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FW: Project Information Literacy Progress Report: Officially Released!
by Indira 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

Dear Professionals, Project Information Literacy (PIL) is a National Research Study by the Information School, University of Washington. This project aims at furthering the study of Information Literacy. PIL Progress Report is released, with the title "Finding Context: What Today's College Students Say about Conducting Research in the Digital Age". The Progress Report concludes, "Research seems to be far more difficult to conduct in the digital age than it did in previous times". According to Alison J. Head, Ph.D. and Michael B. Eisenberg (Co-directors), PIL Progress Report shares "some of the perceptions that led to this conclusion and several of the trends in problem-solving strategies that have emerged. The findings and analysis presented here should not be viewed as complete, but rather as part of our ongoing research that will be explored further and tested more rigorously". Though this project is US-based, hope it will serve as a reference resource for Information Literacy initiatives across the Globe. Regards, Dr. Indira Koneru Faculty Member Dept. of Library Science Icfai Academic Wing 23, Nagarjuna Hills Hyderabad-500 082 India From: Alison J. Head [mailto:ajhead1@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 4:27 AM To: ajhead1(a)u.washington.edu Subject: Project Information Literacy Progress Report: Officially Released! Hi, We write to tell you that the Project <http://projectinfolit.org/progress/> Information Literacy Progress Report is released and available. Just click the link and read. (The report is also posted on the PIL Web Site). The 18-page report presents findings and analysis (so far) from our 2008 fall student discussion groups, held on seven U.S. campuses with 86 college students. In our data, you may find some things that you already know. But there may be others, we hope that surprise you and spark your own thoughts and new ideas. This spring, our research will continue with a large-scale student survey administered on three U.S. campuses. So, give it a read when you get the chance. Also, help us spread the word by sending on this link to anyone you think may be interested. In the meantime, if you no longer want to receive findings reports about the study or if you have received this email in duplicate, please let us know. We will make sure your email address is removed from our database. Many thanks again for your continued interest and support. Best, - Alison and Mike -- Alison J. Head, Ph.D. and Michael B. Eisenberg, Ph.D. ______________________________ Co-Directors and Co-Principal Investigators Project Information Literacy | http://projectinfolit.org The Information School | University of Washington ajhead1(a)u.washington.edu mbe(a)u.washington.edu ***************************************** It's official, view our latest PIL video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKI7yOl8nQY ______________________________

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Post of Librarian in Punjab National Bank
by jasbir singh 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

Punjab National Bank (PNB), a leading public sector bank invites application from Indian citizens for post of Librarian: Librarian (MMG II) : 02 posts, Pay Scale : Rs.13820-19920/-, Age : 32 years How To Apply: Apply Online. Application registration on PNB website will be open up to 02/03/2009. Take a printout and send it to following address before 19/03/2009: The Dy. General Manager, Punjab national Bank, HRD Division, Head Office, 7, Bhikaji Kama Place, New Delhi-110066 The detailed information, Fee cash voucher and a link for Online submission of application is available at is available at http://www.pnbindia.com/english_web/advt_310109.html Jasbir Singh Learning Resource Center Jaypee University of Information Technology Waknaghat, P.O. Dumehar Kandaghat, Distt. Solan (H.P.), India http://www.juit.ac.in/lrc/staff.php -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for M.L.I.Sc. Syllabus
by Bhim D. Shrestha 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

Dear Professionals Colleagues, Central Department of Library and Information Science, Tribhuvan University is in the verge of revising its M.L.I.Sc. Syllabus. So, I would like to request you that I highly oblige if you make available syllabus of Master level in Library and Information Science of your University/Department through email. Particularly, in the field of information technology. At present, we have three courses in ICT – Computer Basics – 100 [Theo+Practical], Computer Networking – 50 [Theo], Computer Programming -100 [Theo+Practical]. It will be great help in the professional development of LIS. Bhim Dhoj Shrestha Faculty Member Central Department of Library and Information Science Tribhuvan University Kathmandu, Nepal Mobile: 9851059075 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Library Trainees at ISRO
by ramesh chander 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

Dear Colleagues, Applications are invited for the library trainees at ISRO Thiruvananthapuram, for more information, follow the following link: - http://www.isro.org/joboppor.htm -- With Regards, Romesh Chander Sharma National Center for Science Information(NCSI), Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore-560012,

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URGENT : BUACLA MEETING
by Ajay Kamble 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

*BOMBAY UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED LIBRARIAN'S ASSOCIATION * *( BUACLA ) ( REGD)* 117, Hindu Colony Dadar, Mumbai 400 014. Phone:- 24144160 Date 16-01-2009 All the library professionals and members of the ( BUCLA ) association are requested to attend the General Body meeting which will be held on Saturday the 7th February 2009 at 05.00 pm in the Ruparel College Library, Matunga (West) Mumbai. To elect new executive body is the subject. Your presence is highly essential for that. Thanking you, Yours Faithfully, (Mr. Shrikant Talwaltkar ) Vice President BUACLA

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[Library & Information Science Professionals] National Portal of India : Dire...
by Hi, I am K.R.Mulla, LIS Professional from India, working as Librarian 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

[http://india.gov.in/directories.php] National Portal of India : DirectoriesSearching for an Indian Government website ?..or lost in the maze trying to find STD/PIN Codes of any region in the Country ?..Welcome to this section which helps you search through the various useful Directories.. MORE -- Posted By Hi, I am K.R.Mulla, LIS Professional from India, working as Librarian to Library & Information Science Professionals at 2/03/2009 11:57:00 PM

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Academic Earth: Video Lectures By Top Scholars
by Vimal Kumar 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

Thousands Of Video Lectures From The World's Top Scholars Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education. [http://www.academicearth.org/] As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to achieving a world class education? At Academic Earth, we are working to identify these barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning. We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world's leading scholars. Our goal is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment that in which that content is remarkably easy to use and in which user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable. We invite those who share our passion to explore our website, participate in our online community, and help us continue to find new ways to make learning easier for everyone. Courtesy: Gerry McKiernan http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2009/02/academic-earth-video-lectures-by-top.… -- Vimal Kumar V. Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581 Web: www.asb.edu.in/vimal/ Blog: http://vimalkumar.oksociety.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Google launches a mobile internet bus
by DINESH SIDDAIAH 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

Dear Friends *Google launches a mobile internet bus:* Google India Tuesday unveiled an Internet bus, a mobile vehicle designed to provide information on Internet and computer to people in cities across Tamil Nadu. Dubbed as 'Google Bus', the vehicle which was flagged off from Chennai will cover 15 towns including Erode, Dindigul, Pudukkottai, Trippur and Nagercoil in 45 days. <http://siliconindian.com/adserver/adclick.php?n=a9bb7037> Thanking You. Dinesh -- Dr. Dinesh K. S. Selection Grade Librarian, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Devanahalli, Bengaluru - 562 110. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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CUDELSAA and Dept of Lib n Inf Sc organise Lecture by Dir of Nat Lib of Scotland
by Susmita Chakraborty 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

*The Role of Libraries in Accessing Knowledge and Information in the Future* A Lecture By Martin Wade, Director, National Library, Scotland Organized jointly BY *Department of Library & Information Science, University of Calcutta * AND *Calcutta University Department of Library & Information Science Alumni Association **(CUDELSAA)* *AT* *Chandramukhi Kadambini Sabhagriha* *Central Library, University of Calcutta, College Square Campus* *ON* *5th February, 2009* *2.30 PM* * * *ALL ARE WELCOME* * * N.B. On behalf of CUDELSAA, circulated by Dr. Susmita Chakraborty -------------------------------------------------- Dr. Susmita Chakraborty, India Thanks & regards. *Dr. Susmita Chakraborty* *Bengal Engineering and Science University* *Official Email:susmita.chakraborty@becs.ac.in<Email%3Asusmita.chakraborty(a)becs.ac.in> * *Personal email:susmitachakraborty94@gmai.com<email%3Asusmitachakraborty94(a)gmai.com> **Personal Blog:*http://*drsusmitachakraborty.blogspot.com*/; * http://susmita-besu.blogspot.com/ **Album:http://picasaweb.google.com/susmitachakraborty94* *Group:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cudelsaa/* --------- Please support: MANAS - a society for mentally disturbed persons their family and friends (http://www.geocities.com/manas_teghari/) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Knowledge Commission Launches Online Contest (Essay, Debate & Film)
by Puna Das 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

National Knowledge Commission Launches Online Contest www.knowledgecommission.gov.in/contests NKC's recommendations have been crafted to achieve the objective of tapping into India's enormous reservoir of knowledge, mobilising national talent and creating an empowered generation with access to tremendous possibilities for the 550 million youth. To accelerate the process of reform and to create a groundswell of public opinion, NKC invites everyone to Online Contests. Contest Period: 1 February – 1 March 2009 Categories: Film, Debate and Essay Film Topic: Make a short film (not exceeding 6 mins) 1) How can I make a difference in transforming India Debate Topics: Give your opinions in video format (not exceeding 4 mins each) 1) India will realise its demographic dividend in the next 15 years 2) Vocational education and training courses should be introduced in all schools Essay Topics: Write your views (not exceeding 2000 words each) 1) How can India unleash its innovation and entrepreneurship potential? 2) Expansion, excellence and inclusion – the three challenges of the Indian education system Important Dates Contest Begins: Feb 1, 2009 Contest Closes: March 1, 2009 Results Declaration: March 10, 2009 Prizes Winners get to meet Mr. Sam Pitroda Cash Prizes of more than INR 1.5 lakhs Certificates to first 500 entries Log on to http://knowledgeportal.in/contests to participate ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cricket on your mind? Visit the ultimate cricket website. Enter http://beta.cricket.yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Extract of Interview held with Prof. V G Talwar, Vice Chancelor, Mysore University
by Ramachandran Guruprasad 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

Posted in LIS-Forum by Mr R Guruprasad, Ph.D. Research Scholar, University of Mysore and Scientist, KTMD, NAL On behalf of Dr Khaiser Nikam, Chairperson, DOS, LIS, Univ. Mysore ================================================ *Jikanur Village (Belgaum District, Karnataka) Gifts Her Noble Son to the Mysore University as its 23 Vice Chancellor… Today, the Panaroma section of the Deccan Herald (State Edition: 26/1/09) had definitely a surprise material for me (http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Jan262009/panorama20090125114606.asp <http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Jan262009/panorama20090125114606.asp>).* A real 'Republic Day Gift' was in front of me in the form of a very pleasantly conducted candid interview (by Mr Niranjan Nikam of the Deccan Herald) honouring the 23rd Vice Chancellor of the Mysore University, Prof. V G Talwar. The interview throws open many of the unknown mysteries in the glorious professional career of Prof. V G Talwar. Hailing from a very humble family background from the Jikanur Village in the Belgaum District, Prof. Talwar started his career in BEL, Bangalore. He then moved on to the Mangalore University and spent six years there before joining the University of Mysore. For the last 17 years he has been associated with the University in various capacities as lecturer, Professor, Registrar, Director of the Academic Staff College and finally reaching the summit of becoming the 23rd Vice Chancellor of the University. As the VC, his present task is very challenging as many things need to be set right in the management of the University Administration. As an immediate welfare measure, Prof. Talwar has already initiated programmes to look into providing ample opportunities to the welfare of the staff members, conduction of innovative training programmes to imbibe newer skills by the staff, training of officers and other staff members in embarking newer administrative strageties and planning. Expanding the net of the training programme to Office Superintendents, Peons and other categories of staff members. His more than three decades of rich experience in administrative, academic and research activities, will help him in taking this opportunity as a challenge. In the course of the interview, Prof. Talwar said on the confidence imposed upon him by the Karnataka Govt. by honoring him with the Vice Chancellorship, which I quote, "I feel very happy and very proud. It is a great responsibility, great challenge and I am indeed very grateful to the government for considering me and giving me an opportunity. I will certainly put my heart and soul into the job. The university already has its name and fame at the international level and I wish the flag of the university will fly all over the globe in future too". Prof. Talwar is very clear that 'every department must be transparent in its working'. He will not compromise on strictness if anyone violates the rich tradition of the Mysore University in upholding its rich integrities of honesty, diligence, truthfulness and openness. Upon Universities having been rated as 5 Stars and 4 Stars earlier, Prof. Talwar clarified this issue by saying that 'Universities cannot be compared to Hotels'. The ranking confusion must be immediately removed. The present status of the Mysore University being ranked as 'A+' is being reworked in NAAC. About the 'hue and cry' of a large amount of money that is to be received by the Mysore University from the Govt. of India for its welfare, infrastructure and educational development, Prof. Talwar clarified that not a single paise has been received so far from the sanctioned Rs. 100 crores. Eventually when the money does come, Prof. Talwar is very clear that general infrastructure and thrust areas would be given the topmost priority. Initially, Rs. 40 crores was to be spent for a center of excellence), and the remaining 60 crores for development. Out of this a sum of Rs. 13 lakhs was to be allotted in building a modern classroom in each department. Added to this a 24/7 electricity and water supply to the entire campus. After prolonged deliberations with the Planning Commission, a 50:50 sharing of resources was agreed upon for sharing the resources between infrastructure and thrust areas. Prof. Talwar has complimented Prof. Shivashankermurthy, the then acting VC for putting up an excellent proposal to the Panel. The good news is that this proposal has been approved and UGC will release its first instalment of Rs. 30 crores very soon. To conclude, if President, Barack Obama is destiny's choice to drive America to its next generation of prosperity, I wouldn't be wrong in saying, that, it is the same destiny's choice in honouring Prof. V G Talwar, ('one of the most humble human beings and a thorough Library and Information Professional') to assume charge of the Vice Chancellorship of the Mysore University and take charge of the 'Change of Guard of Honor' to drive the Mysore University to even greater heights of educational supremacy. Posted in LIS-Forum by Mr R Guruprasad, Ph.D. Research Scholar, University of Mysore and Scientist, KTMD, NAL On behalf of Dr Khaiser Nikam, Chairperson, DOS, LIS, Univ. Mysore ========================== Extracts from the Interview held by Mr Niranjan Nikam of the Deccan Herald with Prof. V G Talwar of the Mysore University -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Workshop on Interview Skills at IIITMK, 7-8 March 2009
by Mailing List Admin 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 02:22:53 -0800 (PST) From: Sainul Abideen P <sainul(a)yahoo.com> WORKSHOP ON INTERVIEW SKILLS: an e-Learning Initiative Organized by Digital Library and Information Services Division, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram Date: 7-8 March, 2009 (Saturday and Sunday) Registration Fee: For Students Rs. 400/= Only, Others Rs. 750/= Only Last date for registration and payment of fee: 25th February 2009 About the Workshop Interview is one of the key considerations in the recruitment process of any Job. Effective Job interview is key for getting the right person. Interview is a two way exchange of information and provides an opportunity to candidates to describe their work experience, educational background, career interests, like and dislikes, etc. Similarly, interview provides a chance to the employer to choose right person for the job. Interview preparation is critical point of the interview. A candidate might have obtained high score in examinations but he/she needs to impress the interviewers with his positive qualities, to win the right job. Such winning interviews require specific knowledge and skills, to impress the employer. In order to provide you with those crucial interview skills, IIITM-K Digital Library and Information Services Division is organizing a Workshop on Interview Skills during 7-8 March 2009. This workshop provides a chance to the job seekers an opportunity to gain such winning interview skills. The workshop contains expert lectures on different factors of interview skills and preparations to be taken for winning interviews. Workshop Methodology Being an e-learning initiative, this workshop is based on the Tutored Video Instruction methodology, wherein video lectures of the experts will be delivered in a non-interactive mode. However, tutor guidance will be made available by the local faculty. Venue: IIITM-K, Technopark Campus, Thiruvananthapuram – 695581, Kerala Target audience: Anybody interested can attend. However Students, Job Seekers, and those who are in the early stage of their career will be given preference. Registration Fee: For Students Rs. 400/= Only, Others Rs. 750/= Only. [Payments to be made via Cash, or DD in favour of “Director, IIITM-K” payable at Canara Bank, Kazhakkoottam Branch] No. of seats are limited. Kindly confirm availability of seats by sending E-mail to iiitmklibrary(a)gmail.com before sending registration fee. Registration Fee is non-refundable. No TA/DA will be given to the participants. Participants are requested to make their own arrangements for Accommodation and Travel. Registration form along with the Fee may be sent to the Workshop Coordinator. Last date for registration and payment of fee: 25th February 2009 For Registration and further details Sainul Abideen P, Workshop Co-ordinator & Librarian IIITM-K, Park Centre, Technopark, Karyavattom PO,Trivandrum 695581 Ph: 0471-2527567, 2700777 exn 119, Mobile: 9961814247, 9846929235, 9496252786 E-Mail: iiitmklibrary(a)gmail.com www.iiitmk.ac.in/interview.htm

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Jikanur Village (Belgaum District, Karnataka) Gifts Her Noble Son to the Mysore University as its 23 Vice Chancellor
by Mailing List Admin 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:57:53 From: Ramachandran Guruprasad <gprasad(a)nal.res.in> Mysore University as its 23 Vice Chancellor…_ Today, the Panaroma section of the Deccan Herald (State Edition: 26/1/09) had definitely a surprise material for me (http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Jan262009/panorama20090125114606.asp <http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Jan262009/panorama20090125114606.asp>).* A real 'Republic Day Gift' was in front of me in the form of a very pleasantly conducted candid interview (by Mr Niranjan Nikam of the Deccan Herald) honouring the 23rd Vice Chancellor of the Mysore University, Prof. V G Talwar. The interview throws open many of the unknown mysteries in the glorious professional career of Prof. V G Talwar. Hailing from a very humble family background from the Jikanur Village in the Belgaum District, Prof. Talwar started his career in BEL, Bangalore. He then moved on to the Mangalore University and spent six years there before joining the University of Mysore. For the last 17 years he has been associated with the University in various capacities as lecturer, Professor, Registrar, Director of the Academic Staff College and finally reaching the summit of becoming the 23rd Vice Chancellor of the University. As the VC, his present task is very challenging as many things need to be set right in the management of the University Administration. As an immediate welfare measure, Prof. Talwar has already initiated programmes to look into providing ample opportunities to the welfare of the staff members, conduction of innovative training programmes to imbibe newer skills by the staff, training of officers and other staff members in embarking newer administrative strageties and planning. Expanding the net of the training programme to Office Superintendents, Peons and other categories of staff members. His more than three decades of rich experience in administrative, academic and research activities, will help him in taking this opportunity as a challenge. In the course of the interview, Prof. Talwar said on the confidence imposed upon him by the Karnataka Govt. by honoring him with the Vice Chancellorship, which I quote, "I feel very happy and very proud. It is a great responsibility, great challenge and I am indeed very grateful to the government for considering me and giving me an opportunity. I will certainly put my heart and soul into the job. The university already has its name and fame at the international level and I wish the flag of the university will fly all over the globe in future too". Prof. Talwar is very clear that 'every department must be transparent in its working'. He will not compromise on strictness if anyone violates the rich tradition of the Mysore University in upholding its rich integrities of honesty, diligence, truthfulness and openness. Upon Universities having been rated as 5 Stars and 4 Stars earlier, Prof. Talwar clarified this issue by saying that 'Universities cannot be compared to Hotels'. The ranking confusion must be immediately removed. The present status of the Mysore University being ranked as 'A+' is being reworked in NAAC. About the 'hue and cry' of a large amount of money that is to be received by the Mysore University from the Govt. of India for its welfare, infrastructure and educational development, Prof. Talwar clarified that not a single paise has been received so far from the sanctioned Rs. 100 crores. Eventually when the money does come, Prof. Talwar is very clear that general infrastructure and thrust areas would be given the topmost priority. Initially, Rs. 40 crores was to be spent for a center of excellence), and the remaining 60 crores for development. Out of this a sum of Rs. 13 lakhs was to be allotted in building a modern classroom in each department. Added to this a 24/7 electricity and water supply to the entire campus. After prolonged deliberations with the Planning Commission, a 50:50 sharing of resources was agreed upon for sharing the resources between infrastructure and thrust areas. Prof. Talwar has complimented Prof. Shivashankermurthy, the then acting VC for putting up an excellent proposal to the Panel. The good news is that this proposal has been approved and UGC will release its first instalment of Rs. 30 crores very soon. To conclude, if President, Barack Obama is destiny's choice to drive America to its next generation of prosperity, I wouldn't be wrong in saying, that, it is the same destiny's choice in honouring Prof. V G Talwar, ('one of the most humble human beings and a thorough Library and Information Professional') to assume charge of the Vice Chancellorship of the Mysore University and take charge of the 'Change of Guard of Honor' to drive the Mysore University to even greater heights of educational supremacy. Posted in LIS-Forum by Mr R Guruprasad, Ph.D. Research Scholar, University of Mysore and Scientist, KTMD, NAL On behalf of Dr Khaiser Nikam, Chairperson, DOS, LIS, Univ. Mysore ========================== Extracts from the Interview held by Mr Niranjan Nikam of the Deccan Herald with Prof. V G Talwar of the Mysore University

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1 day State Level Seminar in Mumbai (fwd)
by Mailing List Admin 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:11:06 +0530 From: Ajay Kamble <apassion2002(a)gmail.com> A State level Seminar has been organized on 18th February, 2009 at Kelkar Education Trust's Vinayak Ganesh Vaze college of Arts, Commerce and Science, Mithaghar Road, Mulund (E), Mumbai � 400081. The topic of the seminar is "Re-accreditation and Quality Enhancement in Library Services" The details of the conference are available at www.mlsc.co.nr and http://groups.google.co.in/group/mlosc

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Call for Papers: International Conference on Academic Libraries 2009, Delhi, India
by Puna Das 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

International Conference on Academic Libraries 2009 (ICAL 2009) Venue: Conference Centre, University of Delhi, India Dates: 5-8 October 2009 Organized by: University of Delhi Introduction The International Conference on Academic Libraries is being organized to come up with a vision for next generation academic libraries in order to meet the challenge of knowledge society, in giving the country a competitive edge in knowledge economy. The conference will provide an international platform to all stakeholders to address all issues of importance to academic libraries, discuss and debate roles that academic libraries can play in the higher education system in developed and developing countries with particular reference to India by 2020.The scope of the conference will be: knowledge sharing, ICT management, digital repository management, e-teaching, e-tutorials, stronger library-faculty relationships, and user centric services. The conference will provide an opportunity to identify the strengths and gaps in the academic library system, and to suggest new management models, mechanisms, policies, and national and international programmes for reshaping academic libraries into next generation libraries for the higher education.. Scope of the Conference: Knowledge Sharing, ICT Management, Digital Repository, E-Teaching, E-Tutorials, Library-Faculty Relationships and User-centric Services CALL FOR PAPERS: Papers are invited on the following major themes authors are advised to read the document "conceptual framework" at http://library.du.ac.in/ocs/icaldocs/conceptual document1.pdf Authors are requested to submit their proposals which reflects Case Studies; State of the Art; Review Papers; Specific Proposals; Current Trends etc. Theme 1: Vision & Roles of the Future academic libraries Theme 2: Technology, Policy and Innovation Theme 3: Change Management Theme 4: Library Vendor/ Publisher Interface Theme 5: Management Models and Framework, Library Services Theme 6: Advocacy The conference will maintain its proceedings of high standard and hence would evaluate each and every paper in accordance with the international standards. Hence, all stakeholders who would like to participate in the conference by contributing their valuable knowledge are advised to go through the Conceptual Framework to understand the thrust areas on which the conference intends to deliberate and accordingly make a choice of the relevant theme. Note on How the Papers Will be Handled: The Conference intends to handle the entire academic exercise by inviting experts to deliver the keynote address on each day in Plenary Sessions followed by invitation to authors to present their paper in each session. We intend to conduct the poster sessions based on the themes of each day. The Poster Session has been introduced with a view to provide maximum opportunity to authors for maximum one-to-one interaction. Each session including the Poster Sessions will have an expert reviewer who will analyze the Proceedings of the session and report back to Central Committee to frame the necessary recommendations. The recommendations ultimately will be developed into a Road Map for submission to all stakeholders by which the academic libraries will have their future. Deadlines for Full Papers: 5 July 2009 Download Conceptual Framework: http://library.du.ac.in/ocs/icaldocs/conceptual%20document1.pdf Download Conference Brochure: http://library.du.ac.in/ocs/icaldocs/Lib_con_bro[1].pdf For Further Details Contact: Dr. S.M. Dhawan, Director, Programme Steering Committee, ICAL on smdhawan[at]yahoo.com or ical2009.papers[at]gmail.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[Library & Information Science Professionals] Library Philosophy and Practice...
by Hi, I am K.R.Mulla, LIS Professional from India, working as Librarian 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

[http://libr.unl.edu:2000/LPP/lpp.htm] Library Philosophy and Practice title page: "Library Philosophy and Practice (LPP) is a peer-reviewed electronic journal that publishes articles exploring the connection between library practice and the philosophy and theory behind it. These include explorations of current, past, and emerging theories of librarianship and library practice, as well as reports of successful, innovative, or experimental library procedures, methods, or projects in all areas of librarianship, set in the context of applied research." MORE -- Posted By Hi, I am K.R.Mulla, LIS Professional from India, working as Librarian to Library & Information Science Professionals at 2/01/2009 07:51:00 PM

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The Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program
by Charu 01 Feb '09

01 Feb '09

The Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program Respected Friends, Greetings for the day, OCLC has invited the application from young Library and Information Science professionals from developing countries, for The Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program for the session 2010. This programme in the form of continuing education have jointly organised by IFLA and OCLC and sponsored by American Theological Library Association. This is a five week programme where five librarians, including a theological librarian gets opportunity to meet with leading information practitioners, visit libraries and explore topics including information technologies, library operations and management and global cooperative librarianship. The Fellows visit selected North American and European libraries, cultural heritage institutions and library organizations. The Fellows also observe OCLC's governance structure in action, gaining insight into issues affecting the global library cooperative. *Dates to be remember:-* *Application deadline* 06 March 2009 *Selection* April - July 2009 *Award announcement* August 2009 *Program dates* April - May 2010 (exact dates to be determined) The detail information regarding this golden opportunity like Application Form and related guidelines can be accessed at following link:- http://www.oclc.org/americalatina/en/community/careerdevelopment/fellows/de… Regards, Miss Charu Mathur Delhi. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Recruitment@GNDU, AMRITSAR
by Anita�Vashistha 31 Jan '09

31 Jan '09

*GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITY (GNDU), AMRITSAR* GT Road, Amritsar, Punjab India Advertisement No. 1/2009 Applications are invited for the following posts on the prescribed application form so as to reach latest by *02/03/2009*. 1. *Professor : *05 posts, Grade : Rs.16400-22400) + 05 posts on Honorarium of Rs.20000/- pm fixed. 2. *Director Computer Centre* : 01 post, Grade : Rs.16400-22400 3. *Librarian* : 02 post, Grade : Rs.16400-22400 4. *Finance & Development Officer* : 01 post, Grade: Rs. 13500-16800+1000 S.A.+ 400 C.A.) 5. *Director, Youth Welfare* : 01 post, Grade: Rs.12000-18300 6. *Reader :* 03 posts, Grade: Rs. 12000-18300 7. *Reader cum Deputy Director (Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion & Inclusive Policy )* : 01 post, Grade : Rs. 12000-18300 8. *Scientific Officer (USIC) : *01 post, Grade Rs.8000-13500 9. *Lecturers *: 12 posts, Grade: Rs. 8000-13500 10. *Research Fellows* : 01 post, Pay: Rs. 6500/- p.m. fixed 11. *Assistant Director* (Woman) Physical Education & Sports : 01 post (on contractual basis initially for 3 years), Pay: Rs. 14000/- p.m. fixed *GNDU Regional Campus, Jalandhar* 1. *Professors* : 02 posts, Grade : Rs.16400-22400 2. *Reader* : 02 posts, Grade : Rs.12000-18300/- 3. *Lecturers *: 08 posts, Grade: Rs. 8000-13500 *GNDU Regional Campus, Gurdaspur* 1. *Professor* : 04 posts, Grade : Rs. 16400-22400/- 2. *Reader* : 03 posts, Grade: Rs. 12000-18300 3. *Lecturers *: 02 posts, Grade: Rs. 8000-13500 ASSM College, Mukandpur 1. *Lecturers *: 03 posts, Grade: Rs. 8000-13500 Further details available at http://gndu.ac.in/DOWNLOAD/02-03-2009.pdf and Application form available for Class A <http://gndu.ac.in/advertisement/aclass.pdf>posts and Class B <http://gndu.ac.in/advertisement/bclass.pdf> posts or visit http://gndu.ac.in/careerwithus.asp Thanks & Regards Anita Vashistha --------------------------------------------- Napino Auto & Electronics Ltd, Gurgaon, India !-- Virus-Free Mail Using AntiVirus for IQ Mail & QuickHeal Engine --!

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Post of Librarian
by Ajay Kamble 31 Jan '09

31 Jan '09

Vacancy for the post of Librarian at Sharirik Shikshan Mahavidyalaya (B.P.Ed. College), Uchgaon, Tal. Karveer, Dist. Kolhapur - 416005 (Maharashtra) for details visit www.unishivaji.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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FW: Ranking of World Web Repositiories
by J. K. Vijayakumar 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

Ranking Web of World Repositories just published the latest ranking of January 2009. Check the top 300 World repositories at http://repositories.webometrics.info/top300_rep.asp And top 300 Institutional repositories at http://repositories.webometrics.info/top300_rep_inst.asp Among World repositories, IISc from India stands 39th and ISI stands 105th. The leading International Repository in Library and Information Science and Technology called "E-LIS" 19th in the ranking. Among Institutional repositories from India, IISc repository stands 28th and ISI repository stands 89th. Methodology: Using as basis the data from the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) and The Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpendOAR) the list of repositories is compuled accroding to certain conditions. See more details here about the methodilogy used http://repositories.webometrics.info/methodology_rep.html ---------------------- Blogged at http://libinfospace.blogspot.com/2009/01/ranking-web-of-repositories.html

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How to start a basic library ?
by Rajan 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

Dear All, The Unesco document "Libraries for all : how to start a basic library", brought to our notice by Dr Indira, is an excellent practical guide to be taught in our library schools in the beginning so as to give the students a holistic overview of the tasks ahead in the library profession. The list of options in decision-making, the practical hints on whereabouts and the logical sequencing of the sub topics make this document a good entry point for a new student of Library Science. Regards, K Rajasekharan ------------------------------ Original Message: Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:39:25 +0530 From: "Indira" <indk68(a)hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Budgeting in Library Dear Mrs. Sheethal, UNESCO Publication "Libraries for all: how to start and run a basic library" written by Laura Wendell, the founder of the World Library Partnership, is a practical guide to establish and manage a library. available in English, French and Spanish in HTML and PDF formats. This resource guide is designed and developed for people with little or no training in librarianship and contains practical, step-by-step instructions for creating and managing a successful library. Here is the URL: http://www.unesco.org/webworld/highlights/library_run_020299.html Line-item Budgeting is discussed in P15-21. I feel we should include this in the Reading Lists of BLISC and MLISC programs. Hope this manual will be useful in our day-to-day practices. Dr Indira ------------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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NISCAIR Short Term Course on Library Automation and Open Source Software
by gmahesh＠niscair.res.in 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

NISCAIR announces its short term course on Library Automation and Open Source Softwares Duration: 5 days (2-6 March, 2009) Venue: NISCAIR, 14-Satsang Vihar Marg, New Delhi - 110067 Course fee: Rs. 2000/- (without accommodation) / Rs. 2600/- (with accommodation) How to apply: Application form is available at www.niscair.res.in or can be obtained by sending an email to training(a)niscair.res.in. Filled in application form along with the appropriate course fee is to be paid by Demand Draft drawn in favour of "Director, NISCAIR" and is to be sent to In-Charge (Training), Education and Training Division, NISCAIR, 14-Satsang Vihar Marg, New Delhi - 110067 For more information, contact: Dr. Narendra Kumar (011-26863617 / 011-26965094) or Email at: training(a)niscair.res.in G. Mahesh Scientist, NISCAIR ----------------------------------------- This email was sent using NISCAIR's web mail service. "" http://niscair.res.in/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article requiest
by Murali dharan 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

Dear All, If any one have this article in hardcopy or Softcopy please send. It is very urgent needed for one our Professors: Current Medical Research and Opinion, 2008, Vol. 24, No. 5, Pages 1549-1559 Direct and indirect costs among employees with diabetic retinopathy in the United States* Lauren J. Lee, Andrew P. Yu, Kevin E. Cahill, Alan K. Oglesby, Jackson Tang, Ying Qiu, Howard G. Birnbaum With regards V.Muralidharan, Librarian, Aravind Eye hospital, Coimbatore 641014 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Call for Participation – "Young ESD Voices from around the World"
by Puna Das 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Call for Participation – "Young ESD Voices from around the World" Background >From 31 March to 2 April 2009, the World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development – Moving into the Second Half of the UN Decade will be held in Bonn, Germany. Organizers of the conference are UNESCO and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, in cooperation with the German Commission for UNESCO. Five years into the Decade, the conference will follow four objectives: to highlight the relevance of ESD to all of education; to promote international exchange on ESD, especially between the North and the South; to carry out a stock-taking of the implementation of the UN Decade and to develop strategies for the way ahead. World Conference participants are 700 representatives from all world regions, of UNESCO Member States, United Nations Agencies, organizations from civil society, and the private sector. Workshop "Young ESD Voices from around the World" One day before the opening of the World Conference, a workshop with 25 young people from around the world with demonstrated engagement in Education for Sustainable Development will take place in Bonn, Germany. Participants of the workshop will also take part in the World Conference. Workshop results will be presented at the Conference. Young people between 18 and 35 years of age are invited to submit applications for participating in the workshop "Young ESD Voices from around the World" and in the World Conference itself by 9 February 2009. Applications must include a letter of motivation (one page) describing the applicants' engagement in Education for Sustainable Development, the motivation for applying and a short description of what is intended to be done as follow-up to the Conference. Moreover, a curriculum vitae should be submitted. Participants will be selected according to their engagement in ESD, their involvement in relevant networks and hence their function as young ESD ambassadors / multipliers. Working language of the workshop: English Dates and venues: * March 2009: Email consultations, preparing the workshop and the contribution to the World Conference * 30 March 2009: Workshop "Young ESD Voices from around the World" in Bonn, Germany * 31 March - 2 April 2009: World Conference Education for Sustainable Development in Bonn, Germany * April / May 2009: Evaluation of the workshop and the World Conference via Email consultation and follow-up The 25 participants of the workshop will also be guests of the main conference. Funds for travel and hotel costs are available if required. Submission of applications by 9 February 2009 to Email worldconference2009@esd.unesco..de or Fax +49(0)228-688444-79, reference "Application 'Young ESD Voices'". Successful participants will be informed by 16 February 2009. More Details: http://www.esd-world-conference-2009.org/en/esd-workshop-for-young-people.h… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/

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Biblios.net-free Z39.50 catalogue records from LibLime
by J. K. Vijayakumar 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

