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Exhibition on Indian Diaspora
by Dr. Ramesh C Gaur 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Dear Colleagues, I wish you a happy New Year 2007!!!!!!!! I am pleased to inform you that Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts(IGNCA), New Delhi is organizing an Exhibition on Indian Diaspora during January 4-9, 2007 at the address given below. More details on this can also be had from following URL: http://www.ignca.nic.in/ You may like to visit this historical exhibition. Best Regards Ramesh ******************************************************** Dr. Ramesh C Gaur PGDCA, MLISc,Ph.D. Fulbright Scholar (Virginia Tech, USA) Head-Kalanidhi 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 Phone: 91-11-23385442, 23385884 Fax: 91-11-22385442 Mobile: 91-9810487158 URL: www.ignca.nic.in Email: gaur(a)ignca.org; gaur(a)vt.edu; rcgaur(a)bol.net.in Dear Colleagues, I wish you a happy New Year 2007!!!!!!!! I am pleased to inform you that Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts(IGNCA), New Delhi is organizing an Exhibition on Indian Diaspora during January 4-9, 2007 at the address given below. More details on this can also be had from following URL: http://www.ignca.nic.in/ http://www.ignca.nic.in/ You may like to visit this historical exhibition. Best Regards Ramesh ******************************************************** Dr. Ramesh C Gaur PGDCA, MLISc,Ph.D. Fulbright Scholar (Virginia Tech, USA) Head-Kalanidhi 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 Phone: 91-11-23385442, 23385884 Fax: 91-11-22385442 Mobile: 91-9810487158 URL: http://www.ignca.nic.in www.ignca.nic.in Email: mailto:gaur@ignca.org gaur(a)ignca.org ; mailto:gaur@vt.edu gaur(a)vt.edu ; mailto:rcgaur@bol.net.in rcgaur(a)bol.net.in

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Sensitization workshop on Information Literacy
by vimal kumar 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Sensitization workshop on Information Literacy 23 January 2007 (9am to 5pm) Organized by Kerala Library Association Sponsored by UNESCO Venue Priyadarsini Auditorium Science and Technology Museum PMG Jn., Trivandrum Coverage/Contents IL overview components of IL, Models and the learning process ICT applications, Internet/ e-Resources, etc. in the IL perspective IL and Life skills development IL competency standards Target Groups: LIS professionals/ practitioners, LIS students Mode of selection: By registration in the prescribed form. Preference will be given to young LIS professionals & students. Registration Fee: Nil Filled up Registration form may be sent to Dr. A. Gopikuttan General Secretary, KLA Dept. of Library and Information science University of Kerala Trivandrum-695 034 Mob-9446428163 P.S. Can be registered by e-mail also. E-mail registrations are to be mailed to any of the following addresses: agopikuttan(a)yahoo.co.in npwaran49(a)yahoo.co.in kps31147(a)yahoo.com Brochure and registration form can be download at http://www.geocities.com/vimal0212/IL.pdf Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Sensitization workshop on Information Literacy 23 January 2007 (9am to 5pm) Organized by Kerala Library Association Sponsored by UNESCO Venue Priyadarsini Auditorium Science and Technology Museum PMG Jn., Trivandrum Coverage/Contents IL overview components of IL, Models and the learning process ICT applications, Internet/ e-Resources, etc. in the IL perspective IL and Life skills development IL competency standards Target Groups: LIS professionals/ practitioners, LIS students Mode of selection: By registration in the prescribed form. Preference will be given to young LIS professionals & students. Registration Fee: Nil Filled up Registration form may be sent to Dr. A. Gopikuttan General Secretary, KLA Dept. of Library and Information science University of Kerala Trivandrum-695 034 Mob-9446428163 P.S. Can be registered by e-mail also. E-mail registrations are to be mailed to any of the following addresses: mailto:agopikuttan@yahoo.co.in agopikuttan(a)yahoo.co.in mailto:npwaran49@yahoo.co.in npwaran49(a)yahoo.co.in mailto:kps31147@yahoo.com kps31147(a)yahoo.com Brochure and registration form can be download at http://www.geocities.com/vimal0212/IL.pdf http://www.geocities.com/vimal0212/IL.pdf Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Dramatic recent growth in OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Dear teachers of library and information science: Here is a blog entry from Peter Suber's Open Access News. I thought you might find it useful. Please spread the word. Subbiah Arunachalam ------------------- Dramatic recent growth in OA Heather Morrison, Dramatic Growth December 2006 & Predictions for 2007, Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, December 31, 2006. Excerpt: Synopsis. The dramatic growth of open access, both publishing and self-archiving, continued in the final quarter of 2006. The Directory of Open Access Journals passed a significant milestone in December, exceeding 2,500 journals; about 10% of the world's peer-reviewed journals are now fully open access. When new journals are created, there is evidence that they are at least 30% likely to be fully open access. This trend is likely to accelerate as more journals become knowledgeable about new, efficient, freely available open source software such as Open Journal Systems, which greatly facilitates online and open access publishing. Strong growth continues in open access archiving, with more archives and more full-text documents; all archives tracked showed very strong growth in 2006. There are signs of an open access movement that is on the verge of emerging from the innovative edge into the mainstream. Open access has become an academic area unto itself, and a challenge to study, as those who have read even a portion of Peter Suber's more than 10,000 well-selected, thoughtful blogposts can attest. Open access education, however, is just beginning. PhD students in librarianship, for example, are finding open access and related topics an interesting field of study. Students are beginning to hear about open access in their courses, but soon they will be taught by teachers for whom this is their area of expertise. My predictions for 2007 are continued, and accelerating, growth in open access. The most important trends I see for 2007, however, are less tangible in nature; a shift in focus from debate on the pros, cons, and feasibility of open access, to more solid work on the details of implementation. For librarians, a key will be a shift in perspective on collections, from the idea of purchasing or leasing what our users need, to building and preserving the collections our researchers and others produce. I see this trend as beginning in 2007.... Peter Suber: That's just the synopsis. See the whole post for a raft of specific numbers. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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open defence
by kabir＠cusat.ac.in 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

Dear Sir Kindly give publicity. NOTICE I have great pleasure in inviting you for the open defence of the Ph.D thesis of Smt.Rajani.R. entitled "Research approach and citation behaviour in english literature" under the faculty of Arts of University of Kerala scheduled to be held on 10th January 2007 wednesday at 11.00 a.m. in the Department of Library & Information Science, University of kerala, Trivandrum. Yours Sincerely Dr.Humayoon Kabir.S Research Guide

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CALIBER-2007, Call for Papers, last date is extended to 7 January 2007
by Suresh Chauhan 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

The 5th International Convention CALIBER-2007 Due to many holidays during last 10 days, we have been receiving many requests from the LIS professionals to extend the last date for receiving the papers/ manuscripts/articles. Keeping in view the over whelming response and requests from various professionals the last date for Call for Papers is extended to 7th January 2007. Though huge number of papers has already been received, thus only high quality, technical papers and case studies will be solicited/preferable. For more details please visit website http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/caliber2007/ Main Theme: "Information and Knowledge Management in Networked World" Sub-Themes 1. Digital Libraries 2. Information and Knowledge Management 3. Innovations in Information Communication Technologies 4. Towards Virtual Library Kindly submit your paper/manuscript/article to: Editor-in-Chief, CALIBER 2007 Director, INFLIBNET Centre (An IUC of UGC) Gujarat University Campus PB 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad-380 009, (Gujarat) India Phone : +91-79-26304695 / 8528 / 5971 / 0002 Fax : +91-79-26300990/ 26307816 E-mail : director(a)inflibnet.ac.in OR caliber2007(a)inflibnet.ac.in OR Convener, CALIBER-2007 Mr. Manoj Kumar K. Convener, CALIBER-2007 Scientist - D (CS), INFLIBNET Centre (An IUC of UGC) Gujarat University Campus PB 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad-380 009, (Gujarat) India Phone : +91-79-26304695 / 8528 / 5971/ 0002 Fax : +91-79-26300990 / 26307816 E-mail : manoj(a)inflibnet.ac.in OR Joint - Convener, CALIBER-2007 Mr. K Prakash Scientific/Technica l Officer-I (An IUC of UGC) Gujarat University Campus PB 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad-380 009, (Gujarat) India Phone : +91-79-26304695 / 8528 / 5971/ 0002 Fax : +91-79-26300990 / 26307816 E-mail : prakash(a)inflibnet.ac.in With best regards. Suresh ************************************************* Suresh K Chauhan Project Scientist (LS) INFLIBNET Centre, An Inter University Centre of University Grants Commission, Opp. Gujarat University Guest House, Post Box No. 4116, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380009. Gujarat, INDIA. Phone: 79 26308528, 26304695, 26305971 (Extn. 43) Mobile: 09898367739 Fax: 79 26300990 Email: chauhan(a)inflibnet.ac.in ; sureshbabal(a)yahoo.com The 5th International Convention CALIBER-2007 Due to many holidays during last 10 days, we have been receiving many requests from the LIS professionals to extend the last date for receiving the papers/ manuscripts/articles. Keeping in view the over whelming response and requests from various professionals the last date for Call for Papers is extended to 7 th January 2007. Though huge number of papers has already been received, thus only high quality, technical papers and case studies will be solicited/ preferable . For more details please visit website http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/caliber2007/ http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/caliber2007/ Main Theme: "Information and Knowledge Management in Networked World" Sub-Themes 1. Digital Libraries 2. Information and Knowledge Management 3. Innovations in Information Communication Technologies 4. Towards Virtual Library Kindly submit your paper/manuscript/article to: Editor-in-Chief, CALIBER 2007 Director, INFLIBNET Centre (An IUC of UGC) Gujarat University Campus PB 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad-380 009, (Gujarat) India Phone : +91-79-26304695 / 8528 / 5971 / 0002 Fax : +91-79-26300990/ 26307816 E-mail : mailto:director@inflibnet.ac.in director(a)inflibnet.ac.in OR mailto:caliber2007@inflibnet.ac.in caliber2007(a)inflibnet.ac.in OR Convener, CALIBER-2007 Mr. Manoj Kumar K. Convener, CALIBER-2007 Scientist - D (CS), INFLIBNET Centre (An IUC of UGC) Gujarat University Campus PB 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad-380 009, (Gujarat) India Phone : +91-79-26304695 / 8528 / 5971/ 0002 Fax : +91-79-26300990 / 26307816 E-mail : mailto:manoj@inflibnet.ac.in manoj(a)inflibnet.ac.in OR Joint - Convener, CALIBER-2007 Mr. K Prakash Scientific/Technica l Officer-I (An IUC of UGC) Gujarat University Campus PB 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad-380 009, (Gujarat) India Phone : +91-79-26304695 / 8528 / 5971/ 0002 Fax : +91-79-26300990 / 26307816 E-mail : mailto:prakash@inflibnet.ac.in prakash(a)inflibnet.ac.in With best regards. Suresh ************************************************* Suresh K Chauhan Project Scientist (LS) INFLIBNET Centre, An Inter University Centre of University Grants Commission, Opp. Gujarat University Guest House, Post Box No. 4116, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380009. Gujarat, INDIA. Phone: 79 26308528, 26304695, 26305971 (Extn. 43) Mobile: 09898367739 Fax: 79 26300990 Email: mailto:chauhan@inflibnet.ac.in chauhan(a)inflibnet.ac.in ; mailto:sureshbabal@yahoo.com sureshbabal(a)yahoo.com

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Dr Mashelkar retires
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

Friends: Here is a news item on Dr Mashelkar's retirement. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] http://news.monstersandcritics.com/india/news/article_1238449.php Top Indian science administrator Mashelkar retires Dec 31, 2006, 17:45 GMT New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) R.A. Mashelkar, who is credited with giving new direction to Indian science, retired Sunday as head of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), an organisation he served for over three decades. During his 11 years as CSIR head, Mashelkar turned around the organisation into a world-class, profit-making, performance-driven, research and development organisation. Winner of around 50 national and international Awards, Mashelkar has been well known for spearheading new thinking in the field of science and technology. He chaired about 12 high-power committees set up to look into diverse issues of national importance, an official release said. 'Dr. Mashelkar will also be remembered for championing the cause of protection of traditional knowledge in India by fighting the Turmeric and Basmati (patent) battles, which set a new paradigm in the protection of developing world's traditional knowledge heritage,' the release added. Mashelkar is only the third Indian engineer to have been elected Fellow of Royal Society (FRS), London, in the 20th Century. He was also elected Foreign Fellow of the US National Academy of Science in 2005, becoming only the eighth Indian scientist in over 140 years to have been so honoured. He was the first scientist from Asia to have won the Star of Asia Award presented by former US president George Bush. Over 25 universities including those of London, Salford, Pretoria, Wisconsin and Delhi have honoured him with honorary doctorates. Post retirement, Mashelkar is slated to become president of Global Research Alliance, formed by nine CSIR-like institutions from Asia-Pacific, Europe and the US, comprising over 60,000 scientists and engineers. The organisation has a $6 billion budget. ------------ Comments by Subbiah Arunachalam Among other honours Dr Mashelkar received is the Foreign Associateship of the National Academy of Engineering, USA. He is the only Indian to have been elected to both the National Academy of Sciences, USA, and the National Academy of Engineering, USA. In an illustrious career, which is truly one of 'from a log cabin to the dizzy heights of science administration', Dr Mashelkar missed a great opportunity - to bring about the culture of open access to all CSIR labs and to all of Indian science. It was well within his reach and he could have done it without much effort. Let us hope his successor, Dr V Prakash, gives top priority to this one unfinished task of Dr Mashelkar. Incidentally, open access to published journal literatures makes it possible for anyone, anywhere with an Internet connection to access, download and use the full text of research papers without any barrier. Open access can improve the visibility and utilization of research published by Indian scientists. The Indian Institute of Science, thanks to the vision and leadership of Prof. N Balakrishnan, was the first Indian research institution to set up an interoperable institutional open access archive and now it has more than 5,000 papers by the Institute's faculty and students. Only three CSIR labs, viz. National Chemical laboratory, Natioanl Aerospace Laboratory and national Institute of Oceanography, have such institutional archives. Subbiah Arunachalam Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Applications are invited for the post of Director, INFLIBNET Centre, UGC Ahmedabad
by K Prakash 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

December, 2006 Applications are invited for the post of Director, INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad an Inter University Centre of UGC (Autonomous Organization) The UGC has to fill-up the post of Director, INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad an Inter University Centre of UGC on fixed salary of Rs. 25,000/- plus allowances and other benefits as per the terms and conditions for the post of Vice-Chancellor issued by the Commission. Qualification & Experience:- The person applying for the Director-ship should have extensive knowledge and experience in the field of Information Technology & Information in Library Networking. The appointment is for a period of five years or till the age of 65 year whichever earlier. The Director is an executive authority of the Centre and shall have all powers relation to the administration, control over funds, coordinate & exercise academic leadership, and administrative supervision of all the activities of the Centre. The Director will be vested with such executive powers as may be necessary or incidental for the purpose of proper administration, subject to the rules and the Bye-laws of the center. Applicant details may be sent to Chairman, UGC, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi- 110002. along-with bio-data by 15th January, 2007. For more details please visit http://www.ugc.ac.in/jobs/jobs.html ___ http://www.ugc.ac.in/jobs/advtDirectorINFLIBNET.pdf With best regards. Bye. Do not reply to ________________________________________________ K Prakash Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre An Inter-University Centre of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Post Box No.4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad - 380 009 India

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Mobile Library in Brazil
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

This may be interesting. Vyasamoorthy ==================== Doing good while building its brand, Brazilian bus company Itapemirim has set up a library on wheels. Itapemirim, the major bus carrier in South America, covers more than 85% of Brazilian territory, and its buses travel more than 300 million kilometres per year. The company recently started supporting a project developed by well-known local cartoonist Mauricio de Souza: a library on wheels. The library buses will travel throughout the country to give low income kids the opportunity to improve their reading skills and be exposed to a variety of cultural experiences. Stocked with more than 1,000 books, the mobile library is decorated with Mauricio de Souza's popular cartoon characters (Turma da Mônica), and is equipped with computers with internet access, aiming to help underprivileged children bridge the digital divide. The library bus also has audio and video installed to be able to show movies, another fairly rare experience for children in rural areas. The first 'Biblioteca Móvel' has started roaming the state of São Paulo, and the goal is to have 27 buses touring the country: one in each state. (To make this possible, Itapemirim will partner with different brands in different regions. For São Paulo, they're working with Shell.) Supporting the moving library not only promotes Itapemirim's image as being socially engaged, but also reinforces brand awareness among the company's target audience. For other examples of companies investing in their future customer base, see trendwatching.com's brand spaces & transformation and Springwise's post about driver's ed for customers. Spotted by: Juliana Yamana http://www.springwise.com/nonprofit_social_cause/mobile_libraries/ =========== -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Society for Serving Seniors 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015 Phone 27846631 The difference between a fly and a mosquito is that a fly can fly!

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Subscribe to SciDev.net
by Subbiah Arunachalam 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Friends: Please take a free subscription to SciDev.net, if you have not done so already. It is one of the most informative online portals that serves people interested in development. It provides news, views and information about science, technology and the developing world and articles from other news sources worldwide. They are o a subscription drive right now. Visit <www.scidev.net>. Best wishes. Arun Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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KPSC Recruitment for Dept. of Public Libraries
by rupesh kumar 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Dear All, Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) has given a short notification in Prajavani (a leading regional newspaper in Karnataka) for recruitment of 18 posts of Assistant Librarians in the Department of Public Libraries. The Application may be obtained on payment of Rs.50 in cash from the KPSC Office, Bangalore or from the regional offices in Mysore, Belgaum and Gulbarga. The applications will be issued from 02-01-2007. The last date for submitting the filled in applications is 27-01-2007. For details on qualification, allotment of posts, mode of recruitment, etc. you may refer to the Karnataka Gazette dated 27-12-2006 Part - V or Visit the KPSC Website http://kpsc.kar.nic.in (The Notification is yet to appear on the website, though). The notification (in Kannada) in epaper can be found at http://www.prajavaniepaper.com/svww_zoomart.php?Artname=20061230a_007100006… Rupesh Kumar A Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore University a_rupeshkumar(a)yahoo.com http://lislog.blogspot.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) has given a short notification in Prajavani (a leading regional newspaper in Karnataka) for recruitment of 18 posts of Assistant Librarians in the Department of Public Libraries. The Application may be obtained on payment of Rs.50 in cash from the KPSC Office, Bangalore or from the regional offices in Mysore, Belgaum and Gulbarga. The applications will be issued from 02-01-2007. The last date for submitting the filled in applications is 27-01-2007. For details on qualification, allotment of posts, mode of recruitment, etc. you may refer to the Karnataka Gazette dated 27-12-2006 Part - V or Visit the KPSC Website http://kpsc.kar.nic.in/ http://kpsc.kar.nic.in (The Notification is yet to appear on the website, though). The notification (in Kannada) in epaper can be found at http://www.prajavaniepaper.com/svww_zoomart.php?Artname=20061230a_007100006… http://www.prajavaniepaper.com/svww_zoomart.php?Artname=20061230a_007100006… Rupesh Kumar A Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore University mailto:a_rupeshkumar@yahoo.com a_rupeshkumar(a)yahoo.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://lislog.blogspot.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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RE: Information
by Dr.D.P Prathap 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Dear Colleagues Please provide information about other Mailing Lists available in LIS. Yours sincerely Librarian Sugarcane Breeding Institute Coimbatore Dear Colleagues Please provide information about other Mailing Lists available in LIS. Yours sincerely Librarian Sugarcane Breeding Institute Coimbatore

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Google Librarian
by Sanjeev Kumar Jain 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

GoogleLibrarian.com is the ultimate guide to Google made especially for Librarians and information professionals. This site was created to help you - the librarian - master the art of online searching and harness the infinite power of Google and its services. http://www.googlelibrarian.com/ ........................................................................................................................ Sanjeev Kumar Jain Central Library Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur - 721 302 Mobile: +91-97328-95328 ----------------------------------- sanjeevmlis(a)gmail.com sanjeevmlis(a)yahoo.co.in

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Information required
by A. B. NAIKAL 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

Dear Professionals, Greetings and wish you all happy & prosperous New Year! I am looking for information on following topics for our MBA students project work. I tried at following websites but didn'tt get much relevant information on these topics ILO: www.ilo.org Google scholar: http://scholar.google.com US Department of Labor: www.dol.gov/dol/siteindex.htm US Department of Labor: www.dol.gov/esa/whd/fmla/ State Labor Offices: www.dol.gov/esa/contacts/state_of.htm 1. Statistics on the labour demographic profile till 2030 of all countries. 2. Information on the future top 10 sectors where employment potential will be highest. This study was done by US Labour Dept for the US I would highly appreciate if someone guide me to the right resources/links, from where I can get most relevant information on these topics. Thanks and regards Appasaheb Naikal Librarian S. P Jain Center Of Management Singapore -119579 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Open Access Resources
by Ajay Kum Sharma 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

Dear Library Professionals, Open access is a publication model wherein neither a reader nor the reader's institution are charged for access to articles or other resources. Users are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles. The INDEST - AICTE Consortium also maintains links for open access resources. You can access these resources (e-journals) through INDEST-AICTE website. Click on the menu e-resources of INDEST-AICTE Consortium. Website address is http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/ Thanks and Regards Ajay Kumar Sharma Project Associate, INDEST Consortium Central Library, IIT Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016 011-26591467 (O) 9899339808 (M) Web: http://www.geocities.com/ajaysharma_lib/ Dear Library Professionals, Open access is a publication model wherein neither a reader nor the reader's institution are charged for access to articles or other resources. Users are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles. The INDEST - AICTE Consortium also maintains links for open access resources. You can access these resources (e-journals) through INDEST-AICTE website. Click on the menu e-resources of INDEST-AICTE Consortium. Website address is http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/ http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/ Thanks and Regards Ajay Kumar Sharma Project Associate, INDEST Consortium Central Library, IIT Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016 011-26591467 (O) 9899339808 (M) Web: http://www.geocities.com/ajaysharma_lib/ http://www.geocities.com/ajaysharma_lib/

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Request of material for research purpose on Retroconversion
by ashok upadhyay 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

Subject: Need for material for the research work on Reroconversion Dear Professionals I am doing research from the department of Library and Informatin Science AMU,Aligarh on the topic " Retroconversion of Documents in english language in Central secretariat library, Zakir husain library,JMI, Nehru memorial museum and library, New Delhi: An evaluative study" for this i have urgently need some study based articles or theortical articles by which i could prepair my review and quesstionnaire. i have some material but it is not sufficient for this. so i request to all of you to support me for this regard . i am facing a lot of problem because retroconversion is practically using but reading materials are not much available. so please help me for this regard and sent me some material and link to solve my problem. thanks from Ashok Upadhyay (Research Scholar) Deppt. of Lib &Inf. sc,AMU,Aligarh e-mail; ashoka143(a)gmail.com akualig(a)yhoo.co.in mobile no. 09412545849 Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php Subject: Need for material for the research work on Reroconversion Dear Professionals I am doing research from the department of Library and Informatin Science AMU,Aligarh on the topic " Retroconversion of Documents in english language in Central secretariat library, Zakir husain library,JMI, Nehru memorial museum and library, New Delhi: An evaluative study" for this i have urgently need some study based articles or theortical articles by which i could prepair my review and quesstionnaire. i have some material but it is not sufficient for this. so i request to all of you to support me for this regard . i am facing a lot of problem because retroconversion is practically using but reading materials are not much available. so please help me for this regard and sent me some material and link to solve my problem. thanks from Ashok Upadhyay (Research Scholar) Deppt. of Lib &Inf. sc,AMU,Aligarh e-mail; mailto:ashoka143@gmail.com ashoka143(a)gmail.com mailto:akualig@yhoo.co.in akualig(a)yhoo.co.in mobile no. 09412545849 Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php

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freemedical journals.com
by Muniraj. T 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

Dear all, www.freemedicaljournals.com site provides free access to selected medical journals published in English and a number of other languages such as French, German and Spanish. Regards, MUNIRAJU.T III. Sem. MLISc Department of Library and Information Science. E-mail:t_muniraj@yahoo.co.in E-mail: muniraj.t(a)gmail.com Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php Dear all, http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/ www.freemedicaljournals.com site provides free access to selected medical journals published in English and a number of other languages such as French, German and Spanish. Regards, MUNIRAJU.T III. Sem. MLISc Department of Library and Information Science. E-mail:t_muniraj@yahoo.co.in E-mail: muniraj.t(a)gmail.com Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php

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Collections Links
by Muniraj. T 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

Dear all, Collections Link provides fast, easy access to current best practice in 16 areas of professional collections management. All of the content of the site has been provided by authoritative national bodies and experts with years of experience in their field. Collections Link is free to use thanks to funding from the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. We hope you will find it a useful and informative resource. Link: http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/ Regards, MUNIRAJU.T III. Sem. MLISc Department of Library and Information Science. E-mail:t_muniraj@yahoo.co.in E-mail: muniraj.t(a)gmail.com Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php Dear all, Collections Link provides fast, easy access to current best practice in 16 areas of professional collections management. All of the content of the site has been provided by authoritative national bodies and experts with years of experience in their field. Collections Link is free to use thanks to funding from the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. We hope you will find it a useful and informative resource. Link: http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/ http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/ Regards, MUNIRAJU.T III. Sem. MLISc Department of Library and Information Science. E-mail:t_muniraj@yahoo.co.in E-mail: muniraj.t(a)gmail.com Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php

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Knowledge commission report on library sector
by pradeep kumar 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

Knowledge commission report calls for overhaul of library sector Recommending a major overhaul of the information service and library sector in the country including the inclusion of libraries in the Concurrent list of the Constitution, a National Library Fund of Rs 1,000 crore to upgrade all existing libraries, a permanent national commission on libraries and a national level survey to assess the requirements and reading habits, the National Knowledge Commission has submitted its report to the government on how to redefine the information services sector. The report, currently with the PMO, will be forwarded to the Planning Commission shortly. The NKC has been set up by the PM with the mandate to transform the country into a knowledge society. Underlining the need of including libraries in the concurrent list, the NKC report says that it would facilitate co-ordinated development of libraries across different sectors. It also suggests that a specified percentage of Central and state education budgets must be earmarked for libraries. On the service front, the NKC insists that all libraries must have the following facilities motivated, courteous and adequate staff, easy access and user friendly retrieval system, effective signages and computers with internet access and photocopiers. It asks the government to issue a library charter to all libraries to take appropriate steps to ensure that libraries meet the objectives set by the commission which includes dissemination of knowledge as widely as possible, serving as a major vehicle to facilitate creation of knowledge, facilitating optimal use of knowledge by all sectors, and easy access to knowledge relevant to their needs. It also recommends a national committee for the identification, documentation and preservation of private collections available in the country. It also suggests that every state should establish a registry and archives of knowledge based digital resources which should be made accessible to all. The committee has also suggested research and development activities in identifying user needs for different groups, organisation of community information and development of appropriate standards, standardisation of Indian names and vocabulary control over Indian subjects developed in terms of multi-lingual thesauri, development of open sources software and development of digital libraries both in English and Indian languages. Regarding the public library collections, the NKC suggests that the size and nature of the collection should reflect the population and local requirements and that at least 10 per cent of the book collection should be less than five years old. It also says that libraries should be open on all days, except on national holidays. The NKC adds that library services should initiate imaginative services apart from offering routine library services including lectures and discussion centering on books, cultural programmes, support to students homework and project and IT training at different levels. WHAT the NKC report PRESCRIBES Inclusion of libraries in the Concurrent list of the Constitution National Library Fund of Rs 1,000 core to upgrade all existing libraries A permanent national commission on libraries National level survey to assess the requirements and reading habits Specified percentage of Central and state education budgets must be earmarked for libraries. Government to issue a library charter to all libraries to take appropriate steps to ensure that libraries meet the objectives A national committee for the identification, documentation and preservation of private collections available in the country Every state to establish a registry of and archives of knowledge based digital resources Development of open sources software and development of digital libraries both in English and Indian languages Libraries should be open on all days, except on national holidays source:http://www.indianexpress.com/story/19620.html# PRADEEP KUMAR JLA, G053, I-BLOCK REFERENCE DIVISION PARLIAMENT LIBRARY OF INDIA NEW DELHI-110001. E-mail: pradip_parlib(a)yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Knowledge commission report calls for overhaul of library sector Recommending a major overhaul of the information service and library sector in the country including the inclusion of libraries in the Concurrent list of the Constitution, a National Library Fund of Rs 1,000 crore to upgrade all existing libraries, a permanent national commission on libraries and a national level survey to assess the requirements and reading habits, the National Knowledge Commission has submitted its report to the government on how to redefine the information services sector. The report, currently with the PMO, will be forwarded to the Planning Commission shortly. The NKC has been set up by the PM with the mandate to transform the country into a knowledge society. Underlining the need of including libraries in the concurrent list, the NKC report says that it would facilitate co-ordinated development of libraries across different sectors. It also suggests that a specified percentage of Central and state education budgets must be earmarked for libraries. On the service front, the NKC insists that all libraries must have the following facilities motivated, courteous and adequate staff, easy access and user friendly retrieval system, effective signages and computers with internet access and photocopiers. It asks the government to issue a library charter to all libraries to take appropriate steps to ensure that libraries meet the objectives set by the commission which includes dissemination of knowledge as widely as possible, serving as a major vehicle to facilitate creation of knowledge, facilitating optimal use of knowledge by all sectors, and easy access to knowledge relevant to their needs. It also recommends a national committee for the identification, documentation and preservation of private collections available in the country. It also suggests that every state should establish a registry and archives of knowledge based digital resources which should be made accessible to all. The committee has also suggested research and development activities in identifying user needs for different groups, organisation of community information and development of appropriate standards, standardisation of Indian names and vocabulary control over Indian subjects developed in terms of multi-lingual thesauri, development of open sources software and development of digital libraries both in English and Indian languages. Regarding the public library collections, the NKC suggests that the size and nature of the collection should reflect the population and local requirements and that at least 10 per cent of the book collection should be less than five years old. It also says that libraries should be open on all days, except on national holidays. The NKC adds that library services should initiate imaginative services apart from offering routine library services including lectures and discussion centering on books, cultural programmes, support to students homework and project and IT training at different levels. WHAT the NKC report PRESCRIBES Inclusion of libraries in the Concurrent list of the Constitution National Library Fund of Rs 1,000 core to upgrade all existing libraries A permanent national commission on libraries National level survey to assess the requirements and reading habits Specified percentage of Central and state education budgets must be earmarked for libraries. Government to issue a library charter to all libraries to take appropriate steps to ensure that libraries meet the objectives A national committee for the identification, documentation and preservation of private collections available in the country Every state to establish a registry of and archives of knowledge based digital resources Development of open sources software and development of digital libraries both in English and Indian languages Libraries should be open on all days, except on national holidays source:http://www.indianexpress.com/story/19620.html# PRADEEP KUMAR JLA, G053, I-BLOCK REFERENCE DIVISION PARLIAMENT LIBRARY OF INDIA NEW DELHI-110001. E-mail: pradip_parlib(a)yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Mphil Admn - Update.
by Ravi Nandhan 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

Hi All, Wishing you all a Very Happy New Year in advance....... A few of the LIS professionals shared this info through personal mails. Just sharing it.......The Govt of Tamilnadu has directed that the Universities in the State should not offer MPhil/ PhD programmes through distance education from the academic year 2007-2008. For details pl visit : http://www.ugc.ac.in/circular/circular.html Regards, Ravi Nandhan. V > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:04:44 +0530 > From: "Nandhan Ravi" <Ravi.Nandhan(a)capco.com> > Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Mphil admission > To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Message-ID: > <F6B1A256A02EF24CB9C64A50AE324ACF02BECCAC(a)inba2k3s01.capco.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > Hi, > > Please enquire about the existence of distance education mode for Phil > for the next academic year as I heard that they are going to stop it > [but not very sure]. If the admissions are still open it is good to take > it up. > > If any one has information, please do share. > > With warm regards, > V. Ravi Nandhan. > Knowledge Coordinator > Capco > t: +91 80 41997351 > f: +91 80 41997201 > v: 6-7351 > e: ravi.nandhan(a)capco.com > w: www.capco.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Mailing List > Manager > Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 4:01 PM > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Mphil admission > > > Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:39:11 +0530 > From: Garima Jain <jaigarima(a)gmail.com> > > Hello > > In distance learning mode, u can opt for Annamalai University, Tamil > Nadu as well. > > Regards > > Garima

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LET 2007 BE MORE EVENTFUL FOR US
by Manjunath K 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

Dear professional colleagues, I pray the almighty and wish "Let 2007" Bring us more closely with active participations Faster our relationships with mutual cooperation Provide opportunity to share our resource/experience more effectively Expand our professional discussions Encourage more participation for our seminars and conferences Illuminate our profession with more academic achievements Improve our status in academic circle and society Be an eventful and memorable year for us Wish you a happy and prosperous NewYear Manjunath ____________________________ Dr. Manjunatha K Librarian T.A. Pai Management Institute Manipal - 576 104. Udupi Dist. Karnataka,India Ph: 91-0820-2573551(O), 2575161(R) email: manjunath(a)mail.tapmi.org <mailto:manjunath@mail.tapmi.org> ; manju_tapmi(a)yahoo.com <mailto:manju_tapmi@yahoo.com> ____________________________  Dear professional colleagues, � I pray the almighty and wish “Let 2007” � Bring us more closely with active participations Faster our relationships with mutual cooperation Provide opportunity to share our resource/experience more effectively Expand our professional discussions Encourage more participation for our seminars and conferences Illuminate our profession with more academic achievements Improve our status in academic circle and society Be an eventful and memorable year for us �� Wish you a happy and prosperous NewYear � Manjunath ____________________________ Dr. Manjunatha K Librarian T.A. Pai Management Institute Manipal - 576 104. Udupi Dist. Karnataka , India Ph: 91-0820-2573551(O), 2575161(R) email: mailto:manjunath@mail.tapmi.org manjunath(a)mail.tapmi.org ; mailto:manju_tapmi@yahoo.com manju_tapmi(a)yahoo.com ____________________________ �

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Information Required of Some Journals
by Dabas Bharat K 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

Dear Sir/Madam Library wants to subscribe the following journals. Please let me know subscription amount for the period of one year, in whose favour DD should be drawn, postal address, e-mail address, etc. 1 Indian Journal of Industrial Relations: Published by Shri Ram Center of Industrial Relations and Resources, Delhi 2 Indian Journal of Labour Economics: Published by Indian Society of Labour Economics, Delhi 3 Indian Journal of Training and Development: Published by Indian Society of Training and Development 4 Manpower Journal: Published by Institute of Applied Manpower Research, Delhi Thanking you in anticipation. With warm regards! Bharat Kumar Librarian Faculty of Management Studies Mody Institute of Technology and Science (A Deemed University u/s 3 of UGC Act 1956) Laxmangarh - 332311, Distt- Sikar, Rajasthan Phone No - 01572- 225001 - 12 (12 Lines) Ext 283 (M) +91-9414690757 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear Sir/Madam Library wants to subscribe the following journals. Please let me know subscription amount for the period of one year, in whose favour DD should be drawn, postal address, e-mail address, etc. 1 Indian Journal of Industrial Relations: Published by Shri Ram Center of Industrial Relations and Resources, Delhi 2 Indian Journal of Labour Economics: Published by Indian Society of Labour Economics, Delhi 3 Indian Journal of Training and Development: Published by Indian Society of Training and Development 4 Manpower Journal: Published by Institute of Applied Manpower Research, Delhi Thanking you in anticipation. With warm regards! Bharat Kumar Librarian Faculty of Management Studies Mody Institute of Technology and Science (A Deemed University u/s 3 of UGC Act 1956) Laxmangarh - 332311, Distt- Sikar, Rajasthan Phone No - 01572- 225001 - 12 (12 Lines) Ext 283 (M) +91-9414690757 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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OpenDOAR
by sandeep bhavsar 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

Respected All OpenDOAR is pleased to present a trial search service for the full-text of material held in open access repositories listed in the Directory. This has been made possible through the recent launch by Google of its Custom Search Engine, which allows OpenDOAR to define a search service based on the Directory holdings. Users of this service can search through the world's repositories of freely available research information, with the assurance that each of these repositories has been assessed by OpenDOAR staff. This quality controlled approach will minimise (but not eliminate!) spurious or junk results, and lead more directly to useful and relevant information. http://www.opendoar.org/search.php Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 elibrary : http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ --------------------------------- All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine Respected All Open DOAR is pleased to present a trial search service for the full-text of material held in open access repositories listed in the Directory. This has been made possible through the recent launch by Google of its http://www.google.com/coop/cse/ Custom Search Engine , which allows Open DOAR to define a search service based on the Directory holdings. Users of this service can search through the world's repositories of freely available research information, with the assurance that each of these repositories has been assessed by Open DOAR staff. This quality controlled approach will minimise (but not eliminate!) spurious or junk results, and lead more directly to useful and relevant information. http://www.opendoar.org/search.php http://www.opendoar.org/search.php Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 elibrary : http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ http://www.opendoar.org/search.php http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/nowyoucan/pc_mag/*http://us… All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 45, Issue 31
by prakash gouda 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

Mr. Rudrappa For more details about PGDLAN course you please visit University of Hyderabad webpage. http://www.uohyd.ernet.in/cdenew3/index.htm REGARDS PRAKASHGOUDA S.U. SENIOR LIBRARIAN COORG INSTITUTE OF DENTAL SCIENCES KANJITHANDA KUSHALAPPA CAMPUS MAGGULA VIRAJPET-571 218 COORG DIST KARNATAKA On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in wrote : >Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to > lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > >You can reach the person managing the list at > lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. RE: library (Dr.D.P Prathap) > 2. Need information (Rudrappa Kamatar) > 3. EMPI Digital Library National Convention - 2007 > (Mailing List Manager) > 4. Mphil admission (Mailing List Manager) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:35:04 +0530 > From: "Dr.D.P Prathap" <sbilibrary(a)gmail.com> >Subject: [LIS-Forum] RE: library >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Message-ID: > <d612dc320612262205g47168617r51eb7ea856c23279(a)mail.gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > >Dear Colleagues > >Kindly let me know the addresses of Standard Suppliers of >LIBRARY STATIONERY AND FURNITURE ITEMS >(for due date slips, adhesive labels, registers, etc.) > >yours sincerely >- >============================== >(D.PUTHIRA PRATHAP) >OFFICER IN-CHARGE, LIBRARY >SUGARCANE BREEDING INSTITUTE, COIMBATORE 641 007. INDIA >PHONE: 91-422-2472621; FAX: 91-422-2472923 >www.sugarcane-breeding.tn.nic.in >sbilibrary(a)gmail.com > Mr. Rudrappa For more details about PGDLAN course you please visit University of Hyderabad webpage. http://www.uohyd.ernet.in/cdenew3/index.htm REGARDS PRAKASHGOUDA S.U. SENIOR LIBRARIAN COORG INSTITUTE OF DENTAL SCIENCES KANJITHANDA KUSHALAPPA CAMPUS MAGGULA VIRAJPET-571 218 COORG DIST KARNATAKA On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in wrote : >Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to > lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > >You can reach the person managing the list at > lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. RE: library (Dr.D.P Prathap) > 2. Need information (Rudrappa Kamatar) > 3. EMPI Digital Library National Convention - 2007 > (Mailing List Manager) > 4. Mphil admission (Mailing List Manager) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:35:04 +0530 > From: "Dr.D.P Prathap" <sbilibrary(a)gmail.com> >Subject: [LIS-Forum] RE: library >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Message-ID: > <d612dc320612262205g47168617r51eb7ea856c23279(a)mail.gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > >Dear Colleagues > >Kindly let me know the addresses of Standard Suppliers of >LIBRARY STATIONERY AND FURNITURE ITEMS >(for due date slips, adhesive labels, registers, etc.) > >yours sincerely >- >============================== >(D.PUTHIRA PRATHAP) >OFFICER IN-CHARGE, LIBRARY >SUGARCANE BREEDING INSTITUTE, COIMBATORE 641 007. INDIA >PHONE: 91-422-2472621; FAX: 91-422-2472923 >www.sugarcane-breeding.tn.nic.in >sbilibrary(a)gmail.com >

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PGDLAN
by Garima Jain 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

Hi PGDLAN is aone year programme from IGNOU. The fees is somwhere aroung 10,000/- The programme mainly deal with Automation and Networking. Garima Hi PGDLAN is aone year programme from IGNOU. The fees is somwhere aroung 10,000/- The programme mainly deal with Automation and Networking. Garima

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Re: PDF files into text and word
by Nandhan Ravi 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

Hi, If you are not allowed to install software in your organisation you can use http://www.zamzar.com to convert files online for free. You may have to give your email id to get the link for downloading the converted file. If you hesitate to give you mail id panicking spam, you can give alternate/not so freq. used email id for testing it out. With warm regards, V. Ravi Nandhan. Knowledge Coordinator Capco t: +91 80 41997351 f: +91 80 41997201 v: 6-7351 e: ravi.nandhan(a)capco.com w: www.capco.com -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of sainul(a)iiitmk.ac.in Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 3:27 PM To: abhishek kumar yadav Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: PDF files into text and word Dear Friends, The following software available in the CD coming with Electronics for You will be useful to convert PDF to text or Word format. Title: PDF Text Converter 1.2.1 Description: PDF Text converter converts PDF files into text and word documents without Adobe Acrobat being installed on your computer. Text can be extracted from PDF files in batches with a simple explorer like interface using page ranges and PDF information can be viewed. Right click the converted files and view them. Extract images from PDF files as BMP, JPEG or TIFF files. Software Type : DEMO Source: CD with Electronics For You Vol. 6 No. 3 with regards Sainul Abideen P Librarian IIITM-K Thiruvananthapuram On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, abhishek kumar yadav wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > Could any one of you tell me wheteher any software is available that can convert PDF to .DOc. > If it is free tell me... > > Thanks, > > Regards > > Abhishek > > InfoMedia, New Delhi > -- Sainul Abideen P, (BSc, BLISc, ADIS, PGDCA, VLIR Scholar, Belgium) Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management-Kerala Park Centre, Technopark Karyavattom PO, PIN 695581 Thiruvananthapuram Kerala, INDIA Tel. +91-471-2527567,2700777 exn 119 Tel. +91-471-2593961 (Resi) Mobile: 9847532170 Fax. +91-471-2527568 Email sainul at iiitmk dot ac dot in http://sainul.tripod.com www.iiitmk.ac.in _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LEARN MORE - Capco is a consultant, managed services provider and thought leader. We are experts in the financial services industry. You can access our thinking and learn more about us at www.capco.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender of this email immediately. You should not copy, use or disseminate the information contained in the email. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Capco. http://www.capco.com/

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The Future of E-Learning in Public Libraries
by KR. Senthil Kumar 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

