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Our new magazine for children
by Mailing List Manager 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:55:21 +0530 From: sumita panse <sumita_panse(a)hotmail.com> Bharatiya vidya Bhavan Mumbai has launched new magazine for children called DIMDIMA which is aimed at the age group betn 8-16. We also have website www.dimdima.com This magazine is informative as well as entertaining becau it carries jokes, puzzles, comics stories also. This can be good reading for schools, college libraries. Subscription details are available on request or on our website. Thanks sumita Panse Librarian Amrita bharati, Bhartiya vidya bhavan

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Training in Librarianship in CSE, Delhi
by Mailing List Manager 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:00:01 +0530 From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Extract from: [Newsletter from CSE, India] - August 10 edition Training program on Library, Information Management & Documentation (Sept.6-10, 2004) Contact: Kiran Pandey (kiran(a)cseindia.org) (Last date for receiving nominations: August 16, 2004) Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631

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Librarian Mananagement Specialist Vacancy in CSE Delhi
by Mailing List Manager 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:57:40 +0530 From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com WAnted: LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST CSE, a leading public interest, non-profit organisation, seeks a Specialist in Library Management to head its Environmental Resources Unit, which is the most comprehensive environment information and documentation facility. Candidate must possess ability to develop, administer and manage an integrated, modern digital library and possess vision to cater to the increasing demands of an information intensive organisation. Ability to manage IT infrastructure, network and application development will be an added advantage. Doctorate/ Masters in Library Information Science, with minimum 5 years of experience, ability to independently manage projects and develop information products is essential. Must possess excellent leadership and communication skills. Salary will be commensurate with experience. Apply within 7 days General Manager, Programme Management and Administration Centre for Science and Environment 41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi-110062 Fax: +91 (011) 29955879 E-mail: jgupta(a)cseindia.org <mailto:jgupta@cseindia.org> Website: www.cseindia.org <http://www.cseindia.org/joinus-index.htm> Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631

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Journal information
by Mailing List Manager 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:27:56 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] noufal palliparamban" <noufalkodur(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear friends Please let me know any libarry in india subscribibg to the jounal "Compost Science and Utilization" looking forward to hearing from you. regards Noufal.P.P Digital Library Division Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

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IASLIC STUDY CIRCLE --- 12/08/2004
by Mailing List Manager 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:53:37 +0530 From: Dr. Arun K. Chakraborty <akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in> INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF SPECIAL LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION CENTRES(I A S L IC) P- 291 C I T Scheme, No.6M, Kankurgachi, Kolkata – 700 054Tel : 2352 – 9651 / e- mail : iaslic(a)vsnl.net, url: http://www.iaslic.org N O T I C E 276th IASLIC Study Circle meeting will be held on Thursday, 12th August, 2004 at 6-30 P.M. in the IASLIC Office, Kolkata 700 054. Shri Subhashish Mukhopadhyay, Corporate Quality Head & Ethics Counsellor, TRF Limited, Kolkata has kindly given consent to deliver a lecture on the topic : Information Support for Strategic Planning. Shri Ramkrishna Saha, Ex-Chief Librarian, Jadavpur University, Kolkata will preside over the meeting. You are cordially invited to attend the meeting along with your colleagues. (Dr. Arun Kumar Chakraborty) Secretary, IASLIC Study Circle akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in Dated : 22nd July, 2004 DR. ARUN KUMAR CHAKRABORTY LIBRARIAN BOSE INSTITUTE, KOLKATA, INDIA MAIN CAMPUS : 93/1 A.P.C. ROAD, KOLKATA 700 009 INDIA PH : 91-33-2350 2402/03, 6619,6702 FAX : 91-33-2350 6790 CENTENARY CAMPUS : P1/12 CIT SCHEME - VII-M, KOLKATA 700 054 INDIA PH : 91-33-2337 9544, 9416, 9219 FAX : 91-33-2334 3886 Ph (Res) : 33-2672 1192, 3892 E-MAIL : akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in, arunchkr(a)vsnl.net.in, c_arunk(a)hotmail.com

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Embedded Motherboard
by Mailing List Manager 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

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Mails Importing
by Mailing List Manager 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 00:33:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Sheshadri K.N <sheshu150(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Professional colleagues, Is it possible to import all mails from one Yahoo account to another Yahoo account? If possible,can any of you help me in this comcern? With regards SHESHADRI.K.N Assistant Librarian ETA-NET Bits-Pilani Campus Dubai, UAE E-mail:sheshu150@yahoo.co.in --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers!

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Convert ur 6 Mb yahoo id to 100Mb
by Mailing List Manager 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 21:48:10 -0700 (PDT) From: "[iso-8859-1] Sheshadri K.N" <sheshu150(a)yahoo.co.in> Hello Mr.Banda Shankar Thank you for your instructions,I tried to convert from 6 MB to 100 MB as you said,I could convert it easily and now I am having 100 MB. thanks again with regards SHESHADRI.K.N Assistant Librarian ETA-NET Bits-Pilani Campus Dubai, UAE E-mail:sheshu150@yahoo.co.in

