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Do you twitter? I am getting addict to it.
by Sukhdev Singh 23 Mar '08

23 Mar '08

Friends, As you know, I am always experimenting with one thing or the other. Few weeks back I came to know about something called "twitter" - http://www.twitter.com. It is light web based application where you can write short messages. Others can read these messages. If you wish, you can control who all can read these messages. Reading others' messages is called "following" in twitter's terminology. You can write whatever you feel like. It is basically meant to tell your friends on what you are doing at a particular moment. What is your mood? What are you thinking at a particular moment? Or how do you wish to react to your surrounding. You can write whatever you feel like provided it is limited to 140 Characters. If you share a long link, it will be automatically converted into a shorter link through "TinyURL" - http://tinyurl.com/ . You can write messages either by going to its site and logging in, or adding "twitter" as your buddy in your Instant Messenger like Google Talk - http://www.google.com/talk/ , or sending them by SMS (I have not tried it) or logging via your GRPS enabled phone. I normally login from my GPRS enabled phone while away from my system. My MTNL phone is quite affordable in this matter - just 2 Paise / KB for its GPRS service. Most handsets are now GPRS capable. But you have to subscribe to GPRS data service from your service provider and download and install settings. Your service provider will send you the settings through SMS on request. You have to simply save these. Once you have GPRS on your set, the Internet is in your phone. You can surf the net through you phone's browser. I would again like to recommend Opera Mini - http://www.operamini.com/ . You can download and install in your phone (Your phone should able to run Java applications). For better experience I would recommend smart phones starting from Rs. 7000 onwards especially with expandable memory. Now coming back to twitter, what is big advantage of using twitter? Well there is no answer to it. It is one of social networking applications. If you believe in online communities, then it is for you. There is other many applications built around the twitter. You can generate RSS feeds from it and Mash it on your blog or site. Libraries are experimenting with it elsewhere. What all I can say it that is a Hot application these days and I am already addicted to it. You can follow me at http://twitter.com/esukhdev . To some it may appear very silly thing to do, yes I was also not very much convinced to start with. But not now. --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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Why plagiarize when we can write?
by Sukhdev Singh 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

Just back from a seminar organized by Department of Library and Information Science, Panjab University Chandigarh. This seminar, Trends and Strategic Issues for Libraries in Global Information Society, took place at the university itself from 18th to 19th March 2008. While going through the printed proceedings of the seminar, one paragraph looked very familiar to me. Oh, we had written it only few months back to report a group discussion on open access. This report, we made widely available over net through various discussion forums. We also archived it in our repository. This familiar looking paragraph was included in a paper. I quickly jumped to reference section to see if we are lucky to get a citation. In vain, I should have remembered that people, who plagiarize, don't mention their actual source. Well, not even indirectly. For them, references are mere formality, so they will cite sources, which they might have not even seen before. But why get got? There are number of softwares for rewriting articles. Read "The best article rewriting software on earth" (http://snipr.com/229vs ). It mentions WordFlood 2.0, Content Rewriter Pro and Essay Town. With the help of these tools one can rewrite articles and hope to escape being caught by search engines like Google. However, do you know the best software? No prize for guessing it right, it is our brain. One can definitely use tools along with brain. WordWeb could also be of great help. It is a small free utility to serve as English thesaurus and a dictionary. There are no copyrights on ideas. Only well documented innovations are protect through patents. But coping ideas' written expressions as such without acknowledging the original authors is called plagiarism. It does not go well in academics when someone is trying to project others' idea as one's own. Punishment is mostly in form of bad reputation among the peers and negative employer's assessment. Better would to express the idea in one's own words. Tools can help you if you are at lost for better words. Importantly, it won't cost anything if you cite the original author. At the most you will have to add more line in your word processor. It is always a bad idea to plagiarize Open Access material because everybody knows about it. Being openly accessible, such material is widely indexed by Internet search engines. It will always show up. Modern search engines are designed in a fashion to understand which one is original and which one is plagiarized. --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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Re: [LIS-Forum] Library science curriculum
by Jai Haravu 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