Dear All"That's 'E' for 'Everyone'": The Future of E-Learning in Public Libraries E-learning refers to a range of solutions to promote learning using information technology. In practical terms, it has been relegated to courses online, most often in an academic or professional setting and usually with the help of a Learning Management System (LMS) such as WebCT or the newcomer Moodle. Some Universities have broadened the scope of their e-learning services to include the wider online community. For instance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) created the MIT OpenCourseWare , where course materials can be found online and for free to anyone who visits the site. In theory, the idea of Free Public Library fits nicely into the e-learning paradigm, particularly "open" learning formats with free resources and digital libraries to support them. The New York Public Library's wide collection of digital resources includes an online course called Prospecting for Business Information ( http://www.nypl. org/research/ sibl/pbi2/ home.html <http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/pbi2/home.html> ), for instance. But "online course" has not really caught on as effective service in the public paradigm. While it may be difficult for library professionals who have spent a good amount of their lives taking courses to realize this, the broader public is more than happy to be finished with their schooling and be in a place where they can earn their own pay and learn at their own pace. In general terms, online courses do not sound fun to "Josephine (Joe) Public Library". They sound like obligations or New Year's resolutions to go alongside "lose weight" or "spend less." Worse, they reinforce stereotypes about the public library as an "ought to" place, rather than a "place to be." That means that to "Joe (Josephine) Public Librarian", e-learning sounds like a flop before it even takes shape in an organization. Yet, we do know that information technology has a lot to offer the average life-long learner. For one, e-learning provides the opportunity for self-paced learning, which is of great advantage to busy parents, people working long hours, or even those who simply desire to learn at a slower pace than that of your average university course. E-learning is not restricted to higher learning either. Presentations abound on topics ranging from physical fitness and gardening, to travel and meditation. People with literacy needs can use online technology to learn in privacy, without the stigma that comes with low-literacy ability. The combination of information technology and learning is a "no-brainer" in some respects and a tremendous opportunity if done effectively. E-learning holds potential for public libraries, but for it to flourish, a wide range of things need to come along with it. Here are a few: Partnerships Unlike library-provided "courses," course programs offered in partnership with universities make sense most of the time in public libraries. Self-paced courses offered online with the guidance of university professors in topics relevant to the broader community may also make sense. This is because people trust universities to provide quality courses, and universities often appreciate having the use of public library spaces for their students. Other partnerships are possible as well. Most public libraries offer wireless Internet access, which can be a great support for online tests, courses, essay writing and so on. With a vision that often relates to self-directed and/or paced learning, public libraries are more likely to require partners to develop e-learning services for their clients. Learning Networks Of serious concern to most librarians is the way the World Wide Web is changing. Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis and social tagging are changing the way people approach learning in an online medium. One key change in the Web 2.0 paradigm is the gaining of knowledge through communities of practice. For instance, as an E-learning Manager engrossed by the Web 2.0 phenomenon, I have a list of names that I can call on via Internet Messaging when I have a technology-related question. Culturally we have our own language consisting of truncations (like blog) and three-letter acronyms (like RSS) that others outside our community tend not to use. There are other communities as well: online practical jokers playing tricks for "lulz" (out-loud laughs), online Gamers "pwning" (owning, as in "defeating") each other through direct IP connections, and knitting fanatics "knitting one and purling two" to design weird and interesting monsters with yarn. Google search is not going to bring learners to the positive experience of learning in a wide community. Public libraries, on the other hand, ought to try. Unfortunately, while public librarians and library staff are still expert at using basic reference skills to maximize results from keyword searches, I do not feel they yet have the knowledge infrastructure to introduce the online learner to his or her desired community of practice. Approaching reference (for instance) using "who" as a starting point will be a necessary skill in the not-too-distant future. While libraries have always made efforts to connect people to community services, new approaches will need to be developed over time to ensure that they meet customer expectations. Access to Good-Quality and Up-to-Date Hardware and Software The current public library experience with public use computers is that there is never enough to meet the demand. At the Halifax Public Libraries, we have experimented with laptop labs to increase our ability to include technology in literacy sessions, English as a Second Language (ESL) classes, youth engagement strategies, and basic computer training. Video cameras, external hard drives and other multimedia tools are additional clear "desirables" in e-learning strategies as we near the days when video-blogging and podcasting are regular services offered in public libraries. "Put it online" is never enough for e-learning; you still need hardware to support those online services from the service development and customer access point of views. A Culture Comfortable With Innovation and Change Web 2.0 technologies are popular first and foremost because they are user-friendly. They do, however, require a different manner of thinking than technologies like email with which most people are familiar. And sometimes, Web 1.0 works just fine for what public libraries want to do. In the e-learning world, change is a constant and learning in this realm cannot be relegated to the "techies" anymore. Public libraries need to be learning organizations, and a learning organization is one where all staff learn together, share information, and collaborate effectively across departmental lines. This can happen in part through training sessions, but such learning can also occur by simply ensuring that the necessary technology is available to staff to experiment with, discuss and employ for their professional development. Empathetic Staff Technology still scares people who are not familiar with it. E-learning will undoubtedly have the same effect. If public libraries do not have technology managers who understand what it is like for an octogenarian to enter a 15-digit barcode into an online interface with a laptop computer, they will never completely be able to embrace e-learning. Front-line staff also require a special knack for making people feel at ease when an Internet browser starts asking confusing questions about Internet security, cookies, protocols, errors and anything else that our computers ask us to respond "OK" to. Among the key skills for librarians in an e-learning environment is the ability to make people feel good not only about learning, but also about the format in which they do the learning.. E-learning from the public library perspective clearly differs from the current view. While public libraries certainly see the value of online learning techniques to their customers and clients, the traditional "course offering" through a LMS or other website type is not the appropriate format, except perhaps in a clear partnership with an organization such as a university to provide the content. A better approach for public libraries is to focus on such things as community engagement, information and computer literacy and informal learning strategies to bring value to citizens while at the same time helping to foster a society that loves learning, information and reading at its own pace and in its own direction. After all, the public library does belong to "the people" – therefore, e-learning should do what "the people" want e-learning to do. -- KR.SENTHIL KUMAR 'Everyone'": The Future of E-Learning in Public Libraries E-learning refers to a range of solutions to promote learning using information technology. In practical terms, it has been relegated to courses online, most often in an academic or professional setting and usually with the help of a Learning Management System (LMS) such as WebCT or the newcomer Moodle. Some Universities have broadened the scope of their e-learning services to include the wider online community. For instance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) created the MIT OpenCourseWare , where course materials can be found online and for free to anyone who visits the site. In theory, the idea of Free Public Library fits nicely into the e-learning paradigm, particularly "open" learning formats with free resources and digital libraries to support them. The New York Public Library 's wide collection of digital resources includes an online course called Prospecting for Business Information ( http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/pbi2/home.html http://www.nypl. org/research/ sibl/pbi2/ home.html ), for instance. But "online course" has not really caught on as effective service in the public paradigm. While it may be difficult for library professionals who have spent a good amount of their lives taking courses to realize this, the broader public is more than happy to be finished with their schooling and be in a place where they can earn their own pay and learn at their own pace. In general terms, online courses do not sound fun to "Josephine (Joe) Public Library". They sound like obligations or New Year's resolutions to go alongside "lose weight" or "spend less." Worse, they reinforce stereotypes about the public library as an "ought to" place, rather than a "place to be." That means that to "Joe (Josephine) Public Librarian", e-learning sounds like a flop before it even takes shape in an organization. Yet, we do know that information technology has a lot to offer the average life-long learner. For one, e-learning provides the opportunity for self-paced learning, which is of great advantage to busy parents, people working long hours, or even those who simply desire to learn at a slower pace than that of your average university course. E-learning is not restricted to higher learning either. Presentations abound on topics ranging from physical fitness and gardening, to travel and meditation. People with literacy needs can use online technology to learn in privacy, without the stigma that comes with low-literacy ability. The combination of information technology and learning is a "no-brainer" in some respects and a tremendous opportunity if done effectively. E-learning holds potential for public libraries, but for it to flourish, a wide range of things need to come along with it. Here are a few: Partnerships Unlike library-provided "courses," course programs offered in partnership with universities make sense most of the time in public libraries. Self-paced courses offered online with the guidance of university professors in topics relevant to the broader community may also make sense. This is because people trust universities to provide quality courses, and universities often appreciate having the use of public library spaces for their students. Other partnerships are possible as well. Most public libraries offer wireless Internet access, which can be a great support for online tests, courses, essay writing and so on. With a vision that often relates to self-directed and/or paced learning, public libraries are more likely to require partners to develop e-learning services for their clients. Learning Networks Of serious concern to most librarians is the way the World Wide Web is changing. Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis and social tagging are changing the way people approach learning in an online medium. One key change in the Web 2.0 paradigm is the gaining of knowledge through communities of practice. For instance, as an E-learning Manager engrossed by the Web 2.0 phenomenon, I have a list of names that I can call on via Internet Messaging when I have a technology-related question. Culturally we have our own language consisting of truncations (like blog) and three-letter acronyms (like RSS) that others outside our community tend not to use. There are other communities as well: online practical jokers playing tricks for "lulz" (out-loud laughs), online Gamers "pwning" (owning, as in "defeating") each other through direct IP connections, and knitting fanatics "knitting one and purling two" to design weird and interesting monsters with yarn. Google search is not going to bring learners to the positive experience of learning in a wide community. Public libraries, on the other hand, ought to try. Unfortunately, while public librarians and library staff are still expert at using basic reference skills to maximize results from keyword searches, I do not feel they yet have the knowledge infrastructure to introduce the online learner to his or her desired community of practice. Approaching reference (for instance) using "who" as a starting point will be a necessary skill in the not-too-distant future. While libraries have always made efforts to connect people to community services, new approaches will need to be developed over time to ensure that they meet customer expectations. Access to Good-Quality and Up-to-Date Hardware and Software The current public library experience with public use computers is that there is never enough to meet the demand. At the Halifax Public Libraries, we have experimented with laptop labs to increase our ability to include technology in literacy sessions, English as a Second Language (ESL) classes, youth engagement strategies, and basic computer training. Video cameras, external hard drives and other multimedia tools are additional clear "desirables" in e-learning strategies as we near the days when video-blogging and podcasting are regular services offered in public libraries. "Put it online" is never enough for e-learning; you still need hardware to support those online services from the service development and customer access point of views. A Culture Comfortable With Innovation and Change Web 2.0 technologies are popular first and foremost because they are user-friendly. They do, however, require a different manner of thinking than technologies like email with which most people are familiar. And sometimes, Web 1.0 works just fine for what public libraries want to do. In the e-learning world, change is a constant and learning in this realm cannot be relegated to the "techies" anymore. Public libraries need to be learning organizations, and a learning organization is one where all staff learn together, share information, and collaborate effectively across departmental lines. This can happen in part through training sessions, but such learning can also occur by simply ensuring that the necessary technology is available to staff to experiment with, discuss and employ for their professional development. Empathetic Staff Technology still scares people who are not familiar with it. E-learning will undoubtedly have the same effect. If public libraries do not have technology managers who understand what it is like for an octogenarian to enter a 15-digit barcode into an online interface with a laptop computer, they will never completely be able to embrace e-learning. Front-line staff also require a special knack for making people feel at ease when an Internet browser starts asking confusing questions about Internet security, cookies, protocols, errors and anything else that our computers ask us to respond "OK" to. Among the key skills for librarians in an e-learning environment is the ability to make people feel good not only about learning, but also about the format in which they do the learning.. E-learning from the public library perspective clearly differs from the current view. While public libraries certainly see the value of online learning techniques to their customers and clients, the traditional "course offering" through a LMS or other website type is not the appropriate format, except perhaps in a clear partnership with an organization such as a university to provide the content. A better approach for public libraries is to focus on such things as community engagement, information and computer literacy and informal learning strategies to bring value to citizens while at the same time helping to foster a society that loves learning, information and reading at its own pace and in its own direction. After all, the public library does belong to "the people" – therefore, e-learning should do what "the people" want e-learning to do. -- KR.SENTHIL KUMAR

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Fw: [IFLA-L] Bachelors degree in Library Science
by J. K. Vijayakumar 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Fathmath Shiham <fathmath.shiham(a)nlm.gov.mv> To: ifla-l(a)infoserv.inist.fr Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 12:27:17 AM Subject: [IFLA-L] Bachelors degree in Library Science Dear all, I am looking for a 3 year degree course in Bachelors in Library Science in India or Malaysia for two staff members, so far I have found 1 year courses from India which can be done only after completing a degree in any other discipline. In Malaysia I was able to find only Masters Degree. Our funding is provided for 3 years. If you any information regarding this please let me know. Kind Regards, F.Shiham Deputy Librarian National Library of Maldives Message forwared for helping F Shiham. Please reply directly to fathmath.shiham(a)nlm.gov.mv Thanks ---------------------------------- J. K. Vijayakumar MLIS PhD Assistant Director - Library American University of Antigua Post Box W-1451, St. Johns ANTIGUA, West Indies http://students.auamed.net/library http://libinfospace.blogspot.com ---------------------------------- Head Quarters: #2 Wall Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10005, USA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Fathmath Shiham <fathmath.shiham(a)nlm.gov.mv> To: ifla-l(a)infoserv.inist.fr Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 12:27:17 AM Subject: [IFLA-L] Bachelors degree in Library Science  Dear all, I am looking for a 3 year degree course in Bachelors in Library Science in India or Malaysia for two staff members, so far I have found 1 year courses from India which can be done only after completing a degree in any other discipline. In Malaysia I was able to find only Masters Degree. Our funding is provided for 3 years. If you any information regarding this please let me know. Kind Regards, F.Shiham Deputy Librarian National Library of Maldives Message forwared for helping F Shiham. Please reply directly to mailto:fathmath.shiham@nlm.gov.mv fathmath.shiham(a)nlm.gov.mv Thanks ---------------------------------- J. K. Vijayakumar MLIS PhD Assistant Director - Library American University of Antigua Post Box W-1451, St. Johns ANTIGUA, West Indies http://students.auamed.net/library http://students.auamed.net/library http://libinfospace.blogspot.com http://libinfospace.blogspot.com ---------------------------------- Head Quarters: #2 Wall Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10005, USA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Information and Knowledge Audit - One Day Workshop, Jan 11, 2007, Hotel Atria, Bangalore
by Angrosh 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

Dear All, Announcement One-Day Workshop on Information and Knowledge Audit A Practical Introduction, January 11, 2007, Hotel Atria, Bangalore Topics Covered: Information audit basics definitions, reasons for conducting information audit, problems it can solve, introducing the model. Different approaches to information audits and knowledge audits. Information audit to knowledge management user needs analysis Project management of an audit; focus groups involvement, management support, communications, resourcing, scope. Workout sessions on information and knowledge audit tools and methods Programme: Introduction and hands-on training on KM tools (pre-lunch) Workout sessions and case studies (post lunch) Takeaways: Knowledge of practical ways of assessing strategic information and knowledge assets Hands-on knowledge about KM tools Facilitators: Ms. Waltraut Ritter, Research Director, Knowledge Enterprises, Hong Kong Mr. Ritendra Banerjee, General Manager, Satyam Computers Ltd., Hyderabad Dr. Shalini R. Urs, Executive Director, ISiM, University of Mysore Workshop Fees: Workshop Fee: Rs. 3,000/- per participant Registration before 5th January 2007: Rs. 2,500/- per participant Registration: Registration forms can be downloaded from http://www.isim.ac.in/ikaseminar/ For enquiries contact: Angrosh Tel: 821-2514699 or Mobile: 9886970411 For more details visit http://www.isim.ac.in/ikaseminar ************************************************** Angrosh M. A. Project Manager International School of Information Management University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006 Tel: +91-821-2514699; Fax: +91-821-2519209 Email: angrosh(a)isim.ac.in Website: www.isim.ac.in **************************************************

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Mphil admission
by Mailing List Manager 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:39:11 +0530 From: Garima Jain <jaigarima(a)gmail.com> Hello In distance learning mode, u can opt for Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu as well. Regards Garima

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EMPI Digital Library National Convention - 2007
by Mailing List Manager 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:41:13 +0530 From: EMPI Digital Library National Convention-2007 <empidlnc2007(a)gmail.com> *Teena Sehgal,* M.Lib. ISc. *Subscription Manager * *Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre * *EMPI** **Business** **School* *&* *Member, Organizing Board * *EMPI Digital Library National Convention - 2007 * * * * * *Subject: EMPI Digital Library National Convention - 2007.reg;* Dear Sir/Madam, It gives me immense pleasure to share with you our B-School Group's decade old library building efforts which have culminated in it being re-christened as "EMPI Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre" and identified as on of the best Management Libraries in Delhi and NCR. What started as a common library in 1995 has, as on date, built up a vast collection of information dockets comprising of 23,500 reference books, 150 Journals/ Magazines, 35 National Newspapers, and various CD-ROMs. Added to this are the networked resources of DELNET, thus enabling students and users to access to the networked resources of the DELNET as well as to the internationally acclaimed online database services. Connecting to this vast reservoir of Data and information resources flowing through our Fiber and Wi-Fi 24x7 DEMPI Data Network, every student laptop and the academia, make our campus one of the highest organized modern learning system in Delhi. Currently in order to shear our experience and further buildup on our effort, our knowledge and Learning Resource Centre (Central Library) has taken the initiative to organize and national convention on developing a "Roadmap for Modernization of Library and information Centers in the Emerging Knowledge Era" on 19th � 20th March, 2007 at New Delhi under the guidance of the Indian Library Association of India President Dr. Muttayya Koganuramath, who is also the University Librarian, Central Library , Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has agreed to be the Patron of the EMPI Digital Library National Convention -2007. A Comprehensive brochure with the objection, theme, sub -themes and other details is enclosed for ready reference along with the registration form. Further to reach globally we have hosted a domain http://www.empidlnc.orgwith 2GB reserve space. This website will delicately disseminate all the conventional information to scholars and others. The prime objectives of launching the website are 1. To share and contribute the best expertise knowledge about implementing, governing and regulating digital library processes and practices, and make a platform to announce various EMPI training and educational activities on future Knowledge & Learning Resource Centres. 2. To provide students, faculty and other practitioners a knowledge base to download and share presentations (PPT), abstracts, and extended abstracts of the papers presented in various conventions and fulfilling the objective of serving with conviction. Your participation in the EMPI Digital Library National Convention-2007 and sharing of experience will, more than providing a platform for building of mutual synergies, help in development the preferred roadmap to guide the Indian information Centers (Libraries) to support the efforts of all our countrymen to make India a top class Knowledge society. Please do send us confirmation about your joining us in this endeavor. In case of your inability to participate you may like to inform and persuade your colleagues and friends to join us in the proposed National Convention With best wishes, Your sincerely (Teena Sehgal) -- EMPI Digital Library National Convention - 2007 Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre EMPI Business School CSKM Educational Complex Satbari, Chattarpur New Delhi - 110074 Website:www.empidlnc.org email:empidlnc2007@gmail.com

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Mphil admission
by Nandhan Ravi 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

Hi, Please enquire about the existence of distance education mode for Phil for the next academic year as I heard that they are going to stop it [but not very sure]. If the admissions are still open it is good to take it up. If any one has information, please do share. With warm regards, V. Ravi Nandhan. Knowledge Coordinator Capco t: +91 80 41997351 f: +91 80 41997201 v: 6-7351 e: ravi.nandhan(a)capco.com w: www.capco.com -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Mailing List Manager Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 4:01 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Mphil admission Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:39:11 +0530 From: Garima Jain <jaigarima(a)gmail.com> Hello In distance learning mode, u can opt for Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu as well. Regards Garima _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LEARN MORE - Capco is a consultant, managed services provider and thought leader. We are experts in the financial services industry. You can access our thinking and learn more about us at www.capco.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender of this email immediately. You should not copy, use or disseminate the information contained in the email. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Capco. http://www.capco.com/

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Need information
by Rudrappa Kamatar 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

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RE: library
by Dr.D.P Prathap 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

Dear Colleagues Kindly let me know the addresses of Standard Suppliers of LIBRARY STATIONERY AND FURNITURE ITEMS (for due date slips, adhesive labels, registers, etc.) yours sincerely - ============================== (D.PUTHIRA PRATHAP) OFFICER IN-CHARGE, LIBRARY SUGARCANE BREEDING INSTITUTE, COIMBATORE – 641 007. INDIA PHONE: 91-422-2472621; FAX: 91-422-2472923 www.sugarcane-breeding.tn.nic.in sbilibrary(a)gmail.com Dear Colleagues Kindly let me know the addresses of Standard Suppliers of LIBRARY STATIONERY AND FURNITURE ITEMS (for due date slips, adhesive labels, registers, etc.) yours sincerely - ============================== (D.PUTHIRA PRATHAP) OFFICER IN-CHARGE, LIBRARY SUGARCANE BREEDING INSTITUTE, COIMBATORE – 641 007. INDIA PHONE: 91-422-2472621; FAX: 91-422-2472923 http://www.sugarcane-breeding.tn.nic.in www.sugarcane-breeding.tn.nic.in mailto:sbilibrary@gmail.com sbilibrary(a)gmail.com

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Artcles required urgently
by veena bhat 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

Dear Sir/ Madam, The following journal papers are very much required for one of our Scientist for his ongoing research work. 1. Leipnik, R.B., H.A. Loáiciga. (2006). Radially convergent groundwater flow in sloping terrain. Hydrologic Sciences Journal, 51(4), 700-712. 2. Loáiciga, H.A. (2005). Steady-state phreatic surfaces in sloping aquifers. Water Resources Research, 41, W0842,. Please send me the hard/soft copy of the above articles. If so, I would be greatful to you. Or if you know the availability of the above articles in any libraries, please let me know. Thannks. Best Regards, Veena Bhat IIIT, Pune __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear Sir/ Madam, The following journal papers are very much required for one of our Scientist for his ongoing research work. 1. Leipnik, R.B., H.A. Loáiciga. (2006). Radially convergent groundwater flow in sloping terrain. Hydrologic Sciences Journal, 51(4), 700-712. 2. Loáiciga, H.A. (2005). Steady-state phreatic surfaces in sloping aquifers. Water Resources Research, 41, W0842,. Please send me the hard/soft copy of the above articles. If so, I would be greatful to you. Or if you know the availability of the above articles in any libraries, please let me know. Thannks. Best Regards, Veena Bhat IIIT, Pune __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Invitation for the UNESCO supported workshop on Information Literacy at DLIS, Nagpur
by Arunachalam Hariharan 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

Dear Professionals and friends, Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science(SALIS) & Dept of Library and Information Science, RTM University, Nagpur cordially invite you to the inaugural ceremony of Sensitization Workshop on Information Literacy Supported by UNESCO On , 28th Thursday December 2006 at 9.30 A.M. at DLIS, RTM University Nagpur DR. VEDPRAKASH MISHRA, VICE CHANCELLOR OF UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES has kindly consented to be the Chief Guest and deliver the inaugural address. DR. MS. THRITY PATEL, DEAN FACULTY OF LAW, RTMNU, NAGPUR will be Guest of honor DR. P. S. G. KUMAR, FORMAR HOD, RTM UNIVERSITY & LIBRARIAN, RTMNU, NAGPUR will deliver the key note address Mr. A. Hariharan, President, SALIS will preside over the function Dr. D.Rajayalakshmi, Head, DLIS will propose the vote of thanks High Tea - 11.00 AM ---------------------------------------- A.Hariharan SALIS A.Hariharan Structural Engineering Research Centre CSIR Campus Taramani Chennai - 600 113 hariharan_ah(a)yahoo.com Cell: 9841601901 Off:044-22549133 -------------------------------------------------- SALIS B2-Solai Apatments Mount-Poonamallee Road (opp.to.MGR Garden) Chennai - 600 116 Tel: 044-22522448/42014772 www.autolib-india.net/salis __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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E-Books
by CHARU MATHUR 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

Dear Members, Lots of regards, I m in need of list of E-books in the subject of Library & Information science . can any one help me in this. with regards. CHARU Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php Dear Members, Lots of regards, I m in need of list of E-books in the subject of Library & Information science . can any one help me in this. with regards. CHARU Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php

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Information regarding MPhil Admission 2007
by mahesh sati 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

Dear Professional, I need infromation about the MPhil Admission 2007. please give me detail about it. thank you Mahesh Chandra Sati Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php Dear Professional, I need infromation about the MPhil Admission 2007. please give me detail about it. thank you Mahesh Chandra Sati Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php

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PERIODICALS: SOURCES SALES JOBBERS AND BACK ISSUE PROVIDERS
by KR. Senthil Kumar 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

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Oldpaper.be Didier Neef Belgium email: webmaster@oldpaper. be <webmaster%40oldpaper.be> URL: www.oldpaper. be Oldpaper, the meeting place for collectors and dealers of old documents... Oldpaper, le rendez vous entre les collectionneurs d'anciens documents et les vendeurs. Paperboynews. com Terry Horn P.O. Box 96 Rushville, IN 46173 email: paperboy@paperboyne ws.com <paperboy%40paperboynews.com> URL: www.paperboynews. com/links. asp?catagory= 10 20 years experience in mail-order, paperboynews. com is an extenuation of our success. Paperboy's little playhouse was created just for YOU. A place to go - relax - kick off your shoes - AND COLLECT. Paper Collectors' Marketplace P.O. Box 128 Scandinavia, WI 54977 URL: www.tias.com/ mags/pcm OVER 1300 classified ads and 225 display ads, offering thousands of paper collectibles, can be found in each monthly issue of Paper Collectors' Marketplace. 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Box 128 Scandinavia, WI 54977 URL: http://www.tias.com/ www.tias.com/ mags/pcm OVER 1300 classified ads and 225 display ads, offering thousands of paper collectibles, can be found in each monthly issue of Paper Collectors' Marketplace. PCM, which has been serving buyers and sellers since 1983, is the #1 magazine in paper collectibles hobby. Receive a six month trial subscription for only $10.95. Paper Pursuits Lucia Intharangsy email: mailto:info%40paperpursuits.com info@paperpursuits. com URL: www.paperpursuits. com Fashion and design print collectibles. A source for inspiration from magazines, books, ads, and patterns. Sincerely, -- KR.SENTHIL KUMAR

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5th annual Mumbai International Book Fair
by Mailing List Manager 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

From: Mangesh Ghodke mangesh.ghodke(a)pidilite.com On 12/26/2006 10:50 AM ----- 5th annual Mumbai International Book Fair 12th - 21st January 2007 Grand Hyatt Exhibition Grounds India is one of the ten biggest book publishing centers in the world and is only third, after USA and UK, as far as the number of English titles is concerned. Mumbai is India's biggest market for all kinds of books. The 5th annual Mumbai International Book Fair is your exclusive opportunity to reach out to over one lakh book lovers, in India's largest metropolis: Mumbai. MIBF is organised by Good Governance India Foundation, a trust dedicated to the promotion of literacy and reading as a habit. Now you can be assured of high quality of service, backed by our proven experience and performance, at a very affordable price. More details at http://fairfest.com/mibf/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanx & Regards, Mangesh Ghodke Librarian, Pidilite Industries Ltd., RamKrishna Mandir Road, P.O.Box 17411, Andheri (East), Mumbai - 400 059, INDIA. Tel: +91-022-28357832 / 7267 (Direct) Fax: +91-022-28357700 Cell: 9892201993 www.pidilite.com

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Check out this page at UNESCO-CI
by Mailing List Manager 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 05:29:40 +0100 (CET) From: K.R.Mulla <krmulla(a)gmail.com> K.R.Mulla has emailed you a link to an interesting page at UNESCO-CI. Anna-Amalia Library in Weimar, Germany, to reopen in October 2007 after 2004 fire Page URL: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/admin/ev.php?URL_ID=23678&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_S… Page Title: Anna-Amalia Library in Weimar, Germany, to reopen in October 2007 after 2004 fire (News) Page Description: The Anna-Amalia Library, part of the World Heritage site of Classical Weimar in Germany, which was inscribed on the UNESCO List in 1998, will reopen in October 2007, i.e. three years after it was damaged by a fire. ------------------------- UNESCO-CI http://portal.unesco.org/ci/admin/

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Wikipedia Founder to Launch Search Engine
by Farooque Shaheen 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

The founder of the vastly popular Web encyclopedia Wikipedia is planning on developing Wikiasari, an Internet search engine which will compete with Yahoo and Google. In an interview with The Times of London, Jimmy Wales mentioned that his web site search engine will utilize the same user-based technology that Wikipedia uses. Feeling that Google's computer-based algorithmic searches can be sometimes easily manipulated, Wikiasari hopes that user-based human judgment will be significantly better. Because spammers and commercial ventures are learning and adapting to be able to manipulate Google's search methods, Wikiasari may have a viable alternative search method. http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5454 Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366 The founder of the vastly popular Web encyclopedia Wikipedia is planning on developing Wikiasari, an Internet search engine which will compete with Yahoo and Google. �In an interview with The Times of London, Jimmy Wales mentioned that his web site search engine will utilize the same user-based technology that Wikipedia uses. Feeling that Google's computer-based algorithmic searches can be sometimes easily manipulated, Wikiasari hopes that user-based human judgment will be significantly better. �Because spammers and commercial ventures are learning and adapting to be able to manipulate Google's search methods, Wikiasari may have a viable alternative search method. http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5454 Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366

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FreePint Index 1997-2006
by vimal kumar 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

Dear Friend, FreePint, a popular free email newsletter useful for Information professionals published its index of 1997-2006. It arranged on the basis of subject keywords. This issue consists a range of interesting topics. Everybody can find their own topic of interest in the index. http://www.freepint.com/issues/06indexb.htm#issue Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com FreePint, a popular free email newsletter useful for Information professionals published its index of 1997-2006. It arranged on the basis of subject keywords. This issue consists a range of interesting topics. Everybody can find their own topic of interest in the index. http://www.freepint.com/issues/06indexb.htm#issue Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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A contest thats music to your ears, literally.
by Vijay Raghav Tiwari 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

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CDS/ISIS users information required
by yashas bv 24 Dec '06

24 Dec '06

Dear all, If anyone has the information of libraries/professionals who are using CDS/ISIS database for automation please let me know. i need infromation about the metodology bieng undertaken. please give me their contact address. thank you Yashaswini __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear all, If anyone has the information of libraries/professionals who are using CDS/ISIS database for automation please let me know. i need infromation about the metodology bieng undertaken. please give me their contact address. thank you Yashaswini __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Full Text Freely Available Science & Technology Journal
by dibya pradhan 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

Dear Professional Advanced Industrial Science and Technology: AIST http://www.aist.go.jp/index_en.html Full text of this journal is freely available. (Try for this) Dibya Kishor Pradhan NIT, Rourkela Dear Professional Advanced Industrial Science and Technology: AIST http://www.aist.go.jp/index_en.html Full text of this journal is freely available. (Try for this) Dibya Kishor Pradhan NIT, Rourkela http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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information
by abhishek kumar yadav 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Dear Friends, Could any one of you tell me wheteher any software is available that can convert PDF to .DOc. If it is free tell me... Thanks, Regards Abhishek InfoMedia, New Delhi Dear Friends, Could any one of you tell me wheteher any software is available that can convert PDF to .DOc. If it is free tell me... Thanks, Regards Abhishek InfoMedia, New Delhi http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online
by noufal palliparamban 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Hi This site contains Darwin's complete publications, many handwritten manuscripts and the largest Darwin Plaese see the URL :http://darwin-online.org.uk/ Noufal.P.P Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php Hi This site contains Darwin's complete publications, many handwritten manuscripts and the largest Darwin Plaese see the URL :http://darwin-online.org.uk/ Noufal.P.P Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php

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Need for democratizing knowledge
by Mailing List Manager 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:58:53 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends:=0D In the US, there is a growing awareness among scientists, librarians, the g= eneral public and even the Congressmen that all publicly-funded research mu= st be available through open access. The UK, Australia and Europe are not f= ar behind. Ironically, in developing countries where the need for free and = open access to information is much greater, awareness is rather slow in com= ing. Enlightened librarians and other professionals can play a central role= in not only bringing about such awareness but also in making open access a= reality. =0D Open access to knowledge is especially important in the area of medicine an= d even more important in areas such as community health and cost-effective = rural healthcare delivery. The last two days I was listening to some excell= ent talks at the ICICI Knowledge Park sponsored Conference on "Improving Pu= blic Health in India: Need for Innovative Solutions in Healthcare Delivery.= " My friends Abhay and Rani Bang have perfected and IMPLEMENTED a low-cost = method of delivering babies in remote villages and hamlets of Gadchiroli di= strict of Maharashtra with the help of LOCAL WOMEN whom they have trained. = And Mr Amarjit Singh, Commissionar of Health, Government of Gujarat, told u= s about a public-private partnership (between the state government and priv= ate practitioners) that has reduced infant and birth-related mother mortali= ty rates considerably in the first ten months of the programme. Two differe= nt solutions to the same problem. The Bangs' programme is replicated in UP.= The Gujarat programme, which was started as a pilot in five backward distr= icts of the state, is now being expanded to cover the entire state. To be h= onest I have known the Gadchiroli programme for about a year, because Abhay= was featured in Time. Abhay's work was done in India and I live and work i= n India and I am considered a very well-informed person and yet I had to kn= ow his work from Time magazine! I have not heard about the Gujarat governme= nt programme at all till I heard Mr Singh. I am sure that is the case with = most of us including policy makers, bureaucrats, civil societies and doctor= s. =0D There were two talks on diabetes in India. Dr Mohan from Chennai spoke abou= t how his own group of institutions - a money-earning profit-oriented hospi= tal, a research foundation and a charitable arm - is able to deal with poor= patients who cannot afford to get diagnosed in the first place and get tre= ated later on. His team has developed a simple test which includes three or= four questions and a waist measurement to predict diabetes. Dr C S Yajnik = of KEM, Pune, told us that it was adiposity rather than obesity one should = worry about. Although most Indian babies are thinner (and looking weaker) t= han babies born in the UK and Europe, our babies have a much higher body fa= t content. He also told us about the futility of giving high doses of folat= e to pregnant mothers (after a few weeks of the onset of pregnancy); instea= d we should be giving them vitamin B12. Both are excellent research effort= s and more so relevant to India. I am sure both Mohan and Yajnik have publi= shed their work in good international journals and it is more than likely m= any Indian diabetologists and general practitioners do not have access to t= hose journals. =0D Whether it is regular academic/clinical research or it is research aimed at= democratising access to low-cost healthcare delivery, what we need in comm= on is to democratise knowledge - making knowledge reach everyone cocerned. = I am glad that Mr Vaghul and friends who founded the Park called it the ICI= CI KNOWLEDGE Park acknowledging the central role knowledge plays in industr= y, economy, healthcare, agriculture and everything else we do and we need t= o do. =0D Both Vaghul and Dr Nachiket Mor, the chairman of the Steering Committee of = the two-day conference, talked briefly about the reach of the ICICI Bank (a= nd group of companies) in rural India. Thanks to the reach, one could take = the message (and knowledge) to the rural poor. But there is another great c= hallenge. Taking knowledge to the educated elite - the scientists and resea= rchers, policy makers, captains of industry, the professors and professiona= ls, practising doctors. Fortunately, thanks to developments in the area of = Internet and web technologies, that challenge could be met in a cost effect= ive manner. =0D Each research and higher education institution performing research should b= e persuaded to set up what is called an interoperable institutional open ac= cess archive. I will not go into the details now, but will just say that th= e software for setting up such interconnected archive is ABSOLUTELY FREE an= d the expertise is available in India. The Indian Institute of Science, for= example, has its own institutional archive. Every paper Mohan or Yajnik wr= ites cn be deposited in such archives {as full text and metadata} and anyon= e anywhere with an Internet connection can access those papers. Both Amarji= t Singh and Abahy can deposit a writeup on their work for the rest of the w= orld to read. =0D I have made a submission to the National Knowledge Commission and the idea = has been accepted and I hope will be implemented eventually. I suggest that= ICICI Knowledge Park and those who attended the Hyderabad Conference need = not wait till the government accepts the idea and acts on it and move ahaed= and facilitate not only setting up such archives but also other initiative= s to democratise knowledge. =0D Best wishes.=0D Subbiah Arunachalam=0D

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Digital reference sourses
by shankarprasad＠ntpc.co.in 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Dear All Please help me in collecting the following: 1- Diff digital reference soures-- Earlier we used to search - dictionary, encyclopedia, year books, directory,buyer's guide etc etc in printed hard copy for a particular information, 2- These must be available on the internet. I would like to collect names of various web address, so that relevant web maybe sought without wasting time on search engine Thanks (Shankar Prasad) Sr.Documentation Officer NTPC-Rihand Dear All Please help me in collecting the following: 1- Diff digital reference soures-- �Earlier we used to search - dictionary, encyclopedia, year books, directory,buyer's guide etc etc in printed hard copy for a particular information, 2- These must be available on the internet. �I would like to collect names of various web address, so that relevant web maybe sought without wasting time on search engine Thanks (Shankar Prasad) Sr.Documentation Officer NTPC-Rihand

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Shelfari - Virtual Shelf for Your Books
by sandeep bhavsar 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Respected All Shelfari - Virtual Shelf for Your Books http://www.shelfari.com/ The problem with our large bookshelves is that they are buried in our home where only a subset of people can see what we have read. Now with Shelfari you can show off that book collection to your friends and the world! Shelfari makes it easy to see what your friends are reading and even get and give book recommendations. With Shelfari you can easily connect with new and old friends to talk about the books you are passionate about. Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 elibrary : http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Respected All http://www.shelfari.com/images/splash-introtext.png Shelfari - Virtual Shelf for Your Books http://www.shelfari.com/ http://www.shelfari.com/ The problem with our large bookshelves is that they are buried in our home where only a subset of people can see what we have read. Now with Shelfari you can show off that book collection to your friends and the world! Shelfari makes it easy to see what your friends are reading and even get and give book recommendations. With Shelfari you can easily connect with new and old friends to talk about the books you are passionate about. Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 elibrary : http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs: A Guide for Librarians and
by KR. Senthil Kumar 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

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invitation for the Workshop on Information Literacy on 23.12.2006
by Arunachalam Hariharan 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science(SALIS) SALIS Delhi NCR Chapter & Delhi College Engineering cordially invite you to the inaugural ceremony of Sensitization Workshop on Information Literacy Supported by UNESCO On Saturday, 23rd December 2006 at 9.30 A.M. at Central Library Conference Hall Delhi College of Engineering Bawana Road Delhi-110042 Prof S K Khanna Chairman Governing Board INFLIBNET, UGC Centre, Ahmdabad (Former Founder Chairman, AICTE & Former Vice Chairman, UGC) has kindly consented to be the Chief Guest Prof D Goldar, Principal DCE will be Guest of honor R.S.V.P SANJAY KATARIA R K SHUKLA SECRETARY (SALIS Delhi NCR) ORGANISING SECRETARY Programme Lighting of Lamp Welcome Address : Shri R.K. Shukla, Organizing Secretary & Librarian DCE Presidential Address : A. Hariharan, President, SALIS. Chennai Special Address : 1) Prof. D. Goldar, Principal, DCE 2) Shri I R Kumar, Chairman, SALIS Delhi NCR 3) UNESCO Representative Inaugural Address : Prof. S.K. Khanna Chairman, Governing Broad, INFLIBNET, Former Founder Chairman, AICTE & Former Vice-Chairman, UGC Keynote Address : Dr. Harish Chandra Librarian, IIT Madras Vote of Thanks : Shri. Sanjay Kataria, Secretary SALIS Delhi NCR High Tea: 11 A.M. Sanjay Kataria General Secretary SALIS Delhi NCR Chapter 9810503341 DeleteReplyForwardSpamMove... A.Hariharan Structural Engineering Research Centre CSIR Campus Taramani Chennai - 600 113 hariharan_ah(a)yahoo.com Cell: 9841601901 Off:044-22549133 -------------------------------------------------- SALIS B2-Solai Apatments Mount-Poonamallee Road (opp.to.MGR Garden) Chennai - 600 116 Tel: 044-22522448/42014772 www.autolib-india.net/salis __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Hyperlinking to Copyrighted Material is illegal: Australia
by Farooque Shaheen 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

The Federal Court of Australia has upheld last year's ruling against Stephen Cooper who ran MP3s4free.net, and the ISP who hosted the site, for copyright infringement. Cooper's site didn't host any copyrighted material. Instead, it linked directly to recordings hosted on other servers, many of which were copyrighted. Experts say Australian copyright ruling has international implications could spell serious trouble for Search Engines and Bloggers. Some experts have different opinion, they draw a distinction between general-purpose sites and more narrowly-focused operations such as mp3s4free.net. http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8219/53/ Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 The Federal Court of Australia has upheld last year's ruling against Stephen Cooper who ran MP3s4free.net, and the ISP who hosted the site, for copyright infringement. Cooper's site didn't host any copyrighted material. Instead, it linked directly to recordings hosted on other servers, many of which were copyrighted. Experts say Australian copyright ruling has international implications could spell serious trouble for Search Engines and Bloggers. Some experts have different opinion, they draw a distinction between general-purpose sites and more narrowly-focused operations such as mp3s4free.net. http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8219/53/ Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105

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Elsevier Awards India's Young Scientists
by Mailing List Manager 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:36:59 +0800 From: "Muralidharan, Padma (ELS-DEL)" <P.Muralidharan(a)elsevier.com> Dear Reader, New Delhi - At a glittering award ceremony, the "SCOPUS - Young India Scientist Awards" for 2006 were given away to nine young brilliant scientists. These awards were instituted by Elsevier - the world's largest publisher in STM - Science, Technology & Medicine to honour and propel India's young research minds towards furthering Indian Science. The selection process involved senior academicians, subject experts and scientometricians from the eight subject areas in which the awards were given away. The evaluation criteria were both qualitative and quantitative criteria. For the former, the recently popular bibliometric tool - the Hirsch Index, published papers and citation data and the impact factors - another measurement tool for the quality of a journal were considered. Qualitative analysis was used to see if the research paper was path breaking and if it helped develop new insights into the field. The winners were : Dr. Sunil Kumar Manna from Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad and Dr. Rajesh S Gokhale from National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi for Biological Sciences Dr. Kumar Biradha from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur for Chemistry Dr. Shankar Doraiswamy from National Institute of Oceanography, Goa in Earth Sciences Dr. Giridhar Madras from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in Engineering, Dr. Abhay Gopal Bhatt from Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi in Mathematics Dr. G Venkatasubramanian from National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences, Bangalore in Medicine Dr. C P Safvan from Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi and Dr. Tarun Souradeep from Inter University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune for their work in Physics. We would like to thank all the applicants for participating in this. We hope to continue with this endeavour in the future years too. Kind regards, Padma Muralidharan Account Development Manager, Elsevier India (Science & Technology) Phone : 011-42890202

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Failed experiment of online knowledge sharing
by Aman Jha 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Dear Friends The quote below is self explanatory. Shows the future of online knowledge sharing culture. "Nature has given up on an effort to take peer review to the people. For several months beginning this past summer, Nature has invited scientists whose articles were short-listed for publication in the journal to first post their work online for public review. Normally, a handful of scientists review such submissions anonymously. But Nature, which is published by a unit of Macmillan Publishers Ltd., said in an editorial in today's issue that it was ending the experiment due to lack of participation. The journal found that in the competitive world of scientific publishing, the vast majority of authors were unwilling to post their papers and few scientists were willing to criticize their peers' work publicly by posting comments on Nature's Web site." Source: The Wall Street Journal, 21 December 2006 Regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon - 122015 (Haryana) Tel: 0124-4014060-67 aman.jha(a)ciionline.org http://www.ciionline.org DISCLAIMER:The information in this message may be privileged. If you have received it by mistake please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete the message from your system. Any unauthorised use or dissemination of this message in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Any information in this message that does not relate to official business shall be understood to be neither given nor endorsed by the Confederation of Indian Industry. Reach us via our unique Membership Helpline: 00-91-11-435 46244 / 00-99104 46244 (Monday-Saturday: 0900-1700 hrs)

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On scientific research in India
by Subbiah Arunachalam 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Friends: Here is an article from Central Chronicle, Bhopal, 16 December 2006. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Promote scientific research Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has always been a votary of spreading scientific knowledge and pointed to the need for giving more attention to this sector. Not only have financial allocations for science teaching in India increased but he has also committed to boost up the annual expenditure on science and technology from less than one per cent of GDP to two per cent in the next five years. Over the years lot of concern has been expressed by various sections of academicians and also by our Prime Minister and President, all of whom have expressed the need to concentrate on research and translate the benefits to the field and factory. The PM regretted recently that research standards have declined in Indian universities and warned about a "disconnect between research and teaching in the sciences". Moreover the type of research being conducted was concentrated in specialized institutes and generally did not have a direct bearing on society. The universities also had difficulty in mobilizing adequate financial and intellectual resources which, in turn, hampered research. Delving into some bare facts, one finds that R&D expenditure has remained static at 0.8 per cent of the GDP during 1985 to 2005 though China increased it from 0.5 per cent to 1.3 per cent during the same period. Japan and South Korea spend 3 and 2 per cent respectively on R&D. Moreover China increased its number of scientific publications to 104 times during the two decades while India could do it only 2.3 times, according ta a study by R. N. Kostoff of the US Office of Naval Research. Eugene Garfield, the American pioneer in mapping scientific information, has corroborated the decline in Indian standards. According to him, in 1973 Indian scientists accounted for about half of the developing world's quality science papers. In the 70s, his benchmark Science Citation Index places India in the 8th place behind the US, UK, USSR, France, Japan and Canada. By 2000, India had slid to the 15th place. Though one may argue that citations need not be the only benchmark, India's agricultural research has also not been very successful to develop ground-breaking techniques for the rain-dependent farmers, as result of which production and productivity is very low in drought prone areas. Regarding defence research, the Defence Research & Development Organization's (DRDO's) ambitious plans to achieve 70 per cent weapons indigenisation by 2005 has been abysmal failure and may not be accomplished even by 2010. According to a 1999 CAG audit, the development of the Pinaka, a multi-barrel rocket launcher, was compromised by non-availability of qualified manpower. The DRDO's scientists are grossly outnumbered by up to four times the auxiliary staff than found in similar private sector establishments. As regards the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is concerned, India's success stories are far behind that of global competitors. For example, China has launched 24 foreign satellites so far, sent two manned missions into space, is believed to be planning a human mission to Mars in 2017 and a satellite navigation system akin to the European Galileo. India has only just begun to consider sending a man into space and would still take another 6-7 years to launch manned space aircraft. Moreover, the GSLV crash is indeed a big setback to the country's entry into the $ 2 billion commercial satellite launch market. In pharmaceuticals though, India is a leader in the Third World, it has done no better when it comes to discovering new molecules to treat diseases. "No new molecules are being discovered", observed Dr. C. M. Gulati, a drug expert, adding that what is happening is just "peripheral research where the industry is developing new formulations of existing drugs or new routes of drug delivery and getting patents for these". With this kind of research, experts believe that India cannot capture even 0.5 per cent of the drug R&D market. In fact, the country's medical research has no productive link with the rising pharma industry. Apart from these sectoral developments, interest in science education is also on the decline. Students opting for pure science for graduation in India dropped from 32 per cent in 1950 to 15 per cent in 2000. Scientists per million population in the country is a mere 157 compared to 545 in China and 2319 in South Korea. Obviously this is because on R&D expenditure per capita is a mere $ 5.5 compared to $11.7 of China and $ 241 of South Korea. It is true that India produces some finest scientists and has some very good laboratories but they are like proverbial islands of excellence surrounded by a vast ocean of mediocrity. Although our science and technology policy has advocated pubic-private partnership in research, industry's contribution remains just about 20 per cent as compared to around 70-80 per cent in advanced countries and 40 per cent in China. It is indeed intriguing why the Indian private sector has been unable to contribute to R&D compared to their counterparts in South Korea and Singapore not to speak of the Western nations. Except for the Tata group and another one or two in the pharmaceutical sector, the contribution of even the market leaders in industry towards research has been quite poor. Even industry-wise, R&D expenditure has not been encouraging except, of course, for the pharma and IT sectors. Realizing the imperative need to give a boost to science education and attract more students in this field, the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister decided to set up the National Science & Engineering Foundation and two new institutes of science. The proposals come with some hefty price tags: Rs 500 crores for each of the two institutes and Rs 1000 crores for the Foundation to fund basic research in the universities. The obvious goal is to inject more money into science and create more centres of excellence and basic research. The Government's concern at this juncture cannot be doubted and quite justifiably, so as the country aims at achieving international standards and become globally competitive in the coming years. The warning of 'acting now' has been rightly sounded by Prof. C. N. Rao, the PM's Scientific Advisor, and this has resulted in evolving an action plan at the highest level with the following objectives: Selected few to be handsomely funded so that they attain international standards; demand performance from individuals and institutions after providing necessary funds; create an autonomous research foundation to take care of all aspect of scientific research; initiate a massive programme of rejuvenation of state and central universities; encourage top talent from all corners of the country to enter the field of pure science and also encourage young scientists in research work in all possible ways; and provide freedom of operation to scientists, universities and scientific institutions. Scientific innovations in key areas such as power (atomic power), defence, biotechnology, pharma, IT and mining sectors are imperative for the country at this juncture. To emerge as a world leader in the true sense, there is need for sustained research in the above areas, responsibility for which has to be shared jointly by the government and the private sector. For a country to emerge big and strong R&D has to be given priority and more funds allocated for this purpose under different heads so that the benefits of research reach society, both rural and urban and industrial and agricultural. Dhurjati Mukherjee, INFA ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com

