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New Issue of KnowGenesis IJTC is Available Online
by Mailing List Admin 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:50:03 +0800 From: Saurabh Kudesia <saurabhkudesia(a)gmail.com> Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to share that KnowGenesis International Journal for Technical Communication (IJTC) has just published its latest issue at http://knowgenesis.net/journal/index.php?journal=IJTC. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest. To access the journal online, you'll need your login ID and password. Please note that your credentials for accessing the journal is different from that required for KnowGenesis library. Thanks for the continuing interest in our work. We are looking forward for your visit to our website. -- Saurabh Kudesia Editor-in-chief KnowGenesis IJTC editorinchief@... www.knowgenesis.net/journal --------------------------------------------- TABLE OF CONTENTS - Vol 2 Issue 1, March 2007 Editorial --------- > From Individualism to Holism: Paradigm Shift on the Indian Technical Writing Scene By Saurabh Kudesia pp 4-5 Rendezvous with KnowGenesis --------------------------- Nick Maselli Senior Manager, English Editing Group UTStarcom Telcom, People's Republic of China pp 6-9 Guest Column ------------ Metadata Goes Mainstream Fred Brown pp 9-10 Research -------- Web Resources: Online Journals, Online Books and Electronic Theses and Dissertations A Wave of the Future Sumeer Gul pp 11-15 Open Access Digital Repositories: An Indian Scenario Fayaz Ahmed, Rafiq Rather pp 16-20 Knowledge Management – Issues and Challenges in the Corporate World Pankaj Kumar, Jaya Kalra pp 21-27 Regular ------- Applying Common Sense to Technical Writing Promila Chitkara pp 28-29 Usability and its significance in the Content World Vikas Wadhwa pp 30-34 -------------------------------- ABOUT KNOWGENESIS JOURNAL KnowGenesis International Journal for Technical Communication (IJTC) is a freely available, international, scholarly journal, dedicated to making accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines under Technical Communication. KnowGenesis IJTC is a volunteer effort that brought some of the finest International minds at one place. Thanks to their dedication and support,KnowGenesis IJTC became the first Indian Journal listed by American Education Research Association (AERA) SIG Communication of Research. AERA SIG list is a prestigious list of electronic journals consisting of scholarly and peer-reviewed journals, which are accessible without cost. Recently, UNESCO and Digital Curation Centre (DCC) UK have also included KnowGenesis IJTC in their list of international journals. KnowGenesis is proud to have authors listed from prestigious institutes like NISCAIR, University of Mississippi, University of Calcutta, STC IIT, IIIT, TIFR, Syracuse University, Clemson University, Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Pennsylvania State University, National Informatics Centre (India), Lenta (Russia), Chabot-Las (California), Washington State Department of Information Services, GE Research and STC Chapters, to name a few. KG IJTC is available at www.knowgenesis.net

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All the Librarian of the AICTE approved institutions in india
by Subir Das 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

Sir, we are currently running a Business School In Kolkata, West Bengal which is approved by AICTE and recently we have published a journal called 'Bhavishya- journal of Future Business School' and we need your help regarding the exchange of your journal with your famous journal and also i want a database that can help me to contact with same other peers for that purpose for exchange. An early action can be highly solicited thanking you Subir Das Librarian Future Business School Sonarpur Station Road Kolkata-700150 librarian(a)fiemonline.org www.futurebusinessschool.org SUBIR DAS --------------------------------- Heres a new way to find what you're looking for - Yahoo! Answers

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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2006 Annual Edition
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2006 Annual Edition is now available from Digital Scholarship: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm Annual editions of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography are PDF files designed for printing. Each annual edition is based on the last HTML version published during the edition's year. Minor corrections, such as updated URLs, have been made in the SEPB: 2006 Annual Edition. The SEPB: 2006 Annual Edition is based on Version 66 (12/18/2006). The printed bibliography is over 230 pages long. The PDF file is over 930 KB. New versions of SEPB are now announced on DigitalKoans: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalKoans For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries, see: http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2007/02/18/summary-of-baileys-d… -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ DigitalKoans/Flashback http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/category/flashback-weekly-news/ Open Access Bibliography/Webliography http://www.digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/oaw.htm Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography/Weblog http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm

