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Re: [LIS-Forum] Information required on Special Library Standard
by Rajesh Chandrakar 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Dear Hena S Gupta, Yes, there is International Standard called "ANSI/NISO Z39.7 -2004 Information Services and Use: Metrics & statistics for libraries and information providers--Data Dictionary". This standard has been developed by the National Information Standard Organization (NISO), USA, identifies categories for basic library statistical data reported at the national level, and provides associated definitions of terms. In doing so it deals with the following areas: reporting unit and target population, human resources, collection resources, infrastructure, finances, and services. In addition, the standard identifies new measures associated with networked services, databases, and performance. The standard is not intended to be comprehensive in scope. Instead, it presents a framework for comparable library data by describing common elements pertaining to libraries of various types in the US. It does not address detailed statistics for specific areas where it seems more appropriate for experts in those areas to make recommendations (e.g., music, government documents, maps). Section 5 of this standard deals with the "Infrastructure", the website is http://www.niso.org/emetrics/current/section5.html. This standard has been developed for all kind of libraries, where you can look at your special library requirement. I hope this will help you. Rajesh Chandrakar ----- Original Message ----- From: "HENAG" <HENAG(a)infosys.com> To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 12:33 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Information required on Special Library Standard Dear LIS professionals, If there is any Special Library Standard known related to in-frastructure please let me know . Best Regards Hena S Gupta InfosysCentral Library, Infosys Technologies Limited, Electronics City, Hosur Road, Bangalore-560100 Board : (91)-(080)-28520261 Ext 52196 Fax: (91)-(080)-28520742 We enable you to leverage knowledge anytime, anywhere! **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. Further, you are not to copy, disclose, or distribute this e-mail or its contents to any other person and any such actions are unlawful. This e-mail may contain viruses. Infosys has taken every reasonable precaution to minimize this risk, but is not liable for any damage you may sustain as a result of any virus in this e-mail. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening the e-mail or attachment. Infosys reserves the right to monitor and review the content of all messages sent to or from this e-mail address. Messages sent to or from this e-mail address may be stored on the Infosys e-mail system. ***INFOSYS******** End of Disclaimer ********INFOSYS*** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajesh Chandrakar Scientific & Technical Officer INFLIBNET (INFormation and LIBrary NETwork) Centre An IUC of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House, PB No. 4116, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380 009, India Tel. +91-(0)79-26305971/ 8528/ 4695(O), 26873805(R) Mobile: +91-9898087422 Fax: +91-(0)79-26300990, 263007816 E-mail: rajesh(a)inflibnet.ac.in; rchandrakar(a)gmail.com Website: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Digital libraries
by Subbiah Arunachalam 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Friends: Received this news in the mail today. We in India (and Africa) should follow this example. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Digital scholarship in the library of the future Stefanie Olsen, The college library of tomorrow, News.com, August 3, 2005. Excerpt: Last December, Google started on a wildly ambitious and somewhat controversial plan to digitize the collections of some of the world's largest university and public libraries in an effort to make hard-to-find books accessible by the click of a mouse. But out of the spotlight, a number of universities are already working on bookless, digital libraries that reflect a growing understanding of how today's tech-savvy students access information. "The notion of a library as a physical collection has long ago been altered," said Michael Keller, university librarian and director of academic information resources at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. "It's now physical and virtual." Stanford librarians aren't the only academics working on the libraries of tomorrow. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California school system, the University of Michigan and University of Virginia, among others, have also been digitizing their collections, developing new technologies and creating a lasting archive of electronic material. Friends: Received this news in the mail today. We in India (and Africa) should follow this example. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Digital scholarship in the library of the future [A] Stefanie Olsen, http://news.com.com/Building+the+college+library+of+tomorrow/2100-1025_3-58… The college library of tomorrow , News.com , August 3, 2005. Excerpt: Last December, Google started on a wildly ambitious and somewhat controversial plan to digitize the collections of some of the world's largest university and public libraries in an effort to make hard-to-find books accessible by the click of a mouse. But out of the spotlight, a number of universities are already working on bookless, digital libraries that reflect a growing understanding of how today's tech-savvy students access information. "The notion of a library as a physical collection has long ago been altered," said Michael Keller, university librarian and director of academic information resources at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. "It's now physical and virtual." Stanford librarians aren't the only academics working on the libraries of tomorrow. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California school system, the University of Michigan and University of Virginia, among others, have also been digitizing their collections, developing new technologies and creating a lasting archive of electronic material.

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Yahoo introduces audio search service
by Farooque Shaheen 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Yahoo introduced a new Internet search service that allows users to find downloadable songs, podcasts to interviews and newscasts. The free service, which is still in its testing period, is called Yahoo Audio Search and can be found at http://audio.search.yahoo.com. The audio search feature for the first time breaches the barriers between the various online music services, providing access to more than 50 million digital recordings. It allows anyone to look for an individual song within the digital collections of 16 different services, including the iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody. Yahoo Audio works much like the company's video and image services. Users type in words or phrases and are returned a list of audio files that they can click on and play. The company has integrated Yahoo Audio Search with its video search service and has invited people to submit videos and music through Media Really Simple Syndication, so it can be found by the new audio search engine. It has also integrated tools from its comparison shopping search engine, which helps users find CD prices and make purchases from a variety of retailers. Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-08/05/content_3311908.htm Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 Yahoo introduced a new Internet search service that allows users to find downloadable songs, podcasts to interviews and newscasts. �The free service, which is still in its testing period, is called Yahoo Audio Search and can be found at http://audio.search.yahoo.com. � The audio search feature for the first time breaches the barriers between the various online music services, providing access to more than 50 million digital recordings. It allows anyone to look for an individual song within the digital collections of 16 different services, including the iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody. � � Yahoo Audio works much like the company's video and image services. Users type in words or phrases and are returned a list of audio files that they can click on and play. � � � The company has integrated Yahoo Audio Search with its video search service and has invited people to submit videos and music through Media Really Simple Syndication, so it can be found by the new audio search engine. � � It has also integrated tools from its comparison shopping search engine, which helps users find CD prices and make purchases from a variety of retailers. Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-08/05/content_3311908.htm Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Is there any funding agency
by Lavji N. Zala 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

