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Report on “International Standards in Library Automation and Networking” held at Bangalore University
by Pandurang Konnur 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Report on "International Standards in Library Automation and Networking" held at Bangalore University Introduction Bangalore University, Indian Academic Library Association (IALA) and Kesavan Institute for Information and Knowledge Management (KIIKM) together organized this workshop in Bangalore University, Jnana Bharathi Campus. It was attended by 60 librarians from Academic libraries, Research organizations, Corporates and Public Libraries. This workshop took place from 17th March 2008 to 21st March 2008. The overwhelming success of this workshop is evident from the great satisfaction levels of the participants. Resource persons 1. Mr. L.J.Haravu (Kesavan Institute for Information and Knowledge Management) 2. Dr. A.R.D. Prasad (DRTC, Bangalore) 3. Dr. Ramesha (Associate Professor, Bangalore University) 4. Dr. Krishnamurthy (Librarian, Mysore University Library) 5. Mr. E.M.Siddartha (NewGenLib Foundation) Technical sessions The technical sessions started with an overview of metadata standards. In this session metadata standards like MARC21, and Dublin core were discussed, and also the importance of using metadata standards were discussed. The next session was on MARC21. Participants were explained the importance and prominence of MARC21 standard. Practical sessions were held online to make participants understand the structure of MARC21, they were also taught on how to use the documentation of MARC21. In fact the session became so exciting that participants requested for an extra one hour session on MARC21 to further examine the standard and know more about it. MARC21 for Bibliographic data, Authority data and Holdings data were covered during this session. Session on Dublin Core discussed the Dublin core metadata standard in detail. This session created an awareness in Participants about semantic web and describing the web resources A session on "What are Interoperability standards?" has discussed concepts like Z39.50 and other related interoperability standards were discussed. The session on Z39.50 protocol, server and client made the participants know more this protocol A session on SRU/W (Search Retrieve through URLs and Web services) was taken, where it was explained how the web services are taking over the traditional standards in database interoperability. A query language Common Query Language (CQL) was also explained. Most importantly participants were able to do practical sessions on invoking SRU/W based services and also see the results. One of the most exciting sessions was on XML. The importance of XML and its implementations were discussed here. Participants also had practical session ob creating XML documents and interpret XML documents. After this session participants were able to interpret MARC XML documents easily. There was also a session on Unicode. This session discussed the importance and implementations of Unicode One of the current buzz words in library automation is RFID. There was a half day session on RFID and also NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP). RFID equipment was practically shown and demonstrated to the participants The session on OAI-PMH discussed the importance of creating institutional archives, making these archives accessible and its importance was discussed. OAI-PMH harvesters were also discussed in this session. Putting all the things above together a platform or application that could support the global standards was explained. In this session it was discussed on how "Open Source" software can address the above requirements. A discussion on various open source software and their pros and cons were also discussed. Finally there was session on NewGenLib Open source. Participants were explained "What is open source?", Features of NewGenLib Open source, and a hands-on session on installation of NewGenLib Open source -- Dr.P.V.Konnur Fulbright Fellow (University of Illinois) University Librarian, Bangalore University Library, Jananabharati, Bangalore-560056 Phone: 080-22961131, 23215510 Website: http://library@bub.ernet.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Advt. Project Linked Personnel in DRTC
by DRTC - General 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE 8TH MILE, MYSORE ROAD, BANGALORE 560059 ADVERTISEMENT Applications are invited for one (1) purely "temporary Project-linked Person" in DRTC at Bangalore Centre of the Institute to work on the project on "Facet Analysis and Enhancement of information Retrieval in the Digital Environment". Qualification : Essential : ADIS from the Indian Statistical Institute or an equivalent qualification in Library & Information Science from a recognized University / Institute OR Masters Degree in Computer Applications (MCA). Pay: Rs.10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand only) per month, all inclusive. Tenure of appointment : The temporary appointment is upto 31 March 2009. Age: Maximum of 30 years as on 01 January 2008. Age may be relaxed for SC/ST/OBC candidates. Typed applications stating (1) Name [In block letters]: (2) Father's /Husband's name: (3) Address: (4) E-mail: (5) Phone No.: (6) Date of Birth: (7) Educational Qualification: (8) Work experience, (if any): accompanied by attested copies of relevant documents/ testimonials addressed to the Director, Indian Statistical Institute, should reach the Head, Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute, 8th Mile, Mysore Road, RV College Post, Bangalore 560059 on or before 31 May 2008. The Institute reserves the right not to appoint Project-linked Person. T.S.S.R.K. Rao Head, Bangalore Centre -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Faceted browsing with Solr and Ruby on Rails
by Rupak Chakravarty 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