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Australian govt funds OA repositories
by Subbiah Arunachalam 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

Friends: The Australian Government has allocated a huge sum for Australian universities to build their own institutional open access archives (similar to the EPrints archive of IISc, B'lore). Please see the report appended below. When will we in India do such a thing and mandate setting up of OA archives at all major research-performing universities and laboratories? Four or five years ago Current Science carried a short (less than 2 pages) article that clearly showed that China was racing ahead of India in number of papers published as seen not only from the Web of Science but also from MatsciNet and Chemical Abstracts. Many Indian science managers either didn't take note of it or ignored it. A few months ago the Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister made a big case on the very same point and the Indian press covered it for several days. I hope in the case of open access archiving such a thing will not happen. And the science managers will look at what is said and if it is valid rather than who keeps saying it! Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----------------------- >From Peter Suber's blog Australian govt funds OA repositories Julie Bishop, Australia's Minister for Education, Science and Training, has allocated $25.5 million to build OA repositories at Australian universities as part of the country's new Research Quality Framework (RQF). Here's the key part of today's press release: $25.5 million - Australian Scheme for Higher Education Repositories programme - to assist with the establishment of university digital data storage systems that will allow research outputs to be submitted for RQF assessment. This programme builds on the Australian Governments $35 million investment in the research and development of data repository technology, funded as part of Backing Australias Ability. ___________________________________________________________ Now you can scan emails quickly with a reading pane. Get the new Yahoo! Mail. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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For admission in Mphil
by ab verma 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

Respected all I Abhishek Verma, wants to pursue Mphil in Library and Information Science from Alagappa University, as Distance Education Mode, but recently Tamil nadu government has suspended(Mphil & Phd.) the course from 2007-08 session and further.I am from Varanasi and there is Algappa University's study center in our city which is going to start Mphil from 15th,January 2007and the session as i informed by the study centre will be Jan-Dec,2007 session. Please Suggest me whether i can pursue this course and after completion of this course my degree would be recognized by the govt. or not. Also suggest universities from where i can take admission in Mphil (library Science) Truly Yours Abhishek Verma Deputy Librarian School of Management Science Varanasi, 221005 Uttar Pradesh Email: abhishekverma81(a)gmail.com and abhishekwrverma(a)yahoo.co.in Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php Respected all I Abhishek Verma, wants to pursue Mphil in Library and Information Science from Alagappa University, as Distance Education Mode, but recently Tamil nadu government has suspended(Mphil & Phd.) the course from 2007-08 session and further.I am from Varanasi and there is Algappa University's study center in our city which is going to start Mphil from 15th,January 2007and the session as i informed by the study centre will be Jan-Dec,2007 session. Please Suggest me whether i can pursue this course and after completion of this course my degree would be recognized by the govt. or not. Also suggest universities from where i can take admission in Mphil (library Science) Truly Yours Abhishek Verma Deputy Librarian School of Management Science Varanasi, 221005 Uttar Pradesh Email: mailto:abhishekverma81@gmail.com abhishekverma81(a)gmail.com and mailto:abhishekwrverma@yahoo.co.in abhishekwrverma(a)yahoo.co.in Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php

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ICSD-2007: Early Bird Registration
by Dr. A.R.D. Prasad 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

Apologies if you received multiple copies of this message. ============================================= ========== ICSD-2007 Call For Participation Early Bird Registration Deadline January 01, 2007 ========== ============================================= INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEMANTIC WEB & DIGITAL LIBRARIES February 21-23, 2007 (http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/icsd) Bangalore, India Documentation Research & Training Centre invites international researchers, information professionals, Librarians, business leaders and academics to sign up for three days of stimulating discussions on the latest results in research and applications of Semantic Web Technologies and digital libraries. Sessions include keynote lectures, workshops and tutorials that focus on innovative research areas and applications such as Knowledge Organization and Ontologies, Semantic Web Services, Tools and Techniques for managing digital repositories, Digital Resource Management strategies, and many more. The conference is going to be held at Bangalore, the IT city of India. ==== | INVITED SPEAKERS and TUTORIAL RESOURCE PERSONS (Confirmed so far) ==== # Dr. Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead # Prof. Fausto Giunchiglia, Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento, Italy # Prof. Peter Schirmbacher, Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft, University of Humboldt, Berlin, Germany # Dr. Anupriya Ankolekar, Research Associate, AIFB Institute, University of Karlsruhe, Germany # Prof. Frederick Friend, JISC Scholarly Communication Consultant, Honorary Director Scholarly Communication UCL, England ==== | REGISTRATION ==== Participants who register on or before January 01, 2007 can benefit from early bird special prices. * Early Bird registration: Till January 01, 2007. * Early Bird registration fees: Rs. 4000 (Indian & SAARC Delegates) $US 150 (Foreign Delegates other than SAARC) * Late Registration: January 02, 2007 onwards Rs. 5000 (Indian & SAARC Delegates); USD 175 (Foreign Delegates other than SAARC) * Tutorial: Rs.1000 (Indian & SAARC Delegates); USD 40 (Foreign Delegates other than SAARC) Note: Registration Fee includes conference kit, tea/coffee and working lunch +------------------------------------------------------------------+ Registration form is available for download at http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/icsd/icsd-files/icsd_registration_form.doc Kindly post the filled-in registration forms to the address below: Dr. A.R.D. Prasad Convenor, ICSD 2007 DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), 8th Mile, Mysore Road, R.V. College Post, Bangalore, Karnataka (India) Pin - 560059 Electronic copy of registration form duly filled and signed can be sent to icsd(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in, but official copy should also be sent by regular mail. Please note: The Demand Draft (DD) Should be made in favour of Indian Statisitcal Institute, payable at Bangalore. Outstation cheques should include additional transaction fee. +------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- Dr. A.R.D. Prasad Convenor ICSD-2007 DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore INDIA

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Difference between Library Classification & Yahoo's Classification
by Satish MV 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Dear Professionals, Could anybody plz explain the difference between classification we do in the library and yahoo's classification (yahoo.com) apart from its directory based classification ? And I will be waiting for your precious reply. With Regards. Satish MV Project Assistant NCSI, IISc. Bangalore Email: satish.ncsi(a)gmail.com Dear Professionals, Could anybody plz explain the difference between classification we do in the library and yahoo's classification ( http://yahoo.com yahoo.com ) apart from its directory based classification ? And I will be waiting for your precious reply. With Regards. Satish MV Project Assistant NCSI, IISc. Bangalore Email: mailto:satish.ncsi@gmail.com satish.ncsi(a)gmail.com

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Google offers to digitise back issues (and volumes) of scientific and scholarly journals
by Mailing List Manager 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:54:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Friends: Here is an interesting development. Google offers to digitise back issues (and volumes) of scientific and scholarly journals at NO COST to journal publishers. [Many Indian societies publishing their own journals might wish to take advantage of this programme, as and when Google makes this programme public.] Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------------------------ >From Peter Suber's blog Google's offer to digitize journal back runs for OA Google is offering to digitize and provide OA to the back runs of scholarly journals. The terms of the offer are not online, as far as I can tell, but here's an excerpt from Google's Overview and FAQ, generously shared with me by the Canadian Association of Learned Journals (CALJ), which is passing the offer on to its members for their consideration. While many publishers and organizations are working on bringing journal collections online, a substantial fraction of scholarly journals are currently offline and may remain offline for the foreseeable future. Google is offering publishers an archival journal digitization program to bring these archival collections online and to make them more accessible. Highlights: * Publishers maintain copyright and ownership of their content. Publishers select the journal volumes to be digitized. * This service is free and will make articles from the selected issues fully [and freely] accessible to all users. * Hosted pages that display journal articles will include publisher co-branding/logo and a link back to the publishers website. * This program is non-exclusive. There is no restriction on redigitization of this material or on working with other partners. Additional Details: * The digitized journal articles will be included in Google search indices including Google Web Search and Google Scholar. * Publishers can create a table of contents on their website and link to their digitized articles in Google, allowing users to browse their archives from their website.... * Publishers have the option to include Google's ads on the hosted pages that display the journal articles. This is setup as a revenue share between the publisher and Google. Frequently Asked Questions Q. Does this mean all my journals have to be offered openly accessible? A. No, you can choose the journal volumes to be included. The goal of this program is to bring archival journal collections online. Q. Can you provide us with the digital files? A: We are unable to provide the digital files unless we terminate the service or the agreement. We would like to point out that this is a non-exclusive program.... Q: Will Google provide us with reporting tools so I know how many users are reading my digitized content? A: Yes, we will provide tools for publishers to view the usage of their content. Q: What will users see when they find my digitized articles? A: Users will see the full digitized article and will have an option to download PDFs for reading or printing. The pages that display the article will also include the publisher's logo and url.... Peter Suber's Comments. I've been hoping to see this development ever since Google started digitizing books two years ago. 1. The offer could be better, but it's definitely worth taking. I'd like to see open access to cut-and-pasteable text, not just to images. (I've said the same about Google-scanned books.) I'd also like to see journals get their own copies of the files so that Google wouldn't be the only host. But then, of course, the files would be indexed by Yahoo, Microsoft, and Scirus as well. While Google naturally wants some return on its investment, and a period of exclusivity, this provision of the contract shows the effect of a profit motive. If the OCA gets into journal digitization, and I hope it will, I suspect that it would be delighted if the resulting files were indexed by every search engine on the planet. Meantime, free online access through Google alone is much better, for authors, readers, and journals, than no free online access at all. 2. I don't see a downside for journal that doesn't already have a digitized back run. Google will charge nothing to do the job, the contract is non-exclusive, and it needn't include current issues. The only journals that might hesitate are those already selling online access to their back runs and happy with the revenue. 3. Because the offer targets non-OA issues, it could bring about OA to virtually the whole corpus of journal literature that isn't already OA. And it could do this without compelling non-OA journals to convert to OA for their newer issues. 4. The offer is new I don't yet know of any journals taking Google up on it. If you hear any, please let me know. Meantime, if an important journal in your field hasn't yet digitized its back run, tell it about this offer.

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'Digital black hole' threatens your documents
by Mailing List Manager 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:49:24 +0530 From: praveen kumar veeramalla <praveenkumarveeramalla(a)gmail.com> *The European Union is funding a project involving national libraries and digital preservation groups aimed at fighting off a looming "digital black hole."* The black hole in question is the potential future loss of data as file formats become obsolete and inaccessible. The planets consortium will develop a "sustainable framework" to maintain access to digital content after its original storage format has disappeared. ("Planets" is short for "preservation and long-term access project through networked services.) It is estimated that 5 billion documents are produced every year within the EU, of which 2 percent--100 million--are seen as worth archiving. Two million of these documents are on formats at risk from disappearing into the digital black hole. The consortium includes national libraries, archives, research institutes and technology specialists across Europe. The organizations taking part include the British Library; Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England; IBM Netherlands; the Austrian National Library; the Swiss Federal Archives; and Freiburg and Cologne universities in Germany. The EU's Information Society Technologies R&D program is providing 8.6million euros ($11.3 million) of the 14 million euros ($18.5 million) required to fund the project. Adam Farquhar, head of e-architecture at the British Library, said that as computer hardware and software become obsolete,digital information reliant on this technology becomes increasingly hard to find, view, search and reuse. "There is a growing consensus on the need to act now to avoid a gaping hole in our cultural and scientific record," he said. LynneeBrindley ,chief executive of the British Library, said European libraries and archives are uniquely positioned to lead this digital-preservation initiative, as they have the legal responsibility and the legislative framework to safeguard digital information. *Source:* *Tim Ferguson of silicon.com reported from London* *CNet news* ** ************************************************** praveen kumar veeramalla

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Biomicrofluidics
by vimal kumar 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Dear Professionals, Biomicrofluidics is an online open-access journal published by the American Institute of Physics to rapidly disseminate novel microfluidic techniques with diagnostic, medical, biological, pharmaceutical, environmental, and chemical applications. http://bmf.aip.org/ Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Biomicrofluidics is an online open-access journal published by the American Institute of Physics to rapidly disseminate novel microfluidic techniques with diagnostic, medical, biological, pharmaceutical, environmental, and chemical applications. http://bmf.aip.org/ Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Linking Up Bibliographies: DOI Harvesting Tool Launched by CrossRef
by vimal kumar 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Dear Friends, Authors, editors, publishers, and librarians all have a vested interest in supporting the widest dissemination of digital scholarship, particularly authoritative and "authorized" copies of scholarly publications. CrossRef, the reference-linking network of the Publishers International Linking Association (PILA), has officially launched a free DOI look-up feature called Simple-Text Query. Users can enter whole bibliographies with citations in almost any bibliographic format and receive back the matching Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for these references to insert into their final bibliographies. From: Infotoday Newsbreaks. Read more http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb061106-1.shtml Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear Friends, Authors, editors, publishers, and librarians all have a vested interest in supporting the widest dissemination of digital scholarship, particularly authoritative and "authorized" copies of scholarly publications. CrossRef, the reference-linking network of the Publishers International Linking Association (PILA), has officially launched a free DOI look-up feature called Simple-Text Query. Users can enter whole bibliographies with citations in almost any bibliographic format and receive back the matching Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for these references to insert into their final bibliographies. From: Infotoday Newsbreaks. Read more http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb061106-1.shtml http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb061106-1.shtml Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Second Call for Papers and Invited Sessions Proposals (fwd)
by K.S. Chudamani 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Dear professionals, I would like to organize a session on risk management in libraries for the following international event. Kindly send your papers before 10th January to my email at kschudamani(a)rediffmail.com Chudamani ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:52:47 -0400 From: rmci2007(a)iiis-info-cyber.org To: KSC(a)LIBRARY.IISC.ERNET.IN Subject: Second Call for Papers and Invited Sessions Proposals Second Call for Papers and Invited Sessions Proposals As a response to the many requests we have received, the Organizing Committee of the 4th International Symposium on Risk Management and Cyber-Informatics: RMCI 2007 (Orlando, Florida, USA. July 8-11, 2007), has decided to extend the deadline for papers/abstracts submissions, as well as for Invited Sessions proposals. New deadlines: Abstract/paper draft submissions and Invited Session Proposals: January 10th, 2007 Authors Notification: February 10th, 2007 Camera ready, full papers: March 1st, 2007 The registration fee of effective invited sessions organizers will be waived and they will receive at the registration desk, for free, a package of 4 DVDs and one CD containing the 6-hour tutorial "Fundamentals and History of Cybernetics: Development of the Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems". The market price of this package is US $ 295. Twelve more benefits for invited session organizers are listed at RMCI 2007 web page. For submissions or Invited Sessions Proposals, please go to the web site: http://www.iiis-cyber.org/rmci2007 Authors of the best 10%-20% of the papers presented at the conference will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. Best regards, RMCI 2007 Secretariat If you wish to be removed from this mailing list, please send an email to rmci.remove(a)iiis-sci.org with REMOVE MLRMCI in the subject line. Address: Torre Profesional La California, Av. Francisco de Miranda, Caracas, Venezuela.

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National Seminar on Information Literacy and Higher Education
by Gowri Ravindranth 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

National Seminar on Information Literacy and Higher Education 29 - 30 January 2007 Call for Papers Organized by Department of Information Science University of Madras Chennai 600 005 Information Literacy is a set of abilities requiring individuals to `recognise when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate and use effectively the needed information'. It forms the basis for lifelong learning. It is common to all disciplines, to environments, and to all levels of education. It enables learners to master content and investigations, becomes more self-directed and assures greater control over their own learning process. Developing lifelong learning is central to the mission of higher education institutions ensuring that individuals have the intellectual abilities of reasoning and critical through helping them construct a framework for learning how to learn. Higher education institutions provide the foundation for the students towards lifelong personal and professional growth. Since information literacy augments student's competency with accessing evaluating, managing, and using information, it is now considered by several regional and national accredited associations as a key outcome for students and scholars. Seminar Objectives The Seminar is directed towards enabling an individual to: Determine the extent of information required; Access the needed information effectively; Evaluate information and its sources critically; Incorporate selected information into one's knowledge base; Use information to accomplish a specific purpose; Understand the economic, legal and social issues surrounding the use of information. Seminar Participants Faculty members and Researchers in Library and Information Science Librarians working in varied institutions/corporate sectors Managers in any information centres All researchers in all other disciplines Call for Papers Papers are invited on the theme and any of sub-themes. The Sub-themes are: Information Literacy - Means and Methods Information Literacy Models Information Literacy Standards Information Literacy and Libraries Information Literacy - Case Studies The paper should not exceed 3000 words inA4 size word document. The paper should include name of the author, affiliation, mailing address, telephone and e-mail address, submitted in CD-ROM along with the printed version. The paper can be sent to under mentioned address.The electronic version of text can also be sent to http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/emala/post?postID=t7Ot8JvaCUd55YSLAREi… mu_dis(a)yahoo.co.in The last date for submission of paper is 10th January 2007 Registration Fees Registration fee is Rs. 300/- per delegate.The Registration fee includes conference kit, tea and working lunch on the days of conference. The filled-in Registration Form along with Demand Draft / Local Cheque in favour of can be sent to the following address on or before the 15th January 2007. Prof. A. Amudhavalli Professor & Head Dept. of Information Science University of Madras Chepauk, Chennai 600 005 Phone No.: 25368778 Ext 278 E-mail: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/emala/post?postID=3f0mAbnGAYuV3EJpw8_z… amudha75(a)yahoo.com On request accommodation can be facilitated Registration Form National Seminar on Information Literacy and Higher Education 29 - 30 January 2007 Name (in Block Letters): Designation: Parent body: Contact Address: Phone No.: Mobile: E-mail: Payment Details Amount.: DD / Cheque No.: Name of the Bank & Branch: Signature Date: Note: The registration closes on 15th January 2007. Catch all the cricketing action right here. http://g.msn.com/8HMBENIN/2755??PS=47575 Live score, match reports, photos et al.

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Openings for NCIS-trained MLIS Professionals
by guhamba 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

We at Informatics india Ltd, a 26-year old Public limited company located in Jayanagar, Bangalore are in need of around five NCIS trained post-graduates in MLIS for our electronic products and information processing departments. The applicants should have good oral and written communication skills, with 0-1 year experience and should be based in Bangalore. Remuneration will be the range of Rs.10,000-11,500 depending on the capabilities. Those interested may respond with CV at email: resumes.info(a)yahoo.co.in within 5 days, indicating the grades right from SSLC and also their expertise in handling electronic products, usage of Internet, familiarity with MS-Access, VB etc. Regards, Guhamba

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Invitation from DLISC Thane
by sandeep bhavsar 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Respected All Department of Library and Information Science, Joshi Bedekar College Thane. Invite you to a talk on How to use Internet and evaluation of websites By Ms. Wendy Zaman* Information Resource Officer, American Embassy, New Delhi Venue : Thorale Bajirao Peshve Hall 'Janadweep'VPM' S Thane College Campus Chendani Bundar Road Thane West Date: Wednesday,the 20th December, at 11.00 AM ======================================================= *Wendy Zaman joined the Foreign Service as an Information Resource Officer in February 2003. She arrived in India in December 2004. She works as the consultant for the seven American Information Resource Centers (AIRCs), also known as American Libraries in New Delhi, Chennai, Calcutta and Mumbai in India as well as Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Wendy worked as a university librarian in Florida for three years. Before that, she lived throughout Asia and Africa for over twenty years and worked in a variety of libraries, ranging from universities to international schools to NGOs and consulting firms. Wendy has a Bachelor of Arts degree in literature from American University in Washington, DC and a Master's degree in Library and Information Sciences from Long Island University in New York. ============================================================= Best Regards Prof. Narayan Barse Librarian and Coordinator DLIS VPM's Joshi Bedekar College Thane Cell 9963051287 --------------------------------- All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine Department of Library and Information Science, Joshi Bedekar College Thane. Invite you to a talk on How to use Internet and evaluation of websites By Ms. Wendy Zaman* Information Resource Officer, American Embassy, New Delhi Venue : Thorale Bajirao Peshve Hall 'Janadweep'VPM' S Thane College Campus Chendani Bundar Road Thane West Date: Wednesday,the 20th December, at 11.00 AM ======================================================= *Wendy Zaman joined the Foreign Service as an Information Resource Officer in February 2003. She arrived in India in December 2004. She works as the consultant for the seven American Information Resource Centers (AIRCs), also known as American Libraries in New Delhi, Chennai, Calcutta and Mumbai in India as well as Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Wendy worked as a university librarian in Florida for three years. Before that, she lived throughout Asia and Africa for over twenty years and worked in a variety of libraries, ranging from universities to international schools to NGOs and consulting firms. Wendy has a Bachelor of Arts degree in literature from American University in Washington, DC and a Master's degree in Library and Information Sciences from Long Island University in New York. ============================================================= Best Regards Prof. Narayan Barse Librarian and Coordinator DLIS VPM's Joshi Bedekar College Thane Cell 9963051287 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/nowyoucan/pc_mag/*http://us… All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine

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Open Access and Digital Libraries Wiki - http://oadl.pbwiki.com/
by Sukhdev Singh 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Open Access and Digital Libraries Group <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oadl/> has set up a Wiki at http://oadl.pbwiki.com/ to facilitate working on a "Guide to Develop Openly Accessible Digital Libraries". This is the "TARGET - I" of the group and being done a collaborative manner. The WIKI presently lists a broad structure of the proposed guide. Suggestions are most welcomed. Thanks Sukhdev Singh. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oadl/

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11th Five year plan (2007-2012) and Libraries
by K A. Sardesai 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Dear Manju, I agree with your opinion.In Maharashatra the number of Libraries and that of Librarian's ratio is un favourable.This is because the package the Librarians are supposed to get is based with very very less comparative to teachers/professors and others. we try to impress the profiles of librarianship on the management who are typical and burocrat mentalities except the emerging corporate fileds.These corporates are interested in IT areas expert than Library professionals to manage their collection / knowledge/documents etc.They do not think the professionaly and technicalyy expert Librarian, as the attitudes are dominatings. Instead of thinking Government to do something for us the Corporates Like INFOSYS, WIPROS, Banking and Financial Institutions where knowledge hubs and research are in progress. Our forum may take initiative not only to a particular part of the country but it should be in all states. At the same time we must make our profesionals to move towards skills of new developed IT and always upgrade ourselves with creative mind for offering services.We didnot get the experts/enthu library workers where they are needed.This is because the salary/benefits/educational qualifications etc are the hurdeles.As emerging corporates are tying educational institutes for their work forces library professionals should also get such opportunities.Recently ET / TO I dated 18/ 12/06 have annouced such type of picking up work forces or making their own organisations as educational base for future job opportunities in the company itself. Government otherwise is busy with politics and many issues but the thing may be possible if we approach our President who loves education and research and that of creative minds. I request our great forum expert to do something bright for librarians all over the country. Kshipra Sardesai

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Fwd: K-Community hosted by FirstSource (formerly ICICI OneSource)
by Mailing List Manager 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:00:28 +0530 From: Manju manju <manjax4u(a)gmail.com> Dear Friends, The Knowledge Management Community of Bangalore will meet on the 3rd Wednesday of this month: December 20th. The agenda for our gathering is as follows: 6:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.: Networking/Introductions 6:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.: Welcome Address by Host: FirstSource 6:30 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.: Talk and facilitated discussion by PPR Rao, President of Bizworth, 'Bringing Innovation to the Workplace' 7:45 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.: Next Steps and Conclusion Outline of Talk and Discussion: First we shall explore the current business context and talk of the ICT, its impact on the information society, the rising importance of Knowledge assets, the networked society and the emergence of Innovation as the key competitive element for organisations. Then we shall quickly establish a common understanding on few operating words like 'Knowledge Management', 'Intellectual Capital', and 'Innovation'. We shall then examine the sequence of steps to put KM on a sound footing in business organisations. This will bring about the role of Innovation too. Then we shall examine in some detail about Innovation as a 'process' and a few practical steps that can be taken to make it happen in our day to day work while still fighting out all that goes in a day to keep the transactions going. Here, we shall try to demystify Innovation and put it into some simple Do's and Don'ts as well as the leadership / Management philosophies that are essential for the promotion and health of Innovation process in our organisations. At the end, we shall summarise a few guide lines that will help us in structuring our work in such a way that Innovation gets deployed into the day to day working and not an esoteric, stand alone operation. Speaker Background: PPR Rao is President and co-founder of Bizworth, and Management Consultant focusing on Intellectual Capital Management, Process Management, Business Excellence and Manufacturing Management. An engineer by qualification, his professional career spanning 38years has been spent in Public and Private Sectors, Engineering, Auto electrical and IT industries covering the functions of Manufacturing, Services and Business leadership. He served reputed companies like BHEL, English Electric, Nippon Denso, Wipro, Digital Equipment and WeP peripherals. He held various positions in the IT industry like Chief Executive, Customer Services for Wipro, Director Services for Digital, COO for WeP. He served in the national executive of MAIT for more than six years and during that period he also chaired their Business Excellence Committee. He has been associated with CII Southern Region and served their Manufacturing as well as IT panels. Address of Hosting Organization: Firstsource Solutions Ltd. (formerly ICICI One Source) 1 - 3, RMZ Ecospace Tower - 3A, Sarjapur Outer Ring Road Bangalore 560 037 Phone: 080 66208000 RMZ Ecospace is located in Marathahalli - Sarjapur Outer Ring Road, it is six kms from the Bangalore Airport and 12 kms from the Central Business District. Ecospace is flanked on one side by a six lane Ring Road and on the other side by untouched greenery.Accenture is the prominent building while you enter.The third building is FirstSource (formerly ICICI One Source). The venue is at 2 flr conference room. Sincere Regards, P.S. MANJUNATHA (manjax4u) LIBRARIAN B.N.M.I.T.SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES Knowledge Management Community of Bangalore URL: www.k-community.org Bangalore, India

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Re: Socio political unrest in Peoples' Republic of China after 1980
by veena bhat 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Dear Sir/ Madam, Can you please provide the appropriate sources for "Socio political unrest in Peoples' Republic of China after 1980" and let me have some worthwhile reading material on the topic. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Veena Bhat IIIT, Pune __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear Sir/ Madam, Can you please provide the appropriate sources for "Socio political unrest in Peoples' Republic of China after 1980" and let me have some worthwhile reading material on the topic. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Veena Bhat IIIT, Pune __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Fw: 2007 Bonnie Hilditch International Science-Technology & Engineering Divisions Librarian Award
by Farooque Shaheen 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Dear Professionals, FYI. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366 ----- Forwarded by Farooque Shaheen/IN/CTR on 12/19/2006 10:23 AM ----- "Cheryl Hansen" <cahansen(a)esi-il.com> Sent by: owner-sla-st(a)welles.library.northwestern.edu 12/19/2006 02:37 AM To <sla-st(a)welles.library.northwestern.edu> cc Subject 2007 Bonnie Hilditch International Science-Technology & Engineering Divisions Librarian Award It is time to nominate yourself or a colleague for the 2007 Bonnie Hilditch International Science-Technology & Engineering Divisions Librarian Award. The Engineering Division is now co-sponsoring the Award with Sci-Tech and the monetary amount has gone up to US $2,000. This award is presented to a librarian from outside of the United States and Canada. The purpose of the award is to provide an opportunity for a librarian from outside the U.S. and Canada to attend the annual SLA Conference. The award will consist of conference registration, lodging and airfare, not to exceed US$2000. The 2007 Conference will be held June 3-6 in Denver, CO. Qualifications are : Be a current member of SLA, preference given to members of the SLA Science-Technology and Engineering Divisions. Reside and work outside of the U.S. and Canada, be working currently in a library, information center, library school or other information capacity, preferably in the science, technology and engineering areas. The nomination forms can be found on the Sci-Tech Division Website http://units.sla.org/division/dst/Award/BonnieHilditchInternationalAward.ht… or you can contact the Sci-Tech Division Awards Chair Sheila Rosenthal Manager, Library Services Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute Pittsburgh, PA 412/268-7846 ph 412/268-5758 fax slr(a)sei.cmu.edu Dear Professionals, � � � � � � � � � � � � FYI. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366 ----- Forwarded by Farooque Shaheen/IN/CTR on 12/19/2006 10:23 AM ----- "Cheryl Hansen" <cahansen(a)esi-il.com> Sent by: owner-sla-st(a)welles.library.northwestern.edu 12/19/2006 02:37 AM To <sla-st(a)welles.library.northwestern.edu> cc Subject 2007 Bonnie Hilditch International Science-Technology & Engineering Divisions Librarian Award It is time to nominate yourself or a colleague for the 2007 Bonnie Hilditch International Science-Technology & Engineering Divisions Librarian Award. � The Engineering Division is now co-sponsoring the Award with Sci-Tech and the monetary amount has gone up to US $2,000. � This award is presented to a librarian from outside of the United States and Canada. �The purpose of the award is to provide an opportunity for a librarian from outside the U.S. and Canada to attend the annual SLA Conference. �The award will consist of conference registration, lodging and airfare, not to exceed US$2000. �The 2007 Conference will be held June 3-6 in Denver, CO. Qualifications are : Be a current member of SLA, preference given to members of the SLA Science-Technology and Engineering Divisions. �Reside and work outside of the U.S. and Canada, be working currently in a library, information center, library school or other information capacity, preferably in the science, technology and engineering areas. � The nomination forms can be found on the Sci-Tech Division Website http://units.sla.org/division/dst/Award/BonnieHilditchInternationalAward.ht… http://units.sla.org/division/dst/Award/BonnieHilditchInternationalAward.ht… � or you can contact the Sci-Tech Division Awards Chair Sheila Rosenthal Manager, Library Services Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute Pittsburgh, PA 412/268-7846 ph 412/268-5758 fax mailto:slr@sei.cmu.edu slr(a)sei.cmu.edu

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[LIS-Forum] Version 66, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

Version 66 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,830 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. The SEPB URL has changed: http://sepb.digital-scholarship.org/ or http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html There is a mirror site at: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/sepb/sepb.html The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog URL has also changed: http://sepw.digital-scholarship.org/ or http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm There is a mirror site at: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm The SEPW RSS feed is unaffected. 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 HTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be searched using a Google Search Engine. Whether the search results are current depends on Google's indexing frequency. In addition to the bibliography, the HTML document includes: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (biweekly list of new resources; also available by e-mail--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://sepw.digital-scholarship.org/ http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756 http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites) http://sepr.digital-scholarship.org/ (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm The 2005 annual PDF file is designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 210 pages long. The PDF file is over 560 KB. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/60/sepb.pdf Related Article An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. E-Mail: cwbailey(a)digital-scholarship.com Publications: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ (Provides access to DigitalKoans, Open Access Bibliography, Open Access Webliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog, and others.)

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FW: [Sigiii-l] asist sig iii international paper contest 2007
by J. K. Vijayakumar 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

-----Original Message----- From: sigiii-l-bounces(a)asis.org [mailto:sigiii-l-bounces@asis.org] On Behalf Of Dr Julian Warner Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 9:04 AM To: sigiii-l(a)asis.org Subject: [Sigiii-l] asist sig iii international paper contest 2007 INTERNATIONAL PAPER CONTEST The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), International Information Issues Special Interest Group (SIG-III), is pleased to announce its eighth competition for papers to be submitted for the 2007 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 18-25, 2007. The theme of this paper contest is: "Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing and Information Science" The theme may be addressed at either the country or regional level issues. Papers could discuss issues, policies and case studies on specific aspects of the theme, such as, but not limited to the following: Egovernance in developing countries, Factors, issues, case studies etc pertaining to rural/urban digital divide and the information infrastructure (connectivity, access, hardware, cost implications, emerging trends etc) in developing countries. Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and digital libraries Collecting, preserving and disseminating IK. Social, ethical, political, legal, and economic and cultural issues: issues related to the role of information in society, such as information policy, access, security, privacy, and intellectual property, as well as the social uses and abuses of information technologies such as the Internet and World Wide Web in bridging or separating diverse communities. Information organization, management, access, and retrieval. Information seeking and use: the role of information in professional and daily lives, use of various types of information technology, and social contexts of information seeking. Information technology, social equity and development: IT and governance, IT and the new economy, including the future of work and implications of technological hardware and software developments; the role of ICTs in conflict management, etc. There will be six winners who will be selected by a panel of judges including Julian Warner (Chair), Judy Jeng (Co-Chair), Yunfei Du, Nathalie Leroy, Sue O'Neill Johnson, Yin Zhang, and Liwen Vaughn. Selection Criteria Papers will be selected through a peer review process. The judging criteria will be based on: Originality of paper in the developing world environment (originality of the project described, etc.) Relevance to the Paper contest. Presentation and organization. Style. The international paper contest committee requires that submissions follow the International Information and Library Review instructions to authors. Detailed information is available under the heading, Guide for Authors at: http://authors.elsevier.com/GuideForAuthors.html?PubID=622845&dc=GF The prize for each winner is a two-year individual membership in ASIST. In the case of multiple authors, the principal author will be awarded the ASIST membership. In addition, depending on SIG III fundraising for this competition, the first place winner will be rewarded a minimum of $1,000 toward travel, conference registration, and accommodations while attending the ASIST Annual Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 18-25, 2007. Publishing opportunities Submitted papers will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the International Information and Library Review, subject to the usual peer refereeing process, for that journal. Information for authors Only papers by a principal author who is a citizen of, and resides in a developing country are eligible. Winners in the 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, or 2006 contests are not eligible. The papers should be original, unpublished, and ONLY in English. We encourage submissions from librarians, information and network specialists, and educators involved in the creation, representation, maintenance, exchange, discovery, delivery, and use of digital information. ASIST Copyright Policy ASIST will have the non-exclusive right to publish any of the papers submitted on its web site or in print, with ownership and all other rights remaining with the author. Deadline for submission of full papers Authors are invited to submit manuscripts, not to exceed 5000 words, by March 31, 2007, to j.warner(a)qub.ac.uk, preferably as Microsoft Word attachments. Please check the SIG III website (http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/index.htm) for more information about the SIG III International Paper Contest, including Frequently Asked Questions, past CFPs, previous winners and winning papers, and stories from previous winners. A copy of this call for papers can be found at http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/paper_contest/2007/CFP2007.htm Julian Warner School of Management and Economics The Queen's University of Belfast Belfast BT7 1NN Northern Ireland email j.warner(a)qub.ac.uk home page http://www.qub-efrg.com/staff/jwarner/ _______________________________________________ Sigiii-l mailing list Sigiii-l(a)asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigiii-l ---------------------------------- J. K. Vijayakumar MLIS PhD Assistant Director - Library American University of Antigua Post Box W-1451, St. Johns ANTIGUA, West Indies http://students.auamed.net/library http://libinfospace.blogspot.com ---------------------------------- Head Quarters: #2 Wall Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10005, USA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -----Original Message----- From: sigiii-l-bounces(a)asis.org [mailto:sigiii-l-bounces@asis.org] On Behalf Of Dr Julian Warner Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 9:04 AM To: sigiii-l(a)asis.org Subject: [Sigiii-l] asist sig iii international paper contest 2007 INTERNATIONAL PAPER CONTEST The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), International Information Issues Special Interest Group (SIG-III), is pleased to announce its eighth competition for papers to be submitted for the 2007 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 18-25, 2007. The theme of this paper contest is: "Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing and Information Science" The theme may be addressed at either the country or regional level issues. Papers could discuss issues, policies and case studies on specific aspects of the theme, such as, but not limited to the following: Egovernance in developing countries, Factors, issues, case studies etc pertaining to rural/urban digital divide and the information infrastructure (connectivity, access, hardware, cost implications, emerging trends etc) in developing countries. Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and digital libraries Collecting, preserving and disseminating IK. Social, ethical, political, legal, and economic and cultural issues: issues related to the role of information in society, such as information policy, access, security, privacy, and intellectual property, as well as the social uses and abuses of information technologies such as the Internet and World Wide Web in bridging or separating diverse communities. Information organization, management, access, and retrieval. Information seeking and use: the role of information in professional and daily lives, use of various types of information technology, and social contexts of information seeking. Information technology, social equity and development: IT and governance, IT and the new economy, including the future of work and implications of technological hardware and software developments; the role of ICTs in conflict management, etc. There will be six winners who will be selected by a panel of judges including Julian Warner (Chair), Judy Jeng (Co-Chair), Yunfei Du, Nathalie Leroy, Sue O'Neill Johnson, Yin Zhang, and Liwen Vaughn. Selection Criteria Papers will be selected through a peer review process. The judging criteria will be based on: Originality of paper in the developing world environment (originality of the project described, etc.) Relevance to the Paper contest. Presentation and organization. Style. The international paper contest committee requires that submissions follow the International Information and Library Review instructions to authors. Detailed information is available under the heading, Guide for Authors at: http://authors.elsevier.com/GuideForAuthors.html?PubID=622845&dc=GF http://authors.elsevier.com/GuideForAuthors.html?PubID=622845&dc=GF The prize for each winner is a two-year individual membership in ASIST. In the case of multiple authors, the principal author will be awarded the ASIST membership. In addition, depending on SIG III fundraising for this competition, the first place winner will be rewarded a minimum of $1,000 toward travel, conference registration, and accommodations while attending the ASIST Annual Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 18-25, 2007. Publishing opportunities Submitted papers will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the International Information and Library Review, subject to the usual peer refereeing process, for that journal. Information for authors Only papers by a principal author who is a citizen of, and resides in a developing country are eligible. Winners in the 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, or 2006 contests are not eligible. The papers should be original, unpublished, and ONLY in English. We encourage submissions from librarians, information and network specialists, and educators involved in the creation, representation, maintenance, exchange, discovery, delivery, and use of digital information. ASIST Copyright Policy ASIST will have the non-exclusive right to publish any of the papers submitted on its web site or in print, with ownership and all other rights remaining with the author. Deadline for submission of full papers Authors are invited to submit manuscripts, not to exceed 5000 words, by March 31, 2007, to j.warner(a)qub.ac.uk, preferably as Microsoft Word attachments. Please check the SIG III website (http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/index.htm) for more information about the SIG III International Paper Contest, including Frequently Asked Questions, past CFPs, previous winners and winning papers, and stories from previous winners. A copy of this call for papers can be found at http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/paper_contest/2007/CFP2007.htm http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/paper_contest/2007/CFP2007.htm Julian Warner School of Management and Economics The Queen's University of Belfast Belfast BT7 1NN Northern Ireland email j.warner(a)qub.ac.uk home page http://www.qub-efrg.com/staff/jwarner/ _______________________________________________ Sigiii-l mailing list Sigiii-l(a)asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigiii-l ---------------------------------- J. K. Vijayakumar MLIS PhD Assistant Director - Library American University of Antigua Post Box W-1451, St. Johns ANTIGUA, West Indies http://students.auamed.net/library http://students.auamed.net/library http://libinfospace.blogspot.com http://libinfospace.blogspot.com ---------------------------------- Head Quarters: #2 Wall Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10005, USA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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DRTC Colloquium (2) 2006-08
by Mailing List Manager 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

Date: 17 Dec 2006 07:04:54 -0000 From: Ehtesham <ehte786(a)rediffmail.com> INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE 8th Mile Mysore Road, Bangalore-560059 DRTC Colloquium - 2 (2006-08) �LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SOFTWARES: THE INDIAN SCENARIO� ABSTRACT The availability of hardware and Library Management Softwares (LMSs) at affordable price has resulted in a fairly wide adoption and use of LMSs in India. Almost all special libraries in India have either adopted a computer-based system or planning actively to go for library automation. LMSs are being used both in library management and for providing user support services. In this colloquium, we will concentrate on generations, features and some advantages of some selected LMSs available in India. TOPICS SPEAKERS 1.Introduction Radha Rani Rit 2.Generations of LMSs Mita Sarkar 3.LMSs of foreign origin used in India Mithun Raj M 4.LMSs developed over LMSs of foreign origin Syed Raiyan Ghani 5.LMSs of Indian origin Ayesha Khatoon Anila S. 6.Conclusion Sanjeev Kumar Sunny Venue :DRTC Classroom Date : 20th of December Time : 2:00 pm All are cordially invited Dr.K.S. Raghavan (Colloquium Coordinator)

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Darwin online
by Mailing List Manager 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 16:14:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Friends: The Complete Works of Darwin are now available at <http://darwin-online.org.uk/>. When are we going to get the complete works of India's great scientists online at one place? Will DST, DSIR or DBT undertake such a programme or fund some agency to undertake such a project? [The Raman research Library is working on bringing out the collected works of Sir C V Raman. The University of Arizona is trying to build a repository of all the writings of Prof. S R Ranganathan.] Regards. Subbiah Arunachalam

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11th Five year plan (2007-2012) and Library Development
by manju nayak 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

Dear Moderator, Our country’s 11th Five-Year Plan will begin from April 2007 with the objective of making India one of the fastest developing nations by setting various plans with a vision to eradicate poverty, providing education to all etc. In this context we need to attract Planning Commission’s attention to give importance for the development of the Library System in general and the Public Library system in particular, as we all know the role Library plays in providing information and also imparting knowledge in any given society. But it is unfortunate that so for no five-year plan has given any due importance for the development of library system in India. No one will disagree that in the 21st century we are living in a knowledge based society. Ideas rule the world, Knowledge is power. Libraries function as an auxiliary educational institution to make knowledge citizen. So, the importance of this knowledge center is very essential to cater to the information needs of all members of the society. So I hope that the coming 11the five year plan gives due importance for the promotion of knowledge center if we fight together for the cause of professional development. I request LIS-Forum moderator to open this topic for discussion so as to get various ideas of the professionals in the area with which we can prepare a roadmap for the renovation of the Library System in India. Below mentioned are some of my suggestions for the development of library in the 11th plan. 1. Establishment of one more National Library in South India, particularly in Bangalore which is the hub of Information Technology and also it is considered as one of the Asia’s fastest growing cosmopolitan cities. 2. Establishment of Public Library in every village across the country. 3. Establishment of Centre for Excellence for Digital Library Development and Research. 4. Establishment of School Library in every school. Thanks Manju Naika Central Institute of Indian Languages Library Mysore. Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php  Dear Moderator, Our country’s 11 th Five-Year Plan will begin from April 2007 with the objective of making India one of the fastest developing nations by setting various plans with a vision to eradicate poverty, providing education to all etc. In this context we need to attract Planning Commission’s attention to give importance for the development of the Library System in general and the Public Library system in particular, as we all know the role Library plays in providing information and also imparting knowledge in any given society. But it is unfortunate that so for no five-year plan has given any due importance for the development of library system in India . No one will disagree that in the 21st century we are living in a knowledge based society. Ideas rule the world, Knowledge is power. Libraries function as an auxiliary educational institution to make knowledge citizen. So, the importance of this knowledge center is very essential to cater to the information needs of all members of the society. So I hope that the coming 11the five year plan gives due importance for the promotion of knowledge center if we fight together for the cause of professional development. I request LIS-Forum moderator to open this topic for discussion so as to get various ideas of the professionals in the area with which we can prepare a roadmap for the renovation of the Library System in India . Below mentioned are some of my suggestions for the development of library in the 11th plan. 1. Establishment of one more National Library in South India , particularly in Bangalore which is the hub of Information Technology and also it is considered as one of the Asia ’s fastest growing cosmopolitan cities. 2. Establishment of Public Library in every village across the country. 3. Establishment of Centre for Excellence for Digital Library Development and Research. 4. Establishment of School Library in every school. Thanks Manju Naika Central Institute of Indian Languages Library Mysore . Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php

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Google Releases Customized Version of IE 7
by Farooque Shaheen 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

Google Inc. has released a customized version of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7) browser in which Google, not Windows Live Search, is the default search engine. The customized version of IE 7 can be downloaded from http://www.google.com/toolbar/ie7 In addition to using Google as the default search engine, Google's customized version of IE 7 also provides users with the Google Toolbar and a Google homepage they can personalize. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&art… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366 Google Inc. has released a customized version of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7) browser in which Google, not Windows Live Search, is the default search engine. The customized version of IE 7 can be downloaded from http://www.google.com/toolbar/ie7 In addition to using Google as the default search engine, Google's customized version of IE 7 also provides users with the Google Toolbar and a Google homepage they can personalize. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&art… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366

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OADL finds mention in Peter Scott's Blog
by Sukhdev Singh 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

Open Access and Digital Libraries <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oadl/> community group figures in Peter Scott's Library Blog Checkout - http://xrefer.blogspot.com/2006/12/open-access-and-digital-libraries.html The group has also set up for itself "TARGET" to collaboratively develop a Guide for Digital Libraries based on OA Principles. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC.

