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Collections of free online journals & Social and Health Electronic Portal : SHERPA
by Muniraju T 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

The Global Development Network (GDN) is a worldwide network of research Collections of free online journals and documents: The list below provides links to databases that provide access to free online journals or documents.Some databases link to both journals that provide full text access and those that provide access to abstracts or table of contents. http://www.gdnet. org/middle. php?oid=247 Social and Health Electronic Portal : SHERPA Many of the electronic journals (ejournals) listed below will be full text versions of the hard copy.Some will be electronic versions of the hard copy that will differ slightly as only selected content will be available in full text. Some sites will simply allow you to search or browse tables of contents for individual titles and collections of journals providing you with citation details and usually an abstract or summary of an article. http://www.sherpa. nhs.uk/Resource/ html_files/ ejnls.htm MUNIRAJU.T Central Library PES Institute of Technology t_muniraj(a)yahoo.co.in http://muniraj.t.googlepages.com/ http://www.lisresearch.blogspot.com/ Chat on a cool, new interface. No download required. 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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Welcome to Join the INDEST-AICTE Consortium
by Ajay Kum Sharma 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

Dear Library Professionals, INDEST Consortium welcomes all universities and AICTE approved institutions to join the INDEST-AICTE Consortium under its "self-supported category". You may also like to visit the INDEST-AICTE Web site (http://indest.iitd.ac.in or http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest) for further details. Please note that the INDEST-AICTE Consortium charges an annual membership fee of Rs. 2,000.00 that is payable along with the subscription cost for e-resources selected by you. The membership to the Consortium is charged only if you wish to subscribe to one or more resources. There is no point in sending membership alone. I will be happy to send you the invoice for subscription to resources selected by you. Thanks and regards. Ajay Kumar Sharma Project Associate, INDEST-AICTE Consortium Central Library, IIT Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016 011-26596627 (O) 09868092479 (M) Web: http://www.geocities.com/ajaysharma_lib/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Information Needed: Education Volumes from the past
by Tanika Chakraborty 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Dear All, I have been looking for some documents that are published by NCERT and/or the respective State counterparts(SCERT) and need your help in locating them.. I need DISTRICT LEVEL DATA from the 5th (1986-87) ALL INDIA EDUCATIONAL SURVEY (AIES). NCERT usually comes out with a report after each of their surveys with lists the India wide and state level details from the survey. However, we need district level data which they do not publish formally. I have come to know from fellow researchers at MIT, who have used the data before, and also from faculty members affiliated with NCERT, that the NCERT has the separate state volumes for the different states/UTs of India and the district data for each state can be obtained from those volumes. Some of the states might not be present at the NCERT library. They might be in the Central Secretariat library, the library of the Planning commission or other government libraries in Delhi. Most probably they will be with the libraries of the directorate of education of the relevant state since they are the ones who are linked with collecting and collating the data. I need those data for all the districts of India, and most importantly for West Bengal and Karnataka. Do you have any information about the location of these volumes? Please let me know your suggestions. Regards, Tanika. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Social Tagging and the Next Steps for Indexing
by Mailing List Admin 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 19:48:38 -0800 (PST) From: vimal kumar <vimal0212(a)yahoo.com> Dear Friends, Here is an interesting paper deposited in DLIST. Which discusss about Social tagging, as a particular type of indexing, has thrown into question the nature of indexing.This paper also addresses the question: what is next for indexing? comparing social tagging and subject cataloguing. http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/2091/ Vimal Kumar Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 www.asb.edu.in/vimal

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Online library
by Mailing List Admin 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 10:21:58 +0000 (GMT) From: ashokar kar <ashokarmlisc(a)yahoo.co.in> An online library now that allows readers to borrow books online and have them delivered to your doorstep within a matter of 24 hours. With a one time registration fee of Rs 499 and a refundable deposit of Rs 499, you can choose a billing plan that allows you to choose books depending on your pace of reading. Charges range from Rs 139/month (for those who want to read three books a month) to Rs 3,000/month (which allows you to borrow 12 books). You can see that library through this URL http://www.librarywala.com/web/Index.aspx Hiten Turakhia, one of the founders of this library, says he and five other friends were inspired by their college days struggle to get books. Everybody would chip in Rs100 to get reading material for their courses. Sitting at a coffee shop lat year decided to make it easier for today�s generation. Thus librarywala.com was born. The library six founder members have expertise in related fields like IT, marketing and management. Their market-savvy has clearly paid off, in over two months since its launch. The website, which is currently operational only in Mumbai with 8,000 titles, hopes to extend its operations to Bangalore and Pune by next year. As professionals we should think that behind of their inspiration because they are not LIS professionals still they are providing a kind of information service without knowing of fundamental knowledge of regarding fields. As we know we can do such things to improve the library services in an innovative way. Regards Ashoka R. Librarian, Maharaja Institute of Technology, Mysore.

