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Re: Actual site (careeri) hosted through lis-forum, name changed to "optcar"
by vinita 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

Today's Topic: Name changed of site hosted Dear Friends, A site on "Career Options in India" was hosted by me in June, 2004. Thanks to the suggestions and well-wishes received, the site has been updated. However, the site name has been changed from careeri to "optcar". Please visit the newly updated site: <http://www.freewebs.com/optcar>http://www.freewebs.com/optcar Suggestions for further updation and improvements are most welcome! Thanks, Vinita L. Hattangadi, (Library Assistant) Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India E-mail: <vinita(a)igidr.ac.in>vinita(a)igidr.ac.in  Today's Topic: Name changed of site hosted Dear Friends, A site on "Career Options in India" was hosted by me in June, 2004. Thanks to the suggestions and well-wishes received, the site has been updated. However, the site name has been changed from careeri to "optcar". Please visit the newly updated site: http://www.freewebs.com/optcar http://www.freewebs.com/optcar Suggestions for further updation and improvements are most welcome! Thanks, Vinita L. Hattangadi, ( Library Assistant) Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India E-mail: mailto:vinita@igidr.ac.in vinita(a)igidr.ac.in

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Prof.M.A.Gopinath Lecture series- 2006
by M Krishnamurthy 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

KARNTATAKA STATE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (R) Cordially invites you for Prof. M.A.Gopinath Annual Lecture Series-2006 By PROF.C.R.KARISIDDAPPA Dean, Faculty of Social Science, Professor and Chairman, Department of Library and Information Science, Karnatak University, Dharwad 58003 Topic INFORMATION LITERACY FOR LIFE LONG LEARNING Prof. K.S Raghavan Professor, DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore will preside Date and Time : 17th August, 2006 at 5.30 PM Venue: Canara Bank School of Management, Central College Campus, Dr.Ambedkar Veedhi, Bangalore 560001 Dr.I.R.N Goudar Prof.T.D.Kemparaju President , KALA Secretary, KALA Office Bearers and Members of GC, KALA *************************************** Dr.M.Krishnamurthy,M.A.,M.L.I.Sc.,Ph.D Fulbright Scholar (University of Illinois, USA) Librarian Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalore 560059 www.isibang.ac.in/library Ph:91-80-8483002/3 Fax :91-80-28484265

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Work after retirement
by latha krishnaprasad 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

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CD3WD - digital library of technical info for 3rd world developemt
by vimal kumar 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

Dear Professional, cd3wd is a project which provides free of charge 1.2 gigabytes of electronic books and documents on practical technical aspects of 3rd world development both for online browsing and (more importantly) for offline useage on pc's. It is comprised of html, jpg, gif and pdf files and is truly cross-platform, being useable on windows, linux, mac, and unix computers. Since going online august 2004 we have an average of 6 downloads of 700+ megabytes per day, i.e. 4.2 gigabytes per day, 1.4 terrabytes per year, 2.8 terrabytes total to date. cd3wd covers agriculture, health, watsan, appropriate technology and alternative energy, construction, education, forestry, fisheries, food processing, metalwork, woodwork, election systems, economics, business management, SME management etc etc.. Our next major move is the issue of complete translations from english to spanish, french, portuguese, arabic, chinese and russian. Thereafter an expansion into formal and informal education material. http://www.cd3wd.com/CD3WD/ Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. cd3wd is a project which provides free of charge 1.2 gigabytes of electronic books and documents on practical technical aspects of 3rd world development both for online browsing and (more importantly) for offline useage on pc's. It is comprised of html, jpg, gif and pdf files and is truly cross-platform, being useable on windows, linux, mac, and unix computers. Since going online august 2004 we have an average of 6 downloads of 700+ megabytes per day, i.e. 4.2 gigabytes per day, 1.4 terrabytes per year, 2.8 terrabytes total to date. cd3wd covers agriculture, health, watsan, appropriate technology and alternative energy, construction, education, forestry, fisheries, food processing, metalwork, woodwork, election systems, economics, business management, SME management etc etc.. Our next major move is the issue of complete translations from english to spanish, french, portuguese, arabic, chinese and russian. Thereafter an expansion into formal and informal education material. http://www.cd3wd.com/CD3WD/ Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman1/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.

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Open Access to publicly funded research
by Subbiah Arunachalam 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

25 US University Provosts Support Senate Bill on Open Access. [Please see the full text of the letter at http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/groups/CICMembers/archive/documents/FRPAAletterFina… . The universities include Harvard, University of California, Pennsylvania State University, University of Michigan, Texas A&M University, Syracuse University, University of Iowa, Purdue University, and Carnegie-Mellon University]. A second set of over 20 university provosts came out with their support to FRPAA within a few days of the first 25. ------------------------------------------------------- Twenty-five US University Provosts have issued an open letter to the US Higher Education community, voicing strong support for the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 (FRPAA). In the letter, the Provosts state, "We endorse FRPAA's aims and urge the academic community, individually and collectively, to voice support for its passage." FRPAA would require Federal agencies whose extramural research budgets exceed $100 million to develop policies ensuring open, public access to the research supported by their grants or conducted by their employees. The Act is currently awaiting consideration by the US Senate. The signatories of the letter, which include the Provosts of Harvard and the University of California, write, "We believe that this legislation represents a watershed and provides an opportunity for the entire U.S. higher education and research community to draw upon their traditional partnerships and collaboratively realize the unquestionably good intentions of the Bill's framers - broadening access to publicly funded research in order to accelerate the advancement of knowledge and maximize the related public good." The open letter is available on the Committee of Institutional Cooperation website. ___________________________________________________________ Funding agencies (and governments) in developing countries such as India should do well to mandate open, public access to the research supported by their grants. Vice chancellors of universities, directors of research centres, heads of funding institutions and science academies and professional societies should urge the government to enact appropriate legislation (similar to the FRPAA in the USA). And without waiting for the legislation to be in place, they should set up interoperable institutional open access archives (as has been done at the Indian Institute of Science, NCL, NAL, NIO, RRI, IIA and a few other institutions) AND GO ONE STEP FURTHER and mandate OA (as has been done at NIT, Rourkela). Subbiah Arunachalam

