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Discussion list for queries related to setting up of Institutional Repositories in India.
by Filbert S Minj 04 May '06

04 May '06

Dear Members, As part of ongoing project, Development of OAI-based Institutional Research Repository Services in India, sponsored by DSIR, Govt of India, at the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, NCSI has been helping several Institutions/Organizations in the country to setup their Institutional Repositories (IRs). We have also planned for conducting at least two workshops during the project duration to impart practical training to the participants in setting up and maintaining their IRs. The exact dates for the workshops will be announced on this and other lists shortly. In order to provide sustained help to setup and maintain IRs, we have started an exclusive discussion list called, Institutional Repositories of India Forum (IRI-Forum). Members of this forum can post queries related to IR software choices, Hardware requirements, installation of IR software, configuration, customization,administration, backup or any other problems related to IR. Based on our experiences and the experiences of the participating members this forum can be of mutual help to all the participants. You are welcome to join this mailing list if your Institution/Organization has already has an IR or is planning to have one in the near future. You can subscribe to this mailing list by visiting the site http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/iri-forum. Once you subscribe, you can pose the queries by sending an email to iri-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in. Looking forward to your active participation to make this forum a useful one. -- Filbert and Francis Dear Members, As part of ongoing project, Development of OAI-based Institutional Research Repository Services in India, sponsored by DSIR, Govt of India, at the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, NCSI has been helping several Institutions/Organizations in the country to setup their Institutional Repositories (IRs). We have also planned for conducting at least two workshops during the project duration to impart practical training to the participants in setting up and maintaining their IRs. The exact dates for the workshops will be announced on this and other lists shortly. In order to provide sustained help to setup and maintain IRs, we have started an exclusive discussion list called, Institutional Repositories of India Forum (IRI-Forum). Members of this forum can post queries related to IR software choices, Hardware requirements, installation of IR software, configuration, customization,administration, backup or any other problems related to IR. Based on our experiences and the experiences of the participating members this forum can be of mutual help to all the participants. You are welcome to join this mailing list if your Institution/Organization has already has an IR or is planning to have one in the near future. You can subscribe to this mailing list by visiting the site http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/iri-forum . Once you subscribe, you can pose the queries by sending an email to iri-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in . Looking forward to your active participation to make this forum a useful one. -- Filbert and Francis

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Regarding Weeding of books
by Mailing List Manager 04 May '06

04 May '06

Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 12:00:54 +0530 From: pramod babu <pramodhbabu(a)gmail.com> Dear all Could anyone inform regarding UGC norms for weeding old and out dated books from library or any other information related to weeding of books. Thanks & regards Pramod Library Assistant M.S.Ramaiah Medical College Bangalore e-mail:pramodhbabu@gmail.com

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Fw: digital repositories roadmap: looking forward
by Mailing List Manager 04 May '06

04 May '06

Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 07:42:24 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> ----- Original Message ----- From: Amber Thomas To: JISC-REPOSITORIES(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK Colleagues, You may be interested in this new document discussing the future of UK academic repositories. Digital Repositories Roadmap: Looking Forward JISC has funded a Digital Repositories Roadmap document to present a vision for 2010. This has been undertaken by Rachel Heery from UKOLN and Andy Powell from the Eduserve Foundation. This is a discussion document that provides context for project and programme work. It is available from: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/rep-roadmap-v15.doc The vision is one where there is a rich scholarly communications and learning environment that is supported by an extensive network of repositories, where content is widely available and re-used. The repositories will allow sharing, collaboration, a record of activity and so on and will be enhanced by value added services that support manipulation, interlinking and personalisation among other things. The Digital Repositories Roadmap concludes that it is cultural and policy issues that lie at the heart of achieving success for a digital repository network for learning and research.

