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Fw: Looking for Evidence of Researcher Engagement with Repositories
by Subbiah Arunachalam 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Leslie Carr <lac@ECS.SOTON..AC.UK> To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM(a)LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG Sent: Thursday, 30 October, 2008 15:04:21 Subject: Looking for Evidence of Researcher Engagement with Repositories Practitioners, developers and researchers in the repository community have been asking whether repositories are effective at appealing to their primary stakeholders: researchers. It would be great to have a collection of success stories - anecdotes of how repositories have been able to improve the lot of researchers - for appealing to institutional repository nay-sayers and open access agnostics. These should be examples of real wins for real individuals rather than marketing claims from repository software suppliers(!) as many repository successes are due to the library team's hard work and insight rather than the technical wizardry of the repository platform. Please can you email me a short (1 paragraph) success story (or stories!) about how your repository improved the experience of some researchers at your institution. They could be in the form of a user testimonial or described in your own words. I am not looking for tales of mass conversions and hysteria, just very practical stories of repository benefit as experienced by individuals. I will collect these together and make them available for repository managers and others to use in their marketing and advocacy. A cross-platform discussion on this topic of Researcher Engagement will be held at the previously announced EPrints meeting just before SPARC DR on November 16th in Baltimore. If you're planning to go to Baltimore, come and join in and boast about your repository's success, whatever software you use! --- Les Carr Pre-SPARC meeting in Balitimore: http://www.eprints.org/events/preDR2008 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Invitation
by kaushal giri 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