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INDEST-NCSI Workshop on Institutional Repositories: Workshop Report
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Dear All I am giving below a brief report of the INDEST-NCSI Workshop on Institutional Repositories, held at IISc during 27-29 July 2004. Regards Rajashekar ----------------------------- INDEST-NCSI Workshop on Institutional Repositories: Workshop Report A training workshop on Institutional Repositories was successfully conducted during 27-29 July 2004 at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Participants from twenty-one leading academic research institutions in India were imparted training in setting up institutional e-print archives using the EPrints open source software. Participating institutions included Indian Institutes of Technology, Indian Institutes of Management and National Institutes of Technology. The workshop was organized and conducted by the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in association with the Digital Library Research Group, Computer Science Department, Old Dominion University, USA. The workshop was sponsored by the INDEST Consortium, a programme of the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Government of India. The main objective of the workshop was to fulfill a recommendation of the INDEST consortium to the member institutions to set up OAI-compliant digital research archives of their research publications, following the model already set up at Indian Institute of Science (http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/), and to work towards establishment of a virtual research archive using the OAI inter-operability framework. It was strongly felt that this would facilitate improved visibility and impact of research output of these organizations and supplement the existing scholarly publishing system. This initiative is an extension of the INDEST consortium's initial goal of provision of shared access to licensed e-resources like bibliographic databases and e-journals (http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/). Workshop programme and content: The workshop was conducted in a training laboratory equipped with 20 workstations with Linux Red Hat 9.0 operating system. Each participant was provided with a CD-ROM prepared by NCSI especially for the workshop. The CD-ROM consisted of EPrints (version 2.3.4) and other related software (Apache, MySQL, dependent Perl modules, etc.); presentations made in the workshop; sample documents to be used in lab sessions; and resources related to institutional repositories, metadata, and OAI. Participants used a shell scripts developed by NCSI for automating the process of installing EPrints and other required software. The workshop sessions covered the following topics: - Overview of OAI framework and introduction to OAI-PMH - Institutional repository software features and functionality - Overview of EPrints software and EPrints-based archives - EPrints software installation and test archive set up - Document submission, moderation, search and browse - Archive configuration and customization (home page, subjects, metadata) - Automatic metadata extraction - OAI in action harvesting demonstration using local DSPace and EPrints archives and ARC service provider set up - Repository policies, content enrichment and advocacy Workshop inauguration and valedictory: On first day morning, Prof. R.S. Sirohi, Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Chairman, National Steering Committee, INDEST Consortium, inaugurated the workshop. Prof. Goverdhan Mehta, Director, Indian Institute of Science, was the Chief Guest. On third day evening, Prof. P. Balaram, Chairman, Division of Biological Science, Indian Institute of Science, and Editor of Current Science journal published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, chaired the valedictory session. Workshop evaluation: All the participants were successful in installing the required software and set up test e-print archives on their workstations. They also went through the document submission and approval processes. They also experimented with simple customization changes to the test archives. In a formal feedback gathered, most participants felt confident of setting up e-print archives in their institutions. Many expressed the need for further help and suggested more hands-on time in future workshops. On a scale of 1-5 (1-very poor, 5- very good), workshop content got average rating of 4.7, logistics arrangement got 4.4, and overall assessment got 4.5. A major suggestion was to make available faster machines in the training lab, compared to the slow PII machines that we made available to the participants! Workshop Website: More details about the workshop including workshop programme, presentations, resources and other related content is available at the workshop website - http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/indest-ncsi-ir/ Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Associate Chairman National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 560 012 (India) (Workshop Coordinator) E-Mail: raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

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Invitation: Function and Lecture
by I.R.N.Goudar 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Karnataka State Library Association (Regd.), Bangalore University and Society for information science (SIS), Bangalore Chapter Cordially invites you to the 112th Birth Anniversary of Dr.S.R.Ranganathan and Prof. M.A.Gopinath Annual Lecture Series Topic1: The Library and Rich Media by Dr Srinivasan Ramani Research Director, HP Labs India President, International Council for Computer Communication Chairman of the Governing Board - INFLIBNET Topic 2: Relevance of Dr.S.R. Ranganathan by SHRI. N.V.SATHYANARAYAN Chairman and Managing Director Informatics India Ltd., Bangalore. Presided by: Dr.Katre Shankunthala, Registrar, Bangalore University Date: 12 August 2004, Time: 5.30 p.m.-7.00 p.m. Venue: Jnana Jyothi- Seminar hall, Central College Campus, Bangalore University, Bangalore. Dr.H.S.Siddamallaiah I.R.N. Goudar President, KALA Secretary, SIS Bangalore, Chapter -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-5086081 Head, Information Centre for 91-80-5235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-5268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road http://www.icast.org.in/staff1.htm BANGALORE-560 017 India

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Convert ur 6 Mb yahoo id to 100Mb
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 23:02:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Banda Shankar <bandashankar(a)yahoo.co.in> Respected all, Here is a way to convert your yahoo.co.in/.com from 6MB to 100MB if u have not done it. Follow the steps 1. Login to your Yahoo! Mail account 2. If you see only 6MB, go to Mail Options 3. Select Account Information from the left of the screen 4. You'll be asked for your password again. Enter it. 5. You will see the Membership Information page 6. Copy your url into notepad. 7. Copy the below url page also into notepad http://edit.yahoo.com/config/set_intl?.child=&.scrumb=2hPLZhYEBSq&.done=htt… 8. Copy your scrumb code (this should be the last 11characters of your url after "scrumb=") from your url and replace it in the two places of my url(above one) where the scrumb code is. Copy this url (modified url, which has your scrumb code) back into your browser. Hit Enter.. 9. Change your settings to English - US 10. Accept the New User Agreement 11. You will be logged out 12. Go to mail.yahoo.com and re logon 13, You will now see a 100MB mailbox 14. Enjoy Banda Shankar Student, DRTC Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore-560 059 URL: http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/~banda

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Celebrating software freedom!
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 10:49:59 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> SOUTH AFRICA: SOFTWARE FREEDOM DAY, 28TH AUGUST 2004 http://www.softwarefreedomday.org.za/ The first Software Freedom Day will be held in South Africa on August 28th. Linux user groups, companies, organisations and individuals from around South Africa will get together to celebrate free and open source software in numerous events to be held throughout the country. The day aims to increase awareness about free software and it is hoped it will become an annual event. Subbiah Arunachalam Distinguished Fellow M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Tel: +91-44-5528 4776, 2254 1229, 2254 2791 Fax:+91-44-2254 1319