-------------------- From: On Behalf Of Barrett, Bernard Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 6:14 AM To: Subject: Biblios.net - free Z39.50 catalogue records Might be of interest? Bernard Barrett Information Scientist Directorate of Mental Health Health Service Executive Office 5, Ground Floor, South East Wing, St Joseph's Hospital Campus, Mulgrave Street, Limerick, Republic of Ireland Announcing ‡biblios.net, the world’s largest database of freely-licensed library records By resourceshelf on Cataloging and Metadata >From the News Release: LibLime [has] announced the launch of ‡biblios.net–a free browser-based cataloging service with a data store containing over thirty-million records. Records are licensed under the Open Data Commons, making the service the world’s largest repository of freely-licensed library records. ‡biblios.net (pronounced ‘biblios dot net’) features an intuitive metadata editor complete with templates, macros, authority auto-completion and embedded context-sensitive help. The central record repository contains 25-million bibliographic records and just under eight-million authority records. The data is maintained by ‡biblios.net users similar to the model used by Wikipedia. Catalogers can use and contribute to the database without restrictions because records in ‡biblios.net are freely-licensed under the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (https://biblios.net/open-data-commons-license) ‡biblios.net also includes a built-in federated search system allowing catalogers to find records from any Z39.50 target. A central Search Target Registry, seeded with over 2,000 Z39.50 servers, makes it easy for catalogers to find, create and share Z39.50 targets. In addition to offering a cutting-edge cataloging interface, ‡biblios.net offers a unique social cataloging environment. Built-in forums and private messaging make finding help and communicating with other users a cinch. Real-time chat is slated for an upcoming release. “The philosophy behind an Open Data movement scarcely needs an explanation to a library audience,” explains LibLime CEO, Joshua Ferraro. “The mission of libraries–to provide open, free access to ideas and information–surely applies to the metadata created BY librarians,” Ferraro says. “To date, libraries haven’t had a freely-licensed repository of library records to date and that makes ‡biblios.net an especially exciting development, one that I’m proud to have been a part of,” says Ferraro. “It’s our hope that ‡biblios.net, as well as other open data movements, will usher in a new era of library openness, where libraries can collaboratively create and share metadata with the whole community,” Ferraro says. You can sign up for a free ‡biblios.net account by visiting http://biblios.net. See Also: Listen to a Podcast with the Founder/Creator of ‡biblios.net, Josh Ferraro (He’s also the CEO of LibLime) ---------------------- Blogged at http://libinfospace.blogspot.com/2009/01/bibliosnet-open-access-in-catalogu… -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for Information for the post of Information Scientist
by kallol talukdar 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Respected Professionals Kindly let me know the qualification required to became an Information Scientist. also let me know where i will get the goverment notification for the post. Thanking You *KALLOL DAS Asst. Librarian Faculty of Management (FMS) Modi Institute of Management & Research* *(Deemed University) Sikar, Rajasthan* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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International Workshop on Knowledge Management (IWKM 2009) -Concluded
by nali pm 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Dear Professionals An International Workshop on Knowledge Management (IWKM 2009) was held on January 24-25, 2009 organized by Maulana Azad Library, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. The major objectives of the workshop were: To identify Knowledge Management implementation in various corporate and academic institutes. To understand the processes involved in capturing and sharing organization’s knowledge assets, both tacit and explicit. To learn handling of select KM models/technology tools such as MASK, KMM, CKF etc for developing KM in the respective fields of participants. To identify constraints and challenges, while implementing Knowledge Management programme. The workshop was inaugurated by Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis, the Vice Chancellor, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. In his speech, he said that a creative approach to KM in R & D institutions can result higher research productivity and information flow and he emphasized the need of capturing tacit knowledge of scientists and academicians using modern communication technology. Padamshri Prof. P. N. Kaula, Chief guest of the function highlighted the importance of KM in present society. He said concept of KM is fast developing and the time is here to implement the application of KM in Libraries and Information Centers. Prof. Jean-Louis Ermine, Associate Dean, TELECOM School of Management, Paris France delivered keynote address. Prof. Jean-Louis Ermine was the main resource person. Dr. Parag Sanghani, Director, AESMPGIBM, Ahmedabad, Dr. Debahsis Patnaik, IIT Kanpur and Dr. Zafar Numani, Dept. law, AMU delivered lectures on different aspects of KM. About ninety delegates from libraries, management, IT, medicine, corporate, NGO and research organizations from India and abroad participated in the two day workshop. Prof. Jean-Louis Ermine gave hands on training in KMM and CKF module of KM technology. Study materials were distributed along with few exercises on CD-ROM for further developing their KM expertise. A cultural evening was also organized on 24th Jan. . Prof. V.K Abdul Jaleel, The Registrar, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh distributed the certificates to the participants in the valedictory function. Dr. Naushad Ali P.M Reader/Organizing Secretary IWKM 2009 _________________________________________________________________ Chose your Life Partner! Join MSN Matrimony FREE http://www.in.msn.com/matrimony -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Be Transparent - Interview with Prof. Talwar by Niranjan Nikam
by DINESH SIDDAIAH 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Dear Friends, *Be Transparent - Interview with Prof. Talwar by Niranjan Nikam* Prof. Talwar, Vicechancellor of University of Mysore spoke about his plans to take the univesity forward. The Interview was published in Deccan Herald, Bengaluru edition on republic day (26/01/2009). Excerpt: Prof. expressed that, his main concern is on transparency in working. Using three decades of experience in administrative, academic and research he will try to create different kind of working environment in the university. He told that, already initiated few things in this direction by started training the administrative staf. He was talking about the utilization of Central govt. fund Rs. 100 Crore. 40% of the fund will be reserved for cetre of Excellence and 60% for development. Priority will be given to infrastructure and thrust areas such as biodiversity, bioprospecting and sustainble development. Thanking You, Dinesh K. S. -- Dr. Dinesh K. S. Selection Grade Librarian, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Devanahalli, Bengaluru - 562 110. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Budgeting in Library
by Indira 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Dear Mrs. Sheethal, UNESCO Publication "Libraries for all: how to start and run a basic library" written by Laura Wendell, the founder of the World Library Partnership, is a practical guide to establish and manage a library. available in English, French and Spanish in HTML and PDF formats. This resource guide is designed and developed for people with little or no training in librarianship and contains practical, step-by-step instructions for creating and managing a successful library. Here is the URL: http://www.unesco.org/webworld/highlights/library_run_020299.html Line-item Budgeting is discussed in P15-21. I feel we should include this in the Reading Lists of BLISC and MLISC programs. Hope this manual will be useful in our day-to-day practices. Best regards, Indira ------------------------------------------------- Dr. Indira Koneru Faculty Member Dept. of Library Science Icfai Academic Wing 23, Nagarjuna Hills Hyderabad-500 082 India -----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: Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:20 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 70, Issue 28 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. Post of Library Assistant (sandeep deepu) 2. 10th manlibnet national convention (nrusingh dash) 3. Relaxation in NET/SET to Librarians having First Class (Ajay Kamble) 4. Webopedia (DINESH SIDDAIAH) 5. Budgeting in Library (Sheetal Tank) 6. Post for Library Assistant (jamil(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in) 7. Library Diretor (Anand G) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:09:32 +0530 (IST) From: sandeep deepu <san_deepu123(a)yahoo.co.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Post of Library Assistant To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <524179.60303.qm(a)web7803.mail.in.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Dear Professionals, There is one vacancy for the post of Library Assistant. Required Qualification: B.L.I.Sc (Preferable M.L.I.Sc degree) and Knowledge of computer with minimum of 1 year of experience in any reputed Library. The candidate should have Good communication skills with access to digital resources and web portals etc. Pay Scale as Per. State Govt. Total Emoluments around Rs.8000/ PM. Interested candidate both (Male & Female) may apply on or before 31 Jan. 2009 to following address (rvlibn(a)rediffmail.com)? in conventional format as well as in electronic format. With Regards Mr.Rudradevaramath.F.S LIBRARIAN R.V.College of?Engineering, Mysore Road, Bangalore. Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now, on http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Online Citations
by Making India 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Dear Friends, Want to refer to you three sites that help in making citations and are useful in rendering bibliographies. The third one is a paid service while the first two are available for free. - http://citationmach ine.net/ <http://citationmach%20ine.net/> - http://www.easybib. com/ <http://www.easybib.%20com/> - http://www.endnote. com/ <http://www.endnote.com/> -- Rgds, Nisar Fathima "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library," - Jorge Luis Borges, poet, writer and librarian. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Post of Librarian
by Ajay Kamble 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

*Thers is vacancy of Librarian(qualification as per norms of Uni.of Mumbai)* *intersted may apply on following adress* *Nirmala Niketan *College of Home Science, 49, New Marine Lines, Mumbai- 400 020 *Phone:* 022-22076503 *Fax: *22003217 *Email:* nnchsc(a)mtnl.net.in / info(a)nirmalaniketan.com Dilip Jadhav AIHM Library *aihmlibrary(a)gmail.com* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Library Diretor
by Anand G 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Dear Lis-forum Members Pls go through the opening for the Library professional in USA Arizona. JOB TITLE: Library Director COMPANY: Sedona Public Library POSTDATE: 1/28/2009 LOCATION: Sedona, AZ DESCRIPTION: The Sedona Public Library (SPL) Board of Trustees seeks a LIBRARY DIRECTOR with an MLS and proven library management skills. The candidate must be a dynamic, forward-thinking professional who, in addition to managing overall library operations, will work closely with an active ten member Board of Trustees. Demonstrated expertise in personnel management; experience in planning, recommending and implementing policy; budgeting; being a strong library advocate and fundraiser required. Other responsibilities include managing a staff of 13 FTEs and 75 active volunteers who provide nearly 50% of the staff hours at the library, maintaining effective partnerships with public officials and community groups, especially the Friends of the Library. SPL is a 501 (c) 3 not-for- profit privately owned organization that is funded by the City of Sedona, Yavapai and Coconino counties, the Friends of the Library and other donations. For more information www.sedonalibrary.com. . GENERAL STATEMENT OF DUTIES: Administers library services under the policy direction of the SPL Board of Trustees and reports directly to the Board. Typical duties include supervising general and daily operations of the library; preparing, reviewing and administering policies and procedures; preparing and administering budget; training and supervising staff; supervising maintenance of the facility, including a local area computer network and planning for future improvements; facilitating programming for patrons of all ages; furnishing information on library activities, services and facilities to other agencies; attending and reporting monthly at Board meetings; preparing statistical reports; developing and implementing long-range plans; cooperating with the County Library District and its member libraries in resource sharing and library development. Must be willing to work evenings and weekends, as needed. REQUIREMENTS: Minimum qualifications for the position include a Master’s Degree in Library Science from an ALA-accredited library science program and five to seven years of responsible library work experience with ever increasing supervisory responsibilities. A successful candidate must have strong communication skills that inspire and motivate the community, Board, staff, volunteers, elected officials and potential donors in developing and implementing a shared vision for enhanced library service. Candidate must have demonstrated operational effectiveness. Essential attributes include extensive public library knowledge, thorough understanding of library technology, being highly motivated and self-directed. SALARY: Salary range: $55,000 - $75,000/anum, (Rs220,000 - 300,000/month) with a competitive benefits package. For full announcement and description, visit www.sedonalibrary.com . Resumes submitted by February 20, 2009, considered in the initial review. About SEDONA Sedona is a city and community that straddles the county line between Coconino and Yavapai counties in the northern Verde Valley region of the U.S. state of Arizona. Anand G.Talwar. Librarian Al Ain International Aviation Academy P.O.Box 66488, Al Ain, UAE. Tel: +971 3 799 - 6478 Fax: +971 3 785 - 5055 Mobile: +971 55 9192207 E-Mail: anand.talwar(a)aaiaa.ac.ae -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Post for Library Assistant
by jamil＠drtc.isibang.ac.in 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Dear Professionals, There is one vacancy for the post of Library Assistant. Required Qualification and Experience: Post Graduate with B.L.I.Sc or M.L.I.Sc degree with 6 years relevant experience and having working Knowledge of computer science. Pay Scale: 15600-39100, Grade Pay:5400 Interested candidate may apply on or before 23 Feb. 2009 prescribed application forms are obtainable from the office of IIT Patna or from this website www.iitp.ac.in how to apply: The completed applications should be sent by hand or by post to Assistant Registrar, IIT Patna Patliputra Colony Patna-800013 Please view http://www.iitp.ac.in/forms/Advt-2.pdf for details application form is available at http://www.iiitp.ac.in/forms/app_non_face.DOC With Regards Jamil Ahmed Documentation Research Training and Centre Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore-59 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Workshop of Agricultural Librarians and Publication of Journals
by Dr. Nabi Hasan 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Dear Friends CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar is going to organize a workshop on KrishiPrabha-Indian Agricultural Doctoral Dissertation Repository on Feb 24-25, 2009 at Hisar. On this occassion, a meeting of the AALDI-Association of Agricultural Librarians and Documentalists of India will be held and the fresh issue of the Indian Journal of Agriculture Library and Information Science will also be released. One participant from each NARS library has been invited to attend the same and TA/DA will be borne by the host. All the NARS Librarians are requested to attend the same and make it a big success. Papers for inclusion are also invited from the Professionals working in the NARS Libraries and should reach by first week of the Feb to include the same in the issue to be released on Feb 24. The paper may be sent to veeru_123(a)rediffmail.com or nabihasan(a)rediffmail.com and for workshop, Shri Prem Singh, University Librarian, HAU, Hisar may be contacted on his mail ID psingh_hau(a)yahoo.com. Best regards, -- Nabi Hasan, Ph.D., CICTAL, Borlaug Fellow University Library CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University Palampur (H.P.)- 176 062, India Phone: +91-1894-283184 (Direct), 230361 (Off.), 234571 (Res.) Cell- +91-9418493990 Fax- +91-1894-230361 E-mail: nabihasan(a)rediffmail.com nabihasan(a)gmail.com Web: http://hillagric.ernet Bring your gang together. Do your thing. Find your favourite Yahoo! group at http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Webopedia
by DINESH SIDDAIAH 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Dear Friends, *Webopedia:* Webopedia (http://www.webopedia.com) is the only online dictionary and search engine you need for computer and Internet technology definitions. It covers the parent categories such as communications, Computer Industry Companies, Computer Science, Data, Graphics, Hardware, Internet, Mobile Computing, Multimedia, Networks, Open source (OSRC), Operating systems, Programming, Software, Standards, Types of Computers, WWW. Latest in Webopedia: Facebook Tips - How to set up your own group. Thanking You, Dinesh K. S. -- Dr. Dinesh K. S. Selection Grade Librarian, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Devanahalli, Bengaluru - 562 110. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Budgeting in Library
by Sheetal Tank 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Dear Professionals, I am about to prepare budget for the Library but frankly speaking have not done it practically before. I need some help can some of you send me the copy of your budget plan for reference? it will be a great help for me. Regards, Mrs. Sheetal D Tank, UNIC-LIBRARY/AITS ATMIYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE YOGIDHAM, Kalawad Road, RAJKOT - 360 005 (GUJARAT) Email: sdtank(a)aits.edu.in Mrs. Sheetal D Tank, UNIC-LIBRARY/AITS ATMIYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE YOGIDHAM, Kalawad Road, RAJKOT - 360 005 (GUJARAT) Email: sdtank(a)aits.edu.in sheetal_tank(a)rediffmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Relaxation in NET/SET to Librarians having First Class
by Ajay Kamble 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Dear All, The circular of Mumbai University (Circular No. 32 of 2009 dt. 19th January 2009) about the educational qualification for Librarians in Engineering and Management Colleges. It states that NET/SET is an essential qualification for the post of Librarians in Engineering / Management Colleges, but candidate having first class in Library and Information Science Masters can be exempted from NET/SET.. The Circular is available on our group and the link to it is available on www.mlsc.co.nr.... Ajay Kamble Moderator, MLOSC -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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10th manlibnet national convention
by nrusingh dash 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Dear Friends, Recently I attended 10th annual national convention of MANLIBNET held at KIIT university, Bhubaneswar (Orissa). The theme was “Organizational excellence in business and management libraries: current trends and future directions” Many eminent librarians had attended the function. All presented their respective papers. Mr. Dipak Kumar Khuntia (XIMB) was awarded for the best presentation. Congrats sir! My topic of presentation was “ Libraries as reflected in the websites: a study of the homepages of management institutes”. I carried out the survey (of course desk top) by just clicking and analyzing the information depicted in the institutes websites. I had a nice experience at the convention. I thank the organizing committee. Really such type of workshops gives opportunity for us to interact and explore. Wish you all a bright time ahead (May God save the profession) with regards, Nrusingh Kumar Dash Librarian Silicon Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar-24 Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Knovel-Technical Reference Information
by DINESH SIDDAIAH 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Dear Friends, Knovel (http://www.knovel.com) is an online technical resource used by applied scientists and practicing engineers around the world to quickly locate relevant and reliable technical information. Knovel's thousands of customers include 75 of the Fortune 500 companies and over 300 leading engineering and science universities worldwide. Thanking You, Dinesh -- Dr. Dinesh K. S. Selection Grade Librarian, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Devanahalli, Bengaluru - 562 110. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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M.S (LIS) Admission Notice 2009-10
by DRTC - General 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Indian Statistical Institute Documentation Research and Training Centre 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore 560059 M.S. in Library and Information Science With the emergence of knowledge-centered economies and the knowledge society, Information & Knowledge Management has emerged as a major area of concern and importance to large corporate houses, R & D Institutions and even governments. The area cuts across several disciplines including Information Technology, Library Science, and Management sciences, to mention a few. The Documentation Research & Training Centre, a unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, founded by Late Prof. S. R. Ranganathan is an internationally recognized centre for advanced training and research in this area. The DRTC now offers a novel M.S. Programme in Library & Information Science with the primary objective of preparing the next generation information managers. This new and unique programme offers an ideal blend of courses spanning library science, information technology, knowledge management and quantitative studies. The graduates of the programme will find excellent openings in industry, especially the IT industry, R & D organizations and institutions of higher education & research. For those with an aptitude for higher studies and research the M.S. Programme provides a solid foundation for Ph.D. programmes. Several universities across the country have recognized DRTC as a centre for doctoral research. ELIGIBILITY The minimum qualification for admission to the M.S. programme is a Bachelors degree in any discipline from a recognized Indian or foreign university (obtained after a minimum of 12+3 years of education) with at least 60% marks in the qualifying examination. SELECTION PROCEDURE Selection of candidates for the M.S. programme will be based on academic records and performance of the candidate in an all-India written entrance test and interview. There is no tuition fee for the programme and all eligible students will receive a stipend. DURATION The duration of the Programme is 24 months (2 Years); the programme is offered only at the ISI Bangalore Centre HOW TO APPLY? For details and application form can be obtained from the following offices of Indian Statistical Institute (by post or in person) a) Dean of Studies, Indian Statistical Institute, 203 B.T Road, Kolkata 10008. b) Head. Delhi Centre. Indian Statistical Institute, 7 SJS Sansanwal Marg, New Delhi 110016, c) Head, Bangalore Centre Indian Statistical Institute, 8th Mile Mysore Road, Bangalore 560059, d) Head, SQC-OR Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 110 Nelson Manickam Road (1st Floor), Aminjikarai, Chennai 600029, e) Head, SQC-OR Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Street No.8, Habshiguda, Hyderabad 500007, by paying an amount of Rs.450/- (Rs.225/- for reserved categories) in cash (from 11a.m to 2 p.m on working days from Monday to Friday), or by Bank Draft drawn in favour of Indian Statistical Institute payable at Kolkata (Proper). Request for application forms should have the mailing address in CAPITALS. Postal orders, Money orders and cheque will not be accepted. Prospectus and application forms are also available on http:www.isical.ac.in/~deanweb in pdf format. IMPORTANT DATES: Distribution of Prospectus & Application forms: 10th February 2009 to 06th March 2009 Last date for Receipt of Completed Application forms: 27th March 2009 Date of Admission Test (India and abroad): 10th May 2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Post of Library Assistant
by sandeep deepu 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Dear Professionals, There is one vacancy for the post of Library Assistant. Required Qualification: B.L.I.Sc (Preferable M.L.I.Sc degree) and Knowledge of computer with minimum of 1 year of experience in any reputed Library. The candidate should have Good communication skills with access to digital resources and web portals etc. Pay Scale as Per. State Govt. Total Emoluments around Rs.8000/ PM. Interested candidate both (Male & Female) may apply on or before 31 Jan. 2009 to following address (rvlibn(a)rediffmail.com) in conventional format as well as in electronic format. With Regards Mr.Rudradevaramath.F.S LIBRARIAN R.V.College of Engineering, Mysore Road, Bangalore. Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now, on http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Future Bound E-Books
by DINESH SIDDAIAH 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Dear Friends, With the e-book fervour catching on, book lovers have begun fishing for that priceless read on laptops or e-book readers. The musty smell of books on racks and the feel withering pages not be there. Techies are increasingly connecting their reading plugs onto e-book socket. According to medai reports, the global e-book market stands at $220 million and it is expected to touch $3-$5 billion in next five years. Source: Economic Times, Bengaluru Edition, 26/01/2009 Thanking You, Dinesh -- Dr. Dinesh K. S. Selection Grade Librarian, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Devanahalli, Bengaluru - 562 110. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] School Library--Opportunities to Help--Update
by prafulla tv 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Dear Professional Colleagues, Here's an update on the response so far: Prof. A.A.N. Raju, UGC Emeritus Professor (Retd), Osmania University: One year subscription to two children's magazines in Telugu. Mrs. Achala Munigal: One year subscription to Champak children's monthly plus donation of books. Dharma Vana Arboretum: Assurance of support Anonymous Donor: Rs.1000 Emesco, Visalandhra Publishing House and Annapurna Publications: Offered to provide books at a good discount. Our thanks to all the above for their support to this school library project. The number of books acquired has reached 75. Still we have to buy good reference titles such as dictionaries, atlases, GK books, encyclopaedias, etc. Any help is most welcome. Thank you Sincerely Prafulla --- On Sun, 11/1/09, prafulla tv <tallurivpc(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > From: prafulla tv <tallurivpc(a)yahoo.com> > Subject: School Library--Opportunities to Help > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com, iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com, oplib(a)yahoogroups.com, digilib_india(a)yahoogroups.com, corporatelibrarians(a)yahoogroups.com > Date: Sunday, 11 January, 2009, 12:10 PM > Dear Sir, > > It is proposed to start a School Library in Government > Primary School, near Urban Colony, Bhongir, Nalgonda > District, Andhra Pradesh on January 26, 2009. This co-ed > school has 125 students studying Classes 1 to 5. These > students belong to socially disadvantaged sections of the > society. Most of their parents earn their livelihood working > as labourers. A preliminary study was done to check about > the viability of running a school library and we found > enthusiastic response from the teachers serving this > institution. > > We hope to guide this library as a pilot project wherein > the students would be managing and running the library on > their own. A group of volunteers from the Organisation for > Protection of Libraries (Andhra Pradesh)headed by Dr. > Kishore (Librarian, Sreenidhi Institute of Science and > Technology) would train these students on simple techniques > of accessioning, cataloguing and circulation of books. > > We have already received donation of the following items > for the establishment of this school library: > > 41 children's books worth Rs.900 > Glass paned steel almirah with 5 shelves > > Opportunities are still available to help the establishment > of this school library on a firm footing. Particularly, we > wish to have a well-chosen, core collection of > children's books including encyclopaedias, magazines, > etc. These children can read English and Telugu. We appeal > for donation of children's books suitable to their age > level. Donations in cash for the purchase of books and > magazines are also welcome. > > Thank you > Sincerely > > T.V. Prafulla Chandra > Flat G3, Phase 4 > Saptagiri Apartments > Padmarao Nagar > Secunderabad 500 025 > Mobile: 93962 51106 > Office: 040 2726 0930 > Residence: 040 2750 5908 > > > > > > > > > Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to > http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Shared Koha v 3.0 for Small Libraries
by savitra sirohi 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

All, We are happy to bring a new offering - shared Koha instance for small libraries. Price: Rs. 4000/Year. Features: * Shared Koha version 3.0 instance * Available over Internet, anywhere, anytime * Installation, configuration & annual maintenance included * High availability hosting (99.9% up time) * Data protection using Hard Disk RAID & nightly backup * 1 Month Free Trial * Max 3000 catalog records & 2 Access Points Prerequisites: * Internet connection preferably broad band Suitable for Libraries that are: * Small, e.g. personal or school libraries * Cannot invest in own servers * Do not have skilled technology staff Those interested kindly contact me directly. Warm Regards, Savitra Sirohi MD, OSS Labs Ph: +91 97400 22664 www.osslabs.biz -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] An exhibit highlighting the rising cost of library journal subscriptions
by M.P. Tapaswi 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

Dear Prof. Arunachalam, I saw the exhibit with interest. It is a good idea, however the arguments and pictures do not really convince. The investment in science is for a better tomorrow. I am sure if India stops investing in research and transfer the funds as an aid for social uplifting, several poor families would be in a better condition. But, as we all know, this is shortsightedness. A convincing exhibit should have a comparison of percentage of increase in prices of journals vis a vis other commodities. Regards, - Murari Tapaswi -----Original Message----- From: Subbiah Arunachalam [mailto:subbiah.arunachalam@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 5:20 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; oadl(a)yahoogroups.com; iaschandra(a)gmail.com; prakash(a)ias.ernet.in Cc: murari(a)nio.org; goudar(a)css.nal.res.in; vva(a)niscair.res.in; vasu(a)qmedkf.org.in; cg(a)csir.res.in; alokpaul(a)gmail.com; radha(a)cecri.res.in; Guna1970(a)gmail.com; mu.madhan(a)gmail.com; khkreddy(a)ipc.iisc.ernet.in; naveen.mathad(a)gmail.com; ramesh chander; cdevakumar(a)gmail.com; ntyaduraju(a)icar.org.in; head_usi(a)iari.res.in; mkukrishna(a)gmail.com; pitchappanrm(a)yahoo.co.uk; G Chandrasekar; mks(a)niscair.res.in; akshivakumar(a)gmail.com Subject: An exhibit highlighting the rising cost of library journal subscriptions Friends: Here is an exhibit highlighting the rising cost of library journal subscriptions to support faculty and student research. Please spread the word among all researchers - professors, scientists, research students. You may print the two pictures and put them up on noticeboards. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] http://astech.library.cornell.edu/ast/engr/about/StickerShock2.cfm www.nio.org www.reefindia.org www.mangroveindia.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Wikijunior Project by Wiki media Foundation
by Shriram Pandey 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

Hello List, The aim of this project is to produce age-appropriate non-fiction books for children from birth to age 12. These books are richly illustrated with photographs, diagrams, sketches, and original drawings. Wikijunior books are produced by a worldwide community of writers, teachers, students and young people all working together. The books present factual information that is verifiable. Everybody invited to join in and write, edit and rewrite each module and book to improve its content. These books are distributed free of charge under the terms of the Gnu Free Documentation License. More detail available on : http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior Regards, Shri Ram Pandey MLIS(BHU), IKM(IISc), UGC-NET(JRF) Asst. Librarian The LNM Institute of Information Technology(LNM IIT) (Deemed University) Jaipur(Rajasthan) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Email address of ILA
by vellivel mohan 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

Dear Professional,I request you to kindly provide the email address of ILA OFFICE and ILA BulletinI have sent to the following address but the mail has bounced.ilanet1@giasdl01.vsnl.net.inilanet1@nda.vsml.net.ings@ila-india.orgwith regardsDr. V. MohanTechnical OfficerLibrary & DocumentationCentral Marine Fisheries Research InstituteCochin-18 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Publications
by loan fayaz 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

Dear professinals, It is to inform you that we have excellent publications on Central Asia. If you need to subscribe these publications to update your library, plz inform. Fayaz Lone (Documentation Officer) Centre of Central Asian Studies, University of Kashmir, Srinagar. Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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IALA DELEGATION MET THE STATE MINISTER FOR HRD AT HYDERABAD
by Pandurang Konnur 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

*IALA DELEGATION MET THE STATE MINISTER FOR HRD AT HYDERABAD* A delegation of the IALA under the leadership of Dr. P. Venkata Ramana Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University, and Vice President IALA, Dr. Sujatha, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Dr. V. Nireekshna Babu PS Telugu University, Sri. Rupsingh Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Dr. Nagi Reddy, Sri Varadaraju, Ravi and Smt. Uma Hyderabad Central University met* Smt. D. Purandeswari*, Hon'ble Minister of State for Higher Education, MHRD *at Hyderabad on 20.1.09* and submitted a memorandum and explained the anomalies of MHRD order and requested for the rectification of anomalies in MHRD order and requested to restore parity with faculty. Honorable Minister responded positively and assured to do justice for the issues. -- Dr.P.V.Konnur Fulbright Fellow (University of Illinois) University Librarian, Bangalore University Library, Jananabharati, Bangalore-560056 Phone: 080-22961131, 23215510 Website: http://library.bub.ernet.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[Library & Information Science Professionals] Folks Are Flocking to the Libra...
by Hi, I am K.R.Mulla, LIS Professional from India, working as Librarian 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123197709459483585.html] Folks Are Flocking to the Library, a Cozy Place to Look for a Job - WSJ.com: "TRACY, Calif. -- The financial crisis has caused a lot of withdrawals at the public library.A few years ago, public libraries were being written off as goners. The Internet had made them irrelevant, the argument went. But libraries across the country are reporting jumps in attendance of as much as 65% over the past year, as newly unemployed people flock to branches to fill out résumés and scan ads for job listings." MORE -- Posted By Hi, I am K.R.Mulla, LIS Professional from India, working as Librarian to Library & Information Science Professionals at 1/23/2009 10:18:00 PM -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Post of Chief Librarian in the Government Medical College
by Ajay Kamble 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

Applications are invited for filling 1 post of Chief Librarian, General State Service, Group-B in the Government Medical College under the Directorate of Medical Education & Research in the PAY : Rs.6500-200-10500/- plus QUALIFICATIONS : 5.1 Candidates must ---- possess a degree in Library Science of a Statutory University or a post-graduate diploma in Library Science of a Statutory University or Board or faculty and thereafter a) possess practical experience as a Librarian or equivalent or higher post for not less than three years. b) preference may be given to the candidates possessing Master's degree in Library Science. This Advertisement is available on the website of the Maharashtra Public Service Commission viz. www.mpsc.gov.in and at Maharashtra Librarians Online Study Circle @ www.mlsc.co.nr --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ajay M. Kamble Librarian Annasaheb Vartak College of Arts, Kedarnath Malhotra College of Commerce, ESA College of Science, Vasai Road (W), Dist. Thane -401202 Ph. 0250-2352981 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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UNESCO releases English version of its publication on languages in cyberspace
by Puna Das 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

UNESCO releases English version of its publication on languages in cyberspace 19-01-2009 (Paris) UNESCO releases the English version of its publication "Securing a Place for a Language in Cyberspace", which first appeared in French in 2007 and has been translated in several languages since then. The original version was prepared with the assistance of the Latin Union and the intellectual contribution of the expert Marcel Diki-Kidiri. Consistent with the UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Promotion and Use of Multilingualism and Universal Access to Cyberspace, this publication aimes at facilitating decision-making on the inclusion of new languages in cyberspace. Cyberspace is open to all languages of the world, since its infrastructure is not subject to a central authority which can decide how it should be used. It is sufficient, in principle, to link a computer to an Internet access provider in order to post online texts, graphics or audio data in the language of one’s choice. However, implementing this principle, which is a fundamental factor of democracy at the global level and inclusive knowledge societies, requires a number of technical conditions, and human and financial resources. In this publication, the author explains as simple as possible how to ensure that a language which is poorly endowed in linguistic and/or information technology resources, not to mention human resources, may find its proper place in cyberspace and be active there. The publication is meant to be didactic and to accompany, step-by-step, all those who may join UNESCO at any given stage on the path to putting all poorly endowed languages into cyberspace. The text of the publication is available online in English, French, Spanish, Russian and Portuguese - click here: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001497/149786E.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Connect with friends all over the world. Get Yahoo! India Messenger at http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/?wm=n/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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India a fast-growing market for books
by DINESH SIDDAIAH 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

Dear Friends, India is among the fast-growing for books among the top ten markets, bigger than China. The Head of Oxford University Press WorldWide Dr. Henry Reece was told this during the interaction with Economic Times (22nd thursday, P.N. 12, Bengaluru edition). Dr. Reece was in India for the release of a two-volume festschrift for Amertya Sen, edited by two of his former students, Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur, to mark the Noble Laureate's 75th birthday. Thanking You, Dinesh K. S. -- Dr. Dinesh K. S. Selection Grade Librarian, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Devanahalli, Bengaluru - 562 110. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fwd: [MLOSC.344] Research Project
by Ajay Kamble 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mahesh M. Angadi <sxielibrary(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:42 PM Subject: [MLOSC.344] Research Project To: Maharashtra Librarians Online Study Circle <http://www.mlsc.co.nr> < mlosc(a)googlegroups.com> Hello Friends, I have undertaken a Research Project ""Developing a prototype model for converting bibliographic databases (library catalogue) into ISO 2709 format and hosting it on intranet and internet using ISIS tools" under the guidance of Dr. D. N. Phadke as a part of M.Phil programme at YCMOU. With the help of this Research Project libraries will be able to create or convert their collection into databases that adheres to required Bibliographic Standards. This in turn will facilitate resource sharing. Moreover, without any investments in costly softwares, libraries will be able to host their collection on intranet and internet with comprehensive and user friendly search features. For further details and status about the Research Project, log on to website http://www.geocities.com/cilisindia. Questionnaire, Guidelines and Sample Data Entry forms can be downloaded from this website. I will be very thankful if you can inform about the same to your fellow colleagues. Your valuable co-operation and support to establish a network of participating libraries will be highly appreciated Kindly send the filed in Questionnaire & Sample Entries or Library Database on following address:- Mr. Mahesh M. Angadi, A/003, Shiv Managlmurty Co-op. Housing Society, Near Gaondevi Mandir, Anand Nagar, Dombivli (East) - 421 201. For any queries, kindly contact on 9869120258 E-mail Id: mahesh_m_angadi(a)rediffmail.com _________________________________________ Ajay M. Kamble Librarian A V College Vasai Rd email : apassion2002(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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INFLIBNET Newsletter July to September 2008
by Rajesh Chandrakar 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

Dear Professional Colleagues Current version of the INFLIBNET Newsletter is available for download, any one interested can download it from the following website: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/publication/newsletter/newsletter_July_September… With best regards Rajesh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajesh Chandrakar, Commonwealth Professional Fellow Scientist - B (LS) INFLIBNET (INFormation and LIBrary NETwork) Centre An IUC of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House, PB No. 4116, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380 009, India Tel. +91-(0)79-26305971/ 8528/ 4695(O), 26873805(R) Mobile: +91-9427527894 Fax: +91-(0)79-26300990, 263007816 E-mail: rajesh(a)inflibnet.ac.in; rchandrakar(a)gmail.com Website: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in Video Gallery: http://www.youtube.com/INFLIBNET -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Article on Libraries
by lata＠iihmr.org 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

Hello, Below is a link to a great article on libraries which appeared on the front page of Thursday's Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123197709459483585.html Laurel Goodgion Wethersfield (CT) Library ========================================== LATA SURESH Manager, Library and Documentation Centre Asst.Editor, Journal of Health Management (SAGE) Institute of Health Management Research 1, Prabhu Dayal Marg, Sanganer Airport Jaipur - 302011 Rajasthan INDIA Phone: +91-141-2791431-34 ext. 328 Fax : +91-141-2792138 URL : http://www.iihmr.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Perceptions 2008: An International Survey of Library Automation
by K.R. Mulla 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

Dear LIS Professionals, Marshall Breeding a survey that he conducted to gather data regarding the perceptions of libraries toward their automation systems, the organizations that provide support, and the quality of support they receive. It also aims to gauge interest in open source library automation systems. For More see this link: http://www.librarytechnology.org/perceptions2008.pl -- Thanks with regards K. R. Mulla, Librarian, HKBK College of Engineering, # 22/1, Nagawara, Bangalore - 560 045. Karnataka, India. Tel. +91-80-25441722, 25443744 Ext 152 ................................................................................................. Engg-Lib-Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Engg-Lib-Forum/ Home Page: http://krmulla.googlepages.com/ Library: http://203.90.120.126:8081/ ****************************************************************************

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IATLIS Communications
by hpskalra＠gmail.com 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

Dear Professional Colleagues, The next issue of the quarterly official organ of the Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science (IATLIS), 'IATLIS Communications', is under preparation. Members and other professionals are requested to send relevant news items for the period December 2008 onwards for publication in the next issue of IATLIS Communications. News of doctorates awarded, new faculty, faculty promotions, awards and recognition to faculty, forthcoming events, reports of seminars/conferences organized, and other relevant news should be sent to the General Secretary, IATLIS, C/o Dept of Library & Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala by post or to iatlis.patiala(a)gmail.com by email. HPS Kalra Joint Secretary, IATLIS. DLIS, Punjabi University, Patiala. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Help regarding literature on women librarians in India
by anjali kale 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

Dear Friends Can any one please help me with the literature on women librarians. I am looking out for some information on Mrs Anandibai Prabhudesai who was first lady to serve library. She worked as the Superintendent of the Children's Library and Play room in the Baroda Central Library in 1930's Miss V. Khandwala University Librarian of SNDT Women' s University. I am working on Pioneer Women Librarian in India If anyone has the information on the same, please send. Thanks anjali Librarian K. J. Somaiya Comprehensive College of Education, Training and Research Vidyavihar Mumbai Ph. no : 25150265

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Request for Article
by Mailing List Admin 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:34:53 +0530 From: G. K. Sachdeva <gksachdeva30(a)gmail.com> Dear Professional, If any one have this article in hardcopy or Softcopy please send. It is very urgent needed for one our Professors: Non-linear least-squares fitting with excel solver and related routines in HPLC modelling of retention II. Considerations of selection of optimal fit Journal: *Chromatographia* Publisher: *Vieweg Verlag* Issue: *Volume 52, Numbers 7-8 / October, 2000* Pages: *487-493* *With Regards*, *Gulshan Kr. Sachdeva* *Assistant Librarian* *Pearl** **School** of Business* *46, Institutional Area, Sector 32* *Gurgaon 122001* *Gksachdeva30(a)gmail.com* *Gulshan.sachdeva(a)psbg.in* *0124-4217547*