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BLISc & MLISc admission
by Mailing List Manager 04 May '06

04 May '06

Date: 3 May 2006 11:15:40 -0000 From: jyoti shreeram bhabal <jyotibhabal(a)rediffmail.com> � Dear All BLISc and MLISc admission forms are available at SHPT School of Library Science. Duration of course: 1 year Medium: English only Eligibility: Female graduate candidate from any discipline(candidate awaiting for their result may also apply.) Admission Procedure: as per merit, based on Entrance Test form fee: Rs. 50/- (form & prospectus) Address: SHPT School of Library Science SNDT Women's University New Marine Lines Mumbai 400020 Tel: 22072792 email: shptsndt(a)gmail.com Mrs.Jyoti Bhabal Lecturer SHPT School of Library Science SNDT Women's University 1 Nathibai Thackersey Road New Marine Lines Mumbai 400 020. Tel: 22072792 22081879 ext.274 or 263

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Alumni Association of Dept. of LIS, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar
by Mailing List Manager 04 May '06

04 May '06

Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 02:36:40 -0700 From: Samarendra Dash <samardash(a)gmail.com> Dear All, An Alumni Association of the P.G.Dept. of Lib.& Inf. Sc, Utkal University was formed on 28.04.2006 to create a platform for interaction among the students, faculty & professionals who are associated with the Dept. of LIS, Utkal University. The office bearers for the first term i.e. 2006-07 were unanimously elected as follows 1. Dr. P.Padhi President 2. Dr. B.D.Panda Vice President 3. Sri Byomajit Mohanty Secretary 4. Sri M.Biswal, Treasurer All Alumnae of the Dept. of Lib.& Inf.Sc are requested to contact Head of Department LIS, UU or Sri Samarendra Dash for further details. Regards Samarendra Dash 09437558100

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Reaction to "Everybody has a librarian inside." blogged.
by Sukhdev Singh 04 May '06

04 May '06

Atleast someone liked my thought - "Everybody has a librarian inside." Check out - http://libtechbytes.blogspot.com/2006/05/i-like-this-thought.html Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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Why OA makes sense
by Mailing List Manager 03 May '06

03 May '06

Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 03:23:15 +0530 (IST) From: arun(a)mssrf.res.in >From Peter Suber's blog EURASIP President on OA Sergios Theodoridis, Presidents Message, EURASIP, March 2006. Theodoridis is the President of European Association for Signal, Speech, and Image Processing (EURASIP), which publishes four OA journals through Hindawi Publishing. Excerpt: Since EURASIPs major decision to adopt the Open Access (OA) model for all its new journals, I have developed an interest in trying to keep up with related publications and adopted policies and actions by various scientific organizations and bodies concerning the OA philosophy....In a world of an unprecedented complexity, information and knowledge access models that transcend professional classifications, national boundaries, and social barriers are timely and necessary. The OA philosophy affects not only the publication of scientific research, but also the way large databases, such as the genomes of animals and plants, can be accessed. Recently, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) released version 5.0 of the NSFs Cyberinfrastructure Vision for the 21st century. The report states that 30 nations, including the United States, declared their commitment to work together towards the establishment of common access regimes for research data generated through public funding. Currently Germanys Max-Planck Society, the UK Wellcome Trust, the French CNRS, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute all encourage their funded researchers to make their peer-reviewed articles publicly available. It is worth pointing out that the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee considered the OA issue and the report was in favor of open access.... Concerning publications, there are two major motivations in favor of open access. The first refers to ethics. Research funded by the public should be available to the public. The second motivation refers to the research impact. Internet technology and powerful search engines make it possible to mine any publications of interest that reside in an open access repository. This will no doubt increase the impact and the citation of published articles. Furthermore, the OA model complies with the above-mentioned synergy and cooperation rationale, since it is a way of minimizing the gap between scientists living and working in the developed countries and those who are working in less developed countries and have very limited accessibility to published results....

