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Position Annoucement--Technical Support Analyst
by Prafulla Chandra 02 Jul '04

02 Jul '04

Position Announcement NISC Export Services (NES) Private Limited invites applications for the position of TECHNICAL SUPPORT ANALYST in its newly created Technical Support Department. NES and its affiliates together comprise one of the foremost database access, production and publishing companies in the world. NESs 100+ database products, published online (BiblioLine) or on CD-ROM (NISC DISCover) and print, cover most areas of the universe of knowledgearts & humanities, earth sciences, environment, social sciences, life sciences and technology. Based in Hyderabad, the successful candidate will handle, using latest information and communication technologies, queries pertaining to technical support received from customers all over the world. NES is looking for candidates who have at least a Masters degree in English, Mass Communication, Journalism or any related subject. Candidates with MPhil or PhD degree in the relevant subject would be preferred. Good typing skills are required as the working environment involves online computer use for access to offices worldwide. In addition, the candidates should possess the ability --to communicate in a formal, clear, empathetic and pleasant style, with excellent command of written and spoken English. --to handle a wide variety of modern communication media in a professional manner, conforming to standards of international business communication with respect to etiquette and pronunciation. --to understand and answer, with speed and accuracy, technical queries from customers. --to maintain good public relations with customers, both actual and potential. --to collect, organize, store and deliver information resources required for technical support. --to enjoy interactions with customers hailing from diverse national backgrounds and serve them in a most user-friendly manner. If you are not a resident of Hyderabad and are willing to relocate, please indicate that at the top of your resume. Apart from on-job training inputs, NES provides a comfortable, pleasant and enjoyable work environment with bright career prospects and exciting opportunities to realize ones potentialities. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. NES considers applications from candidates who had appeared for examinations and awaiting announcement of results, Please submit a letter of application, resume, and names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of three references to: The Managing Director NISC Export Services Co. Pvt. Ltd. 3rd Floor, Ballad Estates, St. Anns Road, Tarnaka Hyderabad 500 017 Email: hrd(a)nisc.co.in Phone: +91 40 27001517 For more info about NISC, please visit www.nisc.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Position Announcement--Content Developer
by Prafulla Chandra 02 Jul '04

02 Jul '04

Position Announcement CONTENT DEVELOPER (4 posts) NISC Export Services (NES) Private Limited invites applications for four vacant positions of CONTENT DEVELOPER in its Content Department. NES and its affiliates together comprise one of the foremost database access, production and publishing companies in the world. NESs 100+ database products, published online (BiblioLine) or on CD-ROM (NISC DISCover) and print, cover most areas of the universe of knowledgearts & humanities, earth sciences, environment, social sciences, life sciences and technology. NES is looking for candidates who possess first-class Masters / MPhil / MLitt degree in any subject belonging to the arts, humanities or social sciences faculties and who are proficient in all/any of the following areas: --Internet searching --Proof reading --Various features and tools in MS Office package. --Editing skills --Profiling --Cataloging --Abstracting --Indexing --Data mining The successful candidate should have good command over English language--both written and oral, a strong memory, keen observation skills and typing abilities. Knowledge of Library and Information Science would be a plus point but it is not an essential qualification. If you are not a resident of Hyderabad and are willing to relocate, please indicate that at the top of your resume. Apart from on-job training inputs, NES provides a comfortable, pleasant and enjoyable work environment with bright career prospects and exciting opportunities to realize ones potentialities. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. NES considers applications from candidates who had appeared for examinations and awaiting announcement of results, Please submit a letter of application, resume, and names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of three references to: The Managing Director NISC Export Services Co. Pvt. Ltd. 3rd Floor, Ballad Estates, St. Anns Road, Tarnaka Hyderabad 500 017 Email: hrd(a)nisc.co.in Phone: +91 40 27001517 For more info about NISC, please visit www.nisc.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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GOC Rates for month of July' 2004
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 16:57:51 +0530 From: ++ Mukesh Anand ++ <mukesh(a)monitorinfo.com> GOC Rates for month of July' 2004 USD : Rs. 48.10 UKP : Rs. 88.00 EURO : Rs. 58.30 S Fr. : Rs. 38.60 Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing Monitor Information Services # 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Narayanguda, Hyderabad - 500 029 India T: 040-55787065 / 040-27552390 F: +91-40-27569299 http://www.monitorinfo.com Importers n Distributors of Technical Publications

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Yahoo! links to research resources
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

