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Young Librarian suffering from blood cancer
by shankar Dhande 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

Young Librarian from Osmanabad district K. L Chappu suffering from blood cancer and admitted in J J hospital, Mumbai. The expenditure of hospital is beyond his financial capicity. All professionals are kindly requested to help him. He is admitteed in ward 12 , second floor, J.J. hospital. Report number cd-25007. Contact - Chappu 9420770878 his friend Pawan Sharma - 9421039142 Professionals from Mumbai may help him by visiting hospital. Even if u r knowning doctors from that hospital or if u are knowing the agencies for financial assistance, that will help him lot. Shankar Dhande Librarian IBMR Pune -- 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] Koha for Malyalam Catalogues
by Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

Dear Mr. K Rajasekharan It's good to see that you are trying hard to promote Indic script based automated and digital library system. Thanks a lot, I'm not alone in this endeavour. Let me tell you and other interested professioanls that a step-by-step guide has been developed by me for Bengali script based Koha in 2006. This peocess can be extended to any Indic script now (as TDIL developed required virtual keyboard, open type fonts etc; see http://ildc.gov.in/) Koha developer team included this methodology in their official manual and can be acccessed through link http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/apbs01.html. The final result of this methodoloy already published as a paper in IASLIC 2006 conference at Roorkee and available from LDL https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/bitstream/1849/409/1/open%20road_main_theme_psm_…. This paper shows Bengali script based interface of Koha (both user/opac and librarian/intranet), Search interface (simple/advance), ISBD display format of Bengali script based documents, ISO-2709 based export/import of Bengali script based documents. IFLA also reported this development in IFLA SET Bulletin July 2008 issue (see page 21). It can be accessed through http://www.ifla.org/VII/s23/bulletin/SET_Bulletin-Jul2008.pdf. Thanks and regards partha Dr. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay Department of Library and Information Science University of Burdwan, Burdwan, Rajbati - 713104, WB ----- Original Message ----- From: Rajan To: "Lis Forum" Subject: [LIS-Forum] Koha for Malyalam Catalogues Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:05:18 +0530 Dear All, Koha is a good choice for libraries in Kerala.But the possibility of using Koha for creating catalogue of Malayalam books (due to its Unicode compliance) has not been explored much because of poor knowledge of most of the librarians about Unicode, it seems.Dr P Mukhopadhyay ( University of Burdwan), a prominent practitioner of Koha, clarifies that Koha can be used for creating searchable catalogue of books in Malayalam, if we use utf-8 encoding for character set and the mysql supports utf-8 as native character set. Kindly inform me, if anyone is using Koha 2.2.9 on Windows for Malayalam catalogue preparation. Regards, K Rajasekharan Kerala Institute of Local Administration Thrissur -- 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 -- _______________________________________________ Search for products and services at: http://search.mail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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How we can improve status of Librarian professionals?
by S K DEsale 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

Dear all, Many of you will agree on the fact that Librarians are not getting the same status as lecturers and other professionals in society. Since we all pusses same qualifications, same working conditions, pay scales etc. we deserve the same status which these other professionals enjoying. If we just take the example of our LIS teaching faculty, they are also treated differently than librarians. I think this is not fair. Librarians should be considered as a faculty and should be given the same rights given to the teachers. Librarian should have right to represent in board of studied of LIS, he should be given a right to vote and choose his representatives in the board. Since librarian is a person who is actually working in the library he knows what knowledge one should pusses to be successful in LIS profession & what should be taught to new entrants. Library professionals also should demand separate faculty like other professions e.g. Law, architect, Management, Medical etc. LIS should have its own dean who will represent us at higher level so that we can able to take our profession forward. These are few things if we able achieve then I am sure it will make lot of difference in our status in the society. We are planing to start one movement to achive this, I want to know your opinion and views on that. With regard Mr. S. K. Desale Asst. Librarian Jayakar Library University of Pune -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Use of Malayalam in KOHA
by Aloor Thomas Francis 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

Dear Professionals, We are also interested to use Malayalam with KOHA. If any body already using or have adequate knowledge to advise, please let us know. Yoursfiathfully, A.T. FRANCIS HEAD, LIBRARY COLLEGE OF HORTICULTURE KERALA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY THRISSUR - 680 656, INDIA francisaloor(a)yahoo.com francisaloor@gmailcom Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Talk on “ Intellectual Property Rights from Librarian’ s Point of View” .
by Joe Joseph 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