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Do journalspermit institutional archiving?
by Subbiah Arunachalam 13 Aug '06

13 Aug '06

Friends: A few days agoI gave a talk on open access at the Bose Institute, Kolkata (Ultadanga - Salt Lake campus). Afew biologists were very concerned about publishing only in high impact journals and they thought publishers of those journals would not allow authors to self-archive the papers after publication. This afternoon I had lunch with a senior scientist in H'bad and he told me that "most of us are publishing in high impact journals once in a while and if the journal forbids archiving we will not be able to archive." There may be a number of other researchers in India who may share such apprehensions. Here is a message from Stevan Harnad which provides AUTHENTIC information on the actual number of journals that permit author self-archiving. The actual titles of these journals are available at the SHERPA and Romeo sites. All Kluwer journals and all Springer journals, for example, allow author self-archiving (or institutional archiving). Of the 9,214 journals surveyed, 6458 (or 70%) allow archiving of both preprints and post-prints, and 23% allow preprint archiving - making a total of 93% of journals. Please spread the word among all scientists. Thanks and best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ---------------------------------- Stevan Harnad in a discussion list In Open Access News, Peter Suber wrote: > I applaud Cambridge's decision to continue to allow immediate OA > archiving of peer-reviewed author manuscripts, even when authors > choose not to participate in Cambridge Open. That's a step most of > the other OA hybrid programs have been unwilling to take. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_08_06_fosblogarchive.html#115541257… Actually, Cambridge University Press's commendable Open Access Policy: (1) Green on PREPRINT self-archiving (2) Green on immediate, unembargoed POSTPRINT self-archiving *and* (3) Hybrid Gold (Cambridge Open Option) is optimal, but CUP, now offering Open Option (for 15 of its 186 journals) is not alone or in the minority among Green Publishers! For example, Springer's Open Choice covers Springer's 502 Journals and (I believe) Kluwer's 837 journals, and these journals are all solid GREEN. I will provide the figures in terms of number and percentage of journals rather than in terms of number and percentage of publishers (because some publishers publish 1000+ journals and some publish only one!). (The primary data are from SHERPA-Romeo http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php ; they are recoded at EPrint-Romeo http://romeo.eprints.org/ ): GREEN journals (6458/9214) (70%): Endorse POSTPRINT (G) or both POSTPRINT and PREPRINT (Gg) self-archiving PALE-GREEN journals (2113/9214) (23%): Endorse PREPRINT (g) self-archiving only. GRAY journals (627/9214) (7%): Endorse neither PREPRINT nor POSTPRINT (X) self-archiving The embargoes (1864/9214) (20%) are, as you would expect, and almost by definition, mostly among the PALE-GREEN journals, who only endorse PREPRINT (g) self-archiving: GREEN (Gg + G) journal embargoes: 27/6458 = <1% PALE-GREEN (g) journal embargoes: 1821/2113 = 86% GRAY (X) journal embargoes: 16/627 = 3% Note that the right way to interpret this is that the endorsement of delayed self-archiving is an *advance* over no endorsement of self-archiving at all. So the 14% of PALE-GREEN (g) journals who don't endorse at least delayed postprint self-archiving are in fact *less* progressive than the 86% that do endorse postprint self-archiving after a delay. And of course the 3% of GRAY journals that endorse delayed self-archiving are at least a smidgen more progressive than those who don't endorse self-archiving at all (though two of these -- the Modern Humanities Research Association journals with a 24-month embargo and the 6 Inter Research journals with a *48-month* embargo are a bit of a joke!). A few updates have to be done, however, in both SHERPA-Romeo and EPrints-Romeo, to downgrade the 27 (1%) of the 6458 GREEN (G) journals to GRAY (X), because embargoed self-archiving is definitely *not* Green. Data details, including the minor re-classifications that are needed, appear below. Stevan Harnad ----------------------------------------------------------------- Australian Psychological Society 12 (3, GREEN-Gg) G-->g Royal College of Psychiatrists 12 (5 GREEN-G) 5G-->X **Royal Statistical Society 12 (3 GREEN-X) 3G-->X Society for Endocrinology 12 (3 GREEN-X) 3G-->X *Inter Research 48! (6, GREEN-X) 6G-->X Modern Humanities Research Association 24! (6, GREEN-X) 6G-->X Total 9339 --> 9197 --> 9214 GREEN (G or Gg)6483 69% --> 70% (+1)--> 6484 70% -3 -23 --> 6458 70% PALE-GREEN (g) 2248 24% (-138) = 2110 --> 23% +3 --> 2113 --> 23% GRAY 604 7% (+16)--> 620 7% +23 --> 627 7% Embargoes Total: 1864/9214 = 20% Gg 3 G 1 5 3 3 6 6 = 24 >1% g 1 698 1 47 188 50 9 56 771 = 1821 86% X 16 3% Association of Applied Biologists 12 (1, PALE-GREEN) Blackwell 6/12 (698, PALE-GREEN) Nature Publishing Group 6 (47, PALE-GREEN) Oxford 12/24 (188 PALE-GREEN) University of Chicago Press (some) (50, PALE-GREEN) Yale Law School 12 (9, PALE-GREEN) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press 12 (56, PALE-GREEN) Taylor & Francis 12/18 (909 -138 = 771 PALE-GREEN: double-counts!) 83 Dekker, 27 Psychology Press, 28, CRC Press ***University of Texas Press (some) (not yet listed) (16, GRAY) ****Biophysical Society ? (1, GREEN) (not yet listed)