OSS WebOPAC: A next generation library catalog written in ruby, using solr as theunderlying search engine. All you have to do is export your marcrecords, index them with the scripts provided, start up ruby on rails,and you're on your way to faceted browsing bliss.Check this out: http://blacklight.rubyforge.org/ Rupak Chakravarty Lecturer-cum-Assistant Librarian Department of Library & Information Science Panjab University, Chandigarh - 160014 INDIA Website: http://libsc.puchd.ac.in Phone # (0172) 2700459(R) (0172) 2534775(O) 9217133380(M) Email: rupak2811(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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Promoting Reading Habits
by Rajan 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

Dear Mr Singh, It is true that you should build the collection to the needs of the user and should not impose your value system to him. The user knows the best, most of the time, but not always. When you speak about the user, please don't think of the students or faculty now there in the academic rolls of the institution alone. Think of the tenure of a library book and all possible users which may run into a few generations. So, in many cases you need to foresee creatively and arrive at a conclusion about the real needs of the users of the book rather than what the users speak when you decide to purchase. That means, don't avoid inclusion of a book which you visualize to be of useful later and cannot be obtained then eventhough you dont have a user right now. As well, when you think of the user, you should think of the diverse kinds of users during the entire tenure of the book too. Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur From: "Sukhdev Singh" <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> So you cannot have Second Law violated and then expect Librarian to operate the Third Law. So Build Your Collection to the Needs of your User. Don't impose your own Value - System on the User. User Knows the Best. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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A browser plugin for libraries
by Romesh Chander 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

