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CSITEd Conference - 2007
by Mailing List Admin 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:14:38 +0530 From: Manoj Kumar K <perambra(a)gmail.com> Dear All, I would like to invite you to the following conference details. If anyone is interested to contribute, please let me know. I also request you to pass this message to your IT colleagues. The CSITEd (Computer Science & Information Technology Education<http://inform.nu/>) conference solicits your finest submissions in any area that explores issues in effectively and efficiently teaching Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.. *All submissions undergo blind review by six or more external referees. Accepted papers of delegates are published in the conference proceedings or one of the Institute's journals. For details, please contact http://csited.org/index.htm.* ** *Computer Science & IT Education Conference (C S I T Ed 2 0 0 7) **November 16-18, 2 0 0 7 The Republic of Mauritius (Indian Ocean) Hosted by the University of Technology Mauritius* ** * Submission Deadline: April 30.* ** ** *CS&IT Education* Papers that cover research in Information Technology Education, such as Curriculum and Techniques for teaching IT are invited. Distance Learning Papers that deal with any aspect of distance education. (theory, practice, innovation, and research ) are invited Doctoral Studies Papers dealing with all issues in the teaching and mentoring of doctoral students are invited. Topics in CS and IT The conference is also interested in papers on the topics in computer science and information technology. with regards, *Manoj Kumar K* *Acting Director,* & Member, International Program COMMITTEE, CSITEd 2007 INFLIBNET CENTRE, PB:4116, Near Gujarat University Guest House, Ahmedabad - Gujarat INDIA-380009 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ph: 91-079-6308528/6304695 ext -48 079-27910333(Res) Mob: 093761 34222 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Email : manoj(a)inflibnet.ac.in, perambra(a)gmail.com web : www.inflibnet.ac.in, http://csited.org/index.htm ==============================================

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Researchers' use of academic libraries and their services
by Sukhdev Singh 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

A study was conducted on how researchers interact with academic libraries in the UK. Its report is available at the following link: http://www.rin.ac.uk/researchers-use-libraries Hope it would serve an insight into the present requirements of the present library users. --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] Training in LIS
by ananda thakur 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Hi all, I agree with the views of Mr. Arunachalam and Ms Vasumathi. As a school librarian , I face some unique problems regarding quality of librarians. For the past year or so , our school has been struggling to find well qualified interns. Most LIS graduates we interview are generally okay in terms of library science and technical skills, but their English language and communication skills are zero.We have noticed that it is easier to teach them our library software and other routines but when it comes to providing reference service they draw a blank since they cannot communicate well. Many people still come to us thinking that is a cushy desk job without user interface, not realizing that in a school you have to interact with students of all ages as well as well-read international faculty. A school librarian has to keep track of current affairs and resources which facilitate students and faculty in their research and projects, along with being alert about potential misuse of websites like orkut etc. If the librarian is not net-savvy he/she can be easily fooled by the students. Our education system , at the basic level(both English and vernacular) does not encourage good reading habits. In school libraries, if the librarian has not read and relished classic and contemporary authors like Dickens or Murakami , how can we expect that person to suggest good reading material for different levels of students? Children are then exposed only to racy ( not necessarily good) bestsellers. They in turn miss out on good literature and good reading habits, and may grow up to be ill-informed librarians continuing the 'vicious circle'. Such Librarians give a very bad impression about the profession to our students. In fact they come up to us and say " Ma'am if I don't get a job elsewhere I will become a librarian ". Till date, quite a number of students who join this course do so after failing to secure admission in other professional courses.The problem is further aggravated by the fact that most Universities offering this course do not have stringent admission criteria as compared to other postgraduate courses. It is urgently required that universities and colleges offering LIS courses make English Language and Communication Skills a compulsory part of their curriculum. While Library software unique to each organization can be taught on the job, internet surfing and information retrieval skills should be part of LIS training. LIS students should be given compulsory reading lists which could include magazines, journals , literary works , scholarly LIS articles. All Institutes conducting LIS courses should have entrance examinations to select the best candidates. There must be so many more ways in which we can improve the quality of training in LIS. Saying no to mediocrity is the first step in that direction.