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refresher course in Jammu University
by sangeeta gupta 28 May '05

28 May '05

Unfortunately We could not start the refresher course as per schdule due to lack of participants. the new darte for the course is now 12th september 2005. Hopefully this time we will be able to do it. nDepartment of Library Science,University of Jammu in > collaboration with the Academic Staff > College,Kashmir > University is organizing a Three weeks Refresher > Course in Library and Information Science from 12thSeptember 2005.The thrust area of the Refresher Course > would > be " Knowledge Management in Academic Libaries" > All interested eligible teachers/library staff > should please get themselves deputed for the said > course.An application form is attached alongwith > terms and conditions. completed application forms > should reach the office on or before 15th july 2005. > > Dr.Sangita Gupta Prof.I.V.Malhan > Course Coordinator Course Director > Reader Head,DLIS > Department of Library Science Univ. Of Jammu > University of Jammu > Jammu 180006 > mobile 09419134620 > > I AM SENDING THE TEXT FILE TO AVOID THE > INCONVENIENCE > > > ACADEMIC STAFF COLLEGE > > UNIVERSITY OF KASHMIR > HAZRATBAL, SRINANAGR 190006 > APPLICATION FOR ORIENTATION/REFRESHER COURSE > Course for which application made (Attach two > photo) > 1. Orientation Course�� > 2. Refresher Course in��.. > I. PERSONAL INFORMATION > 1. Name of the teacher: Mr/Miss/Mrs/Dr�� > > 2. Date of birth: �� > 3. Sex�� > 4. Qualification: PG��..MPhil��.PhD��BEd��MEd�� > 5. Residential address�� > ��. > Phone No:��(O)��.(R)��. > II. DETAILS OF EMPLOYMENT > 1. Designation�� > 2. > Deptt./College��............................................... > > 3. Please indicate the discipline�� > 4. Affiliated with University��.. > 5. Official address��. > �� > 6. State��. > 7. Zone��. > III. DETAILS OF TEACHING /EXTENSION EXPERIENCE > 3.1 Date of first appointment��.. > 3.2 Date of regular appointment��. > 3.3 Status of present appointment: Permanent/ > Probationer/ Temporary/ Adhoc > 3.4 Teaching/ Extension Experience (In years): > UG��PG��.. > IV. DETAILS OF RESEARCH EXPERINCE (IF ANY) > 4.1 Area of specialization��. > 4.2 Title of research work (if > any)��.. > 4.3 No. of publications (if any)��. > 4.4 No. of the research projects completed (if > any)�� > V. DETAILS OF PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE IN ATTENDING > ORIENTATION/REFRESHER COURSE > 5.1 Have you attended and general orientation: a) > Duration: 4 weeks/3 weeks > If yes, Please indicate > b) From��..to��. > c) Name of the ASC��. > > > 5.2 Have you attended and general refresher course: > a) > Duration: 4 weeks/3 weeks > If yes, Please indicate > b) From��..to��. > c) Name of the ASC��. > 5.3 Details of application made for any other course > in the ASC............................. > �� > 5.4 Would you like that any specific topic/s having > relevance to the modern technology/trend in the > subject should be included in the course? > a) If yes: Please specify: > 1��..2��3�� > 5.5 Would you like to present a paper in any of the > session? > If yes: Please specify the topics of your interest. > I hereby undertake to participate in the course and > do > the assignment work during the course under the > guidance of Resource Person and abide by the rules > and > regulations of University/UGC. > The particulars given above are correct. > Status: 1. Part time��....2 Adhoc��3. > Temporary��. > 3. On probation��5. Permanent��.. > > > > > > Date:��. > Signature of the applicant > > > CERTIFICATE OF RECOMMENDATION FROM THE > HEAD/PRINCIPAL > 1. I recommend > Dr./Mr./Mrs/Ms�� > > .......................................................................................................................................... > for the course in��.. He/She > will > be relieved in time to participate in the above > mentioned course, at Academic Staff College, if > selected. > 2) Certified that this college/Deptt. Is affiliated > to�� > University for the last 5 years and is recommended > under section 12(F) of the UGC Act. > 3) Certified that the particulars given above are > true > and correct and nothing has been concealed there to. > > Date��. > Office seal�� Signature of the Head/Principal > TERMS AND CONDITIONS > 1. Teachers of the University and > affiliated/recognized colleges with six or less than > six years of service are eligible for General > Orientation Course. > 2. Teachers with five or more than five years of > service are eligible for refresher course > 3. Teachers who have not attended any General > Orientation Course can apply for the Refresher > course > provided they have service of two years or more. > 4. Teachers who have attended one General > Orientation > Course are not eligible for the second one. > 5. Teachers who have attended two Courses while in a > particular pay scale are not eligible for the > course. > 6. Gap between two successive courses should not be > less than one year. > 7. The course is full time. Attendance and active > participation for each session is an essential > requirement. However, the certification shall be > issued on the basis of actual participation and > performance. > 8. Three week course shall be for a minimum period > of > 108 hours and four week course shall be for a > minimum > period of 144 hours. > 9. To and fro 2nd class railway/Bus fare from the > place of posting shall be paid to non-local teachers > selected for the course. However, the payment shall > be > made on the production of tickets/money receipts. > The > non-local participants shall be entitled to an > amount > of Rs. 150/- per day towards board, lodging and > refreshment. > 10. The participants shall have to submit a detailed > Self-Assessment report along with the evaluation > report of the course. > 11. The participants shall have to submit a detailed > Self-assessment report along with the Evaluation > report of the course. > 12. Every participant shall have to pay an admission > fee f Rs. 500/- (Non-refundable) in the shape of > Bank > Draft in favor of Registrar, University of Kashmir > and > to deposit in the office of the Academic Staff > College > at the time of the admission. > > Sd/- > Director, Academic Staff College, > University of Kashmir, > Srinagar. > > > Waiting for the quick response > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html

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Global Access to Indian Research: Indian STM Journals Online
by Sukhdev Singh 27 May '05

27 May '05

NIC's databases, IndMED [http://indmed.nic.in] and medIND [http://medind.nic.in] has figured in an article of Ms Lalitha Kumari, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology. Her article entitled "Global Access to Indian Research: Indian STM Journals Online" has surveyed various information resources from India in the area of Science, Technology and Medicine. The article published in "Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Spring 2005" is available as fulltext from the following URL : http://www.istl.org/05-spring/article3.html --Sukhdev Singh, NIC.

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Do libraries still matter? and Value of libraries
by Shyam Prasad pujar 26 May '05

26 May '05

Dear Members, Interesting articles, please go through. Do Libraries Still Matter? http://www.carnegie.org/reporter/10/books/index.html The Value of Libraries: Impact, Normative Data, & Influencing Funders http://www.imakenews.com/sirsi/e_article000396335.cfm?x=b4TcM1g,b2rpmkgK,w Regards, S.M. Pujar ********************************************************************** Shamprasad M. Pujar Assistant Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% * Phone: (022) 28400919-21 Extn: 514 * * Fax: (022) 28402752 * * E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in * * URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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Open Access
by Mailing List Manager 26 May '05