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ILA Verghese award year 2005
by Biradar B.S. 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

Dear Moderator Kindly announce this information in LIS forum: ILA P.V.Verghese award for the best paper published in ILA Bulletin for the year 2005 is owned by Dr B.S.Biradar and joint author Dr.B.T.Sampathkumar, Dept. of Library and Information Science, Kuvempu University, Jananasahyadri, Shankaraghatta-577451, Shimoga, Karnataka. The award will be presented in the forthcoming ILA Conference to be held at Srinagar (Garhwal) during 26th to 29th December 2006 (official letter received from D.V.Singh General Secretary, ILA). With regards Dr.B.S.Biradar Dr. B.S. Biradar, Chairman, Dept. of Lib. & Inf. Science, Kuvempu University, Jana Sahyadri, Shankarghatta, -577451, Shimoga Karnataka, India. Email : bs_biradar(a)yahoo.com : bsbiradar53(a)rediffmail.com Phone : 91-8282-657319 (Off.) : 91-8282-656142 (Res.) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear Moderator Kindly announce this information in LIS forum: ILA P.V.Verghese award for the best paper published in ILA Bulletin for the year 2005 is owned by Dr B.S.Biradar and joint author Dr.B.T.Sampathkumar, Dept. of Library and Information Science, Kuvempu University, Jananasahyadri, Shankaraghatta-577451, Shimoga, Karnataka. The award will be presented in the forthcoming ILA Conference to be held at Srinagar (Garhwal) during 26 th to 29 th December 2006 (official letter received from D.V.Singh General Secretary, ILA). With regards Dr.B.S.Biradar Dr. B.S. Biradar, Chairman, Dept. of Lib. & Inf. Science, Kuvempu University, Jana Sahyadri, Shankarghatta, -577451, Shimoga Karnataka, India. Email : bs_biradar(a)yahoo.com : bsbiradar53(a)rediffmail.com Phone : 91-8282-657319 (Off.) : 91-8282-656142 (Res.) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Ranganathan on Dewey
by rupesh kumar 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

Dear All, Found this interesting audio in which Ranganathan speaks about Dewey. The first 1 min 56 seconds audio is very poor because of damage of the original cassette. Rest is good. Visit http://www.miskatonic.org/files/ranganathan-on-dewey.mp3 for audio and http://www.hyperorg.com/misc/ranganathan_on_dewey_transcript.html for an english transcription of the audio. Regards, Rupesh Kumar A Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore University a_rupeshkumar(a)yahoo.com http://lislog.blogspot.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Found this interesting audio in which Ranganathan speaks about Dewey. The first 1 min 56 seconds audio is very poor because of damage of the original cassette. Rest is good. Visit http://www.miskatonic.org/files/ranganathan-on-dewey.mp3 http://www.miskatonic.org/files/ranganathan-on-dewey.mp3 for audio and http://www.hyperorg.com/misc/ranganathan_on_dewey_transcript.html http://www.hyperorg.com/misc/ranganathan_on_dewey_transcript.html for an english transcription of the audio. Regards, Rupesh Kumar A Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore University mailto:a_rupeshkumar@yahoo.com a_rupeshkumar(a)yahoo.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://lislog.blogspot.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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A new Wiki book on business
by Subbiah Arunachalam 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

Write a business book with Wharton, MIT Sloan, and Pearson December 11th, 2006 The Wall Street Journal on a new Wiki book project: In a move that could shake up the book industry, publishing giant Pearson PLC is joining with two top business schools to create a business book authored and edited by a wiki an online community dedicated to writing The wiki book, produced by a community of business experts and managers, will be called We Are Smarter Than Me. It will explore how businesses can use online communities, consumer-generated media such as blogs, and other Web content to help in their marketing, pricing, research and service. Barry Libert, a former McKinsey & Co. consultant who is CEO of Shared Insights Inc., a Woburn, Mass., company, persuaded London-based Pearson, the University of Pennsylvanias Wharton School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Sloan School to help develop the new book, which will be published under Pearsons Wharton School Publishing imprint. The book is being created at wearesmarter.org under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com

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Call for Applications - 2007 SLA Business & Finance Division International Travel Award, sponsored by ISI Emerging Markets
by Subbiah Arunachalam 16 Dec '06

16 Dec '06

Friends: If you have not attended an SLA conference so far and if you are a business library/ info specialist, here is an opportunity to win financial support for attending the 2007 SLA Annual Conference. Years ago I was invited to speak at the SLA Annual Conference held at Brighton, UK, and I found the meeting very useful. The papers presented were of a high standard. Many of them could have been published in international journals with stringent refereeing standards. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] >From "Robert Frederick Clarke, Mr" <robert.clarke(a)mcgill.ca> To: "International Information Exchange Caucus" <sla-kiie(a)lists.sla.org> Dear colleague: Applications are being sought for the 2007 SLA Business & Finance Division International Travel Award, sponsored by ISI Emerging Markets. This award is available to business library and information specialists from non-G8 countries who have not previously attended a SLA Annual Conference. The 2007 SLA Annual Conference will be held in Denver, Colorado, USA from June 3-6, 2007. The deadline for applications is Friday, January 12, 2007. For complete information on how to apply, please consult the SLA Business & Finance Division website at: http://www.slabf.org/division_awards_desc.html <http://www.slabf.org/division_awards_desc.html> Please give this message the widest possible distribution. Regards, Robert F. Clarke Chair, International Relations Committee SLA Business and Finance Division Voice: (514) 398-5725 Fax: (514) 398-6273 Email: slabfinternational(a)yahoo.ca Website: www.slabf.org <http://www.slabf.org/> ___________________________________________________________ All New Yahoo! Mail Tired of Vi@gr@! come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect you. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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Request to give information about books for descriptive paper of Library & information Science for Librarian post of KVS
by ramdeo upadhey 16 Dec '06

16 Dec '06

To, The Forum Member LIS Forum, Bangalore Respected Sir, In relation to above subject that I am one of the candidate appeared for Competitive Exam to be conducted by Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan for recruitment of Librarians. In that exam there is one objective & one descriptive paper each of 200 marks . I am not knowing correct books for this subject. So please suggst me books for preparation of Objective as well as descriptive question papers of Librarian exam or LIS exam book wriitten for competitive exam & Oblidge me. Thanking You Yours Sincerely Ramdeo Upadhey Teacher, Science, Maths, Ashoka Education Foundation, Nashik(M.S.) Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php To, The Forum Member LIS Forum, Bangalore Respected Sir, In relation to above subject that I am one of the candidate appeared for Competitive Exam to be conducted by Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan for recruitment of Librarians. In that exam there is one objective & one descriptive paper each of 200 marks . I am not knowing correct books for this subject. So please suggst me books for preparation of Objective as well as descriptive question papers of Librarian exam or LIS exam book wriitten for competitive exam & Oblidge me. Thanking You Yours Sincerely Ramdeo Upadhey Teacher, Science, Maths, Ashoka Education Foundation, Nashik(M.S.) Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php

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The Ten Library Stories That Shaped 2006
by Mallikarjun 16 Dec '06

16 Dec '06

The Ten Library Stories That Shaped 2006 Another year, another few thousand stories on LISNews! Read on for a look back at the good, the bad, and the ugly library stories of 2006, including "Get Tasered @ your library," "P is for Privacy," and "The Quote of the Year." in http://features.lisnews.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/15/137213 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com The Ten Library Stories That Shaped 2006 Another year, another few thousand stories on LISNews! Read on for a look back at the good, the bad, and the ugly library stories of 2006, including "Get Tasered @ your library," "P is for Privacy," and "The Quote of the Year." in http://features.lisnews.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/15/137213 http://features.lisnews.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/15/137213 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Digital information in the Information Research field
by sheela nag 16 Dec '06

16 Dec '06

Dear Professionals, The journals and newsletters listed here all include at least a sample of papers or news items that are freely accessible. Sites that simply provide the contents lists of journals that are not freely accessible are not listed. Note that only journals that still appear to be 'live' at the time this list was compiled are included. We welcome news of new journals and newsletters that you have found useful and that have free content. E-mail your suggestions to Professor Tom Wilson Go through this link http://informationr.net/fr/freejnls.html Regards Sheela Shivakumar Sheela S Junior Librarian IBA , Bangalore. sheelasheela(a)gmail.com Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php Dear Professionals, The journals and newsletters listed here all include at least a sample of papers or news items that are freely accessible. Sites that simply provide the contents lists of journals that are not freely accessible are not listed. Note that only journals that still appear to be 'live' at the time this list was compiled are included. We welcome news of new journals and newsletters that you have found useful and that have free content. E-mail your suggestions to mailto: t.d.wilson(a)shef.ac.uk Professor Tom Wilson Go through this link http://informationr.net/fr/freejnls.html http://informationr.net/fr/freejnls.html Regards Sheela Shivakumar Sheela S Junior Librarian IBA , Bangalore. mailto:sheelasheela@gmail.com sheelasheela(a)gmail.com Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php

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OA and copyright
by Subbiah Arunachalam 16 Dec '06

16 Dec '06

Friends: People often ask the question "We have surrendered the copyright to the journal publisher. How can we archive our papers?" There is no need to surrender copyright to work one has performed to a journal publisher. One can always negotiate with the publishers. Now alternative contracts are readily available. Please see the following excerpt. Regards. Arun -------- Hirtle, Peter B. Author Addenda: An Examination of Five Alternatives D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 12 No. 11, November 2006 Extracts: "Until recently, the primary method that authors could use to retain some rights in their writings was to rewrite the contract with the publishers themselves. Thanks to the development of standardized author addenda, the task has become much simpler. An author's addendum is a standardized legal instrument that modifies the publisher's agreement and allows the author to keep key rights." ... "Three different organizations MIT , Science Commons (through its Scholar's Copyright project), and SPARC have worked with lawyers to develop self-sufficient addenda that address these issues. These addenda can be attached to the publishing contracts received by publishers and are likely to be legally binding." Recommendation "While not perfect, author addenda can be an important tool that authors can use to retain the rights they want or that their employing institutions request that they retain. They can be an important component in ensuring open access to articles from either an institutional or a subject repository. The Scholar's Copyright addenda can also provide legal protection to authors who have contributed preprints to such repositories and then do not notice that the contract they sign with the publisher asks them to guarantee that the publisher will be able to exercise exclusive rights in the work. "Of the addenda analyzed, the Scholar's Copyright OpenAccess-CreativeCommons 1.0 Addendum, provides the greatest benefit to authors. In the absence of data on acceptance by publishers, authors may wish to submit it to the publishers along with the publisher's copyright transfer agreement." Comment: Peter Suber made reference to author addenda, most of which are analysed here, in his comments on the SURF-JISC Licence to Publish. In view of Hirtle's conclusion on the "absence of data on acceptance by publishers", another of Suber's remarks applies, that authors publishing in Romeo-green journals do not need to negotiate a different agreement, thus keeping it simpler than using new and untested legal constructs. ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Digital South Asia Library
by Mailing List Manager 15 Dec '06

15 Dec '06

Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:17:21 +0530 From: KR. Senthil Kumar <alagusenthil(a)gmail.com> Digital South Asia Library - Schwartzberg Atlas The Digital Library of South Asia, University of Chicago, IL, US. Supplied note: "The Digital Library of South Asia, at the University of Chicago, has just mounted a digital version of Schwartzberg's invaluable historical atlas [Schwartzberg, Joseph E. A Historical Atlas of South Asia. 2nd impression, with additional material. New York ; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. - ed.]. See [the URL below]. We're still calling this a trial release. A number of smallish improvements will be added over the next few weeks. Some major improvements involving a GIS interface should be available before the middle of next year. - jn." [The interactive map viewer requires an ADOBE Flash Player. - ed.] URL http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/schwartzberg/ -- KR.SENTHIL KUMAR

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A new database from NIH
by Mailing List Manager 15 Dec '06

15 Dec '06

Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:06:56 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> from Peter Suber's blog NIH launches new OA database The http://www.nih.gov/ NIH has launched a new OA database on genome wide association studies.=A0 >From = today's http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/dec2006/nlm-12.html announcement Arun

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Why IITs have fallen in global rankings ( Manju Naika)
by manju nayak 15 Dec '06

15 Dec '06

There have been lots of discussion/debates among certain academic community who share the kind of concern expressed by Prof. Pankaj Jalote, not just in IITs but also in the higher education sector in general and central research institutes and universities in particular. There has been a hue and cry over `fall in quality’ and how to improve the quality of higher education, especially in the post 1990s. One major reason for the alleged fall in quality was the `governmental interferences’ as also mentioned in the Prof.Pankaj Jalote opinion as the autonomy of IIT is a `myth’ and also by citing some e.g. It is important to locate these debates in the context to understand the larger `forces’ that shaped it. 1990s was crucial period to understand the history of modern political India. The government’s decision to implement mandal commission report, the liberalization of country’s economy, the growth of identity politics of subaltern groups and also the rise of Hindutva politics happened during this period. As these factors are pertinent to the topic in debate I would like to go little further to show the link between these factors and the current debate on the falling standard of quality education and fixing the government for it. Studies have shown us that there was a near absence of OBCs, Dalits (both faculty and students) in these so called premier institutes (like IIT) ever since its inception and also there were ways and means to subvert the meager reservation made mandatory for the SCs and STs. The government’s decision to implement mandal commission was to make these exclusive spaces more inclusive. One has to welcome any such move in the otherwise deeply hierarchical society like ours. But the sudden hue and cry over falling standard of quality can ben seen as a response to the govt’s decision to implement 27% reservation for OBCs and also a strategy to subvert it. It is also important to notice the conspicuous absence of the notion of equality in any of these `how to improve the quality’ debates also in the above subject, which is of crucial important in a hierarchical society like ours. One can raise disturbing questions like why don’t you speak about equality which would lead to point out the problems of the positions taken in the above subject. Another major aspect I have with the Prof.Pankaj Jalote is that he is trying to put IIT vs universalities in other countries, especially US and countries which have, of late, been following neo-liberal market economic policies. As one goes through this topic one feels as if IIT has nothing to do with this society. And also the job of the national universities and the research institutes SHOULD NOT be to serve the market and its needs. If one feel so that is because of the intellectual dishonesty. IIT are established to fulfill certain objectives not to compete with other countries institute where social structure is entirely different from ours and also not to fight for ranking list. Criteria used for ranking is ultimate and perfect one? Any one criteria used for ranking in the list is there in the IITs objectives? International Publication and Prize award method is it not biased? The running of public institutes cannot be compared with that of the private as the former especially knowledge production centers like universities DO NOT run with the market principle of profiteering. It’s important to monitor what kind of knowledge these so called premier institutes like IIT are producing and who the products of these institutes serve. As more and more private forces, to name one TATA, are trying to take stake in the higher education, it becomes more important to see what role IIT like institute should have to perform. If one argues, by any means, that it has to continue to be exclusive spaces, then one goes against the very basic principle on which our constitution is founded, that is equality. The votaries of `global standard’, `competition’ etc (which is largely a discursive construct of the market economy) do not and will not understand the spirit of our constitution because they are blind to the social reality and lack insight Selection committee is existed in present day also, their duty is to suggest suitable candidate, but final selection power should not in the hands of again selection committee members. If these institutes are getting fund from the Government. Why they need autonomous, they must follow the guidelines of the Govt. If they need complete autonomy it is better to go for Capital Market instead of asking autonomy for Tax payer’s money. I will be happy if IIT education is accessible lowest section of our society without too much competition. There should be minimum one IIT in every state in the country. Then this is really tremendous achievement than being NO 1 in the World Ranking list. Thanks Manju Naika Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php  There have been lots of discussion/debates among certain academic community who share the kind of concern expressed by Prof. Pankaj Jalote, not just in IITs but also in the higher education sector in general and central research institutes and universities in particular. There has been a hue and cry over `fall in quality’ and how to improve the quality of higher education, especially in the post 1990s. One major reason for the alleged fall in quality was the `governmental interferences’ as also mentioned in the Prof.Pankaj Jalote opinion as the autonomy of IIT is a `myth’ and also by citing some e.g. It is important to locate these debates in the context to understand the larger `forces’ that shaped it. 1990s was crucial period to understand the history of modern political India . The government’s decision to implement mandal commission report, the liberalization of country’s economy, the growth of identity politics of subaltern groups and also the rise of Hindutva politics happened during this period. As these factors are pertinent to the topic in debate I would like to go little further to show the link between these factors and the current debate on the falling standard of quality education and fixing the government for it. Studies have shown us that there was a near absence of OBCs, Dalits (both faculty and students) in these so called premier institutes (like IIT) ever since its inception and also there were ways and means to subvert the meager reservation made mandatory for the SCs and STs. The government’s decision to implement mandal commission was to make these exclusive spaces more inclusive. One has to welcome any such move in the otherwise deeply hierarchical society like ours. But the sudden hue and cry over falling standard of quality can ben seen as a response to the govt’s decision to implement 27% reservation for OBCs and also a strategy to subvert it. It is also important to notice the conspicuous absence of the notion of equality in any of these `how to improve the quality’ debates also in the above subject, which is of crucial important in a hierarchical society like ours. One can raise disturbing questions like why don’t you speak about equality which would lead to point out the problems of the positions taken in the above subject. Another major aspect I have with the Prof.Pankaj Jalote is that he is trying to put IIT vs universalities in other countries, especially US and countries which have, of late, been following neo-liberal market economic policies. As one goes through this topic one feels as if IIT has nothing to do with this society. And also the job of the national universities and the research institutes SHOULD NOT be to serve the market and its needs. If one feel so that is because of the intellectual dishonesty. IIT are established to fulfill certain objectives not to compete with other countries institute where social structure is entirely different from ours and also not to fight for ranking list. Criteria used for ranking is ultimate and perfect one? Any one criteria used for ranking in the list is there in the IITs objectives? International Publication and Prize award method is it not biased? The running of public institutes cannot be compared with that of the private as the former especially knowledge production centers like universities DO NOT run with the market principle of profiteering. It’s important to monitor what kind of knowledge these so called premier institutes like IIT are producing and who the products of these institutes serve. As more and more private forces, to name one TATA, are trying to take stake in the higher education, it becomes more important to see what role IIT like institute should have to perform. If one argues, by any means, that it has to continue to be exclusive spaces, then one goes against the very basic principle on which our constitution is founded, that is equality. The votaries of `global standard’, `competition’ etc (which is largely a discursive construct of the market economy) do not and will not understand the spirit of our constitution because they are blind to the social reality and lack insight Selection committee is existed in present day also, their duty is to suggest suitable candidate, but final selection power should not in the hands of again selection committee members. If these institutes are getting fund from the Government. Why they need autonomous, they must follow the guidelines of the Govt. If they need complete autonomy it is better to go for Capital Market instead of asking autonomy for Tax payer’s money. I will be happy if IIT education is accessible lowest section of our society without too much competition. There should be minimum one IIT in every state in the country. Then this is really tremendous achievement than being NO 1 in the World Ranking list. Thanks Manju Naika Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php

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EBM Librarian Wiki
by Sukhdev Singh 15 Dec '06

15 Dec '06

This is an interesting wiki from Medical Librarians. Shows what future librarians would be doing in future. Check out EBM Librarian - http://ebmlibrarian.wetpaint.com/ . It is a wiki is to develop a community of librarians who are involved in teaching and supporting the practice of evidence based medicine (ebm) or evidence based practice (ebp). --Sukhdev Singh, NIC.

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Google Launches Patent Search
by Farooque Shaheen 15 Dec '06

15 Dec '06

The patent search site, launched as a beta, is designed to sift through the approximately 7 million U.S. patents by a variety of parameters including filing date, issue date, patent number and inventor. http://www.google.com/patents Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366 The patent search site, launched as a beta, is designed to sift through the approximately 7 million U.S. patents by a variety of parameters including filing date, issue date, patent number and inventor. http://www.google.com/patents Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366

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Stories and more
by sheela nag 15 Dec '06

15 Dec '06

Dear Professionals, If you are looking for an apt quotation, or information on a topic; if you are bored, and want to read a favourite story; if you want to read classics you have never read before; if you want to read the poems of some of the best poets; if you want a feel of old english literature; if you just want to read..... Try this website : www.Bartleby.com Check out the Reference,Verse, Fiction and Non-fiction segments. Dip into great books at your own time, free of cost. Regards Sheela S Sheela S Junior Librarian IBA , Bangalore. sheelasheela(a)gmail.com Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php Dear Professionals, If you are looking for an apt quotation, or information on a topic; if you are bored, and want to read a favourite story; if you want to read classics you have never read before; if you want to read the poems of some of the best poets; if you want a feel of old english literature; if you just want to read..... Try this website : http://www.bartleby.com/ www.Bartleby.com Check out the Reference,Verse, Fiction and Non-fiction segments. Dip into great books at your own time, free of cost. Regards Sheela S Sheela S Junior Librarian IBA , Bangalore. mailto:sheelasheela@gmail.com sheelasheela(a)gmail.com Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php

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Guide to Develop Openly Accessible Digital Libraries~T - Call for contributions
by Mailing List Manager 14 Dec '06

14 Dec '06

Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:44:38 +0530 From: Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> Open Access and Digital Libraries Group (OADL, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oadl/ - New Members Welcomed) intends to develop a "Guide to Develop Openly Accessible Digital Libraries". It would be distributed freely under Creative Commons license - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/ . Developmental approach would according to the principles of "wiki" but would list all its major contributors. Please come forward to author this documents. You may contribute by: 1. Suggesting the Table of Content. 2. Contributing topics to it. 3. Sharing your experiences. 4. Editing it. 5. Refuting it. If you are a member of the OADL Group than contribute directly through emails to the group. Otherwise send your emails to oadl-owner(a)yahoogroups.com . Mature Drafts would available under files section of the group. Thank you. Sukhdev Singh, Co-Moderator http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oadl/

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Apprenticeship Trainees
by M Krishnamurthy 14 Dec '06

14 Dec '06

Applications are invited by Indian Statistical Institute,Library, Bangalore for apprenticeship trainee from graduate and diploma holders for a period of one year w.e.f Jan2, 2007. Stipend payable is Rs 5000/=p.m for graduate trainee and Rs. 4000/=p.m for diploma holders. Last date for receipt of application is 20th December 2006. Preference will be given to local candidates. Applications may be addressed to Prof. I.K.Ravichandra Rao, Head, Indian Statistical Institute, 8th Mile Mysore Road, Bangalore 560059 email: ikrrao(a)hotmail.com M.Krishnamurthy *************************************** Dr.M.Krishnamurthy,M.A.,M.L.I.Sc.,Ph.D Librarian Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalore 560059 www.isibang.ac.in/library Ph:91-80-8483002/3 Fax :91-80-28484265

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IBM, Yahoo Launch Free Enterprise Search Tool
by Farooque Shaheen 14 Dec '06

14 Dec '06

IBM and Yahoo Inc. have developed a free, entry-level enterprise search application that at least one analyst believes will seriously disrupt the low-end segment of this market, where Google Inc. has been selling many of its Mini search devices. IBM and Yahoo released the server-side application on Wednesday as a free download aimed at companies that haven't tried out enterprise search because of cost and complexity concerns. It is available for download at omnifind.ibm.yahoo.net. The software, called IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition, is designed to be simple to install and use, and can index up to 500,000 documents from more than 200 file types, including Adobe Systems Inc.'s PDF and Microsoft Corp.'s Word and Excel. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&tax… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366 IBM and Yahoo Inc. have developed a free, entry-level enterprise search application that at least one analyst believes will seriously disrupt the low-end segment of this market, where Google Inc. has been selling many of its Mini search devices. IBM and Yahoo released the server-side application on Wednesday as a free download aimed at companies that haven't tried out enterprise search because of cost and complexity concerns. It is available for download at omnifind.ibm.yahoo.net. The software, called IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition, is designed to be simple to install and use, and can index up to 500,000 documents from more than 200 file types, including Adobe Systems Inc.'s PDF and Microsoft Corp.'s Word and Excel. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&tax… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366

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LIS-job: Assistant Knowledge Manager The Archive (Mumbai) ...
by Puttaraj Choukimath 14 Dec '06

14 Dec '06

Hello Dears, OSIANs CONNOISSEURS OF ART INDIAS PREMIER AUCTION HOUSE & ARCHIVE continues to expand OsiansConnoisseurs of Art was founded in 2000 as Indias pioneering Auction House and foremost Archive for the Indian Arts. In six years Osian's has established itself as an unique, cutting-edge cultural institution as well as the foremost builder of knowledge-bases for the Indian Fine and Popular Contemporary Arts, Cinema and Architectural Heritage Assistant Knowledge Manager The Archive (Mumbai) Will be required to assist the Custodian in the documentation and management of our vast archival & research library on the Indian Arts and link it to electronic systems. Should possess a Masters degree and comprehensive knowledge of library packages such as CDS/ISIS, LIBSYS, LIBRARIAN SUITE, SLIM, LIBRARY WORLD and be familiar with the DDS and international trends in archiving systems. Should possess excellent English language skills and the confidence to innovate and build unique documentation systems. Archivist-Researchers The Archive (Mumbai) Should have a masters degree in the arts or sciences; an eye for detail and a desire to function towards developing the knowledge base of the arts in India. Computer proficiency and attitude for research essential. Experience with a library/ archive/ project documentation preferred. Excellence in English a pre-requisite. Candidates with photography expertise interested in working with visuals may also apply for positions in the Visual Archive. References essential for all positions. Remuneration strictly on par with qualifications and ability to perform. Please send your CV with the post& location clearly specified, within 7 days via email only to: Senior Vice-President Human Resources bakhtawar(a)osians.com www.osians.com 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 --------------------------------- Have a burning question? Go to Yahoo! Answers and get answers from real people who know. Hello Dears, OSIANs CONNOISSEURS OF ART INDIAS PREMIER AUCTION HOUSE & ARCHIVE continues to expand OsiansConnoisseurs of Art was founded in 2000 as Indias pioneering Auction House and foremost Archive for the Indian Arts. In six years Osian's has established itself as an unique, cutting-edge cultural institution as well as the foremost builder of knowledge-bases for the Indian Fine and Popular Contemporary Arts, Cinema and Architectural Heritage Assistant Knowledge Manager The Archive (Mumbai) Will be required to assist the Custodian in the documentation and management of our vast archival & research library on the Indian Arts and link it to electronic systems. Should possess a Masters degree and comprehensive knowledge of library packages such as CDS/ISIS, LIBSYS, LIBRARIAN SUITE, SLIM, LIBRARY WORLD and be familiar with the DDS and international trends in archiving systems. Should possess excellent English language skills and the confidence to innovate and build unique documentation systems. Archivist-Researchers The Archive (Mumbai) Should have a masters degree in the arts or sciences; an eye for detail and a desire to function towards developing the knowledge base of the arts in India. Computer proficiency and attitude for research essential. Experience with a library/ archive/ project documentation preferred. Excellence in English a pre-requisite. Candidates with photography expertise interested in working with visuals may also apply for positions in the Visual Archive. References essential for all positions. Remuneration strictly on par with qualifications and ability to perform. Please send your CV with the post& location clearly specified, within 7 days via email only to: Senior Vice-President Human Resources bakhtawar(a)osians.com http://www.osians.com www.osians.com 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: mailto:puttuc@yahoo.com puttuc(a)yahoo.com , mailto:choukimath@tiss.edu choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: http://www.tiss.edu/ www.tiss.edu Have a burning question? Go to http://answers.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTFvbGNhMGE3BF9TAzM5NjU0NTEwOARfcwMzOTY1… Yahoo! Answers and get answers from real people who know.

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European Digital Library
by Subbiah Arunachalam 14 Dec '06

14 Dec '06

Friends: Europe is making big strides in setting up the new European Digital Library. I am looking forward to the day when we in India can proudly announce such achievements. And I look forward to men like Prof. N Balakrishan of IISc and the head of the Million Books Digital library Project in India to lead the way. Progressive corporates like Informatics India can also pitch in. Arun ------------- >From Peter Suber's blog Progress on The European Library Bigger European Digital Library? Tell me more! Euractiv, December 11, 2006. (Thanks to ResourceShelf.) Excerpt: More than six million books, documents and other culturally significant works should become available online in the new European Digital Library during the next five years, thanks to the information society technologies (IST) programme TEL-ME-MOR.... With the project due to complete its objectives by the end of January 2007, TEL-ME-MOR [http://www.telmemor.net/] is well on the way to achieving its objectives. Content from eight out of the ten newly included national libraries has already been integrated into the European Digital Library.... Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Urban vs rural India
by Subbiah Arunachalam 14 Dec '06

14 Dec '06

>From Hindustan Times India leaves Bharat behind Chetan Chauhan New Delhi, December 13, 2006 There is a startling contrast in the pace of infrastructure development between rural and urban India. The cities are experiencing swift development changes while in rural areas things remain static. The India Infrastructure Report 2006, to be released by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday, shows the disconnect between the two Indias. In the four sectors telecommunications, power, roads and transport and water and sanitation studied by the National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER), the quality and quantity of service has been found to be substantially lower than in cities. The report has urged policy-makers to provide incentives to the private sector to involve itself in rural areas. Telecommunications High monthly rentals (between Rs 90-150) and poor service quality has restricted rural teledensity to 1.67 per cent as compared to 25.90 per cent in urban India. Of the ten states studied, only Kerala, Punjab and West Bengal have more than one public call office in a village. The reason is that those in villages are not willing to spend money on private connections. This explains why the national per capital annual telecommunication expenditure is only Rs 2.9. The story in West Bengal is different. The Grameen Sanchar Society has provided wireless phones through its rural vendors with an assurance of quality service. A fixed percentage of revenue goes to the government and the rest to the Society. Power Punjab tops the NCAER list with 99.87 per cent power connectivity in village homes compared to just 17.82 per cent in Orissa. Punjab's monthly expenditure on power is also the highest at Rs 219 while Tamil Nadu with a high power connection penetration rate spends Rs 39 per home. This could be because Punjab has many more metered connections than Tamil Nadu, the report said. The report is critical of power subsidy in the rural sector, which has prohibited the private sector from taking over distribution networks. Water and sanitation Most villages get water but the report has raised doubts over the quality and sustainability of the supply. For example, 2,17,000 villages have water quality problems. Excess fluoride, arsenic, nitrate, iron and salinity are causing health hazards. Sanitation is no better with only Kerala and Punjab fount to be satisfactory performers. The report reveals that the villagers who spend on water get better quality and example of this is Kerala. There piped water connectivity is 100 per cent per capita as the per capita monthly expenditure on drinking water is Rs 22, highest in the country. Roads and transport Only 55 per cent of villages are connected by roads. "The lack of roads means that 20-30 per cent of the agricultural, horticultural and forest produce gets wasted because it cannot be transported to marketing and processing units," the report said. Email Chetan Chauhan: cchauhan(a)hindustantimes.com ___________________________________________________________ Win tickets to the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany with Yahoo! Messenger. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/fifaworldcup_uk/

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FW: Why IITs have fallen in global rankings
by shalini 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Something to ponder on.. While India is getting euphoric about positioning itself as the knowledge capital..some cold facts and bold opinions about what ails Indian Academia..and why we are falling behind. _____ Slip Sliding Away Why IITs have fallen in global rankings Pankaj Jalote The writer is Microsoft chair professor at IIT Delhi. IITs have been slipping in the global university rankings for the last few years. In our euphoria about India's progress, such reports are mentioned in passing and then promptly forgotten. IITs have made a name for themselves largely on the success of its graduates, and less on the strength of its R&D output. And most global ranking of universities are predominantly based on R&D. The performance of IITs (and other such institutions in India) is likely to continue dropping globally. This is not to say that they are static - indeed the R&D output from IITs is increasing, but relative to others it is slipping. Interestingly, the relative decline is not because established R&D centres in the US and Europe are becoming bigger, but because newer entrants from China, Korea and Singapore are doing much better. The central reason for the decline of IITs in relative ranking is the archaic academic governance structures that exist in Indian institutes. Autonomy of these institutes is a myth. Consider these facts: the director of institutes is appointed not by a selection committee of experts but by the ministry; pay scales of faculty and grades are decided by government; starting a new course in an IIT could even require permission of Parliament; and there is regular interference in the administration and set-up of these institutes such as reservation of seats without proper consultation. These are a reminder that though in daily affairs the autonomy is there, there is little autonomy in making structural changes or bringing about any significant changes. A fallout of tight government control is the archaic system of fixed increment-based salary scales with no regular performance evaluation. This means that faculty members get a regular increment in their salaries, regardless of their performance. There are no regular or yearly appraisals, on which salary increments are decided. This system is guaranteed to lead to mediocrity and lack of competitiveness. This is the bane of academic governance, giving absolutely no elbow room to promote excellence or reward performance. No private company in India would think of this - all of them have performance appraisals, on which increments and promotions are decided. In academics, however, career paths are still largely decided on patronage from government. The only means of recognition are publishing in international journals and conferences. Contrast this with the situation in China. About 15 years ago, the Chinese brought about changes in its academic governance structure. The salary of a professor in top university consists of three parts - one given by government which follows the usual scales; another given by the university allowing better institutes to compensate better; and a third based on performance of the faculty member in project and R&D work. The result of this structural change is there for all to see. The contribution of Chinese scientists to premier journals and conferences has been steadily increasing, and is now a threat to western dominance. The situation is the same in Korea and Singapore. Universities in Singapore moved some 15 years ago to a model where the compensation of a faculty had three components - one basic, one based on market forces where a faculty member in demand got more pay, and a third based on performance. The US has been following performance-based evaluation for years - the yearly increment of a faculty member depends on his performance. Pakistan seems to have recently started a somewhat less sophisticated scheme to reward its researchers for every international paper they publish. The impact of this is an increased number of paper submissions from Pakistan. Earlier, much of Europe followed a fixed scale salary model. But most countries have now either migrated to, or are moving towards, an appraisal-based compensation system. Australia and the UK follow it, Germany and Italy are moving towards it. As expected, many faculty members are not happy about it. They are threatened by more transparency, but there is also a realisation that even developed countries cannot expect to do well using old models of governance. It is clear that unless transparency about the output of individual researchers as well as that of institutes is not brought about, along with incentives and compensation based on an appraisal of the quality and quantity of output, India will continue breeding mediocrity and complacency. However, appraisal without suitable autonomy is even worse - institutes will then become the playground of power brokers from outside the system. IITs have suitable structures to potentially implement such schemes and lead the way, if they get the right leadership and necessary autonomy. Unfortunately, the leadership of these institutes, being a beneficiary of political patronage, is unwilling to take any bold moves. They have tended to play safe and keep the ministry happy, rather than bring about innovation and controversial changes. So, changes are undoubtedly needed, without which Indian institutions will continue to slide. But it is doubtful whether any movement along this direction will be undertaken. That is why I believe that IITs will continue slipping in global rankings, despite having the potential to improve. __._,_.___ . <http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=11710407/grpspId=1705946590/msgI d=153/stime=1166010801/nc1=3848479/nc2=4025375/nc3=3> __,_._,___  Something to ponder on.. While India is getting euphoric about positioning itself as the knowledge capital….some cold facts and bold opinions about what ails Indian Academia….and why we are falling behind… � � Slip Sliding Away Why IITs have fallen in global rankings Pankaj Jalote The writer is Microsoft chair professor at IIT Delhi . IITs have been slipping in the global university rankings for the last few years. In our euphoria about India 's progress, such reports are mentioned in passing and then promptly forgotten. IITs have made a name for themselves largely on the success of its graduates, and less on the strength of its R&D output. And most global ranking of universities are predominantly based on R&D. The performance of IITs (and other such institutions in India ) is likely to continue dropping globally. This is not to say that they are static — indeed the R&D output from IITs is increasing, but relative to others it is slipping. Interestingly, the relative decline is not because established R&D centres in the US and Europe are becoming bigger, but because newer entrants from China , Korea and Singapore are doing much better. The central reason for the decline of IITs in relative ranking is the archaic academic governance structures that exist in Indian institutes. Autonomy of these institutes is a myth. Consider these facts: the director of institutes is appointed not by a selection committee of experts but by the ministry; pay scales of faculty and grades are decided by government; starting a new course in an IIT could even require permission of Parliament; and there is regular interference in the administration and set-up of these institutes such as reservation of seats without proper consultation. These are a reminder that though in daily affairs the autonomy is there, there is little autonomy in making structural changes or bringing about any significant changes. A fallout of tight government control is the archaic system of fixed increment-based salary scales with no regular performance evaluation. This means that faculty members get a regular increment in their salaries, regardless of their performance. There are no regular or yearly appraisals, on which salary increments are decided. This system is guaranteed to lead to mediocrity and lack of competitiveness. This is the bane of academic governance, giving absolutely no elbow room to pr omote excellence or reward performance. No private company in India would think of this — all of them have performance appraisals, on which increments and promotions are decided. In academics, however, career paths are still largely decided on patronage from government. The only means of recognition are publishing in international journals and conferences. Contrast this with the situation in China . About 15 years ago, the Chinese brought about changes in its academic governance structure. The salary of a professor in top university consists of three parts — one given by government which follows the usual scales; another given by the university allowing better institutes to compensate better; and a third based on performance of the faculty member in project and R&D work. The result of this structural change is there for all to see. The contribution of Chinese scientists to premier journals and conferences has been steadily increasing, and is now a threat to western dominance. The situation is the same in Korea and Singapore . Universities in Singapore moved some 15 years ago to a model where the compensation of a faculty had three components — one basic, one based on market forces where a faculty member in demand got more pay, and a third based on performance. The US has been following performance- based evaluation for years — the yearly increment of a faculty member depends on his performance. Pakistan seems to have recently started a somewhat less sophisticated scheme to reward its researchers for every international paper they publish. The impact of this is an increased number of paper submissions from Pakistan . Earlier, much of Europe followed a fixed scale salary model. But most countries have now either migrated to, or are moving towards, an appraisal-based compensation system. Australia and the UK follow it, Germany and Italy are moving towards it. As expected, many faculty members are not happy about it. They are threatened by more transparency, but there is also a realisation that even developed countries cannot expect to do well using old models of governance. It is clear that unless transparency about the output of individual researchers as well as that of institutes is not brought about, along with incentives and compensation based on an appraisal of the quality and quantity of output, India will continue breeding mediocrity and complacency. However, appraisal without suitable autonomy is even worse — institutes will then become the playground of power brokers from outside the system. IITs have suitable structures to potentially implement such schemes and lead the way, if they get the right leadership and necessary autonomy. Unfortunately, the leadership of these institutes, being a beneficiary of political patronage, is unwilling to take any bold moves. They have tended to play safe and keep the ministry happy, rather than bring about innovation and controversial changes. So, changes are undoubtedly needed, without which Indian institutions will continue to slide. But it is doubtful whether any movement along this direction will be undertaken. That is why I believe that IITs will continue slipping in global rankings, despite having the potential to improve. __._,_.___ . http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=11710407/grpspId=1705946590/msgI… __,_._,___

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Retrospective Conversion
by Rajendra Thaty 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Dear all,I am the University Librarian of Sambalpur University. We want to put the cataloging data of all our books (about 1,20,000 in number)  into computerised database. I know many of you have already done this. May I know the best and quickest method for this? As it requires human involvement for jobs like preparation of input sheets, data entry and data verification etc, I request to please share with me your experiences. Also I would be interested to know cost implications per book for each of these jobs.Please treat it as urgent. Can I have your feedback within a couple of days please?Thanks   Rajendra Kumar Thaty Librarian Prof B Behera Cntral Library Samabalpur University Jyoti Vihar, Burla, Sambalpur, Orissa PIN 768019 Telephone# 0663-2430548 (O) 98610-47084 (Mob) I am the University Librarian of Sambalpur University. We want to put the cataloging data of all our books (about 1,20,000 in number) into computerised database. I know many of you have already done this. May I know the best and quickest method for this? As it requires human involvement for jobs like preparation of input sheets, data entry and data verification etc, I request to please share with me your experiences. Also I would be interested to know cost implications per book for each of these jobs. Please treat it as urgent. Can I have your feedback within a couple of days please? Thanks Rajendra Kumar Thaty Librarian Prof B Behera Cntral Library Samabalpur University Jyoti Vihar, Burla, Sambalpur, Orissa PIN 768019 Telephone# 0663-2430548 (O) 98610-47084 (Mob) http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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Call for Papers
by monawwer eqbal 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

VIDHIGYA The Journal of Legal Awareness is being published regularly by Integrated School of Law, Ghaziabad. The Journal welcomes and encourages original unpulished research based papers, articles, legal expressions, legal perception, global views & comments on various legal issues, book reviews and case laws. The Journal covers almost all the subjects relating to the study of law. Written material sent post/e-mail should include authors full name, designation, complete postal address, phone no. and fax no. Important Dates: December 31, 2006 Deadline for paper submission January 15, 2007 Completion of First Review January 25, 2007 Completion of Final Review February 15, 2007 Publication Authors intending to submit papers are encouraged to contact: Monawwer Eqbal Assistant Editor Delhi Hapur Bypass (NH-24), Dasna Rly. Crossing, Ghaziabad 201009 (U.P.) India Tel.- 91-120-2768951 Fax No.-91-120-2768952 E-mail:irc@gmail.com vidhigya(a)inmantec.edu Web: www.inmantec.edu --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW VIDHIGYA The Journal of Legal Awareness is being published regularly by Integrated School of Law, Ghaziabad. The Journal welcomes and encourages original unpulished research based papers, articles, legal expressions, legal perception, global views & comments on various legal issues, book reviews and case laws. The Journal covers almost all the subjects relating to the study of law. Written material sent post/e-mail should include authors full name, designation, complete postal address, phone no. and fax no. Important Dates: December 31, 2006 Deadline for paper submission January 15, 2007 Completion of First Review January 25, 2007 Completion of Final Review February 15, 2007 Publication Authors intending to submit papers are encouraged to contact: Monawwer Eqbal Assistant Editor Delhi Hapur Bypass (NH-24), Dasna Rly. Crossing, Ghaziabad 201009 (U.P.) India Tel.- 91-120-2768951 Fax No.-91-120-2768952 E-mail:irc@gmail.com mailto:vidhigya@inmantec.edu vidhigya(a)inmantec.edu Web: www.inmantec.edu Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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Microsoft supports open access
by Mailing List Manager 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:45:02 +0530 (IST) From: arun(a)mssrf.res.in Friends: Here is an excerpt from a conversation between freelance technology journalist Richard Poynder and Prof. Tony Hey, Corporate vice president for technical computing at Microsoft. Prof. Hey explains why Microsoft supports open access. For the full text of the interview, please visit: http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/12/conversation-with-microsofts-tony-hey.h… Regards. Arun -------

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An OA consultant in each university!
by Subbiah Arunachalam 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Friends: Here is an interesting development at MIT, Cambridge. Arun ---------------- MIT's new Scholarly Publishing Consultant MIT has hired a Scholarly Publishing Consultant to advise faculty about their OA options. (Thanks to ResourceShelf.) From the announcement on the MIT Libraries News blog: The MIT Libraries now have a half-time position supporting MIT faculty and researchers who have questions about their options and rights in the world of scholarly publishing, which has evolved dramatically with the advent of the digital age. This position has been made possible with support from the Provosts office. In what ways would a faculty member make use of this new position? For example: * To ask about what rights you have over your own work, and how you can ensure that you have the rights in the future to do what you want with your work; * To ask questions about standard publisher copyright transfer agreements, including the use of MITs amendment to such agreements; * To gain feedback about options and rights related to archiving your work on the web, whether via a faculty home page, Dspace, or a discipline-based archive, or another means; * To discuss the options for publishing an article so that it will be openly available, without permission or subscription barriers, whether in a new open access journal or a long-standing journal; or * To ask about open access publication options, and funder or government policies in relation to those options. If you would like to discuss any of these issues, please contact Ellen Finnie Duranceau, who moved into the new position in mid September.... Peter Suber: Another great idea from MIT. Until OA is as familiar as email, every university should have something like this. ___________________________________________________________ All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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UNESCO PRIZE for Best Perfomance in Assignments
by Shivendra Singh 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

UNESCO PRIZE for Best Perfomance in Assignments: International Workshop on Greenstone Digital Library Software http://greenstonesupport.iimk.ac.in/Program_CD/winners.htm -- Shiv E-mail: shiv.mail(a)gmail.com http://eirs.blogspot.com/ UNESCO PRIZE for Best Perfomance in Assignments: International Workshop on Greenstone Digital Library Software http://greenstonesupport.iimk.ac.in/Program_CD/winners.htm http://greenstonesupport.iimk.ac.in/Program_CD/winners.htm -- Shiv E-mail: mailto:shiv.mail@gmail.com shiv.mail(a)gmail.com http://eirs.blogspot.com/ http://eirs.blogspot.com/

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New Group - Open Access and Digital Libraries
by Sukhdev Singh 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Friends, I am back from an International Conference on Digital Libraries, 5-8 Dec. 2006 organised by TERI at New Delhi (ICDL 2006). In one of the session there was comment that nothing is being done for "Open Access" movement in India. I feel this is incorrect. Lot of things are being done but by very few people. Yes, now we need to involve more and more people in this movement - both LIS professional as well educators, researchers and policy makers. The first step I can think of is forming a discussion group. I know there are other groups as well - but these are mostly oriented towards LIS professionals. We never know what our target users feel about issues that may dear to us. So a Group called "Open Access and Digital Libraries" is been created with the following URL. If you are interested in Open Access, you are welcome to join it. I would suggest to join it through its Web Interface: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oadl If for some reason you prefer to join it by sending email, send a blank email to the following: oadl-subscribe(a)yahoogroups.com Thanks, Sukhdev Singh. NIC.

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2006 best 2.0 applications
by sandeep bhavsar 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Respected All The 2006 award-winning web2.0 applications are worth a browse.. http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0/# Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 40601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 elibrary : http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ --------------------------------- Now you can scan emails quickly with a reading pane. Get the new Yahoo! Mail. Respected All The 2006 award-winning web2.0 applications are worth a browse.. http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0/# Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 40601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 elibrary : http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Now you can http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/nowyoucan/reading_pane/*htt… scan emails quickly with a reading pane . Get the new http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/nowyoucan/reading_pane/*htt… Yahoo! Mail .