Dear colleagues, LibX is a browser plugin for Firefox and Internet Explorer that provides direct access to your library's resources. LibX is an open source framework from which editions for specific libraries can be built. Currently, 345 academic and public libraries have created public LibX editions. To find more information, follow the following link:- http://www.libx.org/ With Regards, Romesh Chander Sharma IKM Trainee, National Centre for Science Information(NCSI), Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore-560012 Mob. no. 9880959707 Meet people who discuss and share your passions. Go to http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/bestofyahoo/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Open Science Directory
by Mailing List Admin 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:54:23 +0200 From: Imma Subirats <imma.subirats(a)gmail.com> Open Science Directory http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/ Search tool for open access journals and journals in special programs for developing countries. The *Open Science Directory* has been developed by *EBSCO* and the *Hasselt University Library* based upon a request by marine information management experts collaborating within the framework of the *IOC<http://ioc.unesco.org/> *'s (*Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO*) *IODE<http://www.iode.org/> * (*International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange*) programme. *Goal: * - To create a global search tool for all open access and special programs journal titles. - To enhance the access of these collections by creating direct links to the journals and their articlesincluded in this A-to-Z-list. - All information about the included journal collections is available at the websites of the included projects. These websites are directly accessible from the Open Science Directory. - The Open Science Directory will not replace these programs. Also the different programs have their own regulations and eligibility conditions. As a interested user, you or your institute will have to register on their sites if you want to make use of special programs like HINARI, AGORA, INASP-PERI, OARE, eIFL and eJDS. *Target groups: * - Institutes (universities, research units, …) and their researchers in developing countries. - Every organization and researcher interested in these collections. *Content:* - About 13000 scientific journals are now available in the 'Open Science Directory'. When all the special program journals will be included, the Open Science Directory will contain more than 20000 titles. - Open Science Directory contains collections of Open Access Journals (full – partly) and journals in the special programs (Hinari, Agora). Other programs will be added in the near future: OARE, INASP-PERI, eIFL, eJDS. *Open Acces Journals:* The most important collections are: - The Directory of Open Access Journals <http://www.doaj.org/> covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are about 3000 in the directory (Dec 1, 2007). DOAJ is developed by the Lund University Libraries. - BioMed Central <http://www.biomedcentral.com/home/> is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. BioMed Central contains 184 journals (Dec 1, 2007). Many are citation-tracked and already have Impact Factors. - A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press<http://highwire.stanford.edu/>hosts a large repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1079 journals and 4,552,400 full text articles from over 130 scholarly publishers. HighWire-hosted publishers have collectively made 1,823,449 articles free. You will find the journals in the Open Science Directory with the embargo information included. - PubMed Central (PMC) <http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/> is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Journals in special programs: - HINARI <http://www.who.int/hinari/>: The Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI), set up by the World Health Organization (WHO) together with major publishers<http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/partners.php>provides free or very low cost online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, not-for-profit institutions in developing countries. Over 3750 journal titles are now available to health institutions in 113 countries<http://www.who.int/hinari/eligibility/en/>. - AGORA <http://www.aginternetwork.org/>: The AGORA program, set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers <http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/part.php>, enables developing countries to gain access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. AGORA provides a collection of 1132 journals to institutions in 107 countries<http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/el.php>. - OARE <http://www.oaresciences.org/>: Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers<http://oare.oaresciences.org/content/en/partners.php>, enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science research. Over 1,300 peer reviewed titles owned and published by over 340 prestigious publishing houses and scholarly societies are now available in more than 100 low income countries <http://www.oaresciences.org/eligibility/en/>. *Not available yet in the Open Science Directory: in negotiation* - INASP <http://www.inasp.info/>-PERI: PERI<http://www.inasp.info/file/104/peri-programme-for-the-enhancement-of-resear…>is a programme to support capacity building in the research sector in developing and emerging countries by strengthening the production, access and dissemination of information & knowledge. The programme comprises five components: 1: Delivers information (Access to journals and research content). 2: Strengthens national research publications. 3: Enhances ICT skills. 4: Supports country collaboration and networking. 5: Research and development. This project already includes: over 20,000 full text online journals, many of the world's leading citation, bibliographic and reference databases, document delivery from over 20,000 research journals, CD-ROM (or DVD) format can be provided where they are available. - eJDS <http://www.ejds.org/>: The electronic Journals Delivery Service (eJDS) is a prototype programme geared to facilitate the access to current scientific literature free of cost in the fields of Physics and Mathematics. The goal is to distribute individual scientific articles via e-mail to scientists in institutions in Developing Countries who do not have access to sufficient bandwidth to download material from the Internet in a timely manner and/or cannot afford the connection. The eJDS was made possible through agreements with several important scientific publishing companies and societies<http://sdu.ictp.it/ep/publishers.html>who provide access to their journals for free in the fields of Physics and Mathematics. - Finally, even if it was impossible to add an eIFL collection to the Open Science Directory, it is still a relevant program for institutes in search of support for access to scientific literature. eIFL.net<http://www.eifl.net/>is a not for profit organisation that supports and advocates for the wide availability of electronic resources by library users in transitional and developing countries. Its core activities are negotiating affordable subscriptions on a multi-country consortial basis, supporting national library consortia and maintaining a global knowledge sharing and capacity building network in related areas, such as open access publishing, intellectual property rights, open source software for libraries and the creation of institutional repositories of local content. eIFL.net currently offers 6 core programs to the consortia in its network:1. Negotiating affordable access to commercially available e-resources<http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/negotiations>; 2. Supporting the creation of sustainable national library consortia; 3. Open access publishing and the building of institutional repositories of local content; 4. Intellectual property rights and libraries; 5. Free and open source software (FOSS) for libraries; 6. Knowledge sharing and networking. *The Open Science Directory is developed by EBSCO - Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (UNESCO) Hasselt University Library (Bibliotheek Universiteit Hasselt)* -- Imma Subirats E-LIS Chief executive E-LIS, E-prints in Library and Information Science URL: http://eprints.rclis.org/ URL: http://openlib.org/home/subirats/ imma DOT subirats AT gmail DOT com

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Lasetjet 1020
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

