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Professor H R Chopra Retires...
by P Venkata Rao 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Professor Hans Raj Chopra, Chaiman, Department of Library & Information Science, Panjab University retired on 28th February 2006 after putting in more that 40 years of active service committed to Librarianship.Prof. Chopra has been serving the Panjab University, Chandigarh since 1960-61 in various capacities. He served the Panjab University Library as a Library Professional for more than ten years before joining as full time teacher with the Department of Library & Information Science. As a tribute to his commitment and dedication to the profession, the Chandigarh Librarians Association (CLA), Chandigarh organised a function in honour of Professor H R Chopra on 28th February 2006. On this ocassion a Felicitation Volume - "Vistas of Information Management: Professor H R Chopra Felicitation Volume" was realeased by Prof. Veer Singh, Dean University Instruction, Panjab University, Chandigarh. P Venkata Rao ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ P Venkata Rao Librarian M G State Institute of Public Administration,Punjab (MGSIPAP) Institutional Area, Sector 26 Chandigarh 160019, INDIA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Phone: 91-172-2793588 / 91 Extn: 220 Fax: 91-172-2793588 / 91 Extn: 400 Email: pvrao(a)mgsipap.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------

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Library Assitants at an Engineering College- Urgent
by Gopalakrishna Venkatappa 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Dear Moderator, Kindly announce this. Post: Library Assistant Institution: BMS Institute of Technology - an engineering college Sex: Male only Job Resposibilities: Reference Section in-charge;such other duties as per the librarian's direction; evening shift till 8:30 extendable depending upon users response. Salary: Rs.3000pm for one year; if confirmed State Govt. Salary with allowances(appr. Rs.5000+) Interested can meet the undersigned at his own cost immediately. Address: BMS Institute of Technology, Avalahalli, Dodballapur Main Road, Yelahanka, BANGALORE-560064. Alight at Avalahalli, board any buses bound towards Doballapur / 285 series from KR Market. Contact No. 080-5536 9469 With regards, Gopalakrishna, BMSIT.

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ASC, Shimla: Orientation Prog/Refresher Course- 2006-07...
by Puttaraj Choukimath 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Dear All, Greetings. FYI: Orientaion Programme/Refresher Course, Academic Staff College, Shimla, Schedule for 2006-07. Please visit: http://www.ascshimla.org/seheduleof2006_7.html Best Wishes, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, TATA Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: puttuc(a)yahoo.com, choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: www.tiss.edu --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. Dear All, Greetings. FYI: Orientaion Programme/Refresher Course, Academic Staff College, Shimla, Schedule for 2006-07. Please visit: http://www.ascshimla.org/seheduleof2006_7.html http://www.ascshimla.org/seheduleof2006_7.html Best Wishes, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, TATA Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: mailto:puttuc@yahoo.com puttuc(a)yahoo.com , mailto:choukimath@tiss.edu choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: http://www.tiss.edu www.tiss.edu Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39174/*http://photomail.mai… New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.

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UK universities map
by vimal kumar 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

A map of Universities and higher education institutions in IK. It helpful to locate the geographical location of academic institutions in higher education http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/ukinfo/ Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/ukinfo/ Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39174/*http://photomail.mai… New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.