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Indianjournals.com - Statistics
by Mailing List Manager 03 May '06

03 May '06

Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 13:23:11 +0530 From: Chandrima Roy <croy(a)docdelserv.com> Dear All We are proud to share the overall Statistics of Indianjournals.com as on date since its launch on 30th May 2005 as follows: No. of Publications: 34 Societies Associated: 28 Issues Archival: 127 Subject Areas Covered so far: 8 Visitors So far as on 1st May, 2006: 64,101 Latest Journal (Issue) uploaded: International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research, Year 2006, Volume-2, Issue-1 (January) TOC Link: http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=3Dijor:ijcir <http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=3Dijor:ijcir&volume=3D2&issu e=3D1&type=3Dtoc> &volume=3D2&issue=3D1&type=3Dtoc To access the full text of free Journals, Online Subscriptions or Package deals, kindly log on to http://www.indianjournals.com <http://www.indianjournals.com/> or send your queries to info(a)indianjournals.com. 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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Document Delivery Service
by Mailing List Manager 03 May '06

03 May '06

Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 13:22:10 +0530 From: Chandrima Roy <croy(a)docdelserv.com> Dear All, For all your requirements for full text articles, Conference Proceedings, Reports, Patents & others, please contact us to obtain Copyright compliant articles at very reasonable rates. Articles in Pdf or Tiff format are made available via email within 4-5 days upon receipt of the order (s). For more information please log on to http://www.docdelserv.com <http://www.docdelserv.com/> or contact us at info(a)docdelserv.com . 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=0D

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Intel to provide low-cost Internet access
by Mailing List Manager 03 May '06

03 May '06

Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 17:27:52 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> The New York Times Intel to Offer Its Own Plan for Global Internet Access By JOHN MARKOFF Published: May 2, 2006 SAN FRANCISCO, May 1 - Aiming to help close the so-called digital divide, the Intel Corporation plans to announce a design for a sub-$400 educational laptop and a five-year, $1 billion program to train teachers and to extend wireless digital Internet access worldwide. Visit http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/02/technology/02chip.html for full story

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RE: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 38, Issue 4
by Suresh C. Narayanan 03 May '06

03 May '06

Dear Mahesh, Greetings. For more information on ebooks, please contact EDUTECH's Bangalore office. Mr.Ajay Sridhar/Mr.Sajeev Kumar Tel: +91 80 41123437 Fax: +91 80 41517810 EDUTECH deals with ebooks published from more than 600 publishers through aggregatory sources such as ebrary.com and CRCnetbase.com Regs/Suresh Regional Manager EDUTECH INDIA Message: 5 Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 04:07:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Mahesh G T <nisargamahesh(a)yahoo.co.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Information on E-books To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20060502110704.38448.qmail(a)web8411.mail.in.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Dear All, Could anyone give me the details of procuring E-books, and also I need information on procurement procedure, its policies with its termsand conditions. And also could you please provide me some vendor details, I enquired with few vendors, but they would give access on single client basis, like one member can access one book at a time, but we need multi client access at a time, So I kindly request you all to provide me details in this regard, Thanking you, ========================================================== "Knowledge is of two kinds,We Know a subject ourselves, or,we know where to find information on it" ========================================================== Mahesh G T Librarian Alliance Business Academy, Bangalore-68 Off No - 080-26684369 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 04:27:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Vijayakumara <vijayakumar71(a)yahoo.co.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] One day workshop on e - resources To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com, iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com Message-ID: <20060502112707.25768.qmail(a)web8412.mail.in.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: workshop broucher.doc Type: application/msword Size: 58880 bytes Desc: 912671305-workshop broucher.doc Url : http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20060502/9e957 2a0/workshopbroucher.doc ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum End of LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 38, Issue 4 ****************************************

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MDP (Management Development Program) on Cyber Law
by SUNIL M.V. 03 May '06

03 May '06

Dear Professional Friends, Greetings from SDM-IMD, Mysore! I am pleased to inform you that for the first time in Mysore a program on Cyber law For Managers is been conducted at SDMIMD Campus on 14.05.2006. The program intends to provide deep insights to information professionals. The details of the program along with the registration form are attached for your use. With regards Sunil MV Librarian SDM Institute for Management Development No. 1, Chamundi Hill Road Siddartha Nagar, Mysore Phone : 0821 - 2420490/491 2429722/161 Fax: 0821-2425557 --------------------------------- New Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Call regular phones from your PC and save big. Dear Professional Friends, Greetings from SDM-IMD, Mysore! I am pleased to inform you that for the first time in Mysore a program on Cyber law For Managers is been conducted at SDMIMD Campus on 14.05.2006. The program intends to provide deep insights to information professionals. The details of the program along with the registration form are attached for your use. With regards Sunil MV Librarian SDM Institute for Management Development No. 1, Chamundi Hill Road Siddartha Nagar, Mysore Phone : 0821 - 2420490/491 2429722/161 Fax: 0821-2425557 New Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman5/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… Call regular phones from your PC and save big.

