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Dr. T B Rajashekar Memorial Seminar on Information Management in the Digital Era
by Babu Rajendra 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

Dear Members: This is to inform you that NCSI-NET, an association comprising of staff, students and alumni of NCSI, is organizing a day's national level seminar in memory of Late Dr. T.B. Rajashekar, erstwhile Associate chairman, NCSI, IISc. It is targeted exclusively for the benefit of students of final year/semester library and information science course or its equivalent. The details of the seminar are given below. Seminar Title : Dr. T B Rajashekar Memorial Seminar on Information Management in the Digital Era Date : November 12, 2005 (Saturday) Venue : National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore - 12. Target audience : Students of the final year/semester of Masters in Library & information science course or its equivalent Seminar coverage: The seminar will give the students an overview of Digital Library, concepts of digitization, creation of Digital Libraries and effective web searching techniques. There will be a session dealing with career building strategies and job opportunities for LIS professionals. Registration Fee: Rs.250/- We are not making any arrangements for accommodation. However, we will provide names and addresses of some affordable hotels, which are in the close proximity to IISc, on the workshop web site in due course of time. Last date for registration: November 2, 2005, More details about registration can be found at: http://144.16.72.147/workshop/Registration.html Kindly bring this to the attention of the students in your department and encourage them to attend the seminar. Participation in the seminar will also give an opportunity for the students to interact with fellow students from other universities and with professionals working in the industry and academia. For further information, please visit the website at: http://144.16.72.147/workshop/ Registration form is available at: http://144.16.72.147/workshop/regi_form.pdf Thanking you, Yours sincerely, NCSI-NET Coordinators H Rajendra Babu Financial Research Analyst Capco. Salarpuria Annexe, 351/5 - 10 Luskar, Hosur Road, Bangalore- 560 034 T-+91-80-51997351 http://www.capcoinstitute.com/ Capco Institute is the research arm of Capco Capco is the first services and technology solutions provider exclusively focused on forming the future of the financial markets. We unite thought leadership and practical application to improve profitability for our clients. ************************************************************************ The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender of this email immediately. You should not copy, use or disseminate the information contained in the email. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Capco. http://www.capco.com/ ************************************************************************

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eLearning vs knowledge mgmt
by Mailing List Manager 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:54:56 +0530 From: Bhojaraju G <bhojaraju.g(a)gmail.com> eLearning vs knowledge mgmtAuthor Verna AlleePublished Tue, Sep 27 2005 At those big training conferences, I love wandering the exhibitionhalls. Most of the old-line stand-up training companies have eitherdisappeared or languish in lonely obscurity in dark corners, relegatedto some undesirable low budget spot uncomfortably near the trash bins.Hogging the choice spots these days are the big glitzy elearningbooths with multi-media showstoppers, swarms of fresh-faced salespeople, and dazzling lists of offerings and features. Not the least oftheir attractions are innovative giveaways such as boldly emblazonedpsychedelic gel markers and chocolate in myriad forms. Pl refer URL to read full storyhttp://www.elearningscotland.org/SnippetAccess.aspx?id=421Thanks & Regards Bhojaraju G,Librarian – Knowledge Management/Sharepoint AdministratorHomepage: http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com**************************************… OneSource Ltd.148 Bhaskara Plaza, RV Road,VV Puram, Bangalore-560004, INDIA.Cell:+91-944 836 9905E-mail: Bhojaraju.G(a)gmail.com, bhojarajug@yahoo.com************************************************************Pl do visit & put your comments on Guest Book"KM Cyberary" @ http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com/cyberary.htmlKM-Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/

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Are handsets suitable for e-books?
by noufal palliparamban 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

Dear friends, Very intresting news from HarperCollins, one of the world's largest publishers, that it will offer free chapter summaries direct to consumer's handsets in Australia started me thinking about the viability of the mobile handset as an e-book platform. The technology, of course, already exists - storing and reading large volumes of text is possible on most of today's mid-range and high-end handsets. The real question is whether the more fundamental aspects of reading text in the mobile environment are conducive to a good user experience. For Full artice http://www.pmn.co.uk/20050922ebook.shtml Regards Noufal.P.P Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Dear friends, Very intresting news from http://www.harpercollins.com.au/mobilereader/ HarperCollins , one of the world's largest publishers, that it will offer free chapter summaries direct to consumer's handsets in Australia started me thinking about the viability of the mobile handset as an e-book platform. The technology, of course, already exists - storing and reading large volumes of text is possible on most of today's mid-range and high-end handsets. The real question is whether the more fundamental aspects of reading text in the mobile environment are conducive to a good user experience. For Full artice http://www.pmn.co.uk/20050922ebook.shtml http://www.pmn.co.uk/20050922ebook.shtml Regards Noufal.P.P Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur http://yahoo.shaadi.com Yahoo! India Matrimony </a href>: Find your partner now.

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RBI Database on Indian Economy ...
by Puttaraj Choukimath 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

Dear All, Greetings. Database on Indian Economy is built for the convenience of Researchers, Analysts, and other users. It is created to provide the public with an access to the published data series, with additional details on some series as available in Reserve Bank of Indias enterprise wide Data Warehouse. The list of the data series currently available is given in the hyperlink below. This list will be progressively enlarged on the basis of feedback received and availability of relevant data series in the RBI data warehouse. The following Subject-areas are covered in the Database on Indian Economy: Financial Sector Real Sector Financial Market External Sector Public Finance Corporate Finance please visit : https://cdbmsi.reservebank.org.in/cdbmsi/servlet/login/ Happy surfing/consulting Best Regards, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, TATA Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: puttuc(a)yahoo.com, choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: www.tiss.edu --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. Dear All, Greetings. Database on Indian Economy is built for the convenience of Researchers, Analysts, and other users. It is created to provide the public with an access to the published data series, with additional details on some series as available in Reserve Bank of Indias enterprise wide Data Warehouse. The list of the data series currently available is given in the hyperlink below. This list will be progressively enlarged on the basis of feedback received and availability of relevant data series in the RBI data warehouse. The following Subject-areas are covered in the Database on Indian Economy: Financial Sector Real Sector Financial Market External Sector Public Finance Corporate Finance please visit : https://cdbmsi.reservebank.org.in/cdbmsi/servlet/login/ https://cdbmsi.reservebank.org.in/cdbmsi/servlet/login/ Happy surfing/consulting Best Regards, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, TATA Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: mailto:puttuc@yahoo.com puttuc(a)yahoo.com , mailto:choukimath@tiss.edu choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: http://www.tiss.edu www.tiss.edu Yahoo! for Good http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

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debate on role of LIS-Forum
by Mailing List Manager 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

Dear Member: All the responses to Mr. Goudar's initiation of debate on whether LIS-Forum should circulate messages that have only regional significance, have been very favourable. So, LIS-Forum will continue to circulate such messages as long as the messages carry some useful information. A suggestion from one of the members that the messages be categorized appropriately may not be a solution for such of those who would like to discard the messages based on the the subject line. Just providing correct subject line for the matter will greatly help such members. Categorization may not be needed. Couple of requests for the smooth functioning of the Forum: Quite a few members of this list receive their messages in 'digest' form. Invariably, when such a member replies to a message, the subject for such replies will be something like: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 30, Issue 33 which is not the appropriate subject. Also, all the messages received for the day will be included in the replies, which is not required at all. Please ensure that your messages have relevant text as the subject and include only the relevant original message in the replies. Quite a few students, who seek help from the fellow members, seem to be using the forum as the first resort. It should not be so. They first need to make a sincere effort to get the required information themselves. When they approach the Forum, they should seek suggestions and clarifications rather than expecting the members to find information for them. As always, most of the postings are received as multipart, meaning they contain attachments. Please ensure that your postings to this forum are only in textual form. Thanks for your co-operation. Best Regards, - Moderator

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State Central Library , West Bengal, NEWS
by Shahab 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