----------------------------------------- (on mail) Email Disclaimer: Information contained and transmitted by this e-mail is confidential, proprietary, and legally privileged data of Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad (MICA), that is intended for use only by the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. You are requested to delete this e-mail immediately and notify the originator. Any views expressed by an individual do not necessarily reflect the views of MICA. While this e-mail has been checked for all known viruses, the addressee should also scan for viruses. Internet communications can not be guaranteed to be timely, secure, error or virus-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete. MICA does not accept liability for any errors or omissions. --------------------------------------------------------- Dear Satya, Mr. Shailesh R. Yagnik, Chief Librarian of Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad presented a paper titled "Funding Agencies for professionals upliftment" in the conference which was held by ADINET in year 2003. If you need the information pl. contact him at shailesh(a)mica.ac.in. Regards, Lavji N. Zala Library Officer KEIC MICA Shela Ahmedabad-380058 > Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to > lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > You can reach the person managing the list at > lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Is there any funding agency (Satyaranjan Sahu) > 2. InfoVision 2005 : A GLOBAL CONCLAVE OF INFORMAITON COMMUNITY; > (Sep 15-16, 2005, Hotel Le Meridien, Bangalore) (sathya) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 11:14:47 +0530 > From: "Satyaranjan Sahu" <satya(a)darya.nio.org> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Is there any funding agency > To: "LIS-Forum" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Message-ID: <ICENJJKBLLHFNCLBJKPLAEHCCCAA.satya(a)darya.nio.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear members, > Is there any funding agency which sponsors to attend International > conference or seminar? My paper has > been selected for presentation in CDS/ISIS-W2 world meeting in Brazil. It > is > the only paper from India which has been selected for the presentation > with > other four papers for poster presentation. I was expecting fund from an > International Oceanographic body but couldn't materialized. It will be > nice > of you, if you will able to provide information about the funding agencies > in India or anywhere else. > Thanking you > Satya > -------------------------------------------- > Satya Ranjan Sahu > National Information Centre for Marine Sciences > National Institute of Oceanography > Dona Paula, Goa - 403 004 > Phone: 0832-2450370 (O) > ----------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------------------- > NIO Virus Scan : Clean Message. > > Please visit out sites : > www.nio.org, www.indian-ocean.org, www.mangroveindia.org, > www.reefindia.org, www.coastalhazards.info > --------------------------------- >

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 29, Issue 5
by shiva shankar kimidi 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

[lis-forum] sir i am k shiva shankar, student i want to do project work on "search engines" can any onecan suggest me the approach On 8/3/05, lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in <lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to > lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > You can reach the person managing the list at > lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Reports organizaton (Mailing List Manager) > 2. Tristana reader and Zone Alarm (Mailing List Manager) > 3. Open URLs for Library Users (Mailing List Manager) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:54:23 +0530 (IST) > From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Reports organizaton > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0508021254020.16937(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 22:15:33 +0530 (IST) > From: G. K. Manjunath <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> > > Please let me know the kind of reports you receive. We have some > experience in organising annual reports, working papers, reprints, and > other grey literature in our library > > g.k.manjunath > CHIEF LIBRARIAN ( Uni librarian ) > INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH > FILM CITY ROAD ( GEN.VAIDYA MARG ) > SANTOSH NAGAR > GOREGAON ( EAST ) > MUMBAI - 400 065 > INDIA > > > e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in > http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm > > phone 022-28490653 > fax 022-28402752 > > > On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Mailing List Manager wrote: > > > Date: 1 Aug 2005 08:15:37 -0000 > > From: Rajendra Thaty <pitam97(a)rediffmail.com> > > > > Dear all > > > > We receive all kinds of reports in our Library. Unfortunately, we do not > > have any system to organize them properly. I shall appreciate, if any of > > you share with me our personal experience on the problem. I would like to > > know in detail the procedure you follow, the problems you face and the > > solutions you recommend etc. Even if one does not have any real > > experience, ideas are welcome. > > > > Regards, > > > > Rajendra Thaty > > University Librarian > > Samablpur University Central Library > > Jyoti Vihar, BURLA 768019 > > Orissa > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:58:02 +0530 (IST) > From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Tristana reader and Zone Alarm > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0508021257430.16937(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 09:10:24 +0300 > From: Jayadev P Hiremath <jayadevph(a)gmail.com> > > FYI. > > Regards. > > Jayadev P Hiremath > > > Tristana Reader 4.0 > http://www.tristana.org/ > > Now that more and more websites offer a variety of dynamic materials (such > as podcasts and the like), it is increasingly more common to feel a bit > overwhelmed by the sheer volume of material on the Web. More discerning > users will appreciate Tristana Reader 4.0, which will allow them pull > content directly from the Web to their desktops. The application also allows > users the ability to set preferences so that they will be alerted to content > changes at any given site. The program is also spam-proof, which will be a > welcome relief to many. This version of Tristana Reader is compatible with > Windows 98 or newer. > > ZoneAlarm 6.0.631.003 > http://www.zonelabs.com > > The Zone Alarm application was created to protect DSL-or cable-connected PCs > from hackers, and this latest version contains four valuable security > services. They include a firewall, an application control, an Internet lock, > and zones. Working in tandem, these interlocking devices block Internet > traffic while the computer is unattended and also monitor all activity on a > given computer. This version of ZoneAlarm is compatible with Windows 98 or > newer. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 13:01:26 +0530 (IST) > From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Open URLs for Library Users > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0508021301060.16937(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 10:03:19 +0530 > From: Farooque Shaheen <Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com> > > Some Web visionaries have concocted a scheme to embed complete citation > information in Web pages. Inspired by U.K. researcher Dan Chudnov and > other innovators, Eric Hellman, Ross Singer, and others have invented > COinS, which is short for ?ContextObject in Span.? (?Span? refers to the > HTML tag used to embed COinS metadata.) The team has created a > specification and defined it at http://ocoins.info. > COinS seeks to address a fundamental problem: Imagine you are searching > Google Scholar or a blog or a random Web site, and you find a citation to > an article that is critical to your work. The article isn?t freely > available on the Web, but it is syndicated to one or more full-text > resources. You are affiliated with a company or a university that has > licensed the journal for online delivery via a content aggregator. You > just want to click on the citation and see the full text of the article; > you don?t want to have to go to your library?s home page and start your > search all over again. COinS is an attempt to address this problem. > COinS allows content providers to publish sufficient metadata so that you > can click on a hyperlink and (assuming your local institution has licensed > a database that includes the journal in its collection) seamlessly > download the full text of the article in question. The OpenURL standard > defines a scheme to transport metadata about a cited work?author, title, > etc.?over the Web. COinS defines a way for a Web content provider to embed > bibliographic metadata into an HTML document. > Last week, Openly Informatics announced an implementation of COinS as a > plug-in to the Firefox browser. If a user visits a Web site that has a > COinS-compliant citation, the plug-in allows the user to retrieve the > relevant article from the locally licensed database with a click or two. > The new plug-in is available at http://www.openly.com/openurlref and is > compatible with Google Scholar. > Source: http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb050801-1.shtml > > > Thanks & Regards, > Farooque Shaheen, > Caritor India Pvt Ltd. > Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 > Mobile-9342507449 > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > End of LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 29, Issue 5 > **************************************** >

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'In Case of Emergency"- ICE, A crucial bit of Information
by venky 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