26 May '05

Date: 25 May 2005 11:39:36 -0000 From: Shahab <smshahabuddin(a)rediffmail.com> Peer Pressure Scholarly Journals' Premier Status Is Diluted by Web More Research Is Free Online Amid Spurt of Start-Ups; Publishers' Profits at Risk A Revolt on UC's Campuses By BERNARD WYSOCKI JR. BERKELEY, Calif. -- From a stool at Yali's caf, near the University of Cali= fornia campus, Michael Eisen is loudly trashing the big players in academic= publishing. Hefty subscription fees for journals are blocking scientific p= rogress, he says, and academics who think they have full access to timely l= iterature are kidding themselves. "They're just wrong," Dr. Eisen says. He = suggests scholarly journals be free and accessible to everyone on the Web. This may sound like the ranting of a campus radical, but Dr. Eisen is a wel= l known computational biologist at a nearby national laboratory and a Berke= ley faculty member. He is also a co-founder of a nonprofit startup called t= he Public Library of Science, which produces its own scholarly journals, in= competition with established publishers, distributed free online. It's a campus twist on a raging Internet-era debate about who should contro= l information and what it should cost. For decades, traditional scholarly j= ournals have held an exalted and lucrative position as arbiters of academic= excellence, controlling what's published and made available to the wider c= ommunity. These days, research is increasingly available on free university= Web sites and through start-up outfits. Scholarly journals are finding the= ir privileged position under attack. The 10-campus University of California system has emerged as a hotbed of in= surgency against this $5 billion global market. Faculty members are competi= ng against publishers with free or inexpensive journals of their own. Two U= C scientists organized a world-wide boycott against a unit of Reed Elsevier= -- the Anglo-Dutch giant that publishes 1,800 periodicals -- protesting it= s fees. The UC administration itself has jumped into the fray. It's urging = scholars to deposit working papers and monographs into a free database in a= ddition to submitting them for publication elsewhere. It has also battled w= ith publishers, including nonprofits, to lower prices.=20 "We have to take back control from the publishers," says Daniel Greenstein,= associate vice provost for the UC system, which spends $30 million a year = on scholarly periodicals. The clash between academics and publishers was exacerbated last year when t= he taxpayer-funded National Institutes of Health proposed that articles res= ulting from NIH grants be made available free online. That prompted protests from Reed Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons Inc. and sever= al nonprofit publishers such as the American Diabetes Association, which ar= gued such a move would hurt their businesses. The NIH retreated and in February made the program voluntary. It now asks a= uthors to post on an NIH Web site any articles based on NIH grants within 1= 2 months of publication. The debate comes at a time when it's easier than ever to find scholarly art= icles by using simple Internet tools such as Google. In late 2004, Google I= nc., in Mountain View, Calif., launched Google Scholar, a free service that= can search for peer-reviewed articles as well as theses, abstracts and other scholarly material, much of it in scien= tific fields. Traditional publishers argue that the expensive process of selecting and ed= iting journals is a necessary filter to help scholars sift through vast amo= unts of research. The nonprofit publisher of the prestigious Science magazi= ne makes content available free after 12=20 months. Other publishers note that with a combination of free abstracts, fr= ee distribution to the developing world and public-library subscriptions, m= uch of the globe already has access to what they produce. "The vast majority -- 90% of researchers in the world -- have access online= to our material," says Karen Hunter, senior vice president at Elsevier, th= e science and medical division of Reed Elsevier that publishes the company'= s journals. Elsevier's scholarly journals bring in about $1.6 billion in an= nual revenue with an operating-profit margin of about 30%. Publishers have been entrenched in academia for decades. One big concern, t= he U.K.'s Taylor & Francis Group, now part of T&F Informa PLC, was founded = in the 18th century. The venerable nonprofit Science was founded in the 188= 0s by Thomas Edison. The industry became firmly established in the 1950s an= d 1960s in the wake of the Soviet space program, whose success spurred a wa= ve of scientific publishing. Although learned societies such as the American Physical Society hold sway = at the top of the prestige pyramid, commercial publishers have created a se= cond tier, producing thousands of niche periodicals from Addictive Behavior= s to Zoology, both Elsevier titles. Scholars are generally grateful that pu= blishers take the risk of starting new titles, which often take years to br= eak even.=20 The publishers' prestige derives from the rigorous system of peer review, i= n which a journal's editorial board will select experts in a field to vet a= rticles. At some top scholarly journals, less than 10% of submitted articl= es make it into a publication. In turn, the peer- review system lends authority to a scholar's work, and has long been a spri= ngboard to academic advancement.=20 In the late 1990s, Dr. Eisen was studying the yeast genome, a booming field= that has a large overlap with the human genome and 200 journals publishing= related research. He wanted all these journal articles freely available at= his fingertips, an impossible request because many are behind subscription= barriers. Some scholars think publishing should operate like the Linux computer opera= ting system, where programmers build on each other's work in an ongoing, co= llaborative project. In the scholarly realm, a database called arXiv -- pro= nounced "archive," as if the "x" were the Greek letter "chi" -- has become = a repository of scholarship in the physics field. It's owned and operated b= y Cornell University and partially supported by the National Science Founda= tion. If the UC administration has its way, something like that would be th= e norm throughout academia. To experienced publishers, much of the open-access talk seems naive. "A l= ot of this is self-righteous talk," says Alan Leshner, executive publisher = of Science and chief executive of its nonprofit parent, the American Associ= ation for the Advancement of Science. He says giving away content isn't a= viable business model because of the tremendous costs of putting out rep= utable journals. He notes that Science gets 12,000 submissions and publishes 800 articles a = year on a $10 million editorial budget. That averages more than $10,000 per= published article, a high number because of the costs associated with hand= ling the unusually large number of submissions the journal receives. Indust= ry experts say typical per-article costs are between $3,000 and $4,000. If open access takes off, information will flow faster, but publishers will= make less money. Among those who would be hurt is Reed Elsevier. Sami Ka= ssab, analyst at investment house Exane BNP Paribas in London, estimates th= at such a movement could sharply cut the company's profit margin on perio= dicals to between 10% and 15% of revenue, from the current 30% or more. Currently, the open-access movement makes up between 1% and 2% of the marke= t, experts say. While that number seems small, the concept is assuming an i= mportant role channeling academic discontent. "There's a lot of sentiment that work is being taken advantage of by the co= mmercial publishers," says Alessandro Lizzeri, associate professor of econo= mics at New York University and editor of Elsevier's Journal of Economic Th= eory. He says that while editors get little compensation for their work, au= thors and reviewers -- aside from prestige -- usually get nothing or just a nominal fee.=20 Prof. Lizzeri says that two of the 40 members of his editorial board resign= ed recently because the journal isn't free to readers. "If half the board r= esigns I'm in trouble," he says. These rumblings hit the University of California early on. In October 2003,= faculty members made a rare display of solidarity with the university admi= nistration. Two scientists at the University of California at San Francisco= staged a protest over a $91,000 bill from Elsevier's Cell Press unit for o= ne year's access to six biology journals. The two professors called for a w= orld-wide boycott, urging fellow scholars at UC and beyond to refuse to ser= ve as authors, editors or peer reviewers at the six periodicals in question. Their timing couldn't have been better for the university administration, w= hich was just about to begin negotiations with the Reed Elsevier unit over = a new contract. In the late 1990s, all UC campuses had banded together in= to a single buying consortium. In 2002, the university hired Dr. Greenste= in, a history professor turned expert on digital libraries. With the stat= e of California's budget crisis forcing him to trim library spending to $= 62 million a year, Dr. Greenstein wanted to take a hard line. "It was the opening shot, really, in struggling head-on with this world of = scientific publishing," says Keith Yamamoto, executive vice dean at UCSF me= dical school and one of the boycott's leaders. The university was paying Elsevier $10.3 million a year for print and onlin= e subscriptions to most of its 1,800 journals. The university demanded a 25= % reduction and at one point threatened to walk away from the table. As the negotiations grew tense, faculty at other UC campuses started to chi= me in sympathetically. The UC Santa Cruz faculty senate passed a resolution= urging faculty to boycott Elsevier journals by refusing to submit articles= or to serve on periodical boards. "That alarmed us," says a Reed Elsevier spokeswoman in Amsterdam. More than= 100 UC faculty members serve as senior editors of Elsevier journals and ab= out 1,000 serve on editorial boards. The publisher fanned out across the ca= mpuses, drumming up support among friendly faculty with breakfasts and ot= her meetings. The spokeswoman says the company concluded that most UC fac= ulty members didn't know about the boycott call or didn't support it. The negotiations dragged on for two months and grew testy. In late 2003, = the university won a 25% price reduction to $7.7 million a year for 1,200 E= lsevier periodicals. Elsevier agreed to throw the six biology journals into= the deal. "They got a very, very good deal," acknowledges Reed Elsevier's Ms. Hunter.= She says the company got some concessions, too. UC gave up access to sever= al hundred periodicals, for example. UC says Elsevier unilaterally added th= e titles into the arrangement before negotiations started and says it doesn= 't care about their removal. Suddenly, the UC negotiation was the buzz of the academic library world and= an inspiration for others to follow suit. One UC librarian, Catherine Cand= ee, says a university negotiator elsewhere "called us up and said, 'Thank y= ou, you saved us $1 million.' " ----------------- Write to Bernard Wysocki Jr. at bernie.wysocki(a)wsj.com

