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Seeds distributed through public libraries
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Public libraries not just for lending and reading books. They are also places where you can get seeds (in the US). Says Cindy Conner: "Public libraries have begun to add seeds to their offerings and you will find more seed libraries as part of public library programs than any other venue." < http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/seed-libraries-zbcz1412.as… > Arun -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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OA to culture
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Friends: Although this is a forum for ALL of library and information science, I guess most members are academic librarians interested in STEM and teachers of LIS; public librarians constitute a very small percent of the members. But thankfully special libraries do provide access to what we expect from public libraries. I have enjoyed the benefits of such catholicity of interest of special libraries for a long time. I wish to draw your attention to some great art made openly available. < http://www.openculture.com/2014/12/the-tate-digitizes-70000-works-of-art.ht… >. This site also points to other OA art collections: The British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Reuse & Remix <http://www.openculture.com/2013/12/british-library-puts-1000000-images-into…> The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 400,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use <http://www.openculture.com/2014/05/the-met-puts-400000-high-res-images-onli…> The National Gallery Makes 25,000 Images of Artwork Freely Available Online <http://www.openculture.com/2013/06/the_national_gallery_makes_25000_images_…> LA County Museum Makes 20,000 Artistic Images Available for Free Download <http://www.openculture.com/2013/03/la_county_museum_makes_20000_artistic_im…> Then, of course, we have DPLA, Europeana, and Internet Archive. There are many only we can digitize all of their collections and make them openly available to the world ... .... Arun -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Sad demise of three Professional veterans
by Ashok Asundi 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Dear All LIS Professionals It is painful to inform you that in the last few days we have lost two well known professional veterans. They are Sri D.N.Nagaraja Rao, Sri T.V. Venkataramanaiah and Dr. Velaga Venkatappaiah. Sri Nagaraja rao served at Mysore in NIE and Ramakrishna School and has been doing free consultancy to many young professionals. Despite his age and unable to walk steadily, he seldom missed any LIS conference and would cherish the proceedings. Has always loved the profession and has also excelled in CDS/ISIS Micro version and has build databases on some rare items. I had an opportunity visit his house at Mysore and saw a good personal library. He was 82 years old. Sri Venkataramanaiah, Ret. (VRS) Dy. Librarian, Bangalore University, Bangalore was a close associate of Sri B.S. Keshavan. Sri Venkatamanaiah worked in National Library of India and was associated with the National Bibliography of Indian Literature compiled under the able editorial leadership of Sri Keshavan. A scholar in Kannada Literature, served the University ardently and built a collection of Kannada Works in Bangalore University known as "Karnatakana" which provided scholars all material under one roof. He has many compilations to his credit. Brought out many bibliographic tools and India Book House assigned work to compile a bibliography of their publications. Sri Venkatamanaiah has compiled works on Idioms on more than two hundred subjects. For example idioms on Bhatki, Jnana, Marriage and so on. I used to get his works on gratis and I have about 100 of them with me. It is treasure house of kannada works and for this tremendous work he was given a commemoration as "SUKTI RATNAKAR". We have lost a great librarian cum kannada scholar. He had a great personal respect, he took VRS because he was abused by a Student at Bangalore University during his service, and the authorities that be then did not make efforts to retain him and let him go. He was 82 years old. Recently I got a message from Dr. Karisiddappa that Dr. Velega Vekatappaiah has passed away. Dr. Velaga an expert in Public Lbrary system and has authored many books in Telagu to popularise the LIS through regional language. Dr Venkatappaiah has also revised in 1994 the model public library Act, first brought out by DR.SRR. He was also closely associated with Prof. PN Kaula and has been looking after his Endowments very well. He was 82 it is very sad hear the demise of these three veterans with whom I had a very close contact and relations and I knew them very well personally. I pray Almighty on behalf all professional fraternity, to their souls to RIP. With profound regards to the departed souls. Prof. A.Y.Asundi -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Nature blog covers India's OA policy
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