Yahoo! links to research resources Electronic research materials such as technical reports and preprints are now available through Yahoo! Search. This follows a deal between the OAIster Project, which was set up by the University of Michigan, US, and Yahoo!'s Content Acquisition Program (CAP). OAIster offers information that links to hidden digital resources, such as the complete contents of books and articles, technical reports, preprints, white papers, images of paintings, movies, and audio files of speeches. OAIster retrieves these by tapping directly into the collections of a variety of institutions using harvesting technology based on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. The OAIster service currently provides access to three million harvested records describing and pointing to these resources, which are created and hosted by 267 research institutions around the world. The deal with Yahoo! opens up these resources to a wider audience, because many of the scholarly collections included in OAIster were not previously indexed in popular Web search services. Collections available through OAIster include: the arXiv.org Eprint Archive (an archive of physics research); Carnegie Mellon University Informedia Public Domain Video Archive; Ethnologue: Languages of the World; Library of Congress American Memory Project; and Caltech Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory Technical Reports. http://www.researchinformation.info/news.html#jun10 Thanks S.Gunasekaran

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"How much infrmation"
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 22:41:19 +0530 From: Satish Hulyalkar <satish(a)vsnl.com> Dear Friends I am forwarding a link where you can find "How much infrmation" is there in the world. Have a look at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/index. htm It might be interesting to know what we are handling and we still have more information paper form. Satish Hulyalkar Pune/India mailto:satish@satishhulyalkar.com Http://www.SatishHulyalkar.com

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Monkey Tool from Google
by Mailing List Manager 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 30 Jun 2004 09:03:39 -0000 From: farooque <mfarooque(a)rediffmail.com> Students and developers at Google Inc. have jointly created an open-source tool designed to better predict the effect on real-world Web site performance if changes are made to things like network infrastructure. Called Monkey, the tool first captures data from actual client sessions, inferring various network and client conditions -- what its creators call the "monkey see" portion of its work. It then attempts to emulate those conditions for server tests -- a process called "monkey do." Monkey is aimed at helping solve a dilemma of Web testing: Trying out network or server changes on even a small portion of actual user traffic is risky, but simulations are often unrealistic because they don't accurately reflect users' network conditions, said Yu-Chung Cheng, a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego, who worked on the project during an internship at Google. Cheng presented a paper about Monkey yesterday at the Usenix Annual Technical Conference. Cheng admitted that the tool, which is optimized for Google's specific search application, might not be as accurate at predicting server response for other types of applications. In response to audience questions, he said Monkey also doesn't attempt to model how user behavior might change as server response speeds or slows (for example, more search requests might come in if server response improves). "In the end, we believe it is unrealistic to build a generic one-for-all TCP replay tool," the paper, "Monkey See, Monkey Do: A Tool for TCP Tracing and Replaying," concludes. "But it is possible to build replay tool[s] for specific applications." Source code for the tool is available at http://ramp.ucsd.edu/projects/monkey/. --------------------------------- Farooque, IBM Global Services (India) Pvt Ltd. First floor, GT Annexe, Airport Road, Bangalore-17 Tel: 25094107, 25094119 email... farooque(a)in.ibm.com ----------------------------------

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23rd ANNUALCONVENTION & CONFERENCE OF SIS-2005 at Andhra University, Visakhapatanam, India during 27-29 Jan, 2005
by JK Vijayakumar 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

23rd ANNUALCONVENTION & CONFERENCE OF SIS-2005 at Andhra University, Visakhapatanam, India during 27-29 Jan, 2005 For details visit the Conference Site at http://sis-india.netfirms.com/sis2005.htm Address for Correspondence /Registration/ Accommodation Prof. R.S.R.Varalakshmi Organizing Secretary-SIS-2005 Professor Department of Library and Information Science, Andhra University, VISAKHAPATNAM-530003. E-mail: rvsn1234(a)hotmail.com Phone: 0891 2844385-7(O); 0891 2535251(R) Dr K.Somasekhara Rao Treasurer-SIS-2005 Associate Professor Department of Library and Information Science, Andhra University, VISAKHAPATNAM-530003. E-mail: kalepuss(a)yahoo.com Phone: 0891 2844388 (O); 0891 275013 (R) Dr C. Sasikala Editor-SIS-2005 Associate Professor and Chairperson, BOS, Department of Library and Information Science, Andhra University, VISAKHAPATNAM � 530 003 E-mail: csasikala(a)satyam.net.in Phone: 0891 2844389 (O) 0891 2536373 For details visit the Conference Site at http://sis-india.netfirms.com/sis2005.htm __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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INDICATORS OF PUBLICATIONS
by Mailing List Manager 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 22:18:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Sadasivan KP <kps31147(a)yahoo.com> Dear Lis-Forum Members, The Impact Factor of journals/publications and Citation Counts of papers are well known indicators of their quality/acceptance. Despite the current debate worldwide on its acceptance / reservations, these indicators are still widely accepted by the peers, professionals and funding agencies, etc. , presumably due to the absence of an effective alternative mode of rating. Now a new concept is emerging - as seen publicised and promoted by certain publishers and authors : An Indicator based on the frequency/amount of downloads of a paper ! For instance, the international journal " Biotechnology & Applied Biochemistry" (Publisher : Portland Press on behalf of IUMBM) has widely publicised in their website as follows: ' Top 50 Downloaded Papers: The Papers listed below are the 50 most frequently downloaded Papers for the 12 months to the end of May 2004...' (The list contains HTML Full Text & PDF downloadable options too) The details can be accessed at URL : http://bab.portlandpress.com/bab50.htm This has triggered a debate among the scientists (of my Lab) in favour of and against the concept of "Downloading as an Indicator on the quality of Papers". (Incidentally, the second and third highest downloaded papers happened to have been authored by one of our own Scientists!) I seek the comments/views of our professionals, especially the biblio/sciento-metricians . SADASIVAN KP Head, Library & Informatics Regional Research Laboratory (CSIR) Trivandrum - 695 019 E-Mail : kps31147(a)yahoo.com OR kps(a)csrrltrd.ren.nic.in