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Assist. Librarian - vacancy in AICTE
by sri priya 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

SL. NO. 05: ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN, SCALE OF PAY : Rs. 6,500-200-10,500/-, Post:01, (01-UR), Age limit: Not exceeding 35 years. (on direct recruitment basis) http://www.aicte.ernet.in/download/ADVERTISEMENT_2_.doc URL : http://www.aicte.ernet.in/ Regards, S.Sripriya Librarian Bangalore ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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A.D.I.Sc is equivalent to M.L.I.Sc
by Suchitra Das 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

dear friends, regards and good wishes to all.please any body can provide us that A.D.I.Sc is equivalent to M.L.I.Sc.i am working in IMMT library bhubaneswar, sister organisation of C.S.I.R.I have qualified A.D.I.Sc from DRTC, bangalore.our office needs it.we would be more help ful the recognisation of ADISc to MLISc by csir can be sent to me.it is urgent thaks, with regards. suchitra das Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now, on 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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Required Librarian in Indian Council of World Affairs
by Mailing List Admin 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 09:33:59 +0530 From: Ajay Kum Sharma <ajaysharma.lib(a)gmail.com> Dear Colleague, The Indian Council of World Affairs(ICWA), an institution of national importance, established under the ICWA Act, 2001, invites applications for the post of LIBRARIAN with a consolidated contract amount of Rs.40,000/- per month. *QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE:* *QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE:* Master's degree in Library Science/Information Science/Documentation or an equivalent professional degree with at least 55% marks. At least 10 years experience in a responsible capacity in a University level Library/Head of Library of a reputed research organisation. Candidates should be well-versed in the usage of Library Software. *OR* Master's degree in Arts/Science/Commerce or equivalent degree with at least fifty five percent marks or its equivalent grade with Bachelor's degree in Library Science/Information Science /Documentation or an equivalent professional degree with at least fifty five percent marks or its equivalent grade plus a consistently good academic record. At least 10 years experience in a responsible capacity in a University level Library. Should be well conversant with various activities of an academic and modern library, such as procurement and processing of books and periodicals, computerization of Library, supervision and maintenance of Library materials, reprography, binding unit etc. and general library administration. Experience and knowledge of modern information handling tools, knowledge of any foreign language such as German, French or Russian will be added qualifications. *Maximum Age:* 45 years as on 01-01-08. *GENERAL INFORMATION* 1. *The applications should be submitted by 24 December, 2007 addressed to Dy. Director, Indian Council of World Affairs, Sapru House, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi � 110 001.* 2. Candidates should submit their CV and photocopies of their educational certificates/testimonials. 3. Candidates serving in Government/Semi-Government organization or Educational Institution must apply through proper channel. Alternatively, they should submit "No Objection Certificate" from their employer while appearing for interview. Candidates failing to produce 'NOC' will not be interviewed. 4. The contract will be for 2 years extendable to a maximum of 5 years. Probation period will be three months. 5. Selection will be through interview only. The ICWA will make preliminary screening of the applications. Thus, merely fulfilling the requirements laid-down in the advertisement will not automatically entitle a candidate to be called for interview. 6. Any direct or indirect canvassing, will be considered as a disqualification. 7. No TA/DA for appearing in the interview will be admissible. Acting Director General Indian Council of World Affairs Sapru House, Barakhambha Road, New Delhi-110001. Email: *dg(a)icwa.in* Thanks and regards. Ajay Kumar Sharma Project Associate, INDEST-AICTE Consortium Central Library, IIT Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016 011-26596627 (O) 09868092479 (M) Web: http://www.geocities.com/ajaysharma_lib/

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LIS Education
by Mailing List Admin 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:39:00 +0000 (GMT) From: vinay shaligram <shaligram_vinay(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Professionals, I would like to add one comment here regarding the course curriculum of LIS. I am not up to that level from where I can speak on this vast subject but I feel this is a serious matter so I want to say that if it possible then National knowledge Commission takes the initiative to structure the syllabus of BLIS and MLIS and the syllabus must be same all over India, right now we see different subjects are being taught in different Universities, so the student who studied from the Banglore or from Delhi University have the more knowledge than the student who studied from any other universities, the differences in the curriculum makes a big difference in the professional life. So it is my request to LIS Forum Pl pass my message to the right person or I request the senior professionals to put their views on this matter. regards Vinay S. Librarian SunBeam Infotech Pvt. Ltd.