The London incident &; now the Mumbai floods have promoted certain concerns and I share with you something useful somebody just sent. As long as everyone knows what ICE stands for, it is not a bad idea. A useful thing to add to your mobile address book! It was thought up by an ambulance man/paramedic who found that when they went to the scenes of accidents there were always mobile phones but they didn't know which numbers to call and he thought that it would be a good idea if there was a nationally recognized name to file "next of kin" under. Following the disaster in London . . . East Anglian Ambulance Service have launched a national "In case of Emergency (ICE)" campaign with the support of Falkland 's war hero Simon Weston. The idea is that you store the word " I C E " in your mobile phone Address book, and against it enter the number of the person you would want to be contacted "In Case of Emergency". In an emergency situation ambulance and hospital staff will then be able to quickly find out who your next of kin are and be able to contact them. It's so simple that everyone can do it. Please do. Please will you also email this to more people, it won't take too many 'forwards' before lots of people will know about this. It really could save your life, or put a loved one's mind at rest. For more than one contact name ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc. May be one can record even info like blood group in the ICE Dr. S. Venkadesan JRD Tata Memorial Library Indian Institute of Science Bangalore-560012 The London incident &; now the Mumbai floods have promoted certain concerns and I share with you something useful somebody just sent. As long as everyone knows what ICE stands for, it is not a bad idea. A useful thing to add to your mobile address book! It was thought up by an ambulance man/paramedic who found that when they went to the scenes of accidents there were always mobile phones but they didn't know which numbers to call and he thought that it would be a good idea if there was a nationally recognized name to file "next of kin" under. Following the disaster in London . . . East Anglian Ambulance Service have launched a national "In case of Emergency (ICE)" campaign with the support of Falkland 's war hero Simon Weston. The idea is that you store the word " I C E " in your mobile phone Address book, and against it enter the number of the person you would want to be contacted "In Case of Emergency". In an emergency situation ambulance and hospital staff will then be able to quickly find out who your next of kin are and be able to contact them. It's so simple that everyone can do it. Please do. Please will you also email this to more people, it won't take too many 'forwards' before lots of people will know about this. It really could save your life, or put a loved one's mind at rest. For more than one contact name ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc. May be one can record even info like blood group in the ICE Dr. S. Venkadesan JRD Tata Memorial Library Indian Institute of Science Bangalore-560012

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Journal "Yoga The Science" details required
by vipin sati 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

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InfoVision 2005 : A GLOBAL CONCLAVE OF INFORMAITON COMMUNITY; (Sep 15-16, 2005, Hotel Le Meridien, Bangalore)
by sathya 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

InfoVision 2005 : A GLOBAL CONCLAVE OF INFORMAITON COMMUNITY (September 15-16, 2005, Hotel Le Meridien, Bangalore) Come and listen to the visionaries. Interact with leaders. Join the debate with experts. Visualize a new Information Profession. www.infovision2005.org <http://www.infovision2005.org> Sessions Contouring the Knowledge Society. 1. IT & IM: Meeting and melding points. 2. KM Solutions & Practices. 3. E-Publishing: Changing paradigms and shifting markets. 4. Search Engines & Data mining. 5. E-Learning & Digital Libraries. 6. IPR: ideologies, legalities and technologies. 7. Policy Framework for Information Society. Speakers. 1. R. A. Mashelkar, DG, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, India 2. P. Anandan MD, Microsoft Research India. 3. Ronald Larsen Dean, School of Information Science, University of Pittsburg, USA. 4. Karl Wiig, Knowledge Research Institute, USA (T). 5. Sugata Mitra, NIIT. 6. Derk Haank, CEO, Springer, Germany. 7. Ajit Balakrishnan, CEO. Rediff.com. 8. Andrew Large , Chair, School of Library and Information Studies, McGill University, Canada. 9. R. Ramaraj, CEO, Sify. 10. Ingeborg Torvik Solvberg, Professor, Dept. of Computer & Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. 11. Praveen Anand , Advocate, Anand and Anand Associates, India 12. Jean Claude Guedon, Professor, University of Montreal, Canada. 13. S. Sadagopan, Director, International Institute of Information Technology. 14. Nick Moore, Chairman, Acumen Consulting & Research, UK. 15. N. Vijayaditya , DG, NIC. 16. Eric F. Van de Velde, Director, Library Information Technology, Caltech, USA. 17. Mohan Tambe, MD, Innomedia Technologies. 18. Judith Turner, Editor, Journal of Electronic Publishing, USA. 19. Abhijit Lahiri, Technology Information Program, DSIR. 20. Nancy Buckley, Blackwell Publishing, UK. 21. Jayant R. Haritsa, Professor, Indian Institute of Science. 22. T.A. Balasubramanian, Consultant and Media Advisor, Mumbai 23. Raj Datta, GM, Mind Tree, India 24. Madan Mohan Rao, Editor, Knowledge Management Chronicles. 25. Anand Parthasarathy, IT Columnist, The Hindu. 26. Uma Ganesh, CEO, Kalzoom Technologies. 27. G.Venkatesh, Chief Strategist & CTO, Sasken. 28. Prabhuddha Ganguly, CEO, Vision-IPR. 29. Subas Pani, Chief Secretary, Govt. of Orissa. 30. Rajiv Seth, President, CyberMedia Services. ________________ from N V Sathyanarayana Informatics (India) Ltd Bangalore 560 003, India sathya(a)informindia.co.in Phone: 91 80 23365940 Fax: 91 80 23344598

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Is there any funding agency
by Satyaranjan Sahu 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Dear members, Is there any funding agency which sponsors to attend International conference or seminar? My paper has been selected for presentation in CDS/ISIS-W2 world meeting in Brazil. It is the only paper from India which has been selected for the presentation with other four papers for poster presentation. I was expecting fund from an International Oceanographic body but couldn't materialized. It will be nice of you, if you will able to provide information about the funding agencies in India or anywhere else. Thanking you Satya -------------------------------------------- Satya Ranjan Sahu National Information Centre for Marine Sciences National Institute of Oceanography Dona Paula, Goa - 403 004 Phone: 0832-2450370 (O) ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- NIO Virus Scan : Clean Message. Please visit out sites : www.nio.org, www.indian-ocean.org, www.mangroveindia.org, www.reefindia.org, www.coastalhazards.info --------------------------------- Dear members, Is there any funding agency which sponsors to attend International conference or seminar? My paper has been selected for presentation in CDS/ISIS-W2 world meeting in Brazil. It is the only paper from India which has been selected for the presentation with other four papers for poster presentation. I was expecting fund from an International Oceanographic body but couldn't materialized. It will be nice of you, if you will able to provide information about the funding agencies in India or anywhere else. Thanking you Satya -------------------------------------------- Satya Ranjan Sahu National Information Centre for Marine Sciences National Institute of Oceanography Dona Paula, Goa - 403 004 Phone: 0832-2450370 (O) ----------------------------------------------------- NIO Virus Scan : Clean Message! Please visit our sites http://www.nio.org www.nio.org , http://www.indian-ocean.org www.indian-ocean.org , http://www.mangroveindia.org www.mangroveindia.org , http://www.reefindia.org www.reefindia.org , http://www.coastalhazards.info www.coastalhazards.info