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PhpMyLibrary
by vimal kumar 03 May '06

03 May '06

Dear Professionals, Latest version of PhpMyLibrary (2.2.1-3) now available for download. PhpMyLibrary is an open source library management system available free of cost. It developed in Philippines by Polerio T. Babao and very popular ILMS in that country. Latest version of PhpMyLibrary has added a web based installer and serial control module. It supports USMARC and CDS/ISIS conversion. PhpMyLibrary written in PHP and runs with the support of Apache web server and MySQL database. For more information and download the software visits the home page of PhpMyLibrary http://www.phpmylibrary.org . Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messengers low PC-to-Phone call rates. Dear Professionals, Latest version of PhpMyLibrary (2.2.1-3) now available for download. PhpMyLibrary is an open source library management system available free of cost. It developed in Philippines by Polerio T. Babao and very popular ILMS in that country. Latest version of PhpMyLibrary has added a web based installer and serial control module. It supports USMARC and CDS/ISIS conversion. PhpMyLibrary written in PHP and runs with the support of Apache web server and MySQL database. For more information and download the software visits the home page of PhpMyLibrary http://www.phpmylibrary.org/ http://www.phpmylibrary.org . Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messengers low http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman8/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… PC-to-Phone call rates.

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India fares better than China in the list of failed states
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 03 May '06

03 May '06

Pakistan among top 10 'failed states' [India rated better than China] Chidanand Rajghatta [Times of India] [ Wednesday, May 03, 2006 03:15:38 am TIMES NEWS NETWORK ] WASHINGTON: Nuclear-armed Pakistan has been ranked among the top 10 'failed states' in the world, ahead of Afghanistan and a host of crisis-ridden African countries, in a new world survey released Tuesday. Foreign Policy magazine's second annual index of failed states paints a grim picture of India's neighbourhood. Four other South Asian countries, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, are ranked 18th, 19th, 20th and 25th respectively. All of them are featured in the critical red zone of states most vulnerable to failure. According to the index, a failing state is one in which the government does not have effective control of its territory, is not perceived as legitimate by a significant portion of its population, and does not provide domestic security or basic public services to its citizens. The survey uses 12 indicators to measure failure, including criminalisation or delegitimisation of the state, security apparatus as "state within a state," rise of factionalised elites, intervention of other states or external actors, legacy of vengeance-seeking group grievance, chronic and sustained human flight, and uneven economic development. Pakistan scores heavily in all categories to chalk up a scary total of 103.1 out of 120, while other failing South Asian states are all score in the mid-90s. By contrast, 93th ranked India is rated the most stable country in the neighbourhood with a score of 70.4, well ahead of even China, which is ranked 57th with 82.5. The study debunks the notion that China's massive economic growth is making the country more stable. China lost ground from last year when it was ranked 75th, just ahead of India at 76, mainly on account of increasing inequity and corruption. Greater social mobility and increased decentralisation appears to have served India better and pulled it ahead of China in the stability sweepstakes. But the most startling slide, and a worrisome development for India, is nuclear-armed Pakistan's precipitous slide from 34th place last year to 9th place this year. Remarkably, Liberia, Burundi and Ethiopia are rated more stable than nuclear Pakistan. Only Sudan, which tops the list, and a handful of African countries such as Somalia and Congo, are ahead of Pakistan in the failure stakes. Iraq is ranked 4th and Afghanistan 10th. The survey said Pakistan's inability to police its tribal areas, where there is now an ongoing civil war, it's simmering ethnic tensions, and the devastating earthquake last year, has led to its sharp decline. Western European nations, along with Japan, Australia and New Zealand, are ranked among the most stable nations in the index.