01/12/2008 Dear Professionals, In connection with National Library Week Celebrations, Cochin University Library along with Kerala Library Association Ernakulam Region is organising a talk on “Intellectual Property Rights from Librarian’s Point of View”. Intellectual Property Law (IPR) has assumed much significance in this information age especially with the impact of information communication technology, and library professionals should be aware of its latest developments and its implications in managing a library with out getting into troubles. Intellectual property rights are a bundle of economic rights conferred by statute upon the creators of products of Intellectual Labour or activity such as patents, trademarks, industrial designs and geographical indications of source and copyright which includes literary and artistic work etc. In this context a talk on this topic will be very much useful for the library professionals. The talk is meant for the library professionals. Mr.Benoy Kadavan, (Advocate the High Court of Kerala and IPR consultant) is the resource person for the talk. All are requested to participate. Date : 11th December 2008 (Thursday) Time : 10.00AM to 12.00 Noon Venue : Department of Computer Science Auditorium. Thanking You JOE JOSEPH, KLA Ernakulam Regional Secretary JUNIOR LIBRARIAN, DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE CUSAT,KOCHI 682022 MOBILE 09447260241 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Internet Governance must ensure freedom of expression and universal access, UNESCO says
by Puna Das 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

Internet Governance must ensure freedom of expression and universal access, UNESCO says 04-12-2008 (Hyderabad) “The principles of freedom of expression and universal access must be safeguarded on the Internet and, consequently, in Internet Governance structures”, said Abdul Waheed Khan, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information yesterday at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Hyderabad, India. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Forum, Abdul Waheed Khan said that the Internet, as it is inherently democratic and empowering, provides unparalleled opportunities to realize the dream of a global free flow of ideas and universal access to information and knowledge. “We need clear and globally applicable principles based on human rights, and legal, ethical and technical standards to organize the Internet,” stressed Khan. At the same time, “it is important to ensure that the technical structure of the Internet allows provision of access to content in all languages,” he added. During the three days of the IGF (3-6 December 2008), UNESCO provides a variety of platforms for discussions on freedom of expression and universal access. As part of UNESCO's advocacy for free flow of information and freedom of expression in cyberspace, a workshop on Freedom of Expression in Cyberspace: Internet Filtering and Censorship explores the latest challenges to openness and freedom of expression on the Internet and identifies the implications of governmental and other Internet content regulation, particularly by direct implementation of filtering and content censorship. A workshop on Access to Public Held Information with a Development Perspective addresses the issue of access to public held information, a core element of the right to freedom of information as a fundamental human right, particularly in the context of development. The Internet Governance Forum that meets for the third time is a forum for multi-stakeholder policy dialogue to discuss public policy issues related to key elements of Internet governance in order to foster the sustainability, robustness, security, stability and development of the Internet. One of its main features is to facilitate discourse between bodies dealing with different cross-cutting international public policies regarding the Internet. In the debates on Internet Governance over the last years, UNESCO has consistently advocated the key values of freedom of expression, cultural diversity and openness that must be safeguarded on the Internet. Source: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=27868&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://www.openaccess-unesco.blogspot.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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IGF 2008: Content in local languages is as essential as connectivity
by Puna Das 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

IGF 2008: Content in local languages is as essential as connectivity 05-12-2008 (Hyderabad) The power of the Internet is multiplied when people are able to access and use content in their local languages, agreed a group of experts who opened the 2008 Internet Governance Forum in a session on Reaching the Next Billion: Multilingualism. The complex topic of achieving multilingualism on the Internet has political and social dimensions beyond the technological challenges of ensuring tools for access and translation. Key points of the discussion were: * Content in local languages is as essential as connectivity. People must be able to create and receive information in their local language and to be able to express themselves in ways their peers can understand. * Internet tools and applications – software, hardware, search engines, browsers and translation tools – must be localized and also support the accessibility needs of people with special needs. * A fundamental access point is how one accesses Internet sites. Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) and internationalised email addresses, to accommodate non-Latin scripts, are being developed through technology, standards and policies. * Increasingly, online communication is occurring in mediums other than in written form: multilingualism for multiple media, of which mobile devices are a significant point of access. * A common framework and language will help the Internet Governance Forum to address these issues. * There remains a great need for capacity building in digital literacy as well as basic, traditional literacy. The panelists were: Alex Corenthin, President of the Internet Society; Manal Ismail, Director of International Technical Coordination, Government of Egypt; Hiroshi Kawamura, President of DAISY consortium (Digital Accessible Information System); Viola Krebs, Executive Director, ICVolunteers; Tulika Pandey, Department of Information Technology, Government of India; S. (Ramki) Ramakrishnan - CEO of C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing), India. The moderator and rapporteur for the session was Miriam Nisbet, Director of UNESCO’s Information Society Division. An Open Dialogue plenary session on Reaching the Next Billion: Access and Multilingualism gave panelists and participants from both opening day main sessions an opportunity to discuss in more depth the relationship between access and multilingualism. Proceedings of all IGF sessions and workshops are available on the IGF website [http://www.intgovforum.org/] Source: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=27869&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://www.anup-jnu.blogspot.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Polytechnic Library requirements
by Mailing List Admin 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