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Request to Suggest a good RFID solution for our library
by mallikamh mallikamh 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Dear friends, Please suggest a good RFID Solution available for a college library. I need your help as we have decided to go for an RFID solution for our library. Thanking You, Mallika MH Librarian SSIT Maralur, Tumkur-572105 ssit_clib(a)yahoo.co.in mallikamh(a)yahoo.co.in cell: 9448748679 --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. Dear friends, Please suggest a good RFID Solution available for a college library. I need your help as we have decided to go for an RFID solution for our library. Thanking You, Mallika MH Librarian SSIT Maralur, Tumkur-572105 mailto:ssit_clib@yahoo.co.in ssit_clib(a)yahoo.co.in mailto:mallikamh@yahoo.co.in mallikamh(a)yahoo.co.in cell: 9448748679 Jiyo cricket on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailcricket/*http://in.sports.yahoo.com/cric… Yahoo! India cricket http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailmobilemessenger/*http://in.mobile.yahoo.… Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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Requirement of Project Assistants at IISc
by Geetha 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Dear All, ECE Department, IISc, Bangalore needs Project Assistants. Candidates must possess a Masters Degree in Library and Information Science; MLS/ MLISc. from Library Schools of repute/ ADIS from DRTC or INSDOC or NCSI. Job Title : Project Assistant Organization : Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore Experience: o 1+ years of experience. Expectations/Requirements o Good communication and presentation skills o Experience in Database Management o Internet Searching skills o Data mining from Bibliographical Databases and Patent Databases. o Essential skills - PHP, MySQL, o Technical Writing Skills o Knowledge of Patents Last Date: Candidates are advised to send their resume on or before 4th March 2006 Contact Details Geetha SALIS, Network_labs ECE Department Indian Insitute of Science Bangalore - 12 Email: geetha(a)ece.iisc.ernet.in geetha.veeraiah(a)gmail.com Regards Geetha *************************************** Geetha Project Assistant Indian Institute of Science Bangalore-12 Dear All, ECE Department, IISc, Bangalore needs Project Assistants. Candidates must possess a Masters Degree in Library and Information Science; MLS/ MLISc. from Library Schools of repute/ ADIS from DRTC or INSDOC or NCSI. Job Title : Project Assistant Organization : Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore Experience: o 1+ years of experience. Expectations/Requirements o Good communication and presentation skills o Experience in Database Management o Internet Searching skills o Data mining from Bibliographical Databases and Patent Databases. o Essential skills - PHP, MySQL, o Technical Writing Skills o Knowledge of Patents Last Date: Candidates are advised to send their resume on or before 4th March 2006 Contact Details Geetha SALIS, Network_labs ECE Department Indian Insitute of Science Bangalore - 12 Email: geetha(a)ece.iisc.ernet.in geetha.veeraiah(a)gmail.com Regards Geetha *************************************** Geetha Project Assistant Indian Institute of Science Bangalore-12 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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request for an article
by Mailing List Manager 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Dear Members: Quite often, there are requests on this forum for full text articles. Most of such requests are being honoured by the fellow members. As long as the members or his/her colleagues make use of full text articles for educational/research purposes, there is no infringement of copyrights. However, If a similar request comes from a member working for a commercial organization then such requests should not be entertained on this forum. This is my view as the moderator of this forum. I welcome your views and comments. Thanks for your cooperation. - Moderator

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National Resource Centre For Free/Open Source Software
by Puna Das 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

