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post of Assistant librarian and Library attendent at DU
by vijay kumar 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Dear Library professionals, Application are invited on the prescribed form for Assistant Librarian, and also for Library Attendant (for Physically Handicapped Persons) latest by 28 April 2008 For Details visit DELHI UNIVERSITY website http://www.du.ac.in/career.html Thanks Vijay kumar NCSI -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Invitation to write text books
by L J Haravu 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Dear Members One of the objectives of the Kesavan Inst. of Information & Knowledge Management (KIIKM) (http://www.kiikm.org) is to provide a forum and assistance to senior professionals in publishing good quality text books for use in library and information science courses. KIIKM will consider getiing such publications edited and published. I welcome experienced professionals to write books on topics of current interest as well as on those which expose important concepts in library and information science/management. Manuscripts may be submitted to me. These will be peer reviewed before a decision to edit/publish it is taken. I also welcome views of members on topics on which text books are needed. Haravu . -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Explore the nexus and..
by Rupak Chakravarty 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Dear All, 1. please explore ResearchID.org (http://www.researchintelligentdesign.org/wiki/Main_Page) It is really a springboard for innovative research ideas. 2. Also build your own newsletter: 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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Annals of Library and Information Studies: Table of Contents
by gmahesh＠niscair.res.in 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Annals of Library and Information Studies Vol 55, No. 1, March 2008 Changing pattern of user expectations regarding the library catalogue as an information retrieval tool: a case study of Mangalore University S.S.Kumbar and T. Y. Mallaiah.................................7 Research publication trends in structural engineering based on Journal of Structural Engineering S. Maheswaran, R.D. Sathish Kumar and K.R. Sridharan...............17 Open access journals and institutional repositories: practical need and present trends in India Mohammad Nazim and Maya Devi...............................27 Citation analysis of Journal of Oilseeds Research 1993 2004 Surendra Kumar and S. Kumar..................................35 Strengthening R&D information systems through library consortium: A case of CSIR laboratories Prakash Chand and Nishy P......................................45 Pramana - Journal of Physics: A scientometric analysis Anil Kumar, E. R. Prakasan, V.L. Kalyane and Vijai Kumar.............52 Use of search engines by research scholars and faculty members of physics departments in the universities of Karnataka State B.S. Biradar and B.T. Sampath Kumar..................................52 Strategic Management Journal: a citations study Tapas Kumar Raut, Sada Bihari Sahu and Shantanu Ganguly..............69 Scientometric profile of the journal Mausam K.C. Garg, Praveen Sharma and Suresh Kumar...........................76 Book Review......................................................81 G. Mahesh Scientist, NISCAIR ----------------------------------------- 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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Manuscriptology.
by rajiv tripathi 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Dear Moderator: Kindly announce the following in LIS Forum. Rajivaksh Tripathi mlib student of BHU Banaras. BHU is going to start a new course Manuscriptology. Duration of course is one year for detail contact to BHU website. Rajivaksht Tripathi rajiv.lis2008(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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UNESCO publishes a book on Open Access to Knowledge in South Asia
by Puna Das 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

UNESCO publishes a book on Open Access to Knowledge in South Asia 07-04-2008 (New Delhi) UNESCO Office in New Delhi has released Open Access to Knowledge and Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives the South Asian Scenario. This book illustrates South Asian initiatives on open access to information and knowledge. It has its genesis in the recommendations and proceedings of UNESCO-supported international conferences and workshops. Universal access to information and knowledge is a key principle in UNESCO's overall mandate to promote the free flow of information by word and by image and thus to place information and knowledge at the doorsteps of communities. In the information society, free flow of information is a fundamental principle for bridging the knowledge gaps between privileged and under-privileged communities. Open access to information and knowledge is an innovative mode of scholarly communication within the digital environment, which is gaining momentum in developed countries that already have necessary information infrastructure. The emerging economies amongst the developing countries are not far behind in building up necessary information infrastructure, essential for sustainable economic development. These emerging countries, however, have limitations in terms of bridging the digital divide within their societies, due to the co-existence of marginalized and privileged communities. The South Asia sub-region is now in the forefront of the open access movement within developing countries, with India being the most prominent partner in terms of its successful open access and digital library initiatives. The book describes successful digital library and open access initiatives in the South Asia sub-region that are available in the forms of open courseware, open access journals, metadata harvesting services, national-level open access repositories and institutional repositories. It may be considered an authoritative source-book on open access development in this sub-region. The publication is available online in PDF format: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=26393&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT…. Source: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=26397&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… Thanking You Anup Kumar Das New Delhi India --------------------------------- Bollywood, fun, friendship, sports and more. You name it, we have it. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Farewell to CHIK sir
by Dipen Deka 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