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Call for Papers: Serials & Continuing Resources in the Library (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

To: diglib(a)infoserv.inist.fr Subject: [DIGLIB] Call for Papers: Serials & Continuing Resources in the Library *** APOLOGIES FOR DUPLICATE POSTINGS *** THE SERIALS LIBRARIAN | SPECIAL ISSUE Serials & Continuing Resources in the Library: New Frontiers in Access, Acquisition & Ownership If the past is an indicator, current, emerging and yet-to-be Net and Web features and functionalities will have a significant impact on the content and publishing of serials and continuing resources, as well as on those institutions that historically have assumed the role of maintaining and assuring current and long-term access to these publications, notably academic, public, research, and special libraries, among many other organizations. To commemorate the publication of the 50th volume of _The Serials Librarian_, submissions are invited that envision, review, or speculate on topics falling into one or more of the following broad categories: * The Future of Serials and Continuing Resources * The Future Role and Place of Serials in Libraries * The Future of Libraries in General. The categories are intentionally broad to allow contributors to think openly about any and all potential possibilities. This special issue will be published as volume 51, numbers 1/2 of _The Serials Librarian_. NOTE: The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2005. Authors should consult the 'Instructions for Authors' section of a recent issue of _The Serials Librarian_ for detailed guidelines and style requirements. Submissions should be sent via e-mail preferably as an attached MS Word document to Gerry McKiernan, Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian, Iowa State University Library, e-mail: gerrymck(a)iastate.edu . Regards, Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library 152 Parks Ames IA 50011

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Executive Digest
by Anita Kumari 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Hello Friends If any of you subscribe the magazine 'Executive Digest' for your library. Please send me the contact details of Vendor. Thanks with Regards Anita Kumari Librarian E-Mail : anitkuma(a)in.ibm.com Hello Friends If any of you subscribe the magazine 'Executive Digest' for your library. Please send me the contact details of Vendor. Thanks with Regards Anita Kumari Librarian E-Mail : anitkuma(a)in.ibm.com

