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Web based Catalogue
by Krishnamurthy M 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

Dear Moderator , Kindly arrange to announce the following information to the benefit of the LIS forum members. We are happy to announce that Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore Centre Library (ISIBC) has introduced the Web Opace service. ISIBC Library has rich collection in the field of Mathematics, statistics, Economics , Library and Information Science. Users may access library catalogue through web searach http://www.isibang.ac.in/library/index.htm Regards, M.Krishnamurthy -- Dr.M.Krishnamurthy Librarian Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road R.V.C.E. Post Bangalore 560059 Ph:91-80-8483002/3/4/4 Fax: 91-80-8484265

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INFN ON PEST CONTROL MEASURES IN LIBRARUES
by K A. Sardesai 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

Dear Vijay, These are some procedures which we are following in our Library and getting best results.I wish you these are simple and you might have tried. * First Library should be broomed daily and floor dusting with funnel and little soap should be applied twice in a week. * If more rats are destroying your clloection you may keep Mortin cake at the weekend and careul in searching the books on Monday that is start of the week.Mostly they eat this cake and die not immediately but in one or two days and they generally come in open space.But be attentive. * A personnel care is must for a Library. * Use napthalene balls at each corners, racks, cupboards and shelves. * Good light and ventelation if possible. * Harble Vekhand powder or stick may be kept to avoid germs. * To remove dust either use euroclean twice in a week or outsource some good worker once in a month for physical cleaning Kshipra

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Special Proceedings Issue of the 1st International Conference on Universal Digital Library (ICUDL2005)
by Puna Das 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

Special Proceedings Issue of the 1st International Conference on Universal Digital Library (ICUDL2005), Oct. 31−Nov. 2, 2005, Hangzhou, P. R. China <Fulltext Contents available at: http://www.zju.edu.cn/jzus/2005/A0511/index.htm> Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE (ISSN 1009-3095, Monthly) 2005 Vol. 6A No. 11 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Editor: Wu Xiu-fang On-line Editor: Lin Chang-dong CONTENTS Keynotes and Invited Speech on Digital Library The qualitative advantages of quantities of information: bigger is better/ LESK Michael Machines as readers: A solution to the copyright problem/ SHAMOS Michael I Towards a multilingual, multimedia and multimodal digital library platform/ HUANG Tie-jun, TIAN Yong-hong, WANG Chun-li, SHI Xiao-dong, GAO Wen Towards universal access to all knowledgeInternet Archive/ KAHLE Brewster Million Book Project vs Google Print/ ST. CLAIR Gloriana Digital libraries: A testbed for multimedia technology/ ZHUANG Yue-ting Universal Digital LibraryFuture research directions/ BALAKRISHNAN N. New mode of universal access and Global Memory Net/ CHEN Ching-chih Digital Library Technology Global Memory Net and the development of digital image information management system: Experience and practice/ ZHANG Sheng-qiang, CHEN Ching-chih Towards a self healing information system for digital libraries/ AMBATI Vamshi, REDDY Raj A text to speech interface for Universal Digital Library/ PRAHALLAD Kishore, BLACK Alan Spatial/temporal indexing and information visualization genre for environmental digital libraries/ CHEN Su-shing, GRUNWALD Sabine Technical features in the Portal to CADAL/ WU Jiang-qin, ZHUANG Yue-ting, PAN Yun-he Constructing a taxonomy to support multi-document summarization of dissertation/ OU Shi-yan, KHOO Christopher S.G., GOH Dion H. Exploiting multi-context analysis in semantic image classification/ TIAN Yong-hong, HUANG Tie-jun, GAO Wen Relighting multiple color textures/ DIAO Chang-yu, LU Dong-ming, LIU Gang Enhancing the usage pattern mining performance with temporal segmentation of QPop Increment in digital libraries/ CAO San-xing, KLEIN R. Rody, LIU Jian-bo Optical Character Recognition for printed Tamil text using Unicode/ SEETHALAKSHMI R., SREERANJANI T.R., BALACHANDAR T., Abnikant Singh, Markandey Singh, Ritwaj Ratan, Sarvesh Kumar Digital Library Service and Management Resource discovery in distributed digital libraries through visual knowledge navigation/ GU Qian-yi, AHMAD Faisal, SUMNER Tamara A sustainable development OCR system in CADAL application/ HUANG Chen, ZHAO Ji-hai, HU Xiao An integrated framework for discovering digital library collections/ CALHOUN Karen The Million Book Project at Bibliotheca Alexandrina/ ELDAKAR Youssef, EL-GAZZAR Khalid, ADLY Noha, NAGI Magdy Preserving the literary past, looking to the future: the first Hong Kong Literature Database/ MA Leo F.H., WONG Rita, LAU Paul Om: One tool for many (Indian) languages/ GANAPATHIRAJU Madhavi, BALAKRISHNAN Mini, BALAKRISHNAN N., REDDY Raj A simple approach for building transliteration editors for Indian languages/ PRAHALLAD Lavanya, PRAHALLAD Kishore, GANAPATHIRAJU Madhavi An experiment on digital library based on the method of TQM system/ YANG Ling-yun, ZHU Hai-kang <Fulltext Contents available at: http://www.zju.edu.cn/jzus/2005/A0511/index.htm> ___________________________________________________ Swapan Kumar Patra/ Anup Kumar Das/ Bidyarthi Dutta Information and Communication Society of India New Delhi ____________________________________________________ --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. Special Proceedings Issue of the 1st International Conference on Universal Digital Library (ICUDL2005), Oct. 31−Nov. 2, 2005, Hangzhou, P. R. China <Fulltext Contents available at: http://www.zju.edu.cn/jzus/2005/A0511/index.htm http://www.zju.edu.cn/jzus/2005/A0511/index.htm > Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE (ISSN 1009-3095, Monthly) 2005 Vol. 6A No. 11 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Editor: Wu Xiu-fang On-line Editor: Lin Chang-dong CONTENTS Keynotes and Invited Speech on Digital Library The qualitative advantages of quantities of information: bigger is better/ LESK Michael Machines as readers: A solution to the copyright problem/ SHAMOS Michael I Towards a multilingual, multimedia and multimodal digital library platform/ HUANG Tie-jun, TIAN Yong-hong, WANG Chun-li, SHI Xiao-dong, GAO Wen Towards universal access to all knowledgeInternet Archive/ KAHLE Brewster Million Book Project vs Google Print/ ST. CLAIR Gloriana Digital libraries: A testbed for multimedia technology/ ZHUANG Yue-ting Universal Digital LibraryFuture research directions/ BALAKRISHNAN N. New mode of universal access and Global Memory Net/ CHEN Ching-chih Digital Library Technology Global Memory Net and the development of digital image information management system: Experience and practice/ ZHANG Sheng-qiang, CHEN Ching-chih Towards a self healing information system for digital libraries/ AMBATI Vamshi, REDDY Raj A text to speech interface for Universal Digital Library/ PRAHALLAD Kishore, BLACK Alan Spatial/temporal indexing and information visualization genre for environmental digital libraries/ CHEN Su-shing, GRUNWALD Sabine Technical features in the Portal to CADAL/ WU Jiang-qin, ZHUANG Yue-ting, PAN Yun-he Constructing a taxonomy to support multi-document summarization of dissertation/ OU Shi-yan, KHOO Christopher S.G., GOH Dion H. Exploiting multi-context analysis in semantic image classification/ TIAN Yong-hong, HUANG Tie-jun, GAO Wen Relighting multiple color textures/ DIAO Chang-yu, LU Dong-ming, LIU Gang Enhancing the usage pattern mining performance with temporal segmentation of QPop Increment in digital libraries/ CAO San-xing, KLEIN R. Rody, LIU Jian-bo Optical Character Recognition for printed Tamil text using Unicode/ SEETHALAKSHMI R., SREERANJANI T.R., BALACHANDAR T., Abnikant Singh, Markandey Singh, Ritwaj Ratan, Sarvesh Kumar Digital Library Service and Management Resource discovery in distributed digital libraries through visual knowledge navigation/ GU Qian-yi, AHMAD Faisal, SUMNER Tamara A sustainable development OCR system in CADAL application/ HUANG Chen, ZHAO Ji-hai, HU Xiao An integrated framework for discovering digital library collections/ CALHOUN Karen The Million Book Project at Bibliotheca Alexandrina/ ELDAKAR Youssef, EL-GAZZAR Khalid, ADLY Noha, NAGI Magdy Preserving the literary past, looking to the future: the first Hong Kong Literature Database/ MA Leo F.H., WONG Rita, LAU Paul Om: One tool for many (Indian) languages/ GANAPATHIRAJU Madhavi, BALAKRISHNAN Mini, BALAKRISHNAN N., REDDY Raj A simple approach for building transliteration editors for Indian languages/ PRAHALLAD Lavanya, PRAHALLAD Kishore, GANAPATHIRAJU Madhavi An experiment on digital library based on the method of TQM system/ YANG Ling-yun, ZHU Hai-kang <Fulltext Contents available at: http://www.zju.edu.cn/jzus/2005/A0511/index.htm http://www.zju.edu.cn/jzus/2005/A0511/index.htm > ___________________________________________________ Swapan Kumar Patra/ Anup Kumar Das/ Bidyarthi Dutta Information and Communication Society of India New Delhi ____________________________________________________ Jiyo cricket on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailcricket/*http://in.sports.yahoo.com/cric… Yahoo! 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National Seminar on E-Publications - Directions to the Venue
by Dimple Patel 19 Mar '06

19 Mar '06

Dear All, This is to inform you that the venue for the National Seminar on Electronic Publications organized by Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Research and Social Action (MGNIRSA), Hyderabad is: JNTU Conference Hall, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kukatpally, HYDERABAD - 500 072. How to reach the Venue? FROM AIRPORT: If you are travelling by air, you will arrive at the Rajiv Gandhi airport, Begumpet. The airport is centrally located, being within easy reach of both Hyderabad and Secunderabad. At the airport, you can hire prepaid taxis, private cars or auto-rickshaws (there are no 4-wheeler taxis in Hyderabad). FROM RAILWAY STATIONS AND BUS STATIONS: If you are traveling by train, you will alight at one of the following railway stations: Secunderabad, Hyderabad (at Nampally), Begumpet or Kachiguda. If you arrive by long distance bus, you will alight at the Jubilee Bus Station, Secunderabad, or at the Hyderabad Bus Terminal at Gowliguda. Buses are actually pretty flexible, and stop at quite a few places along the way. PUBLIC TRANSPORT: The State Transport Corporation (APSRTC) buses are inexpensive. But, this is not the best option if you have a large amount of luggage on you, of course. There are two types of city bus services; ordinary Road Transport Corporation buses and the Metro Liners, operated by the APSRTC between 0500-2300 daily. RTC buses are crowded during rush hour. Metro Liners are comfortable but seats are limited. Metro Liners arent available everywhere, so its a good idea to check the route chart before you set out to see if there is service available. Buses you can take to reach JNTU Campus: From Secunderabad: 10K, 226 From Nampally: 225 From Kachiguda: 83K From Jubilee Bus Station: 226 There are many more buses going to Kukatpally from these points. You can enquire at the Enquiry counters available at the Bus stations. Telephone No.s of Bus Stations: Secunderabad : 23443399 Nampally : 23435162 Kachiguda : 27568624 Jubilee Bus Station: 27802203 Imlibun Bus Station: 24614406 LOCAL TRANSPORT: The auto rickshaws are metered, so make sure that the meter is showing the minimum fare (Rs. 10 now) when you get in, and that he's set the meter after you've engaged him. Pay what the meter shows when you get off, but if the minimum fare in the meter is still being shown as Rs. 8, the driver has to produce a card to show the actual amount. You will have to pay one and a half return amount if you are hiring an auto rickshaw between 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. Taxis are not widely used in Hyderabad although prepaid taxis are available at the airport, Secunderabad and Nampally railway stations. These are generally expensive. URLs about Hyderabad you can use: http://www.fullhyderabad.com/htdocs/visiting_the_city/home.phtml http://www.fullhyderabad.com/htdocs/visiting_the_city/hotels.phtml http://www.hitex.co.in/html/cityinform.htm For your accommodation enquiries on your arrival at Hyderabad please contact Mr. Murahari at 9848845841. Dr. C.K. Ramaiah, Director, Centre for Information Science, Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Research and Social Action [MGNIRSA], Street No.17, Gaganmahal Road, Domalguda, Hyderabad 500 029, Andhra Pradesh. Telephone: 040-27672492; Facsimile: 091-40-27664920 Email: cis.dsrf(a)gmail.com or chennupati_kramaiah(a)yahoo.com Dimple Patel, Assistant Librarian, MGNIRSA, Hyderabad. INDIA. --------------------------------------- 1. Contribute to LDL: Librarians' Digital Library https://drtc.isibang.ac.in 2. Join today Digital Library Discussion Forum http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg ------------------------------------------------- "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library" Jorge Luis BORGES (1899-1986) __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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OPEN Genomics
by Subbiah Arunachalam 18 Mar '06