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Openarchives.eu
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Friends: I received this through another list. Arun --------- >From "Giulio Blasi" <blasi(a)horizons.it> We are glad to announce the publication of the portal Openarchives.eu (http://www.openarchives.eu) developed by Horizons Unlimited ( Bologna , Italy http://www.horizons.it) in collaboration with the University of Illinois OAI-PMH Registry . Openarchives.eu is the European Guide to OAI-PMH compliant digital repositories in the world. We hope Openarchives.eu will help the OAI community in finding and searching OAI-PMH compliant digital collections around the world (we also provide a gateway for searching metadata through the most important service providers engines, including DOAJ). Openarchives.eu is a contribution to the Open Access community. Our mission is providing the open access community with a new set of tools for data and service providers in the Universities, Public Libraries and the Public Administration. We will be very grateful for any suggestion, comment, correction, integration or new infos you will send us to make our work better. We are open to any form of collaboration to share our data and increase visibility of open digital repositories. Best regards Dr Giulio Blasi _______________________________________________ Horizons Unlimited srl via Fioravanti 59/2 | 40128 - Bologna tel. 051-41.56.611 | fax 051-3370387 Email e MSN Messenger: blasi(a)horizons.it | Web: http://www.horizons.it

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How to prevent spam
by Sunil Kumar DP 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Dear Colleagues, How to prevent spam Click the bellow link http://sunildp1982.googlepages.com/Howtopreventspam.htm Regards -- Sunil Kumar DP Asst. Librarian Indian Business Academy Laxmipura Bangalore. Email sunildp1982(a)yahoo.com http://sunildp1982.googlepages.com Cell +919845562817 Dear Colleagues, How to prevent spam Click the bellow link http://sunildp1982.googlepages.com/Howtopreventspam.htm http://sunildp1982.googlepages.com/Howtopreventspam.htm Regards -- Sunil Kumar DP Asst. Librarian Indian Business Academy Laxmipura Bangalore. Email mailto:sunildp1982@yahoo.com sunildp1982(a)yahoo.com http://sunildp1982.googlepages.com http://sunildp1982.googlepages.com Cell +919845562817

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IMPACT FACTOR
by Manik Nand lal 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Dear Colleagues, Can you please let us know the IMPACT FACTOR for the following journal :- MEDICAL SCIENCE MONITOR : INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL JOURNAL FOR EXPERIMENTAL & CLINICAL RESEARCH http://www.medscimonit.com/medscimonit/ Please also let us know how to find out Impact Factor for a particular journal? What are the databases/search engines available for searching Impact factor apart from Journal website? Thanking you & with warm regards, N. MANIK MANAGER-LIBRARY & INFORMATION CENTRE DABUR RESEARCH FOUNDATION 22 SITE IV, SAHIBABAD GHAZIABAD-201010 INDIA TEL. : 91-120-4378497 FAX : 91-120-4376902 This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary,or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately & delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited. IMPACT FACTOR Dear Colleagues, Can you please let us know the IMPACT FACTOR for the following journal :- MEDICAL SCIENCE MONITOR : INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL JOURNAL FOR EXPERIMENTAL & CLINICAL RESEARCH http://www.medscimonit.com/medscimonit/ http://www.medscimonit.com/medscimonit/ Please also let us know how to find out Impact Factor for a particular journal? What are the databases/search engines available for searching Impact factor apart from Journal website? Thanking you & with warm regards, N. MANIK MANAGER-LIBRARY & INFORMATION CENTRE DABUR RESEARCH FOUNDATION 22 SITE IV, SAHIBABAD GHAZIABAD-201010 INDIA TEL. : 91-120-4378497 FAX : 91-120-4376902 This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary,or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately & delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited.

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Researcher's 3-D Digital Storage System Could Hold A Library On One Disc
by sandeep bhavsar 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Researcher's 3-D Digital Storage System Could Hold A Library On One Disc Imagine taking the entire collection of historical documents at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and storing it on a single DVD. The technology developed by chemistry professor Kevin Belfield and his research team could eventually be used to store historical documents or create complicated databases that could give decision-makers quick access to critical information. (Photo: Jerry Klein) University of Central Florida Chemistry Professor Kevin D. Belfield and his team have cracked a puzzle that stumped scientists for more than a dozen years. They have developed a new technology that will allow users to record and store massive amounts of data -- the museum's entire collection or as many as 500 movies, for example -- onto a single disc or, perhaps, a small cube. Belfield's Two-Photon 3-D Optical Data Storage system makes this possible. "For a while, the community has been able to record data in photochromic materials in several layers," Belfield said. "The problem was that no one could figure out how to read out the data without destroying it. But we cracked it." Think of it this way. Television viewers can tape a show on a VHS tape. They can use the tape several times. But each time the same segment of the tape is used, the quality diminishes as the tape wears out. Eventually, the data is lost. The same is true of recordable DVDs. Belfield's team figured out a way to use lasers to compact large amounts of information onto a DVD while maintaining excellent quality. The information is stored permanently without the possibility of damage. The process involves shooting two different wavelengths of light onto the recording surface. The use of two lasers creates a very specific image that is sharper than what current techniques can render. Depending on the color (wavelength) of the light, information is written onto a disk. The information is highly compacted, so the disk isn't much thicker. It's like a typical DVD. The challenge scientists faced for years was that light is also used to read the information. The light couldn't distinguish between reading and writing, so it would destroy the recorded information. Belfield's team developed a way to use light tuned to specific colors or wavelengths to allow information that a user wants to keep to stay intact. The UCF team's work was published in Advanced Materials (2006, vol. 18, pp. 2910-2914) and recently highlighted in Nature Photonics. A patent is pending. Once the technology is fine-tuned, it could be used to store historical documents or create complicated databases that could give decision-makers quick access to critical information, Belfield said. Blu-Ray Disc Association and industrial leaders in computer and other media recently commercially introduced Blu-Ray Disc technology that allows for storage of 25 gigabytes (GB) on a single layer of a disc and 50 GB on two layers. It has been referred to as the next generation of optical disc format, and it offers high-definition quality. Belfield's technique allows for storing on multiple layers with the capacity of at least 1,000 GB and high-definition quality. The UCF team has received a $270,000, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to continue its work. The team will focus on making the technique even more efficient, partly by reducing the required laser power. The team's work with lasers and lights has other practical applications. Belfield and his colleagues in the Department of Chemistry are exploring the use of light to detect and treat certain types of cancer. Belfield's research team is creating chemical agents that, after being injected into patients, will travel within the bloodstream to find and bind with cancer cells. Using light, doctors would then be able to see if and where a patient has cancer cells. Another agent could be injected that would then destroy the cancer cells when activated by light, without damaging other healthy cells. Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 9870484626 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ --------------------------------- The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from your Internet provider. Researcher's 3-D Digital Storage System Could Hold A Library On One Disc Imagine taking the entire collection of historical documents at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and storing it on a single DVD. The technology developed by chemistry professor Kevin Belfield and his research team could eventually be used to store historical documents or create complicated databases that could give decision-makers quick access to critical information. (Photo: Jerry Klein) University of Central Florida Chemistry Professor Kevin D. Belfield and his team have cracked a puzzle that stumped scientists for more than a dozen years. They have developed a new technology that will allow users to record and store massive amounts of data -- the museum's entire collection or as many as 500 movies, for example -- onto a single disc or, perhaps, a small cube. Belfield's Two-Photon 3-D Optical Data Storage system makes this possible. "For a while, the community has been able to record data in photochromic materials in several layers," Belfield said. "The problem was that no one could figure out how to read out the data without destroying it. But we cracked it." Think of it this way. Television viewers can tape a show on a VHS tape. They can use the tape several times. But each time the same segment of the tape is used, the quality diminishes as the tape wears out. Eventually, the data is lost. The same is true of recordable DVDs. Belfield's team figured out a way to use lasers to compact large amounts of information onto a DVD while maintaining excellent quality. The information is stored permanently without the possibility of damage. The process involves shooting two different wavelengths of light onto the recording surface. The use of two lasers creates a very specific image that is sharper than what current techniques can render. Depending on the color (wavelength) of the light, information is written onto a disk. The information is highly compacted, so the disk isn't much thicker. It's like a typical DVD. The challenge scientists faced for years was that light is also used to read the information. The light couldn't distinguish between reading and writing, so it would destroy the recorded information. Belfield's team developed a way to use light tuned to specific colors or wavelengths to allow information that a user wants to keep to stay intact. The UCF team's work was published in Advanced Materials (2006, vol. 18, pp. 2910-2914) and recently highlighted in Nature Photonics. A patent is pending. Once the technology is fine-tuned, it could be used to store historical documents or create complicated databases that could give decision-makers quick access to critical information, Belfield said. Blu-Ray Disc Association and industrial leaders in computer and other media recently commercially introduced Blu-Ray Disc technology that allows for storage of 25 gigabytes (GB) on a single layer of a disc and 50 GB on two layers. It has been referred to as the next generation of optical disc format, and it offers high-definition quality. Belfield's technique allows for storing on multiple layers with the capacity of at least 1,000 GB and high-definition quality. The UCF team has received a $270,000, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to continue its work. The team will focus on making the technique even more efficient, partly by reducing the required laser power. The team's work with lasers and lights has other practical applications. Belfield and his colleagues in the Department of Chemistry are exploring the use of light to detect and treat certain types of cancer. Belfield's research team is creating chemical agents that, after being injected into patients, will travel within the bloodstream to find and bind with cancer cells. Using light, doctors would then be able to see if and where a patient has cancer cells. Another agent could be injected that would then destroy the cancer cells when activated by light, without damaging other healthy cells. 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Rexa, a computer science repository
by Mailing List Manager 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 05:29:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Friends: Please alert all computer scientists you know to Rexa, a subject-based repository that has archived more than 7 million papers. In many ways it is similar to CiteSeer and Google Scholar but has additional features. The url is <http://hunch.net/?p=184>. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Article Request
by Mailing List Manager 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 14:37:01 +0530 From: Dr. Arun K. Chakraborty <akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in> Dear All I need following article : 1.Altshuller A. P. (1993) Production of aldehydes as primary emissions and from secondary atmospheric reactions of alkenes and alkanes during the night and early morning hours. Atmospheric Environment 27A, p21-p32. 2.Carlier P., Hannachi H. and Mouvier G. (1986) The chem- istry of carbonyl compounds in the atmosphere---a review. Atmospheric Environment 20, p2079-p2099. Regards. DR. ARUN KUMAR CHAKRABORTY LIBRARIAN BOSE INSTITUTE, KOLKATA, INDIA MAIN CAMPUS: 93/1 A.P.C. ROAD, KOLKATA 700 009 INDIA PH: 91-33-2350 2402/03, FAX: 91-33-2350-6790 CENTENARY CAMPUS : P1/12 CIT SCHEME - VII-M, KOLKATA 700 054 INDIA PH: 91-33-2355 9544, 9416, 9219 FAX: 91-33-2355 3886 Ph(Res): 33-25768192, E-MAIL: akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in

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WIKI FREES UP INTERNET PUBLISHING
by Farooque Shaheen 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Free software is about to get freer. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Monday his for-profit company, Wikia, is ready to give away ?for free ? all the software, computing, storage and network access that website builders need to create community collaboration sites. Wikia, a commercial counterpart to the non-profit Wikipedia, will go even further to provide customers ? bloggers or other operators who meet its criteria for popular websites ? 100% of any advertising revenue from the sites they build. Started two years ago, Wikia (http://www.wikia.com) aims to build on the anyone-can-edit success of the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia. Using the same underlying software, called MediaWiki, Wikia hosts group publishing sites, known as wikis, on topics from Star Wars to psychology to travel to iPods. ?It is open-source software and open content,? Wales said in a phone interview. ?We will be providing the computer hosting for free, and the publisher can keep the advertising revenue.? http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/780225.cms Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366 Free software is about to get freer. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Monday his for-profit company, Wikia, is ready to give away —for free — all the software, computing, storage and network access that website builders need to create community collaboration sites. Wikia, a commercial counterpart to the non-profit Wikipedia, will go even further to provide customers — bloggers or other operators who meet its criteria for popular websites — 100% of any advertising revenue from the sites they build. Started two years ago, Wikia (http://www.wikia.com) aims to build on the anyone-can-edit success of the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia. Using the same underlying software, called MediaWiki, Wikia hosts group publishing sites, known as wikis, on topics from Star Wars to psychology to travel to iPods. “It is open-source software and open content,” Wales said in a phone interview. “We will be providing the computer hosting for free, and the publisher can keep the advertising revenue.” http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/780225.cms Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366

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Special Lecture on Knowledge Organization
by DRTC General 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research and Training Centre 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore - 59 December 12, 2006 You are cordially invited to attend the following Special lecture. The lecture will be held at DRTC Class Room at the ISI Campus: Name of the Speaker: Dr. H. Peter Ohly Social Science Information Centre, Bonn, Germany & Secretary General of ISKO Topic: Future of Knowledge Organization Date and Time: 14th December 2006, 11:30 AM I.K. RAVICHANDRA RAO Professor and Head, DRTC

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Re: Open Research Metrics
by Subbiah Arunachalam 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

Dear Prof. McCullam: Thanks very much. Why are not chemists, biologists, and engineers follow the world's computer scientists and adopt mass civil disobedience [a concept perfected by Mahatma Gandhi]? Or why cannot scientists all over the developing world do the same? I am forwarding this to several discussion lists in India. Regards. Arun --- Andrew McCallum <mccallum(a)cs.umass.edu> wrote: > Computer Science researchers practiced mass civil > disobedience, and > simply posted their papers on their personal web > pages in violation > of the copyright. > > It became just a common practice, that the > publishers changed their > policies. > > > > On Dec 11, 2006, at 10:17 AM, Subbiah Arunachalam > wrote: > > Dear Prof. McCullam: > > > > Thanks very much for the quick response. Don't you > > face resistance from journal publishers and > threats > > based on copyright law when you include papers > > published in scholarly journals? > > > > Many researchers in India do not post their papers > > (full text) on to institutional archives as they > are > > not sure about what the journal publishers would > do! > > > > Best regards. > > > > Arun > > [Subbiah Arunachalam] > > > > > > > > --- Andrew McCallum <mccallum(a)CS.UMASS.EDU> wrote: > > > >> On Dec 11, 2006, at 12:16 AM, Subbiah Arunachalam > >> wrote: > >>> Dear Professor McCallum: > >>> > >>> I want to know more about Rexa and visit the > site. > >>> Please give me the url. Can we replicate Rexa > for > >>> other areas, especially chemistry, where leading > >>> journal publishers are unwilling to allow Open > >> Access? > >> > >> http://rexa.info > >> > >> If you could point me at Chemistry publications > >> sites that allow > >> spidering, I'd be happy to add them to our list. > >> > >>> What percentage of the over seven million papers > >> in > >>> Rexa are full text, are from Indian > institutions? > >> > >> Only about 300k are full text now. Getting more > in > >> there is simple > >> matter of spidering and pushing the PDFs through > our > >> pipeline. We > >> have all the infrastructure in place to do this > now, > >> and will begin a > >> major run in the coming month. > >> > >> Best wishes, > >> Andrew > >> > >> -- > >> Andrew McCallum > >> mccallum(a)cs.umass.edu > >> Associate Professor > >> www.cs.umass.edu/~mccallum > >> Comp Sci Dept, UMass Amherst 413-545-1323 > (w) > >> > > > > > > Send instant messages to your online friends > http:// > > uk.messenger.yahoo.com > > > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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SALIS-DLIS, RTM Nagpur University-UNESCO workshop on IL on 28.12.2006 at Nagpur
by Arunachalam Hariharan 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

Dear friends and professional colleagues, I am pleased to inform that One Day Sensitization Workshop on Information Literacy (IL) is jointly being organized by the Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS) and Dept of Library and Information Science, R.T.M. Nagpur University, Nagpur, supported by UNESCO, on December 28, 2006. Venue: DLIS, RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur The contents of the workshop are: Information Literacy Overview Components of IL Information Literacy Models Information Literacy Competency Standards UNESCO/IFLA School/Public Library Manifesto ICT Literacy and ICT Technologies Objectives of Workshop: To raise awareness about Information Literacy, its needs and uses To give an overview of Information Literacy, Information Literacy models and standards to LIS professionals To give an overview of ICT to the participants To facilitate LIS professionals to provide better information services to the end users Methodology: Lectures/Presentations Tutorials Discussions Resource Persons: Experts from reputed academic institutions, Govt. and IT field. Target Participants: LIS professional working in Nagpur and near by regions/states Preference will be given to young LIS professionals and students. No. of Participants: The number of participants is limited to 60. Mode of selection: The participants will be selected on the basis of age, qualification, nature of work, profile of the institutions etc. Registration Fee: NIL Traveling Allowance (TA): No TA/DA will be paid to the participants Last date for registration: December 23, 2006. More details of the Workshop can be available at http://autolib-india.net/salis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Salis_info Completed registration form can be sent to: Dr. (Mrs) D. Rajyalakshmi Workshop Convener & HOD, DLISc Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur 440 010. E-mail : rldesaraju(a)rediffmail.com Phone :- 0712 2548577 ------------------------------------------------- A.Hariharan SALIS A.Hariharan Structural Engineering Research Centre CSIR Campus Taramani Chennai - 600 113 hariharan_ah(a)yahoo.com Cell: 9841601901 Off:044-22549133 -------------------------------------------------- SALIS B2-Solai Apatments Mount-Poonamallee Road (opp.to.MGR Garden) Chennai - 600 116 Tel: 044-22522448/42014772 www.autolib-india.net/salis ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com

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Training cum Apprenticeship Programme for the freshers, DVK library, Bangalore
by alex arun 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

Dear Friends, Greetings from DVK central Library, Bangalore! We are happy to inform you that we are conducting a One Year Library Training cum Apprenticeship Programme for the freshers of library and information science. It is a unique formation to the modern librarianship. Interested candidates can send their resume on or before 31st December 2006 . for more details email to: dvklibrary(a)yahoo.com Fr. John Neelankavil CMI Chief Librarian DVK Central Library Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram Dharmaram College Post Bangalore 560 029 Ph:080-41116350, 41116353 --- lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in wrote: > Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to > lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, > visit > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > or, via email, send a message with subject or body > 'help' to > lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > You can reach the person managing the list at > lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it > is more specific > than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Software tools in seven Indian languages > (Mailing List Manager) > 2. Microsoft's Office Open XML format becomes a > standard > (Farooque Shaheen) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 12:47:48 +0530 (IST) > From: Mailing List Manager > <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Software tools in seven Indian > languages > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: > <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612081245160.31912(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; > format=flowed > > Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 18:37:24 +0530 > From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> > > CDAC to launch software tools in seven Indian > languages > Sapna Agarwal / Mumbai/ Pune=A0December 07, 2006 > The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing > (CDAC) is all set to launc= > h software tools in Punjabi, Marathi, Malyalam, > Kannada, Assamese, Bengali = > and Oriya by March 2007. > =A0 > The company had launched Hindi, Tamil, Telgu and > Urdu regional language sof= > tware tools in 2005. > =A0 > =93The new software incorporates customer > requirements for a localised vers= > ion of open source software for email client, multi > protocol messenger, bro= > wser and office suite besides a content management > tool. It contains the st= > andard key board drivers, text speech and converters > to change from true ty= > pe to open type fonts. A new feature called queters, > a =91Do It Yourself=92= > software kit to increase speed of typing, has been > introduced and even the= > terminology is a mix of layman and purists, as > against only purists termin= > ology,=94 said S Ramakrishnan, director general, > CDAC. > =A0 > Mahesh Kulkarni, group coordinator,CDAC, Graphics > and Intelligence-based Sc= > ript Technology (GIST), said, =93The launch date was > advanced from the firs= > t quarter of 2006 to 2007 to incorporate user > feedback in making the softwa= > re more user friendly.=94 GIST is a technology that > facilitates the use of = > Indian languages in IT. > =A0 > The regional language software development > initiative comes under the Techn= > ology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) > project of Department of Info= > rmation Technology (DIT), Government of India under > which CDAC is an aggreg= > ator bringing together the work of different > organisations under one umbrel= > la. > =A0 > It is working with CK Technology, Modular Infotech, > The Indian Institutes o= > f Technology=92s (IITs) Kanpur, Kharagpur and > Mumbai, Microsoft, Google and= > IBM. > =A0 > CDAC is a part of a nation wide consortium of 25 > institutions for undertaki= > ng R&D in regional languages. The consortium is > working on four projects re= > lated to regional text translation and recognition. > =A0 > =93We are in advanced stages of development on these > technologies,=94 said = > Ramakrishnan adding that they have accelerated their > focus on developing th= > ese technologies this year. > =A0 > Ramakrishnan hopes to bag a Rs 8 crore project for > voice-based multi lingua= > l information access (V-MIA) railway reservation > system. > =A0 > =93The project is in the final stages of approval by > the DIT and Department= > of Science and Technology and we will work in a > consortium with other inst= > itutions to develop the voice-to-voice information > access system for the ra= > ilways,=94 he said. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 12:47:17 +0530 > From: Farooque Shaheen > <Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Microsoft's Office Open XML > format becomes a > standard > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: > > <OF416C1750.F9FA76B9-ON6525723E.0027E80B-6525723E.0028560A(a)caritor.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > At the general assembly of Ecma International in > Zurich, Switzerland, > Microsoft's Office Open XML--a set of specifications > detailing the > document formats in Microsoft's office--was > certified as a standard. > > In addition, the membership-based standards > organization voted to propose > Office Open XML to the larger International > Organization for > Standardization (known as ISO) for standards > approval through its > fast-track process. > > These document formats are the default for Office > 2007, an upgrade to > Microsoft's productivity suite that was released to > businesses late last > month and expected to be available to consumers next > January. > > http://news.com.com/Microsoft+sails+through+document+standard+vote/2100-101… > > Thanks & Regards, > Farooque Shaheen, > Caritor India Pvt Ltd. > Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 > VOIP- 40366 >

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Special Lectures at DRTC
by DRTC General 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research and Training Centre 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore - 59 You are cordially invited to attend the following Special lectures. The lectures will be held at DRTC Class Room at the ISI Campus: Name of the Speaker: Dr. Hildrun Kretschmer COLLNET, Berlin Humboldt University Berlin and Dalian University of Technology, China Topics: An Overview of Social Network Date and Time: 12th December 06 at 2:00 PM Topics: A Well-ordered Distribution of Co-authorship Date and Time: 14th December 06 at 2:00 PM I.K. RAVICHANDRA RAO Professor and Head, DRTC

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Job Opening for MLIS/Post Graduates
by jyothi 09 Dec '06

09 Dec '06

Dear Friends, Twenty-six years old Information based Public Limited company located in Jayanagar, Bangalore is looking out for an experienced MLIS/Post Graduate up to the age of 50 with exposure to producing/or using online information products. The candidate should be comfortable with production related software applications and be capable of managing a production team of 30 members. CTC will be around Rs. 2 -2.5 lakhs. Interested may send their C.V. to: <mailto:kss.subbarao@gmail.com> kss.subbarao(a)gmail.com Regards Jothy Dear Friends, Twenty-six years old Information based Public Limited company located in Jayanagar, Bangalore is looking out for an experienced MLIS/Post Graduate up to the age of 50 with exposure to producing/or using online information products. The candidate should be comfortable with production related software applications and be capable of managing a production team of 30 members. CTC will be around Rs. 2 -2.5 lakh s . Interested may send their C.V. to : mailto:kss.subbarao@gmail.com kss.subbarao(a)gmail.com Regards Jothy

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Software tools in seven Indian languages
by Mailing List Manager 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 18:37:24 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> CDAC to launch software tools in seven Indian languages Sapna Agarwal / Mumbai/ Pune=A0December 07, 2006 The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) is all set to launc= h software tools in Punjabi, Marathi, Malyalam, Kannada, Assamese, Bengali = and Oriya by March 2007. =A0 The company had launched Hindi, Tamil, Telgu and Urdu regional language sof= tware tools in 2005. =A0 =93The new software incorporates customer requirements for a localised vers= ion of open source software for email client, multi protocol messenger, bro= wser and office suite besides a content management tool. It contains the st= andard key board drivers, text speech and converters to change from true ty= pe to open type fonts. A new feature called queters, a =91Do It Yourself=92= software kit to increase speed of typing, has been introduced and even the= terminology is a mix of layman and purists, as against only purists termin= ology,=94 said S Ramakrishnan, director general, CDAC. =A0 Mahesh Kulkarni, group coordinator,CDAC, Graphics and Intelligence-based Sc= ript Technology (GIST), said, =93The launch date was advanced from the firs= t quarter of 2006 to 2007 to incorporate user feedback in making the softwa= re more user friendly.=94 GIST is a technology that facilitates the use of = Indian languages in IT. =A0 The regional language software development initiative comes under the Techn= ology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) project of Department of Info= rmation Technology (DIT), Government of India under which CDAC is an aggreg= ator bringing together the work of different organisations under one umbrel= la. =A0 It is working with CK Technology, Modular Infotech, The Indian Institutes o= f Technology=92s (IITs) Kanpur, Kharagpur and Mumbai, Microsoft, Google and= IBM. =A0 CDAC is a part of a nation wide consortium of 25 institutions for undertaki= ng R&D in regional languages. The consortium is working on four projects re= lated to regional text translation and recognition. =A0 =93We are in advanced stages of development on these technologies,=94 said = Ramakrishnan adding that they have accelerated their focus on developing th= ese technologies this year. =A0 Ramakrishnan hopes to bag a Rs 8 crore project for voice-based multi lingua= l information access (V-MIA) railway reservation system. =A0 =93The project is in the final stages of approval by the DIT and Department= of Science and Technology and we will work in a consortium with other inst= itutions to develop the voice-to-voice information access system for the ra= ilways,=94 he said.

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Microsoft's Office Open XML format becomes a standard
by Farooque Shaheen 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

At the general assembly of Ecma International in Zurich, Switzerland, Microsoft's Office Open XML--a set of specifications detailing the document formats in Microsoft's office--was certified as a standard. In addition, the membership-based standards organization voted to propose Office Open XML to the larger International Organization for Standardization (known as ISO) for standards approval through its fast-track process. These document formats are the default for Office 2007, an upgrade to Microsoft's productivity suite that was released to businesses late last month and expected to be available to consumers next January. http://news.com.com/Microsoft+sails+through+document+standard+vote/2100-101… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366 At the general assembly of Ecma International in Zurich, Switzerland, Microsoft's Office Open XML--a set of specifications detailing the document formats in Microsoft's office--was certified as a standard. In addition, the membership-based standards organization voted to propose Office Open XML to the larger International Organization for Standardization (known as ISO) for standards approval through its fast-track process. These document formats are the default for Office 2007, an upgrade to Microsoft's productivity suite that was released to businesses late last month and expected to be available to consumers next January. http://news.com.com/Microsoft+sails+through+document+standard+vote/2100-101… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366

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Journals, copyright and open access archiving
by Mailing List Manager 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 18:15:11 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is a message I received from another list. It tells you about the diff= iculties faced by developing country librarians who want to bring the compl= ete works of great scientists into public domain through open access reposi= tories. Surprisingly, some publishers - in this case Taylor & Francis - are= unwilling to grant permission to place papers published in their journals = several decades ago in an institutional open access archive. While one may = find a way out and get these papers accessible to anyone who wants to read = them, the true face of such publishers are exposed by such incidents. Dear all, We are very keen to make open access not only the papers of C.V. Raman but also any other articles/talks by him or on him. We have already made = available on our digital repository the newspaper clippings on him. All the 6 volumes of his collected papers have been scanned and we have the pdf files ready. Now only the publishers permission is needed to make them open access. We have written to all of them but getting all their permission is not assured. Already Taylor & Francis have declined to give permission to make their articles open access. Publisher's copyright policies may in fact be the biggest barrier to making this entire collection open access. However, the Indian Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society have given us permission to = begin with. Our plan in these circumstances is to make articles open access wherever permission is clearly given and to make the rest restricted access. At least the metadata will then be freely available for all. Anyone interested can email us for a copy. I am sure that those who have established repositories are facing similar problems. But we are doing our best. With best wishes, Girija Srinivasan Raman Research Institute Library, Tel:+91 80 2361 0122 / Extn 250---------= For those of you who may not know Sir C V Raman, he was a leading physicist= of his generation and the only Indian to have won a science Nobel Prize. [= Prof. Amartya Sen won in Economics, and Mother Teresa for Peace. Prof. Subr= ahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Prof. Har Gobind Khorana were US citizens when t= hey won the Nobel Prize.] Prof. Raman was Director of the Indian Institute = of Science, Founder-Director of the Raman Research Institute and the Founde= r-President of the Indian Academy of Sciences. He passed away in November 1= 970 at the age of 82. Scientists should refrain from signing publishers' agreements without readi= ng them carefully. They should never surrender copyright to their creative = works - resaerch papers. Many journals agree to make changes in the standar= d copyright transfer form they use. Over 90% of about 9,000 journals survey= ed allow archiving of papers published in them. The rest of the journals sh= ould be persuaded to fall in line, and if they refuse scientists around the= world should boycott them - they shoud refrain from publishing in them, sh= ould not act as referees for those journals and should not be members of th= eir editorial boards. As most research is performed with public support - research grants from go= vernments and other donors - it is not proper on the part of researchers to= sign away copyright to journal publishers. One can only give first (or eve= n exclusive) right to publish the papers. Authors and their institutions sh= ould retain all rights to use the material subsequently in whatever way the= y want to. If journals can claim copyright to articles simply because they publish, sh= ould not the funding agencies claim copyright to work produced with their m= oney and should not the authors retain the copyright simply because the pap= er is their creative work? Subbiah Arunachalam=

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NCSI-Net Invites you for a Special lecture
by Mailing List Manager 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 08:48:43 +0530 From: anitha mk <anitha_m(a)aurigene.com> Dear All, NCSI-NET, the alumni association of NCSI staff, project assistants and trainees, cordially invites you all for a talk on Library Automation in Germany - by Prof. Achim Osswald on Saturday, 9th December 2006. The following are the details of the talk: Topic: Library Automation in Germany: More a Glimpse than the State of the Art Review Speaker: Dr. Achim Osswald Date and Time: 9th December 2006, 11 AM Venue: NCSI Seminar Hall, NCSI, IISc. About the talk: The presentation will look back at Library Automation in Germany and will then focus on the major players at present: The German National Library and supporting subject based libraries, the Cooperative Library Networks, there role in Library Automation and their services offered. About the speaker: Dr. Achim Osswald is a professor at University of Applied Sciences Cologne, Department of Library and Information Science (now: Institute of Information Science ), Germany. Currently, he is at the DRTC, ISI, Bangalore, as a visiting scientist. The complete CV of Dr. Achim is available at: http://www.fbi.fh-koeln.de/institut/personen/osswald/Osswald_leb_en.htm Kindly confirm your attendance to Mr. Francis Jayakanth at his e-mail id: franc(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Thanks and Regards, Anitha M.K and Ravi Nandhan V NCSI-NET Coordinators

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List of Indian Library Journals and also research areas in LIS ( in text format)
by Arunachalam Hariharan 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

Dear Friends and colleagues, have sent a list of Indian Library Science Journals compiled by our SALIS Trichy Chapter as an attached word file. But many did not receive the file since most of the e-groups accept only text files. Many of our colleagues and friends wanted again to send as a text file. Therefore, I am again sending the same as text file. Sorry for sending again thanks once again A. Hariharan SALIS ------------------------------------------ List of Indian Library and Information Science Periodicals Compiled by SALIS (Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science) Trichy Chapter Sl.No Title Address Frequency Annual Subscription Rs. 01. Annals of Library and Information Studies ISSN.0972-5423 Address: The Editor Annals of Library and Information Studies,NISCAIR,14. Satsung Vihar Marg. New Delhi - 110 067, Ph: (011) 26560141,26560143,2650189; Fax: (011) 2686 2228, Email: annals(a)niscair.res.in Frequency: Quarterly Subscription Amount: Rs. 500.00 02 DESIDOC Bulletin of Information Technology ISSN.0971-4383 Address: The Editor Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre (DESIDOC) Metcafe House Delhi- 110 054 Ph: (011) 2381 9975 Fax: (011) 2381 3591 Email: dirdesidoc(a)vsnl.net Frequency: Bi-Monthly Subscription Amount:: Individual-150.00 Subscription Amount: Institution 450.00 03 Herald of Library Science ISSN. 0018-0521 Address: The Editor Herald of Library Science, C-239, Indira Nagar Lucknow- 226 016 Frequency: Quarterly Subscription Amount: 545.00 04 IASLIC Bulletin ISSN.0018-8441 Address: The Editor IASLIC Bulletin P291, CIT Scheme, No.6M, Kankurgachi, Kolkatta 700 054 Ph: 2352 9651 Email: iaslic(a)vsnl.net URL: http://www.iaslic.org Frequency: Quarterly Subscription Amount: Institution-1200.00 (Free for Members) 05 ILA Bulletin ISSN.0970-4728 Address: The Editor Indian Library Association , A/40-41, Flat No.201,Ansal Building , Dr.Mukherjee Nagar, New Delhi- 110 009 Frequency: Quarterly Subscription Amount: 750.00 (Free for Members) 06 Indian Journal of Information , Library and Society ISSN.0971-4286 Address: The Editor Bharati Publications Nua Shai Saraswati vihar PO-Naya bazzar Cuttack- 753 004 Orissa(INDIA) Frequency: Quarterly Subscription Amount: 455.00 07 Information Studies ISSN.0971-6726 Address: The Editor Ranganathan Centre fo Information Studies , C/O Saratha Ranganathan Endownment for Librray science , 702, Upstairs , 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore-560 010 Frequency: Quarterly Subscription Amount: 500.00 08 International Information Communication and Education Address: The Editor International Information Communication and Education (INICE), C239, Indira Nagar , Lucknow- 226 016 Frequency: Quarterly Subscription Amount: 450.00 09 Journal of Library and Information Technology (Previously Published as Library and Librarian) Address: The Editor C/o Dr.C.K.Sharma, Near Telephone Exchange, Sonda Road, Modinagar-201 204 Distt. Ghaziabad Frequency: Monthly Subscription Amount: 400.00 10 Journal of Library and Information Science Address: The Editor Central News Agency Private Limited 4E/15 Jhandewalan Extn.. New Delhi- 110 055 Ph: 011-41541111 Grams: AKHBARGAR Fax: (011) 23626036, Email: subs(a)cna-india.com http://www.cna-india.com Subscription Amount: 400.00 11. KELPRO Bulletin The General Secretary KELPRO Bulletin C/o Kerala University Library Thiruvananthapuram- 695 034 Frequency: Half Yearly Subscription Amount: 500.00 12. Library Herald ISSN. 0024-2292 Address: The Editor Library Herald, Post Box No 1270, Ranganathan Bhavan, C Block, Community Centre, Near CGHS Dispensary, Naraina Vihar , New Delhi- 110 028 Ph: (011) 25893507, Email: dla_39(a)yahoo.co.in Frequency: Quarterly Subscription Amount: 800.00 13. Lucknow Librarian Address: The Editor Utter Pradesh Library Association (Lucknow Branch), Post Box No. 446, Lucknow- 226 001 Frequency: Quarterly Subscription Amount: 300.00 14. SRELS Journal of Information Management ISSN.0972-2467 Address: The Editor Saratha Ranganathan Endownment for Library science , 702, Upstairs , 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore-560 010, Email: srels(a)vsnl.com URL: http://education.vsnl.com/endowment Frequency: Quarterly Subscription Amount: 900.00 15. SALIS Journal of Library and Information Science ISSN. 0973-3108 Address: The Editor-in-chief Dr. Harish Chandra Librarian, IITM Ph: 044-2252 2448/4201 4772 Email : salis_info(a)yahoo.co.in hchandra(a)iitm.ac.in URL: http://autolib-india.net/salis Frequency: Quaterly Subscription Amount: Institution-1200.00 Subscription Amount: Members-900.00 16. Ungal Noolagam Address: The Editor (Tamil) C/o R.Radhakrishnamurthy New Century Readers Sangam 41-B,SIDCO Industrial Estate, Ambattur,Chennai-600 098 Frequency: Bi-Monthly Subscription Amount: 100.00 Areas for Research in Library and Information Science  Academic Libraries  Bibliographic Database Service  Bibliometrics \ Citation Analysis  Cataloguing  Childrens Literature  Classification  Digital Libraries  Documentation Centres  Electronic Technology  E-Resources  Evaluation Of Information Services  Financial Management  Indexing  Information Centres  Information Management  Information Retrieval  Information System Design  Information Technology / IT Enabled Services  Knowledge Communication  Language Reference Source  Library and Community  Library and Information Science Education  Library and Information Science Systems  Library Automation  Library Building  Library Consortia  Library Cooperation / Resource Sharing  Library Legislation  Library Networking  Library Profession  Library Professionals  Library Service Evaluation  Library Software  Library Standard & Specification And Quality Control  Marketing of Library and Information Services  National Libraries  Non-Book Materials  Periodical Publications  Personal Contribution  Personnel Magement (HRD)  Preservation and Conservation  Public Libraries  Quality Of Work Life  Reference Sources / Information Sources  Research Productivity  Special Library  Thesaurus / Control Vocabulary  Universe of Subjects  User Studies / Use Studies A.Hariharan Structural Engineering Research Centre CSIR Campus Taramani Chennai - 600 113 hariharan_ah(a)yahoo.com Cell: 9841601901 Off:044-22549133 -------------------------------------------------- SALIS B2-Solai Apatments Mount-Poonamallee Road (opp.to.MGR Garden) Chennai - 600 116 Tel: 044-22522448/42014772 www.autolib-india.net/salis ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? 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SALIS-Anna University one day seminar on Future Libraries on 30.12.2006
by Arunachalam Hariharan 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

One day Seminar on Future Libraries Jointly Organized by University Library, Anna University & Society for the Advancement of Library & Information Science(SALIS)- Chennai Chapter Date: 30 December 2006 Venue :Vivekananda Auditorium, Anna University, Chennai 600 025 About the Seminar: Libraries are undergoing tremendous changes due to impact of globalization, economic competition and revolution of ICT. Internet, web resources, digital libraries, ICT tools and techniques, etc have made a significant change in the existing library system services. Library resources are being made available in a variety of medias and formats. Libraries are not in a position to subscribe print and e-resources for a variety of reasons and constraints. Technology, methods and procedures, standards, formats and medias, have been changing rapidly for creating, organizing, processing, storing and accessing the resources. It is a major challenge before the Librarians to cope with the new technological and digital challenges. On the other hand, the requirements of the users also change frequently due to information explosion/overload, proliferation, fusion and fission of new subjects and research areas. Accessing, filtering, evaluating the right information and provide to the right users is a major task of the future librarians. Objective: The objective of the seminar is to provide a platform for the participants to discuss, plan and prepare for the future libraries. Sub-themes of the Seminar:  Functions and services of future Libraries  Requirements of future users  Digital Libraries Initiatives, Institutional Repositories, OAI, Metadata  Content creation, Portal, Search Engines  Consortia, Management of Digital and Web Resources  ICT Implementation  Capacity Building Initiatives  Skills, Role, Challenges and opportunities of future Librarians  Threats  Preparing for the future Resource Persons: Senior Library professionals and experts from reputed institutions Target Participants : Library and Information Science(LIS) professionals working in Engineering, Arts & Science Colleges, Polytechnic Colleges, Research Institutions, Public Libraries, Corporate Bodies and Software Companies Registration Fee: Rs.250/- (SALIS Members, students and trainees) Rs.300/- non members Registration fee includes seminar kit, working lunch, tea and snacks. Spot registration will also be done Completed registration form can be sent to: Dr. K. Nithyanandam Organising Secretary & University Librarian, Anna University Chennai- 600 025. 22352174/22203336/22203406 Cell 09444337936/9841115092 k_nithyanandam(a)annauniv.edu One day Seminar on Future Libraries Registration Form 1.Name: 2.Designation: 3.Qualification: 4.Name of Organization: 5.Address for Communication: 6. Tel: Off: Res: 7. Cell: 8. E-mail: 9. Fax: 10. Fee Particulars: DD. No. Dated Amount (DD in favour of Director i/c, University Library, Anna University' payable at Chennai) Signature of the Participant Details about the seminar will be posted at: www.annauniv.edu/library http://autolib-india.net/salis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Salis_info E-mail: salis_info(a)yahoo.co.in A.Hariharan Structural Engineering Research Centre CSIR Campus Taramani Chennai - 600 113 hariharan_ah(a)yahoo.com Cell: 9841601901 Off:044-22549133 -------------------------------------------------- SALIS B2-Solai Apatments Mount-Poonamallee Road (opp.to.MGR Garden) Chennai - 600 116 Tel: 044-22522448/42014772 www.autolib-india.net/salis ____________________________________________________________________________________ Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index

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Fwd: [Asis-l] First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference CFP
by J. K. Vijayakumar 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

FYI. Rick Kopak <rkopak(a)interchange.ubc.ca> wrote: Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:57:13 -0800 From: Rick Kopak <rkopak(a)interchange.ubc.ca> To: asis-l(a)asis.org Subject: [Asis-l] First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference CFP First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference Vancouver, July 11-13, 2007 WEBSITE: http://pkp.sfu.ca/node/493 The Public Knowledge Project at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University is pleased to announce that the first international PKP conference will be held from July 1113, 2007 in Vancouver. The conference will provide opportunities for those involved in the organization, promotion, and study of scholarly communication to share and discuss innovative work in scholarly publishing, with a focus on the contribution that open source publishing technologies (such as Open Journal Systems) can make to improving access to research and scholarship on a global and public scale. The conference will appeal to all those with an interest in the future of scholarly publishing community: software developers and technical support specialists; journal publishers, editors, and staff; librarians; and researchers in scholarly publishing. CALL FOR PAPERS Abstract Deadline (required): January 15, 2007 Paper and PowerPoint Submission (desired but not required for public posting): July 1, 2007 This conference, which uses Open Conference Systems developed by the Public Knowledge Project, enables participants to submit abstracts online at http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/submit.php . Presentations can include: Single papers (abstract max of 500 words) Multiple paper sessions (overview max of 500 words) Call for Papers Announcement The conference stream for those involved in the practices and study of journal publishing will focus on the following themes and topics: * Scholarly publishing in developing countries; * Open access and the academy: reforming and opening the peer review process, implications for academic freedom; * New journals, new models: the how and why of starting a new journal, new economic models for old journals, encouraging open data and related practices; * Promotion and growth: building readership, authorship, and reviewership; open access is public access - challenges and benefits; * Improving the features and design of publishing software The conference stream for librarians and information specialists will focus on the following themes and topics: * The role of libraries in supporting and developing emerging or alternate forms of scholarly communication, e.g., the library as publisher, implications for collections budgets and policies; * Incorporating and supporting open access publications as part of current collections and related services; * Using PKP software and related open source tools in libraries, e.g., best practices or case studies. The conference stream for open source software developers and other technical experts working with PKP software will address the following: * Understanding and working with PKP software and its plug-in architecture; * Building a PKP developers community including software contributions and collaborative projects; * PKP software development priorities and plans. ____ ________________________________________ Asis-l mailing list Asis-l(a)asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-l __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com FYI. Rick Kopak <rkopak(a)interchange.ubc.ca> wrote: Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:57:13 -0800 From: Rick Kopak <rkopak(a)interchange.ubc.ca> To: asis-l(a)asis.org Subject: [Asis-l] First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference CFP First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference Vancouver, July 11-13, 2007 WEBSITE: http://pkp.sfu.ca/node/493 The Public Knowledge Project at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University is pleased to announce that the first international PKP conference will be held from July 1113, 2007 in Vancouver. The conference will provide opportunities for those involved in the organization, promotion, and study of scholarly communication to share and discuss innovative work in scholarly publishing, with a focus on the contribution that open source publishing technologies (such as Open Journal Systems) can make to improving access to research and scholarship on a global and public scale. The conference will appeal to all those with an interest in the future of scholarly publishing community: software developers and technical support specialists; journal publishers, editors, and staff; librarians; and researchers in scholarly publishing. CALL FOR PAPERS Abstract Deadline (required): January 15, 2007 Paper and PowerPoint Submission (desired but not required for public posting): July 1, 2007 This conference, which uses Open Conference Systems developed by the Public Knowledge Project, enables participants to submit abstracts online at http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/submit.php . Presentations can include: Single papers (abstract max of 500 words) Multiple paper sessions (overview max of 500 words) Call for Papers Announcement The conference stream for those involved in the practices and study of journal publishing will focus on the following themes and topics: * Scholarly publishing in developing countries; * Open access and the academy: reforming and opening the peer review process, implications for academic freedom; * New journals, new models: the how and why of starting a new journal, new economic models for old journals, encouraging open data and related practices; * Promotion and growth: building readership, authorship, and reviewership; open access is public access - challenges and benefits; * Improving the features and design of publishing software The conference stream for librarians and information specialists will focus on the following themes and topics: * The role of libraries in supporting and developing emerging or alternate forms of scholarly communication, e.g., the library as publisher, implications for collections budgets and policies; * Incorporating and supporting open access publications as part of current collections and related services; * Using PKP software and related open source tools in libraries, e.g., best practices or case studies. The conference stream for open source software developers and other technical experts working with PKP software will address the following: * Understanding and working with PKP software and its plug-in architecture; * Building a PKP developers community including software contributions and collaborative projects; * PKP software development priorities and plans. ____ ________________________________________ Asis-l mailing list Asis-l(a)asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-l __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Invitation for seminar on Semantic Web
by anand pandey 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTER 8th Mile Mysore Road, R.V. College Post Bangalore-560059 SEMINAR On Semantic Web and its role in meaningful information retrieval Currently, the resources available on the Web are mainly meant for human. The machine has only limited possibilities in using these resources. Search engines, instead of giving precise record in reply to a query, produce results with high recall. The Semantic Web is an innovative concept, to make data interpretable for computers. It gives the possibility of representing the data of the Web in a meaningful way. The focus of this seminar will be on Semantic Web and its related technologies as well its role in a meaningful information retrieval. Speaker : Anand Kumar Pandey Junior Research Fellow Date & Time : 11th December 2006, 2:00 PM Venue : DRTC Classroom All are cordially invited Professor and Head DRTC INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTER 8th Mile Mysore Road, R.V. College Post Bangalore-560059 SEMINAR On Semantic Web and its role in meaningful information retrieval Currently, the resources available on the Web are mainly meant for human. The machine has only limited possibilities in using these resources. Search engines, instead of giving precise record in reply to a query, produce results with high recall. The Semantic Web is an innovative concept, to make data interpretable for computers. It gives the possibility of representing the data of the Web in a meaningful way. The focus of this seminar will be on Semantic Web and its related technologies as well its role in a meaningful information retrieval. Speaker : Anand Kumar Pandey Junior Research Fellow Date & Time : 11th December 2006, 2:00 PM Venue : DRTC Classroom All are cordially invited Professor and Head DRTC http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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Alliance for Taxpayer Access in India
by Subbiah Arunachalam 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