*Indian Statistical Institute* *Documentation Research and Training Centre* *8th, Mile Mysore Road, Bangalore-560059* * * *DRTC Seminar* *on* *Digital Preservation: Issues and Challenges* * * *Abstract* * * * *In today's world there is a huge collection of information. Any such information available in the form of document may be unavailable for future needs, if it is not collected and properly preserved. A viable solution to deal with collection and preservation of such information is digitization is now possible with the advent of high resolution scanning mechanisms and powerful computers with large storage capabilities. Libraries are an effective source of information to be shared by the people of all kinds, which are engaged in creating and maintaining digital libraries. The availability and use of digital libraries is gradually becoming the norm for the provision of literature and information in all the fields and research. Digitization has become the buzz world in libraries and information centers. The feature of digitization like enabling high level of data compression and easy retrieval are the factors that have made the libraries to convert their documents, books, journals, monographs, reports containing the text, pictures, audio, video in suitable digital formats. Digital Libraries are catering to information services interacting with online databases of journals and other resources. Digital Library plays an important role in creating, indexing and retrieving the various forms of digital resources. One of the main challenges in maintaining Digital library is the *Digital Preservation* aspect. Digital preservation is to manage the digital information and to preserve and maintain readability and accessibility across time. It is also being defined by set of *Metadata Standards,* which are structured encoded data that help in resources discovery and management of data. Discussions of metadata have largely centered on issue of resources description. There is however a growing awareness that metadata plays an important role in managing and preserving the digital resources. A study is made about the Digital preservation, its process, its workflow, *Issues and Challenges, *various ongoing projects (India and Abroad), concept of Metadata, its standards needed for data preservation. The seminar explores PREMIS (Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies) - preservation standard. * * SPEAKER: *Kaushal. K. Giri* 2nd Year Student VENUE : DRTC Classroom DATE : 5th November, 2008 TIME : 2.00 p.m. *All are cordially invited.* Dr. Devika. P. Madalli (Seminar coordinator) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Blog on activities as a Commonwealth Fellow
by Shamprasad Pujar 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Dear Members, I am pleased to inform you all that, presently I am in UK to take up Commonwealth Professional Fellowship at Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton. As a part of my work here, I have developed a blog to report my selected activities. The main idea behind the development of blog is to disseminate information to professionals working in India and other developing countries. The blog has postings on Web 2.0, Portal design, MARC21, Mapping etc. It also has links to the events and visits, which I will be undertaking during my period of fellowship. The blog can be accessed at: http://spujar.wordpress.com You may please go through the blog and add your comments to the posts. Any other comments and suggestions off the list are most welcome. It will be updated on a continuous basis with new postings, hence you may please visit it again. I sincerely thank my supervisor Ms Catherine Fisher for encouraging me to undertake this work. Look forward for your feedback. With best Regards, Dr Shamprasad M. Pujar Deputy Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen Vaidya Marg, Film City Road, Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065, India Phone: 91-22-2841 6565 ; 2840 0919 Ext: 565 E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Google settlement opens the Web to millions of books, Mint 30/10/08
by shihabudeen kunju 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Google settlement opens the Web to millions of books by jeffrey A. trachtenberg & jessica E. vascellaro A sweeping $125 million settlement between Google Inc. and the publishing industry clears the way for the Internet giant to make many millions of digital books available on the Web, with payments to authors and publishers for their use. If approved by a federal court, the deal, struck after two years of negotiations, will let individuals and institutions buy online access to copyrighted, out-of-print works through Google, and will provide free online views of them at public libraries. Titles that are still in print will be available only if publishers and authors agree to include them. "It may be the biggest book deal in U.S. history," said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. Google has already scanned seven million books for its Google Book Search program and plans to make many millions more available. Only Web users in the U.S. will have access to the new services. The settlement resolves a copyright-infringement lawsuit against Google filed by the Authors Guild more than three years ago in U.S. District Court in New York, as well as a separate suit filed by the Association of American Publishers on behalf of five leading publishers. Terms call for Google to pay $125 million to settle claims from authors and publishers for its earlier digital-scanning efforts, cover legal fees and es tablish a Book Rights Registry that will oversee the new accord. The establishment of a registry will enable rights holders—be they publishers or authors—to register their works and subsequently receive payment when their titles are used online. be they publishers or authors—to register their works and subsequently receive payment when their titles are used online. "What this does is breathe new life into millions of books without jeopardizing rights holders," said Richard Sarnoff, chairman of the Association of American Publishers and cochairman of *Bertelsmann Inc., *the U.S. holding company of *Bertelsmann AG.* Books under copyright but out of print will be available for sale in an online version unless the rights holder objects. The deal signals that Google, which has long argued it can index content for its search en gine without the cooperation of media companies, is taking a more conciliatory stance. But Google cautions against applying the same model to similar disputes, including *Viacom Inc.s *$1 billion copyright-infringement suit against Googles online-video service YouTube. "I would not read anything into the structure," said David Drummond, Googles senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer. With the agreement, Google is taking a rare step into the business of selling access to media content. Google will enhance its book-search product, which has struggled to gain traction, with a storefront where consumers can buy titles to read online. Prices will be set by the publisher or by a Google-designed algorithm, with the rights holder getting 63% and Google getting 37% of the revenue. The move breaks with Googles usual approach of selling advertising against digital content and sharing that revenue with partners like newspapers and media companies. It also brings Google into potential competition with digital-book retailers like *Amazon.com Inc.* "Its a new model for us," said Mr. Drummond, who nonetheless played down any competition with Amazon, noting that Googles main objective is to build a better search product. Amazon declined to comment. Public libraries will be offered a free online portal to view the digitized titles, while colleges and universities will be offered a subscription-fee service that will enable students to access these books directly from their dorm rooms. The registry to determine payments to authors and publishers will be an independent board, initially appointed half by the Authors Guild and half by the Association of American Publishers. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Registration Fee for UNESCO Sponsored Information Literacy Workshop at Patiala
by Jagtar Singh 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Dear All, We are expecting some funding from our university for this workshop. If that happens, there will be 20% to 40% reduction in the registration fee, i.e. from Rs. 1000 to 2000 reduction. At present Registration fee for sponsored candidates is INR 5000/- and INR 4000 for non-sponsored delegates. The registration fee includes boarding, lodging, sessions' tea, folders and reading materials. Interested participants may contact me via the telephone numbers given in my signature file. In case of emergency, I may be concated via my cell phone number: +919855444785 For more information, please access the following link: http://www.albertkb.nl/pageID_5366125.html Best wishes, Jagtar -- Dr. Jagtar Singh, Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, & Dean, Faculty of Education and Information Science Punjabi University, Patiala Pin - 147 002 (India) Email: jagtar.kindu(a)gmail.com Tel: +91 (0)175 304 6462 & 304 6179 (Work) +91 (0)175 228 2727 (Home) Fax: +91 (0)175 228 3073 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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MULISSA - Occupational English Talk
by kannika.gp kannika 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

*UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE* DEPARTMENT OF STUDIES IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE MANASAGANGOTHRI, MYSORE-570006. *MYSORE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE STUDENT ASSOCIATION (MULISSA) * *Dr. Benjamin Sukumaran* *# 8, opp. State Bank of Mysore* *I Floor, Vishwamanava Double Road,* *Kuvempu Nagar, Mysore.* *Email ID: whitetrail(a)gmail.com* . *Will Deliver Talk * *on * *Occupational English Language * *And * *Communications * * * *Dr. KHAISER NIKAM* Chairperson & President of MULISSA *Will Preside* *you are cordially invited* * * Venue: MLISc 1st Year Hall, Date: 31/10/2008. Time: 3.30 PM -- Kannikaparameshwari G. MLISc Student DOS Library and Information Science Manasagangotri, Mysore. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Workshop on Linux and Open Source Software at INFLIBNET Centre
by Rajesh Chandrakar 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Dear Professionals, INFIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad is organizing Workshop on Linux and Open Source Software at INFLIBNET Centre on 8th to 12th December 2008. About the Workshop Present age i s era of Open Source. I nflux of new informat ion technology and i ts applications in libraries using L inux operat ing sys tems and open source software to create their own institutional repositories are increasing. The present workshop will help Library professionals in exploring the feasibility of creating contents and hosting them in open access using open sources software. The course consists of keynote lecture and discussions by experts from the professionals with practical assignment for hand-on-practice. Interested library & IT professionals can participate in this workshop to gain the latest knowledge for setting up their libraries using Linux and Open Source ILM. The workshop will provide background knowledge of Linux and open source software and its applications. Following topics will be covered during the workshop:  Introduction to Linux and other FOSS (Free / Open Source Software)  Installation and different flavours of Linux  Understanding the Linux File System and Hierarchical Structure  Linux commands and vi editors mode  Basics of Internet and IP Structures  Mail and Network Configuration of Linux System  Web Server Configurations  Proxy Server Configuration  Firewall Configuration  Open Source Content Management Software  Installation and Customization of Joomla  Introduction to Open Source ILM Software and Overview of different modules. WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Library and Information professional, System and Network Administrators, Information Scientists and others with similar responsibilities with exposure to network and information security. NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS A maximum of 30 candidates will be selected for the workshop on First-Come-First-Serve basis. DURATION: 5 Days - From 8th to 12th December 2008 (Monday to Friday) RESOURCE PERSONS The resource persons are eminent IT/Computer/LIS Scientists/professionals and experts of the country. REGISTRATION FEE The registration fee is Rs. 5000.00 (Rs. Five Thousand only) per person. It covers the cost of workshop kit containing training materials, breakfasts, lunch, snacks & dinner during the sessions. The fee is to be paid through Demand Draft in favour of Director, INFLIBNET Centre and payable at Ahmedabad along with filled-in registration form. Registration fee is non-refundable and non-adjustable. An additional charge for accommodation will be paid along with the Registration Fee as mentioned below. ACCOMMODATION INFLIBNET will arrange accommodation during the period of training on chargeable basis in INFLIBNET Hostel and Hotels as per the rates given below (per person per day). The participants must send prior intimation and required charge for accommodation along with registration fee. REGISTRATION The filled-in registration form for registration to the course should be submitted in the prescribed form alongiwth DD of Registration Fee and Accommodation Charges on or before 28th November, 2008 to Director, INFLIBNET Centre. Kindly visit the Website to know more about the accommodation and registration charges at http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/forthcoming/linuxoss.pdf CONTACT DETAILS Course Director Dr. Jagdish Arora Director INFLIBNET Centre E-mail: jarora(a)inflibnet.ac.in Course Co-ordinators Shri H. G. Hosamani Scientist – B (Lib. Sc.) INFLIBNET Centre E-mail: hosamani(a)inflibnet.ac.in and Mr. Rajeev Kumar Scientist – B (Comp. Sc.) INFLIBNET Centre E-mail: rajeev(a)inflibnet.ac.in ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajesh Chandrakar, Commonwealth Professional Fellow Scientific & Technical Officer INFLIBNET (INFormation and LIBrary NETwork) Centre An IUC of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House, PB No. 4116, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380 009, India Tel. +91-(0)79-26305971/ 8528/ 4695(O), 26873805(R) Mobile: +91-9427527894 Fax: +91-(0)79-26300990, 263007816 E-mail: rajesh(a)inflibnet.ac.in; rchandrakar(a)gmail.com Website: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in Video Gallery: http://www.youtube.com/INFLIBNET ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Botany Booksellers--Old & New Books
by Library＠Arboretum.org.in 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