Dear Mr. Abhijit Kr Bhowmick: Congratulations! Is the catalogue of the library free online? If yes, please give me the URL. Thanks S M SHAHABUDDIN M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Chennai Dear Mr. Abhijit Kr Bhowmick: Congratulations! Is the catalogue of the library free online? If yes, please give me the URL. Thanks S M SHAHABUDDIN M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Chennai 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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submission for LIS-forum
by ANIL SINGH 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Dear Sir, Please find below my submission for sharing with LIS-forum Members. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unjustified Qualification for Assistant Librarians Dear LIS-Forum Members, At present the essential qualification for the post of Lecturers in the pay scale of Rs.8000-13500/- in Library and Information Science in University and Colleges is Post Graduation in the concerned subject with at least 55% marks or its equivalent grade of B in the UGC seven point scales plus a consistently good academic record. Besides fulfilling the above qualifications, candidates should have cleared the National Eligibility Test (NET) for Lecturers conducted by the UGC/ CSIR. However, the candidates who have completed MPhil. Degree by 31 st December 1993 or have submitted Ph.D. thesis to the University in the concerned subject on or before 31 st December, 2002 are exempted from appearing in the NET examination. In case such candidates fail to obtain Ph.D. degree, they shall have to pass the NET examination. Whereas the qualification prescribed by the UGC for the Assistant Librarian in the pay scale of Rs.8,000-13,500/- is also same as of Lecturer. But, Lecturer having MPhil or PhD at the time of appointment will get two and four advance increments and their basic pay will start from Rs.9100/- and 8550/- respectively, then why Assistant Librarians having PhD/MPhil are not being given four/two increments. In addition to this, Lecturers are also getting the benefits of CAS (Career Advancement Scheme), which is not for Assistant Librarians. Here, I would like to discuss following points among LIS-forum members: 1. Assistant Librarians are being deprived from advance increments and CAS because UGC assumes that Librarianship is not an academic profession, than why NET is compulsory for Librarianship. UGC-NET is a National Eligibility Test for Lecturership only. It should not be mandatory for Librarianship. In number of universities in India, the Assistant Librarians are being appointed without having NET and some universities also give an option of either PhD or NET for Assistant Librarians. Even some universities are also giving advance increments benefit to library professionals. Why there are different rules for the same post? 2. For the post of Assistant Librarians in universities, UGC may prescribe MLISc with 55% and five years experience as Professional Assistant. This qualification is also justified because the qualification for the post of Deputy Librarian is MLISc with 55% and five years experience as College Librarian or Assistant Librarian in University. And also for Information Scientist in university library which is also equivalent to Assistant Librarians, the qualification is MLISc + PGDCA. By changing the qualifications, number of Professional Assistants can get promotional avenues those are stagnating on the same post since several years and Universities may also appoint experienced Assistant Librarians. 3. We are conducting number of conferences, seminars, workshops and training programmes for library and information professionals. These are organized for updating/refreshing the knowledge in the field of library computerization, Information and communication technologies and librarianship so that we can provide excellent service to the users. But, I think, until and unless library professionals are not satisfied with its profession (in respect to promotional avenues), they cannot provide excellent service to its users. Librarians have to update their knowledge in three fields i.e., LIS + Computer Science + in the field of institutional objectives in which they are serving. In spite of that Librarians have been neglected in respect to career advancement. Hence, CAS should be implemented for the Library staff. >From this platform, I would like to requests to all the Senior Library and Information Professionals in the country specially Professors and Heads of LIS Departments of Universities, University Librarians, Presidents and Secretaries of library associations, and Directors of all National Level Documentation Centres to take necessary measures to resolve these serious anomalies as they have been serving in various committees of UGC related to LIS profession. Our senior colleagues can only convince UGC in constituting clear rules, guidelines and policies in respect to qualifications, benefit of advance increments and CAS for library profession. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- Anil Singh Division of Library, Documentation and Information National Council of Educational Research and Training Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi - 110016 E-mail: mailto:rathoreas@hotmail.com rathoreas(a)hotmail.com

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Need Indian Standard for Furniture
by jyoti shreeram bhabal 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Hello I need latest Indian standard for furniture and equipment and for space planning in libraries. kindly suggest sites where i can look for? Jyoti Bhabal Lecturer SHPT School of Lib. Sci. Mumbai Hello I need latest Indian standard for furniture and equipment and for space planning in libraries. kindly suggest sites where i can look for? Jyoti Bhabal Lecturer SHPT School of Lib. Sci. Mumbai 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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RE:Library: Shopping malls
by Mailing List Manager 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:00:32 +0530 From: K A. Sardesai <kshipras(a)rbi.org.in> Dear Mr Jha, The public Libraries picture of Singopore is just wonderful.Times of India dated 22/9/05 International news has explored it very sound way. Hindu has made it as shopping mall. it is a good thing that if the infrastructure is so fool proof with everything including managemnt of money,HR and technology it may be possible.In a new marketing strategy of good business and best services, I am imagining a picture, reaching nearby to it for Indian Public Libraries. kshipras(a)rbi.org.in original message ---------------- Two news items, I found interesting in today's Hindu. May be interesting for you as well. 1. Libraries vs shopping malls 2. Beware, malware is out there!

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ICT and Education: Challenge and Practice And Conflux 2005: The e-Government Conference, Delhi, India
by Madhuresh 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Dear Friends, There are 2 conferences in Delhi, India of interest of some members during 17-19 October, 2005. 1. ICT and Education: Challenge and Practice (Digital Learning 2005) A two day conference on Digital Learning on the theme 'ICT and Education: Challenges and Practices'. The objective of the conference will be to create a platform for interchange of views among experts, professionals, researchers and academicians regarding theoretical and practical aspects of ICT implementation in education. Special focus will be made on open source applications and related policy issues. This two-day conference will be of interest to policy imple-menters, persons associated with advocacy, decision makers, managers, administrators, e-Learning content developers, ICT experts and the learning community. Keynote address: Learning ICT and Learning through ICT: Prospects and Challenges Session I: Tools for Learning through ICT: Availability and Scope Session II: e-Learning: Best Practices and Challenges Session III: Technology in Education Session IV: Policy and Advocacy: Critical Issues Session V: Government initiatives in ICT and Education Session VI: Civil Society and NGO initiatives in ICT and Education Session VII: Private Sector initiatives in ICT and Education Conference dates: 18-19 October 2005 Conference Venue: The Grand New Delhi Last date for receipt of abstracts: 30 September,2005 Last date for paper submission (for Full & Brief Papers): 10 October, 2005. Last date for submission of presentation: 15 October 2005 For more details, see http://www.dl.csdms.in/index.asp 2. Conflux 2005 Conflux 2005 is a three day conference and exhibition being organized by Centre for Science Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) in collaboration with Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi. The objective of the event is to showcase e-Government developments in India and the Asia Pacific and learn from the succesful practices in the region. The conference program will serve as a platform to bring experts from the various countries, key government representatives, industry and academia together to discuss the issues and priorities on the subject. The particpants will be able to demonstrate their initiatives, take feedback from the communinty and learn about the processes, technologies and solutions which can address their concerns. The three key stakeholders in e-Government program implementation-the government, private and the NGO sector will be sharing their successes, failures and opportuninties during the conference. Conflux 2005 is designed to help attendees address these challenges and provides practical, actionable knowledge through sharing of better learning practices, presentation on e-Government case studies from various Indian states and also from other Asian countries. Conference dates: 17-19 October 2005 For more details, see http://conflux.csdms.in/index.asp Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 212 Mobile 98861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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State Central Library , West Bengal, NEWS
by abhijit bhowmick 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Friends, State Central Library West Bengal is going to open its digital section to the people on 28th Septembner 2005.Books before 1925 ( in SCL W.B. )are now avilable in digitised form.In addition with this, one information kiosk powerd by touch screen monitor will serve the needs of the people. Where all the information in connection with various Govt Departments of West Bengal will be available along with some other info i.e. train timings, scholarships info, census data etc. This is for the information of all. Abhijit Kr Bhowmick Librarian --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Friends, State Central Library West Bengal is going to open its digital section to the people on 28th Septembner 2005.Books before 1925 ( in SCL W.B. )are now avilable in digitised form.In addition with this, one information kiosk powerd by touch screen monitor will serve the needs of the people. Where all the information in connection with various Govt Departments of West Bengal will be available along with some other info i.e. train timings, scholarships info, census data etc. This is for the information of all. Abhijit Kr Bhowmick Librarian http://yahoo.shaadi.com Yahoo! India Matrimony </a href>: Find your partner now.

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PMB website address
by vimal kumar 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Dear Library Professionals, Website address of PMB is www.sigb.net. Sorry for not mentioned web address in the last letter. This web link can also use for translated version of PMB home page: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.sigb.net/&pr… Best wishes, vimal kumar Asian School of Business Library Technopark Trivandrum Kerla vimal0212(a)yahoo.com __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

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"Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia" now becomes 37th medIND Journal
by Sukhdev Singh 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Dear Friends, "Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia" - http://medind.nic.in/aad/aadm.shtmlbecomes the 37th Indian Medical Journal that is available for free from our medIND Site i.e. http://medind.nic.in . Thus medind Site now has fulltext of 37 Indian Biomedical Journals that are indexed in IndMED [ http://indmed.nic.in ] or PubMed. Thanks --Sukhdev Singh, Technical Director, Bibliographic Informatics Division, National Informatics Centre, A-Block, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110003 http://indmed.nic.in ; http://medind.nic.in & http://openmed.nic.in Dear Friends, "Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia" - http://medind.nic.in/aad/aadm.shtml http://medind.nic.in/aad/aadm.shtml becomes the 37th Indian Medical Journal that is available for free from our medIND Site i.e. http://medind.nic.in http://medind.nic.in . Thus medind Site now has fulltext of 37 Indian Biomedical Journals that are indexed in IndMED [ http://indmed.nic.in http://indmed.nic.in ] or PubMed. Thanks --Sukhdev Singh, Technical Director, Bibliographic Informatics Division, National Informatics Centre, A-Block, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110003 http://indmed.nic.in http://indmed.nic.in ; http://medind.nic.in http://medind.nic.in & http://openmed.nic.in http://openmed.nic.in