Date: 4 Dec 2008 07:01:07 -0000 From: baban more <bkmore(a)rediffmail.com> Can you please help me? I'm a librarian at a polytechnic college. Please let me know the no. of book titles & no.of Volumes that the library should posses during the first year of establishment of the library? Thanking you B K More Librarian, Saraswati Education Society's Saraswati Institute of Technology Plot No.-46/46A, Sect- 05 Kharghar Navi- Mumbai- 410210 E-mail- bkmore(a)rediffmail.com babankmore(a)gmail.com Ph.No. 09869780650

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Training for corporate librarianship
by Mailing List Admin 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 17:41:46 +0530 From: Anita Pujari <anita(a)dnaindia.net> Dear professional colleagues, I have been following with interest the exchange of opinions on Corporate Librarianship - the status, the training needs etc. In my opinion the problems that LIS professionals face in the Corporate Sector is that of being little understood. Atanu Garai has elucidated with examples the poor understanding of HR/Corporate recruiters of the professional/academic requirements to handle the role of Information Management or Knowledge Management. At best they would think of a LIS professional for a "Library" with a view of a physical collection - typically Books, Magazines, Newspapers or Multimedia such as CDs, DVDs, Tapes and so on as per the business the company engages in. Basically Storehouse/Collection management. However it is not always so - there are many exceptions. I have been lucky to have worked in both kinds of Corporate Libraries. My experience of the past 14 years with Media Libraries has been particularly challenging. Fighting mindsets & managing perceptions plays a big part. We as LIS professionals have to work on marketing ourselves and creating our role and place in the company. As you all know Knowledge Management is the big buzz word in the Corporate sector now. At the recently held CII KM India 2008 Knowledge Summit in Mumbai there were about 150 delegates from a spectrum of companies. Amongst all those knowledge practitioners barely 6-7 of us were from the LIS profession. Every other profession, with IT & MBAs in the lead have staked claim to playing the Knowledge Manager role in almost all companies be it Infosys, WIPRO, Satyam, Reliance, MindTree, Eureka Forbes, Airtel� long list. ILFS, Mumbai is an exception I know of and there maybe(hopefully) a couple more. But we are hopelessly outnumbered in this upcoming profession and Job role that we as LIS professionals can so easily play. Anita Pujari ------------------------------------------ General Manager DNA - Research, Archives & Syndication Diligent Media Corporation Ltd. Oasis Complex, Kamala Mills Compound, Lower Parel, Mumbai 400 013 Phone: +91 22 39888888 Extn 451 Fax: +91 22 39801000 www.dnaindia.com <http://www.dnaindia.com/> http://epaper.dnaindia.com <http://epaper.dnaindia.com/> www.3dsyndication.com <http://www.3dsyndication.com/> ----Original Message---------- From: Mailing List Admin Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Training for corporate librarianship To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 10:53 AM Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:17:49 +0530 From: atanu garai Dear Professors, I am very glad to interact with you all again, as I always look for opportunities to ask questions to teachers. Let me be very honest here. I will of course agree to what is said regarding the imminent need for improving the quality of intake and output of LIS incumbents. There is no doubt about it. But, this is just one side of the