18 Mar '06

From Peter Suber's blog OA to genome sequences for 11 more mammals Glyn Moody, The Power of Open Genomics, Open..., March 16, 2006. Excerpt: The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has announced the latest round of mega genome sequencing projects - effectively the follow-ons to the Human Genome Project. These are designed to provide a sense of genomic context, and to allow all the interesting hidden structures within the human genome to be teased out bioinformatically by comparing them with other genomes that diverged from our ancestors at various distant times. Three more primates are getting the NHGRI treatment: the rhesus macacque, the marmoset and the orangutan. But alongside these fairly obvious choices, eight more mammals will be sequenced too....If you are not quite sure whom to vote for, you might want to peruse a great page listing all the genomes currently being sequenced for the NHGRI, which provides links to a document...explaining why each is important (there are pix, too). More seriously, it is worth noting that this growing list makes ever more plain the power of open genomics. Since all of the genomes will be available in public databases as soon as they are completed (and often before), this means that bioinformaticians can start crunching away with them, comparing species with species in various ways. Already, people have done the obvious things like comparing humans with chimpanzees, or mice with rats, but the possibilities are rapidly becoming extremely intriguing....And beyond the simple pairing of genomes, which yields a standard square-law richness, there are even more inventive combinations involving the comparison of multiple genomes that may reveal particular aspects of the Great Digital Tree of Life, since everything may be compared with everything, without restriction. Now imagine trying to do this if genomes had been patented, and groups of them belonged to different companies, all squabbling over their "IP". The case for open genomics is proved, I think. From Peter Suber's blog OA to genome sequences for 11 more mammals Glyn Moody, http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2006/03/power-of-open-genomics.html The Power of Open Genomics , Open... , March 16, 2006. Excerpt: The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/mar2006/nhgri-15.htm announced the latest round of mega genome sequencing projects - effectively the follow-ons to the Human Genome Project. These are designed to provide a sense of genomic context, and to allow all the interesting hidden structures within the human genome to be teased out bioinformatically by comparing them with other genomes that diverged from our ancestors at various distant times. Three more primates are getting the NHGRI treatment: the rhesus macacque, the marmoset and the orangutan. But alongside these fairly obvious choices, eight more mammals will be sequenced too....If you are not quite sure whom to vote for, you might want to peruse a great http://www.genome.gov/10002154 page listing all the genomes currently being sequenced for the NHGRI, which provides links to a http://www.genome.gov/Pages/Research/Sequencing/SeqProposals/Lowcoveragemam… document ...explaining why each is important (there are http://www.genome.gov/17516871 pix , too). More seriously, it is worth noting that this growing list makes ever more plain the power of open genomics. Since all of the genomes will be available in public databases as soon as they are completed (and often before), this means that bioinformaticians can start crunching away with them, comparing species with species in various ways. Already, people have done the obvious things like comparing humans with chimpanzees, or mice with rats, but the possibilities are rapidly becoming extremely intriguing....And beyond the simple pairing of genomes, which yields a standard square-law richness, there are even more inventive combinations involving the comparison of multiple genomes that may reveal particular aspects of the Great Digital Tree of Life, since everything may be compared with everything, without restriction. Now imagine trying to do this if genomes had been patented, and groups of them belonged to different companies, all squabbling over their "IP". The case for open genomics is proved, I think.

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INFN ON PEST CONTROL MEASURES IN LIBRARUES
by vijaykumar nayak 18 Mar '06

18 Mar '06

----------It is requested to post the following message---------- Dear Professionals, What are the measures required for controlling the pests at library. 1. For preventing the rats, 2. For book worms/ Dust etc. It is requested to give your valuable suggestions for preventing the pests . Thanking you Vijay Nayak VTU-Library Belgaum-590 014 --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. ----------It is requested to post the following message---------- Dear Professionals, What are the measures required for controlling the pests at library. 1. For preventing the rats, 2. For book worms/ Dust etc. It is requested to give your valuable suggestions for preventing the pests . Thanking you Vijay Nayak VTU-Library Belgaum-590 014 Jiyo cricket on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailcricket/*http://in.sports.yahoo.com/cric… Yahoo! India cricket http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailmobilemessenger/*http://in.mobile.yahoo.… Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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Seminar notice
by Krishnamurthy M 18 Mar '06

18 Mar '06

Dear Moderator, Kindly arrange to announce the following lecture invitation to the benefit of the LIS- forum members. Association of British Scholars Karnataka Chapter (Regd : 461/98-99) And British Library Cordially invite you to the special lecture on "Granad Challenges in Information Retrieval" by Michael Shepherd Professor Deparartment of Computers Science Dalhousie University, Canada at The British Lirbary on Saturday, 25th March 2006 at 4.30 PM. Prof.I.K.Ravichandra Rao Mr.K.T.Rajan Mr.R.Dhandapani Mr.I.H.Jagirdar (President) ( Secretary) (Treasurer) (Manager) -- Dr.M.Krishnamurthy Librarian Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road R.V.C.E. Post Bangalore 560059 Ph:91-80-8483002/3/4/4 Fax: 91-80-8484265

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Stockholm Challenge 2006 award Finalist - OpenMED@NIC
by Sukhdev Singh 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

Dear Friends, Our OpenMED@NIC < http://openmed.nic.in > has been nominated as a finalist in the Health Category of the Stockholm Challenge 2006 award. List of finalists can be viewed at http://event.stockholmchallenge.se/finalists.php OpenMED@NIC is an Open Access Repository in Medical and Allied Sciences. Thanks --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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Patents & Standarda
by ACHAR S 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

Dear Professional collegues, Can anybody give some tips on how to maintain patents & standards in a manufacturing firm Where the library has to preserve this type of documents. Thanks Achar SBMJCE Bangalore __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [oa-india] OpenMED as Stockholm Challenge 2006 Award Finalist
by Subbiah Arunachalam 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

Congrats to the NIC team! We hope they win the award. About five years ago MSSRF won the Stockholm Challenge Award for their Information Village research project. Arun ----- Original Message ----- From: "Naina Pandita" <naina(a)nic.in> To: "Discussion Group for Open Access Workshop India" <oa-india(a)dgroups.org> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 2:39 PM Subject: [oa-india] OpenMED as Stockholm Challenge 2006 Award Finalist > > We are happy to inform all that the OpenMED@NIC (http://openmed.nic.in) > has been nominated as a finalist in the Health Category of the Stockholm > Challenge 2006 award. List finalists can be viewed at > http://event.stockholmchallenge.se/finalists.php > > Naina Pandita > > > Dgroups is a joint initiative of Bellanet, DFID, Hivos, ICA, ICCO, IICD, > OneWorld, UNAIDS and World Bank > --- You are currently subscribed to oa-india as: arun(a)mssrf.res.in > To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-oa-india-137598Y(a)dgroups.org

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RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE MEETING
by Puna Das 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE (An organ of Ranganathan Research Trust, Regd.:25953, 1995) J8/123, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi Date : 10th March, 2006 We have the pleasure to announce the 120th Monthly Meeting of RRC on 24th March, 2006 (4th Saturday) at 10.00 hrs. Venue : National Foundation For India Core IV A , Upper Ground Floor India Habitat Centre, New Delhi - 110003 Topic : Latest trends in Digital Libraries Speaker : Ms. Tulika Pandey, Additional Director,Department of Information Technology, New Delhi Kindly make it convenient to attend the meeting and participate to benefit the group by discussions. Thanking you, Yours sincerely, SUBHASH DESHMUKH Manager Program Committee F-46 A, MIG Flats, Hari Kunj, Hari Nagar NEW DELHI- 110 064 Ph. 25496916 ____________________________________________________ Swapan Kumar Patra Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) New Delhi - 110016 ____________________________________________________ --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE (An organ of Ranganathan Research Trust, Regd.:25953, 1995) J8/123, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi Date : 10th March, 2006 We have the pleasure to announce the 120th Monthly Meeting of RRC on 24th March, 2006 (4th Saturday) at 10.00 hrs. Venue : National Foundation For India Core IV A , Upper Ground Floor India Habitat Centre, New Delhi - 110003 Topic : Latest trends in Digital Libraries Speaker : Ms. Tulika Pandey, Additional Director,Department of Information Technology, New Delhi Kindly make it convenient to attend the meeting and participate to benefit the group by discussions. Thanking you, Yours sincerely, SUBHASH DESHMUKH Manager Program Committee F-46 A, MIG Flats, Hari Kunj, Hari Nagar NEW DELHI- 110 064 Ph. 25496916 ____________________________________________________ Swapan Kumar Patra Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) New Delhi - 110016 ____________________________________________________ Jiyo cricket on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailcricket/*http://in.sports.yahoo.com/cric… Yahoo! India cricket http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailmobilemessenger/*http://in.mobile.yahoo.… Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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Panel Discussion on Library Budgeting
by SUNIL M.V. 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (R) (MyLISA), Mysore Cordially invites you to the Panel Discussion on LIBRARY BUDGETING Date and Time March 18, 2006 : 3.30pm to 4.30pm VENUE Vidyanidhi Seminar Hall Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangothri, Mysore 570 004 PANEL MEMBERS Sri. M. Puttanaiah Librarian (Retd.), Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering (SJCE) Project Manager, JSS Consultants, SJCE Mysore Sri. H.Y. Mahakuteshwar Head, FOSTIS (CFTRI Library) Central Food Technological Research Institute Mysore Dr. N.S. Harinarayana Senior Lecture Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (R) (MyLISA), Mysore Cordially invites you to the Panel Discussion on LIBRARY BUDGETING Date and Time March 18, 2006 : 3.30pm to 4.30pm VENUE Vidyanidhi Seminar Hall Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangothri, Mysore 570 004 PANEL MEMBERS Sri. M. Puttanaiah Librarian (Retd.), Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering (SJCE) Project Manager, JSS Consultants, SJCE Mysore Sri. H.Y. Mahakuteshwar Head, FOSTIS (CFTRI Library) Central Food Technological Research Institute Mysore Dr. N.S. Harinarayana Senior Lecture Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39174/*http://photomail.mai… New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.