Dear Friends I have a HP Laserjet 1020 printer attached to my PC. PC runs on XP. When the printer is temporarily out of order (say no tomer or no paper) I can print the matter to "print-to-file" This asks for a file names and saves the printer output specific to HP 1020. How do I get a physical paper print out this printed file? Any clues? -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Society for Serving Seniors 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015 Phone 27846631 / 94908 04278 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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Promoting reading habits & collection sharing
by gayathri sen 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

Dear Chudamani, Most of the engineering colleges are already members of INDEST and getting the foreign journal access at a reduced rate. As far as sharing of books is concerned DELNET is doing a wonderful job by sending books through courier in the fastest possible time for all its member libraries. I get many books which are out of print or out of stock for reference through DELNET and my users are overjoyed by this. It is only when we provoide what the user wants, in the shortest possible time, somehow or the other, their faith in the library system increases, and you can see you readership and usage increasing by leaps & bounds. Provoide what they want, of course keeping the quality collections in mind. You can see the result yourself. When you cannot get what they want communicate the reason, either by mail or over phone to explain. Regards, Gayathri Sen PESIT --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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ISiM Special Lecture 3 - April 28,2008
by Shalini Urs 26 Apr '08

26 Apr '08

ISiM Special Lecture Series - 3 "Machine Learning: New Paradigms and Perspectives" By Prof. Sargur Srihari SUNY Distinguished Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Founding Director CEDAR (Centre of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition) University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA All are cordially invited Date & Time: April 28, 2008: 3.30 PM Venue: Vidyanidhi Hall Mysore University Library Manasagangotri Mysore ------------ Abstract of the Talk: Machine learning methods are a systematic approach to designing high performance information processing systems. The methods of machine learning have been around for nearly fifty years, yet there is now a revolution ongoing with methods such as the fully Bayesian approach and conditional random fields. There is also a move to discover the broad underpinnings of a unified theory, to describe a range of seemingly ad-hoc methods, by using graphical models and the discriminative-generative taxonomy. The talk will begin with a tutorial approach to the central concepts underlying newer methods and then describe some results in the context of MINDS (Machine learning, Information retrieval, Natural language processing, Document analysis/ recognition and Speech recognition). Speaker's Bio Sargur (Hari) Srihari is a SUNY Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He teaches and does research in pattern recognition and machine learning in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He served as Principal Investigator on a project that led to the first large scale deployment of automatic reading of handwritten postal systems in the world. He is presently serving on a U.S. National Academy of Sciences committee on "Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Community". An author of over 300 papers he has received several honours including Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) and Distinguished Alumnus of the Ohio State University College of Engineering. Srihari received a B.E. from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and a PhD from the Ohio State University, Columbus. ------ 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 - new age school for the knowledge economy 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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LIS DIGEST : New Library and information science journal
by JAGDISH KULKARNI 26 Apr '08

26 Apr '08

Dear professionals, I am pleased to inform u that a QUARTERLY publication LIS DIGEST is scheduled to publish from Nanded (Maharashtra). All professionals are requested to send research papers and professional literature to this new publication. Papers in English on different topics are expected. Being a new publication all are requested to send their suggestions about how a lis journal should be? What will be difficulties and how it can overcome. Send Ur papers and comments to, The General Editor, LIS Digest, 15, Manorama, Vivekanand Society, Gopalchawadi, Nanded (Maharashtra) e-mail: lisdigest(a)rediffmail.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Post of Assistant Librarian at GNDU, Amritsar
by Raj K Bhardwaj 26 Apr '08

26 Apr '08

Dear All, Applications are invited for the post of Assistant Librarian , No of post 3 (2Gen, 1SC/ST) at Guru Nank Dev University , Amritsar. Last date of receipt of application is 21.05.08. For more detail access the below mentioned link http://gndu.ac.in/DOWNLOAD/Advt.No2-2008.pdf Raj Kumar Bhardwaj Hon'ble Judges Library High Court of Punjab and Haryana, Chandigarh -- http://raajchd.googlepages.com/home " There is a difference between an objective and actions. Unless you understand your objective, you will be wasting your time in actions. Know your objective first " – Swami Vivekananda -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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E-learning and its Prospects
by Raj K Bhardwaj 26 Apr '08