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Librarian position at IIM Indore
by Mailing List Manager 26 May '05

26 May '05

Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 16:43:46 +0530 From: Antony Jose <ajose(a)mdi.ac.in> Dear Colleagues, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore is looking for a LIBRARIAN in the pay scale of 12000 � 375 � 16500. They are looking for a young and techno-savvy librarian who is below 45 years of age. For more information, visit HYPERLINK "http://www.iimidr.ac.in/iim/pages/news/librarian.jsp"http://www.iimidr.ac.in/iim/pages/news/librarian.jsp Antony Jose Chief Librarian Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon --

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The Importance of Open Access, Open Source, and Open Standards for Libraries
by Mailing List Manager 26 May '05

26 May '05

Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 12:18:53 +0530 From: Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> "..Open access, open source software, and open standards are three concepts that have been receiving increased attention lately in the library world. Open access is seen by some as a possible solution to the increasing price of serials and as a way for governmental funding agencies to receive a better return on investment. Open source software can benefit libraries by lowering initial and ongoing costs, eliminating vendor lock-in, and allowing for greater flexibility. Open standards allow for interoperability to exist between diverse library resources and eases data migration between systems. All three of these concepts are important to libraries individually and they can be even more beneficial when they are leveraged simultaneously.." By Edward M. Corrado Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Spring 2005. http://www.istl.org/05-spring/article2.html ---------- Sukhdev Singh, Bibliographic Informatics Division, National Informatics Centre, A-Block, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road New Delhi

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DLIST Advisory Board and DL-Harvest Established
by Anita S. Coleman 25 May '05

25 May '05

*****Apologies for cross posting***** Name: Anita Coleman Phone: (520) 621-3565 Email: asc(a)u.arizona.edu We are pleased to announce the establishment of an Advisory Board for DLIST, Digital Library for Information Science and Technology, and delighted to invite the community to explore DL-Harvest. The members of the first DLIST Advisory Board are: Subiah Arunachalam, Distinguished Fellow, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India Julia Blixrud, Assistant Executive Director, Association for Research Libraries, Washington, DC Rachel Bower, Co-Director, The Internet Scout Project, Madison, Wisconsin Michael Gorman, Dean of Library Services, California State University, Fresno, California Birger Hjorland, Research Professor, Royal School of Library and Information Science Copenhagen, Denmark Christopher Khoo, Programme Director and Associate Professor, School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Scott Nicholson, Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York Biographical sketches of the DLIST Advisory Board members are available at http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/advisoryboard.html. The Advisory Board is helping DLIST build a dynamic public domain for the library and information professions and disciplines. DL-Harvest is a federated archive, an open aggregator service of DLIST. It brings together full-text, scholarly materials in the Information Sciences from many different OAI-PMH compliant repositories. DL-Harvest is using PKP Harvester with software improvements for flow control, sets, and advanced searching, that have been developed by DLIST Graduate Research Assistant, Joseph Roback. Besides DLIST, the current list of 11 archives harvested includes selective harvesting from ArXiV. DL-Harvest is available at http://dlharvest.sir.arizona.edu. DLIST, http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/, is a service of the School of Information Resources and Library Science and the Learning Technologies Center, University of Arizona. Seed monies for DLIST are from the University of Arizona College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Proposition 301 funded initiative of the Internet Technology Commerce and Design Institute, now the Arizona Center for Information Science and Technology. DLIST is running on EPrints2 archive-creating software, which generates eprints archives that are compliant with the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting OAI v2.0.

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Digital Libraries Program at IIM Kozhikode (July 14-16, 2005)
by mgsree＠iimk.ac.in 25 May '05

25 May '05

Dear Colleagues: I am happy to inform you that IIM Kozhikode is organizing a three-day programme on Digital Libraries at IIM Kozhikode during July 14-16, 2005. The details of the programme is available at "http://www.iimk.ac.in/digitallib.htm". Programme brochures are available on request from the MDP office of IIMK. Soft copy of the brochure is available at "http://www.iimk.ac.in/dl-2005-brochure.pdf" for downloading. The programme will impart the latest trends in digital library technologies. Eminent faculty from the fields of information science and information technology are handling the sessions. Hands on labs will be conducted at IIMK. For any further information please feel free to contact me or our MDP Office (E-Mail : mdp(a)iimk.ac.in) With regards, M.G. Sreekumar Co-ordinator, MDP on Digital Libraries M G Sreekumar Librarian & Head, Center for Development of Digital Libraries (CDDL) Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode Kunnamangalam P.O Kozhikode, Kerala, India-673 571 ----------------------------------------- Phone : +91 495 2803001/2 Ext. 140 Fax : +91 495 2803010/11 Email : mgsree(a)iimk.ac.in Web : www.iimk.ac.in ========================================= -- M G Sreekumar Librarian & Head, Center for Development of Digital Libraries (CDDL) Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode Kunnamangalam P.O Kozhikode, Kerala, India-673 571 ----------------------------------------- Phone : +91 495 2809140 Fax : +91 495 2803010/11 Email : mgsree(a)iimk.ac.in Web : www.iimk.ac.in =========================================

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Google gets personal
by Madhuresh 25 May '05

25 May '05

Google unveiled a new service on Thursday that lets users combine some of the company's internet offerings into a single package, a move that takes it closer to the portal model used by rivals such as Yahoo! and Microsoft's MSN. The new personalised Google homepage, which allows users to select elements they want to add to the pagesite, also represents the first alternative Google offers to its distinctive clutter-free search engine. Under a project labelled "Fusion", the company said the personalised homepage was part of a series of moves it was planning to bring its fast-growing range of services closer together. Until now, Google has offered each of its web services, from its news service to Gmail, on a standalone basis, rather than as part of an integrated package of services for internet users. The option to personalise web pages has already become a big draw for some other internet companies. According to comScore Networks, which measures web traffic, a quarter of the visitors to Yahoo! also visit My Yahoo!, the company's personalised service. Explaining the decision to offer an alternative to the familiar stripped-down Google web site, Marissa Mayer, director of consumer products, said that Google now offered enough "push" services of its own, which deliver information automatically to users, to make it worth aggregrating the information in a single place. Users of the new homepage, available in test form, can add boxes containing things like the latest news headlines from Google News, the latest messages received in their Gmail accounts and information supplied by Google's weather service. Google said the new service would eventually incorporate web content and services provided by other companies. Like My Yahoo!, the company said it planned to let users select "feeds" of information from other websites to display on the homepage. It also hoped to offer internet email services by other companies, though technical issues still needed to be resolved, Ms Mayer added. John Battelle, a University of California professor and author of The Search, a forthcoming book on the industry, says Google's move renders moot its previous statements about not playing in the same game as Yahoo, America Online and Microsoft. "This is tying together all their services into one, integrated interface and gives Google a platform to think strategically for the future," Battelle said. Yahoo, the Internet's most visited Web site, attracted 98.7 million users in March, according to Internet measurement service Nielsen/NetRatings. Google was No. 4, with 75.1 million users. Yahoo's MyYahoo attracted 21 million users in March, Nielsen says. Google executives spent much time Thursday talking about its mission of organizing the world's information. CEO Eric Schmidt said he looks at it as a "300-year" problem and said Google has much work to do. Google believes one big growth area is working on translating languages for Web sites. Executives showed examples of how Google is tackling that. Google Vice President Alan Eustace noted that when Google can serve all 198 languages represented in the United Nations, "It really will usher in an era when everyone will have access to all the world's information." Google showed off new 3-D mapping technology for "Google Earth," a site coming next month. It offers aerial satellite views of anywhere on the planet, similar to Google's current map product, but more detailed. "You can travel anywhere in the world now, for free," Google co-founder Sergey Brin said, in demonstrating the product. "I've never been to the Grand Canyon. But now I don't have to." The news items taken from Financial Times and USA Today. 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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MyDLIS-40th anniversary-June 24- Seminar on 'Repositioning the information profession..."
by Shalini R Urs 24 May '05