<bigger>Dear All, We would like to have the names and address details of leading booksellers (of both new and old books) who maintain good stock of books in the following areas: <bold>forestry, horticulture, ethnobotany, soil science, plant taxonomy, entomology, sacred groves, and philosophy </bold>Particularly, we are interested in famous old bookshops which specialise in books published during the pre- and post-Independence era.<bold> We are interested in books published in India as well as abroad, especially the classic works, in the above mentioned areas.</bold> <bold><bigger><bigger>About the Dharma Vana Arboretum</bold><smaller><smaller> Spanning 455+ acres in Bhongir, Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh, the Dharma Vana Arboretum (www.arboretum.org.in) would conserve thousands of species of plants and over a thousand tree species, many of which are endangered, through innovative horticultural and silvicultural practices that meet or exceed international standards. The DVA will be among the largest arboreta in the world and the largest located in a semi-arid tropical climate. Its primary scientific mission is to collect and preserve threatened and endangered species of indigenous plants, with an emphasis on the Deccan Plateau and the Eastern Ghats. A special focus will be on trees of medicinal, ethnobotanical, aromatic, ornamental, and religious significance, in addition to cultivating trees of no particular value. Thank you in advance for your help Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra T.V. Prafulla Chandra Research Officer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dharma Vana Arboretum Administrative Office Plot 95/1, Phase 2 IDA Cherlapally Hyderabad 500 051 Andhra Pradesh India Phones Direct +91 40 2726 0930 +91 40 3911 4202 EPABX +91 40 2726 0801 Ext. 202 +91 40 2726 0802 Ext. 202 +91 40 3911 4200 Ext. 202 Fax +91 40 3911 4219 www.arboretum.org.in ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Commemoration function in honour of Prof. K.A.Isaac
by Mailing List Admin 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:11:25 +0530 From: agopikuttan(a)yahoo.co.in Dear Professionals, I am happy to inform that the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kerala in association with the Alumni Association of the Dept of LIS (AADLIS) is holding commemoration function in honour of Prof. K.A.Isaac, the founder of the DLIS, University of Kerala, and doyen of LIS profession in the country, on Monday, 3rd November 2008 at 3.30 PM in the Lecturer hall of the Department of LIS University of Kerala. The function will be presided by Prof. B.Hridayakumari, former principal , College for women, Trivandrum. Prof. M.N.Ramakrishnan Nair, Prof.C A Augestine, Smt.K.K.Lalitha Bai and Prof G Devarajan will reminisce about Pro.K.A.Isaac. Dr. K.S.Raghavan, Professor ,DRTC,Bangalore will deliver The Professor K.A.Isaac Commemoration Lecture, on the topic "Future of Libraries in the Web-dominated Era" All are invited Dr.A.Gopikuttan Reader Department of Library and Information Science University of Kerala Trivandrum-34

