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Video interview on Open Access
by Sukhdev Singh 24 May '06

24 May '06

Richard Poynder, a Freelance Journalist, had an excellent Video interview with Open Access advocate Stevan Harnad. It is about 30 minutes interview that can be viewed on a multi-media PC having a Windows Media Player installed. Apart from OA Publishing and Self-Arching, Prof Harnad also talk of role of librarians in OA Movement. Here are the Broadband < http://www.streamingmedia.com/internetlibrarian/inetlib1_300.asx > and Dial-up < http://www.streamingmedia.com/internetlibrarian/inetlib1_56.asx > Links. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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A letter to SciDev.net
by Subbiah Arunachalam 24 May '06

24 May '06

Friends: Here is a letter we posted to SciDev.Net a few days ago. It was published two days ago. Please spread the word. Arun -------- Dear Editor, My colleagues and I have read with interest your news item, 'Open-access research makes a bigger splash', on the Gunther Eysenbach study on the impact of open access on citations. This is a welcome study, and is confirmation of a growing number of similar studies carried out since 2001, (eg http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html) It will be of interest to your readers that statistics becoming available now from journals published in developing countries are showing a similar very marked increase in usage following conversion to Open Access. For example, the journals distributed by the Brazil/Canada service, Bioline International, show a remarkable increase in full text paper downloads, rising from an average of about 2500 in 2004 to an average of 200,000 full papers per month since becoming OAI-compliant in January 2005, an eight-fold increase. The journals are from 16 developing countries (Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Egypt, Croatia, India, Iran, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Senegal, Turkey, Uganda, Venezuela - see http://www.bioline.org.br/journals, and the service is provided free-of-charge to authors, institutions and countries). It seems certain that the recovery of full papers will have a direct impact on the citation index as data becomes available. Similarly, the distribution service, MedKnow (http://www.medknow.com) managing biomedical journals in India, has found that as a result of converting to Open Access, accessions to full text papers have risen dramatically, the numbers of submissions has grown (and submissions are increasingly received from non-Indian authors), the citation index has reached over 1.0 for the first time for an Indian journal, and significantly the numbers of subscriptions have increased. As a result, the authors and the publishers are extremely pleased with the development. The MedKnow journals are also distributed through Bioline International. Although these statistics are not comparing the same papers available either OA or non-OA as in the PNAS study, but are comparing the journal usage before and after converting to OA, it is certainly clear that open access is creating a remarkable and hugely encouraging usage of research publications from developing countries. Further monitoring will continue and no doubt the pattern of usage, geographically and by discipline, will emerge as the OA environment beds down into common practice. We feel these findings may be of interest to readers of your news item and the authors of this letter can provide more detailed information if requested. Yours truly, Subbiah Arunachalam, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai Vanderlei Canhos, Bioline International, Campinas, Brazil Leslie Chan, Bioline International, Toronto, Canada D K Sahu, MedKnow, Mumbai Barbara Kirsop, Electronic Publishing Trust for Development http://www.epublishingtrust.org Friends: Here is a letter we posted to SciDev.Net a few days ago. It was published two days ago. Please spread the word. Arun -------- Dear Editor, My colleagues and I have read with interest your news item, Open-access research makes a bigger splash , on the Gunther Eysenbach study on the impact of open access on citations. This is a welcome study, and is confirmation of a growing number of similar studies carried out since 2001, (eg http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html ). It will be of interest to your readers that statistics becoming available now from journals published in developing countries are showing a similar very marked increase in usage following conversion to Open Access. For example, the journals distributed by the Brazil/Canada service, Bioline International, show a remarkable increase in full text paper downloads, rising from an average of about 2500 in 2004 to an average of 200,000 full papers per month since becoming OAI-compliant in January 2005, an eight-fold increase. The journals are from 16 developing countries (Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Egypt, Croatia, India, Iran, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Senegal, Turkey, Uganda, Venezuela see http://www.bioline.org.br/journals http://www.bioline.org.br/journals , and the service is provided free-of-charge to authors, institutions and countries). It seems certain that the recovery of full papers will have a direct impact on the citation index as data becomes available. Similarly, the distribution service, MedKnow ( http://www.medknow.com/ http://www.medknow.com ) managing biomedical journals in India, has found that as a result of converting to Open Access, accessions to full text papers have risen dramatically, the numbers of submissions has grown (and submissions are increasingly received from non-Indian authors), the citation index has reached over 1.0 for the first time for an Indian journal, and significantly the numbers of subscriptions have increased. As a result, the authors and the publishers are extremely pleased with the development. The MedKnow journals are also distributed through Bioline International. Although these statistics are not comparing the same papers available either OA or non-OA as in the PNAS study, but are comparing the journal usage before and after converting to OA, it is certainly clear that open access is creating a remarkable and hugely encouraging usage of research publications from developing countries. Further monitoring will continue and no doubt the pattern of usage, geographically and by discipline, will emerge as the OA environment beds down into common practice. We feel these findings may be of interest to readers of your news item and the authors of this letter can provide more detailed information if requested. Yours truly, Subbiah Arunachalam, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai Vanderlei Canhos, Bioline International, Campinas, Brazil Leslie Chan, Bioline International, Toronto, Canada D K Sahu, MedKnow, Mumbai Barbara Kirsop, Electronic Publishing Trust for Development http://www.epublishingtrust.org/ http://www.epublishingtrust.org

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Vendors
by veena bhat 24 May '06

