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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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Greenstone Customization - Reg
by Mailing List Admin 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:12:15 +0530 From: Rajan <rajankila(a)hotmail.com> Dear All, A new document "Customizing Greenstone Easily: A Self-instructional Guide for Beginners" is put today at the Greenstone Support for South Asia/ Resources/ Documents page at http://greenstonesupport.iimk.ac.in/Documentation.htm Please inform remarks, if any Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian , Kerala Institute of Local Administration Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur -680591 Ph 0487- 2204097 (O), 2201428 ( R)

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New Journal on LIS
by Library 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Dear Moderator: Could you please announce the following for the benefit of the LIS professionals? Thanks; Y.M.Patil Librarian -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raman Research Institute Library, Tel: +91 80 2361 0122 Extn 250 C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Fax: +91 80 2361 0492 Bangalore 560 080, India. Email: library(a)rri.res.in -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues: We are happy to announce a new journal entitled: INFORMATION AGE, the details of which are given below: Name of the Journal: INFORMATION AGE: A journal for library and information science professionals. Periodicity: Quarterly ISSN: 0973 - 7073 Published issues: Vol.1, N1, Jan.2007 Annual subscription: Rs.150.00 for individuals; Rs.250 for Institutions Chief Editor: Prof. P.S.G.Kumar Assoc.Editor: Dr. Yalagouda M.Patil Published by:Editorial Office and Distribution, Dr.P.S.G.Kumar Library Foundation, 371, Guruprasad Nagar, Dattawadi, NAGPUR 440 023 (Maharashtra). Payments by DD to: Dr.P.S.G.Kumar Library Foundation and to be sent to the address given above. INFORMATION AGE has kept the following objectives: . Mainatain the publication schedule scrupulously; . keep the readers informed about the latest developments in LIS and IT; . Focus of timley subjects; . Annual "round-up" of events in the filed; . provide reports on events, news, views, technology up-dates, etc. You are kindly requested to send papers, news and views, comments, suggestions for enriching and betterment of Information Age; Also, I request you to kindly subscribe the journal personally and /or recommend it to your library. Request for SAMPLE copy may be sent to the Editorial and Distribution Office at Nagpur. We solicit your kind cooperationn in this matter. With kind regards, Y.M.Patil Assoc.Editor -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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LIS New Journal: Pearl (ULTA, 2007+)
by Puttaraj Choukimath 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Dear All, Greetings! FYI: New Journal (LISc) Title : Pearl: A journal of Library and Information Science (Q) [Inaugural Issue proposed to be published on 20th Mar 2007]. ISSN : 0973-7081 Editor-in-Chief : Dr. G. Sujatha Publisher : University Library Teachers Association of Andhra Pradesh (ULTA), Hyderabad, India. Address : Dr. V. Nireekrihna Babu, Associate Editor, PEARL, PS Telugu University, Nampally, Hyderabad-500 004, India. Email : vnbabu_2004(a)yahoo.co.in, pearl_journal(a)yahoo.co.in Subscription Rates : Rs.200/- (Individual); Rs.500/- (Institutional) Best regards, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: puttuc(a)yahoo.com, choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: www.tiss.edu --------------------------------- Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Are You the Library of the Year? : Library of the Year Nomination Guidelines
by sri priya 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Library of the Year Nomination Guidelines Deadline: April 2, 2007 For the details visit :--- http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA606275.html Regards, S.Sripriya --------------------------------- Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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JOB OPPORTUNITY
by sri priya 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

JOB OPPORTUNITY Interested candidates are requested to forward his/her CV to the below mentioned id or address Designation - Librarian Institution - YRG CARE Address - VHS Hospital, YTidel park Road, Taramani, Chennai 113. Salary - Rs. 6000/- approximate ( to beign with) Contact - Mr A Rajakumar, Librarian, YRG CARe, Chennai mail id - rajakumar(a)yrgcare.org Source : a.gnanasekar(a)yahoo.com Regards, s.sripriya --------------------------------- The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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pricing policy
by Mailing List Admin 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Date: 7 Mar 2007 04:39:56 -0000 From: kumar vel <ckvel69(a)rediffmail.com> Dear all, I would like to know the rates to be paid for the indian edition of foreign titles. The book supplier supply the indian edition which carries indian ISBN No.(printed in india) and charge in Dollors and Pounds which is for original international edition. Please clarify at what rates the books should be admitted. Kumaravel.C Librarian, Puducherry.

