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National Seminar on Knowledge Representation & Information Retrieval
by Mailing List Manager 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Apologies for cross-postings ----------------------------- National Seminar on Knowledge Representation & Information Retrieval Dates: March 22-24, 2006 Venue: DRTC, Bangalore, India Organized by Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Bangalore 560059 The digital medium including the World Wide Web is increasingly being used for scholarly information repositories and for scholarly communication. It is important in this context to advance conceptual work in knowledge organization for all purposes, including databases, digital libraries, and the Internet, and to develop effective mechanisms for information organization and retrieval. Research in this area has adopted several new approaches that include: enhancing the structure and content of digital resources, improving the capabilities of search engines, adapting traditional knowledge organizational tools for the digital environment, developing new tools for knowledge organization, etc. This seminar will focus on these aspects. Call for Papers: Papers addressing the above aspects of Knowledge Organization research and practice are welcome. The themes identified include (but are not limited to) the following: 1. Traditional systems of knowledge organization in the digital environment 2. New forms of knowledge organization: Ontologies and knowledge ordering; Transforming traditional systems to newer forms 3. Multilingual problems of information retrieval 4. Knowledge Organization in corporate information systems 5. Standards; Metadata sets, Markup Languages, Knowledge Organization for Multimedia Information 6. Semantic Web 7. Case studies showcasing research, experiments and ongoing projects in the area Participants: 1. Library & Information Community-teachers, researchers and practitioners 2. Representatives from the information industry, specially those involved in digital content creation for the Web 3. Researchers from Computer Science, particularly those involved in R & D work related to search engines, ontologies, etc Those who intend to present papers are requested to send the papers as attachments in OpenOffice or MS-Word format via E-mail to Dr. K.S Raghavan at the following E-mail IDs. raghavan(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in with cc to ksragav(a)hotmail.com. The last date for submission of papers is 31st January 2006. Registration fee: The registration fee of Rs.1000/- (Rupees One Thousand only) per participant should be sent in the form of a Demand Draft drawn in favour of "Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore", payable at Bangalore along with the registration form The Registration Fee covers the cost of Seminar Kit Working Lunch and Tea Last Date for Registration 28th February 2006 Accommodation: Accommodation for a limited number of participants can be arranged at the ISI Guesthouse at a nominal cost (charges as per the rules of the Institute) on a first-come-first-served basis. The filled in Registration form may please be mailed to: Dr. K.S Raghavan Convener DRTC Seminar on Knowledge Representation & Information Retrieval Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road, R.V. College Post Bangalore 560 059 Phone: 080-28483002 / 03 / 04 / 05 Ext: 492 Fax: 91 80 28484265 Email: raghavan(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in ksragav(a)hotmail.com Registration Form 1) Name: 2) Designation: 3) Address: 4) Telephone Number: Office: _____________Res: _______________ Mobile: _______________________________ E-mail: ________________________________ 5) Accommodation required: Yes / No Arrival Information: 6) Demand Draft No: Bank: Amount: Date: Signature of the Signature of the Sponsoring Authority Participant Date: Date: Place: Place:

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RE:Articles index database
by chandrashekhar navalgund 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Dear All, This is in relation to the discussion about indexing by the Librarians / Libraries by Mr. Saiful Amin and Mr. Manjunath. I would like to share my observations and experiences on this topic as mentioned below: First of all we should be aware that what is available in our house ( our library ) then, start searching what is available in others house ( other libraries as well as commercial databases etc. ) so that our readers would be happy and appreciate us that we are true professionals and we are able to know with a push of a button we are able to tell them as to what is available in our library instantly for their research / browsing. In this connection, I would like to share a recent experience of mine. One of our Prof. called me over tel. and informed me that he has to make a presentation in a prestigious seminar on a topic migrant labours and he had the time of two ( 2 ) days hence he would like to know all the articles pertaining to this topic published in EPW in about four-five years period. Fortunately, we started indexing service from 2000 onwards and I just took out the print out of list of articles on that topic and sent to him in about fifteen minutes time. The Prof. was so happy , appreciated and thanked to the library staff for having this service is made available immediately. If we had not done indexing then I might have to depend on the Guide to Periodical Index print version or some other sources but, that would have taken lot of time. Again, the advantage here is not only EPW index of articles but all other journals articles ( for the journals which we are subscribing in our library) which can be traced and referred immediately in our library itself provided if you have made such an index. This service according to me is the first and foremost advantage of ones own librarys indexing. We are professionals and our job is to add value to the services being provided to our readers. If we start depending every thing on others databases and others resources then, we do not have the job to do excepting the traditional way of procuring and processing of books, issuing / returning of materials etc. Moreover, the present generation readers are computer savy (at least in our place) they know how to search information on their own not depending much on the library staff. If we have to get appreciation and respect from our readers as we are professionals then, we have to initiate several such things which some times, one may feel silly but in a longer period which would definitely benefit. By using the commercial indexing services which contains several of foreign journals and out of those thousands of journals we might be subscribing to 50 100 journals. Even if the required articles are available in the list but, those journals are not available in our library then, what is the use of it? another thing is that most of the Indian journals especially, the social science journals are not indexed in many of the commercial databases. So, given the above observations, it is my personal view that one should try to index the journals of their own library for quick retrieval of information and usage of it and which can also be shared with other library indexes or to create a central database of articles index like the good work being done by IGIDR Library. I would like to congratulate and appreciate the work being done by IGIDR Library team. Regards C U Navalgund Dy. Librarian N L S I U, Bangalore Tel : 080-22729259 Email : cun(a)nls.ac.in

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Open Access - Talk by Dr.Alma Swan (4th Jan-Jawaharlal Nehru Conference Hall, Mumbai Univeristy, Kalina)
by Smita Chandra 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Talk on "Open Access: What it can do for science and scholarship in India" by Dr.Alma Swan (Director, Key Perspectives, UK) at Conference Hall, Jawaharlal Nehru Library University of Mumbai, Kalina, Santacruz (E), Mumbai 400 096 On 4th of January from 03.30 PM to 05.30 PM (Free for all. Lecture followed by discussions) Contact : Mrs.Rajhans, LIS Department, University of Mumbai. Ph. 022-26526679 (989232042) (rajhansa(a)yahoo.com) Ms.Ravija Srivastava, LIS Department, University of Mumbai. Ph.:981932070 (ravija_srivastava(a)yahoo.com) Ms.Vasumati Sriganesh, Director, QMed Services Pvt.Ltd.,Mumbai. Ph.022-28229223 & 9867292230 (vasu(a)qmedin.com) Dr.D.K.Sahu, Director, Medknow Publications, Mumbai . Ph. 022-5649181 Summary of the Talk Open access to research findings is the most effective means to enhance the communication, discussion and use of the outputs of scholarly endeavor. Scholars' findings have traditionally been largely locked away from all but the lucky few whose libraries were able to purchase expensive journals. Now the World Wide Web has made it possible for scholars to share their results, ideas and inspirations on a truly worldwide basis, whilst still preserving the best of the traditional way of publishing their results - high-quality peer review and editing procedures. Open Access is the great equalizer when it comes to scholarly communication. Dr. Alma Swan shall describe the ways to achieve Open Access, what advantages it brings to scholars and scientists in all parts of the world and what it can do for India's own scholarship and science now and in the foreseeable future. About the Speaker Dr. Alma Swan obtained a first class honours degree in zoology in 1974 and a PhD in cell biology in 1978 from Southampton University. After research fellowships funded by the Cancer Research Campaign at Southampton General Hospital and St. George's Hospital Medical School (London), she took a position as Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Leicester. Her research was in medical cell biology and she taught a range of courses from vertebrate biology to the biology of cancer. In 1985, she moved into science publishing as managing editor of a Pergamon Press (later Elsevier Science) biomedical research indexing service, published both in print and online. In 1996 she jointly founded Key Perspectives. Though she has worked in the commercial sphere for 20 years, Alma retains links with academic life: for four years she was tutor and consultant for the Open University Business School's MBA programme and since 1991 has been tutor for two business strategy courses on Warwick Business School's MBA programme. She holds honorary roles as business mentor and teacher for the Institute for Entrepreneurship (part of the School of Management) at Southampton University. Alma has an MBA from Warwick Business School and is a Member of the Institute of Biology. She is currently an independent consultant on scholarly communication issues and has been working on projects concerned with Open Access to the research literature for several years now, carrying out original research, writing reports and articles and giving many presentation. All her publicly available work can be found in the Open Access Archive on her organization's website at www.keyperspectives.co.uk. ************************************************************************** ********************************************************************************** Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian Library, Information & Documentation Division 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 ********************************************************************************** __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Talk on " Open Access: What it can do for science and scholarship in India " by Dr.Alma Swan ( Director, Key Perspectives, UK ) at Conference Hall, Jawaharlal Nehru Library University of Mumbai , Kalina, Santacruz (E), Mumbai 400 096 On 4 th of January from 03.30 PM to 05.30 PM (Free for all. Lecture followed by discussions) Contact : Mrs.Rajhans, LIS Department, University of Mumbai . Ph. 022-26526679 (989232042) ( http://us.f361.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=rajhansa@yahoo.com rajhansa(a)yahoo.com ) Ms.Ravija Srivastava, LIS Department, University of Mumbai . Ph.:981932070 ( http://us.f361.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=ravija_srivastava@yahoo.com ravija_srivastava(a)yahoo.com ) Ms.Vasumati Sriganesh, Director, http://www.qmedin.com/ QMed Services Pvt.Ltd .,Mumbai. Ph.022-28229223 & 9867292230 ( http://us.f361.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=vasu@qmedin.com vasu(a)qmedin.com ) Dr.D.K.Sahu, Director, http://www.medknow.com/ Medknow Publications , Mumbai . Ph. 022-5649181 Summary of the Talk Open access to research findings is the most effective means to enhance the communication, discussion and use of the outputs of scholarly endeavor. Scholars' findings have traditionally been largely locked away from all but the lucky few whose libraries were able to purchase expensive journals. Now the World Wide Web has made it possible for scholars to share their results, ideas and inspirations on a truly worldwide basis, whilst still preserving the best of the traditional way of publishing their results - high-quality peer review and editing procedures. Open Access is the great equalizer when it comes to scholarly communication. Dr. Alma Swan shall describe the ways to achieve Open Access, what advantages it brings to scholars and scientists in all parts of the world and what it can do for India 's own scholarship and science now and in the foreseeable future. About the Speaker Dr. Alma Swan obtained a first class honours degree in zoology in 1974 and a PhD in cell biology in 1978 from Southampton University . After research fellowships funded by the Cancer Research Campaign at Southampton General Hospital and St. George's Hospital Medical School (London), she took a position as Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Leicester. Her research was in medical cell biology and she taught a range of courses from vertebrate biology to the biology of cancer. In 1985, she moved into science publishing as managing editor of a Pergamon Press (later Elsevier Science) biomedical research indexing service, published both in print and online. In 1996 she jointly founded Key Perspectives. Though she has worked in the commercial sphere for 20 years, Alma retains links with academic life: for four years she was tutor and consultant for the Open University Business School's MBA programme and since 1991 has been tutor for two business strategy courses on Warwick Business School 's MBA programme. She holds honorary roles as business mentor and teacher for the Institute for Entrepreneurship (part of the School of Management ) at Southampton University . Alma has an MBA from Warwick Business School and is a Member of the Institute of Biology . She is currently an independent consultant on scholarly communication issues and has been working on projects concerned with Open Access to the research literature for several years now, carrying out original research, writing reports and articles and giving many presentation. All her publicly available work can be found in the Open Access Archive on her organization's website at http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/ www.keyperspectives.co.uk . ************************************************************************** ********************************************************************************** Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian Library, Information & Documentation Division 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 ********************************************************************************** __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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New Year wishes
by SRELS 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Members of the Staff of Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore, wish all the subscribers of LISFORUM a very happy and prosperous New Year. K.N. Prasad Executive Officer