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RE: [LIS-Forum] OA and copyright
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 19:11:16 +0530 From: sathya <sathya(a)informindia.co.in> A good example Arun. It is like, you see the movie because you have read the book that the movie is based on; or you buy the book to read because a movie is made out of it. The underlying factor is not the "Book" or the "Movie", but the "Economics". One medium fuels the market (or need) for the other. "Pricing" is only an exchange factor; it could be "Nil", or it could be any sum. The concept of OA is not new to the society. How much do you pay for your morning newspaper? The Newspaper publishing houses are real big. The sales revenues of the Hindu which wrote the recent editorial on OA runs into a few thousand million Rupees. What you pay may not even cover the cost of the ink incurred by the Hindu! How much do you pay for your favorite movie you watch on the TV? This is "Pure OA". The publishing industry is the corner stone of knowledge economy. It is quite concerned about the "OA wave" and its impact on scholarly journals market but is surely not as worried as the proponents of OA want them to feel threatened. According to Welcome Foundation's report on "Economic Analysis of Scientific Research Publishing (2003), the money spent by all the UK academic libraries for buying scholarly journals is around 0.35 percent of UK's publishing industry turnover! To quote this report -- "Academic journals are a small and peculiar part of this (publishing) world. They are vitally important for the dissemination of knowledge but tiny in the context of publishing turnover". There is lot of merit in moving scholarly journals to OA Model in the new technology environment. Springer has followed suit with the "author-pays" model of PLoS, by offering to declare any article to Open Access if author pays a fee. Don't forget, a large number of journals published today by commercial publishers are those started by various professional societies and sold of to commercial publishers as they found it hard to sustain. The challenge before us is to find a viable economic model that sustains. It is important to focus on this challenge without getting lost in the emotional tirades of who makes how much profit? Sathya -------------------------------------------------- N V Sathyanarayana Chairman & Managing Director Informatics (India) Ltd Bangalore 560003, India Phone : 91-80-23365940 www.informindia.co.in -------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message-----From: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 6:15 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] OA and copyright Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:44:26 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends, in particular Sathya: Please see this news item from Peter Suber's blog: More on Lessig's Free Culture Give It Away and They'll Buy It <http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2004/julaug/farm/news/lessig.ht ml>, Stanford Magazine, July/August 2004. On Lawrence Lessig's new book, Free Culture, which is available in both open-access <http://www.free-culture.cc/> and priced/printed <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1594200068/qid=1091586887/sr= 1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-2808347-4161631?v=glance&s=books> editions. Excerpt: "You can pay $25 for Lawrence Lessig's new book. Or you can download it for free. What's the catch? None, according to Lessig, a law professor who specializes in intellectual property and is the author of Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. A memo Lessig wrote to his publisher convinced Penguin Books that releasing Free Culture online actually would increase sales of hardcove copies. Which may be true: there have been more than 180,000 downloads --and Penguin is on its third printing." Subbiah Arunachalam Distinguished Fellow M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Tel: +91-44-5528 4776, 2254 1229, 2254 2791 Fax:+91-44-2254 1319

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Help to locate a journal
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 05:39:23 -0700 (PDT) From: raghavendra patil <raghapatil(a)yahoo.com> Dear Professional , this journal is available in IIT Roorkee. With Regards Raghav,Ahmedabad. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: From: mkrao Dear Colleagues, Please let me know if any library in India is subscribing to the journal- "EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing". Koteswara Rao Deputy Librarian IIT Madras

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Help to locate a journal
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 18:02:50 +0530 From: rajesh chandrakar <rajesh(a)inflibnet.ac.in> Cc: tav(a)inflibnet.ac.in Dear Dr. Koteswara Rao, According to INFLIBNET's current serial database, which can also be accessed through the website http://caliber2004.inflibnet.ac.in:7001/cgi-bin/serial/serial.jsp, following two institutes are subscribing the "EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing" journal. Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, and Space Application Centre, Ahmedabad thanking you. Rajesh ----- Original Message ----- > > From: mkrao <mkrao(a)iitm.ac.in> > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > Dear Colleagues, > > Please let me know if any library in India is subscribing to > the journal- "EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing". > > Koteswara Rao > Deputy Librarian > IIT Madras

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Help to locate a journal (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

From: mkrao <mkrao(a)iitm.ac.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Dear Colleagues, Please let me know if any library in India is subscribing to the journal- "EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing". Koteswara Rao Deputy Librarian IIT Madras

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OA and copyright
by Mailing List Manager 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:44:26 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends, in particular Sathya: Please see this news item from Peter Suber's blog: More on Lessig's Free Culture Give It Away and They'll Buy It <http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2004/julaug/farm/news/lessig.ht ml>, Stanford Magazine, July/August 2004. On Lawrence Lessig's new book, Free Culture, which is available in both open-access <http://www.free-culture.cc/> and priced/printed <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1594200068/qid=1091586887/sr= 1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-2808347-4161631?v=glance&s=books> editions. Excerpt: "You can pay $25 for Lawrence Lessig's new book. Or you can download it for free. What's the catch? None, according to Lessig, a law professor who specializes in intellectual property and is the author of Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. A memo Lessig wrote to his publisher convinced Penguin Books that releasing Free Culture online actually would increase sales of hardcove copies. Which may be true: there have been more than 180,000 downloads --and Penguin is on its third printing." Subbiah Arunachalam Distinguished Fellow M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Tel: +91-44-5528 4776, 2254 1229, 2254 2791 Fax:+91-44-2254 1319

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OA journalism
by Mailing List Manager 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:48:29 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> To: oa-india(a)dgroups.org, lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Friends: If you are interested in Internet journalism, here is a book you might wish to read. I found it in Peter Suber's blog. OA book on OA journalism Dan Gillmor's We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wemedia/book/> published by O'Reilly, has also been issued under a Creative Commons license, and you can download the book chapters in .pdf. Gillmor explores how the internet offers alternatives to traditional media, particularly through weblogs and web-based publishing. (Source: Joho the Blog <http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/002915.html>) Subbiah Arunachalam Distinguished Fellow M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Tel: +91-44-5528 4776, 2254 1229, 2254 2791 Fax:+91-44-2254 1319

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 17, Issue 2
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 11:47:23 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] anuradha" <radha_inf(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Professionals, I did my MLIS from osmania university, Hyderabad. I have 2years of work experience in traditional and modern libray. I would like to know what are the job oppurtunities in bangalore in this profession. I am also attaching my resume. Anuradha

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[lisnet] eJDS -The Free electronic Journals Delivery Service Programme
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 08:14:06 -0700 (PDT) From: JK Vijayakumar <vjkjk(a)yahoo.com> Sorry for Cross Postings! eJDS -The Free electronic Journals Delivery Service Programme The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics /TWAS Donation Programme, Italy in collaboration with the ICTP Scientific Computer Section and ICTP Library, is developing a prototype information retrieval system called `eJournals Delivery Service'. The goal is to distribute individual scientific articles via e-mail to world scientists who do not have access to sufficient bandwidth to download material from the internet in a timely manner and/or cannot afford the connection. Providing scientists with current literature will support their ongoing research. eJDS is geared to facilitate the access to current scientific literature for free. Several publishing companies have enthusiastically adhered to this programme, with rules which depend on the publisher. Visit the site at http://www.ejds.org/ ------------------ J. K. Vijayakumar INFLIBNET Ahmedabad

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Help Needed
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 14:28:21 +0530 From: vijayalakshmijs(a)ingvysyabank.com Cc: HENAG(a)infosys.com Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Help Needed Dear Tejasvi, IIMB gives apprenticeship training to those who passed out from that particular academic year means only for freshers. You may also apply to IISC for apprenticeship or you may request librarian at IIMB to work as a honorary worker if time permits to you. And you can visit some of the educational institutions or companies like wipro, Infosys , IBM , ..... which are having the library and discuss and then implement the necessary steps which are suitable for your library. Thanks and regards Vijayalakshmi J S Librarian STC ING Vysya Bank Ltd. PH NO: 26507281 e-mail: vijayalakshmijs(a)ingvysyabank.com <mailto:vijayalakshmijs@ingvysyabank.com> -----Original Message----- Date: 3 Aug 2004 09:48:24 -0000 From: thejasvi tv <tvthejasvi(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Professionals, Can any of you guide me as to where I can get some professional training in Bangalore? I very much require this training as I have graduated in LIS through the distance education mode. Thanking you all and awaiting your responses/advise. Regards Thejasvi.