26 Apr '08

Dear All , As per *William Glasser;* "We learn……. 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we see and hear 70% of what we discuss with others 80% of what we experience personally 95% of what we teach someone else Read the interested article on E-Learning on the following link http://www.employmentnews.gov.in/career_details-e-learning-and-its-prospect… Raj Kumar Bhardwaj Hon'ble Judges Library, High Court of Punjab and Haryana, Chandigarh -- http://raajchd.googlepages.com/home " There is a difference between an objective and actions. Unless you understand your objective, you will be wasting your time in actions. Know your objective first " – Swami Vivekananda -- 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] Promoting reading habits
by gautam bahl 25 Apr '08

25 Apr '08

I Totally agree with Mr. Sukhdev that problem lies somewhere else. I think the one should just not see one side of the coin only, the root cause of the problem expressed by Mr. David lies somewhere else i.e. 'Collection development.' But as per AICTE norms (http://www.aicte.ernet.in/12norms_engineering.htm) There should be a minimum of 12 technical journals - 6 Indian and 6 International for each branch of engineering. While this is essential for institutions offering P.G. programme, the number of International Journals may be relaxed, though preferred for those offering only U.G. Programmes. I would like to know through this forum about the situation in other engineering institution libraries what are they doing int their libraries to utilise this mandatory collection. Gautam Bahl Asstt.Librarian A.C Joshi Library Panjab University Sector - 14 Chandigarh - 160014 India ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Promoting reading habits
by binu david 25 Apr '08

25 Apr '08

Dear Friends I am a Librarian with a self financing engineering college(only BTech/BE) in Kerala. Our library subscribes to around 80 print periodicals in the area of engineering and allied subjects. To promote reading habits of periodicals among students and faculty we have taken initiate like user education, current awareness etc. But the response to these initiatives are meagre. Yearly we are spending around 2 lakh on periodicals. So i need some valuable suggestions from my colleague's in promoting reading habits of our periodicals in optimum. Hope soon I will receive a lot of suggestion from you people. Thanking you Sincerely Binu David Librarian N J College of Engineering Pothandi Palghat -- ______________________________________________ IndiaInfo Mail - the free e-mail service with a difference! www.indiainfo.com Check out our value-added Premium features, such as an extra 20MB for mail storage, POP3, e-mail forwarding, and ads-free mailboxes! -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Today's Job Alerts in LIS
by Badan Barman 25 Apr '08

25 Apr '08

For a more Job Alerts in LIS please make a time to visit the site Jobs in LIS: http://lisjob.blogspot.com/ This is with reference to the massage posted to the LIS-FORUM on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 2:16 PM with the subject "Today's Job Alerts in LIS". The email address that is mention (bstpharmay(a)rediffmail.com) is not a valid one. Firstly when I receive a number of massage regarding the post, I thought that it may be due to my typing mistake, but when I recheck the particulate newspaper i.e The Telegraph, Tuesday 22 April, 2008 p. Jobs 3. I found that it appear as wrong in the newspaper itself. So after consultation of the website I found its correct address as bstpharmacy(a)rediffmail.com. So, candidates interested in the particular post are hereby requested to send their resume to bstpharmacy(a)rediffmail.com. The mistake was also corrected in the Jobs in LIS: http://lisjob.blogspot.com/. <http://lisjob.blogspot.com/> Finally, sorry for the inconvenience. -- Thanking you Yours faithfully Sri Badan Barman Research Scholar DLISc, Gauhati University ---------------------------------------------------------- Important Resources for LIS Professionals Upcoming Seminars, Conferences, Workshops & Refresher Courses in LIS: http://lisseminar.blogspot.com/ Jobs in LIS: http://lisjob.blogspot.com/ Awards, Prizes, Scholarships or Fellowships in LIS: http://lisscholarship.blogspot.com/ Admission Notice for Courses in LIS: http://liscourse.blogspot.com/ Latest Happenings & Contemporary Issues in LIS: http://lislatest.blogspot.com/ Search all OA LIS Journals: http://lis-journals-swicki.eurekster.com ----------------------------------------------------------- Confidentiality: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information. Any unauthorized disclosure or use of this information is prohibited. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Lecture invitation
by SRELS 25 Apr '08