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Re: RE: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE
by Sourav Chakraborty 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Dear Professionals, I fully appreciate the views expressed by Shri Goudar. Let us all work in that direction. Regards, Sourav. ------- Sourav Chakraborty Aunwesha Knowledge Technologies Webel Bhavan,3rd Floor,Block EP & GP Sector-V,Salt Lake Electronics Complex Kolkata - 700 091 Phone:+91 33 2357 7183 Mobile:+91 98302 81140 Fax:+91 33 2357 1739/7183 email:sourav@aunwesha.com web:http://www.aunwesha.com On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 M Koteswara Rao wrote : >Dear Colleagues, > >I do agree that this LIS-Forum started by Late Dr. Rajashekar is the first >of its kind in the country for library professionals. Over the year it has >helped all of us in many ways. It is an example of a practical work done >by Dr. TBR, and not just 'plain talk' given by many. However, I do not >agree to Mr. Goudar's statement ".... Rather we need (not?) bother about >the quality, importance and relevance of the of the content in the >postings....". I think that the quality and relevance of the content is >also very important in lis-forum. We are already aware that many of the >postings on this forum are too immature and lack quality and sense of >direction. If we need to keep this forum active and alive, we should >definitely adhere to some standards. > > >M. Koteswara Rao >------------------------------------- >Deputy librarian >Indian Institute of Technology Madras >Chennai - 600036, India >Tele: 91-044-22574954 > >On Fri, September 23, 2005 2:14 pm, Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com said: > > RE: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE > > I agree with Mr Gouder. > > Lis-forum has already become (by virtue of heavy usage, members > > from diverse institutions, and the perceived utility by subscribers) >number one among such forums for librarians and library science. It is >necessary for the professional to keep > > abreast > > of happenings > > in the country. Therefore posts from other foru > > m > > s should be welcome. > > > > Only one minor problems needs to be addressed. As I am > > greedy, I subscribe to several mailing lists: Lis-forum, corp. >librarians, > > Emala, IATLIS,Lis-net etc. When messages are cross-posted a lot of >duplication at the subscriber's end occurs. As many messages > > contain replies to some first link in a thread, one has to read through >a lot of messages before deleting duplicates. > > How can we avoid such duplication? > > Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, > > ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR >District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA > > Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com > > Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: >+91(40)27846631 > > -----Original Message----- > > From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > [ mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > ]On Behalf Of I.R.N.Goudar > > Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 12:05 PM > > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > Subject: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE > > Dear Professionals, > > As you are aware LIS-FORUM has emerged as an effective means of > > communication and discussion among LIS Professionals in the country for >the last few years. One of the Lis-Forum member has strongly >expressed > > his feelings that postings covering Regional/State level associations >should not be broadcast on Lis-Forum. But if you see the postings all >these years, forum has been covering items issued by be it MALIBNET, >KALA, MYLISA, RSC-Delhi, IATLIS, SIS, etc or a message from an >University. > > In this way forum is networking LIS Professionals and concerned > > professional associations all over the country, be it fron Kashmir, TN, >West Bengal or Karnataka. > > I am of the opinion that apart from discussing professional matters we >should know what is going on in professional circles elsewhere too. >While each Association can have its own discussion forum, important >announcemnets should be covered by Lis-Forum irrespective of whether >the > > LIS Association is State/Regional level one as long as the matter is of >interest, as has been the case all these days. Rather we need bother >about the quality, importance and relevance of the of the content in the >postings. Infact Late Dr. T.B. Rajashekar had posted an item toucing >some > > issues concerned in this matter a year back or so. > > I INVITE LIS-FORUM MEMBERS TO GIVE THEIR OPINION IN THIS MATTER. Goudar > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 > > http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Dear Professionals, I fully appreciate the views expressed by Shri Goudar. Let us all work in that direction. Regards, Sourav. ------- Sourav Chakraborty Aunwesha Knowledge Technologies Webel Bhavan,3rd Floor,Block EP & GP Sector-V,Salt Lake Electronics Complex Kolkata - 700 091 Phone:+91 33 2357 7183 Mobile:+91 98302 81140 Fax:+91 33 2357 1739/7183 email:sourav@aunwesha.com web:http://www.aunwesha.com On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 M Koteswara Rao wrote : >Dear Colleagues, > >I do agree that this LIS-Forum started by Late Dr. Rajashekar is the first >of its kind in the country for library professionals. Over the year it has >helped all of us in many ways. It is an example of a practical work done >by Dr. TBR, and not just 'plain talk' given by many. However, I do not >agree to Mr. Goudar's statement ".... Rather we need (not?) bother about >the quality, importance and relevance of the of the content in the >postings....". I think that the quality and relevance of the content is >also very important in lis-forum. We are already aware that many of the >postings on this forum are too immature and lack quality and sense of >direction. If we need to keep this forum active and alive, we should >definitely adhere to some standards. > > >M. Koteswara Rao >------------------------------------- >Deputy librarian >Indian Institute of Technology Madras >Chennai - 600036, India >Tele: 91-044-22574954 > >On Fri, September 23, 2005 2:14 pm, Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com said: > > RE: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE > > I agree with Mr Gouder. > > Lis-forum has already become (by virtue of heavy usage, members > > from diverse institutions, and the perceived utility by subscribers) >number one among such forums for librarians and library science. It is >necessary for the professional to keep > > abreast > > of happenings > > in the country. Therefore posts from other foru > > m > > s should be welcome. > > > > Only one minor problems needs to be addressed. As I am > > greedy, I subscribe to several mailing lists: Lis-forum, corp. >librarians, > > Emala, IATLIS,Lis-net etc. When messages are cross-posted a lot of >duplication at the subscriber's end occurs. As many messages > > contain replies to some first link in a thread, one has to read through >a lot of messages before deleting duplicates. > > How can we avoid such duplication? > > Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, > > ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR >District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA > > Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com > > Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: >+91(40)27846631 > > -----Original Message----- > > From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > [ mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > ]On Behalf Of I.R.N.Goudar > > Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 12:05 PM > > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > Subject: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE > > Dear Professionals, > > As you are aware LIS-FORUM has emerged as an effective means of > > communication and discussion among LIS Professionals in the country for >the last few years. One of the Lis-Forum member has strongly >expressed > > his feelings that postings covering Regional/State level associations >should not be broadcast on Lis-Forum. But if you see the postings all >these years, forum has been covering items issued by be it MALIBNET, >KALA, MYLISA, RSC-Delhi, IATLIS, SIS, etc or a message from an >University. > > In this way forum is networking LIS Professionals and concerned > > professional associations all over the country, be it fron Kashmir, TN, >West Bengal or Karnataka. > > I am of the opinion that apart from discussing professional matters we >should know what is going on in professional circles elsewhere too. >While each Association can have its own discussion forum, important >announcemnets should be covered by Lis-Forum irrespective of whether >the > > LIS Association is State/Regional level one as long as the matter is of >interest, as has been the case all these days. Rather we need bother >about the quality, importance and relevance of the of the content in the >postings. Infact Late Dr. T.B. Rajashekar had posted an item toucing >some > > issues concerned in this matter a year back or so. > > I INVITE LIS-FORUM MEMBERS TO GIVE THEIR OPINION IN THIS MATTER. Goudar > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 > > http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum 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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PMB Open source IntegratedLibrary System
by vimal kumar 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

PMB Open source IntegratedLibrary System PMB is a ILS entirely free .This software is easy to install than other Opensource ILS. It can work in Windows and Linux. PMB Website available in French, google transalte tool can use to traslate web content into English. PMB supports French, English, Spanish and Prtuguese. User can cutomise languge modules.Following feature available in the latest version(2.1), Financial management Management of the subscriptions Management of the fines Management of the multiple revivals Management of the tariffs of loans Management of the blocking of the loan DSI Selective dissemination of Information Management of the subscriptions to the innovations Management of the criteria of innovations Diffusion by mall and in the OPAC General interface Pagination of the results Possibility of substituting the messages or the standard wording of PMB by its own texts in file XML. OPAC Skeletal limitation of the posting of the categories to the last descriptor term Masking of the specimens of the sections or localizations invisible Masking of the fields persos when vacuums Parameter setting URL image label of the work Choice of the language in the OPAC by the visitor Possibility of substituting the messages or the standard wording of PMB by its own texts in file XML. Seek on the bulletins by date of publication Categories, sorting in posting Cataloguing Skeletal limitation of the posting of the categories to the last descriptor term Addition of a statute of note to manage visibilities in OPAC, preparation of the module acquisitions, extension of research "all the catalogue" " note in order "... Alarm on duplicated ISBN/ISSN Addition of mention of edition: "N ième edition" Update of notes by Z3950 Addition of the columns of dates of creation/modification on notes and specimens Seek on the bulletins by date of publication Categories, sorting in posting Possible posting of the labels of the monographs Administration Columns of audit of the notes and specimens (which created or modified? ...) Internationalization of the installation Parameter of limitation of the indexing Dewey in importation UNIMARC or Z3950 Circulation/Réservations Calendar of the days of opening and calculations of the return Loans express train: to be able to lend a book not catalogued Mall of information of reservation posed in the OPAC Mall of information to user of the validated, priority reservation compared to letter pdf New column of management of confirmation of validation of reservation résa addressed or not with the reader Information on the borrower provided at the time of the not yet returned loans and return, borrowed books, possible delays, reservations Prolongation of the loans by batch (check box and button) Addition of the columns of date of last loan on specimens and borrowers Possible connection of the readers to a directory LDAP Editions Posting of the delays by possible date Pagination of the states personnalisables PMB need helps transalate existing docuentation in French to English. Vimal kumar, Asian School of Business, Trivandrum P.S. Translated version of PMB installation manual available with me. Anybody interested, please contact me at vimal0212(a)yahoo.com __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

