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Job opportunities at ISEC, Bangalore
by K Prakash 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

Job Opportunities at ISEC The Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) is an All India Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and Training in the Social Sciences, established in 1972. It is registered as a Society under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act, 1960, to create a blend of field-oriented empirical research and advances in social science theories leading to better public policy formulation. ISEC is looking for the suitable candidates for the following positions. 1. Professional Assistant (Library) - 1 (Reserved for SC Category) 2. Professional Assistant (Systems) - 1 (General) 3. Technical Assistant (Library) - 1 Post Reserved for BC 4. Technical Assistant (Data Bank) - 1 Post (General) 5. Assistants - 2 (1 Post Reserved for BC) Pay Scale as per the Karnataka State Government: Professional Assistant - 14050-350-14400-400-16800-450-19500-525-22650-600-25050 Technical Assistant - 10000-250-10500-300-12300-350-14400-400-16800-450-18150 Assistant - 8000-200-8600-225-9500-250-10500-300-12300-350-14400-400-14800 Last date for application is May 10, 2009 Filled in application form may be sent to the following address: The Registrar Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) Dr V.K.R.V.Rao Road, Nagarabhavi P.O. Bangalore - 560 072, Karnataka For qualifications, application format please visit the ISEC website: http://www.isec.ac.in/Admn-advrt-0409.htm With best regards, Bye. ------------------------------------------------------- Dr. K Prakash Deputy Librarian Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) Dr. V K R V Rao Road, Nagarabhavi PO Bangalore-560 072 Karnataka, India. http://www.isec.ac.in/librarymain.htm prakash(a)isec.ac.in / prakash.kalvira(a)gmail.com Tel.: 080- 23180507 [D]/ 23215468 / 23215519 Ext. 302 Fax: 080-23217008 Cell: 09448066788 -- 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] UGC mandatory qualification
by Pandurang Shendage 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

Respected all LIS Professionals, I agree with the views about necessity of NET examination but my question is about knowledge. NET Certificate will not prove the professional maturity and efficiency about the work. We cannot say that NET cleared person is more efficient and successful in the field because before 1993 there was no NET exam and lot of successful librarians were there before 1993. So if we say that Only NET qualified person will provide quality services then it will be sign of our professional immaturity. We LIS professionals should behave like professionals. How? Think about it. Do we have value in society? After getting NET Certificate and job as librarian, how this will give you status or value in society. Number of LIS professionals are facing identity problem in society. We can take example of lawyer or Doctor; they are independent professionals and are not fighting for professional status or value in society. It is not required for them because they have achieved the status in Society. We, LIS professionals are running behind equivalent status of teachers only and we are asking it from our society and it is not ready to give such types of approval. No body is discussing on this issue, which is very much important. Dr. S.R. Raganathan has worked a lot and did good job for LIS profession. We have to follow him and make some standards for professional development. We all have to follow the same standards. My request to all senior Professionals, we should act accordingly and make our place in the society. I think NET Examination is only standard criteria for solving saturation problem. I agree with the decision of maintaining standard in Higher education because the standard of education in some universities are very much poor but we can give some chances to improve it otherwise we can take preventive action on such universities. Research in the field is necessary now days. Especially in our field it is very much required. Indira Gandhi National Open University prefers M.Phil. Degree or five years work experience for getting admission for Ph.D. in LIS. For more details, you can refer the prospectus. We all know better that the standard of education through IGNOU. They are not demanding NET or SLET. So we should not compare research degrees with NET/SLET Examinations. Now I will be shift over professional ability and maturity. I want to compare two LIS professionals here. One is fresh MLIS student cleared his eligibility test in One or Two attempts. The other one who have Five years working experience with research degree. The first one will get direct appointment. But the second one has to clear NET/SLET. Is it necessary for him? What is the value for work experience then? Who will work efficiently? I think, the person who is having experience and knowledge about the field because now everywhere all are asking experience for the responsible post. What types of quality services we can expect from such NET cleared librarians? generally at entry level, there is absence of professional maturity, he or she cannot make some decisions or there is always possibility of irrelevant decisions. So there should be some standard and uniform criteria for such appointments too. Thank You Sir PANDURANG SHENDAGE Assistant Librarian Tolani Maritime Institute Induri, Talegaon Dabhade Pune 410507 On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 rajendra kumar panda wrote : >Dear listed members, > > > >Adding to recent discussion of UGC qualification for the post of Asstt. >Librarian in college and university or similar grades in non academic >library, UGC NET/SET qualification should be mandatory (according my >opinion) to maintain the quality of service and job, NET/SET exams are >higher standard in quality, there is no question of partiality and petting >towards candidates, the met question papers are set by chosen top most LIS >people and evaluation method is similar too. Besides ones subject knowledge >candidates must have general ability to think scientifically and logically >to respond an environment judiciously and rationally. > >The functional credibility of some of Indian universities is well known to >most of us. It is not much difficult to obtain M.Phill / Ph.D degree. In >this process always there is nepotism and favoritism prevails. > >On other side, there are plenty of evidence people with having first class >careers could not qualify LIS all India written tests conducted by various >govt. bodies and most of the Govt appointed LIS professionals working in >various top level positions are directly appointed on the basis of career >and qualification marks. > >Since last two decades, there are hearing of dithering between UGC NET/SET >relax and mandatory. Knowledge Commission of India is also suggested in >favour of essentiality. I think every LIS people should prove their >credentials by qualifying highest body exams. > > > >thanks > > >-- >R.K.Panda >Librarian >Kendriya Vidyalaya > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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MGU Open Access Theses Archive Selected As Best Web Resource by INTUTE
by Gopakumar Velayudhanpillai 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