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USA moving closer to mandating open access to all publicly-funded
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 03 May '06

03 May '06

At last the United States is moving closer to mandating Open Access for all publicly-funded research. There is no reason why we in India need to keep postponing the inevitable! >From Peter Suber's blog More on the FRPAA Here are some helpful official links on the FRPAA: * Full text of the bill * Sen. Cornyn's floor speech introducing the bill * Sen. Cornyn's one-page summary of the bill * The FAQ on the bill * The short version of Sen. Cornyn's press release. (I've already blogged the long version.) * Sen. Lieberman's press release on the bill. And here are a couple of unofficial ones: * The press release on the bill from the Alliance for Taxpayer Access. Also see the ATA page on the bill. * The press release from Public Knowledge * My article from today's issue of SOAN. When I have time, I hope to go back and blog excerpts from some of these docs. ----------------- May issue of SOAN I just mailed the May issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. This issue takes a close look at Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) just introduced in the US Senate by Senators John Cornyn and Joe Lieberman. The FRPAA mandates OA for federally funded research and imposes a firm six month deadline. The Top Stories section takes a brief look at the EC report calling for an OA mandate to publicly-funded research, the developing OA policy at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, NIH-Director Elias Zerhouni's public admission that the NIH policy might need a mandate, two recent clues to the RCUK thinking about OA, a new call for OA to biodiversity data, an "email-eprints" button for Eprints and DSpace archiving software, and the beta of Microsoft Live Academic Search. ------------------- The Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Joe Lieberman (D-CT) introduced the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 (FRPAA) in the US Senate today. This is giant step forward for OA, even bigger than the CURES Act that Senator Lieberman introduced in December 2005. Like CURES, FRPAA will mandate OA and limit embargoes to six months. Unlike CURES, it will not be limited to medical research and will not mandate deposit in a central repository. It will apply to all federal funding agencies above a certain size --including the NIH, NSF, NASA, EPA, and eight Cabinet-level Departments. It instructs each agency to develop its own policy, under certain guidelines laid down in the bill. Some of those agencies might choose to launch central repositories but others might choose to mandate deposit (for example) in the author's institutional repository. But all must insure OA "as soon as practicable, but not later than 6 months after publication in peer-reviewed journals". BTW, Cornyn and Lieberman introduced the bill today because the NIH public access policy took effect one year ago today. For more deails, see Sen. Cornyn's press release: In an effort to increase taxpayers' access to federally funded research, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) on Tuesday introduced the bipartisan Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006. The legislation is co-sponsored by U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.). The bill requires every federal agency with an annual research budget of more than $100 million to implement a public access policy. The policy must ensure that articles generated through research funded by that agency are made available online within six months of publication. Cornyn said: "This legislation is a common-sense approach to expand the public's access to research it funds. And it will help accelerate scientific innovation and discovery." Lieberman said: "Tax payer-funded research should be accessible to tax payers. Our bill will give researchers, medical professionals and patients in Connecticut and throughout the nation access to scientific discoveries and advancements that can help bring new treatments and cures to the public." I'll also have an article about the bill later today in the May issue of SOAN. Peter Suber's Comment. This is a superb bill: informed by the arguments for OA and the shortcomings of the NIH policy. It's one more sign that legislators are not treating the NIH policy as a precedent but taking every opportunity to improve upon it: going beyond a request to a requirement, beyond long or indefinite embargoes to firm deadlines, beyond biomedicine to all disciplines, beyond publisher consent to a federal purpose license that does not accommodate publisher resistance, and at least possibly, beyond central to distributed archiving. The FRPAA adds momentum to the CURES Act and the lesser but potent pressures on the NIH to convert its request to a requirement. It will give taxpayers access to the non-classified research they fund with their taxes. It will make a very large and useful body of research even more useful than it already is by sharing it with all who can apply or build upon it. In both respects it will increase the return on the taxpayers' enormous investment in this research.

