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PG Diploma in Library Automation and Networking by IGNOU
by Saiful Amin 18 Sep '03

18 Sep '03

Some users complained they were not able to open the attachement in the previous announcement mail... Here is the text which was contained in that PDF file. Regards, Saiful IGNOU Invites Applications for admission to POST-GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN LIBRARY AUTOMATION AND NETWORKING PROGRAMME (PGDLAN) (Commencing from January 2004 Session) The Post-Graduate Diploma in Library Automation and Networking (PGDLAN) Programme offered by IGNOU is an innovative programme utilizing self-instructional materials and information-technology along with interactive personal contact programmes. It aims at developing the professional competencies of the library and information professionals in an automated and networked environment. It provides opportunities for in-depth practical to enhance technological skills of the learners to develop and manage a computerized library and information centre. Eligibility for Admission: A Bachelor's Degree in library and Information Science (BLISc). Duration: 1 Year Medium of Instruction: English General Information: The Student Handbook and Prospectus, containing the application form, can be obtained from the following Tele-learning/Regional Centres or from Director (SR&E), IGNOU, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-11 0068 in person on payment of Rs. 30/- in cash or through post by sending IPO or Demand Draft of Rs.80/- in favour of IGNOU, payable at the city of the Regional Centre/New Delhi as the case may be. Address of Regional Centres: (1) 268C-Pitru Ashish. Ishwar Bhawan Road, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad-38000 (2) No.293. 39. Cross, 8' Block, Jayanayar, Bangalore-560082 (3) C-1, Institutional Area, Bhubaneshwar-751 013 (4) CIT Campus, Taramani, Chennai 600113 (5) 52, Institutional Area, Tughlakabad Extn., Near Batra Hospital, New Delhi-110062 (6) 2, Azad Bhawan Road. I.P. Estate, New Delhi 110002 (7) Navagiri Road, 1st Bye-Lane, Chandmari, Guwahatl-781003 (8) Bikash Bhawan, 4th Floor, North Block, Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata-700091 (9) 1st Floor, MSFC Bldg., 270, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune-411016. Last Date for Submission of application form at the Regional Centre is 15.10.2003 ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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Fwd: PGDLAN
by JK Vijayakumar 18 Sep '03

18 Sep '03

Dear Friends, IGNOU is introducing a new course "PGDLAN" for LIS people through Distance Mode. The advertisement is attached herewith for your reference. J K Vijayakumar INFLIBNET --- Pravakar Rath <pkrath_99(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > From: "Pravakar Rath" <pkrath_99(a)hotmail.com> > To: vjkjk(a)yahoo.com > Subject: good news > Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 02:21:48 +0530 > > Find an attachment > Dr Rath > Graduate school of LIS > University of Illinois > Urbana Champaign (USA) > USA __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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InfoWatch - August 2003
by M.R Lalitha 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

Dear LIS-Forum member, The August 2003 issue of InfoWatch is now online, bringing you 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) Aug 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In This Issue: 1. BioChipNet - The informational website on biochip technology 2. Biopolymer.net [A portal for biopolymers] 3. CAMBIA Intellectual Property Resource 4. Database of Zeolite structures 5. Deep Impact [NASA scientists' encounter with a comet] 6. Electronics Library [Free technical online directory for eclectronics community] 7. Energy Tutorial [By National Fuel Cell Research Center, University of California] 8. Experts Exchange - Providing IT information that drives the enterprise 9. Generation5 - At the forefront of artificial intelligence 10. Introduction to digital images & digital analysis techniques of remotely sensed multispectral data 11. JavaScript 2 - Free JavaScript codes 12. Mathematical Moments 13. PapersINVITED.com - A listing of calls for papers 14. Quantum Chemistry Literature DataBase - QCLDB 15. Tech Support Alert [A site for rated free utility programs & tech resources] 16. The Virtual Planet Laboratory 17. UCSF Chimera: An extensible molecular modeling system 18. WayStation: Centre for submission, review and publication of Genome variations 19. Wotsit's Format - The programmer's file format collection 20. WebDesignHelper ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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Need inputs on Designing a New Library
by Doncy Augustine 16 Sep '03