I have met sir while visiting the central library of IIMB last year. And i can say that person like him are rare in the profession. he is friendly and so helpful that whenever i requested for some information immediately he responded. myself on behalf of the Departmentof Library and Information Science, Gauhati University wish him a healthy and happy future. Dipen Deka JRF, DLISc Gauhati University Assam -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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2009 Endeavour Award - Australia - Applications close 31 July 2008.
by Bhojaraju G 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Dear All, *2009 Endeavour Award - Australia - Applications close 31 July 2008.* The Endeavour Awards is an internationally competitive, merit-based program providing opportunities for citizens of the Asia-Pacific region to undertake study, research and professional development in Australia. Awards are also available for Australians to do the same abroad. A smaller number of awards are available for participants from Europe and the Americas. The Endeavour Awards provide individuals with a unique opportunity to take the next step in their academic or professional career. For more details, please refer http://www.endeavour.dest.gov.au/ Thanks & Regards *Bhojaraju Gunjal* **2008 Endeavour Research Fellow School of Computer Science and Mathematics Victoria University Footscray Park, Melbourne Phone: 61 3 9919 4574 Fax: 61 3 9919 4050 Mobile: 61 402 530 568 Email: Bhojaraju.Gunjal(a)vu.edu.au<http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/post?postID=nzp7ATn5JARBH5WP8d0…> Web: http://www.vu.edu.au -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Call for Articles/Papers for Prof. M.P. Satija's Festschrift Volume
by Jagtar Singh 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Dear Colleagues, We have got tremendous response to our request for articles/papers for Prof. M.P. Satija's Festschrift Volume. It was on select invitation only. But now many friends have phoned me that they also want to contribute to this project. Therefore we have decided to publish the Festschrift in two volumes and issue a public call. Please contribute an article/paper by 15 May 2008and use the APA Style for references and bibliography. Prof. Satija is superanuating on 30 June 2008 and his brief CV is papsted below. You may focus on: Collection Development Knowledge Organization, Information Management Knowledge Management Content Management Open Source Software Web-based Resources and Services Search Engines and Online Searching Reference and Information Services Library Consortia Use and User Studies Portals, Vortles and Gateways Capacity Building Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning Digital Preservation, LIS Education, Research and Training Continuous Professional Development & Workplace Learning. These are only indicative areas, but you are free to choose any other topic of importance to our moorings and the cutting-edge. Please mail me immediately if you are interested to contribute. Paper should not be more than 10 typed pages. Regards, Jagtar Email: jagtar.kindu(a)gmail.com *Mohinder Partap Satija*, currently a Professor and Head of the Department of Library and Information Science in the Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, is in the library profession for the last three decades. As an author of more than a dozen books, about 150 papers and 200 bookreviews and many conference papers published in India and abroad, he has collaborated with international experts namely, Dr. John Comaromi, Editor DDC (1979-1991), Ms Joan S. Mitichell, current editor DDC, Dr Ray Prytherch, Editor, Harrod's Glossary and Dr. S. P. Agrawal, former Director, National Social Science Documentation Centre, New Delhi. Some of the journals he has been published are *Libri, International Classification*, *Knowledge Organisation,* *Third World Libraries* (USA), *Information Management Report *(UK), *Cataloging and Classification Quarterly* (USA), *Asian Libraries*(Thailand), Emarld journals (UK), *Herald of Library Science, & Journal of Information Management and Scientometrics. *His works have been translated into Hindi, Spanish, German and French. His major contribution lies in enriching library science literature. Many