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Can Google Stay Google?
by Madhuresh 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Dear Friends, You may like to read this article published in Fast Company. The article can be accessed at http://www.fastcompany.com/subscr/97/open_google.html Madhuresh Can Google Stay Google? It is the company of the nanosecond -- and a really, really rich one at that. But Silicon Valley often eats its own young. So what are Messrs. Brin and Page planning to keep Google thriving for the long haul? By: Alan Deutschman When you visit Google's headquarters, you have a vague feeling that there's something wrong here, but it's hard to say exactly what. In nearly every way, Google seems a corporate utopia, a vision of an idealized 21st-century corporation. The campus looks more like an idyllic resort than an office complex where anyone ever gets work done. The centerpiece of the main quadrangle is a beach volleyball court that sees a lot of action throughout the day. And look, there's cofounder Sergey Brin, 31, the $9 billion man, competing in a midday game. The rectangle of white sand is surrounded by green: grass that appears as though it's groomed daily and cacti that thrive in the sunny, humidity-free 80 degrees. The campus's pathways are strolled by employees so youthful and healthy looking that you wonder whether you made a wrong turn a few miles away in Palo Alto and wound up on the Stanford campus instead. Google has been sued for allegedly discriminating against workers over 40 years old. Only the shiny postmodern architecture makes you feel as if you're at a high-tech company. And the atmosphere seems strangely calm and quiet, almost lazy. It's hard to believe that this is a company that has been coping with breathless growth -- a company where it's not unusual for a marketing staffer to cycle through four different bosses within a year and a half. The only corner of the campus where there's visible tumult is the grill line at the cafeteria, which lives up to its reputation as one of the best places to eat in all of food-crazed northern California. The organic all-you-can-eat buffet is free to employees for lunch and dinner. Google is ever so young, self-satisfied, and happy. And rich! By late spring, its stock reached toward $300 a share, more than triple its $85 debut price when the company went public only the year before. Wall Street investors haven't hesitated to pay well over 100 times earnings for Google, betting that the company's growth is only just beginning. The seven-year-old startup boasts a market value of $80 billion, more than Yahoo, Amazon.com, eBay, or Oracle. For years it has been the company of the nanosecond. So why do you feel that gnawing sense of unease as you tour its eco-friendly buildings? Suddenly, you realize why: This epicenter of the Silicon Valley present is haunted by a ghost of the Silicon Valley past. You've been right here before, in this very spot, during its original incarnation as the campus of Silicon Graphics Inc. Remember SGI? It was one of the hottest tech companies of the early 1990s. Its founder, Jim Clark, became a celebrity billionaire. Like Google, SGI was a geeky innovator glamorized by an adoring media -- most famously, its expensive graphics computers powered the special effects for Hollywood blockbusters such as Terminator 2. SGI's stock split twice in the early 1990s before peaking at $42 a share in 1995. But once its rivals had time to catch up, SGI went into freefall. By 2001, the stock had plunged to 31 cents a share, and the company had to lay off thousands of workers and abandon the gleaming new campus it had constructed. In came Google, leasing 500,000 square feet of the SGI space to accommodate its mushrooming workforce, which has grown to 3,000 people worldwide. SGI is nearly forgotten only a decade after it reached the heights of Silicon Valley glory. It makes you think the unthinkable: Might Google face the same fate? Ten years from now, could Google be a vanquished champ while a newer contender takes over its campus? Silicon Valley is a notoriously brutal place. It's incredibly hard to maintain a lead in technology. As Brin plays in the sand at the "Googleplex," could there be the next Brin waiting five miles away at the Stanford campus -- another obscure but brilliant computer-science graduate student who'll swiftly reinvent the digital realm? Will slower-moving giants like Microsoft get the time to catch up? Google has terrific momentum -- unlike many companies, it doesn't have to worry unduly about the next quarter. The real questions (and they're questions any fast-growing, innovation-based company must ask itself at some point) are: How can Google keep its edge for the long run? What can it do to make sure it's still a hot company in 2010? How can a maturing organization with 3,000 people hold on to what made it a great startup? A series of interviews with Google executives and engineers revealed the ideas the company is counting on to sustain its streak. Challenge the Mind Brin enters the conference room and takes a seat on the same side of the table as you, and it's hard to focus on the interview while you're forced to look at his bare legs. He's wearing athletic short-shorts. Soon he senses your discomfort and apologizes for his attire, mentioning that he had just come from playing in a volleyball game. He also wears a black T-shirt, a wristwatch made from Lego blocks, and Adidas sandals without socks. "Here's the way I think of it," he says. "Is this the place I would want to work if I were graduating from a PhD program now?" Brin and Larry Page were pursuing doctorates at Stanford when they founded Google, which they now run together with Eric Schmidt, a veteran executive who had worked at Sun and Novell. "Yes," he answers. Why? The key reason is that Google lets brilliant computer scientists work on "great technical problems" that provide the intellectual stimulation and challenge they crave. "Artificial intelligence, complex systems, user interface -- all the things I studied as a graduate student, we hit the limits of," he says. In Google's early days, simply searching the Web was a daunting technical challenge. Today, Google conceives of "search" as something much broader and more grandly ambitious -- no less than helping people access, analyze, organize, understand, and grapple with all the world's information. That kind of audacious long-term challenge is really exciting and inspiring to the most technically brilliant minds. Making money and achieving professional status are significant for them, of course, but so are the psychic rewards of the work itself and its potential impact and visibility out in the world. "We're in a target-rich environment of interesting problems," says Alan Eustace, one of Google's handful of vice presidents of engineering and its head of research. Take the technology for "machine translation" of human language. Right now, Google can automatically translate Web pages from English into a bunch of major languages and vice versa -- German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. The list will get longer in the next year or two. But that's just the beginning, Eustace says: "The goal is to make the Internet language-independent." Ultimately, all search results will come back instantly in your own language, regardless of what tongue you speak -- and what dialect the pages are written in. Every Google user will be like a delegate in the General Assembly of the United Nations putting on headphones to hear translations of the speaker up front. At the UN, it doesn't matter whether you speak only French and the orator is waxing eloquent in Chinese. The Web will be the same way. Automated universal translation is the kind of long-range vision that inspires people like Eustace. It fascinates them because it's a technical Mount Everest that they can climb, but also because it's an idealistic goal that's potentially enriching to global society. "In the long term, if you can create technology that can unify information around the world and remove the language barrier, that would be very special," he says. Google has visions of unifying the world's data as well as its languages. Eustace wants to give people the tools to combine data from multiple sources on the Web. For example, if you were looking to buy a home today, it would be easy enough to map the available properties. But what if you wanted to overlay that map with other information that could help you make your decision -- figures about school rankings, economic conditions, day-care availability, community activities, or crime rates? "We're not anywhere near done with search technology," says Marissa Mayer, who left Stanford's PhD program to become Google's first female engineer in 1999 and currently manages its consumer Web products. "2010 or 2020 will make today look really sad." Google has recruited technologists who share this vision, which is an important source of their dedication. Before coming to Google, Anurag Acharya taught computer science at the University of California at Santa Barbara. "I was looking for a problem that would last me a very long time -- 10 years, 15 years," he says. He joined the company motivated by tackling the issue of "being able to deal with information coherently in all its manifestations." Like Eustace, Acharya seems equally influenced by Google's vast technical challenge as well as its potentially beneficial social impact. He expressed his idealism with his creation of Google Scholar, a feature that lets users search for information in academic publications. As principal engineer on Scholar, he spent four years recruiting scholarly journals to make their material publicly available over the Web for the first time. He thinks giving people around the world better access to information "has to fundamentally change how social processes evolve -- how people interact, how they develop organizations. I believe this is a significant thing for humanity." Of course, Google is far from the first Silicon Valley powerhouse to cultivate a reputation as a place for the most brilliant engineers. Like its predecessors -- Microsoft, Oracle, Apple -- Google can be elitist and a bit haughty. Nelson Minar, a midlevel Google engineer, starts off well by saying, "At Google, a lot of people are motivated by the beauty of what they do. A key thing in the engineering culture is a lot of pride in the technical challenge. Larry and Sergey have set the tone that we're in this for the long run." But then he realizes too late that he's sliding into arrogance when he says, "At Google, my assumption when I meet new engineers is they are as good as I am or better. When I worked at other places, the first question was, Is this person worth my time?" Share the Wealth Duke Ellington was once asked how he managed to take the many individualistic members of his band and get them to play together so harmoniously. "I have a gimmick," he said. "I pay them." That's one of Google's gimmicks, too. Even when people are motivated by challenge and idealism, pay and recognition remain important. Brin has been thinking a lot lately about how to revamp Silicon Valley's basic approach to compensation, which long relied on stock options. When there are only a few hundred people in a company, stock is a strong motivation, he says, because everyone gets enough options to have the chance to really make a lot of money. But "at thousands, it doesn't work that well as an incentive," because there are so many people that the options have to be spread too thin. "And people want the chance to be really well rewarded." Even though Google now has some 3,000 employees worldwide, he says, "I feel the compensation should be more like a startup's. Not entirely, because there's significantly less risk. But more like one. We provide the upside -- maybe not the identical upside, maybe a little less -- and higher odds of being successful." Google's most visible innovation in compensation is the Founders' Award -- a huge spot bonus for great work on a project. The first two awards, given out earlier this year, added up to $12 million and were announced at an all-staff gathering. The awards are paid in stock to give the winners incentive to keep striving. "These founders are quite willing to share generously the wealth that's created here," says Dave Rolefson, a compensation specialist who worked around the Valley before joining Google. "A lot of companies say they pay for performance, but Google actually does." The higher you are in the company, the more heavily your pay package depends on rigorous evaluations of your personal contribution. The exception comes at the very top: No matter how well they perform, Page and Brin now take only a $1 annual salary with no bonuses or grants of options or stock. They save the stock as a reward for other employees. In the past couple of years, other Silicon Valley companies have responded to the big changes in accounting rules by cutting back dramatically