A Nature blog has reported the OA policy of DBT and DST. Please see < http://blogs.nature.com/indigenus/2014/12/india-unveils-new-open-access-pol… >. Let us hope other funding agencies, research institutions and universities follow the example of DBT and DST. Arun -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] EPW publishes the research paper of a Librarian
by Puna Das 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Dear Dr. Bhattacharyya, Greetings! With the rapid advancement of open access to knowledge due to a strong global open access movement, things are changing very fast. Patnaik (author of this paper) is probably aware of recent developments with respect to rights retention by the authors through the “SPARC Author Addendum to Publication Agreement” (available at www.sparc.arl.org/sites/default/files/Access-Reuse_Addendum.pdf ). This instrument is nowadays used widely across the world to grant license-to-publish (LTP) to the publishers, and retaining copyrights by the authors or their funding/ affiliating institutions. Authors are now empowered to deny any copyright transfer to commercial publishers, rather insist on signing an LTP with the publishers. “DBT and DST Open Access Policy: Policy on Open Access to DBT and DST Funded Research”, approved and finalized in December 2014, is also supportive to the cause of retention of copyrights by the authors. UNESCO just launches an Open Access Curricula for researchers and librarians (available at http://bit.ly/1xb0Pti) This licensing aspect is discussed in great details in a module of this open access curricula. Interested researchers can take a note of this. Patnaik may offer an updated scenario after examining the “SPARC Author Addendum to Publication Agreement”, “DBT and DST Open Access Policy” and “UNESCO Open Access Curricula for Researchers and Librarians”. Her findings will be completely different than what is presented in this paper. With Best Regards Anup ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 14:15:07 +0530 From: "Swati Bhattacharyya ." <swati(a)iimcal.ac.in> To: "lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, MANLIBNET-india(a)yahoogroups.com Subject: [LIS-Forum] EPW publishes the research paper of a Librarian Economic & Political Weekly - popularly known as EPW and a prestigious journal from India has recently published a research paper of Dr. K. Rama Patnaik - the Librarian of IIM Bangalore. Please refer to the issue published in December 20, 2014. Sincerely, Swati Bhattacharyya, Ph.D. Librarian Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Joka, Diamond Harbor Road, Kolkata - 700104, India Phone: 91-33-2467-8300 (Bus extn: 416; Res extn: 106) Library: http://library.iimcal.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Koha latest 3.18.1 Livdvd (easykoha.iso)
by Vinod Kumar Mishra 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Dear All I have just uploaded Koha latest version 3.18.1 livedvd (easykoha.iso) at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vkmkoha/files/ How to install on dual booting (Windows and Linux): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mg8h394E28 Please Feel free to contact for any help. With regards, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Assistant Librarian, Biju Patnaik Central Library, NIT Rourkela, Mob:91+9439420860 91+6612462103 (O) email: vinod_librarian(a)rediffmail.com : mishravk79(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Workshop on Knowledge Analytics in Corporate Sector]
by mailman＠ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

From: Ravichandra <ikrrao(a)hotmail.com> Date: Mon 12/29/2014 10:18 AM Workshop on Knowledge Analytics in Corporate Sector (TEQIP-II/COE Sponsored), Tue, 13 January 2015 Venue: Tech Park Seminar Hall, PES Institute of Technology Who can attend? The workshop should be of interest to students, and teachers of Computer science, knowledge and Information management professionals, Faculty and students of PESIT and other engineering colleges as well as professionals from the industry. Registration is free of cost, but all participants must register online well before the event. How to register? To register for a KAnOE Workshop, please goto http://kanoe.org/workshopregistration.html and click appropriate button. Venue: Tech Park Seminar Hall, PES University, BSK 3rd Stage, Bangalore 560085. AGENDA: Tuesday, 13 January 2015 9:30 - 09:50 : Registration and Welcome 9:50 - 10:00 : Opening Remarks by Dr. I. K. Ravichandra Rao, Visiting Scientist, KAnOE 10:00 - 11:20 - Mr. N. V. Sathyanarayana, CEO and Managing Director, Informatics Ltd., Bangalore - Analytics in Information Industry 11:20 - 11:40 - Coffee break 11:40 - 1:00 - Dr. K. K. Chowdhury, Professor, SQC and OR Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore - Analytics in Industrial Quality Control 1:00 - 2:00 - Lunch 2:00 - 3:30 - Dr. J. K. Suresh, Designated Partner, KenAble Consultants, LLP., Bangalore - Analytics in Knowledge Management 3:30 - Tea For any queries, please write to ontology(a)pes.edu Director Centre for Knowledge Analytics and Ontological Engineering PES Institute of Technology Bangalore 560 085.