Friends: Here is a report from Peter Suber's blog written by Judea Franck of the Colorado State University. Please read it carefully and tell me should we delay formation of an Alliance for Taxpayer Access in India and fight for people's rights for open access to the results of taxpayer-funded research. Should we not persuade our parlimentarians to legislate open access to all publicly-funded research? Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --------------------------------- The public interest in OA and FRPAA Judea Franck, Who should have access to federally funded research? Inside the 2006 Federal Research Public Access Act, Library Connection (from Colorado State University), Fall 2006. (Thanks to Jennifer McLennan.) Excerpt: Who should have access to federally funded research? Researchers? Professors? Students? Taxpayers? Should research findings be freely available on the Internet? What would be the impact if colleagues in all fields could exchange information with the click of a mouse and without the barriers of membership, subscriptions, or dues? These questions have recently been brought to the forefront by the introduction of the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA).... After his experiences on the battlefields of World War I, Alexander Fleming made a shocking discovery-bacteria could be an even deadlier force than enemy artillery. In the startling conditions of trench warfare, infection caused 15 percent of war-related fatalities, or roughly 5.5 million out of 37 million total deaths. Fleming returned to his London laboratory driven to find some way to prevent these deaths. His pursuit eventually led to the discovery that mold, specifically penicillin, could kill bacteria....[W]hen Fleming published his findings in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology in 1928, his work raised little interest and was nearly lost to scientific obscurity. It was not until 1938, ten years later, that British scientist Ernst Chain and Australian scientist Howard Florey rediscovered Fleming's article.... [I]n today's world, with information increasingly at one's fingertips, it is amazing to note that some of the very same barriers that resulted in the ten-year delay of penicillin research and countless other discoveries still exist.... Just imagine if Fleming could have sat down at a computer and told colleagues in England and beyond about the miracle mold that could knock out staph bacteria. In fact, the number of visitors to digital content on Web sites so far outnumbers traditional journal circulations that the potential to broadly, widely, and immediately impact the scientific community via publishing online is nearly limitless. Take, for example, the journal Science. Science is one of the most commonly cited journals and boasts 130,000 print subscriptions. Yet its Web site, which contains a mix of free and subscription-required portions, receives 1.8 million weekly visits.... [There] is a growing movement to grant taxpayers access to research that is funded with taxpayer dollars. Led largely by the Alliance for Taxpayer Access, an organization in which CSU is a founding member, the movement insists on developing open, online access to federally funded research. Its main advocates include universities, libraries, consumer groups, and perhaps most notably a long list of patient advocate groups including the Genetic Alliance, a coalition of 600 disease-specific organizations that advocates for better healthcare treatments. Sharon Terry became the coalition's president after she and her husband encountered astounding barriers to research literature that would help them understand the debilitating genetic disorder from which both of their children suffered. The Terrys worked around those barriers by volunteering at a hospital and gaining access to the hospital's library. Armed with the research that they were first denied, the Terrys became experts on their children's disorders and, working with a network of scientists, became co-discoverers of the gene responsible for the disorder. Although it is uncommon for lay individuals to make such a significant impact in the research community, 80 percent of taxpayers, according to a recent Harris interactive poll, support a right to "open access" and have a strong desire not necessarily to view research findings themselves, but rather to feel the real-world benefits reflected when their own doctors, pharmacists, and other practitioners have better access to cutting-edge discoveries.... Peter Suber's comment: This is one of the best articles I've seen on the public interest (as opposed to the self-interest of researchers as authors and readers) in OA and FRPAA. Friends: Here is a report from Peter Suber's blog written by Judea Franck of the Colorado State University. Please read it carefully and tell me should we delay formation of an Alliance for Taxpayer Access in India and fight for people's rights for open access to the results of taxpayer-funded research. Should we not persuade our parlimentarians to legislate open access to all publicly-funded research? Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --------------------------------- The public interest in OA and FRPAA Judea Franck, http://lib.colostate.edu/about/news/library_connection/fall06.pdf Who should have access to federally funded research? Inside the 2006 Federal Research Public Access Act , Library Connection (from Colorado State University), Fall 2006. (Thanks to Jennifer McLennan.) Excerpt: Who should have access to federally funded research? Researchers? Professors? Students? Taxpayers? Should research findings be freely available on the Internet? What would be the impact if colleagues in all fields could exchange information with the click of a mouse and without the barriers of membership, subscriptions, or dues? These questions have recently been brought to the forefront by the introduction of the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA).... After his experiences on the battlefields of World War I, Alexander Fleming made a shocking discoverybacteria could be an even deadlier force than enemy artillery. In the startling conditions of trench warfare, infection caused 15 percent of war-related fatalities, or roughly 5.5 million out of 37 million total deaths. Fleming returned to his London laboratory driven to find some way to prevent these deaths. His pursuit eventually led to the discovery that mold, specifically penicillin, could kill bacteria....[W]hen Fleming published his findings in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology in 1928, his work raised little interest and was nearly lost to scientific obscurity. It was not until 1938, ten years later, that British scientist Ernst Chain and Australian scientist Howard Florey rediscovered Flemings article.... [I]n todays world, with information increasingly at ones fingertips, it is amazing to note that some of the very same barriers that resulted in the ten-year delay of penicillin research and countless other discoveries still exist.... Just imagine if Fleming could have sat down at a computer and told colleagues in England and beyond about the miracle mold that could knock out staph bacteria. In fact, the number of visitors to digital content on Web sites so far outnumbers traditional journal circulations that the potential to broadly, widely, and immediately impact the scientific community via publishing online is nearly limitless. Take, for example, the journal Science . Science is one of the most commonly cited journals and boasts 130,000 print subscriptions. Yet its Web site, which contains a mix of free and subscription-required portions, receives 1.8 million weekly visits.... [There] is a growing movement to grant taxpayers access to research that is funded with taxpayer dollars. Led largely by the http://www.taxpayeraccess.org Alliance for Taxpayer Access , an organization in which CSU is a founding member, the movement insists on developing open, online access to federally funded research. Its main advocates include universities, libraries, consumer groups, and perhaps most notably a long list of patient advocate groups including the http://www.geneticalliance.org Genetic Alliance , a coalition of 600 disease-specific organizations that advocates for better healthcare treatments. Sharon Terry became the coalitions president after she and her husband encountered astounding barriers to research literature that would help them understand the debilitating genetic disorder from which both of their children suffered. The Terrys worked around those barriers by volunteering at a hospital and gaining access to the hospitals library. Armed with the research that they were first denied, the Terrys became experts on their childrens disorders and, working with a network of scientists, became co-discoverers of the gene responsible for the disorder. Although it is uncommon for lay individuals to make such a significant impact in the research community, 80 percent of taxpayers, according to a recent Harris interactive poll, support a right to open access and have a strong desire not necessarily to view research findings themselves, but rather to feel the real-world benefits reflected when their own doctors, pharmacists, and other practitioners have better access to cutting-edge discoveries.... Peter Suber's comment: This is one of the best articles I've seen on the public interest (as opposed to the self-interest of researchers as authors and readers) in OA and FRPAA.

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Microsoft is going to release book search tool , a rival to google's book search
by Mailing List Manager 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 22:28:36 +0530 From: praveen kumar veeramalla <praveenkumarveeramalla(a)gmail.com> *Microsoft debuts book search tool* *Anyone wanting to view an obscure tome from the vaults of the British Library will be able to look for it online from Thursday. * Microsoft is releasing its Live Search Books, a rival to Google's Book Search, in test, or beta, version in the US. The digital archive will include books from the collections of the British Library, the University of California and the University of Toronto. Books from three other institutions will be added in January 2007. *Search full text * All the books currently included in the project will be non-copyrighted but later it will also add copyrighted work that publishers have given permission to include in the project. "We feel very strongly about copyright. We don't do any mass scanning of in-copyright works," said Danielle Tiedt, the general manager of Live Search Selection for Microsoft. Initially the database of available books will be searchable from the book search engine's home page or as a category on the main Windows Live Search page. Later Microsoft plans to integrate all the books scanned into its general search engine. "What we are focusing more of our efforts on for live searching is integrating all of those content types together to give you the most relevant results. If, for example, it's a search on historical content, chance are the most authoritative content may be found in a books search," said Ms Tiedt. The system has a feature called "search inside a book" which will allow users to search the full text of books. "We've focused on making the search experience really impactful...People will have full access to all of the text," said Ms Tiedt. A separate global digital library plan by Google is also under way. The search giant is spending $200m (�110m) to create a digital archive of millions of books from four top US libraries. It is also digitising out-of-copyright books from the UK's Oxford University. In contrast to Microsoft Google's plans include adding both copyright and non-copyright books from participating institutions. Although only copyrighted books will be available to view in full text, its project has come under fire from the Association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild Source:BBC News 06/12/2006 ************************************************** praveen kumar veeramalla , Library,National Remote Sensing Agency. Hyderabad

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China invests heavily in scientific R&D
by Subbiah Arunachalam 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

>From Businessweek China: A Rising R&D Power By the end of 2006, China will be the second-highest investor in research and development, according to OECD figures by Candace Lombardi By the end of 2006, China will be the second-highest investor in research and development, according to figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The burgeoning economic powerhouse has rapidly increased the money and manpower being invested in R &D, and spending by government and businesses will reach more than US$136 billion in 2006, the OECD said Monday. For comparison, Japan, formerly the nation with the second-highest investment in research and development, will dole out US$130 billion this year, and the EU nations (including France, Germany and the U.K.) together will allocate US$230 billion. "The rapid rise of China in both money spent and researchers employed is stunning. To keep up, OECD countries need to make their research and innovation systems more efficient and find new ways to stimulate innovation in today's increasingly competitive global economy," Dirk Pilat, the head of the OECD's Science and Technology Policy division, said in a statement. The U.S. maintains a strong lead as the No. 1 spender on innovation at US$330 billion, but not as large a lead when it comes to personnel. China saw an increase in the number of researchers of 77 percent between 1995 and 2004. The country now has 926,000 researchers, compared with 1.3 million in the U.S., according to the OECD report, "Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2006." As China has grown in leaps and bounds economically, it has also been gaining in outsourcing, patent portfolio evaluation, chip manufacturing, and even Internet usage, the report noted. The calculations on R&D were based on spending trends observed between 2000 and 2005, the OECD said. What is most notable, according to the report's authors, is the rate at which China's numbers are growing. Its R&D went from 0.6 percent of its GDP (gross domestic product) in 1995 to more than 1.2 percent in 2004. That doubling growth rate is faster than the rate of growth for China's entire economy. The OECD includes members from 30 democratic nations, including the U.S. Provided by ZDNet AsiaWhere Technology Means Business ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com

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Learning Commons launches 'Copyright, copyleft and everything in between'
by vimal kumar 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

Dear Friends, Learning Commons launches 'Copyright, copyleft and everything in between'. This excellent project is a multimedia curriculum for youth on copyright alternatives in South Africa. It covers the social and economic impact of technology from an African perspective, focusing specifically on the origins of copyright and the impact of open source software and open content on African development. The materials have been released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike South Africa licence which enables you to freely copy and share the files, make derivatives (including translations) - even for commercial use. http://www.learningcommons.co.za/index.htm Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in --------------------------------- Have a burning question? Go to Yahoo! Answers and get answers from real people who know. Learning Commons launches 'Copyright, copyleft and everything in between'. This excellent project is a multimedia curriculum for youth on copyright alternatives in South Africa. It covers the social and economic impact of technology from an African perspective, focusing specifically on the origins of copyright and the impact of open source software and open content on African development. The materials have been released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike South Africa licence which enables you to freely copy and share the files, make derivatives (including translations) - even for commercial use. http://www.learningcommons.co.za/index.htm Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in Have a burning question? Go to http://answers.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTFvbGNhMGE3BF9TAzM5NjU0NTEwOARfcwMzOTY1… Yahoo! Answers and get answers from real people who know.

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KALA Lectures
by M Krishnamurthy 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

Dear Professional Colleague, I remind you that KALA has organised the following two lectures in collaboration with NCSI, IISc 1. Speaker 1: Mr Arthur Smith, Director, OCLC Topic: OCLC and WORLD CAT 2.Speaker 2: Mr Scott Wasinger, CEO, Net Library Topic: E-books and Net Library Date: 7th Dec 2006 at 4.00 PM Venue: Conference Hall, NCSI, IISc, Bangalore YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED. PLEASE INFORM YOUR COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS TOO. Goudar Prof. N.V. Joshi President, KALA Chairman, NCSI, IISc EC Members & Office Bearers, KALA M.Krishnamurthy *************************************** Dr.M.Krishnamurthy,M.A.,M.L.I.Sc.,Ph.D Fulbright Scholar (University of Illinois, USA) Librarian Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalore 560059 www.isibang.ac.in/library Ph:91-80-8483002/3 Fax :91-80-28484265

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Digit Supplement on Google
by Farooque Shaheen 06 Dec '06

06 Dec '06

Dear Professional, This month Digit magazine has come up with a supplement on Google. It'll help you to use google services more effectively. You may also find some books on the same topic in the market. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India (P) Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366 Dear Professional, � � � � � � � � � � � � � �This month Digit magazine has come up with a supplement on Google. It'll help you to use google services more effectively. You may also find some books on the same topic in the market. � � � � � � � � Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India (P) Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366

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Higher education in India
by Subbiah Arunachalam 06 Dec '06

06 Dec '06

Friends: Here is an article from the International Herald Tribune on collegiate and university education in India. It says quoting a NASSCOM report, that only 10% of college graduates (and 25% of engineering graduates) are employable. I fully agree with that statement. Even century-old universities are in doldrums. Urgent refoerms are needed in the higher education sector. Let us hope the nowledge Commission comes up with some good and implementable ideas. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----------------------- For many Indians, higher education does more harm than good By Anand Giridharadas / International Herald Tribune Published: November 26, 2006 MUMBAI - It would seem a good time to be Kinjal Bhuptani. She is a college student studying business in the financial capital of one of hottest economies on earth. But she has no illusions of sharing in India's newfound prosperity when she graduates from Hinduja College this spring. While others land $100,000-a- year jobs at Goldman Sachs and Microsoft, she is more likely to make $4 a day selling credit cards door to door. Bhuptani's mistake, if you can call it that, was not getting into one of India's most elite universities, like the Indian Institutes of Management or Indian Institutes of Technology. Those who are admitted go on to enjoy big paychecks on Wall Street and to manage some of the world's largest companies. In the shadow of those elite institutions, most of the 11 million students in the 18,000 Indian colleges and universities receive starkly inferior training, heavy on obeisance and light on marketable skills, students, educators and business leaders say. All but a tiny handful of graduates are considered unemployable by top global and local companies. "We might as well not have studied," Bhuptani said. The Indian educational system is locking millions of students in the bottom berth of a two-tier economy, critics argue, depriving the country of the fullest expression of their talents and denying students a chance to share in the fruits of reform. The problem, experts say, is in a classroom environment that infantilizes students well into their mid-20s, emphasizing silent note-taking and discipline at the expense of analysis, debate and persuasion. Students at second- and third-tier colleges suffer not because of a dearth of technical ability or intelligence, critics note. Most simply lack the "soft skills" sought by a new generation of employers but still not taught by change-resistant colleges: the ability to speak crisp English with a placeless accent, to design and give PowerPoint presentations, to write in logically ordered paragraphs, to work collegially in teams, to grasp the nuances of leadership. "It's almost literally a matter of life and death for them," said Kiran Karnik, president of the National Association of Software and Services Companies, an influential trade body that represents many of India's leading employers. A study that the group published last year concluded that just 10 percent of Indian graduates with generalist degrees were considered employable by major companies, compared with 25 percent of engineers. "The university has become a placeholder," said Pratap Bhanu Mehta, a former Harvard professor who recently resigned in frustration from the National Knowledge Commission, a panel advising the Indian government on overhauling its education system. India is one of those rare countries where you become less able to find a job the more educated you get. College graduates suffer from higher jobless rates - 17 percent in the 2001 census - than high school graduates. But even as graduates complain of the paucity of jobs, companies across India lament a lack of skilled talent. The paradox is explained, experts say, by the poor quality of the undergraduate experience. India's thousands of colleges are swallowing millions of new students every year, only to spit out degree holders that no one wants to hire. The differences between elite colleges and those attended by the majority can be striking. St. Stephens College in New Delhi, one of the country's best-known colleges, counts among its alumni a well-known novelist (Amitav Ghosh), a top United Nations official (Shashi Tharoor), and a former president of Pakistan (General Muhammad Zia-ul- Haq), and offers an illustration, through contrast, of what lesser institutions lack. P. Jacob Cherian, the acting principal, said the essential difference was a focus on leadership and communication skills, neglected at most other institutions. As on leading Western campuses, the students have frequent chances to meet and attend speeches by prominent leaders. "It's when you practice the skills that you actually learn them," Cherian said. But outside elite enclaves like St. Stephens, tertiary education is an exercise in drudgery. Take, for example, Hinduja College in Mumbai. It is in one of India's richest enclaves, but it is a second-tier, no-name school, exemplifying a middling college experience. Between lectures, dozens of students swarmed around a reporter to complain about their education. "What the market wants and what the school provides are totally different," said Sohail Kutchi, a commerce student. The students said they were not learning to communicate effectively, even as mainstay activities in the Indian economy evolve from pushing papers to answering phones and making presentations. There were few chances to work in groups or hold discussions. And in this purportedly English-language college, the professors used bad grammar and spoke in thick accents. Education experts argue that students are also graduating without the ability to assess problems and find creative solutions, in large part because their professors encourage them to be meek and obsequious. "Out! Out! Close the door! Close the door!" a management professor barked at a student who entered his classroom at Hinduja two minutes late. A second student, caught whispering, was asked to stand up for the duration of class. At Hinduja, the mode of instruction is often more evocative of a communist re- education camp than a modern campus. That is bad news for Indian companies, which are on a hiring binge. Infosys, a leading outsourcing company, will take on 25,000 new people this year, from a pool of 1.5 million applicants. The rejected are likely to include many smart graduates who merely lack skills like communication, poise and global exposure, said Mohandas Pai, director of human resources at Infosys. "You might be very bright," he said, "but since you are studying in the vernacular you cannot speak good English. You are not taught presentation skills in your college, so you lose out." Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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collection of the papers of Harold Varmus, Nobel Laureate
by Mailing List Manager 06 Dec '06

06 Dec '06

Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 18:00:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Friends: Here is a news item I read and in a way it made me a bit sad. --- Papers of Harold Varmus The National Library of Medicine has released an OA collection of the papers of Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, former director of the NIH, president and director of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and co-founder of the Public Library of Science. Sloan-Kettering has its own collection. (Thanks to Klaus Graf.) --- Why am I sad? It is very good that whoever wants to read the papers of Prof. Varmus can read all of them in full text. That makes me happy. But what about the papers of the great scientists of India? For example, when are we going to digitize and make available through open access repositories the collected works of Srinivasa Ramanujan, C V Raman, Meghnad Saha, Satyen Bose, J C Bose, G N Ramachandran, C R Rao, C N R Rao and several others? Years ago, CSIR brought out the collected papers of Meghnad Saha in print. Indeed, INSA and IASc should join hands and digitize the collected works of all their Fellows - both current and past - and make them available through an interoperable repository. Also, Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Announcement of 5th International Convention CALIBER-2007
by K Prakash 06 Dec '06

06 Dec '06

Hello, Ok, thanks. Here is the required information. Theme: Information and Knowledge Management in Networked World Dates: 8-10th February, 2007 Venue: Panjab University, Chandigarh With best regards. Bye. ________________________________________________ K Prakash ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mankad, Manish" <Manish.Mankad(a)unilever.com> To: "K Prakash" <prakash(a)inflibnet.ac.in>; <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 9:11 AM Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Announcement of 5th International ConventionCALIBER-2007 > I have a suggestion. > > Please provide, the Location and dates of such events in the first line > itself. > The detailed email below does not indicate this obvious information. > > Regards. > > -MANISH MANKAD > Information services > > Tel: 080 39830958 > > Hindustan Lever Research Centre > 64, Main Road, > Whitefield > Bangalore, 560066 > INDIA

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Softpedia
by sandeep bhavsar 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

Respected All Please have a look at this site ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FREE SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS http://www.softpedia.com/ Waiting for your feedback Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr. V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 elibrary : http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Please have a look at this site ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FREE SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS http://www.softpedia.com/ Waiting for your feedback Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr. V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 elibrary : http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Lecture invitation
by srels＠vsnl.com 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

Dear Moderator : Please announce the following invitation to a lecture organized by the SRELS, Bangalore. Thanking you, Sincerely, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, 3rd Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Ph: (080) 23305109 Email: srels(a)vsnl.com ** *** ** Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS), Bangalore Cordially invites you to a Special Lecture on VIRTUAL REFERENCE SERVICES by Prof. Achim Osswald Professor, Institute of Information Science, University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany on Wednesday, 6th December 2006 at 6.00 p.m. at SRELS, 702, 42nd Cross, 3rd Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Prof. I.K. Ravichandra Rao Head, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore presides RSVP: K.N. Prasad - Ph: (080) 23305109 Email: srels(a)vsnl.com Dear Moderator : Please announce the following invitation to a lecture organized by the SRELS, Bangalore. Thanking you, Sincerely, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, 3rd Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Ph: (080) 23305109 Email: mailto:srels@vsnl.com srels(a)vsnl.com ** *** ** Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS), Bangalore Cordially invites you to a Special Lecture on VIRTUAL REFERENCE SERVICES by Prof. Achim Osswald Professor, Institute of Information Science, University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany on Wednesday, 6th December 2006 at 6.00 p.m. at SRELS, 702, 42nd Cross, 3rd Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Prof. I.K. Ravichandra Rao Head, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore presides RSVP: K.N. Prasad - Ph: (080) 23305109 Email: mailto:srels@vsnl.com srels(a)vsnl.com

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DRTC Colloquium (1) 2006-08
by Ehtesham 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE 8th Mile Mysore Road, Bangalore-560059 DRTC Colloquium - 1 (2006-08) KNOWLEDGE ORGANISATION IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT ABSTRACT Library professionals have developed many knowledge organisation tools, which can be grouped under term lists, classification and categories; and relationship lists. Since the concept of modern library was introduced, these tools have been used to enhance retrieval. But the scenario has changed a lot in the context of digital information resources. Problems in organising digital content differ from those in the traditional environment. While the issues like unidimensional arrangement of books on the shelves are not there in the digital environment, new issues (e.g. the volume of resources, problems of directionless hypertext navigation, etc) have emerged. How far the traditional tools can help us to handle these new problems? What are the new and innovative tools being developed to handle these problems? In this colloquium, we propose to discuss some of these. TOPICS SPEAKERS 1. Introduction Mithun Raj M. 2. Knowledge Organisation Systems : An Overview Mita Sarkar 3. Evolution of Knowledge Organisation Systems Ayesha Khatoon 4. Emerging Digital Environment and Knowledge Organisation Syed Raiyan Ghani 5. Traditional Knowledge Organisation Tools in the Digital Environment Radha Rani Rit 6. Newer Knowledge Organisation Technologies Sanjeev Kumar Sunny 7. Conclusion Anila S. Venue :DRTC Classroom Date : 7th of December Time : 2:00 pm All are cordially invited Dr.K.S. Raghavan (Colloquium Coordinator) MD EHTESHAM H-11,ISI HOSTELS ADIS 1st year (DRTC) INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE 8TH MILE, MYSORE ROAD, BANGALORE - 560059 MOB - 09886687105 INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE 8th Mile Mysore Road, Bangalore-560059 DRTC Colloquium - 1 (2006-08) KNOWLEDGE ORGANISATION IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT ABSTRACT Library professionals have developed many knowledge organisation tools, which can be grouped under term lists, classification and categories; and relationship lists. Since the concept of modern library was introduced, these tools have been used to enhance retrieval. But the scenario has changed a lot in the context of digital information resources. Problems in organising digital content differ from those in the traditional environment. While the issues like unidimensional arrangement of books on the shelves are not there in the digital environment, new issues (e.g. the volume of resources, problems of directionless hypertext navigation, etc) have emerged. How far the traditional tools can help us to handle these new problems? What are the new and innovative tools being developed to handle these problems? In this colloquium, we propose to discuss some of these. TOPICS SPEAKERS 1. Introduction Mithun Raj M. 2. Knowledge Organisation Systems : An Overview Mita Sarkar 3. Evolution of Knowledge Organisation Systems Ayesha Khatoon 4. Emerging Digital Environment and Knowledge Organisation Syed Raiyan Ghani 5. Traditional Knowledge Organisation Tools in the Digital Environment Radha Rani Rit 6. Newer Knowledge Organisation Technologies Sanjeev Kumar Sunny 7. Conclusion Anila S. Venue :DRTC Classroom Date : 7th of December Time : 2:00 pm All are cordially invited Dr.K.S. Raghavan (Colloquium Coordinator) MD EHTESHAM H-11,ISI HOSTELS ADIS 1st year (DRTC) INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE 8TH MILE, MYSORE ROAD, BANGALORE - 560059 MOB - 09886687105 http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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SALIS-DCU-UNESCO one day Sensitization Workshop on Information Literacy (IL) at Delhi
by Arunachalam Hariharan 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

Dear friends and professional colleagues I am pleased to inform that One Day Sensitization Workshop on Information Literacy (IL) is jointly being organized by Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS) Delhi NCR Chapter and the Central Library of Delhi College of Engineering and supported by UNESCO on December 23, 2006. Eminent experts from reputed organizations will deliver lectures and tutorials. The contents of the workshop are: Information Literacy Overview Components of IL Information Literacy Models Information Literacy Competency Standards UNESCO/IFLA School/Public Library Manifesto ICT Literacy and ICT Technologies Objectives of Workshop To raise awareness about Information Literacy, its needs and uses To give an overview of Information Literacy, Information Literacy models and standards to LIS professionals To give an overview of ICT to the participants To facilitate LIS professionals to provide better information services to the end users Methodology: Lectures/Presentations Tutorials Discussions Resource Persons: Experts from reputed academic institutions, Govt. and IT field. Target Participants: LIS professional working in Delhi and near by regions. Preference will be given to young LIS professionals and students. No. of Participants: The number of participants is limited to 60. Mode of selection: The participants will be selected on the basis of age, qualification, nature of work, profile of the institutions etc. Registration Fee: NIL Traveling Allowance (TA): No TA/DA will be paid to the participants Last date for registration: December 18, 2006. Note: Brochure of the workshop is available on http://www.dce.edu/library/ or sends your request us via email by December 15, 2006. http://autolib-india.net/salis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Salis_info R. K. Shukla Organizing Secretary Delhi College of Engineering New Campus, Bawana Road Delhi - Pin Code: 110042 rkshukla(a)dce.edu , ramakant.shukla(a)gmail.com Phone: 9312359521 Sanjay Kataria Secretary, SALIS Delhi NCR Chapter Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University (Established Under section 3 of UGC Act, Vide Notification No. F9-27/2000-U 3 dated 1st November, 2004 Govt of India) A-10, Sector-62, Noida (UP)-201307 E-mail: salis.delhi(a)gmail.com , sanjay.kataria(a)jiit.ac.in Phone: 9810503341, 9213650818 ------------------------------------------------- A.Hariharan SALIS ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com

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Announcement of 5th International Convention CALIBER-2007
by K Prakash 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

5th International Convention CALIBER-2007 "Information and Knowledge Management in Networked World" Call for Papers --------------- One decade into its expansion, the World-Wide Web is reaching ever-broader circles of society, transforming how people learn about our rapidly changing world. Knowledge Management is the methodology for systematically gathering, organizing, and disseminating knowledge. It essentially consists of processes and tools to effectively capture and share knowledge as well as use the knowledge of individuals within an organization. Knowledge management is certainly attracting attention, across business organizations and as well as in academic area also. The adoption of knowledge management as a concept or implementation as tool has yet to be demonstrated in academic environment. On the other hand, there is a conformity that the knowledge-based society has arrived, and that those organizations that will succeed in the global information society are those that can identify, value, create and evolve their knowledge assets. Many argue that knowledge has become the main competitive tool for many businesses. Exploiting knowledge can be a major competitive advantage for libraries, which can translate into better service to users. The knowledge management can help transform the library into a more efficient, knowledge sharing organization. Therefore, the fifth international conference CALIBER-2007 is to provide a communication platform for focus attention on knowledge management and revolving issues relevant to the higher education, institutions, organisations and academic libraries area. Programme committee solicits high quality technical papers related to the theme and sub-themes but are not limited to the following areas listed below Theme of the Conference ==================== "Information and Knowledge Management in Networked World" International CALIBER 2007 invites contributed papers and case studies on various aspects of the conference theme, as listed below as sub-themes of the conference: Sub-Theme of the Conference ======================= 1. Digital Libraries -------------------------- Digital Library architectures, models, integrated access interface Digital archiving, preservation and Sustainability: methodological, technical and legal issues Access to distributed and heterogeneous digital collections including Multilingual information Access and Multimedia Information Handling Digital library security and information protection Digital Library Applications: Trends & Future Digital library performance, resources, usefulness, usability and evaluation 2. Information and Knowledge Management ------------------------------------------------------------ KM Architecture, System Design, Applications and Practices Knowledge Assets, Barriers to knowledge Knowledge audits, benchmarks, maturity measures Knowledge discovery: databases and portals Knowledge Generation and Transfer Knowledge-based IT infrastructures and its role Challenges and Opportunities in KM 3. Innovations in Information Communication Technologies ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Distributed and heterogeneous digital collections: interoperability, scalability, relevant information discovery Indexing and Information Retrieval Security techniques Storage Models and Architecture Web technology and Evolving Search Engines Standards and Protocols 4. Towards Virtual Library ------------------------------------ The Roles of e-journals, e-books, and open access publishing in libraries E-publishing, open source movement, open access initiatives Institutional repositories and electronic resource sharing Digital divide, Digital Library Network and Information Sharing Human factors in Information Systems Integration User studies and system evaluation Editorial Policy (Part I) ================= CALIBER provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences among library communities throughout the world. The editors will receive contributions from all parts of the world. Criteria for acceptance will be appropriateness and its relevance to the Theme and sub-themes. Only papers not previously published will be accepted. Acceptance or otherwise will be at the discretion of the Editorial Committee. Completed papers will be required and information regarding these will be forwarded with the acceptance letter from the Convener of the CALIBER-2007 to the authors. However editors are requested to intimate to the authors about the receipt of the papers. In case of the paper is not up to the standard, only abstract can be included in the proceedings. Paper Submission ============== Editor-in-Chief, CALIBER 2007 Director, INFLIBNET Centre (An IUC of UGC) Gujarat University Campus PB 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad-380 009, (Gujarat) India Phone : +91-79-26304695 / 8528 / 5971 / 0002 Fax : +91-79-26300990/26307816 E-mail : director(a)inflibnet.ac.in OR caliber2007(a)inflibnet.ac.in Registration & Accommodation ======================== Registration ----------------- The conference registration fee is Rs. 1000/-. The delegates will be provided with convention kit, proceedings volume, lunch and tea (on two convention days only). TA/DA and accommodation charges will have to be borne by sponsoring organizations/participants. Please send your completed registration form along with the registration fee through Demand Draft drawn in favour of Organizing Secretary, CALIBER-2007, payable at Chandigarh to Dr. V. K. Anand, Organizing Secretary, CALIBER-2007 not later than January 15, 2007. DD should be drawn on nationalized banks only. Please note that delegate registration fee of Rs.1000/- for the CALIBER, does not include accommodation fee. Extra fees of Rs.100/- will be charged for spot registration Accommodation ----------------------- Accommodation can be arranged to the participants in the university campus and other sister institutions on first cum first basis provided intimation and advance booking charges are sent to the Organizing Secretary, CALIBER-2007, Panjab University, Chandigarh along with registration fee. If any participant intends to stay in a hotel, it may be arranged on actual payment basis provided intimation and advance booking charges. The details of the hotels and their tariffs will be announced soon. Registration Fees: please visit website http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/caliber2007/registration.htm Registration & Accommodation Dr. V. K. Anand Organizing Secretary, CALIBER-2007 Librarian , A.C. Joshi Library Panjab University, Chandigarh, Punjab - INDIA. Phone: +91-172-2548159, 2534551 E-mail: pulib(a)pu.ac.in Mr. Manoj Kumar K. Convener, CALIBER-2007 Scientist - D (CS), INFLIBNET Centre (An IUC of UGC) Gujarat University Campus PB 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad-380 009, (Gujarat) India Phone : +91-79-26304695 / 8528 / 5971/ 0002 Fax : +91-79-26300990 / 26307816 E-mail : manoj(a)inflibnet.ac.in OR caliber2007(a)inflibnet.ac.in For more details please visit website http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/caliber2007/ With best regards. Bye. ________________________________________________ K Prakash Scientific/Technical Officer-I Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre An Inter-University Centre of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Post Box No.4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad - 380 009 India Phone: 91-079-2630 5971/2630 4695 Extn: 38(Off); 2676 3724(Res) Fax: 91-079-2630 0990/ 2630 7816 Mobile: 94270 00758 Email: prakash(a)inflibnet.ac.in; prakash_k(a)yahoo.com URL: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/

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Fred Noronha on the B'lore workshop
by Mailing List Manager 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 13:36:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Friends: Here is what Fred Noronha, Goa-based journalist and open source software champion, has written about the Bangalore workshop on electronic publishing and open access in SciDev.net. Arun [Subbiah arunachalam] ----- Scientists push open access for developing nations Scientists in developing countries hope to promote open access for scholarly articles Frederick Noronha 29 November 2006 Source: SciDev.Net Scientists from Brazil, China, Ethiopia, India and South Africa have set guidelines for developing countries to freely access publicly funded research. The success of their draft national policy will depend on whether the relevant governments, funders and research institutes adopt its recommendations. The guidelines were agreed at a workshop in Bangalore, India earlier this month (2-3 November) where 44 international participants including scientists and policymakers discussed ways to promote open access. Open access is the free online availability of digital content, especially of peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly journal articles. Scientists in the developing world have long complained that their work is invisible to scientists in North America and Europe, said Alma Swan, co-director of Key Perspectives Ltd, a UK consultancy company for scholarly information. "Now the developing world has the opportunity to create the level playing field it has so long cried out for," she told SciDev.Net. While participants agreed on the policy, there was lively debate on how to make governments adopt it, Barbara Kirsop, secretary of the UK-based Electronic Publishing Trust, told SciDev.Net. The participants said financial barriers prevented researchers in developing countries from accessing the research information they need. Their policy urges governments to require all publicly funded research published in peer-reviewed journals be deposited in an institutional digital database as soon as publication is accepted. This should be a condition for research funding for any papers partly or fully funded by the government. Eve Gray, a fellow at the Open Society Institute in South Africa said that policymakers in governments and institutions have the power to determine the reach of scientific research. "They can make [the research] instantly visible, or they can fail their staff," she told SciDev.Net. Large research funders in rich countries such as the Wellcome Trust and Research Councils United Kingdom, she argued, have recognised this and shown the way. The workshop revealed that Bioline, an online publisher for developing countries, saw a huge increase in requests for scholarly papers when it became open access. This shows "how much information was unused, unknown, un-accessed before open access", says Kirsop. She added that developing nations should lead the way towards promoting open access as "they have so much to gain and so much to contribute". The workshop was funded by the Open Society Institute and organised by the Indian Academy of Sciences, the Indian Institute of Science and the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation. * Related SciDev.Net articles: Universities urged: 'share benefits of health research' Scientists get free access to environment journals China unveils plans to boost scientific data sharing

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500+ Records in NIO?s Institutional Repository
by Mailing List Manager 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 16:51:41 +0530 (IST) From: MP Tapaswi <murari(a)nio.org> 500+ Records in NIO?s Institutional Repository The Institutional Repository of the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) Goa, India - http://drs.nio.org - crossed 500 full-text records (Journal articles, conference articles, book chapters, theses, etc) on 1 December 2006 since it?s launching during end March 2006. Within a short span of eight months, there are over 35,000 downloads from over 100 countries. How was this achieved?: 124 articles published by NIO?s authors during the year 2006 are up. Thanks to the authors who resourced these. Many of them have learnt the art of self-archiving (uploading on DRS) and few sought help of the library. Other articles range for the period 2000-2005. NIO library obtained permissions from Indian publishers to upload these. These have been uploaded after scan and OCR. This has helped increasing the size of DRS. Very little portion of this does include grey literature (theses, reports, etc.). DRS is one among the very few institutional repositories in the field of Marine Sciences all over the world. The contents of DRS is harvested by: OAIster (Global harvester for archives), Google Scholar, Avano (Marine and aquatic science harvester from France) and CASSIR (Indian archives harvester at IISc, India). Visit DRS! - Murari P Tapaswi, National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula 403 004 Goa, India Phone: 91-0832-2450 275, Fax: 01-0832-2450 602, URL: http://www.nio.org -------------------------------------------- www.nio.org www.indian-ocean.org www.reefindia.org www.coastalhazards.info www.coastalhazards.in www.mangroveindia.org

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KALA Lecture: OCLC & Net Library
by I.R.N.Goudar 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Dear Professionals, Karnataka State Library Association has organised the following two lectures in collaboration with NCSI, IISc 1. Speaker 1: Mr Arthur Smith, Director, OCLC Topic: OCLC and WORLD CAT 2.Speaker 2: Mr Scott Wasinger, CEO, Net Library Topic: E-books and Net Library Date: 7th Dec 2006 at 4.00 PM Venue: Conference Hall, NCSI, IISc, Bangalore YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED. PLEASE INFORM YOUR COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS TOO. Goudar Prof. N.V. Joshi President, KALA Chairman, NCSI, IISc EC Members & Office Bearers, KALA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Sci F & Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html

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OA in India
by Subbiah Arunachalam 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Friends: Here is a report from Peter Suber's "Open Access News". It shows what a few committed people can achieve. I understand that there is a move at IISc, Bangalore, to place as many papers of faculty and students as possible in the next two years before the Institute celebrates its centenary. IISc must have published several tens of thousands of papers in the past 98 years. It will indeed be great if all of them are readily available in full text and are searchable using metadata. When will the other leading research institutions in India follow suit? Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ---------------------- Nebraska IR growing fast Zak Pluhacek, UNL online information database ranks 4th in U.S., Daily Nebraskan, December 3, 2006. (Thanks to tdaxp.) Excerpt: It took just 18 months for University of Nebraska-Lincoln archivists to create the Digital Commons, a now internationally ranked online database of more than 15,000 papers, essays and articles. The archive was recently bumped to the fourth largest in the U.S. and is in the top 15 worldwide in terms of size, ac-cording to grading by the Registry of Open Access Repositories, or ROAR. The directories of the University of Michigan, Ohio State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are the only three in the nation with more materials than the UNL commons. Each has been available for more than five years. The University of California's archive, which UNL surpassed to gain ROAR's fourth-place ranking, is more than 10 years old. "We've been working very hard to populate (the UNL data-base) with content. We're probably the fastest growing digital archive in the United States at this point," said Paul Royster, UNL's Digital Commons director. Royster began uploading around 10,000 doctorial dissertations written by UNL faculty members to the database in 2005. Since then, he and his staff of five students have added more than 5,000 other materials, and continue to add to the service piece by piece. "There's been a movement for the past two or three years, and Nebraska Libraries is in the front rank because we're interested in electronic access," Royster said.... "(It) showcases our faculty and student research, increasing the visibility of their work and providing an easy way for potential students to see the breadth and depth of the work done at UNL," said Joan Giesecke, dean of libraries for UNL, in a press release Tuesday. The Digital Commons aver-ages around 2,000 hits, or view or searches of content, per day. More than 800 documents are downloaded on average each day.... Amidst the recent popularity of open source systems, registries like ROAR have become more common as well. ROAR has existed in its current form for two years, said the registry's director Tim Brody....ROAR tracks archives based on size, type and growth. "We want to encourage both the setting up, but more importantly, the filling of repositories," [Brody] said. "In order to encourage the filling of repositories we need to know how much stuff there is in them." Peter Suber's Comment. This is an OA success story. Kudos to UNL for wanting to make it happen. Special credit goes to Paul Royster and Jean Giesecke for delivering. Another part of the campus OA culture not mentioned in the article is that UNL provost Barbara Couture signed the July 2006 GWLA Provost Letter endorsing FRPAA. ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com

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Open Courseware
by Subbiah Arunachalam 02 Dec '06

02 Dec '06

Open Courseware is a worldwide movement Jeffrey Thomas, Online Materials Broadening Global Access to Education, US Info (from the US Department of State), December 1, 2006. Excerpt: When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced in 2001 that it was planning to offer free online access to educational materials from hundreds of its course offerings, the university in Cambridge said it hoped its OpenCourseWare (OCW) Web site would inspire other educational institutions to help create a worldwide web of knowledge that will benefit humanity. Judging by the enthusiastic worldwide response to MITs gesture, the university appears five years later to be leading an international movement that is affecting education on every continent. Twelve U.S. educational institutions currently are participating in what has become an international consortium comprising more than 50 institutions in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America.... Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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IFLA/Unesco Internet Manifesto Guidelines
by Subbiah Arunachalam 02 Dec '06

02 Dec '06

Friends: The IFLA/Unesco Internet Manifesto Guidelines are just released. Please visit <http://www.ifla.org/faife/policy/iflastat/Internet-ManifestoGuidelines.pdf>. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Fwd: you may like this
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 02 Dec '06

02 Dec '06

Dear Friends The link given below was brought to my attention by Justice TNC Rangarajan. "Library flow" is a site For librarians, by librarians! Where do you get your library news?... Read, recommend, and comment on articles. Blog search included. One pace to stay updated. http://www.personalbee.com/1084 Regards Vyasamoorthy ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Macinfo <tncrangarajan(a)macinfo.net> Date: Dec 2, 2006 8:05 AM Subject: you may like this To: You! <tncrangarajan(a)macinfo.net> http://www.personalbee.com/1084 -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Society for Serving Seniors (Formerly SENIORS) 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015 Phone 27846631

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World Digital Library project
by vimal kumar 02 Dec '06

02 Dec '06

Dear Friends, UNESCO and the Library of Congress will host today at UNESCO Paris Headquarters a meeting to pave the way for the launch of a World Digital Library, an internet-based repository of knowledge from all cultures and in all languages. To read more visit the link, http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=23521&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in --------------------------------- Check out the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. UNESCO and the Library of Congress will host today at UNESCO Paris Headquarters a meeting to pave the way for the launch of a World Digital Library, an internet-based repository of knowledge from all cultures and in all languages. To read more visit the link, http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=23521&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in Check out http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=43257/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailb… the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster.