on the stock options they grant to employees as incentives. They have typically gone from giving 7% of equity each year to as little as 2%, and the cuts have had the biggest impact on lower-level employees. "At Google, we're seeing that none of the employees are cut," Rolefson says. "Full-time employees at all levels are still offered equity when they come in." In addition to stock grants, Brin says that Google is trying to do more with "bonuses and refreshers" and especially looking to develop more financial incentives for people in the fast-growing middle levels of the company. Still, he admits that "there are some inherent flaws with compensation incentives in a large company." That thought sends him off on a more philosophical tangent: "As you grow larger, you should be more efficient," he says, "or split into smaller companies if there are diminishing returns. The key is to look at the advantages you get from being larger." So does Brin think Google is a bit like Burning Man, the annual festival in the Nevada desert that's a magnet for artists and techies from northern California? Burning Man has grown from an intimate gathering into a mass pilgrimage for tens of thousands of people, many of whom talk nostalgically about how it was better when it was smaller and before it was changed by its renown. Brin has actually been to Burning Man -- how many CEOs can say that? -- but he contends that both the festival and Google have improved in many ways with size: "There's so much more to see and do now" at Burning Man, he says. As for Google, "It's a mistake to be nostalgic for two or four years ago, because you can be blind to all the benefits you get." The recently introduced features for searching and displaying maps with satellite photos, for example, were a "really collaborative effort from people at Google offices around the world -- we couldn't do that at a smaller company." Still, it's likely that individuals at Google will have a harder time feeling they can have an impact on the company now that it has thousands of people, not hundreds. And many talented individuals will surely leave for startups once Silicon Valley discovers its next big thing. Some of the people who stay will find motivation harder to come by once their stock grants vest and they no longer need to work to make a living or even to buy real estate in the nation's least affordable housing market. At Microsoft in the '90s, engineers and marketers took to wearing buttons around the office that said "fuifv." You can guess what the first two letters stand for. The last three meant "I'm fully vested." Brin doesn't have firsthand memory of much Silicon Valley history -- for the benefit of business experience, he says he turns to his board members, including new recruits CEO Paul Otellini from Intel and CEO Art Levinson from Genentech. Before Google, he says, "I never had a real job." But he does mention Microsoft as a case study for compensation policy. "The options were great as long as the stock was rising," he says. "Compensation is important, but it's not the only or the most important reward." Right now, Brin and Page can afford to share the wealth -- not only are they both multibillionaires, but Google's $1 million in revenues per employee is high for any company, and it beats even key competitors. At some point, though, the stock isn't going to be a trump card for running the company. That means the challenge and meaningfulness of the work is going to be Google's best hope for thriving in the long run. To keep up its extraordinary success, Google must do more than simply follow its slogan "Don't be evil." It has to be inspiring and good. Learning From the Past What can Google's founders learn from the ghosts of SGI that wander the campus they've taken over? SGI's decline came when Intel's hardware and Microsoft's software ultimately began to catch up to its own. In Silicon Valley, it's hard to keep a lead for long. SGI tried for a second act with what was known in the early and mid-1990s as the "information superhighway," but it bet wrongly that interactive TV was the form it would take. SGI's founder, Jim Clark, left -- and bet correctly that the "infobahn" would be the Internet. He cofounded Netscape and began the Web stock boom. Google's head-to-head rivals -- Yahoo and MSN -- are already starting to catch up to its technology, at least in the crucial basics of search. Google's indirect rivals, such as Amazon.com, are imitating it, too: Amazon's shrewd founder, Jeff Bezos, realizing that search is vital for how people find what they want to buy, has created his own search engine, A9.com. Google, for its part, has been busily imitating Yahoo and MSN by offering more of the features -- such as email, news, groups, shopping, and personalized starter pages -- that it needs to become a full-fledged Web portal. For the next few years, the Web's manic growth should provide plenty of opportunity for all of these sites, which have already established good brands and created a kind of Web power oligarchy together with eBay and America Online (which pays Google to power the searches on its site). Among the several portals, Google's most obvious competitive advantage is that people prefer it for search, probably because it has built its reputation specifically around the technology. It led in the United States with 47.3% of Web searches in the month of May compared with Yahoo at 20.9% and MSN at 13.6%. But where Google's business really stands out is as a huge advertising network: On other Web sites, when you see text advertisements that are triggered by keywords from the content of their pages, the odds are that those ads are powered by Google, which profits from every click. This "Google Network" accounted for around half of the company's $3.2 billion in revenue last year. Despite Google's incredible share and momentum as an advertising network, there's nothing stopping another big player, like Yahoo or Microsoft, from making big inroads, too. For the longer run, what Google needs is to come up with the next awesome leap in technology -- something that's as addictive and inspiring as Google itself was when it hit big. What's more likely, though, is that someone new -- maybe some other grad students at Stanford -- will do to Google what Google did to Microsoft and the other powers. Like Microsoft, Google is rich now, and it can pay for highly credentialed talent and use some of its spare billions of stock value to acquire any number of smaller companies that have promising technology or pose a potential competitive threat. But there's never a substitute for that great new idea. So far, at least, the Google guys are doing the right things in terms of creating a culture for hatching and nurturing it. But to be a hot company in 2015, they're going to need to find -- and keep -- the next Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Sidebar: Do You Realize That Google Has Ads? Google's motto is "Don't be evil." Its revenues come mostly from selling advertising in the form of the paid search results running down the right side of the Web page. In response to pressure from consumer advocates, these are labeled as "sponsored links." Still, according to a recent Pew Trust survey, only 38% of people realize the difference between paid and unpaid search results. That might seem surprising, but it fits the pattern of other innovative forms of advertising that have emerged in the past generation: Studies show that it has taken many years for most people to grasp that "infomercials" are different from regular TV programs and that brands shown in movies are paid product placements. Once consumers wise up, the gimmicks lose much of their impact. Google's ads are unusually effective because most people don't realize they are ads. Is that evil? Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 212 Mobile 98861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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Open URLs for Library Users
by Mailing List Manager 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 10:03:19 +0530 From: Farooque Shaheen <Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com> Some Web visionaries have concocted a scheme to embed complete citation information in Web pages. Inspired by U.K. researcher Dan Chudnov and other innovators, Eric Hellman, Ross Singer, and others have invented COinS, which is short for ?ContextObject in Span.? (?Span? refers to the HTML tag used to embed COinS metadata.) The team has created a specification and defined it at http://ocoins.info. COinS seeks to address a fundamental problem: Imagine you are searching Google Scholar or a blog or a random Web site, and you find a citation to an article that is critical to your work. The article isn?t freely available on the Web, but it is syndicated to one or more full-text resources. You are affiliated with a company or a university that has licensed the journal for online delivery via a content aggregator. You just want to click on the citation and see the full text of the article; you don?t want to have to go to your library?s home page and start your search all over again. COinS is an attempt to address this problem. COinS allows content providers to publish sufficient metadata so that you can click on a hyperlink and (assuming your local institution has licensed a database that includes the journal in its collection) seamlessly download the full text of the article in question. The OpenURL standard defines a scheme to transport metadata about a cited work?author, title, etc.?over the Web. COinS defines a way for a Web content provider to embed bibliographic metadata into an HTML document. Last week, Openly Informatics announced an implementation of COinS as a plug-in to the Firefox browser. If a user visits a Web site that has a COinS-compliant citation, the plug-in allows the user to retrieve the relevant article from the locally licensed database with a click or two. The new plug-in is available at http://www.openly.com/openurlref and is compatible with Google Scholar. Source: http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb050801-1.shtml Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Tristana reader and Zone Alarm
by Mailing List Manager 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 09:10:24 +0300 From: Jayadev P Hiremath <jayadevph(a)gmail.com> FYI. Regards. Jayadev P Hiremath Tristana Reader 4.0 http://www.tristana.org/ Now that more and more websites offer a variety of dynamic materials (such as podcasts and the like), it is increasingly more common to feel a bit overwhelmed by the sheer volume of material on the Web. More discerning users will appreciate Tristana Reader 4.0, which will allow them pull content directly from the Web to their desktops. The application also allows users the ability to set preferences so that they will be alerted to content changes at any given site. The program is also spam-proof, which will be a welcome relief to many. This version of Tristana Reader is compatible with Windows 98 or newer. ZoneAlarm 6.0.631.003 http://www.zonelabs.com The Zone Alarm application was created to protect DSL-or cable-connected PCs from hackers, and this latest version contains four valuable security services. They include a firewall, an application control, an Internet lock, and zones. Working in tandem, these interlocking devices block Internet traffic while the computer is unattended and also monitor all activity on a given computer. This version of ZoneAlarm is compatible with Windows 98 or newer.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Reports organizaton
by Mailing List Manager 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 22:15:33 +0530 (IST) From: G. K. Manjunath <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> Please let me know the kind of reports you receive. We have some experience in organising annual reports, working papers, reprints, and other grey literature in our library g.k.manjunath CHIEF LIBRARIAN ( Uni librarian ) INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FILM CITY ROAD ( GEN.VAIDYA MARG ) SANTOSH NAGAR GOREGAON ( EAST ) MUMBAI - 400 065 INDIA e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm phone 022-28490653 fax 022-28402752 On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Mailing List Manager wrote: > Date: 1 Aug 2005 08:15:37 -0000 > From: Rajendra Thaty <pitam97(a)rediffmail.com> > > Dear all > > We receive all kinds of reports in our Library. Unfortunately, we do not > have any system to organize them properly. I shall appreciate, if any of > you share with me our personal experience on the problem. I would like to > know in detail the procedure you follow, the problems you face and the > solutions you recommend etc. Even if one does not have any real > experience, ideas are welcome. > > Regards, > > Rajendra Thaty > University Librarian > Samablpur University Central Library > Jyoti Vihar, BURLA 768019 > Orissa > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >