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NACLIN 2007 from November 20-23, 2007 at New Delhi
by Sangeeta Kaul, Network Manager, DELNET 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Details are available at www.delnet.nic.in ============================================================================= Tenth National Convention on Knowledge, Library and Information Networking NACLIN 2007 November 20-23, 2007 Organized by DELNET- Developing Library Network Venue : India International Centre, 40 Lodi Estate, New Delhi-110003 Theme : Libraries without boundaries : Reaching the Unreachable in Knowledge Era The enormous growth in the ICT has made the World as Global village and there is an apparent death of distance. The convergence of the computing and communications has also brought a radical change in the way libraries and information centres have been imparting information to the users. There is a paradigm shift from the information based services to the Knowledge based services as Knowledge is considered as a most powerful fact in the development of an economy of a nation and is the fourth wave experienced by the human lives. In these changing scenarios, the libraries have to take a proactive approach and to work for this tectonic change that the Knowledge Society will encompass in its domain. The library professionals can no longer keep themselves in the insulated state away from the challenges which needs to be addressed by them. The Government of India has constituted under the National Knowledge Commission a special group on Libraries and Informatics and has proposed a knowledge based society and the emergence of libraries and network centres as one of the contributing entities for developing a knowledge based society. There is a greater need to provide the citizen focused services and the library services must focus on the common man and we must ensure that the libraries are able to bridge up the gap between the two tiered society of �Knowledge haves� and �knowledge have-nots� It is with this concern that the National Convention on Knowledge, Library and Information Networking (NACLIN 2007) being organized by DELNET at New Delhi in November 2007 to debate various issues on the subject. NACLIN was conceived in the year 1998 and since then Nine National Conventions have been organized in different parts of the country in collaboration with the institutions of great repute. DELNET is celebrating the 10th NACLIN event by hosting it themselves at New Delhi. DELNET - Developing Library Network DELNET is a major resource-sharing library network in South Asia which covers a wide spectrum of member-libraries and their resources connecting more than 1070 libraries in thirty states in India and six overseas countries. Started in 1988 at the India International Centre in New Delhi it was registered as a society in 1992. Delnet is committed to pool the information about resources scattered in the libraries in the country and consolidate information through union catalogues, union lists and other databases. This is being done to satisfy the major information requirements of students, researchers, scholars and the public in the country. DELNET is extensively providing Interlibrary Loan facilities to its member libraries in and outside the country and is one of the most widely used and popular services of DELNET. DELNET databases has crossed more than six million records. DELNET has shifted to its newly constructed building in JNU Campus in October 2005. More information about DELNET can be obtained at www.delnet.nic.in About the Venue India International Centre more commonly being known as IIC is the Intellectual hub of India. It is located on the outer periphery of the famous Lodi Gardens. Accommodation Accommodation can be arranged to the participants in the Institutional Guest Houses in Delhi furnished with minimum amenities on first come first served basis. Besides, accommodation (Sharing) in the hotels would also be arranged to the participants on request and confirmation. Delegates may indicate the request for accommodation in the registration form. Climate The climate in the month of November is pleasant ranging from 15 to 20 degrees. The temperature will be pleasant and evenings will be cool. Return Reservation All the participants are advised to make their reservations on their own in advance to avoid last minute inconvenience. Sightseeing Visits to some of the tourist places in Delhi/Agra will be arranged separately on November 24, 2007 (Saturday) at an extra cost based on the distance and duration of the trip and also the number of delegates. Those interested may kindly write to us separately. See more details at www.delnet.nic.in/naclin2007brochure.doc NACLIN 2007 The national convention is scheduled for four days. The first two days are exclusively designed for conducting tutorials by experts on the following topics: RFID Technology in Libraries Open Source Library Management Software The next two days will focus on the theme of the National Convention: Libraries without Boundaries : Reaching the Unreachable in Knowledge Era. The theme is divided into several sub-themes as detailed below: Sub theme 1 : Knowledge Society ? Community based Information Systems ? Knowledge Centres ? Delivery of Services ? Knowledge Based Systems : Case