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Open Acess, Open Science, Open Data...yes they are cool! But, what next??
by Sri Amudha Sankar 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Dear Colleagues, Here's something new and interesting!! Keep reading! How do we find if our works all that had been made open for wider accessibility really had better impact in the society? That's where altmetrics come into the scene by tracking scholarly impact beyond h-index or journal impact factor or other traditional metrics we are using already! Impactstory is a researcher-run non-profit, funded by the NSF. They’ve created a website that compiles all the citations, downloads, tweets, Mendeley bookmarks, and so on for all of your research products... articles, data sets, slides, software, etc. It’ll also pull in your new products automatically, and send you email alerts whenever any of your products has a new impact. It’s a great way to stay up-to-date on your research impact, and discover research impact you didn’t even know you had! Here are some example Impactstory profiles: 1) https://impactstory.org/CarlBoettiger <https://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimpactstory%2Eorg%2FCar…> 2) https://impactstory.org/SridharGutam <https://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimpactstory%2Eorg%2FSri…> . If you’re interested, you can sign up for a free 30-day trial here: https://impactstory.org/signup <https://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimpactstory%2Eorg%2Fsig…> I'm an Impactstory Advisor! So feel free to contact me further! Best, Sri Amudha S, Research Scholar, Dept of Library and Information Science, Pondicherry University. Mob : 91-9443936630. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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RRRLF got New Director
by P. S. Mukhopadhyay 27 Dec '14

27 Dec '14

Dear All My heart-felt congratulations to Dr. Arun Kumar Chakraborty who took over the charge of Director-General, Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation (RRRLF) under Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India on 16.12.2014. Dr. Chakraborty has an excellent professional career and served the famous Bose Institute, Kolkata as Librarian from July 2000 to December 2014. He implemented a series of user-centric library services and initiated the first ever open source software based server cluster (fusing Koha, DSpace, and Joomla in an interactive software platform) in the Bose Institute, Kolkata way back in 2010. Alongside the professional duties, Dr. Chakborty is also enthusiastically engaged in professional development activities. He served the IASLIC as General Secretary from 2007 to 2010, worked as Standing Committee Member of Genealogy and Local History Section of IFLA and visited NIH Bethesda, Maryland, USA as Fulbright Scholar during 2005-2006. Despite his extremely busy schedule for the last ten years, Dr. Chakraborty sincerely served almost all Library schools in West Bengal in the capacity of guest lecturer, visiting faculty, resource person and keynote speaker. We do hope for a new dimension in country-wide public library services by RRRLF under the able leadership of Dr. Arun Kumar Chakraborty. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kalyani, Kalyani - 741 235 (WB), India ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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UNESCO launches Open Access Curricula for Researchers, Librarians and Library Science Schools
by Puna Das 26 Dec '14

26 Dec '14

UNESCO launches Open Access Curricula for Researchers, Librarians and Library Science Schools 19.12.2014 - Communication & Information Sector Within the overall framework of UNESCO Strategy on Open Access to scientific information and research and to take forward UNESCO’s leadership role in diffusing knowledge amongst its Member States, UNESCO has developed a set of manuals to facilitate capacity building of library and information professionals and researchers. The development of the modules has been undertaken very carefully and the development process covered diverse opinion in the subject area, and in consultation with more than 50 experts to include diversity and expertise from the developing south. The OA curricula developed by UNESCO includes a set of customized modules which can be easily be fitted with the educational needs of different OA stakeholders and can be integrated with any sensitization programmes of OA. The curricula for Library and Information Science Professionals entitled "Open Access for Library Schools", consists of four course modules. An Introductory Module aims at sensitizing the library community about the history, evolution, forms and impact of OA within the domain of scholarly communication environment and covers issues related to rights management, IPR and advocacy. The remaining three modules cover subject areas of OA Infrastructure, Resource Optimization and Interoperability and Retrieval. These sections give insights into the features, types, maintenance and standardization of OA resources, information retrieval/storage software and highlight the role of the new dimension of web-enabled resources such as e-journals, e-repositories and ICTSs. The curricula for researchers entitled "Open Access for Researchers" addresses OA issues within the community of research scholars. The modules cover the subject areas of Scholarly Communications, Concepts of Openness and Open Access, Intellectual Property Rights and Research Evaluation Metrics. The first four modules have been developed to nurture researchers with an elaborate understanding of the genesis, objectives, processes, types and existing limitations of OA scholarly communication, which include insights into the issues related to IPR, the methods and limitations of the process of peer reviewing and the concepts and roles of E-journals, databases, ICTs, OSS and other OERs. The final and fifth Module entitled "Sharing your Work in Open Access" provides a step-wise guideline for researchers about the process and options available for publishing their research work. These curricula were developed after undertaking two detailed capacity building need assessment studies of librarians and researchers on Open Access. A multi-stakeholder expert meeting was organized in New Delhi, where 23 experts participated to finalize the curriculum. Two online consultations were also held to substantiate the expert meeting, which helped UNESCO to outline the content for each of the curriculum and provided a framework to develop modules. The curricula were developed with the help of Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), New Delhi of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL). The curricula will soon be available for download. Currently, copies can be requested by writing to UNESCO’s OA programme. Source: www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-and-in-f… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anupkumardas.blogspot.in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Are you really Expert in LIS/softwares? then spend 2 minutes!!!
by Puna Das 26 Dec '14