bibliometric studies have found him a prolific author. Having done his Ph. D. on Ranganathan studies, he has been instrumental in interpreting and propagating Ranganathan's works and ideas to the new generation. He has written extensively on Classification, Book Numbers, Ranganathan Studies and Indian Library Literature. Aboard he is known for his expertise on Colon Classification and Indian state of the art on classification. Accordingly, he is often invited to contribute papers in these areas for books and journals. At home, he started the trend of commentative yet readable bookviews in the library and information science. No wonder then he is a sought after bookviewer in the country. His textbooks on Colon Classification and the Dewey Decimal Classification are being used as class texts in many library schools in India. On receiving his long article on Call Number & Book Number (Published in Encyclopedia of Library & Information science *(Marcel Dekker, vol 45) *Prof. Allen Kent the editor described that as a " Master piece". His various writings on the Sears List of Subject Headings have won the commendations of its chief editor Dr. Joseph Miller (H. W. Wilson. Co.). He has visited Germany, France, Finland, England, Nepal, the Netherlands, Belgium and Sri Lanka in connection with professional work. He is associated with many library journals such as *Information Management Report* ( Bowker-Saur, UK), *Library Times International* (USA), *The Lucknow Librarian* (India*), Library Progress* (*Int*) (India), *Ranganathan Research Bulletin *(India) and *Knowledge Organisation* (USA/Germany). He is the Indian Coordinator of the International Society for Knowledge Organisation (ISKO) (USA), and member UDC Consortium. Dr. Satija is a life member of many library and information science associations: and has delivered lectures in many universities and has written lessons for distance education students of IGNOU, Kurukshetra University, Kota Open University and Aligarh Muslim University. In the summer of 1988 he worked with Dr. Ingetraut Dahlberg in Frankfurt for three months to assist her on various then on going projects. He served as a Visiting Fellow for three months in Maastricht McLuhan Institute, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands in the summer of 1999 and the visit was followed by another visit of six weeks in May 2001. The work done there fructified in the publication of *A* *Dictionary of Knowledge Organization,* (Guru Nanak Dev University, 2004). In 2005 he was invited by the University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka to serve as a Visiting Professor. There he was instrumental in instituting library & information science doctoral programme in the Department of Library of Information Science which is the first ever research degree programme in the country. There he also served as bibliography consultant to the National Library Services Board of Sri Lanka. As is an advisor to the Harrod's Librarians Glossary (Gower, UK) he made considerable input to revise entries relating to classification. He is member advisory board of the *International Yearbook of Library and Information Management*(Library Association Publishing, London) *and Indian Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science* (S. Chand & Co., New Delhi). As a trustee of Professor Kaula Endowment for Library Science, he has actively contributed for its development. Important Publications 1. "Book Number and Call Number" *Encyclopedia of Library & information science* (Marcel Dekker, 1990, Vol 45): 18-45. 2. *Manual of Practical **Colon** Classification. **New Delhi*: Sterling Publisher, 1994. 3. *S. R. Ranganathan and the Method of Science. **New Delhi**: Aditya, 1992.* 4. *Dewey Decimal Classification: A Practical Guide. **Dublin** **Ohio *: the OCLC, 1996 (co- author). 1. *Sears List of Subject Headings,* New Delhi: Concept, 2000. 2. *A Dictionary of Knowledge Organisation. **Amritsar**:* GND University, 2004. 3. *DDC: History and Current Status,* New York: Academic Publishers, 1989 (with Dr. John Comaromi). -- 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 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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Again About LIS Accreditation
by J. K. Vijayakumar 06 Apr '08