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University of Calicut LIS Conference (UCALIS 2007) : Invitation and Call for Papers
by J. K. Vijayakumar 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

University of Calicut LIS Conference 2007 (UCALIS 2007) will be organized during 28 - 29 March 2007 on the theme Future Librarianship in Knowledge Society. UCALIS 2007 is being organised jointly by Department of Library and Information science & CHMK Library at University of Calicut, Kerala, INDIA Visit Conference Website http://www.freewebs.com/ucalis2007/ Invitation It is a fact that Libraries and Librarians are facing lots of challenges in the Knowledge Society driven by Information Technology. It is also a fact that the emerging knowledge society offers many new opportunities. The new technologies have changed the ways in which information is published, communicated, stored, organized, accessed and utilized. The library without walls in the form of digital repositories and portals are accessible to users without any barriers of space and time. It is important to discuss and understand the implications of these changes for the profession. , With this objective in mind the UCALIS 2007 will focus on the following Themes: Main Theme: "Future Librarianship in Knowledge Society" Sub Themes: Knowledge Management, Knowledge Society, Future Librarianship Library and information professionals and students of Library and Information science are cordially invited to attend the conference. Call for Papers Papers are invited for presenting in the UCALIS 2007 Conference from practicing Library and Information Professionals, Library Science Teachers and Researchers, IT Professionals, Users of Information, Knowledge Management Practitioners etc. Papers should contain original contributions of knowledge, research findings, case studies etc. General presentations may be avoided. Papers should not exceed 3000 words in A4 size word document. The paper should include name of the author(s), affiliation, mailing address, telephone and e-mail address, submitted in CD-ROM along with the printed version. The paper may be sent to the address mentioned below so as to reach us on or before 28th February 2007. The electronic version of text can also be sent to bavakuttym(a)yahoo.co.in Registration Fee Registration fee is Rs. 300/- per delegate. The Registration fee includes conference kit, tea and working lunch on the days of conference. The filled-in Registration Form along with Demand Draft / Local Cheque in favor of The Professor & Head, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Calicut can be sent to the address mentioned below on or before the 15th March 2007. Form can be downloaded from http://www.freewebs.com/ucalis2007/ Dr. M Bavakutty Professor and Head Department of Library and Information Science University of Calicut 673 635 Kerala India Phone No.:0494-2 401144 * 286 (Office), 0494-2400112 (Residence) E-mail: bavakuttym(a)yahoo.co.in Dates Last Date for Sending Papers: 28th February 2007 Last Date for Intimations regarding acceptance: 10th March 2007 Venue of the seminar The sessions will be held at the Seminar Complex of the University of Calicut situated on the main campus. The campus is at Thenhipalam, a hilly village surrounded by green valleys. It is 23 kilometres south of Calicut, the capital city of erstwhile Zamorins, 12 kilometres from Karipur airport and 14 kilometres from Parappanangadi Railway Station. Calicut city is well connected with buses and trains from various parts of the country. The campus is on NH 17 and regular buses are available from Calicut city. Climate The campus and surrounding areas will have dry climate. Light summer cloth is sufficient. Accommodation A good number of moderate to luxury hotels are available near by the University campus. Accommodation is also available to a limited extend in University Guest House which will be provided on a first come first serve basis. Return journey Delegates are advised to book their return trip in advance to avoid last minute efforts and inconveniences. Places of tourist interest Calicut beach and Beypore port are within one hour journey. Pookkod lake, Thusharagiri waterfalls, Peruvannamuzhi Dam and Kappad beach where Vasco-da-Gama landed are within easy reach. The famous Sreekrishna Temple at Guruvayoor can be reached by bus within three hours. Visit http://www.freewebs.com/ucalis2007/ for more details -------------------- Dr. M Bavakutty Professor and Head Department of Library and Information Science University of Calicut - 673 635 Kerala India Phone No.:0494-2 401144 * 286 (Office), 0494-2400112 (Residence) E-mail: bavakuttym(a)yahoo.co.in --------------------------------- Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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sitting capacity
by S.F KATTIMANI 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

dear sharma 25%of seating capacity of total users eg: if 100 user 25 seating capacity -- S.F.KATTIMANI LIBRARIAN CITY ENGINEERING COLLEGE KANAKAPURA ROAD DODDAKALLASANDRA BANGALORE 560062 MOB: 9343556559

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Library accomodation
by Gayathri Sen 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