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1st International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM-2006) at Bangalore
by J. K. Vijayakumar 02 May '06

02 May '06

1st International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2006) December 06-08, 2006 Bangalore, India Organised by the Digital Information Research Foundation, http://www.dirf.org Chennai and Chirst College, Bangalore http://www.christcollege.edu The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multidisciplinary conference on digital information management, science and technology. The principal aim of this conference is to bring people in academia, research laboratories and industry and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science and technology. The ICDIM intends to bridge the gap between different areas of digital information management, science and technology. This forum will address a large number of themes and issues. Conference Organizers and Committees General Chair Thomas C Mathew (Christ Edu, India) Programme Chair Pit. Pichappan (Annamalai University, India) Co-Chairs Fredrick Andres (National Informatics Center, Japan) Antony Satyadas (IBM, USA) Tutorial and Panel Chair Ajith Abraham (Chung-Ang University, Korea) Workshop Chair Richard CHBEIR (Universite de Bourgogne, France) Visit http://www.icdim.org for more details.... --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates. 1 st International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2006) December 06-08, 2006 Bangalore, India Organised by the Digital Information Research Foundation, http://www.dirf.org http://www.dirf.org Chennai and Chirst College, Bangalore http://www.christcollege.edu http://www.christcollege.edu The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multidisciplinary conference on digital information management, science and technology. The principal aim of this conference is to bring people in academia, research laboratories and industry and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science and technology. The ICDIM intends to bridge the gap between different areas of digital information management, science and technology. This forum will address a large number of themes and issues. Conference Organizers and Committees General Chair Thomas C Mathew (Christ Edu, India) Programme Chair Pit. Pichappan (Annamalai University, India) Co-Chairs Fredrick Andres (National Informatics Center, Japan) Antony Satyadas (IBM, USA) Tutorial and Panel Chair Ajith Abraham (Chung-Ang University, Korea) Workshop Chair Richard CHBEIR (Universite de Bourgogne, France) Visit http://www.icdim.org/ http://www.icdim.org for more details.... http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman3/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates.

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Suppliers of CDs & DVDs on Management
by hemaa＠ingvysyabank.com 02 May '06

02 May '06

Dear Dipaali, Apart from Multimedia HRD, you can also try Rangnekar Associates. Their contact details are as follows: Rangnekar Associates 31, Neelambar 37, G Deshmukh Marg Mumbai - 400026 PH: 022 - 56640030/23523607/23521722 Mail: rangnekar(a)vsnl.com Thanks & Regards Hema Amble Librarian ING Vysya Bank Competence Development Center -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Dipaali K Bhosle Sent: 28/04/2006 12:38 PM To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Suppliers of CDs & DVDs on Management Dear All, Can you tell me other than Multimedia HRD who can source the CDs & DVDs on management topics. If not then which public libraries will have collection of the same? Thanks & Regards, Dipaali K Bhosle INFOMEDIA Mumbai

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One day workshop on e - resources
by Vijayakumara 02 May '06

02 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. 200.00 Students Rs. 200.00 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 )9448860702, 080-28473777 e-mail: libraryworkskop(a)yahoo.co.in Thanking you Dr. Vijayakumar M \ \ | / / \ \ ~ ~ / / | @ @ | ---------------oooo------ (_)-------------oooo------------------ Dr. Vijayakumar M, Chief Librarian, East Point College of Engineering and Technology Bidarahalli, Kithaganoor Road, Virgonagar - Post, Bangalore - 5600 049, India Tel:080-8473888, 8473777 Fax:080-8472999, coolvg(a)gmail.com --------------------------------- Love cheap thrills? Enjoy PC-to-Phone calls to 30+ countries for just 2¢/min with Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. 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 26 th 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 26 th 2006 : 09.00 am Registration Fee Librarians Rs. 200.00 Academicians Rs. 200.00 Research Scholars Rs. 200.00 Students Rs. 200.00 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 ) 9448860702, 080-28473777 e-mail: mailto:libraryworkskop@yahoo.co.in libraryworkskop(a)yahoo.co.in Thanking you Dr. Vijayakumar M \ \ | / / \ \ ~ ~ / / | @ @ | ---------------oooo------ (_)-------------oooo------------------ Dr. Vijayakumar M, Chief Librarian, East Point College of Engineering and Technology Bidarahalli, Kithaganoor Road, Virgonagar - Post, Bangalore - 5600 049, India Tel:080-8473888, 8473777 Fax:080-8472999, mailto:coolvg@gmail.com coolvg(a)gmail.com Love cheap thrills? Enjoy PC-to-Phone http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman9/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… calls to 30+ countries for just 2¢/min with Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.