National Resource Centre For Free/Open Source Software http://www.nrcfoss.org.in/ National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) aims to contribute to the growth of FOSS in India through Research and Development, Human Resource Development, Networking and Entrepreneurship Development, as well as serve as the reference point for all FOSS related activities in the country including the creation and maintenance of this national FOSS Portal. The National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) is funded by the Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), Govt. of India, and is being managed jointly by the Chennai division of the Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing(C-DAC) and AU-KBC Research Centre, Anna University,Chennai.C-DAC is an Autonomous Scientific Society of the DIT, Govt. of India and AU-KBC Research Centre is an Autonomous Research Centre of the Anna University. _________________________________________________________________ Anup Kumar Das/ Bidyarthi Dutta Information and Communication Society of India, New Delhi _________________________________________________________________ --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. National Resource Centre For Free/Open Source Software http://www.nrcfoss.org.in/ http://www.nrcfoss.org.in/ National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) aims to contribute to the growth of FOSS in India through Research and Development, Human Resource Development, Networking and Entrepreneurship Development, as well as serve as the reference point for all FOSS related activities in the country including the creation and maintenance of this national FOSS Portal. The National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) is funded by the Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), Govt. of India, and is being managed jointly by the Chennai division of the Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing(C-DAC) and AU-KBC Research Centre, Anna University,Chennai.C-DAC is an Autonomous Scientific Society of the DIT, Govt. of India and AU-KBC Research Centre is an Autonomous Research Centre of the Anna University. _________________________________________________________________ Anup Kumar Das/ Bidyarthi Dutta Information and Communication Society of India, New Delhi _________________________________________________________________ Jiyo cricket on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailcricket/*http://in.sports.yahoo.com/cric… Yahoo! India cricket http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailmobilemessenger/*http://in.mobile.yahoo.… Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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RE: [LIS-Forum] A Web Library of Research Output
by Aman Jha 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Dear all I wrote my views (given below) in the latest issue (18 February 2006) of Economic & Political Weekly (EPW) vide a commentary titled 'A Web Library of Research Output' dated 28 January 2006. You may find it useful. Best regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon - 122015 (Haryana) Tel: 0124-5014060-67 aman.jha(a)ciionline.org http://www.ciionline.org EPW Letters --------------------- February 18, 2006 Web Library I am writing with reference to the article on a web library (January 28, 2006). One thing is certain that even in the age of Google, information is scattered and it is very difficult for researchers to track all work done on a particular topic through the various interfaces available in the country. This situation continues not only in India but in developed countries as well. Information professionals are working on digital libraries and open archive concepts worldwide. Hopefully this initiative will sort out many such problems. I agree that there is an urgent need for making all publicly funded research reports available for free online access. It is equally important for other private funded research reports to be made available, at least for reference work. This is very much essential for healthy research to continue in the country. V Srinivasan's initiative for hosting a web library may be a good platform for information seekers. However, there are already many web/internet libraries available on the net in the public domain. They have failed to integrate all the digital information available internationally. Recently, the government of India came out with a plan to create a national digital library. Let us hope that this proposal will fructify. Aman Kumar Jha Gurgaon Source: http://www.epw.org.in/showArticles.php?root=2006&leaf=02&filename=9699&file… -----Original Message----- From: Library [mailto:library@mssrf.res.in] Sent: Thursday, 9 February 2006 9:56 To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] A Web Library of Research Output EPW Commentary January 28, 2006 A Web Library of Research Output Data gathered and analysis carried out using public funds should be in the public domain, their dissemination is in the public interest. Here are some initial ideas about setting up a web library that ensures open access to publicly-funded social research output. V Srinivasan A large amount of social science research is carried out in the country, much of it with government, bilateral or multilateral funding, that is, public funding. Such research usually results in the production of reports, many of which contain useful data, analyses, ideas, and recommendations. But only a small portion of this output feeds into policy-making or public debate; the bulk of it is hardly circulated. Indeed, most of it is treated as virtually secret, inaccessible to the public in whose name it is carried out. Unfortunately, it is not an accepted view that data gathered and analysis carried out using public funds are a part of the public domain, and that their dis- semination is in the public interest. A scan of the websites of various government bodies illustrates this well. The ministry of social justice and empowerment and the ministry of rural development list some research reports on their sites but do not provide access to the listed reports or supporting studies. The reports of the National Sample Survey Organisation or the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, to name just two important bodies, are not available via the internet. The government has commissioned 20 studies or reports on child labour but only two or three are available on the internet. The result is that a great deal of research work is duplicated, since there is no access to previous research in the same area. Today, even if the authors of these reports wished to disseminate them widely, they lack an effective mechanism for doing so. To address this problem, the innovation centre of a Mumbai-based non-governmental organisation, Society for Service to Voluntary Agencies (SOSVA), has proposed a strikingly simple solution: the creation of an internet library housing all economic, social and political studies and reports prepared with government, bilateral or multilateral aid. Such access to previous research would prevent duplication of research work in the same area and check plagiarism. The quality of research would be improved by public scrutiny. Discussion on the themes covered could also be advanced considerably. Finally, the disseminated work could feed into policy-making or public debate. SOSVA proposes that electronic copies of any study, report or document prepared using government or international funds be submitted to the web library. This proposal is along the lines of the practice followed in the US whereby a copy of any book published in the country must be deposited with the Library of Congress to receive a Library of Congress Control Number. Unless this is done, no public grant, foreign or Indian, would be deemed utilised; indeed, the comptroller and auditor general or other appropriate agency would report that the funds are deemed unutilised. Steps need to be taken to make this legally binding and administratively effective. These studies would then be posted on the web library, which would have a standard classification system and easy search tools. The advantages of such a library are the advantages of the internet: At no cost, a huge wealth of information would be available to the public. Moreover, users would not need to know of the existence of particular reports or other materials in advance; they could discover them while browsing through the library, as it were. Not only would duplication of labour be avoided, and the quality of research improved by subjecting it to public scrutiny, but the quality of debate on questions of public interest could be enhanced. That, in turn, ought to spur genuine development. The same library could also host many documents that are available today but only as hard copies, that is, in printed form, and therefore in effect accessible only to a few. The idea could be developed further and the web library need not be restricted to work undertaken by government and donor agencies. For example, the web library could include doctoral theses, documents of international non-governmental organisations, and so on. Linkages can be provided to other electronic libraries as well, to constitute a core bibliography to be available on the websites. This idea could be extended further. The web library need not be restricted to work undertaken by government and donor agencies. For example, the documents of international non-governmental organisations or agencies could be put up on this site. Links could be provided to other electronic libraries to constitute a core bibliography available on the internet. Certain technical and legal issues involved in setting up such a site may need examination. Some reports (or portions of them) may need to be withheld on grounds of "national security"; others because they reveal confidential or copyright materials. However, these questions appear fairly easy to resolve. The costs involved for setting up the web library, either as a fully owned portal facility co-hosted in a data centre or as portal hosted in a private hosting service provider, are negligible (a few lakhs of rupees) compared to the public funds spent on such research. The potential social benefits of such a web library are huge. In a sense, it could be argued that providing such access is a legitimate extension of the current efforts under the Freedom of Information Act. Although the thrust of the act is towards transparency in decision-making by government, the fundamental principle of the act, that government must throw its books open, applies as much as to information dissemination and development benefits as to decision-making. Email: sosva(a)hotmail.com http://www.epw.org.in/showArticles.php?root=2006&leaf=01&filename=9634&file… Sincerely B. Murugan Library Services M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation 3rd Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area Chennai - 600 113 Phone: 22541229 / 22542698; Extn: 208/209 DISCLAIMER:The information in this message may be privileged. If you have received it by mistake please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete the message from your system. Any unauthorised use or dissemination of this message in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Any information in this message that does not relate to official business shall be understood to be neither given nor endorsed by the Confederation of Indian Industry.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Request for article - Reg
by sushmita das 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Respected Sir, This is in response to your requirement.THe Union atalogue of Biomedical Serials of India (WWW.uncat.nic.in)gives a listing of all the biomedical journals available in Indian Medical Libraries. The required journal is available in a number of cities which you can check up with the catalogue like NIPER,POST GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES , chennai, CDRI, lucknow, etc.You can mail the concerned librarian also to send the copy to you. Regards Sushmita NIC, New Delhi On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 Avinashilingam University wrote : >Dear All, > I would be grateful if anyone could send the article from the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Vol.171, Issue 3, Aug 2000, Pg.425-435 or inform me about the availability of the journal in any institutions. >Thanking you >A.Dhanalakshmi, >Research scholar, >Avinashilingam Deemed University, >Coimbatore. >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… >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Respected Sir, This is in response to your requirement.THe Union atalogue of Biomedical Serials of India (WWW.uncat.nic.in)gives a listing of all the biomedical journals available in Indian Medical Libraries. The required journal is available in a number of cities which you can check up with the catalogue like NIPER,POST GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES , chennai, CDRI, lucknow, etc.You can mail the concerned librarian also to send the copy to you. Regards Sushmita NIC, New Delhi On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 Avinashilingam University wrote : >Dear All, > I would be grateful if anyone could send the article from the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Vol.171, Issue 3, Aug 2000, Pg.425-435 or inform me about the availability of the journal in any institutions. >Thanking you >A.Dhanalakshmi, >Research scholar, >Avinashilingam Deemed University, >Coimbatore. >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… >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum 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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query regarding publication
by Mailing List Manager 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:19:15 +0000 (GMT) From: mangesh talmale <elibmangesh(a)yahoo.co.in> DEAR PROFESSIONAL , could u please send the information regarding query: 1. what is the difference between scholarly publication journal and peer review journal. best regards mangesh talmale pune