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Free Blog Host
by Mailing List Manager 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Date: 30 Jul 2005 10:55:27 -0000 From: Arvind Bhadrashetty <aravind_1(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Professionals, Free Blog hoster are one of the best tool to share ideas and get comments. There are many free e bloggers providing free service like www.blogger.com/start � www.journalhome.com/start.php To make Open Archives Movement a success, These e bloggers may of great help.one of the sample site created is at http://www.journalhome.com/arvindbhadrashetty/7650/ Regards Arvind M Bhadrashetty

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Course on E-Content Development and Management
by Mailing List Manager 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Date: 30 Jul 2005 09:19:50 -0000 From: jyoti shreeram bhabal <jyotibhabal(a)rediffmail.com> � SHPT School of Library Science SNDT Women�s University Offers an Innovative part time Certificate Course In collaboration with DSIR, GoI On E-Content Development and Management Bill Gates once called the Internet as �a marketplace of ideas, experiences, and products - a marketplace of content.� In today�s digital environment �Content is King�. There is a continuing need to develop relevant, useful and authentic content. As more Indians use the Internet and as worldwide more people use the Internet to know about India, there is a growing need for the development of a critical mass of localized content � both in English and Indian languages. The definition of "content" is very wide and includes all categories of popular content - not just software and news, but also games, entertainment, sports programming, directories, classified advertising, and on-line communities devoted to major interests. Content development and management lies at the base of Web, Intranet and CD-Rom publishing; it also underlies e-commerce and e-learning � two growing trends, world wide. You can be part of the rapidly growing employment market in this area. You can use your subject knowledge (and also your experience, hobbies, passions, or pastimes) and learn to create high-value content, which ranks well at the Search Engines. You may become a self-employed Infopreneur or work as a team member of a web product and service provider. SHPT School of Library Science, SNDT Women�s University has a long tradition of continuing professional education. It has, in collaboration with the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India developed an 8-credit (4 month part time) course to provide conceptual and practical inputs in the area of content development and management. Objectives At the end of the course the participant will be able to: � Plan content and use various information sources for collecting information � Write and edit content for the Web in English and Indian languages � Create/structure digital documents using markup languages, e.g. XML � Design data structures for database management systems � Develop and apply standard metadata for easy retrieval � Create a plan for a website Scope: The course will cover: � Content Management and its Context � Planning Content � Collection of Information � Writing for the Internet � Developing Digital Content � Information Architecture: Structuring � Information Architecture: Organisation � Website Development � Basic issues Methodology Lectures, discussions, case study, demonstrations, practical exercises and Self Learning. Resource Persons Experts from industry, consultants and academic faculty. Evaluation Class exercises, Tests and Project to constitute a portfolio for evaluation Participants Limited to 15 participants on a first come first served basis. Post graduates in any subject with basic skills in computer and Internet use are eligible Course Schedule: First course: September to December 2005 (Beginning September 21, 2005) Every Wednesday: 4.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m. Every Saturday: 10.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. Second Course: Intensive course of 4 weeks (Beginning January 2006) Fees Application Fee: Rs.100/- (with application form) Course Fee: Rs.4000/- (Includes Computer practicals, course materials, and examination fees) Last Date of Registration for 1st course September 16, 2005 For More Information Contact : Ms Parul Zaveri / Dr. Ms Perin Marolia / Ms Jyoti Bhabal / Ms Sarika Sawant, SHPT School of Library Science, SNDT Women�s University, Patkar Hall, New Marine Lines, Mumbai 400 020 Tel. 2207 2792; 2208 5439 Email: sndtulib(a)bom3.vsnl.net.in ***** S.H.P.T. SCHOOL OF LIBRARY SCIENCE, S.N.D.T. WOMEN�S UNIVERSITY MUMBAI 400 020 ************************************* Course on e-Content Development and Management September � December 2005 ************************************** APPLICATION FORM *** Name: _________________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ Phone Number:_________________________________________________ e-mail Address:_________________________________________________ Date of Birth: _________________________________________________ Educational Qualifications: Degree Subject Year of passing Percentage Work Experience: I agree to abide by the rules set down for this course by the SHPT School of Library Science ______________________ Signature of Applicant Date: Note: Forms should be submitted to the office of the SHPT School of Library Science, before September 16, 2005, with the Application fee of Rs 100.