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Statement on the Global Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Consortial Licenses
by D Jotwani, Librarian IIT Bombay 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

Dear All You may be interested to see the following statement by the International Coalition of Library Consortia. please see the full document at http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia/icolc-econcrisis-0109.htm INTERNATIONAL COALITION OF LIBRARY CONSORTIA (ICOLC) Statement on the Global Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Consortial Licenses Written on behalf of the many library consortia across the world that participate in the ICOLC, this statement has two purposes. It is intended to help publishers and other content providers from whom we license electronic information resources (hereafter simply referred to as publishers) understand better how the current unique financial crisis affects the worldwide information community. Its second purpose is to suggest a range of approaches that we believe are in the mutual best interest of libraries and the providers of information services. The ICOLC library consortia consider the current crisis of such significance that we cannot simply assume that libraries and publishers share a common perspective about the magnitude of the crisis and the best approaches to cope with it. ICOLC members have been exchanging perspectives about how the current economic recession will impact consortia and their libraries. We make the following forecasts about the impact of this crisis on libraries and library consortia. 1. We expect significant and widespread cuts in budget levels for libraries and consortia: reductions unlike the sporadic or regional episodes experienced from year to year, with real and permanent reductions to base budgets. It may not be uncommon for library and consortia budgets to decline by double digits year over year. We have yet to see the full effects, as many 2009 journal and database subscriptions have already been renewed. As of late 2008, many institutions have declared significant budgets cuts in all areas (content, staff, and operations) for 2009. Some consortia are experiencing significant economic impact in the current fiscal year; by calendar and fiscal 2010, the cuts will be in full force and widespread. 2. These cuts will be prolonged. The public and education sectors will likely lag in funding recovery. Once funding is withdrawn over multiple years, it will be years before budgets climb back toward pre-crisis levels. 3. Exchange rate fluctuations are complicating and in some cases amplifying the impact. We encourage publishers to recognize these fundamentally different circumstances as we work together for the benefit of all parties. Library consortia are uniquely positioned to be the most effective and efficient means to preserve the customer base for publishers and create solutions that provide the greatest good for the greatest number. By working together, publishers and consortia can create the most effective pricing and renewal options and maintain the broadest base of subscribing libraries and services. While we cannot be prescriptive where solutions are concerned, we suggest the following principles and techniques as likely to be the most effective approaches. Principle 1: Flexible pricing that offers customers real options, including the ability to reduce expenditures without disproportionate loss of content, will be the most successful. In stable times, standardized pricing and terms may work relatively well. Today, purchasers will be under heavy pressure to reduce their outlays and need solutions that let them do so while continuing to offer as much content and service as possible. It is in the publisher's best interest that we avoid all-or-nothing, take-it-or-leave-it decisions and options, whose lack of flexibility is likely to result in far greater damage than is absolutely necessary. Principle 2: It is in the best interest of both publishers and consortia to seek creative solutions that allow licenses to remain as intact as possible, without major content or access reductions. Content, once discontinued, will be very difficult to reinstate at a later date. While there may be practical limits to this principle, publishers, authors, scholars, and libraries will be best served by those solutions that retain as much access to as much content as possible. With these two principles in mind, we suggest the following approaches: 1. Purchasers will trade features for price; that is, we can do without costly new interfaces and features. This is not a time for new products. Marketing efforts for new products will have only limited effects, if any at all. Libraries will have few if any resources to invest in new titles or more content elements. Publishers who work with the scholarly communities to understand what content is critically needed will be the most successful. 2. Putting price first will help all parties, because budget pressures will drive decisions in a way never seen before. Real price reductions will be welcomed and can help to sustain relationships through the hard times. Even increases at inflation levels will not be supportable by many groups and libraries. Other approaches and options must be considered and made available. Some options may be uniquely created to take advantage of local situations. Therefore: 3. Tailoring content to need and pricing accordingly can be very helpful. For example, customized approaches that look to usage patterns as the basis for an adjustment may be equitable for all parties. In the case of tiered pricing schedules, applying this flexibly to core content packages in combination with more affordable pricing for single titles may create another affordable option. Multiple, creative options are needed so that library consortia can work with their members to fashion the optimal purchase level. 4. Multi-year contracts will be possible only with clear opt-out and/or reduction clauses. As difficult as these clauses can be, the only alternative for many institutions will be year-to-year (or even shorter term) licenses. These increase the administrative overheads for all parties and may encourage further reductions. Additionally, opt-out clauses must as well recognize the need for a flexible set of reduction techniques that avoid penalizing customers in either the long or short term. 5. While annual payments currently are the most prevalent payment schedule for group licenses, options will be needed for semi-annual or quarterly payment schedules, in combination with more flexible opt-out/reduction clauses and renewal cycles. Libraries and consortia may have very little warning of changes in their budgets. Payment options are a necessary precaution in light of rapidly changing financial circumstances and expectations. * * * In combination, we suggest these approaches as a way to advance the conversations among libraries, consortia and publishers, who all hope to preserve existing relationships, provide as much information to users, and generate as much business as budgets will allow. We believe our recommendations provide a solid foundation for the information community, including the publishers of scholarly information, to go forward together in these difficult times. The current situation may in the long term serve as a catalyst that challenges publishers, scholars and libraries to create a system that will more efficiently produce and disseminate the growing output of global scholarship. Regards. -- D. Jotwani Librarian Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Powai, Mumbai 400076 Phone 91-22-25768920, 91-22-25720227 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Koha workshop at Trivandrum
by Vimal Kumar 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

Kerala Library Association organising three day Koha workshop at Thiruvananthapuram. Date- 13 – 15 February 2009 Venue- Christ Nagar School, Kowdiar P.O. Thiruvananthapuram. Registration Fee The Registration Fee for the Workshop is Rs.1000 per participant. Members of KLA need pay only Rs. 900. More details at http://keralalibraryassociation.org -- Vimal Kumar V. Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581 Web: www.asb.edu.in/vimal/ Blog: http://vimalkumar.oksociety.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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FW: What are your space expectations?
by Indira 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

-----Original Message----- From: david.raitt(a)esa.int [mailto:david.raitt@esa.int] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:12 PM Dear Professionals, This is a somewhat different note to those you usually receive from me! I am involved in a study of the International Academy of Astronautics and what we are trying to do is to ascertain the expectations of the public, particularly youth, regarding space activities. We have made a lot of progress over the past year and have put a questionnaire up on a special Web site at www.space-expectations.org Since many of you work in a university or library, then I wonder whether you might be willing to draw the attention of your students or users to the Web site and ask them to simply complete the questionnaire there (which is in several languages). This would be very helpful in getting as wide a distribution as possible. You can fill it in too - indeed please give it to any one you can - family, colleagues, friends! A suggested text for any announcement you might care to make is given below. Thanks and regards, Dr David Raitt Editor, The Electronic Library Dr David Raitt Senior Technology Transfer Officer Technology Transfer Programme Office European Space Agency - ESTEC PO Box 299 2200 AG Noordwijk The Netherlands e-mail: david.raitt(a)esa.int tel: +31-71-5653017 fax: +31-71-5656635 http://www.esa.int/ttp -------------------------------------- Ms. Indira Koneru, M.A., M.L.I.Sc., M.Phil., (Ph.D.) Faculty Member Dept. of Library Science Icfai Academic Wing 23, Nagarjuna Hills Hyderabad–500 082 India ------------------------------------------------------------ Icfai University Journal of Library & Information Studies ijlibinfstd(a)iupindia.org -------------------------------------------------------------

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Kolkata Boi Mela : Scotland - Kolkata Connections: LIS Programmes
by Pijushkanti Panigrahi 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

Kolkata Boi Mela : Scotland - Kolkata Connections: LIS Programmes The Kolkata Boi Mela ( Calcutta Book Fair ) is a glorious gigantic cultural event held in winter in Kolkata, West Bengal for all who love books. It is a unique book fair meant primarily for the general public. It is the world's largest non-trade book fair. The 33rd Kolkata Book Fair 2009 have been scheduled January 28 to February 08, 2009 at Milon Mela (Near Science City), Kolkata. Scotland is Focal Theme for this year. In this connection, British Council, in partnership with several organisations, is hosting a series of events under a programme entitled Scotland-Kolkata Connections. A number of delegates, including senior government officials, authors, writers, poets, musicians, museum and library officials and other dignitaries from Scotland will visit Kolkata during the time. The following events will be of particular interest to library and information professionals Sunday February 01, 2009 1600 -1700 Lecture ‘The National Library of Scotland: South Asian Collections & Kolkata Curiosities’by Kevin Halliwell, National Library Scotland at AC Hall, Kolkata Book Fair Grounds Monday, February 02, 2009 1500 – 1600 Lecture on The Medical History of British India on-line project, by Jan Usher, National Library of Scotland at the National Library, Kolkata in association with IASLIC, Tuesday February 03, 2009 1600 – 1700 Lecture on “The role of libraries in accessing knowledge and information in the future” by Martyn Wade, Director National Library Scotland at the Dept of LIS, Jadavpur University Thursday, 5 February 2009 1830 Asiatic Society seminar “The making and preservation of books and manuscripts” marking the 225th anniversary celebrations of the Asiatic Society. Martyn Wade to join in panel All professional colleagues are cordially invited to join in making the programmes a success. For any queries do get in touch with: Indrani Bhattacharyya, Head, Young Audiences (East India), T +91 (0)33 22825370, F +91 (0)33 22824804, email : indrani.bhattacharyya@ in. britishcouncil.org Dr Pijushkanti Panigrahi, Reader, Dept of Lib and Inf Science, University of Calcutta, 87/1 College Street,Kolkata - 700 073, West Bengal, India, email : panigrahipk(a)yahoo.com, (M) : +91 94342 43522. Joint Secretary, IASLIC, Convenor, Education Division, IASLIC; Associate Editor, IASLIC Bulletin, IASLIC, Kolkata-54 Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 3
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

The Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 3 is now available from Digital Scholarship. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/etdb/etdb.htm This bibliography presents selected English-language articles, conference papers, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Where possible, links are provided to sources that are freely available on the Internet, including e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories. For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries, see Digital Scholarship Publications Overview. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dsoverview.htm * Important change * New URLs for Digital Scholarship FeedBurner Feeds http://tinyurl.com/925efb Other Digital Scholarship Publications The following Digital Scholarship publications may also be of interest: (1) Author's Rights, Tout de Suite http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ts/authorrights.pdf (2) DigitalKoans (Weblog about digital copyright, digital curation, digital repositories, open access, scholarly communication, and other digital information issues) http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ (3) Google Book Search Bibliography http://digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm (4) Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ts/irtoutsuite.pdf (5) Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals http://digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm (6) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ A Look Back at Nineteen Years as an Internet Digital Publisher http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/nineteenyears.htm

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Positions Opening -- Icfai Academic Wing
by Indira 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Dear Professionals, The Icfai University is augmenting its faculty in Academic wing and is looking for Faculty Associate and/or Research Associate in the Dept. of Library Science. Job description: 1. Courseware design and development for B.L.I.Sc. / M.L.I.Sc. programs 2. Academic and research writing Requisite Qualifications, Skills and Experience 1. M.L.I.Sc. (Research Associate), M.L.I.Sc. and M.Phil. (Faculty Associate) with a good academic record 2. Flair for writing and fervor for updating knowledge and upgrading skills 3. ICT skills 4. 2-5 years of experience Remuneration will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. ICFAI University pays as per UGC scales after completion of probation. Interested candidates may send their resume on or before 7th February 2009 by courier/ fax superscribing the envelope with the position applied, to: The Associate Dean Academic Wing # 23, 2nd Floor, Nagarjuna Hills Punjagutta Hyderabad - 500 082 Fax: 23435307. Or e-mail your resume to the admin officer: lakshmikanth(a)icfaiuniversity.org Regards, Indira ---------------------------------------------------------- Ms. Indira Koneru, M.A., M.L.I.Sc., M.Phil., (Ph.D.) Faculty Member Dept. of Library Science Icfai Academic Wing 23, Nagarjuna Hills Hyderabad-500 082 India <mailto:ijlibinfstd@iupindia.org> ijlibinfstd(a)iupindia.org

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International conference on reading practices
by Narenthiran 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Dear Moderator, Please list the following information in the forum Thanks Narenthiran. R Librarian French Institute of Pondicherry 11, Saint Louis Street P.B.33, Pondicherry 605001 Phone # 91-413-2334168 Extn 126/139 Fax # 91-413-2339534 Email: narenthiran.r(a)ifpindia.org <mailto:narenthiran.r@ifpindia.org> www.ifpindia.org <http://www.ifpindia.org> *International conference on* *Collection, Selection and Erudition* *Reading** practices and Textual culture in Classical Tamil* / / *Aim:* The main objectives of the abovementioned *3 day Conference *are 1. The proposed International conference will analyze the sources and practice through which the classical Tamil corpus came to be collected and compiled during the first millennium of the Christian era and edited from the 19^th century. 2. The conference will explore the avenues of manuscript tradition and textual culture in which the classical Tamil corpus was circulated and transmitted between the first millennium of the Christian era and the 19^th century 3. the conference will compare the reading and learning practices involved in the understanding of the classical Tamil corpus by traditional pulavars, university scholars (local and foreign), popular writers etc during the contemporary period; 4. The conference will examine the role of public and private institutions in reading practices of the Classical Tamil Corpus. 5. The conference will attempt to obtain a status report on the collections and libraries through which the classical tamil corpus came to be “rediscovered” in the 19^th century and the beginning of the 20^th century 6. The conference will explore the viability of applying the research methodology practiced by, for example, Roger Chartier, Jean- Yves Mollier and Robert Darnton in their investigation of the History of the Book in Western Culture. *Organizers:* The French Institute of Pondicherry (coordinator: Kannan.M, Contemporary Tamil Culture, Indology) And The Central Institute of Classical Tamil, Chennai.( coordinator:Prof. R.Kothanda Raman) Dates: March 25-27, 2009. Place: French Institute of Pondicherry, 11, Saint Louis St, Pondicherry, Pondicherry, 605001. Phone: O413 2334168. Email: kannan.m(a)ifpindia.org <mailto:kannan.m@ifpindia.org> Website: www.ifpindia.org <http://www.ifpindia.org/> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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LIBWEB: Library Servers via WWW
by DINESH SIDDAIAH 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Dear Friends, LIBWEB: Library Servers via WWW (http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb) currently lists over 7900 pages from libraries of 146 countries. Continents, Countires and Types of libraries which are available on LIBWEB are USA (Academic, Pulblic, State, School, National and special libraries, Library organizations and Regional Consortia), Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean, Central America and South America. LIBWEB gives links to India's Universities, IISc., IITs, ISI, ICAST, Delnet, Inflibnet etc. libray websites. Thanking You, Dinesh K. S. -- Dr. Dinesh K. S. Selection Grade Librarian, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Devanahalli, Bengaluru - 562 110. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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InfoVision 2009 Inauguration, Thomson Innovation award and Vision Talk - January 22-23, 2009
by Angrosh 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

InfoVision 2009: The Knowledge Summit, January 22-23, 2009, Bangalore Summit Theme: "Content to Intent: Understanding user intent in multimodal, multilingual, mobile, and enterprise Information Access" Programme Highlights ----------------- Inaugural Function - 22nd January, 2009 : 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Inauguration Mr. Alexius Collette Chief Executive Officer, Philips Electronics India Ltd., Bangalore Keynote Dr. Mark Maybury Executive Director, Information Technology Division, MITRE Cropn., USA Summit Chair Dr. P. Anandan Managing Director, Microsoft Research India, Bangalore ----------------- Thomson Reuters Innovation Award Ceremony - 22nd January, 2009 : 7:00 p.m. onwards Giving away of the Award to the Winners Mr. N.S. Parthasarathy Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, MindTree Ltd., Bangalore Keynote by Mr. Bob Stembridge Thomson Reuters, UK Chair Dr. A.R. Upadhya Director, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore -------------------- Vision Talk - 23rd January, 2009 : 4:45 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Dr. C. Mohan IBM Fellow and IBM India Chief Scientist Chair Mr. M.N. Vidyashankar, IAS CEO and Ex-officio Principal Secretary to Govt., DPAR (Elections), Karnataka -------------------- Session Keynote Speakers * Multimedia Information Access Prof. Dieter Fellner Director, Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD), Germany * Mobile Information Access Dr. Ram Ramjee Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research India * Multilingual Information Access Prof. Rohini Srihari CEO, Janya Inc., USA & Associate Professor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering University at Buffalo, State University of New York * Consumer Created Content Prof. Ee-Peng Lim School of Information Systems Singapore Management University, Singapore * eScience, eResearch and Cyber Infrastructure Dr B.B. Prahlad Rao CDAC, Bangalore * Enterprise Content and Communication Prof. John Girard Associate Professor, Minot State University, USA Please visit: www.infovision2009.org for more details For details and registration, please contact: InfoVision secretariat International School of Information Management University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006 Tel: +91-821-2514699; +91-821-2411417 Fax: +91-821-2519209 Angrosh - 9886970411 Email: office(a)infovision.org.in; office(a)isim.ac.in InfoVision 2009 Summit Team. ********************************************* Angrosh M.A. Project Manager International School of Information Management University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore - 570 006 Tel: +91-821-2514699; +91-821-2411417 Fax: +91-821-2519209 Email: angrosh(a)isim.ac.in **********************************************

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Maharashtra Librarians Online Study Circle
by Ajay Kamble 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

Dear all, We have developed an online Study Group "Maharashtra Librarians Online Study Circle" in August 2008. The URL of the study circle is www.mlsc.co.nr and a Google group is also develop to provide regular information to the members. I request all the respected members here to check the website and the group and give us expert comments on what improvements can be done in the website and the group. Waiting for your reply. With regards. Ajay M. Kamble Librarian Annasaheb Vartak College of Arts, K M College of Commerce, ESA College of Science, Vasai Rd. (W) – Dist Thane – 401202. Email : apassion2002(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Librarian and Assistant Librarian Posts in TATA PROJECTS, HYDERABAD
by praveen veerabomma 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

Dear Professionals, the following vacancy's are there in TATA PROJECTS, HYDERABAD Librarian Post 1 - M Li Sc with at least two years experience, good computer and library management skills Assistant Librarian Post 1 - B Li Sc / M Li Sc with at least one year experience, & computer skills. Last date 20th January,2009 Those who are intrest for above post pl send there resume to following mails mail_praveen12(a)yahoo.co.in with cc pkalyani(a)tataprojects.com Thank you FROM : PRAVEEN KUMAR V mail: mail_praveen12(a)yahoo.co.in Hello: 93930 11696 Connect with friends all over the world. Get Yahoo! India Messenger at http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/?wm=n/

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Invitation for the International Conference at Chennai in 23-34 Jan 2009
by Arunachalam Hariharan 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

The Management, Correspondent, Principal and Faculty Members of B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Engineering College, Chennai - 600 048 & Society for the Advancement of Library & Information Science Chennai Cordially invite you to the inauguration of International Conference on Knowledge Networking in ICT Era on Friday 23 rd January 2009 at 9.30 A.M at Auditorium, Convention centre B.S. Abdur Rahman Cresent Engineering College, Chennai - 600 048 Padmashree Dr.M. Anandakrishnan Chairman, IIT Kanpur has kindly consented to inaugurate the conference Ms. Iskra Panevska Advisor for Communication and Information, UNESCO Dr. Jean-Louis Ermine National Research Director, University of Bordeaux, France Ms. Pradeepa Wijetunge University of Colombo, Sri Lanka will be the Keynote Speakers Mr. Abdul Qadir A. Rahman Buhari Correspondent, B.S.A.Crescent Engineering College Presides Dr. V. M. Periasamy, Principal Mr.A.Hariharan, President, SALIS Dr. R. Raja Prabu, Convener Dr.P.Panneerselvam, Organising Secretary ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Management, Correspondent, Principal and Faculty Members of B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Engineering College, Chennai - 600 048 & Society for the Advancement of Library & Information Science Chennai Cordially invite you to the Valedictory Function of International Conference on Knowledge Networking in ICT Era on Saturday 24 rd January 2009 at 3. 30 P.M at Auditorium, Convention centre B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Engineering College, Chennai - 600 048 Ajit K. Pyati University of Western Ontario, Canada has kindly consented to deliver special lecture Dr. G. Krishnamoorthy Librarian, Anna University, Chennai has kindly consented to felicitate the participants Dr. A.L. Moorthy DESIDOC, New Delhi has kindly consented to be the chief guest Dr. V. M. Periasamy Principal Presides ------------------------------------------------- The Management, Correspondent, Principal and Faculty Members of B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Engineering College, Chennai - 600 048 & Society for the Advancement of Library & Information Science Chennai Cordially invite you to the inauguration of Pre-conference Tutorial on E-learning on Thursday, 22nd January 2009 at Seminar Hall 1, Convention centre Dr. Harish Chandra Librarian, IIT Madras has kindly consented to inaugurate the Pre-conference Tutorial Dr. V. M. Periasamy, Principal Presides -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Eminent Speakers Mrs Panevska, Unesco Dr.John Paul Anbu, University of Swaziland, South Africa : Ms.Gowri Parameswaran, State University, New York Ajit K. Pyati, University of Western Ontario, Canada has kindly consented to deliver special lecture Prof. C.R. Muthukrishnan Consulting Advisor, TCS & Former Deputy Director, IITM Dr. Harish Chandra IITM Prof. Manorama Srinath Retd. Prof. University of Madras Prof. M. Suriya Annamalai Univeristy Dr. A.L. Moorthy DESIDOC New Delhi Prof. D. Rajyalakshmi, HOD, DLIS RTM Nagpur University Prof. I V Malhan Head, Dept. of Library Science University of Jammu Jammu Tawi Prof. Jagtar Sing DLIS, University of Patiala Prof. M. Nagarajan Annamalai University Dr. Ally Sornam Bishop Heber College, Trichy Prof. V. Nagarajan Radius Consultancy Pvt Lts

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Library vacancy at Engineering College - Hyderabad.
by Sridhar K 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

Dear Professionals, Aryabhata Institute of Technology & Science is looking for *Librarian , Asst. Librarian and Library Assistants* for its Engineering College Library.(* www.aryabhata-its.ac.in)* College address: Aryabhata Institute of Technology & Science MohabatNagar, Near Maheshwaram X Roads, On Srisailum Highway Road, RR District. Andhra Pradesh Salary: Negotiable Applicants preferably from in and around Hyderabad region only. Librarian : Candidates with working knowledge in Computers with Ist Class in MLISc Asst. Librarian: Candidates with working knowledge in Computers with Ist Class BLISc. Library Assistants: Candidates with working knowledge in Computers and with CLISc Last date for submission of application/resume is 24th January 2008 Please send your Resume to: kanakanala(a)gmail.com<sreekumar(a)law.christcollege.edu> Regards, Sridhar Reddy Sr. Asst. Librarian BrahMos Aerospace, DRDL Hyderabad

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Google Web History
by Ajay Kum Sharma 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

Dear Library and Information Professionals, Google's has implemented personalization to improve search results could face some difficulties. Google already uses your queries, the results you click on, your bookmarks, but this isn't enough to build a comprehensive profile. People don't search too many times and, most often, they click on the top search results. So I think the next step in Google's efforts to tailor the search results to your preferences is to expand the search history into something more complex: the web history. Browsing web pages is an important part of your online activity and there are already applications like Google Desktop that monitor and index the visited web pages. Google Web History is a reality starting today. This replaces the previous search history service that was limited only to queries and search results. If you want to add the web pages you visit, you need to have Google Toolbar with the PageRank feature activated and to enable web history from http://www.google.co.in/history/welcome?hl=en. Thanks and regards. Ajay Kumar Sharma Assistant Librarian, Central Library, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, Birbhum - 731235, W.B. Email: ajaysharma.lib(a)visva-bharati.ac.in Web: http://www.geocities.com/ajaysharma_lib/ *********************************************************** 1. Join today Digital Library Discussion Forum http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg 2. Join today LIS-Forum mailing list http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Understanding how libraries (and librarians) can survive in the new media ecosystem
by Sukhdev Singh 18 Jan '09

18 Jan '09

Just came across PowerPoint Presentation [hyperlinks at http://snipurl.com/aahet] of Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Internet & American Life Project. The presentation is on How libraries can survive in the new media ecosystem. I am trying to understand the message conveyed by this presentation. It is about "how people's use of the internet and cell phones has fundamentally changed the 'information ecosystem' in 10 ways". Information in this age is Abundant, Cheap, Personally Oriented and Designed for participation. According to Lee, 'information ecosystem' is changing in the following manner: - Volume of information grows - Variety of information and sources of information grow - Velocity of information increases and smart mobs emerge - Venues of intersecting with information and people multiply and the availability of information expands. - People's vigilance for information changes. Attention is 'truncated' and 'elongated'. - The vibrance and immersive qualities of media environments makes them more compelling places to hang out and interact. - Valence (relevance) of information improves – search and customization get better - The voice of information democratizes and the visibility of new creators is enhanced. - Voting on and ventilating about information proliferates as tagging, rating, and commenting occurs and collective intelligence asserts itself - Social networks become more vivid and meaningful. So what can Libraries and Librarians do in such an 'information ecosystem'? Well, they have been advised to take following actions: -Be findable and available -Think of yourself as a news node for information and interaction. -Think of yourself as a social network node for people looking for 'friendsters' -Think of yourself as an information hub -- an aggregator and a linker to others who have useful, interesting material -Experiment with Web 2.0 applications -Offer your good offices to help people master new literacies - Graphic; Navigation; Context; Focus; Skepticism; Ethical and Personal literacies. The new information ecosystem and required actions for being relevant in this new ecosystem has been well explained by Lee. However, I am trying to understand how the ideas expressed by Lee Rainie correlate to the theory and philosophy of Library and Information Science. Changes in 'information ecosystem' is consistent with Ranganathan's Fifth Law - Library is a Growing Organism. The Library (system) being an Organism, grows and thus get more and more differentiated. It evolves like any other living organism on earth in response to changes in ecosystem. Most 'actions' suggested by Lee are consistent with Forth Law - Save the Time of The Reader. Well, I am not able to fit the concept of 'social networking' on Internet in terms of philosophy of library science. Perhaps, someone from you can help me. --Sukhdev Singh, 09868960074, NIC. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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request
by Shams Raza 18 Jan '09

18 Jan '09

Dear Professionals We are planing to purchase CD/DVD related to all subject of class VI to XIIth . Hence it would be very helpful to us if somebody provide vendors address who are providing CD/DVD facility as well as publishers if directly we are purchase. Also whom we have to contact to purchase the same. Thanks Regards, -- Shams Raza Librarian Sainik School Nalanda P.O. Rajgir (BIHAR) Yahoo Talk : shams_hs19(a)yahoo.co.in Google Talk: shamsraza(a)gmail.com Rediff Boll : shams97(a)rediffmail.com Mobile Talk : +91 9430247793 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Koha Training Programs in various cities
by savitra sirohi 17 Jan '09

17 Jan '09

All, We intend to run Koha training programs in various cities of the country at reasonable prices. I request those interested to fill this short form: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pRgGBL0AxpzoQOczRuOTMZQ. This form will help us design the program including content, duration and locations. Thanks you, Savitra Sirohi MD, Nucsoft OSS Labs Ph: + 91 97400 22664 www.osslabs.biz -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Just Published: 'Media as Partners in Education for Sustainable Development: A Training and Resource Kit'
by Puna Das 17 Jan '09

17 Jan '09

Just Published Media as Partners in Education for Sustainable Development: A Training and Resource Kit/ edited by Venus Easwaran Jennings and Eleanor Bird. Paris: UNESCO, 2008. This training kit attempts to provide media professionals with basic information about some priority issues for sustainable development. It also provides practical exercises to inspire investigative reporting, and draws links to existing experience that may enrich the information resources of media professionals. Download Full-text: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001587/158787E.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/

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National level Symposium in Mumbai
by Ajay Kamble 17 Jan '09

17 Jan '09

*Thakur** College** of Engineering & Technology* *Shyamnarayan Thakur Marg, Thakur Village, Kandivali (E), Mumbai 400101, Tel: 67308131* *2DAYS NATIONAL LEVEL SYMPOSIUM ON* *"Lirarianshipin21st Century: Challenges & Prospectus"* *on April 8th -9th , 2009* By Central Library & TCET-ISTE Chapter *1. THEME: *Modern Librarianship is its changing face with the introduction of digital & e-media. Even the school, college, university & industrial libraries are becoming hybrid in nature. No academic institute which imparts technical knowledge can escape from the e-literature & digital libraries, as well as multimedia resources, managing these e-resources is challenging task. Librarians need to enhance the skills of information gathering, processing & dissemination available in digital & electronic format. Very basic functions of the library process, Classification, Cataloguing, Circulation & Indexing of the information material threatened to a considerable extent by the technological advance. Further in the emerging competitive society social expectation are altering a great deal and user are to be given innovative services that are quite distinct from the traditional ones. The objective of the Symposium is to discuss the upcoming challenges and how the librarian can prepare to transform itself to meet the requirements. Therefore, theme of the National Symposium is *"Librarianship in 21stCentury: challenges & prospects" * *Sub Theme:* 1 Managing Modern Libraries 2 Digital Libraries 3 Open Source Software 4 Networking & resource sharing 5 Librarianship in the Internet Age 6 Managing e-resources *4. How to Commute? * >From Kandivali(E) Bus No. 287 or Share Autorikshaw. >From Borivali(E) Bus No. 209 & 703 to Thakur Village, Bus Stop Thakur College. *6. Who can participate: *Librarians from School, College, Research Centres, Media & Library Professionals. *7. Registration Fees:* Rs. 700/- The Registration fee include working day lunch, tea & snacks. *8. Important Dates: * Invitation of paper for presentation last date: 10th March, 2009 Last Date of Registration: 30th March, 2009 *9. How to apply?* Enclose, dully filled application form along with DD and send on the address mentioned on the front page. DD to be drawn in the favor of "TCET-ISTE Chapter, Thakur College of Engineering &Technology" *10. Application Form* Applicant's Name: Qualification: Experience: Designation: Department: Institution: Address for correspondence: e-mail ID: Phone No. (O): Phone No. (R): Mobile No.: Registration Details: DD No. Drawn on Bank: Date: Signature of Candidate Mr./ Mrs. _______________________ has been permitted to participate in 'State level Symposium at Thakur College of Engg & Technology, Kandivali (E), Mumbai, Commencing from 8th April, 2009 to 9th April, 2009. ..................................... *Signature of Head of Institution* *Name & Seal* *13. Coordinator & Contact person : *Mr. Devidas G. Kalwale Librarian Thakur College of Engg & Technology Thakur Village, Kandivali (E), Mumbai 400 101. Ph: 67308131/ Mob: 9869717226 e-mail: devidas.kalwale(a)thakureducation.org ___________________________________________________ Ajay M. Kamble Librarian Annasaheb Vartak College of Arts, Kedarnath Malhotra College of Commerce, ES Andrades College of Science, Vasai Road (W) - Dist. Thane - 401202. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Associate Membership programme under UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium
by Prem Chand 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

Dear Professionals, I am pleased to inform that the INFLIBNET Centre has launched the Associate Membership for those institutes, which are not covered under UGC 12 B act. Any institute who wish to join UGC INFONET Digital Library Consortium under associate membership, please contact Director INFLIBNET Procedure of joining Annual Membership fee of Rs 5000/- List of E- resources covered under Associate membership category 1.. American Chemical Society 2.. American Institute of Physics American Physical Society 3.. Annual Reviews 4.. Cambridge University Press 5.. Emerald - Lib. Sci. collection 6.. Institute of Physics 7.. JSTOR 8.. MathSciNet 9.. Nature 10.. Oxford University Press 11.. Royal Society of Chemistry 12.. SciFinder Scholar 13.. Springer Link 14.. Taylor & Francis Subscription Cost: The members who wish to subscribe the e-resources under Associate membership category have to pay negotiated price of e-resources. The subscription rate of above listed publishers are given on our web site at http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/econ/am09.pdf Please note that the subscription rates applicable to institutions who wish to join is subject to the approval of respective publishers. For further detail, please contact: Dr.Jagdish Arora Director Information and Library Network Centre P B No: 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad - 380009 E-mail: director(a)inflibnet.ac.in; jarora(a)inflibnet.ac.in Web: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/econ/ Phone: 91 79 26308528 / 26304695 / 26305971 Prem Chand Scientist- D Convener UGC-INFONET Digital library Consortium Information & Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET) An Inter University Centre of UGC, Near Gujarat University Guest House Navrangpura, Ahmedabad Gujarat. India Phone: 079-26305971, 26304695 ( Office) 079- 29096170( R) 09427001489 prem65_chand(a)yahoo.co.in

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India 2009 (A Reference Annual) available Free Full-Text Online in English & Hindi both
by Mukesh Anand 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

Dear Members', India (A Reference Annual) published by Publications Division, M/o Information & Broadcasting, Govt. of India is now also available free full-text online in Hindi & English both, which is detailed below. India 2009 (A Reference Annual) Compiled by Research, Reference & Training Division & Published by Publications Division of Ministry of Information & Broadcasing Government of India Pagination iv+ 1259p., 53rd Edition ISBN - 978-81-230-1557-6 Year of Publication 2009 Price Rs. 345/- Available Free Full Text Online at http://www.publicationsdivision.nic.in/others/India_2009.pdf File Size 9.90 MB भारत 2009 Price Rs. 345/- ISBN - 978-81-230-1558-3 Pagination xii+1363 p. Year of Publication 2009 53rd Edition Available Free Full Text Online at http://www.publicationsdivision.nic.in/others/Bharat_2009.pdf File Size 14.92 MB Thanx & Regards, Mukesh Anand Asst. Libn. Officers' Training College for Indian Railways (Premier Training Institute of Indian Railways) Sanskari Nagari Vadodara -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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NET is Mandatory After June 2009
by Pandurang Shendage 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

NET must from next year Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times Email Author New Delhi, January 15, 2009 First Published: 23:16 IST(15/1/2009) Last Updated: 23:17 IST(15/1/2009) The University Grants Commission (UGC) has made National Eligibility Test (NET) mandatory for teaching jobs in higher education, in a reversal of a decision it took three years ago. Those holding a Ph.D degree, however, continue to be exempted. The UGC has told universities that those already registered for M.Phil and will complete the same before June 2009, shall be exempted from NET. However, NET will be compulsory for the candidates completing M.Phil degree after this date. On June 11, 2006, the commission had exempted M.Phil degree holders from NET for appointment as faculty for undergraduate teaching. Later the B.L. Mungerkar Committee, constituted to review the decision, recommended that NET be restored as mandatory as the exemption was leading to deterioration in the quality of teaching. The UGC has accepted the recommendation, thereby restoring NET from July 1, 2009. The UGC has decided that the relaxation given to Ph.D holders from NET examination for teaching appointment will continue provided the research is conducted as per the new guidelines circulated by the commission earlier this month. According to the guidelines universities must ensure that admissions in Ph.D are done on the basis of an entrance test and the student follows the rules for choosing a Ph.D supervisor. A student enrolled for Ph.D should undertake course-work for minimum of two semesters. Before submitting the thesis, students have to make a presentation to the department, which will be open to all faculty members and students. http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=RSSFeed-… Thank You Shendage Pandurang Baburao Assistant Librarian Tolani Maritime Institute Induri, Talegaon Dabhade Pune 410507 Phone - 02114-242082, 242081, Rec.- 02114-242377 Mobile- 9921314358 www.tolani.edu -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for Article
by shashi jena 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

Dear Professional, If any one have this article in hardcopy or Softcopy please sends, It is very urgent one of your Research Associate Narasimhan, M.S. and Vijayalakshmi S. Impact of Agency Cost on Leverage and Investment Decisions, Journal of Applied Finance, March 2000, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 16-25 With Regards Shashikanta Jena Professional Assistant Learning Resource Centre Jaypee Business School Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University A-10, Sector-62, Noida (UP) Email:shashikanta.jena@jiit.ac.in Mob+919973556131 Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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CALIBER: Pre-Conference Tutorial
by Prem Chand 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