Dear professionals, Mahatma Gandhi Universitys Open Access Theses Archive has been selected as a best web resource by the INTUTE. INTUTE is a consortia of UKs Joint information Systems Committee (JISC),and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) The INTUTE evaluated the software, content and various other technical aspects of the database before including the MGU Online theses database in their portal. This is the only Indian archive of PhD theses included by the INTUTE.It is a boost for the Open Access movement in India. Congratulations to Dr R. Raman Nair who took the initiative in creating and uploading this full text thesis database. He has proved to be a successful University Librarian. Dr Raman Nair has his modest beginning in the profession as a librarian in the Trivandrum public library and later served in various colleges in Kerala. We can be proud of this achievement of Dr Raman Nair. The Archive can be reached at: http://mgutheses.org The selection information is available at http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=2009032… Dr GOPAKUMAR V. Chief Librarian, University College,Palayam, Thiruvananthapuram, PIN 695 034. http://www.gopakumar.synthasite.com/ gopakumar.v(a)rediffmail.com Mobile No: 09447056713 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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2nd Call for Papers - RIBDA 2009 - Technological Innovation in Open Access for Agricultural and Environmental Information
by Imma Subirats 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

XV Inter-American Meeting for Librarians and Agricultural Information Specialists, RIBDA-2009 "Technological Innovation in Open Access for Agricultural and Environmental Information” Peru, National Library, Lima - 27, 28, 29, October, 2009 Official website!!! http://www.aibda.com/ribda/ 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS --- May 1st, 2009!!! The Inter-American Association of Librarians and Agricultural Information Specialists, is pleased to invite all the professionals related to the management of agricultural and environment information, to participate in the fifteenth Edition of the Inter-American Meeting for Librarians and Agricultural Information Specialists Meeting to be held at the National Library of Peru, Lima, on 27th-29th October 2009. TOPICS 1.) Open Access to information in Agricultural Innovation in Latin and North America State of the Art - Research and Analysis. Promotion of Open Access movement (OA), applied to institutions around the world, such as FAO, focusing on the effort to reduce the access barriers to information. 2.) Perspectives on Open Access and Technologies for Information Management Exchange among creators, managers and users of information the technological possibilities for transferring information through Digital repositories, under quality standards for analysis and dissemination. 3.) Professional-Social Networks and Local Information Systems Emphasize the impact of OA movement in Latin America and North America, under Public information Policies, Local Information Systems, Tele-Centers and Specialist Management. Guarantee the multiple and intellectual property on scientific and ancestral knowledge in agricultural sciences through public and ethics information resources. 4.) Other issues and topics related, e.g. difficulties in accessing to agricultural or environmental information PRESENTING PROPOSALS FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS * The deadline for submitting the abstract along with complete author's details is by May 1st, 2009 * Abstracts (500 words minimum, maximum 900) to be submitted at http://www.aibda.com/eventos/index.php/ribda/2009/schedConf/cfp * Must include a provisional title which clearly identifies the content, stating the main topic of the work * It can be in Spanish, Portuguese or English. * The author(s) should indicate personal full contact details and include summary curriculum vitae with the abstract Once reviewed, selected abstracts will be published in mid-May 2009 ELECTION OF ACCEPTED ABSTRACTS The work proposed will be reviewed by the XV International RIBDA 2009 Academic Committee, under the following criteria: * Contribution to the conference objectives, addressing the themes proposed * Originality and validity of the analysis method, tools used and results obtained * Inclusive works on ancient knowledge, capturing their best practices * Scientific Consistency, clarity, simplicity and cleanliness in divulging the results. We are looking forward to see you in XV RIBDA 2009! http://www.aibda.com/ribda/ Imma Subirats On behalf of the RIBDA 2009 Organising Committee -------------------------------------------------- Information Management Specialist KCEW, FAO of the United Nations Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00153 Rome (Italy) Tel: +39 0657054301 E-mail: imma(.)subirats AT fao(.)org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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request for an article
by deepak＠ximb.ac.in khuntia 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

Dear Colleagues, I need following article, if anyone have access to it, please send it to me. The details of the articles are as follows: *" Initial Public Offerings: Going by the Book" , Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 9, Spring (1997), Lawrence Benveniste and William Wilhelm. *with regards* *Deepak Khuntia Librarian Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar - 751013* * -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fwd: NewGenLib on Windows Vista
by khaiser nikam 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

Please find the reply from sri Haravuji for the the solution sought and doubts expressed by Dr.Harinarayan who was a *volunteer participant* at the workshop organised by me from 24-26 March 09 at the Department of LIS,UOM,Mysore ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jai Haravu <haravu(a)newgenlib.com> Date: Apr 6, 2009 9:29 PM Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] NewGenLib on Windows Vista To: khaiser nikam <khaiser.nikam(a)gmail.com> Cc: "N.S. Harinarayana" <ns.harinarayana(a)gmail.com>, Meher Siddartha E < emsiddartha(a)gmail.com> Dear Dr Nikam The problem was explained quite clearly to Dr harinarayana. To repeat, PostgreSQL-8.3 which is required for Vista is supposed to have integrated the contributed module tsearch2.sql. However, there are some issues in the manner the integration has been done. NewGenLib's database requires the functionality of the tsearch2.sql as was provided in the earlier versions of PostgreSQL. As a result of the differnce, there is a problem with the Vista installation. Our developers have been appraised of the issues and they will no doubt attend to this. Allow me to thank Dr Harinarayana for appreciating the workshop at DLIS. Best regards. Haravu ----- Original Message ----- *From:* khaiser nikam <khaiser.nikam(a)gmail.com> *To:* Jai Haravu <haravu(a)newgenlib.com> *Sent:* Monday, April 06, 2009 2:41 PM *Subject:* Fwd: [LIS-Forum] NewGenLib on Windows Vista plz give asolution to Dr Harinarayan.looks like he was not conviced with you ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: N.S. Harinarayana <ns.harinarayana(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 6:57 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] NewGenLib on Windows Vista To: lisforum <LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> In the wonderful workshop recently concluded at the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore, there was a problem of installing NewGenLib on Windows vista platform. I am sure that the NewGenLib developers are working on this issue. In the meanwhile, if any one has already solved the problem and come out with some solution, I would like to know about it. -- N.S. Harinarayana Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006 Off. Ph: (0821) 2419393 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum -- Regards, Dr.(Mrs) Khaiser Nikam MLISc,PhD & MBA Chairperson/Reader Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570 006 Karnataka INDIA Cell:98453 28672 91-821-2415202(R) 2419399(O) email : khaiser.nikam(a)gmail.com -- Regards, Dr.(Mrs) Khaiser Nikam MLISc,PhD & MBA Chairperson/Reader Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570 006 Karnataka INDIA Cell:98453 28672 91-821-2415202(R) 2419399(O) email : khaiser.nikam(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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INFLIBNET Newsletter
by Rajesh Chandrakar 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