Dear friend, As per AICTE norms the central libray for an admission of 240 students per year will have a carpet area of 400 sqm. which includes stacking and seating area. A B.tech student stays for 4years in the campus. So, for 960 students at any given time 400 sqmts requied. ie. .416 sqmts per student. So. for 10,000 students approximately 4166 sq.mts. required. This is as per AICTE norms. regards, Gayathri Sen PESIT ______________________________ Librarian PES INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 100 Feet Ring Road, BSK III Stage, BANGALORE - 560085 Ph: (080) 32918985 / 26721983 www.pes.edu ______________________________ --------------------------------- Heres a new way to find what you're looking for - Yahoo! Answers

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Recruitment of Librarian at IIM Ahmedabad
by Mailing List Admin 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

Date: 7 Mar 2007 06:31:34 -0000 From: Gopakumar Velayudhanpillai <gopakumar.v(a)rediffmail.com> Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad has announced the recruitment of Librarian in the Vikaram Sarabhai Library of IIMA. The details can be had from this URL. http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/download/website_librarian.pdf Gopakumar.V Research Scholar Department of Library & Information Science Mangalore University Mangalagangotri gopakumar.v(a)rediffmail.com Mobile No: 09447056713

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access to books and information on the web , free of charge.
by Mailing List Admin 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 20:51:14 -0800 (PST) From: sri priya <sri_lib(a)yahoo.com> Bartleby.com The preeminent internet publisher of literature,reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web , free of charge. http://www.bartleby.com/ Free computer books Those books listed in this website are only links to other websites all over the world. http://freecomputerbooks.com/ FreeBooks4Doctors Over the next few years, many important medical textbooks will be available online, free and in full-text. The unrestricted access to scientific knowledge will have a major impact on medical practice. FreeBooks4Doctors! is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical books over the Internet. http://fb4d.com/ FreeTechBooks.com Free computer science and engineering books (+ lecture notes) http://www.freetechbooks.com/ Free medical book http://www.unifesp.br/universidade/english/dis/libraries/books.htm The Internet Public Library An annotated collection of high quality Internet resources, selected by IPL staff for their usefulness in providing accurate, factual information on a particular topic or topics. http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/ s.sripriya

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Do we practice what we preach?
by Sukhdev Singh 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

My today's mailbox included two special emails. One contained an attachment of proceeding of an International Conference having about 600 pages. I was very glad to receive it and hurried went through it. But it was the second email which forced my to think – it contained information on availability of another conference proceedings as a priced publication. I am asking myself a number of questions. Why should not the conference proceedings be archived somewhere and available through Open Access? What is the ultimate aim of any conference? Why do authors contribute and participate in such conferences? What are the organizers looking for? Perhaps all this is done to spread and share experiences among the professionals. But then, are there better ways? LIS community from the very beginning had been the champions of "Access to Knowledge". Why can't then the proceeding of every LIS conference be made Open Access through archiving? Aren't their enough LIS Repositories? Or we do not practice what we preach? While I seek answers from my inner self, may I appeal to LIS Conference Organizers – Let the Knowledge Spread through Open Access. --Sukhdev Singh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oadl/

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Standards for accommodation of Library user
by Ajay Kum Sharma 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

Dear Library Professionals, Can anyone help me by providing the information about the standards for accommodation of library user. If any institutions have 10000 users then how much sitting capacity will be managed in library. At what ratio of the total user, library manage sitting arrangements in the library. Thanks and Regards Ajay Kumar Sharma Project Associate, INDEST-AICTE Consortium Central Library, IIT Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016 011-26591467 (O) 09899339808 (M) Web: http://www.geocities.com/ajaysharma_lib/

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Nat. Conf. on Publ.Lib.as Commun. Inf. Centre
by Nagana Goudar 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

Dear Professionals, Sub: Postponement of National Conference on Public Libraries as Community Information Centres to 6-8 June 2007 The "National Conference On Public Libraries as Community Information Centres" was scheduled to be held on 7-9, March 2007 at Bangalore. Due to unavoidable reasons, the Organising Committee decided to postpone the said conference. Now this conference will be held on 6-8 June, 2007 at Bangalore. On behalf of the organizing committee, I regret the inconvenience caused and also I request you to participate in the Conference to be held on 6-9 June, 2007. I invite and request all LIS Professionals to contribute papers and also participate in this important conference. The details of the conference can be seen at http://www.kar.nic.in/publib/national_conference.htm P.Y. Rajendrakumar Director, Dept of Public Libraries Govt of Karnataka & Organising Secretary, NCPLCIC -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Sci F & Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html --------------------------------- Heres a new way to find what you're looking for - Yahoo! Answers

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