Dear Professionals, CALIBER 2009 : Pre-Conference Tutorial A reminder for those who wish to register for pre conference tutorial on following two topics: (1) Access Management: Shibboleth / By Mr. John Paschoud, InfoSystems Engineer and Projects Manager, Library of the London School of Economics & Political science. (2) Web Content Management Systems / by Dr. M G Sreekumar, Librarian, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode (IIMK). Registration fee for tutorial: Rs. 1000/- Date: 25.2.2009 (11.00 a.m.to 5.00 p.m) For more details and Registration Form, click here: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/caliber2009/Registration%20Form.pdf Or Contact: Dr. R. Samyuktha University Librarian, Pondicherry University, Puducherry - 605 014 Phone: (O)+91-0413-2665213, Fax: +91-0413-2655254 Mob: 09442100228, 09884746196 Email: samravi007(a)yahoo.co.in We look forward to seeing you at Pondicherry. Prem Chand Scientist- D Convener UGC-INFONET Digital library Consortium Information & Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET) An Inter University Centre of UGC, Near Gujarat University Guest House Navrangpura, Ahmedabad Gujarat. India Phone: 079-26305971, 26304695 ( Office) 079- 29096170( R) 09427001489 prem65_chand(a)yahoo.co.in

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Opening of Library Trainee positions at the Resource Centre, DA-IICT Gandhinagar, Gujarat
by ts kumbar 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

Dear Colleagues, Kindly bring the following announcement to the notice of interested candidates and also request you to recommend potential candadates. ---------------------------------- Subject: Opening of Library Trainee positions at the Resource Centre, DA-IICT Gandhinagar, Gujarat The Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information & Communication Technology (DA-IICT) at Gandhinagar http://www.daiict.ac.in/daiict/index.html is looking for young, dynamic and fresh graduates with minimum First Class in Masters in Library and Information Science to work as 'Library Trainees' for its Resource Centre (Library). Duration of the Training is for a period of six months and extendable up to one year depending on the performance of candidates. The trainees gets a fixed stipend of Rs. 8000/-per month with no other facilities/ benefits, excepting casual leave. Accomodation in students hostel on the campus on payment basis will be provided subject to availability. The Resource Centre http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/ has fully computerized in-house operations and services and provides access to wide variety of digital collection, catering to the needs of the Faculty, Staff and Students. Several new initiatives are being taken to make this library as one of the leading and resource libraries in the area of ICT in the country. It is a part of regional & national consortia and actively participates in the resource sharing activities. Resource Centre is kept open till mid night on all working days during the semester and is open on holidays, Saturdays and Sundays. Selected trainees will require to work during these extended hours on rotation basis. Nature of Traineeship: Traniees will be provided with an opportunity work in different sections of the Resource Centre and learn the modern library management & services including applications of information and communication technologies.The resource centre provides a highly professional working & learning environment. Candidates will have an opportunity work and learn on emerging IT tools and technologies. Date for Written Test & Interview: 19th January, 2009 at 10.00am Venue for written test and Interview: DA-IICT Campus, Near Indroda Circle, Gandhinagar 382 007 Address for sending the application: Please send your advance copy of the application hr(a)daiict.ac.in (Head, HR & Admin, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar 382 007, Gujarat) The interested candidates who meet the above mentioned basic requirements may send in thier application with CV at the above address and directly come for the written test and interview. Candidate are requested to bring with them the certificates in support of date of birth and qualifications, and experiences, if any. -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks & Regards Kumbar ------------------ Dr. T S Kumbar Resource Centre DA-IICT Gandhinagar ts-kumbar(a)daiict.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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INFLIBNET Workshop at the University of Kalyani
by Juran Sarkhel 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

INFLIBNET Workshop at the University of Kalyani Department of Library and Information Science in association with the Central Library and the Centre for Information Resource Management (CIRM) of the University of Kalyani is going to organize a 2-day User Awareness Programme on Access to E-resources under the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium during February 02-03, 2009 at the University of Kalyani. This program is sponsored by the UGC-INFLIBNET centre, Ahmedabad. The workshop will cover lectures and hands on demonstration of information products and services with references to digital resources under UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium. Broad topics to be covered include scope, characteristics, organisation and management of digital resources; objectives and present activities of INFLIBNET; Overview and major activities of UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium; Presentations on how to access e-Journals and e–Database under the UGC–INFONET Digital Library Consortium; and user interaction. Participants will be drawn from the faculty, research scholars, students, library professionals of university libraries in West Bengal and college libraries affiliated under the University of Kalyani. The programme will be inaugurated by Dr. Jagdish Arora, Director, UGC-INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad and Dr. Himangshu Ghosh, Chairman, West Bengal College Service Commission will grace the occasion as the Guest-in-Chief. Inaugural Session will be presided over by Professor Arabinda Kumar Das, Vice-Chancellor, University of Kalyani. DR. J. K. SarkhelProfessor & HeadDept of Library & Information ScienceUniversity of KalyaniKalyani-741235West Bengal; India _________________________________________________________________ See all the ways you can stay connected to friends and family http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/default.aspx

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Article Request
by jasbir singh 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Dear friends, One of our faculty member urgently requires the article mentioned below. Please help 1) C. P. Jackson, K. Ramamurti,The micro-determination of glycerol in Acetobacter culture media, Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture.Volume 9 Issue 12, Pages 787 - 791. 2) Arnold Troy and William G. Alsop, The estimation of glycerol, diglycerol, and polyglycerol in commercial diglycerol ., Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society. Volume 25, Number 11 / November, 1948 pages 394-398. Jasbir Singh Learning Resource Center Jaypee University of Information Technology Waknaghat, P.O. Dumehar Kandaghat, Distt. Solan (H.P.), India http://www.juit.ac.in/Library/staff.php -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Internet Resources Newsletter: Latest issue now available
by MacLeod, Roderick A 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

____________________________________________ Internet Resources Newsletter ____________________________________________ The latest edition of the FREE monthly newsletter for academics, students and researchers is now available at: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn169/irn169.html No subscription or registration is needed to access this full-text newsletter at the above site. You can also subscribe to the free, full-text email version at: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html There's also an RSS feed for the newsletter: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.rss Featured in this issue: Comment Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS Random Quotes News items of interest A-Z New & Notable Web Sites: About 100 new and notable websites: new services, ejournals, directories, search engines, publishers, government sites, booksellers, calls for papers, software, news services, conferences, research groups, plus anything else of interest, etc, etc. Nice Web Site(s): TwitterSearch Blogorama Selected interesting blogs, RSS feeds and related news items Recent Internet books in the Library Get a life! Leisure Time After hours Published by Heriot-Watt University Library, and edited by Roddy MacLeod (R.A.MacLeod(a)hw.ac.uk) Catherine Ure and Marion Kennedy -- Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC000278. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Workshop on Care & Maintenance of Library Documents
by Byanktesh Narain Singh 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Dear Friends, Knowledge is power and Libraries are power houses of present day knowledge based society. With all sorts of information being freely available on the web, it may seem that the role of a librarian in present context is diminishing. Nothing can be farther from the truth. Besides acting as an engine of growth for the institution to which they belong, the librarians have to protect and preserve what is in their collection. Most of the libraries possess photographs, maps, etc. besides books and manuscripts. Since these materials are inherently fragile, with time they start decaying, leaving the librarian bewildered with what to do in such situations. With growing reliance upon digital archives of information, the problems are compounded as these materials exhibit their own problems. Fortunately, the life of the collection can be enhanced significantly in most cases with little effort only if the librarian is aware of the steps required to avoid such a situation. It is a matter of pleasure that we are organizing 3-days *"National Workshopon Care & Maintenance of Library Documents"* for discussing all of the relevant issues in this regard. It is expected that at the end this period the participants of the workshop will be able to identify various types of problems related to library documents, their probable causes and the remedial measures required. The workshop will mainly centre on the following themes: · Deterioration of Traditional Library Acquisitions · Care & Maintenance of Traditional Library Acquisitions · Issues in Digitization and preservation of library Collection · Care & Maintenance of Digital Information Carriers · Risk Preparedness and Disaster Management for Libraries * * *Venue:* Senate Hall, Swatantrata Bhawan, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi *Organizer:* National Museum Institute, New Delhi and Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi * * *Period:* 22nd January to 24th January 2008. * * *Resource Persons:* ** * * *Prof. J.L. Sardana, *Former Vice President FID & former HOD LIS Deptt. University of Delhi, Delhi** *Dr. S. Majumdar, * University Librarian, University of Delhi, Delhi *Dr. S. K. Garg, *Principal, Deen Dayal Upadhyay College, Delhi University** *Prof. Kamal K. Jain*, Dean (AA) & HOD, Deptt. of Conservation, NMI Delhi *Sh. K. N. Jha, *Assistant Professor, Library Science, Meerabai Polytechnic, Maharani bagh, New Delhi ** *Dr. S.M. Dhawan, *Former* *Director, Library Services, National Physics Laboratory Delhi* ** * *Dr. B.N. Singh*, S. Librarian, National Museum Institute, Delhi* * *Dr. A. P. Singh*, Associate Professor, Deptt. of LIS, BHU, Varanasi *Dr. D. K. Singh*, Deputy Librarian, BHU, Varanasi * * *Coordinator* *Dr. B. N. Singh* *Librarian* *National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation & Museology* *(Deemed University)* *Janpath, New Delhi-110011* *Tel. 011-23012988* *(M) 9312919313* *E-mail: byanktesh(a)gmail.com* * * * * *Contact Person:* Dr. Ajay Pratap Singh Reader and Organizing Secretary, Department of Library and Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, INDIA Mobile: +919415502802 E-Mail: apsingh_73(a)yahoo.co.in<http://us.mc953.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=apsingh_73@yahoo.co.in> -- Dr. B. N. Singh S. Librarian National Museum Institute (Deemed University) Janpath New Delhi 110011 Tel. 011-23012988 (M) 9312919313 Email: byanktesh(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Hindi books in technical libraries as per Rajbhasha rules
by Mailing List Admin 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:54:55 -0800 (PST) From: Anila Fadnavis <asufadnavis(a)yahoo.com> Dear all I would like to know if any central government autonomous body organizations' libraries purchase Hindi books for their libraries? IF so, What is the percentage of buying such books with technical books budget? Anila fadnavis NITIE Library

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Open Access and Building IRs: National Symposium 21-23 January 2009
by poornima＠nal.res.in 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Subject: Open Access and Building IRs: National Symposium Dear Colleagues, I would appreciate your participation in the following symposium being organised by us at NAL. In addition you may like to depute oneor two of your staff members to "NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON OPEN ACCESS AND BUILDING INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES" We at National Aerospace Laboratories have organised a three day "National Symposium on Open Access and Building Institutional Repositories(NSOABIR)" as a part of Golden Jubilee Celebrations of NAL. Date: 21-23 Jan 2009 at NAL, Bangalore. Venue: Dr. S R Valluri Auditorium/KTMD Seminar Hall National Aerospace Laboratories Bangalore Topics: Scholarly Communication, Open Access Movement/Initiative, OA Channels, OA Policies, Digitisation & Digital Preservation, Open Access Journals, Institutional Repositories, Setting up of IRs, Impact of OA on Citations/IF Value, IPR and Copyright issues, Librarian's Role in OA/IR, Case Studies. ONE FULL DAY PRACTICALS/DEMO ON SETTING UP OF IRS Resource Persons: Experts from DRTC/ISI, NCSI/IISc, NIMHANS, GEIT, Informatics India and NAL Panel Discussion: "Impact of Open Access on Science Communication" No of Participants: Restricted to 75 Registration Fees: Rs. 2000/- Accommodation: For few participants on first come first serve basis YOU CAN PAY THE REGISTRATION FEE ON THE SPOT> REGISTRATION STARTS AT *>#) a.m. ON 21st JANUARY 2009. I invite you to make use of this opportunity for yourself or your colleagues. For more details Please See: www.icast.org.in/nsoabir.html Contact: Mrs. Poornima Narayana, Convener, NSOABIR Information Centre for Aerospace Science and Technology (ICAST) National Aerospace Laboratories Post Bag No. 1779, Bangalore-560 017 Tel: 080-25086080; 25086083 Fax: 080-25260862; 25270670 E-mail: poornima(a)nal.res.in Regards Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Sci G & Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Information, Media and Digital Literacy - UNESCO supported spl programme on 23.1.09
by Arunachalam Hariharan 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

14. 01.2009 Dear friends and professionals, Wish you a very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2009 You are all aware that the Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS) is organizing many programmes on ‘Information Literacy’ with the active support and guidance of UNESCO in many places in our country. I am happy to inform you that SALIS is again organizing a Special Session on ‘Information, Media and Digital Literacy’ supported by UNESCO during the SALIS International Conference on Knowledge Networking in Digital Era ( 22-24 Jan 2009) between 3-30 PM to 6.30 P.M on 23.01.2009 at Chennai. This Special Session will be about 3 hrs duration with discussions and Q&A. Experts from various fields will be delivering the following special lectures. 1. Media and Digital Literacy by Ms. Iskra Panevska Advisor in Communication and Information for Asia, UNESCO, New Delhi 2. Information Literacy - Basics, Standards, Models and Case Studies by Prof. Pradeepa Wijetunge, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka 3. Information Literacy Model Curricula for different types of persons (researchers, school students, graduate/PG students, professionals, lifelong learners, disabled persons, etc.) Information Literacy Indicators by Prof.Jagtar Singh,Department of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, 4. Media Literacy - basics, models, standards, indicators ( an expert from Media) 5. Digital Literacy - basics, models, standards, indicators by Dr. Harish Chandra, Librarian, IIT M 6. Information Literacy for all by Mr. Anup Kumar Das, New Delhi. Date: 23. 01.2009 Time: 3.30 P.M to 6.30 P.M Venue : B.S.A. Crescent Engineering College (Seminar Hall 1), Chennai You are all cordially invited to participate in the special programme and also give your valuable suggestions to take Information Literacy to all in our county. Programme Co-ordinator A.Hariharan Presisent, SALIS -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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The School of Planning and Architecture Bhopal invites applications from eligible candidates for the post of Librarian
by Ayesha Khatoon 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Dear All* The School of Planning and Architecture Bhopal* has been established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India in 2008 to cater to the growing demand of Architects and Planners and to promote advance research in this field. The Institute is looking for dedicated and committed candidates to fill up the Librarian post. For more Detail visit the site http://www.iiserbhopal.ac.in/SPA.htm http://www.iiserbhopal.ac.in/Recruitment_for_Non-Academic_Positions.pdf With Regards -- Ayesha Khatoon Project Trainee Digital Library Kala Nidhi Division Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts(IGNCA) (An Autonomous body under Ministry of Culture. Govt. of India) 5 Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road, New Delhi-1 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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The Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML) invites applications from eligible candidates
by Ayesha Khatoon 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

1. *Head, Research & Publications Division (Direct Recruitment)* (1 post Unreserved): Scale of Pay -- Rs.15,600-39,100 + GP Rs. 7,600/-. Educational and other qualifications: - *Essential: * (i) Post Graduate Degree in Modern Indian History or an equivalent Degree, with specialization in Modern Indian History. *Desirable:* (i) Ph.D. Degree in Modern Indian History. (ii) Experience in editing of Research Publications. (iii) Knowledge of Computer Applications. Age limit for Direct Recruits: below 50 years 2. *Library & Information Officer (Direct Recruitment/Deputation) *(1 post Unreserved): Scale of Pay -- Rs. Rs. 15,600-39,100 + GP Rs. 7,600/- (Likely to be revised to Rs. 37,400-67,000 + GP Rs. 8,700/-). *Educational and other qualifications: -* * Direct Recruitment* *Essential: * (i) Post Graduate Degree in Social Sciences. (ii) Masters Degree in Library Science (iii) At least 10 years experience in a Research or a University library. *Desirable:* (i) Research experience in the field of Modern Indian History and familiarity with both published and unpublished source materials. (ii) Knowledge of Computer Applications. Age limit for Direct Recruits: below 50 years *On Deputation:* Officers in the pay scale attached to the Post of Deputy Library and Information Officer or above with five years regular service in the above grade. Candidates may send their applications giving full particulars, i.e., Name, Date of Birth, Qualifications, and Experience, with the necessary supporting documents to the Director, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Teen Murti House, New Delhi – 110 011 within one month from the date of publication of the advertisement. Upper Age limit will be relaxed in the case of departmental candidates and in the case of candidates of exceptional merit. Relaxation in the upper age limit will also be admissible to the candidates of reserved categories as per the rules. Those who are in employment may send their applications through proper channel. Appointment to any post by Direct Recruitment may be made on the recommendations of a Selection Committee from amongst: i) candidates recommended by the Employment Exchange on requisition in respect of those categories of employees of which the recruitment has to be made through the Employment Exchange, ii) from amongst the candidates applying in response to the Advertisement; iii) from amongst persons selected through personal contact; iv) from amongst candidates who have been recommended by such persons, or authorities from whom the recommendation has been called for by the Director, v) from amongst candidates employed in Government autonomous or statutory organizations, who apply in response to any circular. The Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML) reserves the right to consider any candidate who may not have formally applied. For more details visit the site http://www.nehrumemorial.com -- Ayesha Khatoon Project Trainee Digital Library Kala Nidhi Division Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts(IGNCA) (An Autonomous body under Ministry of Culture. Govt. of India) 5 Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road, New Delhi-1 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Call for Participation: International Conference on Knowledge Networking in ICT Era; 22-24 Jan 2009; Chennai, India
by Puna Das 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

Call for Participation International Conference on Knowledge Networking in ICT Era [http://crescentlib.googlepages.com/knict or http://autolib-india.net/salis/salis2008.asp] Dates: 22-24 January 2009 Venue: B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Engineering College, Chennai, India Jointly organised by B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Engineering College, Chennai, India & Society for the Advancement of Library & Information Science (SALIS), India This conference aims at bringing the IT sector, Academics and LIS professionals together for collaborative networks for knowledge creation and sharing for mutual benefits.The conference will have a special UNESCO session on Information, Media and Digital Literacy to promote ICT, media and Information Literacy, information literacy skills and to empower students, professionals and communities to meet the challenges in the changing environment in the ICT era. There will also have a pre-conference Tutorial on Moodle e-learning software. Pre-Conference Tutorial Topic: e-Learning: Creating online virtual courses using Moodle Date: 22.1.2009 (11.00 a.m.to 5.00 p.m) (theory & practical sessions) Special UNESCO Session Topic: Information, Media and Digital Literacy Date: 23.01.2009 (3.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m) For more details and Registration Form, click here: http://crescentlib.googlepages.com/knict Spot registration also can be done. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Did you know? You can CHAT without downloading messenger. Go to http://in.webmessenger.yahoo.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Call for Participation: ICT Innovations: India R&D Conference 2009; January 22-23, 2009, New Delhi
by Puna Das 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

ICT Innovations: India R&D Conference 2009 January 22-23, 2009 Venue: FICCI, Federation House, New Delhi, India FICCI, in partnership with Ministry of Science and Technology organizes India R & D Conferences, on an annual basis. The previous India R&D Conferences held on the themes "India as World's Knowledge Hub of the Future" (2005), "Commercialization of Innovation: Mind to Market" (2006) and "Innovation - Advantage India" (2007), Nanotechnology- Science of the Future (2008) and Geospatial Technologies in India: Challenges and Opportunities (2008) met with incredible success in terms of sensitizing the industry, R&D institutes and investors on various issues influencing the growth of India's Science and Technology. Carrying forward its earnest efforts, FICCI is now holding a series of India R&D Conferences with sectoral focus to allow formulation of sector-specific action plans and recommendations for industry, investors and policy makers. The third Conference in the Series is India R&D 2009 series with the theme of "ICT Innovations" to be held during January 22-23 2009.The conference aims to focus on ICT-enabled infrastructure by identifying priorities, building capacities and contributing to facilitating the integration of ICT into developmental agenda. ICT Innovations can lead to attainment of social development through augmented education, better health and hygiene, enhanced employment & entrepreneurship opportunities and cleaner environment. Session Details: Session I: ICT Innovations: Changing the face of Rural India Session II: In Conversation - with ICT Entrepreneur Session III: R&D Initiatives in ICT in India Session IV: FP7's Euro India Project Session Session V: Ecosystem in India for ICT Innovation Session VI: E- Health Session VII: E-mpowering Educators There is no Delegation/Registration Fee. Download Registration Form: http://www.indiarnd.com/enents/reg.pdf and Agenda: http://www.indiarnd.com/enents/prog.pdf With Best Regards ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article request from Environmental Geology by Springer
by Abdunnasar. A 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

Friends, One of my colleague is in urgent need of the following article. It would be highly appreciated if anyone can send me the soft copy of the same. Journal Title: Environmental Geology Publisher: Springer Article Title : Sand and gravel mining: effects on ground water resources in Hancock county, Maine, USA Author(s): John M. Peckenham, Teresa Thornton and Bill Whalen Regards Abdunnasar. A CESS, Trivandrum -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fighting for the right cause
by sabuj kumar chaudhuri 13 Jan '09

13 Jan '09

Dear friends and colleagues Firstly I want to congratualate Dr. P. V. Konnur,President,Indian Academic Library Association and allthe members of IALA for their fighting.At last We have seen that an organization with spine is fighting for the right cause. My heartfelt support will be always for them.They have pointed almost all the anomalies. I just want to suppliment one thing that our leave rules must be at par with the teachers because it is absolutely injustice that we are working non-vacationally but our leaves are being treated as vacational staff.College/universities are taking the adavantage of lack of clearleave rules provided by the UGC. And one thing more the logic behind to treat us non-vacational is very weak as new age librarians need equal academic freedom like their teacher friends.We need every kind of leaves like- 1.One day off for study/research per week 2.Faculty Improvement Programme FIP) leaves for doing M.Phil/Ph.D 3.Special leave for Postdoctoral study 4.Study leave 5.Extraordinay leaves for academic purposes 6.Duty leaves for Refresher courses/Conference/seminar/workshop etc. 7.sabbatical leave -------Fixed the duty hour for librarians at par with teachers because working non-vacationally creates identity problem and leave scopes to call us non-teaching staff/ administrative staff ------Make our post vacational or any thing like teachers -----include "LIBRARIAN" in the definition of the teachers in univerity statute and in the UGC Rules -----As AIFUCTO and IALA have rightly pointed that we must be redignated as --Assistant Professor in LIS --Associate Professor in LIS --Professor in LIS The last two things(definition and redignation) can do wonder and can bring complete revolution in the quality of the service and personnel. ---Finally in HRD approval there is a gross anomaly regarding the age of superannuation of librarian from that of teachers citing very very weak reason that there is no shortage of libarian.But there is a real shortage of librarian in respect of eligibility specified by the UGC norms. So our age of superannuation must be at par with the teachers. There should not be any anomaly between us and them.UGC should stop this ongoing US and THEM culture for the sake of development pure and healthy academic ambience in the college/university.I could not understand why the UGC does treat us step-motherly when we have the same eligibility.Why do they undervalue our work from the very begining? Possibly The UGC does not want LIS service in the college/university must not be represented by the high calibre persons. Time has come when we must come together and fight for our self respect. Once again I salute the effort of IALA and wishing a grand triumph over decades long injustice and discrimination. With warm wishes and Happy New Year 2009 to you all. sabuj ---------------------------------------------- Dr. Sabuj Kumar Chaudhuri Librarian Basanti Devi College [http://www.basantidevicollege.org] (An affiliated college under University of Calcutta) 147B, Rash Behari Avenue Kolkata-700 029, West Bengal India Phone:(033)24641012 email:sabooj_c@yahoo.co.in ;sabuj_c(a)yahoo.co.uk ;sabujkumarchaudhuri(a)gmail.com website:http://www.geocities.com/sabuj_c/sabuj.html ---------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Doing Stuff at the Library’s Website
by Vimal Kumar 13 Jan '09

13 Jan '09

Dear Professionals, It's high time to revamp the importance of a library website. Purpose of the library website will be varying for each library and they should have an answer for it. Libraries can offer all their services on their websites too. Now web publishing technology is cheap or free and user friendly. Libraries can think about adopting new technologies and tools (e.g. web 2.0) to manage online presence. Here is a nice article appeared in the blog of David Lee King. He put forward some thought provoking questions regarding the innovative use of library websites. http://www.davidleeking.com/2009/01/04/doing-stuff-at-the-librarys-website/ -- Vimal Kumar V. Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581 Web: www.asb.edu.in/vimal/ Blog: http://vimalkumar.oksociety.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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IADIS International Conference e-Society 2009 Registred Participants
by Shri Ram 13 Jan '09

13 Jan '09

Dear Forum Member! If Any One Attending IADIS International Conference e-Society 2009, Please Do Let Me Know. at shri_ram2576(a)yahoo.com regards Shri Ram Jaypee University of Information Technology Waknaghat, Distt-Solan (Himachal Pradesh), PIN-173215, Phone: (+91) 1792 239242, Fax: (+91) 1792 245362 (M) +98160 46419, +9418109763 (R) +91 1792 245416 http://shriram2576.googlepages.com/ Connect with friends all over the world. Get Yahoo! India Messenger at http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/?wm=n/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Opening at GE R&D, Bangalore - Library and Information Services Specialist
by Byrappa, Ananda (GE, Research) 13 Jan '09

13 Jan '09

Job Description: Library and Information Services Specialist Whitney Knowledge Centre (WKC), a division of Patents and Analytics Centre of Excellence (PACE) at John F. Welch Technology Centre (JFWTC) Bangalore provides a comprehensive range of Library & Information services to GE Global Research, JFWTC and other GE businesses, Globally. This job announcement is for the Library & Information Services Specialist Qualifications/Requirements: B.Sc with M.L.I.Sc or M.Sc with B.L.I.Sc (Library & Information Science), 3-6 years work experience, demonstrated ability to work independently and with limited guidance, resourceful, strong ownership, a passion for customers, excellent oral and written communication skills, teamwork, and good computer skills. The position involves interacting with technologists and attorneys at various global locations. Accordingly, preference will be given to someone with prior global exposure. Essential Functions /Responsibilities/Skills: a) Plan, procure, process & maintain WKC's print and e-resources b) Expertise in a cataloging and classification systems (knowledge of AACR II, Dewey Decimal Classification and Indexing) c) Responsible for maintenance of Library management system, assuring accuracy of all records and holdings. Perform periodic maintenance of the online system, including online routines necessary for database updating and integrity. d) Processing of technical reports for the reports database (TISCAT). e) Compile and report out usage of WKC subscribed resources f) Coordinating and conducting Book Fairs, training programs on WKC subscribed resources and services for technologists g) Assisting in publishing, budgeting, evaluation and negotiation with vendors & publishers for procurement/subscription of various databases and tools h) Interpreting and negotiating license agreements with publishers/vendors i) Good understanding of Copyright and passion for Compliance j) Experience in performing database & literature searches for Intellectual Property needs like novelty assessment etc. Salary will not be a constraint for right candidate. You can send your CV to ananda.byrappa(a)ge.com by January 27, 2009 Note: Attachment CV filename must contain your name (ex. Rama.doc) Ananda T.Byrappa Manager, Whitney Knowledge Centre John F Welch Technology Centre 122, EPIP, Phase 2, Whitefield Road, Bangalore - 560066, INDIA Phone: 91-80-25032618 Fax: 91-80-28412114 email: ananda.byrappa(a)ge.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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TRG.COURSE ON COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN SOC.SCs., 16-25 March, 2009, CSS, Surat (Gujarat).
by Puttaraj Choukimath 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Dear Friends, wish you all a very special HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009! TRAINING COURSE ON COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES, 16-25 March, 2009, CSS, Surat (Gujarat). Please visit: http://www.css.ac.in/tcourse.htm Best regards Puttaraj. FYI: text of circular inlined below: TRAINING COURSE ON COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES CSS/COMP/TRA 2008-2009/775 December 29, 2008 Dear Sir, The Centre is organizing a training course on COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES between March 16 and March 25, 2009 with the financial support of ICSSR, New Delhi. The course is particularly meant for those who are engaged in survey research and have to deal with data processing and analysis. Knowledge of basic statistical methods is essential. Applicants must be PC literate. The Centre has its in-house computer division. A general outline of the course, the details of which will be sent to the participants after their selection, is given below: (1) Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Research & Uses of Computers in Social Sciences (2) Survey Research: Methods and Tools; (3) Types of Data, Data Structure, and Data retrieval; (4) Research methodology; (5) Statistical techniques and data analysis using SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) package; (6) Demographic Data Analysis (7) Internet as an Archive: Possibilities, Problems and Perspectives I shall indeed be thankful if you could kindly give due publicity to this amongst the faculty members / Ph.D. and M.Phil. students in your institution, who may be interested in applying for the course. Interested candidates are requested to send their application along with the filled in questionnaire (standard format enclosed) so as to reach us latest by January 29, 2009. For further information or to download the form, see our website at http://css.ac.in/form.pdf or write to us at: info(a)css.ac.in. Those selected will have to deposit Rs.500/- as earnest money to be sent by M.O. This amount is refundable only after full attendance in this course. Participants will be charged a fee of Rs.800 if they are teachers; Rs.400 if they are M.Phil/ Ph.D. students receiving fellowships and Rs.200 if they are M.Phil/ Ph.D. students not receiving any fellowship. We will defray to and fro second-class travel expenses besides providing usual hospitality to the participants, as per ICSSR rules. Yours sincerely, (Vimal Trivedi) Course Director To Download Form Click Here Telephone:(0261) 2227173, 2227174, 2255298. Fax: 2223851 E-mail: info(a)css.ac.in Website: www.css.ac.in Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: puttuc(a)yahoo.com, choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: www.tiss.edu -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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International Workshop on Knowledge Managment (IWKM 2009)
by nali pm 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Dear Professional Friends, I am pleased to inform you that, The Maulana Azad Library- University Library -of Aligarh Muslim University (www.amu.ac.in) is organizing an International workshop on Knowledge Management (IWKM 2009) from 24th -25th Jan, 2009 (Saturday and Sunday). The expected outcome of the Workshop is to enable participants to develop Knowledge Management in their respective fields such as business, industry, management, libraries etc, to improve knowledge productivity. Objectives of the workshop · To identify Knowledge Management implementation in various corporate and academic institutes. · To understand the processes involved in capturing and sharing organization’s knowledge assets, both tacit and explicit. · To learn handling of select KM models/technology tools such as MASK. KMM, CKF etc for developing KM in the respective fields of the participants · To identify constraints and challenges, while implementing Knowledge Management programme · To explore possibilities to drive innovations in an organization and initiate new programmes relevant to nation’s needs, especially to bridge the gap between information rich and information poor. Resource Persons · Prof. Jean Louis Ermine Associate Dean TELECOM School of Management, Paris, France (Founder French KM Club & inventor MASK KM Model) Names of the other resource persons are to be notified . Participants Managers, Corporate/Industry Executives/Professionals in IT, Communication and Library & Information Science /Academic Faculty/Knowledge workers at various levels and Research Students. Workshop Fee Corporate/Sponsored Delegates: Rs. 4,000/- A group of three (Sponsored Delegates): Rs. 10,000/- Academics /Professionals: Rs. 2,000/- Accompanying Subsequent Participants Rs. 1,500/- Students: Rs. 1,000/- Demand Draft/Cheque to be drawn in favor of Organizing Secretary, IWKM 2009 payable at Aligarh. Registration fee include conference kit, tea/coffee and working lunch and dinner. For more details kindly see the attachment or visit http://www.amu.ac.in/conferences I invite all of you to make use of this opportunity With best regards Dr. Naushad Ali P.M Organizing Secretary IWKM 2009 Dept. of Library & information Science Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh-202002 iwkm09(a)gmail.com _________________________________________________________________ See all the ways you can stay connected to friends and family http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/default.aspx -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Library vacancy
by Sree Kumar Nair 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Dear Professionals, Christ University is looking for "Library Assistants" for its Law School Library. Salary: Negotiable Candidates with working knowledge in Library and Graduate/B.Lib.I.Sc./ D L I Sc below 30 years of age may apply. Last date for submission of application/resume is 19th January 2008 Please send your Resume to: sreekumar(a)law.christcollege.edu Regards, Sree Kumar, School of Law, Christ University, Bangalore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Address Required for CD/DVD Suppliers
by P. S. MANJUNATHA 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Dear Professionals We are planing to purchase CD/DVD related to Biology and Zoology . Hence it would be very helpful to us if somebody provide vendors address who are providing CD/DVD facility. Also whom we have to contact to purchase the same. Regards, P. S. MANJUNATHA BNMIT SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES BANGALORE -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Just Published: "Open Educational Resources: The Way Forward Deliberations of an International Community of Interest"
by Puna Das 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Just Published "Open Educational Resources: The Way Forward Deliberations of an International Community of Interest" By Susan D’Antoni UNESCO, 2008 About This Report This document is a testament to the power of group deliberation in a vibrant virtual community. It presents the way forward for OER based upon the informed opinion of an international community, and sets out priorities for future action. It will be of interest to many readers – from decision and policy makers at the national level to teachers and academics at the local level. Download Full-Text Report: http://learn.creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/oer-way-forward… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://openaccess-unesco.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Joined as Faculty at DRTC
by Madaiah krishnamurthy 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Dear Professional Colleagues, It is my pleasure to inform you that I have been appointed as faculty to the DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore. I have reported to the post on 9th Jan 2009. When I was librarian at Indian Statistical Institute, and Mysore University Library, I helped many institute to install DSpace, E-Prints, Green Stone, New Gen Lib( Free Service). For Instance, DSpace : 1. Devarjaurs Medical College, Kolar 2. Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology , Bangalore 3. Coorg Institute of Technology, Coorg 4. M.S.Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore 5. Central Institute of Indian Languges, Mysore 6. Reva Institute of Technology , Bangalore 7. JSS College, Najanagud New Gen LIB: 1. Centre for Institute of Science and Technology, University of Mysore, Mysore 2. Univeristy of Mysore Library, 3. Oxford College, Bangalore I am ready to offer to professionals, who are interested in establishing the Digital Repository in their library and library automation software ( New Gen Lib and Koha) . However, there are many professionals are available for helping in building IR and automation. As such all further communication may please be sent on the following address. Thanking You, With Warm regards, M.Krishnamurthy Dr.M.Krishnamurthy,M.A.,M.L.I.Sc., PhD. Fulbright Fellow(University of Illinois,USA) Asst Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Documentation Research and Training Centre 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalore 560059 Ph: 91-080-28483002/3/5 Fax: 91-080-284482711 _________________________________________________________________ What can you do with the new Windows Live? Find out http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/default.aspx -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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IALA Memorandum submitted to MHRD & UGC
by Pandurang Konnur 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Dear Professional Colleagues, I am happy to inform all the Academic Librarians that, IALA has submitted its memorandum to MHRD, UGC and anomaly committee appointed by UGC to rectify the anomalies caused in the MHRD orders in spite of the clear cut recommendations made by the UGC-PRC to treat Librarians and Physical Education Directors equivalent to teachers for matters of pay and allowances and for promotions in universities and colleges. The full text of the memorandum may be downloaded from the following link of IALA website: http://iala.org.in/subfiles/news/MHRDUGC.pdf Further, it is learnt that, the UGC on receipt of MHRD orders has constituted a committee to draft the UGC guidelines as per the directions of the MHRD orders. Hence, IALA felt is appropriate to represent the issues to the MHRD as well as UGC in order to get them addressed before the UGC-Guidelines are finalized and issued. All the professionals are requested to study the MHRD orders and the IALA Memorandum and inform us if you find any more anomalies in the MHRD order. However, IALA will be visiting Delhi to meet the Secretary, MHRD and the Chairman, UGC on 29th to 31st January 2009, during that time it is desired to carry a revised memorandum and submit. Hence, all are requested to seriously respond to this call. Thanking You, Yours Sincerely, -- Dr.P.V.Konnur Fulbright Fellow (University of Illinois) University Librarian, Bangalore University Library, Jananabharati, Bangalore-560056 Phone: 080-22961131, 23215510 Website: http://library.bub.ernet.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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help required with catalogue
by Mailing List Admin 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Dear Members, the following mail was sent to a personal email id. It is, in turn, being forwarded to lis-forum. Those desirous to respond, may do so directly to Nirmita Narasimhan <nirmita(a)cis-india.org> Thanks, - moderator Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:35:20 +0530 (IST) From: Nirmita Narasimhan <nirmita(a)cis-india.org> I am Nirmita and am working with Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in Bangalore, of which Professor Arunachalam is a distinguished fellow. I am working on issues of internet, technology and accessibility for disabled persons and as part of my work I am involved in a project for creating an on line data base of reading resources for visually challenged individuals. CIS is a member of the Daisy Forum of India (DFI). We have in our last meeting decided that all organisations of the DFI shall send us their catalogues which we will compile into a combined catalogue and put up on the inclusiveplanet web site. There are a couple of issues here- the organisations have not strictly conformed to any single manner of maintaining a catalogue and the content comprises books in different formats such as electronic, daisy book, braille level 1, braille level 2, audio and so on. So there are a few things which we need to do, namely, (a) decide on a format which can be followed by all the organisations henceforth for their libraries, (b) specify values for classification, (c) identify a cataloguing software and compiling the catalogue itself. I was wondering if you could help us in any way with that. Please let me know your thoughts on this. Looking forward to your response, best wishes, Nirmita Nirmita Narasimhan Centre for Internet and Society No. D2, 3rd Floor, Sheriff Chambers 14, Cunningham Road, Bangalore - 560 052 P: +91 80 4092 6283 M: 098458 68078