24 May '05

A personal invitation to all the alumni of the University of Mysore- Department of Library and Information Science, to participate in the 40th anniversary. For more details visit the website - www.lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in <http://www.lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in/> We look forward to your participation . --------- University of Mysore Department of Library and Information Science Manasagangotri, Mysore Seminar on repositioning the information profession for the market place June 24, 2005 (40th anniversary celebratory event) The University of Mysore embarked its library education programme by establishing the Department of Library Science on June 24, 1965. Anniversaries are moments to introspect and prospect. We have done our bit, but still have miles to go and promises to keep. We have had our share of trials, triumphs and tribulations. As a mark of its 40th year anniversary, the Department of Library and Information Science (DLIS) is celebrating its fruitful presence by organising a seminar on 'Repositioning the information profession in the market place'. The information profession is in a constant state of flux. Several factors have engendered such a scenario. Information is all pervasive and is the legitimate concern of many a discipline from anthropology to zoology. The confusion between the content and the container (McLuhian Media vs. Message) technologies is another factor. The Technology centric character has challenged the profession to adopt and adapt. Consequently, the profession of information is constantly engaged in a process of finding its niche and quite often faces competition from other claimants to the information domain. The market driven nature of the profession, places its own demands and necessitates nimble footedness in the balancing act. The present age of transformative Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has accentuated the complexity of finding the equilibrium. Given this backdrop, library schools around the world are engaged in evolving diverse strategies to confront the challenges before the LIS education. Seizing the opportunity of its 40th year anniversary celebrations, the DLIS, Mysore is organising this seminar to reflect on the issues challenging the profession and seek pointers and directions from its alumni in shaping its strategy for the future. ---- Shalini -------- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele-91-821-2514699 Fax -91-821-2519209 homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm  A personal invitation to all the alumni of the University of Mysore- Department of Library and Information Science, to participate in the 40 th anniversary. For more details visit the website – http://www.lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in/ www.lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in We look forward to your participation . � � --------- University of Mysore Department of Library and Information Science Manasagangotri, Mysore � Seminar on repositioning the information profession for the market place June 24, 2005 (40 th anniversary celebratory event) � The University of Mysore embarked its library education programme by establishing the Department of Library Science on June 24, 1965 . Anniversaries are moments to introspect and prospect. � We have done our bit, but still have miles to go and promises to keep. We have had our share of trials, triumphs and tribulations. As a mark of its 40 th year anniversary, the Department of Library and Information Science (DLIS) is celebrating its fruitful presence by organising a seminar on ‘Repositioning the information profession in the market place’. � The information profession is in a constant state of flux. Several factors have engendered such a scenario. Information is all pervasive and is the legitimate concern of many a discipline from anthropology to zoology. The confusion between the content and the container (McLuhian Media vs. Message) technologies is another factor. The Technology centric character has challenged the profession to adopt and adapt. Consequently, the profession of information is constantly engaged in a process of finding its niche and quite often faces competition from other claimants to the information domain. The market driven nature of the profession, places its own demands and necessitates nimble footedness in the balancing act. The present age of transformative Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has accentuated the complexity of finding the equilibrium. Given this backdrop, library schools around the world are engaged in evolving diverse strategies to confront the challenges before the LIS education. � Seizing the opportunity of its 40 th year anniversary celebrations, the DLIS, Mysore is organising this seminar to reflect on the issues challenging the profession and seek pointers and directions from its alumni in shaping its strategy for the future. ---- � � Shalini -------- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele-91-821-2514699 Fax -91-821-2519209 homepage:www. vidya nidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm �

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Need for focused advocacy to promote OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 24 May '05

24 May '05

Friends: Here is an item from Peter Suber's blog. Despite so much being written about open access, a very large proportion of researchers is not aware of it even in an advanced country like Germany. please read on. --- Spreading the word about OA Richard Seitmann, "Open access" is practically unknown among scientists as an alternative for publications, Heise Online, May 24, 2005. Excerpt: 'The secretary-general of the conference of deans of higher education (HRK), Christiane Ebel-Gabriel, explained today at the opening of the symposium with the title " The Future of Scientific Communication -- Open Access", which will be taking place today and tomorrow in Göttingen, that directors of institutions of higher education will have to "see ensuring access to scientific publications and research results as a strategic task much more than they currently do." Two years ago, the HRK called for a refocus of scientific publications and information exchanges in light of the crisis among journals at the time because skyrocketing subscription prices both for conventional and electronic scientific journals had been leading people to cancel their subscriptions, paradoxically making access to published research results even harder despite the Internet. "The financial pressure on the field of science continues to grow," Ebel-Gabriel explained. She regretted that the current alternatives for publication in "open access" journals and on institute servers have not been used to the full. The secretary-general quoted figures from a still unpublished study (PowerPoint file) by the German Research Society, which found that three of four scientists surveyed and more than 85% of social scientists and professors of the humanities are not aware that open access is one possibility for publication.' ---- So what is needed is focused advocacy and awareness campaigns. And some real action on the ground - I mean setting up open access archives and filling them with papers! Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Publishers Protest Google Library Project
by Mailing List Manager 24 May '05

24 May '05

Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 10:11:16 +0530 From: Farooque Shaheen <Farooque.Shaheen(a)caritor.com> A group of academic publishers is challenging GoogleInc?s plan to scan millions of library books into its internet search engine index,highlithing fears that the ambitious project will violet copyrights and stifle future sales. In a letter scheduled to deliver to google, the Association of American University Presses described the online search engine?s library project as a troubling financial threat to its membership- 125 nonprofit publishers of academic journals and scholarly books. A full dig on this matter can be found here-- http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8A96J600.htm?campaign_id=apn_… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Temporary Vaccancy --- Bose Institute, Kolkata
by Mailing List Manager 24 May '05

24 May '05

Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 16:10:55 +0530 From: Dr. Arun K. Chakraborty <akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in> Dear Colleague This advertisement has appeared in "The Statesman" on 20th May, 2005 Bose Institute, Kolkata ADV.No.BI/Lib/Ad-hoc-Professional - 2005 The Directer, Bose Institute invites application for engaging “Library Project Assistant” in the project : “Computerization of Bose Institute Library”, under the guidance of the Librarian of the Institute, purely on temporary basis initially for a period of six months at a consolidated remuneration of Rs.5,000 (Rupees five thousand) p.m. Walk-in-interview will be held on 1st June, 2005 at 11.30 a.m. in the Committee Room, Centenary Campus of Bose Institute, P-1/12, C.I.T. Scheme VII-M, Kankurgachi, Kolkata – 700 054. Interested candidates having MLISc. / ADISc. Degree (desirable working knowledge of CDS/ISIS software or any other Library Software or experience in computerization / Digitization of Library), are requested to appear in person directly for the interview with application along with two copies of Bio- data, Xerox copies of supporting testimonials and original certificates. (Age limit – 32 yrs.) Acting Registrar Bose Institute DR. ARUN KUMAR CHAKRABORTY LIBRARIAN BOSE INSTITUTE, KOLKATA, INDIA MAIN CAMPUS : 93/1 A.P.C. ROAD, KOLKATA 700 009 INDIA PH : 91-33-2350 2402/03, 6619,6702 FAX : 91-33-2350 6790 CENTENARY CAMPUS : P1/12 CIT SCHEME - VII-M, KOLKATA 700 054 INDIA PH : 91-33-2337 9544, 9416, 9219 FAX : 91-33-2334 3886 Ph (Res) : 33-2672 1192, 3892 E-MAIL : akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in, arunchkr(a)vsnl.net.in, c_arunk(a)hotmail.com