24 May '06

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SCHEME OF CARRER ADVANCEMENT FOR THE POST OF INFORMATION SCIENTIST
by ranjit dharmapurikar 24 May '06

24 May '06

Dear all, I would like to know whether the scheme of carrer advamcement is applicable for the post of Information Scientst. This post is considered as a non-vacational academic staff on par with university assistant librarian or college librarian, its basic pay is 8000-13500. However guidelines about carrer advancement are not available till now to the post of Information Scientst. Will anybody help me and clarify the matter. If such authontic document is availble kindly send it to me or at least communicate me the source. Thanks Ranjeet Dharmapurikar __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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One Day Workshop
by satish kumar 24 May '06

24 May '06

Dear all, Kindly accetp this invitation and forward this for all your professional friends It gives me immense pleasure to inform you that the Learning Resource Wing of East Point College of Engineering and Technology, Bangalore 49 is organizing one day workshop on E-Resources: A Tool to Make Science and Engineering Research Easier on May 26th 2006. The workshop will mainly focus on various dimensions of the theme. During the event eminent scholars and practioners will be sharing their experience on the subject. We cordially invite you to participate in one day workshop. This Workshop will help Librarians, Teaching faculty, research scholars, and staff involved in R&D Activities. Workshop E-Resources: A Tool to Make Science and Engineering Research Easier Date & Time May 26th 2006 : 09.00 am Registration Fee Librarians Rs. 200.00 Academicians Rs. 200.00 Research Scholars Rs. 100.00 Students Rs. 100.00 Payment Mode Cash or DD in favour of Principal, EPCET, payable at Bangalore Venue Seminar hall, East Point College of Engineering and Technology, Bidarahally, Near Avalahally, Bangalore-560 049 Contact details of Workshop Coordinator 9844116650, 080-28473777 e-mail: libraryworkskop(a)yahoo.co.in Thanking you Paramanand --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers Share what your know-how and wisdom Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger Download now professional friends It gives me immense pleasure to inform you that the Learning Resource Wing of East Point College of Engineering and Technology, Bangalore 49 is organizing one day workshop on E-Resources: A Tool to Make Science and Engineering Research Easier on May 26th 2006. The workshop will mainly focus on various dimensions of the theme. During the event eminent scholars and practioners will be sharing their experience on the subject. We cordially invite you to participate in one day workshop. This Workshop will help Librarians, Teaching faculty, research scholars, and staff involved in R&D Activities. Workshop E-Resources: A Tool to Make Science and Engineering Research Easier Date & Time May 26th 2006 : 09.00 am Registration Fee Librarians Rs. 200.00 Academicians Rs. 200.00 Research Scholars Rs. 100.00 Students Rs. 100.00 Payment Mode Cash or DD in favour of Principal, EPCET, payable at Bangalore Venue Seminar hall, East Point College of Engineering and Technology, Bidarahally, Near Avalahally, Bangalore-560 049 Contact details of Workshop Coordinator 9844116650, 080-28473777 e-mail: http://in.f85.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=libraryworkskop@yahoo.co.in&YY=1… libraryworkskop(a)yahoo.co.in Thanking you Paramanand http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailanswersshare/*http://in.answers.yahoo.co… Yahoo! India Answers Share what your know-how and wisdom Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/freesms/*http://messenger.yahoo.com/download… Download now

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Copyright Clearance of articles
by Kaushik 24 May '06

24 May '06

If a corporate library is looking for an article and procuring that article from another library by doing photocopy of the same and then using that in the library ....then will such procurement be copy right cleared ? What does our copyright act say on this ? -- Kaushik Ghosh Kolkata -- Kaushik Ghosh Kolkata

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NET or PhD
by nazim malik 24 May '06

24 May '06

Dear Friends Much has already been discussed regarding the exemption of NET. Some people are in favor and some are against the UGC decision. This is very difficult to say that UGC decision is right or wrong because those who having PhD or going to complete their PhD in near future obviously welcome the UGC decision. But those who after a hard work cleared the NET/JRF certainly reject the exemption of NET idea of UGC. This is my observation that in each discipline or subject number of NETs is more than number of available posts. It means supply is higher than demand. Then what is the need of exemption of NET? If UGC is really interested to improve quality in teaching and research then NET must be compulsory for those who want to do PhD and the essential qualification for lectureship must be NET+PhD. A PhD Holder may be expert in a very small field on which he has done his work but for clearing NET he must be master of his subject and that is necessary for a good teacher. One thing I would like to share that UGC decision is good as far as the post of Asstt. Librarian is concerned because this is purely administrative post which requires practical experiences rather than theoretical knowledge. 50% post of Asstt. Librarians should be filled up through the internal promotion and rest 50% through the NET or PhD. This is my personal views based on my experiences. But I have also experienced that candidates having sound knowledge of their subjects but could not cleared the NET. But these are exceptional cases. With Regards Nazim malik BHU, Varanasi --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers Share what your know-how and wisdom Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger Download now Dear Friends Much has already been discussed regarding the exemption of NET. Some people are in favor and some are against the UGC decision. This is very difficult to say that UGC decision is right or wrong because those who having PhD or going to complete their PhD in near future obviously welcome the UGC decision. But those who after a hard work cleared the NET/JRF certainly reject the exemption of NET idea of UGC. This is my observation that in each discipline or subject number of NETs is more than number of available posts. It means supply is higher than demand. Then what is the need of exemption of NET? If UGC is really interested to improve quality in teaching and research then NET must be compulsory for those who want to do PhD and the essential qualification for lectureship must be NET+PhD. A PhD Holder may be expert in a very small field on which he has done his work but for clearing NET he must be master of his subject and that is necessary for a good teacher. One thing I would like to share that UGC decision is good as far as the post of Asstt. Librarian is concerned because this is purely administrative post which requires practical experiences rather than theoretical knowledge. 50% post of Asstt. Librarians should be filled up through the internal promotion and rest 50% through the NET or PhD. This is my personal views based on my experiences. But I have also experienced that candidates having sound knowledge of their subjects but could not cleared the NET. But these are exceptional cases. With Regards Nazim malik BHU, Varanasi http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailanswersshare/*http://in.answers.yahoo.co… Yahoo! India Answers Share what your know-how and wisdom Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/freesms/*http://messenger.yahoo.com/download… Download now