16 Sep '03

Dear Friends, At Hewlett-Packard Labs India, we are on the process of designing a new library. Started in February 2002, lab has a small print collection with not more than 400 books and almost the same number of CDs and of course it is likely to grow in future. What are the things to be taken care of before designing a library? I would like to have inputs (up to minute detail) on this. Many Thanks, Doncy ---------- HP Labs India Sterling Square #3, Madras Bank Road, Bangalore - 560 001 Ph: +91-80-205 2115 E-Mail: doncy(a)india.hp.com http://www.hpl.hp.com/india/

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Bookstores vs Public Libraries
by Dinesh K. Gupta 13 Sep '03

13 Sep '03

Nice to read about " What we can learn from book stores", but, another article looks a little further "Stores and Libraries: Both Serve Customers!" http://www.infotoday.com/mls/jan02/koontz.htm In author's own words: "I am walking through a shopping mall, thinking about libraries, thinking about retail storesthinking how we are alike, and what we can learn from each other. There are some obvious similarities." These papers put us to think beyond our traditional boundaries. Regards, Dinesh K. Gupta Associate Prof. & Head, Dept. of Lib. & Inf. Sc., VM Open University, Kota-324010 Ph. 0744-2471412 (R) 0744-2470106 (O) E-mail: dineshkg(a)sancharnet.in -----Original Message----- From: Madhuresh <madhuresh_s(a)aurigene.com> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; knowinfo(a)yahoogroups.com <knowinfo(a)yahoogroups.com> Cc: india-lis(a)infoserv.inist.fr <india-lis(a)infoserv.inist.fr>; nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com <nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com> Date: Friday, September 12, 2003 5:26 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Bookstores vs Public Libraries >Hello All, > >There is a nice article entitled "What libraries can learn from >bookstores: Applying the bookstore model to public libraries" recently >appeared (2 days ago) at the following URL >http://www.ckls.org/~crippel/marketing/bookstore.html > >The article talks about the difference and comparison between Public >Library and Bookstore with some good pointers. The situations given in >the article are not yet implemented/relevant for India but still people >can know some ongoing trends or can modeled their library. > >Regards, >Madhuresh Singhal >Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, >Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, >Bangalore 562 158 >Phone 8521314-16 Ext.- 422 >Mobile 98861 82822 >Fax 852 6285 >E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com >http://nettalk2.tripod.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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Training Proram for LIS Professionals
by P K Upadhaya Head NIC Library 12 Sep '03

12 Sep '03

Dear LIS Professionals National Informatics Centre (NIC), Department of Information Technology, Government of India is organizing five days training programme on INTERNET TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS IN LIBRARIES from 13th to 17th Oct 2003 at New Delhi for Library and Information Science Professionals working all over the country. The programme will help the participants to modernize their libraries, as they would be equipped with Web Technologies and their application in library services. Details are available in the announcement section at http://www.home.nic.in . You can also download the attached MS-Word file. You are cordially invited to participate in this training programme. Last date of submission of nomination form is 30th Sept, 2003. With regards P.K. Upadhyay Officer Incharge, Library, Email : pku(a)hub.nic Contact No : 011-24360567

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Bookstores vs Public Libraries
by Madhuresh 12 Sep '03

12 Sep '03

Hello All, There is a nice article entitled "What libraries can learn from bookstores: Applying the bookstore model to public libraries" recently appeared (2 days ago) at the following URL http://www.ckls.org/~crippel/marketing/bookstore.html The article talks about the difference and comparison between Public Library and Bookstore with some good pointers. The situations given in the article are not yet implemented/relevant for India but still people can know some ongoing trends or can modeled their library. Regards, Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 562 158 Phone 8521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 Fax 852 6285 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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Ranganathan Research Circle, New Delhi
by Mailing List Manager 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:54:47 +0530 (IST) From: Ratnakar Aspari [mailto:aspari_r@hotmail.com] For kind circulation among lis-forum members Ratnakar, New Delhi ________ RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE (An organ of Ranganathan Research Trust, Regd.:25953, 1995) J8/123, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi -------------------------------------------------------------------------- RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE Cordially invites you to the 5th C V SUBBARAO Memorial Function at the Auditorium Hall, Sahitya Akademy, New Delhi On September 20th, 2003 Saturday at 10.00 A.M. There will be a Panel Discussion on "BIBLIOMETRICS AND SCINTIOMETRICS" Dr. K Satyanarayana, DDG, Indian Council for Medical Research, New Delhi Chairperson PANELISTS Dr. S M Dhawan, Scintist Inchange, National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi Dr. B M Gupta, Sr. Scientist NISTADS, New Delhi Dr. Usha Munju Munshi, Sr. Scientist, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi ---------------------------------------------------------------- --------

