recently, every commercial publisher of journals took away the copyright for the intellectual content produced by scientists supported often by public funds! Authors were asked to sign a form transferring copyright to the journal publisher! Is that what Sathya means by academic freedom? I thought it was taking undue advantage of scientists who have worked hard to produce some novel findings with the support of funding agencies. It is thanks to movements such as the OA movement authors are now able to retrieve copyright for their creations. Besides, OA advocates are not asking the journals to close down, despite the fact the major publishers earn profits far higher than most average companies in any other business, and the journal subscription prices are rising much faster than the general inflation rate. In fact, Stevan Harnad has written on this issue may be a hundred times. Reverting to copyright, there are many developments in recent years and I wish the LIS community invite experts such as Karim Shankar and Lawrence, both B'lore based, for detailed discussions. Indeed, Sathya could invite one of them to give the Informatics Annual Lecture. Or Dr Prasad of the Ranganathan Centre or the Karnataka Library Association could invite them for a discussion with LIS professionals. About scientists publishing books based on their research: Even now there are books which are merely collections of published articles. These are published by well-known publishers and I presume they do make a profit from such ventures. Most monographs today are based on published research and they are not the same as a collection of papers reporting the research. This situation will continue even in the open access regime. Besides, as Harnad keeps reminding us research papers are willingly given away by authors, whereas books are normally not. Arun -----Original Message----- From: sathya [mailto:sathya@informindia.co.in] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 3:37 PM To: 'Mailing List Manager'; lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] RE: The Sabo Bill and Open Access Question-1 Do Chemists world over subscribe to Arun's view that Databases like Chemical Abstracts will become superfluous as OAI initiative matures covering a large part of journal content? Question-2 Saboo bill is a threat to the academic freedom of the scientists which gives them benefit of copyright for their published research works even though money is spent by their respective institutes for doing research (be it federal funding or others)? Are the scientist-authors willing to loose this academic freedom? This issue which is at the heart of freedom of expression, a very fundamental individual rights. If a scientist desires to publish a book out of his research work, will any publisher be willing to pick it up once the Saboo bill is passed as an act? Sathya -------------------------------------------------- N V Sathyanarayana Chairman & Managing Director Informatics (India) Ltd Bangalore 560003, India Phone : 91-80-23365940 www.informindia.co.in -------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 6:31 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] RE: The Sabo Bill and Open Access Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:26:27 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Sathya asks how would champions of OA like to deal with secondary services [sucha as Chemical Abstracts]? I have not yet read his editorial and I will wait till the print version arrives, but in the meantime let me do a bit of loud thinking. The main purpose of OA in general is to make primary research findings available free to anyone who cares to read them. Especially final versions of refereed papers. This goal can be achieved two ways: OAP and OAA. There are now more than a thousand OAP journals. Many of them charge a fee upfront from the authors (who in turn charge it to their funding agencies). This model is the 'author pays' model of BMC and PLoS. There are others [like Current Science and Pramana] which do not charge any fee from the authors or readers. They charge a subscription fee to print subscribers and probably get grants from funding agencies. In the OAA approach, authors deposit the full text of their papers [preprints, final accepted versions of papers, and postprints] in archives - either a central archive such as arXiv or an institutional archive. As the institutional archives are interoperable, to the searcher it would appear as if all these papers are located in one distant server; one does not have to search several servers. What is important to note is that OAA has adopted the key features of secondary services such as the use of metadata tags to make a search for relevant documents. If all researchers deposit their papers in institutional archives [as recommended recently by the UK House of Commons S&T Committee] anyone having a decent Internet connection can access any of those papers deposited anywhere in the world using metadata [keywords, etc]. This is what the secondary services try to achieve partially. Imagine that I access the print version of Chemical Abstracts. Using keywords, I can locate papers of my interest. If I use the electronic version [SciFinder] I can not only find out papers of my interest but often can navigate my way to the actual documents themselves, as SciFinder has agreements with many primary journals. In a perfect world, the secondary services will become superfluous. My guess is if the archiving habit picks up [as it has to a large extent in physics], many scientists will find it less and less necessary to go to secondary services. A clear example of what advances in technology can do to the ways in which we acquire knowledge. The Sabo Bill, as proposed by Congressman Martin Sabo, has a few loopholes as pointed out in some discussion lists. Peter Suber has suggested some improvements. With those improvements, if accepted by the US Congress, the Bill will do a lot of good. Of course OA will not cover secondary services. Arun --- Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:32:45 +0530 > From: sathya <sathya(a)informindia.co.in> > > Hi Arun > > Our Feb 2004 editorial in U&I focuses on Martin > Saboo's bill and its > implications - "OAI and the Copyright Battle" > http://www.informindia.co.in/u&i/Feb2004/u&i.htm > > A QUESTION(that haunts me), to Forum members. > > What should be the OAI's approach to "Indexes and > database Aggregations"? > For example, "Chemical Abstracts" and "the Journal > of American Chemical > Society" are different species of knowledge-animal, > of entirely different > value. > Please note, a new separate Act is enacted recently > by US Government to > copyright protect databases, while Saboo's bill > seeks to take-out federally > funded (substantially) research publications out of > copyright. > > Sathya > -------------------------------------------------- > N V Sathyanarayana > Informatics > www.informindia.co.in > -------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://www.allnewmessenger.com _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Future of eprints software...
by Mailing List Manager 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 08:25:16 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is a brief report from Steve Hitchcock of the University of Southampton. Following an earlier notice to this list, an important meeting was held to consider the future of Eprints software. Putting Eprints Software into the User Community June 23, 2004, London, organised by JISC and the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at Southampton University. At this highly successful workshop that attracted over 100% of the booked delegates, invited users and stakeholders in Eprints software from around the world met to consider increased sharing and communications to ensure the continued sustainability and development of Eprints, the most widely used software for creating institutional archives. A report summarising the major proposals to emerge from the workshop, and highlighting areas for further investigation, is now available <http://opcit.eprints.org/jisc-eprints-user/summary-report.html> The full proceedings are linked from the original programme <http://opcit.eprints.org/jisc-eprints-user/>. All users of Eprints are invited to comment on the proposals, which are intended to bring forward actions from the workshop. Original notice <http://software.eprints.org/tech.php/2127.html> (include this url in tech mail only) <http://software.eprints.org/underground.php/323.html> (include this url in underground mail only). Steve Hitchcock IAM Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK Email: sh94r(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 3256 Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 2865