(We still don't have an intern inspite of staff shortage , but our fingers are crossed) Warm Regards Mrs. Ananda Vartak Assistant Librarian Dhirubhai Ambani International School --------------------------------- Check out what you're missing if you're not on Yahoo! Messenger -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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PKP Conference
by Suvarsha Walters 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Hello, The first PKP Conference on Scholarly Publsihing is being held between July 11 - 13, 2007 at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Here is the website: http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/ with regards, Suvarsha __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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LIS job postings
by raghu ashok 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Hi The following site will provides the information on Job postings(Vacancies) in the field of Library and information Science http://lis-job-oppertunities.blogspot.com/ It might be very usefull to the professionals Thanking you Regards Raghu.B Library Trainee IIMB --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Researchers Explore Scrapping Internet
by Farooque Shaheen 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

The National Science Foundation wants to build an experimental research network known as the Global Environment for Network Innovations, or GENI, and is funding several projects at universities and elsewhere through Future Internet Network Design, or FIND. Rutgers, Stanford, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are among the universities pursuing individual projects. Other government agencies, including the Defense Department, have also been exploring the concept. The European Union has also backed research on such initiatives, through a program known as Future Internet Research and Experimentation, or FIRE. Government officials and researchers met last month in Zurich to discuss early findings and goals. A new network could run parallel with the current Internet and eventually replace it, or perhaps aspects of the research could go into a major overhaul of the existing architecture. Why??? Cozy world of researchers in the 1970s and 1980s doesn't necessarily mesh with the realities and needs of the commercial Internet. "The network is now mission critical for too many people, when in the (early days) it was just experimental,". The Internet's early architects built the system on the principle of trust. Researchers largely knew one another, so they kept the shared network open and flexible ? qualities that proved key to its rapid growth. But spammers and hackers arrived as the network expanded and could roam freely because the Internet doesn't have built-in mechanisms for knowing with certainty who sent what. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18095186/ Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, 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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A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology
by Sanjeev Kumar Jain 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Dear LIS Professionals The glossary contains more than 2,000 defined entries and more than 600 lead-in terms, and nearly 700 citations from some 280 sources. Some 2,500 cross-references (not counting lead-in terms) in the syndetic structure illustrate relationships between terms. http://www.archivists.org/glossary/list.asp?letter=a -- With Regards Sanjeev Kumar Jain Central Library Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur - 721 302 Email: sanjeevmlis(a)yahoo.co.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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School library opened