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LIS-FORUM : ITS ROLE
by Sadasivan KP 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Friends, I don't think there is any need for a debate on this issue. It is precisely the job/prerogative of the moderator. I am sure, a periodical review/analysis by NCSI, of the messages that inadvertantly bleed beyond the boundaries of its policy, could resolve the aberrations. SADASIVAN KP / RRL(CSIR) TRIVANDRUM / 26.09.2005 --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. Friends, I don't think there is any need for a debate on this issue. It is precisely the job/prerogative of the moderator. I am sure, a periodical review/analysis by NCSI, of the messages that inadvertantly bleed beyond the boundaries of its policy, could resolve the aberrations. SADASIVAN KP / RRL(CSIR) TRIVANDRUM / 26.09.2005 Yahoo! for Good http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

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Role of LIS Forum
by chandrashekhar navalgund 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Dear Professional Freinds, I agree with what Dr. Shalini Urs has mentioned about the Role being played by the LIS-Forum being run by NCSI. Here I would like to share my personal views how the forum is helpful to the people in general and Library professionals in particular. All members are not actively participating in communicating / sending the messages and that does not mean that only few members are using the LIS- Forum for example me itself. Though I am not sending the messages regularly but, regularly, I go through the messages and lots of things I am able to know by going through the messages sent to this forum be it the professional activities , knowing some of the technical details, new web sites found by someone etc. etc. like this many such things I come to know from this forum. So, like me, many others are getting such benefits though this forum though they are not acticve communicators to the forum. C U Navalgund Dy. Librarian National Law School of India University Nagarbhavi Bangalore - 72 Tel : 080-22729259 email : mailto:cun@nls.ac.in cun(a)nls.ac.in

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Postings at lis-forum
by gayathri sen 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Dear friends, Lis-forum is one place where we stay connected with each other professionally and come to know many latest developments in the field through discussions. Why should it be limited to any state association, or area or university or even country. Except personal wishes, which can be communicated directly to individuals, all other professional topics can be discussed for our benefit. Lis-forum is one of the best forums that I have come accross amongest my different subscriptions. Gayathri Sen PESIT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear friends, Lis-forum is one place where we stay connected with each other professionally and come to know many latest developments in the field through discussions. Why should it be limited to any state association, or area or university or even country. Except personal wishes, which can be communicated directly to individuals, all other professional topics can be discussed for our benefit. Lis-forum is one of the best forums that I have come accross amongest my different subscriptions. Gayathri Sen PESIT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Local Association Postings on LIS-FORUM
by N.S. Harinarayana 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

This is in response to Dr. Goudar�s call for discussion on appropriateness of postings on activities of local associations. Local associations in their own way are contributing to the growth of the profession. Their activities is normally intended to benefit its members locally. This does not mean that the issues discussed in a local association do not worth national/international attention. �Think globally and act locally� is the motto of most of the local associations. My close association with one of the local associations has shown that whenever we post the activities of the association, invariably we get some suggestions/comments/criticisms/appreciation etc from some corner. We take these inputs seriously and discuss them in our meetings. We also receive request for a copy of the lecture/discussion that we had in our association. We normally oblige these requests. This proves the point that the postings about the happenings at local associations do act as a trigger for further discussion and research. I do not wonder if an activity in a local association sets the agenda for discussion at national/international levels. Hence, I see no reason for banning the postings about local association activities on LIS-FORUM. -- N.S.Harinarayana Ph.D Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri, Mysore 570 006 Ph: 2419393

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Must Read Articles for LIS Professionals
by Puna Das 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Must Read Articles for LIS Professionals ________________________________________ The Top 10 Reasons to Be a Librarian By Martha J. Spear http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/selectedarticles/top10reasons.htm 10 Reasons Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library By Mark Y. Herring http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/selectedarticles/10reasonswhy.htm 12 Ways Libraries Are Good for the Country (A 2000 revision of the list that originally appeared in American Libraries in December 1995) http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/selectedarticles/12wayslibraries.htm _*_*_*_*_*_*_*_ Submitted by: Anup Kumar Das New Delhi _*_*_*_*_*_*_*_ __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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Information
by dineshmail 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

Dear Friends, I am seriously looking for a book "Strategic Management for Academic Libraries" by Hayes, Greenwood Press, If anybody knows the avbailability of this book in any of the libraries in bangalore or other places, kindly inform me. Thanking you, Dinesh K S Librarian, Nagarjuna College of Engg. & Tech. Devanahally, Bangalore.

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[Fwd: Re [bytesforall_readers] BBC Program on ICTs vs POVERTY]
by Subbiah Arunachalam 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Source: http://www.dev.tv ICTs vs POVERTY What role do ICTs have in banishing poverty? We have just had a Millennium Summit Plus 5 in New York. To no-one’s surprise, the ambitious so-called "Millennium Development Goals" for halving poverty are not being met. Could that be because in the 21st century we are overlooking the 21st century solution for bridging the divide between Rich and Poor? Namely: to invest more in ICTs – television, radio, computers, the Internet, mobile phones, and so on? On 30 September, at the headquarters of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in Geneva, we are staging a Debate on the emerging agenda for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). An invited audience of 50 ICT movers and shakers will fire questions at a distinguished panel. The Debate will be broadcast on BBC World Television on 22 October 2005, in advance of Phase II of WSIS, which will take place in Tunis, Tunisia, on 16-18 November 2005. This is your chance to have a say by sending your questions to Anita McNaught, moderator for the Debate. Send your questions right up to 12:00 GMT on 29 September 2005 on anita(a)dev.tv, and we will do our best to make sure they are put to the panel. This Debate is staged with support from SDC, GKP, and UNDP-APDIP.

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The knowledge revolution still eludes the Indian farmer -. P. Prabhakaran Nair
by vasanth raj 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Dear Sir/Madam, THREE interesting news items appeared last month. The first referred to the Independence Day promise by the Prime Minister that by the end of the current Plan, every district will have a Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), a new National Rainfed Area Authority to focus on problems of dry-land farming, and one crore hectares to be brought under irrigation. The second was on the recommendation by former space scientist, Dr U. R. Rao, that the new drive on developmental aspirations should be based on the new found "knowledge society". The third pertained to the suggestion by Mr Narayana Murthy, Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies, that people should be moved from agriculture to the manufacturing and services sectors to make India globally competitive on the export front............... Further Information Source: Business line www.thehindubusinessline.com/2005/09/24/stories/2005092400201000.htm regards ------------------------- Vasantha Raju N --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Dear Sir/Madam, T HREE interesting news items appeared last month. The first referred to the Independence Day promise by the Prime Minister that by the end of the current Plan, every district will have a Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), a new National Rainfed Area Authority to focus on problems of dry-land farming, and one crore hectares to be brought under irrigation. The second was on the recommendation by former space scientist, Dr U. R. Rao, that the new drive on developmental aspirations should be based on the new found "knowledge society". The third pertained to the suggestion by Mr Narayana Murthy, Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies, that people should be moved from agriculture to the manufacturing and services sectors to make India globally competitive on the export front............... Further Information Source: Business line http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2005/09/24/stories/2005092400201000.htm www.thehindubusinessline.com/2005/09/24/stories/2005092400201000.htm regards ------------------------- Vasantha Raju N http://yahoo.shaadi.com Yahoo! India Matrimony </a href>: Find your partner now.

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Re: Gouder Plz don't get offended !! (fwd)
by I.R.N.Goudar 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Dear Dr. Kaiser, Your opinion given in the text is perfectly OK and I agree with you that we should avoid personal communication and festival/birtday greetings. Infact Lis-Forum is already following these norms. However a good personal experience having a relation to LIS or somebody's outstanding achievements in LIS, etc can go through forum. When somebody requests for an article or a book through forum (justified), but the response by resource library and in turn thanking mail by the requester be sent to the concerned person only, not through the forum. In my posting I have clearly mentioned quality, relevance, etc. This is in confirmity with what you have opined. This being the case where was the need to mention in the Subject? " Gouder PlZ don't get offended!! Goudar " On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, khaiser nikam wrote: > *********************** > Your mail has been scanned by InterScan MSS. > ***********-*********** > > > Friends, > There is a saying "Facts are Secred&Comments are free, " .As far as I am concerened , i feel what ever news we get on LIS - FORUM is just fine & it is doing well .It is well with in its scope and aims ."Knowledge is power sharing knowledge is wwealth ". > So long as we communicate some thing original , academic & professional information irrespective of where it comes from ( I mean geographical -- zonal ,regional or local etc.) it should not matter . We must also adeher to very high ethical standards. > However ,certain items like sending festival greetings and sharing personal information , may kindly be avoided . > These comments are purely personal ,and not to hurt any bodys feeling > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dr Khaiser Nikam > Reader /Management consultant > University of Mysore > Mysore -570 006 > 0821-2419399(O) > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Career Explorer Magazine details
by Abhilash P P 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Dear Professionals we would like to subscribe the following two periodicals for our central library, 1. Career Explorer 2. The Beutifull Mind any one know the subscription details or address details please mail to us thanking you in advance with best regards ABHILASHAN P ASST LIBRARIAN SRI KRISHNA COLLEGE OF ENGG & TECH KUNIAMUTHUR (PO) COIMBATORE - 641 008 INDIA Dear Professionals we would like to subscribe the following two periodicals for our central library, 1. Career Explorer 2. The Beutifull Mind any one know the subscription details or address details please mail to us thanking you in advance with best regards ABHILASHAN P ASST LIBRARIAN SRI KRISHNA COLLEGE OF ENGG & TECH KUNIAMUTHUR (PO) COIMBATORE - 641 008 INDIA 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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Elocution Competition at DLIS, University of Mysore, Mysore
by N.S. Harinarayana 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