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Protecting Olive Tree from the Lexus
by vasanth raj 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Dear Sir/Madam, This is in response to some of the issues that raised by the respected information Profs. The topics that we have been discussing for the past few days have been completely driven by the notion of globalization. Technology should be a part of the curriculum and every new entrant should be in a position to upgrade his knowledge to stay in the competition. The question is, should we completely embrace the technology or is there nothing to study in the library domain except few facets. As Dillon points out that technology has permeated all we do in this field; it is a foundational for the discipline in the twenty-first century, not a component that can be ignored or taught separately. But Dillons above verbatim emphasizes is that we do need technology to thrive in the 21st century but not to the extent that we should wear the mask of the technologists or software designers. Even the modern technologies that we have been using over the years in one or the other way have molded and designed based on the traditional concept of information organization. It is note worthy here to mention the classic work of Lickliders Libraries of the future, where Licklider talks so eloquently about the contribution that library science dsicpline brought into shape the procognitive systems of the 60s. He went on to emphasize the inter-disciplinary collaboration by putting the library science as a core, which could contribute immensely for the enhancement of the human-computer interactions in the future. What all these shows is that library science domain is as relevant as forever. But we do change according to the needs of the present environment. It is not that we should completely forget the library domain and embrace technology. Education is a life long process and every day we have to learn new things and upgrade our knowledge. One of the participants have mentioned that he has lost is job simple because of that he is from different stream. MNCs run with the profit motives and they recruit who best suit to their work environment. That is altogether different context. Another aspects is that libraries in India especially Govt schools and colleges are in very bad condition, whenever we get a chance to work in that environment., librarians are not respected, so the need is the quality of the libraries and creating the awareness among others about the importance of the library. In England and America parents always take their children to book store and cultivate reading habits in a early age, but this is not the case in our country. Why this aspects I have mentioned here is that the discussion is completely driven by the motto of train young minds to be an employee of the MNCs not to make them to see the problems that we Indians are facing. Over the years 117000 farmers have committed suicide in India- one of the reason for this is the lack of information. So here comes the role of the librarians and information professionals. I conclude this by quoting the Dillions words the organization and management of information, the digital divide, the level of literacy in our society, and freedom of access to published information have become mainstream issues for our culture. This may be a once in a century opportunity to convince those in the power that the field has a real contribution to make. Ref: Dillon, A. and Norris, A. (2005) Crying Wolf: an examination and reconsideration of the perception of crisis in LIS education. Journal of Education in Library and Information Science, 46,4 280-298. Your Sincerely Vasantha Raju N Mysore --------------------------------- Save all your chat conversations. Find them online. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Exposure to the world of information
by Mailing List Admin 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 19:45:20 +0530 (IST) From: Vijay Deshabag <vijaydeshabag(a)yahoo.co.in> Hi this is Vijay Deshabag presently working as Libaray trainee in Advanced centre for Treatement Research and Education in Cancer, Mumbai. I wanted to comment on the issue of adding the syllabus what i think and what i suggest is that during the final year of mlisc the students must be given an exposure to work with various libraries free of cost a sort of internship progaramme of one month, so that they will get exposed to various tools and tecnologies of librarianship.This will make them more confident enough to face the interviews, perhaps some of the university have such programes but with collaboration with various research centres, information centres etc it can be done more systematically as the practical knowledge will be very usefull to the students rather than giving them theorotical exposure. Vijay J Deshabag Library Trainee Advance Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer(ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre Kharghar, Navi Mumbai-410208 E-mail:deshabag@gmail.com