Dear All It is indeed a good sign that a library school has begun looking at revamping the syllabus for the Bachelor's degree in Library Science and is seeking the help and advice of concerned professionals. Having had some experience of interacting with both students and tecahers of library science, I feel that the following issues are vital to be addressed. 1. The quality of intake into B.L.I.Sc and M.L.I.Sc courses is key to ensuring that future professionals in this field provide the leadership and ensure greater advocacy to libraries and visibility of the profession with the users, managers, and decision makers. I think it is well known that most students who come to library schools in India are those who do not make it to the other so called elite courses. In other words, people who join library courses do so without really a career in their minds. To most of them a degree in library science is a way to a job, any job. Unless our admission norms along with the content are made attractive both to students and potential sectors of the country like corporates (who require innovative information managers, knowledge coordinators/facilitators), research and development centres, academic and public libraries. Academic libraries need to see how their presence is felt in respect of the teachng and learning objectives of the academic environment they are to serve. 2. The course curriculum at present, in my view, is too much steeped in traditional subjects. These are required but need to be re-oriented to their application in computer- and web- based environments. Fundamental concepts and the theories underlying these are important to be emphasized and then how these are used in both a traditional library and in information systems needed across application environments is required. 3. My own experience of most new library science graduates have very poor soft skills. Their oral and written skills are extremely poor, evidence of the backgrounds from which they come. This does not help them in their jobs, nor are they able to create an impact on others. They need also to be trained to think logically. It is essential that they should be taught life skills in understanding and improvong their self confidence and self image, the value of their skills to society, and in seeing the bigger picture in which they exist as professionals. I beleive these are sorely lacking in most of our library courses. 4. Many library schools do not provide adequate access to past and current literature (both books and current journals) although the syllabus does contain many topics of current interest. Faculty and students in these courses cannot keep themselves updated and refer to classic writings in these fields. 5. My experience is that even in post graduate courses the student is not encouraged to become self-reliant. The emphasis is on completing the syllabus and passing the exams rather than learning and skill development. This can only be done by asking students to do assignments that help them understand the subject or skill (e.g., subject indexing, searching). Performance in the assignments and the student's capability to present his work are important skills that need to be inculcated in these courses. 6. Many others will, I am sure, spell out in detail new topics in the computer and web related areas in which library professionals need to be equipped with. I congratulate the university library school in thinking of changing the syllabus. Haravu On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 Subbiah Arunachalam wrote : > Friends: > > A leading Indian university library school is in the > process of revising its > BLISc curriculum. The school is seeking the opinion of > many experts. I am > also asked to give my suggestions - perhaps as an avid > user of academic and > special libraries and as one involved in scholarly > publishing. > > I will be grateful if you could give me your valuable > ideas and suggestions, > latest by 29 March. Surely the situation has changed a > lot from the days > when most of us went to college. Then there was no > Internet, no Web, no > journal aggregators or online journals, no > institutional repositories and > the list can be really long. But the purpose of > libraries remains the same. > The tools have changed and the way we do things are > somewhat different. The > question is how best we can train the new librarians to > excel in their > profession in today's context. We are not concerned > only with academic and > special libraries; graduates will find jobs in the > corporate sector, in > government and public libraries as well. > > Best wishes. > > Arun > [Subbiah Arunachalam] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Digital library software
by rajesh kusanur 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

Hi Friends, I would like to know the Digital library software (Commerical) other then Green stone Digital Library software. with regard Rajesh K A rajesh.ka(a)rediffmail.com raajesh.ka(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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Our paper: Opportunities and Challenges of establishing Open Access Repositories
by Sukhdev Singh 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