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 38, Issue 20 (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 24 May '06

24 May '06

Date: 23 May 2006 11:03:42 -0000 From: sushanta kumar pathy <skpathy(a)rediffmail.com> � Dear All, It is a welcome step if UGC give relaxation to Mphil/PhD. holder but at the same time the NET and experience should be given top priority. Everybody talking about this but no body is certain about the circular. If any one having the circular please circulate it. Also it would not be wise if we generralize the comments on MPhil/PhD are easy to get. Though one will be eligible by having these degree but it is not easy to get a job without any productivity. Yours Sushanta

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Re: Copyright Clearance of articles (Kaushik)
by Byrappa, Ananda (GE, Research) 24 May '06

24 May '06

Kaushik, Copyright fee is separate from photocopy or your library membership fee. Therefore, you should clear copyright for articles you source from any other Library. As you might be aware, international document delivery service providers like CISTI, Linda hall, BL etc would charge handling(photocipy) fee and copyright fee separately for every article they deliver/supply. When you source articles from local libraries, you can get copy right clearance from Copyright Clearance Centre (CCC) http://www.copyright.com. They also offer annual memberships for the organisations,including corporates. However, when you source/procure articles from publishers you don't require to clear copyright since they are the right holders. I hope it clarifies your doubts. Best Regards, Anand Ananda T. Byrappa Manager, Library & Information Services GE Global Research 122, EPIP, Phase 2, Hoodi Village, Whitefield Road, Bangalore - 560066, INDIA Phone : +91-80-2503-2618, DialCom: 8*901 2618 Fax : +91-80-2841-2114, Email : Ananda.Byrappa(a)ge.com -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 12:02 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 38, Issue 26 Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in You can reach the person managing the list at lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Copyright Clearance of articles (Kaushik) 2. RFID design center in Bangalore (Jayadev P Hiremath) 3. Re: Open Access Journals? (sathya) 4. Re: (no subject) (Library) 5. Re: [nmlis] Casting away the NET (Dr.H.S.Siddmallaiah) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 18:02:05 +0530 From: Kaushik <kginfo(a)gmail.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Copyright Clearance of articles To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <e8ac0d7b0605230532o5b55ec36kf4b4536bd9298132(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" If a corporate library is looking for an article and procuring that article from another library by doing photocopy of the same and then using that in the library ....then will such procurement be copy right cleared ? What does our copyright act say on this ? -- Kaushik Ghosh Kolkata

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UGC-NET
by Hemant Bhoot 24 May '06

24 May '06

Dear Friends, Now the decision on NET exemption for the M.Phil or Ph.D holders has been taken.This is not a right move by the Balchandra Mungekar Committee.It has been decided that the Ph.D and M.Phil is equilant to the NET and can apply for the teaching in the Universities and colleges. In my openion, it is very difficult to revert the decision about net. but UGC needs to change selection parameter so entrance test would not be so easy to get register for the Ph.D. Research guide should have minimum 5 years teaching and research experience to guide the newly registered candidates. Hemant Bhoot Librarian Institute of Professional Education and Research Bhopal Dear Friends, Now the decision on NET exemption for the M.Phil or Ph.D holders has been taken.This is not a right move by the Balchandra Mungekar Committee.It has been decided that the Ph.D and M.Phil is equilant to the NET and can apply for the teaching in the Universities and colleges. In my openion, it is very difficult to revert the decision about net. but UGC needs to change selection parameter so entrance test would not be so easy to get register for the Ph.D. Research guide should have minimum 5 years teaching and research experience to guide the newly registered candidates. Hemant Bhoot Librarian Institute of Professional Education and Research Bhopal 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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About Search engine: A9.com
by Gangadharesha.A.S 24 May '06