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Forwarded mail....
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 08:27:05 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] sreenivasgowda G" <gubbisrinivas26(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Tejaswi I completely agree with Hena Gupta's suggestion , you go and meet IIMB Librarian and also can apply for IISc, NAL, ISRO and BIOLOGICAL Infosceince Libraries for Apprintice. Thanking you with warm regards Gubbisrinivas Librarian gubbisrinivas(a)essae-tapmi.org Thanking you with warm regards G.Sreenivas

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Open Archives
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 08:06:42 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Anyone anywhere in the world (with Internet access) can access papers posted on the institutional archives/ repositories and NOT JUST those within the same institution. To keep oneself updated with developments in OA, please read "Open Access News" edited by Peter Suber or follow the prolific writings of Stevan Harnad. Both of them are known for their clarity. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --- Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > > Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:12:16 +0530 > From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com > > > Following Comments from the latest issue (119) of > Internet Resources = > Newsletter is interesting: > This in reality means that only that institution > which has the ...

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CD-ROM's on engineering reference books
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 00:00:19 -0700 (PDT) From: shastry gm <shastrygm(a)yahoo.com> I need popular publishers website.And also i need answer to the following question. i.e where to get popular engineering reference booksin CD-ROM form. thanking you From, G.M. Nagaraja Shastry Department of Library SIT Tumkur

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MyLISA- Monthly Lectures-August 7
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 12:23:19 +0530 (IST) From: Shalini R. Urs <shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in> Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (MyLISA) ------- Lecture On Joharis Window: A self-awareness model (This management concept helps you to know yourself and others even better) by Mr. Krishnamurthy V Chief Executive Officer, Parivarthan Former Deputy General Manager, State Bank of Travancore Former Assistant General Manager, State Bank of Mysore --- Venue: Seminar Hall Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Date: August 7, 2004 Time: 4:30 PM ---- You are cordially invited --- Dr. Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele:91-821-2514699 Fax :91-821-2519209

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Help Needed
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 14:36:12 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> hi what do u mean by professional training? if u want u can meet some librarian and join as a trainee. u may get some remuneration and in some cases even if it is free do join and then it will help u in due course of ur career. laxman rao Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: Date: 3 Aug 2004 09:48:24 -0000 From: thejasvi tv Dear Professionals, Can any of you guide me as to where I can get some professional training in Bangalore? I very much require this training as I have graduated in LIS through the distance education mode. Thanking you all and awaiting your responses/advise. Regards Thejasvi. Thejasvi.T.V Statistical assistant and SDI Nexant Inc. Bangalore. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com ---------------------------------

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Open Archives
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:12:16 +0530 From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Following Comments from the latest issue (119) of Internet Resources = Newsletter is interesting: This in reality means that only that institution which has the = respository will benefit & not outsiders. Is my interpretation right? =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D There's a lot of interest just now in the Report of the House of Commons = Science and Technology Select Committee, available at: = http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/3= 9902.htm=20 which recommends that all UK higher education institutions establish = institutional repositories on which their published output can be stored = and from which it can be read, free of charge, online. This is much to = be welcomed, though its one thing to have the results of research = available within institutional repositories, and quite another thing to = be able to find such material. Links to items on the Report appear in = various parts of this month's Newsletter.=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal,=20 RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: = +91(40)27846631

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Help Needed
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 11:27:03 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] vijaya kumara" <vijayakumar71(a)yahoo.co.in> Libraries of the following Institutes will provide training in the field of Library and Information Science National Aerospace Laboratories Indian Institute of Management British Library Indian Institute of Austrophysics Indian Institute of Science N C S I and others good luck Vijayakumar M Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: Date: 3 Aug 2004 09:48:24 -0000 From: thejasvi tv Dear Professionals, Can any of you guide me as to where I can get some professional training in Bangalore? I very much require this training as I have graduated in LIS through the distance education mode. Thanking you all and awaiting your responses/advise. Regards Thejasvi. Thejasvi.T.V Statistical assistant and SDI Nexant Inc. Bangalore. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum ***************************************************************************************

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Invitation
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 13:00:36 +0530 From: Srels <srels(a)blr.vsnl.net.in> Dear Sir, Please arrange to announce the following invitation to the benefit of the members. K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 ************************************************************ The Board of Trustees of the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS), Bangalore cordially invites you to the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment Lectures (24) (2004) on NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INTELLIGENT INFORMATION RETRIEVAL by Prof. K. Narayana Murthy, Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad on 9, 10, and 11 August 2004 at 6.00 p.m. each day at Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, `Upstairs', 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh Director, Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore will inaugurate RSVP: Ph: (080) 23305109 E-mail: srels(a)vsnl.com

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Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] need information
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 07:52:44 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Saiful Amin" <saifulamin(a)yahoo.com> Hi, I felt the LIS Gateway [http://www.lisgateway.com/] also quite informative. The site was developed by LIS Dept, Aligarh Muslim University, as a UGC sponsored project. The website explaines itself as: "LISGateway.com provides searchable and browsable catalogue of Internet based resources related to Library & Information Science. It encourages the exploitation of publishers material by providing free access to quality web resources. The data pages establishes links mainly to site, which have produced e-journals, e-books, reference resources etc. It improves the effectiveness of Internet searching and will serve as a source of information for LIS people. Users would be directed to high quality of Internet resources rather than to have evaluate, filter and organize the resources themselves." Regards, Saiful --- Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > > Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:08:49 +0100 (BST) > From: "[iso-8859-1] chandrakant gangurde" > <gangurdechandrakant(a)yahoo.co.in> > > Dear Salman, > > There is website useful and gives relevant information about > library. You > can go through it http://www.information-professional.com this > websites by > which you can search choosing by search engine like > yahoo/Google/MSN. etc. > > Chandrakant Gangurde > Sir Dorabji Tata Memeorial Library > Deonar > Mumbai-88

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New subscription request to list LIS-Forum from nagaraj@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 12:48:18 +0530 From: lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Your authorization is required for a mailing list subscription request approval: For: nagaraj(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in List: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in At your convenience, visit: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/admindb/lis-forum to process the request.