Studies ? E-Governance ? Training of Public in the Use of ICT based resources ? Community Participation Patterns Sub theme 2 : ICT Implementation ? Knowledge Tools/Technology ? Development of Knowledge Portals ? Delivery Mechanisms ? Knowledge Harvesting ? Knowledge Warehouses ? Knowledge Cultivation ? Access Mechanisms Sub theme 3 : Knowledge Resources ? Knowledge Portals ? Digital Libraries ? E-journals ? Creation of Content in Local Languages ? Knowledge Sharing ? Knowledge Networks ? Traditional Knowledge Sub theme 4 : LIS Education, Training & Research ? Skills and Competency Development ? Evaluation of Existing Teaching Facilities : Case Studies ? Continuing Education ? E-learning ? Training Centres ? Status of Research Activities in LIS ? Roadmap for LIS Education and Research Submission of Papers Participants are welcome to contribute papers for presentation at the National Convention on the above sub-themes and related themes. The Papers should be based on research surveys, case studies or action plans rather than theoretical explanations. Papers should reach The Director, DELNET, JNU Campus, Nelson Mandela Road, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi-110070 on or before September 30,2007. They should be submitted on A4 size paper along with an electronic copy or sent through E-mail. It must be enclosed with the details of the author i.e. name of the author, designation, title of the article, abstract, name of the affiliating Institution, Mailing address, telephone number, fax number and E-mail address. The contributors will be communicated about the acceptance of the paper by Director, DELNET to enable them to present their papers. Please ensure that the paper submitted should not have already been published elsewhere. The editors will have the right to edit the papers before acceptance is communicated. ADDRESS FOR THE COMMUNICATION Registration/Accommodation Submission of Papers Sangeeta Kaul Dr. H K Kaul Organizing Secretary, NACLIN 2007 Director Network Manager DELNET-Developing Library Network DELNET-Developing Library Network JNU Campus JNU Campus Nelson Mandela Road Nelson Mandela Road Vasant Kunj Vasant Kunj New Delhi - 110070 New Delhi-110070 Tel.: 91-11-32471001, 32471010 Tel: 91-11-32471001, 32471010 Fax: 91-11-32471009 Mobile : 9810329992 Mobile�: 9891016667 Email:sangs@delnet.ren.nic.in Email:hkkaul@delnet.ren.nic.in naclin2007(a)yahoo.co.in hkkaul(a)gmail.com NACLIN 2007 Tenth NATIONAL CONVENTION ON KNOWLEDGE, LIBRARY AND INFORMATION NETWORKING Libraries without boundaries : Reaching the Unreachable in Knowledge Era November 20-23, 2007 Venue: India International Centre, New Delhi REGISTRATION FORM Name (in block letters): Dr./Mr./Ms./Mrs./Prof ................... Designation:......................................................... Organisation: ...................................................... Address:.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... PIN ..........State .............. Country ....... Phone: STD Code...... Office.........Res ............ Mobile ........ Email:..........................................Fax: ................ Accompanying Person(s) : .......... Accommodation required: Yes/No ....... If yes, please mention the dates from ................... to ........ Travel Schedule: Date Time Mode(Train name/Flt details) Arrival Departure Payment details : I am enclosing Demand Draft No .........dated...... for Rs. ....... drawn on ............................ towards participation fee/ and accommodation charges for five days stay in the guest hosue. ( Please pay only the Registration fe e if you do not want the guest house facilities). Place: Date: Signature:............. REGISTRATION FEES (comprising of pre-conference Tutorials and Convention) Delegates from India/SAARC Countries DELNET member Libraries : Rs 2500 per delegate DELNET Non-members : Rs 3500 per delegate LIS Professionals from Delhi and NCR Region : Rs 2500 per delegate Delegates from Non-SAARC Countries : US $ 150 per delegate Please note : Additional delegate from the same organization will be provided 25% discount. Accompanying Person (non LIS professional, family member) : Rs 1000 per person for attending the Convention, Accommodation charges will be extra. Accommodation charges : Rs 1500 per delegate for 5 days stay. On-the-spot Registration is also available The filled-in registration forms and the payment should be sent to : Ms Sangeeta Kaul, Organizing Secretary, NACLIN 2007 Network Manager DELNET-Developing Library Network JNU Campus Nelson Mandela Road Vasant Kunj, New Delhi-110070 Payment Details : The payment should be sent through a demand draft to be made in favour of �DELNET� and payable at New Delhi. The Institutions in Delhi, NCR can make the payments through cheque also. Dates to Remember Last Date for Registration November 15, 2007 Last Date for Submission of Papers September 30, 2007 ############################################################################ _______________________________________________________________________________ Sangeeta Kaul Network Manager DELNET-Developing Library Network JNU Campus Nelson Mandela Road Vasant Kunj New Delhi-110070 Tel: 91-11-32471010, 32471002, 32471011 Web : www.delnet.nic.in ________________________________________________________________________________