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FORSA
by Library 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

Dear Friends: We have a Forum for Resource Sharing in Astronomy and Astrophysics, which has been in existence for over two decades. This is an informal group consisting of: RRI, IIAP, TIFR, PRL, IUCAA, NCRA, State Observatory, nainital and CASA-Osmania University, and has been doing excellent job of cooperation and coordination for information exchange in the ever changing IT environment. FORSA has to its credit two consortia, viz. Indian Astrophysics Consortium (Kluwer Journals, 2002+) and FORSA Consortium for Nature on-line (Nature Publishing, 2002+). At present it is looking forward for consortium formation with AIP and other publishers. We are happy to inform that FORSA has become a participant in INternational Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) during August,2003. Perhaps, this consortium is the first one from India to participaate in ICOLC, which has around 158 participants from across the world. For details, one can look into the following sites: ICOLC : http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia/ FORSA : http://www.iiap.res.in/library/forsa.html WE shall be very much obliged if forum members provide us information on number of consortia formed in India (with year, with whom consortia is formed, and number of participants) so that it may help othersfor interaction while going into consortia formation. With regards, Y.M.PATIL FORSA COORDINATOR ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raman Research Institute Library, Tel: +91 80 361 0122 C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Fax: +91 80 361 0492 Bangalore 560 080, India. Email: library(a)rri.res.in

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Distributed Full Text Search of Math Books Now Available (fwd)
by Library 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

Forwarded by Girija Srinivasan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raman Research Institute Library, Tel: +91 80 361 0122 C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Fax: +91 80 361 0492 Bangalore 560 080, India. Email: library(a)rri.res.in ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:05:17 -0400 From: Steve Rockey <swr1(a)cornell.edu> To: slapam-l(a)lists.yale.edu Subject: Distributed Full Text Search of Math Books Now Available I though this would be of interest to Mathematics Librarians. --Steve >[Please redistribute as appropriate] > > Distributed Full Text Search of Math Books Now Available > >The university libraries of Cornell, G�ttingen, and Michigan are pleased to >announce the first public availability of a significant body of mathematical >monographs with access provided through a distributed full text search >protocol. The virtual collection, comprising more than 2,000 volumes of >significant historical mathematical material (nearly 600,000 pages), resides >at the three separate institutions and is provided through interfaces to the >three entirely different software systems. Public interfaces to the >collection may be found at: > http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/mathall/ >and > http://mathbooks.library.cornell.edu/ >These two public interfaces reflect different development efforts at >Michigan and Cornell, each with their own perspective on how to best mediate >the search through the protocol, and each based on the protocol. > >The protocol for this distributed search was developed by the three >participating institutions over the last two and a half years, with generous >support provided by the National Science Foundation. Working from the roots >of the DIENST and the then-emergent OAI protocols, the project team focused >on creating a new protocol--dubbed CGM, for "Cornell, G�ttingen, >Michigan"--that was consistent with OAI, borrowed from DIENST, and added >mechanisms for full text searching. The protocol and more project >information are available at http://www.library.cornell.edu/mathbooks/. > >While our testing has found that network latency and the vicissitudes of >different production environments do present challenges, our results >indicate that a distributed full text search is certainly viable. We >believe that the CGM protocol is relatively unique in providing >production-level full text access to distributed collections. > >We invite feedback on the effectiveness of the protocol from both users of >the materials and from digital library developers. Although essentially a >first prototype with significant needs for extension and refinement, we >believe that our progress to-date should be encouraging for digital library >developers interested in federating collections. And, further, the >collection itself is a rich resource for the study of mathematics history >and a number of related disciplines. The collections at Cornell and >Michigan are both fully searchable, and while the G�ttingen collection >currently includes bibliographic information and page images, G�ttingen is >actively seeking funding to create full text for its volumes. > >We welcome all feedback. Please send comments to cgm-feedback(a)umich.edu. > >We hope that the documentation on the protocol (currently found at >http://www.library.cornell.edu/mathbooks/cgmverbs.xml) will spur others to >add CGM-capability to their systems. The software created through this >NSF-funded grant will be made available in a number of ways. The API >developed by G�ttingen, allowing them to provide access through the Agora >software, will soon be available to other Agora sites. The functionality >developed by Michigan will be included in release 11 of the DLXS digital >library software (September, 2003). And Cornell is exploring distribution >and support models for its electronic publishing software, DPubS, the system >also behind Project Euclid (http://ProjectEuclid.org). If you are >interested in using the raw protocol mechanisms at Cornell, G�ttingen and >Michigan in your development efforts, please contact: > Andrea Rapp, G�ttingen <rapp(a)mail.sub.uni-goettingen.de> > David Ruddy, Cornell <dwr4(a)cornell.edu> > John P. Wilkin, Michigan <jpwilkin(a)umich.edu> > > >John Price Wilkin, Associate University Librarian, LIT Steven Rockey Director of the Mathematics Library 420B Malott Hall Cornell University Office: 255-5268 Home: 272-8925 e-mail: swr1(a)cornell.edu Fax: 607-254-5023 http://www.library.cornell.edu/math/