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eJDS -The Free electronic Journals Delivery Service Programme
by JK Vijayakumar 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

Sorry for Cross Postings! eJDS -The Free electronic Journals Delivery Service Programme The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics /TWAS Donation Programme, Italy in collaboration with the ICTP Scientific Computer Section and ICTP Library, is developing a prototype information retrieval system called `eJournals Delivery Service'. The goal is to distribute individual scientific articles via e-mail to world scientists who do not have access to sufficient bandwidth to download material from the internet in a timely manner and/or cannot afford the connection. Providing scientists with current literature will support their ongoing research. eJDS is geared to facilitate the access to current scientific literature for free. Several publishing companies have enthusiastically adhered to this programme, with rules which depend on the publisher. Visit the site at http://www.ejds.org/ ------------------ J. K. Vijayakumar INFLIBNET Ahmedabad __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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New version of MDID, open source digital image database software
by Shyam Prasad pujar 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:45:45 -0400 From: Sandy Maxfield <maxfiesl(a)jmu.edu> To: diglib(a)infoserv.inist.fr Subject: [DIGLIB] New version of MDID, open source digital image database software MDID 2 NOW AVAILABLE! We are very pleased to announce that the initial release of the new version of the Madison Digital Image Database (MDID 2) software is now available to the general public. Developed at James Madison University, the MDID system brings the digital image library into the teaching and learning process. Visit the MDID web site (http://mdid.org <http://mdid.org/> ) where you can have some fun playing with the MDID 2 online demo, find more information about MDID 2, and download the software. Continuing the tradition of a shared educational software resource, MDID 2 is distributed free of charge under an open source license. New Features in MDID 2 . Multiple collections and custom catalogs . Cross-collection searching . Personal collections and favorites . Enhanced light table . Flexible slideshow management . Enhanced slideshow viewer . Packaged slideshows for offline viewing . Data exchange through XML MDID 2 development was funded in part by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Enjoy! Sandy ---------------------------------------- Sandy Maxfield Director of Library Public Services, Instructional Technology, and Distance Learning James Madison University, MSC 1703 Harrisonburg, VA 22807 Email: maxfiesl(a)jmu.edu Phone: 540.568.6923 Fax: 540.568.6339

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Help Needed
by HENAG 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

Hello Tejasvi, Please try at IIMB [Indian Institute of Management Bangalore], Bannerghatta Road. Send an application to the Librarian for apprenticeship. You will be getting good exposure to the traditional work alongwith online database services and online jounal article retrieval process. Regards Hena S Gupta Infosys Technologies Ltd. -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Mailing List Manager Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 11:50 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Help Needed Date: 3 Aug 2004 09:48:24 -0000 From: thejasvi tv <tvthejasvi(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Professionals, Can any of you guide me as to where I can get some professional training in Bangalore? I very much require this training as I have graduated in LIS through the distance education mode. Thanking you all and awaiting your responses/advise. Regards Thejasvi. Thejasvi.T.V Statistical assistant and SDI Nexant Inc. Bangalore. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Master of Information Management course at University of Mysore-call for applications
by Mailing List Manager 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 19:05:37 +0530 (IST) From: Shalini R. Urs <shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in> Applications are invited for the Master of Information Management Programme at the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore.The last date for receiving filled in applications and admissions is August 9th, 2004.This is a new 4 semester Programme offered by the DLIS of the University of Mysore. For course content and other details visit our Website- http://www.lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in You can also contact the undersigned for more information Dr. Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele:91-821-2514699 Fax :91-821-2519209

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Help Needed
by Mailing List Manager 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

Date: 3 Aug 2004 09:48:24 -0000 From: thejasvi tv <tvthejasvi(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Professionals, Can any of you guide me as to where I can get some professional training in Bangalore? I very much require this training as I have graduated in LIS through the distance education mode. Thanking you all and awaiting your responses/advise. Regards Thejasvi. Thejasvi.T.V Statistical assistant and SDI Nexant Inc. Bangalore.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] need information
by Mailing List Manager 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:08:49 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] chandrakant gangurde" <gangurdechandrakant(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Salman, There is website useful and gives relevant information about library. You can go through it http://www.information-professional.com this websites by which you can search choosing by search engine like yahoo/Google/MSN. etc. Chandrakant Gangurde Sir Dorabji Tata Memeorial Library Deonar Mumbai-88 -------------Original Message------------------------------------ From: salman haider Dear All, I like to know if there is any other website like "www.inforlibrarian.com" which has more information for LIS professionals. Thanks & Regards Salman Haider Consultant Indian School of Business Library Hydrerabad _______________________________________________ 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] Robot Librarians
by Mailing List Manager 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:40:40 +0530 From: HENAG <HENAG(a)infosys.com> Dear All, Similar to this there is an article in a magazine called "Technology Tomorrow" published by ICFAI University, Hyderabad, the article is about a 'snakebot' - a robot like a snake will enter in your room when your door is closed and will work on your computer. It does not require the door to be open, it can move through the space available between the door and the floor. How strange ? Now even the computer engineers will be jobless if this is the way technology going to improve ( a joke apart). Probably I may give you the exact issue date & No of the publication if anyone wants it. Hena S Gupta Infosys Technologies Ltd, Hosur Road, Electronics City. ---------- Original message ---------- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:36:38 +0530 (IST) From: Poornima Narayan <poornima(a)css.nal.res.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Robot Librarians Dear Professionals Came across an interesting article which has appeared in today's (30th July 2004) Indian Express (Youth Express). If Robots are going to manage the future libraries, what is the future of L & IS Professionals? Robot Librarians ******* A group of robotics researchers at University Jaume I in Spain is working on a robot librarian. The prototype has cameras, sensors and grippers so it can locate and collect a book. The hope is that one day, teams of service robots could work in libraries.....