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vacancy
by S.F KATTIMANI 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Mangalore University Announced for the Post of Asst Librarian 01 post and Library Asst 04 Post, for details refer DECCAN HERALD 14 MARCH 2007 Avenue Section. -- S.F.KATTIMANI LIBRARIAN CITY ENGINEERING COLLEGE KANAKAPURA ROAD DODDAKALLASANDRA BANGALORE 560062 MOB: 9343556559

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Vidyanidhi site
by Monica Sharma 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Hello The site's URL is vidyanidhi.org.in and its very much working. Regards, Monica Thanx and regards MONICA SHARMA --------------------------------- The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing.

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Login problem in Granthalaya Software(NIC)
by indubhushan 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Dear Sir I have installed granthalaya software and MS SQL in my library. After restoring data When we open software and intering in library the second menu (that is login and password) is not coming but It is showing numeber of title and copies in taskbar. I thing the problem is related to SQL setting. Anybody can help me in this regards. -------------------------------- With Regards Indu Bhushan RRCAT-Library Indore (MP) ----------------------------------

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library apprentice-stipend
by krottapalli ratnakar 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Dear Sirs, Can you give information that any Govt. Organization is paying stipend of Rs. 5000 or more to Library apprentices/ Library Trainees under Apprentice scheme of Govt. Of India. Ratnakar, ICMR Hqrs --------------------------------- Heres a new way to find what you're looking for - Yahoo! Answers

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Fwd: Pagebull - Enter search query
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

You may like to see this new search engine that gives screen shots of result pages instead of just URLs. Vyasamoorthy ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Macinfo <tncrangarajan(a)macinfo.net> Date: Mar 14, 2007 8:01 AM Subject: Pagebull - Enter search query To: Vyasamoorthy <vyasamoorthy(a)gmail.com>, Ramakrishnan S - Ram <rams1974(a)vsnl.net>, Rema Mahalingam <rema_28(a)yahoo.com> http://www.pagebull.com/ -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Society for Serving Seniors 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015 Phone 27846631 http://societyforservingseniors.satyamcsr.org 21. Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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need information
by Rudrappa Kamatar 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Dear friends, I need information about Satrategic management By michael porter, this is video cassettee. I do't knowe where is available this cassettee. Please give me information. With regards Rudrappa Kamatar 9900748079 Librarian JSS Centre for Management Studies SJCE Campus, Mysore. --------------------------------- Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center.

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The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines
by Mailing List Admin 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:36:02 +0530 From: "Thapar, Amit" <amitt(a)niper.ac.in> The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_100_alternative_search_engines.php Why limit your searching to Google when the best engine for your purpose might be a clustering engine that maps results, a recommendation search tool, a spoken word engine, a social bookmark tool, a podcast search engine, etc.

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An E-Course on Digital Library and Information Services (fwd)
by Mailing List Admin 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 16:43:30 +0530 From: Mukesh Anand <mukeshanand2006(a)gmail.com> Subject - An E-Course on Digital Library and Information Services Dear LIS Professionals' This course is by Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC), an inter university centre of UGC,India. This course basically designed to help Library and Information Science professionals on the use of Information Communication Technology *(ICT)* in Libraries. Only 20 seats are available at each media centre and 30 seats at CEC. Enrolment will be on a first-come-first-served basis. The course will be in English and hence a good command of the language is essential. Students can also register online on website* www.cec-ugc.org*. By paying a *registration fees of Rs. 300/-* A certificate of competence will be given to the students who submit assignments. For this they have to pay additional *Rs. 500 as processing fees. The course duration is 55 days.* *Website : www.cec-ugc.org* Bye, Mukesh Anand M.Lib.I.Sc. Final Year Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi --