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What should we do to promote OA?
by Subbiah Arunachalam 23 May '05

23 May '05

Friends: Here is an excellent piece I would recommend to all academics and researchers. Arun What you can do to promote open access? [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/do.htm]

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SCHOLARSHIP FOR DOCTORAL RESEARCH IN INFORMATION LITERACY AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
by Dr.P.V.Konnur 20 May '05

20 May '05

Dear Colleagues, The following information may be of some use to the members of this Forum. Thanks, Konnur. --- Ian Johnson <i.m.johnson(a)RGU.AC.UK> wrote: > Date:Fri, 20 May 2005 11:04:28 +0100 > From:Ian Johnson <i.m.johnson(a)RGU.AC.UK> > Subject: SCHOLARSHIP FOR DOCTORAL RESEARCH IN INFORMATION > LITERACY AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT > To:LIS-BAILER@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > > "The relationship between information literacy and > knowledge management in the global economy" > > Closing Date: 27 May 2005 > > Applications are invited for a full-time MPhil/PhD > studentship in the Department of information Management, > Aberdeen Business School at The Robert Gordon University > in Aberdeen. The Department of Information Management > offers a vibrant and friendly research environment > undertaking a wide range of externally funded research. > We are committed to furthering research opportunities > within our main interest areas of the use and impact of > information and knowledge management. We now have an > opportunity for an enthusiastic and committed individual > to join our research community. The successful applicant > will work on a project aimed at investigating the > relationship between information literacy and knowledge > management in the context of the global economy. > > The new global economy is information intensive, changing > the way individuals and organisations work, requiring > qualities of vision, flexibility and adaptability, > innovation, entrepreneurship and networking to survive > and thrive in a state of "permanent whitewater" (Vaill, > 1996). In this changing environment information is only > of value when it can be used effectively in ongoing > knowledge creation and organisational learning and > current theories of knowledge management (KM) focus on > employees' abilities in knowledge transfer and creation > rather than supply of existing information. This > humanistic KM approach recognises the need for > individuals to develop new workplace literacies relevant > to a knowledge-based culture and it has already been > recognised that information literacy is likely to be one > key component in the success of organisational KM > strategies. Yet there is little evidence or understanding > of the relationship between knowledge management and > information literacy within the workplace. The proposed > study would examine this relationship, in particular > drawing on recent theories of multiple context-related > literacies and multiple conceptions of information > literacy. > > The research is expected to take the form of a > qualitative case-based study adopting a phenomenological > approach to examine real-world experiences of information > finding and using (information literacy) and relating > these to effectiveness of knowledge-based activities and > processes in organisations. > > Candidates for the studentship should have a First Class > or good 2:1 Honours degree (or equivalent) and/or MSc in > a related subject. Appropriate information retrieval and > ICT skills are essential and specific knowledge of the > literature and theory of KM and information literacy > would be advantageous. > > The prospective student should be highly self-motivated > and enjoy working in a productive research environment. > > This studentship provides full university fees for both > UK and Overseas applicants as well as a tax-free > maintenance allowance of �12,000 per annum. The > studentship is available to start from September 2005. > > The successful applicant will based at the Aberdeen > Business School, a state-of-the-art facility by the banks > of the River Dee. Further information about the School > and the Department of Information Management are > available at: > http://www.rgu.ac.uk/abs/ > > Informal enquiries may be addressed to Professor Dorothy > Williams - email d.williams(a)rgu.ac.uk. > > Applications including a completed application form > (available from http://www.rgu.ac.uk/research/degrees) a > detailed CV, names and addresses of two referees should > be emailed to researchdegrees(a)rgu.ac.uk or posted to > Research Support Office, AB44, The Robert Gordon > University, Schoolhill, Aberdeen AB10 1FR by 27 May 2005. > > Dr.P.V.Konnur, University Librarian, Goa University Library, Taleigao Plateau, Goa - 403 206. Phone: 0832-2456031 (O) 0832-2451008 (R) Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html

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Japanese Translation- links
by raghavendra patil 19 May '05

19 May '05

Dear Shridhar, You can visit any of these link below. http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en http://babelfish.altavista.com/ http://translation.langenberg.com/ If the text is in electronic format, You can directly,cut and paste the text and select the language option from which language you want to translate. Though its not 100% accurate, but atleast you will understnad the gist of the content. You can also try some other machine translators. With Regards/Best Wishes Raghavendra @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Raghavendra Patil Digital Library Project Programmer Sir. Dorabji Tata Memorial Library Tata Institute of Social Sciences (A Deemed University) Sion-Trombay Road, P B No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 (INDIA) Telephone: 022-25563290 Ext: 284 Fax: 091-22-25562912 E mail:raghav@tiss.edu,raghapatil@yahoo.com, raghavendra.patil(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.tiss.edu __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear Shridhar, You can visit�any of these link below. http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en http://babelfish.altavista.com/ http://babelfish.altavista.com/ http://translation.langenberg.com/ http://translation.langenberg.com/ http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en � If the text is in electronic format, You can directly,cut and paste the text and select the language option from which language you want to translate. Though �its not 100% accurate, but atleast you will understnad the gist of the content. You can also try some other machine translators. � With Regards/Best Wishes Raghavendra @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Raghavendra Patil Digital Library Project Programmer Sir. Dorabji Tata Memorial Library Tata Institute of Social Sciences (A Deemed University) Sion-Trombay Road, P B No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 (INDIA) Telephone: 022-25563290 Ext: 284 Fax: 091-22-25562912 E mail: raghav(a)tiss.edu , mailto:raghapatil@yahoo.com, raghapatil(a)yahoo.com, �� mailto:raghavendra.patil@gmail.com raghavendra.patil(a)gmail.com http://us.f310.mail.yahoo.com/ym/��%20http://www.tiss.edu URL:�� http://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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OpenMED - Pre-launch Review
by Sukhdev Singh 19 May '05

19 May '05

Dear Members, We are ready to launch a new service of providing facilities to authors to self-archive their articles. We have named it as OpenMED as being OPEN access archive for MEDical and Allied Sciences. It is descibed as under and available from http://openmed.nic.in URL. "OpenMED is an open access archive for Medical and Allied Sciences. Here authors / owners can self-archive their scientific and technical documents. For this they need to register once in order to obtain a user id in OpenMED system. However no registration is required for searching the archive or viewing the documents. OpenMED is a discipline based International Archive. It accepts both published and unpublished documents having relevance to research in Medical and Allied Sciences including Bio-Medical, Medical Informatics, Dental, Nursing and Pharmaceutical Sciences. These could be preprints (pre-refereed journal paper), postprints (refereed journal paper), conference papers, conference posters, presentations, technical reports/departmental working papers and theses. In case of non-English documents, descriptive data [Author, Title, Source etc.], abstract and keywords must be in English. Submitted documents will be placed into the submission buffer and would become part of OpenMED archive on their acceptance. The aim of OpenMED is to provide free service to academics, researchers, and students working in the area of Medical and Allied Sciences. We expect it to promote self-archiving and open access to papers / scholarly publications in these fields." Can you please test / review it and give your feedback. Thanks Sukhdev Singh, Bibliographic Informatics Division, National Informatics Centre, A-Block, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road New Delhi

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vacancy for librarian post in IBM Global Services India Pvt. Ltd. in Kolkata
by brijesh shanker singh 18 May '05