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Nat. Symp. on OA & Building IRs
by I.R.N.Goudar 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Dear Professional Colleagues, We at National Aerospace Laboratories have organised a three day "National Symposium on Open Access and Building Institutional Repositories (NSOABIR)" as a part of Golden Jubilee Celebrations of NAL. Date: 21-23 Dec 2008 at NAL, Bangalore. Venue: Dr. S R Valluri Auditorium/KTMD Seminar Hall National Aerospace Laboratories Bangalore Topics: Scholarly Communication, Open Access Movement/Initiative, OA Channels, OA Policies, Digitisation & Digital Preservation, Open Access Journals, Institutional Repositories, Setting up of IRs, Impact of OA on Citations/IF Value, IPR and Copyright issues, Librarian's Role in OA/IR, Case Studies. Resource Persons: Experts from DRTC/ISI, NCSI/IISc, NIMHANS, GEIT, Informatics India and NAL Panel Discussion: "Impact of Open Access on Science Communication" No of Participants: Restricted to 75 Registration Fees: Rs. 2000/- Accommodation: For few participants on first come first served basis I invite you to make use of this opportunity for yourself or your colleagues. For more details Please See: www.icast.org.in/nsoabir.html Contact: Mrs. Poornima Narayana, Convener, NSOABIR Information Centre for Aerospace Science and Technology (ICAST) National Aerospace Laboratories Post Bag No. 1779, Bangalore-560 017 Tel: 080-25086080; 25086083 Fax: 080-25260862; 25270670 E-mail: poornima(a)nal.res.in Regards Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Sci G & Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for Article
by nitu＠drtc.isibang.ac.in 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Dear friends, Can someone kindly send me a copy of the below reference? I shall be grateful. Article title: Commercial Portals Evaluation Author: Azar, S.N.; jalali, A.H.; Falsafi, S. Advanced Communication Technology, 2008. ICACT 2008. 10th International Conference on Volume 3, Issue , 17-20 Feb. 2008 Page(s):2035 - 2039 Publisher: IEEE Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ICACT.2008.4494187 Seeking your co-operation Thanking You Nitu Kumari ADIS 2nd Year Student Documentation Research and Training Centre Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore-059 Karnataka (India) email: nitu(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in nitu.drtc(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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Book Exhibition Cum Sale
by Ajay Kamble 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

*Annasaheb Vartak College of Arts, Kedarnath Malhotra College * *of Commerce, **E S Andrades College of Science and * *Vidyavardhini **Junior College* ** *Proudly Invites you to the programme* ** *"Granthanchya Sahavasat Teen Diwas"* ** *College Library Books' Exhibition* *10th December 2008* *Venue : Vartak College Library* ** *Book Exhibition and Sale * *11th - 12th December 2008* *Venue - Rajani Hall, Vartak College* ** *Ajay Kamble* *Librarian* *Annasaheb Vartak Arts,* *KM Commerce,* *ESA Science and Junior College,* *Vasai Road (W) - 401202* *Dist. Thane* *0250-2352981* -- 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] Training for corporate librarianship
by Mailing List Admin 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 05:28:27 -0800 (PST) From: Anila Fadnavis <asufadnavis(a)yahoo.com> Dear All, yes what you say is right. Mostly in companies the library expenditure was/is shown for tax benefits, like social welfare of employees. Hence basics of libraries are not thought over and just some budget to purchase books & Magazines(not Journals) and some place with tables and chairs is provided. In the course of time the librarian and library is absorbed in some form in company except library. may be publication department or so.and librarian is posted somewhere in the company or fired. It is all oweners' wish and any CEO who has interest in Library & books. Librarians are not even middle managers who are in the companies main stream of flow of information. anila fadnavis --- On Wed, 12/3/08, Mailing List Admin <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: From: Mailing List Admin <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Training for corporate librarianship To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 10:53 AM Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:17:49 +0530 From: atanu garai <atanugarai.lists(a)gmail.com> Dear Professors, I am very glad to interact with you all again, as I always look for opportunities to ask questions to teachers. Let me be very honest here. I will of course agree to what is said regarding the imminent need for improving the quality of intake and output of LIS incumbents. There is no doubt about it. But, this is just one side of the coin. [truncated]

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STALLMAN TO SPEAK IN MGU ON 7th DECEMBER 2008
by University LIbrary Mahatma Gandhi University 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