MULISSA event � 4: Elocution Competition Mysore University Library and Information Science Students Association (MULISSA), Department of Library and Information Science (DLIS), University of Mysore, Mysore organized an elocution competition for the students of MLISc and MIM on Friday, September 23, 2005 at 3.30 pm. The elocution competition was arranged by MULISSA to encourage the students to improve upon their public speaking abilities, to overcome impediments such as stammer, stutter, general nerves, and to increase their confidence in their communication. Each participant was asked to speak for two minutes about any topic of their choice. The competition received an overwhelming response from the student community. Public speaking tops the list of phobias for most people. Public speaking anxiety is very common among student community. The anxiety of students in public speaking center around: being embarrassed; worries about mistakes; looking stupid; judged unattractive; no one being interested in what they have to say; and not wanting to be the centre of attention. Speaking on the occasion Prof. Shalini R Urs urged the students to participate actively. Oratory is a skill that needs to be cultivated consciously, as no one is a born orator. Proper preparation and practicing/rehearsing would help to communicate better. She said, even most successful speakers practice their speech. She cited the examples of Sir Winston Churchill � one of the most successful orators of the world - being confessed in that he was practising his speeches for important occasion before a huge mirror. There was an interesting range of topics that the students chose to speak on. They include: places; leaders � political and spiritual; institutions of learning � colleges, Departments and Universities; education; jokes; eye donation; technology; fundamental duties; personal traits � self respect, friendship etc. Events like Siachen and Katrina were also subjects of talk in the elocution competition. One student talked for entire two minutes on his futile effort to find a topic for the elocution competition!! A quick feed back collected showed that students enjoyed the programme and at the same they felt that the programme has helped them to overcome their inhibitions to some extent. Dr. Mallinath Kumbar, Reader, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore and Ms. Pushpa Joseph, Assistant Librarian, Mysore University Library, Mysore adjudged the student performance in the competition. Ms. M. Nagaveni and Ms. K. Savitha won the first and second prizes respectively. Giving his opinion on the competition, Dr. Kumbar said that these kinds of competition would help the students to improve their communication skill. He said apart from competition, the DLIS has been trying its best to improve the communication skills of students by way of compulsory seminars and assignments. It may be noted here that DLIS, Mysore has recently introduced one exclusive paper called �Personality Development and Communication Skills� in its MLISc curriculum. Dr. N.S. Harinarayana, the faculty advisor of MULISSA welcomed the gathering and Sri. C.S. Surendra proposed the vote of thanks. -- N.S.Harinarayana Ph.D Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri, Mysore 570 006 Ph: 2419393

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RE: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE
by M Koteswara Rao 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Dear Colleagues, I do agree that this LIS-Forum started by Late Dr. Rajashekar is the first of its kind in the country for library professionals. Over the year it has helped all of us in many ways. It is an example of a practical work done by Dr. TBR, and not just 'plain talk' given by many. However, I do not agree to Mr. Goudar's statement ".... Rather we need (not?) bother about the quality, importance and relevance of the of the content in the postings....". I think that the quality and relevance of the content is also very important in lis-forum. We are already aware that many of the postings on this forum are too immature and lack quality and sense of direction. If we need to keep this forum active and alive, we should definitely adhere to some standards. M. Koteswara Rao ------------------------------------- Deputy librarian Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai - 600036, India Tele: 91-044-22574954 On Fri, September 23, 2005 2:14 pm, Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com said: > RE: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE > I agree with Mr Gouder. > Lis-forum has already become (by virtue of heavy usage, members > from diverse institutions, and the perceived utility by subscribers) number one among such forums for librarians and library science. It is necessary for the professional to keep > abreast > of happenings > in the country. Therefore posts from other foru > m > s should be welcome. > > Only one minor problems needs to be addressed. As I am > greedy, I subscribe to several mailing lists: Lis-forum, corp. librarians, > Emala, IATLIS,Lis-net etc. When messages are cross-posted a lot of duplication at the subscriber's end occurs. As many messages > contain replies to some first link in a thread, one has to read through a lot of messages before deleting duplicates. > How can we avoid such duplication? > Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, > ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA > Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com > Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631 > -----Original Message----- > From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > [ mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > ]On Behalf Of I.R.N.Goudar > Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 12:05 PM > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Subject: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE > Dear Professionals, > As you are aware LIS-FORUM has emerged as an effective means of > communication and discussion among LIS Professionals in the country for the last few years. One of the Lis-Forum member has strongly expressed > his feelings that postings covering Regional/State level associations should not be broadcast on Lis-Forum. But if you see the postings all these years, forum has been covering items issued by be it MALIBNET, KALA, MYLISA, RSC-Delhi, IATLIS, SIS, etc or a message from an University. > In this way forum is networking LIS Professionals and concerned > professional associations all over the country, be it fron Kashmir, TN, West Bengal or Karnataka. > I am of the opinion that apart from discussing professional matters we should know what is going on in professional circles elsewhere too. While each Association can have its own discussion forum, important announcemnets should be covered by Lis-Forum irrespective of whether the > LIS Association is State/Regional level one as long as the matter is of interest, as has been the case all these days. Rather we need bother about the quality, importance and relevance of the of the content in the postings. Infact Late Dr. T.B. Rajashekar had posted an item toucing some > issues concerned in this matter a year back or so. > I INVITE LIS-FORUM MEMBERS TO GIVE THEIR OPINION IN THIS MATTER. Goudar > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 > http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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RE: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE
by Mailing List Manager 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:22:27 +0530 To: khaisernikam(a)yahoo.com There is a saying "Facts are Secred&Comments are free, " .As far as I am concerened , i feel what ever news we get on LIS - FORUM is just fine & it is doing well .It is well with in its scope and aims ."Knowledge is power sharing knowledge is wwealth ". So long as we communicate some thing original , academic & professional information irrespective of where it comes from ( I mean geographical -- zonal ,regional or local etc.) it should not matter . We must also adeher to very high ethical standards. However ,certain items like sending festival greetings and sharing personal information , may kindly be avoided . These comments are purely personal ,and not to hurt any bodys feeling ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr Khaiser Nikam Reader /Management consultant University of Mysore Mysore -570 006 0821-2419399(O)

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Open Journal Systems
by Mailing List Manager 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:18:42 +0530 From: Bhojaraju G <bhojaraju.g(a)gmail.com> *Dear Colleagues* ** FYI & Use.. *What is the Open Journal Systems?* Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research. OJS assists with every stage of the refereed publishing process, from submissions through to online publication and indexing. Through its management systems, its finely grained indexing of research, and the context it provides for research, OJS seeks to improve both the scholarly and public quality of referred research. OJS is open source software made freely available to journals worldwide for the purpose of making open access publishing a viable option for more journals, as open access can increase a journal's readership as well as its contribution to the public good on a global scale (see PKP Publications <http://pkp.ubc.ca/publications/>). *Features* 1. OJS is installed locally and locally controlled. 2. Editors configure requirements, sections, review process, etc. 3. Online submission and management of all content. 4. Subscription module with delayed open access options. 5. Comprehensive indexing of content part of global system. 6. Reading Tools for content, based on field and editors' choice. 7. Email notification and commenting ability for readers. 8. Complete context-sensitive online Help support. Consult OJS in an Hour <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/OJSinanHour.pdf> for more details and to take OJS for a test-drive. *September 17, 2005: OJS 2.0.2 Released* This release features Microsoft IIS 6 support, LOCKSS<http://lockss.stanford.edu/>support, custom email templates, search enhancements, bug fixes and much more. See the Download <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ojs_download.html> page and release notes <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/RELEASE> for more information. *OJS 2.0 Release Announcement*<http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ojs2announcement.html> *OJS in an Hour* <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/OJSinanHour.pdf> *OJS Technical Reference* <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/OJSTechnicalReference.pdf> *Early Reviews of OJS* <http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/ojs/ojs_comments.html> *OJS FAQs<http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/ojs/faq.html> * *Examples of OJS Users <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/journals.html>* *Demo of OJS v2.0 <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/demo/present/>* *Demo of OJS v1.1.9<http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/demo/ojs119/> * *OJS Online Support Forum <http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/support/forum/index.php> * *Other Open Source Systems <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/other_OJS.html>* * Download <http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ojs_download.html>* Thanks & Regards Bhojaraju G, Librarian�Knowledge Management Homepage: http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com ************************************************************ ICICI OneSource Ltd. 148 Bhaskara Plaza, RV Road, VV Puram, Bangalore-560004, INDIA. Cell:+91-944 836 9905 E-mail: Bhojaraju.G(a)gmail.com, bhojarajug(a)yahoo.com ************************************************************ Pl do visit & put your comments on Guest Book "KM Cyberary" @ http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com/cyberary.html KM-Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/