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Position of Information Officer at ICICI Knowledge Park
by aparajita＠icicikp.com 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Dear Friends, ICICI Knowledge Park has an exciting opportunity in our Virtual Information Centre (VIC) at Hyderabad. VIC is a unique facility offered by ICICI Knowledge Park, with the support of DSIR, Government of India. It provides a wide range of services with the cooperation of several libraries and information centers that form the IKP knowledge network; focused on Biotechnology, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Information technology, Material Sciences and Telecommunications.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> As an Information Officer, you will be responsible for the development, operations and maintenance of the VIC, for providing networking and information support to the Park tenants and liaison with Knowledge Network members. Candidates must possess a Masters Degree in Library and Information Science; MLS/ MLISc. from Library Schools of repute/ ADIS from DRTC or INSDOC. Our ideal candidate will be people-oriented, possess excellent organizational and communication skills, along with a team-oriented, flexible work style. 1 to 2 years of professional library experience is required, candidates having experience in Virtual or digital library setup will be preferred. ICICI Knowledge Park offers a professional work environment, competitive wages and an excellent benefits package. Please send your resume to a <mailto:Aparajita@icicikp.com> parajita(a)icicikp.com Best regards, Aparajita ----- Aparajita Suman Information Officer Virtual Information Centre ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500 078 INDIA < mailto:aparajita@icicikp.com> Phone - Office: +91(40)2348 0054 Fax: +91(40)2348 0007 Dear Friends, ICICI Knowledge Park has an exciting opportunity in our Virtual Information Centre (VIC) at Hyderabad. VIC is a unique facility offered by ICICI Knowledge Park, with the support of DSIR, Government of India. It provides a wide range of services with the cooperation of several libraries and information centers that form the IKP knowledge network; focused on Biotechnology, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Information technology, Material Sciences and Telecommunications. As an Information Officer, you will be responsible for the development, operations and maintenance of the VIC, for providing networking and information support to the Park tenants and liaison with Knowledge Network members. Candidates must possess a Masters Degree in Library and Information Science; MLS/ MLISc. from Library Schools of repute/ ADIS from DRTC or INSDOC. Our ideal candidate will be people-oriented, possess excellent organizational and communication skills, along with a team-oriented, flexible work style. 1 to 2 years of professional library experience is required, candidates having experience in Virtual or digital library setup will be preferred. ICICI Knowledge Park offers a professional work environment, competitive wages and an excellent benefits package. Please send your resume to a mailto:Aparajita@icicikp.com parajita(a)icicikp.com Best regards, Aparajita ----- Aparajita Suman Information Officer Virtual Information Centre ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500 078 INDIA < mailto:aparajita@icicikp.com mailto:aparajita@icicikp.com > Phone - Office: +91(40)2348 0054 Fax: +91(40)2348 0007

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OA and print publishers
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Friends: With the advent of Internet and email, you thought that the post office would have become less important. Please read the latest US Postal Service Annual report (for the year 2005), which is just out. United States Postal Service Source: United States Postal Service (USPS) USPS Annual Report 2005 >From press release: "The results are in - the U.S. Postal Service ended 2005 with a record sixth consecutive year of growth in productivity, wiped out its debt and delivered fifty percent more mail to 32 million more homes and businesses than it did 20 years ago while doing it at 1985 staffing levels. These results are highlighted in the just released 2005 Annual Report of the U.S. Postal Service." With the advent of Open access journals [and open access archives], other professional print journals wouldn't die, as feared by the writer(s) of the recent report of the Royal Society! Physics journals and the central archive (arXiv) coexist for the past 15 years. Free availability of Internet downloaded music has not resulted in music recording companies closing down. Commonsense would make us believe that heavy objects cannot remain up in the air for even a minute, and that thanks to gravity they will fall down. Every day thousands of planes, weighing in tonnes, are crisscrossing the skies at altitudes of 30,000 feet. The same way, contrary to the 'commonsense thinking' of many who believe that giving information free on the Internet will destroy the publishing industry, it will continue to thrive. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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A new book by John Willinsky
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Open Access Source: Inside Higher Ed 'The Access Principle' "Paying for information? In print? That's a model that's just so early 20th century, according to The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship, published last week by MIT Press. The book reviews the various models to bring the dissemination of knowledge online and to make it free, and along the way, the book criticizes plenty of publishing practices, copyright interpretations and scholarly traditions. John Willinsky, professor of language and literacy education at the University of British Columbia, has devoted much of his scholarship to the ideas behind the book. Among other things, he directs the Public Knowledge Project, which is financed by the Canadian government to promote the free exchange of information. Willinsky responded to questions about the themes of his book." --

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Journal price increase since 1993
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Friends: Do you want to know how journal prices (annual subscription costs) are increasing year by year? To gain more perspective about the history of price increases since 1993, read the report. History of SPI since 1993 (XLS, 61Kb). Please visit http://informationservices.swets.com/web/show/id=52169. You will certainly realise why we should promote open access archiving worldwide! Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Federated searching of archives
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Friends: I stumbled on this news item on open access to US archival information. With the Right to Information we in India should also have such access to government information. ---- National Archives and Records Administration Source: AP Archives Smooths Web Access to Records If you ever used the Access to Archival Databases (AAD) from the National Archives of the U.S. it was a pain in the rear. You had to search one database at a time. Well, that's changed. Yes, it's another example of meta or federated searching coming to life. From the AP article: "The revamped Access to Archival Databases site -- http://aad.archives.gov/aad/ -- allows the public to search for free through 85 million documents in 475 files amassed by more than 30 federal agencies." From the site itself, "...Feature global free- text searching across all series and files, in addition to our standard fielded search, and easier and faster ways to find the series and files you want!" Thanks to Randy H. for the news tip. I think the challenge now will being getting reaching these databases. I've been having trouble for the past hour. --- Subbiah Arunachalam

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Articles Indexing
by K A. Sardesai 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Dear All Lis-forum readers, I fully agree with the points open for discussion in case of articles inedxing.Saiful presently I have not yet started the same in my Library (RBI, DESACS Bandra)because of the issues raised by you ,I am facing practically in my profession.Articles indexing is no doubt one of the best service in our profession but then it takes your complete devotion and keen knowledge in the subject which requires heavy reading and awareness and up date knowledge in the respective field.The solo Librarian couldnot offer this service to the users due to lack of human resource to input the proper and concise text.It would be better to opt for the subscription of such databases Libraries or corporates like Informatics, Dialog etc.Manjunath has given a good suggestion to index such journals only which are not included in internationaly published databases. Also I came across with one of the well known organization working for Articles indexing in Libsys but if you ask for a particular back dated article it may not be available immediately may be due to lack of proper maintenance.In India I think there is a lot of manpower and work assimilated but who cares? is the mentality.But yes there are people who devote to the profession like information providers, librarians and Dear Saiful we are one of them . As it is aopen discussion I opined it personnaly and for Articles Indexing We should be selective as per requirement of the organizational needs. Articles Indexing in Libsys is sucessfully working in Reserve Bank of India, Department of Economic Analysis & Computer Services, Library, 6th floor,Mumbai 400001 under the Librarianship of Dr D Kamalavijayan Chief Librarian. kshipra sardesai Saiful we met at DRTC Digital Library workshop and IASLIC 2005 at Grand Haytt , Santacruz.

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article indexing
by Anuranjana Bharti 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Hello all, I would appreciate if you tell me about the scientific libraries using Libsys for journal article indexing. Thanks, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anuranjana Bharti Library Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology Deptt. of Atomic Energy Indore - 452 001 India ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: article indexing
by vaguloju venkateshwarlu 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