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Library Automation - New Book
by Mailing List Manager 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:05:05 +0530 From: Jai Haravu <haravu(a)newgenlib.com> Dear professional colleagues and teachers of library and information science I am happy to let you know that a new book titled Library Automation: Design Principles and Practice will be published by Allied Publishers and become available by the end of July 2004. The book is authored by me (L.J. Haravu) and is targeted to students and teachers in library schools, librarians, and software developers interested in library automation. Some of you may not know me. I retired as senior Manager, Library and Documentation Services of ICRISAT in India in Jan 1996. The table of contents of the book is given at the end of this mail. The book also has an accompanying CD-ROM containing sample applications, data structures, presentations and web resources on topics discussed in the book. The book, in fact is being published on behalf of a charitable professional trust of which I am a trustee, viz., Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management (KIIKM) (http://www.kiikm.org/) This trust was formed to honour one of Indias great scholar-librarians, Mr B S Kesavan, who was independent Indias first National Librarian and later the first Director of the Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre (INSDOC in New Delhi, India). Mr Kesavan was a pioneer institution builder, a great humanist and a mentor to many young library professionals. The book is priced at Indian Rupees 445.00. However, KIIKM will be offering a limited number of copies of the book to librarys, library schools and individual library professionals at a concessional price of Rupees 330 plus Rupees 35 towards packing and air mail postage (Total of Rupees365.00). If you are interested in one or more copies of the publication for your library, do send me an advance payment by cheque for Rs. 365.00 per copy made out to the Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management. The cheque should be sent to the address given below. If you have difficulty in sending advance payment, kindly send me an email expressing interest in having the book so that I can reserve a copy for you/your library. The proceeds of the sale of the book will accrue to KIIKM. Best regards and looking forward to hearing from you. L J Haravu Table of Contents Library Automation: Design, Principles and Practice L J Haravu Chapter 1. B Background and brief history Scope Nature of library automation systems Brief history of library automation The period 195470 Information retrieval Library housekeeping Circulation control Serials control systems Acquisitions Technology and environment The period 197090 Online catalogues Retrospective conversion Access to resources outside the library Interlibrary loan services and document delivery Data exchange Integrating other online resources Technology and environment International initiatives Networking technologies The birth of the Internet and the World Wide Web Developments since 1990 Chapter 2. Introduction to library automation Scope Rationale Types of library automation systems Standalone systems Integrated systems Library automation subsystems Use scenarios in library automation Hardware and software for library automation Single user systems Multi-user systems Local area networks (LANs) Client-server architectures Software requirements References Suggested reading Chapter 3. Automation of book acquisition systems Scope The role of acquisitions Rationale for the automation of the acquisitions function Infrastructure for an automated acquisitions system Access to external databases and sources of information Access to internal databases and files Subsystems of an automated acquisitions system Request processing Order data entry and updating Order production and transmission Received item processing Accessioning Received invoice processing Claims Cancellation Physical preparation Financial records, budgeting and reporting Search and retrieval Management information reporting Interfaces with other library automation subsystems Review questions and exercises Suggested reading Chapter 4. File and data structures in automated book acquisitions systems Scope Workflows and files in book acquisitions Suggestions_file Approvals_file Vendors_file Budget files Bibliographic_file Invoices_file Order_file Currency_file Entity-relationship diagram Processing Algorithms in book acquisitions Chapter 5. Automation of the cataloguing function in libraries Scope The role of cataloguing Rationale for automating the cataloguing function Infrastructure and requirements of an automated cataloguing system Access to external databases Internal databases and files Data structures for the catalogue database Subsystems of an automated cataloguing system Search, retrieval, and display Cataloguing data entry Verification and validation Authority control Printing and output production Retrospective conversion Issues in RECON The RECON plan Determining library needs Establish parameters Establish standards Options for conversion of records Implementing the RECON plan The role of OCLC in automated cataloguing OCLC interfaces Copy-cataloguing Input of new records Transcribing paper records Authorities search OCLC tape and file transfer interfaces Interfaces with other library automation subsystems Review questions and exercises Reference and suggested reading Chapter 6. File and data structures automated cataloguing systems Scope The bibliographic database in library automation systems The Holdings_file Authority files The MARC record Leader Record directory Control fields Variable fields Pros and cons of the MARC record Representing the catalogue record in library automation software Proprietary and flat-file structures Relational database structures Alternative relational database structure XML Solutions Algorithms in the automation of cataloguing Review questions and exercises References Suggested reading Chapter 7. Online public access catalogues (OPACs) Scope What are OPACs? Early efforts User studies Multiple roles of an OPAC The technology of web-based OPACs DHTML Common gateway interface Dynamic link libraries (DLLs) Java Scripting languages Search and display functionality of web OPACs Basic search Advanced search Desirable features of web OPACs The OPAC user interface The physical screen General principles Results display screens Messages Welcome messages Prompts Status messages Error messages Help messages Organizational issues Algorithm to evaluate Boolean expressions Review questions and exercises References Suggested reading Chapter 8. Automation of circulation control systems Scope Introduction Rationale for automating circulation control Infrastructure and requirements of an automated circulation control system Membership records Membership privileges matrix Barcode making and reading equipment Subsystems of an automated circulation control system Membership registration subsystem Charge subsystem Discharge subsystem Renewals subsystem Holds/reservations subsystem Recalls subsystem Interlibrary loans subsystem Overdues subsystem Fines subsystem Binding subsystem Search and retrieval subsystem Management information reporting subsystem Interfaces with other library automation subsystems Review questions and exercises Suggested reading Chapter 9. File and data structures in automated circulation control Scope Nature of circulation control Files in circulation control User_file Privileges matrix Structures for transaction data Structures for reservation transactions Audit trail of fine transactions Security and transaction logging Entity-relationship diagram of data structures in circulation control Review questions and exercises Suggested reading Chapter 10. Automation of serials control Scope Nature of serials control Rationale for automating the serials control function Idiosyncrasies of serials Infrastructure and requirements of an automated serials control system Access to external databases Access to internal databases Subsystems of an automated serials control system Check-in or registration subsystem Claims subsystem Binding subsystem Serials union list subsystem Subscription management subsystem Search and retrieval subsystem Physical preparation subsystem Reports subsystem Interfaces with other library automation subsystems Review questions and exercises Chapter 11. F File ile and data str structures in serials control Scope Files in serials control Serials_Master_file Holdings records Binding file Orders, fund accounting, invoices and payment processing Review questions and exercises Chapter 12. Web-based library automation Scope The global nature of the Web What are web-based library automation systems? The technology of client-server architectures Web-based library automation systems from the users point of view Web-based library automation systems from the librarians point of view Networking via web-based library automation software References Chapter 13. Strategies for the implementation of library automation Scope Factors that influence the adoption of information technology Internal factors External factors Helpful factors Prerequisites to implementing library automation Library automation tasks Problem identification and planning Adoption strategies Feasibility study Analysis, design, and system specification Develop or buy decisions Tendering Implementation Training and procedure manuals Evaluation Review questions and exercises References Chapter 14. C Current trends and possible future directions Scope Leveraging the Internet Web-based OPACs Libraries as portals Document delivery and interlibrary loan services Ariel Global Sharing Program of OCLC ISO Interlibrary Loan Protocol Digital reference services Application service providers Cooperative library networks Digital libraries Interoperabilty of information systems The z39.50 standard Metadata initiatives The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) The Dublin Core elements Relationship of the DCMI with other Metadata Initiatives XML, RDF and Metadata Dublin Core Metadata Elements, z39.50 and MARC-21 The Open Source Movement Possible future directions The centrality and pervasiveness of the Web Digital libraries XML versus legacy formats Applications and Services References *************************************************************** CD-ROM containing the following: Resources for teachers and students Sample forms and data structures Demo applications Algorithms L J Haravu Trustee, Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management [http://www.kiikm.org/] 69 Krishnapuri Colony West Marredpally Sedcunderabad 500 026 Tel: 91-40-27803947