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When will the term "Key Words" be replaced by "tags"?
by Sukhdev Singh 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Friends, We know how Meta-data has replaced the term "Indexing" and"Cataloguing" in the last decade. Now it is turn of "Key Words" to bereplaced by a term called "tagging". The only difference in these twoterms is that "Key Words" are picked up from some standard vocabularylike MeSH by professionals; "tagging" is done by end users to bookmarkand categorize an internet resource without any rules or vocabulary.The intention is to retrieve the "tagged" resource in future. Butthere is a Method in this Madness of tagging. The user indirectlyregisters a "vote" in favor of the resource being tagged. Such voteswhen collected on a service provider end can be used to indicaterelative popularity of various resources. Del.icio.us <http://del.icio.us > is one of such service. This collective behavioris known "collaborative tagging". Macgregor, George and McCulloch, Emma in their pre-print <http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00005703/ > [accepted forpublication] has suggested that Librarians and informationprofessional researchers should take a leading role in research aimedat assessing the efficacy of collaborative tagging in relation toinformation storage, organization, and retrieval, and to influence thefuture development of collaborative tagging systems. I myself am a regular user of Del.icio.us < http://del.icio.us >. Ican keep links to my favorite articles; blogs; sites etc and canaccess them and access them from any computer on the web. I can sharethem easily by just by giving its URL < http://del.icio.us/sukhi >.Moreover I can check up who else have tagged a particular resource ofmy interest. Exploring further I can find out from other's tags whatall other resources could be of my interest. Does not this soundsimilar to "Pearl Growing" in Science Citation Index? Suchcollaborative tagging site also presents what is known as "Tag Cloud"showing relative importance of tags in terms size and colour of fonts. So when will the term "Key Words" be replaced by "tags"? --Sukhdev Singh, NIC.http://openmed.nic.in