24 May '06

Dear Professional colleagues, >From a user standpoint of view a search engine is a web page that allows keywords or phrases to be entered and returns results based on the relevance of the documents it holds in its index. While Surfing the net I found a search engine called http://a9.com/ . A9, Inc is a separately branded and operated subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc, Its features builds on innovative technologies to improve search experience for e-commerce applications and flexible in categories of searching (Can see search result in a single window). For detailed features of the said search engine please have look, http://toolbar.a9.com/-/company/media/pr20040915.jsp. For a range of useful and well-known search engines list please visit: http://searchenginewatch.com/links/article.php/2156221 Thanks n Regards Gangadharesha.A.S E&R Library Infosys Technologies Ltd, Mysore DC **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. Further, you are not to copy, disclose, or distribute this e-mail or its contents to any other person and any such actions are unlawful. This e-mail may contain viruses. Infosys has taken every reasonable precaution to minimize this risk, but is not liable for any damage you may sustain as a result of any virus in this e-mail. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening the e-mail or attachment. Infosys reserves the right to monitor and review the content of all messages sent to or from this e-mail address. Messages sent to or from this e-mail address may be stored on the Infosys e-mail system. ***INFOSYS******** End of Disclaimer ********INFOSYS***  Dear Professional colleagues, � From a user standpoint of view a search engine is a web page that allows keywords or phrases to be entered and returns results based on the relevance of the documents it holds in its index. While Surfing the net I found a search engine called http://a9.com/ http://a9.com/ . A9, Inc is a separately branded and operated subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc, Its features builds on innovative technologies to improve search experience for e-commerce applications and flexible in categories of searching (Can see search result in a single window). For detailed features of the said search engine please have look, http://toolbar.a9.com/-/company/media/pr20040915.jsp http://toolbar.a9.com/-/company/media/pr20040915.jsp . � For a range of useful and well-known search engines list please visit: http://searchenginewatch.com/links/article.php/2156221 http://searchenginewatch.com/links/article.php/2156221 � � Thanks n Regards � Gangadharesha.A.S �E&R Library �Infosys Technologies Ltd, �Mysore DC **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. Further, you are not to copy, disclose, or distribute this e-mail or its contents to any other person and any such actions are unlawful. This e-mail may contain viruses. Infosys has taken every reasonable precaution to minimize this risk, but is not liable for any damage you may sustain as a result of any virus in this e-mail. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening the e-mail or attachment. Infosys reserves the right to monitor and review the content of all messages sent to or from this e-mail address. Messages sent to or from this e-mail address may be stored on the Infosys e-mail system. ***INFOSYS******** End of Disclaimer ********INFOSYS***

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Encyclopedia of Digital Libraries: call for chapters- Proposal Submission Deadline: June 15, 2006
by Gangadharesha.A.S 24 May '06

24 May '06

Dear All, Here is an opportunity to researchers and practitioners to submit a proposal to encyclopedia of digital libraries (about 800 - 1,000 words) by June 15, 2006. The Encyclopedia is scheduled for publication by Idea Group Reference (an imprint of Idea Group Inc.), www.idea-group-ref.com <http://www.idea-group-ref.com> , in 2008. For more information like topics, important dates, inquiries and submission, request you to visit site http://www.sci-duet.ntu.edu.sg/yinleng/encyclo-dl/call.html <http://www.sci-duet.ntu.edu.sg/yinleng/encyclo-dl/call.html> . Thanks n Regards, Gangadharesha, A. S, E&R Library, Infosys Technologies Limited, Mysore. **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. Further, you are not to copy, disclose, or distribute this e-mail or its contents to any other person and any such actions are unlawful. This e-mail may contain viruses. Infosys has taken every reasonable precaution to minimize this risk, but is not liable for any damage you may sustain as a result of any virus in this e-mail. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening the e-mail or attachment. Infosys reserves the right to monitor and review the content of all messages sent to or from this e-mail address. Messages sent to or from this e-mail address may be stored on the Infosys e-mail system. ***INFOSYS******** End of Disclaimer ********INFOSYS***  Dear All, � Here is an opportunity to researchers and practitioners to submit a proposal to encyclopedia of digital libraries (about 800 - 1,000 words) by June 15, 2006. The Encyclopedia is scheduled for publication by Idea Group Reference (an imprint of Idea Group Inc.), http://www.idea-group-ref.com www.idea-group-ref.com , in 2008.� For more information like topics, important dates, inquiries and submission, request you to visit site http://www.sci-duet.ntu.edu.sg/yinleng/encyclo-dl/call.html http://www.sci-duet.ntu.edu.sg/yinleng/encyclo-dl/call.html . � Thanks n Regards , Gangadharesha, A. S, E&R Library, Infosys Technologies Limited, Mysore. **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. Further, you are not to copy, disclose, or distribute this e-mail or its contents to any other person and any such actions are unlawful. This e-mail may contain viruses. Infosys has taken every reasonable precaution to minimize this risk, but is not liable for any damage you may sustain as a result of any virus in this e-mail. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening the e-mail or attachment. Infosys reserves the right to monitor and review the content of all messages sent to or from this e-mail address. Messages sent to or from this e-mail address may be stored on the Infosys e-mail system. ***INFOSYS******** End of Disclaimer ********INFOSYS***

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Opinion on Net/slet exemption for PhDs and MPhil holders
by raja ram 24 May '06