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Collection development/ weeding out
by Mailing List Manager 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 18:23:43 +0530 From: K Prakash <prakash(a)inflibnet.ac.in> Dear Ms.Smita, I just reproduced the message which was sent by Beck, Sheila <SBeck(a)QCC.CUNY.EDU> to the SERIALST(a)LIST.UVM.EDU <SERIALST(a)LIST.UVM.EDU>. Hope it will be helpful to some level. Here is a summary of the criteria suggested for weeding serials collections. The items are in no particular order. 1. usage statistics 2. currency of material 3. physical condition of journals (age/bound/unbound) 4. completeness of holdings- short runs are better candidates for weeding 5. shelf space occupied vs. use of periodicals 6. overlaps with microfilm 7. support of the curriculum -is the subject still taught? 8. availability of full text in databases 9. stability of database (JSTOR & Project Muse vs. EBSCO) 10. availability of title elsewhere 11. whether the journal is indexed 12. ILL requests 13. faculty input 14. best practices from subject specialist 15. recommendations in Magazines for Libraries by Bill Katz for subject coverage 16. items for preservation/storage dated 1900 and previous 17. historical value for research Thanks to all of you who responded. Sheila Beck Serials Librarian Queensborough Community College With best wishes/ regards. Bye. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- K PRAKASH Scientific/Technical Officer-I INFLIBNET(Information and Library Network) Centre An IUC of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Navrangpura, PB No.4116 AHMEDABAD-380009 India