dear sir/madam! NRSA(National Remote Sensing Agency) Library in hyderabad using LIBYS for article indexing Venkateshwarlu,V Hyderabad dear sir/madam! NRSA(National Remote Sensing Agency) Library in hyderabad using LIBYS for article indexing Venkateshwarlu,V Hyderabad http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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Open Access : Science and Scholarship in India
by Smita Chandra 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Dear Colleagues, Please find below an invitation from the LIS Department, University of Mumbai, Kalina, for a talk on "Open Access". We request you to please find time for this very interesting talk by a renowned speaker on the subject. We also request you to kindly forward this mail/message to your scientific community, and others who might be interested or benefit Thank you, Smita-- Talk on "Open Access: What it can do for science and scholarship in India" by Dr.Alma Swan (Director, Key Perspectives, UK) at Conference Hall, Jawaharlal Nehru Library University of Mumbai, Kalina, Santacruz (E), Mumbai 400 096 from 03.30 PM to 05.30 PM (Free for those interested. Lecture followed by discussions) Contact : Mrs.Rajhans, LIS Department, University of Mumbai. Ph. 022-26526679 (989232042) (rajhansa(a)yahoo.com) Ms.Ravija Srivastava, LIS Department, University of Mumbai. Ph.:981932070 (ravija_srivastava(a)yahoo.com) Ms.Vasumati Sriganesh, Director, QMed Services Pvt.Ltd.,Mumbai. Ph.022-28229223 & 9867292230 (vasu(a)qmedin.com) Dr.D.K.Sahu, Director, Medknow Publications, Mumbai . Ph. 022-5649181 Summary of the Talk Open access to research findings is the most effective means to enhance the communication, discussion and use of the outputs of scholarly endeavor. Scholars' findings have traditionally been largely locked away from all but the lucky few whose libraries were able to purchase expensive journals. Now the World Wide Web has made it possible for scholars to share their results, ideas and inspirations on a truly worldwide basis, whilst still preserving the best of the traditional way of publishing their results - high-quality peer review and editing procedures. Open Access is the great equalizer when it comes to scholarly communication. Dr. Alma Swan shall describe the ways to achieve Open Access, what advantages it brings to scholars and scientists in all parts of the world and what it can do for India's own scholarship and science now and in the foreseeable future. About the Speaker Dr. Alma Swan obtained a first class honours degree in zoology in 1974 and a PhD in cell biology in 1978 from Southampton University. After research fellowships funded by the Cancer Research Campaign at Southampton General Hospital and St. George's Hospital Medical School (London), she took a position as Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Leicester. Her research was in medical cell biology and she taught a range of courses from vertebrate biology to the biology of cancer. In 1985, she moved into science publishing as managing editor of a Pergamon Press (later Elsevier Science) biomedical research indexing service, published both in print and online. In 1996 she jointly founded Key Perspectives. Though she has worked in the commercial sphere for 20 years, Alma retains links with academic life: for four years she was tutor and consultant for the Open University Business School's MBA programme and since 1991 has been tutor for two business strategy courses on Warwick Business School's MBA programme. She holds honorary roles as business mentor and teacher for the Institute for Entrepreneurship (part of the School of Management) at Southampton University. Alma has an MBA from Warwick Business School and is a Member of the Institute of Biology. She is currently an independent consultant on scholarly communication issues and has been working on projects concerned with Open Access to the research literature for several years now, carrying out original research, writing reports and articles and giving many presentation. All her publicly available work can be found in the Open Access Archive on her organization's website at www.keyperspectives.co.uk. --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. Dear Colleagues, Please find below an invitation from the LIS Department, University of Mumbai, Kalina, for a talk on "Open Access". We request you to please find time for this very interesting talk by a renowned speaker on the subject. We also request you to kindly forward this mail/message to your scientific community, and others who might be interested or benefit Thank you, Smita-- Talk on " Open Access: What it can do for science and scholarship in India " by Dr.Alma Swan ( Director, Key Perspectives, UK ) at Conference Hall, Jawaharlal Nehru Library University of Mumbai, Kalina, Santacruz (E), Mumbai 400 096 from 03.30 PM to 05.30 PM (Free for those interested. Lecture followed by discussions) Contact : Mrs.Rajhans, LIS Department, University of Mumbai. Ph. 022-26526679 (989232042) ( mailto:rajhansa@yahoo.com rajhansa(a)yahoo.com ) Ms.Ravija Srivastava, LIS Department, University of Mumbai. Ph.:981932070 ( mailto:ravija_srivastava@yahoo.com ravija_srivastava(a)yahoo.com ) Ms.Vasumati Sriganesh, Director, http://www.qmedin.com/ QMed Services Pvt.Ltd .,Mumbai. Ph.022-28229223 & 9867292230 ( mailto:vasu@qmedin.com vasu(a)qmedin.com ) Dr.D.K.Sahu, Director, http://www.medknow.com/ Medknow Publications , Mumbai . Ph. 022-5649181 Summary of the Talk Open access to research findings is the most effective means to enhance the communication, discussion and use of the outputs of scholarly endeavor. Scholars' findings have traditionally been largely locked away from all but the lucky few whose libraries were able to purchase expensive journals. Now the World Wide Web has made it possible for scholars to share their results, ideas and inspirations on a truly worldwide basis, whilst still preserving the best of the traditional way of publishing their results - high-quality peer review and editing procedures. Open Access is the great equalizer when it comes to scholarly communication. Dr. Alma Swan shall describe the ways to achieve Open Access, what advantages it brings to scholars and scientists in all parts of the world and what it can do for India's own scholarship and science now and in the foreseeable future. About the Speaker Dr. Alma Swan obtained a first class honours degree in zoology in 1974 and a PhD in cell biology in 1978 from Southampton University. After research fellowships funded by the Cancer Research Campaign at Southampton General Hospital and St. George's Hospital Medical School (London), she took a position as Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Leicester. Her research was in medical cell biology and she taught a range of courses from vertebrate biology to the biology of cancer. In 1985, she moved into science publishing as managing editor of a Pergamon Press (later Elsevier Science) biomedical research indexing service, published both in print and online. In 1996 she jointly founded Key Perspectives. Though she has worked in the commercial sphere for 20 years, Alma retains links with academic life: for four years she was tutor and consultant for the Open University Business School's MBA programme and since 1991 has been tutor for two business strategy courses on Warwick Business School's MBA programme . She holds honorary roles as business mentor and teacher for the Institute for Entrepreneurship (part of the School of Management) at Southampton University. Alma has an MBA from Warwick Business School and is a Member of the Institute of Biology. She is currently an independent consultant on scholarly communication issues and has been working on projects concerned with Open Access to the research literature for several years now, carrying out original research, writing reports and articles and giving many presentation. All her publicly available work can be found in the Open Access Archive on her organization's website at http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/ www.keyperspectives.co.uk . Yahoo! for Good - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/charity/*http://brand.yahoo.com/cyb… Make a difference this year.

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McGraw-Hill - Free Digital Dictionary
by ++ Mukesh Anand ++ 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Dear All Now you can download the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Engineering FREE! Derived from the world-renowned McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th Ed., this engineering reference software offers a wealth of essential information in a convenient, quick-find format. The Digital Edition brings you thousands of terms from all major engineering disciplines, from construction. to chemical engineering. to telecommunications. Click on the url below (or paste the url in your browser), register yourself and download in few minutes http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/getpage.php?page=engarch_dictionary_of_enginee… Best Wishes for the New Year 2006 ++ Mukesh ++ - - Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing MONITOR INFORMATION SERVICES - books + cd-rom's + e-books - Head Office: 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Opp. Deepak Theatre, Narayanguda Hyderabad - 500 029 Telephone: 040-55787065 / 27552390 Facsimile: +91-40-27552390 Branches At : New Delhi & IIT- Kharagpur http://www.monitorinfo.com Library Suppliers of Science, Technology & Management Publications Dear All Now you can download the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Engineering FREE! Derived from the world-renowned McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th Ed. , this engineering reference software offers a wealth of essential information in a convenient, quick-find format. The Digital Edition brings you thousands of terms from all major engineering disciplines, from construction to chemical engineering to telecommunications. Click on the url below (or paste the url in your browser), register yourself and download in few minutes http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/getpage.php?page=engarch_dictionary_of_enginee… http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/getpage.php?page=engarch_dictionary_of_enginee… Best Wishes for the New Year 2006 ++ Mukesh ++ - - Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing MONITOR INFORMATION SERVICES - books + cd-rom's + e-books - Head Office: 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Opp. Deepak Theatre, Narayanguda Hyderabad - 500 029 Telephone: 040-55787065 / 27552390 Facsimile: +91-40-27552390 Branches At : New Delhi & IIT- Kharagpur http://www.monitorinfo.com http://www.monitorinfo.com Library Suppliers of Science, Technology & Management Publications

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Koha Windows version
by Mailing List Manager 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 22:00:04 -0800 (PST) From: vimal kumar <vimal0212(a)yahoo.com> New Windows�s version of Koha ( V2.2.4) now available. Rob Weir developed Windows version of this popular open source ILMS. Koha installation in Windows is comparatively easier than in Linux environment. Z39.50 feature is not available in Windows and this is not a stable version. Installation manual is also available in the web site. For more information visit, http://www.koha.rwjr.com/ . Vimal kumar Asian School of Business Trivandrum vimal0212(a)yahoo.com

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Fw: Mission 2007 and 'Open Access' sessions at Science Congress, Hyderabad
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Friends: Season's Greetings. MSSRF is organising, among other events, two half-day sessions at the forthcoming Science Congress at Hyderabad, one on Mission 2007 and another on Open Access (to scientific and scholarly literature). All are welcome. Best wishes. Subbiah Arunachalam Distinguished Fellow, MSSRF 29 December 2005 ----- 93rd Indian Science Congress, Hyderabad Session on Mission 2007: Every Village a knowledge Centre Date: 5 January 2006 Time: 14.30 - 17.30 Venue: APARD Chairman: Prof. M S Swaminathan, MSSRF Speakers: Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, IITM, Chennai Dr V Balaji, ICRISAT, Hyderabad Ms Namrata Bali, SEWA, Ahmedabad Dr B H Shadrach, OneWorld South Asia, New Delhi Prof. G Palanithurai, Gandhigram Mr R Chandrashekhar, Ministry of Information Technology, New Delhi Session coordinator: Subbiah Arunachalam --------------------- 93rd Indian Science Congress, Hyderabad Session on Open Access Date: 6 January 2006 Time: 10.00 - 12.45 Venue: MANAGE Chairman: Prof. N Balakrishnan, IISc, Bangalore Keynote: Dr Alma Swan, Key Perspectives, UK Speakers: Dr V Balaji, ICRISAT, Hyderabad Dr Abhijit Lahiri, DSIR, New Delhi Dr D K Sahu, MedKnow Publications, Bombay Ms Naina Pandita, NIC, New Delhi Dr A R D Prasad, DRTC, ISI, Bangalore Friends: Season's Greetings. MSSRF is organising, among other events, two half-day sessions at the forthcoming Science Congress at Hyderabad, one on Mission 2007 and another on Open Access (to scientific and scholarly literature). All are welcome. Best wishes. Subbiah Arunachalam Distinguished Fellow, MSSRF 29 December 2005 ----- 93 rd Indian Science Congress, Hyderabad Session on Mission 2007: Every Village a knowledge Centre Date: 5 January 2006 Time: 14.30 17.30 Venue: APARD Chairman: Prof. M S Swaminathan, MSSRF Speakers: Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, IITM, Chennai Dr V Balaji, ICRISAT, Hyderabad Ms Namrata Bali, SEWA, Ahmedabad Dr B H Shadrach, OneWorld South Asia, New Delhi Prof. G Palanithurai, Gandhigram Mr R Chandrashekhar, Ministry of Information Technology, New Delhi Session coordinator: Subbiah Arunachalam --------------------- 93 rd Indian Science Congress, Hyderabad Session on Open Access Date: 6 January 2006 Time: 10.00 12.45 Venue: MANAGE Chairman: Prof. N Balakrishnan, IISc, Bangalore Keynote: Dr Alma Swan, Key Perspectives, UK Speakers: Dr V Balaji, ICRISAT, Hyderabad Dr Abhijit Lahiri, DSIR, New Delhi Dr D K Sahu, MedKnow Publications, Bombay Ms Naina Pandita, NIC, New Delhi Dr A R D Prasad, DRTC, ISI, Bangalore