24 May '06

Dear professionals. Net/slet exemption for PhDs and MPhil holders... In this regards I would like to express some of my personal views and not in blaming any of our colleagues I dont know how the decision of UGC can be taken as fare by leaving all the net/slet cleared candidates behind all. As you all know after competiting with lakhs and lakh of candidate one get through the net/slet and that too with lots of attempts and hardship. But mere getting M.phil through DDE should not be considered equal to Net/slet or qualified. Now days M.Phil is just one more degree as like BLIS or MLIS. I think even PhD can be freed from net/slet because getting doctorate require full of hardship and constant work for long years but not M.Phil If the situation goes like this every candidate will easily finish M.phil after his master degree in their respective colleges and come out as a qualified lecturer or librarian, and one day it will lead to less demand, more supply situation Every where we can see only qualified M.Phil candidates standing in a long line for a single post of librarian in colleges or universities. And also think of the situation of a librarian in a Self financing college. Please think and its only my view hoping for your opinion and discussion to clear my doubts.. Regards Raj --------------------------------- Why was V. Sehwag warned by the BCCI? Share your knowledge on Yahoo! Answers India Send instant messages to your online friends - NOW Dear professionals. Net/slet exemption for PhDs and MPhil holders... In this regards I would like to express some of my personal views and not in blaming any of our colleagues I dont know how the decision of UGC can be taken as fare by leaving all the net/slet cleared candidates behind all. As you all know after competiting with lakhs and lakh of candidate one get through the net/slet and that too with lots of attempts and hardship. But mere getting M.phil through DDE should not be considered equal to Net/slet or qualified. Now days M.Phil is just one more degree as like BLIS or MLIS. I think even PhD can be freed from net/slet because getting doctorate require full of hardship and constant work for long years but not M.Phil If the situation goes like this every candidate will easily finish M.phil after his master degree in their respective colleges and come out as a qualified lecturer or librarian, and one day it will lead to less demand, more supply situation Every where we can see only qualified M.Phil candidates standing in a long line for a single post of librarian in colleges or universities. And also think of the situation of a librarian in a Self financing college. Please think and its only my view hoping for your opinion and discussion to clear my doubts.. Regards Raj Why was V. Sehwag warned by the BCCI? Share your knowledge on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailanswerssehwag/*http://in.answers.yahoo.c… Yahoo! Answers India Send instant messages to your online friends - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengerbeta/*http://messenger.yahoo.com/do… NOW

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OpenEMIS - Software for building an Education Management Information System
by Indira K. 24 May '06

24 May '06

Dear Professionals, New open-source software, OpenEMIS (Evaluation Version 1.0), has just been launched by UNESCO's Division of Educational Policies and Strategies. Source codes are available for all those who want to adapt this tool to their respective contexts. Its purpose is to facilitate the setting up of national information systems adapted to the needs of the users at central, regional and local levels. Once adapted to the national context, the application built with OpenEMIS allows: to improve data collection, processing, analysis and publication of information; to create easy-to-use interfaces for data entry and storage; to facilitate access to and manipulation of data for the three prototypes of data users: application programmers, database administrators and end-users; to shape the sharing of information in a multi-user environment; and to exchange information with other systems, such as file management systems, spreadsheets, end-user interfaces. OpenEMIS is composed of two modules: EMIS Builder and EMIS User. The first module allows database administrators to adapt the generic tool to the particular characteristics of a national education system, to parameter and customize the elements of the information system and to create the data input forms. The second allows the actual data inputs and queries, and the production of reports, charts and indicators. Here is the URL for capturing information and links relevant: http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=48175&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&U… Indira Koneru -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mrs. Indira Koneru Faculty Associate Department of Library Science ICFAI University 25, Nagarjuna Hills Hyderabd- 500 082. India. Dear Professionals, New open-source software, OpenEMIS (Evaluation Version 1.0), has just been launched by UNESCOs Division of Educational Policies and Strategies. Source codes are available for all those who want to adapt this tool to their respective contexts. Its purpose is to facilitate the setting up of national information systems adapted to the needs of the users at central, regional and local levels. Once adapted to the national context, the application built with OpenEMIS allows: to improve data collection, processing, analysis and publication of information; to create easy-to-use interfaces for data entry and storage; to facilitate access to and manipulation of data for the three prototypes of data users: application programmers, database administrators and end-users; to shape the sharing of information in a multi-user environment; and to exchange information with other systems, such as file management systems, spreadsheets, end-user interfaces. OpenEMIS is composed of two modules: EMIS Builder and EMIS User. The first module allows database administrators to adapt the generic tool to the particular characteristics of a national education system, to parameter and customize the elements of the information system and to create the data input forms. The second allows the actual data inputs and queries, and the production of reports, charts and indicators. Here is the URL for capturing information and links relevant: http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=48175&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&U… http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=48175&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&U… Indira Koneru Mrs. Indira Koneru Faculty Associate Department of Library Science ICFAI University 25, Nagarjuna Hills Hyderabd- 500 082. India.

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(no subject)
by mohan shivaramu 24 May '06

24 May '06

Dear all One of our scientists is looking for a Souvenir brought out during Dr. S. Bhagavantham`s 60th birthday in 1970. This has a list of his publications. If any library is holding a copy of this souvenir please let us know. Regards, B. S. Mohan --------------------------------- Mohan B. S Assistant Librarian Indian Institute of Astrophysics Koramangala Bangalore - 560 034 e-mail: mohan(a)iiap.res.in Dear all One of our scientists is looking for a Souvenir brought out during Dr. S. Bhagavantham`s 60th birthday in 1970. This has a list of his publications. If any library is holding a copy of this souvenir please let us know. Regards, B. S. Mohan --------------------------------- Mohan B. S Assistant Librarian Indian Institute of Astrophysics Koramangala Bangalore - 560 034 e-mail: mohan(a)iiap.res.in 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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RFID design center in Bangalore
by Jayadev P Hiremath 23 May '06