Singh, Sukhdev; Pandita, Naina and Dash, Shefali S. (2008) Opportunities and Challenges of establishing Open Access Repositories: A case study of OpenMED@NIC. Trends and Strategic Issues for Librarians in Global Information Society: ICCSR Sponsored Seminar, March 18,19, 2008, Organized by Department of Library and Information Science, Panjab University Chandigarh. pp. 98-104. http://openmed.nic.in/2762/ National Informatics Centre had established a subject repository in May 2005. It is meant for Medical and Allied Sciences and named as OpenMED@NIC <http://openmed.nic.in>. It has MeSH(R) based subject categorization and this makes it one of its own kind. Taking OpenMED@NIC as a case – this paper discusses key issues in establishing and maintaining an open access repository. Librarians and information science professionals can play active role in providing access and exposure to quality research and academic content generated in their institutions. Mature and standard open sources softwares are now available for setting up repositories. Libraries can install one of these on existing institutional or library servers to setup repositories. However to ensure better access and faster response time, dedicated hardware and reliable connectivity would be required. Librarians and information science professional can play important role in exposing intellectual content produced by their organizations. They can take of various roles like – generating awareness among staff, researchers and students about benefits of self arching in institutional or subject repositories; training them in uploading their articles and other documents in such repositories; acting as meta-data editors and repositories managers. Establishing a repository, administrating and inviting authors to deposit their articles and other works in it is golden opportunity available to librarians and information science professionals. This opportunity should be grabbed with open hands. The presentation can also be viewed from: http://snipr.com/229f4 --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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Just Published: "Open Access to Knowledge and Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives the South Asian Scenario" (UNESCO, New Delhi)
by Puna Das 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Dear Colleagues Just Published: "Open Access to Knowledge and Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives the South Asian Scenario", by Anup Kumar Das; edited by Bimal Kanti Sen and Jocelyne Josiah. ISBN 978-81-89218-21-8 Published by: United Nations Educational Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO), New Delhi Pages: 137 About the Publication: This book discusses successful open access and digital library initiatives in India and other South Asian countries. This book may be considered an authoritative source-book on Open Access development in this sub-region. For getting a free copy of this book for your library, please write a request letter and along with a self-addressed stamped envelope (a good quality A4 size envelope, affixing Indian postal stamp worth Rs. 52.00, for sending by Registered Parcel) to: Ms. Audrey DSouza, UNESCO House B5/29, Safdarjung Enclave New Delhi-110029 Thanking You With Best Wishes Anup Kumar Das New Delhi Email: puna_05(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile: +91-9911479926 --------------------------------- Why delete messages? Unlimited storage is just a click away. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Need article
by Murugan 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Dear All, I would be grateful to anyone send the full text journal artilce for the following. Land Use Policy, (Vol. 22, No. 2) April 2005, Pages 75-93. 'Received Wisdom' in agricultural land use policy: 10 years on from Rio. Sincerely, Thank you very much. B. Murugan Information Resource Center M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation 3rd Cross Street, Institutional Area, Taramani, Chennai. 600 113. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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happy holi
by Satendra Dhaka 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Wish you a very Happy Holi. Please celebrate Holi keping in view the sentiments of others. Take care of health. again very very happy holi. -- Dr S.S.Dhaka Director(Library & Information) Ministry of External Affairs Patiala House, Annexe "B" Tilak Marg, New Delhi-110001 Phones: 0091-11-23073685, 23389073 Fax: 0091-11-23386340, 23387700 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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(no subject)
by rishi tiwari 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Dear friends, This is for your kind information that Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH), Greater Noida is conducting three days Workshop on NewGenLib Open Source Library Automation Software from 17-19 May 2008. The detals of the workshop is given on the Institute's website. (www.bimtech.ac.in) or you may also contact to organising secretary (Mr. Rishi Tiwari)newgenlib.workshop(a)gmail.com Vinay Kumar Rishi Tiwari Librarian & ILA Executive Member Birla Institute of Management Technology(BIMTECH) Plot No.5, Knowledge Park-II Greater Noida(NCR) U.P.-201306 Mob.:09810583623 Off.:0120-232301-10 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Now Wait For Breaking NEWS
by Sukhdev Singh 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Dear Friends, Some of us have been working silently on one aspect of Open Access in India. Wait for an important Breaking News in couple of days in this forum. - - Sukhdev Singh. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Project Assistant post at NCSI
by anu＠ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, requires a project assistant for a period of one and a half years from April 2008 for an ongoing project at NCSI PROJECT ASSISTNAT (1 post) Qualification: MCA or B.E./B.Tech/ in Computer Science Required skill set: Strong academic background with enthusiasm to learn new areas. Strong analytical abilities, programming in C, C++ and JAVA, under the Linux and Windows operating system is essential. Knowledge of relational database management system, distributed database search and retrieval system is desirable. How to apply: Send your CV before 25th March to Ms.Anuradha.K.T., NCSI, IISc, Bangalore 560012 (email:anu@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in), Emoluments : Rs.9000-14000/-pm (fixed) depending on experience and proficiency

