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PROF. K.A. ISAAC PASSED AWAY
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Dear fellow professionals Prof Isaac was one of the most senior and revered professionals in the country. he is being respected for his contribution. He is one of the personalities, who gave continuous support to the younger generation and his attitude is friendly to every one immaterial what the age may be. all the professionals feel sorry for his sad demise. on behalf of my self and all the professionals, i pray God almighty to provide peace to the departed soul. I request some one near to his place may convey the condolenses to the bereaved family laxman rao Sadasivan KP > wrote: Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 06:18:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Sadasivan KP <kps31147(a)yahoo.com> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] PROF. K.A. ISAAC PASSED AWAY Dear Friends / LIS Professionals, I am reporting with deep sorrow, the sad demise of Professor K.A. Isaac , on 12th Sep. 2005 at night ! Professor Isaac was the former University Librarian & Head of the Dept. of Library & Information Science, University of Kerala. He was the recipient of the Fellowship of the Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation. Prof. Isaac had held several important assignments, which included, Senate Member and Dean of Faculty of Arts of the University of Kerala, Governing Body Member of INSDOC, Special Officer (Library) of the M.G. University, UGC Professor, Chairman / Member of several Commissions & Committees, etc. Prof. Isaac, an ardent disciple of Dr. S.R. Ranganathan, was responsible for initiating and developing the professional Library Science Education in Kerala through the DLIS of the University of Kerala, which he spearheaded for two-and-a-half decades since its inception. He had significantly contributed to the Public Library Movement and the Special Library development in the State too. Better known as the 'Father of Professional Librarianship in Kerala' and the 'Gentleman Librarian of India' , he was a beacon for LIS professionals - both young and old. His hundreds of disciples now stretch across the world, carrying out their professional jobs with mission mode. He had authored a number of well-known books including the titles 'Library Legislation' , ' Literature Search' and several Papers and Reports. Prof. Isaac had been the Patron of the Kerala Library Association too. The blend of his highly intellectual personality and refined behaviour made him a respected friend to limitless people cutting across all professions .That was the secret of his success too, for effectively disseminating the message of our profession to a wider domain - something very rare during these days! His demise is a great loss to the education sector in general and to the LIS domain, in particular! He is survived by his wife Chechamma and sons Madhu (Advocate, Trivandrum) and Balu (Professor, IIT Bombay) . Cremation : on 14.09.2005 (Wednesday) at 10.30 am at Pattoor Orthodox Cemetery, Trivandrum. Residential Address : G-10, 'Kadapuram' Shri Vidyadhiraja Nagar Poojapura, Trivandrum - 695 012 Tel : 91-471-2359502 Reported by : KP Sadasivan / Head, Library & Informatics / RRL (CSIR) Trivandrum and Vice President, Kerala Library Association __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, Chairman, Board of Studies, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) Vice President, Association of British Scholars(AP Chapter) Vice-President, Faculty Club, Osmania University Ph:+91-40-27171565(res): +91-40-27682290(off) 9246547599(Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com --------------------------------- To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. Dear fellow professionals Prof Isaac was one of the most senior and revered professionals in the country. he is being respected for his contribution. He is one of the personalities, who gave continuous support to the younger generation and his attitude is friendly to every one immaterial what the age may be. all the professionals feel sorry for his sad demise. on behalf of my self and all the professionals, i pray God almighty to provide peace to the departed soul. I request some one near to his place may convey the condolenses to the bereaved family laxman rao Sadasivan KP > wrote: Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 06:18:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Sadasivan KP <kps31147(a)yahoo.com> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] PROF. K.A. ISAAC PASSED AWAY Dear Friends / LIS Professionals, I am reporting with deep sorrow, the sad demise of Professor K.A. Isaac , on 12th Sep. 2005 at night ! Professor Isaac was the former University Librarian & Head of the Dept. of Library & Information Science, University of Kerala. He was the recipient of the Fellowship of the Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation. Prof. Isaac had held several important assignments, which included, Senate Member and Dean of Faculty of Arts of the University of Kerala, Governing Body Member of INSDOC, Special Officer (Library) of the M.G. University, UGC Professor, Chairman / Member of several Commissions & Committees, etc. Prof. Isaac, an ardent disciple of Dr. S.R. Ranganathan, was responsible for initiating and developing the professional Library Science Education in Kerala through the DLIS of the University of Kerala, which he spearheaded for two-and-a-half decades since its inception. He had significantly contributed to the Public Library Movement and the Special Library development in the State too. Better known as the 'Father of Professional Librarianship in Kerala' and the 'Gentleman Librarian of India' , he was a beacon for LIS professionals - both young and old. His hundreds of disciples now stretch across the world, carrying out their professional jobs with mission mode. He had authored a number of well-known books including the titles 'Library Legislation' , ' Literature Search' and several Papers and Reports. Prof. Isaac had been the Patron of the Kerala Library Association too. The blend of his highly intellectual personality and refined behaviour made him a respected friend to limitless people cutting across all professions .That was the secret of his success too, for effectively disseminating the message of our profession to a wider domain - something very rare during these days! His demise is a great loss to the education sector in general and to the LIS domain, in particular! He is survived by his wife Chechamma and sons Madhu (Advocate, Trivandrum) and Balu (Professor, IIT Bombay) . Cremation : on 14.09.2005 (Wednesday) at 10.30 am at Pattoor Orthodox Cemetery, Trivandrum. Residential Address : G-10, 'Kadapuram' Shri Vidyadhiraja Nagar Poojapura, Trivandrum - 695 012 Tel : 91-471-2359502 Reported by : KP Sadasivan / Head, Library & Informatics / RRL (CSIR) Trivandrum and Vice President, Kerala Library Association __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, Chairman, Board of Studies, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) Vice President, Association of British Scholars(AP Chapter) Vice-President, Faculty Club, Osmania University Ph:+91-40-27171565(res): +91-40-27682290(off) 9246547599(Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/yahoo_com/security_centre/*http://u… Yahoo! Security Centre . _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Ad - British Library
by Dattatreya 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