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Digital Library of India
by Aman Jha 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Dear all Recently, I visited a website of the Digital Library of India [http://www.dli.ernet.in/] It is a million book project - a collaborative effort between Indian Institute of Science and Carnegie Melon University with partners from Government, Academia and Religious Institutions. 54000 books have already been scanned and 29000 books are available for online access. It is one of the biggest digital library initiatives in India. The objective of this project is clearly mentioned in its mission statement given below: "The mission is to create a portal for the Digital Library of India which will foster creativity and free access to all human knowledge. As a first step in realizing this mission, it is proposed to create the Digital Library with a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books, predominantly in Indian languages, available to everyone over the Internet. This portal will also become an aggregator of all the knowledge and digital contents created by other digital library initiatives in India. Very soon we expect that this portal would provide a gateway to Indian Digital Libraries in science, arts, culture, music, movies, traditional medicine, palm leaves and many more. The result will be a unique resource accessible to anyone in the world 24x7, without regard to socioeconomic background or nationality." Hope this initiative proves to be a wonderful digital resource centre for all of us. Best regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon - 122015 (Haryana) Tel: 0124-5014060-67 aman.jha(a)ciionline.org http://www.ciionline.org DISCLAIMER:The information in this message may be privileged. If you have received it by mistake please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete the message from your system. Any unauthorised use or dissemination of this message in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Any information in this message that does not relate to official business shall be understood to be neither given nor endorsed by the Confederation of Indian Industry.

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Request for article - Reg
by Avinashilingam University 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Dear All, I would be grateful if anyone could send the article from the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Vol.171, Issue 3, Aug 2000, Pg.425-435 or inform me about the availability of the journal in any institutions. Thanking you A.Dhanalakshmi, Research scholar, Avinashilingam Deemed University, Coimbatore. Dear All, I would be grateful if anyone could send the article from the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Vol.171, Issue 3, Aug 2000, Pg.425-435 or inform me about the availability of the journal in any institutions. Thanking you A.Dhanalakshmi, Research scholar, Avinashilingam Deemed University, Coimbatore. 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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E - Literacy campaign in Kerala
by Saji S. Nair 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Dear all, 'Akshaya',the ambitious project of Government of Kerala has so far made around 5.8 lakh people e-literate. The project, that was launched in Malappuram District, one of the northern districts in Keala is currently moving ahead in Kasargod, Kannur, Kozhikkode, Thrissur, Ernakulam, Kollam and Pathanmthitta. It will also extend to the remaining six districts so as make Kerala, the first e-literate state in India by the year 2007. see the interesting news stuff at 1.Cyber-savvy at 106: an evergreen saga in Kerala http://www.thehindu.com/2006/02/23/stories/2006022303811300.htm 2.Star looks the part for Akshaya http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/26/stories/2006022607910400.htm Saji S. Nair Regional Cancer Centre Library Trivandrum Kerala _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

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JISC guidance on open source software to all colleges and universities
by vimal kumar 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Dear Readers, JISC issued a briefing paper to all colleges and universities in the UK to raise awareness of the issue of open source software. Further reading http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=oss_bp Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. JISC issued a briefing paper to all colleges and universities in the UK to raise awareness of the issue of open source software. Further reading http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=oss_bp Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39174/*http://photomail.mai… New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.