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students - book ratio
by Mailing List Admin 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 06:23:55 +0000 (GMT) From: savitha v.s <savithavs_murthy(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Friends Can any one help me by providing some information regarding the students and number of books ratio, reference books and text books in library. Thanking you Savitha.V.S Librarian S.B.M.J.C K.G.F

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Scholarly Communication in 2007
by Mailing List Admin 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 06:04:33 +0000 From: Gowri Ravindranth <gravindranth(a)hotmail.com> Dear Friends: Ranganathan Center for Information Studies (RCIS) in collaboration with Sundaram Medical Foundation Dr. Rangarajan Memorial Hospital, Chennai Invite you for a Lecture-Demo on Scholarly Communication in 2007 Challenges & Opportunities for the Global Biomedical & Librarian Communities By Ms. Pamela C. Sieving & Ms. Bette Anton Bio-medical Librarian/Informationist National Institute of Health Library Bethesda, Maryland, USA Venue: Auditorium, SMF, 4th Avenue, Shanti Colony, Anna Nagar, Chennai � 600 040 Date : March 19, 2007 Programme 10.00 - 10.10 a.m Welcome - Dr. Arjun Rajagopalan, Medical Director, SMF 10.10 - 10.15 a.m. Honours - Prof.Parthasarathy, Secretary, RCIS 10.15- 11.00 a.m. Lecture - Ms. Pamela C. Sieving & Ms. Bette Anton 11.00 - 11.25 a.m Interaction 11.25- 11.30 VOTE of Thanks, Prof.A.Amudhavalli, President, MALA 11.30 -11.45 Fellowship Tea Looking forward to see you on 19th L. R. Gowri Secretary, MALA

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national Knowledge Commission Report and the Working Group Report on libraries
by Mailing List Admin 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 14:51:17 +0530 From: Rajan <rajankila(a)hotmail.com> The national Knowledge Commission Report and the Working Group Report on libraries are available at http://knowledgecommission.gov.in/ The content of the Reports indicates an emerging digital revolution in the library sector in India.In this scenario, the librarians need to emerge themselves as Knowledge Managers without which they will be by-passed by other knowledge workers. Our library schools should now focus more on practically useful information technology content and tools in their library educational programmes. The present situation leaves much to be desired. Digital Document Archiving with Winisis/ Genisis and Digital Library Development with Greenstone are the comparatively easier applications for digital knowledge management in our libraries. There are some other easy-to-use applications that need to be brought to the fore. We, the librarians, should focus more on them with enthusiasm to become better Knowledge Managers of our times. Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian , Kerala Institute of Local Administration Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur -680591 Ph 0487- 2204097 (O), 2201428 ( R)

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WIPO Magazine
by sandeep bhavsar 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Respected All WIPO Magazine http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/ This publication is to replace the former Industrial Property and Copyright monthly review. Instead of simply listing WIPO activities, this Magazine will feature in-depth information about selected initiatives, policies, meetings, and other activities that have an impact on our work and the work of the intellectual property community worldwide. The WIPO Magazine is published bimonthly by the Communications and Public Outreach Division, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The bimonthly WIPO Magazine (available in English, French and Spanish) aims to inform readers about WIPO-led activities, and to show intellectual property, creativity and innovation at work across the world. The WIPO Magazine is distributed free of charge. Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ --------------------------------- Now you can scan emails quickly with a reading pane. Get the new Yahoo! Mail. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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FAO opens research and extension portal
by Swapan Patra 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