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Interesting News of WorldCat for all library professionals
by Mailing List Manager 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 03:07:50 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> WorldCat update Every 12 seconds an OCLC member library adds a new record to WorldCat, which contains more than 55 million records representing 927,972,598 holding locations as of June 26, 2004. Every 4 seconds an OCLC member library fills an interlibrary loan request using WorldCat, which has supported 136,785,582 interlibrary loan requests as of June 26, 2004. A library user searches WorldCat using the OCLC FirstSearch service every second. See the latest WorldCat http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/firstsearch/databases/dbdetails/d… Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com

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Re: RE: [LIS-Forum] Collection development/ weeding out
by Mailing List Manager 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

Date: 28 Jun 2004 07:06:32 -0000 From: Rajesh K Patil <rajeshbcd(a)rediffmail.com> � Hi, It's a good suggestion but one should note that the British Council Libraries are not subject to Indian system of Audit procedures. In general they have a zero growth policy i.e. if a library adds 1000 titles in a year, the same number of titles are withdrawn. As you are based in New Mumbai you can contact the British Council Library in Mumbai personally and discuss the matter in detail. First and foremost the consent of the Management and the Internal and External Auditors need to be obtained. Developing and implementing internal library policies for weeding will not be cumbersome. It can be based on certain factors viz. : - Obsolete title - Superseded titles - Usage statistics - Damaged books Regards. Rajesh On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com wrote : >I understand that British Libraries in India have well set Weeding policy. >You may try to get help from Mr Goud of British Council library Hyderabad or others. > > >DR P Vyasamoorthy > >-----Original Message----- > From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >[mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Mailing List >Manager >Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 4:02 PM >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Subject: [LIS-Forum] Collection development/ weeding out > > >Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 02:45:31 -0700 (PDT) > From: Smita Chandra <smitac_in(a)yahoo.com> > >Respected colleagues : > >Could any one please share their library's collection development policy ? >I am in particular interested in knowing the criteria being used for >weeding out in different libraries in India, like > >a. how do we decide what to weed ? > >b. how much should we weed ? (what percentage of library collection and frequency) > >I would also like to know if there are any rules or procedures specified by the government about such processes by libraries in India, or in any particular state (with reference to audits and accounts). > >Since my library comes in the science domain, policies and criteria of libraries within the S & T domain would be of great help. > >Thanking you and with regards, > >Smita Chandra >Librarian >Indian Institute of Geomagnetism >New Mumbai >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Collection development/ weeding out
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

I understand that British Libraries in India have well set Weeding policy. You may try to get help from Mr Goud of British Council library Hyderabad or others. DR P Vyasamoorthy -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Mailing List Manager Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 4:02 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Collection development/ weeding out Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 02:45:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Smita Chandra <smitac_in(a)yahoo.com> Respected colleagues : Could any one please share their library's collection development policy ? I am in particular interested in knowing the criteria being used for weeding out in different libraries in India, like a. how do we decide what to weed ? b. how much should we weed ? (what percentage of library collection and frequency) I would also like to know if there are any rules or procedures specified by the government about such processes by libraries in India, or in any particular state (with reference to audits and accounts). Since my library comes in the science domain, policies and criteria of libraries within the S & T domain would be of great help. Thanking you and with regards, Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Website on 'Fellowships'
by sangeeta Halijwale 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Dear Members, I have attempted to develop an internet site on 'Fellowships' available to Indian students and researchers. Guidance and motivation for this work came from Mr. Manjunath, Chief Librarian & Mr. Pujar, Asst Librarian, IGIDR. This site is specially designed for Indian academic Community and I intend to update it as frequently as possible. It can be accessed at: http://freewebs.com/fellowindia May I reqeust you all to please give your valuable suggestions for further improvement of the site? Regards, Sangeeta S.H Library Assistant IGIDR, Mumbai