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Open Access and health in developing countries
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

>From Peter Suber's "Open Access News" OA for human welfare Gavin Yamey and Calestous Juma, Improving Human Welfare: The Crucial Role of Open Access, Science Editor 29, 5 (2006) pp. 163-165. Self-archived November 30, 2006. Abstract: Developing countries are increasingly improving their capacity to use scientific and technical knowledge to solve local problems. They are investing in communication infrastructure and improving technology policies. For such measures to be effective, those countries also need greater access to the worlds pool of knowledge. Restrictions on access to scientific and health information are hindering progress, particularly in the worlds least-developed countries, and are impeding efforts toward global development. Essential information is locked away behind such barriers as journal subscription charges or individual article download fees. Journal articles are typically subject to restrictive copyright licenses that prevent reproduction, distribution, translation, or the creation of derivative works, all of which would help published work to be used for innovation. These restrictions are compounded by infrastructure inadequacies and lack of incentives for increasing the use of scientific and technologic knowledge in solving challenges in developing countries. ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Photos NEW, now offering a quality print service from just 7p a photo http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

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MetaGlossary
by sandeep bhavsar 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Respected All MetaGlossary http://www.metaglossary.com/ Meta means beyond, more comprehensive, or more highly organized, and with respect to other dictionaries and glossaries, MetaGlossary is all these things. MetaGlossary harvests definitions from the entire web, the world's largest, constantly-updated repository of information. Hence, it surpasses traditional dictionaries, which grow more out of date with each passing day. MetaGlossary is as dynamic as the web, offering the most current information out there on the most contemporary topics. However, unlike other search engines, MetaGlossary is able to precisely extract the meanings of terms and phrases from the often frustratingly unmanageable mass of information on the web. It provides you with concise, direct explanations for terms and phrases, not just endless links to sift through in search of a comprehensive definition. What's more, MetaGlossary organizes these meanings based on topic and usage, so you'll find the one you're looking for quickly and easily. Since MetaGlossary spans the expanse of the web, even your most field-specific requests for terms, phrases, acronyms, technical jargon, and slang, will be successfully met Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 elibrary : http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Respected All MetaGlossary http://www.metaglossary.com/ http://www.metaglossary.com/ Meta means beyond, more comprehensive, or more highly organized, and with respect to other dictionaries and glossaries, MetaGlossary is all these things. MetaGlossary harvests definitions from the entire web, the world's largest, constantly-updated repository of information. Hence, it surpasses traditional dictionaries, which grow more out of date with each passing day. MetaGlossary is as dynamic as the web, offering the most current information out there on the most contemporary topics. However, unlike other search engines, MetaGlossary is able to precisely extract the meanings of terms and phrases from the often frustratingly unmanageable mass of information on the web. It provides you with concise, direct explanations for terms and phrases, not just endless links to sift through in search of a comprehensive definition. What's more, MetaGlossary organizes these meanings based on topic and usage, so you'll find the one you're looking for quickly and easily. Since MetaGlossary spans the expanse of the web, even your most field-specific requests for terms, phrases, acronyms, technical jargon, and slang, will be successfully met Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 elibrary : http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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How can a declaration be implemented without involving policy makers from the government?
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Friends: While welcoming the policy statement that emerged from the Bangalore workshop on electronic publishing and open access and which developing countries and their funding agencies could adopt, someone commented that "we should work jointly to ensure that policy makers from the government should be involved in the movement if any declaration has to be implemented in a developing country", and "how can a declaration be implemented without involving policy makers from the government." I am sure people who want to bring about a major transformation would know this. It would be naive to expect policy makers such as Prof. C N R Rao, Dr R Chidambaram or Dr R A Mashelkar to attend a two-day workshop on open access. We did invite senior officials of DST, DSIR, DBT, etc. but they could not attend (for valid reasons). But policy makers - members of the Science Advisory Council, for example - attended and spoke at the workshop. What is relevant is that policy makers have been involved for a very long time. Pardon me for confining myself to what I have been doing. I have been speaking to key people in the Ministry of Science, Office of the Prinicipal Scientific Adviser, the Science Advisory Council and the Academies ever since I took interest in promoting the culture of open access. To give a few examples, I have had many conversations (mostly by email and occasionally face-to-face) with Professor M S Valiathan, then President of INSA. He signed the Berlin Declaration on behalf of INSA, he convened a one-day meet on open access at the Annual Meeting of INSA held at NCL, Pune, and invited me to speak as well as to suggest names of other potential speakers, and made all INSA journals open access. I have been talking to Prof. N Balakrishnan, who is not only the Associate Director of IISc but also an important person in Indian science and higher education policy circles. He set up India's first super computer centre and India's first institutional archive and is heading the internationally known Million Books Digital Library programme. I have been talking to Prof. N Mukunda, Editor of publications of the Indian Academy of Sciences and a former chiar of the INASP advisory board. We even attended a open access conference at Unesco together a few years ago where I introduced him to Abel Packer, the key person behind SciELO and BIREME. It was then we extended an invitation to Abel to come to India, and it took four years for him to actually visit us! The Indian Academy made all its 11 journals open access. I have been talking to the members and advisors of the National Knowledge Commission and the NKC is likely to recommend adoption of OA for publicly funded research. I have spoken to the secretaries and senior officials of DST and DSIR many times about the need for mandating open access. I have addressed a meeting attended by many members of the SAC-PM and the PSA to the GoI and argued in favour of open access. I have been alerting DBT and the coordinators of the Bioinformatics Centres for the past five years about the need for adopting OA. I have spoken to NAAS and the top brass of ICAR about the need for adopting OA. I am also in touch with policy makers in other developing countries, international organizations and funding agencies. The B'lore meeting was held at IISc with the cooperation of IASc and was attended among others by Prof. Balakrishnan and Prof. Gadagkar and several other Fellows of the Academies. I am talking to people at all levels - from the level of technical assistants and officers who actually set up and maintain OA archives to Directors of institutions and Secretaries to the Government of India and Presidents of Academies. I am not the only one who is trying to promote OA in India and the developing world. There are many others and all of us recognise the importance of working together. In fact I have coauthored papers with Peter Suber, Barbara Kirsop, and Leslie Chan. As the governments happen to be the major providers of funds for research in all developing countries, we need to persuade them to mandate. How can we neglect or ignore them? Besides we believe in sharing knowledge (that is why we are ready to hold workshops and spend so much time and energy in disseminating news on current developments) and building multi stakeholder partnerships. [Incidentally, for an earlier workshop (held at Hyderabad as part of the Science Congress) we even sought some funds from DSIR and NIC, but did not get any. (Our application to DSIR was filed rather late.) We were very hopeful of getting some funds from NIC, as they were actively engaged in open access initiatives, but did not get any. Then we approached OSI and a Bombay-based good samaritan, and both of them agreed very readily to support the travel of three speakers, and ICRISAT provided free accommodation.] . This time around, but for the timely intervention of a DSIR officer the Chinese participants would not have made it to the Bangalore workshop. To conclude, rest assured we have been working with policy makers both within and outside the government and we will continue to do so. I wonder how anyone could have got the impression that we are not involving policy makers from the government. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Friends: While welcoming the policy statement that emerged from the Bangalore workshop on electronic publishing and open access and which developing countries and their funding agencies could adopt, someone commented that "we should work jointly to ensure that policy makers from the government should be involved in the movement if any declaration has to be implemented in a developing country", and "how can a declaration be implemented without involving policy makers from the government." I am sure people who want to bring about a major transformation would know this. It would be naive to expect policy makers such as Prof. C N R Rao, Dr R Chidambaram or Dr R A Mashelkar to attend a two-day workshop on open access. We did invite senior officials of DST, DSIR, DBT, etc. but they could not attend (for valid reasons). But p olicy makers - members of the Science Advisory Council, for example - attended and spoke at the workshop. What is relevant is that policy makers have been involved for a very long time. Pardon me for confining myself to what I have been doing. I have been speaking to key people in the Ministry of Science, Office of the Prinicipal Scientific Adviser, the Science Advisory Council and the Academies ever since I took interest in promoting the culture of open access. To give a few examples, I have had many conversations (mostly by email and occasionally face-to-face) with Professor M S Valiathan, then President of INSA. He signed the Berlin Declaration on behalf of INSA, he convened a one-day meet on open access at the Annual Meeting of INSA held at NCL, Pune, and invited me to speak as well as to suggest names of other potential speakers, and made all INSA journals open access. I have been talking to Prof. N Balakrishnan, who is not only the Associate Director of IISc but also an important person in Indian science and higher education policy circles. He set up India's first super computer centre and India's first institutional archive and is heading the internationally known Million Books Digital Library programme. I have been talking to Prof. N Mukunda, Editor of publications of the Indian Academy of Sciences and a former chiar of the INASP advisory board. We even attended a open access conference at Unesco together a few years ago where I introduced him to Abel Packer, the key person behind SciELO and BIREME. It was then we extended an invitation to Abel to come to India, and it took four years for him to actually visit us! The Indian Academy made all its 11 journals open access. I have been talking to the members and advisors of the National Knowledge Commission and the NKC is likely to recommend adoption of OA for publicly funded research. I have spoken to the secretaries and senior officials of DST and DSIR many times about the need for mandating open access. I have addressed a meeting attended by many members of the SAC-PM and the PSA to the GoI and argued in favour of open access. I have been alerting DBT and the coordinators of the Bioinformatics Centres for the past five years about the need for adopting OA. I have spoken to NAAS and the top brass of ICAR about the need for adopting OA. I am also in touch with policy makers in other developing countries, international organizations and funding agencies. The B'lore meeting was held at IISc with the cooperation of IASc and was attended among others by Prof. Balakrishnan and Prof. Gadagkar and several other Fellows of the Academies. I am talking to people at all levels - from the level of technical assistants and officers who actually set up and maintain OA archives to Directors of institutions and Secretaries to the Government of India and Presidents of Academies. I am not the only one who is trying to promote OA in India and the developing world. There are many others and all of us recognise the importance of working together. In fact I have coauthored papers with Peter Suber, Barbara Kirsop, and Leslie Chan. As the governments happen to be the major providers of funds for research in all developing countries, we need to persuade them to mandate. How can we neglect or ignore them? Besides we believe in sharing knowledge (that is why we are ready to hold workshops and spend so much time and energy in disseminating news on current developments) and building multi stakeholder partnerships. [Incidentally, for an earlier workshop (held at Hyderabad as part of the Science Congress) we even sought some funds from DSIR and NIC, but did not get any. (Our application to DSIR was filed rather late.) We were very hopeful of getting some funds from NIC, as they were actively engaged in open access initiatives, but did not get any. Then we approached OSI and a Bombay-based good samaritan, and both of them agreed very readily to support the travel of three speakers, and ICRISAT provided free accommodation.] . This time around, but for the timely intervention of a DSIR officer the Chinese participants would not have made it to the Bangalore workshop. To conclude, rest assured we have been working with policy makers both within and outside the government and we will continue to do so. I wonder how anyone could have got the impression that we are not involving policy makers from the government. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Dr. Eugene Garfield ( Father of Scientometrics and Bibliometrics) wins the Online Information Lifetime Achievement Award
by Mallikarjuna, H.B 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Dr. Eugene Garfield Wins The Online Information Lifetime Achievement Award " Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, today announced that Dr. Eugene Garfield is the 2006 recipient of the Online Information Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of more than 50 years of dedication, leadership and innovation in the information industry. The 2006 International Information Industry Awards were held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London, UK on Wednesday, November 29th. Often dubbed the Father of Scientometrics and Bibliometrics, Dr. Garfield is founder & chairman emeritus of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI®)now Thomson Scientific. Garfields career in scientific communication and information science began in 1951 when he joined the Welch Medical Indexing Project at Johns Hopkins University, USA. The project planted the seeds for several major advances in scientific communication and information science that have distinguished Dr. Garfields career. In 1958, Garfield was contacted by Joshua Lederberg, who was interested in knowing what happened to the citation index Garfield proposed in 1955 in the journal, Science. This, eventually led to a meeting with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to produce and distribute a Genetics Citation Index, including a multi-disciplinary index to the science literature of 1961. Undaunted by the NIH and National Science Foundations (NSF) disinterest in publishing the latter index, Garfield began regularly publishing the Science Citation Index® (SCI®) in 1964 through the Institute for Scientific Information. The SCI® soon istinguished itself from other literature indexes and was recognized as a basic and fundamental innovation in scientific communication and information science. >From 1961 on, Garfields career is marked by the constant enhancement of existing resources combined with the extraordinary development of new information tools for researchers, including Current Contents®, plus citation indexes for the social sciences (SSCI®) and arts and humanities (A&HCI®). During the past decades, as the volume of literature has been growing exponentially, Garfields innovations have made it possible for researchers to cope with and keep up with articles directly relevant to their interests. Current Contents has become a vital and basic component of clinical research and the research laboratory. The SCI has become an important tool for navigating the scientific literature. With the advent of the Internet the SCI, SSCI, and A&HCI were integrated into the online information solutionWeb of Science®. Web of Science is the leading resource that provides seamless access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from the most prestigious, high-impact research journals in the world. Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. With it, users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans (back to 1900) to uncover all the information relevant to their research. Today, Web of Science is a key component of ISI Web of Knowledge(SM)the ground-breaking, integrated research platform that facilitates discovery by offering seamless navigation to high-quality, multidisciplinary journal, patent, and web content; evaluation tools; and bibliographic management products. At age 81, Dr. Garfield maintains a heavy schedule of invited speeches and presentations before high-level medical, scientific, and information symposia and conferences. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions. He has published over 1,000 weekly essays in Current Contents and has also published and edited commentaries by the authors of over 5,000 Citation Classics. Dr Garfield continues to be active in scientific communication and information science. In 1986, he founded The Scientist, a bi-weekly newspaper for research professionals. It reports on news and developments relevant to the professional and practical interests of scientists, providing a unique forum for the discussion of issues important both to the research community and society. Accepting the award, Dr. Garfield expressed his gratitude to Online Information, colleagues, the research and information communities, employees, and friends around the world who supported him throughout his career and inspired his significant contributions to the information industry. He saved his most important thanks for last to his family." Eugene Garfield, Ph.D. Interviews: http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/interviews.html -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Indian Libraries and Librarians search engine :http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW Dr. Eugene Garfield Wins The Online Information Lifetime Achievement Award " Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, today announced that Dr. Eugene Garfield is the 2006 recipient of the Online Information Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of more than 50 years of dedication, leadership and innovation in the information industry. The 2006 International Information Industry Awards were held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London, UK on Wednesday, November 29th. Often dubbed the Father of Scientometrics and Bibliometrics, Dr. Garfield is founder & chairman emeritus of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI®)now Thomson Scientific. Garfields career in scientific communication and information science began in 1951 when he joined the Welch Medical Indexing Project at Johns Hopkins University, USA. The project planted the seeds for several major advances in scientific communication and information science that have distinguished Dr. Garfields career. In 1958, Garfield was contacted by Joshua Lederberg, who was interested in knowing what happened to the citation index Garfield proposed in 1955 in the journal, Science. This, eventually led to a meeting with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to produce and distribute a Genetics Citation Index, including a multi-disciplinary index to the science literature of 1961. Undaunted by the NIH and National Science Foundations (NSF) disinterest in publishing the latter index, Garfield began regularly publishing the Science Citation Index® (SCI®) in 1964 through the Institute for Scientific Information. The SCI® soon istinguished itself from other literature indexes and was recognized as a basic and fundamental innovation in scientific communication and information science. >From 1961 on, Garfields career is marked by the constant enhancement of existing resources combined with the extraordinary development of new information tools for researchers, including Current Contents®, plus citation indexes for the social sciences (SSCI®) and arts and humanities (A&HCI®). During the past decades, as the volume of literature has been growing exponentially, Garfields innovations have made it possible for researchers to cope with and keep up with articles directly relevant to their interests. Current Contents has become a vital and basic component of clinical research and the research laboratory. The SCI has become an important tool for navigating the scientific literature. With the advent of the Internet the SCI, SSCI, and A&HCI were integrated into the online information solutionWeb of Science®. Web of Science is the leading resource that provides seamless access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from the most prestigious, high-impact research journals in the world. Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. With it, users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans (back to 1900) to uncover all the information relevant to their research. Today, Web of Science is a key component of ISI Web of Knowledge(SM)the ground-breaking, integrated research platform that facilitates discovery by offering seamless navigation to high-quality, multidisciplinary journal, patent, and web content; evaluation tools; and bibliographic management products. At age 81, Dr. Garfield maintains a heavy schedule of invited speeches and presentations before high-level medical, scientific, and information symposia and conferences. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions. He has published over 1,000 weekly essays in Current Contents and has also published and edited commentaries by the authors of over 5,000 Citation Classics. Dr Garfield continues to be active in scientific communication and information science. In 1986, he founded The Scientist, a bi-weekly newspaper for research professionals. It reports on news and developments relevant to the professional and practical interests of scientists, providing a unique forum for the discussion of issues important both to the research community and society. Accepting the award, Dr. Garfield expressed his gratitude to Online Information, colleagues, the research and information communities, employees, and friends around the world who supported him throughout his career and inspired his significant contributions to the information industry. He saved his most important thanks for last to his family." Eugene Garfield, Ph.D. Interviews: http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/interviews.html -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Indian Libraries and Librarians search engine :http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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EMPI Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre Launches its Official Website
by PARSAI KAMAL L. 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Dr. Shailendra Kumar , Department of Library & Information Science, Delhi University & National Advisory Board Member, EMPI Digital Library National Convention 2007 launched the Convention¢s Official Website http://www.empidlnc.org. on Wednesday, 29th November, 2006 , at the premises of the EMPI Business School ¢s Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre. Mr. Gurnam Saran, President, EMPI Group of Institutions, Mrs. Rumma Sharma, Deputy Director (Library), CME, AIMA, New Delhi & Members of the Organizing Board were the prominent dignitaries at the inaugural function. Later, Dr. Shailendra Kumar read, at the EMPIs R&D Conference Room No. 2, his paper on " Dynamics of Information from the Village to the Research Laboratory ." The paper was illuminating and thought provoking for all who are interested in reducing 'the Digital Divide' between the Rural and Urban populations, the Illiterate and the Academicians. The prime objectives of launching the website http://www.empidlnc.org are 1. EMPI Knowledge and Resource Center 's continuing efforts of promoting & shaping the Digital Library concepts and practices in India , 2. To share and contribute the best expertise about implementing, governing and regulating Digital Library processes and practices, and make a platform to announce various EMPI training and educational activities on developing Modern Knowledge & Learning Resource Centres. 3. To provide students, faculty and other practitioners a knowledge base to download and share presentations (PPT), abstracts, and extended abstracts of the papers presented at various conventions. 4. Disseminate information relating to the EMPIDLNC-2007, including on line facilities for Registration, Booking Accommodation, Programmes and Schedules of the Convention etc. etc. It may be recalled, that recently, Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre, Central Library, EMPI Business School, announced its first initiative - the EMPI Digital Library National Convention (EMPI DLNC) - 2007 for promoting digital libraries and associated Technical, Management, Social Processes and emerging issues. The Convention will be held on 18th March to 20th March 2007 at India International Centre under the venerable leadership of Dr. Muttayya Koganuramath, President, Indian Library Association . The EMPIDLNC-2007 is proposed with a view to provide a unique platform to the eminent Knowledge and Learning Resource Centers professionals and practitioners in search of and to share the innovative ideas, work space problems and their solutions (case studies), modern library technical and management processes and practices, opportunities and challenges in managing people and digital resources, and servicing aspects of the upgraded Knowledge and Learning Resource Centers Dr. Shailendra Kumar, Department of Library & Information Science, Delhi University & National Advisory Board Member, EMPI Digital Library National Convention 2007 launched the Convention¢s Official Website http://www.empidlnc.org. on Wednesday, 29th November, 2006, at the premises of the EMPI Business School¢s Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre. Mr. Gurnam Saran, President, EMPI Group of Institutions, Mrs. Rumma Sharma, Deputy Director (Library), CME, AIMA, New Delhi & Members of the Organizing Board were the prominent dignitaries at the inaugural function. Later, Dr. Shailendra Kumar read, at the EMPIs R&D Conference Room No. 2, his paper on "Dynamics of Information from the Village to the Research Laboratory." The paper was illuminating and thought provoking for all who are interested in reducing 'the Digital Divide' between the Rural and Urban populations, the Illiterate and the Academicians. The prime objectives of launching the website http://www.empidlnc.org are 1. EMPI Knowledge and Resource Center's continuing efforts of promoting & shaping the Digital Library concepts and practices in India, 2. To share and contribute the best expertise about implementing, governing and regulating Digital Library processes and practices, and make a platform to announce various EMPI training and educational activities on developing Modern Knowledge & Learning Resource Centres. 3. To provide students, faculty and other practitioners a knowledge base to download and share presentations (PPT), abstracts, and extended abstracts of the papers presented at various conventions. 4. Disseminate information relating to the EMPIDLNC-2007, including on line facilities for Registration, Booking Accommodation, Programmes and Schedules of the Convention etc. etc. It may be recalled, that recently, Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre, Central Library, EMPI Business School, announced its first initiative - the EMPI Digital Library National Convention (EMPI DLNC) - 2007 for promoting digital libraries and associated Technical, Management, Social Processes and emerging issues. The Convention will be held on 18th March to 20th March 2007 at India International Centre under the venerable leadership of Dr. Muttayya Koganuramath, President, Indian Library Association. The EMPIDLNC-2007 is proposed with a view to provide a unique platform to the eminent Knowledge and Learning Resource Centers professionals and practitioners in search of and to share the innovative ideas, work space problems and their solutions (case studies), modern library technical and management processes and practices, opportunities and challenges in managing people and digital resources, and servicing aspects of the upgraded Knowledge and Learning Resource Centers

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Condolences from the INFLIBNET Staff
by Suresh Chauhan 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Dear All, It is really very shocking to know about the demise of Prof. Veena Saraf. She was one of the brilliant LIS professionals of this country. She was well associated with the INFLIBNET and its activities since very beginning. Her sad demise has created a vacuum which can not be filled up in future. The condolences from the INFLIBNET Staff for her bereaved Family and pray for resting her soul in peace. Suresh Dear All, It is really very shocking to know about the demise of Prof. Veena Saraf. She was one of the brilliant LIS professionals of this country. She was well associated with the INFLIBNET and its activities since very beginning. Her sad demise has created a vacuum which can not be filled up in future. The condolences from the INFLIBNET Staff for her bereaved Family and pray for resting her soul in peace. Suresh

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An alliance for taxpayer access in India
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

>From Biobytes, Vol. 1, 18 December 2006 [http://biobytes.bicmku.in/] A Perspective on Open Access Publishing Subbiah Arunachalam Email: arun(a)mssrf.res.in Much of research in India in the fields of science, technology, agriculture, medicine, social sciences, economics, etc. is funded out of taxpayers' money. A few years ago, a DST report quoted a figure of about 75% for the share of publicly funded scientific research. However, the findings of these research programmes, usually in the form of research papers published in refereed journals, are not easily accessible even to Indian scientists at large let alone the public, for the simple reason scientists publish their research papers in a wide variety of journals published from many countries and no library in India or for that matter anywhere in the world can afford to subscribe to all these journals. Also, some journal publishers fix their subscription prices at astronomical levels. As a consequence research published by scientists at the Tuberculosis Research Centre in Chennai, which would be of great relevance to researchers say in a university in Maharashtra, may not be even noticed by the university scientists. Both groups receive funds from the same source, viz. the Indian Government, and yet what one does is not easily accessible to the other. What is more it need not be. The authors at the Tuberculosis research Institute may publish their papers in any journal they want to. But if, at the same time, they also place the papers in an interoperable institutional open access archive (or repository) anyone with an Internet connection can access it. This is precisely why enlightened institutions such as the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian Institute of Science are subscribing to the idea of open access. All eleven Academy journals are open access. Anyone anywhere in the world can access any paper published in these journals - full text and not just abstracts - through the Internet. The Indian Institute of Science is maintaining an open access repository of full text papers and they are on their way to placing every paper published by the IISc faculty and students in this repository. Currently they have more than 5,000 papers. CERN, the Centre for Nuclear research in Geneva has placed more than 75,000 papers in its repository. Many Indian physicists have been placing their research papers - both preprints and postprints - in an international repository called arXiv. But a vast majority of Indian scientists are not making their papers available via open access. What can we the common people, the taxpaying public, do? Well in the USA they have an organization called the Alliance for Taxpayer Access; please see http://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:5584.334940148/rid:24ef8cfe5… for details. They have over 75 institutional members and they are fighting for open access to all publicly funded research. Through their advocacy, the Alliance members hope to change not only the US policy but also the attitude and behaviour of individual scientists. Enlightened Indians in all walks of life could form a national organization similar to the US Alliance for Taxpayer Access and persuade the government to mandate open access all research publications resulting from public funding. The Alliance could write to major funding agencies and apex bodies (such as DST, DSIR, ICAR, ICMR, DAE, DRDO, Dept of Space, Department of Ocean Development, UGC, etc.), the Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister and the science academies and professional societies urging them to adopt a comprehensive open access policy in India. In the US a bill is at an advanced stage of discussion in the Congress and in the UK six of the eight Research Councils have already announced their support to open access. The Wellcome Trust, one of the largest funders of life science research, has mandated OA for all papers resulting from their support. Surely we in India can open up the scientific and scholarly literature. Subbiah Arunachalam ---------------------- The presentations made at the workshop on electronic publishing and open access: developing country perspectives, Bangalore, 2-3 November 2006, are now available at <www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/OAworkshop2006/>. ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com

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Re: Re: [LIS-Forum] Prof ( Dr) Veena is no more- condolences from the professionals of hyderabad
by Mailing List Manager 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Date: 1 Dec 2006 05:12:31 -0000 From: Dr. S M.SHAFI <shafi_sm(a)rediffmail.com> Dear prof Rao and Colleagues, We were shocked to know about sad demise of prof. veena Saraf. The Department of Liberay and information Science and senior colleagues from Kashmir university Library System held a condolence meeting in the departent. The participants prayed for her eternal peace and prayed Almighty to have courage to her parents and daughter to bear the loss. DR saraf was adauhter of Kashmir and had her professional bebinning from the Departmnet and later worked for about one year innthe university LIB system S M SHAFI > >Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:39:47 +0000 (GMT) > From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. > >dear friends > >Prof ( Dr) Mrs Veena shroff, Head, Dept of Library and Information >science, NEHU was suffering from Cancer for last few months. I am >extremely sorry and feel very bad to inform u that she left all the >professionals on 28 nov at abt 9-30 PM. > >[truncated]

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Prof ( Dr) Veena is no more- condolences fromtheprofessionals of hyderabad
by Mailing List Manager 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:59:21 +0530 From: "srels(a)vsnl.com" <srels(a)blr.vsnl.net.in> Dear Dr.Laxman Rao: It saddened us to hear the news of the untimely demise of Dr. Veena Shroff. Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science condoles the death of Dr. Shroff. May her soul rest in peace. K.N.Prasad, SRELS, Bangalore ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mailing List Manager" <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 11:33 AM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Prof ( Dr) Veena is no more- condolences fromtheprofessionals of hyderabad > Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:39:47 +0000 (GMT) > From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> [truncated]

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Koha 2.2.7 released
by vimal kumar 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Dear Friends, Koha 2.2.7 just released. It is a stable version of 2.2.6. The main feature of this version is Z39.50 client based of Zoom. Koha has more than 100 registered users and at least 300 libraries use the software. Koha is the first Open-Source Integrated Library System. Koha is a full-featured open-source ILS. Developed initially in New Zealand by Katipo Communications Ltd and first deployed in January of 2000 for Horowhenua Library Trust, it is currently maintained by a team of software providers and library technology staff from around the globe. Visit Koha home page for more details, http://www.koha.org/ Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in --------------------------------- Cheap Talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. Dear Friends, Koha 2.2.7 just released. It is a stable version of 2.2.6. The main feature of this version is Z39.50 client based of Zoom. Koha has more than 100 registered users and at least 300 libraries use the software. Koha is the first Open-Source Integrated Library System. Koha is a full-featured open-source ILS. Developed initially in New Zealand by Katipo Communications Ltd and first deployed in January of 2000 for Horowhenua Library Trust, it is currently maintained by a team of software providers and library technology staff from around the globe. Visit Koha home page for more details, http://www.koha.org/ Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in Cheap Talk? http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman8/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates.

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Communication of the ACM - Backvolume - July, 2006- Required.
by Mailing List Manager 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:44:00 +0530 (IST) From: Vasanthakumar N <vasanthakumar(a)tsm.ac.in> Hello Mentors, sirs, If you anyone have the "COMMUNICATION OF THE ACM" JULY-2006 back volume. Please inform anyone have this. I need two pages of the article. Regards, Vasanthakumar.N

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NET Exemption to M.Phil/Ph.D holders
by rupesh kumar 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Dear All, UGC has officially approved exemption from NET to M.Phil. and Ph.D. Degree holders for appointment to the posts of Assistant Librarians and Assistant Director of Physical Education. The Official Notification is available at http://www.ugc.ac.in/notices/exemption_net06.pdf on the UGC Website Regards, Rupesh Kumar A Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore University a_rupeshkumar(a)yahoo.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://a.rupeshkumar.googlepages.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com UGC has officially approved exemption from NET to M.Phil. and Ph.D. Degree holders for appointment to the posts of Assistant Librarians and Assistant Director of Physical Education. The Official Notification is available at http://www.ugc.ac.in/notices/exemption_net06.pdf http://www.ugc.ac.in/notices/exemption_net06.pdf on the UGC Website Regards, Rupesh Kumar A Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore University mailto:a_rupeshkumar@yahoo.com a_rupeshkumar(a)yahoo.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://a.rupeshkumar.googlepages.com http://a.rupeshkumar.googlepages.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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A new report on OAI interoperability
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

>From Peter Suber's blog Major report on OAI interoperability Martha Brogan, Contexts and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library, Digital Library Federation, November 22, 2006. A major study (282 pp) of OAI interoperability from the DLF, one of the organizations, with CNI and NSF, that originally sponsored the development of the OAI-PMH. Excerpt: This report updates and expands on "A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services," originally commissioned by the DLF as an internal report in summer 2003, and released to the public later that year. It highlights major developments affecting the ecosystem of scholarly communications and digital libraries since the last survey and provides an analysis of "OAI implementation demographics," based on a comparative review of repository registries and cross-archive search services. Secondly, it reviews the state-of-practice for a cohort of digital library aggregation services, grouping them in the context of the "problem space" to which they most closely adhere. Based in part on online survey responses collected in fall 2005 from an online survey distributed to the original core services, the report investigates the purpose, function and challenges of next-generation aggregation services. On a case-by-case basis, the advances in each service are of interest in isolation from each other, but the report also attempts to situate these services in a larger context and to understand how they fit into a multi-dimensional and interdependent ecosystem supporting the worldwide community of scholars. Finally, the report summarizes the contributions of these services thus far and identifies obstacles requiring further attention to realize the goal of an open, distributed digital library system. The new report aims to inform DLF's continuing efforts "to foster better teaching and scholarship through easier, more relevant discovery of digital resources, and a much greater ability for libraries to build more responsive local services on top of a distributed metadata platform," as articulated in its successful IMLS National Leadership Grant, "The Distributed Library: OAI for Digital Library Aggregation." Extending over a two-year period from October 2004 through September 2006, the grant enables DLF to prototype a "second generation" OAI finding system. Concurrently, it affords DLF the opportunity to address challenges identified in the 2003 survey and voiced by early OAI adopters. In particular, DLF is building a comprehensive OAI registry, establishing best practices for shareable metadata, improving communication between data and service providers, and developing curricular materials and training sessions to introduce OAI best practices to a widening circle of institutions (Shreeves et al. 2005). Using the 2003 survey as a point of departure, this companion report takes a fresh look at the evolution of interoperability and federating heterogeneous content, especially as realized through implementation of the OAI protocol. It re-examines the original set of digital library aggregation services as well as representative new initiatives in an effort to identify trends - progress, needs, and challenges. How are they evolving over time? What have they achieved? What is impeding their progress? How do they envision their future? An online survey conducted in fall 2005 gathered baseline information from more than forty aggregators.... See especially these sections: * 2.2, Open Access Ascendant - Growth of OAI-compliant Repositories * 4.1, Points of Reference: Open Access and the Open Archives Initiative * 4.2, Links in the Scholarly Communication Value Chain Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Open access and higher education and research
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

>From Peter Suber's blog The OA workshop at Online Educa Berlin Online Educa tackles lifelong learning and open access, a press release from JISC, November 30, 2006. Excerpt: Delegates have been gathering for the world's largest e-learning conference which began in Berlin yesterday. The Online Educa conference on Technology and Supported Learning, now in its twelfth year, has attracted nearly 2,000 delegates from education, research, Government and commercial sectors from around the world.... Joint activities by JISC and SURF began in the afternoon with a workshop on open access. JISC Scholarly Communications consultant Fred Friend introduced the topic, saying that there were considerable economic, social and educational benefits to making research and other outputs available without financial, legal and technical barriers to access. It was also, he suggested, a question of giving more power to authors. He outlined the two complementary routes to open access. Self-archiving or the deposit of a pre-print or post-print in an institutional or subject repository is one route, he said, while the other is publication through an open access journal....Both routes, suggested Fred Friend, will enable the opportunities provided by technological developments, such as data mining and text mining, to be realised....There are significant economic benefits to open access too, he continued, through the sharing of developments in medical research, for example, and through the value for money gains of publicly funded research being more freely available.... Amber Thomas, JISC programme manager spoke about JISC's work to encourage the establishment and development of repositories in the UK.... Erik Saaman of SURF spoke about open access initiatives in the Netherlands, such as DAREnet (research), LOREnet (higher education), Edurep (non-HE) and Driver (European), and the common technical architectures which underpin them.... Ryan Hargreaves gave an overview of Jorum, the free online repository for learning and teaching resources which is aiming to create a culture of sharing of learning and teaching resources.... John May of the SURF Foundation spoke about LOREnet which is aiming to create a similar 'community of sharing' in the use of online teaching materials in the Netherlands.... ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com

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accept my condolences
by mythili` krishnamurthy 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Dear Sir, I am really shocked about the sudden and sad demise of Prof.DR. Veena saraf, my contact with her was only through mail and mobile phone just for 2 months June and July of this year when I contacted for my research work she spontaneously responded to help me in my research. She has sent some articles regarding my work. I could really believe that she is no more. My Hear felt condolences for her bereaved Family Mythili.k M.L.I.S, M.phil, ( Ph.d ) Librarian Seshadripuram Evening Degree College Bangalore-560 020 Mobile 91-9886379299 I am really shocked about the sudden and sad demise of Prof.DR. Veena saraf, my contact with her was only through mail and mobile phone just for 2 months June and July of this year when I contacted for my research work she spontaneously responded to help me in my research. She has sent some articles regarding my work. I could really believe that she is no more. My Hear felt condolences for her bereaved Family Mythili.k M.L.I.S, M.phil, ( Ph.d ) Librarian Seshadripuram Evening Degree College Bangalore-560 020 Mobile 91-9886379299

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Brief Report of PLANNER-06
by Suresh Chauhan 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Dear All, The 4th annual convention PLANNER-2006 (Promotion of Library Automation and Networking in North Eastern Region - 2006) was held 9-10 November 2006 in Mizoram University, Aizawl. It was organized by the Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre, Ahmedabad as parent body in collaboration with Department of Library and Information Science, Mizoram University, Aizawl. PLANNER - 2006 got overwhelming response from the professionals. 220 registered participants from 19 states of the country and few pioneer professionals were attended it as special invitees. In two days deliberations, six technical sessions, with pre-convention tutorial on Dspace with panel discussion and interactive discussions among participants and experts were major highlights of the convention. The convention was devoted to "Digital preservation, management and access to information in the Twenty First Century" with various key sub-themes. Shri Prem Chand, Scientist - C, INFLIBNET Centre was the convener of the convention. The other dignitaries were present there, as: Convener Shri Prem Chand, Scientist - C, INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad Organising Secretary Prof. Pravakar Rath, Head, DLIS, Mizoram University, Aizawl Convention Director Dr. R K Chadha, Director of Parliament Library, New Delhi Moderator of Panel Discussion Dr. Jagdish Arora, IIT Delhi, New Delhi Rapporteur General Dr. Preeti Mahajan, DLIS, Panjab University, Chandigarh Chairpersons of technical sessions: Shri Manoj Kumar K, Acting Director of INFLIBNET Centre Dr. Usha Manju Munshi, ISI, Kolkatta Dr. Ramesh Gaur, IGNCA, New Delhi Prof. A K Baradol, Professor, DLIS, Mangalore University, Mangalore Ch. Radheyshyam Singh, Librarian, Manipur University, Imphal Dr. R P Singh, Librarian, AIIMS, New Delhi Overall 35 technical papers were present by the authors and convention was ended with happy note. The full report of the convention is hosted at INFLIBNET's official website (http://www.inflibnet.ac.in) or directly at http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/planner06.htm . With kind regards Suresh K Chauhan ************************************************* Suresh K Chauhan Project Scientist (LS) INFLIBNET Centre, An Inter University Centre of University Grants Commission, Opp. Gujarat University Guest House, Post Box No. 4116, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380009. Gujarat, INDIA. Phone: 79 26308528, 26304695, 26305971 (Extn. 43) Fax: 79 26300990 Email: chauhan(a)inflibnet.ac.in ; sureshbabal(a)yahoo.com Dear All, The 4 th annual convention PLANNER-2006 ( P romotion of L ibrary A utomation and N etworking in N orth E astern R egion 2006) was held 9-10 November 2006 in Mizoram University, Aizawl. It was organized by the Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre, Ahmedabad as parent body in collaboration with Department of Library and Information Science, Mizoram University, Aizawl. PLANNER 2006 got overwhelming response from the professionals. 220 registered participants from 19 states of the country and few pioneer professionals were attended it as special invitees. In two days deliberations, six technical sessions, with pre-convention tutorial on Dspace with panel discussion and interactive discussions among participants and experts were major highlights of the convention. The convention was devoted to Digital preservation, management and access to information in the Twenty First Century with various key sub-themes. Shri Prem Chand, Scientist C, INFLIBNET Centre was the convener of the convention. The other dignitaries were present there, as: Convener Shri Prem Chand, Scientist C, INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad Organising Secretary Prof. Pravakar Rath, Head, DLIS, Mizoram University, Aizawl Convention Director Dr. R K Chadha, Director of Parliament Library, New Delhi Moderator of Panel Discussion Dr. Jagdish Arora, IIT Delhi, New Delhi Rapporteur General Dr. Preeti Mahajan, DLIS, Panjab University, Chandigarh Chairpersons of technical sessions: Shri Manoj Kumar K, Acting Director of INFLIBNET Centre Dr. Usha Manju Munshi, ISI, Kolkatta Dr. Ramesh Gaur, IGNCA, New Delhi Prof. A K Baradol, Professor, DLIS, Mangalore University, Mangalore Ch. Radheyshyam Singh, Librarian, Manipur University, Imphal Dr. R P Singh, Librarian, AIIMS, New Delhi Overall 35 technical papers were present by the authors and convention was ended with happy note. The full report of the convention is hosted at INFLIBNETs official website ( http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ http://www.inflibnet.ac.in ) or directly at http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/planner06.htm http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/planner06.htm . With kind regards Suresh K Chauhan ************************************************* Suresh K Chauhan Project Scientist (LS) INFLIBNET Centre, An Inter University Centre of University Grants Commission, Opp. Gujarat University Guest House, Post Box No. 4116, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380009. Gujarat, INDIA. Phone: 79 26308528, 26304695, 26305971 (Extn. 43) Fax: 79 26300990 Email: mailto:chauhan@inflibnet.ac.in chauhan(a)inflibnet.ac.in ; mailto:sureshbabal@yahoo.com sureshbabal(a)yahoo.com

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ALISE Discussion Forum on LIS Teaching Practices
by sandeep bhavsar 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

FOR ALL THE RESPECTED FACULTIES OF LIS How do teaching practices in LIS help students develop the intellectual base, practical skills, and ethical perspective needed for professional service to information users and to society? The ALISE Task Force on Best Teaching Practices in LIS Education invites you join a discussion forum on the three apprenticeships in professional education described by William M. Sullivan, keynote speaker for the 2007 ALISE conference and author of Work and Integrity: The Crisis and Promise of Professionalism in America (Jossey-Bass, 2005). The forum can now be accessed at http://attila.coe.ecu.edu/talk/COE/ALISE <https://www.exchange.iu.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://attila.coe.ecu…> To login use: ID: alise and Password: alise Sullivan's work introduces a series of studies by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching that will examine and compare the professional education of lawyers, physicians, nurses, engineers, and clergy. With a mission to educate for professional judgment and performance, Sullivan argues, professional programs seek to enable their students to integrate specialized knowledge and specific skills within the profession's commitment to clients and society. (Work and Integrity, p. 207) Join us to discuss how Sullivan's model applies to graduate professional education in library and information science and to share examples of teaching practices that characterize each of the apprenticeships: The first apprenticeship is intellectual, focused on the knowledge base of the field, and characterized by reasoning, argument, and research. The second is practical, the body of skills needed to be a competent practitioner. The third is ethical, including the skills, traits, responsibilities that characterize a professional. In keeping with the 2007 ALISE conference theme, "Habits of Mind and Practice: Preparing Reflective Professionals," we encourage you to reflect on how our teaching practices shape the professional skills and attitudes of our graduates. We welcome your participation. Stephen Bajjaly Jim Elmborg Sanda Erdelez Jami Jones Jean Preer, chair ALISE Task Force on Best Teaching Practices in LIS Education Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com FOR ALL THE RESPECTED FACULTIES OF LIS How do teaching practices in LIS help students develop the intellectual base, practical skills, and ethical perspective needed for professional service to information users and to society? The ALISE Task Force on Best Teaching Practices in LIS Education invites you join a discussion forum on the three apprenticeships in professional education described by William M. Sullivan, keynote speaker for the 2007 ALISE conference and author of Work and Integrity: The Crisis and Promise of Professionalism in America (Jossey-Bass, 2005). The forum can now be accessed at http://attila.coe.ecu.edu/talk/COE/ALISE http://attila.coe.ecu.edu/talk/COE/ALISE < https://www.exchange.iu.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://attila.coe.ecu… https://www.exchange.iu.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://attila.coe.ecu… > To login use: ID: alise and Password: alise Sullivan's work introduces a series of studies by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching that will examine and compare the professional education of lawyers, physicians, nurses, engineers, and clergy. With a mission to educate for professional judgment and performance, Sullivan argues, professional programs seek to enable their students to integrate specialized knowledge and specific skills within the profession's commitment to clients and society. (Work and Integrity, p. 207) Join us to discuss how Sullivan's model applies to graduate professional education in library and information science and to share examples of teaching practices that characterize each of the apprenticeships: The first apprenticeship is intellectual, focused on the knowledge base of the field, and characterized by reasoning, argument, and research. The second is practical, the body of skills needed to be a competent practitioner. The third is ethical, including the skills, traits, responsibilities that characterize a professional. In keeping with the 2007 ALISE conference theme, "Habits of Mind and Practice: Preparing Reflective Professionals," we encourage you to reflect on how our teaching practices shape the professional skills and attitudes of our graduates. We welcome your participation. Stephen Bajjaly Jim Elmborg Sanda Erdelez Jami Jones Jean Preer, chair ALISE Task Force on Best Teaching Practices in LIS Education Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : mailto:sandeep.bhavsar@gmail.com sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Prof ( Dr) Veena is no more- condolences from the professionals of hyderabad
by Mailing List Manager 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:01:29 -0800 (PST) From: amudhavalli alagusundaram <amudha75(a)yahoo.com> Dear Dr Rao and friends, Very sad to hear of the sad news of Dr Veena. MALA shares the grief and convey our heart felt feelings for the bereved family amudha Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:39:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. dear friends Prof ( Dr) Mrs Veena shroff, Head, Dept of Library and Information science, NEHU was suffering from Cancer for last few months. I am extremely sorry and feel very bad to inform u that she left all the professionals on 28 nov at abt 9-30 PM. [truncated]

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South African language innovators bridge digital divide
by Swapan Patra 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

http://Translate.org.za an open source-a cyber project meant for translation from one African language to other, has won African ICT Achiever 2006 Award. The project is meant for bridging the *digital divide* in the African continent by removing the language barrier. http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/communication/stories/nsl,162724.html#top *Swapan Kumar Patra* *Deaprtment of Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology* *Indian Institute of Technology Delhi* *New Delhi-110016* http://Translate.org.za http://Translate.org.za an open source-a cyber project meant for translation from one African language to other, has won African ICT Achiever 2006 Award. The project is meant for bridging the digital divide in the African continent by removing the language barrier. http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/communication/stories/nsl,162724.html#top http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/communication/stories/nsl,162724.html#top Swapan Kumar Patra Deaprtment of Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology Indian Institute of Technology Delhi New Delhi-110016

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Barbara Kirsop on Open access and developing countries
by Subbiah Arunachalam 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

>From Peter Suber's blog: Background on the Bangalore model national OA policy Barbara Kirsop, Creating a National Open Access Policy for Developing Countries, Open and Shut, November 29, 2006. Excerpt: Meeting in the idyllic surroundings of the Indian Institute of Science campus, in Bangalore, the 44 participants of the [Workshop on electronic publishing and open access, November 2-3, 2006] included scientists and OA experts from India, China, Brazil and South Africa, along with colleagues and OA advocates from a number of other countries.... [W]hy was it felt necessary to hold a workshop on OA so soon after the Salvador Declaration on Open Access for Developing Countries, held in September 2005? The Bangalore workshop was not intended to be a venue simply for confirming acceptance of the principles of OA, but was convened to bring some of the most scientifically advanced developing countries together to report on progress, and consider a model National Open Access Policy that could be offered to governments, and their funding organisations, as a practical tool for driving OA forward. The aim, therefore, was to take the next step towards ensuring the implementation of earlier OA declarations, not just to talk about OA.... [S]ince the cost of academic journals is prohibitive for many developing countries, scholarly communication is for them severely restricted. This is a huge problem: A survey conducted by the WHO in 2003, for instance, found that in 75 of the poorest countries, 56% of the medical institutions had been unable to access any journals over the previous five years.... Furthermore, the cost of printing and distributing local journals means that much developing world research is 'invisible' to the rest of the world....As a consequence, the incorporation of regional knowledge into international programmes remains minimal. Yet with the growth of global problems think only of HIV/AIDS, avian 'flu, environmental disasters, climate change or crop failure it is essential that the countries in which these problems are most commonly experienced have access to research findings, and can contribute their crucial experience to finding global solutions. Without both improved access and regional visibility, the science base of poorer countries will not be strengthened, and it is well documented that without a strong science base economies remain weak and dependent on others.... It is clear...that wherever researchers have embraced OA, the visibility, quality and the impact of local research has flourished, and subscriptions to OA journals have even increased a clear indication that researchers were previously information-starved.... One Indian institute...is 'gently persuading' its scholars to deposit their articles by refusing travel support to those that do not archive their publications!... It was agreed...that progress could be significantly speeded up if a model National OA Policy could be drawn up, and developing countries encouraged to adopt it. It was also felt that this would be particularly effective if it was formally accepted by a group of local experts of which there was no shortage at the workshop who know and understand the problems faced by developing countries on the ground. While there was vigorous debate on how to encourage adoption of such a policy, there was no dissent over the need for it, or of its basic form. Specifically, the draft Policy document urges governments to require all publicly funded research published in peer-reviewed journals to be deposited in an institutional repository as soon as publication is accepted. This should be a condition for research funding for any papers partly or fully funded by the government.... All presentations, lists of participants and the draft model National OA Policy document are available on the workshop web site. <www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/OAworkshop2006>. ___________________________________________________________ Win tickets to the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany with Yahoo! Messenger. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/fifaworldcup_uk/

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OA in physics and chemistry
by Subbiah Arunachalam 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

>From Peter Suber's blog OA in physics and chemistry Heather Morrison, Open Access in Physics and Chemistry, or, A Tale of Two Disciplines, a presentation at the McGill Library School, November 27, 2006. Excerpt: There are disciplinary differences in awareness of, and approaches to, open access and other types of "openness". It is likely that there are no great differences than the differences between physics and chemistry. Physics, as a discipline, has long been the leader in open access archiving, beginning in 1991 with the establishment of arXiv, and continuing with the CERN Documents Server. In physics, open access is mainstream, with open access archiving peacefully coexisting with traditional publishing. Physics is currently leading a push towards full open access publishing. Chemistry, in contrast, has had very low rates of self-archiving of peer-reviewed journal articles, and traditional publishers, until recently, were fighting open access. However, a slightly different picture emerges when we consider the broader concept of "openness", as chemistry appears to be emerging as a leader in open data and open source science. ___________________________________________________________ Win tickets to the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany with Yahoo! Messenger. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/fifaworldcup_uk/

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Prof ( Dr) Veena is no more- condolences from the professionals of hyderabad
by Mailing List Manager 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:39:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> dear friends Prof ( Dr) Mrs Veena shroff, Head, Dept of Library and Information science, NEHU was suffering from Cancer for last few months. I am extremely sorry and feel very bad to inform u that she left all the professionals on 28 nov at abt 9-30 PM. after knowing this information, the 54 participants of 15 th refresher course in library and information science organised at osmania university joined by the students and faculty of the dept of library and information science, osmania university have conducted a condolence meeting at academic staff college in the after noon and condoled the untimely death of prof veena. people spoke about her and every one felt for the sad demise of prof veena. the meeting resolved " to convey their heart felt condolences to the family and prayed for resting of her soul in peace. they remembered her and prayed God almighty to give strength to the family' laxman rao

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Video capture
by Kumar N 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

Dear Eldho Joy, There is a software called "SnagIt 8.1". It will do what you have asked. It will catch video images from your desktop as well as the internet. You can download the software and documentation from http://www.download.com/SnagIt/3000-2192_4-10004813.html Thanks & Regards, N.Kumar, INCOIS Library, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India, "Ocean Valley", P.B. No.:21, IDA Jeedimetla P.O., Hyderabad - 500 055. A P, India. kumar(a)incois.gov.in kumar_dglin(a)rediffmail.com Mobile No.: (0) 9866093396 -------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:09:53 +0530 From: "Eldho Joy" <eldhoj(a)gmail.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Video capture To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <bcea28f70611280039m4b2cab04p5520cafcdce1f7e6(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Colleagues I would like to know if any systems/technology /personnel available to capture video images from the internet. Eldho Joy Librarian LBS Institute of Technology for Women Poojappura,Trivandrum-695012. http://www.lbsitw.ac.in N.Kumar, INCOIS Library, Indian National Center for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), (Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India), "Ocean Valley", Post Bag No.:21, IDA Jeedimetla P.O., Hyderabad -500 055. E-mail : kumar_dglin(a)yahoo.co.in kumar(a)incois.gov.in Mobile No. : +91 9866093396 Dear Eldho Joy, There is a software called "SnagIt 8.1". It will do what you have asked. It will catch video images from your desktop as well as the internet. You can download the software and documentation from http://www.download.com/SnagIt/3000-2192_4-10004813.html Thanks & Regards, N.Kumar, INCOIS Library, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India, "Ocean Valley", P.B. No.:21, IDA Jeedimetla P.O., Hyderabad - 500 055. A P, India. kumar(a)incois.gov.in kumar_dglin(a)rediffmail.com Mobile No.: (0) 9866093396 -------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:09:53 +0530 From: "Eldho Joy" <eldhoj(a)gmail.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Video capture To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <bcea28f70611280039m4b2cab04p5520cafcdce1f7e6(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Colleagues I would like to know if any systems/technology /personnel available to capture video images from the internet. Eldho Joy Librarian LBS Institute of Technology for Women Poojappura,Trivandrum-695012. http://www.lbsitw.ac.in N.Kumar, INCOIS Library, Indian National Center for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), (Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India), "Ocean Valley", Post Bag No.:21, IDA Jeedimetla P.O., Hyderabad -500 055. E-mail : kumar_dglin(a)yahoo.co.in kumar(a)incois.gov.in Mobile No. : +91 9866093396 http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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KPSC Notification for posts of Lecturers & Librarians in First Gr. Colleges Karnataka
by rupesh kumar 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

Dear All, Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) has issued a notification for the recruitment of Lecturers in various disciplines in First Grade Colleges of Karnataka. The notification includes 73 POSTS OF LIBRARIANS. The notification is available at http://kpsc.kar.nic.in/notifications.htm Regards, Rupesh Kumar A Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore University a_rupeshkumar(a)yahoo.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://a.rupeshkumar.googlepages.com --------------------------------- Access over 1 million songs - Yahoo! Music Unlimited. Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) has issued a notification for the recruitment of Lecturers in various disciplines in First Grade Colleges of Karnataka. The notification includes 73 POSTS OF LIBRARIANS. The notification is available at http://kpsc.kar.nic.in/notifications.htm http://kpsc.kar.nic.in/notifications.htm Regards, Rupesh Kumar A Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore University mailto:a_rupeshkumar@yahoo.com a_rupeshkumar(a)yahoo.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://a.rupeshkumar.googlepages.com http://a.rupeshkumar.googlepages.com Access over 1 million songs - http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=36035/*http://music.yahoo.c… Yahoo! Music Unlimited.