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INVITATION TO FELICITATION FUNCTION OF PROF. N. LAXMAN RAO
by Mailing List Admin 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:42:12 +0530 (IST) From: Dimple Patel <dimple148(a)yahoo.co.in> ***** Apologies for Cross Postings ***** Dear Professional Colleague, The faculty, students, research scholars of Department of Library & Information Science, Osmania University and Felicitation Committee Cordially invite you to the FELICITATION FUNCTION of Dr. N. LAXMAN RAO, Professor, Department of Library & Information Science, & Director, UGC Academic Staff College, Osmania University, Hyderabad. on his superannuation on Date : 31st October 2008 (Friday) Venue : Room No. - 57, University College of Arts & Social Sciences, Osmania University, Hyderabad Time : 3.00 PM Chief Guest: Prof. Y.C. VENUDHAR, Registrar, Osmania University Guest of Honour: Prof. VIJAYALAKSHMI REDDY, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Osmania University With Best Regards, Prof. S. Sudarshan Rao, Head, Department of Library & Information Science, Principal, University College of Arts & Social Sciences, Osmania University, President, Academy of Library Science & Documentation Hyderabad. Prof. V. Vishwa Mohan, Chairman, BOS, Department of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad.

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Annals of Library and Information Studies 55(3) - Table of Contents
by gmahesh＠niscair.res.in 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Annals of Library and Information Studies Volume 55, No. 3 Table of Contents Information awareness through effective information support system to stop superstitious practices..........p 169 Biswanath Giri The Press and Registration of Books Act and the bibliographic control of Bengali publications..........p 176 Dibyendu Paul Growth and impact of research output of University of Mysore, 1996-2006: a case study.........p 185 Mallinath Kumbar, B.M. Gupta and S.M. Dhawan Information sources in academic law libraries in India.........p 196 Soumen Mallik and B.K. Sen Mapping of social sciences in the Colon Classification.........p 204 M.P. Satija Open access scholarly publishing in library and information science.........p 212 Bhaskar Mukherjee Science awareness through public libraries in India..........p 224 V.K.J. Jeevan Use of electronic information sources at the College of Fisheries, Mangalore, India..........p 234 Sujatha H.R. and Mahesh V Mudhol Electronic access of individual papers in economics: a study..........p 246 Asha. B ----------------------------------------- This email was sent using NISCAIR's web mail service. "" http://niscair.res.in/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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PRESERVATION OF BOOKS
by Rafi sm 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Dear LIS forum Members What are the feasible methods for preservation of books from the attack of termites and other insects in libraries? Are there any pesticides that can be used exclusively in libraries? Friends please open up. Rafi S.M Assistant Librarian PAACET 09496371578 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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NISCAIR Online Periodicals Repository http://nopr.niscair.res.in/
by Puna Das 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

NISCAIR Online Periodicals Repository National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR), New Delhi recently started open access repository of its publications using DSpace. NISCAIR publishes 16 scholarly journals in various fields. Presently full text facility is provided for some of the journals . For other journals, one can access abstracts. Full text of these journals will be made available shortly. The repository can be viewed at: http://nopr.niscair.res.in/ Congratulations for this timely initiative and making the scholarly literature available worldwide. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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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Dr. V N BRIMS Library - Mobile Website
by sandeep bhavsar 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Respected All On the auspicious day of Deepavali. I am pleased to inform you that DR VNBRIMS Library has launched its Mobile Website. Users can now connect with library resources and services through their Pocket PCs, Palmhelds, and Blackberries Users can also search the library Catalog , Working Hours, Contacts, and information on our various collections and services while on the go. The site is designed for ease of use and navigation for mobile devices taking into account their bandwidth, screen size and memory. For more details visit : http://wapamama.net/drvnbrimslibrary Come, try it out. Do send your feedback and help us to improve further. Thanks and Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W) 400601 MUMBAI. INDIA @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 9987049099 elibrary :http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Project Assistant Position at NCSI
by Francis Jayakanth 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Dear Members, This posting is being made on behalf of chairman, NCSI. NCSI needs a Project Assistant for its ongoing Science Observatory Project. The candidate needs to possess a minimum qualification of a First Class Master's degree in Library and Information Science preferably with NCSI/DRTC/NISCAIR (INSDOC) experience. The candidate should be interested in bibliometric/scientometric analysis and familiar with searching databases such as Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar. The candidate will also be expected to analyze the data using standard software like Excel. The position will start from 1 Dec and is for a period of 3 years but would be renewed on a continual assessment every three months for satisfactory performance. Please apply with your CV to chairman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in with the subject heading "PA for SO project" before 15 Nov, 2008. Such of those candidates who had applied earlier are requested to apply once again. - Francis Jayakanth NCSI, IISc, Bg -12