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Information on E-books
by Mahesh G T 02 May '06

02 May '06

Dear All, Could anyone give me the details of procuring E-books, and also I need information on procurement procedure, its policies with its termsand conditions. And also could you please provide me some vendor details, I enquired with few vendors, but they would give access on single client basis, like one member can access one book at a time, but we need multi client access at a time, So I kindly request you all to provide me details in this regard, Thanking you, ========================================================== "Knowledge is of two kinds,We Know a subject ourselves, or,we know where to find information on it" ========================================================== Mahesh G T Librarian Alliance Business Academy, Bangalore-68 Off No - 080-26684369 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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LIS-Jobs in bangalore
by K.R. Mulla 02 May '06

02 May '06

Hi, Friends, There is a vacancy for the post of "Librarian" in our Organisation to set up a library. HKBK Groupe of Institution (www.hkbkeducation.org) Location: Bangalore If anyone interested may send their CV to krmulla(a)gmail.com or mulla_kamalasab(a)yahoo.com Please inform to your friends too. Thanks and Regards -- K. R. Mulla, Librarian, HKBK College of Engineering, # 22/1, Nagawara, Bangalore - 560 045. http://krmulla.googlepages.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/krmulla Hi, Friends, There is a vacancy for the post of "Librarian" in our Organisation to set up a library. HKBK Groupe of Institution ( http://www.hkbkeducation.org www.hkbkeducation.org ) Location: Bangalore If anyone interested may send their CV to mailto:krmulla@gmail.com krmulla(a)gmail.com or mailto:mulla_kamalasab@yahoo.com mulla_kamalasab(a)yahoo.com Please inform to your friends too. Thanks and Regards -- K. R. Mulla, Librarian, HKBK College of Engineering, # 22/1, Nagawara, Bangalore - 560 045. http://krmulla.googlepages.com/ http://krmulla.googlepages.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/krmulla https://www.linkedin.com/in/krmulla

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DSpace Workshop Materials: Lecture Notes, Manuals, Presentations, Exercises, Software
by Puna Das 02 May '06

02 May '06

A] National Workshop on Building Digital Libraries: Application of DSpace Held on April 22-25, 2006 at DELNET, New Delhi Resource Persons: Dr. A. R. D. Prasad, Associate Professor, DRTC, Bangalore Dr. (Ms) Devika P. Madalli, Lecturer, DRTC, Bangalore Workshop Materials, Lecture Notes, Manuals, Presentations, Exercises are available at: http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/pub/delnet.tar.gz http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/pub/exer.zip http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/pub/papers_ppts.tar.gz B] Installing DSpace On Wiindows http://www.sdmimd.net/workshop/DSpaceOnWindows.pdf ___________________________________________________ Anup Kumar Das/ Bidyarthi Dutta/ Swapan Patra Information and Communication Society of India New Delhi ___________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new. http://in.answers.yahoo.com

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Changing Nature of the Library Catalog
by Sukhdev Singh 02 May '06

02 May '06

Friends, Some of you might be interested in reading the following report -- "The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools" < http://www.loc.gov/catdir/calhoun-report-final.pdf > Prepared for the Library of Congress By Karen Calhoun Cornell University Library "Today, a large and growing number of students and scholars routinely bypass library catalogs in favor of other discovery tools, and the catalog represents a shrinking proportion of the universe of scholarly information. The catalog is in decline, its processes and structures are unsustainable, and change needs to be swift. At the same time, books and serials are not dead, and they are not yet digital. Notwithstanding widespread expansion of digitization projects, ubiquitous e-journals, and a market that seems poised to move to e-books, the role of catalog records in discovery and retrieval of the world's library collections seems likely to continue for at least a couple of decades and probably longer". - Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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Why funding agencies should mandate OA
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 02 May '06