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Wireless Networking in the Developing World
by Subbiah Arunachalam 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

I received this in the mail this morning. The book may of interest to some of you. Best wishes. Arun > The new book Wireless Networking in the Developing World had five or > six case studies. It is publisned under the Creative Commons > Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license. You can get individual parts of > the book by going to: > > http://wndw.net/index.html > > Bob Babione

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New OA LIS journal
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

>From Peter Suber's blog New OA journal in LIS Evidence Based Library and Information Practice is a new peer-reviewed OA journal published by the University of Alberta Learning Services. The inagural issue is now online. (Thanks to the Creative Librarian.) From the site: The purpose of the journal is to provide a forum for librarians and other information professionals to discover research that may contribute to decision making in professional practice. EBLIP publishes original research and commentary on the topic of evidence based library and information practice, as well as reviews of previously published research (evidence summaries) on a wide number of topics.

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Rare collections in digital form
by Saji S. Nair 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

Dear All, Around three lakh pages of 700 rare books could now be accessed in digital form, as Trivandrum Public library has recently completed its first phase of digitization project. Most of the documents are 200 years old and the digital form has been prepared without losing the originality of the text. This digital archiving project using ‘Nitya’ software was designed by the Centre for Informatics Research and Development, Trivandrum and supervised by a team of LIS professionals. Trivandrum public library is one of the oldest libraries in India and the first in Kerala. The library was set up during the reign of Swathi Tirunal, ruler of erstwhile Travancore, in 1829 A.D., a few years before the Imperial Library of Calcutta and the National Library were established. The library is ranked among the best in south India. In 1958, it was declared the `State Central Library'. Now, the institution functions under the Department of Higher Education, Government of Kerala. The digitization project is the first of its kind in the state with full text retrieval of rare collections in English and Malayalam languages and will continue with some ambitious plans. Bye for now Saji S. Nair Regional Cancer Centre Library Thiruvananthapuram Kerala _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

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Colour scanner
by Smita Chandra 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

Dear Professionals, We are trying to find any library that has experience with the following or any model of Zeutschel colour scanner, OS 10000 TT A2 OS 8000 TT A2 We would like to get in touch with anybody who has experience using colour scanners from Zeutschel. Thanking you in anticipation, Yours sincerely, Smita-- ********************************************************************************** Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218 Maharashtra, INDIA Ph.: 91-022-27484137 Mobile: 9820404583 Fax: 91-022-27480763 Email : smitac_in(a)yahoo.com ********************************************************************************** --------------------------------- Yahoo! Travel Find great deals to the top 10 hottest destinations! Dear Professionals, We are trying to find any library that has experience with the following or any model of Zeutschel colour scanner , OS 10000 TT A2 OS 8000 TT A2 We would like to get in touch with anybody who has experience using colour scanners from Zeutschel. Thanking you in anticipation, Yours sincerely, Smita-- ********************************************************************************** Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218 Maharashtra, INDIA Ph .: 91-022-27484137 Mobile : 9820404583 Fax : 91-022-27480763 Email : mailto:smitac_in@yahoo.com smitac_in(a)yahoo.com ********************************************************************************** Yahoo! Travel http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylc=X3oDMTFscDlocTFiBF9TAzMyOTc1MDIEX3MDMjcxOTQ4MQ… Find great deals to the top 10 hottest destinations!

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OAI Capture by Search Engines
by Sukhdev Singh 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

OAI Capture by Search Engines Frank McCown and Others [1] has made a study to determine how much OAI-PMH exposed metadata is being indexed by popular search engines. >From their sample they conclude that Yahoo indexed 65%, followed by Google (44%) and MSN (7%). 1. Search Engine Coverage of the OAI-PMH Corpus by Frank McCown, Xiaoming Liu, Michael L. Nelson, and Mohammad Zubair (submitted to IEEE Internet Computing). <http://library.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/getfile?LA-UR-05-9158.pdf> --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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SMEALSearch
by vimal kumar 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

SMEALSearch is a publicly available vertical digital library and search engine hosted at Penn State's Smeal College of Business that focuses on academic business documents. SmealSearch crawls the web and harvests, catalogs, and indexes academic business documents. The search engine crawls websites of academia, commerce, research institutes, government agencies, etc. for academic business documents, including published articles, working papers, white papers, consulting reports, etc. http://smealsearch2.psu.edu/index.html/ Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. SMEALSearch is a publicly available vertical digital library and search engine hosted at Penn State 's Smeal College of Business that focuses on academic business documents. SmealSearch crawls the web and harvests, catalogs, and indexes academic business documents. The search engine crawls websites of academia, commerce, research institutes, government agencies, etc. for academic business documents, including published articles, working papers, white papers, consulting reports, etc. http://smealsearch2.psu.edu/index.html/ http://smealsearch2.psu.edu/index.html/ Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39174/*http://photomail.mai… New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.

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The Open Library
by yekanath kamble 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

LEARNING The open library By Usha Mukunda In this system the librarian moves beyond the concept to actual interaction with users The library is the core of every learning institution where information and knowledge are freely accessible to the learner community. But wait! Is this actually happening in our school and college libraries? When information is freely available on the Internet, is it not an anomaly to restrict access to it in the library? In fact the library has an edge over the Internet, because here the user can benefit from the librarian's presence to screen material for appropriateness, and authenticity. The students learn many important skills of hunting, gathering and assessing for value. They also pick up crucial messages from the adults who run the system. When they understand that there can be freedom only when it goes with responsibility, they have learnt a lesson for life. Against this background, the open library is a perfectly natural state of affairs. This is a library that is open at all times to all users. For the young person, there is no thought of misuse and mistrust as yet! It is up to us to keep it that way. What are the necessary ingredients for starting, and more importantly, sustaining an open library? Mutual trust is the ground from which the library functions. The first step and in fact, every step thereafter, is to be in communication and dialogue with the users. Then, the entire community of users, including the librarian, feels a sense of ownership and accountability. An open library does not imply a casual, or worse, a careless attitude. Rather, it demands of the librarian constant awareness and alertness to anticipate needs, opportunities for further enhancement, and possibilities for all eventualities. It requires affectionate but firm interaction with the users. This is not a list of super qualities but something that evolves out of the relationship with the living library. How can we move beyond the mere concept of an Open Library into the reality of it? Believing that it works (and it has) helps! How are the practical jobs in a library to be done with so much time going on interaction with users? First, make sure every class has a weekly library period. Now you have your work force. At this time, you can have activities to enhance reading and reference work. Students can help in reshelving and book repair. It is amazing how many books they rediscover during these pleasurable tasks. Methods for borrowing and returning can be made very simple enjoy it. Begin the year with an orientation session with every class. Then, over the year, involve children of all ages in book store trips and exhibitions to select books. In the school, organise activities to enhance the use of materials and resources. Arrange talks by authors and other teachers on their favourite books. If you do not want be left behind, find the right software and get your library automated. This will take you further into a successful open library and keep you on par with the most up-to-date libraries. The Open Library is a happy and lively place! YEKANATH N KAMBLE ASST.LIBRARIAN R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING,MYSORE ROAD, BANGALORE-59 (INDIA) PH.91-80-28600351/28604705/28600184 FAX : 91 - 80 - 2860 0337 MOBILE.9448585358 --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments. LEARNING The open library By Usha Mukunda In this system the librarian moves beyond the concept to actual interaction with users The library is the core of every learning institution where information and knowledge are freely accessible to the learner community. But wait! Is this actually happening in our school and college libraries? When information is freely available on the Internet, is it not an anomaly to restrict access to it in the library? In fact the library has an edge over the Internet, because here the user can benefit from the librarian's presence to screen material for appropriateness, and authenticity. The students learn many important skills of hunting, gathering and assessing for value. They also pick up crucial messages from the adults who run the system. When they understand that there can be freedom only when it goes with responsibility, they have learnt a lesson for life. Against this background, the open library is a perfectly natural state of affairs. This is a library that is open at all times to all users. For the young person, there is no thought of misuse and mistrust as yet! It is up to us to keep it that way. What are the necessary ingredients for starting, and more importantly, sustaining an open library? Mutual trust is the ground from which the library functions. The first step and in fact, every step thereafter, is to be in communication and dialogue with the users. Then, the entire community of users, including the librarian, feels a sense of ownership and accountability. An open library does not imply a casual, or worse, a careless attitude. Rather, it demands of the librarian constant awareness and alertness to anticipate needs, opportunities for further enhancement, and possibilities for all eventualities. It requires affectionate but firm interaction with the users. This is not a list of super qualities but something that evolves out of the relationship with the living library. How can we move beyond the mere concept of an Open Library into the reality of it? Believing that it works (and it has) helps! How are the practical jobs in a library to be done with so much time going on interaction with users? https://www.online.citibank.co.in/portal/citiinforms.jsp?form_id=newnriappf… http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/adsimages/red%20180X150.gif First, make sure every class has a weekly library period. Now you have your work force. At this time, you can have activities to enhance reading and reference work. Students can help in reshelving and book repair. It is amazing how many books they rediscover during these pleasurable tasks. Methods for borrowing and returning can be made very simple enjoy it. Begin the year with an orientation session with every class. Then, over the year, involve children of all ages in book store trips and exhibitions to select books. In the school, organise activities to enhance the use of materials and resources. Arrange talks by authors and other teachers on their favourite books. If you do not want be left behind, find the right software and get your library automated. This will take you further into a successful open library and keep you on par with the most up-to-date libraries. The Open Library is a happy and lively place! YEKANATH N KAMBLE ASST.LIBRARIAN R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING,MYSORE ROAD, BANGALORE-59 (INDIA) PH.91-80-28600351/28604705/28600184 FAX : 91 - 80 - 2860 0337 MOBILE.9448585358 Yahoo! Mail http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=38867/*http://photomail.mai… Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments.

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Open Access Medical Textbooks
by Subbiah Arunachalam 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

From Peter Suber's blog Amedeo Challenge expands donor base The Amedeo Challenge, which pays physicians to write OA textbooks, is now accepting small donations as well as large. (For the background, see my 3/3/06 posting.) Excerpt from Vaughan Bell on MindHacks: Amedeo Challenge, the site aiming to fund the creation of high-quality open-access medical textbooks, is now taking small and private donations. On the donations page you can give towards a 'bounty' for the completion of a textbook on a number of different topics. Medical professionals and researchers can work towards creating books to claim the bounty. So far, online books on HIV and influenza have already been published and bounties are available for books on tuberculosis and viral hepatitis. Of interest to readers here might be proposed books on Alzheimer's disease, neurology and Parkinson's disease (I've just donated 50 euros towards the creation of an open-access textbook on neurology and can't wait to see it online). When completed the books will be freely available for online viewing, to print, and will not have restrictions to prevent them from being translated into other languages....Spread the word! From Peter Suber's blog Amedeo Challenge expands donor base The http://amedeochallenge.org/ Amedeo Challenge , which http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_02_19_fosblogarchive.html#114089587… pays physicians to write OA textbooks , is now accepting small donations as well as large. (For the background, see my 3/3/06 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_02_26_fosblogarchive.html#114140119… posting .) Excerpt from http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2006/03/amedeo_challenge_now.html Vaughan Bell on MindHacks : Amedeo Challenge, the site aiming to fund the creation of high-quality open-access medical textbooks, is now taking small and private donations. On the donations page you can give towards a 'bounty' for the completion of a textbook on a number of different topics. Medical professionals and researchers can work towards creating books to claim the bounty. So far, online books on HIV and influenza have already been published and bounties are available for books on tuberculosis and viral hepatitis. Of interest to readers here might be proposed books on Alzheimer's disease, neurology and Parkinson's disease (I've just donated 50 euros towards the creation of an open-access textbook on neurology and can't wait to see it online). When completed the books will be freely available for online viewing, to print, and will not have restrictions to prevent them from being translated into other languages....Spread the word!