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Will "Google Scholar" beat the "Web of Science" in future ?
by Sukhdev Singh 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Friends, Just revised Google Scholar < http://scholar.google.com > last week. Noticed that it has improved a lot. Just searched for "OpenMED@NIC" <http://snipurl.com/mz7n > It gave 925 hits. Not bad considering thatOpenMED@NIC < http://openmed.nic.in > has around 1015 documents. Whatfacinated me was that it presented link "Cited by" along with thehits. Clicking those showed all the articles citing an article inquestion in OpenMED@NIC. No wonder Dean Giustini of Biomedical Branch Library, VancouverHospital & Health Sciences Centre, writes in his blog an item - GoogleScholar Rivals Web of Science <http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/googlescholar/archives/023377.html >comparing Web of Science with Google Scholar. He refers to an articleby Daniel Pauly and Konstantinos I. Stergiou entitled "Equivalence ofresults from two citation analyses: Thomson ISI's Citation Index andGoogle's Scholar service. ETHICS IN SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENTALPOLITICS, 2005:33–35 Published December 22 <http://www.int-res.com/articles/esep/2005/E65.pdf >. "Citation counts were performed across a wide range of disciplinesusing both the Thomson ISI files and Google Scholar, and shown to leadto essentially the same results, in spite of their different methodsfor identifying citing sources. This has strong implications forfuture citation analyses, and the many promotion, tenure and fundingdecisions based thereon, notably because ISI products are rathercostly, while Google Scholar is free." However one thing irritates me - it shows the following text in hitsof OpenMED@NIC."@import url(http://openmed.nic.in/eprints.css"Google could have done better to render the CSS better from the Eprintbased repository. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC.http://openmed.nic.in

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Need information regardin CD Servers.
by Shraddha Lapasiya 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hello All, We at Information Resource Centre at Accenture Services are exploring the availability of differed models of CD Servers in market and seeking your support in sharing us the latest advances in CD Server technology and also the benefits of the same in the current IT scenario. Most of the corporate world today uses the shared folder access against going for a dedicated CD Server and we need to justify why CD Servers are better option than the Shared folder access? Also share us the details of the models available with vendor information so that we can start reaching out the vendors and initiate the evaluation process. Many thanks for your time and effort. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. Hello All, We at Information Resource Centre at Accenture Services are exploring the availability of differed models of CD Servers in market and seeking your support in sharing us the latest advances in CD Server technology and also the benefits of the same in the current IT scenario. Most of the corporate world today uses the shared folder access against going for a dedicated CD Server and we need to justify why CD Servers are better option than the Shared folder access? Also share us the details of the models available with vendor information so that we can start reaching out the vendors and initiate the evaluation process. Many thanks for your time and effort. Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39174/*http://photomail.mai… New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.

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Vacancy at Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.
by Shraddha Lapasiya 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hi All, We have an opening at Accenture Services Pvt Ltd, for an Associate who can ready to work closely with the Information Resource Center and the Vendor Management team. The candidate profile which we are looking for is as follows: · Graduate with 2-4 Yrs experience in an Training Department of an IT company with good knowledge of all the IT training aspects. · IT Skills such as MS Office suite. · Good P R Skills · Good negotiation skills · Managing the training library collection Do send in your resumes on or before 5.00 PM 2nd March, 2006. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. Hi All, We have an opening at Accenture Services Pvt Ltd, for an Associate who can ready to work closely with the Information Resource Center and the Vendor Management team. The candidate profile which we are looking for is as follows: · Graduate with 2-4 Yrs experience in an Training Department of an IT company with good knowledge of all the IT training aspects. · IT Skills such as MS Office suite. · Good P R Skills · Good negotiation skills · Managing the training library collection Do send in your resumes on or before 5.00 PM 2nd March, 2006. Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39174/*http://photomail.mai… New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.

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Librarianship Quotes (manjax)
by Manju manju 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Dear All Library, Librarian, and Librarianship Quotes http://informatics.buffalo.edu/faculty/ellison/quotes/libquotesac.html Yours MANJUNATHA P.S LIBRARIAN B.N.M.INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BANGALORE Library, Librarian, and Librarianship Quotes http://informatics.buffalo.edu/faculty/ellison/quotes/libquotesac.html http://informatics.buffalo.edu/faculty/ellison/quotes/libquotesac.html Yours MANJUNATHA P.S LIBRARIAN B.N.M.INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BANGALORE