06 Apr '08

Dear LIS Friends, I would like to request your attention to my earlier mail "LIS Departments need Accreditation System and New Courses". We have a good news that Indian Engineering Degrees will soon be accredited in US and other developed countries. Read the news from Rediff.com [ http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/jul/05eng.htm ] National Board of Accreditation (NBA) of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is the accreditation agency for Engineering Education in India. They did a good job in getting a provisional signatory membership in Washington Accord, which recognises engineering degrees among the member countries. NBA is allowed 2 years to to bring its academic programmes, curricula and syllabus, examination and evaluation system to the international level and revise its accreditation system to make it fully outcome based, with credit system for flexibility and continuous evaluation for improved learning being the basis of such programmes.If NBA and our technical institutes are successful in achieving this goal, Indian engineering degrees will be internationaly recognised. What is the message for LIS? Thanks ---------------------------------- J. K. Vijayakumar MLIS PhD IFLA-OCLC Fellow Assistant Director of Library American University of Antigua College of Medicine PB No W1451, St. Johns ANTIGUA, West Indies http://students.auamed.net/library ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Recommendations of vi th pay commission for lib professionals highlights
by jasbir singh 06 Apr '08

06 Apr '08

Recommendations of 6 th pay commission for lib professionals highlights th Central Pay Commission Report, March, 2008 is available on following weblink. http://pib.nic. in/archieve /others/2008/ mar/6th_payrepor t .pdf It's of 658 Pages, File Size 2.54 MB Browse specially :- Content Pages : 5-8 (4 pages) Summary of main recommendations : 651-657 (7 pages) Some Extracts in this report particularly for Library Staff, which I am giving below. Library staff 3.8.13 The Fifth CPC had recommended distinct cadre structure for Librarians. Consequent to upgradation of all Group 'D' posts being recommended by the Commission, the posts of Library Attendant Grade II and I shall stand merged and placed in therevised pay scale PB-1 of Rs.4860-20200 along with grade pay of Rs.1800 after their skills are suitably enhanced. The posts of Library and Information Assistant (present scale Rs.5500-9000) will come to lie in the revised Pay Band of PB-2 of Rs.8700-34800 along with grade pay of Rs.4200. The next higher post of Assistant Library Information Officer (present scale Rs.6500-10500) will be upgraded and placed in the revised Pay Band of PB-2 along with grade pay of Rs.4600 corresponding to the pre-revised pay scale of Rs.7450-11500. All other posts belonging to this category shall be extended the corresponding replacement pay band and grade pay. page # 221 Librarian Staff 7.5.11 Higher pay scales have been demanded for Library Staff in the Department of Industrial, Policy & Promotion. The Commission has made recommendations for the common categories of Librarians in Chapter 3.8. The recommendations contained therein shall apply in respect of Librarians working in this Department as well. Page # 401 Library Staff 7.9.11 The posts of Library Staff shall be regulated as per the recommendations given in Chapter 3.8 relating to common Page # 417 Librarians and the Library staff 7.57.21 Recommendations made in Chapter 3.8 in respect of Librarians and the Library staff shall also be extended to the similarly placed posts in UT of Delhi. Page # 620 Jasbir Singh Learning Resource Center Jaypee University of Information Technology Waknaghat, P.O. Dumehar Kandaghat, Distt. Solan (H.P.), India http://www.juit.ac.in/Library/staff.php --------------------------------- You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Using RSS Feeds for an external corporate site
by Sukhdev Singh 05 Apr '08