26 Dec '14

Hi Experts, You are also requested to register your expertise with DLNetSA (Digital Library Network of South Asia) for greater South Asian visibility at http://dlnetsa.info/expert-registration/. Best Regards Anup ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das http://anupkumardas.blogspot.in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------------------- On Tue, 16/12/14, lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in <lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 141, Issue 20 To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Date: Tuesday, 16 December, 2014, 11:22 AM 1. Are you really Expert in LIS/softwares? than spend 2 minutes !!! (Vinod Kumar Mishra) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: 15 Dec 2014 07:23:57 -0000 From: "Vinod Kumar Mishra" <vinod_librarian(a)rediffmail.com> To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Are you really Expert in LIS/softwares? than spend 2 minute!!! Message-ID: <20141215072357.26121.qmail(a)f5mail-224-155.rediffmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Dear all, I am trying to make strong group of people who can support in the Implementation of New tools and technology (especially open source solutions) in the Library and Information centers at Various corners of the country and abroad also on no profit no gain basis, i.e. Only TA/DA and honorariums as per Government/Concern Institute Rules. If you have experience in handling and implementation of such software's like Koha, Joomla, DSpace, Drupal, Newgenlib, Greenstone, Wordpress etc than please provide your data in the form linked here. The provided data will be broadcasted on the various forums ans social networking websites so that people can reach the concern experts for any assistance. http://goo.gl/forms/tmYmkroNfN Vinod Kumar Mishra Assistant Librarian NIT Rourkela With regards, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Assistant Librarian, Biju Patnaik Central Library, NIT Rourkela, Mob:91+9439420860 91+6612462103 (O) email: vinod_librarian(a)rediffmail.com, mishravk79(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Invitation for Nominations: Best Practices in Public Libraries System in India
by Puna Das 26 Dec '14