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CONDOLENCE MEETING ON THE DEMISE OF PROF. K.A.ISAAC
by Sadasivan KP 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Kerala Library Association is organising a Condolence Meeting on the sad demise of Prof. K.A. Isaac Date & Time 19.09.2005 (Monday) at 3.30 pm Venue Lecture Hall, DLIS University Library Building Kerala University Trivandrum All LIS professionals are requested to attend / participate. KP Sadasivan Vice President, KLA --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. Kerala Library Association is organising a Condolence Meeting on the sad demise of Prof. K.A. Isaac Date & Time 19.09.2005 (Monday) at 3.30 pm Venue Lecture Hall, DLIS University Library Building Kerala University Trivandrum All LIS professionals are requested to attend / participate. KP Sadasivan Vice President, KLA Yahoo! for Good http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

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Could u Please Help
by zahid wani 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Dear patrons could please provide information regarding public library systems in punjab and haryana as i am pursuing my research study on the public library systmes in these states and if some body think he/she can be of any help to me, then please write to me at zahid_rais(a)yahoo.com or zahid_rais(a)rediffmail.com . i will be grateful to the person and the this network. Zahid Ashraf wani PhD Res. Scholar Deptt. of Lib. & Inf. Science University of Kashmir Jammu & Kashmir __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear patrons could please provide information regarding public library systems in punjab and haryana as i am pursuing my research study on the public library systmes in these states and if some body think he/she can be of any help to me, then please write to me at zahid_rais(a)yahoo.com or zahid_rais(a)rediffmail.com . i will be grateful to the person and the this network. Zahid Ashraf wani PhD Res. Scholar Deptt. of Lib. & Inf. Science University of Kashmir Jammu & Kashmir __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Google Launches Industrial Strength Blog Search
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Google has introduced its long awaited blog search service, becoming the first major search engine to offer full-blown blog and feed search capabilities. It's been nearly two and a half years since Google purchased Pyra Labs, the company that built the hugely popular Blogger publishing service, and Google has been promising blog search ever since then. Know more @ http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3548411 Regards Sreeharsha BG

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request for journal
by sheeba jasmine 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Dear Friends, One of colleague is urgently looking for some journal articles for his research work. Kindly inform the availability of these articles. 1. Current Science of India V.25, p.143, 1956 2. Tetrahedran V.9, p.139 - 144, 1960 3. Olah 205 V.3, p.383 - 497 , 1964 4. Journal of Chemical Society B 579, 1966 5. Organic Reaction V.9, p.37 - 72 , 1957 With regards, D. Sheeba Jebaseeli, Librarian, Valliammai Engineering College, SRM Nagar, Kattankulathur 603 203 nalathamalar(a)yahoo.co.in __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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Google is Every Where
by Roopa E 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Dear professionals, Google is coming to the rescue of victims of Hurricane Katrina using Mapping Technology. It is evident that google is every where. In an effort to help displaced hurricane victims and their families, ad hoc communities of Internet users are using mapping technologies from Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) to track storm damage, analyze aerial photos and try to make sense of what little information is available. Three days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf of Mexico, extensive flooding, widespread power outages and general chaos continue to prevent residents from returning home, and limit the amount of useful information emergency workers or members of the media can distribute to the world outside. What little information about individual neighborhoods gets out is spotty, at best, and hard to come by--largely from dramatic, but ill-defined TV news footage. "We're seeing a lot of images from New Orleans that lack context," says Shawn McBride, a phone switch technician from Spokane, Wash., who has been using satellite photos from the Google Earth service to track flooding and analyze damage to neighborhoods. "It's impossible to tell from the outside how things are." But along comes Google. One Web site, www.scipionus.com, is combating the confusion by encouraging users to annotate a Google Map of New Orleans with information about specific locations. Collectively, the community is creating a collaborative map Wikipedia. Anyone with something to add can enter a street address and leave a marker on the map at that location, providing a few lines of text about conditions at that spot. "Never flooded, typical wind damage, passable street 8-31-05," reads one tag. "Trey and April's We are OK ppl," reports another. The site, created by Jonathan Mendez and Greg Stoll, software engineers who work together in Austin, Texas, went up Wednesday afternoon, and already has attracted nearly 300,000 visitors, who've left more than 600 tags. Mendez, who grew up in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner, La., has family who evacuated the area to his home in Texas. "We all were watching the news and scouring the Web for any information we could get," he says. "There were forums set up for people looking for information on particular areas, but they had hundreds of posts with mostly questions and little information, and it was hard to read through it all. I kept thinking, 'I wish there were a map with all this info, so it would be easy to look this up.'" The site runs off of the same technology that has allowed Google users to keep track of everything from potholes to pizza parlors. In June, the company released code that allowed outside developers to use and adapt the Google Maps software. In the months since, Google "mashups" of geographic data have flourished. "My friend Greg had played with it to make a map with markers to particular locations, so I figured if we could get it so that anyone could add those markers straight from the Web, we could get the information on the map quickly," says Mendez. "People have said they've found it very useful." In a separate effort, other Web users have also made use of satellite photographs of the region available through the Google Earth service, a program which allows users to view satellite photos as if they were flying over them, panning, zooming and tilting the image at will. While most of those photos depict the area pre-hurricane, the software allows users to "overlay" other photos and images. So more recent aerial photos--even pictures from news services and solo photographers--can be reshaped and dropped onto a satellite map, illustrating the current conditions. Pleasantville, N.Y.-based editor and blogger Katherine Cramer helped popularize the practice, after she noticed similarities between a Google Earth shot of the south coast of Lake Pontchartrain, and a news photo illustrating a nearly swamped New Orleans neighborhood. "I looked at those and said, 'Somebody needs to be putting these images together and comparing them.'" Cramer posted a few thoughts on her Web site, which was linked to by Boing Boing, a hugely popular blog, and before long, she was getting e-mails and mashed-together images from people around the country. "Suddenly we had an impromptu collaborative process, mostly consisting of people I don't know," says Cramer. Shawn McBride made some of the first post-Katrina images, and posted them online in the Google Earth Current Events Community, a discussion board for users of the system. "Once you have an image that you want superimposed, it's kind of like a puzzle," he says. Photo manipulators look for distinguishing landmarks that appear in both news photos and the Google images--a warehouse with a red roof, for instance--and then stretch and tilt the photo until it lines up with the satellite map. The resulting image is sort of a hybrid overlay that can be directly viewed and manipulated in the Google Earth service, allowing users to see recent images of their neighborhood, inside the context of the entire city. "It's not as good as the original satellite image, but you can get a sense of whether a house is underwater or not," says Cramer. Cramer has posted a series of directions on her site describing how to use Google Earth to check out flood damage in New Orleans. "I wanted to come up with a process for your average frightened person, who can get at the Internet, but is not able to learn new software," she says. "I've had a lot of people say they couldn't find this information until they came to my site." Google Earth images with post-hurricane overlays even appeared on television Thursday, as a number of news networks used the tool to zoom in and out of affected areas to display the damage. Representatives of Google say they encourage this creative use of their mapping technology. "We've been kind of nurturing and growing that for the past two years," says John Hanke, former CEO of Keyhole, a digital mapping company acquired by Google in October of last year, who now serves as general manager of the Keyhole group at Google. On Thursday, Google began releasing new images of the flooded areas, and even posted links to a number of user-supplied image overlays. Hanke says the company will continue to make available new images over the next few days, and that Digital Globe, their satellite provider, is continuing to photograph the area.