STALLMAN TO SPEAK IN MGU ON 7th DECEMBER 2008 Dr. Richard Matthew Stallman, who heralded software freedom movement and the brain behind the GNU Project which resulted in he creation of free Unix-like operating system (LINUX), will address the academia and the public in Mahatma Gandhi University Campus on 7th December 2008 at 11.00 am. Vice-_Chancellor Prof. (Dr.) Rajan Gurukkal will preside over the function. Recipient of several honorary doctorates from leading Universities including Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology, Stallman set up the Free Software Foundation in 1985. He pioneered the concept of copyleft and is the main author of several copyleft licenses including the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license. Since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time advocating free software, as well as campaigning against both software patents and what he sees as excessive extension of copyright laws. He co-founded the League for Programming Freedom in 1989. Teachers, students and the public interested to attend the programme as well as interact with Dr. Stallman are requested to register their names/send their queries through email promgu(a)gmail.com. For further details contact: G.Sreekumar, Public Relations Officer, Mahatma Gandhi University <http://sites.google.com/site/stallmanslecture/Home/StallmanF.JPG?attredirec…> Contributions of Dr. Richard Stallman<http://sites.google.com/site/stallmanslecture/Home/contributions> Personal Page of Dr. Richard Stallman <http://www.stallman.org/> Open Access Digital Archives of Doctoral Dissertations of Mahatma Gandhi University <http://www.mgutheses.org/> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Book Tome
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Here is a good personal library management software. bookTome bookTome, a book management system, can help catalog and manage your library or personal book collection. Its features include: Add and edit books manually or using web services; sort and organise your books by author, series or reading status; display books - view books by author or series, as well as by the reading status; search your books with free-form text searching and links; and print out book lists, book information; and keep track of books that you want to read with the wish list. The 2.95 MB bookTome, version 1.20 (29th Nov, 2008), for Windows XP / Vista, can be downloaded at http://booktome.shanemca.com/downloads/bookTome.exe Dr P Vyasamoorthy Link to me through: http://vyasa-kaaranam-ketkadey.blogspot.com/ http://societyforservingseniors.satyamcsr.org/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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International conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture
by Vimal Kumar 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

2nd International conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture" start on 9 December 2008 at Mascot Convention Center, Thiruvananthapuram. Three day conference is end on December 12. Seat availability is 400, online registration facility is available. Seats will be based on First-Come First-Served mode. Organizers of this event are Kerala State IT Mission and SPACE, the Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment. Celebrities in free software movement attend this conference and lots of related programs are the highlights of this conference. Main attraction among speakers are Eben Moglen, Jimmy Wales, Richard Matthew Stallman, Subbiah Arunachalam, and Adam Arvidsson. Other sweet session of this conference are Linux install fest, Open Movie Fest and display of Malayalam Computing, General Word Processing Applications, Scientific Computing, Games and Educational Software, Open Hardware and Computing for Disabled. Various interesting topics are take place for speech and discussion; ethical economy, Free Software in E-Governance, open access, software patents, FOSS in Agriculture and Fisheries, Free Software Education and Research. More details available at http://fsfs.in/ -- Vimal Kumar V. Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581 Web: www.asb.edu.in/vimal/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Post Graduate Diploma in Location Guidance
by Ratneshwar Bhavsar 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Dear Professionals, I am a librarian in Sinhgad Institute in Management College in Pune. I want to do the "Post Graduate Diploma in Location Guidance". Do you have any idea, information or knowledge about this course then please tell me. I want direct students that how to choose career, educational field by which they can get success in their life. For doing this I think Post Graduate Diploma in Location Guidance this course help me. Thanking you in advance. Ratneshwar C Bhavsar Librarian SIBACA, Lonavala Dist Pune Mobile No. 9372579948 -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Koha for Malyalam Catalogues
by Rajan 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Dear All, Koha is a good choice for libraries in Kerala. But the possibility of using Koha for creating catalogue of Malayalam books (due to its Unicode compliance) has not been explored much because of poor knowledge of most of the librarians about Unicode, it seems. Dr P Mukhopadhyay ( University of Burdwan), a prominent practitioner of Koha, clarifies that Koha can be used for creating searchable catalogue of books in Malayalam, if we use utf-8 encoding for character set and the mysql supports utf-8 as native character set. Kindly inform me, if anyone is using Koha 2.2.9 on Windows for Malayalam catalogue preparation. Regards, K Rajasekharan Kerala Institute of Local Administration Thrissur -- 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] biased towards their candidate in filling vacancies:Hinders to the growth of corporate librarian
by Mailing List Admin 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 23:06:50 -0800 (PST) From: jaya khare <i_amacquarian(a)yahoo.com> � i am going through all the forums seriously� specially atanu garai� and appreciate his observation towards this situation ,what i found as a research scholar (Mphil) and professional ,�is LIS education on one side and successful corporate librarian another side. All the advertisements gets published to fill up the vacancies but gets fill up without any announcement that is one point. � � Another �People are so biased in india that they prefer their candidates and all other qualified professionals records go to the dustbin� everyday� and biased towards their candidate on job too , i am really unable to understand .� � � Unless and until we deal with this situation , we will never be�successful in bringing quality in Librarianship profession. � Nidhi.k Mlisc,Mphil(pursuing) s p university, Anand Gujarat 09974168052 --- On Wed, 12/3/08, Mailing List Admin <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: From: Mailing List Admin <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Training for corporate librarianship To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 12:23 AM Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:17:49 +0530 From: atanu garai <atanugarai.lists(a)gmail.com> Dear Professors, I am very glad to interact with you all again, as I always look for opportunities to ask questions to teachers. Let me be very honest here. I will of course agree to what is said regarding the imminent need for improving the quality of intake and output of LIS incumbents. There is no doubt about it. But, this is just one side of the coin. [truncated]