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Academic excellence and heads of universities
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Friends: Here is a brief article on heads of universities and their academic achievements as reflected by citations to their scholarly writings. In the West there is a good correlation. It will be interesting to see how many of our vice chancellors and directors of higher educational institutions (in India) have a good academic record. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --- Citations make the president By Adam Marcus Amanda Goodall, a doctoral student in strategic management at Warwick Business School, UK, had a hunch, based on her experience working for college officials in both the United States and the United Kingdom: The world's elite research universities put a premium on naming elite researchers as their presidents. So she tallied all the citations amassed by presidents of the world's top 100 universities, as judged by the Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University "probably the most reliable league table available," according to Goodall. Since university heads come from different disciplines with inherently different levels of expected output economics papers can take years to come out, while a productive microbiologist can easily have her name on a dozen papers in a year or more Goodall assigned each president a "normalized" citation score. That meant the Nobelist David Baltimore, president of sixth-ranked Caltech, who garnered 28,000-odd citations, earned a "president score" of 32.48. Lawyer Lee Bollinger of Columbia nee the University of Michigan, with a relatively modest list of 398, got a bit of a boost to a president score of 3.4. Among the top 20 schools in Shanghai rankings, Harvard University was first, and president Lawrence Summers also had the highest president score (36.02) with 6,088 citations. After that, the president score didn't predict placement precisely: Second was Stanford University, where president John Hennessy, a computer scientist, had 1986 citations and a president score of 23.64, far behind Caltech's Baltimore, who had the second-best president score. And while the University of California, San Francisco, placed 17th in the rankings, its chancellor J. Michael Bishop had the third-highest president score of 24.1. Rounding out the top 20 is the University of Washington's Mark A. Emmert, a social scientist, with 92 citations, which gave him a president score of 0.78. The overall findings, to be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Documentation, showed a correlation between the number of citations racked up by university heads and the standing of the schools they lead but only in the United States. When the 51 US schools on the list of top 100 universities are excluded, "the correlation doesn't exist," says Goodall. Still, says Bruce Weinberg, a labor economist at Ohio State University, the finding is "unquestionably true." However, Weinberg says, "It is harder to show that the scholarly standing of the president affects the quality of the university." So if Harvard decided to hire a lightweight scholar, it's unlikely that the Crimson's reputation would bleed out. "Similarly, if an undistinguished university somehow hired a top researcher as a president, it probably would not immediately vault its way into the top ranks of universities," says Weinberg. Goodall acknowledges that her study doesn't say anything about why universities choose their leaders. They may pick top scientists as presidents as much as for their ability to separate big donors from their money as for their skill at splitting atoms. It's equally possible that great researchers are simply good at everything, including running a university, or that having papers with high impact is a proxy for crucial academic leadership skills. Then there's the matter of selection bias. Top-flight scholars probably avoid chiefships at schools they consider beneath them, says Charles Oppenheim, a professor of information sciences at the UK's Loughborough University, who has seen Goodall's research. And "as universities increasingly value business and entrepreneurial skills over research skills," Oppenheim adds, "This implies that in, say, 10 years' time, similar research would not produce as strong a correlation." For her part, Goodall doesn't believe being a heavily cited and therefore presumably skilled researcher is a proxy for being a strong leader; she's known too many lab heads who treated their underlings poorly. Hiring the former to head your institution, however, is a signal from the trustees to the faculty that research is the core concern, she says. "My extensive background in research contributes significantly both to my effectiveness as the president of a major research university and to my credibility as a leader in higher education," says Amy Guttmann (1388 citations, for a president score of 11.86), president of the University of Pennsylvania, which the Shanghai rankings had at number 15. "Having a scholar-teacher as president sends a signal that even fundraising is inseparable from academic content from knowing what the university actually doesand is not just about donor cultivation cultivation's for sake," she adds. Goodall is now looking at 55 UK schools and their leaders over a period of 15 to 20 years, focusing on institutions that have moved up or down in the rankings, and whether their heads have been strong or weak researchers. The point, she says, is to see whether "the research history of university presidents impacted the performance of the universities over time." She also plans to do a case study on the California university system. After learning so much about academic leadership, would Goodall ever want to take the reins of a school? Not a chance. "It's a pretty crappy job. I would not want to do it."

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Free math textbooks
by Subbiah Arunachalam 28 Dec '05

28 Dec '05

More on OA textbooks Heather Morrison, Open Access Textbooks, Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, December 27, 2005. Excerpt: There are many curious ironies about the open access movement, and indeed the shift from print to electronic in general. Not least of these is that while advocacy efforts focus on the peer-reviewed research article, progress towards open access is happening in areas where no advocacy efforts are directed at all, to my knowledge. One such area is open access textbooks. This came to my attention one day when searching for online math textbooks. I was not expecting to find free texts at all, on the assumption that textbooks were an area where the commercial sector would obviously prevail - after all, who would write an entire textbook without expectation of financial compensation? Imagine my surprise, then, to find the extensive list of Textbooks, Lecture Notes and Tutorials in Mathematics by Alexandre Stefanov. All resources are free, and are divided into topics such as general mathematics, number theory, algebra, algebraic geometry, topolisis, analysis, geometry, mathematical physics, probability theory, formatting documents (TEX, LATEX, etc.). Alexandre links to a number of other substantial lists, including the list of Online mathematics textbooks, including over 40 textbooks as of October 2005, maintained by George Cain, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology.....The more I think about it, the more open textbooks make sense, particularly in mathematics. Printed textbooks are expensive - one cannot ask students to purchase more than one mathematics textbook. Yet it seems obvious that the student is much better off having access to the dozens of free textbooks that are already available. If a student is having difficulty understanding a concept explained one way, does it not make sense to provide an alternative explanation? (PS: There's a growing number of OA textbook sites, but as far as I know just one searchable portal that tries to be comprehensive: Jason Turgeon's Textbook Revolution. Check it out.)

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Library Trainee at CII-Central Library (Gurgaon)
by Aman Jha 28 Dec '05

28 Dec '05

Dear all There is a requirement of a Library Trainee at CII-Central Library (Gurgaon). Interested male candidates from Delhi/Gurgaon area, having good attitude and commitment towards work, may send their resume to <library(a)ciionline.org>. Qualification and Experience - B.Com., BLIS - Experience of working in a good corporate library Required skills - Good Computer/IT skills - Good communication skills in English - Good typing speed Job Responsibilities: - Technical & Physical processing of the books including shelving - Subscription and circulation work - Document sorting and filing - Data entry work - Visitors handling NOTE: Post is purely on contract basis for six months. Likely to be permanent. Thanks and regards, Aman Jha

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Request Project Proposals
by Sreedevi Ravindran, Scientist 'G' 28 Dec '05

28 Dec '05

Dear all DSIR under its Technology Information Programme will be establishing Incubation Centres on Content Development and Management. Attached please find the Project details. Interested universities, institututions are requested to forward the proposals( Format A, B and C) to DSIR by January 2006. Wish you all a very happy New Year. With Regards. Mrs.S.Ravindran DSIR Dear all DSIR under its Technology Information Programme will be establishing Incubation Centres on Content Development and Management. Attached please find the Project details. Interested universities, institututions are requested to forward the proposals( Format A, B and C) to DSIR by January 2006. Wish you all a very happy New Year. With Regards. Mrs.S.Ravindran DSIR

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Shorter Link : India Reads - Best of 2005
by ++ Mukesh Anand ++ 28 Dec '05

28 Dec '05

Please click on the shorter link to Best Books of 2005 http://del.icio.us/eMonitor/Best_Books_2005 compiled by - - MONITOR INFORMATION SERVICES - books + cd-rom's + e-books - Head Office: 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Opp. Deepak Theatre, Narayanguda Hyderabad - 500 029 Telephone: 040-55787065 / 27552390 Facsimile: +91-40-27552390 Branches : New Delhi & IIT- Kharagpur http://www.monitorinfo.com Library Suppliers of Science, Technology & Management Publications - - Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing MONITOR INFORMATION SERVICES Please click on the shorter link to Best Books of 2005 http://del.icio.us/eMonitor/Best_Books_2005 http://del.icio.us/eMonitor/Best_Books_2005 compiled by - - MONITOR INFORMATION SERVICES - books + cd-rom's + e-books - Head Office: 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Opp. Deepak Theatre, Narayanguda Hyderabad - 500 029 Telephone: 040-55787065 / 27552390 Facsimile: +91-40-27552390 Branches : New Delhi & IIT- Kharagpur http://www.monitorinfo.com http://www.monitorinfo.com Library Suppliers of Science, Technology & Management Publications - - Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing MONITOR INFORMATION SERVICES

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RE: [LIS-Forum] A new digital library in B'lore
by hemaa＠ingvysyabank.com 28 Dec '05

28 Dec '05

Hello all ! You can find some more details regarding the new digital library at the Bangalore Medical College at these links: http://www.bmcalumni.com/newsletter.htm http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=201685&n_date=20051226&c at=Health http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=73680 http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/5922_1583234,0087.htm Thanks & Regards Hema Amble Librarian ING Vysya Bank Competence Development Centre Bangalore - 4 PH:080-26507281 Ext:36 hemaa(a)ingvysyabank.com -----Original Message----- From: Subbiah Arunachalam [mailto:arun@mssrf.res.in] Sent: 27/12/2005 2:59 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; oa-india(a)dgroups.org; c3net(a)dgroups.org Subject: [LIS-Forum] A new digital library in B'lore Friends: Here is a news story on a digital library initiative in Bangalore. Can anyone give a detailed account? Thanks and best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----------------------- Digital library for Bangalore Medical College to launch this week Unique digital library opening on December 28, Deccan Herald, December 26, 2005. An unsigned news story. Excerpt: The soon to be inaugurated state-of-the-art digital library at Bangalore Medical College (BMC) is unique in scale and concept. A gift by the alumni of the college to mark its golden jubilee celebrations, users of the library can have access to full text articles from leading international and national journals, multimedia presentations by leading doctors and can also access materials in other libraries like the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences and Nimhans. The information is catalogued using open sources database Dspace. BMC Alumni Association claims the facility is the "best and biggest" in any medical college in the country. Association President Dr H C Satya and Vice-President K M Srinivasa Gowda told reporters that the entire library was wi-fi-enabled. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Indian Association of University Professors
by Aman Jha 28 Dec '05