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PROF. K.A. ISAAC PASSED AWAY
by Sadasivan KP 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

Dear Friends / LIS Professionals, I am reporting with deep sorrow, the sad demise of Professor K.A. Isaac , on 12th Sep. 2005 at night ! Professor Isaac was the former University Librarian & Head of the Dept. of Library & Information Science, University of Kerala. He was the recipient of the Fellowship of the Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation. Prof. Isaac had held several important assignments, which included, Senate Member and Dean of Faculty of Arts of the University of Kerala, Governing Body Member of INSDOC, Special Officer (Library) of the M.G. University, UGC Professor, Chairman / Member of several Commissions & Committees, etc. Prof. Isaac, an ardent disciple of Dr. S.R. Ranganathan, was responsible for initiating and developing the professional Library Science Education in Kerala through the DLIS of the University of Kerala, which he spearheaded for two-and-a-half decades since its inception. He had significantly contributed to the Public Library Movement and the Special Library development in the State too. Better known as the 'Father of Professional Librarianship in Kerala' and the 'Gentleman Librarian of India' , he was a beacon for LIS professionals - both young and old. His hundreds of disciples now stretch across the world, carrying out their professional jobs with mission mode. He had authored a number of well-known books including the titles 'Library Legislation' , ' Literature Search' and several Papers and Reports. Prof. Isaac had been the Patron of the Kerala Library Association too. The blend of his highly intellectual personality and refined behaviour made him a respected friend to limitless people cutting across all professions .That was the secret of his success too, for effectively disseminating the message of our profession to a wider domain - something very rare during these days! His demise is a great loss to the education sector in general and to the LIS domain, in particular! He is survived by his wife Chechamma and sons Madhu (Advocate, Trivandrum) and Balu (Professor, IIT Bombay) . Cremation : on 14.09.2005 (Wednesday) at 10.30 am at Pattoor Orthodox Cemetery, Trivandrum. Residential Address : G-10, 'Kadapuram' Shri Vidyadhiraja Nagar Poojapura, Trivandrum - 695 012 Tel : 91-471-2359502 Reported by : KP Sadasivan / Head, Library & Informatics / RRL (CSIR) Trivandrum and Vice President, Kerala Library Association __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear Friends / LIS Professionals, I am reporting with deep sorrow, the sad demise of Professor K.A. Isaac , on 12th Sep. 2005 at night ! Professor Isaac was the former University Librarian & Head of the Dept. of Library & Information Science, University of Kerala. He was the recipient of the Fellowship of the Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation. Prof. Isaac had held several important assignments, which included, Senate Member and Dean of Faculty of Arts of the University of Kerala, Governing Body Member of INSDOC, Special Officer (Library) of the M.G. University, UGC Professor, Chairman / Member of several Commissions & Committees, etc. Prof. Isaac, an ardent disciple of Dr. S.R. Ranganathan, was responsible for initiating and developing the professional Library Science Education in Kerala through the DLIS of the University of Kerala, which he spearheaded for two-and-a-half decades since its inception. He had significantly contributed to the Public Library Movement and the Special Library development in the State too. Better known as the 'Father of Professional Librarianship in Kerala' and the 'Gentleman Librarian of India' , he was a beacon for LIS professionals - both young and old. His hundreds of disciples now stretch across the world, carrying out their professional jobs with mission mode. He had authored a number of well-known books including the titles 'Library Legislation' , ' Literature Search' and several Papers and Reports. Prof. Isaac had been the Patron of the Kerala Library Association too. The blend of his highly intellectual personality and refined behaviour made him a respected friend to limitless people cutting across all professions .That was the secret of his success too, for effectively disseminating the message of our profession to a wider domain - something very rare during these days! His demise is a great loss to the education sector in general and to the LIS domain, in particular! He is survived by his wife Chechamma and sons Madhu (Advocate, Trivandrum) and Balu (Professor, IIT Bombay) . Cremation : on 14.09.2005 (Wednesday) at 10.30 am at Pattoor Orthodox Cemetery, Trivandrum. Residential Address : G-10, 'Kadapuram' Shri Vidyadhiraja Nagar Poojapura, Trivandrum - 695 012 Tel : 91-471-2359502 Reported by : KP Sadasivan / Head, Library & Informatics / RRL (CSIR) Trivandrum and Vice President, Kerala Library Association __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Course on IT Application ...
by Puttaraj Choukimath 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