05 Apr '08

Dear Friends, I am forwarding one of my emails to another forum. Later on I thought that I should also share it with you all. [I have tried to protect the privacy of the person asking the question] My answer provide a solution on how sites can be enhanced by aggregating external content without any additional cost or time (after setup). The same solution can be implemented on Library Website of your own Institution. Hope it helps. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:35 AM Subject: Re: [IAMI Gen] RSS Feeds for an external corporate site What you are aiming at goes beyond just RSS Feeds. You will need one more step. Let me try to explain you the steps you will require and examples of my experiments in MASHUP. Step 1. Identifying the Resources: This is actually what you have asked for in your mail. I would suggest you do the following (in that order) a) - PubMed Search Strategy The best resource is PubMed <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/>. However it is a huge database. You will have to design a Search Strategy to get latest and relevant references from PubMed. Once you are satisfied, create a feed as explained in my tutorial (slides). This requires professional skills, I could have created a search strategy for you, unfortunately I am busy for next week. [I will be Chairing a session on "The Cochrane Library and EBM Resources" on 9th April 2008 at CMC Vellore for the 2nd South Asian Regional Symposium on Evidence Based Health Care, 'Investing in Evidence for Better Health - http://www.cochrane-sacn.org/symposium2008/index.asp ] b) - Look for core online Journals Online journals (even the paid ones ) allow TOC of their issues pulled through RSS. Open Access journals like those from BioMed Central <http://www.biomedcentral.com/> would be more useful as full text of their issues can be read immediately. Further you may take help of Directory of Open Access Journals <http://doaj.org> Look for the URLs of their RSS Feeds. There are tools (like Dapper) which can create feeds even for Non-RSS enabled sites. But to start with, it is better to go with only ready-made feeds. c) - Look for Blogs, forums, Wikis etc. If you need more, then you can look for Blogs, Forums and Wikis. Most of them provides RSS feeds. Step 2. You need to subscribe to all the feeds mentioned in above steps. Google Reader is one of the many available services. If you like, you can go for advance tricks for filtering useful content from your aggregation of feeds. Yahoo Pipes is one such tool (It is difficult to learn it). Once you are satisfied move to next step. Step 3. Well this I had touched in my slides but could not explain properly. Reading RSS is different from making them available publicly. This is sort of "MASHUP". There are abundant tools are available for doing it. The simple ones are the likes of SuprGlu / NetVibes. (Google Reader can also do it in limited manner). But these look unprofessional as you won't like their logos etc. You can also create Widgets and add to you site. Tools like feeddigest will allow to do that but they are free only upto a limit. You can also have a blog on blogger and insert you feeds easily (See my experiment mentioned below). I had done few experiments which are still live (and does not cost time or money to me). One is on SuprGlu - http://sukhi.suprglu.com/ . It picks up references from PubMed (slides are included in my presentation) for Medical Informatics in Indian Context. However, you will notice the service (SuprGlu) does some sort of advertisement. Another one uses Yahoo Pipes to filter content. It give only those content which has free full text on the topic - "Medical Informatics". The feed is displayed using a Blog - http://informaticsbits.blogspot.com/ from blogger.com I would be glad to help you in your project but only after I return from CMC (Medical College) Vellore. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:35 PM, clh < -- @gmail.com> wrote: > > What types of RSS Feeds would you recommend for a corporate external/ > publice site of a physician group practice management company? > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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UNESCO helps preserve Indian documentary heritage
by Mailing List Admin 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:46:12 +0100 (BST) From: Puna Das <puna_05(a)yahoo.co.in> UNESCO helps preserve Indian documentary heritage 04-04-2008 (New Delhi) A UNESCO-supported project �Preservation and Conservation of Rare Documents of St. Xavier�s College Library, Kolkata� has recently been completed. Several thousands of pages of rare documents from the College library have been recovered, preserved and digitised. St. Xavier�s College was established in 1860. It is now one of the oldest colleges in the South Asian sub-region. The College library holds a golden treasury of very old printed documents, providing from donations of books by the provincial governments and European missionaries in the last century. The documentary collection includes philosophical thoughts of eminent thinkers of eighteenth century, philosophy of sciences, historical accounts, religious scriptures, etc. Unfortunately, this heritage is continuously decaying towards extinction, which would be an enormous cultural loss for India. Selected rare documents of the College library have been recovered, preserved and digitised under this collaborative project. Physical preservation was carried out for 31 614 pages from 52 volumes of books through fumigation, de-acidification and tissue lamination processes. 24 686 pages from 51 volumes of rare books and 99 rare paintings were digitally preserved on DVD-ROMs and intranet server. An exhibition of rare documents took place in March 2008 in the College premises. The oldest article among the exhibited pieces was published in 1632. Digitised collection of rare paintings of St. Xavier�s College, Kolkata: http://picasaweb.google.com/bidyarthi.bhaswati/RarePaintingsOfStXavierSColl… Source: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=26384&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… Thanking You Yours Sincerely Anup Kumar Das New Delhi