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(no subject)
by Mailing List Manager 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Tue, 3 Aug 2004 16:35:44 +0530 "Shalini R.Urs" shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in Dear friends, Please read the complete report before jumping to conclusions- the Sabo bill and the NIH policy is still in the 'debate' stage and there is no conclusive evidence to say that 'NIH research to be open access'. If you read the whole piece, you will understand the undercurrents of the issues.This is a case of typical 'double speak'. The article begins with the usual brouhaha bait by Zehrouni, Director of NIH, about 'public needs to have access to what they have paid for', but he is quick to add - let me quote > But Zerhouni tried to assure participants that the government was not yet > creating a mandate and that their views would be taken into account before > the policy was finalized. He also distanced himself from the House report, > saying that NIH did not prepare it, even though the wording was "inspired" > by deliberations within the agency. ---- > Zerhouni said that individual repositories tend to fade out. He also told > participants that NIH had no intention of becoming a journal publisher and > the public is aware of the value of journals' peer reviews. ---- The issue of scholarly publishing, copyright , etc cannot be resolved by rhetorical positioning alone but by dispassionate understanding of the implications and realities.Let us understand the basics of copyrights, right. The first copyright act-the Statute of Queen Anne of 1710 introduced the concept of author being the owner of copyright. The original purpose was to exercise central authority to control publishing and generate tax revenue for the government! But then soon copyrights evolved and the aim of copyrights is to provide stimulus for creativity Copyright is not just about economic rights but about also about paternity rights. The copyrights also cover the right of paternity by which authors have the right to claim authorship of their works ensuring that their names are mentioned in connection with it. The right of integrity is another dimension of the copyright. It is not without reason that the word 'author' etymologically means father. If 'copyrights' are banned then what incentive will a scientist have to publish? The forces and incentives that help produce creative or intellectual works are diverse. In the end, if bills like Sabo bill if passed then few scholars would spend their time and efforts to publish. One critical difference between the Government 'banning copyright' and authors assigning / transferring certain rights to publishers is- while the latter is voluntary the former is not. Actually it amounts to 'taking away' the rights and potentially has all the ingredients of governments hegemony over academe. Second and more complicated issue is of paternity rights. Like all rights copyrights also have the 'responsibility' dimension. Can the government own responsibility for everything that is written and published by the scientists/scholars? Imagine a scenario like this- Salman Rushdie were to be a Professor at some university and publish 'The Satanic Verses' , will his university be held responsible for his writings ? Will the university be banned and face the death threat from Iranian clergy ? Organisations cannot own up the responsibility for one scholar's writings. Do not think that the scenario of 'Satanic Verses' is only in literature but it could well be in sciences as well. Imagine the classic case of Galileo's treatise 'Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems' proving the logical superiority of the Copernican theory for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Roman Catholic Church, and eventually died a recluse under house arrest.Would the University of Padua where Galileo served as a professor of Mathematics would have been held responsible for his writings and served a life sentence? Finally friends- this piece is written as part of my professional interests to air my views on the topic by me-Shalini Urs- a professor at an Indian University and these are my views and I not only own copyrights but also am liable to be held responsible for these views. My university's views on this issue if and when decided will only be expressed as an official policy statement with the authority and official seal of the University of Mysore! Shalini -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr.Shalini R.Urs Director Information & Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore- 570006 India Ph : 91-821-2514699 Fax: 91-821-2519209 Website:http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO)
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Dear LIS-Forum members I am giving below details of a new journal in the area of metadata. Many of you may be interested in this. Regards Rajashekar ------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Associate Chairman Tel: +91-80-23600271, 23601427 National Centre for Science Fax: +91-80-23601426, 23600683 Information (NCSI) E-Mail: raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Indian Institute of Science URL: http://144.16.72.189/raja/ BANGALORE-560012 (India) ------------------------------------------------------------- SciGate: http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/ The IISc Science Information Portal ===================================================================== International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO) Inderscience Publishers - ISSN (Online): 1744-263X - ISSN (Paper): 1744-2621 First, preliminary call for papers, July 2004 https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=152 ===================================================================== IJMSO aims at publishing research advances and discussions about meta-data in a broad sense, and about their associated semantics and ontological structures. IJMSO takes a multi-disciplinary perspective, with an emphasis on domain-specific ontologies and organisational, human interaction and social issues regarding metadata annotation, use and assessment. IJMSO also intends to cover Semantic Web research, as a concrete metadata-intensive technological framework in which shared and standardised semantics are a critical issue. Objectives ----------- The main objective of IJMSO is to provide an open forum in which several disciplines converge and provide their perspectives regarding the complex topic of metadata creation, use and assessment. Those disciplines include Digital Libraries, the Semantic Web, Library Science and Knowledge Management, among others. Readership ----------- IJMSO aims at being an open forum for researchers, practitioners, managers and policy makers in the field of metadata,informing current practices with recent innovations. Contents --------- IJMSO publishes original research papers providing significant results, and also short communications about innovative ideas and news, announcements and reviews regarding the topics of the journal. Articles describing schemas or ontologies for concrete applications or domains are also welcomed, provided that a digital version of the final artefact is submitted to be made publicly available. Subject Coverage ----------------- Subjects covered include, but are not limited to: Metadata design and semantics Quality of metadata Evaluation and applications of metadata standards Metadata annotation practices Ontological and knowledge-based approaches to metadata Ontologies and standard catalogues specific to business or professional domains Semantic Web and Ontologies in Library Science and Digital Libraries Metadata-based information retrieval and browsing Organisational and social aspects of Semantic Web and related technologies Submissions ------------ Visit http://www.inderscience.com for information on submission. Contributions synthesizing existing knowledge and clearly describing research directions are sought for the first issue. Deadline for submission for the *first issue is October 1st 2004*.

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Proceedings of SPIE
by noufal palliparamban 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Dear friends May I know about libraries subscribibg proceedings of SPIE please? Looking forward to hearing from you soon, please Noufal.P.P Computer Aided Reference Service IIT Kanpur ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony

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Good article
by Ayesha Taranum 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Hello, � Read a good article published in "Interactions" The whiteboard: What's in a Word? The Semantics of Usability by Bruce G. Allen, Elizabeth Buie Volume 9, Number 2 (2002), Pages 17-21 Abstract: When you say something is intuitive, do you mean that absolutely everybody understands it right away? If you say a program is logical, what help is that to a user? Does user-friendly mean anything these days? (Did it ever?) Interactions, as many of us know is a magazine on applied human-computer interaction (HCI) published by ACM. Regards, -- Ayesha Ayesha Taranum Executive - Information Services DSL Software Ltd. The Senate, #33/A Ulsoor Road, Bangalore - 560 042 Ph: +91 80 51246800 xtn: 6790 email: ayesha.taranum(a)dslsoft.net __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Thanks
by Mailing List Manager 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:22:18 +0530 From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Dear Moderator, I thank you for putting an end to this unwanted digression in the thread = "Autonomous Institutions". On second reading of my initial posting, I do = find that it contains a few lines of very sweeping generalisation of = Govt sector employees and that it has hurt some of my colleagues, for = which I regret and apologise.=20 My mails to franc(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in are bouncing while the ones sent to = the LIST go through. I wonder why?!=20 Regards Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal,=20 RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: = +91(40)27846631