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Re: LIS-Forum post from narayanghosh@yahoo.co.uk requires approval
by Mailing List Manager 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:28:15 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] narayan ghosh" <narayanghosh(a)yahoo.co.uk> This is to write an article titled "Electronic Library: a mere necessity for professional institutions". To establish my logic I require some live example of Libraries digitized their documents or subscribing resources in electronic forms. Please help urgently. N.Ghosh National Institute of Management Calcutta Kolkata

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Help - reg.
by Mailing List Manager 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:30:32 +0530 From: rajesh chandrakar <rajesh(a)inflibnet.ac.in> Dear Professionals, This is biggest problem of our profession. Every where, wherever you go their is no clear cut guidelines for the practising library professionals. Because of this, our professionals are ruining their career. Is any association out there, who can take care pains of our professional colleagues? regards, Rajesh ----- Original Message ----- > Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:55:06 +0100 (BST) > From: "[iso-8859-1] Ramamoorthi P" <ram_sameer2003(a)yahoo.co.in> > > Dear LIS- Professionals, > > I am working as Library Assisistant in Society for Applied Microwave > Electronics Engineering and Research (SAMEER) An Autonomous R&D > organization, Ministry of Communication &Information Technology. GOVT. OF > INDIA > > Our organization is not accepting Library professionals as Technical > Support or Scientific Staff. They will be treated, as "Isolated Post" > there is no guidelines, procedure for assessment and Scale fixation for > library Staff. > > An autonomous organization (govt of India) under what category library > Professionals are coming? Are there any rules and guidelines for them?. > > Anybody working in the similar organizations may please share your views. > > Thanking you > > With regards > > P.Ramamoorthi > Librarian > SAMEER - Centre for Electromagnetics > CIT Campus, > IInd Cross RoadTaramani, > Chennai - 600 113Phone : 044-22541817,22541583 > Fax 044-22541938Residence Phone No. 22591974

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RE: [LIS-Forum] All India List of UGC Refresher and Orientation P rogrammes
by Mailing List Manager 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 08:28:34 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Thanks very much to Dr Kanmadi for this information. I am curious to know how many of these refresher courses include a session or two on open access, dealing with access to electronic journals, etc. Thanks and best wishes. Subbiah Arunachalam -----Original Message----- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:52:35 +0530 From: Satish Kanamadi <satish(a)tiss.edu> Dear Members, This has further reference to the queries that have appeared on Lis Forum anout Refresher Courses.Full details about UGC supported Orientation and Refresher Courses for Teachers/Librarians are published in Employment News dated 24-30 July 2004,page27-40. This consoilidated information will definitely useful to librarians who are planning to attend them in the year 2004-05. Satish Kanamadi

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Establishing an Institutional Repository
by Mailing List Manager 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 08:09:49 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is a brief summary of an article recommended to me. Gibbons, Susan. "Establishing an Institutional Repository" [11]Library Technology Reports 40(4) (July-August 2004) - Institutional repositories are a hot topic with academic institutions, and in particular academic libraries. This 67-page report is an excellent summary of institutional repository benefits, potential uses, features, costs, and software options. The author has been involved with establishing an institutional repository at her institution, but it's also clear that she did her homework in putting this publication together. The information here is accurate and up-to-date, and can serve as a very useful overview of the state of institutional repositories currently as well as useful guidance for any institution wishing to create such a repository. Although LTR is published on a subscription basis, individual issues can be purchased at the web site ([12]www.techsource.ala.org). - [13]RT Is anyone getting this journal (LTR) in his/her library? If so, please alert me. I would like to read this article. Thanks very much and best wishes. Subbiah Arunachalam