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Education & Library Science
by sri priya 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

Education & Library Science GetEducated.coms Best Distance Learning Graduate Schools: Education & Library Science, Online Degrees in Teacher Education, Instructional Technology is a free 60+ page downloadable college guidebook to the best accredited education distance learning graduate schools operating in the USA today, including 101 online degrees in online teacher education, educational technology, and related areas. Download your 100% free copy now! http://www.geteducated.com/index.asp http://www.geteducated.com/formreq/bdlgsed.asp Regards, S.Sripriya ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Library Trainee at NSHM, Kolkata
by Nihar Patra 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

Dear Professional, The NSHM Knowledge Campus, Kolkata is stepping towards automation and digitization of Library, catering to the information needs of academic and research community in the areas of Management, Media and Communication and Pharmacy. Applications are invited for the post of *Two* *Library Trainees*. The applicants should be fresh post graduates with first class in Library Science and well versed in computer application in Library Science. Duration of Training is for a period of *one year* with no guarantee of continued employment (purely temporary/contractual basis), carrying a stipend of *Rs.5000/- per month* with no other facilities / benefits, as applicable to regular employees, excepting contractual leave. Applications with Bio-data with latest Passport size photograph should reach the undersigned on or before 15th April 2008 super-scribing on the cover APPLICATION FOR LIBRARY TRAINEE or send the Bio-Data to nihar.kanta.patra(a)nshm.com or Assistant Librarian - * supriya.benerjee(a)nshm.com* ** *Nihar K Patra *Librarian NSHM Knowledge Campus 60 (124), B L Saha Road Kolkata – 700053 -- Nihar K Patra -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Registeration Form and Library Brouchere for NewGenLib Workshop at BIMTECH, Greater Noida
by mohammad azeem siddiqui 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

Hi Dear Library Professionals, Please download the Registeration Form and Library Brouchere for the NewGenLib Workshop at BIMTECH, Greater Noida. Mohammad Azeem Siddiqui Research Scholar Department of Library & Information Science Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University) Lucknow-226 025 Mobile: 09936067170 Personal URL: http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Mohammad_Azeem_Siddiqui Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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NewGenLib Workshop at BIMTECH, New Delhi
by mohammad azeem siddiqui 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

Dear friends, This is for your kind information that Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH), Greater Noida is conducting three days Workshop on NewGenLib Open Source Library Automation Software from 17-19 May 2008. The detals of the workshop is given on the Institute's website. (www.bimtech.ac.in) or you may also contact to organising secretary (Mr. Rishi Tiwari). Mohammad Azeem Siddiqui Research Scholar Department of Library & Information Science Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University) Lucknow-226 025 Mobile: 09936067170 Personal URL: http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Mohammad_Azeem_Siddiqui Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Right to Information Act -Jobs should be given to Information Professionals
by vasanth raj 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Dear Sir/Madam, The much awaited Right to Information Act has come into force in India.And already we have seen and heard that there is a great demand for information which are vital to its functioning and also to contain corruption and to hold Governments and their instrumentalities accountable to the governed.But Govt Authorities have totally neglected the library and Information Professionals, most of the people who have appointed as public Information Officer have came from Journalism and mass communication." Public Information Officer" job is best suited for LIS professionals where the skills of storage , organise and dissemination of Information is highly required.Already there are instances that Public Information Officers have failed to provide right information to the right people at a right time.This is because of lack of skills to organise and storage of Information.This is the right time to Library Association and Universities to pressurize Govt. appoint library and Information professionals as " Public Information Officer" and this will definitely helps people to have information quickly whenever they need.This will not only helps govt to function smoothly and huge opportunities for LIS professionals as well. Your Sincerely ------------------------- Vasantha Raju N --------------------------------- Enjoy this Diwali with Y! India Click here Dear Sir/Madam, The much awaited Right to Information Act has come into force in India.And already we have seen and heard that there is a great demand for information which are vital to its functioning and also to contain corruption and to hold Governments and their instrumentalities accountable to the governed.But Govt Authorities have totally neglected the library and Information Professionals, most of the people who have appointed as public Information Officer have came from Journalism and mass communication." Public Information Officer" job is best suited for LIS professionals where the skills of storage , organise and dissemination of Information is highly required.Already there are instances that Public Information Officers have failed to provide right information to the right people at a right time.This is because of lack of skills to organise and storage of Information.This is the right time to Library Association and Universities to pressurize Govt. appoint library and Information professionals as " Public Information Officer" and this will definitely helps people to have information quickly whenever they need.This will not only helps govt to function smoothly and huge opportunities for LIS professionals as well. Your Sincerely ------------------------- Vasantha Raju N Enjoy this Diwali with Y! India http://in.promos.yahoo.com/fabmall/index.html Click here