Hi e'body, IT Application in Libraries and in Information Management The National Documentation Centre (NDC) of National Institute of Health & Family Welfare (NIHFW), New Delhi is an apex Documentation Center in India in the field of Population, Health & Family Welfare. The collection of the Documentation Center has grown to approximately 60,000 including bound journals. In addition to all the conventional services of a Documentation Center, it is fully automated & also provides modem services such as CD-ROM databases, On-line access at LAN, OPAC, etc. NDC has its own website and a bibliographic database of complete collection is ready to access on Internet through this site www.ndc-nihfw.org. Beside the above activities, NDC has been conducting a training course since last five years on IT Application in Libraries and Information Management. The next course seventh in its series is scheduled to be held from November 7-11, 2005. During the course, all the burning topics such as, Library Automation, Application Software, Online Access, CD-ROM Databases, LAN, Multimedia Application for Information Management & Preservation, Electronics Publishing, Digital Library, Web designing, Web Authoring, Net surfing, etc. will be discussed. Practical Demonstrations, Practical Assignment and field visit will also be arranged. Scholars interested in attending the Course may contact Sh. Salek Chand, Sr. Documentation Officer and Coordinator of the Course, National Documentation Center, NIHFW, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi 110 067. Ph.II-26165959, Fax 11-26101623, Email: salekchand2003(a)yahoo.com UNIVERSITY NEWS, 43 (34), AUGUST 22-28, 2005, pp.18-19 Note: Reply from the Course Coordinator Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:05:59 -0700 (PDT) From: "SALEK CHAND" <salekchand2003(a)yahoo.com> Subject: IT course To: afzal333(a)rediffmail.com, cusmclib08(a)yahoo.com, brjd(a)rediffmail.com, puttuc(a)yahoo.com Dear Colleagues I appreciate your keen intrest in this course. The main features of the course are:- 1. No course fee 2. Lodging and boarding facilities are available with in the campus at very nominal cost. 3. Local site seeing programme also arranged on 10/11/05. 4. Contents are based on Latest Information Technologies. 5. Nomination should be sent on institute's letterhead. 6. You can join this course only after getting confirmation from our us. Rest is OK SALEK CHAND. 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Hi e'body, IT Application in Libraries and in Information Management The National Documentation Centre (NDC) of National Institute of Health & Family Welfare (NIHFW), New Delhi is an apex Documentation Center in India i n the field of Population, Health & Family Welfare. The collection of the Documentation Center has grown to approximately 60,000 including bound journals. In addition to all the conventional services of a Documentation Center, it is fully automated & also provides modem services such as CD-ROM databases, On-line access at LAN, OPAC, etc. NDC has its own website and a bibliographic database of complete collection is ready to access on Internet through this site http://www.ndc-nihfw.org/ www.ndc-nihfw.org . Beside the above activities, NDC has been conducting a training course since last five years on IT Application in Libraries and Information Management. The next course seventh in its series is scheduled to be held from November 7-11, 2005. During the course, all the burning topics such as, Library Automation, Application Software, Online Access, CD-ROM Databases, LAN, Multimedia Application for Information Management & Preservation, Electronics Publishing, Digital Library, Web designing, Web Authoring, Net surfing, etc. will be discussed. Practical Demonstrations, Practical Assignment and field visit will also be arranged. Scholars interested in attending the Course may contact Sh. Salek Chand, Sr. Documentation Officer and Coordinator of the Course, National Documentation Center, NIHFW, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi 110 067. Ph.II-26165959, Fax 11-26101623, Email: salekchand2003(a)yahoo.com UNIVERSITY NEWS, 43 (34), AUGUST 22-28, 2005, pp.18-19 Note: Reply from the Course Coordinator http://mail.yahoo.com/ Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:05:59 -0700 (PDT) From: "SALEK CHAND" <salekchand2003(a)yahoo.com> Subject: IT course To: afzal333(a)rediffmail.com, cusmclib08(a)yahoo.com, brjd(a)rediffmail.com, puttuc(a)yahoo.com Dear Colleagues I appreciate your keen intrest in this course. The main features of the course are:- 1. No course fee 2. Lodging and boarding facilities are available with in the campus at very nominal cost. 3. Local site seeing programme also arranged on 10/11/05. 4. Contents are based on Latest Information Technologies. 5. Nomination should be sent on institute's letterhead. 6. You can join this course only after getting confirmation from our us. Rest is OK SALEK CHAND. 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Request for announcement on Lis-Forum
by Ratnakar Aspari 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

We will be thankful if you kindly post the following item on the Lis-Forum. With best wishes A. Ratnakar New Delhi _____________________________________________________________________________ RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE Cordially invites you to VIIIth C V SUBBARAO Memorial Lecture at the Auditorium Hall, Sahitya Akademi, Firoz Shah Road, (Near Mandi House Chock) New Delhi On September 17th, 2005 Saturday at 10.00 A.M. VIIIth C V Subbarao Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Dr. K L Chopra Former Director IIT-Kharagpur on Ethics in Scientific Research

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Colloquium on OAP: Models & Technologies (fwd)
by I.R.N.Goudar 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