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Request for training on D-space
by Mailing List Manager 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:43:59 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> hi very soon it will be organised at Aligarh Muslim University in colloboration with INFLIBNET LAXMAN RAO ----original message------- From: Sanjay Kataria Dear Information Scientist, I would like to get training on D-space software, Kinldy advise me that where can i get complete training on this software. Best regards Sanjay Kataria Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology A-10, Sector-62, Noida (UP)201307 Ph. 0120-2400971 to 978 Ext. 251 09810503341 (Mobile) www.jiitindia.org

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Re: [LIS-Forum] All India List of UGC Refresher and Orientation Programmes
by Mailing List Manager 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:41:26 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> Hi friends the employment news advertisement reg the ref courses is very useful. please make a small change as per as Osmania University is concerned it is from 22 Nov to 11 dec 2004. there is a slight change in the dates.p please make a note laxman rao

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RE: [LIS-Forum] RE: The Sabo Bill and Open Access
by sathya 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Question-1 Do Chemists world over subscribe to Arun's view that Databases like Chemical Abstracts will become superfluous as OAI initiative matures covering a large part of journal content? Question-2 Saboo bill is a threat to the academic freedom of the scientists which gives them benefit of copyright for their published research works even though money is spent by their respective institutes for doing research (be it federal funding or others)? Are the scientist-authors willing to loose this academic freedom? This issue which is at the heart of freedom of expression, a very fundamental individual rights. If a scientist desires to publish a book out of his research work, will any publisher be willing to pick it up once the Saboo bill is passed as an act? Sathya -------------------------------------------------- N V Sathyanarayana Chairman & Managing Director Informatics (India) Ltd Bangalore 560003, India Phone : 91-80-23365940 www.informindia.co.in -------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 6:31 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] RE: The Sabo Bill and Open Access Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:26:27 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Sathya asks how would champions of OA like to deal with secondary services [sucha as Chemical Abstracts]? I have not yet read his editorial and I will wait till the print version arrives, but in the meantime let me do a bit of loud thinking. The main purpose of OA in general is to make primary research findings available free to anyone who cares to read them. Especially final versions of refereed papers. This goal can be achieved two ways: OAP and OAA. There are now more than a thousand OAP journals. Many of them charge a fee upfront from the authors (who in turn charge it to their funding agencies). This model is the 'author pays' model of BMC and PLoS. There are others [like Current Science and Pramana] which do not charge any fee from the authors or readers. They charge a subscription fee to print subscribers and probably get grants from funding agencies. In the OAA approach, authors deposit the full text of their papers [preprints, final accepted versions of papers, and postprints] in archives - either a central archive such as arXiv or an institutional archive. As the institutional archives are interoperable, to the searcher it would appear as if all these papers are located in one distant server; one does not have to search several servers. What is important to note is that OAA has adopted the key features of secondary services such as the use of metadata tags to make a search for relevant documents. If all researchers deposit their papers in institutional archives [as recommended recently by the UK House of Commons S&T Committee] anyone having a decent Internet connection can access any of those papers deposited anywhere in the world using metadata [keywords, etc]. This is what the secondary services try to achieve partially. Imagine that I access the print version of Chemical Abstracts. Using keywords, I can locate papers of my interest. If I use the electronic version [SciFinder] I can not only find out papers of my interest but often can navigate my way to the actual documents themselves, as SciFinder has agreements with many primary journals. In a perfect world, the secondary services will become superfluous. My guess is if the archiving habit picks up [as it has to a large extent in physics], many scientists will find it less and less necessary to go to secondary services. A clear example of what advances in technology can do to the ways in which we acquire knowledge. The Sabo Bill, as proposed by Congressman Martin Sabo, has a few loopholes as pointed out in some discussion lists. Peter Suber has suggested some improvements. With those improvements, if accepted by the US Congress, the Bill will do a lot of good. Of course OA will not cover secondary services. Arun --- Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:32:45 +0530 > From: sathya <sathya(a)informindia.co.in> > > Hi Arun > > Our Feb 2004 editorial in U&I focuses on Martin > Saboo's bill and its > implications - "OAI and the Copyright Battle" > http://www.informindia.co.in/u&i/Feb2004/u&i.htm > > A QUESTION(that haunts me), to Forum members. > > What should be the OAI's approach to "Indexes and > database Aggregations"? > For example, "Chemical Abstracts" and "the Journal > of American Chemical > Society" are different species of knowledge-animal, > of entirely different > value. > Please note, a new separate Act is enacted recently > by US Government to > copyright protect databases, while Saboo's bill > seeks to take-out federally > funded (substantially) research publications out of > copyright. > > Sathya > -------------------------------------------------- > N V Sathyanarayana > Informatics > www.informindia.co.in > -------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://www.allnewmessenger.com _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Alumni.NET Invitation
by BHOJARAJU GUNJAL 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Dear Professional Colleagues, I'm so glad I found an old friend at Alumni.NET! Please visit the site and join this online community by clicking on the link below. Unlike other registries, this is the first and only global alumni registry that will reunite you with your corporate, educational, civic and all other organizational affiliations from all over the world! You may now continue to keep in touch with your old friends for business, scholarly or pure nostalgic reasons using the site's many feature. Chances are someone is looking for you the way I found my friend so sign up and increase your chances of being buzzed for various networking possibilities. Rebuild your connections and networks from around the world like I do. Click on this link to help me reunite with my friend now. Thanks a lot! Alumni.NET - Bringing School and Work Friends Together http://www.alumni.net/cgi-bin/affiliate.pl?email=bhojarajug%40yahoo.com From, BHOJARAJU GUNJAL