18 May '05

Dear All, There is a vacancy for librarian post in IBM Global Services India Pvt. Ltd. in Kolkata. This is a contract job for 1 year (renewable) Job title : Librarian Company : IBM Global Services India Pvt. Ltd. Location : Kolkata Qualification : B.L.I.Sc/ M.L.I.Sc. Duration : 1year Responsibilities: Managing Regular Library Services and facilities. Coordinating for Training and Event management programs. Salary : As per the standards Experience: 0-2 years in Corporate sectors Candidates should have excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Please send your resumes to Brijesh (brijesh_bhu1(a)rediff.com) ******************************** Brijesh Shanker Singh Knowledge and learning Center, Centre of Competence, IGSI IBM Global Services (India) Pvt Ltd. Plot - X1-7, Block EP/GP Sector-V, Salt Lake Kolkata - 700 091 mobile - 9831455315 Tel: +91 033 2357 9120 [Ext. 3574] Dear All, There is a vacancy for librarian post in IBM Global Services India Pvt. Ltd. in Kolkata. This is a contract job for 1 year (renewable) Job title : Librarian Company : IBM Global Services India Pvt. Ltd. Location : Kolkata Qualification : B.L.I.Sc/ M.L.I.Sc. Duration : 1year Responsibilities: Managing Regular Library Services and facilities. Coordinating for Training and Event management programs. Salary : As per the standards Experience: 0-2 years in Corporate sectors Candidates should have excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Please send your resumes to Brijesh (brijesh_bhu1(a)rediff.com) ******************************** Brijesh Shanker Singh Knowledge and learning Center, Centre of Competence, IGSI IBM Global Services (India) Pvt Ltd. Plot - X1-7, Block EP/GP Sector-V, Salt Lake Kolkata - 700 091 mobile - 9831455315 Tel: +91 033 2357 9120 [Ext. 3574] http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo…

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Modern Medical Librarian Vs Medical Knowledge Manager
by Sukhdev Singh 18 May '05

18 May '05

Modern Medical Librarian Vs Medical Knowledge Manager Dear Members, I had posted a message [given towards the end] to a forum [IAMI]consisting of mainly of Medical Practisioners and Computer Specialistswith one or two Medical Librarians. With discussions, the concept of Medical Knowledge Manager came alongwith the refernce of Dr Sam Pitroda who is back as Chairman of the newNational Knowledge Commission set up by the Indian Government. Now thediscussion group is willing have to a session in their Association'sconference on roles of Medical Librarians and Medical KnowledgeManagers. My question how do we compare Modern Medical Librarian with MedicalKnowledge Manager. Are they same or can they be same. Can their rolesbe merged. Can we exchange our views? --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. ===============Message Posted to IAMI Forum=================Subject: Giving Medical Library its Importance alias The Connectivity. A library, be it traditional or digital, has a vital role to play inany institution. I need not emphasis on it here. "..what is alreadyclear is that libraries play a pivotal role in creating, providing,and maintaining long-term access to digital resources. Libraries ofall types actively promote and invest in networked-based programs andservices to ensure that all sectors benefit from meaningful access todigital resources and that importantly, these information resourcesare available to future generations.."[http://www.mlanet.org/government/appropriations/librarycongress.html][1] Role of Library and the Librarian in a Medical Institution can gobeyond its traditional functions. Some people believe that it can evenreduce medical errors.[http://www.healthleaders.com/news/feature1.php?contentid=38058. Thisis due the fact that Medical librarians have: [2]. * Formal knowledge of information resources and how to access them.* The ability to ensure that information is relevant and complete,by applying the formal rules of evidence to data retrieved and knowingstrategies to ascertain that a search is both efficient and thorough.* The skill to weigh conflicting information and reconciledifferences.* Training in critically reviewing published research and gradingthe levels of evidence.* The professional habit of making decisions based on evidencerather than opinion.* The ability to discriminate between types of information sourcesin terms of their currency, format, authority, relevance and availability.* A knowledge of copyright and intellectual property issues,especially with materials retrieved electronically. However, situation of most medical libraries in India is ratherpathetic as compared to academic and research libraries of otherdisciplines. This could be due to these factors: 1. Health being a State Subject and rather poor financial status ofthe States.2. UGC norms does not applies to most Medical Libraries (Hospital) andthus no mandatory Qualifications for Librarians.3. Librarians at low positions in such situations and Tradition ofProfessor - in - Library. The end result is that a library gets very limited resources. And whenit comes to Internet connectivity resources it is natural to "ignore"the Libraries. Improper connectivity coupled with lack of properknowledge of IPR issues may lead to Institutions forcing theLibrarians in indulging illegal and unethical practices. Some of these could be: 1. Photocopying, Binding and Maintaining copies of Books and Journalsburrowed from other institutions or its members.2. Retaining CDROM databases beyond their licensed period.3. Printing On-line journals [free or fee based] and maintaining themin library for other members.4. Caching Online Websites and maintaining their archives in Libraries.5. Maintaining copies of Licensed Softwares. Now, who would be responsible if legal case is slapped? Definitely theHead of the Institution. We can always argue that copyright laws arenot balanced and always favor the publishing industry. But then, bybeing institutions, are morally and legally bounded by the law of theland. To avoid such unpleasent situations, it is the time to give dueimportance and resources to libraries. Now-a-days, with broad-bandbecoming a reality, It should be mandatory for libraries to InternetConnectivity atleast. In this Digital Era, can you think ofun-connected libraries? If connectivity is to established in anyinstitution, let it begin with library. Let the Charity begin atLibrary instead of Home. I would request the members of IAMI, to promote the development ofMedical Libraries so that all stake holders [Researchers/Practitioners/ Patients/ Administrators/ Publishers] benefit fromthese. It can adopt a resolution to press for: 1. Appointment of Qualified and Well-Paid Librarians in MedicalInstitutions [including hospitals]. With Librarians directlyresponsible to the Head of the Institution.2. Higher allocation of financial resources to libraries. Investing inmodern digital library technologies.3. Support the Open Access[http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm] moment as well asrespect the Copyright Laws. Open-access (OA) literature is digital,online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensingrestrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consentof the author or copyright-holder. References:1. Statement of Patricia A. Wand, University Librarian, AmericanUniversity on behalf of the American Library Association, Association of ResearchLibraries, American Association of Law Libraries, Medical LibraryAssociation and Special Libraries Association before the Subcommittee on Legislative, House Committee onAppropriations on the FY 2000 Appropriations for the Library of Congress 2. The Role of Medical Librarians in Reducing Medical Errors By J. Michael Homan, for HealthLeaders Online, September 16, 2002http://www.healthleaders.com/news/feature1.php?contentid=38058 Thanks,Sukhdev Singh.Competing Interests:1. Associated with http://indmed.nic.in & http://medind.nic.in .2. Associated with yet to be released Open Access Project – OpenMED.3. One of the moderator ofhttp://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/indmedtraining/

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Japanese Translation Services
by Sridhar Brahma 18 May '05

18 May '05

Dear All, Can anyone please suggest good Japanese's to English translators. Regards, Sridhar Brahma -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-request@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 12:00 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 26, Issue 17 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: Modern Medical Librarian Vs Medical Knowledge Manager (Vasumathi Sriganesh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 11:16:10 +0530 From: "Vasumathi Sriganesh" <vasu(a)qmedin.com> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Modern Medical Librarian Vs Medical Knowledge Manager To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: <016e01c55aa3$d9aab6a0$0200a8c0@laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" My view point A knowledge manager has to do more than handle published information (including grey literature) - which is what a librarian does. A KM also has to overall look at integrating the above, with tacit knowledge, other forms of information and knowledge, and also manage the overall technology elements. A medical librarian has to know a lot more than medical librarianship to become a Medical Knowledge Manager. A medical librarian can definitely become a Medical Knowledge Manager so long as he / she continuously updates himself / herself to know at least enough of the related areas to handle Knowledge Management. In any field however, today's scenario is that an IT person seems to be more recognized as a knowledge manager that is a librarian. My personal belief is that the person who can be assigned this "label" should have strong expertise in one area (IT, Domain, Information resources and management), and core expertise in the other two. Vasumathi Sriganesh Director, QMed Services Pvt. Ltd. A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099, India Ph: 91-22-28229223 Fax: 91-22-28224358 Mobile: 98211-14510 Email: vasu(a)qmedin.com, Web: www.qmedin.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sukhdev Singh" <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> To: <nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 12:54 PM Subject: [nmlis] Modern Medical Librarian Vs Medical Knowledge Manager Modern Medical Librarian Vs Medical Knowledge Manager Dear Members, I had posted a message [given towards the end] to a forum [IAMI] consisting of mainly of Medical Practisioners and Computer Specialists with one or two Medical Librarians. With discussions, the concept of Medical Knowledge Manager came along with the refernce of Dr Sam Pitroda who is back as Chairman of the new National Knowledge Commission set up by the Indian Government. Now the discussion group is willing have to a session in their Association's conference on roles of Medical Librarians and Medical Knowledge Managers. My question how do we compare Modern Medical Librarian with Medical Knowledge Manager. Are they same or can they be same. Can their roles be merged. Can we exchange our views? --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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 26, Issue 17 *****************************************