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XX IATLIS NATIONAL CONFERRENCE- CALL FOR PAPERS &IATLIS NEWSLETTER ATTACHED (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:23:39 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> XX IATLIS National Conference 2003: The XX IATLIS National Conference will be organized by the DLIS, University of Madras, Chennai during 21 23 November, 2003. Prof. K. S. Raghavan, Head, DLIS, University of Madras is the Organizing Secretary. Prof. Harsha Parekh, SNDT Womens University, Mumbai is the Director of the Conference. Theme: Globalization of LIS Education: FACETS: Ø Identification / Study of LIS Education Needs and Practices at Global level Ø Informal and non-formal LIS Education Ø Global Marketing of LIS Education Ø Market Oriented Reorganization of LIS Education Ø National and International Information Access Methods and Practices. Ø Comparison of Global and Local LIS Programmes Ø Information Needs and Information Seeking Strategies Ø Standardization and Cooperation for Globalization of LIS Education. Ø E-learning in Globalization of LIS Education Ø Collaboration of Education and Research Activities- National and International level- Inter institutional collaboration and consortia approach. Ø National and Transnational Information Policies Ø Information Technology in Globalization of LIS Education Ø Teaching Aids / Tools / Techniques / Infrastructure for Globalization of LIS Education Ø Curriculum Innovations Ø Design and Development of Curriculum in the context of Globalization Ø Faculty Empowerment and skills up-gradation. Ø Instructional Management Ø Practical Training / Exchange of Teachers and Students / Internship for appropriate Human Resource Development Ø LIS Education to meet the Changing Environments and Manpower Requirements in Modern Libraries Ø Role of Publishers and Book Sellers in Globalization of Education Ø Accreditation and Globalization And any other relevant sub-themes / topics of the main theme. CALL FOR PAPERS: Papers on the above facets of the basic theme Globalization of LIS Education for the XX-IATLIS National Conference should reach the General Secretary, IATLIS, c/ o Dept. of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD 500 007 so as to reach him on or before 20th October, 2003. The Paper should not be more than 3000 words. Please send your paper in print and electronic form on a 3½ floppy in MS Word. The authors may please avoid the historic aspects. ===== 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) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com

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Googles Set Search facility.
by Mailing List Manager 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:02:02 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> Dear Friends, To those who may not have explored Google at length, I would like to draw your attention to the Set creation facility in Google. The URL is: http://labs.google.com/sets If you enter a few members of a set, (in this case categories of poems) Google predicts the other members of the set. For instance, I typed Ode, Haiku, Epitaph and got the following as result: Ode Epitaph Haiku Limerick free Verse Villanelle Sonnet Ballad Blank Verse Lyric Elegy Cinquain Sestina epic Narrative Quatrain BioPoem Shape List Poem Acrostic Rondeau Shakespearean Sonnet Dramatic monologue Italian Sonnet ================ This facility can be useful in classification, thesaurus construction, keyword assignment etc. We need to keep in mind that this is NOT a synonym finder. It is a tool to predict other members of a set, given names of a few members. Suppose you want to search for office stationery suppliers, you just enter a few words like, pen, calculator, photoframe and you will get the rest - well almost. The output needs to be manually examined for correctness. Then if you search a "proper database of office needs suppliers" with the 'resulting words from Google Sets search', better results may be expected. *Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre *ICICI Knowledge Park, Turkapalli Village, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA *Ph: +91(40) 2348 0053; Fax:+91(40) 2348 0007 Ph. Res: +91(40) 2784 6631 *Website: http://www.vic-ikp.info and http://www.iciciknowledgepark.com *Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre *ICICI Knowledge Park, Turkapalli Village, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA *Ph: +91(40) 2348 0053; Fax:+91(40) 2348 0007 Ph. Res: +91(40) 2784 6631 *Website: http://www.vic-ikp.info and http://www.iciciknowledgepark.com