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RE: [LIS-Forum] RE: The Sabo Bill and Open Access
by Mailing List Manager 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:26:27 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Sathya asks how would champions of OA like to deal with secondary services [sucha as Chemical Abstracts]? I have not yet read his editorial and I will wait till the print version arrives, but in the meantime let me do a bit of loud thinking. The main purpose of OA in general is to make primary research findings available free to anyone who cares to read them. Especially final versions of refereed papers. This goal can be achieved two ways: OAP and OAA. There are now more than a thousand OAP journals. Many of them charge a fee upfront from the authors (who in turn charge it to their funding agencies). This model is the 'author pays' model of BMC and PLoS. There are others [like Current Science and Pramana] which do not charge any fee from the authors or readers. They charge a subscription fee to print subscribers and probably get grants from funding agencies. In the OAA approach, authors deposit the full text of their papers [preprints, final accepted versions of papers, and postprints] in archives - either a central archive such as arXiv or an institutional archive. As the institutional archives are interoperable, to the searcher it would appear as if all these papers are located in one distant server; one does not have to search several servers. What is important to note is that OAA has adopted the key features of secondary services such as the use of metadata tags to make a search for relevant documents. If all researchers deposit their papers in institutional archives [as recommended recently by the UK House of Commons S&T Committee] anyone having a decent Internet connection can access any of those papers deposited anywhere in the world using metadata [keywords, etc]. This is what the secondary services try to achieve partially. Imagine that I access the print version of Chemical Abstracts. Using keywords, I can locate papers of my interest. If I use the electronic version [SciFinder] I can not only find out papers of my interest but often can navigate my way to the actual documents themselves, as SciFinder has agreements with many primary journals. In a perfect world, the secondary services will become superfluous. My guess is if the archiving habit picks up [as it has to a large extent in physics], many scientists will find it less and less necessary to go to secondary services. A clear example of what advances in technology can do to the ways in which we acquire knowledge. The Sabo Bill, as proposed by Congressman Martin Sabo, has a few loopholes as pointed out in some discussion lists. Peter Suber has suggested some improvements. With those improvements, if accepted by the US Congress, the Bill will do a lot of good. Of course OA will not cover secondary services. Arun --- Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:32:45 +0530 > From: sathya <sathya(a)informindia.co.in> > > Hi Arun > > Our Feb 2004 editorial in U&I focuses on Martin > Saboo's bill and its > implications - "OAI and the Copyright Battle" > http://www.informindia.co.in/u&i/Feb2004/u&i.htm > > A QUESTION(that haunts me), to Forum members. > > What should be the OAI's approach to "Indexes and > database Aggregations"? > For example, "Chemical Abstracts" and "the Journal > of American Chemical > Society" are different species of knowledge-animal, > of entirely different > value. > Please note, a new separate Act is enacted recently > by US Government to > copyright protect databases, while Saboo's bill > seeks to take-out federally > funded (substantially) research publications out of > copyright. > > Sathya > -------------------------------------------------- > N V Sathyanarayana > Informatics > www.informindia.co.in > -------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://www.allnewmessenger.com

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All India List of UGC Refresher and Orientation Programmes
by Mailing List Manager 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:52:35 +0530 From: Satish Kanamadi <satish(a)tiss.edu> Dear Members, This has further reference to the queries that have appeared on Lis Forum anout Refresher Courses.Full details about UGC supported Orientation and Refresher Courses for Teachers/Librarians are published in Employment News dated 24-30 July 2004,page27-40. This consoilidated information will definitely useful to librarians who are planning to attend them in the year 2004-05. Satish Kanamadi ******************************************************************************************************************* Satish Kanamadi Asst Librarian (Journals) Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library Tata Institute of Social Sciences Deonar, MUMBAI-400088 Tel: 022-25563290 Extn.285 Fax:022- 25562912 Email:satish@tiss.edu, kanamadi(a)hotmail.com