Dear Professionals, KALA and SIS, Bangalore Chapter cordially invite for a Colloquium on (Presentation 30 minutes each + Discussion about 40 minutes) "Open Access Publishing: Models and Technologies" SPEAKERS: 1. Ms. Judith Turner, Editor, J. Electronic Publishing Topic: "S.R. Ranganathan, Andrew Carnegie, and Open Access" 2. Dr. Eric F. Van de Velde, Director, Library Information Technology, CALTECH, California, USA Topic: "Open Access Publishing: The view from the trenches at Caltech" Preciding and Moderosation of Discussion: Dr. Shalini R. Urs Director, Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson, Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Date & Time: Saturday, 17th Sept 2005 at 4.30 pm. Venue: Conference Room, British Library 26, Prestige Takt, Kasturba Cross Road, Bangalore-1 Tel: 080-22489220 E-mail: naik.sadashiv(a)in.britishcouncil.org Abstracts: "S.R. Ranganathan, Andrew Carnegie, and Open Access" Open Access Initiatives represent a new business model for publishing that is challenging commercial scholarly publishing. The question is, must it be an either-or situation, or can the two models thrive side by side -- and indeed support one another? "Open Access Publishing: The view from the trenches at Caltech" Caltech embarked on its Open Archives initiative, called Collection of Open Digital Archives (CODA), in January 2000. Since then, we have collected an institutional repository of over 4100 items. Just about half of these are Caltech doctoral theses. Other documents include: books, technical reports, preprints, reprints, oral histories, and popularizing scientific articles. High usage statistics quickly propelled CODA from a pilot study into a major strategic initiative of the Caltech library. In this talk, I will cover some of the challenges of this project, as well as our plans for the future. I.R.N. Goudar Dr. I.K.R. Rao President KALA & President, SIS Bangalore Chapter Secretary SIS Bangalore Chapter Prof. T.D. Kemparaj Secretary and Other Office Bearers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html

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Google Keyword Search Tool
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

Many of us may not know that: Google Keyword Tool at https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordSandbox is a very useful search tool for finding synoymous words and phrases. Though the tool is meant for selecting keywords to be assigned for matching Google Ads against search terms used by searchers, it is still useful to us, librarians. We can recollect and reconsider keywords that may be better for searching. For instance "literature search" returns: medical literature search literature search a literature search literature search on do a literature search literature search engine literature search engines search literature Isn' this great? Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631

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Positions Vacant for Library Professionals
by vijaya kumara 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

MVJ College of Engineering Library, Bangalore requires experienced library professionals with the knowledge of computer applications for the positions of Librarian, Assistant Librarian, and Library Assistant. The candidates who applied for our previous advertisement need to apply once again. Interested candidate may apply with in 10 days to Chief Administration Officer, MVJ College of Engineering, Near ITPL, Channasandra, Bangalore-560 067 Regards Vijayakumar M \ \ | / / \ \ ~ ~ / / | @ @ | ---------------oooo------ (_)-------------oooo------------------ Vijayakumar M, HOD - Library, MVJ College of Engineering (an ISO Certified Institution) Channasandra, Bangalore - 560 067, Karnataka, India Tel:+91-80-28452324 Ext. 234 library(a)mvjeducation.com or coolvg(a)gmail.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. MVJ College of Engineering Library, Bangalore requires experienced library professionals with the knowledge of computer applications for the positions of Librarian, Assistant Librarian, and Library Assistant. The candidates who applied for our previous advertisement need to apply once again. Interested candidate may apply with in 10 days to Chief Administration Officer, MVJ College of Engineering, Near ITPL, Channasandra, Bangalore-560 067 Regards Vijayakumar M \ \ | / / \ \ ~ ~ / / | @ @ | ---------------oooo------ (_)-------------oooo------------------ Vijayakumar M, HOD - Library, MVJ College of Engineering (an ISO Certified Institution) Channasandra, Bangalore - 560 067, Karnataka, India Tel:+91-80-28452324 Ext. 234 mailto:library@mvjeducation.com library(a)mvjeducation.com or mailto:coolvg@gmail.com coolvg(a)gmail.com Yahoo! for Good http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

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Teleos Recognizes India's Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

Teleos Recognizes India's Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 2005--Indian companies dedicated to growth through innovation and knowledge management delivered a year-on-year 38% average Total Shareholder Return, according to Teleos' new "2005 Indian Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) Report." The Winners of the inaugural Indian Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) study, conducted by Teleos in association with The KNOW Network, are (in alphabetical order): -- Eureka Forbes (Consumer products) -- i-flex solutions (IT solutions) -- Infosys Technologies (IT solutions) -- Satyam Computer Services (IT solutions) -- Tata Consultancy Services (IT solutions) -- Tata Steel (Metal fabrication) -- Wipro Technologies (IT solutions) Infosys Technologies has been recognized as the overall 2005 Indian MAKE Winner. A blue ribbon panel of senior Indian business executives and leading Indian-based knowledge management / intellectual capital experts have selected this year's Indian MAKE Winners. The expert panel rated organizations founded and headquartered in India against the MAKE framework of eight key knowledge performance dimensions which are the visible drivers of competitive advantage. The 2005 Indian MAKE Winners have been recognized as leaders in: -- creating a enterprise knowledge-driven culture -- developing knowledge workers through senior management leadership -- delivering knowledge-based products/services/solutions -- maximizing enterprise intellectual capital -- creating an environment for collaborative knowledge sharing -- creating a learning organization -- delivering value based on customer knowledge -- transforming enterprise knowledge into shareholder value According to Rory Chase, managing director of Teleos, "India is emerging as a dynamic center of innovative knowledge management. This inaugural Indian MAKE study serves as a benchmark to recognize those Indian companies which are leaders in effectively transforming enterprise knowledge into wealth-creating ideas, products and solutions. These companies are building portfolios of intellectual capital and intangible assets which will enable them to out-perform their competitors -- both within India and abroad -- in years to come." http://tinyurl.com/8qogs Regards Sreeharsha

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Voluntary Data contribution
by G. K. Manjunath 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