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Dr. Ranganathan's Open Access
by Mailing List Manager 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:05:23 +0530 From: Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> Dear Friends In the context "Open Access and Five Laws" messages [Given below] I would like to put my reactions. 1. The term "Open Access" was used by Dr. S.R Ranganathan to describe a library system where a "reader" is permitted to go to the stack and browse through the collection. This is what the modern libraries now follow. However, in those days, libraries were not "open access" as the readers were required to give details of required book to the Library Staff. At the most, a reader was permitted to access the Library Catalogue. By advocating "Open Access" he wanted to provide the benefits of "browsing approach" to the readers. 2. The Works of Dr. S.R Ranganathan are wonderful. I happen read the Original Works "FIVE LAWS and PROLEGOMENA to Library Classification. Five Laws has been written in a very interesting format of "Animated Talks / Dialogues". I wish these should be available now in Open Access [as understood these days] Mode. 3. SRELS may stand to loose financially. But then, There are ways to compensate. They may put up their own web site which may be sponsored / Or Advertisement revenue could be generated. 4. Technology / Hosting / Digitisation should not be a problem. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in =======================REFERENCE MESSAGES=================== Message: 3 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:57:39 +0530 (IST) From: "Prabhash.Rath" <prabhash(a)gipe.ernet.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Apply Open Access to Five Laws? To: MichaelMay.10726764(a)bloglines.com Cc: michael.p.may(a)earthlink.net, lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <42007.202.41.82.51.1127370459.squirrel(a)gipe.ernet.in> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Dear all This is actually a very good and useful suggestion. Really we talk a lot about Prof Ranganathan's five laws but I doubt really how many of us have really gone through the original work. Most of us get the references from the secondary sources only. Of course there are some other works like Prolegomena...etc. which are also often referred to but rarely seen in original, five laws being a small book can well be digitised.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Open access to Dr Ranganthan's ideas
by Mailing List Manager 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:29:01 +0100 (BST) From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> Hello freinds the suggestion given by Dr Arunachalam is valid and a good suggestion. i feel that there is enough of scope to revise even the CCC and CC to a larger extent. Mainly, the CCC is much comfortably can be revised. unfortunately, many students and colleagues of Late Dr Ranganathan, take his name for their own purposes. they make use of SRR name for their selfishness. they never bothered to revise or sponsor intensive studies on his works. Every one takes pride in associating their names with SRR. I am one of the lucky persons to have taken a gift (CCC ) from SRELS in 1968, duly signed by the great man. there is every possibility of sponsoring studies on relevance of his theories. It is a known fact that five laws continue to be relevant in the changing information environment. it is high time for SRELS or DRTC or others who claim and boast themselves the great man's colleagues, to take the job seriously and do something to retain and promote the ideas of late Ranganathan. it is a known fact that SRR's contribution to this profession / knowledge, especially in India is phenomenal and no one can do as much as he has done at least in next century.already, the generation started ignoring him and his concepts. the schools are shying away to teach some of his concepts. still it is not late to take up to take the job and do some thing. i only suggest all professionals especially, who claim and take SRR' name for everything to take advantage should start working for popularising / improving the concepts and theories. in the process of writing this mail, i never meant hurting any individual. my apologies if some one gets hurt. laxman rao ----------------------------------------------------- Shahab <smshahabuddin(a)rediffmail.com> wrote: Dear friends: I have read the posting by Michael May asking for the digitisation of Dr Ranganathan's book, Five Laws of Library Science. It is very pathetic to know that due to the nonavailability of sufficient number of copies many library and information science graduates are unable to read the book. The case is similar for other books penned by Dr Ranganthan. He had preached open access and accessibility to information throughout his life. And it is his books being obstructed, by whatsoever the reasons be, for access.

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Oa in India
by Subbiah Arunachalam 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Friends: Please look up http://www.aardvarknet.info/access/number54/monthnews.cfm?monthnews=02 for my article on OA in India which appeared in Access recently. Arun Friends: Please look up http://www.aardvarknet.info/access/number54/monthnews.cfm?monthnews=02 http://www.aardvarknet.info/access/number54/monthnews.cfm?monthnews=02 for my article on OA in India which appeared in Access recently. Arun

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RE: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

I agree with Mr Gouder. Lis-forum has already become (by virtue of heavy usage, members from diverse institutions, and the perceived utility by subscribers) number one among such forums for librarians and library science. It is necessary for the professional to keep abreast of happenings in the country. Therefore posts from other forums should be welcome. Only one minor problems needs to be addressed. As I am greedy, I subscribe to several mailing lists: Lis-forum, corp. librarians, Emala, IATLIS,Lis-net etc. When messages are cross-posted a lot of duplication at the subscriber's end occurs. As many messages contain replies to some first link in a thread, one has to read through a lot of messages before deleting duplicates. How can we avoid such duplication? Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631 -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of I.R.N.Goudar Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 12:05 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE Dear Professionals, As you are aware LIS-FORUM has emerged as an effective means of communication and discussion among LIS Professionals in the country for the last few years. One of the Lis-Forum member has strongly expressed his feelings that postings covering Regional/State level associations should not be broadcast on Lis-Forum. But if you see the postings all these years, forum has been covering items issued by be it MALIBNET, KALA, MYLISA, RSC-Delhi, IATLIS, SIS, etc or a message from an University. In this way forum is networking LIS Professionals and concerned professional associations all over the country, be it fron Kashmir, TN, West Bengal or Karnataka. I am of the opinion that apart from discussing professional matters we should know what is going on in professional circles elsewhere too. While each Association can have its own discussion forum, important announcemnets should be covered by Lis-Forum irrespective of whether the LIS Association is State/Regional level one as long as the matter is of interest, as has been the case all these days. Rather we need bother about the quality, importance and relevance of the of the content in the postings. Infact Late Dr. T.B. Rajashekar had posted an item toucing some issues concerned in this matter a year back or so. I INVITE LIS-FORUM MEMBERS TO GIVE THEIR OPINION IN THIS MATTER. Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum RE: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE I agree with Mr Gouder. Lis-forum has already become (by virtue of heavy usage, members from diverse institutions, and the perceived utility by subscribers) number one among such forums for librarians and library science. It is necessary for the professional to keep abreast of happenings in the country. Therefore posts from other foru m s should be welcome. Only one minor problems needs to be addressed. As I am greedy, I subscribe to several mailing lists: Lis-forum, corp. librarians, Emala, IATLIS,Lis-net etc. When messages are cross-posted a lot of duplication at the subscriber's end occurs. As many messages contain replies to some first link in a thread, one has to read through a lot of messages before deleting duplicates. How can we avoid such duplication? Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631 -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [ mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ]On Behalf Of I.R.N.Goudar Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 12:05 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE Dear Professionals, As you are aware LIS-FORUM has emerged as an effective means of communication and discussion among LIS Professionals in the country for the last few years. One of the Lis-Forum member has strongly expressed his feelings that postings covering Regional/State level associations should not be broadcast on Lis-Forum. But if you see the postings all these years, forum has been covering items issued by be it MALIBNET, KALA, MYLISA, RSC-Delhi, IATLIS, SIS, etc or a message from an University. In this way forum is networking LIS Professionals and concerned professional associations all over the country, be it fron Kashmir, TN, West Bengal or Karnataka. I am of the opinion that apart from discussing professional matters we should know what is going on in professional circles elsewhere too. While each Association can have its own discussion forum, important announcemnets should be covered by Lis-Forum irrespective of whether the LIS Association is State/Regional level one as long as the matter is of interest, as has been the case all these days. Rather we need bother about the quality, importance and relevance of the of the content in the postings. Infact Late Dr. T.B. Rajashekar had posted an item toucing some issues concerned in this matter a year back or so. I INVITE LIS-FORUM MEMBERS TO GIVE THEIR OPINION IN THIS MATTER. Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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SKCET LIBRARY WORKSHOP 2005
by Abhilash P P 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Dear Professionals Sri Krishna College of Engineering Technology , Dept of Library is organising one day workshop on 22nd Oct 2005 . Title of the Workshop: E-Resources: Collection Evaluation & Management Venue: Dept of Library Sri Krishna College of Engg & Tech, Kunaimuthur (Post) Coimbatore -641008, Tamil Nadu. Ph. 0422-2678001 (7 lines) Email: mailto:tamizhchelvan@gmail.com tamizhchelvan(a)gmail.com , mailto:skcetworkshop@yahoo.co.in skcetworkshop(a)yahoo.co.in The Workshop is intended to discuss the technological trends in digital libraries, discuss key issues involved in digital library development (using Greenstone Digital Library Open source software). Through this workshop, the participants come to know: Creating awareness on E-Resources E-resources format and standards Realising the importance of Institutional repositories Developing awareness of Digital Library Collection: and Enriching the participants on Digital Library on Open Resources (GSDL & Dspace) For further details please visit http://www.geocities.com/skcetworkshop/ http://www.geocities.com/skcetworkshop/ Expecting your participation with warm regards Dr. M. Tamizhchelvan, Librarian/Organising Secretary, Sri Krishna College of Engg & Tech, Kuniamuthur (PO) Coimbatore 641 008 Tamil Nadu - India. Email: tamizhchelvan(a)gmail.com Dear Professionals Sri Krishna College of Engineering Technology , Dept of Library is organising one day workshop on 22nd Oct 2005. Title of the Workshop: E-Resources: Collection Evaluation & Management Venue: Dept of Library Sri Krishna College of Engg & Tech, Kunaimuthur (Post) Coimbatore -641008, Tamil Nadu. Ph. 0422-2678001 (7 lines) Email: tamizhchelvan(a)gmail.com, skcetworkshop(a)yahoo.co.in The Workshop is intended to discuss the technological trends in digital libraries, discuss key issues involved in digital library development (using Greenstone Digital Library Open source software). Through this workshop, the participants come to know: Creating awareness on E-Resources E-resources format and standards Realising the importance of Institutional repositories Developing awareness of Digital Library Collection: and Enriching the participants on Digital Library on Open Resources (GSDL & Dspace) For further details please visit http://www.geocities.com/skcetworkshop/ Expecting your participation with warm regards Dr. M. Tamizhchelvan, Librarian/Organising Secretary, Sri Krishna College of Engg & Tech, Kuniamuthur (PO) Coimbatore 641 008 Tamil Nadu - India. Email: tamizhchelvan(a)gmail.com