Dear Professionals The current issue of the INFLIBNET Newsletter, Vol 15, No. 4, October to December 2008 is available online for access on the INFLIBNET website at http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/publication/newsletter/Newsletter.October.-Decem…. The interested professionals may download the same. We have included the feature article in this issue on Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 by written by Prof. G Sivakumar, Computer Science and Engineering Department, IIT, Mumbai. This article has been reproduced here from his presentation at International CALIBER 2009 held at Pondicherry University, Puducherry on 25th to 27th February 2009. I would also take this as an opportunity to introduce you the INFLIBNET Centre's Blog and Wiki, which are quite active and available at http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/blog and http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/wiki, respectively. The blog contents posting on Library, INFLIBNET and Higher Education including latest technologies pertaining to ICT. With best regards Rajesh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajesh Chandrakar, Commonwealth Professional Fellow Scientist - B (LS) INFLIBNET (INFormation and LIBrary NETwork) Centre An IUC of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House, PB No. 4116, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380 009, India Tel. +91-(0)79-26305971/ 8528/ 4695(O), 26873805(R) Mobile: +91-9427527894 Fax: +91-(0)79-26300990, 263007816 E-mail: rajesh(a)inflibnet.ac.in; rchandrakar(a)gmail.com Website: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in Weblog: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/blog Video Gallery: http://www.youtube.com/INFLIBNET ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Suddden and Sad Demise of Dr. Gayatri Mohapatra
by db_ramesh＠yahoo.com 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

Dear LIS Professionals, Dr. Gayatri Mohapatra, HOD, Department of Library & Information Science, Utkal University, Orissa passed away on 4th April 2008 at Cuttack by a massive heart attack at Cuttack. I know Madam Mohapatra for the last two decades. She was a very sincere, straight forward and helpful professional. Her sudden and demise is a great loss to our LIS profession and especially to the Department of Library & Information Science, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. May the departed soul rest in peace. D. B. Ramesh -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Walk In Interview
by Dr Divya Srivastava 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

Pl put up on the Forum site. Candidates are invited for a walk in Interview on 17th April 09, at 2.00 pm, at Indian Council of Medical Research’s Head Quarter’s with CV on plain paper for the following *purely temporary* *post** *of Research Scientist I: Consolidated Salary (per month)—Rs 15,760/-under the DST Project “*Preparation of Directory of Indian Science & Technology (including Medical) Journals*” for *only one year* * * Post No1- Essential Qualification-- First Class Master degree (Life/Biological Sciences) Desirable Qualification-- Master in Library & Information Science (MLIS)). Post No 2- Essential Qualification---First Class Master degree (MCA / MSc in Computer Science) Desirable Qualification-- Experience in developing software, utility Programmes and data processing. Dr (Mrs) Divya Srivastava Scientist "E" Division of Publication & Information Indian Council of Medical Research (HQ) New Delhi 110029 Phone: 011 26588344 -- 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 Dr. Gayatri Mahapatra
by sushanta kumar pathy 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

Dear Professional,I expressed my feelings for the untimely sad demise of Dr. Gayatri Mohaptra and pray to god for peace of her soul. Though I did not get opportunity to meet her, I learnt/ heard a lot from the professionals. I wish all our professionals to pray for her soul.Rgds,Sushanta Sushanta Kumar Pathy Head Librarian In-Charge Resource Centre National Institute of Fashion Technology, Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India Gandhinagar, Gujarat(INDIA) Ph. 079-23241849(Off) 09898162677 (M) http://www.gandhinagar.nift.ac.in -- 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 Gayatri Madam
by Dr.B.Sahoo 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