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Collection development/ weeding out
by Mailing List Manager 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 02:45:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Smita Chandra <smitac_in(a)yahoo.com> Respected colleagues : Could any one please share their library's collection development policy ? I am in particular interested in knowing the criteria being used for weeding out in different libraries in India, like a. how do we decide what to weed ? b. how much should we weed ? (what percentage of library collection and frequency) I would also like to know if there are any rules or procedures specified by the government about such processes by libraries in India, or in any particular state (with reference to audits and accounts). Since my library comes in the science domain, policies and criteria of libraries within the S & T domain would be of great help. Thanking you and with regards, Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai

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complete e-library
by Mailing List Manager 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Date: 25 Jun 2004 03:51:45 -0000 From: thejasvi tv <tvthejasvi(a)rediffmail.com> Members, www.elibraryhub.com seems to be one of the best sites relating to e-library. you may please check it out. An article had appeared in The Hindu on 24 June in appreciation of this. Its a round the clock library and functions without the virtual prescence of a librarian. All the library activities are carried out mechanically without human interface. I request all professionals to comment on this kind of library.Its presently in Singapore. Regards, Thejasvi.

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DLIST
by Anita S. Coleman 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hello everybody, just a quick message to let you know about DLIST, http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu. DLIST is an eprints repository for LIS and I encourage you to deposit your publications in it. I visited India in Feb. 2003 (CALIBER conference) to encourage Indian librarians and LIS academics to join in the global consortium for building DLIST. If you are a librarian or an LIS dept. head who is considering an institutional repository for LIS and IT, I encourage you join DLIST and use it as your repository. Please write to DLIST Project Manager paul(a)ahsl.arizona.edu or me, if you have questions. Thanks and best wishes, Anita Coleman

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inagural function invitation to Workshop on Developing Digital Library using Dspace
by Mailing List Manager 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 13:14:30 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> DEPT. OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE, OSMANIA UNIVERSITY AND INFLIBNET CENTRE (UGC), AHMEDABAD Cordially invite you to the inauguration of WORKSHOP ON DEVELOPING DIGITAL LIBRARY USING DSPACE Prof. Y. Venkatarami Reddy Vice-Chancellor, JNTU, Hyderabad has kindly consented to be the Chief Guest Prof. M.Mutha Reddy Registrar, Osmania University has kindly consented to preside over Venue: New Conference Hall, Arts College, Osmania University Day & Date: Monday 28th June 2004 Time: 10.00 a m Dr. J.Yadagiri Reddy Dr. ARD Prasad Prof. N.Laxman Rao Head, DLIS Director of the Workshop Coordinator of the Workshop Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com

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Re: WiFi for library users and it is free!
by Samdarshi Pali 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Friends: All Indian libraries currently providing Internet facility can also extend/provide WiFi free access to their users. WiFi is now a matured technology and even a non-technical person can put the WiFi setup in less than 10K after some efforts. Some helpful links for all interested in WiFi: http://www.dqindia.com/content/search/showarticle.asp?arid=54642&way=search http://www.dqindia.com/content/search/showarticle.asp?arid=55912&way=search… Who will be first to announce the free WiFi service in their library in India? Regards Samdarshi Pali Reliance Engineering Associates Pvt Ltd 4W21 - G Block, First Floor Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City Koper Khairane, Navi Mumbai 400 709 Tel # Direct +91-22 - 303 85407 Tel # Board +91-22 - 3037 3333, 3038 3333 Fax # +91-22 - 30385599 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:49:57 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] WiFi for library users and it is free! To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0406231049380.25876(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:13:03 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: When will we have WiFi connections provided free to library users in India? Here is what is happening in the UK. Best wishes. Arun ----- Library trial puts Wi-Fi hot spots on the books Matt Loney ZDNet UK June 16, 2004, 13:25 BST The DTI has put its plan to roll out Wi-Fi hot spots to libraries across the UK into action. Speaking at the Mobile Enterprise conference in London's Earls Court on Wednesday, e-commerce minister Stephen Timms said a trial is now running at 10 libraries. "We want to understand how popular it really is," said Timms, adding that three trial sites are charging for access while the other seven are offering it free." Full article at http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/wireless/0,39020348,39157760,00.htm or http://shorterlink.com/?XGVEW ------------------------------ 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 15, Issue 15 *****************************************