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ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science
by Mukesh - Monitor 13 Aug '06

13 Aug '06

Dear Professionals ODLIS is designed as a hypertext reference resource for library and information science professionals, university students and faculty, and users of all types of libraries. The primary criterion for including a term is whether a librarian or other information professional might reasonably be expected to know its meaning in the course of his or her work. More details and using online dictionary, click the link below: http://monitorlinks.typepad.com/newbooks/2006/08/odlis_online_di.html Best Wishes Mukesh Anand http://monitorlinks.typepad.com Dear Professionals ODLIS is designed as a hypertext reference resource for library and information science professionals, university students and faculty, and users of all types of libraries. The primary criterion for including a term is whether a librarian or other information professional might reasonably be expected to know its meaning in the course of his or her work. More details and using online dictionary, click the link below: http://monitorlinks.typepad.com/newbooks/2006/08/odlis_online_di.html http://monitorlinks.typepad.com/newbooks/2006/08/odlis_online_di.html Best Wishes Mukesh Anand http://monitorlinks.typepad.com http://monitorlinks.typepad.com

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information on management schools
by Vrushali Rane 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

Dear All, I am looking for statistical information on the number of management school in India, the total number of courses offered, total number of seats etc. Kindly let me know the source where this info is available. Thanks & Regards Vrushali Rane Librarian Narsee Monjee Institute of Management & Higher Studies (Deemed University) V.L.Mehta Road, JVPD Scheme, Vile Parle (W) Mumbai 400056. Maharashtra. India information on management schools Dear All, I am looking for statistical information on the number of management school in India, the total number of courses offered, total number of seats etc. Kindly let me know the source where this info is available. Thanks & Regards Vrushali Rane Librarian Narsee Monjee Institute of Management & Higher Studies (Deemed University) V.L.Mehta Road, JVPD Scheme, Vile Parle (W) Mumbai 400056. Maharashtra. India

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Ebooks in Mobiles
by sandeep bhavsar 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

Greetings The highly fluid technological leaps and bounds require us to provide services which are user friendly and accesible. So to say "any time and all time" information availability. We all know the impact of Internet technology in the field of library science - it helpes us reach the personal inbox spaces of individuals and corporates. Mobile technology enables us to reach the information right into the pocket. We at Dr. VN BRIMS library are launching "Info-in-Cell" service from Independance day 15th August 2006 targeted primarily at end users - Students, Faculty, corporate members and staff. Installation of e-books on various models mobile phones and other handheld devices (including laptop, desktops). The Library at Dr. VN BRIMS would be happy to help other libraries to launch this service. The members would be happy to note that our students have already started using this service. This helps them read e-books on their mobile phones when they are travelling thus utilising their time productively. Please feel free to contact me at sandeep(a)vpmthane.org for further details. Given opportunity in any Seminar / Conferences, I would be happy to explain how to install ebooks in Mobiles Practically. Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Libraraian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Research and Management Studies Thane (W) 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : Sandeep(a)vpmthane.org Mobile : 09870484626 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ --------------------------------- All New Yahoo! Mail Tired of Vi@gr@! come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect you. Greetings The highly fluid technological leaps and bounds require us to provide services which are user friendly and accesible. So to say "any time and all time" information availability. We all know the impact of Internet technology in the field of library science - it helpes us reach the personal inbox spaces of individuals and corporates. Mobile technology enables us to reach the information right into the pocket. We at Dr. VN BRIMS library are launching "Info-in-Cell" service from Independance day 15th August 2006 targeted primarily at end users - Students, Faculty, corporate members and staff. Installation of e-books on various models mobile phones and other handheld devices (including laptop, desktops). The Library at Dr. VN BRIMS would be happy to help other libraries to launch this service. The members would be happy to note that our students have already started using this service. This helps them read e-books on their mobile phones when they are travelling thus utilising their time productively. Please feel free to contact me at http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/MANINFOPRO/post?postID=619EiEDUArwG20… sandeep(a)vpmthane.org for further details. Given opportunity in any Seminar / Conferences, I would be happy to explain how to install ebooks in Mobiles Practically. Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Libraraian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Research and Management Studies Thane (W) 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : mailto:Sandeep@vpmthane.org Sandeep(a)vpmthane.org Mobile : 09870484626 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/nowyoucan/spamguard/*http:/… All New Yahoo! Mail Tired of Vi@gr@! come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect you.

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looking for an article
by sujata.laxmeshwar＠wipro.com 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

Dear all, I am looking for an article. Pls. send hard or softcopy to me as the earliest. Kamel, M. and Zhao, A., ``Extraction of Binary Character/Graphics Images from Grayscale Document Images", CVGIP: Graphical Models and Image Processing Journal, Vol. 55, No. 3, May 1993, pp. 203-217. Best regards, Sujata Laxmeshwar Librarian, ISD Wipro Technologies. Information Services Division 53/1 Hosur Road, Madivala Bangalore - 560 068 Phone no. : 4138 1065 The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. WARNING: Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.wipro.com  � � Dear all, � I am looking for an article. Pls. send hard or softcopy to me as the earliest. � Kamel, M. and Zhao, A., ``Extraction of Binary Character/Graphics Images from Grayscale Document Images", CVGIP: Graphical Models and Image Processing Journal, Vol. 55, No. 3, May 1993, pp. 203-217. � � Best regards, Sujata Laxmeshwar Librarian, ISD Wipro Technologies. Information Services Division 53/1 Hosur Road , Madivala Bangalore – 560 068 Phone no. : 4138 1065 � � � The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. WARNING: Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.wipro.com

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request for article
by saravanan 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