The sad demise of Dr. Gayatri Mohapatra, my first teacher in my library science career is definitely a great loss to the profession specially to Dept. of LIb & Inf. Science , Utkal University. I am extremly sorry and I could not belive the news, when I got the through LIS Forum by Dr. Basudev mohanty our professional collegue. I lost my great teacher. O' God ! Banambar Sahoo Dr. B. Sahoo, MLIS, Ph.D Asst. Lib & Inf. officer Regional Medical Research Centre (ICMR) Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar Tel: 0674-2301412, Fax: 2301351 Email: sahoo(a)icmr.org.in -- 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 Dr. Gayatri Mohapatra, HOD, LIS, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar
by Basudev Mohanty 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

Dear Professional Friends, We are very sad to inform you that our beloved Mam' Dr. Gayatri Mohapatra, HOD, Department of Library & Information Science, Utkal University, Orissa passed away on 4th April 2008 at Cuttack on her way to hospital by a massive heart attack. Mam' was an outstanding library professional and information science teacher in India. Her professional colleagues at Utkal University with other information professionals, research fellows, students and relatives paid tribute to Mam, who was cremated with at the Swargadwara, Puri on 5th April 2008 afternoon. It is indeed a great loss our profession. May the departed soul rest in peace on eternity. Basudev Mohanty ______________________________________________________________ Librarian | Infosys Technologies Limited | Bhubaneswar, Orissa Library VOIP: 674 30 71415 / 71363 | M: 9437132870 **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. Further, you are not to copy, disclose, or distribute this e-mail or its contents to any other person and any such actions are unlawful. This e-mail may contain viruses. Infosys has taken every reasonable precaution to minimize this risk, but is not liable for any damage you may sustain as a result of any virus in this e-mail. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening the e-mail or attachment. Infosys reserves the right to monitor and review the content of all messages sent to or from this e-mail address. Messages sent to or from this e-mail address may be stored on the Infosys e-mail system. ***INFOSYS******** End of Disclaimer ********INFOSYS*** -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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IMPLEMENTATION OF KOHA IN SCHOOL LIBRARIES
by soumi sanyal 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

DEAR PROFESSIONALS; Iam a school librarian working in Apeejay school,Salt Lake, Kolkata. Iam happy to inform that open source software Koha has proved to be a boon to me.Without investing a huge amount of money I have successfully implemented Koha for developing a complete integrated library system.Its easy to use and there is ample scope for modification according to your needs.School libraries should come forward and participate in this open source movement as its the only way to automate your library without spending a penny.Besides this school libraries can serve its future learners more effectively and provide them the feel of automation which they will normally feel in public, college and university libraries. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Long-term preservation of Open Access Journals secured
by Charu 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

Respected Friends, Greetings for the day, The Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ), Lund University Libraries, Sweden and the e-Depot of the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) announced on 3rd April 2009 the start of a cooperation in order to secure long-term preservation of open access journals. The Swedish Library Association is generously acting as sponsor. In order to secure long-term preservation of open access journals on 3rd April 2009 The Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ) - Lund University Libraries, Sweden and the e-Depot of the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) announced the start of a collaboration. This is sposonred by Swedish Library Associaitons. For further details please visit the following link: http://openlink-charu.blogspot.com/ Regards, Miss Charu Mathur, Delhi. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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NewGenLib on Windows Vista
by N.S. Harinarayana 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

In the wonderful workshop recently concluded at the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore, there was a problem of installing NewGenLib on Windows vista platform. I am sure that the NewGenLib developers are working on this issue. In the meanwhile, if any one has already solved the problem and come out with some solution, I would like to know about it. -- N.S. Harinarayana Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006 Off. Ph: (0821) 2419393 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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UGC mandatory qualification
by rajendra kumar panda 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