by prafulla tv 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Dear All, We are pleased to inform you that a school library has been opened on April 15, 2007 by Shri Gade Vinod Reddy garu, Chairman of Nalgonga Zilla Granthalaya Samstha in Sri Vidyanikethan High School, Mothkur village/mandal, Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh. Established in 1996 and located in a backward region of Telangana, SVHS is a Telugu medium school under private management offering facilities for education for Sishu, Class 1 to 10. Presently, it has a strength of 10 staff members and around 275 students. SVHS Library became a reality through voluntary donations from many sources: 1) Mr. Mahender, Correspondent of SVHS donated his personal collection of around 500 books to SVHS Library. 2) Mr. Anumula Srinivas, Founder President of Gundrampally Library and Information Centre (GLIC), Gundrampally, Nalgonda district, presented around 350 books to SVHS Library. Mr. Srinivas has been instrumental in developing GLIC as a model village library. He also announced life subscription to Chandamama magazine, the most popular childrens monthly in Telugu for SVHS Library. 3) An anonymous donation of Rs.5000 helped in the purchase of two glass-covered library racks. 4) Shri S.N. Chary, Local reporter of Eenadu announced a donation of Rs.1000 for the purchase of books. We are happy to inform all LIS professionals that Mr. Mahender had agreed -- to provide free library service to students as recommended in the UNESCO School Library Manifesto. --to keep the books freely available to students through open access. --to issue one book per student. --not to lock books in racks. --to allot at least one period per week for library. We appeal to all library lovers to extend their support in strengthening SVHS Library. Our plans are: --to develop a good collection of reference books and childrens books in Telugu. --to provide a computer system --to introduce Internet service --to develop a collection of educational non-book materials (CD-ROM, VCD, DVD, etc.) Please send your donations to: Shri Mahender Correspondent Sri Vidyanikethan High School Mothkur Village/Mandal Nalgonda District 508 277 Andhra Pradesh Mobile: 99850 83859 Thank you in advance for your cooperation and support to library development. Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Training in LIS
by Mailing List Admin 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:13:00 -0700 (PDT) From: amudhavalli alagusundaram <amudha75(a)yahoo.com> I do agree with the views of Ms. Vasumathi. she has always been concerned over this. No good candidate is ever entering any school, barring a very very few. It is very sad. I raise this issue in every platform. LIS Schools alone are not to be blamed. As she says it is a circle. LIS is the last resort or a refugee camp for many entrants. Added to this alarming situation, are those Distance Education programmes going haywire. We have from this acadmiec year made soft skills as compulsory module for all . And our DEPT has signed MOU with a commercial firm to include soft skills course (4 credits) for our students and all others in the campus. let us see if there can be any progress. amudha Vasumathi Sriganesh wrote, You have really touched a very deep chord. We can no longer reject the truth that we are faced with - however bitter it is. I know I have talked about all these things to many people on one or more of these lists and definitely with the individuals cc-ed on this list. I am also aware that there are a handful of excellent dedicated librarians in India - but the number is dwindling alarmingly.Also - they are buried deep in their institutions and do not spread their wings across - mostly because they not permitted to. I am praying hard that the National Knowledge Commission's findings and reports may do some resurrection for the profession. [truncated]

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Free E-Book on Digital Library by William Arms
by Sanjeev Kumar Jain 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Dear Library and Information Professionals Free E-Book on Digital Library Title: Digital Libraries Author: William Arms This book is my attempt to survey the entire field of digital libraries. Computers and networks are of fundamental importance, but they are only the technology. The real story of digital libraries is the interplay between people, organizations, and technology. How are libraries and publishers using this new technology? How are individuals bypassing traditional organizations and building their own libraries? Where is this all leading? The answer to the last question is simple. Nobody knows. I have tried to avoid speculation and to concentrate on describing current activities, trends, and research. Thus the heart of this book is a large number of examples described in panels. Each panel describes some significant aspect of digital libraries, technology, application, or research. Visit this Link for full text. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/DigLib Contants Preface 1 Background 2 The Internet and the World Wide Web 3 Libraries and publishers 4 Innovation and research 5 People, organizations, and change 6 Economic and legal issues 7 Access management and security 8 User interfaces and usability 9 Text 10 Information retrieval and descriptive metadata 11 Distributed information discovery 12 Object models, identifiers, and structural metadata 13 Repositories and archives 14 Digital libraries and electronic publishing today Glossary Feel free to contact any time With Regards Sanjeev Kumar Jain Central Library Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur - 721 302 Email: sanjeevmlis(a)yahoo.co.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Comparision of Business Online Databases.