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BBC E-mail: Warning over African internet cable
by Arun 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

Arun saw this story on BBC News Online and thought you should see it. ** Message ** It is important that Africa has affordable (low-cost) high quality connectivity for OA to be meaningful. Arun ** Warning over African internet cable ** Campaigners fear that the new fibre optic cable to be built around East Africa could be a missed opportunity to speed up internet access in the region. < http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/africa/4787422.stm > ** BBC Daily E-mail ** Choose the news and sport headlines you want - when you want them, all in one daily e-mail < http://www.bbc.co.uk/dailyemail/ > ** Disclaimer ** The BBC is not responsible for the content of this e-mail, and anything written in this e-mail does not necessarily reflect the BBC's views or opinions. Please note that neither the e-mail address nor name of the sender have been verified. If you do not wish to receive such e-mails in the future or want to know more about the BBC's Email a Friend service, please read our frequently asked questions. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/4162471.stm

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Yahoo! Messenger with Voice to Siemens Gigaset cordless phones.
by Roopa E 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

Hi, Here is an intresting news. "Siemens and Yahoo! are teaming up to bring Yahoo! Messenger with Voice to Siemens Gigaset cordless phones". Under the agreement, Siemens will offer a USB adapter that will let users make and receive calls through the free calling features of Yahoo! Messenger with Voice, and also to make calls to fixed phone lines through the Yahoo! Phone In and Phone Out premium services. The adapter promises to allow users to access their Yahoo! Messenger friends' lists, view contacts and presence status, and change their presence status from the Siemens phone. "While Siemens provides the plug-and-play cordless phone devices, Yahoo! delivers the 'killer-app' communication features that make in-home IP attractive to customers," said Martin Kinne, CEO of Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices. The Gigaset M34 USB adapter will be compatible with Gigaset cordless phones introduced after 2004 and should be available by the third quarter of this year. Regards Roopa. E

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two clicks for new books
by ++ Mukesh Anand ++ 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

My VistaPrint Electronic Business CardDear Moderator Please circulate the following message on lis-forum. Thanks Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing www.monitorinfo.com -------------------------------------------------- Dear Reader Monitor Links - you are just 2 mouse clicks away from Latest Books published by various international publishers in your areas of interest. First click on Monitor Links , Second click on any title of your interest. (or paste the link http://del.icio.us/newbooks in your browser for first click) Monitor Links updates these handpicked titles daily thus eliminitates your time consuming surfing of various publishers websites for latest books. Monitor Links is not confined to any publisher(s) thus offers unbiased and quality information for the benefit of its readers. Please forward & spread this message to all Book Readers, and send your comments and suggestions to monitorlinks(a)gmail.com thus helping to improve and upgrade the service. Happy Reading Monitor's Customer Care Center - - p.s. bookmark Monitor Links in your favorites for easy daily access MONITOR LINKS compiled by Monitor Information Services Hyderabad IIT-Kharagpur New Delhi My VistaPrint Electronic Business Card Dear Moderator Please circulate the following message on lis-forum. Thanks Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing http://www.monitorinfo.com www.monitorinfo.com -------------------------------------------------- Dear Reader http://del.icio.us/newbooks Monitor Links - you are just 2 mouse clicks away from Latest Books published by various international publishers in your areas of interest. First click on http://del.icio.us/newbooks Monitor Links , Second click on any title of your interest. (or paste the link http://del.icio.us/newbooks http://del.icio.us/newbooks in your browser for first click) http://del.icio.us/newbooks Monitor Links updates these handpicked titles daily thus eliminitates your time consuming surfing of various publishers websites for latest books. http://del.icio.us/newbooks Monitor Links is not confined to any publisher(s) thus offers unbiased and quality information for the benefit of its readers. Please forward & spread this message to all Book Readers, and send your comments and suggestions to mailto:monitorlinks@gmail.com monitorlinks(a)gmail.com thus helping to improve and upgrade the service. Happy Reading Monitor's Customer Care Center - - p.s. bookmark http://del.icio.us/newbooks Monitor Links in your favorites for easy daily access http://del.icio.us/newbooks MONITOR LINKS compiled by Monitor Information Services Hyderabad IIT-Kharagpur New Delhi

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Fwd: Seminar on Enhancing Research Through Usage of CSA Technology & Databases
by Saiful Amin 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

Please announce this in LIS-Forum Seminar in Hyderabad -------------------------------- R&D experts today in industry, academia and government need cutting edge information resources and tools to enhance their efficiency. Academic and research institutions offering technology & research programs are thus preparing to increase their R&D focus by providing world class resources and databases to their students and faculty. Focusing on this need, EDUTECH and CSA are conducting a seminar on Enhancing Research Through Usage of CSA Technology & Databases for research institutions and companies engaged in research. Venue: Mehfil Hall, Taj Banjara, Hyderabad Date: 16 March 2006 Time: 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Speakers: Mr Joe Threlfall of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA), UK will talk about the technologies and research databases available in the areas of natural sciences, arts & humanities, social sciences and technology research that serve as a guide to researchers to help them be more effective in their work. Dr. A. Aruna, Head of TIC & Library, GTRE, Bangalore will also share her views on best practices in utilizing research information. Seminar in Chennai ---------------------------- Mr Joe Threlfall of CSA will also talk about the 'Role of Electronic Databases in R&D Excellence' at the presentation being organized by EDUTECH and Central Library, IIT Madras. Venue: Media Resource Center, Central Library, IIT Madras Date: 17th March 2006 Time: 3.30 pm – 5.30 pm. All are welcome to attend these sessions. Kindly send your confirmations to aparna(a)edutech.com or call 044-28330999. Best regards, -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 2/2, Union Street Off Infantry Road Bangalore 560001, India Tel: +91 80 4112 3437 CDMA: +91 93438 26438 Fax: +91 80 4151 7801 www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong."

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CASSIR - Cross Archive Search Services for Indian Repositories
by Francis Jayakanth 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

Dear Member: The correct URL to access the above service is: http://casin.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/oai/ There was an error in the URL mentioned in our previous mail. We apologize for the error. With Best Regards, - Filbert and Francis NCSI, IISc Bg

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Dr. AL Moorthy - New DESIDOC Director (fwd)
by I.R.N.Goudar 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

Dear Professional Colleagues, "Congratulations to Dr. A. L. Moorthy for having taken over as the New Director of DESIDOC, New Delhi" Friends, as you are aware many important library posts, either get filled up by non-professionals or left vacant or being managed by some in-charge professors/scientists. This being the case, I am very happy that Dr. A.L. Moorthy has been appinted as Director of DESIDOC, one of the prestigiuos institution in the country. I am sure Dr. Moorthy with his vast experience covering many institutions including ISRO-SHAR Centre, DRDL, DLRL and DESIDOC will give a new direction and efficient administartion to DESIDOC, especially in the present context of developments in Electronic publishing, Digital Library, OA & Institutional Repositories, Consortia, Networking of Libraries, Electronic Document Delivery, etc. Please join me in congratulating and wishing Dr. Moorthy for his achievement. I am sure Dr. S.S. Murthy, his mentor and ex-Director DESIDOC must be very happy that his much liked junior colleague is now the Director. Brief Resume of Dr. A.L. Moorthy: Born on 1st July 1952, Dr ARAGONDA LAKSHMANA MOORTHY did his Masters in Physics( 1976) and BLIS (1978)from S.V. Univ. Tirupathi, ADIS (1984) from DRTC and Ph.D. in LIS (2000) from Karnatak University. He started his carreer as Sci. Asst at SHAR centre in 1979, as Scientist B at DLRL in 1982, as Scientist C, D & E at DESIDOC (1987-2001), as Scientist E & F Head, Library (2001-06) at DRDL and now as Director, DESIDOC since Feb 28, 2006. He has number publications including journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, etc. He has a vast experience as Editor of number of Books and journals, as Head of Library especially in Developing DL, Providing Intranet based Services and development of Databases and software. He has been active member of many Professional Associations and Member of AIP/AR&DB. Members, Office Bearers of Karnataka State Library Association, Members of SIS, Bangalore Chapther join me in congratulating Dr. Moorthy. I.R.N. Goudar President, KALA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html

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CASSIR - Cross Archive Search Services for Indian Repositories
by Francis Jayakanth 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

Dear Member: NCSI, IISc is pleased to announce the setting up of CASSIR - a prototype OAI-based harvesting services. The service is accessible at: http://casein.iisc.ernet.in/oai/ Please note, this is site is still evolving and some of the links may not yet be clickable or functional. This facility has been set up as part of the ongoing project "Development of OAI-based Institutional Repository Services in India". This project is sponsored by Dept. of Scientific and Industrial Research, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. The idea behind this service is to federate metadata from the distributed OAI-compliant repositories in the country and provide a single point access (searching and browsing) to the country's research output. The single-point access to the country's research output can become a reality only when all the research institutions in the country set up their open access, OAI-compliant repositories and convince their researchers to deposit a copy of all their research papers in the respective repositories. For the present, a total of 7700+ records have been harvested from 11 different repositories. We request the maintainers of all the OAI-compliant repositories to register their baseURLs at: http://casein.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in.in/oai/add.php This will enable us to harvest the metadata from all registered repositories. Please also let us know if your institution/organization is maintaining a repository but is not OAI-compliant. We'll try and make such repositories OAI-compliant. You may write to filbert(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in or franc(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in for any clarification/comments/assistance. With Best regards, - Filbert and Francis NCSI, IISc Bangalore

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SALIS 2006 - National Conference - Call for Papers - Reminder 1
by Arunachalam Hariharan 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

SALIS 2006 National Conference on Initiatives in Libraries and Information Centers in the Digital Era (8-10th June 2006 Organised by Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS) Jointly with Central Library Karunya Deemed University, Coimbatore â 641114 Last date for submission of paper with abstract: 30.04.2006 Pre Conference Tutorial on :Digitize your Library and Build Institutional Repositories Panel Discussion on: Library Automation Strategy and Solutions Last Date for Submission of Papers:30-04-2006 Address for sending papers: A.Hariharan President, SALIS B2-Solai Apt. (opp.to MGR Garden) Mount-Poonamallee Road, Chennai â 600 089. E-mail: salis_info(a)yahoo.co.in Tel: 044-22522448/42014772 Cell: 9444109089 Address for communication regarding Registration, Accommodation and Sponsorship Dr. J. Dominic Organizing Secretary Karunya Deemed University Karunya Nagar, Coimbatore â 641 114 Tamil Nadu E-Mail : kitlib(a)karunya.edu Phone : 0422-2614 570, 2614 571 Mobile: (O) 9443001877 Fax : 0422-2615615 URL : www.karunya.edu For more details visit: http://www.autolib-india.net/salis2006.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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One day workshop on 'Thesis Writing Skills'
by Satish Munnolli 14 Mar '06