Dear listed members, Adding to recent discussion of UGC qualification for the post of Asstt. Librarian in college and university or similar grades in non academic library, UGC NET/SET qualification should be mandatory (according my opinion) to maintain the quality of service and job, NET/SET exams are higher standard in quality, there is no question of partiality and petting towards candidates, the met question papers are set by chosen top most LIS people and evaluation method is similar too. Besides one’s subject knowledge candidates must have general ability to think scientifically and logically to respond an environment judiciously and rationally. The functional credibility of some of Indian universities is well known to most of us. It is not much difficult to obtain M.Phill / Ph.D degree. In this process always there is nepotism and favoritism prevails. On other side, there are plenty of evidence people with having first class careers could not qualify LIS all India written tests conducted by various govt. bodies and most of the Govt appointed LIS professionals working in various top level positions are directly appointed on the basis of career and qualification marks. Since last two decades, there are hearing of dithering between UGC NET/SET relax and mandatory. Knowledge Commission of India is also suggested in favour of essentiality. I think every LIS people should prove their credentials by qualifying highest body exams. thanks -- R.K.Panda Librarian Kendriya Vidyalaya -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Scrutinizing LIS-Forum posting
by Baban Chavan 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Respected, Dr.Gaudar I Fully agree with you sentiments. It is realy a troublsome job for moderator to go through the posting by members if it is not relevent & therefore every professional should always take care while posting their messages, as the professionals not from india but also from abroad reads the messages. However ,some of our people having a good contents but not written in good English or badly written shold not be ignored as we are non English people and even some professionals are not having English as their medium of instructions upto M.L.I.S. stage so they are poor in English.Therefore these type of messages must be cosidered with moderators editing and approval as there may be regional impact due to regional languges. With regards Baban Chavan Librarain Sangamner College Sangamner Maharashtra.422605 babanchavan(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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Regret - for the posting on 31-3-2009
by DINESH SIDDAIAH 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Dear Friends, I personally regret for the mistakes both spelling and gramatical in the posting which was appeared in this forum on 31/03/2009 report on conference at NAL on "Scholorly Communication in India in the Age of the Commons (Open Access). I think it is typing error. I also regret with the organizers of the program. With the good intention and open mind, i have written report. The motive beyond this is many of us may not be knowing many of the thnigs going on this field. With best regards, dinesh -- Dr. Dinesh K. S. MLISc., Ph.D. Selection Grade Librarian, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Devanahalli, Bengaluru - 562 110. Ph: +91-9845102382, Email: dinesh.ncet(a)gmail.com www.dineshks.webs.com, Official Blog: libraryofncet.blogspot.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Scrutinizing LISFORUM postings
by I.R.N.Goudar 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Dear Professional friends, Many a times we waste our time in reading very badly written as well as frivolous postings in the LIS-FORUM. We should not forget that these messages are read by more than 2000 professionals including academicians not only in India but abroad as well. I do understand that it would be difficult to read all the postings by the moderator as it is a voluntary service and not a paid job to spare lot of office timings for this work. However we members of this forum need to take care of sending only professionally useful messages of good quality. I would like to quote one of the recent posting on 31-3-2009 reporting about recently held conference at NAL on "Scholorly Communication in India in the Age of the Commons (Open Access)". While any one can give their opinion about any event, the report should be posted only by the concerned like Organizing Secretary / Convener, etc. The least one has to do is to read the postings at least once before sending it to the LIS-FORUM. This report contained sentences like: "...... the conference begin with "WORM" welcome by...." ".....Arunachalaiah was brief the significance of...." ".....Prof. Mukunda was also inaugurated...." ".....Dy Head, ICAST was "comparer...." "....He has argues a scientific judgement..." While I had appreciate the enthusiasm of the concened professional, I request him and others as well to take care of correctness before submitting postings to the extent possible atleast it should not give different altogether. In fact almost two years back I had posted an item on LIS-FORUM about DOs and Don'ts LIS-FORUM postings. I remember one or two now: 1. If any professional gets an award or achieves something definitely it is an item to be announced by some body who comes to know about the achievement. The first announcement is most welcome. However further postings on the same news congratulating one after the other and the recipient reciprocating the same for every mail should be avoided. One can as well congratulate the individual to his email once the posting is already done through LIS-FORUM. 