28 Dec '05

Dear friends, Grateful if anyone could help me out with brief information about 'Indian Association of University Professors'. Contact details, literature, etc. Thanks and regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon - 122015 (Haryana) Tel: 0124-5014060-67 aman.jha(a)ciionline.org http://www.ciionline.org

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Webology: Volume 2, Number 4, December, 2005
by Alireza Noruzi 28 Dec '05

28 Dec '05

Dear All, Apologies for cross-posting firstly. We are pleased to inform you that Vol. 2, No. 4 of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS journal, is published and is available ONLINE now. This issue contains: ------------------ Editorial: The HTML Title Tag and Its Importance -- Alireza Noruzi -- http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n4/editorial6.html ----------------------------------------- An Online Multi-Lingual, Multi-Faith Thesaurus: A Progress Report on F-THES -- A. Neelameghan & K.S. Raghavan -- http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n4/a19.html ----------------------------------------- Information Seeking Behaviour of Faculty Members of Rajabhat Universities in Bangkok -- Kingkaew Patitungkho & Neela J. Deshpande -- http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n4/a20.html ----------------------------------------- Internet and Its Use in the Engineering Colleges of Punjab, India: A Case Study -- Rajeev Kumar & Amritpal Kaur -- http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n4/a21.html ----------------------------------------- Book Review of Theories of Information Behavior -- Hamid R. Jamali -- http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n4/bookreview2.html ----------------------------------------- ========================================= Call for Papers: http://www.webology.ir/callforpapers.html ========================================= Regards, A. Noruzi Dep. of Information Science University of Paul Cezanne France __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com

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InfoWatch - December 2005
by M.R Lalitha 27 Dec '05

27 Dec '05

Dear LIS-Forum member, The December 2005 issue of InfoWatch is now online, bringing you the details of new Internet sites related to Science and Engineering. You can access the complete issue on the NCSI Web server at the URL : http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/infowatch/iw.php You will also find earlier issues of InfoWatch here. For your convenience, the table of contents is given below. If you wish to be on the mailing list of InfoWatch to receive the complete issue by e-mail, let us know. Also mention your format preference - html or text. Regards -Lalitha M.R (lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ InfoWatch Tracking Networked Scientific Information Sources and Services (An electronic update service brought to you by NCSI) December 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Best picks from InfoWatch 2005 This issue features selected sites from recent previous issues of InfoWatch. These sites also provide an overview of the different topics covered in the newsletter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In This Issue: 1. 125 Questions - What don't we know? [Science magazine's current survey of 'scientific ignorance'] 2. AllRefer Health [A medical and health information resource] 3. Center for Biological Sequence Analysis (CBS) 4. CiteULike [A free service to help academics to build a personal library] 5. Daily rotation [Headlines from 300+ technology news feed sites] 6. Discover circuits - Free electronic circuits schematics 7. Earthquake Information Network (EQNET) 8. ElectronicsInfoline - Free electronics schematics from around the world 9. Electronic waste guide - A knowledgebase on sustainable recycling of Electronic wastes 10. Enviropedia - An encyclopedia of environment 11. Genetics home reference [National Library of Medicine's web site for information about genetic conditions] 12. InterOperability Laboratory KnowledgeBase [A resource for networking and data communications products] 13. itmWEB - Information technology management WEB 14. mindat.org - The MINeral DATabase 15. National Semiconductor - The power of analog 16. OAIster [A collection of freely available, academic digital resources] 17. Pauling File- Basic database for crystal structures 18. ProcessLibrary.com - Free process information 19. Pureperformance.com - Tweaks and tips for Windows XP/2000, Windows 9x/ME 20. ResearchChannel - A consortium of research universities and corporate research divisions 21. Reshaping scholarly communication [Alternatives for cost effective publishing] 22. Singularity Institute for artificial intelligence 23. Special Topics - Summarized publication and citation data from ISI for the analysis of research trends & performance 24. Technical compendium by Wildpackets [Essays and papers on technical issues of interest to networking professionals] 25. TechOnLine - Educational resources for electronics engineers 26. Tiempo climate cyberlibrary - Global warming and the Third world 27. Top 500 World Universities - Academic ranking of world universities 2005 [The Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China] 28. Web developers' handbook [ A reference tool for cascading style sheets, web development, search engine optimization] 29. Whole Building Design Guide (WBDG) - A building professional's gateway to design techniques and technologies 30. World Biodiversity Database (WBD) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ About InfoWatch : InfoWatch is a monthly electronic newsletter, brought out by the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012, INDIA. Information in the newsletter is collected and verified by NCSI staff.The newsletter aims to raise awareness of new sources of information on the Internet, particularly those which are relevant for higher education and research. Some items may be of relevance only to the IISc community.Resources reported here have been taken from various discussion lists and other network tools and no special claims are made for accuracy or originality. Most of the sources cited in the newsletter were checked at the time of publication, however it is possible that some of the resources are no longer available. We welcome comments about the newsletter and suggestions for resources to be featured. Please e-mail your comments to Infowatch editors: Ms. K. Thulasi (thulasi(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) & Ms. M. R. Lalitha (lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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A new digital library in B'lore
by Subbiah Arunachalam 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Friends: Here is a news story on a digital library initiative in Bangalore. Can anyone give a detailed account? Thanks and best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ----------------------- Digital library for Bangalore Medical College to launch this week Unique digital library opening on December 28, Deccan Herald, December 26, 2005. An unsigned news story. Excerpt: The soon to be inaugurated state-of-the-art digital library at Bangalore Medical College (BMC) is unique in scale and concept. A gift by the alumni of the college to mark its golden jubilee celebrations, users of the library can have access to full text articles from leading international and national journals, multimedia presentations by leading doctors and can also access materials in other libraries like the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences and Nimhans. The information is catalogued using open sources database Dspace. BMC Alumni Association claims the facility is the best and biggest in any medical college in the country. Association President Dr H C Satya and Vice-President K M Srinivasa Gowda told reporters that the entire library was wi-fi-enabled.

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Africa will do well to focus on OA archives
by Subbiah Arunachalam 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Friends: Peter Suber's blog carries this news story. African workshop on OA repositories and libraries UNESCO supports training for building digital libraries in Africa, UNESCO News, December 20, 2005. A brief report on the Greenstone workshop at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, November 30 - 1 December 2005. Excerpt: The meeting that was co-organized by UNESCO, the Coalition of South African Library Consortia (COSALC) and Sivulile, a South African open access initiative, brought together 30 participants from Ethiopia, Lesotho, Namibia, New Zealand, Swaziland, Sudan and host country South Africa. This workshop was the third in a series of activities organized by COSALC and Sivulile (we are open in isiXhosa) aimed at raising awareness on open access models for information exchange, and ICT capacity building of information professionals in Africa institutions. These efforts are aimed at supporting the creation of digital libraries and providing archivists, librarians in Africa with skills to utilize electronic information tools and resources in their work and enhance access to online resources. --- In my view, it would be better to focus on setting up interoperable institutional open access archives in African universities and research laboratories than talking about all-embracing digital libraries. We in India have been having many national and international conferences on the topic of digital libraries and these have not taken us far. There is hardly anything to show on the ground. On the other hand, setting up archives cost much less and the results are there for all to see. Right now India cannot boast of great success in setting up OA archives, but there are some which are filling in fast. The best Indiaj effort is the GNU EPrints archive at the Indian Institute of Science. The National Institute of Technology at Rourkela is planning to mandate archiving all research papers. The National Informatics Centre's OpenMED archive is a central archive for biomedical research. These are only examples and there are a few more. And 2006 is expected to see many more archives coming up. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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OWSA archive on ICT-enabled development
by Subbiah Arunachalam 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Friends: A central archive on the subject of ICT-enabled development is set up by OneWorld South Asia (OWSA). Please visit <http://open.ekduniya.net/information.html>. Your comments and suggestions for improvement may be sent to Dr B Shadrach at <shaddy.shadrach(a)oneworld.net> or to Mr Narendra Deo of OWSA. Best wishes. Arun

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Open Course Ware & Indian universities
by Subbiah Arunachalam 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Friends: Here is an excerpt from the MIT Open Course Ware website. There are many Chinese universities making their course ware availble at no cost to anyone who has an internet connection. Needless to say most of the courses are in Chinese. What it is important is that there is great awareness in China that such material should be made available free to whoever wants to use it. Higher educational institutions in other developing countries will do well to follow the Chinese (and MIT) example. Best wishes. Subbiah Arunachalam --------------------- Opencourseware Projects (around the world) The MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) project has always had a dual mission: * Provide free access to virtually all MIT course materials for educators and learners around the world. * Extend the reach and impact of MIT OCW and the opencourseware concept. The vision of the MIT faculty who first developed the opencourseware concept at MIT was that one day, there would exist a vast network of universities around the world offering open access to high-quality educational materials in a variety of different disciplines, in a variety of different languages, creating a global Web of knowledge that will improve education around the world. So MIT is very pleased to be joined by other institutions around the globe in openly sharing educational materials as it helps us fulfill the second part of the OCW mission -- to extend the OCW concept to other leading universities. The collective body of high-quality educational materials made available by these institutions provides a remarkable free and open network of resources for educators, students, and self-learners everywhere. The institutions listed below have publicly committed to the open publication of their materials in OCW initiatives, and are devoting resources to support these OCW projects. China Visit the portal page for 156 Chinese university OCW projects, featuring the following universities * Peking University * Tsinghua University * Zhejiang University * Xi'an Jiaotong University * Central South University * Beijing Jiaotong University * Sichuan University * Beijing Normal University * Dalian University of Technology * Central Radio and Television University * Shanghai Jiaotong University * Nanjing University * Jilin University * Northwest Polytechnic University * Southeast University * Sun Yat-Sen University * Fudan University * Huazhong University of Science and Technology * Renmin University of China * Huazhong Agricultural University France The engineering institutions (Grandes Ecoles) which form ParisTech have published the ParisTech OpenCourseWare project. The ParisTech institutions include: * École Nationale du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts (ENGREF) * École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC) * École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers (ENSAM) * École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris (ENSCP) * École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (ENSMP) * École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST) * École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA) * École Polytechnique (EP) * École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI) * Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (INA P-G) * École Nationale de Statistique et d'Administration Économique (ENSAE) (associate member) Japan Visit the portal page for the following Japanese university OCW projects: * Keio University * Kyoto University * Tokyo Institute of Technology * Osaka University * University of Tokyo * Waseda University United States * Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health * Tufts University * Utah State University Vietnam * Fulbright Economics Teaching Program OCW