Dear friends, We urgently require the following article . Pl send a soft/hard copy. Brunner-Lachaux, H. (1986). The Pasupatas as seen by the Saivas. In : Sanskrit and World Culture, Schriften zur Geschichte und Kultur des Alten Orients, vol. 18, Berlin, pp. 513-520. Or kindly let me know which library is subscribing to the above journal. Thanks ! G. Saravanan Librarian French Institute of Pondicherry 11, Saint Louis Street, P.B. 33 PONDICHERRY - 605 001 South India, INDIA Ph: 0091 - 413 - 2334168 Extn. 126/139 Fax: 0091 - 413 2339534 Mail : saravanan.g(a)ifpindia.org Web : www.ifpindia.org Dear friends, We urgently require the following article . Pl send a soft/hard copy. Brunner-Lachaux, H. (1986). The Pasupatas as seen by the Saivas. In : Sanskrit and World Culture, Schriften zur Geschichte und Kultur des Alten Orients, vol. 18, Berlin, pp. 513-520. Or kindly let me know which library is subscribing to the above journal. Thanks ! G. Saravanan Librarian French Institute of Pondicherry 11, Saint Louis Street, P.B. 33 PONDICHERRY - 605 001 South India, INDIA Ph: 0091 - 413 - 2334168 Extn. 126/139 Fax: 0091 - 413 2339534 Mail : mailto:saravanan.g@ifpindia.org saravanan.g(a)ifpindia.org Web : http://www.ifpindia.org www.ifpindia.org

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Books that matter
by Thapar, Amit 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

Books That Matter http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_25/b3989649.htm To entrepreneurs, that is. Business Week asked entrepreneurs which books were most influential in helping them build their companies. Here are the results. WorldCat [OCLC] http://worldcat.org/ At last the full database of of the world's largest library network is freely available! Search many libraries at once for a particular item, then check to see what nearby libraries hold it. You can also download a WorldCat toolbar, and add its search box to your own web site. amit@urservice Cell: 9855701060 e-mail: amit_thapar(a)yahoo.com URL: http://www.niper.gov.in/ Books That Matter http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_25/b3989649.htm http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_25/b3989649.htm To entrepreneurs, that is. Business Week asked entrepreneurs which books were most influential in helping them build their companies. Here are the results. WorldCat [OCLC] http://worldcat.org/ http://worldcat.org/ At last the full database of of the world's largest library network is freely available! Search many libraries at once for a particular item, then check to see what nearby libraries hold it. You can also download a WorldCat toolbar, and add its search box to your own web site. mailto:amit@urservice amit@urservice Cell: 9855701060 e-mail: mailto:amit_thapar@yahoo.com amit_thapar(a)yahoo.com URL: http://www.niper.gov.in/ http://www.niper.gov.in/

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SIG III International Paper ContestFundraising Campaign
by Satish Munnolli 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

-- * Apologies for cross posting * -- *Elsevier, Eugene Garfield Foundation, SIGs, Chapters, LIS Schools, and Individuals have contributed $7,220 to the ASIST SIG III International Paper Contest* SIG III would like to thank the generous donors for their support for the International Paper Contest, who have helped raise $7,220 since mid-March 2006. The SIG III fundraising campaign is ongoing and we welcome contributions to keep the program going. Here is the list of donors that have received as of August 10, 2006: -Institutional Donors Eugene Garfield Foundation: $2,150 Elsevier: $2,000 Kent State University SLIS: $500 Drexel University College of IST: $500 ASIST Chicago Chapter: $500 ASIST Los Angeles Chapter (LACASIS): $300 University of Western Ontario: $250 University of South Carolina: $200 Information International Association: $100 University of Toronto: $100 ASIST European Chapter: $100 ASIST Central Ohio Chapter: $100 -Individual donors: $375 Bonnie Carroll, Lucy Te-Chu Lee, D. Rajabooshanam, Julian Warner -In-Kind Donations Two copies of the “Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction” by Berkshire Publishing Group. (awarded to the second authors of the top-ranked 2nd and 3rd Paper Contest winners). This year marks the seventh anniversary of the ASIST SIG III International Paper Contest on International Digital Libraries and Information Science & Technology Advances in Developing Countries. The International Paper Contest is one of the most successful programs run by SIG III each year. The papers submitted represent important developments in information science, and they serve to advance the information profession worldwide. To date, 323 authors of 270 papers from 51 countries/areas have participated in the SIG III International Paper Contest. Many of the papers have been published in library and information literature, including the International Information and Library Review and the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. In addition, contest winners often see advances in their professional careers. Their stories are posted on the ASIST SIG III website at http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/. This valuable opportunity would not be available without the financial support provided by all of our generous donors. The raised funds will support two-year ASIST memberships for six to eight of the paper contest winners each year and cover expenses of the top winner(s) to travel from his or her home country to the ASIST Annual Meeting. Since the first paper contest in 2000, through this program, SIG III has sponsored over forty two-year ASIST memberships to contest winners from 15 different countries, and has supported 16 winners to attend the ASIST Annual Meeting. SIG III is currently reaping the benefits of our International Paper Contest fundraising campaign, which is bringing in donations from all over the world. As in the past years, SIG III was privileged enough to receive donations from various ASIST Chapters (including the newly formed European Chapter), many of which donate on a regular basis, and others that have contributed greatly to our fundraising effort throughout the past several years. Elsevier has also been a constant help, donating $3000 this year ($2000 for the International Paper Contest alone, and another $1000 for the International Reception). The Eugene Garfield Foundation has also generously provided us with $2150. We are also thankful to the LIS schools throughout North America that have contributed generously to this campaign. Finally, thanks to individual donors and to Berkshire Publishing, which has graciously offered two copies of their Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction. We would like to thank all of these donors for their ongoing support, as it means a great deal to us. We are also extremely grateful for the help of these donors. Without their contributions, we would not be able to run the International Paper Contest, which benefits so many scholars and information professionals around the world. Additionally, we would like to thank all the individual donors who have contributed in the past and will contribute again in the future. Finally, we would like to thank the Executive Director Richard Hill and Director of Finance Janice Hatzakos at ASIST headquarters for their help in processing the donations and making them available for our digital scholar funds. The officers and members of SIG III are always working diligently to make this SIG the best it can be. Between this effort and all the support received this year, it is certain that this year’s International Paper Contest will be just as successful as it has been in the past years. Again, thanks for the continued support. For more information about the International Paper Contest, please visit the International Paper Contest section of the SIG III website (http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/) Nadia Caidi, SIG III Chair, 2005-2006. --------- We would greatly appreciate more donations to keep this paper competition running. If this is possible, please send a check, made payable to: ASIST for the "Digital Scholars Fund," attn: Richard Hill Executive Director, ASIST 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA We thank you for your generosity in contributing to this International Paper Contest that has benefited so many people. _______________________________________________ Sigiii-l mailing list Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer (ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410 208 India Ph : +91 22 2740 5026 Fax : +91 22 2740 5085 Email : smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in %-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-% % % % Note: The present domain [actrec.res.in] will be changed to % % [actrec.gov.in] w.e.f. 15th August, 2006. 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OA mandated at the University of Tasmania
by Subbiah Arunachalam 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