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Gross Injustice in the MHRD Notification
by Mailing List Admin 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 19:03:13 +0530 (IST) From: Dr. Nabi Hasan <nabihasan2002(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Professional I am submitting few points before you and will request the Senior persons to take up the matter on association level with the MHRD and UGC before it is too late as the MHRD has deviated even from the original Chadda Committee UGC Report. It need to be tajken up urgently before the UGC notifies the same for implementation. � (1)In the initial document submitted by Prof. Chadha Committee under 5.15.2, there was an option for "Deputy Librarians and Deputy Directors of Physical Education may be considered for promotion to Librarian and Director of Physical Education respectively under CAS on lines similar to and under conditions of eligibility similar to those of Readers seeking promotion to the post of Professor. Senior most Librarian and senior most Director of Physical Education may be re-designated as Chief Librarian and Chief Director of Physical Education respectively. The MHRD document is silent on this and only states under Sl. No. 5 (d) (iii) that Deputy Librarians after three years in AGP of Rs. 9000 shall be eligible for appointment to the post of Librarian through open recruitment. University assistant librarian/college librarian(selection grade)/university Deputy librarian can move to associate professors scale after 3 years but he/she canot moves to professors scale after 3 years even if he fulfills the conditions for such type of scales what associate professors have for such type of upward movement in universities & colleges,. Then where's the parity remains. (2)On page 2 under Sl. No. 2 (a) (vii) Post of Associate Professor shall be in the Pay Band of Rs. 37400-67000, with AGP of Rs. 9000. Directly recruited Associate Professors shall be placed in the Pay Band of Rs. 37400-67000, with AGP of Rs. 9000, at the appropriate stage in the Pay Band in terms of the conditions of appointment. Compare this for teachers with Sl. No. 5 (c) (i) to (viii) for Deputy Librarians wherein unequivocal terms the document prescribes the Pay Band of Rs.15600-39100 with AGP of Rs. 8000 initially for direct recruited Deputy Librarians and they will move to the Pay Band of Associate Professors only after putting in three years in the AGP of Rs. 8000.If this is not a violation of parity with teachers, then what is this? (3)� If a teacher completed Ph.D. within 9 years, he is given the scale of 12000-18300 after 9 years but not a Librarian who gets the same after 11 years even having completed the Ph.D. within 9 years. (4)� In State Agricultural universities, Librarians are declared teachers and they are eligible for Study Leave, etc. but this Notification will deprive them of their present facilities. Best regards, � Nabi Hasan, Ph.D., CICTAL, Borlaug Fellow University Library CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University Palampur (H.P.)- 176 062, India Phone: +91-1894-283184 (Direct), 230361 (Off.), 234571 (Res.) Cell- +91-9418493990 Fax- +91-1894-230361 E-mail: nabihasan(a)rediffmail.com nabihasan(a)gmail.com Web: http://hillagric.ernet

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School Library--Opportunities to Help
by prafulla tv 11 Jan '09

11 Jan '09

Dear Sir, It is proposed to start a School Library in Government Primary School, near Urban Colony, Bhongir, Nalgonda District, Andhra Pradesh on January 26, 2009. This co-ed school has 125 students studying Classes 1 to 5. These students belong to socially disadvantaged sections of the society. Most of their parents earn their livelihood working as labourers. A preliminary study was done to check about the viability of running a school library and we found enthusiastic response from the teachers serving this institution. We hope to guide this library as a pilot project wherein the students would be managing and running the library on their own. A group of volunteers from the Organisation for Protection of Libraries (Andhra Pradesh)headed by Dr. Kishore (Librarian, Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology) would train these students on simple techniques of accessioning, cataloguing and circulation of books. We have already received donation of the following items for the establishment of this school library: 41 children's books worth Rs.900 Glass paned steel almirah with 5 shelves Opportunities are still available to help the establishment of this school library on a firm footing. Particularly, we wish to have a well-chosen, core collection of children's books including encyclopaedias, magazines, etc. These children can read English and Telugu. We appeal for donation of children's books suitable to their age level. Donations in cash for the purchase of books and magazines are also welcome. Thank you Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra Flat G3, Phase 4 Saptagiri Apartments Padmarao Nagar Secunderabad 500 025 Mobile: 93962 51106 Office: 040 2726 0930 Residence: 040 2750 5908 Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Indian Library and Information Science Blog(s) are not able to catch sufficient number of user base.
by Badan Barman 10 Jan '09

10 Jan '09

During the course of ten days (1st January, 2009- 10th January, 2009) I have identified 69 blogs developed by the Library and Information Science Professional working in India. Out of 69, I found only 44 blogs<http://sites.google.com/site/lislinks/library-and-information-science-blogs…> to be worth mentioned. The others are only with one or two posts (massage) or sometimes without any post. What the astonishing fact about the Indian Library and Information Science Blogs, I have noticed during my course of action is that they are not professional enough to catch a sufficient number of user base (except of course the blogs of LIS Links, with which I personally attached). Many of the blogs are messes with posts from different subject areas of LIS. While sometimes they post announcement regarding seminar, sometimes they post job vacancies in LIS, while at other times they are trying to act as a directory of Library and Information Science resources in some specific subject areas. I think the Indian Library and Information Science professional should comes up from the above problem and they should try to devote only to one or two specific subject only to catch more users. I am sufficiently depressed by able to locate only five blogs (and all of from the works of "LIS Links") that are able to meet the criteria that is blog(s) with 100 posts (massage) or received 50 Web Hits daily or 25 regular subscriber. (Any one). (I will be glad to know if I missed out something really wonderful blog that able to meet the criteria set out above and if someone able to point out to that). With many many thanks to those who have really helped me in compiling such a huge list within ten days itself. -- LIS in India: What's going on? (Consult the following services of "LIS Links") Link Library of Open Access English Language Journals: http://lislinks.blogspot.com/ A Link Library in LIS: http://lislinks.110mb.com Indian Library and Information Science Resources: http://sites.google.com/site/lislinks/ Jobs in LIS in India: http://lisjob.blogspot.com/ Upcoming Seminars, Conferences, Workshops and Refresher Courses in LIS in India: http://lisseminar.blogspot.com Latest Happenings and Contemporary Issues in LIS: http://lislatest.blogspot.com Awards, Prizes, Scholarships or Fellowships in LIS: http://lisscholarship.blogspot.com/ Admission Notice for Courses in LIS in India: http://liscourse.blogspot.com/ LIS Links: Connecting LIS Professional in India: http://lislinks.ning.com/ Google Groups: LIS Links: http://groups.google.co.in/group/lislinks?hl=en&lnk=srg -- Thanking you Yours faithfully (Sri Badan Barman) Academic Consultant, Library & Information Science, Krishna Kanta Handique State Open University, Housefed Complex, Last Gate, Dispur, Guwahati-781006, Assam, Phone: 0361-2234964 / 2235971, Fax: 0361- 2235398. Website: www.kkhsou.org, Email: kkhsou(a)gmail.com, kkhsoul(a)gmail.com Research Scholar: Department of Library & Information Science, Gauhati University, Guwahati-781014, Assam. Email: dlisgu(a)gmail.com. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Opening of Library Trainee positions at the Resource Centre, DA-IICT Gandhinagar, Gujarat
by ts kumbar 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

Dear Colleagues, Kindly bring the following announcement to the notice of interested candidates and also request you to recommend potential candadates. ---------------------------------- Subject: Opening of Library Trainee positions at the Resource Centre, DA-IICT Gandhinagar, Gujarat The Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information & Communication Technology (DA-IICT) at Gandhinagar http://www.daiict.ac.in/daiict/index.html is looking for young, dynamic and fresh graduates with minimum First Class in Masters in Library and Information Science to work as 'Library Trainees' for its Resource Centre (Library). Duration of the Training is for a period of six months and extendable up to one year depending on the performance of candidates. The trainees gets a fixed stipend of Rs. 8000/-per month with no other facilities/ benefits, excepting casual leave. Accomodation in students hostel on the campus on payment basis will be provided subject to availability. The Resource Centre http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/ has fully computerized in-house operations and services and provides access to wide variety of digital collection, catering to the needs of the Faculty, Staff and Students. Several new initiatives are being taken to make this library as one of the leading and resource libraries in the area of ICT in the country. It is a part of regional & national consortia and actively participates in the resource sharing activities. Resource Centre is kept open till mid night on all working days during the semester and is open on holidays, Saturdays and Sundays. Selected trainees will require to work during these extended hours on rotation basis. Nature of Traineeship: Traniees will be provided with an opportunity work in different sections of the Resource Centre and learn the modern library management & services including applications of information and communication technologies.The resource centre provides a highly professional working & learning environment. Candidates will have an opportunity work and learn on emerging IT tools and technologies. Date for Written Test & Interview: 19th January, 2009 at 10.00am Venue for written test and Interview: DA-IICT Campus, Near Indroda Circle, Gandhinagar 382 007 Address for sending the application: Please send your advance copy of the application hr(a)daiict.ac.in (Head, HR & Admin, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar 382 007, Gujarat) The interested candidates who meet the above mentioned basic requirements may send in thier application with CV at the above address and directly come for the written test and interview. Candidate are requested to bring with them the certificates in support of date of birth and qualifications, and experiences, if any. -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks & Regards Kumbar ------------------ Dr. T S Kumbar Resource Centre DA-IICT Gandhinagar -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Urgently Required - Librarian
by HELP LIBRARY 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

Dear All, Urgently required Librarians for Health Education Library for People (HELP) an NGO at CST Mumbai. The candidate should have a degree in Library Science, BLISC/MLISC, with excellent communication skills, knowledge of computer applications and should have a pleasing and outgoing personality. Freshers may apply. Please e-mail your resume to helplibrary(a)gmail.com or helplib(a)vsnl.com . Our contact numbers are: 65952393/65952394/22021106 Only candidates from Mumbai may apply. Dr. Anirruddha Malpani Health Education Library for People 206, Dr. D.N. Road, National Insurance Building, Gr. Floor, Near New Excelsior Cinema, Mumbai 400001 www.healthlibrary.com ------------------------------ Bring your gang together - do your thing. Start your group.<http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_groups_2/*http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups> -- Dr.Aniruddha Malpani, M.D., Health Education Library for People, National Insurance Building, Ground Floor, 206, Dr.D.N.Road, Mumbai - 400 001. Tel Nos.65952393/ 65952394/22061101 www.healthlibrary.com Free Ask the Librarian service for all your health queries at http://www.healthlibrary.com/information.html For complete details of our free health talks check our 'HELP TALK' google calendar at http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ciugckkj8jvnk97j6dbiioaghg%40group… -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Exhibition of Books and Cultural Festival of North Eastn States
by Dr. Ramesh Gaur 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

Dear Colleagues, On behalf of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, I am pleased to invite you for the programme "Purvottari" Spirit of the North-East being held at IGNCA from 10th January to 18th January, 2009. The calendar of events are as given below:- Calendar of Events Event Date & Time Venue Inauguration 10th January, 2009 Lawns, 3, R.P.Road 6.00 p.m. Seminar-Culture of North-East 10-12 January,2009 Central Wing, India: A Historical perspective 10.00 am -4.30 pm IIIrd floor No. 5, R.P.Road Special Lectures 13-18 January,2009 Central Wing 4.00 pm -5.00 pm IIIrd floor No. 5, R.P.Road Exhibition I - The Mental Atlas: 10-18 January,2009 Central Wing Art & Culture of the Ground Floor, North-East Exhibition Hall, No. 5 R.P.Road Exhibition II: Buddhism in 10-18 January,2009 Mati Ghar, C.V.Mess the North-East 10.30 am -8.00 pm Janpath Exhibition III: Hastalipi: A Multi- 10-18 January, 2009 Right Wing, media presentation 10.30 am - 8.00 pm Ground Floor, on manuscripts from No. 5 R.P.Road the North-East Exhibition IV - Vidya: An 10-18 January, 2009 Central Wing Exhibition of 10.30 am - 8.00 pm Ground Floor books on the No. 5 R.P.Road North-East Film Shows: Screening of 10-18 January,2009 Media Unit Documentary 11a.m -5.00 pm No. 3 R.P.Road & feature Films on the North East Cultural Programme: Dance and 10-18 January,2009 Lawns, Music from 6 pm - 8.00 pm No. 3, R.P.Road the North- East Annapurna: Food Court serving 10-18 January,2009 delicacies from the 10.00 am to 9.00 pm North-East Closing Ceremony: 18th January, 2009 Lawns, 6.00 pm No. 5 R.P.Road (Entry to No. 5, R.P.Road is from Mansigh Road) I also invite you to participate in the Seminar on "Digital Preservation and Access to Indian Cultural heritage with special reference to IGNCA Cultural Knowledge Resources" being held at IGNCA on 31st January and 1st February, 2009 More details on above programmes can be have from our website www.ignca.nic.in . With regards, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Ramesh C Gaur PGDCA, MLISc,Ph.D. Fulbright Scholar (Virginia Tech, USA) Librarian & Head-Kala Nidhi Division Coordinator- ABIA International Index Project Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts(IGNCA) (An Autonomous body under Ministry of Culture. Govt. of India) 5 Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road, New Delhi-1 Phone: 91-11-23385442, 23385884 Fax: 91-11-22385884 Mobile: 91-9810487158 URL: www.ignca.gov.in Email: gaur(a)ignca.nic.in; rcgaur(a)bol.net.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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International Workshop on Information Literacy (IWIL) - 2009 in Bangladesh
by Anita vashisht 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

International Workshop on Information Literacy (IWIL) - 2009 Date: 22-26 June 2009 Organized by Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Sponsored by The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Venue: Independent University, Bangladesh, Baridhara, Dhaka IFLA (The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession. IFLA has several 'core activities', one of which is Action for Development through Libraries (ALP). In the IFLA website it has been described as follows: "The mission of ALP is to further the library profession, library institutions and library and information services in the developing countries of Africa, Asia and Oceania and Latin America and the Caribbean. Within the special ALP areas the goals are to assist in continuing education and training; to facilitate the establishment of new library associations and the implementation of IFLA Guidelines on the management of library associations; to promote the function of libraries: services to the general public, information literacy and lifelong learning, and to combat functional illiteracy; to promote the use of ICT and the creation of electronic resources and to increase publishing activities and dissemination of information to the communities, with special attention to marginalized groups." So, under this mission and strategy of IFLA, Independent University Bangladesh, (IUB) has been selected to host the above stated international workshop for the first time in Bangladesh. The Key resource person for the workshop is: Gary Gorman Professor, School of Information Management Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Contact person: M. Hossam Haider Chowdhury University Librarian Independent University, Bangladesh Phone: 880-2-9884498, 880-2-9881917, 880-2-9881681 Fax: 880-2-8823959, 880-2-9896575 E-mail: mhhc(a)iub.edu.bd Kind Regards, *********************************************************** Anita Vashistha (Librarian) Napino Auto & Electronics Ltd, Gurgaon, India *********************************************************** 1. Join today Digital Library Discussion Forum http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg 2. Join today LIS-Forum mailing list http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Graduate training Program in Central Library IIT Madras
by Vasanthakumar N 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

Friends, *Two year Graduate Training Programme in the Central Library* of *IIT MADRAS *: http://www.iitm.ac.in/Training%20and%20Continuing%20Education%20Programme/1… INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CHENNAI- 600 036 Advt. No.IITM/R/1/2009 Dated 06.01.2009 Invites application for *Two year Graduate Training Programme in the Central Library* of the institute. Graduates with a minimum of second class along with Bachelor of Library & Information Science degree from any recognized University are eligible to apply. Knowledge of data processing is desirable. Preference will be given to candidates who have previous experience of working in a Technical Library. A monthly stipend of *Rs.7500/- for 1st year * and *Rs.8000/- for 2nd year* will be given. Selection is through test and interview. Application form and instructions can be downloaded from the website www.iitm.ac.in under the link *Training and Continuing Education Programme.*Application forms can also be obtained from the undersigned by post by sending a requisition with a self addressed stamped envelope for *Rs.10/-.*Upper age limit is 28 years for UR, 31 years for OBC and 33 years for SC/ST candidates. *Last date for receipt of application is 30.01.2009.* *Application <http://www.iitm.ac.in/attachments/IITMR12009Appli.GT09-11.doc> * *Registrar* *-- N. Vasanthakumar Assistant Librarian TSM, Madurai, * 9486026488 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article needed
by sujata.laxmeshwar＠wipro.com 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

Hi, Pls. help me to get the below article. Adopting Cleanroom software engineering with a phased approach Source IBM Systems Journal archive Volume 33 , Issue 1 (1994) table of contents Pages: 89 - 109 Year of Publication: 1994 ISSN:0018-8670 Authors P. A. Hausler IBM Corp. Bethesda, MD R. C. Linger IBM Corp. Bethesda, MD C. J. Trammell Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville Publisher IBM Corp. Riverton, NJ, USA Best regards, Sujata Information Services Division, Wipro Technologies No.70/1,keonics Electronic City, Tower-17 basement, Bangalore-560100 Tel: -080-30299891,|Voip: 8082638 Fax: 80-30299889| Please do not print this email unless it is absolutely necessary. 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 proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. WARNING: Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.wipro.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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8th National Conference on Decision Making
by Senthil Kumar T 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

Dear Admin Kindly forward this mail to our forum Expecting our members to participate and contribute the papers Thanking You for valuable support SILVER JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS - 1983-2008 LIST 8th National Conference on DECISION MAKING AND NEW INVESTMENTS IN KNOWLEDGE RESOURCE CENTRES Organized by Library and Information Science Association (LISA) Alumni Association of Library and Information Science (AALIS) PG and Research Department of Library and Information Science Venue: Bishop Heber CollÃ¨ge(Autonomous), Trichirappalli- 17 Tamilnadu Date : 19-21 February, 2009 In the age of Techno â Scientific revolution, the sheer quantity of knowledge and information is expanding exponentially and increasingly. As a result, the Libraries and Information Centers are facing growing challenges to organize increasingly diverse collections and make information readily accessible to users. Public, Academic, Special and Corporate Libraries are expected to provide their users with the right tools to easily find information in multiple resources. Logical decision making is an important part of all management based professions where specialists apply their knowledge in a given area to take decisions. The managers of knowledge resource centers are working with the quantitative and descriptive models for decision making, management and planning. The combination of the concepts, decision making and new investment is an emerging management technique used in most of the disciplines and the Libraries and Information centers are not exceptions to it. Therefore, the conference would be an attempt in this direction to exploit the application of Decision making theories and models for the successful management of Knowledge Resource Centers. This theme is proposed with a hope that the deliberations of this conference would help to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, flexibility and competitiveness of the Knowledge Resource Centers as a whole by way of involving everyone in the organization towards improving the ways in which things are done. This conference will comprise of One day Pre-conference Tutorial and Two days Conference. THEME Decision Making and New Investments in Knowledge Resource Centers SUB-THEMES 1. Information Diversity and Awareness a) Information system and management b) Information security c) Information Marketing d) Information Networking e) Content Management f) Role of Government and Non-government Organizations 2) Decision Making Processes a) Benefits b) Causes and risks in New Investments c) Organizational aspects of New Investments d) Risk Management Strategies 3) Qualitative Methods a) Operational Challenges b) Supply and Chain Management c) Application of Statistical Theories d) Mathematical Modeling e) Performance Measurement in Knowledge economy f) Knowledge community and knowledge enterprises 4) Social aspects of Decision Making a) Social Values of IT systems b) Ergonomics and ethics c) Surveillance d) Monitoring e) Teleworking and f) Managing Human Rights 5) Cooperation and Collaboration a) Global Information Infrastructure b) International Standards for Cooperation and Collaboration c) Collaborative Publishing in digital age d) Media convergence 6) LIS Education a) LIS education programmes for New Information Investments b) Preparing curriculum for E-learning. Pre Conference Tutorial Theme : Designing and Development of Web Portals Date : 19 -02-2009 GUIDELINES FOR PAPER PRESENTATION Participants are invited to contribute papers for presentation on the above mentioned theme and sub themes. 1. The maximum number of papers is restricted to only two either by individual or by collaboration. 2. The maximum number of authors must be three only. 3. The general theoretical presentation may be avoided. 4. Papers should be submitted along with the registration fee. 5. Papers should be submitted on A4 size paper along with CD and through e-mail. 6. Papers must contain the name of the author, designation, title, abstract, mailing address, telephone number and e-mail address. Papers with registration fees should reach The Organizing Secretary, LIST-8th National Conference, Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli- 620 017, Tamilnadu on or before 06th February 2009. Papers accepted for presentation will be published in the conference volume. REGISTRATION FEE 1.With Accommodation Professionals : Rs 900/- AALIS : Rs.800/- Students & Full Time Research scholars : Rs.700/- 2.With out Accommodation Professionals : Rs 700/- AALIS : Rs.600/- Students & Full Time Research scholars : Rs.500/- REGISTRATION: Registration could be done in advance by drawing DD in favour of ORGANIZING SECRETARY- LIST `09, BISHOP HEBER COLLEGE, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI, 620 017, TAMILNADU. ACCOMMODATION: Accommodation can be arranged for the participants in the nearest hotels, however the participants have to inform us in advance REGISTRATION FORM â LIST`09 9th National Conference on DECISION MAKING AND NEW INVESTMENTS IN KNOWLEDGE RESOURCE CENTRES 19th â 21st February, 2009, BISHOP HEBER COLEGE, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI -620 017, TAMILNADU NAME: Prof./Dr./Mr. /Mrs. : ____________ _________ _________ DESIGNATION : ____________ _________ _________ INSTITUTION : ____________ _________ _________ ADDRESS FOR COMMUNICATION : ____________ _________ _________ ____________ ____________ _______ __________ _________ _________ PIN:____________ PHONE RES: ____________ OFF: ____________ MOBILE:___________ E-MAIL : ____________ _________ _________ Are you presenting a Paper : Yes/No ____________ If yes, the title of the Paper : ____________ _________ ______ Do you need Accommodation : Yes/No______ _________ ________ Date and time of arrival by bus/ train :____________ _________ PAYMENT DETAILS AMOUNT : ____________ _________ _________ DD NO. : ____________ _________ _________ BANK : ____________ _________ _________ BRANCH : ____________ _________ _________ DATE: PLACE: SIGNATURE With Regards SENTHIL KUMAR.T Librarian Christ University Bangalore-560 029 Mobile: 98863 71610 Trichy) 97501 07407 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Focus on E-Learning Technologies
by Rajan 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

Dear All, The role, status and prestige (but not necessarily pay) of librarians may go high , if they equip themselves with skills in e-learning technologies so as to grab the emerging opportunities under National Mission on Education through ICT. The Mission, which will begin immediately, may offer sufficient opportunities to the librarians having good exposure to e-learning technologies. The Mission purports to promote content generation, computers and connectivity in 18,000 government / private colleges and 419 universities. The mission proposes to focus on Wiki technologies for content generation. Content Managements Systems like Drupal, E Course Servers like Moodle, Digital Libraries like Greenstone etc will have due role in its activities. So the Librarians, who have good knowledge on those technologies, can play a key role in the digital technology based e-learning initiatives under the Mission. Regards, K Rajasekharan -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Videos for B Tech education
by Rajan 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

Dear All, Libraries in Engineering Colleges can set up video viewing sections, as part of the libraries, by putting a few computers and making available, the NTPEL Video lectures on B Tech courses, in them, for promoting e-learning. The high quality video lectures for around 4500 hours, created by 350 teachers in IITs are included in the NTPEL package. The cost altogether for the videos in DVD format is Rs one lakh only. Alternatively, the contents can be put as a website in intranet. By setting up such an e-learning unit, the library can emerge as a direct partner in engineering education, by disseminating the contents of the video lectures. This mail is intended to draw the attention of the pro-active librarians in engineering colleges to the less utilized NTPEL e-learning package. The lectures are available for viewing on YouTube at http://in.youtube.com/user/nptelhrd NTPEL site at http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/ will provide more details. Regards, K Rajasekharan -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Indian Railways: Few interesting Websites on Internet
by Mukesh Anand 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

Dear Members', Here I am giving few websites of Indian Railways on Internet, which may be of your interest. 1. Indian Railways Passenger Reservation Enquiry www.indianrail.gov.in 2. IRCTC Online Passenger Reservation Site www.irctc.co.in 3. Better Way to Search Trains www.erail.in 4. Train Running Information / National Train Enquiry System www.trainenquiry.com 5. Indian Railways Time Table 2008-09 www.indianrailways.gov.in/TAG0809/Index.htm 6. Indian Railways: Official Website of Ministry of Railways www.indianrailways.gov.in 7. Rail Tourism India www.railtourismindia.com 8. National Rail Museum, New Delhi www.nationalrailmuseum.org 9. Darjeeling Himalayan Railway www.dhr.in 10. Palace on Wheels www.palaceonwheels.net 11. Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Ltd. (DFCC) http://dfccil.org 12. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (DMRC) www.delhimetrorail.com 13. Metro Railway, Kolkata http://203.153.44.240/ 14. Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation www.mrvc.indianrail.gov.in 15. Konkan Railway Corporation www.konkanrailway.com 16. Railway Recruitment Control Board www.rrcb.gov.in 17. Institute of Rail Transport, New Delhi www.irt-india.com N.B. :- You may get the Web Site of Zonal Railways (You may find Railway Division Site in Zonal Railways). Production Units Corporation Sites & Others in Indian Railways Official Site. www.indianrailways.gov.in USP (Unique Sales Preposition) of Indian Railways "Serving Customer with a Smile" Wishes for New Year :- Tamannao se bhari ho zindagi. Khwahison se bhara ho har pal Daman bhi chhota lagne lage Itni khusian de apko ane wala har pal. Happy New Year 2009 Thanx & Regards, Mukesh Anand Asst. Libn. Officers' Training College for Indian Railways (Premier Training Institute of the Indian Railways) Sanskari Nagari Vadodara -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Koha 2.9 Windows installation manual
by Vimal Kumar 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

Dear Friends, Here are some useful materials for library professionals who wish to use Koha. I prepared these materials for "NCSI-IDRC Workshop on Integrated Library Automation Packages: Basics of KOHA and NewGenLib" January 5th to 9th, 2009. It includes an installation manual for Koha 2.9 on Windows, tutorial of Staff client and opac. I explained installation process using detailed screen shots. I hope that it will make your effort to install Koha in your Windows XP/2000. You can download power point presentations from my Koha blog. http://vimalkumar.oksociety.in/ -- Vimal Kumar V. Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581 Web: www.asb.edu.in/vimal/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Addressed Required for E-Book Supplier
by Champeswar Mishra 07 Jan '09

07 Jan '09

Dear Professional, We are planing to purchase e-book related to health and medical science. Hence it would be very helpful to us if somebody provide vendors address who are providing e-book facility.Also whom we have to contact to purchase the same. Regards, Champeswar Mishra Library and Information Officer Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Marketing guy available
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 07 Jan '09

07 Jan '09

Dear Fellow Librarians Do you offer fee-based Document delivery services as a part of your library services? Are you searching for a good marketing guy who can procure orders for you and promote your library services on a commercial basis. I know a gentleman who increased the turnover from Rs 10000 per month to about Rs one lakh per month.He has experience in fetching orders for Document delivery and Translations jobs. As you might have guessed he does not have formal library qualifications!! If you are searching for a good marketing guy please let me know. I can help you / him. Regards Dr P Vyasamoorthy, 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015. Ph: LL: 040-27846631 Cell: 9490804278 I blog at: http://vyasa-kaaranam-ketkadey.blogspot.com/ http://societyforservingseniors.satyamcsr.org/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy of Librarian's position
by Mailing List Admin 07 Jan '09

07 Jan '09

Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 11:38:03 +0530 From: Divakar Babu <hsdivakarbabu(a)gmail.com> This is to inform you all that VOGUE INSTITUTE OF FASHION TECHNOLOGY requires "Librarian" for its college Library Holding MLISc (Library and Information Science) With or without experience Remuneration shall Commensurate with Qualification and experience You may contact us at VOGUE INSTITUTE OF FASHION TECHNOLOGY Football stadium complex, Diagnally Opp, to Garuda Mall, Off, M. G. Road, Bangalore-560025 Tel: 25304332, 25304372, 25545099, 25545098 E-mail: nafeesa(a)bgl.vsnl.net.in www.voguefashioninstitute.com -- Regards: Divakar H.S. IKM Trainee NCSI,IISc Campus Bangalore-560012. E-mail ID: divakar(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Mobile No: 9986719212

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Version 74, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

Version 74 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. This selective bibliography presents over 3,350 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. Where possible, links are provided to works that are freely available on the Internet, including e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries (http://tinyurl.com/5en4jt) see: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dsoverview.htm Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues* 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Digital Rights Management* 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies* Appendix B. About the Author* Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* Digital Libraries* Electronic Books and Texts* Electronic Serials* General Electronic Publishing* Images Legal* Preservation* Publishers Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* SGML and Related Standards Further Information about SEPB The XHTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be searched using a Google Search Engine. Whether the search results are current depends on Google's indexing frequency. In addition to the bibliography, the XHTML document includes: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (monthly list of new resources; also available by e-mail--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756 http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 330 related Web sites) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepr/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm Annual PDF Editions The 2006 and 2007 annual editions of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (PDF files designed for printing) are also available. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm Related Article An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0007.201 Other Digital Scholarship Publications The following Digital Scholarship publications may also be of interest: (1) Author's Rights, Tout de Suite http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ts/authorrights.pdf (2) DigitalKoans (Weblog about digital copyright, digital curation, digital repositories, open access, scholarly communication, and other digital information issues) http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalKoans (3) Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography http://digital-scholarship.org/etdb/etdb.htm (4) Google Book Search Bibliography http://digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm (5) Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ts/irtoutsuite.pdf (6) Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals http://digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ A Look Back at Nineteen Years as an Internet Digital Publisher http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/nineteenyears.htm -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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How to use Dropbox
by jamil＠drtc.isibang.ac.in 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

How to use Dropbox Dropbox is online file storage up to 2GB, file sharing, online backup and file synchronizing service across your computers. All you need is to download the client software, create your user account, link your computer to your account and move your files to the dropbox folder in your computer. Dropbox will automatically upload the files to their server. While you are away, or need to check your files from a friends computer or from a browsing center, you can simply logon to the web client and download or view your files, or even upload any latest files. These files will also get synced on to your computers linked to dropbox. You can share your dropbox files across your Macs, PCs and Linux machines. All you need is to simply download the dropbox client and logon to your existing account. You can have your own personal folder, or share folders with your friends, or have a public folder for access to anyone. Dropbox client is officially supported on Windows XP and Vista, Mac OSX Tiger and Leopard, as well as Ubuntu 7.10+ and Fedora Core 9+, and several other distributions of Linux. The Ajax enabled Dropbox web version also supports Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. Google Chrome is not supported at this moment. Jamil Ahmed DRTC Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore jamil(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Copyright V2.0 : New code to shield software
by Shaheen, Farooque 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

The government plans to introduce a legislation empowering software makers in their fight against the sale of unauthorised copies of their products, as it looks to crack down on rampant piracy in the country where nearly three-fourths of the software used is pirated. An amendment to the Copyright Act, which will be introduced in Parliament later this year, will make it illegal to break the security code of all kinds of software from operating systems and games to multimedia players. The proposed law will also make it punishable to access computer networks and websites without authorisation. For detail: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/Economy/Policy/Copyright_v20_New_c… Thanks & Regards Farooque Shaheen Keane India Pvt Ltd Bangalore-560004 ______________________________________________________________________ Disclaimer: This communication, along with any documents, files or attachments, is confidential, intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named above and may contain information that is legally privileged, attorney work product or otherwise exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient(s) or have received this message in error, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of any information contained in or attached to this communication is strictly prohibited; instructed to immediately notify the sender by return email or by a phone call to the sender; and required to delete this message from your computer. This communication does not form any contractual obligation on behalf of the sender, the sender's employer or such employer's parent company, affiliates or subsidiaries. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Congratulations to Prof.V.G.Talwar
by MAHESH ATCHI 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

It is moment for every librarian by profession to feel proud. The University of Mysore has appointed as its Vice-Chancellor Mr. V.G.Talwar. His appointment is an example of what can be achieved by a Lis Profession who is willing to Learn, Develop and Grow. He has proved that the profession of a Library is on par with any other noble aspiring profession. On behalf of the Librarians of INC, India, I sincerely congratulate to Prof.V.G.Talwar -- A. MAHESH Librarian ICFAI National College Visakhapatnam -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for article
by Kshema Prakash 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

Hello and Happy New Year to all. Can someone kindly send me a soft copy of the following article? *Toraev, A. and Oth. 1997. Initiation of microspore embryogenesis by stress. Trends in Plant Science. Vol. 2(8). Pp. 297-302.* With best regards, Kshema Mrs. Kshema Prakash Faculty Librarian - Gr I, Contact Person e-Journals (Library) & Coordinator - Distance Library Services DEI Central Library Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University) Dayalbagh, Agra 282 0110 Uttar Pradesh, India Mob: +919897190604 http://kshema-distancelibraryservices.blogspot.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Articles Required on Charles Darwin's
by Ghouse Mamdapur 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

Dear Friends, I am in need of these given below articles, if you have fulltext of these articles. Kindly forward me. *Charles Darwin's* Evolution, Old and New; or, The Theories of Buffon, Dr Erasmus Darwin, and Lamarck, as compared with that of Mr Charles Darwin ALFRED R. WALLACE Nature 20, 141 - 144 (12 Jun 1879), http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/020141a0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Darwin's Diary of the Voyage of HMS Nature 132, 871 - 872 (09 Dec 1933 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/132871a0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Centenary of the Landing of Charles Darwin on the Galapagos Islands Nature 136, 534 - 535 (05 Oct 1935), http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/136534a0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Darwin, the Fragmentary Man E. B. POULTON Nature 141, 807 - 808 (07 May 1938), http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/141807a0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Manuscripts of Charles Darwin Nature 149, 465 - 465 (25 Apr 1942), http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/149465a0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Darwin: The Decisive Years JULIAN S. HUXLEY Nature 157, 536 - 538 (27 Apr 1946), http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/157536a0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Darwin H. GRAHAM CANNON Nature 162, 831 - 831 (27 Nov 1948), http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/162831a0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Darwin H. GRAHAM CANNON Nature 162, 831 - 831 (27 Nov 1948), http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/162831a0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- National Physical Laboratory: Sir Charles Darwin, K.B.E., F.R.S. Nature 164, 15 - 16 (02 Jul 1949), http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/164015a0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sir Charles Darwin, K.B.E., F.R.S. G. B. B. M. SUTHERLAND Nature 198, 14 - 15 (06 Apr 1963), http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/198014a0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Darwin W. L. SUMNER Nature 201, 860 - 860 (29 Feb 1964), http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/201860a0 ***************************************** Ghousemodin N Mamdapur. Library Trainee Indian Institute of Astrophysics; Govt. of India. IInd Block Koramangala; Bangaluru - 560 034 Moblie - 9480398175 Email ID: ghouse(a)iiap.res.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fascinating Facts of Library of Congress
by DINESH SIDDAIAH 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Dear Friends, Fascinating Facts of Library of Congress *Origin* The Library was founded in 1800, making it the oldest federal cultural institution in* *the nation. On August 24, 1814, British troops burned the Capitol building (where the Library was housed) and destroyed the Library's core collection of 3,000 volumes. On January 30, 1815, Congress approved the purchase of Thomas Jefferson's personal library of 6,487 books for $23,950. *Statistics* The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with more than 138 million items on approximately 650 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 32 million books and other print materials, 2.9 million recordings, 12.5 million photographs, 5.3 million maps, 5.5 million pieces of sheet music and 61 million manuscripts. *Collections* The Library receives some 22,000 items each working day and adds approximately 10,000 items to the collections daily. The majority of the collections are received through the Copyright registration process, as the Library is home to the U.S. Copyright Office. Materials are also acquired through gift, purchase, other government agencies (state, local and federal), Cataloging in Publication (a pre-publication arrangement with publishers) and exchange with libraries in the United States and abroad. Items not selected for the collections or other internal purposes are used in the Library's national and international exchange programs. Through these exchanges the Library acquires material that would not be available otherwise. The remaining items are made available to other federal agencies and are then available for donation to educational institutions, public bodies and nonprofit tax-exempt organizations in the United States. *International Collections* Since 1962, the Library of Congress has maintained offices abroad to acquire, catalog and preserve library and research materials from countries where such materials are essentially unavailable through conventional acquisitions methods. Overseas offices in New Delhi (India), Cairo (Egypt), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Jakarta (Indonesia), Nairobi (Kenya) and Islamabad (Pakistan) collectively acquire materials from more than 60 countries and acquire materials on behalf of United States libraries participating in the Cooperative Acquisitions Program. The Library is also collaborating with institutions around the globe to develop a World Digital Library<http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/> . *Languages* Approximately half of the Library's book and serial collections are in languages other than English. The collections contain materials in some 470 languages. Source:http://www.loc.gov Thanking You, Dinesh -- Dr. Dinesh K. S. Selection Grade Librarian, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Devanahalli, Bengaluru - 562 110. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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2nd & Final Announcement about Workshop at PRL
by Mailing List Admin 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 11:43:32 +0530 (IST) From: Mrs Nishtha Anilkumar <nishtha(a)prl.res.in> Dear Colleagues We, at Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad are organising a two day workshop on "Library2.0 : A Global Information Hub. Date : 5 - 6 February 2009. Venue : Ramanathan Auditorium in PRL, Ahmedabad Registration Fees : Rs 1000/- (without accommodation) Rs 1500/- (with accomodation) Main Themes : Understanding Web 2.0 Interoperability standards and Protocols Network & RFID Technologies Open Source Technologies Main Speakers : Dr Jagdish Arora, INFLIBNET Dr Shailendra Kumar, Dept of LIS, Delhi Univ. Dr Harish Chandra, IITM Dr M G Sreekumar, IIMK Last date of Registration : 16th January 2009. Please note : NO SPOT REGISTRATION More information about the workshop will be available from the workshop webpage under the PRL Library website (http://www.prl.res.in/~library) If you or your professional colleagues would be interested to attend this workshop, please pre-register online today and send the payment at the earliest. Nishtha A Workshop Co-ordinator ******************************************************************************** Nishtha Anilkumar Phone : (91)-079-26314167 Librarian SD Fax : (91)-079-26311502 Physical Research Laboratory email : nishtha(a)prl.res.in Navrangpura Ahmedabad 380 009 Gujarat INDIA ********************************************************************************