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Henk Moed's article in Current Science
by Subbiah Arunachalam 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Dear Gene: The 25 December 2005 issue of CURRENT SCIENCE (published by Current Science Association and the Indian Academy of Sciences) carries an article by Henk Moed on citation analysis of scientific journals and a review of his recent book by me. Please visit: <http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/dec252005/1990.pdf> and <http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/dec252005/2171.pdf>. Thanks and regards. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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India Reads - Best of 2005
by ++ Mukesh Anand ++ 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

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Mandating OA for publicly funded research
by Subbiah Arunachalam 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

Friends: The Italians are forging ahead with a national open access repository. India, China and Brazil should follow suit and lead the way for the rest of the world! For a start, DST, DSIR, DBT and other government agencies funding research may insist that all papers resulting from public funding should be archived in an open access archive - either a central archive (e.g. OpenMED) or an institutional archive (e.g. IISc, NIT-Rourkela). The Ukrainian Parliament has recently mandated open archiving of all publicly funded research papers. Arun Profile of the PLEIADI Project Ugo Contino and three co-authors, PLEIADI, un portale per la letteratura scientifica "Open Access", Bollettino del Cilea, 99 (2005) pp. 11-16. Self-archived December 22, 2005. In Italian but with this English-language abstract: The PLEIADI Project (acronym for "Portale per la Letteratura scientifica Elettronica Italiana su Archivi aperti e Depositi Istituzionali", a portal for Italian scholarly e-literature in open archives and institutional repositories) originated from the collaboration between two major Italian university consortia, CASPUR and CILEA, within the framework of the AEPIC project. PLEIADI aims at building a national platform that offers centralized access to the scholarly literature archived in Italian repositories. Friends: The Italians are forging ahead with a national open access repository. India, China and Brazil should follow suit and lead the way for the rest of the world! For a start, DST, DSIR, DBT and other government agencies funding research may insist that all papers resulting from public funding should be archived in an open access archive - either a central archive (e.g. OpenMED) or an institutional archive (e.g. IISc, NIT-Rourkela). The Ukrainian Parliament has recently mandated open archiving of all publicly funded research papers. Arun Profile of the PLEIADI Project Ugo Contino and three co-authors, http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00005153/ PLEIADI, un portale per la letteratura scientifica "Open Access" , Bollettino del Cilea , 99 (2005) pp. 11-16. Self-archived December 22, 2005. In Italian but with this English-language abstract: The http://www.openarchives.it/pleiadi/ PLEIADI Project (acronym for "Portale per la Letteratura scientifica Elettronica Italiana su Archivi aperti e Depositi Istituzionali", a portal for Italian scholarly e-literature in open archives and institutional repositories) originated from the collaboration between two major Italian university consortia, CASPUR and CILEA, within the framework of the AEPIC project. PLEIADI aims at building a national platform that offers centralized access to the scholarly literature archived in Italian repositories.

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Connotea
by Subbiah Arunachalam 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

Friends: Please visit http://www.connotea.org/ to learn about how a new free software help you in organizing your literature. Please alert your scientist friends. Arun Friends: Please visit http://www.connotea.org/ http://www.connotea.org/ to learn about how a new free software help you in organizing your literature. Please alert your scientist friends. Arun

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Contact details of Smt Abburi Chaya Devi
by T.V. Prafulla Chandra 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

Dear All, The contact details of Smt Abburi Chaya Devi, formerly deputy librarian, JNU and winner of Sahitya Akademi Award 2005 are given below for your kind information: bhumikahyd(a)yahoo.com kondaveetis(a)yahoo.com Smt Chaya Devi doesn't have her own email ID. If the messages are sent to any of the above two IDs, they would reach her. Her postal address is: HIG, Block 4, Flat 4 Bagh Lingampally Hyderabad 500 044 Phone Residence: 91 40 27665661 Thank you Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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OA and Intelligent design vs Darwin
by Subbiah Arunachalam 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

Friends: I have been posting to this list news stories from Peter Suber's blog "Open Access News". My apologies to those of you who are regular readers of Peter Suber's blog. And I urge all of you interested in following developments in the field of Open Access to visit Peter Suber's blog everyday. You will find it worth your time. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah arunachalam] ------------------------------------ OA science for lay readers will help fight ID Mike Eisen, Fight Intelligent Design - Publish in PLoS! Open Science Blog, December 22, 2005. Excerpt: Now that a federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled that intelligent design has no place in the classroom, the scientists who rallied to defend evolution will return to academia happy that science has weathered yet another assault. But this battle will not be won in the courtroom. Antipathy toward evolution is the natural consequence of a growing gulf between the scientific community and the public. Until scientists close this gap, much of the public will continue to dismiss Darwin's theories, and we risk losing the broad public support on which science depends. Rather than blame public ignorance, scientists must accept responsibility for this distressing trend. We go about our business rarely thinking of the public as an audience for, or interested party in, our work....I propose a simple solution. We should give the public access to the peer-reviewed scientific journals in which we publish our ideas and discoveries. It is certainly the right thing to do - afterall, the public paid for most of this research, they should be able to see what their tax dollars have produced. But does the public want to read these papers? I believe they do. Many non-scientists whose interest is piqued by science stories in the popular press would love to learn more about the research directly from scientists who carried it out. People facing medical decisions would love to read the most accurate and up to date information about diseases and their treatments. When they do, they will find that much of the scientific literature is surprisingly comprehensible to a lay audience (and much more will be once authors know the public may read their work). And anyone who reads these papers will be left with a better understanding of how science works, and why we believe the things we do....[Open-access journals] invite the public in, and [the public has] responded - downloading, reading and even blogging about scientific articles like never before. Simply by choosing to publish in open access journals, scientists can honor the importance of public access and engage the public directly in their work....We must ensure that hiring, grant review and tenure committees give heavy weight to efforts (or lack thereof) to engage the public. But more importantly, we all must ask ourselves if that Science or Nature citation is worth furthering the dangerous divide between science and the public? Non-scientists can help scientists engage as well. Next time you read about some cool new scientific advance, find the paper on which this story is based. If you can't access it, email the authors and request a copy - and ask them why they didn't make it available to you in the first place. You'll be letting them know that the public is interested in what they do, and holding them accountable for their decisions. Maybe next time they will publish in a journal that reaches you. (PS: Mike Eisen is one of the co-founders of PLoS, and this essay marks the launch of his blog. Welcome to the blogosphere, Mike!) Friends: I have been posting to this list news stories from Peter Suber's blog "Open Access News". My apologies to those of you who are regular readers of Peter Suber's blog. And I urge all of you interested in following developments in the field of Open Access to visit Peter Suber's blog everyday. You will find it worth your time. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah arunachalam] ------------------------------------ OA science for lay readers will help fight ID Mike Eisen, http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/archives/2 Fight Intelligent Design - Publish in PLoS! Open Science Blog , December 22, 2005. Excerpt: Now that a federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled that intelligent design has no place in the classroom, the scientists who rallied to defend evolution will return to academia happy that science has weathered yet another assault. But this battle will not be won in the courtroom. Antipathy toward evolution is the natural consequence of a growing gulf between the scientific community and the public. Until scientists close this gap, much of the public will continue to dismiss Darwins theories, and we risk losing the broad public support on which science depends. Rather than blame public ignorance, scientists must accept responsibility for this distressing trend. We go about our business rarely thinking of the public as an audience for, or interested party in, our work....I propose a simple solution. We should give the public access to the peer-reviewed scientific journals in which we publish our ideas and discoveries. It is certainly the right thing to do - afterall, the public paid for most of this research, they should be able to see what their tax dollars have produced. But does the public want to read these papers? I believe they do. Many non-scientists whose interest is piqued by science stories in the popular press would love to learn more about the research directly from scientists who carried it out. People facing medical decisions would love to read the most accurate and up to date information about diseases and their treatments. When they do, they will find that much of the scientific literature is surprisingly comprehensible to a lay audience (and much more will be once authors know the public may read their work). And anyone who reads these papers will be left with a better understanding of how science works, and why we believe the things we do....[Open-access journals] invite the public in, and [the public has] responded downloading, reading and even blogging about scientific articles like never before. Simply by choosing to publish in open access journals, scientists can honor the importance of public access and engage the public directly in their work....We must ensure that hiring, grant review and tenure committees give heavy weight to efforts (or lack thereof) to engage the public. But more importantly, we all must ask ourselves if that Science or Nature citation is worth furthering the dangerous divide between science and the public? Non-scientists can help scientists engage as well. Next time you read about some cool new scientific advance, find the paper on which this story is based. If you cant access it, email the authors and request a copy and ask them why they didnt make it available to you in the first place. Youll be letting them know that the public is interested in what they do, and holding them accountable for their decisions. Maybe next time they will publish in a journal that reaches you. (PS: Mike Eisen is one of the co-founders of http://www.plos.org/index.html PLoS , and this essay marks the launch of his blog. Welcome to the blogosphere, Mike!)