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Could you please help me?
by Mailing List Manager 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:09:57 +0530 From: Dr.J.Samajdar <lalijyoti(a)vsnl.net> Dear colleagues, I am doing my PhD on Information seeking behaviour and information utilisation pattern of psychiatrists. Please help me with questionnaire/survey/references of literature on this topic. Please inform me about authentic sites on psychiatric literature. Addresses and/or email_id of Medical Library Associations. email_id of forums on college library/librarians. Hope to get some help from all of you. Regards. Susmita Librarian of M M C College,Kolkata,West Bengal,India Mobile:9830710918

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InfoWatch September 2005
by M.R Lalitha 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Dear LIS-Forum member, The September 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) September 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In This Issue 1. Amino Acid-Nucleotide Interaction Database (AANT) 2. AZoNano.com - The A to Z of Nanotechnology 3. Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) [A multi-disciplinary search engine to scholarly internet resources] 4. Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) 5. Engineering - An endless frontier [Insights into the underlying principles of engineering through a series of illustrated articles] 6. Flight Dynamics and Control toolbox (FDC) [A tool for aircraft dynamics analysis and flight control system design] 7. FreeMat [A free environment for rapid engineering and scientific prototyping and data processing] 8. FreePCB - A printed circuit board layout editor 9. FreeTechBooks.com - Free computer science books and lecture notes 10. Industrial Control DesignLine [A resource for industrial engineers and designers for up-to-date information] 11. IT Backbones [A resource with white papers and news for the IT sector] 12. Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) 13. Microsoft Research [A unique corporate research lab] 14. Open Online Education Network (OOEN) [A reference guide to online distance education] 15. Protein Spotlight - One month one protein 16. SCATMECH - Polarized light scattering C++ class library 17. Science conferences - A disitributed portal to select science and technology conference proceedings 18. Sky View Cafe [Java applet to view the movements of astronomical objects] 19. Sustainable building sourcebook 20. Xcalcs - Online calculations for structural engineers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE
by I.R.N.Goudar 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Dear Professionals, As you are aware LIS-FORUM has emerged as an effective means of communication and discussion among LIS Professionals in the country for the last few years. One of the Lis-Forum member has strongly expressed his feelings that postings covering Regional/State level associations should not be broadcast on Lis-Forum. But if you see the postings all these years, forum has been covering items issued by be it MALIBNET, KALA, MYLISA, RSC-Delhi, IATLIS, SIS, etc or a message from an University. In this way forum is networking LIS Professionals and concerned professional associations all over the country, be it fron Kashmir, TN, West Bengal or Karnataka. I am of the opinion that apart from discussing professional matters we should know what is going on in professional circles elsewhere too. While each Association can have its own discussion forum, important announcemnets should be covered by Lis-Forum irrespective of whether the LIS Association is State/Regional level one as long as the matter is of interest, as has been the case all these days. Rather we need bother about the quality, importance and relevance of the of the content in the postings. Infact Late Dr. T.B. Rajashekar had posted an item toucing some issues concerned in this matter a year back or so. I INVITE LIS-FORUM MEMBERS TO GIVE THEIR OPINION IN THIS MATTER. Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Open access to Dr Ranganthan's ideas
by Shahab 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Dear friends: I have read the posting by Michael May asking for the digitisation of Dr Ranganathan's book, Five Laws of Library Science. It is very pathetic to know that due to the nonavailability of sufficient number of copies many library and information science graduates are unable to read the book. The case is similar for other books penned by Dr Ranganthan. He had preached open access and accessibility to information throughout his life. And it is his books being obstructed, by whatsoever the reasons be, for access. I would like to appeal the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS), which holds the copyright for Dr Ranganathan's books, to concentrate on popularising his ideas by digitising all his works and giving it for free. It will be a boon for the students and professionals in the field of Library and Information Science. Now the technology has allowed us to achieve what Dr.Ranganathan has propounded/dreamt of in a greater way. Let us take advantage of the technology and emerging trends in publishing. S M Shahabuddin M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Chennai, India Dear friends: I have read the posting by Michael May asking for the digitisation of Dr Ranganathan's book, Five Laws of Library Science. It is very pathetic to know that due to the nonavailability of sufficient number of copies many library and information science graduates are unable to read the book. The case is similar for other books penned by Dr Ranganthan. He had preached open access and accessibility to information throughout his life. And it is his books being obstructed, by whatsoever the reasons be, for access. I would like to appeal the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS), which holds the copyright for Dr Ranganathan's books, to concentrate on popularising his ideas by digitising all his works and giving it for free. It will be a boon for the students and professionals in the field of Library and Information Science. Now the technology has allowed us to achieve what Dr.Ranganathan has propounded/dreamt of in a greater way. Let us take advantage of the technology and emerging trends in publishing. S M Shahabuddin M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Chennai, India 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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RE: [LIS-Forum] Seminars conf proceeding info
by Parinita Samant 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

Dear All, Its nice to meet (virtually) such like-minded people. Like Nivedita says, it is not possible to attend the conferences and seminars which are taking place. Useful information which is generated is limited to the people who attend the conferences. The barriers that we face, of time, physical location, finance etc can be overcome by achiving the information generated in the seminars/conferences etc, on an open platform (like Aparajita has suggested). In this way, all of us Library Proessionals could be keeping abreast with what is happening in the field, and we could implement some of the useful suggestions made. Our field is now fast changing. E-Learning is growing at a very fast pace. For a long time, professionals in our field have been battling with technology. "Sink or Swim" has made us adapt as and when necessary. But is this enough? Compared to the development of Libraries in the western society, and the kind of services they provide, we in India are lagging far behind (believe me, not for the lack of talent). Not that we need to follow where they lead, but surely we can pick and choose what is best and implement it!! Information, useful information, proper use of the same, and how to implement it whenever and wherever necessary should be made available to all. All of us try to make a difference wherever we work. The innovative ideas that we use to "sell and/or market" our skills, the difference that we make when we interact with our clientele etc should not be limited to just one library. New developments and where and how we could use the same could be shared by us all. Our ideas that have made a difference could be shared, anything that we have pioneered or we are planning to implement could be shared and discussed. That way, we will not only be able to perform better in our spheres, but also we could interact with people who have, "been there-done that", share their experiences learn from them and avoid mistakes and pit-falls. Thanks and Regards, Parinita HexaVarsity - Library 55919595 Ext. No 9707 -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Parinita Samant Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:46 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Seminars conf proceeding info Dear All, We all hear of a lot of Seminars and Conferences being organized by and for Library Professionals. Would it not be more beneficial if the reports/proceedings etc of these could be made available for all? Or, at least, the organizers could give out details of where to procure this kind of information from...! Just a thought...... Thanks and Regards, Parinita parinitas(a)hexaware.com _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Seminars conf proceeding info
by HENAG 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

Thanks a lot Ms Parinita, The same thought also came in my mind. It would even be useful for them who could not attend the seminar for some reasons. Thanks & regards Hena S Gupta Infosys Central Library Electronics City. -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Parinita Samant Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:46 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Seminars conf proceeding info Dear All, We all hear of a lot of Seminars and Conferences being organized by and for Library Professionals. Would it not be more beneficial if the reports/proceedings etc of these could be made available for all? Or, at least, the organizers could give out details of where to procure this kind of information from...! Just a thought...... Thanks and Regards, Parinita parinitas(a)hexaware.com _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. Further, you are not to copy, disclose, or distribute this e-mail or its contents to any other person and any such actions are unlawful. This e-mail may contain viruses. Infosys has taken every reasonable precaution to minimize this risk, but is not liable for any damage you may sustain as a result of any virus in this e-mail. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening the e-mail or attachment. Infosys reserves the right to monitor and review the content of all messages sent to or from this e-mail address. Messages sent to or from this e-mail address may be stored on the Infosys e-mail system. ***INFOSYS******** End of Disclaimer ********INFOSYS***