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Census of India Data online
by Shamprasad Pujar 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Dear Members, Census of India has released their new website starting from Sept, 2007. The new site provides comprehensive data up to State level free of cost for registered members. Registration is free for every one. The comprehensive district and village data is not available from the website, it needs to be purchased from Census offices. More than that the site is also available in few foreign languages viz French, German, Italian, Portugese and few more languages are in beta mode. More details can be had from the site at: http://www.censusindia.gov.in Regards, Dr. S.M. Pujar University Librarian Shivaji University Vidyanagar KOLHAPUR-416 004 Phone: 0231-2609204 E-mail: smp_lib(a)unishivaji.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 Departments need Accreditation System and New Courses
by J. K. Vijayakumar 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Dear Colleagues, It is good to see the ongoing discussion about integration of ICT technologies to LIS Courses in India. I agree that we need to incorporate ICT in LIS Syllabus, and most of the Departments have done that already. I doubt about the quantity practical orientation provided by them, it varies from one to another. A good IT lab with latest hardware and software is still a dream for many of the Departments. Few of them have collaboration with IT / Computer Science departments. This is the era or Globalisation and Specialisation. India is trying to become a developed nation, and we have to think from this background. In this regards, I have two points to discuss. 1. Our main problem is that, we do not have a "National Accreditation Process for Library Science Programmes" in India. NAAC accredits the Universities as a total. There are national library associations bearing this responsibility in developed nations, like ALA for USA, CILIP for UK etc. The accreditation process is carried out regularly and Departments will get accreditation for 5 /6 years. The course, syllabus, teaching methods, ability of faculty, facilities etc are standardised or regularised through this process. Departments failing in accreditation can not attract students, because the employers always prefer to appoint candidates with an accredited degree. If we implement this system in India, we can set standards for LIS Departments and its courses. We can approach associations from other countries to get our Courses recognised, may be in developed countries like USA and UK. Indian Library Association should take up this issue and find out the ways to start accreditation process in India. This will help us in making our candidates globally accepted. With my experience, I know that it is not simple as I wrote here, but we should start somewhere. 2. Second point is about starting new (specialised) courses. If you watch LIS Departments in developed countries, you can see atleast two or three master level courses are offered by them. Those are specialised courses, but clearly fits in our area of services, like Knowledge Management, Information Science, Medical/Helath librarianship, Information Systems, Electronic Information Management, Digital Libraries, School Librarianship etc apart from pure Library and Information Science. In India, our tendency is that, we compress all these subjects in to a 2 year course and call it as MLISc. Along with MLISc, why can't we think of starting few more Masters from any of the above mentioned areas. We also need specialisation in our Courses to supply specialised library professionals to the present vibrant job market. Market needs Knowledge Managers, Digital Librarians, Medical Librarians, Information Analysts etc. For this, along with the present faculty members, we may need new members or collaboration with other departments. I hope our teachers, practitioners and celebreties in Indian LIS will give importance to these two points. Thanks for reading. Dr. J. K. Vijayakumar --------------------------------- Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Infolibrarian is back!!!
by moumita dey 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Dear All, one of our favourite site Infolibrarian, now can be accessed at http://www.infolibrarian.com/index.htm. We missed it for long days!! Search through Google still results in portlandX, means some more problems are still there. But the desired page is accessible directly using the above mentioned link. rgrds, Moumita Dey -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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InfoVision 2007-the Knowledge Summit - Round the Corner-Hurry Up!