14 Mar '06

Dear Colleagues, One more opportunity ... !!! ... to attend the one day interactive workshop on ' Theses Writing Skills '. You may display the same on your library notice board for wider circulation and for the benefit of PhD aspirants. Please check the below message for more information. Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer (ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410 208 India Ph : +91 22 2740 5026 Fax : +91 22 2740 5085 Email : smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in On getting overwhelming response for the first workshop, Western Regional Instrumentation Centre (WRIC) (An Institution Funded by the UGC, New Delhi) at Mumbai University Campus is organising an one day interactive workshop on 'Thesis Writing Skills' again on 26 March 2006. It would be of interest to all researchers, postgraduate students of any discipline and basically targeted to PhD aspirants. The workshop emphasises that a thesis must have a formal structure and a standard style. It requires careful planning and writing skills. Clear writing reflects clear thinking. The quality of research is mirrored in the thesis. Therefore, it is a crucial and difficult stage in research. Keeping this in mind, topics for the workshop have been selected based on the rich experience of a group of senior professors who have guided and assessed research work. Scope: The workshop is planned to cover the structure, style and strategies related to writing a thesis. The spirit of the workshop meticulously takes care of the following few points. The content of the workshop does not interfere with the research guide's way of supervising the work, but it only supplements his/her task. It is designed to save time, money and heartburn of researchers. It is independent of the theme/subject of research. It does not intend to teach research methodology. Contents: The workshop is aimed at giving a number of practical tips in the following areas. Strategic planning of writing process or what do the referees look for and how to meet their expectations. Conceptual organisation of the information gathered from various sources for writing. Writing Process [Chapter scheme: Sections, Paragraphs, Sentences, Words: Maintaining continuity and flow of ideas: Style and Style Manuals: Referencing of print and electronic sources: Bibliography: Nuances of English Language: Choice and rendering of words and punctuation.] Graphics, Illustrations and Tables: Order of introductory and end pages: Appendices and Annexes : Instructions to the data-entry operator and binder: Readability Tests: Editing and Proofreading : Exhaustive check-list before handing over the manuscript for binding: Instructions for producing the content for Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) programme: Preparation for presentation and viva-voce Method of Instruction: Combination of lecture, discussions and exercises. _______________________________________________________ An Interactive Workshop on Thesis Writing Skills Date: 26 March 2006 Time: 10 am to 6 pm Venue: WRIC Lecture Hall University of Mumbai Vidyanagari, Santacruz (E) Mumbai-400 098 Course Fees: Rs 500/- Cash or Cheque/DD (Favouring: Western Regional Instrumentation Centre, Mumbai) Contact: Dr S K Savanur; Ph:91-22-2652 6141; Mobile: 98201 50352 E-Mail: sksavanur(a)rediffmail.com ___________________________________________________________ Application Form An Interactive Workshop on Thesis Writing Skills 26 March 2006 10 am to 6 pm Name: _____________________________ Age: ________ Designation: _____________ Subject: _______________ Address for Correspondence: _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ Telephone: (O): ____________ ® ___________ E-Mail: ___________ Mobile: ____________ Details of Current Research Activity: _________ ________________________________________ Specific Problems in Writing Your Thesis, if any: (Other than those stated under 'Contents' of the workshop) __________________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ Registration Fees: Rs500/- Cheque/DD: Cash: (Favouring: Western Regional Instrumentation Centre, Mumbai) Payment Details: ________________________ Signature of the Candidate Dear Colleagues, One more opportunity ... !!! ... to attend the one day interactive workshop on ' Theses Writing Skills '. You may display the same on your library notice board for wider circulation and for the benefit of PhD aspirants. Please check the below message for more information. Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer (ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410 208 India Ph : +91 22 2740 5026 Fax : +91 22 2740 5085 Email : mailto:smunnolli@actrec.res.in smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in On getting overwhelming response for the first workshop, Western Regional Instrumentation Centre (WRIC) (An Institution Funded by the UGC, New Delhi) at Mumbai University Campus is organising an one day interactive workshop on 'Thesis Writing Skills' again on 26 March 2006. It would be of interest to all researchers, postgraduate students of any discipline and basically targeted to PhD aspirants. The workshop emphasises that a thesis must have a formal structure and a standard style. It requires careful planning and writing skills. Clear writing reflects clear thinking. The quality of research is mirrored in the thesis. Therefore, it is a crucial and difficult stage in research. Keeping this in mind, topics for the workshop have been selected based on the rich experience of a group of senior professors who have guided and assessed research work. Scope: The workshop is planned to cover the structure, style and strategies related to writing a thesis. The spirit of the workshop meticulously takes care of the following few points. The content of the workshop does not interfere with the research guides way of supervising the work, but it only supplements his/her task. It is designed to save time, money and heartburn of researchers. It is independent of the theme/subject of research. It does not intend to teach research methodology. Contents: The workshop is aimed at giving a number of practical tips in the following areas. Strategic planning of writing process or what do the referees look for and how to meet their expectations. Conceptual organisation of the information gathered from various sources for writing. Writing Process [Chapter scheme: Sections, Paragraphs, Sentences, Words: Maintaining continuity and flow of ideas: Style and Style Manuals: Referencing of print and electronic sources: Bibliography: Nuances of English Language: Choice and rendering of words and punctuation.] Graphics, Illustrations and Tables: Order of introductory and end pages: Appendices and Annexes : Instructions to the data-entry operator and binder: Readability Tests: Editing and Proofreading : Exhaustive check-list before handing over the manuscript for binding: Instructions for producing the content for Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) programme: Preparation for presentation and viva-voce Method of Instruction: Combination of lecture, discussions and exercises. _______________________________________________________ An Interactive Workshop on Thesis Writing Skills Date: 26 March 2006 Time: 10 am to 6 pm Venue: WRIC Lecture Hall University of Mumbai Vidyanagari, Santacruz (E) Mumbai-400 098 Course Fees: Rs 500/- Cash or Cheque/DD (Favouring: Western Regional Instrumentation Centre, Mumbai) Contact: Dr S K Savanur; Ph:91-22-2652 6141; Mobile: 98201 50352 E-Mail: sksavanur(a)rediffmail.com ___________________________________________________________ Application Form An Interactive Workshop on Thesis Writing Skills 26 March 2006 10 am to 6 pm Name: _____________________________ Age: ________ Designation: _____________ Subject: _______________ Address for Correspondence: _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ Telephone: (O): ____________ ® ___________ E-Mail: ___________ Mobile: ____________ Details of Current Research Activity: _________ ________________________________________ Specific Problems in Writing Your Thesis, if any: (Other than those stated under Contents of the workshop) __________________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ Registration Fees: Rs500/- Cheque/DD: Cash: (Favouring: Western Regional Instrumentation Centre, Mumbai) Payment Details: ________________________ Signature of the Candidate http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa…

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11th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometricsand Informetrics
by Satish Munnolli 14 Mar '06

14 Mar '06

* Apologies for cross posting * Dear colleagues, First Announcement of the 11th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) has been announced. It is going to be held in June 25-27 2007 in Madrid (Spain) hosted by the Spanish Research Council (CSIC). Please, check the below URL for more information. http://issi2007.cindoc.csic.es Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer (ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410 208 India Ph : +91 22 2740 5026 Fax : +91 22 2740 5085 Email : smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in

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Taking science to rural communities
by Mailing List Manager 13 Mar '06

13 Mar '06

Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:45:02 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Getting science and technology to the farmers and rural communities is an area India is also interested in. And Prof. M S Swaminathan, the architect of India's Green Revolution in the 1960s and currently Chairman of India's Farmers Commission, is spearheading the effort in India. Two years ago he was instrumental in setting up MISSION 2007: Every Village a Knowledge Centre, which aims at much more than merely connecting villages through computers, telecom and the Internet; it is truly a holistic development programme that goes far beyond connectivity, taking care of capcity building, content creation, empowering people through access to knowledge, skills and credit. The President of India, His Excellency Dr Abdul Kalam is keen to modernise rural India by providing rural communities with urban amenities, including communication infrastructure and quality education. Above all, like the Chinese professor (Li Ying Sheng) has realised in the Chinese context, the Indian programme is based on people's particiaption. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Get a good bargain? Chinese farmers surf Internet to sell oranges Surfing Internet at desk has become a daily routine for Luo Mingjun, a 52-year-old farmer in southwest China's Sichuan Province, though he is still clumsy with the mouse. People may be surprised to learn the farmer got a good bargain selling oranges through the Internet in November. However, observers of rural China said the number of farmers like Luo is growing. Farmers in the relatively rich villages along the coastline have been seeking agricultural technologies and market information via the Internet, although computers and the Internet are still novelties for most of China's 900 million farmers. The central government has decided to step up the construction of an information network in rural areas and provide access to telephone for every village and access to the Internet for every town in the coming five years. Luo Mingjun, the owner of an orange orchard of two hectares, got a Pentium III computer as a prize from the county government of Pengshan to encourage the plantation of oranges. Last year, Luo happened to find a strong national market demand for oranges while surfing the Internet. He spread the message among local farmers, who then consolidated their position and successfully raised the wholesale price from 7 U.S. cents per kg to 15 cents. "We made a good deal thanks to the information on the Internet, " Luo said. Luo said villagers were very grateful to him, and some were considering buying their own computers. "We offer farmers computers in the hope that they can enjoy and benefit from information technology. They act as bellwethers and others will follow suit," Li Wanwen, director of the bureau of science and technology in Pengshan. Pengshan County has set up a website, www.pengshan.net, to market its farm produce. Oranges of the county have become popular on the market with the advertisement on the website. However, Li said some remote villages in the county do not even have access to telephones, much less the Internet. "We are planning to deal with it in the near future," he said. In Kaixian County of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, farmers receive short messages on agricultural technology and information on their mobile phones from the local government. However, among the 111 million netizens in China, only a small percentage are farmers. There are 9,200 computers in Pengshan County that are connected to the Internet, but only 156 belong to farmers, according to Li Wanwen. "The central government has realized that it is almost impossible to build a new socialist countryside without the participation of farmers, who are the owners of villages," said Li Yingsheng, professor with China People's University. "To arm farmers with science and technology is key to the success of the campaign of building a new countryside," the professor said. Source: Xinhua

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Future of online publishing
by vimal kumar 11 Mar '06

11 Mar '06

Does online publishing signal the end of the newspaper? Jeffrey Cole, Director of the Center for the Digital Future, and Simon Levene of Yahoo debate the issue. BBC radio documentary now available at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/1478157.stm Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. Does online publishing signal the end of the newspaper? Jeffrey Cole , Director of the Center for the Digital Future, and Simon Levene of Yahoo debate the issue. BBC radio documentary now available at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/1478157.stm Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39174/*http://photomail.mai… New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.

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An all-OA academic press
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

Friends: An American university has launched an all open access publishing programme. Will Indian universities be bold enough to adopt OA for its entire publication output? Should not taxpayers demand it? Should not the Knowledge Commission recommend it? Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----------------------- >From Peter Suber's blog U of Tennessee libraries launch all-OA academic press Newfound Press is a new digital imprint from the University of Tennessee University Libraries. All its publications will be OA. >From the site: Todays scholarly publishing environment presents a strategic opportunity for academic libraries to expand their role in the publications process. Universities are both creators and consumers in the information economy. A digital library press offers the potential for making scholarly and specialized resources widely available at a reasonable cost. The University of Tennessee Libraries is developing a framework to make scholarly and specialized works available worldwide. Newfound Press, the University Libraries digital imprint, advances the community of learning by experimenting with effective and open systems of scholarly communication. Drawing on the resources that the university has invested in digital library development, Newfound Press collaborates with authors and researchers to bring new forms of publication to an expanding scholarly universe. We consider manuscripts in all disciplines, encompassing scientific research, humanistic scholarship, and artistic creation. It will publish OA journals as well as OA books and OA multimedia scholarship. It only asks for non-exclusive rights from authors and offers CC licenses as an option. It works in partnership with the University of Tennessee institutional repository. And it links to Open Access News from the front page --from the phrase, Open Access. What's in it for us? PS: Kudos to the UT librarians! I wish this enterprise well and hope other universities consider testing the same waters. Update. Also see Scott Teague's article about the launch in the Daily Beacon Online.