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Sahitya Akademi Award for LIS professional
by T.V. Prafulla Chandra 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

Dear All, We are pleased to inform you that a member of our profession, Smt Abburi Chayadevi, formerly Deputy Librarian, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi has been selected for Sahita Akademy Award for 2005 for Telugu. Her collection of short stories titled Tana Margam (My Way) has earned this award. Hearty congratulations to Smt Chayadevi garu! Thank you Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra PS. Please find below The Hindu report dated Dec 23, 2006 on the above. Famous novelists G. Thilakavathi (Kalmaram in Tamil), Raghavendra Patil (Teru in Kannada), Yeshe Dorje Thongchi (Mouna Ounth Mukhar Hriday in Assamese) and Manohar Joshi (Kyap in Hindi) are amongst the 23 selected for the Sahitya Akademi awards for 2005. The awards recommended by the jury members representing 23 Indian languages were approved by the Executive Board of the Sahitya Akademi, the apex literary body of the country, which met here on Thursday under the chairmanship of its president Gopi Chand Narang. Poets and short story writers dominated the 2005 awards. The Chairman said that while the award in English would be declared in due course, the award for Bengali would be declared after re- consideration. Mr. Narang said that for the first time awards to books in the newly recognised Bodo and Santhali languages had been given. Short stories Those who won awards for their collection of short stories included Abburi Chayadevi (Tana Margam - Telugu), G. V. Kakkanadan (Jappana Pukayila - Malayalam), N. Shivdas (Bhaangarsaall - Konkani), Krishnan Sharma (Dhaldi Dhuppe Da Sek - Dogri), M. Nabakishore Singh (Pangal Shonbi Eishe Adomgeeni - Manipuri), Ramchandra Behera (Gopapura - Oriya), Gurbachan Singh Bhull (Agni- Kalas - Punjabi) and Chetan Swami (Kisturi Mirag - Rajasthan). Famous poets Mangalsingh Hazowary (Jiuni Mwgthang Bisombi Arw Aroj - Bodo), Suresh Dalal (Akhand Zalar Vage - Gujarati), Hamidi Kashmiri (Yath Miani Joye - Kashmiri), Vivekanand Thakur (Chanan Ghan Gachchiya - Maithili), Swami Rambhadracharya (Sri Bhargava Raghaviyam (Epic) - Sanskrit), Jadumani Besra (Bhabna - Santhali), Dholan `Rahi' (Andhero Roshan Thiye - Sindhi) and late Arun Kolhatkar (Bhijaki Vahi - Marathi) are among those who have won the awards. Krishna Singh Moktan (Jeevan Goreto Ma - Nepali) was honoured for his collection of essays and Jabir Husain (Ret Per Khema - Urdu) was honoured for his book of memoirs. Selection procedure Mr. Narang said the books were selected on the basis of recommendations made by a jury of three members in the concerned languages in accordance with the procedure. The Executive Board declared the awards on the basis of unanimous selections made by the jurors or selection made on the basis of majority vote. The awards related to books first published during the three years immediately preceding the year of award. K. Sachidanandan, Secretary, said the award in the form of a casket containing an engraved copper- plaque and a cheque of Rs. 50,000 would be presented at a function to be held in New Delhi in February. Talking to presspersons after the Executive Board meeting, Mr. Sachidanandan said the Akademi, which had recognised 24 languages had ruled out recognition to any new languages in the immediate future. There was a lot of demand from various parts of the country in this regard, but the Akademi had decided that unless any language was included in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, it would not be recognised by the Akademi. Vishnu Prabhakar, veteran writer in Hindi, and Manoj Das, writer in Oriya and English, had been bestowed fellowship. "Net publishing" To meet the growing challenges from the Internet, the Akademi was studying the possibility of entering "net publishing" and putting its books on the Net. "We are thinking of opening websites of our periodical literary journals in English as well as in Hindi," Mr. Sachidanandan said. As for marketing of books, he said the cost aspect vis-a-vis competition was a big factor. Nevertheless, the Akademi was going all out to promote its books through institutions as well as by participation in book exhibitions domestically and internationally, he said. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Country Profiles
by Saiful Amin 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

Hi, I was pleasantly surprised to find Country Profiles in BBC, though not as comprehensive as EIU.com. But, it's free. Following is one sample for India: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/country_profiles/1154019.stm Best regards, Saiful -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 GSM: +91 98407 76214 Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." I was pleasantly surprised to find Country Profiles in BBC, though not as comprehensive as EIU.com. But, it's free. Following is one sample for India: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/country_profiles/1154019.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/country_profiles/1154019.stm Best regards, Saiful -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 GSM: +91 98407 76214 Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 http://www.edutechindia.com www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong."

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OA and development intimately interconnected
by Subbiah Arunachalam 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

Friends: UNESCO is championing open access. Organizations such as ICSU, CODATA and IFLA are also supporting the spreading of the culture of open access. The Ukrainian parliament has adopted a resolution to mandate open access (of all publicly funded research). And yet many developing countries, including India, China and Brazil, have not adopted OA in a big way. Open Access is especially important for development. As Professor M S Swaminathan points out, for development to take place knowledge sharing is important at four levels, viz. lab-to-lab, lab-to-land, land-to-lab and land-to-land. Here lab stands for scientists, researchers and experts. And land stands for farmers, fishermen, and the common people in general. There should be knowledge flow among experts, among the common people and two-way flow between the two. Open Access (as promoted by people like Stevan Harnad, Peter Suber, Leslie Chan, Alma Swan, and others and institutions such as the Open Society Institute, CERN, Wellcome Trust, University of Southampton, etc.) facilitates lab-to-lab knowledge flows. And the knowledge centres set up by the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (and to be set up all over rural India by Mission 2007: Every Village a Knowledge Centre) facilitate the other three kinds of knowledge flows. If all four kinds of knowledge flows take place without a hitch, then it should be easy to achieve most development objectives, including the Millennium Development Goals. It is for this reason, Prof. Bruce Alberts, former President of the US National Academy of Sciences, continues to be a great admirer of both the work of the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation in the area of ICT-enabled holistic development and the idea of using science to leverage overall development of the less developed countries, especially those in Africa. Science and laboratory research may appear to be far from poverty reduction and capacity building in rural areas. But visionaries like Swaminathan and Bruce Alberts have shown that they are intimately connected. They are two facets of a continuous spectrum. It is for this reason, I would urge enlightened development organizations such as the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP), International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), and OneWorld, science academies of the world, and the many United Nations and other international agencies and governments of both developed and developing countries to pay attention to improving knowledge flows through a better understaning and support of open access, open source and open science. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --------------------- Here is a news story from Peter Suber's blog "Open Access News" UNESCO endorses OA On September 22, UNESCO adopted Amendments to the Draft Programme and Budget for 2006-2007 that have the effect of endorsing OA. (Thanks to Heather Morrison.) Excerpt: [UNESCO] Requests the Member States (a) to foster through the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) dissemination of the principles of open access; (b) to foster dissemination of the principles of open access, particularly in universities; (c) to promote developing countries open access to archives for the sake of spreading scientific know-how; Invites the Director-General (a) to assess the feasibility of creating a database on existing open access initiatives worldwide and to report at the forthcoming sessions of the Executive Board and the General Conference on the progress of open access strategies throughout the world; (b) to promote a network of national working groups with a view to fostering open access in their universities, to cooperate internationally in initiatives and projects on the subject of open access, and to promote the training of experts for cooperation in the publication of and open access to texts free of charge.

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[Fwd: [BOAI] OA recommendations of Ukrainian Parliament]
by Subbiah Arunachalam 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [BOAI] OA recommendations of Ukrainian Parliament From: "Iryna Kuchma" <kuchma(a)irf.kiev.ua> Date: Thu, December 22, 2005 2:17 pm To: boai-forum(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Open access is one of the priorities in developing information society in Ukraine Recommendations of Ukrainian Parliament Ukrainian Parliament (Verhovna Rada) passed resolution On Recommendations of Parliamentary hearing on Developing information society in Ukraine (from 01.12.2005 ¹ 3175-IV) where open access is called one of the priorities in developing information society in Ukraine. In Close 2 Developing informational infrastructure of this Resolution it is recommended for the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to create favorable conditions for developing open access repositories in archives, libraries, museums and other cultural institutions. In Close 5 Creating accessible electronic information resources it is recommended for the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to stir to activities on creating accessible national electronic information resources especially with scientific-technical and economical information; to develop model regulation on repository of electronic documents; and for the Ministry of education and science of Ukraine to speed up development of state program on ICT in education and science including the close on development of open access resources in science, technology and education with open access condition to state funded researches. (Ukrainian version of this resolution: http://zakon.rada.gov.ua/cgi-bin/laws/main.cgi?nreg=3175%2D15) Open Access is also one of the priorities in National strategy on developing information society in Ukraine introduced to Ukrainian Parliament by Parliamentary Committee on Science and Education. Open Access recommendations in Ukraine where first introduced by the participants of Open Access Scholarly Communication Workshop, February 17-19 2005, organized by International Renaissance Foundation, Open Society Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, International Association of Academies of Sciences and National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy and supported by the British Council Ukraine. Iryna Kuchma Social Capital and Academic Publications Program Manager International Renaissance Foundation phone: (+380) (44) 461-9500 fax: (+380) (44) 486-0166 e-mail: kuchma(a)irf.kiev.ua http://www.irf.kiev.ua/programs/scaap

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Information about IRs
by Namita Khandka 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Respected All!! If any body is having any kind of information about Institutional Repositories in India, pls forward me. Iam doing Dissertation in this and urgently require statistics of organisation running IRs and other related links in this field. With regards, Namita Khandka AIS, Niscair New Delhi-67 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Respected All!! If any body is having any kind of information about Institutional Repositories in India, pls forward me. Iam doing Dissertation in this and urgently require statistics of organisation running IRs and other related links in this field. With regards, Namita Khandka AIS, Niscair New Delhi-67 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Urgent Requirement of a book
by Chitra P Rao 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Hi all: I need the folowing book urgently for one of our Faculty who is writing a BOOk.. Your help would be highly appreciated: Christie, Wagner and Winter: Peace Conflict and Violence : Peace Psychology in the 21st Century Prentice hall 2001. Book isnot available in the Market. Thank You chitra P rao Sr Librarian and Head LIS NITIE Mumbai 400 087 ph: 28573371 extn 337

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Electronic journals and newsletters
by Mailing List Manager 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Date: 21 Dec 2005 11:27:43 -0000 From: sushmita das <sush7410(a)rediffmail.com> � Respected All!! I think this site will be of interest to all. http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/ http://gort.ucsd.edu/ Regards Sushmita NIC, New Delhi

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Re: Greenstone
by Mailing List Manager 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Date: 21 Dec 2005 09:59:52 -0000 From: sridi <kanakanala(a)rediffmail.com> dear nair pls go the website www.greenstone.org and their u can see the examples icon on the page an u find the indian/international projects/organisations using the greenstone software for the building the digital collections. www.greenstone.org bye sridhar On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 Mailing List Manager wrote : >Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 05:15:09 -0500 (EST) > From: Saji S. Nair <ourdreamsblooming(a)excite.com> > >Dear all, > >Could you list the projects using Greenstone software for managing digital >collections/archives in India? > > >REGARDS >Saji S. Nair >Regional Cancer Centre library >Trivandrum >Kerala >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Opening at Honeywell for Senior Information / Library Professional
by Kottai, A (IE10) 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