by Angrosh 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

InfoVision 2007 The Knowledge Summit, Dec 17-18, 2007, The ITC Maratha, Mumbai ----------- Come to InfoVision 2007. Listen to... Inaugural Speaker · Dr. F C Kohli, Father of Indian Software Industry (Former Vice-Chairman, Tata Consultancy Services) Other Keynote Speakers: · Mr. Ajit Balakrishnan, Founder Chairman and CEO, Rediff.com · Mr. John Blossom, President & Senior Analyst, Shore Communications Inc., USA · Mr. Sriram Bharatam, iridiumInteractive Ltd. · Prof. Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona, USA · Dr. Jayanta Chatterjee, Professor, IME Dept., Kanpur · Prof. Noshir Contractor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA · Mr. Ashok Krish, TCS · Dr. Kris Kumar, Professor, PESIT, Bangalore · Dr. Kavi Mahesh, Knowledge Management Consultant, Infosys & Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, PESIT, Bangalore · Dr. Pandu Nayak, Google, USA · Dr. Bino Paul G.D., Associate Professor, TISS, Mumbai · Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan, Head, Yahoo! Research, USA · Prof. Vijay V. Raghavan, Distinguished Professor, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA · Mr. A.S. Rao, Advisor, DSIR, Govt. of India · Dr. Madanmohan Rao, AMICC · Mr. Satya Rao, CEO, Axiom Consulting, Bangalore · Ms. Waltraut Ritter, Knowledge Enterprises, HK · Mr. Arun Ramanujapuram, Director of Advanced Technology, Yahoo! · Prof. Rohini Srihari, CEO, Janya Inc. and Faculty Member, State University of New York, Buffalo · Dr. L. Venkata Subramaniam, Research Staff Member, IBM India Research Lab (IRL) · Mr. Rohit Agarwal, Founder and CEO, techTribe Networks, USA & India · Mr. Bob Stembridge, Thomson Scientific, UK · Dr. G.S. Singh, TCS Session Themes: · Small World, Network Theories and Models · Web 2.0 and Mashups · Social Networking and the Semantic Web · Weblogs and the Wisdom of the Crowds · Organizational Communication and Group Dynamics · Networks, Creativity and Innovation · Innovation and Knowledge Assets Special Attraction 2007 Thomson Innovation Award, 17th Dec, 2007 evening during the gala dinner Registration Fee: Corporate and Industry: INR 8000.00 per delegate Academic Institutions: INR 6000.00 per delegate Students: INR 4000.00 per delegate 3 or more delegates from same organization 10% discount 10 % special discount for CSE, BCIC & K-Community Members For online registration and updates: www.infovision2007.org Register online, tell your friends, come and participate in the stimulating discussions. For more details, contact: International School of Information Management University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006 Tel: +91-821-2514699; +91-821-2411417 Fax: +91-821-2519209 Angrosh - 9886970411 Email: office(a)infovision.org.in; office(a)isim.ac.in See you at InfoVision 2007! -------- ************************************* M. A. Angrosh Project Manager International School of Information Management University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore - 570 006 Tel: +91-821-2514699; Fax: +91-821-2519209 Email: angrosh(a)isim.ac.in website: 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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IT now happens in India!!!!: Library NEXT
by Sukhdev Singh 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Dear Friends, Fully functional Next Generation libraries now becoming reality in India. This I realized only last Saturday (1st December 2007). I happened to visit NATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE DOCUMENTATION CENTRE-NASSDOC (ICSSR) at 35, Ferozeshah Road, New Delhi 110 001. They hosted a meeting of "Ranganathan Research Circle". After the meeting, the hosts took us for a visit of their library. Well I was fascinated to see latest technology working for their library. An ordinary library user needs to have his / her RFID embedded library card to get hold and carry home a book of his/her choice. That too without having to come in personal contact with library staff. The reader would be able to enter the library by swiping one's card at a special entry / exit automated gate. Once in the library, the user can search library catalogue. It is computerised and available in the form of an online database commonly known as OPAC - Online Public Access Catalogue. I found three terminal aesthetically placed in front of large banner depicting the utility of catalogue. Searching OPAC could be useful. But as we know, most users would browse through the stacks. This comes naturally to human mind. One can easily browse the library stack area with help of guides. These guides are full of colours with well thought out background and labels. Book stakes are made of wood that matches with the lovely atmosphere of the library. The shelves are made of think glass slabs. Not wonder sliding books to withdraw give a silky touch and hence protect book edges. All books have a RFID tag pasted below the accession slip. The tag is in the shape of a white small square patch that is noticed only when observed. After getting a document of choice, one can choose to sit in a well lighted reading area. Few computer workstations are also available. So internet and electronic databases are are also available to readers. Taking a book home is easy. Keep it with library card on the Automated Issue / Return Kiosk. Issue it and take it away. The automated security exit would not make any fuss. I hope Indian Libraries would soon witness adoption of such innovative technologies. The library staff would be spared from routine issue / return activities. Now they can devote their time and energy in some better activities. The 'stereo typed public perception' about librarians would also change. So can we call such libraries as ATM Libraries? I have blogged the above message with few photographs. You may like to see the photographs. You may also leave you comments there. http://sukhdev.blogspot.com/2007/12/it-now-happens-in-india-library-next.ht… or http://snipurl.com/1ulrs Regards --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 education