OA mandate at the U of Tasmania School of Computing The University of Tasmania School of Computing has its own OA repository and a policy mandating that all refereed publications in conferences, journals and books, be deposited in the School/University repository. This applies to faculty, and to PhD candidates and other students, without exception. [From Peter Suber's blog]. The larger universities in India, especially the central universities, will do well to mandate OA for all faculty and student publications in refereed journals OA mandate at the U of Tasmania School of Computing The http://www.comp.utas.edu.au/ University of Tasmania School of Computing has its own http://eprints.comp.utas.edu.au/ OA repository and a http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/fullinfo.php?inst=University… policy mandating that all refereed publications in conferences, journals and books, be deposited in the School/University repository. This applies to faculty, and to PhD candidates and other students, without exception. [From Peter Suber's blog]. The larger universities in India, especially the central universities, will do well to mandate OA for all faculty and student publications in refereed journals

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Return on research enhanced by OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

Here is an interesting paper on the economic returns of OA (from Peter Suber's blog). Arun ------ More on the Houghton/Sheehan analysis Stevan Harnad, Maximising the Return on Resource Investment in Research, August 10, 2006. Excerpt: In a recent preprint, Houghton & Sheehan (2006), using estimates from economic modeling, have confirmed the substantial potential enhancement of the return on resource investment in research if the resulting articles are made Open Access:... Excerpts: "Whether applied across the board or to sector specific research findings (e.g. open access to publicly funded research) it seems that there may be substantial potential benefits to be gained from more open access. For example [GERD = Gross Expenditure on Research and Development]... - With Germany's GERD at USD 58.7 billion and assuming social returns to R&D of 50%, a 5% increase in access and efficiency would have been worth USD 3 billion; - With Japan's GERD at USD 112.7 billion and assuming social returns to R&D of 50%, a 5% increase in access and efficiency would have been worth USD 5.8 billion; - With the United Kingdom's GERD at USD 33.7 billion and assuming social returns to R&D of 50%, a 5% increase in access and efficiency would have been worth USD 1.7 billion; and - With the United State's GERD at USD 312.5 billion and assuming social returns to R&D of 50%, a 5% increase in access and efficiency would have been worth USD 16 billion. "While it is impossible to calculate the quantum of benefits with certainty, these simple estimates of the potential impacts of enhanced access on returns to R&D suggest that a move towards more open access may have substantial positive impacts... "Given substantial R&D expenditures and the scale of the potential impacts identified in this preliminary work, these issues represent fertile ground for further policy relevant inquiry." These estimates agree substantially with prior estimates that have been made (e.g., for the UK, Canada and Australia, see below). Research Funding Councils and Universities worldwide are at last beginning to realise that it is high time (indeed well overdue) to maximise the returns on their research investment by mandating Open Access self-archiving.... Here is an interesting paper on the economic returns of OA (from Peter Suber's blog). Arun ------ [A] [A] More on the Houghton/Sheehan analysis Stevan Harnad, http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/120-Maximising-the-Return… Maximising the Return on Resource Investment in Research , August 10, 2006. Excerpt: In a recent preprint, http://www.cfses.com/documents/wp23.pdf Houghton & Sheehan (2006) , using estimates from economic modeling, have confirmed the substantial potential enhancement of the return on resource investment in research if the resulting articles are made Open Access:... Excerpts: "Whether applied across the board or to sector specific research findings (e.g. open access to publicly funded research) it seems that there may be substantial potential benefits to be gained from more open access. For example [GERD = Gross Expenditure on Research and Development]... - With Germany's GERD at USD 58.7 billion and assuming social returns to R&D of 50%, a 5% increase in access and efficiency would have been worth USD 3 billion; - With Japan's GERD at USD 112.7 billion and assuming social returns to R&D of 50%, a 5% increase in access and efficiency would have been worth USD 5.8 billion; - With the United Kingdom's GERD at USD 33.7 billion and assuming social returns to R&D of 50%, a 5% increase in access and efficiency would have been worth USD 1.7 billion; and - With the United State's GERD at USD 312.5 billion and assuming social returns to R&D of 50%, a 5% increase in access and efficiency would have been worth USD 16 billion. "While it is impossible to calculate the quantum of benefits with certainty, these simple estimates of the potential impacts of enhanced access on returns to R&D suggest that a move towards more open access may have substantial positive impacts... "Given substantial R&D expenditures and the scale of the potential impacts identified in this preliminary work, these issues represent fertile ground for further policy relevant inquiry." These estimates agree substantially with prior estimates that have been made (e.g., for the http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/28-guid.html UK , http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11534/ Canada and http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/41-guid.html Australia , see below). http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/ Research Funding Councils and Universities worldwide are at last beginning to realise that it is high time (indeed http://211.81.31.9/dlib/www.dlib.org/dlib/december99/12harnad.html well overdue ) to maximise the returns on their research investment by http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/sign.php mandating Open Access self-archiving ....