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Request for training on D-space
by Mailing List Manager 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

Date: 27 Jul 2004 05:01:52 -0000 From: Sanjay Kataria <lib_scholar(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Information Scientist, I would like to get training on D-space software, Kinldy advise me that where can i get complete training on this software. Best regards Sanjay Kataria Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Institute of Information Technology A-10, Sector-62, Noida (UP)201307 Ph. 0120-2400971 to 978 Ext. 251 09810503341 (Mobile) www.jiitindia.org

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Help - reg.
by Mailing List Manager 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:55:06 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Ramamoorthi P" <ram_sameer2003(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear LIS- Professionals, I am working as Library Assisistant in Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering and Research (SAMEER) An Autonomous R&D organization, Ministry of Communication &Information Technology. GOVT. OF INDIA Our organization is not accepting Library professionals as Technical Support or Scientific Staff. They will be treated, as �Isolated Post� there is no guidelines, procedure for assessment and Scale fixation for library Staff. An autonomous organization (govt of India) under what category library Professionals are coming? Are there any rules and guidelines for them?. Anybody working in the similar organizations may please share your views. Thanking you With regards P.Ramamoorthi Librarian SAMEER - Centre for Electromagnetics CIT Campus, IInd Cross RoadTaramani, Chennai - 600 113Phone : 044-22541817,22541583 Fax 044-22541938Residence Phone No. 22591974

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Library Security System - Supplier Address - Requested
by Mailing List Manager 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:44:48 +0530 From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com This has reference to Thirunavukkarasu's request for info. For Access Control Cards based on Proximity principle you may contact address given below. With the help of this system only valid persons holding encoded access control encoded cards will be permitted in. Similar Entry Control Systems are in use in Anna University Library, Madras and IIT Bombay. CCMB/IICT in Hyderabad have recently installed CCTV security system in Library. Their experience is NOT a happy one. Learning more from them, you also get know whom/what to avoid. Tyco Engineering & Construction (Earlier Alert Fire Services) C-15, Vikram Puri Colony Beside Bata Show Room Secunderabad - 500 009 Phone No. 27897113 Contact: A.S Rao Phone: Hyderabad: 2789 7113/7123 Best wishes Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631

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InfoWatch- May-June 2004
by M.R Lalitha 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

Dear LIS-Forum member, The combined May-June 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) May-June 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In This Issue: 1. Access Grid [An interface to Grid middleware and visualization environments] 2. Corrosionsource.com - The one stop corrosion and materials information resource 3. Discovery of global warming 4. Engineering Conference International [Free, full text access to engineering conference proceedings] 5. ExInt: An Exon-Intron database 6. Flight dynamics and control toolbox 7. FreeOS.com - A resource center for Free Operating Systems 8. International education indicators [Compiled from recent NCES international reports and surveys] 9. MESSENGER - MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging 10. Molecular Origami [Folding and arrangement of atoms in molecules and network solids] 11. Optics.Org technical library - Optics and Photonics library 12. Parallax Project [ A digitized version of the "Publications of the Allegheny Observatory of the University of Pittsburgh"] 13. PC technology guide 14. PoLyInfo - A polymer database 15. Robots and us 16. Science and Engineering Indicators 2004 [By National Science Board, National Science Foundation, U.S] 17. Technical Information [Part of International Rectifier website] 18. The Associates for Biosystem Science and Engineering (WABSE) 19. The Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) 20. Tips and tricks for windows 21. Tom's free chemistry software 22. ZapMeta - A meta-search engine ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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Library Security System - Supplier Address - Requested
by sainul＠iiitmk.ac.in 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

Dear Mr A Thirunavikkarasu, Contact details of some of the Library Security System are given below. For EAS electronic article surveillance systems: 1. Monitor electronics pvt ltd Pune e-mail magic(a)giaspn01.vsnl.net.in 2. India Satcom Ltd. B'lore e-mail rajesh(a)indiasatcom.com For RF ID Security Systems: 1. Essae Technologys Pvt. ltd, 100,18th main, 6th block, Koramangala, B'lore-560095 E-mail essaebir(a)vsnl.net With best regards, Sainul Abideen P Librarian IIITM-K Thiruvananthapuram www.iiitmk.ac.in This Mail has been sent from: ________________________________________________________________________ Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - Kerala, Park Centre, Techno Park, Thiruvananthapuram - 695 581. Kerala. India. Contact: Website: http://www.iiitmk.ac.in Phone: +91-471-2527567 / 3091334 Fax: +91-471-2527568 ________________________________________________________________________ The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and /or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this in error,please contact the sender and delete the material from anycomputer.