2. ILL requests are most welcome on LIS-FORUM. Further postings on the same item like thanking through Lis-Forum are unnecessary. 3. It is interesting when some body raises an issue concerned to profession/service and others react. I appreciate the recent postings with issues and topics like SOUL, NEWGENLIB. Any number of reactions are welcome on such topics. 4. Although it takes away some time of the moderator, I strongly feel that he should have a look at the content of the posting. Either he can correct himself before releasing the posting or return it back to the sender if too many mistakes are found, unless it is very urgent message. I invite Professionals to add to what I suggested. With regards, Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Sci G & Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Free Online Access to all SAGE Journals until April 30, 2009
by Indira 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Dear Professionals, You can register for free online access to more than 500 SAGE journals with content available from 1999-current. Free access is until April 30, 2009. Here is the path: https://online.sagepub.com/cgi/register?registration=FTApr2009-14 Regards, Indira -------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Indira Koneru Faculty Member Dept. of Library Science Icfai Academic Wing 23, Nagarjuna Hills Hyderabad-500 082 India -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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NDPP-Proceedings of Indo-US Workshop on International Trends in Digital Preservation, 24-25 March 2009, Pune
by Dr. Ramesh Gaur 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Hi! Department of Information Technology, Government of India is in the process of formulating the national initiative on National Digital Preservation Programme (NDPP). It is intended to address the technological challenges involved in the long term digital preservation of historically significant cultural materials, heritage archives, citizen information, libraries, scientific data, and other important information resources, etc. More details about the programme can be had from www.ndpp.in. A step ahead in this direction, during March 24-25, 2009 Indo-US Workshop on International Trends in Digital Preservation was organized at Pune by C-DAC pune and MICT in collaboration with Indo-US Science and Technology Forum. The following were the main objectives of the workshop: Getting an exposure to international trends in digital preservation Understanding the case studies of digital preservation and learn from the rich experience of experts involved in digital preservation. Evolving a comprehensive strategy and recommendations for effective implementation of National Digital Preservation Programme (NDPP) The proceedings with full papers and slide presentations are now downloadable in PDF format from the URL as given below. Explore the URL below- http://www.ndpp.in/Programme_schedule.html I hope that this material will be useful to the archiving community in India and around the world. Regards Ramesh ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Ramesh C Gaur PGDCA, MLISc,Ph.D. Fulbright Scholar (Virginia Tech, USA) Librarian & Head-Kala Nidhi Division Coordinator- ABIA International Index Project Additional Charge: Director, National Mission for Manusripts Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts(IGNCA) (An Autonomous body under Ministry of Culture. Govt. of India) 5 Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road, New Delhi-1 Phone: 91-11-23385442, 23385884 Fax: 91-11-22385884 Mobile: 91-9810487158 URL: www.ignca.gov.in Email: gaur(a)ignca.nic.in; rcgaur(a)bol.net.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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U G C announces NET Exam
by satish kumar 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Dear Professional, The University Grants Commission announces holding of the National Eligibility Test (NET) on 28th June, 2009 (Sunday) for details see this website http://www.ugc.ac.in/inside/net.html#intro Paramanand, MLISc; M Phil. Assistant Librarian, M. S. Ramaiah College of Law, Library and Information Center, New BEL Road, Bangalore-560054, Fax: 080-23601446, Phone No: 080-65708015, Cell No: 9844116650. Web site: - www.paramanandjh.webs.com E-Mail: paramanand.jh(a)gmail.com Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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ISiM Research Colloquium (1), 3rd April, 2009 : 3:00 p.m.
by Angrosh 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