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Of interest to physicists
by Subbiah Arunachalam 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

From Peter Suber's blog myADS-arXiv as a "tailor-made, open access, virtual journal" E. Henneken, M.J. Kurz and six co-authors, myADS-arXiv - a Tailor-Made, Open Access, Virtual Journal, a preprint self-archived August 4, 2006. Abstract: The myADS-arXiv service provides the scientific community with a one stop shop for staying up-to-date with a researcher's field of interest. The service provides a powerful and unique filter on the enormous amount of bibliographic information added to the ADS on a daily basis. It also provides a complete view with the most relevant papers available in the subscriber's field of interest. With this service, the subscriber will get to know the lastest developments, popular trends and the most important papers. This makes the service not only unique from a technical point of view, but also from a content point of view. On this poster we will argue why myADS-arXiv is a tailor-made, open access, virtual journal and we will illustrate its unique character. Please spread the word among physicists. Thanks and best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] From Peter Suber's blog myADS-arXiv as a "tailor-made, open access, virtual journal" E. Henneken, M.J. Kurz and six co-authors, http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/cs/pdf/0608/0608027.pdf myADS-arXiv - a Tailor-Made, Open Access, Virtual Journal , a preprint self-archived August 4, 2006. Abstract: The http://myads.harvard.edu/arxiv_help.html myADS-arXiv service provides the scientific community with a one stop shop for staying up-to-date with a researchers field of interest. The service provides a powerful and unique filter on the enormous amount of bibliographic information added to the ADS on a daily basis. It also provides a complete view with the most relevant papers available in the subscribers field of interest. With this service, the subscriber will get to know the lastest developments, popular trends and the most important papers. This makes the service not only unique from a technical point of view, but also from a content point of view. On this poster we will argue why myADS-arXiv is a tailor-made, open access, virtual journal and we will illustrate its unique character. Please spread the word among physicists. Thanks and best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Open data policy
by Subbiah Arunachalam 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

Friends: Should governments make data collected with taxpayers' money freely available to all on the Net? The Manitoba state government in Canada thinks so. Please see the news story appended below. What is the situation in India and other developing countries? Subbiah Arunachalam ---------------------------------- Praise for Manitoba's open data policy Michael Cross, Canada proves itself to be genuine land of the free, The Guardian, August 10, 2006. Excerpt: The government of Manitoba says it was the first in Canada to make all its publicly funded geospatial data freely available, without any licensing terms, to government, businesses and citizens. This is the policy that Technology Guardian's Free our Data campaign calls on the UK government to adopt. Officials say that the Manitoba Land Initiative, adopted in 2000, is based on sound business sense. "Frankly, it just did not make good economic sense to try and sell data that the taxpayers already paid for, and it was costing us much more to try to sell data and manage distribution then we were making in revenue," says Harvey Pokrant, director of the information technology services branch in the provincial capital Winnipeg.... This is a vivid contrast to the UK government approach, which encourages state bodies holding data to treat it as intellectual property and to charge for its use, even by other parts of government.... In theory, freeing data along the Manitoba model should make life easier for officials creating policies for environmental protection, managing natural resources and encouraging investment in the province. It should also encourage the private sector to create value-added products based on public data. Pokrant says there is evidence that this is happening.... Friends: Should governments make data collected with taxpayers' money freely available to all on the Net? The Manitoba state government in Canada thinks so. Please see the news story appended below. What is the situation in India and other developing countries? Subbiah Arunachalam ---------------------------------- Praise for Manitoba's open data policy Michael Cross, http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1840386,00.html Canada proves itself to be genuine land of the free , The Guardian , August 10, 2006. Excerpt: The government of Manitoba says it was the first in Canada to make all its publicly funded geospatial data freely available, without any licensing terms, to government, businesses and citizens. This is the policy that Technology Guardian's Free our Data campaign calls on the UK government to adopt. Officials say that the https://web2.gov.bb.ca/mli/ Manitoba Land Initiative , adopted in 2000, is based on sound business sense. "Frankly, it just did not make good economic sense to try and sell data that the taxpayers already paid for, and it was costing us much more to try to sell data and manage distribution then we were making in revenue," says Harvey Pokrant, director of the information technology services branch in the provincial capital Winnipeg.... This is a vivid contrast to the UK government approach, which encourages state bodies holding data to treat it as intellectual property and to charge for its use, even by other parts of government.... In theory, freeing data along the Manitoba model should make life easier for officials creating policies for environmental protection, managing natural resources and encouraging investment in the province. It should also encourage the private sector to create value-added products based on public data. Pokrant says there is evidence that this is happening....