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Mandating OA for publicly funded research
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

A South African librarian has called for government to mandate open access to publicly funded research as a more democratic, cost-effective and strategic intervention to promote South African science. Will the National Knowledge Commission of India and the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister be bold enough to recommend (and implement) such a step in India? Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------------------------ >From Peter Suber's blog The case for OA, especially in South Africa Allison Moller, The case for open access publishing, with special reference to open access journals and their prospects in South Africa, Masters thesis, Department of Library and Information Science, University of the Western Cape (South Africa), 2006. Abstract: Open access publishing is an initiative that aims to provide universal, unrestricted free access to full-text scholarly materials via the Internet. This presents a radically different approach to the dissemination of research articles that has traditionally been controlled by the publishing enterprise that regulates access by means of subscriptions and licences fees levied on users, predominantly academic libraries. In presenting the case for open access publishing, the thesis explores the contemporary research environment, changing modes of knowledge production, the problems associated with the existing academic journal system, and the subsequent growth of the open access movement as an intervention to reclaim scientific communication. It highlights the ways in which open access better answers the requirements of researchers, funders, governments, and society more broadly. Free access to publicly funded scientific research is more democratic and is necessary for knowledge dissemination and production in a knowledge economy, particularly for developing countries such as South Africa. Attention is drawn to the ways that open access intersects with the ethical norms guiding the practice of research, with the idea of information as a public good, and with other parallel initiatives that resist the enclosure of knowledge through excessive copyright legislation. The study also closely interrogates the economic viability of open access journals, and shows how the author pays model represents a reasonable approach, but by no means the only one available to publishers considering the transition to open access. Sections are also devoted to examining the impact potential of open access articles and the ways in which open access journals can achieve greater permanence. The main research question centres on the feasibility of open access journals becoming widespread within the South African research system. The study presents the findings of an investigation undertaken to assess the current awareness, concerns and depth of support for open access amongst South African stakeholders. Separate questionnaires were distributed to government departments, research councils, research funders, research managers within universities and a sample of published authors from biomedical fields. The conclusion recommends proactive engagement by faculty librarians and organized advocacy on the part of LIASA to promote the cause of open access within South Africa. It further calls for government to mandate open access to publicly funded research as a more democratic, cost-effective and strategic intervention to promote South African science. The gains to be won are particularly relevant for present challenges: training a new generation of researchers and scholars, and stimulating knowledge production and its subsequent application to solve the nations developmental needs.

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Calling for OA to publicly-funded data
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

>From Peter Suber's blog Calling for OA to publicly-funded geospatial data in the UK Charles Arthur and Michael Cross, Give us back our crown jewels, The Guardian, March 9, 2006. (Thanks to Glyn Moody.) Excerpt: Imagine you had bought this newspaper for a friend. Imagine you asked them to tell you what's in the TV listings - and they demanded cash before they would tell you. Outrageous? Certainly. Yet that is what a number of government agencies are doing with the data that we, as taxpayers, pay to have collected on our behalf. You have to pay to get a useful version of that data. Think of Ordnance Survey's (OS) mapping data: useful to any business that wanted to provide a service in the UK, yet out of reach of startup companies without deep pockets. This situation prevails across a number of government agencies. Its effects are all bad. It stifles innovation, enterprise and the creativity that should be the lifeblood of new business. And that is why Guardian Technology today launches a campaign - Free Our Data. The aim is simple: to persuade the government to abandon copyright on essential national data, making it freely available to anyone, while keeping the crucial task of collecting that data in the hands of taxpayer-funded agencies. One government makes the data it collects available free to all: the United States. It is no accident that it is also the country that has seen the rise of multiple mapping services (such as Google Maps, Microsoft's MapPoint and Yahoo Maps) and other services - "mashups" - that mesh government-generated data with information created by the companies. The US takes the attitude that data collected using taxpayers' money should be provided to taxpayers free. And a detailed study shows that the UK's closed attitude to its data means we lose out on commercial opportunities, and even hold back scientific research in fields such as climate change.... In a seminal piece of research into the real cost of charging for access to public data, the late Peter Weiss, of the US National Weather Service, compared open and closed economic models for public sector data. His paper, Borders in Cyberspace: Conflicting Public Sector Information Policies and their Economic Impact, is online. He quoted a 2000 study for the European Commission carried out by Pira International, which noted that "the concept of commercial companies being able to acquire, at very low cost, quantities of public sector information and resell it for a variety of unregulated purposes to make a profit is one that policymakers in the EU find uncomfortable." But why? Pira pointed out that the US's approach brings enormous economic benefits. The US and EU are comparable in size and population; but while the EU spent 9.5bn (£6.51bn) on gathering public sector data, and collected 68bn selling and licensing it, the US spent 19bn - twice as much - and realised 750bn - over 10 times more. Weiss pointed out: "Governments realise two kinds of financial gain when they drop charges: higher indirect tax revenue from higher sales of the products that incorporate the ... information; and higher income tax revenue and lower social welfare payments from net gains in employment." The Office of Fair Trading is preparing a report on public sector information, due this summer, which will "look at whether or not the way in which public sector information holders (PSIH) supply information works well for businesses. It will examine whether PSIHs have an unfair advantage selling on information in competition with companies who are reliant on the PSIH for that raw data in the first place." Though it may already be shooting for an open goal, we urge the OFT to compare the UK with the US; read Peter Weiss's paper; and then, finally, to free our data.

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Let us make data free!
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

Friends: Shoud we not free data? I mean make research and other data freely available to whoever needs them. A number of scientists (including Dr K Sekar of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, Nobel Laureate Sir John Sulston, economist Paul A David, Prof. Suichi Iwata of CODATA and a very large number of others) are helping free data. The National Knowledge Commission might wish to frame policies and recommendations on three RELATED issues, viz. Open Source Software, Open Access to Scientific and Scholarly Literature, and Open Data. Please read on an excerpt from an article in The Guardian (courtesy Peter Suber): More on OA to data Glyn Moody, The Dream of Open Data, Open..., March 9, 2006. Excerpt: Today's Guardian has a fine piece by Charles Arthur and Michael Cross about making data paid for by the UK public freely accessible by them. [PS: see my blogged excerpt.] But it goes beyond merely detailing the problem, and represents the launch of a campaign called "Free Our Data". It's particularly good news that the unnecessary hoarding of data is being addressed by a high-profile title like the Guardian, since a few people in the UK Government might actually read it. It is rather ironic that at a time when nobody outside Redmond disputes the power of open source, and when open access is almost at the tipping point, open data remains something of a distant dream. Indeed, it is striking how advanced the genomics community is in this respect. As I discovered when I wrote Digital Code of Life, most scientists in this field have been routinely making their data freely available since 1996, when the Bermuda Principles were drawn up. The first of these stated: It was agreed that all human genomic sequence information, generated by centres funded for large-scale human sequencing, should be freely available and in the public domain in order to encourage research and development and to maximise its benefit to society. The same should really be true for all kinds of large-scale data that require governmental-scale gathering operations. Since they cannot be feasibly gathered by private companies, such data ends up as a government monopoly. But trying to exploit that monopoly by crudely over-charging for the data is counter-productive, as the Guardian article quantifies. Let's hope the campaign gathers some momentum - I'll certainly being doing my bit. ---- Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Peter Suber's suggestions to India's Knowledge Commission
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

Dear Dr Bhargava: Here are three suggestions for the National Knowledge Commission from Prof. Peter Suber of Earlham University, who runs a daily blog called "Open Access News". India's Knowledge Commission launches its web site India's National Knowledge Commission, launched in June 2005, now has its own web site. The site has separate pages for each of the NKC's five "focus areas": access to knowledge, knowledge concepts, knowledge creation, knowledge application, and knowledge services. The access to knowledge page doesn't mention OA, but comes close in these statements of commitment: Information networks and a culture of information-sharing are required in sectors like education, health, agriculture, business, R&D, food distribution, disaster management, security, etc....National web-based portals need to be established as one-stop comprehensive sources of information on issues like water, sanitation, health, education, housing, nutrition, employment, etc. Technology and the Internet also have an important role in making the recently legislated Right to Information Act more effective in its implementation. Peter Suber's Comment. I have a few recommendations for the NKC suggestion box: (1) support a network of OA institutional repositories at India's universities and research centers, (2) require recipients of publicly-funded research grants to deposit their peer-reviewed manuscripts in these repositories, and (3) encourage these institutions to adopt their own local policies requiring researchers to deposit their research output in them, whether it is publicly-funded or not.

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Fw: 17% GREEN in Japan
by Subbiah Arunachalam 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

----- Original Message ----- From: "SUGITA Shigeki" <sugita(a)LIB.HOKUDAI.AC.JP> To: <JISC-REPOSITORIES(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 5:57 PM Subject: 17% GREEN in Japan >I apologize cross-posting. > > In this January, we, JANUL (Japan Association of National University > Libraries), > had the survey to the academic societies in Japan, which is as "Publisher > copyright > policies & self-archiving"of SHERPA/ROMEO. > > summary: > 710 answers out of the 1730 academic societies in Japan (reply ratio: 41%) > 17% of 710 were green or blue, however, 31% of them (17%) require written > applications > and 35% of them (17%) permit to use publisher PDF. > > The research paper (Japanese); > http://www.tulips.tsukuba.ac.jp/ir/digcon-enq-form.pdf > > Green Societies (.xls raw data) (Japanese) > http://www.tulips.tsukuba.ac.jp/ir/digcon-enq0209.xls > * We are planning to make a list like the SHERPA/ROMEO list, near the > future. > > > Thank you. > > with best regards, > -- > SUGITA Shigeki <sugita(a)lib.hokudai.ac.jp> > University Library, Hokkaido University, JAPAN > HUSCAP http://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/ > OAI-PMH http://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace-oai/request

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Libri: Best Student Paper Award 2006
by rupesh kumar 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

Dear All, Since 1950, through 56 volumes, Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Services has been a leader among scholarly journals in the international library world. As part of its strategy to remain one of the premier library journals, Libri is issuing a call for "Best Student Paper of 2006." This competition supports Libri's goal of publishing the best articles from the next generation of library and information science professionals. Students* at all levels are invited to submit articles with clarity and authority. There is no stated theme. Research papers should address one of the significant issues facing today's librarians and information professionals. Case studies, best practices, and pure research papers are all welcome. * Exception: Senior information scholars returning to school for additional degrees outside the field of library and information science are not eligible for this award. Length: approx. 5000 words Language: English Deadline: May 31, 2006 The best paper will be selected by an independent panel consisting of selected members of the Editorial Board, the Advisory Board and other international experts. Submissions will be judged on the basis of - originality of thought and observation - depth of research and scholarship - topicality of problems addressed - the international readership of the journal The article will be published in the 2006:3 issue. The author of the winning article will be honoured with an award of 500.00 USD and with a complementary subscription to Libri for 2007. If the quality of competition warrants, some papers may be designated as honourable mention and the authors will receive complementary subscriptions to Libri for 2007. The normal provision to the author of 10 offprints and one copy of the complete issue applies to all winners. Manuscripts should be sent to the Libri Editorial Office, Statsbiblioteket, Universitetsparken, DK 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. Electronic submissions are encouraged and may be submitted to libri(a)statsbiblioteket.dk. Author instructions and further indications of the scope of papers suitable for publication in Libri are available at the Libri site at http://www.librijournal.org/authorinst.html Further details at http://www.librijournal.org/award.html Regards, RUPESH KUMAR.A. DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE BANGALORE UNIVERSITY --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments. Since 1950, through 56 volumes, Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Services has been a leader among scholarly journals in the international library world. As part of its strategy to remain one of the premier library journals, Libri is issuing a call for "Best Student Paper of 2006." This competition supports Libri 's goal of publishing the best articles from the next generation of library and information science professionals. Students * at all levels are invited to submit articles with clarity and authority. There is no stated theme. Research papers should address one of the significant issues facing today's librarians and information professionals. Case studies, best practices, and pure research papers are all welcome. * Exception: Senior information scholars returning to school for additional degrees outside the field of library and information science are not eligible for this award. Length: approx. 5000 words Language: English Deadline: May 31, 2006 The best paper will be selected by an independent panel consisting of selected members of the Editorial Board, the Advisory Board and other international experts. Submissions will be judged on the basis of - originality of thought and observation - depth of research and scholarship - topicality of problems addressed - the international readership of the journal The article will be published in the 2006:3 issue. The author of the winning article will be honoured with an award of 500.00 USD and with a complementary subscription to Libri for 2007. If the quality of competition warrants, some papers may be designated as honourable mention and the authors will receive complementary subscriptions to Libri for 2007. The normal provision to the author of 10 offprints and one copy of the complete issue applies to all winners. Manuscripts should be sent to the Libri Editorial Office, Statsbiblioteket, Universitetsparken, DK 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. Electronic submissions are encouraged and may be submitted to mailto:libri@statsbiblioteket.dk libri(a)statsbiblioteket.dk . Author instructions and further indications of the scope of papers suitable for publication in Libri are available at the Libri site at http://www.librijournal.org/authorinst.html http://www.librijournal.org/authorinst.html Further details at http://www.librijournal.org/award.html http://www.librijournal.org/award.html Regards, http://www.bub.ac.in/buLogo.jpg RUPESH KUMAR.A. DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE BANGALORE UNIVERSITY Yahoo! Mail http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/pmall2/*http://photomail.mail.yahoo… Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments.