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Malayalam for Koha
by Rajan 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Dear Shri Vimal, The Windows XP Service Pack 3 is available in the DVD distributed along with the computer magazine 'Digit' June 2008 issue. Enabling Malayalam is possible in Windows XP SP II or later versions. The most appropriate IME is the one recently created by Kerala IT Mission. To install it, please download the zip file at http://malayalam.kerala.gov.in/images/9/92/Win-inscript.zip and click the setup.exe file. Malayalam keyboard can then be enabled by, selecting malayalam from the options in the taskbar icon. If you are using IME from other sources, the creation of letters like n in rajan requires pressing of 5 keys. Instructions for Malayalam typing are given at http://malayalam.kerala.gov.in/index.php/InputMethods Rachana and Anjali Old Lipi are the commonly used fonts, even though Kartika is the default one in XP. Meera, is good, but smaller in size. This is a grey area and advice of people with more exposure will be of great help. Regards, K Rajasekharan ------------------------------ Original Message: Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 17:02:54 +0530 From: "Vimal Kumar" <vimal0212(a)gmail.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Enabling Malayalam for Koha using SCIM Dear Friends, I write this from the inspiration of scanning earlier submissions made by Rajan (KILA) Sir about Koha for Malayalam catalogues. I tried to enable Malayalam in Windows XP machines for my professional colleagues. My attempt was failed due to most of PCs used Windows XP pirated version! It ask for XP service pack CD-ROM while enable Malayalam (any other Indic language). Nobody own XP service pack CD. My experiment with Linux (Debian and Ubuntu) was successful. Inputting Malayalam using SCIM (Smart Common Input Method) software seems very useful and easy. It offers various modes to enter languages. You can enter Malayalam in Phonetic mode. No need to learn the Malayalam key board format while enters data. You can use International Phonetic Alphabet (e.g. Manglish= English+Malayalam). Malayalam vowels can add from drop down list while data entry (No need to waste time for crawling vowels button). I found other Indian languages in SCIM, I have not tried data entry of other languages. I invite you to try other Indian languages with SCIM. And remember to post your feed back in Lis-Forum. Detailed description of enabling Malayalam in Debian and Ubuntu and the required software package available in the following link, http://malayalam.kerala.gov.in/index.php/EnableMalayalam Windows version of SCIM not available. You can also visit the SCIM project home page. www.scim-im.org -- Vimal Kumar V. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vaccancy for the post of STO-1(LS)
by saroj panda 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

INFLIBNET Centre is an autonomous body of the University Grants Commission with its head-quarters at Ahmedabad invites applications from Indian Nationals belonging to OBC category (non-creamy layer for all India employment) candidates only for the post of Scientific/Technical Officer-I (Library Science) – 1 (One) post. *Job Description* : The incumbent will be a member of the team of Library professionals involved in the areas relating to library automation, creation of database, digital library consortium, providing information service, conducting training programmes for the library professionals, organizing seminar/workshop/convention etc. *Qualification & Experience:* M.Lib./M.L.I.Sc. OR B.Lib./B.L.I.Sc. with eight years post qualification experience in a regular position. The degree must be from a recognized university only. *Upper Age Limit:* 30 years plus 3 years age relaxation applicable to OBC category. *Pay Band & Grade Pay: * Rs.9,300-34,800 (PB-2) plus Rs.4,200/- (Grade Pay) (At present Gross Rs.24,010/- per month at the minimum of the scale). Website: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/jobs/advt.01-2009.pdf <http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/jobs/advt.01-2009.pdf%20> <http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/jobs/advt.01-2009.pdf> -- Regards, Saroj kumar Project Assistant(LS) INFLIBNET Centre Near Gujrat University campus Navarangpur, Ahmedabad-380009 Gujarat -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy of "ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN"
by mahammad rafi havaragi 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Dear Friends, This is to inform you all that NMKRV College for Women requires "Assistant Librarian" for its Degree college Library Consolidated Salary: Rs. 5,000/- per month. below 30 years and holding First Class in B.Lib.I.Sc.or D L I Sc may apply. Experiance: 1 to 2 years Apply Within 8 days. Send your Resume to : havaragimm(a)yahoo.co.in or mamya.mh(a)gmail.com For more detail, please contact Librarian. Mahammad Rafi. M. H. Librarian. NMKRV College for Women 3rd block Jayanagar. Bangalore-11 Mobile:- 9740069587 --------------------------------- Connect with friends all over the world. Get Yahoo! India Messenger. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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LIS Links: Latest Happenings & Contemporary Issues in LIS
by Badan Barman 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Latest Happenings & Contemporary Issues in LIS<http://lislatest.blogspot.com/> Who The Hell Writes Wikipedia, Anyway?<http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lislatest/~3/ClbFy5riv1U/who-hell-writes-wik…> Posted: 04 Jan 2009 12:47 AM PST The bulk of Wikipedia is written by 1400 obsessed freaks who do little else but contribute to the site, says a post racing up the Hacker News charts . The post pulls this number from an essay Aaron Swartz wrote more than two years ago, based on some comments by Jimmy Wales. Read out the full story from the following link http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/who-the-hell-writes-wikipedia-anyway <https://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/DDktLy1gjsRLGAGU0zIVPOLoezQ/a> 73.4 Percent of All Wikipedia Edits Are Made By Roughly 1,400 People<http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lislatest/~3/zYx0zwVPYno/734-percent-of-all-…> Posted: 04 Jan 2009 12:45 AM PST Most college professors discourage students from using Wikipedia as a reliable source of information, and if you've ever wondered why, here is the reason: Read out the full story from the following link http://www.collegeotr.com/college_otr/734_percent_of_ all_wikipedia_edits_are_made_by_roughly_1400_people_17499 <https://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/KtMPKP7VlAH2ZFhk-TsfQnZ5TrQ/a> Google tells users to drop IE6<http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lislatest/~3/63MCCY7pPDE/google-tells-users-…> Posted: 04 Jan 2009 12:39 AM PST Chicago (IL) - Taking a page out of Apple's book, Google is now urging Gmail users to drop Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) in favor of Firefox or Chrome that, according to the company, run the popular web-based email service "twice as fast." Google also labels IE6 as an unsupported browser, meaning it fails to run some Gmail features. Read out the full article from the following link http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content-view-40785-140.html <https://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/E1Lo4mLSfItNHkReNih44NcwiYw/a> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Workshop on “Funding Agencies for Research Projects and Designing Project Proposals”-A report
by BK Vishala 04 Jan '09

04 Jan '09

"Teachers, Librarians and Professionals at the tertiary level education have greater responsibility in making today's society an knowledge society by undertaking research which will produce not only real results but also realizable result. The media has a greater role to play in making the public aware of this activity by giving effective publicity for academic and research matters in headline" said Prof. Syed Akheel Ahmed, Vice-Chancellor, Yenepoya University, Managlore, during his inaugural address on a one-day Workshop on "Funding Agencies for Research Projects and Designing Project Proposals" on 19-12-2008 organized by the departments of Library and Research and Development Cell, St.Agnes College in association with Dakshina Kannada and Kodagu Library Association at St. Agnes College, Mangalore. He also added that the management must encourage the librarians, professionals and researchers in their venture, as it is a matter of advance of the present society towards developed society. Dr. M.S. Moodithaya, Director, Justice K.S. Hegde Institute of Management, Nitte, released the newsletter and proclaimed that knowledge entrepreneurship is of utmost important in order to gain real power to move forward. Dr. Vishala B.K., the Co-ordinator of the programme emphasized the need of the workshop and commended the response by the delegates participated from Dakshina Kannada, Kodagu and Udupi Districts. Dr. (Sr.) Marie Prem D'Souza A.C. Principal of St. Agnes College, presided over the function. Dr. M.K. Bhandi, Librarian of Mangalore University, in his valedictory address expressed the urgency of the librarian becoming torch-bearer in showing direction to the knowledge seekers for research. Dr. Manjunatha K., President DK&KLA welcomed the gathering and Dr. Purushothama Gowda, Vice-President, proposed vote of thanks. The workshop was followed by 4 technical sessions on various international, national and regional funding agencies which offer funds to pursue major and minor research and also to develop to designs of project proposals in science and social science by the eminent resource persons - Dr. Krishna Kothai –Director, Rural Development Centre, Manipal University, Manipal, Dr. Kaiser Nikham-Reader,Department of Library and Information Science, Manasagangothri, University of Mysore., Prof. P.L. Dharma.-Dept.of Political Science, Mangalagangothri,Konaje, and Prof. B.K. Sarojini-Dept.of Chemistry P.A.College of Engineering Nadupadavu, Mangalore. *Dr. Vishala B.K.* *Workshop Coordinator* *Coordinator of Research and Development Cell* *Senior Librarian* *St.Agnes** **College**,* *Mangalore-575002* *Email:bk.vishala@gmail.com <Email%3Abk.vishala(a)gmail.com>* *09448824505* * * * * -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Mozilla chief John Lilly is fired up about making a better Web browser (Ramakant Navghare)
by रमाकांत नवघरे 04 Jan '09

04 Jan '09

To, Respected All, Chief executive of Mozilla Corp., maker of the Firefox Web browser, which broke Microsoft Corp.'s hold on the market so that it couldn't dominate the Internet the way it does computer operating systems. About 95% of Web surfers used Microsoft's Internet Explorer in 2004; now 20% use Firefox, and other companies are offering browsers that are smarter and faster than ever before. But don't call it a browser war. "We all want the Web to be good. I am glad for the innovation and all the big brands working on it." With 200 employees and a $50-million budget, Mozilla is the for-profit subsidiary of the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation. Firefox is "open source," meaning users everywhere are encouraged to improve it. Its success depends largely on thousands of devoted volunteers -- 40% of the code is written by people who don't clock in. *Lilly said, Why you should care about your browser : *Its speed, security and other capabilities can improve your Internet experience. "I spend more time in my browser than I do in my car. You should spend at least as much time choosing which browser you use as which car you drive. It's your lens onto the Web. Just like the lenses in your glasses, it affects the way the Web looks to you. As we see more and more of the world through the Web, the characteristics of the lens matter more than ever." *"If people participate in the construction of the Web, it will be better and more robust," says Mozilla CEO John Lilly.* -- Thanks and Regards, Ramakant Amar Navghare Library Assistant Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W) 400601. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : ramakant.navghare(a)gmail.com Mob : 9324564183 elibrary :http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for Comments on Open Knowledge Society
by Sukhdev Singh 04 Jan '09

04 Jan '09

Dear Friends, Wish you all a very Happy New Year. Last year, you may remember, I informed you all about formation of a society - Open Knowledge Society - and its registration under Travancore-Cochin Literary, Scientific and Charitable Societies Act of 1955. This year, let us all resolve to work more vigorously to adopt and promote the philosophy of Open Access. The philosophy of Open Access in my own personal opinion is nothing else but an extension of philosophy behind "BOOKS ARE FOR USE". In this context, I am seeking your comments and guidance on Open Knowledge Society. Please read more about it at http://oksociety.org or http://oksociety.in Happy and Open Access New Year. --Sukhdev Singh, 09868960074, NIC. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Seminar on "Digital Preservation and Access to Indian Cultural Heritage with special reference to IGNCA Cultural Knowledge Resources" during 31st January and 1st February, 2009
by Dr. Ramesh Gaur 03 Jan '09

03 Jan '09

Dr.Ramesh C.Gaur Librarian & Head (KN) Tele: 23385442 F.No. KN/RL/Admn.1(33)/2009 Dated: 3rd January, 2009 Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to inform you that Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) - a premier Academic and Research Institute in the field of Art and Culture is organizing a two days Seminar on "Digital Preservation and Access to Indian Cultural Heritage with special reference to IGNCA Cultural Knowledge Resources" during 31st January and 1st February, 2009 (Saturday and Sunday). During the Seminar following topics will be discussed:- (i) In-house Digitization & Digital Library Initiatives at IGNCA. (ii) Development of Digital Repository/Digital Archive. (iii) Electronic Gateways to Indian Cultural Heritage Resources. (iv) Open access to IGNCA Cultural Knowledge Resources. (v) Digital Preservation Challenges. (vi) Metadata Standards. (vii) Discussion on National Electronic Manuscript Library. (viii) Copyright issues concerning Tangible and Intangible Cultural Resources. (ix) Panel discussion on Digital Preservation and Access to Indian Cultural Heritage with Special reference to IGNCA Cultural Knowledge Resources. The Experts in the field of digitization digital preservation, digital archiving and digital libraries from all over India have been invited to speak on above topics. Some of the Eminent Speakers are as given below:- (i) Dr. Jadgish Arora, Director, INFLIBNET, Ahamdabad (ii) Dr. H.K.Kaul, Director, DELNET (iii) Dr. R.K.Chaddha, Joint Secretary, Parliament of India, New Delhi (iv) Dr. A.L.Moorthy, Director, DESIDOC (v) Prof. G.C.Tripathi, Professor, IGNCA, New Delhi. (vi) Dr. Usha Munishi, Librarian, I.I.P.A (vii) Mr. N.V.Satyanarayan, Bangalore. (viii) Dr. ARD Prasad, Associate Professor, DRTC, Bangalore. (ix) Dr. Ramesh C.Gaur, Librarian & Head (KN), IGNCA, New Delhi (x) Shri P.Jha, Director, CIL, IGNCA, New Delhi (xi) Mr. Aditya Jha, BHU, Varanasi. (xii) Mr. Dalal, Advocate (xiii) Dr. Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU (xiv) Dr. Kalpana Dasgupta, Former Director, CSL, New Delhi (xv) Shri Sukumar Das, Publisher (xvi) Dr. S. Majumdar, Librarian Delhi University. (xvii) Dr. Devika, DRTC, Bangalore (xviii) Some more Speakers from IT Industry (xix) Demonstration of International Digital Archiving Systems. The some of the objectives of the Seminar are as given below:- a. On the basis of above discussions preparation of a comprehensive plan for Development of Digital Archive. b. To draft a proposal for National Electronic Manuscripts Library c. To draft a proposal for Digital Preservation Policy. d. To explore the possibilities of creation of Electronic Information Gateway. e. To discuss Open Access vis-a-vis restricted access. Participation to the Seminar is open to all Library & Information Professionals in India, however, preference will be given to the Libraries who are engaged in such issues and Libraries dealing with Art and Humanity as a subject. The participation will be on first come first basis. The last date for receiving of registration form is 24th January, 2009. There will be no travel support available for the participants. However, we may help them in getting some Guest House accommodation, if request is received well in advance. The detailed programme will be sent soon. All presentations are invited presentations only, however we may consider few presentations based on case studies dealing with digital archiving/Digital Repository/Open Access etc. All Heads of Libraries may depute their staff or Interested Professionals may send their names to the undersigned or to Dr. O.N.Chaubey, through e-mail, fax or by post in a prescribed registration form as given below:- __________________________________________________________________________ INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE ARTS First Name: .. ........... ...................... LastName: ..................................... Title/Designation:.................. Sex:....... Type of Organization:............................... Mailing Address:.................................. City: ........................ Postal Code: ................................... State:........................Country:............. Telephone: (O) .................... (Res) .......................... Mobile:...................... Fax: .......................... Website:........................................ E-Mails.................................. Date:............................ Signature of Participant ______________________________________________________________________________________ Please mail the completed Registration Forms to: Dr. Ramesh C.Gaur, Librarian & Head (Kala Nidhi Division) Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) (An Autonomous Body under Ministry of Culture, Government of India). No. 5, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road, New Delhi - 110 001 Ph. No. 23385442 Fax No. 23385884 Mobil No. 9810487158 E-mail: gaur(a)ignca.nic.in; rcgaur(a)bol.net.in or Dr. O.N.Chaubey Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) (An Autonomous Body under Ministry of Culture, Government of India). No. 5, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road, New Delhi - 110 001 Ph. No. 23385442 Fax No. 23385884 Mobil No. 9868103286 E-mail: onchaubey(a)gmail.com; onchaubey(a)yahoo.com With best regards, Yours sincerely, (Ramesh C.Gaur) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Clarification on the New UGC Scale
by Aloor Thomas Francis 03 Jan '09

03 Jan '09

Dear Professionals, I have a doubt whether the Asst. Librarians in-service are eligible to get a service weightage of two years on acquiring PhD after 2006 while moving to Senior Scale or Dy. Librarian. With regards, A.T. FRANCIS HEAD, LIBRARY COLLEGE OF HORTICULTURE KERALA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY THRISSUR - 680 656, INDIA francisaloor(a)yahoo.com francisaloor@gmailcom Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Seminar On Open Source Library Solutions (OSLS) on 16th - 17th January, 2009.
by krishna nand singh 03 Jan '09

03 Jan '09

Dear All, Department of Library & Information Science, BHU & Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi are jointly going to organise *National Seminar On Open Source Library Solutions (OSLS)* on 16th - 17th January, 2009. *About Seminar:* The rising cost of technology has compelled the libraries to use Open Source Software (OSS) for library automation, digital library and so on. OSSs are developed in public domain by the technology experts for the libraries. The professional community implements the software solutions and renders feedback to developers, which is a real time testing of software. The OSS products are provided with source code for implementation level customization and future development of software. These solutions are often free for use and could be redistributed. Today, there are OSSs available for different library activities which are better than the commercial solutions using cutting age technology. These solutions range from Operating System to specialized institutional repositories. This has made the library services more cost effective and least dependent on commercial software and vendors. However, there is a concern of the professionals over stability of software implementation and continuing support to these OSSs. There is an equal and opposite concern from the end of developers also towards having a sustainable funding for running the software development projects. Whatever the concerns may be, the increased use of open source software among the library community is very encouraging for open source solution developers. The Department of Library and Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi proposes to conduct two days National Convention on Open Source Library Solutions (OSLS), 16th – 17th January, 2009. The proposed seminar would provide a common platform for library professionals to share their experience. Research papers, demonstration and case-studies are invited for presentation and discussion during the convention in following areas: Implementation of OSS in:- Library automation, Digital repositories, Digital preservation, Consortium planning, Community education, Office management, Content development, Event management, E-publishing, Knowledge management, E-governance, Community networks. *Target Participants:* Practicing Librarians and Information Scientists, Faculty Members, Researchers, Students, Information System Personnel, Managers, etc. *Call for Papers:* Full texts paper(s) in English (in A4 size, double space, not more than 10 pages) should be sent to the *Organising Secretary, Deptt. of Library and Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi - 221005*. adityatripathi(a)hotmail.com aditya(a)bhu.ac.in Last date for submission of full texts of paper(s) is 20.12.2009. *Registration:* Rs. 500/- per participant. The DD / Cash payable in favour of *"National Seminar on Open Source Library Solutions"*, payable at Varanasi. The Registration Fee includes -Conference Kit & Working Lunch / Tea. *Accommodation:* Limited accommodation is available on payment basis on first come first basis. For further enquiry please contact: Coordinator Prof. H. N. PRASAD Head, Deptt. of Library and Information Science Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi- 221 005 Tel: +91 542 6701028 (Off.) +91 9415336709 (Mob.) E-mail: hnprasad.bhu(a)gmail.com Organising Secretary Dr. ADITYA TRIPATHI Lecturer, Deptt. of Library and Information Science Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi- 221 005 Tel: +91 542 6701027 (Off.) +91 9450710628 (Mob.) E-mail: adityatripathi(a)hotmail.com; aditya(a)bhu.ac.in *Registration Form:* Registration form can be downloaded from the Department's website http://www.bhu.ac.in/lis.html or directly from the URL http://www.bhu.ac.in/dlis/osls.pdf -- KRISHNA NAND SINGH MLIS(BHU) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Sixth PRC recommendatios _HRD Letter to UGC
by Pandurang Konnur 02 Jan '09

02 Jan '09

Dear Proessional Colleagues, IALA WISHES YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY AND PROSPROUS NEW YEAR - 2009 I am vry hapyto inform you all that Ministry of HRD has given a good New year gift to the Academic community. On 31st of Disember the HRD Minitry has issued its order to the UGC for implementation of PRC Recommentions. Some of you might have already read the same. Howeer I have located the fultext of the order on the IALA website. You may visit the same from the followin link: http://iala.org.in/subfiles/pay.pdf You mayrecall that the IALA has submitted its memorandum to the ministry of HRD to setright the anomolies in the UGC PRC recommedations. We are verymuch thakfulto the MHRD for having addressed some of our griviences. However, still some moreneed to be adressed. IALA is preparing another memoradum ve oon and sent to MHRD and UGC. A deligation of IALA ll be vsiting Delhi to discuss with HRD ministry and UGC Chairman during the last week of January 09. Further, the HRD letter regding Age of Retirement states that, "Where as the enhancement of the age of Superannuation for teachers engaged in class room teaching is intended to attract eligible persons to acareer in teaching and to meet the shortage of teachers by retaining teachers in service for a longer period, and whereas there is no shortage in the catagories of Librarians and Directors of Physical Education, the increase in the age of retirement from the present 62 years shall not be available to the catagories of Librarians and Directors of Physical Education." Friends, given to my understanding there are atleast 60% of the University Library posts specially University Librarian positions are vacant in the entire country. We have seen several Universities advertising two to three times for want of suitable candidates. One best example is that Bangalore University could not recruit its Librarian post for 17 years. Though it had advertised for three to four times. Hence there may be similar examples all over the country. I request all of you to kindly send me the relevent documents like advertisements etc., to putforth our arguement for enhancement of the age of Superannuation of Library professionals to Sixty five as in the case of Teachers. I also request all of you to kindly give your feedback on the HRD orders immediately to us. So that, we can sumit our memorandum to the appropriate bodies in time. Thanks, - Dr.P.V.Konnur Presidet, Indian Academic Library Association (IALA) Fulbright Fellow (University of Illinois) University Librarian, Bangalore University Library, Jananabharati, Bangalore-560056 Phone: 080-22961131, 23215510 Website: http://library.bub.ernet.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Clarifications regarding Pay Revision Notification
by Dr. Nabi Hasan 02 Jan '09

02 Jan '09

Dear Colleagues I have few Queries about the New Pay Notification issued by the MHRD; (I) Will all the Deputy Librarians with the Ph.D , be able to move to Librarian Designation under CAS. (2) Increments for the persons, completed the Ph.D. earlier before 2006 in service. (3) Deputy in the CAS, with Ph.D. completed in the 7th year, will be able to move to DL Scale after 9 years or 11 years. Please reply, if you have the answers for the queries. Best regards, -- -- Nabi Hasan, Ph.D., CICTAL, Borlaug Fellow University Library CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University Palampur (H.P.)- 176 062, India Phone: +91-1894-283184 (Direct), 230361 (Off.), 234571 (Res.) Cell- +91-9418493990 Fax- +91-1894-230361 E-mail: nabihasan(a)rediffmail.com nabihasan(a)gmail.com Web: http://hillagric.ernet Be the first one to try the new Messenger 9 Beta! Go to http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/win/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Enabling Malayalam for Koha using SCIM
by Vimal Kumar 02 Jan '09

02 Jan '09

Dear Friends, I write this from the inspiration of scanning earlier submissions made by Rajan (KILA) Sir about Koha for Malayalam catalogues. I tried to enable Malayalam in Windows XP machines for my professional colleagues. My attempt was failed due to most of PCs used Windows XP pirated version! It ask for XP service pack CD-ROM while enable Malayalam (any other Indic language). Nobody own XP service pack CD. My experiment with Linux (Debian and Ubuntu) was successful. Inputting Malayalam using SCIM (Smart Common Input Method) software seems very useful and easy. It offers various modes to enter languages. You can enter Malayalam in Phonetic mode. No need to learn the Malayalam key board format while enters data. You can use International Phonetic Alphabet (e.g. Manglish= English+Malayalam). Malayalam vowels can add from drop down list while data entry (No need to waste time for crawling vowels button). I found other Indian languages in SCIM, I have not tried data entry of other languages. I invite you to try other Indian languages with SCIM. And remember to post your feed back in Lis-Forum. Detailed description of enabling Malayalam in Debian and Ubuntu and the required software package available in the following link, http://malayalam.kerala.gov.in/index.php/EnableMalayalam Windows version of SCIM not available. You can also visit the SCIM project home page. www.scim-im.org -- Vimal Kumar V. Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581 Web: www.asb.edu.in/vimal/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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WIPO WorldWide Academy offers Online IP Courses - Enrollment Started
by Puna Das 02 Jan '09

02 Jan '09

WIPO WorldWide Academy offers Online IP Courses - Enrollment Started DL-101 General Course on Intellectual Property Summary: This course covers the main areas of intellectual property, namely copyright, related rights, patents, trademarks, geographical indications, industrial design, plant breeders' rights, unfair competition and international registration systems. Duration: 50 hours. This course involves about 50 hours of study time over a period of six weeks. Tutorial assistance is provided by in-house experts via the course administrator. The course is offered two times in a year. Cost: Free of Charge [Online Registration] Distance Learning Session: March 1 to April 15 (Exam: April 16-18) 2009 Enrollment: December 1, 2008 to February 18, 2009 Course Outline: Delivered via the Internet, this course comprises twelve modules: Guide to Studying the Course, Introduction to IP, Copyright, Related Rights, Trademarks, Geographical Indications, Industrial Design, Patents, WIPO Treaties, Unfair Competition, Protection of New Varieties of Plants, Summary and Discussion on IP Rights. Students must submit a final exam before completing the course. Target Audience: Government officials, staff in collective management societies, business managers in publishing, broadcasting and industry, students in faculties of law, business, chemistry, engineering, journalism, etc. needing a basic knowledge of IP. Other Advanced Courses (Fee-based) DL-201E Copyright and Related Rights DL-202E Electronic Commerce and Intellectual Property DL-204E Biotechnology and Intellectual Property DL-301E Patent DL-302E Trademarks DL-317E Arbitration and Mediation Procedure DL-318E Patent Information Search DL-320E Basics of Patent Drafting Online Registration: http://www.wipo.int/academy/en/courses/distance_learning/catalog/c_index.ht… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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"LIS Links" New Project: Indian Library and Information Science Resources
by Badan Barman 02 Jan '09

02 Jan '09

After launching nine trustworthy and influential works related to Library and Information Science, "LIS Links" presently under the way to compiled the *"LIS Links: Indian Library and Information Science Resources<http://sites.google.com/site/lislinks/> "*. For the present work the following subcategories were added. Your comments or suggestion for more subcategories will be nicely considered *The Subcategories are as follows* Department of Library and Information Science in India Digital Libraries in India Institutional Repositories in India Library and Information Science Blogs in India Library and Information Science Forum in India Library and Information Science Groups in India Medical Libraries of India Public Libraries of India (Up to District Level) Subject Directories in India Subject Gateways in India University Libraries of India *"LIS Links" Previous Works Includes* 1. LIS Links: A Link Library in LIS <http://lislinks.110mb.com/> 2. LIS Links: Link Library of Open Access English Language Journals<http://lislinks.blogspot.com/> 3. LIS Links: Jobs in LIS in India <http://lisjob.blogspot.com/> 4. LIS Links: Upcoming Seminars, Conferences, Workshops & Refreshe...<http://lisseminar.blogspot.com/> 5. LIS Links: Latest Happenings & Contemporary Issues in LIS<http://lislatest.blogspot.com/> 6. LIS Links: Awards, Prizes, Scholarships or Fellowships in LIS<http://lisscholarship.blogspot.com/> 7. LIS Links: Admission Notice for Courses in LIS in India<http://liscourse.blogspot.com/> 8. LIS Links: Connecting LIS Professional in India<http://lislinks.ning.com/> 9. LIS Links: Google Groups<http://groups.google.co.in/group/lislinks?hl=en&lnk=srg> Please write your comments / suggestions over http://lislinks.ning.com/forum/topics/lis-links-new-project-indian -- Thanking you Yours faithfully (Sri Badan Barman) Academic Consultant, Library & Information Science, Krishna Kanta Handique State Open University, Housefed Complex, Last Gate, Dispur, Guwahati-781006, Assam, Phone: 0361-2234964 / 2235971, Fax: 0361- 2235398. Website: www.kkhsou.org, Email: kkhsou(a)gmail.com, kkhsoul(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Discrimination against library staff in pay revision
by Prabhash N. Rath 02 Jan '09

02 Jan '09

Dear Members I have gone through the letter no. 1-32/2006-U.II/U.I(1) dated 31.12.2008 issued by HRD Ministry to UGC regarding implementation of sixth pay. I found that though there is scope for univesity teachers to move up to the level of professor through CAS, the same is not in the case with library professionals. It only stated that a librarian in the pay band of Rs.37,400-67,000 having three years' of experience in the AGP of 9000 will be eligible to be considered for librarian in AGP of Rs.10000 through open recruitment. That implies library staff can't go up to the level of professors through CAS even if they fulfill all other eligibility criteria as laid down for teachers. I request the concerned professionals to express their opinion on the matter. With regards Prabhash Narayana Rath, Ph. D. Documentation Officer Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (University estd. under section 3 of UGC Act 1956) 846 Shivajinagar Agarkar Road Pune 411004 Ph: +91-20-25650287 (O.), 25678311 (R.) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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SAGE sponsors new ALA scholarship
by Charu 01 Jan '09

01 Jan '09

SAGE sponsors new ALA scholarship Respected Friends, Greetings for the day. Academic publisher SAGE has announced its support for a new American Library Association (ALA) scholarship, the Peter Lyman Memorial/SAGE Scholarship in New Media. The scholarship was created in memory of Peter Lyman, former university librarian and professor emeritus of the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Lyman was nationally known for his landmark study on information overload entitled, "How Much Information?" co-authored with Hal Valerian. The Peter Lyman Memorial/SAGE Scholarship in New Media will support a student in an ALA accredited master's programme in Library and Information Studies pursing a specialty in new media. New media is defined as digital technology's transformation of business and culture during the past 25-plus years, clarifying the evolution of digital communications and human-computer interaction. The scholarship winner must have demonstrated academic excellence, leadership and evidence of a commitment to a career in librarianship. The recipient will receive a $2,500 scholarship as well as a travel stipend to attend the ALA Midwinter Meeting. Additional information about the scholarship is available online at www.ala.org scholarships. For detail information on ALA Scholarship Programme I may request to my worthy friends to visit the following link--- http://charu-libraryworld.blogspot.com/ Regards, Miss Charu Mathur. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Open Access & Building IRs: Nat. Symposium
by I.R.N.Goudar 01 Jan '09

01 Jan '09

Dear Professionals, "NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON OPEN ACCESS AND BUILDING INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES" We at National Aerospace Laboratories have organised a three day "National Symposium on Open Access and Building Institutional Repositories (NSOABIR)" as a part of Golden Jubilee Celebrations of NAL. Date: 21-23 Jan 2009 at NAL, Bangalore. Venue: Dr. S R Valluri Auditorium/KTMD Seminar Hall National Aerospace Laboratories Bangalore Topics: Scholarly Communication, Open Access Movement/Initiative, OA Channels, OA Policies, Digitisation & Digital Preservation, Open Access Journals, Institutional Repositories, Setting up of IRs, Impact of OA on Citations/IF Value, IPR and Copyright issues, Librarian's Role in OA/IR, Case Studies. ONE FULL DAY PRACTICALS/DEMO ON SETTING UP OF IRS Resource Persons: Experts from DRTC/ISI, NCSI/IISc, NIMHANS, GEIT, Informatics India and NAL Panel Discussion: "Impact of Open Access on Science Communication" No of Participants: Restricted to 75 Registration Fees: Rs. 2000/- Accommodation: For few participants on first come first serve basis I invite you to make use of this opportunity for yourself or your colleagues. For more details Please See: www.icast.org.in/nsoabir.html Contact: Mrs. Poornima Narayana, Convener, NSOABIR Information Centre for Aerospace Science and Technology (ICAST) National Aerospace Laboratories Post Bag No. 1779, Bangalore-560 017 Tel: 080-25086080; 25086083 Fax: 080-25260862; 25270670 E-mail: poornima(a)nal.res.in Regards Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Sci G & Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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FW: Higher education starves, but a $4.5m gift to Harvard's fine?
by Shalini Urs 01 Jan '09