26 Dec '14

The India Public Libraries Conference 2015 (IPLC): Invitation of Best Practices Dates: March 11-12, 2015 Venue: India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India Organizers: Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF); PRATHAM; Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF); NASSCOM Foundation; The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) www.iplc.in IPLC 2015: Invitation of Best Practices Applications are invited from public libraries run by the government, communities, civil society and others in India that are doing good works innovatively in public library management in areas of – content and services, better management of resources, citizen engagement, library staff development, new methods, applications and strategies, use of technology including digital library initiatives, partnership development and in other ways that have served the citizens, communities, local agencies and others better. Public libraries best practices are invited on best applications, methods, framework, strategies, and policy and programme areas including digital library initiatives that have and can impact public library functioning in India towards positive transformation. Last Date for Nomination: 31st January 2015 About IPLC: The India Public Libraries Conference (IPLC) 2015 is a multi-stakeholder engagement that seeks to convene and engage librarians and library stakeholders including policy makers to dialogue and share experiences and lessons in public libraries in India. It seeks to arrive at a broad understanding of challenges and opportunities of how public libraries in India are and can contribute in overall development of communities with value added services, and collaboratively build a shared vision for the future as community oriented knowledge and resource centres of the 21st century. This stems from our recognition of Public Libraries playing a vital role in the lives of individuals and their communities. For generations, the local libraries have acted as a vehicle for access to knowledge, ideas and information and as democratic services open and available to anyone. The public library is not only a trusted and recognised feature of the local area; it is also a remarkable national asset and network. Identifying Best Public Library Practices: An IPLC 2015 Objective One of the objectives of the India Public Libraries Conference (IPLC) 2015 is to identify, encourage and document best practices in public libraries on the basis of above parameters. Invited and selected best practices will be documented, shared in IPLC 2015 workshops and will be showcased in the IPLC 2015 Exhibition. Download Public Library Best Practices Concept Note: http://iplc.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Best-Practices-Concept-Note.pdf Download Public Library Best Practices Application Form: http://iplc.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Application-Form.docx Further Details: Secretariat C/O – Digital Empowerment Foundation House 44, Second & Third Floor, Kalu Sarai, New Delhi – 110016, India Tel: +91-11-26532786 / 26532787 Fax: +91-11-26532787 Email: iplc2015(a)gmail.com, iplc(a)gmail.com, namita(a)defindia.net www.iplc.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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India's OA policy
by Subbiah Arunachalam 25 Dec '14

25 Dec '14

Friends: Please see < http://www.dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/APPROVED-OPEN-ACCESS-POLICY-D… > for the official (mandatory) OA policy of DBT and DST of India. You may spread the word. Regards. Arun -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Reminder: Three days training programme on Bibliometrics and Research Output Analysis during 7th January-9th January 2015
by Roma 24 Dec '14

24 Dec '14

Respected Members, INFLIBNET is organizing three days training programme on *Bibliometrics and Research Output Analysis* during 7th January 2015 to 9th January 2015. The programme will give the participants sound overview of bibliometric methods, performance indicators and tools & techniques related to bibliometric analysis and mapping. It will provide awareness about the most commonly used data base, how to build -up relevant indicators and how to interpret the data. Special emphasis will be given to indicators used in research evaluation. *Resource Persons* The lecturers are prominent researchers, scientists/professors in the field of bibliometrics. They also have an extensive experience with the application of bibliometric analysis in a research evaluation. *Venue* The Training programme will be conducted at Information and Library Network Centre, An IUC of University Grants Commission, Infocity, Gandhinagar-382007, Gujarat, India *Fee* The registration fee is Rs. 3000.00 (Rupees three thousand only) per person without accommodation and Rs. 5,000.00 with accommodation (four days three nights). Please visit following link for more information: *Brochure:* http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/forthcoming/bibliometric_brochure_jan2015.pdf *Registration form:* http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/forthcoming/bibliometric_regform_jan2015.pdf For participation and more information please do contact kruti(a)inflibnet.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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READING E-BOOKS BEFORE BEDTIME MAY DISRUPT BODY CLOCK
by Ragaavendra R 24 Dec '14

24 Dec '14

READING E-BOOKS BEFORE BEDTIME MAY DISRUPT BODY CLOCK Use of a light-emitting electronic device such as e-books in the hours before bedtime can adversely impact sleep, overall health, alertness and the circadian clock, a new study has found. Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) compared the biological effects of reading a light-emitting electronic device (LE-eBook) compared to a printed book. "We found the body's natural circadian rhythms were interrupted by the short-wavelength enriched light, otherwise known as blue light, from these electronic devices," said Anne-Marie Chang, corresponding author, and associate neuroscientist in BWH's Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders. "Participants reading an LE-eBook took longer to fall asleep and had reduced evening sleepiness, reduced melatonin secretion, later timing of their circadian clock and reduced next-morning alertness than when reading a printed book," Chang said. Previous research has shown that blue light suppresses melatonin, impacts the circadian clock and increases alertness, but little was known about the effects of this popular technology on sleep. The use of light emitting devices immediately before bedtime is a concern because of the extremely powerful effect that light has on the body's natural sleep/wake pattern, and may thereby play a role in perpetuating sleep deficiency. During the two-week inpatient study, twelve participants read LE-e-Books on an iPad for four hours before bedtime each night for five consecutive nights. This was repeated with printed books. The order was randomised with some reading the iPad first and others reading the printed book first. Participants reading on the iPad took longer to fall asleep, were less sleepy in the evening, and spent less time in REM sleep. The iPad readers had reduced secretion of melatonin, a hormone which normally rises in the evening and plays a role in inducing sleepiness. Additionally, iPad readers had a delayed circadian rhythm, indicated by melatonin levels, of more than an hour. Participants who read from the iPad were less sleepy before bedtime, but sleepier and less alert the following morning after eight hours of sleep. ers, laptops, cell phones, LED monitors, and other electronic devices, all emitting blue light. The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. REFERENCE LINK: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/449343/reading-e-books-bedtime-may.html Best Regards, Raghvendra R The information contained in this electronic message and in any attachments to this message is confidential, legally privileged and intended only for use by the person or entity to which this electronic message is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please notify the sender and system manager by return email and delete the message and its attachments and also you are hereby notified that any distribution, copying, review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this electronic transmission or the information contained in it is strictly prohibited. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not represent those of the Company or bind the Company. Any commitments made over e-mail are not financially binding on the company unless accompanied or followed by a valid purchase order. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Mail Scanner, and is believed to be clean. The Company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.jubl.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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GAFAnomics: New Economy, New Rules
by Dr Francis Jayakanth 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