25 Apr '08

Dear Moderator, Kindly arrange to announce the following invitation for the benefit of lis-forum members. Thanking you, Yours truly, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer, SRELS, Bangalore ***** Prof. K.S. Deshpande Endowment Lectures c/o. Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, 3rd Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Prof. L.S. Seshagiri Rao Former Chairman, Kannada Pustaka Pradhikara, Bangalore will deliver the 7th Prof. K.S. Deshpande Endowment Lecture Prof. H.M. Marulasiddaiah Professor of Social Work (Retd.), Bangalore University presides on Monday , 5th May 2008 at 6.00 pm at the premises of Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science You are cordially invited RSVP: K.N. Prasad - 080-23305109 Chairman and Members E-mail: prasadkn(a)vsnl.net Prof. K.S. Deshpande Endowment Lectures Committee, Bangalore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fw: Latest DPC Technology Watch Report - 'PDF should be used to preserve information for the future'.
by Shamprasad Pujar 25 Apr '08

25 Apr '08

-- Original Message -- From: Carol Jackson <carol(a)DPCONLINE.ORG> To: EPIC-LST(a)NIC.SURFNET.NL Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:00:02 +0200 Subject: Latest DPC Technology Watch Report - 'PDF should be used to preserve information for the future'. ***Apologies for cross postings*** PDF should be used to preserve information for the future Good news the already popular PDF file format adopted by consumers and business alike is one of the most logical formats to preserve todays electronic information for tomorrow. According to the latest report released today by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), Portable Document Format (PDF) is one of the best file formats to preserve electronic documents and ensure their survival for the future. This announcement will allow information officers to follow a standardised approach for preserving electronic documents. Information management and longterm preservation are major issues facing consumers and businesses in the 21st Century. This report is one of a series where The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) aims to think about and address the challenges facing us. This report reviews PDF and the newly introduced PDF/Archive (PDF/A) format as a potential solution to the problem of longterm digital preservation. It suggests adopting PDF/A for archiving electronic documents as the standard will help preservation and retrieval in the future. It concludes that it can only be done when combined with a comprehensive records management programme and formally established records procedures. Betsy Fanning, author of the report and director of standards at AIIM, comments, A standardised approach to preserving electronic documents would be a welcome development for organisations. Without this we could be walking blindly into a digital black hole. The National Archives works closely with the DPC with issues surrounding digital preservation and will continue to do so. Adrian Brown, head of digital preservation at The National Archives said: This report highlights the challenges we all face in a digital age. Using PDF/A as a standard will help information officers ensure that key business data survives. But it should never be viewed as the Holy Grail. It is merely a tool in the armoury of a well thought out records management policy. The report is a call to action, organisations need to act now and look hard at their information policies and procedures to anticipate the demand for their content (documents and records) in the future. Everybody has different criteria, types and uses for documentation so you need to find one that works for your organisation. If you would like to read the full report please go to the Digital Preservation Coalition website. This can be accessed here:<http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/reports/index.html#twr0802>www.dpconline.org/graphics/reports/index.html#twr0802 For further information about: The National Archives please contact, Tim Matthews,<tim.matthews(a)nationalarchives.gov.uk>tim.matthews(a)nationalarchives.gov.uk, or 020 8392 5277. Digital Preservation Coalition please contact Frances Boyle,<fb(a)dpconline.org>fb(a)dpconline.orgor 01904 435 320 About The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is a cross-sector member organisation established in 2001 to foster joint action to address the urgent challenges of securing the preservation of digital resources in the UK and to work with others internationally www.dpconline.org *********************************************************************************************************************************** Carol Jackson Administration and Events Manager Digital Preservation Coalition Innovation Centre York Science Park Heslington YO10 5DG e-mail:<carol(a)dpconline.org>carol(a)dpconline.org tel: +44 (0) 1904 435 362 https:<http://www.dpconline.org>www.dpconline.org Dr S.M. Pujar Deputy Librarian IGIDR, Mumbai, India -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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TED : Ideas worth spreading
by vimal kumar 25 Apr '08

25 Apr '08

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Re: [LIS-Forum] promoting reading habit - organising journal clubs
by T. Shahab 24 Apr '08