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Just Published: EFA Global Monitoring Report 2009 - Overcoming inequality:why governance matters
by Puna Das 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2009 - Overcoming inequality:why governance matters Despite much progress since 2000, millions of children, youth and adults still lack access to good quality education and the benefits it brings. This inequality of opportunity is undermining progress towards achieving Education for All by 2015. Who are these individuals and groups? What are the obstacles they face? How can governance policies help break the cycle of disadvantage and poverty? What policies work? Is education reform integrated into the bigger picture? Is the international community making good on its commitments? Download Press release: http://www.unesco.org/education/gmr2009/press/GMR2009_pressrelease_EN.pdf Download Summary Report: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0017/001776/177609e.pdf Download the Full Report: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0017/001776/177683E.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://www.anup-jnu.blogspot.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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vacancy of Librarian
by Manoj Verma 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

Librarian at Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute Of Technology, Krishnadevarayanagar, Hunasamaranahalli, Via : Yelahanka, Bangalore – 562157<http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lisjob/~3/h45oZWqKuOM/librarian-at-sir-m-vis…> For more details please visit: http://www.sirmvit.edu -- MANOJ KUMAR M.Sc.(Phys), MLISc,M.PHIL.(LIS), ADCA,UGC-NET(June & Dec.2006) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article request
by ramesh chander 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