23 May '06

*Blue Vector opens design and sales center in Bangalore * Palo Alto, California, BWI: *The new center allows Blue Vector to strategically expand its engineering and design teams, as well as to advance its overseas sales and marketing efforts. * Blue Vector, a rapidly growing provider of easy to deploy RFID management appliances, has announced the opening of its India Centre in Bangalore. The new center allows Blue Vector to strategically expand its engineering and design teams, as well as to advance its overseas sales and marketing efforts. "India is a great source of additional engineering talent for us," said Nancy Anderson, Blue Vector's chief executive officer. "With our product l ine and customer base expanding , our need for engineering and design talent has taken off." According to Sridhar Ranganathan, managing director of Blue Vector India, "The expansion in India will allow the company to work on the product line literally around the clock, and to be in direct contact with potential international customers without the delay of too many time zones." Ranganathan was formerly the chief operating officer of Yahoo's Software Development Center in India. <https://www.online.citibank.co.in/portal/citiinforms.jsp?form_id=frmAcquisi…> Blue Vector's customers include retailers, manufacturers, distributors, logistics, and life sciences firms. Its product line integrates with existing enterprise systems to address supply chain and asset tracking problems, which require the rapid installation and automated management of RFID, barcode, and other types of sensors. Blue Vector opens design and sales center in Bangalore Palo Alto, California, BWI: The new center allows Blue Vector to strategically expand its engineering and design teams, as well as to advance its overseas sales and marketing efforts. Blue Vector, a rapidly growing provider of easy to deploy RFID management appliances, has announced the opening of its India Centre in Bangalore. The new center allows Blue Vector to strategically expand its engineering and design teams, as well as to advance its overseas sales and marketing efforts. "India is a great source of additional engineering talent for us," said Nancy Anderson, Blue Vector's chief executive officer. "With our product l ine and customer base expanding , our need for engineering and design talent has taken off." According to Sridhar Ranganathan, managing director of Blue Vector India, "The expansion in India will allow the company to work on the product line literally around the clock, and to be in direct contact with potential international customers without the delay of too many time zones." Ranganathan was formerly the chief operating officer of Yahoo's Software Development Center in India. https://www.online.citibank.co.in/portal/citiinforms.jsp?form_id=frmAcquisi… Blue Vector's customers include retailers, manufacturers, distributors, logistics, and life sciences firms. Its product line integrates with existing enterprise systems to address supply chain and asset tracking problems, which require the rapid installation and automated management of RFID, barcode, and other types of sensors.

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Open source Journals?
by Chandrima Roy 23 May '06

23 May '06

Hi, I came across more on "Open Access" and "Open Source" on the following: http://lane.stanford.edu/about/openaccess.html http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:yXr8xHcO4NAJ:research2.csci.educ.ubc. ca/eprints/archive/00000055/01/Open_Paper_DRAFT.pdf+peter+suber+-+differ ence+between+%22Open+Acess%22+%26+%22Open+Source%22&hl=en&gl=in&ct=clnk& cd=3 http://www.wipo.int/roller/comments/ipisforum/Weblog/theme_three_the_pub lic_domain Hope, you will find the same quite informative. Thanks & Regards Chandrima Roy Divan Enterprises B-9, Basement, "A" Block, Local Shopping Complex Naraina Vihar, Ring Road New Delhi - 110028 Tel: +91-11-25770411 Fax: +91-11-25778876 Email: croy(a)docdelserv.com croy(a)indianjournals.com Website: http://www.docdelserv.com http://www.indianjournals.com

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LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 38, Issue 23
by mouni＠nitt.edu 23 May '06

23 May '06

Dear members, There are many welcoming and protesting messages about the UGC decision on exempting the NET/SLET for the M.Phil and Ph.D holders for appointing as Lecturers. I shall appreciate if any one could give me the complete details of the official announcement on this regard so as to gain full details. I don't know what has been the reason behind this development. The Hindu has also said that Prof. Sukhadeo Thorat had also declined to explain the need for such a move at a news conference. This news are being interpretted differently by dailies. Based on the news of Tamil Nadu dailes. I observed the follwings: 1. M.Phil. holders can be appointed as Lecturer in Degree level institutions 2. Ph.Ds can be appointed as Lecturer in P.G level institutions 3. NET/SLET candidate can be appointed in both the levels. Let me ask the following questions: 1. If an institute offers both U.G and P.G programmes, what will be eligibility for appointing Lecturer? 2. What will be eligibility for the post of University Assistant Librarian? 3. The pay scale for the post of Lecturer/University Assistant Librarian/College Librarian/Documentation Officer is Rs.8000-13500/- Why the qualifcation varies for same scale of pay? 4. A Lecturer teaching U.G course with M.Phil and a Lecturer taching P.G course with Ph.D and a lecturer without both but with NET/SLET teaching both UG and P.G. Is is a digestable or judgeable or reasonable? 5. M.Phil is open to anybody who has a pass in M.L.I.S. degree. M.Phil distance admission is done at door steps by Universities' study centres. IGNO welcomes M.Phil holders for Ph.D distance mode Programme. What else is bar in getting M.Phil or Ph.D. 7.Obtaining Ph.D is simple and it depends on the Guides. Does it require any thing from the other end? 8. Why not the M.Phil and Ph.D holders clear the simple exam "NET/SLET". Is it not easy than Ph.D? My personal opinion is that the queue may not end for one post and the financially richer may ..... The UGC authorities may reconsider the decision and NET/SLET be made compulsory. P. Mounissamy Tamil Nadu Message: 2 Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 16:52:09 +0530 (IST) From: prabhash(a)gipe.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Exemption of NET To: "Sukhdev Singh" <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <41864.202.141.157.91.1148296929.squirrel(a)gipe.ernet.in> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Regarding exemption from NET/ SET, I think UGC is doing absolutely wrong thing in considering the same. It is well known that with the introduction of NET/ SET, people with minimum standard are getting into academic line, be it lecturers or library professionals in UGC scales. Though my observation may raise some controversy, but with my personal experience, I can say that in most part of India, it is easy to get a Ph. D. than clearing NET/ SET. I have seen people obtaining doctorate degrees without making much effort but having powerful guides and their blessings. This is true in most of the universities and let us accept it. Here, the need for an eligibility condition like NET/ SET comes. I think UGC should restrain from bringing mediocrity in higher education. Prabhash N. Rath, Ph. D. Documentation Officer Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics B. M. C. C. Road Pune 411004 Tel: +91-20-25650287 (O.) +91-20-25678311 (R.) ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP(http://www.nitt.edu)