24 Apr '08

"Right information to the right recepients at the right time on right price" is the philosophy that drives the quest for Information Literacy all over the globe. Librarians at different levels of education and in a variety of library environment can play a very useful role towards the task of universal Information Literacy through diligence and professional committment. But the present age of "copy, cut and paste" is making it a very difficult task. In our own University, previously students used to depend heavily on downloaded materials from the net for their assignments which used to have repititative information haphazardly arranged. Now, they have been asked to derive materials mainly from the journals. This has rekindled in them the the zest for literature survey and brought back the smile on librarians face. We have already burnt our hands while practicing the CAS and SDI. The academics are a smug community. We thought that our best foot forward will also enliven them to come over to the library to benefit from its knowledge resources. But we only received phone calls for photocopies. The library management was already hardpressed because of insufficent D group staff. Now, who will photocopy and who will distribute the materails to each desk. After a few months this initiative died. Otherwise the hands of a librarian are mostly tied in an acdemic library og higher education to take independent decisions that involves the precious commodity, money. Private organizations may be better placed to tailor made their policies and arrange resources accordingly. Neverthess, best wishes for the professionals who are honestly holding to their committment towards promting Information Literacy. Regards. ________________________________ From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Kumaravel C Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 2:28 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] promoting reading habit - organising journal clubs This is response to the optimum use of journals subscribed. This is a problem not unique to any particular college alone. To satisify the norms of the councils like MCI, PCI, AICTE, DCI, INC and various other councils, the libraries are forced to subscribe to journals inspite of the shrinking budget. Apart from routing of journals to the particular college/depts., we organize 'Journal Club' where a student from every college/department has to present a paper from the latest journal issue on a particular day of a week. Again the initiative has to come from the concerned department head and a faculty will monitor the session. This method seems to have a double impact wherein the student and the faculty are forced to go through the latest journal articles. Kumaravel.C Sr.Librarian, MTIHS, Puducherry. Kumaravel.C JS RED<http://imadworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/adimage.cgi/2087310_2079 844/creative_2087453.jpg> -- 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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Query regarding SDI service
by Shabu Allijan 24 Apr '08

24 Apr '08

Dear all, Is there any software available for the SDI service? ( ie to prepare the user profile to compare with document profile) regards, Shabu M.A. DCSMAT Trivandrum. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Attachment Programme (ATP) at the INFLIBNET Centre
by Rajesh Chandrakar 24 Apr '08

24 Apr '08

Attachment Programme (ATP) at the INFLIBNET Centre The INFLIBNET Centre is happy to launch "Attachment Training Programmes (ATP)" where-in working librarians and computer programmers from North-East can come to the Centre and spend three to six months working in the Centre on ongoing projects with experienced INFLIBNET staff. The trained personnel can go back to their colleges / universities with knowledge and know-how that they can implement in their libraries. Eligibility Criteria Young, qualified professionals working in the universities / colleges or other educational institutions in North Eastern region having at least 3 years of experience are eligible for the "Attachment Training Programmes (ATP)". The candidates for "Attachment Training Programmes (ATP)" in Library Science should have Master Degree in Library and Information Sciences. Applicants having computer knowledge will be preferred. Candidates for Attachment Training Programmes (ATP) in Computer Science should possess BCA, BE (Computer Science / Electronics / Electrical) or MCA. The upper age limit for both the category is 45 years. Professionals who are not working currently are not eligible for the ATP. Duration Duration of the "Attachment Training Programme (ATP)" will be 3 months to 6 months. The applicant can opt for either three months or six months ATP depending on permission from his / her parent institution or his / her own preference. Number of Participants: 4 (Two each in Library and Computer Science) Local Hospitality The INFLIBNET will provide local hospitality to the selected candidates which will include free accommodation at the INFLIBNET hostel, an allowance of Rs. 500.00 per day for a period of 3 / 6 months. The allowance will be paid on monthly basis. The selected candidates will have to manage his / her food expenses from the daily allowance. Travel Expenses The selected candidates will be paid to and fro fare (one-time only) from his work place to Ahmedabad as per the eligibility of the candidates and according to the rules and regulation of the Centre. How to Apply? Eligible Library / Computer professionals from North Eastern Region may apply for the "Attachment Training Programme (ATP)" in the prescribed Application Form along with a recent passport size photograph duly affixed in it, attested copies of certificates, and an undertaking from their employer stating that the candidate will be relieved from his / her duties for the specified period in the event of selection. Application complete in all respect may be sent to the Administrative Officer (P & A) at the address given below within 20 days of publication of the advertisement. Application form can be downloaded from the INFLIBNET website at http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ne-form.pdf. The Centre reserves the right to reject any application without assigning any reason. Administrative Officer (P & A) Opp. Gujarat University Guest House Post Box No. 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad, Gujarat - 380009 Tel: +91 79 26308528, 26304695, 26305971 Fax: +91 79 26300990 and 26307816 With regards, Rajesh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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KALA-Election-Date-Extended
by I.R.N.Goudar 24 Apr '08