ISiM Research Colloquium (1) Date: April 3, 2009 Time: 3:00 p.m. onwards Presentation (1) Title of the talk: On the Nature of Co-citations: Interpretation and Analysis Speaker: Mandar R. Mutalikdesai, Research Scholar, IIITB Abstract: Co-citation has long been used as a measure of topical similarity between objects in various data sets. However, there are some characteristic differences in the way co-citations are formed in different data sets. We summarize these differences with respect to scientific literature, WWW pages and Wikipedia pages. Based on this, we propose three interpretations of co-citations: (1) Endorsements of citations, (2) Knowledge aggregation activities, and (3) Measures of conditional topical relevance. We shall briefly discuss all three interpretations. However, this talk will mainly elaborate on the first interpretation: Co-citations as endorsements of citations. Such an interpretation gives a new measure that can be used by focused or topical crawlers/surfers to surf the Web and digital libraries such as CiteSeer in a fashion that is most pertinent to the topic of interest. We also find some interesting patterns of "citation endorsements" on the Web and on CiteSeer, which we will discuss in this talk. Finally, we propose a topical ranking scheme based on citation endorsements, which can be used as a fine tuning measure to existing techniques for relevance ranking in citation graphs. Presentation (2) Title: Mining Semantics from Lexical Cooccurrence Data Speaker: Aditya Ramana Rachakonda, Research Scholar, IIITB Abstract: Lexical cooccurrence in documents is not uniformly random. The statistics inferred from the term cooccurrence data enable us to probabilistically model the dependencies between terms. It has been argued in cognitive sciences that these dependencies closely resemble the way semantic memory is organised in human beings. This work attempts to model some commonly used semantic associations as probabilistic measures to enable mining of semantics automatically from text corpora. The semantic associations being modelled are synonyms like car and automobile, semantic siblings like Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid and topical anchors like Disney for Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Pluto. Of these, some results on topical anchors will be presented in more detail. You are cordially invited. Venue: ISiM Lecture Hall 1 ISiM, University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006 Thanks and regards Angrosh ********************************************* Angrosh M.A. Project Manager International School of Information Management University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore - 570 006 Tel: +91-821-2514699; +91-821-2411417 Fax: +91-821-2519209 Email: angrosh(a)isim.ac.in ********************************************** -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy - Librarian
by Anita vashisht 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