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DRTC seminar on "Open Document format"
by nupur ag 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Indian Statistical Institute Documentation Research and Training Centre 8th Mile Mysore Road, R.V. College PO. Banglore- 560059 DRTC Seminar On Open Document Format (ODF) Abstract The open document format is a means of creating word processing, spreadsheet, chart and presentation documents in a standardized XML format. It is a new international standard for documents created using office type programs. The open document format is intended as a document type that could be used on any office program, that means one can create a spreadsheet in openoffice calc, save it in the standard open document format for spreadsheet and then be able to open it in any other spreadsheet program - Lotus, Quattro Pro or Excel and without losing any data. In this seminar I am going to discuss about what is open document format, how it originated, Organization behind this, its various features, benefits and its internal structure and use in digital preservation. Speaker: Nupur Agrawal, 2nd year ADIS All are cordially invited. Venue: DRTC classroom Date : 28th Feb 2006 Time : 3.30 pm Dr. A.R.D Prasad (Seminar Incharge) --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. Indian Statistical Institute Documentation Research and Training Centre 8 th Mile Mysore Road, R.V. College PO. Banglore- 560059 DRTC Seminar On Open Document Format (ODF) Abstract The open document format is a means of creating word processing, spreadsheet, chart and presentation documents in a standardized XML format. It is a new international standard for documents created using office type programs. The open document format is intended as a document type that could be used on any office program, that means one can create a spreadsheet in openoffice calc, save it in the standard open document format for spreadsheet and then be able to open it in any other spreadsheet program - Lotus, Quattro Pro or Excel and without losing any data. In this seminar I am going to discuss about what is open document format, how it originated, Organization behind this, its various features, benefits and its internal structure and use in digital preservation. Speaker: Nupur Agrawal, 2 nd year ADIS All are cordially invited. Venue: DRTC classroom Date : 28 th Feb 2006 Time : 3.30 pm Dr. A.R.D Prasad (Seminar Incharge) Jiyo cricket on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailcricket/*http://in.sports.yahoo.com/cric… Yahoo! India cricket http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailmobilemessenger/*http://in.mobile.yahoo.… Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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Vacancy at JNU, New Delhi.
by L Kaini Mahemei 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Dear All, Greetings. Vacancy at Central Library, JNU, New Delhi. http://www.jnu.ac.in/Career/currentjobs.htm with regards, L.Kaini Central Library, JNU, New Delhi - 110067. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Library Cataloging Software
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

Dear Friends Please visit: www.readerware.com Readerware software is available for cataloging books CDs & video products. Just Enter the ISBN, the catalog entry is automatically fetched from LOC or Brtish library and added to your database. You scan the barcode / isbn or drag & drop data from web pages. You can create a list of ISBNs in a text file for automatic cataloging. Users seem to have added anywhere between 200 to 2000 titles in a couple of days. This is fantastic product for books that are already cataloged in some leading library whose opac can be searched online. There is of course a provision for manual data etry as well for adding books. -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, SENIORS (Society for Enriched Information of Relevance to Seniors), 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500018 Phone 27846631

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Google Creates a Web page creator
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Google has launched a new product - Google Page Creator, a free, easy, browser-based tool for creating attractive web pages. Google maintains that Google Page Creator has been designed with ease-of-use in mind. Its interface enables users to edit and create pages just as they appear online, without knowledge of HTML or other computer programming languages. Combined with a simple one-step publishing process, users can create attractive, functional web pages in minutes - hosted by Google for free. You may check this feature and know more about it by clicking on the URL given below http//pages.google.com Regards ~Sreeharsha BG

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Student campaigns for OA and open source
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Friends: The United States has many faces: Wars in far away places such as Vietnam and Iraq, denying visas to reputed scientists, the dominant power in a unuopolar word, and so on. But US is also home to youngsters like Gavin Baker. University students in India might wish to look at what he is doing right now. Please pass this message to doctoral and masters students you know. Best wishes. Arun OA as a campaign issue in a student government election Gavin Baker is running for the Student Senate at the University of Florida. Baker co-founded the Florida chapter of Free Culture and is making open access a campaign issue. His platform is offline at the moment (but the problem is probably temporary, so keep trying). He tells me in an email: I'll advocate for open access to university research and journals, work to expand library digitization projects, promote open source software and open file formats....As far as I know, I am the first student to make open access an electoral issue. He's the first as far as I know too. His candidacy and position could make a difference: At UF, the Student Senate controls an $11 million budget, the third largest in the US. Go, Gavin! Note to students elsewhere: learn about open access and what you and your university can do to promote it. Take your commitment into your research and future career. But in the meantime, take it into your student government!

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