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LINKING UP OF CENTRAL LIBRARIES
by Debashish_Ghosh_-_Hindalco_Kolkata_Library/KOL_JD/Hindalco/ABG＠adityabirla.com 23 May '06

23 May '06

Please find here a news item in today's PIB's news releases: "LINKING UP OF CENTRAL LIBRARIES Rajya Sabha The Government proposes to create an integrated bibliographic database of the Naitonal Librar, Kolkata, Central Secretariat Library, New Delhi and other major libraries. Towards this end, electronic bibliographical database is being created at select libraries, which will be subsequently linked. This was stated by Ms. Ambika Soni, Minister for Tourism and Culture in a reply to a question by S/Shri Balavant alias Bal Apte and Shreegopal Vyas in Rajya Sabha today. She further stated that the said project of retro-conversion of existing catalogues of selected libraries is anticipated to cost around Rs. 10.00 crore during the Tenth Plan. The Project is in its preliminary stage, she added." (source: http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=17956) Regards Debasis Ghosh Hindalco Industries Ltd, Kolkata Disclaimer: The information contained in this communication is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. It may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by responding to this email and then delete it from your system. Aditya Birla Group Companies attempts to sweep e-mails and attachments for viruses, it does not guarantee that either are virus free and that we accept no liability for any damage sustained as a result of viruses.

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Open source Journals?
by Chandrima Roy 23 May '06

23 May '06

What is the difference between Open Access and Open Source? Open source software, like free software, is a kind of software the source code of which is freely available for inspection or modification. Open access is a kind of access or availability. This kind of access could apply to any digital content, such as software, music, movies, or news. Chandrima Roy  What is the difference between Open Access and Open Source? Open source software, like free software, is a kind of software the source code of which is freely available for inspection or modification. Open access is a kind of access or availability. This kind of access could apply to any digital content, such as software, music, movies, or news. � Chandrima Roy � �

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 38, Issue 22
by Jeetender Chandna 23 May '06

23 May '06

> What is the difference between Open Access and Open Source? > > Open source software, like free software, is a kind of software the > source code of which is freely available for inspection or modification. > > Open access is a kind of access or availability. This kind of access > could apply to any digital content, such as software, music, movies, or > news. > > Chandrima Roy Google has given us a very powerful search tool for making such comparisons. ----------------------------------- define: XYZZZZZZZZZ ----------------------------------- The (define:) tool picks up definitions from many sources and brings forth many definitions from various glossaries. ************************************************************************************ For <define: "Open Access"> I am show casing a few relevant results: ************************************************************************************ Open access (also known as open-access publishing and free online scholarship) is an ongoing publication practice which differs in the way traditional methods of publishing papers to the public get submitted, reviewed, authenticated and finally published. The word "open" here means a change in how publication is negotiated between author and publisher and 'access' has an inflex on how the audience can obtain the publication. ... <src: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access> Open Access: A publication model where in neither readers nor a reader's institution are charged for access to articles or other resources. Users are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright … ... <src: www.loc.gov/acq/conser/glossary.html> Also, this last definition is also applicable and ergo suggests to us that this is not purely a digital domain term: Open Access: Book stacks to which users have free access to browse and retrieve items on their own, as opposed to closed stacks library.wur.nl/desktop/help/faq_glossary.html Adding my thoughts, today Open Access is a MOVEMENT which is targetted towards freedom of content from parasitic publishers. It is also concerned with newer forms of publishing rights, these rights now include terms like -- copyright, copyleft, creative commons licensing models, et al. Open Access in www terms is indicative of faster, cheaper, and maybe free access to current content -- both in peer reviewed and otherewise domains. ************************************************************************************ Vis-a-vis Open Source ---- Google Search::<define: "open source"> ************************************************************************************ Open Source is also another movement, but on that has largely been relegated to the IT software domain. In this, people generate software for the common good. The software is released into the market and is generally improved upon by other programmers, resulting in faster, better, and usually free products. The credit-line is always maintained - of the producers. These warez cannot be sold commercially. One well known OS site is SourceForge.net Shareware / Freeware eg: tucows.com, are other ways of sharing programs. Whereas Shareware is commercial, Freeware is free of cost. But in these cases, the source code of the programming involved is not disclosed. Regarding "Open Source" definitions: This is what Microsft has to say "A movement in the programming community for making source code (program instructions) free and freely available to anyone interested in using or working with it. <www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/visio/visio2002/plan/glossary.mspx>" Another definition for OS Term coined in March 1998 to describe software distributed in source under licenses guaranteeing anybody rights to freely use, modify, and redistribute the code. The intent was to be able to sell the hackers' ways of doing software to industry and the mainstream by avoiding the negative connotations (to [business people]) of the term "free software". For discussion of the follow-on tactics and their consequences, see the Open Source Initiative site. <www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/libr500/02-03-wt1/www/J_Caldwell/Terminology.htm> Lets us what the future holds in store for us. Vis-a-vis capitalism, communism has usually taken a back seat. "Open Source," essentially a community movement, has been slow in its growth. Linux has found a strong foothold in the www arena, but that has been largely due to Microsoft's blinders which they were quite late in removal. However the share of MS web servers is on the rise and just like what they did to Netscape in the Browser wars, the same may happen with web servers also. Similar is the case in the database scenario also mySQl vs Oracle/SQL. Whatever be the results, there is no end to this basic war between the rich and the do-gooders. It is a perennial war with no end. I am game. Its fun. The fun is playing the game, not winning or losing. It all relates to the side you choose. Open Access.. here I come :) -- Regards Granthpal ---------------------------------------- Jeetender Chandna aka Vicky aka Granthpal Esha News Monitoring Services Pvt Ltd 10th Floor, Krushal Commercial Complex Chembur (W) Mumbai 400089 Tel: (91-22) 3245 2861 Email: granthpal(a)gmail.com