Dear Colleagues, I need an article which one of our IISc research scholar needs for his research work. If any one has access to it, please send me the same. The details of the article are High-Temperature Heat Content and Entropies of Cerium Dioxide and Columbium Dioxide,Authors: E.G. King, A.U. Christensen, , Rep. Invest., vol. 5789, U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1961, p. 1. -- With Regards, Romesh Chander Sharma National Center for Science Information(NCSI), Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore-560012, -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Training for corporate librarianship
by Mailing List Admin 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:17:49 +0530 From: atanu garai <atanugarai.lists(a)gmail.com> Dear Professors, I am very glad to interact with you all again, as I always look for opportunities to ask questions to teachers. Let me be very honest here. I will of course agree to what is said regarding the imminent need for improving the quality of intake and output of LIS incumbents. There is no doubt about it. But, this is just one side of the coin. The other side is equally dark and grim and I have serious doubts that even if we are successful in bringing out quality graduates, Indian companies are very unlikely to take them (practice in North America and Europe is very different). Let me explain. First and foremost, the heads of these institutes (say, HR heads - who corporate librarians most often report to, e.g. http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2006-July/004325.html) have little to no idea of library and librarian. Lets do little bit of survey of Terms of Reference of job advertisements of posts relevant to corporate world (knowledge manager, librarians etc.). Case Study 1: Knowledge Management Officer. This advt is posted in naukri.com on 20 Nov. It says: Client of XYZ HR agency "Job Description: 1.Conceptualizing and implementing the knowledge management processes - both for physical library and virtual knowledge base. 2. Designing & Implementing project based knowledge sharing system ensuring optimum utilization. Desired Candidate Profile: 1. Engineer / Commerce graduate 2.Should be fluent in English and well versed with usage of computers 3. Experience in working with libraries will be added advantage Company Profile: It's India's top maritime and port consultant. It provides Business Research, Consulting, Information and Data services to Ports, Shipping, Logistics and other maritime industry." So, presumably this posting is released by a HR company, which has sufficient knowledge and expertise in this domain, with MBAs in HR and aware of the requirements of "Conceptualizing and implementing the knowledge management processes - both for physical library and virtual knowledge base". For the development of library, they need either an engineer or a commerce graduate, a person who known English and usage of computer (Librarians dont know either for sure) and experience in working with libraries will be advantage (as if, engineers generally work in libraries). Case study 2: Librarian (Client of XYZ HR agencies) "Job Description: should be a Bachelor in Library science/MBA. Preferably from a law institue,law firm or worked earlier in some legal deparment. Preferably a male candidate Desired Candidate Profile: should be a Bachelor in Library science/MBA Preferably from a law institue,law firm or worked earlier in some legal deparment. Preferably a male candidate Company Profile: Leading Law Firm based in Delhi" This is not very clear if the recruitment agency wants to say a Bachelor in Library Science equals to an MBA or, an MBA or BLIB will be required. Also, the gender bias in the advertisement is does not go well. Additionally, one can read the article written by T D Wilson, The nonsense of 'knowledge management' - http://informationr.net/ir/8-1/paper144.html, which is a gem in this regard. Secondly, I do not believe the concept of traditional sense of library as a physical building go well with corporate (or for that matter any other fast paced working environment) working culture. Information has to reside within the grasp of people, not in a distant location where you need to go and come back with your piece of information. Some authors have already written on this issue. Thirdly, since the HR managers do now know what to do with the librarians, they have already started recruiting MBAs (not the librarians with MBAs, but plain MBAs), so abundantly available in Indian market. Drive past the Delhi and Jaipur highway, and you can actually get an MBA degree from the roadside MBA dhabas in lieu of few thousand rupees and don't forget to get it signed from the head of the institute. The current issue of CACM actually gave a dim picture of India's tryst with ICT education as well ( http://mags.acm.org/communications/current) "In addition, while the Indian IT exports industry has a severe need for students to have "soft qualifications" (such as proficiency in spoken and written English and the ability to manage projects efficiently), this education system does not provide any such courses. Hence, it is not surprising that a recent study by the strategy consulting firm McKinsey and Company (www.mckinsey.com/mgi) indicated only 25% of engineering graduates would have the requisite qualifications to be employed in the Indian IT exports industry." (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1409360.1409369) The immediate strategy will be therefore to educate these HR people about LIS and perhaps few well-drafted TOR for various positions and roles related to corporate world could be sent to all these firms, so that they know they dont have to curse their brains next time. Best regards Atanu Garai

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Re: [LIS-Forum] LIS EDUCATION VIS-A-VIS CORPORATE LIBRARIANS
by T. Shahab 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