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Free Access to science Publications
by Mailing List Manager 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:04:12 +0530 From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Following Editorial in The Hindu of 3/8/2004 supports our cause. (I = think 'For' in the title is a typo; it should be 'free') [Free?] FOR ACCESS TO SCIENCE PUBLICATIONS=20 IN JULY, THE movement for `open access' got an important boost when the = Appropriations Committee of the United States' House of Representatives = and the Science & Technology Committee of the United Kingdom's House of = Commons recommended measures that would help make scientific journal = publications available more freely online. Scientists are judged by = their research output. Each year they publish more than a million papers = in approximately 16,000 science, technology and medical journals put out = by more than 2,000 publishers worldwide. Commercial publishers have a = dominant presence, with Reed Elsevier having a 28 per cent market share. = There has been a growing feeling that neither the public, which pays for = much of the science that is published, nor the scientists, who receive = no payment either for their papers or for carrying out the `peer review' = that ensures that quality is maintained in journals, benefit by limiting = access to the papers through journal subscriptions. Not only are = journals expensive; there is mounting criticism that journal costs have = been rising exorbitantly. The Commons' S&T Committee noted that = commercial scientific journal publishers enjoyed "substantially higher" = profit margins than the academic, educational and professional = publishing sector as a whole. And this was happening at a time libraries = were obliged to cut down on journal subscriptions in order to keep = within budgets. The problem is particularly acute for scientific = institutions in developing countries such as India. Another issue that = has been raised is that the larger public has little access to the = scientific research that their tax money makes possible.=20 The limitations of the `subscriber pays' system has led some to attempt = an `author pays' model for scientific journals. BioMed Central, which = was established in 2001, has now over 100 journals in biology and = medicine. [Public Library of Science] PLoS Biology, launched in October = 2003, has the ambition of joining the front ranks of scientific = journals; PLoS Medicine is to be launched soon. Prominent public and = private research sponsors such as the Wellcome Trust in the U.K., the = Max Planck Society in Germany, and the Centre National de la Recherche = Scientifique (CNRS) in France, have announced their support for such a = system of open access. But `author pays' publishing currently accounts = for merely five per cent of the total journal market. The Commons' S & T = Committee recommended that another alternative needs to be explored and = supported - storing published work electronically in institutional = archives. Just a month before the Committee published its report, = Elsevier announced that scientists publishing in its journals would be = allowed to post the final text of their articles on a personal or = institutional website. Over 80 per cent of the journal publishers allow = such archiving. The House Appropriations Committee suggested that copies = of articles published from research supported by the National Institutes = of Health be deposited within six months of publication in PubMed = Central, a free digital archive of life science literature.=20 The Commons' Committee recommended that "all U.K. higher education = institutions establish institutional repositories on which their = published output can be stored and from which it can be read, free of = charge, online"; and that "Research Councils and other Government = funders mandate their funded researchers to deposit a copy of all of = their articles in this way." It is an idea that India - where research = is overwhelmingly supported by the Government - must adopt with = conviction and enthusiasm. The software for such archiving is available = free of cost and has been used to establish an e-print archive at the = Indian Institute of Science. Not only must more such institutional = repositories be established; scientists need to take the lead in = ensuring that their papers are suitably archived. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal,=20 RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: = +91(40)27846631

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Re: Norms of AICTE for selection as Librarian, Dep.Librarian And Asst.Libn
by Mailing List Manager 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 13:42:19 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> it is same like univs. u can see on AICTE website, u may get as the qualifications required were given Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 11:57:13 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] vijaykumar nayak" Dear Colleagues, I need infn on Norms of AICTE for selection as a LIBN,DEPUTYLIBN,And ASSTLIBN.in UNiversitues and Engg.colleges. Reply soon Thanking u Vijay Nayak _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com ---------------------------------

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Robot Librarians
by Mailing List Manager 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 11:12:56 +0530 (IST) From: Poornima Narayan <poornima(a)css.nal.res.in> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:36:38 +0530 (IST) From: Poornima Narayan <poornima(a)css.nal.res.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Robot Librarians Dear Professionals Came across an interesting article which has appeared in today's (30th July 2004) Indian Express (Youth Express). If Robots are going to manage the future libraries, what is the future of L & IS Professionals? Robot Librarians ******* A group of robotics researchers at University Jaume I in Spain is working on a robot librarian. The prototype has cameras, sensors and grippers so it can locate and collect a book. The hope is that one day, teams of service robots could work in libraries. The question of safety is what has been deterring the use of robots outside of the factory to work in domains surrounded by people, explains Professor Angel del Pobil. Mixing robots and humans in an unstructured, uncontrolled environment, where there are all manner of obstacles to negotiate, could have unpredictable results. Professor Pobil thinks libraries are the best place to start introducing robots into public spaces, or at least to start showing that the technology is possible and works. The robot is a mobile manipulator which means that it is a vehicle with three wheels, Professor Pobil says. It has an arm with seven joints, two fingers which form a gripper, and two micro cameras on its wrist. Four sensors built into its gripper senses the force it is applying. When it receives a request for a book, its voice recognition software matches the titles with the book's classification code in the database. It can then search the database to identify which bookshelf to go to. Because the database will only give an approximate location, the robot will navigate its way to the bookshelf, using its infrared and laser guidance system, and scan books within a four-metre radius. Once it is in there, it starts using its cameras, says the professor. By moving the arm with the cameras, it takes an image of the bookshelf. It can read the labels and the position of the book using its image processing and optical recognition software. Once the book is located, it has to grasp it and take it off the bookshelf. For this, the team had to develop special fingertips like nails, with one nail longer than the other. Professor Pobil says there is quite a possibility that teams of robots could, in about five years' time, realistically perform searching and fetching tasks. They could even mill around doing their work at night, working on library inventories, or identifying missing books, or mapping libraries. However, he does not imagine that at any stage they will be replacing librarians and demanding payment for overdue books. A separate team in Japan is working on a similar robotic librarian automat, but their project is more concerned with developing robots that can be controlled remotely over the web in order to scan and read books. -Courtesy BBC Online -- Poornima Narayana Contact: 080-5086083 (O) Dy Head, ICAST 080-6682781 (R) N.A.L E mail: poornima(a)css.nal.res.in Airport Road prn_1_in(a)yahoo.com Bangalore 560 017 Fax: 080-5268072

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need information
by Mailing List Manager 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