[image: *] "The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched a research and extension portal to act as a gateway to clear information on research, technology (including biotechnology), extension and their linkages for decision-makers, research institutes, extension services, regulatory bodies and the general public. The portal offers free access to publications and databases covering topics related to policies, capacity building, human development and methodologies. It will integrates material from databases on technology; funding for research and extension; and on contacts in research institutions worldwide". see details using the following link http://www.fao.org/sd/sdrr/portal/ Swapan kumar Patra Department of BIochemical Engineering & Biotechnology Indian Institute of Technology Delhi New Delhi-110016 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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ROIs on Library - Information dissemination Models
by Parinita Samant 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Dear All, At some point or the other we all think of the ROIs on library. Have anyone of you actually worked on the ROIs? Could you share your experience? How do you calculate the ROIs? Also, what are the various models of Information Dissemination? Where can I get more information on this (PS: already tried Google) Thanks & Regards Parinita Samant *************************************************************************************************************************** This e-mail communication and any attachments may be privileged and confidential to Hexaware and are intended only for the use of the recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not review, disclose, disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail and attachments. If you have received this email in error, please delete the same alongwith all attachments thereto and notify us immediately at mailadmin(a)hexaware.com . *************************************************************************************************************************** -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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OCKHAM Initiative
by sandeep bhavsar 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Respected All The OCKHAM Initiative seeks to promote the development of digital libraries via collaboration between librarians and digital library researchers. By promoting simple, open approaches and standards for digital library tools, services, and content, the gap between digital library development and the adoption of digital library systems by the traditional library community will be bridged. MyLibrary@OCKHAM MyLibrary@OCKHAM is a demonstration of how to make National Science Foundation Digital Library content more available through traditional libraries venues. This goal is accomplished in four steps: 1) create a framework for storing relevent content using MyLibrary, 2) harvest content from the NSDL OAI Repository, and save it to the underlying MyLibrary database, 3) write reports against the database in the form of browsable lists, and 4) index the content to provide searchable interfaces. Demo: http://mylibrary.ockham.org/ Download: local (http://mylibrary.ockham.org/src/ockham-mylibrary.tar.gz) or from Google Code (http://code.google.com/p/ockham-mylibrary/) --------------------------------- OCKHAM Alert OCKHAM Alert is an alerting service which utilizes a proposed method for providing a current awareness service against the content of OAI repositories as well as library catalogs. More information on OCKHAM Alert can currently be found at http://alert.ockham.org. Demo: http://alert.ockham.org Downloads: local (http://alert.ockham.org/src/ockham-alert.tar.gz) or from Google Code (http://code.google.com/p/ockham-alert/) --------------------------------- OCKHAM Spell OCKHAM Spell returns alternative spellings of word via Web Serivce interface. Demo: http://spell.ockham.org/ Downloads: local (http://spell.ockham.org/src/ockham-spell.tar.gz) or from Google Code (http://code.google.com/p/ockham-spell/) --------------------------------- Eric Lease Morgan (emorgan(a)nd.edu) March 1, 2007 Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ --------------------------------- What kind of emailer are you? Find out today - get a free analysis of your email personality. Take the quiz at the Yahoo! Mail Championship. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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free access to e-books by caltech authors
by Krishnan 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Caltech has made available the following books by its faculty for free access recently Pls look at http://caltechbook.library.caltech.edu for more books made available Ballhausen, Carl J. and Gray, Harry B. Molecular electronic structures : an introduction, 1980 <http://caltechbook.library.caltech.edu/155/> Ballhausen, Carl A. and Gray, Harry B. Molecular orbital theory: an introductory lecture note and reprint volume, 1965 <http://caltechbook.library.caltech.edu/117/> Dence, Joseph B. and Gray, Harry B. and Hammond, George S. Chemical dynamics, 1968 <http://caltechbook.library.caltech.edu/156/> Gray, Harry B. Electrons and Chemical Bonding, 1965 <http://caltechbook.library.caltech.edu/130/> Langford, Cooper H. and Gray, Harry B. Ligand Substitution Processes, 1966 <http://caltechbook.library.caltech.edu/100/> -- Dr. S.Krishnan Head, Information Division National Chemical Laboratory Pashan Road PUNE 411008, INDIA e-mail: s.krishnan(a)ncl.res.in Tel: +91-20-25902650 Fax: +91-20-25902850 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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vidhyanidi website
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 10 Mar '07

10 Mar '07

Dear Friends I am unable to access Vidhyanidi website -- Thesis portal from Mysore university. Has the site address been changed? http://www.vidhyanidi.org.in Thanks -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Society for Serving Seniors 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015 Phone 27846631 http://societyforservingseniors.satyamcsr.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Current Free Trials of magazines from Sage
by A. B. NAIKAL 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