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Bidding Farewell to Mr.CHIKKAMALLAIAH-Librarian-IIMB
by Suresh Horakeri 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Dear professionals, Today I came to know that Mr Chikkamallaiah, Librarian, IIMB was retired from the service on 31st March 2008 & his Farewell party to be held on Friday,4th April 2008 at IIMB-Library.Time: 11.00am Venue: Library-IIMB. Mr Chikkamallaiah, Librarian, IIMB has been a great source of inspiration to the young professionals community, a soft spoken gentleman and great Librarian. Naturally every body has to reach superannuation but professional bodies/ organization such as ILA, IASLIC, KALA, SIS and others should make use of his rich experience for the betterment of the profession and development of the library field. I wish him and his family good health, wealth and more peaceful life a head. Thanks, Regards, Horakeri Suresh D Horakeri BSc, MLISc,PGDLAN, Asst Librarian, BVB College of Engg & Tech, Hubli-31, Ph: 9341610603 (R) (0836) 2378422 2378422 (O) Emails ; sdhorakeri(a)yahoo.co.in horakeri(a)bvb.edu http://www.connotea.org/user/suresh1973 http://works.bepress.com/suresh_dh/ http://www.prajavani.net/jun192006/5758220060619.php ----- Original Message ---- From: "kk_suresh@blr..amrita.edu" <kk_suresh(a)blr.amrita.edu> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Cc: mat(a)IIMB.ERNET.IN; lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Wednesday, 2 April, 2008 8:31:43 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Bidding Farewell to Mr..CHIKKAMALLAIAH-Librarian-IIMB Dear Professionals, Sub: Bidding Farewell to Mr.CHIKKAMALLAIAH-Librarian-IIMB. ********** He served sincerely with all his dedication, more than Three decades as a Librarian in Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore.He has been associated with the Institute from the time of its inception. In many ways, Mr. Chikkamallaiah has been instrumental in establishing and developing IIMB Library and also he is the guiding force for all young library professionals in many ways. He was retired from the service on 31st March 2008 & his Farewell party to be held on Friday,4th April 2008 at IIMB-Library. Time: 11.00am Venue: Library-IIMB Those who are interested to attend the farewell function, kindly contact Mr.Mathias S.A. IIMB-Library Mobile:9844584127 Mr.KK Suresh Librarian Amrita School of Engineering Bangalore. Mobile:9448519116 Thanking you, Regards KK Suresh Librarian Amrita School of Engineering Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Deemed University Sarjapura Road Bangalore - 560 035 -- 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 5, 50, 500, 5000 - Store N number of mails in your inbox. Go to http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Workshop report
by lata＠iihmr.org 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

The recently held National Workshop report can be downloaded from the follwoing link. http://autolib-india.net/salis/IIHR.pdf ===================================== LATA SURESH Librarian, Organising Secretary, Workshop Institute of Health Management Reserach 1, Prabhu Dayal MArg Sanganer Airport Jaipur - 302033 Rajasthan INDIA Phone: +91-141-2791431-34 ext. 328 Fax : +91-141-2792138 URL : http://www.iihmr.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[lis-forum] another alternative to RSS feed
by bhawna vashishtha 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Dear Friends This is the first time i am writing in this forum. I have noticed that when we try to subscribe any RSS Feed, on many websites we may have an option for RSS Feed or ATOM Feed, as ATOM Feed are becoming a widely used alternative. RSS and ATOM are two different types of XML Feed. XML is the underlying language used to provide the feed. So, for a librarian both the options are same as we are more concerned about the latest information we are getting by subscribing to any feed. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Bidding Farewell to Mr.CHIKKAMALLAIAH-Librarian-IIMB
by kk_suresh＠blr.amrita.edu 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Dear Professionals, Sub: Bidding Farewell to Mr.CHIKKAMALLAIAH-Librarian-IIMB. ********** He served sincerely with all his dedication, more than Three decades as a Librarian in Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore.He has been associated with the Institute from the time of its inception. In many ways, Mr. Chikkamallaiah has been instrumental in establishing and developing IIMB Library and also he is the guiding force for all young library professionals in many ways. He was retired from the service on 31st March 2008 & his Farewell party to be held on Friday,4th April 2008 at IIMB-Library. Time: 11.00am Venue: Library-IIMB Those who are interested to attend the farewell function, kindly contact Mr.Mathias S.A. IIMB-Library Mobile:9844584127 Mr.KK Suresh Librarian Amrita School of Engineering Bangalore. Mobile:9448519116 Thanking you, Regards KK Suresh Librarian Amrita School of Engineering Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Deemed University Sarjapura Road Bangalore - 560 035 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Seeking discussion on problems with a balance BOOK SELECTION POLICY & PROCEDURE
by Mailing List Admin 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 12:23:15 +0530 From: T. Shahab <tshahab(a)jamiahamdard.ac.in> Dear Memberss, Through the popular LIS-Forum for exchanging professional ideas, I wish to engage the valuable attention of the practicing librarians to the ever increasing problem of breach in librarians' domain by faculty members in light of the shrinking role of librarians in determining the policy and procedures involving many of the library activities, particularly the collection development through BOOK SELECTION. In some libraries that I know, the Acquisition Dept. has been turned into just like a clearance house; the librarian is not consulted on matters of Book selection; even the budgeted amount under the Central library has to be used on the authorization of the Vice-chancellor or one of his/ her nominees. Book suppliers will directly contact the faculty members get the books recommended and pass-on the recommended lists to the Acquisition Dept. for necessary followups. Some times, two or more departments may recommend the same title, and the librarian being unaware of the reason, has only to meekly put his/her signature. Even in matters of acquiring multiple copies of the already purchased books (on students' demand), the hands of a librarian is bound. A Librarian being in close touch with the students is always approached by them with their requests on different library related matters, but the librarian is most of the cases is unable to make any firm committment for a facility or extension of services to the students. This change in power dynamics in Universities is making the job of a librarian a very unsavoury one; most librarians are feeling dejected and professionally emasculated. Please, take the above write-up as a point of discussion. Feel free to express your considered opinion on this matter of great importance. Regards. Dr. T. SHAHAB