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Loss of books
by Balesh Kumar 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

As per General Financial rules 2005 Govt. of India, loss of books up to 5 books per thousnd books issued/consulted can be considred reasonable. Balesh Kumar Librarian HCTM, Kaithal --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW As per General Financial rules 2005 Govt. of India, loss of books up to 5 books per thousnd books issued/consulted can be considred reasonable. Balesh Kumar Librarian HCTM, Kaithal Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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SATKAL Awardees
by Venkat R Pokuri 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

The following LIS professionals have been awarded the SATKAL Awards for the year 2006. The Awards were given away by the Hon'ble Minister of State for Finance, Govt. of India, Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal, at a function organised by the Panjab University Library on 18th November 2006. > Punjab National Librarian Award Dr R P Kumar Chief Librarian, AIl India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. > Woman Librarian Award Dr (Mrs) S P Singh Chairperson, DLIS, UNiversity of Delhi, Delhi > Young Librarian Award Mr P Venkata Rao Librarian M G State Institute of Public Administration, Punjab Chandigarh >School Librarian Award Ms Preeti Kathpalia Librarian St. John's High School Chandigarh Submitted by: P V Rao Librarian M G State Institute of Public Administration, Punjab Institutional Area, Sector 26 Chandigarh 160019 Email: pvrao(a)mgsipap.org --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW The following LIS professionals have been awarded the SATKAL Awards for the year 2006. The Awards were given away by the Hon'ble Minister of State for Finance, Govt. of India, Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal, at a function organised by the Panjab University Library on 18th November 2006. > Punjab National Librarian Award Dr R P Kumar Chief Librarian, AIl India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. > Woman Librarian Award Dr (Mrs) S P Singh Chairperson, DLIS, UNiversity of Delhi, Delhi > Young Librarian Award Mr P Venkata Rao Librarian M G State Institute of Public Administration, Punjab Chandigarh >School Librarian Award Ms Preeti Kathpalia Librarian St. John's High School Chandigarh Submitted by: P V Rao Librarian M G State Institute of Public Administration, Punjab Institutional Area, Sector 26 Chandigarh 160019 Email: pvrao(a)mgsipap.org Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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25 Technologies in 50 Minutes by (Audio with presentation sliedes)
by Mallikarjuna, H.B 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

25 Technologies in 50 Minutes by (Audio with presentation sliedes) by Stephen Abram, SirsiDynix's Vice President "Lots of technologies are due consideration for our library portals. Which would be on your top 25 list? We can't do it all at once but we should be trying more than a few out to learn about them. Stephen Abram, SirsiDynix's Vice President of Innovation lists a technology application every 120 seconds in this roller coaster ride of what's out there in LibraryLand and which one's are worth playing with and seeing if they'll be useful to your library and your community of users. Join us for the cook's tour of what's in the front of the pack for the 2.0 Community Portal. Maybe I'll use an egg timer dinger for every 2 minutes!" Audio: http://www.sirsidynixinstitute.com/Resources/Podcasts/20061114.mp3 Presentation slides : http://www.sirsidynixinstitute.com/Resources/Attachments/Slides/abram_20061… -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Indian Libraries and Librarians search engine :http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW Stephen Abram, SirsiDynix's Vice President "Lots of technologies are due consideration for our library portals. Which would be on your top 25 list? We can't do it all at once but we should be trying more than a few out to learn about them. Stephen Abram, SirsiDynix's Vice President of Innovation lists a technology application every 120 seconds in this roller coaster ride of what's out there in LibraryLand and which one's are worth playing with and seeing if they'll be useful to your library and your community of users. Join us for the cook's tour of what's in the front of the pack for the 2.0 Community Portal. Maybe I'll use an egg timer dinger for every 2 minutes!" Audio: http://www.sirsidynixinstitute.com/Resources/Podcasts/20061114.mp3 Presentation slides : http://www.sirsidynixinstitute.com/Resources/Attachments/Slides/abram_20061… -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Indian Libraries and Librarians search engine :http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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Exclusive Day on Digital Libraries and Web Information Retrieval at ICDIM -2006
by J. K. Vijayakumar 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

A Message from Dr. P Pichappan, Program Chair for ICDIM - 2006 icdim(a)icdim.org, conference(a)icdim.org Dear LIS Professionals, There is a special day exclusively for LIS professionals during the First IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM) on 8th of December. There are special sessions on Digital Libraries, E-Learning, Web Information Retrieval and Search Engines. Besides there will be a tutorial on Digital Inclusion. For details see the conference URL www.icdim.org/conf_program.asp One day registration is possible. There will be a discount in the registration fee if participants prefer CD proceedings. Interested participants can send mail to conference(a)icdim.org for registration. Prior information about participation is essential. Visit Conference Website http://www.icdim.org/ for more details. --------------------------------- Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. A Message from Dr. P Pichappan , Program Chair for ICDIM - 2006 mailto:icdim@icdim.org icdim(a)icdim.org , mailto:conference@icdim.org conference(a)icdim.org Dear LIS Professionals, There is a special day exclusively for LIS professionals during the First IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM) on 8 th of December. There are special sessions on Digital Libraries, E-Learning, Web Information Retrieval and Search Engines. Besides there will be a tutorial on Digital Inclusion. For details see the conference URL http://www.icdim.org/conf_program.asp www.icdim.org/conf_program.asp One day registration is possible. There will be a discount in the registration fee if participants prefer CD proceedings. Interested participants can send mail to mailto:conference@icdim.org conference(a)icdim.org for registration. Prior information about participation is essential. Visit Conference Website http://www.icdim.org/ http://www.icdim.org/ for more details. Everyone is raving about http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=42297/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailb… the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta.

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LibWorm:Librarians RSS Engine-latest in Librarianship
by Mallikarjuna, H.B 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

LibWorm:Librarians RSS Engine LibWorm collects updates from about 1400 RSS feeds (and growing). The contents of these feeds are then available for searching, and search results can themselves be output as an RSS feed that the user can subscribe to either in his/her favourite aggregator or in LibWorms built-in aggregator. http://www.libworm.com/ -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Indian Libraries and Librarians search engine :http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW LibWorm:Librarians RSS Engine http://www.libworm.com/ LibWorm collects updates from about 1400 RSS feeds (and growing). The contents of these feeds are then available for searching, and search results can themselves be output as an RSS feed that the user can subscribe to either in his/her favourite aggregator or in LibWorms built-in aggregator. http://www.libworm.com/ http://www.libworm.com/ -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Indian Libraries and Librarians search engine :http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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Biomedicine:Databases:Free on the Web
by Mallikarjuna, H.B 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

Biomedicine:Databases:Free on the Web Biomedicine: India 1.IndMED - http://indmed.nic.in/ (India) Jointly setup by NIC and ICMR 2. OpenMED- http://openmed.nic.in/(India) By Bibliographic Informatics Division, National Informatics Centre. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.PubMed [U.S. National Library of Medicine] - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed 2.NLM Gateway [U.S. National Library of Medicine]-- http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd 3. The Cochrane Collaboration [citations only, without subscription]- http://www.cochrane.org/index0.htm 4. Cochrane Reviews abstracts & summaries-- http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/ 5. Centre for Reviews and Dissemination Databases- http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/crdweb/ [including Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)] 6.TRIP Database: Turning Research into Practice - http://www.tripdatabase.com/index.html 7.Scirus for scientific information only- http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/advanced/index.jsp Medical Education: 8.ERIC [Education Resources Information Center, U.S. Dept. of Education] http://www.eric.ed.gov/ 9.TIMELit: Topics in Medical Education [Centre for Medical Education, Dundee] http://www.timelit.org/ 10.RDRB: Research & Development Resource Base (in CME) [University of Toronto]- http://www.cme.utoronto.ca/rdrb/ Alternative Medicine: 11. PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database) [Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy (CEBP)]- http://www.pedro.fhs.usyd.edu.au/index.html 12. OSTMED (The Osteopathic Literature Database) [to 2003] Index to Chiropractic Literature [CLIBCON]- http://ostmed.hsc.unt.edu/ostmed/index.html -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Indian Libraries and Librarians search engine :http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW Biomedicine:Databases:Free on the Web Biomedicine: India 1.IndMED - http://indmed.nic.in/ http://indmed.nic.in/ ( India ) Jointly setup by NIC and ICMR 2. OpenMED - http://openmed.nic.in/( India ) By Bibliographic Informatics Division, National Informatics Centre. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed PubMed [U.S. National Library of Medicine] - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed 2. http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd NLM Gateway [U.S. National Library of Medicine]-- http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd 3. http://www.cochrane.org/index0.htm The Cochrane Collaboration [citations only, without subscription]- http://www.cochrane.org/index0.htm http://www.cochrane.org/index0.htm 4. http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/ Cochrane Reviews abstracts & summaries -- http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/ http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/ 5. http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/crdweb/ Centre for Reviews and Dissemination Databases - http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/crdweb/ [including Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)] 6. http://www.tripdatabase.com/index.html TRIP Database: Turning Research into Practice - http://www.tripdatabase.com/index.html http://www.tripdatabase.com/index.html 7. http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/advanced/index.jsp Scirus for scientific information only- http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/advanced/index.jsp Medical Education : 8. http://www.eric.ed.gov/ ERIC [ Education Resources Information Center , U.S. Dept. of Education] http://www.eric.ed.gov/ 9. http://www.timelit.org/ TIMELit: Topics in Medical Education [Centre for Medical Education, Dundee ] http://www.timelit.org/ http://www.timelit.org/ 10. http://www.cme.utoronto.ca/rdrb/ RDRB: Research & Development Resource Base (in CME) [ University of Toronto ]- http://www.cme.utoronto.ca/rdrb/ http://www.cme.utoronto.ca/rdrb/ Alternative Medicine : 11. http://www.pedro.fhs.usyd.edu.au/index.html PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database) [Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy (CEBP)]- http://www.pedro.fhs.usyd.edu.au/index.html 12. http://ostmed.hsc.unt.edu/ostmed/index.html OSTMED (The Osteopathic Literature Database) [to 2003] http://www.chiroindex.org/ Index to Chiropractic Literature [CLIBCON]- http://ostmed.hsc.unt.edu/ostmed/index.html http://ostmed.hsc.unt.edu/ostmed/index.html -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com/ http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Indian Libraries and Librarians search engine :http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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reg theft books
by suresh lalwani 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

Dear friends, I am working as a librarian in AICTE recognized Management Institute. I would like to know that what are the UGC rules and guidelines of books theft from library. And who is responsible for that. Suresh Lalwani Dear friends, I am working as a librarian in AICTE recognized Management Institute. I would like to know that what are the UGC rules and guidelines of books theft from library. And who is responsible for that. Suresh Lalwani http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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Video capture
by Eldho Joy 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

Dear Colleagues I would like to know if any systems/technology /personnel available to capture video images from the internet. Eldho Joy Librarian LBS Institute of Technology for Women Poojappura,Trivandrum-695012. http://www.lbsitw.ac.in Dear Colleagues I would like to know if any systems/technology /personnel available to capture video images from the internet. Eldho Joy Librarian LBS Institute of Technology for Women Poojappura,Trivandrum-695012. http://www.lbsitw.ac.in/ http://www.lbsitw.ac.in

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Application for the post of permanent Technical Assistant (Libbrary) in ISEC, Bangalore
by T R B Sarma 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE NAGARABHAVI, BANGALORE 560 072. ADVERTISEMENT NO.NA/1/2006 Technical Assistant (1) (LIBRARY) Scale of Pay: 5200-125-5700-150-7200-200-8800-260-9580 Qualifications: Essential: 1.. Bachelors degree with first or high second class (55% or above), and Degree/Diploma in Library Science with two years teaching and/or research experience in Library Science. 2.. Catalogue and classification skills Desirable: 1.. Good Computer/IT Skills 2.. Knowledge of Library Management Systems like LIBSYS and CDS-ISIS 3.. Database Search and Retrieval Skills 4.. Good Oral and Written Communication Skills Age limit: Normally below 30 years and relaxable by 5 years for candidates belonging to SC and ST. Candidates are required to produce caste certificate issued by a competent authority. There is no age limit in case of employees of the Institute. Selection Procedure: Selection will be made on the basis of written test/driving test/and interview of short-listed candidates. However, mere satisfying the eligibility norms does not entitle a candidate to be called for the interview. Depending upon the number of applications received in relation to number of vacancies, the Institute reserves the right to call only a limited number of candidates after preliminary screening with reference to their qualifications, suitability and qualification, experience, etc. The Selection Committee may relax qualifications in exceptional cases and also consider suitable candidates from outside the list of applicants. The advertisement No.NA/1/2006 and the prescribed application form can be obtained from the Registrar's Office or also be downloaded from www.isec.ac.in. Completed applications with copies of testimonials should be sent in a envelope superscribing "application for the post of ............" and should reach the undersigned on or before December 23, 2006. Applications received after the last date will not be entertained and the Institute takes no responsibility for any delay in receipt or loss in postal transit of any communication or application. Canvassing in any form by the candidates results in disqualification of the candidates. The Institute reserves the right not to recruit any candidate if no suitable candidates are found. November 10, 2006 V Ramappa Registrar I/c (You also can see the above advt. in Indian Express dt: 24.11.2006 at 7th page.) TRB SARMA Dy.Librarian, ISEC Nagarabhavi, Bangalore. 560 072. E-mail : trbsarma(a)isec.ac.in Telephone: 080-23215468 Extn. 302 INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE NAGARABHAVI, BANGALORE 560 072. ADVERTISEMENT NO.NA/1/2006 Technical Assistant (1) (LIBRARY) Scale of Pay: 5200125-5700-150-7200-200-8800-260-9580 Qualifications: Essential: Bachelors degree with first or high second class (55% or above), and Degree/Diploma in Library Science with two years teaching and/or research experience in Library Science. Catalogue and classification skills Desirable: Good Computer/IT Skills Knowledge of Library Management Systems like LIBSYS and CDS-ISIS Database Search and Retrieval Skills Good Oral and Written Communication Skills Age limit: Normally below 30 years and relaxable by 5 years for candidates belonging to SC and ST. Candidates are required to produce caste certificate issued by a competent authority. There is no age limit in case of employees of the Institute. Selection Procedure : Selection will be made on the basis of written test/driving test/and interview of short-listed candidates. However, mere satisfying the eligibility norms does not entitle a candidate to be called for the interview. Depending upon the number of applications received in relation to number of vacancies, the Institute reserves the right to call only a limited number of candidates after preliminary screening with reference to their qualifications, suitability and qualification, experience, etc. The Selection Committee may relax qualifications in exceptional cases and also consider suitable candidates from outside the list of applicants. The advertisement No.NA/1/2006 and the prescribed application form can be obtained from the Registrars Office or also be downloaded from http://www.isec.ac.in/ www.isec.ac.in . Completed applications with copies of testimonials should be sent in a envelope superscribing "application for the post of ............" and should reach the undersigned on or before December 23, 2006. Applications received after the last date will not be entertained and the Institute takes no responsibility for any delay in receipt or loss in postal transit of any communication or application. Canvassing in any form by the candidates results in disqualification of the candidates. The Institute reserves the right not to recruit any candidate if no suitable candidates are found. November 10, 2006 V Ramappa Registrar I/c (You also can see the above advt. in Indian Express dt: 24.11.2006 at 7 th page.) TRB SARMA Dy.Librarian, ISEC Nagarabhavi, Bangalore. 560 072. E-mail : mailto:trbsarma@isec.ac.in trbsarma(a)isec.ac.in Telephone: 080-23215468 Extn. 302

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Reg. Supplier of Educational instructional material
by Vandana Khandelwal 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

Dear all, I would like to purchase educational instructional material (CD-ROMs, Video/Audio Cassettee)and standards for our library. Our interest area is : all engineering and MBA subjects. If anyone knows about suppliers dealing in this field, kindly let me know. Thanking you in anticipation. Mrs. Vandana Khandelwal Librarian Maharashtra Academy of Engineering Alandi (D) Dist. Pune ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com

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Koha with Class: Future Librarians Train Using Koha ILS
by sandeep bhavsar 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

Respected All LibLime, the leader in open-source solutions for libraries, announced today that the next generation of librarians at Texas Woman's University in Denton, TX are training with Koha, the first open-source ILS. Koha ILS was selected by Dr. Diane Neal, Assistant Professor at TWU's School of Library and Information Studies, as a learning tool for students taking coursework in library automation. Dr. Neal, formerly a Systems Librarian for University of Texas at Arlington, is a strong proponent of open-source software in libraries. "I chose Koha for several reasons," says Dr. Neal. "First, its web-based staff side interface makes it possible for students to access Koha easily from their own computers. This was a major concern, because the class is taught entirely online, and for that reason, it would be difficult for me to distribute desktop-based clients. Additionally, I believe that the philosophy of open-source software closely aligns with the philosophy of libraries as community-oriented organizations, so I choose to advocate open-source software in support of that alignment." LibLime is hosting the demo systems for the class pro bono. "We're tremendously excited to see Koha being used in a classroom setting," says LibLime's President, Technology and Koha Release Manager Joshua Ferraro. "It is a great opportunity for librarians to get hands-on experience with open source. Nothing dispels fear of new technology like using it yourself. We're confident that the advantages of open source speak for themselves." And how have the students reacted to the concept of open-source software in libraries? "My students have done an excellent job of weighing the advantages and disadvantages of open-source software in libraries. I assigned a discussion question on this topic, and they were quite analytical about the topic," says Dr. Neal. Students were quick to see the advantages of open source which include the freedom to customize and cost-effectiveness, as well as the shared values which make open-source software and libraries a natural match: free access and community-driven knowledge. TWU student Vidya Krishnaswamy puts it best: I am a strong supporter for the open-source software because its principles are so much similar and closer to the values and principles we as librarians believe which is free and equal access to data, information, and knowledge. Is learning about library automation by using Koha likely to influence students technology decisions when they themselves have to someday choose between open-source and proprietary software? " I am not sure yet whether this project will lead students to choose open-source or non-open-source solutions for their libraries in the future, but I am positive that the experience they are getting from this project is invaluable experience for them," says Dr. Neal. "Overall, my goal has been to provide a safe environment for students to explore the process of configuring integrated library systems, the communication issues and management decisions involved in a system configuration, and the nature of open-source software." Neal's class, currently called Automation in the Library, will be called Library Technology Systems beginning Fall 2007. An elective course scheduled to be offered each fall, the class will introduce approximately 25 new students to Koha each quarter. In the words of TWU student Gayle Gordon: The future of the library profession will depend in large part on how we handle technology. LibLime couldn't agree more, and we're confident that future is open source. Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 INDIA @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email :sandeep.bhavsar@gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 elibrary : http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ --------------------------------- Try the all-new Yahoo! Mail . "The New Version is radically easier to use" The Wall Street Journal Respected All LibLime, the leader in open-source solutions for libraries, announced today that the next generation of librarians at Texas Woman's University in Denton, TX are training with Koha, the first open-source ILS. Koha ILS was selected by Dr. Diane Neal, Assistant Professor at TWU's School of Library and Information Studies, as a learning tool for students taking coursework in library automation. Dr. Neal, formerly a Systems Librarian for University of Texas at Arlington , is a strong proponent of open-source software in libraries. "I chose Koha for several reasons," says Dr. Neal. "First, its web-based staff side interface makes it possible for students to access Koha easily from their own computers. This was a major concern, because the class is taught entirely online, and for that reason, it would be difficult for me to distribute desktop-based clients. Additionally, I believe that the philosophy of open-source software closely aligns with the philosophy of libraries as community-oriented organizations, so I choose to advocate open-source software in support of that alignment." LibLime is hosting the demo systems for the class pro bono. "We're tremendously excited to see Koha being used in a classroom setting," says LibLime's President, Technology and Koha Release Manager Joshua Ferraro. "It is a great opportunity for librarians to get hands-on experience with open source. Nothing dispels fear of new technology like using it yourself. We're confident that the advantages of open source speak for themselves." And how have the students reacted to the concept of open-source software in libraries? "My students have done an excellent job of weighing the advantages and disadvantages of open-source software in libraries. I assigned a discussion question on this topic, and they were quite analytical about the topic," says Dr. Neal. Students were quick to see the advantages of open source which include the freedom to customize and cost-effectiveness, as well as the shared values which make open-source software and libraries a natural match: free access and community-driven knowledge. TWU student Vidya Krishnaswamy puts it best: I am a strong supporter for the open-source software because its principles are so much similar and closer to the values and principles we as librarians believe which is free and equal access to data, information, and knowledge. Is learning about library automation by using Koha likely to influence students technology decisions when they themselves have to someday choose between open-source and proprietary software? " I am not sure yet whether this project will lead students to choose open-source or non-open-source solutions for their libraries in the future, but I am positive that the experience they are getting from this project is invaluable experience for them," says Dr. Neal. "Overall, my goal has been to provide a safe environment for students to explore the process of configuring integrated library systems, the communication issues and management decisions involved in a system configuration, and the nature of open-source software." Neal's class, currently called Automation in the Library, will be called Library Technology Systems beginning Fall 2007. An elective course scheduled to be offered each fall, the class will introduce approximately 25 new students to Koha each quarter. In the words of TWU student Gayle Gordon: The future of the library profession will depend in large part on how we handle technology. LibLime couldn't agree more, and we're confident that future is open source. Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 INDIA @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email :sandeep.bhavsar@gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 elibrary : http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Try the http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/nowyoucan/wall_st_2/*http:/… all-new Yahoo! Mail . "The New Version is radically easier to use" The Wall Street Journal

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Tags and the Infinite Universe of Information:New googlepedia extension in Firefox
by Mallikarjuna, H.B 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

Tags and the Infinite Universe of Information:New googlepedia extension in Firefox Googlepedia: New googlepedia (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2517/) extension in Firefox to search both Google and the Wikipedia at once... For More Details: http://www.infinitethinking.org/ Infinite Thinking Machine " The Infinite Thinking Machine helps teachers and their students turn the infinite universe of information into knowledge. " More : http://www.infinitethinking.org/ Video: http://www.infinitethinking.org/2006/11/itm-3-living-in-3d.html http://www.infinitethinking.org/2006/11/cerfs-up-writing.html Google Educators: http://www.google.com/educators/index.html -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Indian Libraries and Librarians search engine :http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW Tags and the Infinite Universe of Information:New googlepedia extension in Firefox Googlepedia: New https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2517/ googlepedia ( https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2517/) extension https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2517/) extension in http://www.getfirefox.com/ Firefox to search both Google and the Wikipedia at once... For More Details: http://www.infinitethinking.org/ http://www.infinitethinking.org/ http://www.infinitethinking.org/2006/11/cerfs-up-writing.html Infinite Thinking Machine " The Infinite Thinking Machine helps teachers and their students turn the infinite universe of information into knowledge. " More : http://www.infinitethinking.org/ http://www.infinitethinking.org/ Video: http://www.infinitethinking.org/2006/11/itm-3-living-in-3d.html http://www.infinitethinking.org/2006/11/itm-3-living-in-3d.html http://www.infinitethinking.org/2006/11/cerfs-up-writing.html http://www.infinitethinking.org/2006/11/cerfs-up-writing.html Google Educators: http://www.google.com/educators/index.html http://www.google.com/educators/index.html -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Indian Libraries and Librarians search engine :http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb http://www.google.com/educators/index.html Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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Regarding AICTE norms
by Vandana Khandelwal 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

Dear all I am working in an engineering library. I have certain doubt regarding AICTE norms . As per AICTE norms, at the time of establishment for three branch with an intake of 240. There should be minimum 4000 volumes in the library, which means 250 titles with four multiple copies and 1000 volumes for basic science. In case the intake is less than 240 do the norms remains same i.e. 4000 volumes or is it different. If so, please give the details. For yearly additions it mentions that they must be increased as one title per student admitted to a branch. if the intake is 60 students for computer branch in first year. Does that mean I have to increase 80 title in computer branch or 80 titles for each SE,TE & BE which makes 240 titles in all. There is nothing mentioned about number of copies to be increased for yearly addition does that mean it is understood that four copies are to be increased. Please specify. In case of increase in intake should we follow norms for yearly addition of books. If anyone have information regards the same. Please cooperate me. Thanking you in anticipation. Mrs. Vandana Khandelwal Librarian Maharashtra Academy of Engineering Alandi (D) Dist. Pune ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com

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DRTC Seminar on OpenURL accessing Referenced Resources
by Ehtesham 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

INDIAN STATITISTICAL INSTITUTE DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH TRAINING CENTRE 8th Mile Mysore Road, R.V. College Post Bangalore-560059 SEMINAR On OpenURL for accessing Referenced Resources OpenURL is a mechanism for transporting metadata and identifiers describing a publication, for the purpose of context sensitive linking. OpenURL standard is designed to support mediated linking from information resources (sources) to library services (targets). It works with Link Resolver System to facilitate seamless access to the referenced resource. In this seminar I propose to discuss the concept of OpenURL, and its significance. The seminar will also give a demo of Link Resolver System and demonstrate OpenURL through open source tools. Speaker : Mohd Ehtesham ADIS 2nd year. Date & Time : 5th December 2006, 2:00 PM Venue : DRTC Classroom All are cordially invited Dr. Devika P. Madalli Seminar Co-ordinator INDIAN STATITISTICAL INSTITUTE DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH TRAINING CENTRE 8th Mile Mysore Road, R.V. College Post Bangalore-560059 SEMINAR On OpenURL for accessing Referenced Resources OpenURL is a mechanism for transporting metadata and identifiers describing a publication, for the purpose of context sensitive linking. OpenURL standard is designed to support mediated linking from information resources (sources) to library services (targets). It works with Link Resolver System to facilitate seamless access to the referenced resource. In this seminar I propose to discuss the concept of OpenURL, and its significance. The seminar will also give a demo of Link Resolver System and demonstrate OpenURL through open source tools. Speaker : Mohd Ehtesham ADIS 2nd year. Date & Time : 5th December 2006, 2:00 PM Venue : DRTC Classroom All are cordially invited Dr. Devika P. Madalli Seminar Co-ordinator http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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KLA members get-together
by gopikuttan gopikuttan 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

Dear professionals KLA is planning to organise a family get-together of KLA members on 9.12.2006 at Trivandrum. We cordially invite all of the members of KLA to participate the programme. Pl confirm ur participation before 2.12.2006, to the President or Secretary of KLA. Thank u Dr.A.Gopikuttan General Secretary Kerala Library Association Trivandrum-34 Ph.No. 9446428163 agopikuttan(a)yahoo.co.in --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW Dear professionals KLA is planning to organise a family get-together of KLA members on 9.12.2006 at Trivandrum. We cordially invite all of the members of KLA to participate the programme. Pl confirm ur participation before 2.12.2006, to the President or Secretary of KLA. Thank u Dr.A.Gopikuttan General Secretary Kerala Library Association Trivandrum-34 Ph.No. 9446428163 mailto:agopikuttan@yahoo.co.in agopikuttan(a)yahoo.co.in Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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Re: [BOAI] The Bangalore Policy statement
by Mailing List Manager 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:26:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Friends: Someone wondered what was the need to have the Bangalore workshop on open access when we already had the Salvador Declaration for Open Access for Developing Countries. The B'lore workshop had a specific focus - bringing together the large scientifically advanced developing countries and to develop a common strategy for those countries. Eve Gray of South Africa has captured the essence of the workshop in her excellent blog entry, available at: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2006-November/004933.html ------

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Library professionals Required.
by rajani.satheesan＠wipro.com 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

Dear Sirs, Pls post the information mentioned below. Library Professionals required with 2 years experience on contract basis at Wipro-cochin centre. Interested may pls contact rajani.satheesan(a)wipro.com Best Regards, Rajani ************ 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 Message Dear Sirs, � Pls post the information mentioned below. � Library Professionals required with 2 years experience on contract basis at Wipro-cochin centre. Interested may pls contact mailto:rajani.satheesan@wipro.com rajani.satheesan(a)wipro.com � Best Regards, Rajani ************ � 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

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Fwd: FreeScience.info
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

See the following link to download thousands of Science books free of charge http://freescience.info/index.php -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Society for Serving Seniors (Formerly SENIORS) 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015 Phone 27846631

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Invitation
by Pijushkanti Panigrahi 25 Nov '06

25 Nov '06

Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC Cordially invites you to the inauguration of the National Workshop on Open Source Movement and the Use of DSpace Software by Prof Debesh Das, Honble Minister-In-Charge, Department of Information Technology, Govt of West Bengal on Tuesday, Novmber 28, 2006 at 11:00 am at the Auditorium of the National Institute for the Orthopaedically Handicapped (NIOH), (Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Govt of India), B T Road, Bonhooghly, Kolkata- 700 090. Prof Sibaji Raha, Director, Bose Institute, Kolkata will grace the occasion as Special Guest. Dr Ratnesh Kumar , Director, National Institute for the Orthopaedically Handicapped (NIOH), Kolkata will preside over the program. Dr Pijushkanti Panigrahi Sri Dipak Kr Nag Secretary, Education Division, IASLIC Hony General Secretary, IASLIC Program Registration 10:00-11:00 am Inaugural Program 11:00 Invocation Welcome Address by Dr J N Satpathi, Vice President, IASLIC & Consultant (NIOH), Introduction to the Workshop by Dr A R D Prasad, Associate Professor, DRTC, ISI, Bangalore; Member, DSpace Governance Advisory Board, MIT, Cambridge, USA: Working Group on Libraries, National Knowledge Commisson, India; Vice President, IASLIC Inauguration of the Workshop by Prof Debesh Dash, Honble Minister-In-Charge, Department of Information Technology, Govt of West Bengal Address of Special Guest by Prof Sibaji Raha, Director, Bose Institute, Kolkata Presidential Address by Dr Ratnesh Kumar , Director, NIOH, Kolkata Vote of Thanks Ms Rupali Sen, In-Charge, Library & Information Services, NIOH Session Starts at 12:00 noon 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, Ph (M) : +91 94342 43522. Associate Editor, IASLIC Bulletin, IASLIC, Kolkata-700 054 --------------------------------- Check out the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC Cordially invites you to the inauguration of the National Workshop on Open Source Movement and the Use of DSpace Software by Prof Debesh Das , Honble Minister-In-Charge, Department of Information Technology, Govt of West Bengal on Tuesday, Novmber 28, 2006 at 11:00 am at the Auditorium of the National Institute for the Orthopaedically Handicapped (NIOH), (Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Govt of India), B T Road, Bonhooghly, Kolkata- 700 090. Prof Sibaji Raha , Director, Bose Institute, Kolkata will grace the occasion as Special Guest. Dr Ratnesh Kumar , Director, National Institute for the Orthopaedically Handicapped (NIOH), Kolkata will preside over the program. Dr Pijushkanti Panigrahi Sri Dipak Kr Nag Se cretary, Education Division, IASLIC Hony General Secretary, IASLIC Program Registration 10:00-11:00 am Inaugural Program 11:00 Invocation Welcome Address by Dr J N Satpathi, Vice President, IASLIC & Consultant (NIOH), Introduction to the Workshop by Dr A R D Prasad, Associate Professor, DRTC, ISI, Bangalore ; Member, DSpace Governance Advisory Board, MIT, Cambridge , USA : Working Group on Libraries, National Knowledge Commisson , India ; Vice President, IASLIC Inauguration of the Workshop by Prof Debesh Dash, Honble Minister-In-Charge, Department of Information Technology, Govt of West Bengal Address of Special Guest by Prof Sibaji Raha, Director, Bose Institute, Kolkata Presidential Address by Dr Ratnesh Kumar , Director, NIOH, Kolkata Vote of Thanks Ms Rupali Sen, In-Charge, Library & Information Services, NIOH Session Starts at 1 2:00 noon 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, Ph (M) : +91 94342 43522 . Associate Editor, IASLIC Bulletin, IASLIC, Kolkata-700 054 Check out http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=43257/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailb… the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster.

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Use of Social softwares in Libraries
by Mallikarjuna, H.B 25 Nov '06

25 Nov '06

Dear Professionals, Use of Social softwares in Libraries I think librarians and information professionals need to know what social software are, Particularly ..> Blogs RSS Wikis Social Networking Softwares SecondLife (web 2.0, library 2.0) Flickr Social Bookmarking Softwares 'Social Software'--Defination: Social software- is an umbrella term that applies to any tool that allows two or more persons to collaborate while each person is in a different location. The collaboration may occur in real time (called synchronous collaboration) or at different times (called asynchronous collaboration), while the locations may span continents or simply an office building." wikipedia ---http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_software Mashups: Mashups:"A mashup is a website or web application that seamlessly combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience."-----------Wikipedia(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_(web_application_hybrid) presentation on Mashups-http://www.slais.ubc.ca/allancho/mashup.ppt Why are mashups relevant for information professionals and librarians? "Matthew Dames lists two reasons: First, social software tools such as mashups are the perfect opportunity to extend its reach beyond the library building, particularly in a time when there is real fear that patrons are no longer use reference services as vehemently as they once did. Second: job security. Social software tools such as mashups allow librarians to reclaim areas of influence and expertise in the organization that have been ceded to the IT department." Full Article: http://www.llrx.com/features/socialsoftware.htm Five Weeks to Social Library online : course :http://www.sociallibraries.com/course/ Five Weeks to a Social Library: "The first free, grassroots, completely online course devoted to teaching librarians about social software and how to use it in their libraries. The course was developed to provide a free, comprehensive, and social online learning opportunity for librarians who do not otherwise have access to conferences or continuing education and who would benefit greatly from learning about social software" Deadline for Applications: Friday, December 1, 2006. Notification of Acceptance: January 1, 2007. -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Indian Libraries and Librarians search engine :http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW Dear Professionals, Use of Social softwares in Libraries I think librarians and information professionals need to know what social software are, Particularly ..> Blogs RSS Wikis Social Networking Softwares SecondLife (web 2.0, library 2.0) Flickr Social Bookmarking Softwares 'Social Software'--Defination: Social software- is an umbrella term that applies to any tool that allows two or more persons to collaborate while each person is in a different location. The collaboration may occur in real time (called synchronous collaboration) or at different times (called asynchronous collaboration), while the locations may span continents or simply an office building." wikipedia ---http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_software Mashups: Mashups:"A mashup is a website or web application that seamlessly combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience."-----------Wikipedia( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_(web_application_hybrid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_(web_application_hybrid ) presentation on Mashups-http://www.slais.ubc.ca/allancho/mashup.ppt Why are mashups relevant for information professionals and librarians? "Matthew Dames lists two reasons: First, social software tools such as mashups are the perfect opportunity to extend its reach beyond the library building, particularly in a time when there is real fear that patrons are no longer use reference services as vehemently as they once did. Second: job security. Social software tools such as mashups allow librarians to reclaim areas of influence and expertise in the organization that have been ceded to the IT department." Full Article: http://www.llrx.com/features/socialsoftware.htm http://www.llrx.com/features/socialsoftware.htm Five Weeks to Social Library online : course :http://www.sociallibraries.com/course/ Five Weeks to a Social Library: "The first free, grassroots, completely online course devoted to teaching librarians about social software and how to use it in their libraries. The course was developed to provide a free, comprehensive, and social online learning opportunity for librarians who do not otherwise have access to conferences or continuing education and who would benefit greatly from learning about social software" Deadline for Applications: Friday, December 1, 2006. Notification of Acceptance: January 1, 2007. -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Indian Libraries and Librarians search engine :http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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Video:University of California: campus seminars, courses and events available online
by Mallikarjuna, H.B 25 Nov '06

25 Nov '06

Video:University of California: campus seminars, courses and events available online Berkeley is the preeminent public research and teaching institution in the World. the curricula of 130 academic departments span the wide world of thought and knowledge. Available video collection: Courses -http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html#courses Arts & Humanities -http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html#arts_humanities Global & Public Affairs -http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html#global_public_affairs Science & Technology-http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html#scitech "..............Is just one part of UC Berkeley's commitment to the broadest possible dissemination of knowledge for the benefit of the world."--UC -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Indian Libraries and Librarians search engine :http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW Video:University of California: campus seminars, courses and events available online Berkeley is the preeminent public research and teaching institution in the World. the curricula of 130 academic departments span the wide world of thought and knowledge. Available video collection: http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html#courses Courses -http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html#courses http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html#arts_humanities Arts & Humanities -http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html#arts_humanities http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html#global_public_affairs Global & Public Affairs -http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html#global_public_affairs http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html#scitech Science & Technology -http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html#scitech "..............Is just one part of UC Berkeley's commitment to the broadest possible dissemination of knowledge for the benefit of the world."--UC -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Indian Libraries and Librarians search engine :http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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Choosing Good Passwords -- A User Guide
by sheela nag 24 Nov '06

24 Nov '06

Dear Professionals, Now a days, we are using more than one email id. Below are the links to websites , which will help us in maintaining and securing our email id / passwords Choosing Good Passwords -- A User Guide http://www.psynch.com/docs/choosing-good-passwords.html You can learn more about password security and password management processes at: http://psynch.com/docs/enterprise-password-management.html Password Management Best Practices http://www.psynch.com/docs/password-management-best-practices.html Password Management http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/guidance/identitymanagement/idman… Regards sheela S Sheela S unior Librarian IBA , Bangalore. sheelasheela(a)gmail.com --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW Dear Professionals, Now a days, we are using more than one email id. Below are the links to websites , which will help us in maintaining and securing our email id / passwords Choosing Good Passwords -- A User Guide http://www.psynch.com/docs/choosing-good-passwords.html http://www.psynch.com/docs/choosing-good-passwords.html You can learn more about password security and password management processes at: http://psynch.com/docs/enterprise-password-management.html http://psynch.com/docs/enterprise-password-management.html Password Management Best Practices http://www.psynch.com/docs/password-management-best-practices.html http://www.psynch.com/docs/password-management-best-practices.html Password Management http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/guidance/identitymanagement/idman… http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/guidance/identitymanagement/idman… Regards sheela S Sheela S unior Librarian IBA , Bangalore. mailto:sheelasheela@gmail.com sheelasheela(a)gmail.com Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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Alma Swan's papers
by Subbiah Arunachalam 23 Nov '06

23 Nov '06

Friends: Dr Alma Swan, a champion of open access, came to India twice in 2006. First she came to give the keynote address at a special session on open access at the Annual Meeting of the Indian Science Congress Association held at Hyderabad in the first week of January. She came again in the first week of November to speak at the workshop on electronic publishing and open access held at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Some of you wanted to read her papers on OA. Here is a list of five papers: <http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/openaccessarchive/ journalpublications.html>. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Job opportunity at ISEC, Bangalore
by T R B Sarma 23 Nov '06

23 Nov '06

Dear Sir, Please place following advertisement in Lis-forum for wider publicity. ISEC Library, Bangalore is looking for a suitable candidate to recruit as "Technical Assistant" for a period of six months in its Journal Articles Database project. Candidates who have completed their M.L.I.Sc degree with computer knowledge may contact undersigned immediately. Salary: Rs. 6000/- per month. TRB SARMA Dy.Librarian, ISEC Nagarabhavi, Bangalore. 560 072. E-mail : trbsarma(a)isec.ac.in Telephone: 080-23215468 Extn. 302 Dear Sir, Please place following advertisement in Lis-forum for wider publicity. ISEC Library, Bangalore is looking for a suitable candidate to recruit as "Technical Assistant" for a period of six months in its Journal Articles Database project. Candidates who have completed their M.L.I.Sc degree with computer knowledge may contact undersigned immediately. Salary: Rs. 6000/- per month. TRB SARMA Dy.Librarian, ISEC Nagarabhavi, Bangalore. 560 072. E-mail : mailto:trbsarma@isec.ac.in trbsarma(a)isec.ac.in Telephone: 080-23215468 Extn. 302

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Video :Information Age: "Father of the Information Age-Claude Shannon "
by Mallikarjuna, H.B 23 Nov '06

23 Nov '06

Video :Information Age: "Father of the Information Age-Claude Shannon " " Considered the founding father of the electronic communication age, Claude Shannon's work ushered in the Digital Revolution. This fascinating program explores his life and the major influence his work had on today's digital world through interviews with his friends and colleagues." http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2567011062576169322&q=digital+info… Tiny url: http://tinyurl.com/y6mm4h -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Indian Libraries and Librarians search engine :http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW Video :Information Age: "Father of the Information Age-Claude Shannon " " Considered the founding father of the electronic communication age, Claude Shannon's work ushered in the Digital Revolution. This fascinating program explores his life and the major influence his work had on today's digital world through interviews with his friends and colleagues." http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2567011062576169322&q=digital+info… http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2567011062576169322&q=digital+info… Tiny url: http://tinyurl.com/y6mm4h http://tinyurl.com/y6mm4h -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Indian Libraries and Librarians search engine :http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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