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Norms for Library Professionals in Univery Libraries
by A.Manimekalai 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Dear All, Please any one of you know about the following information kindly reply with proper evidence. it will be usefull to many of our professionals as most of the prefessionals in the university libraries are suffering like anyhting in getting their promotions. For University Library Professionals 1. How was the professional assistant experience is measured? Is it be accounted for promotion as asst. Librarian 2. What is the norms for promotion of Asst Librarian? 3. What is the norms for Promotion to Deputy Librarian? How is the Professional assistant / TEchnical Assistant service is accounted? 4. Are the services of Professional Assistant period ignored for the higher promotions ? Please any one who know about the norms kindly send reply with official approval. Thanks, manimekalai -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Workshop report on IDR
by Sambhunath Halder 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

*Report of the 4-days Training Workshop on Designing Institutional Digital Repository on Social Sciences Organized by University of Kalyani in collaboration with NASSDOC ICSSR, New Delhi 11-14, March, 2008* It is good news that Department of Library and Information Science e of University of Kalyani in collaboration with the NASSDOC ICSSR, New Delhi recently organized a 4-day training workshop on Designing Institutional Digital Repository on Social Sciences. The programme was fully satisfactory, because of its so many lectures, lab-demonstrations and finally hands-on training of IDR software DSpace. Mr. Arun Ghosh, Former Librarian of Centre of Studies in Social Sciences has given lecture on Social Science information: characteristics, growth and organization. Dr. P. R. Goswami, The Director of NASSDOC-ICSSR has through the light on Information system and services of NASSDOC. In the next session an overview of LINUX Operating System and its installation lecture has given by Dr. Dibyendu Paul, Lecturer of DLIS, University of Kalyani. Finally, Dr. Partha Sarathi Mukhopadhyay, Lecturer of Burdawn University and Dr. Aditya Tripathi, Faculty member of Banaras Hindu University have discussed and presented so many lab-demonstrations of different aspects of Institutional Digital Repository and its software like DSpace including its installation, administration, customization, etc. side by side lectures have given on Metadata standards, Lucen search engine, Unicode and other related issues. Therefore, this kind of programme is very helpful for LIS professionals in different ways. Sincerely yours Sambhu Nath Halder -- =================================== Regards, Sambhu Nath Halder Library and Documentation Centre, Narula Institute of Technology, 81, Nilgunj Road, Kolkata 700109. Contact No. : +91 9733964714; 9851280201 =================================== -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Addition to list of Standards by Sri Priya ( Specific to RFID ) on 15th March
by Dhaval H K 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Dear Friends, I just wanted to add extra information about standards relating to Library Industry. They are listed below http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/RP-6-2008.pdf Above is a document which has been made public by NISO as a set of guidelines to be followed for implementing RFID technology in library industry. The same guidelines are going to take shape of few ISO standards in future. http://litablog.org/2008/01/29/rfid-in-libraries-standards-and-guidelines/ The above link has a small description about the standards which are coming up in future as ISO standards for RFID in Libraries. You can visit the link for more details on the same. Thank you Regards http://www.rapidradio.co.in/library.html <http://www.rapidradio.co.in/library.html%20> -- Dhaval H Kotecha RapidRadio Solutions Private Limited B-404, Satyamev I, Opp. Gujarat High Court, Sarkhej Gandhinagar Highway, Ahmedabad - 380 060 Web: www.rapidradio.co.in, Email: dhaval(a)rapidradio.co.in Office: +91 79 27665256 "It is not important how "BIG" you Dream, but it is important how "LONG" you Dream "BIG"" -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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3-day workshop for M. Lib students begins at Kashmir University