by Rohit Sahu 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Dear All, Can any One help me, to provide the comparision data of Business online Database, i.e. EBSCO(BSP), PROQUEST (ABI/INFORM Complete), Emrald, JSTOR, On that basis i can select to subscribe the databases. I would be very grateful to all of you, If you could help me. Thanks and Regards, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rohit Kumar Sahu Associate Librarian Resource and Learning Centre *Pearl School of Business,* 46, Institutional Area, Sector -32, Gurgaon -122001 Mobile : 9811545534 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- 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] Training in LIS
by Mailing List Admin 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:21:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Praveen Vaidya <praveenvaidya(a)yahoo.com> Dear All, After many days there is a good point of discussion in the forum that Mr. Arun has pointed out. It is indeed a very serious issue that he has brought out. There is a general consensus that we lack reading habits. We don't even read newspapers and Magazines to update ourselves. I ask to many of my professional colleagues about reading newspapers and most of them answered me, there is no much to read in newspapers except politics. Then, i said them to develop interest in politics, because in India as a democratic state, every policy is centered to political decisions whether it is education, foreign affairs, economics, Taxation, stock market, art, culture, science or any other subject. in such case if we even don't read newspapers what would be the result!!! It is good that Mr.Arun has suggested a list of authors who are really contributed lot and we have to refer these authors. Our universities are also trying to revamp the Syllabus but, still bigger role is expected from them to change entire system. Even knowledge commission is trying to improve the existing library system, hopefully we may see the change. Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> wrote: Friends: I am concerned about the quality of training we provide in our country to would be librarians and information scientists. [truncated]

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InfoQuiz 2007 - Participate & Win 50K INR
by Angrosh 14 Apr '07

14 Apr '07

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Training in LIS
by gayathri sen 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Dear professional collegues, I congradulate Vasumati on her thought provoking note sent to Dr.Arunachalam. Life long training is required to ensure that we keep ourselves up to date. Each Head of any type of library should take steps to improve their own library team in terms of soft skills, communication skills, interest in profession, improving their work environment, motivating them to change for the better and also strive to improve their salaries and scales, there by improving their self esteem. "Little drops of rain makes a mighty ocean" Regards, Gayathri Sen PESIT --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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DSSSB Librarians Vacancy Updates
by Mukesh Anand 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Dear LIS Students & Professionals, Here is the Update about the Bulk Vacancy of Librarians of DSSSB.It is now published in the Employment News as well as appeared also on DSSSB website. Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board (DSSSB) Section A : Information about Vacancy Section B : Scheme of Exam. for the post of Librarians Section C : General Instructions & procedure for submission of Applicaion Form Section D : Application Form Print Source : Employment News dated 14-20 April, ' 07, Page # 4-7 Electronic Source : 1. www.dsssb.delhigovt.nic.in 2. Advertisement : http://www.dsssb.delhigovt.nic.in/section-a,b,c%20(14-04-2007).doc 3. Application Form : http://www.dsssb.delhigovt.nic.in/section%20D%20(14-04-2007).doc All The Best & With Warm Regards, Mukesh Anand M Lib I Sc Final Year Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Information Today
by Thapar, Amit 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

. Information Today http://infotoday.com/ I have a personal interest in this website for my publisher, which currently features my new book, The Thriving Library, on its front page. Yes, I hope you'll buy it. But there's also plenty of searchable high quality information available here, including content from the conferences it sponsors (Computers in Libraries, Internet Librarian, WebSearch University, etc.) and the periodicals it publishes (Searcher, Information Today, Computers in Libraries, Online,, etc. You'll also find news, blogs, buyers guides, and more. . LibriVox: Free audiobooks from the public domain http://librivox.org/ This "totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project" aims to "make all public domain books available as free audio books." Search or browse the existing catalog, and/or volunteer to record additional books for the project. It also offers podcasts. . Yahoo! Widgets http://widgets.yahoo.com/ Thousands of free utilities you can download - newsfeeds, cam viewers, application enhancers, geek stuff, and more. See also the Widgetbox Directory of web widgets for blogs <http://www.widgetbox.com/> and Apple's Dashboard Widgets <http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/> (note that there are over 180 reference widgets, and more than 100 search widgets) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for web articles on Open Access journals