by Aman Jha 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Dear All This is a very good write up. Those who are new to the Lis-Forum would like to adhere to the standard of writing on the forum like this. I find here much more clarity on the topic, original & balanced thoughts, simple expression and moreover, there is no junk in the body. We must focus on these issues while sending a message on this Forum or any other discussion forum. I request moderator to encourage such write up and invite original intellectual contribution. Note: Please do not relate this message to the ongoing discussion on Library science education. Regards, Aman Jha -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Rajan Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 4:03 PM To: Lis forum Subject: [LIS-Forum] Library education Dear All, This refers to the ongoing discussion on library training or subject specialisation of the grooming librarians. Librarians should emerge as knowledge managers in their institution, on their specific subject and in the community around them particularly because we live in a knowledge society. For that we should learn the specific subjects, our library handles, with the eagerness of a Professor and keep in touch with the information technologies like an enthusiastic computer man. He should not ignore the core library subjects and his role in the knowledge generation-supply-use chain. It is the duty of the enterprising library school student or young professionals to learn themselves all these by continuous efforts. It is better if the library schools provide a basic frame and motivation rather than teaching all necessary subjects. It is impossible too as the library schools may have that much subject expertise. The situation of most of our library schools are far from satisfactory to groom capable library professionals. If some professionals coming out from the schools are performing good. it may be because they hav put in extra efforts and have used their common sense well. I think it is high time to look at the deficiencies in our profession and use the excellent opportunities offered by the emergent knowledge society, computers, information technologies, Internet, focus on knowledge management etc. Now ample opportunities are there for self learning anything from swiming to driving to creating bombs using self -instructonal manuals available in Internet. Library professionals should use such opportunities..Learning any computer application is not at all a difficult thing as in the past. There was a time when even installing our cds-isis was a herculean task. If any library school or teacher claims that all is well, it shows the lack of his exposure or his disinterest in making his students as good peformers.It is a difficult to remain as a good teacher in a library school, when everything is changing so fast. Any library professional should have a good knowledge on library science, the specific subject he deals with and information technologies. We can go ahead only when we learn that we know less and there exist a lot more to learn. Regards,. K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India Ph 0487 - 2200244+208 (O) 2201428 (R) -- 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 DISCLAIMER:The information in this message may be privileged. If you have received it by mistake please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete the message from your system. Any unauthorised use or dissemination of this message in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Any information in this message that does not relate to official business shall be understood to be neither given nor endorsed by the Confederation of Indian Industry. Reach us via our unique Membership Helpline: 00-91-11-435 46244 / 00-99104 46244 (Monday-Saturday: 0900-1700 hrs) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Know about HINARI project to access to 3500 journals of major publishers
by Binod Yadav 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Dear friends, The Health Internetwork Access to Research Initiative( HINARI) project set up by WHO with collaboration of major publishers. This project provides free or very low cost online access to about 3500 journals and databases in biomedical and related fields. For more details, open the given website. http://www.who.int/hinari/en/ URL http://www.healthinternetwork.net Binod Yadav MLISc Student Dept. of Library & Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri, Mysore-06 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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DRTC Seminar
by samiksha yadav 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Topic: RFID and its Application with Emphasis on Libraries Date: 5th Dec 2007, 2:00 PM Venue: DRTC Classroom Speaker: Radha Rani --------------------------------- Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Librarians from other countries visit THE HINDU library, Chennai - a report in THE HINDU