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Apply Open Access to Five Laws?
by MichaelMay.10726764＠bloglines.com 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

Dear Colleagues, I am replying to the recent post about the article, "India pioneered open access publishing system" at http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/sep182005/state1942332005917.asp I believe S.R. Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science would have a greater impact on Open Access if the full text of the original edition of Five Laws was made freely available online for non-profit use by LIS professionals, scholars and students, and the general public worldwide. Although Five Laws is frequently cited as a seminal work in library and information science, the book itself does not appear to have ever been digitized or published in electronic format. Not even print copies of Five Laws are readily available for loan or sale, at least in the United States. According to OCLC's WorldCat, only about 50 libraries have copies of the first edition of Five Laws in their collections. While more libraries hold later editions and reprints, no editions of Five Laws appear to be in stock or currently available for sale from booksellers. A recent journal article estimates that between 4,000 and 5,000 students graduate from U.S. library schools each year. Since copies are not readily available, many of these students probably have not read Ranganathan's Five Laws, arguably the most important work in our field. The Sarada Ranganathan Endowment Laws for Library Science (SRELS) at Bangalore owns the copyright to the Five Laws of Library Science. Do any LIS-Forum subscribers have ideas about how SRELS might go about digitizing Five Laws? Are there any Indian libraries, universities, or non-profit organizations that would be able to donate technical expertise and equipment needed to adequately preserve and disseminate the text in digital format? Is any grant money available to help finance such a project? Would any librarians or students volunteer their time to help? Perhaps if we shared our ideas here and with SRELS at srels(a)vsnl.com, we could find a way to provide open access to the work identified as the origin of Open Access. Respectfully, Michael May Dubuque, Iowa, U.S. michael.p.may(a)earthlink.net

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33rd FIVE LAWS LECTURE
by DRTC General 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

DRTC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE and SARADA RANGANATHAN ENDOWMENT FOR LIBRARY SCIENCE CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO THE 33rd FIVE LAWS LECTURE (2005) on ISO 9000 : 2000 and Special Libraries by Dr. A. Aruna Scientist "F", TIC/Library Gas Turbine Research Estab., C.V. Raman Nagar, Bangalore 560076 on Tuesday, 27th September 2005 at 6.30 pm. at Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, (Upstairs), 42nd Cross, 3rd Block, Rajajinagar Bangalore 560 010 Presided by Prof. K.S Raghavan Documentation Research and Training Centre Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore-560059

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4th International Convention CALIBER - 2006 on Dymanic Interoperable Web based Information Systems at Gulbarga University, -India
by Mailing List Manager 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 05:10:36 -0700 (PDT) From: raghavendra patil <raghapatil(a)yahoo.com> Dear Professsionals, INFLIBNET Centre has been organising CALIBER every year in different parts of the country in collaboration with different universities.This Convention provides a unique forum to the library professionals, information providers and users involved in automation and networking of libraries to come together and interact on the subjects of mutual interest. CALIBER-2006 on �Dymanic Interoperable Web based Information Systems� is being scheduled to be hosted at Gulbarga University, Gulbarga during February , 2006. For more Detials one can go through : http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/caliber2006/index.html With Regards Raghavendra Patil Librarian K J Somaiya Institute of Engineering and Information Technology Somaiya Ayurvihar Complex, Near Everard Nagar, Eastern Express Highway, Sion, MUMBAI - 400 022 (INDIA) Telephone: 91-22-2402 8801/2408 0331/2404 2797 Ext:114 Fax: 91-22-2402 8804 E mail:raghavendra.patil@gmail.com,raghapatil@yahoo.com, URL: www.somaiya.edu

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For Google, Another Stormy Chapter !!!
by Shraddha Lapasiya 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

Dear All, The world's most popular and fastest search engine is in mid of a controversy with regards to violation of copy rights...... TO KNOW MORE.. Read the news below: For Google, Another Stormy Chapter Fuzzy copyright laws leave plenty of room for controversy -- and a new lawsuit -- over the search engine's right to scan books For details : http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2005/tc20050922_5949_tc02… --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. Dear All, The world's most popular and fastest search engine is in mid of a controversy with regards to violation of copy rights...... TO KNOW MORE.. Read the news below: For Google, Another Stormy Chapter Fuzzy copyright laws leave plenty of room for controversy -- and a new lawsuit -- over the search engine's right to scan books For details : http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2005/tc20050922_5949_tc02… http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2005/tc20050922_5949_tc02… Yahoo! for Good http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

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Useful news
by Aman Jha 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

Friends, Two news items, I found interesting in today's Hindu. May be interesting for you as well. 1. Libraries vs shopping malls [Delhi edition, Page no. 24] The story is all about Singapore's new national library and the library culture in Singapore. 2. Beware, malware is out there! [Delhi edition, Page no. 13] According to "Internet Security Threat Report" released on Wednesday by Symantec, Open software are no longer safe. 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 * Fax: 0124-5014080

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Felicitation to Prof. Neelameghan
by goudar＠css.nal.res.in 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

Dear Professionals, I join the organisers in inviting all members of Karnataka State Library Association and Society for Information Science, Bangalore Chapter and other professional friends to the function organised to felicitate Prof. A. Neelameghan. The details are as mentioned below. I.R.N. Goudar President, KALA & Secretary, SIS, Bangalore Chapter ---------------------------------------- Ranganathan Centre for Information Studies, Chennai and Bangalore DRTC Alumni Association, Bangalore and Informatics (India) Limited, Bangalroe cordially invite you to a function to felicitate PROF. A. NEELAMEGHAN Professor & Head (Retd.) Documentation Research and Training Centre Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore on Wednesday, 28th September 2005 at 6.30 pm at Yavanika (State Youth Centre) Nrupatunga Road, Bangalore 560 001 PROF. P. BALARAM (Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) will be the Chief Guest and release the Festschrift Volume PROF. M. ANANDAKRISHNAN (Chairman, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai) will preside Chairman and Members Prof. A. Neelameghan Festschrift Committee, Bangalore RSVP: Ph: 080-23305109 ; (Prasad) 080-28483002 - Extn. 492 (Raghavan)

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Seminars conf proceeding info
by aparajita＠icicikp.com 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

Dear Professionals, Thats really a very good suggestion, I think the reports and proceedings can be archived on a common open platform, LDL (Librarians' Digital Library) hosted at https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/ can be useful in this regard. And my personal view is that the contributor should get a complementary copy of the Seminar Proceedings or atleast reprint of the paper, in case he/she is not able to attend the seminar for some reason. Regards Aparajita Suman Information Officer, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA <mailto:aparajita@icicikp.com> Phone - Office: +91(40)23480054 Fax: +91(40)23480007 -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Parinita Samant Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:46 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Seminars conf proceeding info Dear All, We all hear of a lot of Seminars and Conferences being organized by and for Library Professionals. Would it not be more beneficial if the reports/proceedings etc of these could be made available for all? Or, at least, the organizers could give out details of where to procure this kind of information from...! Just a thought...... Thanks and Regards, Parinita parinitas(a)hexaware.com _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Google begins limited test of Wi-Fi service
by Shraddha Lapasiya 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

Google begins limited test of Wi-Fi service Google, the online search leader, confirmed on Tuesday it has begun a limited test of a free wireless Internet service, called Google WiFi. > > The existence of the Wi-Fi service, which offers high-speed connections to the Internet over short distances, is confirmed by public pages on the company's Web site and was first reported in a Silicon Valley newspaper in July. For details go here: http://www.ciol.com/content/news/2005/105092101.asp --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. Google begins limited test of Wi-Fi service Google, the online search leader, confirmed on Tuesday it has begun a limited test of a free wireless Internet service, called Google WiFi. > > The existence of the Wi-Fi service, which offers high-speed connections to the Internet over short distances, is confirmed by public pages on the company's Web site and was first reported in a Silicon Valley newspaper in July. For details go here: http://www.ciol.com/content/news/2005/105092101.asp http://www.ciol.com/content/news/2005/105092101.asp Yahoo! for Good http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

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Seminars conf proceeding info
by Parinita Samant 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

Dear All, We all hear of a lot of Seminars and Conferences being organized by and for Library Professionals. Would it not be more beneficial if the reports/proceedings etc of these could be made available for all? Or, at least, the organizers could give out details of where to procure this kind of information from...! Just a thought...... Thanks and Regards, Parinita parinitas(a)hexaware.com

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JCOM - September 2005 issue
by Subbiah Arunachalam 20 Sep '05

20 Sep '05

Friends: Please look up JCOM (Journal of Science Communication), September 2005 (Vol. 4, issue 3) for an article on communication for development that I wrote a few days ago on a request from the editor. Your comments are welcome. Communication for development. An Indian experience Subbiah Arunachalam http://jcom.sissa.it/comment/com040303.pdf thanks. Arun

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