Date: 31 Jul 2004 19:22:53 -0000 From: salman haider <salman_38h(a)rediffmail.com> � Dear All, I like to know if there is any other website like "www.inforlibrarian.com" which has more information for LIS professionals. Thanks & Regards Salman Haider Consultant Indian School of Business Library Hydrerabad

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NIH research to be open access - What about India?
by Mailing List Manager 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 18:18:17 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> > Friends: > > Here is an article (from The Scientist) on a hot topic. In the USA soon > all research funded by NIH will be available free on the Internet. When > will Indian funding agencies start insisting on such open access to > research funded by them? Best wishes. > > Arun > [Subbiah Arunachalam] > > > > July 29, 2004 > NIH research to be open access > > Publishers and editors meet Zerhouni plans for publicly available papers > with exasperation | By Paula Park <paulapark52(a)hotmail.com> > > > WASHINGTON, DC-National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Elias Zerhouni > indicated at a gathering of 43 scientific journal publishers and editors > Wednesday (July 28) that eventually all NIH-financed research will be > freely available to the public. > > Zerhouni stopped short of setting deadlines for depositing full-text > materials in the searchable PubMed database, as recommended in a House > Appropriations Committee report > <http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040721/01> released earlier this > month. Instead, he asked the publishing executives to inform him how best > to manage material so that the public can freely use it. > > "The public needs to have access to what they've paid for," Zerhouni told > commercial and nonprofit publishing executives at a meeting he called on > the NIH campus. Congress, he said, also demanded evidence of the agency's > productivity. "I need to manage the portfolio," he said. "The status quo > just can't stand." > > The executive conference was the first of several planned meetings that > will lead to the creation of an approach public access, which NIH will > publish in the Federal Register for comment before it becomes official > policy, Zerhouni said. He would not say when the policy-making would > begin, but the Appropriations Committee report requested that NIH produce > some language by December 1. > > That report recommended that papers resulting from NIH-funded research be > deposited jn PubMed 6 months after their publication in a journal. Papers > for which NIH pays publishing costs would be deposited immediately upon > publication. Last year, a member of Congress introduced a bill > <http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20030716/04/> that would have banned > copyright on all publications based on federally funded research; that > bill has been in committee since last fall. > > Several meeting participants expressed exasperation with the House report, > which they termed a "government mandate." Paul W. Kincade, president of > the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology, told The > Scientist that he resented the "coercion." Others grumbled that the > government couldn't tell publishers what to do. > > "They were a little startled by the language," Pat Schroeder, president > and executive director of the Association of American Publishers, > explained diplomatically in the meeting. She likened the report's > recommendations to the "federal government putting down its thumb." > > But Zerhouni tried to assure participants that the government was not yet > creating a mandate and that their views would be taken into account before > the policy was finalized. He also distanced himself from the House report, > saying that NIH did not prepare it, even though the wording was "inspired" > by deliberations within the agency. > > Beyond the policy-making process, the executives fretted that if all > information is available in a government database, subscriptions will > fall. Many executives reported that they are trying some forms of open > access, making material available at no charge 6 months or a year after > publication. But setting a single date could be harmful to some and not > others, some said. > > Alan Leshner <http://www.aaas.org/press/leshner-bio.shtml>, chief > executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of > Science, which publishes Science, told Zerhouni that releasing articles 6 > months after publication didn't worry him. "But if any part of the > publication has been paid out of NIH grants... [it] must be given > immediate open access... most of us in the room are much more concerned > about that." > > Brian D. Crawford, vice president and publishing director of Life and > Medical Sciences for Wiley, predicted that under the proposed policy, > journal numbers would dwindle, and more material would be published solely > on the PubMed site. "This would lead to a constricted ability to publish," > he added. "The unintended consequence for NIH could be less access, not > more." > > Judith Bond, president of the American Society for Biochemistry and > Molecular Biology, questioned PubMed's reliability and suggested NIH use > multiple repositories. "PubMed Central has had a lot of technical > problems," she added, questioning whether NIH would be technically > prepared to meet the suggested mandate. > > Zerhouni said that individual repositories tend to fade out. He also told > participants that NIH had no intention of becoming a journal publisher and > the public is aware of the value of journals' peer reviews. > > Not all participating publishers were anxious about the proposed policy. > PNAS editor-in-chief Nicholas R. Cozzarelli > <http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/BMB/cozzarellin.html> told Zerhouni that > depositing material would be "no problem." "We would endorse it and see it > as an advancement of science, and education," he added. "We can do it, > other journals can do it. It will just take time." > > Links for this article > A. McCook, "Open access to US govt work urged," The Scientist, July 21, > 2004. > <http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040721/01> > > C. Zandonella, "Sabo bill assessed," The Scientist, July 16, 2003. > <http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20030716/04/> > > Alan I. Leshner > <http://www.aaas.org/press/leshner-bio.shtml> > > Nicholas R. Cozzarelli > <http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/BMB/cozzarellin.html> > > > >

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Re: Norms of AICTE for selection as Librarian, Dep.Librarian And Asst.Libn
by Mailing List Manager 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 11:57:13 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] vijaykumar nayak" <vijay_vtulib(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Colleagues, I need infn on Norms of AICTE for selection as a LIBN,DEPUTYLIBN,And ASSTLIBN.in UNiversitues and Engg.colleges. Reply soon Thanking u Vijay Nayak

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Open Content and Access for Digital Scholarship
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02 Aug '04

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:07:07 -0500 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck(a)iastate.edu> Colleagues/ I am pleased to announce the availability of the revised version of my PowerPoint presentation from the recently concluded WiLSWorld 2004 Conference [ http://www.wils.wisc.edu/events/wworld04/ ] _Open Content and Access for Digital Scholarship_ "The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) provides an application-independent interoperability framework based on metadata harvesting. There are two classes of participants in the OAI-PMH framework: Data Providers and Service Providers. Data Providers administer systems that support the OAI-PMH as a means of exposing metadata from digital collections or repositories; while Service Providers use metadata harvested via the OAI-PMH as a basis for building value-added services. In this presentation we will profile several major OAI-PMH Data and Service Providers, and describe and discuss their innovative content, features, and functionalities." The REVISED and CORRECTED presentation has been self-archived at: [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OpenContent.ppt ] BTW:This is a LARGE file [11MB] and Long Presentation [130+ Slides] For your Late-Friday-Afternoon, Late-July Reading-and -Viewing-Pleasure! Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan OAI-Compliant Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu "The Revolution Will NOT be Blogged"

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