24 Apr '08

1. Date extended till 27 April 2008 for Nomination for Election of Office Bearers and EC Member posts. 2. Any member can nominate any other member (one) for one post only 3. Self nomination is already allowed An e-mail to Mrs Lakshmi Chinnappa slc(a)indegene.com slc33in(a)yahoo.co.in with a copy to me will do goudar(a)css.nal.res.in Please come forward to make KALA as vibrant as it was few years back. Election details are as mentioned below Goudar KARNATAKA STATE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION Dear Professionals, As already communicated earlier the General Body meeting along with elections of KALA will be held on 29th April 2008 (Tuesday) at 5.00 pm in Granthangana, City Central Library, RPC Layout. I request active members to come forward to contest for election and also elect suitable office bearers. Last date for self nomination is 24 April 2008. Goudar ============================================================================= Details of Election Process and Posts 1.Office Bearers : President - 1 Post Vice President - 2 Post Secretary - 1 Post Joint Secretary - 1 Post Treasurer - 1 Post 2.Date of Election: 29-04-2008 (Tuesday) 6.00 pm 3.Venue - City Central Library, Granthangana, RPC Layout, Hampinagar (near RPC Layout bus terminus), Bangalor 560040 4.Last date for Nomination - 24-04-2008 (Thursday) 5.Withdrawal of nomination - 29-04-2008 Instructions: 1. Members desiring to contest the election for the above posts of KALA should submit self-nomination on plain paper to the Election Officer. 2. The members contesting for election to the said posts must be present physically at the GB Meeting venue. 3. The decision of the Election Officer is final in all the matters of election process. 4. For any other details contact the Election Officer at following address: Mrs. Seethalakshmi Chinnappa Election Officer, KALA Chrystal Meadows, 3556, Flast 2B Doopanahalli, 3rd Cross HAL II Stage, Bangalore-560038 Mobile: 9845042582 Residence: 25281815 Email:slc@indegene.com slc33in(a)yahoo.co.in -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Sci F & Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html -- 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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MathMLVersion 3.0 Draft Published
by noufal palliparamban 24 Apr '08

24 Apr '08

Hello: The Math Working Group of W3C has published a Working Draft of Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0. This is the third draft of MathML, an XML application for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Noufal.PP Assistant Librarian XLRI, Jamshedpur -------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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The Free Software Directory
by shriram pandey 24 Apr '08

24 Apr '08

Dear forum members, The Free Software Directory is a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The website catalogs useful free software that runs under free operating systems — particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants. Licenses are verified for each and every program listed in this directory. detail available on : http://directory.fsf.org/ Regards ShriRam Pandey Information and Knowledge Management Trainee NCSI,Indian Institute Of Science,Bangalore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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google movies
by S.F KATTIMANI 24 Apr '08

24 Apr '08

*Here is another interesting service from Google. *** * **Want to know, which movie is being showed in which theater at what time? *** * **Just enter your city name. It lists everything. Really* [image: cool.gif] http://www.google.co.in/movies <http://www.google.co.in/movies> -- S.F.KATTIMANI DEPUTY LIBRARIAN M.S.RAMAIAH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (AUTONOMOUS) M.S.RAMAIAH NAGAR BANGALORE 560054 PH: 080 23600822/23606934 EXT 223 & 107 MOB: 9886821032 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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