by intekhab alam 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Srinagar, Mar 17: A three-day workshop on 'Open Access Repositories and Greenstone Software' was inaugurated in the Library Science department of Kashmir University Monday. The inaugural function was presided over by the vice-chancellor KU, Prof Riyaz Punjabi. Prof Shabahat Hussain, a guest from Aligarh Muslim University who specially visited the valley to attend the seminar was chief guest on the occasion. In his presidential address, the VC said that open access system utilizes new technology and "it is time for us to adhere to this new technology in order to keep pace with the changing times." "Open access repositories is something close to my heart," he said. He advised the management of the department to look for possibilities to help affiliated colleges of the University to benefit from the new concept. The VC showed an urge for the formation of a committee, which would carry forward this work. "The open access movement attempts to reassert control over publicly funded research in order to make research output transparent and freely accessible," he added. In his address Prof Shabahat said that repositories were being established world over as free access to knowledge. "Open access repositories are being developed in the world and it is high time that the concept be seriously taken up," he said. Prof Riyaz Rufai, Librarian, Prof Muhammad Aslam, HoD MERC, besides students, scholars and other dignitaries were also present on the occassion. The workshop will continue for two days and noted scholars from the field will read out their papers on the subject. ********************************************************* INTEKHAB ALAM SIDDIQUI (Librarian) New Law Academy Azam Campus, Pune - 411 001 Phone : +91-20-26442068(Off.), +91-9890865605 (Mob.), Fax : +91-20-26435959 www.nlapune.org --------------------------------- 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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Useful site for information search in Google
by Shihab Illias 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Dear professionals Soople website This Sites softens all the fantastic advanced functions Google offers. This site is meant for all those who are not yet familiar with all the possibilities of Google and all the required syntaxes. Furthermore there are many useful tools Google offers; search in the latest news, look up definitions or use Google as a phonebook. Calculator. This amazing tool let's you do all kind of (very advanced) calculations. Soople has added the unit-converter, which is based on this calculator, for the conversion of all the commmon units/measures (meters<--->yards). It also provides translation services into foreign languages. http://www.soople.com/soople_int_india.php To know more about New Scientific inventions http://www.pbs.org/ Shihab.I. Librarian Muslim Association College of Engineering Venajramoodu (PO) Trivandrum, Kerala shihabillias(a)yahoo.co.in librarianmace(a)yahoo.co.in http://shihabillias.googlepages.com/ --------------------------------- Share files, take polls, and discuss your passions - all under one roof. Click here. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Scholarship in India
by sri priya 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Admission News : portal for indian education and admission updates http://www.admissionnews.com/entrance_details.aspx?eid=406 http://www.admissionnews.com/libraryadmission.aspx Scholarship in India http://www.admissionnews.com/scholarshipindia.aspx Regards, S.Sripriya ____________________________________________________________________________________ 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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Internet Resources Newsletter: Mar/Apr Issue
by MacLeod, Roderick A 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

____________________________________________ Internet Resources Newsletter ____________________________________________ The latest edition of the FREE monthly newsletter for academics, students and researchers is now available at: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn160/irn160.html No subscription or registration is needed to access this full-text newsletter at the above site. You can also subscribe to the free, full-text email version at: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html An RSS feed for the newsletter is available: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.rss Featured in this issue: Comment Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS News items of interest A-Z New & Notable Web Sites: About 100 new and notable websites: new services, ejournals, directories, search engines, publishers, government sites, eResources, booksellers, calls for papers, software, news services, conferences, research groups, plus anything of interest, etc, etc. Nice Web Site(s): MasterKey Power Search Blogorama Selected interesting blogs, RSS feeds and related news items RSS Feeds for new book announcements in engineering Book Review: Providing effective library services for research, by Jo Webb, Pat Gannon-Leary and Moira Bent Recent Internet books in the Library Get a life! Leisure Time After hours Published by Heriot-Watt University Library, and edited by Roddy MacLeod (R.A.MacLeod(a)hw.ac.uk) Catherine Ure and Marion Kennedy -- Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity number SCO SC000278 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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FW: On RTI Act
by MP Tapaswi 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