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RE: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 36, Issue 17
by LS Venkatesh 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

Dear Professionals: I would be grateful if someone can provide the following information. Is there any data available on the number of Universities/Colleges schools offering Undergraduate and Post Graduate Library Science programs in India. Also any data on how many Library Science graduates/post-graduates/doctorates enter the job market in India each year. Thank you. Venkatesh -------------- Venkatesh L S General Manager Edutech India Pvt Ltd 8, Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600 006, India Tel: +91 44 28330999 Fax: +91 44 28331777 GSM: + 91 98403 21214 www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 10:31 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 36, 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. Translation work (annapurna T.S) 2. MSN Search Offers Free Full Text Access to Encarta Encyclopedia (sandeep bhavsar) 3. Document Delivery Service via Google (Dr. R M Vatnal) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 22:04:50 +0530 From: "annapurna T.S" <annapurnats(a)gmail.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Translation work To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <1310ac900603090834k2300e4afy5052a7bcd44396c6(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Professionals, Will anybody please let me know who would take up translation work from Spanish to English in Bangalore? Thanks & Regards, Annapurna

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RFID Technology
by Mr. ANAND 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

Dear Members, Greetings from Anand Dodamani. RFID Technology is gaining momentum now. It is like a Barcode but is read with an electro magnetic field rather than by a laser beam. So the similarity ends there. With the significant advancements in just a few years, it has shown all the signs of becoming the successor technology to barcodes. Because of this possibility, we cannot afford to ignore this new technology, even if we do not embrace it today. The questions raised by Ms. Parinita Samant are worth to be discussed. The ignorant LIS professional like me will be benefited if the people more immersed in Library RFID involve in the discussion. With warm regards, Anand Anand Dodamani Librarian Hashu Advani College of Special Education 64/65, Collectors' Colony, Chembur, Mumbai 400 074. Tel.: (022) 25530451 Quote of the Day : Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. Dear Members, Greetings from Anand Dodamani. RFID Technology is gaining momentum now. It is like a Barcode but is read with an electro magnetic field rather than by a laser beam. So the similarity ends there. With the significant advancements in just a few years, it has shown all the signs of becoming the successor technology to barcodes. Because of this possibility, we cannot afford to ignore this new technology, even if we do not embrace it today. The questions raised by Ms. Parinita Samant are worth to be discussed. The ignorant LIS professional like me will be benefited if the people more immersed in Library RFID involve in the discussion. With warm regards, Anand Anand Dodamani Librarian Hashu Advani College of Special Education 64/65, Collectors' Colony, Chembur, Mumbai 400 074. Tel.: (022) 25530451 Quote of the Day : Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. Jiyo cricket on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailcricket/*http://in.sports.yahoo.com/cric… Yahoo! India cricket http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailmobilemessenger/*http://in.mobile.yahoo.… Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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Translation work
by annapurna T.S 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

Dear Professionals, Will anybody please let me know who would take up translation work from Spanish to English in Bangalore? Thanks & Regards, Annapurna Will anybody please let me know who would take up translation work from Spanish to English in Bangalore? Thanks & Regards, Annapurna

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Document Delivery Service via Google
by Dr. R M Vatnal 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

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MSN Search Offers Free Full Text Access to Encarta Encyclopedia
by sandeep bhavsar 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

MSN Search Offers Free Full Text Access to Encarta Encyclopedia Researchers might be interested to learn that MSN Search is offering a free access to the full text (not just blurbs) of Microsoft's This page offers details about how to get a free pass. No, registration is required. Basically, when you click on a link to Encarta found on MSN Search results pages or in an MSN "direct answer," you're given a two hour free pass (set via a cookie) to the full text of the entire encyclopedia. Once your pass is activated, you can search and access the full text using Encarta search box. OK, your two hour pass has expired and you still want more. No problem! Simply return to MSN Search and click another Encarta link and your free pass is renewed. · Exceptions: The Encarta free pass does not include access to homework tools, literature guides, and sidebars. Also, with your free pass, you can view thumbnails of MSN Encarta illustrations, photographs, audio, and video but not full-size images. Thanks and Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr. V.N.BRIMS Thane(W) 400601 ----------------- Phone : 25364492,25446554 Mobile: 9870484626 email : sandeep(a)vpmthane.org website : www.vpmthane.org ___________________________________________________________ NEW Yahoo! Cars - sell your car and browse thousands of new and used cars online! http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/ ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Photos NEW, now offering a quality print service from just 8p a photo http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

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Fwd: [libtech] Digital preservation : Major gaps in management of digital assets/DPC (UK)
by Mallikarjuna, C 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

hbmallikarjuna <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: To: libtech(a)yahoogroups.com From: "hbmallikarjuna" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 10:29:21 -0000 Subject: [libtech] Digital preservation : Major gaps in management of digital assets/DPC (UK) Dear Professional, I hope this report summery is helpful to our profession. Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) aims to help government, public institutions and private companies turn high awareness into concerted action.The survey reveals that the loss of digital data is commonplace - it is seen as an inevitable hazard by some - with more than 70% of respondents saying data had been lost in their organisation. Awareness of the potential economic and cultural risks is high, with 87% recognising that corporate memory or key cultural material could be lost and some 60% saying that their organisation could lose out financially. In 52% of the organisations surveyed there was management commitment to digital preservation - but only 18% had a strategy in place. In a recent judgement in the USA, Morgan Stanley had more than $1 billion awarded against it as a result of its failure to preserve and hand over some documents required by the courts. The Securities and Exchange Commission in the USA are also looking at fining the same bank over $10 million - specifically for failing to preserve email documents. The data tapes from the 1975 Viking Lander mission to Mars were recently discovered to have deteriorated despite careful storage, and scientists also found that they could not decode the formats used and had to rely on the original paper printouts. The BBC's 1986 Domesday project is another example of the unique fragility of digital material. Designed to capture a picture of Britain in 1986, the collection of photographs, maps and statistical information was recorded onto 30cm laserdiscs The date was only rescued thanks to a surviving laserdisc player and more than a year's effort by specialist teams. According to the DPC-commissioned report, the principal risks to digital material are: the deterioration of the storage medium; obsolescence of hardware, software or storage format; and failure to save crucial document format information (a common example is preserving tables of numbers without preserving an explanation of their meaning). The report identifies 18 core needs, each of which has recommendations which will address them. Recommendations are addressed to organisations, government, and funding bodies. Among the key needs: awareness of digital preservation issues needs to be more commonplace - particularly amongst data creators; organisations need to take stock of their digital materials (55% of the respondents to the survey do not know what digital material they hold); and projects need to be funded from the outset with the long- term value of the information produced and the cost of retention taken into account. There needs to be funding for more digital archives. This UK digital preservation needs assessment study, carried out by the software services company Tessella, looked at digital preservation practice in government bodies, archives, museums, libraries, education, scientific research organisations, pharmaceutical, environmental, nuclear, engineering, publishing and financial institutions. 'Gone are the days when archives were dusty places that could be forgotten until they were needed' said Lynne Brindley, chair of the Digital Preservation Coalition. 'The digital revolution means all of us - organisations and individuals - must regularly review and update resources to ensure they remain accessible. 'Updating need not be expensive, but the report is a wake-up call to each one of us to ensure proper and continuing attention to our digital records'. Peter Townsend, commercial director of Tessella said: 'It is critically important that organisations create long-term pro-active information management plans, and allocate adequate budget and resource to implementing practical solutions'. Robert Sharpe of Tessella added: 'Organisations that create large volumes of digital information need to recognise the benefits of retaining long-term information in digital form so that these can be balanced against the costs of active preservation'. The DPC is a cross-sectoral membership organisation dedicated to securing the preservation of digital resources in the UK. It currently has 28 members and associate members: the British Library, the Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries (MLA), the Consortium of University Research Libraries (Curl), the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), Joint Information Systems Committee (Jisc), the National Archives, the National Archives of Scotland; the National Library of Scotland, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (Proni); the University of Oxford, University of London Computer Centre (ULCC), Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS), the BBC Information and Archives, the Centre for Digital Library Research at Strathclyde (CDLR); the Corporation of London, Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC) , the Ministry of Defence, National Electronic Library for Health, National Library of Wales, Natural History Museum, Online Computer and Library Center (OCLC), Open University, Publishers' Association, Research Libraries Group (RLG), Trinity College Library Dublin, the University of Southampton, UK Data Archive, and the Wellcome Library. Previous DPC research: A DPC Members survey, which was undertaken in 2003, revealed details of volumes and formats of digital materials held by DPC members and the issue they faced in their preservation. Additional work was undertaken to provide real-life scenarios of circumstances in which digital materials become vulnerable to loss. In 2005, the Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, funded a sample survey of local and regional organisations in two regions. The report, Mind the gap: assessing digital preservation needs in the UK is the culmination of the two earlier surveys, and a more detailed, wider survey undertaken in 2005. C.MALLIKARJUNA LIBRARIAN, S.B GROUP OF INSTITUTES, BANGALORE-64. Email: hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/libtech/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: libtech-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. hbmallikarjuna <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: To: libtech(a)yahoogroups.com From: "hbmallikarjuna" <hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 10:29:21 -0000 Subject: [libtech] Digital preservation : Major gaps in management of digital assets/DPC (UK) Dear Professional, I hope this report summery is helpful to our profession. Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) aims to help government, public institutions and private companies turn high awareness into concerted action.The survey reveals that the loss of digital data is commonplace - it is seen as an inevitable hazard by some - with more than 70% of respondents saying data had been lost in their organisation. Awareness of the potential economic and cultural risks is high, with 87% recognising that corporate memory or key cultural material could be lost and some 60% saying that their organisation could lose out financially. In 52% of the organisations surveyed there was management commitment to digital preservation - but only 18% had a strategy in place. In a recent judgement in the USA, Morgan Stanley had more than $1 billion awarded against it as a result of its failure to preserve and hand over some documents required by the courts. The Securities and Exchange Commission in the USA are also looking at fining the same bank over $10 million - specifically for failing to preserve email documents. The data tapes from the 1975 Viking Lander mission to Mars were recently discovered to have deteriorated despite careful storage, and scientists also found that they could not decode the formats used and had to rely on the original paper printouts. The BBC's 1986 Domesday project is another example of the unique fragility of digital material. Designed to capture a picture of Britain in 1986, the collection of photographs, maps and statistical information was recorded onto 30cm laserdiscs The date was only rescued thanks to a surviving laserdisc player and more than a year's effort by specialist teams. According to the DPC-commissioned report, the principal risks to digital material are: the deterioration of the storage medium; obsolescence of hardware, software or storage format; and failure to save crucial document format information (a common example is preserving tables of numbers without preserving an explanation of their meaning). The report identifies 18 core needs, each of which has recommendations which will address them. Recommendations are addressed to organisations, government, and funding bodies. Among the key needs: awareness of digital preservation issues needs to be more commonplace - particularly amongst data creators; organisations need to take stock of their digital materials (55% of the respondents to the survey do not know what digital material they hold); and projects need to be funded from the outset with the long- term value of the information produced and the cost of retention taken into account. There needs to be funding for more digital archives. This UK digital preservation needs assessment study, carried out by the software services company Tessella, looked at digital preservation practice in government bodies, archives, museums, libraries, education, scientific research organisations, pharmaceutical, environmental, nuclear, engineering, publishing and financial institutions. 'Gone are the days when archives were dusty places that could be forgotten until they were needed' said Lynne Brindley, chair of the Digital Preservation Coalition. 'The digital revolution means all of us - organisations and individuals - must regularly review and update resources to ensure they remain accessible. 'Updating need not be expensive, but the report is a wake-up call to each one of us to ensure proper and continuing attention to our digital records'. Peter Townsend, commercial director of Tessella said: 'It is critically important that organisations create long-term pro-active information management plans, and allocate adequate budget and resource to implementing practical solutions'. Robert Sharpe of Tessella added: 'Organisations that create large volumes of digital information need to recognise the benefits of retaining long-term information in digital form so that these can be balanced against the costs of active preservation'. The DPC is a cross-sectoral membership organisation dedicated to securing the preservation of digital resources in the UK. It currently has 28 members and associate members: the British Library, the Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries (MLA), the Consortium of University Research Libraries (Curl), the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), Joint Information Systems Committee (Jisc), the National Archives, the National Archives of Scotland; the National Library of Scotland, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (Proni); the University of Oxford, University of London Computer Centre (ULCC), Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS), the BBC Information and Archives, the Centre for Digital Library Research at Strathclyde (CDLR); the Corporation of London, Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC) , the Ministry of Defence, National Electronic Library for Health, National Library of Wales, Natural History Museum, Online Computer and Library Center (OCLC), Open University, Publishers' Association, Research Libraries Group (RLG), Trinity College Library Dublin, the University of Southampton, UK Data Archive, and the Wellcome Library. Previous DPC research: A DPC Members survey, which was undertaken in 2003, revealed details of volumes and formats of digital materials held by DPC members and the issue they faced in their preservation. Additional work was undertaken to provide real-life scenarios of circumstances in which digital materials become vulnerable to loss. In 2005, the Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, funded a sample survey of local and regional organisations in two regions. The report, Mind the gap: assessing digital preservation needs in the UK is the culmination of the two earlier surveys, and a more detailed, wider survey undertaken in 2005. C.MALLIKARJUNA LIBRARIAN, S.B GROUP OF INSTITUTES, BANGALORE-64. Email: mailto:hbmallikarjuna@yahoo.co.in hbmallikarjuna(a)yahoo.co.in Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/libtech/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: libtech-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Jiyo cricket on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailcricket/*http://in.sports.yahoo.com/cric… Yahoo! India cricket http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailmobilemessenger/*http://in.mobile.yahoo.… Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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Lecture invitation
by SRELS 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