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The National Library of Australia launches Library Labs
by Mailing List Admin 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 10:22:28 +0530 From: DINESH SIDDAIAH <dinesh.ncet(a)gmail.com> Dear Friends, The National Library of Australia (http://www.nla.gov.au) has been doing a great deal of work toward the design and development of a library automation infrastructure following the service oriented architecture. These efforts show great promise in the creation of a number of key library automation components available as open source software.In recent days, NLA has launched a wiki called Library Labs with lots of information about their work. With regards, Dinesh K S

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Google Reader/ RSS Feed
by Rajan 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Dear Mr Singh, Your presentation on RSS Feed is a window to an easier and deeper use of internet to which most of the users should be exposed to as the growth of new features in the post Google era is so amazing and useful for the information seekers. Unfortunately most of the librarians remain ignorant of such features of internet and hence cannot train their users on the easy ways to gather information from the sites in the so dynamic internet. We expect similar internet use familiarization presentations on similar areas of easier web use from Mr Singh and others. Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India Original Message: Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 16:22:35 +0530 From: "Sukhdev Singh" <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Surviving the Web Explosion: Keeping in touch with RSS Dear Friends, For last two years I have been teaching Doctors and Medical Librarians in using RSS Feeds for keeping in touch with latest information on the web. Today I am sharing my slides on it at the following link. http://snipr.com/23ck1 This slide show tells why RSS is better way for alerting us on latest information being posted on web on particular area of interest. I tried to explain what all is required for this new method. I took an example on how to subscribe for feeds on - News (from NDTV.COM) Blogs (Puter Suber's Blog); Open Access Repository (OpenMED@NIC - http://openmed.nic.in ) and from a Database (PubMed). At the end I have given an example to create "MASHUP" from RSS Feeds. Hope it would be of your interest. --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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Latest Open Access Book by Mr. Anup Kumar Das has been Archived at OpenMED@NIC
by Sukhdev Singh 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

We would like to thank Mr. Anup Kumar Das for archiving his following book on 'Open Access' in OpenMED@NIC - http://openmed.nic.in . It is contained in a single PDF of around 12 MB File size. Das, Anup Kumar (2008) Open Access to Knowledge and Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives – the South Asian Scenario. UNESCO, New Delhi, India. ISBN 9788189218218 http://openmed.nic.in/2789/ Thanks Mr Das. --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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Change of time for the bidding farewell to Mr.Chikkamallaiah
by Mailing List Admin 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:42:10 +0530 (IST) From: kk_suresh(a)blr.amrita.edu Dear professionals, Please note the the change in the timing of farewell function. It is at 2.15 pm afternoon. with regards mathias IIMB-Library Regards KK Suresh Librarian Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Bangalore - 560 035