We invite Indian LIS professionals to join our initiative which aims to develop a Free online Database consisting of index to Journal articles with abstract, book reviews and conference papers published in Indian Social Science Journals. For further details, please visit http://oii.igidr.ac.in thanks, g.k.manjunath CHIEF LIBRARIAN INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FILM CITY ROAD ( GEN.VAIDYA MARG ) SANTOSH NAGAR GOREGAON ( EAST ) MUMBAI - 400 065 INDIA

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IFLA-ALP Workshop on Information Literacy at Punjabi University, Patiala.
by harry＠pbi.ac.in 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

****Apologies for cross postings**** IFLA-ALP Workshop on Information Literacy at Punjabi University, Patiala. The Department of Library & Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala is organizing a 5-day international workshop on Information Literacy from 3-7 October 2005. The theme of the workshop is 'Information Skills for Learning'. This is a follow-up workshop, the first one was held in Colombo (Sri Lanka) in November 2004. The following resource persons have confirmed their participation in this IFLA-ALP and Unesco sponsored workshop: Mr. Gerald Brown, Honorary Ambassador of the International Association of School Librarianship, Canada Prof. Russell Bowden (UK) Honorary IFLA Fellow, Sri Lanka Prof. Philip J Calvert, School of Information Management, University of Wellington, New Zealand. Dr Diljit Singh, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Ms. Karen Bonanno, Australian School Libraries Association, Australia. Ms. June Wall, Australian School Libraries Association, Australia. Mrs. Pradeepa Wijetunge, Director, NILIS, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka About 30 foreign delegates from South and South East Asian countries are also participating in this workshop. Library and information professionals in India are invited to participate in this workshop. Only a limited number of seats (25-30) are available for Indian delegates. Applications for participation would be considered on first-come-first-served basis. IFLA and Unesco are sponsoring the International resource persons and delegates. Persons having knowledge/experience in the field of information literacy would be given preference. The registration fee for the workshop is as under: Indian delegates (with accommodation): Rs. 5000/- Indian delegates (without accommodation): Rs. 4000/- Registration fee includes food, workshop kit, and study materials. Modest accommodation would be provided on first-come-first-served basis in the university. In case a an intending participant requires star accommodation in a hotel, he would have to pay for it from his own sources. We would provide the interested persons with list of hotel addresses/phone numbers. Patiala is situated about 250 km north of Delhi and is well connected with rail and road. The nearest airport is Chandigarh (60 km). Punjabi University, the venue of the workshop, is situated 20 km off Rajpura. Rajpura is situated about 30 km from Ambala Cantt. on the Delhi- Amritsar National Highway no.1. The climate generally remains pleasant during first week of October and the temperature during these days remains between 30 degrees celcius (maximum) and 20 degrees celcius (minimum). For further details, interested persons may contact the workshop coordinator at the following address: Dr Jagtar Singh, Project Coordinator and Head Department of Library & Information Science Punjabi University, Patiala 147 002 Tel: 0175-3046179 (work) Email: kindu_jagtar(a)yahoo.co.in, empowering8(a)sify.com, jagtar(a)pbi.ac.in

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Case Material: Provisions of IPR laws
by theresa.williams＠wipro.com 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Tariq As per copyright rules, will have to seek permission from the publishers for each additional copy we need to Xerox for the sessions by paying appropriately on the no of copies . ex: HBS case studies. Regds Theresa Theresa Williams Information Services Division Wipro Technologies 72,Keonics E-city Hosur road Bangalore 560100 Tel:91-80-51381791 91-80-28520408#1791 FAX:91-80-28520478 VOIP:808-5512 Mobile:9845324613 theresa.williams(a)wipro.com -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of tariq22(a)gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 1:35 PM To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Case Material: Provisions of IPR laws Dear All I am looking for provisions of Intellectual Property and Copy Right laws in India with regard to Case MateriaL used in Business School and included in reading list The information I require is that if a case is released for use in courses should it be OR not be openly available in the Library I request you to kindly enlighten me with the requisite provisions AND practices in this regard. Thanks and Regards -- Dr.Tariq Ashraf Librarian Indian Institute of Management Prabandh Nagar, Lucknow 226 013 (India) Ph: 0522-2736944[Direct] Res: 011-55125312 Mobile : 9935-639130 Fax: 91-0522 -2734025-2734027 Email: tariq(a)iiml.ac.in; tariq22(a)gmail.com URL: http://iiml.ac.in Confidentiality Notice The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender at Wipro or Mailadmin(a)wipro.com immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments.

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Wanted - Library and Information Scientists
by Maruthu Pandian 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Dear Members PubSub Concepts Pvt Ltd, requires Library and Information Scinetists for its India Development Centre at NOIDA. Library and Information Scientists ------------------------------------------------ Job Description Librarians and library information scientists having very good knowledge and experience in various aspects of library science including various international standards of classification and Cataloguing. Selected candidates will work on the realtime data collection, acquisition, taxanomies and classification for various domains. Experience in news/media content classification, RSS/XML Feeds, Content Searching on web would be added advantage. Required Skills * Strong in Library and Information Science * Search Engines and Search Strategies. * Classification methodologies * Good Communication Skills Preferred Skills * Online content classification * Computers and Internet * MS-Office and other text/word processing applications * Experience with RSS Feeds and blogs. * SQL Queries. Remuneration * Best in the industry Location * Noida Contact Maruthu Pandian B mpandian(a)pubsub.com __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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Usage of library software by academic libraries
by Ashwini Prabhu 10 Sep '05