02 May '06

>From Peter Suber's blog: More on how OA accelerates research Heather Morrison, Open Access: to Leverage the Research Dollar, Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, April 30, 2006. Excerpt: For the research funder, here is yet another reason why the results of research should be openly accessible, as soon as possible: immediately on publication - or before: to leverage the research dollar. Why? The way science works is in a series of steps, or like a puzzle. The goals of research are broad: finding cures for cancer, learning how to prevent or treat heart disease. These kinds of goals are rarely reached through a single study. Rather, each piece of research brings us just one step closer to the goal....When we fund one step in this research, we achieve more when more researchers are able to get on with the next steps, and we achieve the most when the results are shared as openly and quickly as possible, so that as many researchers as possible can get on to the next steps as quickly as possible. How this relates to research dollars: because research occurs worldwide, the research dollars of one funder can be leveraged through the efforts of others, including researchers receiving funds from other agencies, and often researchers working without specific funding. Open, immediate sharing is like multiplying your research lab, your research team - with no extra dollars involved....

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Libraries to Librotories- full text
by Manjunath K 01 May '06

01 May '06

Hello colleagues, This article by Leo waaijers has been published earlier in First Monday vol 10. no. 12, December 2005. Full paper is available at the following link. http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_12/waaijers/index.html Thanks, Manjunath _____________________________________________ Dr. Manjunatha K Librarian T.A. Pai Management Institute Manipal - 576 104. Udupi Dist. Karnataka State, India Phone: 91-0820-2573551(off) 2575161(Res). manjunath(a)mail.tapmi.org; manju_tapmi(a)yahoo.com _____________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Mailing List Manager Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 12:57 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] From Peter Suber's blog Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 07:40:31 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> As libraries incorporate OA, they become libratories Leo Waaijers, From Libraries to 'Libratories', Liber Quarterly, 16, 1 (2006). Only this abstract is free online, at least so far. While the eighties of the last century were a time of local automation for libraries and the nineties the decade in which libraries embraced the internet and the WWW, now is the age in which the big search engines and institutional repositories are gaining a firm footing. This heralds a new era in both the evolution of scholarly communication and its agencies themselves, i.e. the libraries. Until now libraries and publishers have developed a digital variant of existing processes and products, i.e. catalogues posted on the Web, scanned copies of articles, e-mail notification about acquisitions or expired lending periods, or traditional journals in a digital jacket. However, the new OAI repositories and services based upon them have given rise to entirely new processes and products, libraries transforming themselves into partners in setting up virtual learning environments, building an institution's digital showcase, maintaining academics' personal websites, designing refereed portals and - further into the future - taking part in organising virtual research environments or collaboratories. Libraries are set to metamorphose into 'libratories', an imaginary word to express their combined functions of library, repository and collaboratory. In such environments scholarly communication will be liberated from its current copyright bridle while its coverage will be both broader - including primary data, audiovisuals and dynamic models - and deeper, with cross-disciplinary analyses of methodologies and applications of instruments. Universities will make it compulsory to store in their institutional repositories the results of research conducted within their walls for purposes of academic reporting, review committees, and other modes of clarification and explanation. Big search engines will provide access to this profusion of information and organise its mass customisation. PS: The same issue of LQ contains a report by Raf Dekeyser on The LIBER Workshops on the "Open Archives Initiative" at CERN, Geneva. But it doesn't even have a free abstract online, or not so far. Arun _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Everybody Has a Librarian Inside
by Sukhdev Singh 01 May '06

01 May '06

Well - a librarian is most concerned with selecting and organizing information. But that is exactly what everybody in doing on web in a phenomenon called Folksonomy < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy >. A "folksonomy" is a collaboratively generated, open-ended labeling system that enables Internet users to categorize content such as Web pages, online photographs, and Web links. This is because everybody has a small "Librarian" embedded inside < http://sukhdev.blogspot.com/2006/04/everybody-has-librarian-inside.html >. Any comments please!! --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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