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Vacancy in Dena Bank Mumbai
by Appasaheb Naikal 18 May '05

18 May '05

Dear All, Dena Bank, Mumbai is looking for Librarian on contractual basis Qualifications:Degree/Diploma/Certificate course in Library Science from a reputed University / Institute. Computer proficiency is essential. Working experience as Librarian for atleast 2 years. Scale of Pay: Rs.10000/- Last Date: Within 10 days For more information, please visit: http://www.denabank.com/db/viewsection.jsp?lang=0&id=0,48 With Regards Appasaheb Naikal Librarian Mahindra-British Telecom Ltd. Oberoi Estate Gardens, Wing-1, Next to Chandivili Studio, Andheri-East, Mumbai-400072 INDIA Tel: 91-022-56792000 Ext. 7438/7444 Fax: 91-022-28478959 Visit us at: www.mahindrabt.com ********************************************************* Disclaimer: The contents of this E-mail (including the contents of the enclosure(s) or attachment(s) if any) are privileged and confidential material of MBT and should not be disclosed to, used by or copied in any manner by anyone other than the intended addressee(s). In case you are not the desired addressee, you should delete this message and/or re-direct it to the sender. The views expressed in this E-mail message (including the enclosure(s) or attachment(s) if any) are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of MBT. This e-mail message including attachment/(s), if any, is believed to be free of any virus. However, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and MBT is not responsible for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use ********************************************************

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Renovated British Library at Hyderabad
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 17 May '05

17 May '05

I thought of summarising the following news, as per guidelines recently issued. But then found every sentence interesting! Please read on. Library Lovers & Users in Hyderabad are indeed very proud. Vyasamoorthy, P ==================== SOUTHERN NEWS - ANDHRA PRADESH May 17, 2005 New-look British Library beckons readers Monday May 16 2005 09:48 IST HYDERABAD: British Library, the landmark of the intelligentsia, will wear a new look and offer more services to the people of Hyderabad. In a few weeks, it will turn into a hub centre training people in English accent and other soft skills that will aid a candidate in grabbing the BPO and ITES jobs. There will be self-help literature and a full-time tutor at the library will make things easy for you. The library will have an elegantly done wooden floor with an enhanced security system. The differently-abled can now have easy access of the library and steer the wheelchair in the premises. Aesthetic lighting will replace the existing conventional lighting. These and more will be ready by May 19 when the facilities will be opened to public by Osmania University Vice-Chancellor Prof Suleman Siddique. Edmund Marsden, Minister (Cultural Affairs), British High Commission and Eunice Crook, First Secretary (Cultural Affairs) will come to the city. The British Library has spent close to Rs 1 crore for the refurbishing. ''This is our effort to make the library a hub for learning, creativity and networking,'' says British Library manager Sudhakar Goud. The young learners' section in the library is also redone. More interactive seminars, workshops and activity-oriented events will be held here, he says. A workshop on puppetry is on and noted academician C Ramaiah will give a lecture on unleashing creativity (thankfully not on preparing for IIT). A programme on the role of newspapers in creating a fun atmosphere and a session for better parenting are also on the cards, says Sudhakar. The members can have access to 7,000 online journals, 30,000 books, 10,000 children books, 1,000 World Bank related documents and high speed internet for research. The books will now be placed on 'shelves with wheels' to make space for in-house events. =============== 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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Ovid Introduces SearchSolver
by Farooque Shaheen 16 May '05

16 May '05

Ovid Technologies, a provider of electronic medical, scientific, and academic research information solutions, announced SearchSolver, its next-generation federated search solution. With SearchSolver as a single point of access and authentication, users can conduct one-step searches across hundreds of information sources and retrieve unified results. Results can further be edited and ranked as well as exported in research work tools. Users can also combine Ovid SearchSolver with Ovid LinkSolver to create an end-to-end solution?from precision searching to full-text linking. Designed to integrate easily with existing research environments, SearchSolver?s advanced functionality allows users to: · Search an unlimited number of sources simultaneously · Search across all types of sources from multiple vendors, including electronic journals, bibliographic databases, Internet portals, and OPACs · Display, rank, or export results consistently across all interfaces in a single step · Refine and limit search results using the SearchSolver interface. Advanced query parsing allows users to search beyond keyword (also title, author, descriptors) · Explore a topic further using a specific database?s native interface · Link to external sources, using Ovid LinkSolver or other OpenURL resolvers The flexibility of the new SearchSolver allows institutions to create a fully customizable tool that can include branding (such as logos or style sheets) to meet specialized requirements or end-user preferences, interface design (including nonstandard fonts and European characters), as well as a number of database connectors to meet various resource needs. SearchSolver includes a ready-made library of more than 2,000 database connectors. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 Ovid Technologies, a provider of electronic medical, scientific, and academic research information solutions, announced SearchSolver, its next-generation federated search solution. With SearchSolver as a single point of access and authentication, users can conduct one-step searches across hundreds of information sources and retrieve unified results. Results can further be edited and ranked as well as exported in research work tools. Users can also combine Ovid SearchSolver with Ovid LinkSolver to create an end-to-end solution—from precision searching to full-text linking. Designed to integrate easily with existing research environments, SearchSolver’s advanced functionality allows users to: · Search an unlimited number of sources simultaneously · Search across all types of sources from multiple vendors, including electronic journals, bibliographic databases, Internet portals, and OPACs · Display, rank, or export results consistently across all interfaces in a single step · Refine and limit search results using the SearchSolver interface. Advanced query parsing allows users to search beyond keyword (also title, author, descriptors) · Explore a topic further using a specific database’s native interface · Link to external sources, using Ovid LinkSolver or other OpenURL resolvers The flexibility of the new SearchSolver allows institutions to create a fully customizable tool that can include branding (such as logos or style sheets) to meet specialized requirements or end-user preferences, interface design (including nonstandard fonts and European characters), as well as a number of database connectors to meet various resource needs. SearchSolver includes a ready-made library of more than 2,000 database connectors. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Research in Marketing of services/Products in LIS
by Achar 16 May '05

16 May '05

Dear Members, I am planning to pursue my research work in "Marketing of services & products in Rural Libraries" A study in relevance to Indian Environment. All participating members to help in duplilcate check work so that i can change my topic. If anybody come across this type, pl let me know. Thanking you, Sincerely, Achar, M.Phil. Librarian Ohio-Manipal School of Business Bangalore Cell:9880715660 Dear Members, I am planning to pursue my research work in "Marketing of services & products in Rural Libraries" A study in relevance to Indian Environment. All participating members to help in duplilcate check work so that i can change my topic. If anybody come across this type, pl let me know. Thanking you, Sincerely, Achar, M.Phil. Librarian Ohio-Manipal School of Business Bangalore Cell:9880715660

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The 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries 2005
by Shyam Prasad pujar 16 May '05