10 Sep '05

Hello, I would like to know if anybody has conducted some survey on the which library software, academic libraries are using in Mumbai and an analysis of the same. Ashwini Librarian M.P Shah College Hello, I would like to know if anybody has conducted some survey on the which library software, academic libraries are using in Mumbai and an analysis of the same. Ashwini Librarian M.P Shah College 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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MLA Cunningham International Fellowship for Medical Librarians
by JK Vijayakumar 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Please excuse any duplication. Two Indian Medical librarians received this fellowship from MLA since 1972. The Cunningham Fellowship is a four-month fellowship for health sciences librarians from countries outside the United States and Canada. The award, which provides for observation and supervised work in one or more medical libraries in the United States or Canada, is in the amount of $6,000, with up to $2,000 additional for travel within these two countries. MLA welcome applications for interested individuals from countries other than the USA and Canada. For full information, fact sheets, and application form please go to: http://mlanet.org/awards/grants/index.html The application deadline is Dec. 1, 2005. All the best. J.K.Vijayakumar __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Please excuse any duplication. Two Indian Medical librarians received this fellowship from MLA since 1972. The Cunningham Fellowship is a four-month fellowship for health sciences librarians from countries outside the United States and Canada. The award, which provides for observation and supervised work in one or more medical libraries in the United States or Canada, is in the amount of $6,000, with up to $2,000 additional for travel within these two countries. MLA welcome applications for interested individuals from countries other than the USA and Canada. For full information, fact sheets, and application form please go to: http://mlanet.org/awards/grants/index.html http://mlanet.org/awards/grants/index.html The application deadline is Dec. 1, 2005. All the best. J.K.Vijayakumar __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Fwd: [BOAI] colLib - organizing Open Access documents in LIS]
by Subbiah Arunachalam 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [BOAI] colLib - organizing Open Access documents in LIS From: "Magnus Enger" <Magnus.Enger(a)hibo.no> Date: Fri, September 9, 2005 3:40 pm To: SCHOLCOMM(a)ala.org boai-forum(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk web4lib(a)webjunction.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Apologies for cross-posting! *** Hi! Wouldn't it be nice to have a subject-gateway to all the LIS-related documents that can be found in Open Access repositories? Would you like to collaborate on organizing them? As part of my ongoing masters-degree in "Science of documentation" at the University of Tromsø, Norway, I have created colLib - a prototype of a system for organizing and finding documents that are available in Open Access repositories: http://collib.info/ New metadata are "harvested" daily from open repositories - the newest "records" are available here: http://collib.info/index.php/Special:OaiRecent All the repositories that are harvested are related to "Library and Information Science" - a list of them is available here: http://collib.info/index.php/Special:OaiRepos Metadata are organized through "tags". A tag can for example represent a subject - here is an overview of the subjects that are represented as of today: http://collib.info/index.php/Category:Subjects Tags can also represent other organizing categories, like geography and names of projects and services - here is an overview of the categories so far: http://collib.info/index.php/Category:Top * My colLib If you register as a user of colLib, you can click "watch" at the top of most pages in colLib and have them added to "My colLib", which is your personal "bookshelf" in colLib. This page will give you a list of categories, subjects and posts that you would like to keep an eye on, remember or have easy access to. To register: http://collib.info/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&returnto=Main_Page My colLib: http://collib.info/index.php/Special:MyCollib * RSS A RSS 0.91-feed for the newest records is available here: http://collib.info/xml.php You will also find a link to RSS-feeds for the records that are connected with each tag on the page for that tag. See the article "RSS For Non-Techie Librarians" by Steven M. Cohen for more on RSS: http://www.llrx.com/features/rssforlibrarians.htm * You can contribute! colLib is based on the fact that anyone can contribute to organizing the records. When you look at a post you will allways find a link marked "Click here to add/edit tags". Clicking here will give you the opportunity to change the old tags and/or add new ones. You will find some more information on how to do this here: http://collib.info/index.php/Help:Editing Another way to contribute is to upload documents you have created to one of the repositories that are harvested by colLib. * Feedback is very welcome. You can send an e-mail to magnus(a)enger.priv.no or add a comment here: http://collib.info/index.php/ColLib:Feedback Regards Magnus Enger Magnus Enger Bibliotekar / Librarian Høgskolen i Bodø / Bodø Regional University Biblioteket / The Library N-8049 BODØ Norge / Norway http://www.bibliotek.hibo.no/