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Reports organizaton
by Mailing List Manager 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Date: 1 Aug 2005 08:15:37 -0000 From: Rajendra Thaty <pitam97(a)rediffmail.com> Dear all We receive all kinds of reports in our Library. Unfortunately, we do not have any system to organize them properly. I shall appreciate, if any of you share with me our personal experience on the problem. I would like to know in detail the procedure you follow, the problems you face and the solutions you recommend etc. Even if one does not have any real experience, ideas are welcome. Regards, Rajendra Thaty University Librarian Samablpur University Central Library Jyoti Vihar, BURLA 768019 Orissa

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proposal to seek financial assistance
by Mailing List Manager 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Date: 1 Aug 2005 10:57:09 -0000 From: Rajendra Thaty <pitam97(a)rediffmail.com> Dear all, I want to develop a proposal to seek financial assistance worth Rs. 5 croes for establishment of a modern public library. If somebody already has a similar proposal, can I have it please for guidance? Thank you Rajendra Rajendra Kumar Thaty Librarian Samabalpur University Central Library Jyoti Vihar, Burla, Sambalpur, Orissa PIN 768019 Telephone# 0663-2430548 (O) 98610-47084 (Mob)

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Request for demo version of AutoLib library software
by Mailing List Manager 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 16:25:57 +0530 From: Pradip Kumar Jana <pradipkumarjana(a)gmail.com> Dear professionals, I'm in need of a demo version of AutoLib library software. If any one kindly send the above to my following address I will be very gratefull. Regards Pradip Kumar Jana 34/10, Old Nimta Road, Ranipark, P.O.- Belgharia, Kolkata - 700056, West Bengal E-mail - pradipkumarjana(a)gmail.com

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MyLISA Lecture - "Stock Verification and Loss of Books in Libraries" - 6th Aug 2005
by SUNIL M.V. 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (R) (MyLISA) A Lecture on Stock Verification and Loss of Books in Libraries By Dr. Mallinath Kumbar Reader, Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Mysore On Saturday, the 6th August 2005 at 4.00 PM You are cordially invited Venue: VIDYANIDHI SEMINAR HALL Dept. of Library and Information Science, Manasagangothri, Mysore-570 006 --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (R) (MyLISA) A Lecture on Stock Verification and Loss of Books in Libraries By Dr. Mallinath Kumbar Reader, Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore , Mysore On Saturday, the 6 th August 2005 at 4.00 PM You are cordially invited Venue: VIDYANIDHI SEMINAR HALL Dept. of Library and Information Science, Manasagangothri, Mysore-570 006 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=34442/*http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page

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E-LIS news (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 19:27:20 +0200 From: Andrea Marchitelli <andreamarchitelli(a)hotmail.com> To: ifla-l(a)infoserv.inist.fr Subject: [IFLA-L] E-LIS news We would like to inform you that the new layout of E-LIS, the international open archive for Library and Information Science, has recently become public <http://eprints.rclis.org/>. In addition to more personalised graphics, the new layout has brought a new and improved organisation of the information. >From the right column of the homepage it is possible to directly activate searches (by title, abstract, keyword or by full text); or to easily link to search pages (for simple or advanced searches) or browse pages (by author or editor, journal or book, subject, country and year of publication and by latest additions). The left column lists the options dedicated to registered users, such as registration and deposit. In addition to these there are several information pages on the E-LIS archive, on its management policy and submission guidelines. Also on the left column (Information --> Brochures) a link is available to a page with information and brochures in different languages, including Italian <http://e-lis_docs.openlib.org/italian/>. We would like to take this opportunity to inform you that in October 2005 the first international conference of E-LIS will be held in the Geneva offices of CERN. Additional information is available on the conference website <http://www.aepic.it/conf/index.php?cf=4>. Finally, we would like to inform those that are interested that during the next IFLA conference (in Oslo 14-18 August 2005) the new E-LIS poster, completed thanks to the sponsorship of AIDA, will be presented. Regards, The Italian staff of E-LIS Antonella De Robbio, E-LIS manager Maria Cristina Bassi, Andrea Marchitelli, italian editors Zeno Tajoli, technician

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Fw: [LRC PRESS RELEASE] Best Global Website Award - Only 2 weeks left
by Rajesh Chandrakar 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajesh Chandrakar Scientific & Technical Officer INFLIBNET (INFormation and LIBrary NETwork) Centre An IUC of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House, PB No. 4116, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380 009, India Tel. +91-(0)79-26305971/ 8528/ 4695(O), 26873805(R) Mobile: +91-9898087422 Fax: +91-(0)79-26300990, 263007816 E-mail: rajesh(a)inflibnet.ac.in; rchandrakar(a)gmail.com Website: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "LRC" <lrc(a)ul.ie> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 2:54 PM Subject: [LRC PRESS RELEASE] Best Global Website Award - Only 2 weeks left > ========================================== > LRC BEST GLOBAL WEBSITE AWARD 2005 > ========================================== > Only 2 Weeks Left to Enter > > Make sure that your company does not miss the opportunity to shine! > > The LRC Best Global Website Award is the original prestige award aimed at > finding the web's most innovative website in relation to multilingual and > multicultural issues. If your company website caters for a minimum of 3 > languages, is regularly updated and shows excellent quality at all levels > of design then it may be eligible for this award. > > On the Internet, websites need to be increasingly customised, or localised > for foreign markets, taking into account local language issues, business or > social standards and aesthetic preferences. > > In recognition of both the innovative work being done to make websites > globally competitive but locally relevant, and the importance of this still > emerging digital market, the European Union through the Localisation > Research > Centre created the Best Global Website Award in 2003. The purpose of this > award is to find Europe's most innovative website in relation to > multilingual > and multicultural issues. In 2005, it is once again sponsored by Euro RSCG > Interaction. > > This award invites those who have designed and or are operating a > multi-lingual website to submit their work for consideration. Websites > will be judged on a variety of different criteria by a panel of academic > and industry experts. > > The recipient of the award will benefit from a raised profile and media > exposure while the localisation industry will benefit from the award by > using the winning site as a benchmark standard for other globalised websites > to aim for. > > For more information and to enter this award visit > www.bestglobalwebsiteaward.com > or > contact the Localisation Research Centre at LRC(a)ul.ie. > > This Award is sponsored by Euro RSCG Interaction. > > The website is available in English, Czech, French, German, Greek and > Spanish. > > Closing date for submission is 12 August 2005

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Tearing down those knowledge walls
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Hello, Shankar Iyer from Redhat India analyses the concept of Knowledge and open source software and correlates them... The complete piece is available @ http://www.financialexpress.com/print.php?content_id=97896 Thanks **************************************** Sreeharsha BG **************************************** Values are more important than People...!!!

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Microsoft Unveils Virtual Earth
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Dear Professionals, Finally Microsoft has come with a real good Mapping feature that can beat Google's Earth. MS' Beta Version of Virtual Earth gives you more accurate info compared to Google. You need not to install this on your system. Just click on the option - Use ip address n approximate location of where your system is currently can be found... Know More @ http://virtualearth.msn.com Thanks **************************************** Sreeharsha BG **************************************** Values are more important than People...!!!

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