*Swift School of Pharmacy* Campus Vill. Ghaggar Sarai, Tehsil Rajpura, District Patiala, Punjab) Swift Fundamental Research and Education Society (R) (Promoted by Ind Swift Group, a fortune 500 Company) ** ** We are looking for qualified, experienced, talented and dynamic human resource capable of taking challenges in their respective area of work as the faculty and other staff at various levels. The society has a solid industrial background of ind Swift Group: The Pharma Giants. Excellent professional and career development in healthy environment is our commitment. The following are the requirements for the session commencing in 2009-2010 *Lecturers -* 3 (One in each subject: Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacology and Pharmacognosy) *Librarian -* 1 *Lab. Technician -* 1 *Store Keeper -* 1 Qualification, Experience and Pay Scales as per ACITE/PTU Norms. Salary no constraint for deserving candidates. Send your detailed resume along with your photograph in an envelope superscribing Swift School of Pharmacy with the post applied for on or before 20th April, 2009 to: *Vice President, HR* 781, Industrial Area, Phase II, Chandigarh - 160002 Phone: 0172-2638781 Fax: 0172-2652242 Job Ad publication date: 1 Apr 2009 -- Thanks & Regards Anita Vashistha -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacant Positions - Librarian & Assistant Librarian
by Anita vashisht 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

*Doon Institute of Engineering & Technology* *Requires For an Engineering college At Rishikesh, Dehradun.* ** *Director & Professors / Associate Professor / Lecturer* with specialization in Computer Science/ Information Technology/ Electronics and Communication Engineering/ Electrical and Electronics Engineering/ Physics/ Chemistry/ Maths/ English *Non teaching & Technical Support Staff: Lab Assistants/ Technicians, Maintenance Supervisors, Librarian, Assistant Librarian, Steno, Receptionist & Office Assistant.* Qualification & Salary as per AICTE/Govt. Norms. Retired Senior Faculty can also apply. (Salary will not be constraint for deserving candidates) Send your Resume with Passport Size Photograph within *15 days* of the advertisement to: *The Chairman Doon Institute of Engineering & Technology* Shyampur, Rishikesh, Dist. Dehradun, U.K. - 249204 or Contact us at: 9897459582, 9897792448, 0135-2453203. Job Ad publication date: 1 Apr 2009 -- Thanks & Regards Anita Vashistha -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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