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Call for free access to research
by Subbiah Gunasekaran 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Call for free access to research UK universities have joined calls for publicly-funded research to be freely available on the internet. In a position statement, Universities UK supports moves to broaden access away from subscription-based journals and - more recently - websites. The organisation argues that such academic material is vital to national productivity and well-being. Its intervention is the latest in a long-running debate about the public accessiblity of research findings. Universities UK says freeing up research would also increase the number of times it is cited by other academics - which in turn boosts researchers' claims to funding. Cultural health The eight UK research councils, which control most of the public funding, have proposed making free access a condition of getting grants. The president of Universities UK, Professor Drummond Bone, said: "Publicly funded research undertaken in UK universities lies at the heart of a productive economy, as well as supporting the physical, social and cultural health of the nation. "Ensuring that the main outputs of research - ideas and knowledge - are disseminated widely is vitally important. "Universities UK supports moves by the research community and publishers to develop new publishing models that are based on the principle that research outcomes should be disseminated and freely accessed as widely as possible." Rising prices The universities say the subscription-based system of scholarly communication has served the research community well in the past but "now operates at a sub-optimal level". A key problem has been rapidly increasing journal prices - up 58% between 1998 and 2003, compared with a general inflation rate of 11%. Developments in electronic publishing have made possible a fundamental change, they argue. In a report last year, the House of Commons science and technology committee also called for publicly-funded research to be made freely available online in archived digital information banks. Publishers have argued that the cost per page has not increased - they are just being offered increasing amounts of research material. And they say they bear the costs of having research "peer reviewed" - checked by others - and that if this were to end the integrity of research could be compromised. They include not only commercial publishers but not-for-profit learned societies. Universities UK says they play a crucial role and the effect of any change on them should be monitored closely. But it says there are sustainable ways forward, probably involving a mixture of the current system and new ways of doing things, such as having those who fund the research meet the publication costs. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4224072.stm --------- Call for free access to research UK universities have joined calls for publicly-funded research to be freely available on the internet. In a position statement, Universities UK supports moves to broaden access away from subscription-based journals and - more recently - websites. The organisation argues that such academic material is vital to national productivity and well-being. Its intervention is the latest in a long-running debate about the public accessiblity of research findings. Universities UK says freeing up research would also increase the number of times it is cited by other academics - which in turn boosts researchers' claims to funding. Cultural health The eight UK research councils, which control most of the public funding, have proposed making free access a condition of getting grants. The president of Universities UK, Professor Drummond Bone, said: "Publicly funded research undertaken in UK universities lies at the heart of a productive economy, as well as supporting the physical, social and cultural health of the nation. "Ensuring that the main outputs of research - ideas and knowledge - are disseminated widely is vitally important. "Universities UK supports moves by the research community and publishers to develop new publishing models that are based on the principle that research outcomes should be disseminated and freely accessed as widely as possible." Rising prices The universities say the subscription-based system of scholarly communication has served the research community well in the past but "now operates at a sub-optimal level". A key problem has been rapidly increasing journal prices - up 58% between 1998 and 2003, compared with a general inflation rate of 11%. Developments in electronic publishing have made possible a fundamental change, they argue. In a report last year, the House of Commons science and technology committee also called for publicly-funded research to be made freely available online in archived digital information banks. Publishers have argued that the cost per page has not increased - they are just being offered increasing amounts of research material. And they say they bear the costs of having research "peer reviewed" - checked by others - and that if this were to end the integrity of research could be compromised. They include not only commercial publishers but not-for-profit learned societies. Universities UK says they play a crucial role and the effect of any change on them should be monitored closely. But it says there are sustainable ways forward, probably involving a mixture of the current system and new ways of doing things, such as having those who fund the research meet the publication costs. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4224072.stm --------- 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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Urgently looking for a book
by Parinita Samant 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Dear All, This is a very nice forum for discussion. I am new here, and have enjoyed reading all your mails. In fact, that is why I decided to seek your help. I am looking for a book, " Advanced Assembler Language and MVS Interfaces" by Carmine A. Cannatello. Can anyone help me out?? Thanks and Regards Parinita contact me at parinitas(a)hexaware.com

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[LIS-Forum] Version 59, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Version 59 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,480 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals, by the same author, provides much more in-depth coverage of the open access movement and related topics (e.g., disciplinary archives, e-prints, institutional repositories, open access journals, and the Open Archives Initiative) than SEPB does. http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.htm The Open Access Webliography (with Ho) complements the OAB, providing access to a number of Websites related to open access topics. http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 5.3 Other Legal Issues 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Digital Rights Management 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies* Appendix B. About the Author* Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* Digital Libraries* Electronic Books and Texts* Electronic Serials* General Electronic Publishing* Images Legal* Preservation Publishers Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* SGML and Related Standards Further Information about SEPB The HTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be can be searched using Boolean operators. The HTML document includes three sections not found in the Acrobat file: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (biweekly list of new resources; also available by mailing list--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepwlist.htm http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm The Acrobat file is designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 200 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 550 KB. Related Article An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston Libraries Home: http://www.escholarlypub.com/ DigitalKoans: http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/ Open Access Bibliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.htm Open Access Webliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Urgently looking for a book
by Parinita Samant 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Dear All, Thanks for all the help extended by you. I did check Amazon and realized that the price was much more than the publisher's price. So I started hunting for some bookshop/library here in India, which could help me locate the book. Bookfinder.com was an excellant site. Many a times, books that we weed out, may be needed by other Libraries. I was taking just such a chance (one in a million, I know) but, in this way I can communicate with library professionals all over the country!!! Thats something!!!! Thanks and Regards, Parinita HexaVarsity - Library 55919595 Ext. No 9707 -----Original Message----- From: G. K. Manjunath [mailto:gkm@igidr.ac.in] Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 12:57 PM To: ++ Mukesh Anand ++ Cc: Parinita Samant; lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Urgently looking for a book Best way to find rare and out-of-print book is bookfinder.com The book which Mr.Parinita is looking for is availble in two bookshops in US, but at a very exhorbitant price. ( US $ 349/- ISBN 0471361763 ). She may try at http://www.alibris.com http://www.venturapacific.net g.k.manjunath chief librarian IGIDR, MUMBAI. On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, ++ Mukesh Anand ++ wrote: > Ms. Parinita > > The following title of your interest is 'Out of Print', > and no longer available from publisher : > > Advanced Assembler Language and MVS Interfaces: > For IBM Systems and Application Programmers, 2nd Edition > By Carmine Cannatello > Paperback / 816 Pages / John Wiley / August 1999 / 0471361763 > > Hope this information suffice. > > Best Wishes > > ++ Mukesh ++ > > - - > Mukesh Anand > Director - Marketing > Monitor Information Services > # 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex > Narayanguda, Opp. Deepak Theatre, > Hyderabad - 500 029, India > > Telephone: 040-55787065 > Fax: +91-40-27552390 > > http://www.monitorinfo.com > Importers n Distributors of Technical Publications > > = = = = > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Parinita Samant" <parinitas(a)hexaware.com> > To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 4:17 PM > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Urgently looking for a book > > > > Dear All, > > > > This is a very nice forum for discussion. I am new here, and have enjoyed > > reading all your mails. In fact, that is why I decided to seek your help. > > > > I am looking for a book, " Advanced Assembler Language and MVS Interfaces" > > by Carmine A. Cannatello. > > > > Can anyone help me out?? > > > > Thanks and Regards > > Parinita > > contact me at > > parinitas(a)hexaware.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >

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