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InfoVision 2009: The Knowledge Summit, Jan 22-23, 2009, Bangalore- call for participation
by Shalini Urs 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

************Apologies for cross postings******* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- International School of Information Management, University of Mysore, Mysore & Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Bangalore & Triumph India Software Services, Bangalore ------------------------------------------------------------------- Present InfoVision 2009: The Knowledge Summit, January 22-23, 2009, Bangalore Theme: "Content to Intent: Understanding user intent and context in multimodal, multilingual and mobile information access" Welcome to the 4th edition of InfoVision - The Knowledge Summit Series. Session Themes: * Mobile Information Access * Multimedia Information Access * Multilingual Information Access * Consumer Created Content * eScience, eResearch and Cyber infrastructure * Enterprise Content and Communication Distinguished Speakers at InfoVision 2009: * Dr. P. Anandan, Managing Director, Microsoft Research India, Bangalore * Mr. John Blossom, President and Senior Analyst, Shore Communications, USA * Prof. Dieter Fellner, Director IGD, Fraunhofer Institute of Computer Graphics Research, Darmstadt, Germany * Dr. Edward Cutrell, Research Scientist, Adaptive Systems Interaction Group, Microsoft Research, USA * Prof. John Girard, Associate Professor of Management, Minot State University, USA * Prof. Ee-Peng Lim, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore * Prof. Rohini Srihari, Founder CEO, Janya Inc., USA & Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA * Mr. Bob Stembridge, Thomson Reuters, UK InfoVision brings you the Thomson Innovation Award 2009 Registration Fee: Corporate and Industry: INR 8000.00 per delegate Academic Institutions: INR 6000.00 per delegate 3 or more delegates from same organization - 10% discount Early Bird Offer - Registration before 20th December, 2008 Corporate and Industry: INR 6000.00 per delegate Academic Institutions: INR 4000.00 per delegate 3 or more delegates from same organization - 10% discount Don't miss this great opportunity. For registration and updates, please visit: www.infovision2009.org Come, participate, listen to and interact with eminent speakers. See you at InfoVision 2009! InfoVision 2009 Summit Team. For more details, contact: InfoVision secretariat International School of Information Management University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006 Tel: +91-821-2514699; +91-821-2411417 Fax: +91-821-2519209 Angrosh - 9886970411 Email: office(a)infovision.org.in; office(a)isim.ac.in ----------- Shalini Dr. Shalini Urs Executive Director and Professor International School of Information Management University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore - 570006 Phone : + 91 821 2514699 Fax : + 91 821 2519209 ISiM-Management School for IT, Technology School for IM www.isim.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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reg - zilla Rajostva Award
by Mailing List Admin 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:20:25 -0700 (PDT) From: shivashankar kadadevaramath <skadadevaramath(a)yahoo.com> Respected Modreater � I shivashankar kadadevaramath selection grade Librarian working in sree siddaganga college for women tumkur karanataka, tumkur zill authority declared Rajostva Award, for my outstanding contriubution to the Library proffession which will be held on nov1st 2008 at tumkur gubbi veeranna kalakestra � Yours ever in Library service shivashankar kadadevaramath president karanataka state college Librarian Assocation Bangalore, mob 09449070311

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Offering the post of SLIA (IITR)
by Mailing List Admin 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:33:50 +0530 From: kunwar.air air <kunwr.air(a)gmail.com> Dear LIS Professional Wishing you and Your Family A very Happy Diwali Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee invites the applications on the prescribed form for the following posts as per details given against each. The form may be obtained from Supdt.,Establishment 'B' Section, IIT Roorkee or the form may be downloaded from the Institute website www.iitr.ernet.in. Sr. Library Information Assistant 07 Posts (SC-01, ST-01, OBC-01, UR-04) 01 of the above 07 posts is reservedb horizontally for physically disabled applicants affected by one leg or one arm or both legs. 5500-9000 Essential: (i) Degree from a recognised University or equivalent (ii) Bachelor's degree or equivalent diploma in Library Science of a recognised University/ Institute or quivalent obtained after graduation. (iii) Experience of two years in a Library/ Computerization of a Library or one year certificate in computer application from a recognized institution or equivalent. Regard:- K. S. Rawat Central Library Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai-600036