Dear Moderator, As Mr. Sadasivan has very correctly highlighted, the expectations from a prospective librarian are many fold and if we are able to acknowledge and fulfill these we will able to add to the glory of the profession. But this will require a re-engineering of our academic curriculum as well as great emphasis on the apprenticeship programme. Regards TANWIR ________________________________ From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Sadasivan KP Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 3:44 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] LIS EDUCATION VIS-A-VIS CORPORATE LIBRARIANS Dear All, This is in response to the recent postings on the above subject matter. The Problems 1. There is a widening gap between the demand and supply of really competent LIS professionals in our country, irrespective of the nature of institutions where they are expected to perform. Corporate sector is undoubtedly one such area with tremendous job potential. 2. But sadly, majority of the products of LIS Schools are mediocre in nature ! Few exceptions are always there from any School or most of the products are OK from a very very few Schools. 3. There are several factors contributing to this lamentable situation. They include : (a) Poor standard of the students joining for the LIS Course (b) Out of date Syllabus followed in the LIS Schools (c) Inadequate infrastructure facilities in the Schools (d) Incompetent Teachers or Teachers who do not bother to update their knowledge base (e) Reluctance of LIS Schools for proper interactive programmes with performing libraries & librarians (f) Poor communication skills and leadership qualities among the students (g) Lack of commitment of students in accepting LIS as a good profession. They, instead, consider it as a short cut to get a job. Etc., etc. Well, the above listing is only selective. The Solutions 3. The solutions are partly embedded in the problems listed above. But still, let me repeat a few : (a) There is an immediate need for restructuring the LIS Syllabus uniformly across the country. The exercise should not just be confined to NCSI or NISCAIR or DRTC or a handful of Universities, like, University of Mysore, Madras University, etc. Rather, these front-runners (and other stake holders too) should think of initiating a dialogue for a commonly acceptable quality/standard syllabus for all Schools in the country, in the larger interest of the profession. (b) Poor communication skills & leadership qualities of students constitute a major issue. Unless this is effectively resolved, we are not going to succeed in generating competent professionals. The course-ware , the methods of teaching and grading of results/scores should not, at all ignore these factors. Not much seriousness is attributed to the so called 'Soft Skill Development' among our young professionals at present. (c) Making them IT-savvy is another essential ingredient. (d) How to attract really brilliant students to this course is another big question. Career prospects is perhaps one aspect. We must evolve a proper assessment of the market-needs of our professionals. Then mould them appropriately, by complying with other curriculum-related issues (discussed earlier). An explicit outcome should be a mechanism for Assured Placement after their course of study. 4. We, the professionals by and large are lured to concentrate in segmented areas as part of our modernization. It could be anything like CDS/ISIS, WINISIS, Digital Libraries with its fragmented approaches, IR, Webopac, OAI, E-Print, DSpace, etc., if we examine the chronological events. But what is lacking is a Total Framework encompassing all these segments and much more, so as to make it as a body of knowledge for LIS Education & Practice. This has to be planned and designed at a fairly 'higher level' so as to implement the same uniformly and mandatorily as learning modules in the academic programmes. 5. Now, the question of Corporate Librarians.The existing teaching-learning practices and the curriculum contents should invariably be changed to suit the special needs of the sector, which is diffrent from the conventional systems. Rigorous training in soft-skill development and management practices, etc., are needed for moulding them to perform proactively in the newgen LIS domain. Be it 'old bottle or new bottle', it has to be filled with 'new wine' . 6. But who will bell the cat? Possibly a selfless 'Think Tank Group' should evolve for initiating the task. Even a 'Social Network' for the purpose can trigger the operation. Then it will assume the inertial strength required for the 'take off'. 7. A mandatory mechanism for LIS domain, like Medical Council of India in the Health Education Sector, Bar Council of India in the Legal Sector, AICTE for Engineering / Technical Education, etc., has to be evolved for a proper co-ordination to ensure quality education. 8. Responsible Professional Societies in LIS in India including IATLIS cannot shy away from this crisis situation. 9.Certain recommendations of NKC may also be examined in this context. The Time Targets Well, an overnight solution is not possible. What is proposed is a long term strategy. But the time factor should not be stretched to infinity, if we really want to salvage our profession and give it an impressive and acceptable shape. It is high time to evolve strategies for revamping the LIS Education / Profession in India so as to Seek the comments of our esteemed LIS Forum Members. SADASIVAN KP Former Head, Library & Informatics and Former Consultant (ICT) NIIST (CSIR), Trivadrum Poor management and communication skills among the students/products. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner <http://www.mailscanner.info/> , and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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One Day Registration in ETTLIS - 2008
by Chauhan 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

*INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM* *ON* *EMERGING TRENDS AND TECHNOLOGIES IN LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SERVCIES* *ETTLIS- 2008* *December 18-20, 2008* ___________________________________________________ Dear All, On several requests from professionals, the 'One Day Registration' is open in ETTLIS – 2008. This 'One Day registration' offers the opportunity to delegates who have tight schedules or interested in events of a particular day and can have the benefit of all the hospitality offered on the day preferred. Instead of full symposium they can get registered for any of the day's events during the symposium schedule i.e. 18th, 19th and 20th days of December, 2008. Interested delegates should send a Demand Draft of Rs.1000/- (Rupees One Thousand only) in favour of 'JIIT Noida', payable at Noida on the following address: *Dr. Sanjay Kataria Organizing Secretary, ETTLIS 2008 &* *Head, Learning Resource Centre* *Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University A-10, Sector -62, Noida (UP) India Ph. +91 120-2590851, (M) +91 9810503341 Email: skataria.jiitu@ gmail.com <skataria.jiitu@gmail..com> , sanjay.kataria@ jiit.ac.in <sanjay..kataria(a)+jiit.ac.in>* Last date for "One Day Registration" is December 12, 2008. Please refer symposium website for detailed information at http://www.ettlis2008.com/ With best wishes Sincerely yours, Suresh K Chauhan -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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