Dear All, Season's greetings. Just wanted to draw your attention to a very interesting study called GAFAnomics. GAFAnomics explains how Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon have evolved and decodes their visions on a strategic framework developed by Fabernovel. For details, visit, http://www.fabernovel.com/gafa/ With best wishes for the new year, Francis IIMB Library ******************************************* Disclaimer *************************************************** This email message, its content and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the originally intended addressee(s) and may be legally privileged and /or confidential. If you have received this email in error or otherwise, please delete it and contact the originator immediately. You should not copy or forward it on or otherwise use the contents, attachments, or information in any way without the express permission of the originator. Any such unauthorized use or disclosure may be unlawful. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article request
by janet lobo 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

Dear Sir/Madam, WISH YOU ALL A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR. One of our PG need the following Journal article. If it is available please send it at the earliest. Journal Name: Molecular oral Microbiology (old name:Oral Microbiology and Immunology)Volume 10,Issue 6,pages 382-384, December 1995. Article title: Distribution of biotypes and antimicrobial susceptibility of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans Authors:M. J. Avila-Campos1,*, M. A. R. Carvalho2 andF. ZelanteThanking You, With Kind Regards, Dr Janet Dotty Lobo Librarian Fr Muller Central Library Mangalore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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EPW publishes the research paper of a Librarian
by Swati Bhattacharyya . 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

Economic & Political Weekly - popularly known as EPW and a prestigious journal from India has recently published a research paper of Dr. K. Rama Patnaik - the Librarian of IIM Bangalore. Please refer to the issue published in December 20, 2014. Sincerely, Swati Bhattacharyya, Ph.D. Librarian Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Joka, Diamond Harbor Road Kolkata - 700104 India Phone: 91-33-2467-8300 (Bus extn: 416; Res extn: 106) Library: http://library.iimcal.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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CONGRATULATIONS
by Prince Agashe 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

*CONGRATULATIONS**...* *To* *Dr.** Vijaykumar N. Mulimani * Dear All Professionals, I would like to inform all the library professionals that *Mr. Vijaykumar N.Mulimani Librarian, Sangameshwar College, Solapur * has been awarded with Ph. D. degree in Library and Information Science by Solapur University. The Subject of research was ‘ *Quality of Service and User satisfaction in* *Public libraries of Maharashtra: An Evaluative Study’* . ’The research was carried out under the Guidance of * Dr. Suresh. S. Jange, Deputy Librarian, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga,Karnataka.* Best Wishes to you from me & my family We wish you to continue more on research for the betterment of LIS profession. -- *Prince Ajaykumar T. Agashe* *Librarian* *Matru Sewa Sangh Institute of Social Work* *W H C Road, Bajaj Nagar- NAGPUR - 440010.* *(M) 8007391295* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Two-Day National Workshop on Research Methodology and Academic Writing. 29-30 January, 2015
by Kuldeep Matieda 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