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New Publicztion - TUTOR+ Ed.2
by Mailing List Manager 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:30:17 +0530 From: Srels <srels(a)blr.vsnl.net.in> Dear All: Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science has recently published - TUTOR+: A Learning and Teaching Package on Hypertext Link Commands in WINISIS. Edition 2. The details are as follows : TUTOR + A Learning and Teaching package on Hypertext Link Commands in WINISIS Edition 2 Prepared by A. Neelameghan Assisted by S.K. Lalitha Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science Bangalore 560 010 2004 July About TUTOR+ Edition 2 The TUTOR+ package is intended to assist users in learning about the hypertext link commands of the WINISIS software. The package can also be used in training courses on WINISIS hypertext links. Users should be familiar with the basics of working with WINISIS and Microsoft WINDOWS. Some of the newer commands work only with version 1.4 and higher. In edition 2, some corrections and revisions have been incorporated. Tutor has been developed using WINISIS. This TUTOR+ package consists of a printed manual and the databases on a CD/diskettes (1.44 MB). Price : Rs.200/- (US $ 25); Mechanical Details : A4 size' 62p; Paper back; 1 CD For further information and assistance, please contact : Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 'Upstairs', 42nd Cross III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Ph: (080) 23305109; (080) 23341657 E-mail : srels(a)vsnl.com

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Library Security System - Supplier Address - Requested
by Mailing List Manager 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

Date: 25 Jul 2004 12:01:16 -0000 From: aravind llm shety <aravind_1(a)rediffmail.com> � Dear Mr A Thirunavikkarasu, You can contact Bartronics pvt ltd based in Hyderabad.They provide solutions based on RFID (Radio Frequency Identification tags). This is a system for automatic surveillance of documents. With regards Arvindkumar M Bhadrashetty Hyderabad On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 Mailing List Manager wrote : >Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:30:03 +0100 (BST) > From: "[iso-8859-1] Alaguppillai Thirunavukkarasu" <atarasu59(a)yahoo.co.in> > >Dear Lis-forum members, > >I am A.Thirunavukkarasu, from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, >Madurai-625 015. We are in the process of modernizing our library. > >I need supplier/s name and address for the following items. > > 1. Electronic / Magnetic security system > > 2. CCTV - surveillance sytem > > >I will be thankful if any one provides the supplier address for the above. > >Sincerely yours, > >A.Thirunavukkarasu, >Librarian >Thiagarajar College of Engineering >Madurai - 625 015 > >Phone: 0452-2482240 >email: atarasu59(a)yahoo.co.in >

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Library Security System - Supplier Address - Requested
by Mailing List Manager 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:30:03 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Alaguppillai Thirunavukkarasu" <atarasu59(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Lis-forum members, I am A.Thirunavukkarasu, from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai-625 015. We are in the process of modernizing our library. I need supplier/s name and address for the following items. 1. Electronic / Magnetic security system 2. CCTV - surveillance sytem I will be thankful if any one provides the supplier address for the above. Sincerely yours, A.Thirunavukkarasu, Librarian Thiagarajar College of Engineering Madurai - 625 015 Phone: 0452-2482240 email: atarasu59(a)yahoo.co.in

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informaion please
by sangeeta gupta 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

dear members can anyone give inf. regarding membership fee and procedure of IASLIc and SIs , thanks dr sangita Gupta reader, univresity of jammu sangita_univ(a)rediffmail.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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robot librarian
by Ramesh C. Gaur 25 Jul '04

25 Jul '04

Apologies for cross-posting: It may be interesting to know; A group of robotics researchers at University Jaume I in Spain is working on a robot librarian which could deliver the promise of a helpful bot. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3897583.stm Best, Ramesh ################################################################## Ramesh C. Gaur, Ph.D. Librarian(Scientific Officer "E") Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) ( Deemed University and National Centre of the Government of India for Nuclear Science and Mathematics) Homi Bhabha Road, Navy Nagar, Colaba, Mumbai-400 005 Phone: 022-22804545 Ext. 2230, Fax: 022-22804610, 22804611 URL: www.tifr.res.in\~library, E-mail: rcgaur(a)tifr.res.in, Alternate E-mail: rameshcgaur(a)rediffmail.com ##################################################################

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Programme on "ePublishing"
by Sree Kumar 24 Jul '04

24 Jul '04

Dear Colleagues: I am happy to inform you that IIM Kozhikode (http://www.iimk.ac.in) is organizing a three-day programme on ePublishing during September 6-8, 2004. The programme is targeted at publishers, information intermediaries, information science and IT professionals. The program details are available at "http://intranet.iimk.ac.in/epublishing.htm". The programme will impart the knowledge and skills (conceptual as well as technical components) that the information industry professionals need to position themselves at the cutting edge of technology and the profession. Eminent faculty from the fields of information science and information technology will be handling the sessions. I sincerely hope that you and your organization will find this programme useful and that you will nominate personnel to the programme. For any further information please feel free to contact me or our MDP Office (E-Mail : mdp(a)iimk.ac.in). A copy of the programme brochure shall be forwarded on request. Thanking you and looking forward to hearing from you, Sincerely, M.G. Sreekumar Coordinator, MDP on E-Publishing Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode Kunnamangalam P.O Kozhikode, Kerala, India-673 571 ----------------------------------------- Phone : +91 495 2803001/2 Ext. 140 Mobile : 9447152511 Fax : +91 495 2803010/11 Email : mgsree(a)iimk.ac.in Web : www.iimk.ac.in =========================================