Dear Moderator: Kindly arrange to announce the following lecture invitation to the benefit of the lis-forum members. Thanking you, Yours truly, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar Bangalore 560 010. Ph: 080-23305019; e-mail: srels(a)vsnl.com ********* The Board of Trustees of the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS), Bangalore cordially invites you to the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment Lectures (26)(2006) on IMPROVING ACCESS TO INFORMATION ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB by Prof. Carolyn Watters Associate Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on 14, 15 and 16 March 2006 at 6.00 p.m. each day at Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Prof. A. Neelameghan Hon. Visiting Professor, Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute, Mysore Road, 8th Mile, Bangalore 560059 will inaugurate RSVP: K.N.Prasad - Ph: (080)23305109 E-mail: srels(a)vsnl.com

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RFID - some questions
by Parinita Samant 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

Hello, Since there has been much talk about RFID tagging for library books, here are a few questions which I would like to discuss. 1. Why RFID tags, given the fact that they are quite costly, are they really that useful in a library? 2. When practically using these tags, on a book, where exactly would you place the tag? On the spine of the book? On the Cover Page? 3. If it is placed on the spine, and the book gets jostled in any way and falls - would if not affect the tag? 4. If it is placed on the inside of the book, how would one conveniently take stock? On the spine of the book, with a hand-held sensor, it would be quite easy to use it right? 5. If the sensor is too sensitive would it not adversely affect the issue/return of library documents? 6. The idea behind the tagging would be more for making the library services available 24X7 right? In that case, how would a user return books before issuing some others? Eg - a person can issue 4 books at a time, s/he comes to the library and tries to issue a 5th book, since s/he cannot do so, s/he returns a book already issued - how? Where would s/he place it? In a drop box? Or self-service? How does one practically use the RFID tags in a library? I am sure some of you would be using the tags in your library. What has been your experience? How useful do you find the RFID tagging? Would you recommend it to others, and why? It would be great to hear from all of you...... Thanks & Regards Parinita Samant Executive Librarian Hexaware Technologies Ltd Mumbai Thanks & Regards Parinita Samant HexaVarsity Mumbai Library 55919595 - Xt- 9707 DISCLAIMER: This e-mail communication and any attachments may be privileged and confidential to Hexaware and are intended only for the use of the recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not review, disclose, disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail and attachments. If you have received this email in error, please delete the same along with all attachments thereto and notify us immediately at mailadmin(a)hexaware.com <mailto:mailadmin@hexaware.com>.  Hello, � Since there has been much talk about RFID tagging for library books, here are a few questions which I would like to discuss. � Why RFID tags, given the fact that they are quite costly, are they really that useful in a library? When practically using these tags, on a book, where exactly would you place the tag? On the spine of the book? On the Cover Page? If it is placed on the spine, and the book gets jostled in any way and falls – would if not affect the tag? If it is placed on the inside of the book, how would one conveniently take stock? On the spine of the book, with a hand-held sensor, it would be quite easy to use it right? If the sensor is too sensitive would it not adversely affect the issue/return of library documents? The idea behind the tagging would be more for making the library services available 24X7 right? In that case, how would a user return books before issuing some others? Eg – a person can issue 4 books at a time, s/he comes to the library and tries to issue a 5 th book, since s/he cannot do so, s/he returns a book already issued – how? Where would s/he place it? In a drop box? Or self-service? � How does one practically use the RFID tags in a library? I am sure some of you would be using the tags in your library. What has been your experience? How useful do you find the RFID tagging? Would you recommend it to others, and why? � It would be great to hear from all of you…… � Thanks &� Regards � Parinita Samant Executive Librarian Hexaware Technologies Ltd Mumbai � � Thanks &� Regards � Parinita Samant HexaVarsity Mumbai Library 55919595 - Xt- 9707 � DISCLAIMER: This e-mail communication and any attachments may be privileged and confidential to Hexaware and are intended only for the use of the recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not review, disclose, disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail and attachments. If you have received this email in error, please delete the same along with all attachments thereto and notify us immediately at mailadmin(a)hexaware.com

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Lecture Demonstration of eGranary Project
by Gowri Ravindranth 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

Dear Friends: The Madras Library Association (MALA) Computer Society of India (CSI), Chennai Chapter & Department of Information Science, University of Madras Cordially invite you to a Lecture Demonstration of eGranary Digital Library Project by Mr. Cliff Missen (Director, eGranary Project, University of Iowa ) and Dr. Padmini Srinivasan (Professor, School fo Library and Information Science The University of Iowa ) at 4.30 p.m. on Monday, March 13, 2006 Venue: Department of Information Science, University of Madras Chepauk, Chennai 600 005 eGranary provides millions of digital educational resources to institutions lacking adequate Internet access. Through a process of garnering permissions, copying Web sites, and delivering them to intranet Web servers INSIDE their partner institutions in developing countries, eGranary DL delivers millions of multimedia documents that can be instantly accessed by patrons over their local area networks at no cost. It is a low cost solution and aims at bridging the digital divide. The cost of DL of 2.2 million documents on a 250 GB external drive would be just $350 per year. More info on this project can be seen at: http://www.widernet.org/digitallibrary/ http://www.widernet.org/digitallibrary/ The Programme 4.00 p.m. Tea 4.30 p.m. Welcome address by Dr. Manorama Srinath, Professor & Head, Dept. of Information Science, University of Madras 4.35 p.m. - Introduction of the speakers by Mr. H. R. Mohan, Chairman, Div VIII, Computer Society of India 4.40 p.m. Presentation and Demo of eGranary DL Project by Mr. Cliff Missen Co-Director, WiderNet Project and Prof. Padmini Srinivasan School of Library & Information Science University of Iowa 6.00 p.m. Q & A 6.15 p.m. Vote of Thanks by Dr. A. Amudhavalli President, MALA Looking forward to see you and your colleagues on 13th. With regards, L. R. Gowri Secretary, MALA

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Workshop on Digital Libraries
by SUNIL M.V. 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

Dear Professionals, MyLISA (Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association) in collaboration with SDM-IMD (SDM Institute for Management Development, Mysore) is jointly organizing a hands-on Workshop on Digital Libraries for the practicing librarians and information professionals. The proposed three-day workshop is scheduled during April 6-8, 2006 at SDM-IMD campus, Mysore. For more information please log on to www.sdmimd.net/workshop Secretary, MyLISA, Mysore --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. Dear Professionals, MyLISA (Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association) in collaboration with SDM-IMD (SDM Institute for Management Development, Mysore) is jointly organizing a hands-on Workshop on Digital Libraries for the practicing librarians and information professionals. The proposed three-day workshop is scheduled during April 6-8, 2006 at SDM-IMD campus, Mysore. For more information please log on to http://www.sdmimd.net/workshop www.sdmimd.net/workshop Secretary, MyLISA, Mysore Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39174/*http://photomail.mai… New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.

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National Seminar on Electronic Publications (23rd and 24th March 2006)
by Dimple Patel 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

Dear Professionals, This is to remind that the last date for early bird registration (Rs. 600/-) to the National Seminar on Electronic Publications (23rd and 24th March 2006) being held by Centre for Information Science, Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Research and Social Action, Hyderabad, is 15th March 2006. Registration after 15th March will be Rs. 650/-. Kindly register at the earliest to avail the early bird registration offer. Sincerely, Dr. C.K. Ramaiah, Prof. & Director, Centre for Information Science, MGNIRSA, Hyderabad. --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. Dear Professionals, This is to remind that the last date for early bird registration (Rs. 600/-) to the National Seminar on Electronic Publications (23 rd and 24 th March 2006) being held by Centre for Information Science, Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Research and Social Action, Hyderabad, is 15 th March 2006. Registration after 15 th March will be Rs. 650/-. Kindly register at the earliest to avail the early bird registration offer. Sincerely, Dr. C.K. Ramaiah, Prof. & Director, Centre for Information Science, MGNIRSA, Hyderabad . Jiyo cricket on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailcricket/*http://in.sports.yahoo.com/cric… Yahoo! India cricket http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailmobilemessenger/*http://in.mobile.yahoo.… Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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