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open source software
by mahendra m m 22 May '06

22 May '06

topic;OPEN SOURCE INITIATIVES IN INDIAN LIBRARIES HELLO LIS PROFESSIONALS, I AM WORKING ON PROJECT OPEN SOURCE INITIATIVES IN INDIAN LIBRARIES.INTERESTED PROFESSIONALS ARE REQUESTED THAT THEY SHOULD SEND THE INFORMATION ABOUT USE OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE IN THEIR LIBRARIES. WITH BEST WISHES MAHENDRA METE LIBRARIAN SHRI SHIVAJI COLLEGE AMRAVATI mahendrammm3(a)rediffmail.com

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Exemption of NET
by ACHAR S 22 May '06

22 May '06

Referring to Prakash's Mail, I would like to express my views. I feel exemption is a good sign for people who really worth in delivering goods rather than just for the sake of doing NET/Ph.D for the eligibility purpose. Now people have the opportunity to show their talent. One can see in the private sector, without any formal eligibility conditions, people are doing wonderful work. While appointing, one has judge the candidate practically rather than certificates. candidates from autonomus instituions show better performance than NET certified candidates. With this certificate only people with influence background only can get the job and not with the performance background. So, let us have the opportunity to show the talent then put the staff on performance base appointment than government appointment. See the productivity and decide. No use of appointing net candidates with no productivity. It is better to use some management technique to appoint Lecturer/Librarian rather using the same old technique by certificate. Infosys/Wipro/TCS appoint people by their practical performance rather than certificates. Hope this is some good impression. Achar __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Request for an article
by veeresh hiremath 22 May '06

22 May '06

Dear all One of our faculty members is in urgent need of an article titled "The Emerging Political Scenario & Role of NGO's" published in "Social Action" Vol.46, No.1(1996, Jan-Mar. issue). The efforts of the member sending this article would be highly appreciated. Dear all One of our faculty members is in urgent need of an article titled "The Emerging Political Scenario & Role of NGO's" published in "Social Action" Vol.46, No.1(1996, Jan-Mar. issue). The efforts of the member sending this article would be highly appreciated. 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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Fwd: IGIDR
by Praveen Vaidya 22 May '06

22 May '06

Normal 0 2.85 pt 2 INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH Applications are invited for the post of Assistant Librarian, in the pay scale of Rs.8000-275-13500. The post will be filled either on deputation basis or on contract basis for a period of one year. In case a regular vacancy occurs at the end of the one-year period, the selected person may be considered for regular appointment subject to satisfactory report on his/her performance, etc. Minimum essential qualifications, experience and age: Master's degree in Library science/Information science/Documentation with at least 55% of the marks or its equivalent grade with good academic record. The candidate should have cleared the National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted for the purpose by the UGC or similar test accredited by the UGC. Minimum experience of 5 years in a computerized library environment in a reputed institution. Age below 35 years. Desirable: Working knowledge of HTML, any one Operating System, RDBMS and Digital Library Software. Applications, on plain paper, with copies of all relevant certificates and names of two referees, should reach the Registrar, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Gen.A.K.Vaidya Marg, Goregaon (E), Mumbai-400 065, On or before May 31, 2006. Praveen Vaidya Librarian, Tolani Maritime Institute, Induri, Talegon Dabhade, Pune-410 507 Tel: 02114-241870-873 Ext:3018/3017(O) 5215 (R) www.tolani.edu __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com  INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH Applications are invited for the post of Assistant Librarian , in the pay scale of Rs.8000-275-13500. The post will be filled either on deputation basis or on contract basis for a period of one year. In case a regular vacancy occurs at the end of the one-year period, the selected person may be considered for regular appointment subject to satisfactory report on his/her performance, etc. Minimum essential qualifications, experience and age: Master's degree in Library science/Information science/Documentation with at least 55% of the marks or its equivalent grade with good academic record. The candidate should have cleared the National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted for the purpose by the UGC or similar test accredited by the UGC. Minimum experience of 5 years in a computerized library environment in a reputed institution. Age below 35 years. Desirable: Working knowledge of HTML, any one Operating System, RDBMS and Digital Library Software. Applications, on plain paper, with copies of all relevant certificates and names of two referees, should reach the Registrar, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Gen.A.K.Vaidya Marg, Goregaon (E), Mumbai-400 065, On or before May 31, 2006 . Praveen Vaidya Librarian, Tolani Maritime Institute, Induri, Talegon Dabhade, Pune-410 507 Tel: 02114-241870-873 Ext:3018/3017(O) 5215 (R) www.tolani.edu __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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