Respected Sir/Madam INFLIBNET is organizing two days training programme on Research Methodology and Academic Writing during 29th to 30th January 2015. The objective of this workshop is to introduce the modern ways of conducting literature research, use of discovery tools and databases, use of reference management software such as Myendnoteweb, Mendeley and data analytical tool such as SPSS in analysing the research data. The Workshop will help the participants in applying proper research methodology and improving their analysis by applying various statistical techniques using popular software. The course aims to improve the research skills and competence among the researchers by strengthening their knowledge as well as improving researchers technical writing skill, etc. *Resource Persons* The resource persons are eminent IT / Computer / LIS Scientists /professionals and experts of the country including: · Dr. Gopakumar V, University Librarian, Goa University · Dr. Usha Munshi, Librarian, INSA, New Delhi · · Dr Neerja A Gupta, Principal, Bhavan’s Sheth R A College of Arts and Commerce, Ahmedabad · Sh. Manoj Kumar K Scientist-D, INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar · *Venue * The Workshop will be conducted at Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET Centre), An IUC of University Grants Commission, Infocity, Gandhinagar-382007, Gujarat, India. *Workshop Fee* The registration fee is Rs. 3371/-(Approx) per person without accommodation and Rs. 5618/- (Approx) with accommodation (* The amount is inclusive of Service Tax at the Rate of 12.36% ). It covers the cost of workshop kit containing course materials, breakfast, lunch and dinner during the training period. The payment should be made through Demand Draft in favour of INFLIBNET Centre payable at Gandhinagar along with filled-in registration form. Fee is nonrefundable and non-adjustable. -- *Kuldeep Matieda* *Project Associate (LS) INFLIBNET Centre* *Infocity, Gandhinagar - 382007* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fwd: OPEN ACCESS POLICY OF DBT AND DST, GOVT. OF INDIA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dr. T. Madhan Mohan <madhan.dbt(a)nic.in> Date: Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 5:42 AM Subject: OPEN ACCESS POLICY OF DBT AND DST, GOVT. OF INDIA To: Shahid Jameel <jameelshahid(a)gmail.com>, K VijayRaghavan DBT < vijay.dbt(a)nic.in> Cc: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah.arunachalam(a)gmail.com>, hirwani < hirwani(a)urdip.res.in>, Brakaspathy <rbpathy(a)nic.in>, Suman Mallik < sumanmallik(a)cdri.res.in>, Anubha Sinha <anubha.1290(a)gmail.com>, Girish Chandra Pandey <pandey.gc(a)nic.in>, DBT e-Noticeboard < noticeboard.dbt(a)lsmgr.nic.in> Dear All, We are very much glad in sharing with you all that the Hon'ble Minister for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences has approved the Open Access Policy of DBT and DST. A copy of the approved OAP is enclosed for your reference. We from DBT and DST take this opportunity to thank you one and all for your time and efforts spent on evolving such an important Policy for the nation. I am sure the free, open and digital access of scientific research will ensure percolation of cutting edge research at a rapid pace into higher education curricula, thereby raising the standard of technical and scientific education in the country. This in turn, will foster a richer research culture. Thank you very much once again, With best regards, Madhan -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Register for Professional Development Programme from 17-19 February, 2015@TERI
by Nihal Alam 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