by ingrid2＠kultuur.edu.ee 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Hello! I study librarianship and information sciences. As I subscribed to this forum (although I am not from India), I started to realise that Open Access is very important topic around the world. Now we had to choose our paper themes and mine is, "Open Access Journals". I would be very thankful, if someone could suggest free and relevant articles in Web (those I MUST read, if I wanted to write my paper on Open Access journals). Ingrid Yle (from Viljandi, Estonia) <p2rlmutter(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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Re: [LIS-Forum] Subject: Training in LIS
by Mailing List Admin 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:35:50 +0530 From: Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> Before anything else I believe that any professional course has to be market oriented. I wish a list of marketable skills be compiled first before discussing suitable training package first. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. On 4/12/07, Rajan <rajankila(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Dear All, > > It seems that we need to discuss the issues raised by Shri Arun, in order > to > make the library field a little better. The scenario is far from > satisfactory. There is no need to blame anyone for the sorry state of > affairs. But we need to think of ways for improving the situation. So it > seems that the teacher- friends in the forum should start the discussion > airing their views. Probably they are are the people who can do something > substantial to improve the situation. > > > Regards, > > > K Rajasekharan > Librarian , Kerala Institute of Local Administration > Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur -680591

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Subject: Training in LIS
by Rajan 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Dear All, It seems that we need to discuss the issues raised by Shri Arun, in order to make the library field a little better. The scenario is far from satisfactory. There is no need to blame anyone for the sorry state of affairs. But we need to think of ways for improving the situation. So it seems that the teacher- friends in the forum should start the discussion airing their views. Probably they are are the people who can do something substantial to improve the situation. Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian , Kerala Institute of Local Administration Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur -680591 Ph 0487- 2204097 (O), 2201428 ( R) Message: 1 Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 14:02:23 +0100 (BST) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Training in LIS To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, naglaxman(a)yahoo.com, iatlis-owner(a)yahoogroups.com Cc: haravu(a)newgenlib.com Message-ID: <37633.41021.qm(a)web43144.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Friends: I am concerned about the quality of training we provide in our country to would be librarians and information scientists. The other day I had received my copy of the Bulletin of ASIST, which I always find very readable. Prof. Blaise Cronin, who won the ASIS&T Award of Merit for 2006, had written a two-page acceptance speech. He is an extraordinarily good writer and I enjoy reading him. In his acceptance speech, Prof. Cronin, whom I first came to know more than two decades ago when I reviewed his cute little book "The Citation Process", had mentioned the names of many outstanding information scientists, spanning more than two generations, whose writings had shaped his career or influenced him in some way. Among them are Hans Peter Luhn Robert Fairthorne Cyril Cleerdon Eugene Garfield Wilfrid Lancaster Gerard Salton Tefko Saracevic Henry Small Don Swanson Howard White Bertram Brookes Michael Buckland Pauline Autherton Cochrane Wiliam Goffman Belver Griffith Robert Hayes John Martyn Stephen Robertson Karen Sparck Jones Irene Farkas-Conn Peter Taylor Alan Gilchrist Elizabeth Lowry-Corry Brian Vickery Robert Williams Ben Ami-Lipetz Derek de Solla Price Nick Belkin Boyd Rayward Jack Meadows. I met a young librarian with a Masters degree from a leading Indian university and a couple of years of work experience and showed him the article and asked him if he had read any of these authors. He was honest enough to admit that he had heard of the name of Garfield in connection with indexing, and his teachers never even mentioned the names of the others. On another day I was asked to meet the final year Masters students of LIS in a famous Indian university. Some students would not speak a word, despite repeated cajoling. Their knowledge was far below what one would expect of a Masters student. Without preparation, they may not be able to appreciate Tefko Saracevic's edited volume "Introduction to Information Science" or Irene Farkas-Conn's history of the field "From Documentation to Information Science." To be fair, they may understand some portions of Garfield's Essays of an Information Scientist, as Garfield often wrote not for the specialists but for the lay readers. Many years ago I was in a selection committee in a chemistry laboratory and I asked a candidate for the post of an assistant librarian if he knew any chemistry as his job would be to serve chemists; scientists may want to make a substructure search and unless one knows chemical structures it will be almost impossible to make such searches. The candidate replied that in the LIS school they taught 'organization of knowledge' and therefore there was no need to know chemistry! When asked to explain 'open access to journal literature' another candidate said that some libraries allowed users to move freely in the library and pick up the books and journals they wanted to read, and he was totally ignorant of making journal literature freely available on the Internet. I have attended a few national conferences. There is hardly any originality in the papers presented and the level of discussion is appallingly low. We need to do something and do it quickly. We need to inculcate the habit of reading in our students. Blaise cronin says that when he was a graduate student at Belfast he "poured over