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JPEG PHOTO FORMAT ON ITS WAY OUT?
by Farooque Shaheen 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Microsoft Corp. will soon submit a new photo format to an international standards organization that it says offers higher quality images with better compression, the company said on Thursday. The format, HD Photo -- recently renamed from Windows Media Photo -- is taking aim at the JPEG format, a 15-year old technology still widely used in digital cameras and image applications. Both formats take images and use compression to make the file sizes smaller so more photos can fit on a memory card. During compression, however, the quality of the photo tends to degrade. Microsoft said HD Photo's lightweight algorithm causes less damage to photos during compression, with higher-quality images that are half the size of JPEG. The format can also accommodate "lossless" and "lossy" compression, two methods of compressing photo data with different effects on image quality. Microsoft said adjustments can be made to color balance and exposure settings that won't discard or truncate data that occurs with other bitmap formats. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129676/article.html Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Single search is a need of the hour
by Rajesh Chandrakar 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Hello folks, The time has come for libraries, too, to negotiate for rights to index full text locally. Have a look the article on "Metasearch like Google" http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6413442.html based on the following project: Ontario Scholars Portal The Scholars Portal Project of the Ontario Council of University Libraries aims to bring together a number of key digital services for member libraries. Alan Darnell, manager of the project, says they decided that "single search" was a key service to be provided and that for the reasons of performance, reliability, and flexibility, local-loading of article metadata was the best approach. Darnell says that with Google Scholar, "It's not always clear who the publishers are, the scope of the content [or] the depth of the content.... Even if Google Scholar had the coverage, we'd still feel the responsibility to do the local loading. I don't think there's any reason we can't do it better [than Google]." Darnell says they have succeeded in creating a metasearch environment through local loading that works better and more powerfully than typical cross-search: "In a [cross-search] environment, after you've done that first search, you need to drop into the native interface to do anything else. In our [locally indexed] single search, [users] can stay within our environment longer, although eventually they might still need to drop into the native interface." The Scholars Portal single search also allows member libraries to create custom subject or disciplinary "clusters" by selecting from available databases that have been locally indexed. The Scholars Portal single search is only in its beginning stages, but Darnell says that initial evidence suggests success: "Our usage numbers show that if you make it easier to search, users get presented to the journal literature in greater numbers than they would if they only had the specialized search engine. There's always time later on to teach them specialized searching if that's what they want to do. I don't see any disadvantages in lowering that learning curve." Just as importantly, with the local indexing technique, the power and features of a metasearch tool can be significantly increased, especially if you can get access to full text to load as an aid to the searching algorithms: "As we do get more and more full text, we will be able to get meaningful relevancy ranking, useful clustering, more advanced presentation of result sets," and other advanced features that will serve more needs without requiring the user switch to a "native" interface. Rajesh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajesh Chandrakar, Commonwealth Professional Fellow Scientific & Technical Officer INFLIBNET (INFormation and LIBrary NETwork) Centre An IUC of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House, PB No. 4116, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380 009, India Tel. +91-(0)79-26305971/ 8528/ 4695(O), 26873805(R) Mobile: +91-9427527894 Fax: +91-(0)79-26300990, 263007816 E-mail: rajesh(a)inflibnet.ac.in; rchandrakar(a)gmail.com Website: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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A service forbookbuyers and libraries
by Mailing List Admin 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:33:20 +0530 From: "Thapar, Amit" <amitt(a)niper.ac.in> . Better World Books http://betterworldbooks.com/ A great service for both bookbuyers and libraries. BWB solves libraries' problem of unwanted discards and donations by selling them online and passing on proceeds to the libraries and their nonprofit literacy partners. Buyers can select from 1.8 million used books and 500,000 new ones, knowing that the money will go to libraries and literacy promotion. . Library Videos - the best videos about libraries on the web http://libraryvideos.blogspot.com/ In this brand new blog, Nancy Dowd, marketing guru at New Jersey State Library, promises to post all the neat library videos she comes across. There's not a great deal there yet, but what IS available should give you some ideas. And of course she'll be happy to add your videos to her site.

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