16 May '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 22:36:39 +0800 From: "Lim Ee Peng (Assoc Prof)" <ASEPLIM(a)ntu.edu.sg> To: diglib(a)infoserv.inist.fr Subject: [DIGLIB] CFP: The 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries 2005 This message is cross-posted to several lists. Apologies for possible duplicate postings. Please distribute it freely. ========================================= CALL FOR PAPERS ICADL2005 http://www.icadl2005.ait.ac.th The 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries Theme: Implementing Strategies and Sharing Experiences 12 - 15 December 2005, Bangkok, Thailand ========================================= ICADL2005 is the 8th in a well-established series of annual conferences on Asian Digital Libraries, and focuses on the creation, adoption, implementation and utilization of digital libraries. It provides an international forum for sharing experiences among researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers from a variety of disciplines such as computer science, library and information science, archival and museum studies, and knowledge management -- as well as many areas in the social sciences and humanities. Submissions of papers, panels, tutorials, and workshops are invited in all areas of digital libraries and related technologies, the management of knowledge in digital libraries, and the associated usability and social issues. Research, system, evaluation, policy, and position papers are all invited. Suitable topics include but are not limited to: + Strategies with regard to - economic issues - legal issues - organizational issues - pedagogical issues - policy issues - social issues + Implementation experiences regarding - collection development - international collaboration - quality of service - system evaluation - user communities - user studies + Systems - architecture - concepts and models - integration - interoperability + Techniques - Asian information processing - cross-language information access - human-computer interaction - information integration - information mining - information retrieval - localization - metadata - multimedia - ontologies - personalization - semantic web - semi-structured data management - web cataloging - web-page analysis + Management - access control - content management - intellectual property - security and privacy - service models + Application areas and concerns - digital archives and museums - digital preservation - knowledge management - education - e-science - Grid - scholarly publishing Further details about the conference including registration and conference location are posted on the conference Web site at http://www.icadl2005.ait.ac.th PAPER SUBMISSION AND REVIEWING PROCESS -------------------------------------- Prospective authors from all parts of the world are invited to submit their papers dealing with original work which, at the time of submission, is not under review or has not been published or accepted for publication in a journal or by another conference. Papers must be written in English, conforming to the formatting instructions of LNCS, Springer (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) Each paper must not exceed 10 pages and should contain a list of about 5 key-words, at least one of which must be taken from the topics listed above. Only electronic submission (PDF format) is accepted via the web page for papers. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Based on their recommendations, a decision will be made regarding rejection or acceptance as poster (up to 2 pages), short paper (up to 4 pages), or long paper (up to 10 pages). The Conference Proceedings will be published in the LNCS series, Springer. Best paper awards also will be conferred on the authors of the best paper(s) at the conference. Selected ICADL2005 papers may be expanded and revised for possible publication in special issues of: - International Journal on Digital Libraries (http://www.dljournal.org) - Journal of Digital Information (http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk) - Library Hi Tech (http://www.emeraldinsight.com/rpsv/lht.htm) SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS FOR PANELS, TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Proposals for panels, tutorials and workshops should be sent to icadl2005 at ait.ac.th IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------- + Submission of paper abstracts: 8 June 2005 + Submission of full papers: 15 June 2005 + Submission of panel/tutorial/workshop proposals: 31 July 2005 + Notification of acceptance: 31 August 2005 + Camera-ready copy due date: 30 September 2005 Conference Organizers --------------------- - Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand (http://www.ait.ac.th) - Chulalongkorn University, Thailand (http://www.chula.ac.th) - Thai Library Association, Thailand (http://tla.tiac.or.th) Steering Committee Chair --------------------- Khunying Maenmas Chavalit, Professor and President, the Thai Library Association (TLA), Thailand. Steering Committee Co-Chairs --------------------- - Ching-chih Chen, Professor, Simmons College, USA. - Hsinchun Chen, Professor, The University of Arizona, USA. - Ee Peng Lim, Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Program Committee Co-Chairs -------------------------- - Edward Fox (Virginia Tech, USA) - Erich Neuhold (University of Vienna, Austria) - Pimrumpai Premsmit (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) - Vilas Wuwongse (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand) Program Committee --------------------- + America - Robert Allen (Drexel, USA) - Christine Borgman (UCLA, USA) - Weiguo Fan (Virginia Tech, USA) - James French (Univ. of Virginia, USA) - Jonathan Furner (UCLA, USA) - Richard K. Furuta (Texas A&M, USA) - Peter Jacso (University of Hawaii, USA) - Judith Klavans (Columbia University, USA) - Carl Lagoze (Cornell University, USA) - Yan Quan Liu (Southern Connecticut State University, USA) - Gary Marchionini (Univ. of North Carolina, USA) - Edie Rasmussen (U. of British Columbia, Canada) - Michael Seadle (Michigan State University Libraries, USA) - Howard Wactlar (CMU, USA) - Stuart Weibel (OCLC, USA) - Marcia Lei Zeng (Kent State University, USA) + Asia-Pacific - Jun Adachi (NII, Japan) - Toshiyuki Amagasa (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) - Chutiporn Anutariya (Shinawatra University, Thailand) - N.Balakrishnan (Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore, India) - Abdus Sattar Chaudhry (NTU, Singapore) - Chao-chen Chen (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan) - Hsueh-hua Chen (NTU, Taiwan) - Steve Ching (Feng Chia University, Taiwan) - Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea) - Schubert Foo (NTU, Singapore) - Wen Gao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) - Maruf Hasan (Shinawatra University, Thailand) - Jieh Hsiang (National Chi-nan Univ., Taiwan) - Ching-chun Hsieh (NDAP, Taiwan) - San-Yih Hwang (NSYSU, Taiwan) - Soon J. Hyun (Information Communication University, Korea) - Hiroshi Itsumura (Nagoya University, Japan) - Paul Janecek (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand) - Noriko Kando (NII, Japan) - Ji-Hoon Kang (Chungnam National Univ., Korea) - Wai Lam (CUHK, Hong Kong SAR) - Man-Ho Lee (Chungnam National Univ., Korea) - Jianzhong Li (Harbin Inst. of Technology, China) - Dion Goh Hoe Lian (NTU, Singapore) - Sung Hyun Myaeng (Chungnam National Univ., Korea) - Ekawit Nantajeewarawat (Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thailand) - Liddy Nevile (Univ. of Melbourne, Australia) - Somporn Puttapithakporn (Sukhothai Thammathirat Open Univ, Thailand) - T.B.Rajashekar (Indian Institute of Science, India) - S.Sadagopan (Indian Institute of Information Technology, India) - Tetsuo Sakaguchi (Tsukaba University, Japan) - Hideyasu Sasaki (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) - Praditta Siripan (National Science&Technology Development Agency, Thailand) - Ohm Sornil (National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand) - Shigeo Sugimoto (ULIS, Japan) - Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan) - Yin-Leng Theng (NTU, Singapore) - Shalini Urs (University of Mysore, India) - Ian Witten (Waikato University, New Zealand) - Christopher C. Yang (CUHK, Hong Kong SAR) - Jerome Yen (Chinese University of HK, China) - Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Nagoya University, Japan) - Li-zhu Zhou (Tsinghua University, China) + Europe - Thomas Baker (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (FhG), Germany) - Ann Blandford (University College of London, UK) - Jose Borbinha (National Library of Portugal, Portugal) - Donatella Castelli (Italian National Research Council (IEI-CNR), Italy) - Gobinda Chowdhury (University of Strathclyde, UK) - Norbert Fuhr (University of Dortmund, Germany) - Marc Nanard (LIRMM, France) - Claudia Niederee (Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany) - Paul Nieuwenhuysen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) - Mike Papazoglou (Tilburg University , Netherlands) - Carol Peters (Italian National Research Council (IEI-CNR), Italy) - Andreas Rauber (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) - Keith van Rijsbergen (University of Glasgow, UK) - Ingeborg Solvberg (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) - Harold Thimbleby (University College of London, UK) Organizing Committee Chair -------------------------- - Khunying Maenmas Chavalit (Thai Library Association (TLA), Thailand) Organizing Committee Co-Chairs -------------------- - Vatcharaporn Esichaikul (Asian Institute of Techology, Thailand) - Pimrumpai Premsmit (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) Local Organizing Committee Chair ----------------------- - Jaffee Yee (InfoMedia Asia, Ltd., Thailand) S.M. Pujar Asst Librarian IGIDR, Mumbai

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