Dear Professional colleagues, I have been reading the views whether a Librarian should be PIO (Public Information Officer) or not with interest. It is always a business of Lib & Info Professional (LIP) when it comes to dealing with information. However, in current scenario note that everything is information and it is wise not to place our hands in every information that exists. RTI act was introduced in 2005 with a very broad interest to promote transparency and accountability in the offices where the Government funding is received. Any citizen of India now using this act can ask information from any office (designated as public authority) and the office is bound to give it. Providing information is close to the hearts of LIPs. The PIO is a very "powerful" person in the public authority and seek information from other colleagues in the organization. Having given this authority to the PIO, very large responsibility has also been bestowed on him/her. The Central Information Commission (CIC) views it very seriously if the information is not provided within the stipulated time (30 days) and also if the information is not provided if it is proved to exist (of course, there are certain items of disclosure and the definition of information itself indicates what all could be provided). As such it is, no doubt, an interesting process something beyond books for LIPs to handle. But not all roses! I am a PIO for our institute since the act came into force and so far answered 75 queries (note that each query has several paragraphs ranging from 10 to 250 nos!). Over 95% of the queries that have been answered are to satisfy personal interests (seem to be) and not public interests for which the act has been introduced. Moreover, with whatever sincerity you dispose off the requests, the querying person hardly gets satisfied with the replies and the process, at times, continues up to the level of two appeals. Lot of time is 'invested' (if some one does not like to use a word 'wasted') for an unproductive (in my opinion) work leaving aside the normal professional duties that take away peace of mind. I would sum up saying it is an interesting job for those having a temperament like an advocate, who can read through the words and play with the words and arguments. Let me also indicate that who so ever the PIOs I came across so far (either LIPs or from other profession), are doing this job because it has been 'assigned' to them. Of course, a human mind always feels someone else's job is better than theirs! With warm regards, Dr Murari P Tapaswi Natl Info Centre for Marine Sciences (NICMAS) National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) Dona Paula 403 004 Goa, India Phone: 91-832-2450275; Fax: 91-832-2450602 Visit websites: http://www.nio.org; http://www.mangroveindia.org -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Kshipra Sardesai Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:14 PM To: rajankila(a)hotmail.com Cc: Lis forum Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] On RTI Act Dear LIS Professionals, I also agree with K Rajashekharan views about RTI Act professionals as Librarians.I would like to add some more points to that. 1. Librarians have approach of solving the problems. 2. They are good listeners and ability to know the subject. 3. Librarians are polite and servicing attitudes 4. Cataloguing and classification experts 5. They are expert in preservation, retrieval and dissemination . 6. To get the best implemtation of RTI Act among the common people they are the proper persons to guide in a correct fashion. 7. Reagrding Govt Procedures and regulations these things are to be trained to every professionals and once this type of training and knowledge is given then LIS professionals will definately give best outputs. 8. The Information Technology updates are being accepted by this profession 9. If such officer fron LIS is in this field and if he is in rural region, definately there will be more coordination from rural people to Librarian than a govt professional or other IPS professional.Rural people have fear and complex about Govt employees but they respect and listen to their librarians. 10. This will give status and Yes the job satisfaction too. Regards Mrs Kshipra Sardesai Librarian, RBI, DESACS Bandra sOn 3/11/08, Rajan <rajankila(a)hotmail.com> wrote: Dear Shri P Vyasamoorty, As a person with very good knowledge about RTI act and its requirements, I would suggest that librarians are not very suitable for working as State Public Information Officers(SPIO) in the Institutions they work. The job requirements of SPIO are to receive applications, ensure access to information and dispose of applications after careful examination of merit of each one. Under the RTI Act. the cataloging, arrangement and retrieval of information need to be done by the concerned officer and not by anyone else including the SPIO. As well, an officer in sufficient command and authority in that office is the right choice for the position of SPIO so as to ensure easy access to information through the subordinate officers. The job of SPIO involves a lot of quasi-judicial decision making on which librarians are ill-equipped unlike the administrative personnel. As RTI involves a lot of administrative re-arrangement of records, the librarians can do a lot in that area, particularly in numbering and cataloguing of them. Best Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India ----- Original Message ----- From: "Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy" <vyasamoorthy(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Right to Information Act -Jobs should be given to Information Professionals To: "vasanth raj" I am sorry to reply this message after such a long gap. Vasanth has raised an important issue. He states that Librarians are better suited to work as Information Officers and that they are neglected. I would like to ask a few questions and elicit views of LIS personnel on these: How many librarians know what is this monster RTI all about? What is the role of RTI officer in a govt institution? What type of information is the scope of RTI Officer? How is the librarian better suited? What do we librarians learn or know about Govt way of files (& records) organization - numbering, generation, storing, retrieving, archiving, rules governing files & documents & records preservation and conservation etc? How about confidentiality coding and providing restricted access? How about documents relating to public -- say birth certificates. With absolutely no theoretical or practical knowledge of any of these things how do librarians claim that they are better suited? The RTI was talked about for a number of years before becoming law. Why did not LIS schools provide changes in the curriculam to mould librarians into RTI officers? Well I have a lot of doubts. 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National Seminar on Scope of Retrieval for Assimilation March 27 – 28, 2008 Organised by Department of Library and Information Science Vidyasagar University Medinipur (Sk Abdul Azim)
by Sk. Abdul Azim 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