01 Jan '09

I guess everyone who has a stake in Indian Higher education system needs to debate and raise public awareness by publicising these issues. Thanks and Regards Shalini Dr. Shalini Urs Executive Director and Professor International School of Information Management University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore - 570006 Phone : + 91 821 2514699 Fax : + 91 821 2519209 ISiM-Management School for IT, Technology School for IM www.isim.ac.in _____ Jharkhand Forum | Jharkhand Forum | Jharkhand Forum | Jharkhand Forum | Jharkhand.org | Jharkhand Forum | Jharkhand.org | Jharkhand Forum | Jharkhand.org | Jharkhand Forum | Jharkhand.org | Jharkhand Forum | Jharkhand.org | Jharkhand Forum | Jharkhand.org | Jharkhand Forum | Jharkhand.org | Jharkhand Forum | Jharkhand Forum | Jharkhand.org | Jharkhand Forum | Jharkhand Forum Higher education starves, but a $4.5m gift to Harvard's fine? R Vaidyanathan Wednesday, December 17, 2008 3:42:00 AM The news item was not in the front pages of any major newspaper. It was published by some national dailies in the inside pages. It is about the Government of India gifting $4.5 million (nearly Rs 23 crore) for Harvard University to establish a fund in honour of Prof Amartya Sen, which would help Indian students pursue higher education in that institution. This was to celebrate the 75th birth day of the renowned economist in recognition of his "extraordinary accomplishments" (PTI, December 11, 2008). The government had earlier given Â£3.2 million (nearly Rs 26 crore) to the Cambridge University's Judges Business school to celebrate Nehru's entry as a student of Trinity College (see my article in DNA Money, February 12, 2008). Both the news items, though important, were not debated by academicians nor commented upon by editors. To start with, there are questions regarding using government money to facilitate the fund-raising activity of Harvard or Cambridge. It is common knowledge that post-Thatcher era, the educational institutions in the UK are forced to raise the fees particularly for foreign students and even then, the fees do not cover even 25% of the cost of running these institutions. And hence, most of the British educational institutions are going around the world with a begging bowl, camouflaged as road shows, for their graduate and undergraduate courses. Harvard, which recently lost more than $8 billion (nearly 22% of its corpus), is so much more desperate to augment its resources in the context of the global meltdown and deep US recession (WSJ, December 4, 2008). Now, why should a developing country like India fund the cash-starved institutions of the West? If Cambridge was so fascinated about Nehru entering it as a student or about the 'India Story', then it should have approached a private financier or some company in the UK to fund this endowment. Ditto for Harvard, which could have asked many leading philanthropies in the US or business groups in India to fund the centre. I know of several centres in China, which are funded by these universities or US companies. But India is a peculiar country, which funds centres in foreign universities, facilitating/ enhancing their finances. This gesture is not going to make others recognise us as a global economic power. The higher educational institutions in India are starved of funds and crying out. After the decision of the government regarding reservation for other backward castes and the Supreme Court judgments thereon, it has become imperative for centrally funded institutions to increase their strength by at least one-and-half times and hence they need funds to expand their physical infrastructure. The government is not much forthcoming on this and expects the Central institutions to fend for themselves. There is a need for buildings and various other physical infrastructure in all the Central institutions of higher learning, leave alone the lower levels of education. It is also surprising that the traditional rebels without a pause, namely the Left liberals, are totally silent on this. The usual Marxist crowd berating US imperialism, etc is also silent. May be the recessionary imperialism is not to be bothered about. The academic community is silent and some may be positioning themselves for future opportunities. In the context of starving Indian institutions, gifting nearly Rs 50 crore to institutions in the UK/US is, to say the least, callous and may be construed as the result of the embedded colonial gene in our systems. The courtiers and family retainers may be already crowding around relevant ministries and power centres to get the positions, but that does not justify this subsidy. Due to our distorted Nehruvian socialistic thinking, we believe that government is the embodiment of wisdom since it can tax and provide subsidies. We still live in the era of Kings where the whims and fancies of the Chakravarthi could get huge gifts to the courtiers and other foreign poets/ scholars. All one need do is stand in the queue and sing praises â€" particularly in this Dhanur month. Of course, if your colour is white, then just stand, not necessarily in the queue. Gifts will be bestowed and you will be profusely thanked for your presence and acceptance of the same. There are many NRIs and Indian business groups who could have provided this subsidy/ alms to Harvard, but that was not the deal. Harvard I presume has arm-twisted the Government of India to get the funds to minimise the impact of its losses on the hedge funds. Anyhow, Indian government is the best hedge against such situations; due to the colonial hang-up and because we think Americans have done a great favour to us. That is the reason our Ambassador to the USA, Ronen Sen (of the 'headless chicken' fame) profusely thanked the president of the Harvard University for accepting the gift. We all should be very happy that Harvard condescended to accept our cheque since each of us was worried they may not! Will the Indian mind ever get de-colonised? The writer is professor of finance and control, Indian Institute of Management â€"Bangalore, and can be reached at vaidya@... <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hinducivilization/post?postID=jQuKKUa2WVRjaUT…> . Views are personal. http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1214632 <http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1214632&pageid=0> &pageid=0 __._,_.___ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Historyof Department of Library and Information Science (BHU)
by krishna nand singh 01 Jan '09

01 Jan '09

*History* The Department of Library and Information Science at Banaras Hindu University is one of the pioneer Department in the field of Library and Information Science education in India. The Department was established in 1941. The Department has been served by a number of eminent scholars namely Dr. S. R. Ranganathan, Professor P. N. Kaula, C. G. Vishwanathan, J. S. Sharma, Professor B. Guha, Professor J. B. Subrahmaniam, Professor Y. P. Dubey and Professor S. N. Singh etc. Presently, Department is blooming under the able leadership of Professor H. N. Prasad. The Department conducts 2-years integrated Master of Library & Information Science (M.L.I.S.) Programme. Apart from M.L.I.S. Course, Department conducts Research Programme for the award of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree. Department has recently started a special course of study (self finance) Post Graduate Diploma in Manuscriptology (PGDM) which aims to provide education and training of handling Manuscripts - its storage, preservation, conservation, study and use. The Department initiated Diploma Course in Librarianship, second of its kind in India after Madras University in 1942. In 1961, Diploma course was converted to Bachelor Degree Course with necessary modifications in course content. The course has been discontinued from 2005 onward. Department introduced One year Master of Library and Information Science (M.L.I.S.) Programme in the 1965 second after University of Delhi in order to train specialist librarians for specialized libraries. From 2005 onwards Department has introduced Two years integrated Master of Library and Information Science (M.L.I.S.) programme as per guidelines of Curriculum Development Committee (CDC) of the University Grant Commission (UGC). Ph.D. course was initiated in the Department in 1980. Ninteen (19) Doctoral dissertations so far have been successfully defended at Department for the award of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.). KRISHNA NAND SINGH MLIS(BHU) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Seminar On Open Source Library Solutions (OSLS) on 16th - 17th January, 2009.
by krishna nand singh 01 Jan '09

01 Jan '09

Dear All, Department of Library & Information Science, BHU & Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi are jointly going to organise *National Seminar On Open Source Library Solutions (OSLS)* on 16th - 17th January, 2009. *About Seminar:* The rising cost of technology has compelled the libraries to use Open Source Software (OSS) for library automation, digital library and so on. OSSs are developed in public domain by the technology experts for the libraries. The professional community implements the software solutions and renders feedback to developers, which is a real time testing of software. The OSS products are provided with source code for implementation level customization and future development of software. These solutions are often free for use and could be redistributed. Today, there are OSSs available for different library activities which are better than the commercial solutions using cutting age technology. These solutions range from Operating System to specialized institutional repositories. This has made the library services more cost effective and least dependent on commercial software and vendors. However, there is a concern of the professionals over stability of software implementation and continuing support to these OSSs. There is an equal and opposite concern from the end of developers also towards having a sustainable funding for running the software development projects. Whatever the concerns may be, the increased use of open source software among the library community is very encouraging for open source solution developers. The Department of Library and Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi proposes to conduct two days National Convention on Open Source Library Solutions (OSLS), 16th – 17th January, 2009. The proposed seminar would provide a common platform for library professionals to share their experience. Research papers, demonstration and case-studies are invited for presentation and discussion during the convention in following areas: Implementation of OSS in:- Library automation, Digital repositories, Digital preservation, Consortium planning, Community education, Office management, Content development, Event management, E-publishing, Knowledge management, E-governance, Community networks. *Target Participants:* Practicing Librarians and Information Scientists, Faculty Members, Researchers, Students, Information System Personnel, Managers, etc. *Call for Papers:* Full texts paper(s) in English (in A4 size, double space, not more than 10 pages) should be sent to the *Organising Secretary, Deptt. of Library and Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi - 221005*. adityatripathi(a)hotmail.com aditya(a)bhu.ac.in Last date for submission of full texts of paper(s) is 20.12.2009. *Registration:* Rs. 500/- per participant. The DD / Cash payable in favour of *"National Seminar on Open Source Library Solutions"*, payable at Varanasi. The Registration Fee includes -Conference Kit & Working Lunch / Tea. *Accommodation:* Limited accommodation is available on payment basis on first come first basis. For further enquiry please contact: Coordinator Prof. H. N. PRASAD Head, Deptt. of Library and Information Science Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi- 221 005 Tel: +91 542 6701028 (Off.) +91 9415336709 (Mob.) E-mail: hnprasad.bhu(a)gmail.com Organising Secretary Dr. ADITYA TRIPATHI Lecturer, Deptt. of Library and Information Science Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi- 221 005 Tel: +91 542 6701027 (Off.) +91 9450710628 (Mob.) E-mail: adityatripathi(a)hotmail.com; aditya(a)bhu.ac.in *Registration Form:* Registration form can be downloaded from the Department's website http://www.bhu.ac.in/lis.html or directly from the URL http://www.bhu.ac.in/dlis/osls.pdf KRISHNA NAND SINGH MLIS(BHU) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Peer Training on new Technologies
by Rajan 01 Jan '09

01 Jan '09

Dear All, It is nice that Mr Ehtesham had gone a step ahead in the right way to train his peers. It seems that helping others to learn essential new technologies, that enable them to perform better, is an indirect way to build our professional status. Therefore I am offering my help to those who are interested in learning those technologies, in and around my state. It seems that we should develop some sort of distance training too. Sometime ago I conducted a Distance Training on Digital Archiving using Winisis/Genisis with the help of the site http://rajankila.googlepages.com/ The training went on well and a few among the 88 participants turned up initially, could learn the technology easily. Now one can create free site for digital training using Google site ( http://sites.google.com/) for the purpose. Regards, K Rajasekharan Kerala Institute of Local Administration Thrissur Ph 0487 - 2200244 + 208 ( extn) ------------------------------ Original Message Date: 26 Dec 2008 12:23:32 -0000 From: "Ehtesham" <ehte786(a)rediffmail.com> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] ICT - Open Source tools for Library ? Dear All, I appreciate and thankful for overwhelming response from LIS community which I got through mails and phone calls. Many members shown there interest in implementing Open Source tools and serve there user best. Yes why not! "when there is a will there is a way". I received number of mails asking for the details - (features and functionality) of the software which can be implemented for their respective libraries. The tools which I suggested in my mail are well known and are being used world wide. I will provide you the Gist and website from where you can get more details and for DSpace and OpenURL suite you can look at my project report (links are provided below). 1. DSpace: It is a well known Digital repository software developed by MIT. It has all the inbuilt features which is required for any ideal institutional repository. Details you can get from the official website of DSpace : http://www.dspace.org/ You can also look at my project report on DSpace testing of its features and functionality. Here is the link : https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/handle/1849/415 2. ePrints: It is a digital library software being used by IISC, IIT for there digital repository. Feature wise it is as good as DSpace. You can look for more details at http://www.eprints.org/ 3. Moodle: It is one of the best free elearning tool used across the world. At DRTC we implemented it for many organisation and conduted workshop and training session. We are using it in our company. Details you can get from : http://moodle.org 4. Joomla & Drupal: - These are free content management system tool. It can be used to manage the different forms of online collection for the organization. Go to there website where you can get more information: http://joomla.org http://drupal.org 5. WordPress : With advent of w3 and the era of web 2.0 it became very easy to become a writer and invite others to read our articles and thought. This tool is meant for such kind of idea. Get more details from http://wordpress.org 6. MediaWiki : Yes Wikipedia are there from centuries to make our self informative on some given subject. Now we are into digital age and our need and volume of information also increased. We need to have information at a single mouse click. So to fulfill all this mediawiki a free tool has been designed. To get more information look at : http://mediawiki.org. 7. OpenURL reSearcher suite (CUFTS, GODOT, DBWIZ): Developed by SFU. This is entirely a new initiative and efforts are being done. You can look at SFU websit and my project report : http://software.lib.sfu.ca/ https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/handle/1849/414 Hope these all will be useful to you. Please let me know if you have any query. I am always open for it and invite other peer members also to join this initiative. As Mr. K Rajasekharan mentioned this will directly or indirectly help us to improve ourselves. Ehtesham (+91)9985100322 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Conference & Workshop on High Performance Computing & Applications
by krishna nand singh 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

*Conference Themes* Advances in computing and networking, high-end computers, large data stores, and middleware capabilities are ushering in a new era of high-performance parallel and distributed computing. Along with these new capabilities come new challenges. The goal of the 2009 High Performance Computing & Applications (HPCA 2009) is to encourage innovation in high performance computing and communication technologies and to stimulate the use of these technologies in key areas of computer application. It will promote the exchange of ideas and information among universities, industries, and national laboratories about new developments in high performance computing and communication, that address current scientific and technical challenges within the application community. Broad areas of interest include, but not limited to: 1. High Performance Applications 2. Discrete Mathematics and its Applications 3. High Performance Software Tools 4. Distributed and Grid Computing 5. Visualization and Data Management 6. Problem Solving Environments 7. Sequential and Parallel Algorithms and Architectures 8. High Performance Discrete Event Simulation 9. Artificial Intelligence 10. Software Engineering 11. Neuro Computing 12. Bio Informatics/Bio Computing 13. Theory of Computation & Soft Computing 14. Computing Applications etc. Dates TO remember *Full Paper submission : * *Dec 09, 2008 .* *Notification of acceptance: Jan 15, 2009.* *Registration due: Jan 30, 2009.* Call For Papers Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (up to 10 pages, Single column) on topics related to the areas listed above. Submissions will be evaluated on relevance, technical quality, and exposition. Papers must not have appeared before (or be pending) in a journal or conference with published proceedings, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during the HPCA-2009 review process. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings. Papers should be submitted electronically (in PDF or DOC format). At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the conference and must present the paper at the conference. The conference proceeding will be published. Please send the Abstracts along with the Registration form, giving your (1) Name, (2) Designation, (3) Institution, (4) Address with email ID (5) Title of the paper (6) Telephone /Fax/ Email (7) Accommodation needed/ not needed, to: *Dr P. K. Mishra* * Convener, HPCA-2009* * Dept. of Computer Science* * BHU Varanasi-221005 * * (email: hd_cs(a)bhu.ac.in or hpcabhu(a)gmail.com).* Accommodation is limited and will be arranged with in the University Campus on the basis of first come first serve. However, on advance intimation, hotel accommodation can also be arranged on additional payment. Registration *Registration Fee* is as follows: *Participants Amount* *Student * Rs. 600/- *Academic * Rs. 1200/- *Industry * Rs. 2000/- *Others * Rs. 1500/- Please download the registration form. <http://www.bhu.ac.in/seminar/HPCA2009/registrationform.doc>Registration Fee should be payable by bank draft in favour of *"Convener, HPCA-2009, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005" *(due from 30 Jan 2009). The draft along with registration form should be sent to *Dr. P.K. Mishra* *Convener,* *HPCA-2009,* *Department of Computer Science,* * Banaras Hindu University,* * Varanasi- 221005 (India).* KRISHNA NAND SINGH MLIS(BHU) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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vacancy
by Manoj Verma 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

Library Assistants (Permanent position) and Library Trainees (One year Contract), The NSHM Knowledge Campus, Kolkata Posted: 29 Dec 2008 01:36 AM PST Last Date of Application: 8th January 2009. For Library Assistants, applicants should be 1/2 years of experience from a reputed organization with 1st class MLIS and well versed in computer application in Library Science. Pay scale as per AICTE norms. For Library Trainee, The applicants should be fresh MLIS and well versed in computer application in Library Science. Duration of Training is for a period of one year with no guarantee of continued employment (purely temporary/contractual basis), carrying a stipend of Rs.5000/- per month with no other facilities / benefits, as applicable to regular employees, excepting contractual leave. Please send the Bio-Data with latest passport size photograph to nihar.kanta.patra(a)nshm.com -- MANOJ KUMAR M.Sc.(Phys), MLISc,M.PHIL.(LIS), ADCA,UGC-NET(June & Dec.2006) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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questions for the post of librarian
by prabhat kumar 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

anybody please send samples questions which are generally asked in the examination for librarian in kendriya vidyalay sangthan. i shall be highly thankful to u prabhat prabhatk.bhu -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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New Searching and Browsing Tools for Open Access (OA) English Language Journals Launched Today
by Badan Barman 30 Dec '08

30 Dec '08

The platform *LIS Links: Link Library of Open Access English Language Journals **http://lislinks.blogspot.com/* <http://lislinks.blogspot.com/> is launched today for searching and browsing free of cost for more than 3200 Open Access English Language Journals in more than 100 subject / branch of knowledge from all over the world. I personally feel great, if you post this massage over other blog/forum/group, make a search and use the platform and further promote the platform in front of your professional colleague and comments on the platform. -- Thanking you Yours faithfully (Sri Badan Barman) Academic Consultant, Library & Information Science, Krishna Kanta Handique State Open University, Housefed Complex, Last Gate, Dispur, Guwahati-781006, Assam, Phone: 0361-2234964 / 2235971, Fax: 0361- 2235398. Website: www.kkhsou.org, Email: kkhsou(a)gmail.com, kkhsoul(a)gmail.com Research Scholar: Department of Library & Information Science, Gauhati University, Guwahati-781014, Assam. Email: dlisgu(a)gmail.com. ---------------------------------------------------------- LIS in India: What's are going on? LIS Links: A Link Library in LIS: http://lislinks.110mb.com LIS Links: Jobs in LIS in India: http://lisjob.blogspot.com/ LIS Links: Upcoming Seminars, Conferences, Workshops & Refresher Courses in LIS in India: http://lisseminar.blogspot.com LIS Links: Latest Happenings & Contemporary Issues in LIS: http://lislatest.blogspot.com LIS Links: Awards, Prizes, Scholarships or Fellowships in LIS: : http://lisscholarship.blogspot.com/ LIS Links: Admission Notice for Courses in LIS in India: http://liscourse.blogspot.com/ Ning: LIS Links Contributors: http://lislinks.ning.com/ Google Groups: LIS Links Users: http://groups.google.co.in/group/lislinks?hl=en&lnk=srg -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Status of Librarian
by S K DEsale 30 Dec '08

30 Dec '08

Dear professional friends, I am very thankful to you for extending overwhelming response for our call for meeting to discuss the status of library professionals and how we can improve it. I am also thankful to professionals who could not make it but convey their support to the movement. Friends I am glad to inform you that as many as 62 librarians attended the meeting chaired by Dr. S. K. Patil (Librarian, University of Pune) and almost everybody express their views on the matter concern. All participants express the need of the strong organization & a forum where everybody can have a say & it will work for the development of LIS professionals. Accordingly "Pune University librarians forum" was launched. After the discussions in the meeting and on the different forums I suggest that the forum should have following objectives 1) To train library professionals for using new technology, effective communication & designing need base services. 2) Design Information literacy modules (for students from 11th std to PG) and ask librarians to train students in information literacy (Most of librarians are interested in delivering lectures in colleges) 3) Develop e-learning modules for continuous learning of LIS professionals 4) Organize periodic workshops for training in handling latest technology. open source software's, to develop communication skill etc. 5) Provide consultancy services for automation, digitization & setting up of new libraries etc. 6) Convey our grievances to Govt. on the matters of staffing pattern, Reserved seats in senate, Separate faculty of LIS, appointment of qualified librarians at all colleges as per UGC scale, inclusion of LIS subject in the list of electives for MPSC & UPSC exam etc. Please send your suggestions. With best Regards Mr. S. K. Desale Asst. Librarian Jayakar library University of Pune. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Congradulations to Mr. N. V. Satyanarayana
by DINESH SIDDAIAH 30 Dec '08

30 Dec '08

Dear Friends, On behalf of Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology and my personal behalf, I congradulate Mr. N. V. Satyanarayana, Chiarman & Managing Director, Informatics (India) Limited, for his new role of Chief of Library & Knowledge Networks of Karnataka Knowledge Commision. The Karnataka Knowledge Commision has constituted six working groups to interact with the various government departments and obtain feedback and recommendations. Thanking You, Dinesh K. S. Dinesh K. S. Selection Grade Librarian, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Devanahalli, Bengaluru - 562 110. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fw: Final reminder: Only two days left to enter SciDev.Net's prize draw!
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, Professor of Library & Information Science, & Director, UGC-Academic Staff College (Retd), Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Association of British Scholars (Hyderabad Chapter) 91-40-27171565, 27177763 (res): 09246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)gmail.com --- On Mon, 29/12/08, SciDev.Net <info(a)scidev.net> wrote: From: SciDev.Net <info(a)scidev.net> Subject: Final reminder: Only two days left to enter SciDev.Net's prize draw! To: "Laxman Rao N" <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> Date: Monday, 29 December, 2008, 4:30 PM Final reminder: Our 7th anniversary prize draw closes in two days. Encourage your friends and colleagues to sign up before 31 December Dear Laxman Rao N, Help us start 2009 with an even wider and stronger network of members by inviting your friends and colleagues to sign up with SciDev.Net. If they do so in the next two days — by midnight (gmt) on 31 December 2008 — they will be entered into our prize draw for a chance to win a GPS navigator or a solar recharger. And if they identify you as their source when they fill out the online form, you will also be eligible to win one of the prizes. I'd like to thank you if you've already spread the word around, and wish you good luck in the draw. With best wishes for 2009, David Dickson Director, SciDev.Net ************************************ How to enter the prize draw To enter our prize draw, simply ask friends and colleagues you think would be interested in our work to sign up with SciDev.Net. If they do so before 31 December, they will automatically be entered into our prize draw. To ensure you are entered as well, they need to specify your email address upon selecting “Recommendation” as the source in the drop-down menu in question 6. You can forward this email and let them know that by joining you and thousands of other users, they will access FREE quality news, expert views and resources about science and technology from around the developing world. For further details about the prize draw visit: www.scidev.net/en/content/anniversary/ **************************************** Please accept our apologies if you have previously received this message through cross-posting. If you are already registered with us and would like to update your details, or cancel your registration please go to http://www.scidev.net/sign-in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Libraries in Europe and Africa Acquire the VTLS Archival Management System
by DINESH SIDDAIAH 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

Dear Friends, VTLS announced the development and deployment of the Archives Management System (AMS). This system was developed in partnership with the National Library of Wales. The system follows the ISAD (International Standard Archive Description) standard and has advanced hierarchical linking capabilities, which are essential to the success of archive collections. VTLS also announced that the Slovak National Library (in Bratislava) and Makerere University (in Uganda) have acquired the AMS. Source:http://www.librarytechnology.org/ Thanking You, Dinesh K. S. -- Dr. Dinesh K. S. Selection Grade Librarian, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Devanahalli, Bengaluru - 562 110. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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UGC-NET, Dec. 2008 (Paper III)
by vivek yadav 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

*UGC-NET, Dec. 2008 (Paper III)* *Based on Memory * *15*5= 75 Marks* 1. Teleconferencing 2. What is Web browsing? 3. Define TQM 4. Decision making process 5. Role of Multimedia In Library 6. Define Digital Repository 7. Difference between Dictionary & Glossary 8. Define ISDN 9. Importance of Style Manual 10. Importance of Library Cess 11. What is Information Repacking? 12. Barriers of Communication 13. Significance of between Use Studies and User Studies 14. --- 15. --- *5*12= 60 Marks* 1. Characteristics of CCF 2. Modes of Subject Formation 3. Describe, Spiral of Scientific method 4. Evaluation and major steps of IR system 5. --- *1*40= 40 Marks * * * 1. Write main networks in India 2. UGC gives a Sufficient fund to University libraries & Colleges, why not developed far away from library automation and networking? 3. --- Thanks and Regards Vivek Kumar Yadav Technical Assistant, Mangalayatan University, Aligarh & Tapas Kumar Das Technical Assistant , Mangalayatan University, Aligarh E-Mail: vivekyadav.mu(a)gmail.com tapaskumar.mu(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Please send me the list of Business Databases subscribed by your library
by Manjunath K 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

Dear Professional colleagues, This request is to library colleagues of B-schools in India. I am consolidating the databases subscribed by leading Indian b-schools. I have already received SIXTY responses from bschool libraries for my earlier request. I would like to cover more bschool libraries so that I can present a comprehensive list in Xth manlibnet convention to be held in KIIT University, Bhubaneswar on Jan22-24, 2009 at Bhubaneswar. This list might serve as reference tool for bschools for future subscriptions. If you have not responded to my previous request, Please email me the list of Intranet and Internet based Databases subscribed by your library. I look forward for your cooperation and immediate response in this regard. Regards, Manjunath ------------- Dr. Manjunatha K Chief Librarian T.A. Pai Management Institute Manipal - 576 104 Udupi Dist. Karnataka, India Ph: +91-0820-2573551(0ff); 2575161(Res) email: manjunath(a)mail.tapmi.org; manjunath_tapmi(a)yahoo.com web: http://www.tapmi.org <http://www.tapmi.org/> ------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Criteria for Qualifying the UGC-NET
by Ajay Kum Sharma 28 Dec '08

28 Dec '08

Dear Library Professionals, UGC has declared the criteria for qualifying the UGC-NET Examination. Criteria for Qualifying the UGC-NET *Category* *Minimun Qualifying marks* *Paper-I* *Paper-II* *Paper-I + Paper-II* *Paper-III* GEN/OBC 40 (40%) 40 (40%) 100 (50%) 90 (45%) SC/ST 35 (35%) 35 (35%) 80 (40%) 70 (35%) PH/VH 35 (35%) 35 (35%) 90 (45%) 80 (40%) Hope it will helpfull in prepartion and self evaluation of NET Examination. Best of luck to all NET aspirants. Sources: http://www.ugc.ac.in/ -- Thanks and regards. Ajay Kumar Sharma Assistant Librarian, Central Library, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, Birbhum - 731235, W.B. Email: ajaysharma.lib(a)visva-bharati.ac.in Web: http://www.geocities.com/ajaysharma_lib/ *********************************************************** 1. Join today Digital Library Discussion Forum http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg 2. Join today LIS-Forum mailing list http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Librarian of IGIDR, Mumbai Dr. Manjunath PhD awarded from Karnatak University
by Pandurang Konnur 28 Dec '08

28 Dec '08

Dear Professional Friends, I am happy to inform you all that Dr.Manjunath, Librarian of IGIDR, Mumbai got his PhD degree awarded from Karnatak University Dharwad recently. Let us all congratulate him for his achivements. Thanks, -- Dr.P.V.Konnur Fulbright Fellow (University of Illinois) University Librarian, Bangalore University Library, Jananabharati, Bangalore-560056 Phone: 080-22961131, 23215510 Website: http://library.bub.ernet.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Refresher Course in Library and Information Science
by Bavakutty M 27 Dec '08

27 Dec '08

Dear All, The UGC, ASC of the Pondicherry University propose to conduct Refresher Course in Library and Information Science during March 2009. Application form can be down loaded from the university site www.pondiuni.edu.in The filled in application may be sent to the Director, UGC, Academic Staff College, Pondicherry University. Pondicherry 605 014 at the earliest. Dr.M.Bavakutty, Professor, Dept. Of Lib & Inf. Science Pondicherry University, Pondicherry Cricket on your mind? Visit the ultimate cricket website. Enter http://beta.cricket.yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Need Help
by Vijay Deshabag 27 Dec '08

27 Dec '08

Dear professional friends, Can any one please suggest some of the National Journals which are must and should for Management College? Thanks and regards, Vijay J Deshabag Librarian Global Business School, Twin city Campus: NH-4, Near New Bellad Hyundai Showroom, Bhairidevarkoppa, Hubli-25 http://www.globalbschool.in/ Email:vjdeshabag@globalbschool.in Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Rethink and Reevaluate to make LIS Profession -a Respected and prestogious profession
by sabuj kumar chaudhuri 27 Dec '08

27 Dec '08

Dear friends and respected Sirs Earlier I mentioned some points on this topic on LIS-Forum.But Why don't we think from our side also? What have we done to add quality content to the subject and why don't we think to introduce 3 years BLIS/Bachelor of Science in Information studies in degree level.So that students don't take it as last resort to get a job instead they will choose it one of the attracting careers after passing 10 + 2 std. Universities will conduct MLIS/MPhil/PhD like other disciplines.I think the seed of undervaluing our services lies in the poor perception of common people about our subject.I strongly believe we the new age librarians have a distinct role to make our subject attractive, service as well as research oriented career option to the future generation. AIFUCTO has demanded rightly that the Librarians should be redignated as Lecturer in Library Science[Assistant Professor(Library)].But Recently UGC PRC Report , Librarian was denied any redesignation,no academic freedom, no study leave,no similar CAS, no advance increment for NET/Mphil/PhD for Librarians.languages are very dubious and some interpreted the facilities for the teachers give will be applicable for the librarians. But there is no mention in this respect.Until it is distinctly mentioned it will be interpreted differently by authoroties like as before. In this Report UGC not only undervalued our service but also has shown step-motherly attitude for the Librarians.This is logically incorrect , when a person have the same qualification (55% MLIS + NET/SET/Mphil/PhD),how it it is explicable that Lecturerrs and Librarians will be treated differently.We must reconsider the definition of Teacher and it must be included Librarians . Earlier the entry of librarians was different from the teachers but presently it is absolutely same. If this shocking disparity continues no future generation will take it as future option because it is a highly discriminated punishment post.No new age librarians can not compromise with their academic freedom/study leave/financial reward for their research.From our governmental policy it appears that policy makers want only second category (excuse me,this is not to hurt any body) students should opt for this profession.This is evidenced from their policies made for the librarians throughout its history-the most neglected cadres.Some of us may be knowingly/unknowingly are very much satisfied with equal salary. May be it was their beyond expectation to get equal salary of teachers . To them equal salary means equal status. Absolutely wrong.We need absolute parity in every respect with Lecturers/Assistant Professor ( designation as proposed by the UGC PRC). We must fight together to make our profession a respected one like other disciplines.Without parity how one can expect growth and development in real sense.An attractive library profession will certainly bring quality students who can bring a complete metamorphosis of the discipline and it must be supported by governemental judicious and nurturing policies.What IALA is respresenting to the UGC is absolutely right path and I have heart felt support for it. with warm wishes to all sabuj ---------------------------------------------- Dr. Sabuj Kumar Chaudhuri Librarian Basanti Devi College [http://www.basantidevicollege.org] (An affiliated college under University of Calcutta) 147B, Rash Behari Avenue Kolkata-700 029, West Bengal India Phone:(033)24641012 email:sabooj_c@yahoo.co.in ;sabuj_c(a)yahoo.co.uk ;sabujkumarchaudhuri(a)gmail.com website:http://www.geocities.com/sabuj_c/sabuj.html ---------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Felicitations to Prof V. G. Talwar, Vice Chancellor of Mysore University
by Gopakumar Velayudhanpillai 26 Dec '08

26 Dec '08

Dear Professionals, A warm and affectionate function was held at the UGC-Academic staff college, Mysore University to felicitate Prof V. G. Talwar on his appointment as the Vice chancellor of Mysore University. The function was organized by the library professionals who were present in the UGC Academic Staff College of Mysore University as participants of the 15th Refresher Course in Library and Information Science. Please find a blog presenting the pictures of the glorious occasion in the following URL.http://muvctalwar.blogspot.com/ Professionals from Karnataka and Kerala were present at the occasion.Let his appointment be an inspiration for all professionals. Let us work hard to uphold the glorious tradition of our profession. Dr GOPAKUMAR V. Chief Librarian, University College,Palayam, Thiruvananthapuram, PIN 695 034. http://www.gopakumar.synthasite.com/ gopakumar.v(a)rediffmail.com Mobile No: 09447056713 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] ICT - Open Source tools for Library
by Ehtesham 26 Dec '08

26 Dec '08

Dear All, I appreciate and thankful for overwhelming response from LIS community which I got through mails and phone calls. Many members shown there interest in implementing Open Source tools and serve there user best. Yes why not! "when there is a will there is a way". I received number of mails asking for the details - (features and functionality) of the software which can be implemented for their respective libraries. The tools which I suggested in my mail are well known and are being used world wide. I will provide you the Gist and website from where you can get more details and for DSpace and OpenURL suite you can look at my project report (links are provided below). 1. DSpace: It is a well known Digital repository software developed by MIT. It has all the inbuilt features which is required for any ideal institutional repository. Details you can get from the official website of DSpace : http://www.dspace.org/ You can also look at my project report on DSpace testing of its features and functionality. Here is the link : https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/handle/1849/415 2. ePrints: It is a digital library software being used by IISC, IIT for there digital repository. Feature wise it is as good as DSpace. You can look for more details at http://www.eprints.org/ 3. Moodle: It is one of the best free elearning tool used across the world. At DRTC we implemented it for many organisation and conduted workshop and training session. We are using it in our company. Details you can get from : http://moodle.org 4. Joomla & Drupal: - These are free content management system tool. It can be used to manage the different forms of online collection for the organization. Go to there website where you can get more information: http://joomla.org http://drupal.org 5. WordPress : With advent of w3 and the era of web 2.0 it became very easy to become a writer and invite others to read our articles and thought. This tool is meant for such kind of idea. Get more details from http://wordpress.org 6. MediaWiki : Yes Wikipedia are there from centuries to make our self informative on some given subject. Now we are into digital age and our need and volume of information also increased. We need to have information at a single mouse click. So to fulfill all this mediawiki a free tool has been designed. To get more information look at : http://mediawiki.org. 7. OpenURL reSearcher suite (CUFTS, GODOT, DBWIZ): Developed by SFU. This is entirely a new initiative and efforts are being done. You can look at SFU websit and my project report : http://software.lib.sfu.ca/ https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/handle/1849/414 Hope these all will be useful to you. Please let me know if you have any query. I am always open for it and invite other peer members also to join this initiative. As Mr. K Rajasekharan mentioned this will directly or indirectly help us to improve ourselves. Thanks & Regards Ehtesham (+91)9985100322 P. J. O'Rourke - "Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely." -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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LOK SABHA INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME 2009
by krishna nand singh 26 Dec '08

26 Dec '08

LOK SABHA INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME 2009 ? Applications are invited in the prescribed format for five Internship Positions for a one-year Internship Programme in the Lok Sabha. The Internship Programme is aimed to provide an opportunity to young men and women with outstanding academic and extracurricular achievements to acquaint themselves with the working of parliamentary democracy and democratic institutions in general and specifically about our parliamentary system. The Programme also aims at imparting requisite skills and knowledge to enable the Interns to develop a proper perspective about the role of Legislature in our parliamentary system which, in turn, would help them while working in their own chosen? fields in the future. ? Duration: The duration of the Internship Programme will be one year, starting January 2009 and ending December 2009. ? Eligibility: Age: The Internship shall be open to Indian citizens between 21 and 28 years of age as on 31st December 2008. Qualifications: The applicant should have completed a two-year Post-Graduate Degree from a recognised Indian or Foreign University with 55% marks in any of the areas/disciplines such as Social Sciences, Law, Journalism, Finance, Management, Library Science, etc. ? The applicant should submit a recommendation letter from the Principal of College/Head of the Institution he/she last attended or is enrolled in to pursue higher studies along with the completed application form. The applicant must also submit a brief statement in 250 words which should inter alia state why he/she intends to join the Internship Programme; his/her career goals; and how the Internship will help him/her in achieving those goals. The short listed applicants will be called to appear for an Interview. ? Stipend and Other Facilities: The Interns will be paid a consolidated stipend of Rs. 18,000/- per month during the Internship period. In addition, a sum of Rs. 10,000/- shall be given as a one-time expenditure towards stationery and typing expenses. Expenses on accommodation, travelling, etc. shall be borne by the Interns themselves. ? The completed application in the given format should reach the Joint Director, Bureau of Parliamentary Studies and Training (BPST), Lok Sabha Secretariat, Room No. F-077, ?J? Block, Parliament Library Building, New Delhi-110001, latest by 30 December 2008. ? Download Application Form: http://164.100.24.209/newls/bureau/advt121208.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ KRISHNA NAND SINGH MLIS(BHU)

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hearty congrats to Mr DV Singh, Incharge President of ILA
by Mailing List Admin 26 Dec '08

26 Dec '08

Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:48:53 -0800 (PST) From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> dear Professional friends it is pride for all of us that Mr DV Singh, Librarian, Sree Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University and Incharge President of Indian Library Association has been elected as member of Delhi University Academic Council. He is elected in the first count it self. He is the first LIS professional elected as member of Delhi University Academic Council. for his credit he has many things, such as he was first LIS professional elected as Joint secretary of Delhi University teachers Association (DUTA) and was also incharge Secretary for wome time. He is the first LIS professional to work as warden in Delhi University. He is also first LIS professional to get elected as Secretary fo Staff Council for a period of 4 years. He is the first LIS professional to be the Secrtary and also president of College staff association. Mr DV Singh has many credits with first LIS professional to take over number of positions in the Delhi University. generally these positions are taken by the teachers. Mr singh election to these positions indicates acceptance by the teaching community that the library professionals are also on par with the teachers. his election is pride for all of us. we have seen him speaking powerfully for the cause of the profession. let us join together to wish him all thebest and get elected to many more such positions. Let us strengthen his hands to fight for library profession. i join the professionals in congratulating him for his grand success in the election. laxman rao Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, Professor of� Library & Information Science, & �Director, UGC-Academic Staff College (Retd), Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Association of British Scholars (Hyderabad Chapter) 91-40-27171565, 27177763 (res): 09246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)gmail.com

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Request for Article
by Mailing List Admin 26 Dec '08

26 Dec '08

Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:00:55 +0530 From: "[UTF-8] विनाय�~U �~W�~K�~B�~\\ार�~G" <vinayak.gonjare(a)gmail.com> Dear friends, Can someone kindly send me any article related to Deemed University & It's IT base Library Services . I shall be grateful. Thanks and Regards Vinayak P. Gonjare Library Assistant Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W) 400601. email : vinayak.gonjare(a)gmail.com <http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum> Mob : 9702373557 elibrary :http//www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm

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LOK SABHA INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME 2009
by Puna Das 26 Dec '08