copies of American Documentation, Aslib Proceedings, IP&M, ARIST and the Journal of Documentation with enthusiasm of a kid in a candy store, stumbling upon seminal papers". We need to guide our students to the masters and their great writings. As the field is expanding, the need to keep abreast of developments is becoming more and more important. We need to improve the communication skills of our students. We should award degrees only to the deserving. Years ago I had taught at the INSDOC Training School and I had the great pleasure of working with people like Prof. Thyaga Natarajan and Prof. Guha, and was amazed at their simplicity and passion for reading and teaching. Even the next level faculty had the qualities of good teachers. I have heard about the high quality of training imparted at DRTC, but have no first hand knowledge, except attending a few conferences and giving a few lectures to students. The training imparted at NCSI, largely thanks to the late Dr T B Rajashekar, is indeed very good. We need to make sure that training imparted in every LIS school in the country is of the highest quality. As Greg Chappell said there should be a system where those who do not perform are automatically sent out. According to him that is why Australia performs very well in cricket. Best wishes. Arun -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Training in LIS
by Subbiah Arunachalam 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Friends: I am concerned about the quality of training we provide in our country to would be librarians and information scientists. The other day I had received my copy of the Bulletin of ASIST, which I always find very readable. Prof. Blaise Cronin, who won the ASIS&T Award of Merit for 2006, had written a two-page acceptance speech. He is an extraordinarily good writer and I enjoy reading him. In his acceptance speech, Prof. Cronin, whom I first came to know more than two decades ago when I reviewed his cute little book "The Citation Process", had mentioned the names of many outstanding information scientists, spanning more than two generations, whose writings had shaped his career or influenced him in some way. Among them are Hans Peter Luhn Robert Fairthorne Cyril Cleerdon Eugene Garfield Wilfrid Lancaster Gerard Salton Tefko Saracevic Henry Small Don Swanson Howard White Bertram Brookes Michael Buckland Pauline Autherton Cochrane Wiliam Goffman Belver Griffith Robert Hayes John Martyn Stephen Robertson Karen Sparck Jones Irene Farkas-Conn Peter Taylor Alan Gilchrist Elizabeth Lowry-Corry Brian Vickery Robert Williams Ben Ami-Lipetz Derek de Solla Price Nick Belkin Boyd Rayward Jack Meadows. I met a young librarian with a Masters degree from a leading Indian university and a couple of years of work experience and showed him the article and asked him if he had read any of these authors. He was honest enough to admit that he had heard of the name of Garfield in connection with indexing, and his teachers never even mentioned the names of the others. On another day I was asked to meet the final year Masters students of LIS in a famous Indian university. Some students would not speak a word, despite repeated cajoling. Their knowledge was far below what one would expect of a Masters student. Without preparation, they may not be able to appreciate Tefko Saracevic's edited volume "Introduction to Information Science" or Irene Farkas-Conn's history of the field "From Documentation to Information Science." To be fair, they may understand some portions of Garfield's Essays of an Information Scientist, as Garfield often wrote not for the specialists but for the lay readers. Many years ago I was in a selection committee in a chemistry laboratory and I asked a candidate for the post of an assistant librarian if he knew any chemistry as his job would be to serve chemists; scientists may want to make a substructure search and unless one knows chemical structures it will be almost impossible to make such searches. The candidate replied that in the LIS school they taught 'organization of knowledge' and therefore there was no need to know chemistry! When asked to explain 'open access to journal literature' another candidate said that some libraries allowed users to move freely in the library and pick up the books and journals they wanted to read, and he was totally ignorant of making journal literature freely available on the Internet. I have attended a few national conferences. There is hardly any originality in the papers presented and the level of discussion is appallingly low. We need to do something and do it quickly. We need to inculcate the habit of reading in our students. Blaise cronin says that when he was a graduate student at Belfast he "poured over copies of American Documentation, Aslib Proceedings, IP&M, ARIST and the Journal of Documentation with enthusiasm of a kid in a candy store, stumbling upon seminal papers". We need to guide our students to the masters and their great writings. As the field is expanding, the need to keep abreast of developments is becoming more and more important. We need to improve the communication skills of our students. We should award degrees only to the deserving. Years ago I had taught at the INSDOC Training School and I had the great pleasure of working with people like Prof. Thyaga Natarajan and Prof. Guha, and was amazed at their simplicity and passion for reading and teaching. Even the next level faculty had the qualities of good teachers. I have heard about the high quality of training imparted at DRTC, but have no first hand knowledge, except attending a few conferences and giving a few lectures to students. The training imparted at NCSI, largely thanks to the late Dr T B Rajashekar, is indeed very good. We need to make sure that training imparted in every LIS school in the country is of the highest quality. As Greg Chappell said there should be a system where those who do not perform are automatically sent out. According to him that is why Australia performs very well in cricket. Best wishes. Arun ___________________________________________________________ Copy addresses and emails from any email account to Yahoo! Mail - quick, easy and free. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/trueswitch2.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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librarian post for INDIA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