by sankaran arumugam 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Dear All, An interesting report published in THE HINDU on page 2 of Chennai Edn. Highlights: SHARING INFORMATION: Chief Librarian of The Hindu K. Rajendrababu interacts with librarians taking the certificate course in modern library practices for overseas library professionals at The Hindu office in Chennai on Monday. CHENNAI: Librarians from several Asian, African and South American countries visited The Hindu library on Monday as part of a certificate course in modern library practices. India is far ahead of several other developing countries when it comes to using technology in libraries, several of them said. For detailed report, please click the following link http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/04/stories/2007120492170200.htm With regards Sankaran A --------------------------------- Get the freedom to save as many mails as you wish. Click here to know how. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Favorite leisure time activities - Reading tops
by Aman Jha 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Dear All There is an interesting report recently released by Harris Interactive Inc on favorite leisure time activities among Americans. And the most favorite among top five activities is still READING. May be an interesting read for all of you. Aspirant research scholars may find this as interesting research topic. Top five leisure-time activities---------------->>>>>>>>>>> 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2007 % % % % % % Reading 31 28 26 24 35 29 TV Watching 23 20 15 17 21 18 Spending time with family/kids 14 12 11 17 20 14 Computer activities 6 7 4 5 7 9 Going to movies 6 7 6 7 10 7 View report - http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=835 Regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry 249-F, Sector 18, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Gurgaon - 122 015, Haryana Reach us via our Membership Helpline (Monday-Saturday: 0900-1715 hrs). Dial: +91-11-43546244 / 9910446244 DISCLAIMER:The information in this message may be privileged. If you have received it by mistake please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete the message from your system. Any unauthorised use or dissemination of this message in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Any information in this message that does not relate to official business shall be understood to be neither given nor endorsed by the Confederation of Indian Industry. Reach us via our unique Membership Helpline: 00-91-11-435 46244 / 00-99104 46244 (Monday-Saturday: 0900-1700 hrs) -- 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] Friday Talk by Dr. M.S. Sridhar at MyDLIS
by T. Shahab 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

The brief information about the lecture by Dr. Sridhar and the subsequent interaction with students reveal that the session would have been very fruitful and lively. To me the crux of the problem lies in the decreasing reading habit among youths and students. Why so? The problem lies in the methodology of education and teaching. Low interest on creativity, lack of originality in presentation, development of a mind set which seek ready made & quick results; we don't feel shy of rehashing things; etc & etc. Regards. -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of N.S. Harinarayana Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 11:16 AM To: Listforum Subject: [LIS-Forum] Friday Talk by Dr. M.S. Sridhar at MyDLIS Mysore University Library and Information Science Student Association (MULISSA) of the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore organised a Friday lecture by Dr. M.S. Sridhar, Head, Library and Documentation, ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore on the topic 'Librarianship as a profession' on November 30, 2007. A summary of the lecture and the student interaction which followed is given below. Libraries are under utilized. Only 1.5% of the population have access to the libraries. The myth that evolution of Internet has made libraries redundant contributes further to the less use of libraries. Dr. Sridhar counter argued that in spite of invasion of technology number of printed books and journals has not reduced. On the other hand it has increased. He said one in five books published and one out of three books borrowed from libraries are related to IT. If IT eliminates the printed books, why this trend he questioned. Dr. Sridhar presented some of the quality issues that need to be taken note of by the Internet users. Authenticity and accuracy are the major ones. Libraries are more reliable source for a common man. Filtering mechanism adopted in libraries ensures the quality and accuracy. On the other hand, Internet is increasingly becoming more popular creating the impression that libraries are no more required. Dr. Sridhar trying to rationalise this trend said accessibility, ease of use and perceived utility are the major factors for popularity of Internet. He opined that Internet and IT are supplement to the libraries and in real perspectives they are not threats. Giving some tips for students Dr. Sridhar said that domain knowledge (library based skills), communication, research bent of mind, reading habit and ICT skills are the expected core competencies by the employers. He said that competition for job is increasing as number of qualified professionals coming out of library schools has increasing drastically. A huge chunk of graduates are coming out of library schools from open universities. This has created an imbalance between supply and demand as for as library professionals are concerned. In this context Dr. Sridhar gave advice to the students that they should go for specialization and be ready when the opportunity arises. Dr. Sridhar's lecture was followed by an