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WiFi for library users and it is free!
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:13:03 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: When will we have WiFi connections provided free to library users in India? Here is what is happening in the UK. Best wishes. Arun ----- Library trial puts Wi-Fi hot spots on the books Matt Loney ZDNet UK June 16, 2004, 13:25 BST The DTI has put its plan to roll out Wi-Fi hot spots to libraries across the UK into action. Speaking at the Mobile Enterprise conference in London's Earls Court on Wednesday, e-commerce minister Stephen Timms said a trial is now running at 10 libraries. "We want to understand how popular it really is," said Timms, adding that three trial sites are charging for access while the other seven are offering it free." Full article at http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/wireless/0,39020348,39157760,00.htm or http://shorterlink.com/?XGVEW

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Old Search Engine
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Date: 22 Jun 2004 13:21:14 -0000 From: farooque <mfarooque(a)rediffmail.com> It's a very interesting article published on June 21,in NewYork Times by Katie Hafner. Old Search Engine, the Library, Tries to Fit Into a Google World Katarina Maxianova, who received her bachelor's degree in comparative literature from Columbia University in May, took a seminar last year in which the professor assigned two articles from New Left Review magazine. She found one immediately throug Google; for the other, she had to trek the library tacks."Everyone in class tried to get those articles online," she said, "and some people didn't even bother to go to the stacks when they couldn't Google them."For the last few years, librarians have increasingly seen people use online search sites not to supplement research libraries but to replace them. Yet only recently have librarians stopped lamenting the trend and started working to close the gap between traditional scholarly research and the incomplete, often random results of a Google search."We can't pretend people will go back to walking into a library and talking to a reference librarian," said Kate Wittenberg, director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia University. Ms. Wittenberg's group recently finished a three-year study of research habits, including surveys of 1,233 students across the country, that concluded that electronic resources have become the main tool for information gathering, particularly among undergraduates."We have to respond to these new ways," Ms. Wittenberg said, and come up with a way to make better research material available online.That means working with commercial search engines like Google and Yahoo to make ever more digital-research materials searchable. Undergraduates like Ms. Maxianova and her classmates are not the only ones conducting research from their computers. Faculty members also do it."One of the rarest things to find is a member of the faculty in the library stacks," said Paul Duguid, an information researcher who will teach a class this fall at the University of California, Berkeley on judging the authenticity of information found on the Web. In the Columbia survey, 90 percent of the faculty members who responded said they used electronic resources in their research several times a week or more. Nearly all said it was a valuable resource. While the accuracy of online information is notoriously uneven, the ubiquity of the Web means that a trip to the stacks is no longer the way most academic research begins. "The nature of discovery is changing," said Joseph Janes, associate professor and chairman of library and information science at the University of Washington. "I think the digital revolution and the use of digital resources in general is really the beginning of a change in the way humanity thinks and presents itself."A few research librarians say Google could eventually take on more of the role of a universal library."If you could use Google to just look across digital libraries, into any digital library collection, now that would be cool," said Daniel Greenstein, university librarian of the California Digital Library, the digital branch of the University of California library system."It would help libraries achieve something that we haven't yet been able to achieve by ourselves," Dr. Greenstein said, "which is to place all of our publicly accessible digital library collections in a common pool."The biggest problem is that search engines like Google skim only the thinnest layers of information that has been digitized. Most have no access to the so-alled deep Web, where information is contained in isolated databases like online library catalogs. Search engines seek so-called static Web pages, which generally do not have search functions of their own. Information on the deep Web, on the other hand, comes to the surface only as the result of a database query from within a particular site. Use Google, for instance, to research Upton Sinclair's 1934 campaign for governor of California, and you will miss an entire collection of pamphlets accessible only from the University of California at Los Angeles's archive of digitized campaign literature. --------------------------------- Farooque, IBM Global Services (India) Pvt Ltd. First floor, GT Annexe, Airport Road, Bangalore-17 Tel: 25094107, 25094119 email... farooque(a)in.ibm.com ----------------------------------