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Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Memorial Lectures (14) (2006)
by SRELS 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Dear Sir : Kindly arrange to insert the following Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Memorial Lectures (14) (2006) by the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science for the benefit of lis-forum members. Yours sincerely, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajianagar, Bangalore 560 010 ************ The Board of Trustees of the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS), Bangalore in association with Canara Bank School of Management Studies, Bangalore University, Bangalore cordially invites you to the Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Memorial Lectures (14) (2006) Topic: INFORMATION SUPPORT FOR THE LEGAL PROFESSION Speaker: Hon'ble Justice Gopal Sriram Judge, Court of Appeal, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Date: 23, 24 and 25 August 2006 at 6.00 p.m. each day Venue: Canara Bank School of Management Studies Seminar Hall, Central College Campus, Bangalore University, Bangalore 560 001 Prof. Dr. A. Jayagovind Vice-Chancellor, National Law School of India University, Bangalore will inaugurate Prof. S. Parthasarathy Member, Board of Trustees, SRELS, Bangalore will preside RSVP: K.N. Prasad - Ph: (080)23305109 R. Adilakshmi - Ph: (080)22961975 E-mail: srels(a)vsnl.com E-mail: adilakshmi_cbsms(a)rediffmail.com Dear Sir : Kindly arrange to insert the following Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Memorial Lectures (14) (2006) by the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science for the benefit of lis-forum members. Yours sincerely, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, 702, 42 nd Cross, III Block, Rajajianagar, Bangalore 560 010 ************ The Board of Trustees of the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS), Bangalore in association with Canara Bank School of Management Studies, Bangalore University, Bangalore cordially invites you to the Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Memorial Lectures (14) (2006) Topic : INFORMATION SUPPORT FOR THE LEGAL PROFESSION Speaker : Honble Justice Gopal Sriram Judge, Court of Appeal, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Date : 23, 24 and 25 August 2006 at 6.00 p.m. each day Venue : Canara Bank School of Management Studies Seminar Hall, Central College Campus, Bangalore University, Bangalore 560 001 Prof. Dr. A. Jayagovind Vice-Chancellor, National Law School of India University, Bangalore will inaugurate Prof. S. Parthasarathy Member, Board of Trustees, SRELS, Bangalore will preside RSVP: K.N. Prasad - Ph: (080)23305109 R. Adilakshmi - Ph: (080)22961975 E-mail: srels(a)vsnl.com E-mail: adilakshmi_cbsms(a)rediffmail.com

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InfoVision2006-the Knowledge Summit, September 28-29, 2006, Bangalore
by Shalini Urs 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Dear Friends, Join us at InfoVision 2006 - for an intellectual feast of listening to and interacting with thought leaders across the Knowledge Spectrum. InfoVision 2006 - the Knowledge Summit is being organised during September 28 - 29, 2006 at Hotel Meridien, Bangalore. Come and listen to visionaries and leaders such as Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and Prof. Peter Lor, Secretary General, IFLA InfoVision brings to you the 2006 MAKE (Most Admired Knowledge Company) Award Ceremony at the Gala Dinner on September 28, 2006 Come, participate in the interactive Panel Debates with the MAKE Award winners. For more details - www.infovision2006.org <http://www.infovision2006.org/> ---- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Executive Director International School of Information Management University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore - 570006 Tele : + 91 821 2514699 Fax : + 91 821 2519209 www.isim.ac.in www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm  Dear Friends, � Join us at InfoVision 2006 - for �an intellectual feast of listening to and interacting with thought leaders across the Knowledge Spectrum. � InfoVision 2006 – the Knowledge Summit is being organised during September 28 – 29, 2006 at Hotel Meridien, Bangalore . � Come and listen to visionaries and leaders such as Jimmy Wales, the founder of ��Wikipedia and Prof. Peter Lor, Secretary General, IFLA � InfoVision brings to you the 2006 MAKE (Most Admired Knowledge Company) Award Ceremony at the Gala Dinner on September 28, 2006 � Come, participate in the interactive Panel Debates with the MAKE Award winners. � For more details – �� http://www.infovision2006.org/ www.infovision2006.org � ---- � Dr.Shalini R. Urs Executive Director International School of Information Management University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore - 570006 Tele : + 91 821 2514699 Fax� : + 91 821 2519209 www.isim.ac.in www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm �

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UK to launch PubMed Central in a few months
by Mailing List Manager 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:42:53 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> >From Peter Suber's blog More on UKPMC UK PubMed Central To Launch in January, Library Journal, August 9, 2006. Excerpt: The desire to make government funded research freely available to the public got another boost with the announced launch of UK PubMed Central (UKPMC), a repository based on the PubMed Central in the United States, operated by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Like its American counterpart, UKPMC will provide free access to an online digital archive of peer-reviewed research papers in the medical and life sciences. Officials at the Wellcome Trust, strong advocates of open access, said the contract to run UKPMC was awarded to a partnership between the British Library, the University of Manchester and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). Launch of the service is scheduled for January 2007....

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RE: [LIS-Forum] After retirement
by Mailing List Manager 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 06:37:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Mahesh G T <nisargamahesh(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear All, its a good topic to discuss,"After Retirement" ofcourse there is no retirement for any professional untill he feels it,, i personally feel that, retired professionals can form a association may be region wise or area wise, as they can actively participate/organize the programmes like Counselling, Mentoring and other developmental activities for the young upcoming professionals as well as Libraries.They can share their 25-30 years of realtime experience to the changing world by writing a book or sharing through the Forum like this, and also Conferences/Seminars/and Workshops can allow atleast 2-3 retired professionals to present their expierience, as their expierience could also be documented in an Conference/Seminar Proceedings. They can organize orientation clases for the young professionals by providing the professional Skillsets .... Still more active and effective channel would be publishing News Letter or so,,, but to make it happen in realtime situation i feel they should form an association or Forum(Retired Library Professionals,,) ,,with the support of our young professionals, I request all the young and expierienced professionals to come forward in this regard,,,, ========================================================== "Knowledge is of two kinds,We Know a subject ourselves, or,we know where to find information on it" ========================================================== Mahesh G T Alliance Business Academy, Bangalore-68 Off No - 080-26684369 Mob No - 9845727385