Dear Professionals Department of Library and Information Science ,Vidyasagar University ,Medinipur Organised a National Seminar on Scope of Retrieval for Assimilation March 27 – 28, 2008 Target Audience Apart from LIS professionals, teachers, researchers, and students; media personal, IT specialists, psychologists, linguistics, alongwith information users from different disciplines and activities are expected to participate and render their experiences and suggestions on the seminar topic. Call for Papers We invite articles on the aforementioned sub-themes. Full paper in MSWord, references following Indian Standard (IS:2381-1978) in CD or by e-mail and a hard copy of the same must reach us by 20th March, 2008. Venue Department of Library and Information Science Vidyasagar University Midnapore About the Place The weather is normally soothing cool during this time. Numerous historically important sites, forests are the added attractions of this place. How to Reach the Venue Nearest Rail Station: Medinipur (about 15 km. by road from Kharagpur). From Medinipur Rail Station/ Bus Terminus Autorickshaws, Buses and Rickshaws are available. Accommodation Accommodation of outstation participants may be arranged if request is sent at least ten days before the Seminar. Participants will have to bear the charges. Registration Fees Student (V. U.) Rs. 100.00 Others Rs. 200.00 Payment should be made by Cash / DD in favour of the Dept. of Library and Information Science, Vidyasagar University. Filled in Registration Form and Fees must reach on or before March 24, 2008. All Communication should Address: Dr. Goutam Maity Organizing Secretary National Seminar on Scope of Retrieval for Assimilation March 27 – 28, 2008 Dept. of Library and Information Science Medinipur - 721 102 West Bengal, India Ph. (03222) 267 554/555/557/558 Extn. 448 Mob: 9434991159 e-mail: dlisc(a)vu.ernet.in gmaity(a)vidyasagar.ac.in gm_vu(a)yahoo.co.in Sub Themes The following sub themes may be considered in this connection: I) Variables of psychological make up of user(s) and their influence on retrieval for assimilation; II) Cognitive models of existing knowledge generation process; III) Problems of intellectual access for assimilation; IV) Problems of interaction of non-users and potential users with formal retrieval systems; V) Media for Communication; the right choice for absorption; VI) Philosophy of existing IR models in terms of assimilation; VII) Traditional and emerging tools and techniques, and their impact in assimilation process; VIII) Evaluation of retrieval systems, keeping central focus on assimilation; IX) Trends of retrieval for assimilation Application Form National Seminar on Scope of Retrieval for Assimilation March 27 –28, 2008 Name ………………………………. (Block letter) Age ………………………………….. Designation ………………………….. Name of Employer / Institute: ………… .. ………………………………………. Address (Office): …………………… …………………………….………… ……………………………………….. E-mail: ………………………………. Whether Deputed (Yes / No): ……….. Educational Qualifications: ………..… Registration Fee: ……………..…….... Address for Communication: ……………..………...…………….. . …………………………….…………………………………………….…… ……………………………….……… Signature of the Applicant With Regards Sk Abdul Azim Project Fellow Department of Library and Information Science University of Calcutta Kolkata-73 email- azimmid(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile +91-9733960550 Now you can chat without downloading messenger. Go to http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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