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Re: RE: [LIS-Forum] 25,000 titles (books) in Enginering field
by Francis Jayakanth 23 Jul '04

23 Jul '04

Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 06:54:58 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] vijaya kumara" <vijayakumar71(a)yahoo.co.in> Moderator's Note: ----------------- I feel we have had enough discussion on the above subject matter and in the interests of all the members we should stop further discussion on this topic. Members who want to express their comments on the this topic main write to "vijaya kumara <vijayakumar71(a)yahoo.co.in>' directly. May be Mr. Vijaya Kumar can come out with his strategy, based on his experience and the inputs he has received from LIS-Forum, as to how should an institution go about in procuring large number of *useful* books in one shot. --------note ends here--------- Stimulating to the mail of our Library professional Mr. Abhilash, SKCET-coimbatore on 25,000 titles of Engineering. As per you, the function of LIS forum is to solve the problems which are or which will be faced by junior/ senior library professionals, but it should not be used as a stage for critiscising the problem(s)/ request of any library professionals. We should always use LIS forum to give moral support or practical solution to over come the problem(s), which yields to use of LIS forum once again for the benefit of library and library user Mr. Abhilash points out that, "One of our respectable member tried to lay a partition line between Private College librarians and Public Librarians". But I didn't find any particition which layed by one of the member, but I find amalgamation of vegetables and books, vegetable market and library only. I think Mr. Abhilash and other library professionals will accept my response in the right way Regards Vijayakumar M

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International Conference - ICIM2005
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jul '04

23 Jul '04

Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:48:32 +0530 From: anita pujari <anita.pujari(a)timesgroup.com> 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 Whilst there is ample time to send in your registration for the conference, the last date for receipt of abstracts is July 31, 2004. This is a request for your participation by sharing your professional work, case studies & research by sending in your paper contributions before the said date. 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 Mumbai

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Re: RE: [LIS-Forum] 25,000 titles (books) in Enginering field
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jul '04

23 Jul '04

Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:59:33 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] suresh kumar" <nsureshfcri(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear members, First of all, we should realise the fact that , we are all qulalified professionals and have minimum knowledge and common sense .What some of us are lacking is EXPERIENCE,INFRASTRUCTURE,AND FUNCTIONAL FREEDOM.To make this gap fill,presently we have a forum - LIS Forum- uttilise it maximum.Take all views in positive sense and learn something out of that or leave it. thanks- sureshkumar, Librarian, Fluid control Research Instittute. Palakkad- Kerala.nsureshfcri(a)yahoo.co.in

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RE: [LIS-Forum] 25,000 titles (books) in Enginering field
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jul '04

23 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:21:23 -0700 (PDT) From: gayathri sen <gayatsen(a)yahoo.com> Dear friends, Being in a private engineering college myself, I am fully aware of the problems we face at every step in our carreer. Hence, I gave the step by step procedure to get the collections. Our inputs at LIS-FORUM should always be supportive and helpful to our fellow professionals. At the same time informative, so that they can utilise the experience of senior professionals in some way, some time. Regards, Gayathri Sen, PESIT

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Number of engineering Ph.D graduates from India
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jul '04

23 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:03:32 +0000 From: madhu rajan <madhurajan(a)hotmail.com> Hi - The Institute of Applied Manpower Research, New Delhi might have some statistics that would be useful. Here is a link - http://www.education.nic.in/htmlweb/iamrstat.htm ----Original Message Follows---- From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Number of engineering Ph.D graduates from India Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:35:44 +0530 (IST) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:54:58 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Dr Rajashekar might wish to contact Dr Rajesh Shukla of NCAER, New Delhi, who is collecting data on degrees awarded, funds invested, and distribution by gender (often data from different sources are conflicting!). Arun

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Re: RE: [LIS-Forum] 25,000 titles (books) in Enginering field
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jul '04