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Digitizing Indian language books
by Subbiah Arunachalam 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Friends: Here is a news story from Xinhuanet. Google is digitizing books in major libraries in the USA and UK, so anyone anywhere (with an Internet connection) can read those books. Google is digitizing books in University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University and the New York Public Library and now the (one hundred or so) libraries of the University of California. Google is also negotiating with the US Library of Congress. Yahoo and Microsoft have joined the Internet Archive to form the Open Content Alliance and they are also digitizing books in major western libraries. What about the great treasures in non-western languages such as Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali, Telugu, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Oriya, Sanskrit, etc.? Should we not organise such masssive digitization with appropriate search capabilities? Under the Millennium Digitization (?) programme, efforts are on to digitise books in India and China, but I am not sure how large the effort is and how comprehensive. As one who speaks Tamil, I will be interested to see all the great classics of Tamil literature as well as the works of contemporary writers such as Asokamitran, Jayakanthan and Sujatha (to name only a few) to be freely available for all the80 million or so Tamils living around the world. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] From Xinhuanet Google Inc. on Wednesday said the University of California has agreed to having books from its libraries' collections digitized and made searchable within the company's controversial library project. The UC system's 34 million books are spread across more than 100 libraries on 10 campuses, making it the largest academic research library in the world. The full text of books in the public domain will be available through Google Book Search, while only snippets of copyrighted books will be viewable, along with information about where they can be bought or borrowed. The UC system joins the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University and the New York Public Library in making book collections available to Google. The latter is making available only books in the public domain. The participants support of the project is in contrast to writers and publishers who are suing Google to prevent them from digitizing books without first getting their permission. The UC system believes Google's policy of providing only snippets of copyrighted works in search results is sufficient protection. Google announced its library project last year, prompting separate lawsuits by the Association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild. The organizations are arguing that Google should first seek the permission of copyright holders before digitizing books. Google is arguing that its actions are legal, since it only offers snippets of copyrighted material. The cases are pending. Google is working with the U.S. Library of Congress on a similar effort. For Google, the new momentum for its Book Search Project is the latest in a string of high-profile deals it has announced over the past week in which it signed a major search and advertising contract with News Corp., the owner of MySpace.com, and a video advertising and delivery deal with Viacom, owner of MTV. Friends: Here is a news story from Xinhuanet. Google is digitizing books in major libraries in the USA and UK, so anyone anywhere (with an Internet connection) can read those books. Google is digitizing books in University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University and the New York Public Library and now the (one hundred or so) libraries of the University of California. Google is also negotiating with the US Library of Congress. Yahoo and Microsoft have joined the Internet Archive to form the Open Content Alliance and they are also digitizing books in major western libraries. What about the great treasures in non-western languages such as Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali, Telugu, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Oriya, Sanskrit, etc.? Should we not organise such masssive digitization with appropriate search capabilities? Under the Millennium Digitization (?) programme, efforts are on to digitise books in India and China, but I am not sure how large the effort is and how comprehensive. As one who speaks Tamil, I will be interested to see all the great classics of Tamil literature as well as the works of contemporary writers such as Asokamitran, Jayakanthan and Sujatha (to name only a few) to be freely available for all the80 million or so Tamils living around the world. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] From Xinhuanet Google Inc. on Wednesday said the University of California has agreed to having books from its libraries' collections digitized and made searchable within the company's controversial library project. The UC system's 34 million books are spread across more than 100 libraries on 10 campuses, making it the largest academic research library in the world. The full text of books in the public domain will be available through Google Book Search, while only snippets of copyrighted books will be viewable, along with information about where they can be bought or borrowed. The UC system joins the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University and the New York Public Library in making book collections available to Google. The latter is making available only books in the public domain. The participants support of the project is in contrast to writers and publishers who are suing Google to prevent them from digitizing books without first getting their permission. The UC system believes Google's policy of providing only snippets of copyrighted works in search results is sufficient protection. Google announced its library project last year, prompting separate lawsuits by the Association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild. The organizations are arguing that Google should first seek the permission of copyright holders before digitizing books. Google is arguing that its actions are legal, since it only offers snippets of copyrighted material. The cases are pending. Google is working with the U.S. Library of Congress on a similar effort. For Google, the new momentum for its Book Search Project is the latest in a string of high-profile deals it has announced over the past week in which it signed a major search and advertising contract with News Corp., the owner of MySpace.com, and a video advertising and delivery deal with Viacom, owner of MTV.

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Re: Library rules for CSIR Labs
by Subbiah Gunasekaran 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Dear Members: I will be grateful if anyone could mail me the library rules framed by the CSIR for its constituent labs? Thanks S.Gunasekaran Library CECRI, Karaikudi Dear Members: I will be grateful if anyone could mail me the library rules framed by the CSIR for its constituent labs? Thanks S.Gunasekaran Library CECRI, Karaikudi http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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Writing and Editing for the Library Website
by vimal kumar 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Dear Information Professional, Here is the link to a useful article about writing for library website appeared in current issue of Free Pint newsletter. http://www.freepint.com/issues/100806.htm#tips Best Wishes Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. Here is the link to a useful article about writing for library website appeared in current issue of Free Pint newsletter. http://www.freepint.com/issues/100806.htm#tips Best Wishes Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman7/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… Great rates starting at 1¢/min.

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RE: [LIS-Forum] After retirment
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:47:10 +0000 From: Vara Lakshmi Rudrabhatla <rvsn1234(a)hotmail.com> There are a number of public libraries that are sick. One can spare some time to motivate and guide the staff and offer services to public. They can do career counselling to local government school students who are deprived of such facility. They can go to any old age home or orphanage etc. and read books for them. If one has the willingness and permissible health there are so many things to do even after retirement (ofcourse not-for-profit). Varalakshmi -- Dr. RSR Varalakshmi Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Science., Andhra University. Visakhapatnam. >From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Subject: [LIS-Forum] After retirment >Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:04:43 +0530 (IST) > > >Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 04:50:58 -0700 (PDT) >From: ranjit dharmapurikar <d_ranjit(a)yahoo.com> > >Dear All, > > Iam opening a topic for discussion. All service >librarians are going to retir as per the government >rules. My point is what should be done after >retirement. Library service is a professional task. >Even after retirement a librarian can do lot of things >related to this profession. In order to spent time >happily one can cultivate habbit of reading among the >society. One can open a library. There are lot of >opportunities to work. You can also suggest other >opportunities. Let us start suggesting....... > >with regards, > > ranjit >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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