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Announcement for SIS Fellowship Awards
by Mailing List Admin 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:04:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Kishor Satpathy <kishor_satpathy(a)yahoo.com> Announcement for SIS Fellowship Awards and Raizada Memorial� Awards for Young Information Scientists � Applications are invited from SIS Life members for the SIS Fellowship Awards and from young information Scientists aged below 35 for the Raizada Memorial Young Information Scientists Awards. The Young Information Scientists Award was instituted in memory of late Shri A.S.Raizada Founder Secretary of the Society. � The application along with bio-data and scientific contributions like research paper, Books, or any other material produced by him/her may please be sent to Secretary, Society for Information Science C/O NISTADS, K.S. Krishanan Marg, PUSA, New Delhi-110012 positively by 5th November 2008. Applications received after this shall not be considered. Awardees shall be facilitated on 5th December 2008 at the 25th Silver Jubilee Year�s National Convention & Conference to be held on 5-6th December 2008 at the Indian Institute of Management, Indore. � The details of the Conference can obtained from: Mr. Kishor Chandra Satpathy Librarian & Organising Secretary, SIS 2008 Indian Institute of Management Indore Prabandh Shikhar, Rau-Pithampur Road, Indore-453331, Madhya Pradesh E-mail: satpathy(a)iimidr.ac.in; ksatpathy(a)gmail.com Tel: 0731-4228626, 09425312746(M) � http://www.iimidr.ac.in/iimi/pages/institute/sis2008.php http://sis2008conference.blogspot.com/ http://www.indolibnet.org http://sis2008.synthasite.com/

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3rd Management Development Programme for LIS Professionals
by Mailing List Admin 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:46:00 +0000 (GMT) From: arun kishore <arunkishore_bl(a)yahoo.co.uk> Dear friends, Library and Information Centre of DCSchool of Management and Technology, Kerala is organising its 3rd Management Development Programme for library professionals on 1st�November 2008 at HOTEL TAJ RESIDENCY, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Chief Presentator : Prof. Salini R. Urs. International School of Information Management, Mysore www.isim.ac.in REGESTRATION IS FREE Register Online here� Please access the folowing link for details http://www.dcschool.net With warm regards, Arun Kishore, B.L. Librarian DCSMAT, Kerala Mob. 9745608096 Email. arunkishore@dcschool. net

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request for information
by Meruvu. satyanarayana 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

Dear Fellow Professional Colleague I am in need of data on population and villages of Marine Fisher folk on the sea shore of Visakhapatnam District for my Research Project. Please mail the data as soft copy if possible Thanks in anticipation... Yours Dr.M.Satyanarayana Associate Professor in Library and Information Science Andhra University Visakhapatnam Phone: 9440632703 --------------------------------- Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Invite them now. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for material on Retrospective Conversion for research purpose
by ashok upadhyay 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

Dear Friends, I am doing research on “Retroconversion of Documents in English Language in Central Secretariat Library, Zakir Husain Library, JMI and Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi: An evaluative study.” For this purpose I have needed some full text articles and references of books on Retrospective Conversion by which I would complete my research work. Please help me regarding this because much material is not available on that topic and give me valuable suggestions regarding this. Provide me book reference on that topic and book availability because much books are not available on that topic if available anywhere give me information to me. If anybody have a questionnaire related to this topic please send me immediately. I shall be highly thankful to you. From Ashok Kumar Upadhyay Research Scholar Deptt. of Library Information Science AMU, Aligarh 202002 (M) 09368015073, 09412545849 E-MAIL: ashoka143(a)gmail.com Connect with friends all over the world. Get Yahoo! India Messenger at http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/?wm=n/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Thank you for your help for development of Globethics.net Library
by atanu garai 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