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Gokhale Library: Online Public Access Catalogue
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 23:40:22 +1200 (NZST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Chaudhary Gokhale" <chaudhary_gokhale(a)yahoo.co.nz> Hello to all, I am pleased to inform you all lis-forum members that Dhananjayarao Gadgil Librarys online public access catalogue is available on the World Wide Web to browse and search the collection. Dhananjayarao Gadgil Library, the library of the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune has one of the largest and most important collections of social science documents in India. It has quite a large member of publications on Economics and allied social science subjects and successfully caters to the needs of scholars, academicians, policy makers and other users working in social science subjects in India and abroad. URL: http://www.gipe.ernet.in/library/ Total Number of records: 2,71,000 Home page: Designed using XHTML 1.0, HTML 4.0, CSS, JavaScript, ASP, Metadata Hosted at: Windows 2000 Advanced server Web server: IIS Designed and hosted by: N Murali For more details, please contact Webmaster With regards Chaudhary

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Re: [LIS-Forum] FAO Statistical Databases
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:46:14 +0530 From: ++ Mukesh Anand ++ <mukesh(a)monitorinfo.com> FAOSTAT offers free on-line access to all of its data. In addition, FAOSTAT offers an annual subscription service that provides extended on-line query and download limits (10,000 records per query) and unlimited access to FTP bulk download files. FAO is a non-profit Organization with the mandate to work to alleviate poverty and hunger by promoting agricultural development, improved nutrition and the pursuit of food security. All proceeds from the sale of FAOSTAT services and products are used to improve those services by improving the collection, preparation and dissemination of information. ----- Original Message ----- From: "G. K. Manjunath" <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> To: "Mailing List Manager" <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > > FAOSTAT is also avialble free on the net. For futher details you may > visit http://apps.fao.org/default.jsp > > > g.k.manjunath > IGIDR > > e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in > http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm > > phone 91-22-28490653 > ************************************************ > > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Mailing List Manager wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:23:48 +0530 > > From: ++ Mukesh Anand ++ <mukesh(a)monitorinfo.com> > > > > Members may also be interested in the forthcoming publication: > > > > FAOSTAT CD 2004. > > FAO Statistical Databases. (CD-ROM) > > > > Year : 2004 > > ISBN 92-5-005125-5 > > Price : US$ 600.00 > > > > > > FAOSTAT is a statistical database that currently > > contains more than 3 million time-series records. > > This new, updated CD-ROM incorporates statistical > > information up to January 2004, covering more than > > 300 countries and territories and 3 000 items in > > the following areas of agriculture, fisheries, > > forestry and nutrition: > > > > > > * Production > > * Trade > > * Food Balance Sheets > > * Producer Prices > > * Forestry Trade Flow > > * Land Use and Irrigation > > * Forest Products > > * Fishery Products > > * Population > > * Codex Alimetarius Food Quality Control > > * Fertlizers and Pesticides > > * Agricultural Machinery > > * Food Aid Shipments > > * Exports by Destination > > > > > > Please confirm your order > > ------------------------- > > Monitor Information Services > > Library suppliers of books n software > > 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex > > Narayanguda > > HYDERABAD - 500 029 India > > > > http://www.monitorinfo.com > > > > Phone : (040) 55787065, 27552390 > > Fax : + 91-40-27552390 > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > >

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FAO Statistical Databases
by Mailing List Manager 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:23:48 +0530 From: ++ Mukesh Anand ++ <mukesh(a)monitorinfo.com> Members may also be interested in the forthcoming publication: FAOSTAT CD 2004. FAO Statistical Databases. (CD-ROM) Year : 2004 ISBN 92-5-005125-5 Price : US$ 600.00 FAOSTAT is a statistical database that currently contains more than 3 million time-series records. This new, updated CD-ROM incorporates statistical information up to January 2004, covering more than 300 countries and territories and 3 000 items in the following areas of agriculture, fisheries, forestry and nutrition: * Production * Trade * Food Balance Sheets * Producer Prices * Forestry Trade Flow * Land Use and Irrigation * Forest Products * Fishery Products * Population * Codex Alimetarius Food Quality Control * Fertlizers and Pesticides * Agricultural Machinery * Food Aid Shipments * Exports by Destination Please confirm your order ------------------------- Monitor Information Services Library suppliers of books n software 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Narayanguda HYDERABAD - 500 029 India http://www.monitorinfo.com Phone : (040) 55787065, 27552390 Fax : + 91-40-27552390

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Workshop on Developing digital library using Dspace (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:23:48 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> dear professional friends, I am sure u r aware that the Dept of Library & Information Science, Osmania University in colloboration with INFLIBNET is organising a WORKSHOP ON DEVELOPING A DIGITAL LIBRARY USING DSPACE from 28 th June to 3 rd July 2004. Many professional friends have expressed desire to join the workshop but it appears that their office is taking much time to sponsor / depute, and have asked us to extend the date. We understand the problem, therefore, u may please wrtie to us and make the spot payment on 28th June 2004. Please intimate if u r intending to join the workshop. all the best laxman rao Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com

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