interesting and elaborate interactive session. Students asked varieties of questions and sought clarifications on various intriguing issues. Some of the questions asked/issues discussed are as follows: - Can Internet substitute a library? - Whether the present university syllabus enough for developing a good librarian? - How can one encourage young people to read? - How to ascertain needs/wants of remote readers in the context of digital libraries? - How one should equip to get good job? - What are the core competencies of librarians? - Whether classification and cataloguing are redundant in Internet era? - How to improve social status of libraries? - Libraries have been changing their names over the years from 'Libraries' to 'Knowledge centres', 'Information Centres' to 'Information Kiosks' etc. Whether this change in name inevitable? -- N.S. Harinarayana, Ph.D Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Manasagangtori Mysore 570 006 Off. Ph: (0821) 2419399 -- 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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Library education
by Rajan 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

Dear All, This refers to the ongoing discussion on library training or subject specialisation of the grooming librarians. Librarians should emerge as knowledge managers in their institution, on their specific subject and in the community around them particularly because we live in a knowledge society. For that we should learn the specific subjects, our library handles, with the eagerness of a Professor and keep in touch with the information technologies like an enthusiastic computer man. He should not ignore the core library subjects and his role in the knowledge generation-supply-use chain. It is the duty of the enterprising library school student or young professionals to learn themselves all these by continuous efforts. It is better if the library schools provide a basic frame and motivation rather than teaching all necessary subjects. It is impossible too as the library schools may have that much subject expertise. The situation of most of our library schools are far from satisfactory to groom capable library professionals. If some professionals coming out from the schools are performing good. it may be because they hav put in extra efforts and have used their common sense well. I think it is high time to look at the deficiencies in our profession and use the excellent opportunities offered by the emergent knowledge society, computers, information technologies, Internet, focus on knowledge management etc. Now ample opportunities are there for self learning anything from swiming to driving to creating bombs using self -instructonal manuals available in Internet. Library professionals should use such opportunities..Learning any computer application is not at all a difficult thing as in the past. There was a time when even installing our cds-isis was a herculean task. If any library school or teacher claims that all is well, it shows the lack of his exposure or his disinterest in making his students as good peformers.It is a difficult to remain as a good teacher in a library school, when everything is changing so fast. Any library professional should have a good knowledge on library science, the specific subject he deals with and information technologies. We can go ahead only when we learn that we know less and there exist a lot more to learn. Regards,. K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India Ph 0487 - 2200244+208 (O) 2201428 (R) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Adding specialization to LIS
by Mailing List Admin 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:30:01 -0800 From: Hemantha Rao K.R. <hemantharao.kr(a)gmail.com> hi This is Hemantha Rao K.R. student of MLISc of Mysore University, its my personnel opinion regarding Adding specilization to LIS. As discussed about adding additional theory paper at 3rd and 4th semester in degrees to make more specialist in this domain. As a student I am not statisfy with this idea, because most of the students will study in the point of examination only, so adding one more theory paper is not sufficient. In my opinion adding one more practical paper or training will more helpful than theory paper. Thanking you Hemantha Rao K.R. MLISc(IIIrd Sem) University of Mysore Mysore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ------=_Part_1466_16187542.1196429401756 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline <div>hi</div> <div> </div> <div>This is Hemantha Rao K.R. student of MLISc of Mysore University, its my personnel opinion regarding Adding specilization to LIS.  In there you mentioned about adding additional theory paper at 3rd and 4th semester in degrees to make more specialist in this domain.  As a student I am not statisfy with this idea, because most of the students will study in the point of examination only, so adding one more theory paper is not more sufficient.  In my opinion adding more one more practical paper or training is more helpful than theory paper. </div> <div> </div> <div>Thanking you</div> <div> </div> <div>Hemantha Rao K.R.</div> <div>MLISc(IIIrd Sem) </div> <div>University of Mysore</div> <div>Mysore</div> <br />-- <br />This message has been scanned for viruses and <br />dangerous content by <a href="http://www.mailscanner.info/"><b>MailScanner</b></a>, and is <br />believed to be clean. ------=_Part_1466_16187542.1196429401756--

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Fwd: Dr Manmohan Singh Scholarships
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

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