26 Dec '08

LOK SABHA INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME 2009 Applications are invited in the prescribed format for five Internship Positions for a one-year Internship Programme in the Lok Sabha. The Internship Programme is aimed to provide an opportunity to young men and women with outstanding academic and extracurricular achievements to acquaint themselves with the working of parliamentary democracy and democratic institutions in general and specifically about our parliamentary system. The Programme also aims at imparting requisite skills and knowledge to enable the Interns to develop a proper perspective about the role of Legislature in our parliamentary system which, in turn, would help them while working in their own chosen fields in the future. Duration: The duration of the Internship Programme will be one year, starting January 2009 and ending December 2009. Eligibility: Age: The Internship shall be open to Indian citizens between 21 and 28 years of age as on 31st December 2008. Qualifications: The applicant should have completed a two-year Post-Graduate Degree from a recognised Indian or Foreign University with 55% marks in any of the areas/disciplines such as Social Sciences, Law, Journalism, Finance, Management, Library Science, etc. The applicant should submit a recommendation letter from the Principal of College/Head of the Institution he/she last attended or is enrolled in to pursue higher studies along with the completed application form. The applicant must also submit a brief statement in 250 words which should inter alia state why he/she intends to join the Internship Programme; his/her career goals; and how the Internship will help him/her in achieving those goals. The short listed applicants will be called to appear for an Interview. Stipend and Other Facilities: The Interns will be paid a consolidated stipend of Rs. 18,000/- per month during the Internship period. In addition, a sum of Rs. 10,000/- shall be given as a one-time expenditure towards stationery and typing expenses. Expenses on accommodation, travelling, etc. shall be borne by the Interns themselves. The completed application in the given format should reach the Joint Director, Bureau of Parliamentary Studies and Training (BPST), Lok Sabha Secretariat, Room No. F-077, ‘J’ Block, Parliament Library Building, New Delhi-110001, latest by 30 December 2008. Download Application Form: http://164.100.24.209/newls/bureau/advt121208.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://openaccess-unesco.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Online Library Management Software - CR2 Technologies
by Dhwaneet Mehta 25 Dec '08

25 Dec '08

Dear Sir / Madam, We are pleased to inform you that we have launched Asia's first SaaS based Library Management Software. CYBRARIAN – is a next generation web based, seamless & fully integrated Library Management software System hosted on a Remote Server. This is based on SaaS (Software as a Service) concept where users have to pay –as-you-use basis. CYBRARIAN allows the librarians to access & run the software with the help of an ordinary low cost PC having a web browser and they can carry out on line all the transactions like Acquisition, Cataloguing, Circulation, Periodicals Management (PMS), Article Indexing, Reports Management etc. as if the entire application is running on their desk. One can access the application anytime (24x7x365) from anywhere, & from any machine with built in webOPAC facility in the software. At a very low hosting fee, CYBRARIAN provides users facilities like Software Usage, Secured Data Storage & Management, Virus Protection, Backups, Patch Management, Product Updates, Technical Support, Maintenance etc. CYBRARIAN follows all the international standards like MARC21, Z39.50, AACR2, MARCXML, ISO 2079 etc. and is having UNICODE (Multilingual) facility. The most attractive feature of CYBRARIAN is that librarians or Resource Centre Manager can customize the application as per their requirements without the help or need from the software vendor. Moreover, the reports can also be self-customized. CYBRARIAN also allows the member libraries to form or create their own network of libraries from similar related subjects/background/industries for resource sharing by collecting, storing & disseminating information and would offer networked services like information about resources scattered in the libraries throughout the world, referencing materials to meet the requirements of students, researchers, scholars & the general public, Inter Library Loan etc. without incurring any extra cost. For further details, you requested to please visit our website www.cybrarian.in. In case of any query, please do contact us. Awaiting your earliest reply. Thanking you, Regards Dhwaneet Mehta Regional Manager CR2 Technologies Ltd. Ahmedabad Gujarat (M)09909033615 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Advertisement for Library Assistants and Library Trainees
by Nihar Patra 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

Advertisement for Library Assistants and Library Trainees "Over the last decade, NSHM Knowledge Campus has been on the fast track to become one of the most sought after education destinations the country has to offer. NSHM knowledge Campus also boasts of world-class infrastructure. The Durgapur campus is spread across 25 acres and is well equipped with both academic and non-academic facilities for the holistic development of student. The Kolkata campus, which is spread over 2.5 acres, is also similarly equipped. The institute has expanded its domain across India with new campuses in Bangalore and Gurgaon. Soon NSHM Knowledge Campus will spread its presence in Pune and Bhubaneswar too. The NSHM Knowledge Campus, Kolkata is stepping towards automation and digitization of its Knowledge Center, catering to the information needs of academic and research community in the areas of Management, Media and Communication and Pharmacy. Applications are invited for the post of Library Assistants (Permanent position) and Library Trainees (One year Contract) for Kolkata Campus. For Library Assistants, applicants should be 1/2 years of experience from a reputed organization with 1st class MLIS and well versed in computer application in Library Science. Pay scale as per AICTE norms. For Library Trainee, The applicants should be fresh MLIS and well versed in computer application in Library Science. Duration of Training is for a period of one year with no guarantee of continued employment (purely temporary/contractual basis), carrying a stipend of Rs.5000/- per month with no other facilities / benefits, as applicable to regular employees, excepting contractual leave. Please send the Bio-Data with latest passport size photograph to nihar.kanta.patra(a)nshm.com on or before 8th January 2009. Regards, Nihar ************************************************************************ Nihar K Patra M. Phil, MLIS, PGDLAN, Pursuing PhD Head - Library Science (Assistant Professor) NSHM Knowledge Campus 60 (124), B L Saha Road Kolkata - 700053, India Phone and Facsimile: +91 33 2403 2300/01 Mobile: +919748741550 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Manlibnet 2009 - Paper Submission date extended
by bijaya ray 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1644246777-1230115077=:15573" --0-1644246777-1230115077=:15573 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Professional Friends=0A=0AThe organising Committee of Manlibnet 2009 i= s very much happy with the overwhelming responses from the LIS professional= s to attend the convention and to present the papers.=0A=0AOn request of ma= ny LIS Professional colleagues, the organising committee of Manlibnet 2009 = at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar decided to extend the last date of paper su= bmission=C2=A0 for the convention. Now the professional friends are request= ed to send their paper on or before 07.01.2009 with the required registrati= on fees. No further extension will be provided for submission of paper.=0A= =0AThose who have not received the convention brochure please log on to www= .kiit.ac.in and www.manlibnet.in for complete brochure.=0A=0APlease make yo= ur self convinient to attend the seminar and review different online produc= ts available in the field of Business, Management and Engineering subjects = which will be helpful to your organisations.=0A=0ABesides the=C2=A0on line = products, the organising committee also arranged wide range of book display= (Both foreign and Indian) for the participants to update their knowledge on= latest published books.=0A=0AThe organising Committee also taking step to = make a trip for participants=C2=A0to visit in and around bhubaneswar, those= who are coming first time to Orissa may take benefit of this.=0A=0A=0AThis= is my sincere request to all professional friends to make huge publicity a= nd success=C2=A0of the convention.=0A=0AThanks and regards=0A=0ADr.Bijayala= xmi Rautaray=0ASr. Librarian, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar=0Aand=0AOrganisi= ng Secretary, 10th Manlibnet Convention=0A=0A=0A=0A Add more friends t= o your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ --0-1644246777-1230115077=:15573 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><head><style type=3D"text/css"></style></he= ad><body><div style=3D"font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;= font-size:12pt"><DIV>=0A<DIV style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times n= ew roman, new york, times, serif">=0A<DIV>=0A<DIV>Dear Professional Friends= </DIV>=0A<DIV> </DIV>=0A<DIV>The organising Committee of Manlibnet 200= 9 is very much happy with the overwhelming responses from the LIS professio= nals to attend the convention and to present the papers.</DIV>=0A<DIV>&nbsp= ;</DIV>=0A<DIV>On request of many LIS Professional colleagues, the organisi= ng committee of Manlibnet 2009 at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar decided to e= xtend the last date of paper submission  for the convention. Now the p= rofessional friends are requested to send their paper on or before 07.01.20= 09 with the required registration fees. No further extension will be provid= ed for submission of paper.</DIV>=0A<DIV> </DIV>=0A<DIV>Those who have= not received the convention brochure please log on to <A href=3D"http://ww= w.kiit.ac.in/" target=3D_blank rel=3Dnofollow><FONT color=3D#0000ff>www.kii= t.ac.in</FONT></A> and <A href=3D"http://www.manlibnet.in/" target=3D_blank= rel=3Dnofollow><FONT color=3D#0000ff>www.manlibnet.in</FONT></A> for compl= ete brochure.</DIV>=0A<DIV> </DIV>=0A<DIV>Please make your self convin= ient to attend the seminar and review different online products available i= n the field of Business, Management and Engineering subjects which will be = helpful to your organisations.</DIV>=0A<DIV> </DIV>=0A<DIV>Besides the=  on line products, the organising committee also arranged wide range o= f book display(Both foreign and Indian) for the participants to update thei= r knowledge on latest published books.</DIV>=0A<DIV> </DIV>=0A<DIV>The= organising Committee also taking step to make a trip for participants&nbsp= ;to visit in and around bhubaneswar, those who are coming first time to Ori= ssa may take benefit of this.</DIV>=0A<DIV> </DIV>=0A<DIV> </DIV>= =0A<DIV>This is my sincere request to all professional friends to make huge= publicity and success of the convention.</DIV>=0A<DIV> </DIV>=0A= <DIV>Thanks and regards</DIV>=0A<DIV> </DIV>=0A<DIV>Dr.Bijayalaxmi Rau= taray</DIV>=0A<DIV>Sr. Librarian, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar</DIV>=0A<DIV= >and</DIV>=0A<DIV>Organising Secretary, 10th Manlibnet Convention</DIV></DI= V></DIV><BR></DIV></div><br>=0A <hr size=3D1></hr> Add more fr= iends to your messenger and enjoy! <a href=3D"http://in.rd.yahoo.com/taglin= e_messenger_6/*http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/"> Invite them now.</a></b= ody></html> --0-1644246777-1230115077=:15573--

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Manlibnet 2009 - Paper submission date Extended
by bijaya ray 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

Dear Professional Friends The organising Committee of Manlibnet 2009 is very much happy with the overwhelming responses from the LIS professionals to attend the convention and to present the papers. On request of many LIS Professional colleagues, the organising committee Manlibnet 2009 at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar decided to extend tha last date of paper submission for the convention. Now the professional friends are requested to send their paper on or before 07.01.2009 with the required registration fees. No further extension will be provided for submission of paper. Those who have not received the convention brochure please log on to www.kiit.ac.in and www.manlibnet.in for complete brochure. Please make your self convinient to attend the seminar and review different online products available in the field of Business, Management and Engineering subjects which will be helpful to your organisations. Besides on line products, the organising committee also arranged wide range of book display(Both foreign and Indian) for the participants to update their knowledge on latest published books. The organising Committee also taking step to make a trip for participants to visit in and around bhubaneswar, those who are coming first time to Orissa may take benefit of this. This is my sincere request to all professional friends to make huge publicity and success of the convention. Thanks and regards Dr.Bijayalaxmi Rautaray Sr. Librarian, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar and Organising Secretary, 10th Manlibnet Convention Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Installation of Greenstone
by C T K 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

I have installed Greenstone Digital Library Softare (Greenstone-2.81rc-win32) in our library and it is running properly. Installation of the software is very easy. Mr. Rajasekharan and K M Nafala have prepared Beginners Guide, which is helpful in upload the data into the software. You can download the Beginners guide at: http://greenstonesupport.iimk.ac.in/Documents/GSDL%20Begineers%20Guide.pdf *********************************************** C T Kantharaj Librarian Cambridge Instittute of Technology K R Puram, Bangalore - 560036 ctkantharaj(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Regarding Open Source Tools
by Md. Zahid Hossain Shoeb 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

Dear Professionals, There are many posts we use to get now regarding Open Source Tools with cooperative approach from different IT skilled LIS professionals. Anyway, I consider that the ultimate challenge is the customization according to the organization as per their requirements and changed requirement which is time related task and a matter of system analysis. For a sustainable and consistent system it is required different phases like planning, setting, access management, implementation etc. The total thing is a matter of project management with professional approach from requirement analysis to testing after designing even documentation. So, the whole thing is not a task of one day or one week or even one month. When technology appears at market, whimsically it is not wiseful to use in case of specially repositories, e-Learning, CMS and automation tool; though the popular technology which are cited by different members of the forum are widely used. I think, before setting-up or using any technology always initiate to a team consisting of administration and staff of the library of the organization and information technology professionals with mature as well as professional outlook. Moreover, each member can contribute expertise on how the system should operate and the features required, i.e. for repositories – feature of the services (metadata, submission workflow, content types, etc.) or underlying technical issues (operating system, databases, search mechanisms, etc.) or even the policies and legal issues for the collections. So, no shortcut technique will be effective in this case for long run, not only installation or a little customization will perform all the tasks, it can be a pilot task of starting the main tasks or project. A 'Gantt chart' should be followed for designing a system lifecycle. For better information literate community it is needed long term sustainable, consistent and coherent system with matured working process. Regards, Md. Zahid Hossain Shoeb Independent University, Bangladesh -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Anomalies in the UGC Sixth Pay Review Committee Report and Removal of disparities in promotion and benefits to Librarians in Colleges and Universities – Representation submitted
by Pandurang Konnur 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

Dear Professional Friends, I take this opportunity to congratulate all the academic Librarians for having got the VIth PRC Recommendations approved by Government of India. During the last V Pay Commission Recommendations and their implementations there was a great amount of disparity between Teachers and Librarians. Hence Librarians were to suffer for one full decade to get their grievances redressed. This time thanks to the PRC members and Prof. Chaddha the Chairman of PRC who gave ear to our voice and recommended parity for Librarians with that of teachers. Friends, still there are few anomalies exist and IALA has already submitted its memorandum to the Ministry of HRD, Secretary HRD and Chairman UGC. The full text of the memorandum may be accessed in the following URL: http://iala.org.in/subfiles/prc.pdf I request all the members of this form to go through the memorandum and give their feed back to IALA with additional input to prepare and submit further memorandums to the competitive authorities. Thanks, -- Dr.P.V.Konnur Fulbright Fellow (University of Illinois) University Librarian, Bangalore University Library, Jananabharati, Bangalore-560056 Phone: 080-22961131, 23215510 Website: http://library.bub.ernet.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Archives Management Course
by ramesh chander 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

*Dear Colleagues, * * * SCHOOL OF ARCHIVAL STUDIES NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF INDIA ADMISSION NOTICE 28th Short Term Certificate Course in "Archives Management" Duration: 16th February 2009 to 31st March 2009. Objective: To make the trainees aware of acquisition, arrangement, up-keep and retrieval of records. Eligibility: Graduate in any discipline preferably in humanities from a recognized university. Reservation: Seats are reserved for SC/ST/PH & OBC private candidates as per Government norms. Age: Below 30 years for private candidates. Below 50 years for sponsored candidates. (Relaxation in age for the reserved categories is applicable as per Government norms). Registration Fee: Application alongwith attested copies of educational qualification and Rs.100/- (Rupees hundred) only through crossed Indian Postal Orders/Bank Draft in favour of Administrative Officer, National Archives of India, Janpath, New Delhi-110001, be sent to The Director General of Archives, National Archives of India, Janpath, New Delhi-110001. Sponsored candidates should apply through proper channel. Course Fee: Rs. 300/- (Rupees three hundred only) non- refundable, to be paid at the time of admission. Last date of receipt of application: 23rd January 2009. Boarding & Lodging: The School has no boarding & lodging facilities. For more information please go through following link: - http://www.employmentnews.gov.in/jobdesc-1749-435.html With Regards, Romesh Chander Sharma National Center for Science Information(NCSI), Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore-560012, -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Duplicate messages
by Library＠Arboretum.org.in 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

Dear All, We often subscribe to a number of email forums with a view not to miss out on any significant news/development. Multiple posting of the same news item on different fora is adding to the email clutter. Generally, we can categorise any LIS communication into one of the following groups: 1) Relevant to all LIS professionals 2) Relevant to LIS professionals belonging to a specific group, e.g., corporate librarians, LIS teachers, public librarians, etc. Shall we contribute to reduction in email traffic by: a) posting all emails falling in category 1) and 2) to lis-forum without fail. b) posting all email falling in category 2) to the relevant forum only. For instance a corporate librarian posting an item of interest to corporate librarians would post it to corporatelibrarians(a)yahoo.com and lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in only. Thank you Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra Research Officer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dharma Vana Arboretum Administrative Office Plot 95/1, Phase 2 IDA Cherlapally Hyderabad 500 051 Andhra Pradesh India Mobile: 93962 51106 Phones Direct +91 40 2726 0930 +91 40 3911 4202 EPABX +91 40 2726 0801 Ext. 202 +91 40 2726 0802 Ext. 202 +91 40 3911 4200 Ext. 202 Fax +91 40 3911 4219 www.arboretum.org.in ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Open Source Tools for Librarians
by Rajan 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

Dear All, Mr Ehtesham has done a very good job of pointing out the most essential tools, modern librarians should know in the digital age. It is good that a few librarians, who are familiar with FOSS technologies and tools, are taking individual imitative of different sorts in helping the fellow librarians to learn and use those tools for furthering information activities for which the profession stands. This kind of peer training- learning process may help the profession in its strides in gaining better status, pay and role in this digital environment. Sometime ago, Mr G K Manjumdar & Mr Singh had made some efforts in developing a public database of such IT friendly librarians. That attempt did not go much ahead. This is the right time to give a push to the voluntary peer training, given up once. Simultaneously, some of the new learners can self-learn some of those tools with the help of simple tutorials available in the net. They can seek the support of the peer tutors for comparatively complex tools or on the part where support is needed. In self-learning, one should start with the simple and the most useful. So it seems that the best bet, as the first priority item, is the Greenstone Digital Library Software. Greenstone installation has become much easier by now. Installation of Greenstone 2.81 is a matter of a few mouse clicks on the pre-requisite Java2 Runtime Environment and Greenstone software. Building a digital library with it is a simple exercise of giving a name, gathering some documents and clicking on the Create button. Creating Browsing Classifiers and Search Indexes are the items that require some knowledge. The voluntary peer-training will also work well with those who tried the tools themselves and learned the whereabouts. Regards, K Rajasekharan Kerala Institute of Local Administration Thrissur ------------------------------ Original Message: Date: 22 Dec 2008 06:06:45 -0000 From: "Ehtesham" <ehte786(a)rediffmail.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] ICT - Open Source tools for Library I am Mohammad Ehtesham staying at Hyderabad, student of LIS and working in a software company as consultant. I have done installation implementation of many open source tools for different organization. I came across the mail posted by Mr Vimal in this forum in which he offered his help to get the Koha installed for the libraries. It was really a wonderful approach towards the Open Source initiative I am sure many would have appreaciated this. Moving ahead I have a thought which I want to share with you all.Therefore it's now time to advance our library services and fulfill the needs of the patrons in a better way what Google and other search engines are doing. Yes whenever the question of precision comes to meet the user needs our library always wins the race. So we only need to change the way of service not the kind of service because our user behavior has changed they became more tech savvy. What to do ? Technology is fear for beginners it is not tough. There are number of open source tools for ICT - (well tested and widely applied) available which can be freely downloaded and implemented with minimal desired customization. This won't impact in libraries shrinking budget. Only we need to acquire hardware and download freely available tools. No doubt there is huge list of open source tools available on the web but to start with here I am mentioning a few well known widely used tools which I came across on which any one can work out for there respective libraries: 1. NewGenLib or Koha (Library automation tool) 2. DSpace, GSDL or ePrints (Digital Library). 3. Moodle (Elearning tool) 4. Joomla or Drupal (CMS) 5. WordPress (Blog tool) 6. MediaWiki (Wiki tool) 7. OpenURL suite (CUFTS - knowledge base consortia tool, Godot - Link resolver & DbWiz - Federated search engine) I hope this will be useful for you. I am open to help and available (No Charge) if any one who needs help in installing and implementing these softwares for their respective libraries on weekends (Sat & Sun). Ehtesham (+91)9985100322 ehte786(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Libraian-cum-Documentation Assistant vacancy in Sree Chitra Trivadnrum
by Abdunnasar. A 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Thiruvananthapuram has invited application for the post of Librarian-cum-Documentation Assistant. For details please visit : http://www.sctimst.ac.in/whatsnew/indexjob.htm Regards Abdunnasar. A CESS, Trivandrum -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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3rd Scopus Young Scientist Awards 2008
by ramesh chander 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

Dear Colleagues Elsevier is pleased to announce the winners of the 3rd Scopus Young Scientist Awards 2008. Agriculture Dr. R Raman International Centre for Genetics & Biotechnology Biological Sciences Prof. S Ganesh Indian Institute Of Technology, Kanpur Chemistry Dr. B V Subba Reddy Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad Earth Sciences Dr. Govindasamy Bala Indian Institute Of Science, Bangalore Engineering Dr. Suman Chakraborty Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Mathematics Dr. Siva Athreya Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Medicine Dr. G. Bhanuprakash Reddy National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad Physics Dr. Satyabrata Patnaik Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Physics Dr. Moulik Parikh Inter Univ Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune Congratulations to all the winners!! Thanks very much for your cooperation. Kind regards, WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A VERY HAPPY 2009 With Regards, Romesh Chander Sharma National Center for Science Information(NCSI), Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore-560012, -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.

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Skoch Summit 2009
by sahil talwar 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

We are pleased to inform you that the 19th Skoch Summit is scheduled to be organized on January 22-23, 2009 at India Habitat Centre. Skoch Summits have matured over the past 10 years to attract not just government support but also the highest level of national and international corporate support. Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Planning Commission, Ministry of Human Resource Development and National Institute of Rural Development are co-organizers for the Summit. Similar support is expected from National Disaster Management Authority, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Ministry of Urban Development and several public sector as well as private sector organizations and multilateral agencies. India: Challenges and Policy Response As India recovers from the horror and tragedy of the Mumbai incident, the criticality of dovetailing security and emergency responses into the economic and development growth scenarios has never been greater. The two-day conference will focus on the challenges faced by India and the desired policy responses. The key content includes: * Security and Disaster Management o A Technology Response to Terror o Planning for Disaster Reduction o Services for the next decade o Learnings from Global Best Practices o State of States o Cyber-Security * Gearing up Power Sector * Information Enabled Economic Inclusion: Telecentre 2.0 * Education & Employability - Capacity is King * Next 5 Years of e-Governance * Thinkers and Writers Forum Distinguished speakers and domain experts would lead the discussions that can be greatly enriched through erudite participants and practitioners such as you. The summit will see unprecedented participation from top-level representatives from national and international organizations, institutions and companies. Your office may wish to pre-register you on our website or through e-mail to help us send you a formal invitation and confirm your participation. This will also help our staff to determine availability and possibility of a complimentary registration for you. The Summit is being held on 22nd -23rd January 2009 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. You may visit www.challengers.in for further details and program schedule. There are limited seats and there will be no spot registration. Thanks & Regards Sahil Talwar -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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NLM Classification
by Abdu Rahiman 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

May I know how to classify documents using NLM Scheme with worked out examples? -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.

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Request for message posting
by Mailing List Admin 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:19:07 +0800 From: "Muralidharan, Padma (ELS-DEL)" <P.Muralidharan(a)elsevier.com> Dear Manager, Could you please post the following message on LIS-Forum on our behalf? Elsevier is pleased to announce the winners of the 3rd Scopus Young Scientist Awards 2008. Agriculture Dr. R Raman International Centre for Genetics & Biotechnology Biological Sciences Prof. S Ganesh Indian Institute Of Technology, Kanpur Chemistry Dr. B V Subba Reddy Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad Earth Sciences Dr. Govindasamy Bala Indian Institute Of Science, Bangalore Engineering Dr. Suman Chakraborty Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Mathematics Dr. Siva Athreya Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Medicine Dr. G. Bhanuprakash Reddy National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad Physics Dr. Satyabrata Patnaik Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Physics Dr. Moulik Parikh Inter Univ Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune Congratulations to all the winners!! Kind regards, Padma Muralidharan Senior Manager - Account Development Elsevier India (Science & Technology) LOGIX PARK, I Floor, A4 & A5, Sector 16 NOIDA - 201 301 (Uttar Pradesh) Ph : 91-120-4679202 l +91-9810739993 Thanks very much for your cooperation. Kind regards, WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A VERY HAPPY 2009

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Inspirational figures!!!!
by manoj kumar pant 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

Dear All, On behalf of Department of Library and information Science Amrapali Institute - Haldwani, Naintal wish to convey my hearted congratulations to Prof. V.G.Talwar for assuming charge as Vice chancellor of Mysore University and Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur, Librarian and Head Kala Nidhi Division, Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, New Delhi, for being the awarded the prestigious *"IASLIC-S M Ganguly award for Best Librarian of the Year 2007" * With best wishes ------------------------------------ Manoj Kumar Pant Lecturar, Amrapali Institute of Management and Computer Application, Haldwani,Nainital, Uttaranchal-263139. Ph. No.-09012226260(Mob.) 919219918942(Home), 268201(Office) e-mail - " manojpant2(a)rediffmail.com ". " manojpant2(a)yahoo.co.in ". ------------------------------------------ "Don't walk ahead of me - I can't follow you, don't walk behind me I can't lead you, Walk along with me and be my friend." ------------------------------------------ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.

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Magazine going in to google book search
by Mallikarjun 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Dear All, Magazines will come into Google Book Search (http://books..google.com) from the Publisher partner side of the service with Google offering free digitization. Some of the magazine content in Google Book Search will come from other Google interfaces (e.g., Google News Archive) and some from the main Google service. Have a look on http://books.google.com/ ________________________________________________________________:-) Mallikarjun Dora Professional Assistant Vikram Sarabhai Library IIM, Ahemadabad ...The Future is here, Its just unevenly distributed..... http://curiouslib.blogspot.com/ Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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NISCAIR Short Term Course on "Library Automation and Resource Sharing"
by gmahesh＠niscair.res.in 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

NISCAIR announces its one week short term training course on "Library Automation and Resource Sharing" Course dates: 19-23 January 2009 Broad course contents: Application of IT in libraries, Library automation: Introduction and current trends, Library automation software packages, Barcode and RFID technologies, Database creation, Digital Library concepts, Resource sharing, Library networks and services Course fee: Rs. 2000/- without accommodation and Rs. 2600/- with accommodation Admission procedure: Application forms can be downloaded from http://www.niscair.res.in. Filled in applications along with appropriate course fee has to be sent in advance by DD in favour of "Director, NISCAIR" and payable at New Delhi and addressed to, In-charge, Training Division, NISCAIR, 14-Satsang Vihar Marg, New Delhi - 110067 For more information contact: training(a)niscair.res.in; Ph: 011-26863617 & 011-26965094. G. Mahesh ----------------------------------------- This email was sent using NISCAIR's web mail service. "" http://niscair.res.in/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.

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ICT - Open Source tools for Library
by Ehtesham 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Dear Friends, I am Mohammad Ehtesham staying at Hyderabad, student of LIS and working in a software company as consultant. I have done installation implementation of many open source tools for different organization. I came across the mail posted by Mr Vimal in this forum in which he offered his help to get the Koha installed for the libraries. It was really a wonderful approach towards the Open Source initiative I am sure many would have appreaciated this. Moving ahead I have a thought which I want to share with you all. The present day society is characterized by: 1. Increasing Information of society. 2. Information Overload. 3. Technology has become an integral part of offices / homes. And library serves as knowledge resource center, information provider and knowledge repository etc. ICT is now become inevitable for any library irrespective of its size and kind of users it serves. Now days more or less every body is relying on Google and referring it as a great library on this planet. Yes I agree but does it mean we should close our library! No we can't dare to do that. Therefore it's now time to advance our library services and fulfill the needs of the patrons in a better way what Google and other search engines are doing. Yes whenever the question of precision comes to meet the user needs our library always wins the race. So we only need to change the way of service not the kind of service because our user behavior has changed they became more tech savvy. What to do ? Technology is fear for beginners it is not tough. There are number of open source tools for ICT - (well tested and widely applied) available which can be freely downloaded and implemented with minimal desired customization. This won't impact in libraries shrinking budget. Only we need to acquire hardware and download freely available tools. No doubt there is huge list of open source tools available on the web but to start with here I am mentioning a few well known widely used tools which I came across on which any one can work out for there respective libraries: 1. NewGenLib or Koha (Library automation tool) 2. DSpace, GSDL or ePrints (Digital Library). 3. Moodle (Elearning tool) 4. Joomla or Drupal (CMS) 5. WordPress (Blog tool) 6. MediaWiki (Wiki tool) 7. OpenURL suite (CUFTS - knowledge base consortia tool, Godot - Link resolver & DbWiz - Federated search engine) I hope this will be useful for you. I am open to help and available (No Charge) if any one who needs help in installing and implementing these softwares for their respective libraries on weekends (Sat & Sun). Please let me know. Thanks & Regards Ehtesham (+91)9985100322 ehte786(a)gmail.com MD EHTESHAM H-11,ISI HOSTELS ADIS 1st year (DRTC) INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE 8TH MILE, MYSORE ROAD, BANGALORE - 560059 MOB - 09886687105 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] desidoc J of Lib & Infor Tech- online - reg (chandra shekar)
by Indira 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Dear Mr. Chandra Sekhar, Here is the path to access DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology http://publications.drdo.gov.in/ojs/index.php/djlit For archives (DBIT) volume1+ follow the give path: http://publications.drdo.gov.in/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?site=localhost&a=p&p=ab out&c=dbit&l=en&w=utf-8 Regards, Indira -------------------------------------------- Ms. Indira Koneru Faculty Member Dept. of Library Science Icfai Academic Wing 23, Nagarjuna Hills Hyderabad-500 082 India -----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: Friday, December 19, 2008 3:39 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 69, Issue 30 Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in You can reach the person managing the list at lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Quotation process (Mrs. Kuberkar) (HENAG) 2. desidoc J of Lib & Infor Tech- online - reg (chandra shekar) 3. Annamalai University - UGC - National Conference - reg (Dr. R. Balasubramani) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:18:24 +0530 From: HENAG <HENAG(a)infosys.com> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Quotation process (Mrs. Kuberkar) To: d kuberkar <dkuberkar(a)rediffmail.com>, "lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: <AB760FBDB8F14D4294F596941D2CABA904E0787449(a)BLRKECMBX03.ad.infosys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear All, I fully agree with Mrs. Kuberkar. Asking quotation for books ,raising Purchase Order and then procuring the books means waste of time and doing un justice to the Supplier too. It would be a good option while calling for a particular book with all the suppliers asking the books with quote . The early supplier with a lowest quote should be appreciated and order should be given to him. This process works fine , and it is justifiable too. No suppliers will be deprived of while he could supply the same . All suppliers would be equally treated. [cid:image001.gif@01C9610A.B97612A0] Best Regards Hena S Gupta Sr.Librarian, Manager(Group leader-E&R), Information Specialist Infosys Central Library, Infosys Technologies Limited, Electronics City, Hosur Road, Bangalore-560100 Board : (91)-(080)-28520261 Ext 52196 ; Direct: 91-080-41165196 Fax: (91)-(080)-28520742 ; Cell:9972584657 We enable you to leverage knowledge anytime, anywhere! From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of d kuberkar Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:57 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Quotation process (Mrs. Kuberkar) Dear Friends, Quotation for Books is not so good idea. GOC mentions as follows : Amendment to rules 99 and 116 of the General Financial rules, 1963 (Third edition) exclusion of books, publications and periodicals, etc. from the definition of "Stores". THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE VIDE THEIR O.M. NO. F.23(7). EII (A)/83 DATED 7.2.1984 MADE CHANGES IN THE GENERAL FINANCIAL RULES WHICH DISPENSE WITH THE NECESSITY OF CALLING FOR TENDERS OR QUOTATIONS IN RESPECT OF PURCHASE OF BOOKS, PERIODICALS, ETC. All though quotations are not necessary, some follow the practice. My personal view is : it consumes more time in procuring procedure and also it is unfair with suppliers. The first supplier who brings a particular book on approval, should be given the order. If you get quotations for the same , some other supplier who quotes better is given the order. This definitely affects the business relation. 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Article Request
by priya gopalkrishna kaimal 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

Pls Send any one this article for my study 1. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, Vol. 33, No. 1, 5-14 (2001) DOI: 10.1177/096100060103300102 A new outlook :services to visually impaired people in UK public libraries Margaret Kinnell De Montfort University 2. Volume 55, Number 4, Spring 2007 E-ISSN: 1559-0682 Print ISSN: 0024-2594 DOI: 10.1353/lib.2007.0033 Owen, David. Sharing a Vision to Improve Library Services for Visually Impaired People in the United Kingdom Library Trends - Volume 55, Number 4, Spring 2007, pp. 809-829 Priya Pillai Librarian BTTC Colaba -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.

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Koha at Cochin University
by Vimal Kumar 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

Dear Friends, Cochin University of Science and Technology decides to use Koha for university library and department libraries. Appointed a committee of Librarians and Computer Professionals for feasibility study. -- Vimal Kumar V. Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581 Web: www.asb.edu.in/vimal/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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InfoVision 2009, Jan 22-23, Bangalore, India - Special Student Offer!
by Angrosh 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

InfoVision 2009: The Knowledge Summit, January 22-23, 2009, Bangalore announces Special Student Offer of Rs. 2000/- per participant (available only till December 30, 2008) Hurry Up! Don't let go of this rare opportunity InfoVision 2009 - One of its kind organized for the Information and Knowledge Industry Summit Theme: "Content to Intent: Understanding user intent in multimodal, multilingual, mobile, and enterprise Information Access" Summit Sessions: * Mobile Information Access * Multimedia Information Access * Multilingual Information Access * Consumer Created Content * eScience, eResearch and Cyber infrastructure * Enterprise Content and Communication InfoVision 2009 offers an intellectual feast of talks: Inaugural Keynote Dr. Mark Maybury, Executive Director, Information Technology Division, MITRE Corporation, USA - an expert in Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval will give the Inaugural Keynote at InfoVision 2009 on January 22, 2009. Keynote Title: Intelligent Multimedia: Promises and Challenges Other Prominent Speakers 1. Dr. P. Anandan, Managing Director, Microsoft Research India, Bangalore 2. Mr. John Blossom, President and Senior Analyst, Shore Communications, USA 3. Dr. Edward Cutrell, Research Scientist, Adaptive Systems Interaction Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA 4. Prof. Dieter Fellner, Director IGD, Fraunhofer Institute of Computer Graphics Research, Darmstadt, Germany 5. Prof. John Girard, Associate Professor of Management, Minot State University, USA 6. Mr. Bruno Goveas, Head, Marketing & Product Management, Akamai Technologies India 7. Mr. Ajay Gupta, Director HP Labs India and Director, Mobility Solutions Group 8. Prof. Sridhar Iyer, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 9. Mr. Srikanth B. Iyer, Co-Founder and COO, Edurite Technologies 10. Dr. Hari M. Koduvely, Senior Risk Analyst, Amazon.com 11. Mr. Balaji Krishnan, General Manager, MindTree 12. Prof. Ee-Peng Lim, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore 13. Ms. Usha Mohan, Managing Director, Triumph India Software Services, Bangalore 14. Mr. Gopinath Padmanabhan, President, Applications Business Unit, Mphasis 15. Mr. P. Ravindranath, Director - Strategic Development and Govt. & Public Affairs, Hewlett Packard India 16. Prof. Rohini Srihari, Founder CEO, Janya Inc., USA & Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA 17. Mr. Bob Stembridge, Thomson Reuters, UK 18. Prof. Zakir Thomas, Project Director, OSDD Project & Head, DGTC, CSIR 19. Prof. Shalini R. Urs, Executive Director, ISiM, Mysore 20. Mr. Mahesh Vyas, Managing Director & CEO, CMIE For registration and updates, please visit: www.infovision2009.org For details and clarifications, please contact: InfoVision secretariat International School of Information Management University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore 570 006 Tel: +91-821-2514699; +91-821-2411417 Fax: +91-821-2519209, Angrosh - 9886970411 Email: office(a)infovision.org.in; office(a)isim.ac.in See you at InfoVision 2009! InfoVision 2009 Summit Team. Thanks and regards, Angrosh ********************************************* Angrosh M.A. Project Manager International School of Information Management University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore - 570 006 Tel: +91-821-2514699; +91-821-2411417 Fax: +91-821-2519209 Email: angrosh(a)isim.ac.in ********************************************** -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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