23 Jul '04

Date: 22 Jul 2004 12:20:02 -0000 From: Abhilash P P <abhi_skcet(a)rediffmail.com> Dear LIS Professional members I am not fully accepting Vijayakumar's opinion, because one of a important function of LIS Forum is to solve problems with mutual understanding and discussions, in such a situation positive criticism may occur that have to be accepted in its right sense. Then only one can understand the real situations of problems. One of our respectable member tried to lay a partition line between Private College librarians and Public Librarians. He should not forget that both are working for the satisfaction of readers or users of their own library. without spending conciously on collection development of library may create a dangerous situation, in which the function of library user service may change to storage service. I think all members will accept this opinion in their right sense thanks with best regards Abhilash SKCET- Coimbatore -----Original Message------- On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 Mailing List Manager wrote : >Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 07:59:13 +0100 (BST) > From: "[iso-8859-1] vijaya kumara" <vijayakumar71(a)yahoo.co.in> > >Appreciating the Basudev Mohanty mail on 25,000 titles in Engineering field, > >There is a difference in the responsibility of the library professionals >who are working in the Public sector based college libraries and Private >sector based college libraries. Simply with out knowing the situatuion, >the others should not critise the mails of any other librarians. As they >have a taken good deciscion in taking the help of LIS forum to meet their >management or library requirement . If possible we should help morally or >practically other wise we should not critise. We should always motivate >the young professionals to utilize the LIS forum for the benefit of the >Library, library user and their Institution. > >Mr. Basudev Mohanty rightly points out that the "the books should not be >compared to the vegetables" As the books are product of the human >experience, knowledge in their filed. It may useful to layman or >professional in that field. > >Regards > >Vijayakumar M > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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RE: [LIS-Forum] 25,000 titles (books) in Enginering field
by Mailing List Manager 22 Jul '04

22 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 07:59:13 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] vijaya kumara" <vijayakumar71(a)yahoo.co.in> Appreciating the Basudev Mohanty mail on 25,000 titles in Engineering field, There is a difference in the responsibility of the library professionals who are working in the Public sector based college libraries and Private sector based college libraries. Simply with out knowing the situatuion, the others should not critise the mails of any other librarians. As they have a taken good deciscion in taking the help of LIS forum to meet their management or library requirement . If possible we should help morally or practically other wise we should not critise. We should always motivate the young professionals to utilize the LIS forum for the benefit of the Library, library user and their Institution. Mr. Basudev Mohanty rightly points out that the "the books should not be compared to the vegetables" As the books are product of the human experience, knowledge in their filed. It may useful to layman or professional in that field. Regards Vijayakumar M

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11th Annual Ranganathan Memorial Lecture 2004
by Mailing List Manager 22 Jul '04

22 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:10:26 +0530 From: Dr. Arun K. Chakraborty <akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in> INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF SPECIAL LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION CENTRES(I A S L I C)P- 291 C I T Scheme, No.6M, Kankurgachi, Kolkata – 700 054Tel : 2352 – 9651 / e- mail : iaslic(a)vsnl.net, url: http://www.iaslic.org N O T I C E The IASLIC cordially invites you to the 11th Annual Ranganathan Memorial Lecture 2004 at the Department of Library & Information Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata on 26th July, 2004 at 5.30 P.M. Prof. B.P. Muklherjee, Former Head, Department of Library & Information Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata will deliver on “Our Libraries are Laboratories”. Prof. Prabir Roy Chowdhury, former Head, Department of Library & Information Science, Jadavpur University, and President, Bengal Library Association, Kolkata will preside. You are cordially invited to attend the meeting along with your colleagues. (Dipak Kr. Nag) Hony. General Secretary, IASLIC Study Circle DR. ARUN KUMAR CHAKRABORTY LIBRARIAN BOSE INSTITUTE, KOLKATA, INDIA MAIN CAMPUS : 93/1 A.P.C. ROAD, KOLKATA 700 009 INDIA PH : 91-33-2350 2402/03, 6619,6702 FAX : 91-33-2350 6790 CENTENARY CAMPUS : P1/12 CIT SCHEME - VII-M, KOLKATA 700 054 INDIA PH : 91-33-2337 9544, 9416, 9219 FAX : 91-33-2334 3886 Ph (Res) : 33-2672 1192, 3892 E-MAIL : akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in, arunchkr(a)vsnl.net.in, c_arunk(a)hotmail.com

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RE: [LIS-Forum] 25,000 titles (books) in Enginering field
by Mailing List Manager 22 Jul '04

22 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:38:53 +0630 (CCT) From: Yashwant G Kanade <kanade(a)ces.iisc.ernet.in> As far as discount is concerned, there are number of venders who are ready to give competetive discount based on publishers (the discount may range from 20% to 35%) as per my knowledge. Ask the vendors to give the list of required titles along with discount from various vendors. Regards Yashwant G Kanade CES Library, IISc

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Number of engineering Ph.D graduates from India
by Mailing List Manager 22 Jul '04

22 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 05:44:11 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] vijaya kumara" <vijayakumar71(a)yahoo.co.in> With reference to the Dr. Rajashekar's query on engineering PhD graduates from India, I would like advice to scan the ISTE News letter, they are providing list of PhD candidates just like in University news ISTE = Indian Society for Technical Educaiton Vijayakumar M, 080 - 28452324 Ext. 234 HOD - Library, library(a)mvjeducation.com MVJ College of Engineering, (ISO Certified Institute), Bangalore-560 067

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