The profile for the Senior Information professional / Senior Librarian at Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab (HTSL), Bangalore: B.Sc/M.Sc with M.L.I.Sc / NCSI / DRTC / INSDOC in Library & Information Science with 8 + years experience in a corporate information environment managing print and electronic collections, working with third-party information providers / vendors / publishers, passion for customer services, responsiveness, resourceful abilities, teamwork and good communication skills. The job will require: * Planning, organizing and effective management of library operations * Media procurement, cataloging, circulation * Managing magazines / journals and online databases resources * Providing Document Delivery Service (DDS) * Library automation / establishing digital libraries * Provide Reference & Referral Service, assisting customers in finding the required source / service * Computer Skills: MS Office Tools, Web based searches, Web & Associated technologies, Scanning, OCR among others * Sales & marketing of technical information products and services Other skills which are required but not limited include: * Plan, develop and manage libraries at various distributed locations of HTSL * Develops and manages convenient, accessible and cost-effective information services that are aligned with the strategic directions of the organization * Exposure to quality processes * Provide orientation, facilitation, promotion and support for library and information service users. * Assess information needs, design and market value-added information services * Use appropriate information technology to acquire, organize and disseminate information * Subscribe, maintain research support vendor databases and document repositories * Improve the existing Library OPAC by incorporating new features which can enhance the usability and add value to customers * Ability to work under pressure in order to meet strict deadlines, prioritize a varied workload, and a desire to work in a fast paced, demanding environment * Information research skills involving customization, personalization to individuals and business units * Leadership skills, maturity and high energy is essential * Excellent oral and written communication and inter-personal skills Qualifications: * Master's Degree in Information or Library Science * 8 + years experience in a Corporate Information Center or Corporate Library Note: 1. Those who applied or have attended interview during last 1 year need not apply. 2. Candidates with Arts, Commerce and Life Sciences background will not considered. 3. Please state "Opening at Honeywell for Senior Information / Library Professional" on subject field without fail. 4. Last date to receive resume at our end is 31st December 2005. Contact Information: Ms. Nivedita Pabbathi Nivedita.Pabbathi(a)honeywell.com "This e-mail and any attachments thereto, are intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and contain Honeywell confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying which amounts to misappropriation of this e-mail and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me and permanently delete the original and any copy of any e-mail and any printout thereof." The profile for the�Senior Information professional / Senior Librarian at Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab (HTSL), Bangalore: B.Sc/M.Sc with M.L.I.Sc / NCSI / DRTC / INSDOC in Library & Information Science with 8 + years experience in a corporate information environment managing print and electronic collections, working with third-party information providers / vendors / publishers, passion for customer services, responsiveness, resourceful abilities, teamwork and good communication skills. � � The job will require: Planning, organizing and effective management of library operations Media procurement, cataloging, circulation Managing�magazines / journals and�online databases resources Providing Document Delivery Service (DDS) Library automation / establishing digital libraries Provide Reference & Referral Service, assisting customers in finding the required source / service Computer Skills: MS Office Tools, Web based searches, Web & Associated technologies, Scanning, OCR among others Sales & marketing of technical information products and services � Other skills which are required but not limited include: Plan, develop and manage libraries at various distributed locations of HTSL Develops and manages convenient, accessible and cost-effective information services that are aligned with the strategic directions of the organization Exposure to quality processes Provide orientation, facilitation, promotion�and support for library and information service users. Assess information needs, design and market value-added information services Use appropriate information technology to acquire, organize and disseminate information Subscribe, maintain research support vendor databases and document repositories Improve the existing Library OPAC by incorporating new features which can enhance the usability and add value to customers Ability to work under pressure in order to meet strict deadlines, prioritize a varied workload, and a desire to work in a fast paced, demanding environment Information research skills involving customization, personalization to individuals and business units Leadership skills, maturity and high energy is essential Excellent oral and written communication and inter-personal skills � Qualifications: Master’s Degree in Information or Library Science 8 + years experience in a Corporate Information Center or Corporate�Library � Note: 1. Those who applied or� have attended� interview during last 1 year need not apply. 2. Candidates with Arts,� C ommerce and Life Sciences background will not considered . 3. Please state “Opening at Honeywell for Senior Information / Library Professional” on subject field without fail. 4. Last date to receive resume at our end is 31st December 2005. � Contact Information: � Ms. Nivedita Pabbathi Nivedita.Pabbathi(a)honeywell.com � "This e-mail and any attachments thereto, are intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and contain Honeywell confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying which amounts to misappropriation of this e-mail and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me and permanently delete the original and any copy of any e-mail and any printout thereof." �

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Re. Greenstone
by Sharad Jadhav 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Dear Saji, Following are few urls for digital library using Greenstone. Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode Digital Library, Kozhikode URL: http://www.intranet.iimk.ac.in/gsdl/cgi-bin/library National Centre for Science Information, IISc, Bangalore URL: http://vidya-mapak.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/cgi-bin/library?a=p&p=isearch Electronic Thesis and Dissertation, Digital Library, IIT Bombay, Mumbai URL http://www.library.iitb.ac.in/~mnj/gsdl/cgi-bin/library Archives of Indian Labour at http://www.indialabourarchives.org, NOIDA URL: http://www.indialabourarchives.org/ IIT Bangalore, Bangalore URL: http://www.mlasia.iitb.ac.in/gsdl/cgi-bin/library Demo Digital Library Collections, NCSI, IISc, Bangalore URL: http://144.16.72.147/gsdl/cgi-bin/library Hope this information is useful for you. Regards, Sharad Jadhav National Insurance Academy, Pune 45, India Sharad7703(a)yahoo.co.in >Message: 5 >Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:21:13 +0530 (IST) > From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >Subject: [LIS-Forum] Greenstone >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0512201720430.16467(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > >Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 05:15:09 -0500 (EST) > From: Saji S. Nair <ourdreamsblooming(a)excite.com> > >Dear all, > >Could you list the projects using Greenstone software for managing digital >collections/archives in India? > > >REGARDS >Saji S. Nair >Regional Cancer Centre library >Trivandrum >Kerala > > >------------------------------ Dear Saji, Following are few urls for digital library using Greenstone. Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode Digital Library, Kozhikode URL: http://www.intranet.iimk.ac.in/gsdl/cgi-bin/library National Centre for Science Information, IISc, Bangalore URL: http://vidya-mapak.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/cgi-bin/library?a=p&p=isearch Electronic Thesis and Dissertation, Digital Library, IIT Bombay, Mumbai URL http://www.library.iitb.ac.in/~mnj/gsdl/cgi-bin/library Archives of Indian Labour at http://www.indialabourarchives.org, NOIDA URL: http://www.indialabourarchives.org/ IIT Bangalore, Bangalore URL: http://www.mlasia.iitb.ac.in/gsdl/cgi-bin/library Demo Digital Library Collections, NCSI, IISc, Bangalore URL: http://144.16.72.147/gsdl/cgi-bin/library Hope this information is useful for you. Regards, Sharad Jadhav National Insurance Academy, Pune 45, India Sharad7703(a)yahoo.co.in >Message: 5 >Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:21:13 +0530 (IST) > From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >Subject: [LIS-Forum] Greenstone >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0512201720430.16467(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > >Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 05:15:09 -0500 (EST) > From: Saji S. Nair <ourdreamsblooming(a)excite.com> > >Dear all, > >Could you list the projects using Greenstone software for managing digital >collections/archives in India? > > >REGARDS >Saji S. Nair >Regional Cancer Centre library >Trivandrum >Kerala > > >------------------------------ http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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How to check online shopping frauds
by Rajeev Sharma 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Business Standard: How to check online shopping frauds Online shoppers must look for an 's' after "http" in the web page address or URL For detailed article log on http://businessstandard.com/bsonline/storypage.php?&autono=209235 Regards Rajeev TCI, Gurgaon Business Standard: How to check online shopping frauds Online shoppers must look for an s after http in the web page address or URL For detailed article log on http://businessstandard.com/bsonline/storypage.php?&autono=209235 http://businessstandard.com/bsonline/storypage.php?&autono=209235 Regards Rajeev TCI, Gurgaon

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Very Urgent requirement of an article
by poornima ma 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Dear All, Thank you very very much for your immediate response. Your timely response has helped us a lot.!!!! It is really great that we have such a forum where we get to know many information , people and also quick response to our inquiries..!!! Thanks once again. Regards, Poornima Rao Librarian TCS-BTS Electronic city - phase 2 Bangalore. --- PRASANNA TS <prasan_ts(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Poornima > i have attached the article you have requested in > PDF format. > Let me know if you need any help. > > Thanks > T S Prasanna > > Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > wrote: > Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:27:30 -0800 (PST) > From: poornima ma > > > Hi All, > > We are in an urgent requirement of an article - > Inserts - megafillers in composite restorations: a > literature review. > Publisher : Springer Link. > Year Of Publication : March 2000. Page 1 - 8 > Journal: Clinical Oral Investigation. > > One of my cousin is doing his research who, requires > this article very > urgently. > > I had searched in http://openmed.nic.in where we > could access only the > abstract of the article. We are interested in having > the full text > article. Please help us to get this full text > article. > > We are preferebly looking for an online access of > the article. We also > appriciate the information regarding how to get the > information, ways & > means.. etc. > > Please help. > > Thanks & Regards, > Poornima Rao. > Librarian > TCS-BTS > Electronic City - Phase 2. > Bangalore. > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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A new OA archive for ICT-enabled development
by Subbiah Arunachalam 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Friends: OneWorld South Asia, New Delhi, has set up an Open Access archive for ICT-enabled development: http://open.ekduniya.net We will be grateful if you could visit the site and comment on it. Your suggestions will be of great value. Please send them to Dr B Shadrach, Director, OWSA, at <shaddy.shadrach(a)oneworld.net> with cc to <narendra.deo(a)oneworld.net>. Thanks and regards. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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OA and DCs
by Subbiah Arunachalam 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Friends: Please look up http://www.sist-sciencesdev.net/fichiers/Bulletins/Bulletin_200512_en.pdf for an article on OA and the developing countries by Barbara Kirsop, Leslie Chan and Subbiah Arunachalam. This is a shorter version of an article that appeared a few weeks ago in SciDev.Net. Season's Greetings. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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KALA-Veterans Day
by I.R.N.Goudar 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Dear Professionals ( Please convey this message to all Professionals you know) Karnataka State Library Association plans to hold "LIS Veterans Day" some time during early February, 2006. The purpose is to recognize the contribution of senior and elderly LIS Professionals and to honour them. The occasion will give an opportunity for younger professionals to meet and share the experiences of Veterans. KALA had organised such an event meaningfully on April 5, 1999 when it celebrated its 10th anniversary. This time we will honour all those who retired after April 5, 1999 and also those who retired earlier but KALA missed out in honouring them earlier. Criteria: 1. All Life Members of KALA OR 2. All LIS Professionals from Karnataka, served any where in the world. If you are the one under these categories, please send your biodata along with present address and telephone number. REQUEST TO OTHERS: If any of your friends or colleagues come under the categories mentioned above please send me the details or at least the address and telephone number enabling us to contact the honourable veterans. Please use the address/e-mail given below. I.R.N. Goudar President Karnataka State Library Association -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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