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Repeatation of information
by Apurba Jyoti Majumder 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

dear all sometime i find that an information which has been posted in LIS forum is also sent to individual e-mail unnecessarily. it is just a repeatation of effort. we the member of the forum get the information. through mailing list. those are mainly forwarder messages from mailing list. it should be avoided. sometime itis a matter of great harrasment. -- Apurba Jyoti Majumder, JRF Department of Library & Information Science Gauhati University, Guwahati-781014 Ph: 0-94352-68733 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Workshop on LIS research
by Apurba Jyoti Majumder 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Diamond Jubilee Year, Gauhati University *National Workshop on Trends in Library and Information Science Research* 7th - 9th May, 2008 As part of the Diamond Jubilee Celebration of the Gauhati University, Assam , the Department of Library and Information Science is organizing a three days National Workshop on "Trends in Library and Information Science Research" during 7th - 9th May, 2008. Working librarians, researchers and other prospective researchers representing especially different Social Science organizations from NE India are eligible to participate. The aims and objectives of the workshop are to analyse the trend of research in LIS and to identify the thrust areas of studies for future. Moreover, the workshop will train researchers for quality output of research works. Main Theme: "*Trends in Library and Information Science Research*" Sub-Themes *Trends in LIS Research in India; Research and Library Development; Research Methodology in Library and Information Science; Literature Search in an online environment; Standard Citation Style for preparing References and Bibliographies; Statistical Methods in LIS research; Documenting a Research Work; and others* Intake Capacity: The intake capacity is Twenty five (25). Registration: Interested LIS professionals are suggested to apply in the prescribed form attached. The filled in form is to reach us on or before *25th April, 2008*. Application may be submitted through email also either to dlisgu(a)gmail.com or nlahkar(a)gmail.com. Selected candidates will be informed immediately through Email or by post (if, no Email address is available). Participants are entitled to get working launch and tea during sessions. Registration Fees: The Registration fee is Rs. 200/- (Rupees Two Hundred) only. Selected candidates on hearing from the Workshop Co-ordinator are to deposit the amount in the form of DD to be drawn in favour of Director, ICSSR Payable at New Delhi latest by 7th May (ie at the Registration Desk). Workshop Dates: May 7-9, 2008 (Monday - Wednesday). Accommodation: Participants are to arrange accommodation of their own. However, Organizing Committee will help them in getting accommodation in reasonable price either in university Guest House or in other Guest Houses. For further details please contact Dr. Narendra Lahkar Workshop Director Prof. & Head, DLISc, GU Mobile: 098640-53349 Email: nlahkar(a)gmail.com or Dr. Rajani Kanta Barman Co-Ordinator Reader, DLISc, GU Mobile: 094353-08676 Email: rkbarman1(a)gmail.com . N.B: Application format can be obtained online on requst . send ur request to badanbarman(a)gmail.com, or apurbajyoti(a)gmail.com -- Apurba Jyoti Majumder, JRF Department of Library & Information Science Gauhati University, Guwahati-781014 Ph: 0-94352-68733 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Surviving the Web Explosion: Keeping in touch with RSS
by Sukhdev Singh 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Dear Friends, For last two years I have been teaching Doctors and Medical Librarians in using RSS Feeds for keeping in touch with latest information on the web. Today I am sharing my slides on it at the following link. http://snipr.com/23ck1 This slide show tells why RSS is better way for alerting us on latest information being posted on web on particular area of interest. I tried to explain what all is required for this new method. I took an example on how to subscribe for feeds on - News (from NDTV.COM) Blogs (Puter Suber's Blog); Open Access Repository (OpenMED@NIC - http://openmed.nic.in ) and from a Database (PubMed). At the end I have given an example to create "MASHUP" from RSS Feeds. Hope it would be of your interest. --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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