by Rohit Kumar 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Dear friends, Application are invited for the Walk in Interview for librarian post for IIS. India International School (IIS) is looking for a dynamic librarian for its institute Required qualification & experience: Master degree in library and information science (MliSc) from a recognize university or equivalent. Bachelor degree in library and Information scienc (BliSc) from a recognize university or equivalent. Working professional experience in any library/ or in any project work with library/ library automation work experience Or 1 year certificate degree in computer applicationh from a recognize Institute or equivalent. (recognize by any state of Govt of Indial) Having a good communication skill in English. Age: no limit Pay scale: 8,000- 10,000 Rs Eligible candidate may send their soft copy of resume to contacts(a)iis.edu.in or hard copy to the school address. (given below) Shortlisted candidates will be called for the interview on 16th April at school. With best wishes (Principal) India Internation School Chikka BeLlaNdur Village Carmelram post, Sarjapura Road Bangalore- 560035 Tel no: 91-80-28439001/02/03 91-80-65366001/02/04 --------------------------------- Check out what you're missing if you're not on Yahoo! Messenger -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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AICTE Norms -Library Exhibition
by veeresh hiremath 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Dear All, I am given to understand that as per AICTE norms, it is compulsory for a library to hold one annual exhibition. Can any of you throw more light on this issue? Veeresh c Hiremath Librarian, K J Somaiya College of Engineering Phone (D):(91-22)66449020, fax:(91-22)25152272 mobile:9867260884 Email:veer9999@rediffmail.com,hiremathvc@gmail.com,vchiremath@indiatimes.com,veereshmlisc@yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Version 67, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Version 67 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. This selective bibliography presents over 2,960 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html New versions of SEPB are announced on DigitalKoans: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalKoans The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2006 Annual Edition is also available from Digital Scholarship. Annual editions of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography are PDF files designed for printing. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm 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… Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues* 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Digital Rights Management* 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies Appendix B. About the Author Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* Digital Libraries* Electronic Books and Texts* Electronic Serials* General Electronic Publishing* Images Legal* Preservation Publishers* Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* SGML and Related Standards Further Information about SEPB The XHTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be searched using a Google Search Engine. Whether the search results are current depends on Google's indexing frequency. In addition to the bibliography, the XHTML document includes: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (biweekly list of new resources; also available by e-mail--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756 http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepr/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm Related Article An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html -- 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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy
by arun yadav 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Dear Professionals Vacancy fo Library Asst on contract basis for three years.For details please visit at www.pnbiit.com/recruitment.htm ARUN YADAV Acharya Narendra Dev Public Library Lucknow (M) 9838150983 --------------------------------- Check out what you're missing if you're not on Yahoo! Messenger -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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LibSite.org - A Recommendation Service for Library-related Websites
by Mallikarjun 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Dear Professional http://libsite.org/ LibSite.org is built around the premise that library-related projects need and deserve a higher profile, that the current technology allows us to engage this material in any number of creative ways. FEATURES For that reason, the site features a blog, a wiki, RSS feeds and email alerts -- the last two being configurable down to individual tags. Users can rate sites and add them to a "favorites" page. There's even a LibSite Widget that people can put on their own sites: http://libsite.org/wiki/features USER-GENERATED Fundamental to the concept is user-involvement. Users can post recommendations ("webCites"). Users can add their own tags. Based on this input, others can then create RSS feeds and email alerts. All can participate if only to leave constructive comments and rate the work of others. http://libSite.org With regards Mallikarjun 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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