*Professional Development Programme (PDP) for Information Professionals 2015 on "Managerial Core Competency Development" from 17-19 February, 2015* In an era of Knowledge-Based Economy, knowledge remains an essential service, yet organizations are cutting costs and more and more information professionals are struggling to demonstrate their true value. The core skills and capabilities required by Information professionals are changing by the day. In today's context, information professionals are expected to communicate constantly within their organization, their clienteles, and integrate themselves into new areas, build key and productive relationships, and pro-actively demonstrate their value. Information professionals need to justify their value and become pro-actively involved in the most effective way possible. Realizing these facts, it become outmost important for informational professionals to excel current and recent challenges in this dynamic knowledge society. The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) is organizing a workshop on *"Professional Development Programme (PDP) for Information Professionals 2015 on "Managerial Core Competency Development*" from *17-19 February, 2015* at *TERI**, India Habitat Center, New Delhi*. *Some of the selected rational outcome which will enhance the capabilities of the participants to:* - Develop effective communication skills to interact with the user community; - Inculcate entrepreneurship and project management skills; - Create value added and customized knowledge and information services; - Develop problem-solving and critical analytical skills; - Ability to build partnerships and alliance amongst alike communities; - Improve library management skills; Facilitate the development of information literacy skills; - Inculcate infopreneurial attitude among the LIS professionals towards sustainability; - Bridging the gap, what is preached and what is practiced in the Libraries. The workshop programme as well as course contents have been developed in guidance with eminent subject experts to promote continuous improvement of core competency skills of the participants. The resource persons will comprise of experts from within TERI as well as outside. The pedagogy of this programme will be: - Lectures by eminent faculty members and experts, - Presentations and exercises and case-based discussion - Situation analysis and hands on activities The course has been developed content rich which primarily focuses on guidance to implementation of best practices. *Who should attend?* If you are a mid-level manager or supervisor, currently managing libraries or Information resources or the knowledge centres and looking for a stepping out to excel through skills, expertise and core competencies then this programme is right for you. *Registration: * To allow such rich and useful interactions, the number of participants will be limited to *30 drawing participants from various arrays of library science professionals*. The registration fee for the participants will be *Rs 2000*, the transportation and lodging cost will be borne by the participants. For more details click on URL http://www.teriin.org/library/teri_lib/Teri_Library.html. You are requested to kindly attend or nominate one candidate from your esteemed organization for the same before *30th January 2014*. Regards, *Nihal Alam* Research Associate Library and Information Centre, Knowledge Management Division TERI, Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi -110003 Tel: 2468 2141, 2468 2100 or 2468 2111 (extn) 2758 Fax: 2468 2144 or 2468 2145, Mobile: 91 93-11-305823 Email: nihal.alam(a)teri.res.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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article request
by Najeeb Koottil Vattamannathodi 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

Dear All Please help me in getting these articles · Quality control of validity of data collected in clinical trials <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0277537989904215> · *European Journal of Cancer and Clinical Oncology, Volume 25, Issue 8, August 1989, Pages 1241-1247* · K. Vantongelen, N. Rotmensz, E. Van Der Schueren · 191 Quality assurance in clinical trials: a necessary evil for all of us? <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167814001803327> · *Radiotherapy and Oncology, Volume 58, Supplement 1, January 2001, Page S56* Regards *Muhammed Najeeb. V* *Librarian, Health Science Library,NGHA Riyadh, POB 22490, KSA najeebmankada(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Appointed as Assistant Librarian
by Gireesh Kumar TK 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

Dear Professional friends It is my pleasure to share with my professional friends that I have been appointed as Assistant Librarian at Central University of Kerala,Kasaragod, Kerala. Thanks and regards Gireesh Kumar T K, BLISc, MLISc, UGC NET (JRF), First LIS Links Scholar Assistant Librarian Central University of Kerala Tejaswini Hills,Periye (Post), Pallikkare (Via), Kasaragod (District) Kerala - 671316 INDIA Website: http://www.cukerala.ac.in/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Artcle request
by shashi bhat 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

Dear friends, One of our faculty needs the following article for the research purpose. Any one of you have access to this article, kindly arrange to send. The Indian Spice Turmeric Delays and Mitigates Radiation-Induced Oral Mucositis in Patients Undergoing Treatment for Head and Neck Cancer: An Investigational StudyAuthers: - Suresh Rao, - Chetana Dinkar, - Lalit Kumar Vaishnav, - Pratima Rao, - Manoj Ponadka Rai, - Raja Fayad, - and Manjeshwar Shrinath Baliga Journal : Integrative Cancer TherapiesLink: http://ict.sagepub.com/content/13/3/201.full.pdf+html With Regards, Mrs. Shashikala K Librarian, A.B. Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences, Constituent College of Nitte University, Deralakatte, Mangalore - 575018. Ph: 0824-2204572, 2204963 (ext.-234) Res: 0824-2202133 Mob: +919448869047. | | | | | | | | | | | Sign InSign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or My Tools. Sign In | | | | View on ict.sagepub.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | | | With Regards, Mrs. Shashikala K Librarian, A.B. Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences, Constituent College of Nitte University, Deralakatte, Mangalore - 575018. Ph: 0824-2204572, 2204963 (ext.-234) Res: 0824-2202133 Mob: +919448869047. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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