Dear Colleagues, It is indeed my pleasure to introduce to you the Globethics.net Library, launched on 9 October 2008 in a press conference in Geneva. The Library is an endeavour by Globethics.net to bring together open-access and toll-access literature in ethics in a single digital library for the use of associated community (Globethics.net Network). While we are still improving content, technology and resource discovery of the website, we want to invite you to join us and help us in improving this service by giving your insightful feedback. Also, I would like to thank you for sharing your knowledge on various aspects and questions in development of the Library, with particular reference to OAI-PMH integration, metadata quality, among others. Below are some representative links of the consultations done in your forum during this time period. [Dlrg] Metadata from OAI-PMH Harvesters http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/pipermail/dlrg/2008-August/007985.html Aug 11 2008 [Dlrg] Questions: Using controlled vocabulary http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/pipermail/dlrg/2008-June/007923.html Jun 27 2008 [Dlrg] List of Z3950 gateways http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/pipermail/dlrg/2007-August/007616.html Aug 29 2007 [Dlrg] Import and export in OAI http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/pipermail/dlrg/2007-August/007610.html Aug 26 2007 [LIS-Forum] CMU Million Book Project http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2007-November/006351.html Nov 2 2007 [OAI-implementers] Selective Harvesting OAI-PMH Global Harvesters http://www.openarchives.org/pipermail/oai-implementers/2008-August/001885.h… Aug 11 2008 [OAI-implementers] Re: Central versus institutional self-archiving http://www.openarchives.org/pipermail/oai-implementers/2008-March/001814.ht… Mar 8 2008 [OAI-implementers] local/distributed vs global/unified archives http://www.openarchives.org/pipermail/oai-implementers/2008-March/001816.ht… Mar 9 2008 [OAI-implementers] Question regarding OAI-compliant (multiple) journal archiving system http://www.openarchives.org/pipermail/oai-implementers/2007-February/001694… Feb 10 2007 [Liblicense] Submission in repositories by people other than authors http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0804/msg00074.html Apr 23 2008 [Liblicense] local/distributed vs global/unified archives http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0803/msg00036.html Mar 10 2008 Thank you again for your feedbacks and contributions. Best regards, Atanu Garai Online Networking Specialist Globethics.net International Secretariat 150, route de Ferney CH-1211 Geneva 2 Switzerland Tel.: +41 22 791 62 49 Fax: +41 22 710 23 86 Web: www.globethics.net -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Invitation From Indian School of Business.
by preethi subramanians 25 Oct '08

25 Oct '08

Dear all, Greetings from the Indian School of Business! Learning Resource Centre (LRC) at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad invites you to – A keynote address on "Open Access to Information: Quality assurance in OA model", by Dr ARD Prasad, DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore and A lecture on "Organisational Knowledge Assets Conservation through Knowledge Management" by Dr Devika P Madalli, DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Venue: Indian School of Business, AC-3 MLT Date: November 4, 2008 Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm Followed by lunch RSVP: Vijaya Lakshmi J Phone: +91 40 23187963/67 Email: Vijaya_Joda@ isb.edu or lrc_isb(a)isb.edu Thanks & Regards, Preethi Subramanian S. Learning Resource Centre, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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MULISSA Inauguration - RFID Technology
by shivakumar shiva 25 Oct '08

25 Oct '08

Dear Professionals, MULISSA inauguration function was held at the Department of Library and Information Science, Mysore University. The chief guest Shri B.R Badhri spoke abut the history of RFID technology, its relevance in different industries and its use in libraries. He also spoke about Library Management Systems, their functional as well as technical aspects. How RFID technology works, along with its uses in cost effectiveness, multiple languages, book drop unit, improved services through prior reservation and prevention of theft were addressed. RFID is an off-shoot of barcoding which has been around for 40 years. A chip embedded in a book can have details such as author, title, subject, edition etc and this information can be accessed at the circulation desk itself. The technology enables automatic identification of objects. In the case of libraries, it is applied to books journals, CDs etc. Chairperson and faculty advisor for MULISSA, Dr Khaiser Nikam briefed about the history of the Department and the role of Dr. P.K. Patil as founding member. Mr Shrinivas Prasad from Bahadur Institute of Management Science was also present. Faculty, research scholars and students were also present. -- Shivakumar H.R. II year MLISc Manasagangothri University of Mysore Mysore. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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