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15th September 2003 LAST DATE for abstract submission for Call for http://www.teriin.org/events/icdl (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:54:02 +0530 From: Debal Chandra Kar <dckar(a)teri.res.in> Our apologies for cross postings INVITATION AND CALL FOR PAPERS ICDL 2004 - 24-27 February New Delhi http://www.teriin.org/events/icdl International Conference on Digital Libraries: Knowledge creation, preservation, access and management --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We would appreciate disseminating this mail to your colleagues. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TERI in partnership with the Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India intends to organize a four-day International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL). CIEMCA/ COL is also an associate. ICDL 2004 will facilitate interaction between experts and others, bridge knowledge gaps between developing and developed countries, and initiate capacity building activities in DLs (digital libraries). The deliberations of globally renowned experts - and subsequent discussions - during and after the conference, will help develop a road map for the digitization of archives, manuscripts, and libraries. ICDL 2004 will also provide directions on available technologies, digitization acts, DL policies, knowledge-sharing mechanisms, multilingual issues, etc. Who should participate? ---------------------- ICDL 2004 will witness cross-disciplinary participation by policy-makers, information scientists, and professionals involved in DL research and practice across the world. It would particularly interest the following. Policy-makers Library and information science professionals IT professionals Archivists and museologists Content developers and knowledge managers IT service providers Information providers and vendors Professionals from electronic publishing and virtual electronic communities All stakeholders in the digitization and knowledge business. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorials: 24 February 2004 --------------------------- Call for Tutorials: The main aim of these tutorials will allow participants to become familiar with basic principles of the field, to receive technical training in the area of Digital Libraries and making them aware of the potential of digital libraries in the current scenario. Tutorial 1: Overview of Digital Libraries Tutorial 2: Build Digital Library Using Open Source Software Tutorial 3: Dublin Core Metadata Tutorial 4: Development and Application of Knowledge Base Management Systems Tutorial 5: Development and Application of Knowledge Base Management Systems Tutorial 6: Thesauri and Ontologies in Digital Libraries Conference 25-27 Feb 2004 ------------------------- Call for papers: Theme: Knowledge creation, preservation, access, and management Topics: ----------- Digital libraries: conceptual and theoretical aspects Planning, development, architecture, and management Archiving cultural heritage and history through digitization Content organization and knowledge management: discovery, organization, retrieval, and models System scalability and interoperability Mediation and user interaction Metadata issues Digital library policy and strategic planning --------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission guidelines: --------------------------- Extended abstracts (500 words) in English are to be submitted in MS Word format. The review committee will take the final decision regarding paper acceptance. Once accepted, the complete papers (5000 words) are to be submitted within the scheduled time frame. All papers must be original contributions and authors of the accepted papers are expected to transfer the copyright to TERI. Authors are requested to visit the ICDL web site for more details. Dates to remember: ----------------- Last date for submission of extended abstracts - 15 September 2003 Last date for communication of acceptance of papers - 30 October 2003 Last date for submission of full papers (soft copy) - 15 December 2003 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration: ------------ The registration fee covers the conference kit, conference proceedings, lunches, inaugural dinner, and tea. It does not include other meals and accommodation. Registration fee* ---------------- For registrations done on or before 30 November 2003 Indian Delegates: Tutorials Rs 2000; Conference Rs 5000; Conference and tutorials Rs 6000 Foreign Delegates: Tutorials US$ 75; Conference US$ 200; Conference and tutorials US$ 225 For registrations done after 30 November 2003 Indian Delegates: Tutorials Rs 2500; Conference Rs 5500; Conference and tutorials Rs 6500 Foreign Delegates: Tutorials US$ 100; ConferenceUS$ 225; Conference and tutorials US$ 250 * Additional registration from the same organization qualifies for a 10% discount . * Students (Ph.D. and Masters) can avail of a 50% discount. Registration options: The registration form can also be downloaded from the conference web site. The completed form can be sent along with the registration fee through local cheque / bank draft favouring TERI and payable at New Delhi. Visit our web site for online registration. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For paper submission and registration, please contact: Debal C Kar Conference Coordinator ICDL 2004 Secretariat TERI Darbari Seth Block, Habitat Place, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110 003 / India Telephone +91 11 2465 1629, +91 11 2468 2100, or +91 11 2468 211 Fax +91 11 2468 2133 E-mail ICDL2004(a)teri.res.in Web www.teriin.org/events/icdl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme structure: ------------------------------ ICDL 2004 will have a mix of educative events and programmes spread over four days. Tutorials: Day 1(24 February) Leading researchers and practitioners will present the tutorials. Conference sessions: Day 2, 3, and 4 (25-27 February) Plenary, parallel, and poster sessions will engage the delegates in a wide range of presentations from leading national and international experts. Panel discussions, Valedictory session: Day 4 (27 February) Policy-makers, media-persons, academics, and techno-experts will discuss digitization initiatives in the developing world to frame a plan of action. Business sessions: Day 2 and 3 (25-26 February) ICDL 2004 opens up excellent opportunities for organizations involved in develo-ping and providing digital and knowledge management solutions to reach a global audience through product presentations. Exhibitors: Day 1, 2, 3, and 4 (24-27 February) ICDL 2004 welcomes organizations to showcase their best products/technologies at the venue. Space is available for 25 exhibitors. Stalls of 2 � 2 metres and 2 � 3 metres will be allotted on a first-come, first-served basis. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Committees ------------------ International Programme Committee: --------------------------------- Prof. Jos� Luis Borbinha, Director for Innovation and Development, National Library of Portugal, Portugal Dr Hsinchun Chen, McClelland Professor of MIS; Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab; Director, Hoffman eCommerce Lab, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA Dr Gobinda Chowdhury, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Scotland Dr Jean-Marc Comment, Integration Manager, Archives F�d�rales Suisses, Archivstrasse, Switzerland (invited) Dr Dieter W Fellner, Professor of Computer Graphics, University of Technology, Braunchweig, Germany Mr Simon Huggard, Systems Manager, Systems Support Unit, Monash University Library, Victoria, Australia Prof. Leonid A Kalinichenko, Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Dr Yan Quan Liu, Professor of Information and Library Science, School of Communication Information and Library Science, Southern Connecticut State University, Connecticut, USA Prof. Gary Marchioni, Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Dr Erich Neuhold, Chairman, IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries; Professor, GMD-IPSI Darmstadt, Germany Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Head, Information and Documentation, University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium Mr John Paschoud, Project Manager, ANGEL, DELIVER, SECURE, Information Systems Engineer of the Library, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK Dr Michael Seadle, Head, Digital and Multimedia Center, Copyright Librarian, Michigan State University, USA Dr Atul Sharda, E-learning Adviser, Department of Education and Skills, London, UK Dr Stuart Weibel, Executive Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, OCLC Office of Research, Dublin, USA Dr Norman Wiseman, JISC Head of Programmes, University of Nottingham, UK Prof. Ian H Witten, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Advisory Committee ------------------------------ Conference Co-Chairs -------------------- Mr Dhanendra Kumar, Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi Dr R K Pachauri, Director-General, TERI, New Delhi; Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Geneva Members -------------- Prof N Balakrishnan, Chairman, Division of Information Sciences, IISc, Bangalore; and Professor, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Ms Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Mission Director, National Mission for Manuscripts, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi Mr K Jayakumar, Joint Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi Mr Yateendra Joshi, Fellow, TERI, New Delhi, India Mr Kiran Karnik, President, NASSCOM, New Delhi, India (invited) Dr Abhijit Lahiri, Adviser, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India, New Delhi Dr S Majumdar, Director, Central Secretariat Library, Government of India, New Delhi Dr S S Murthy, Former Director, Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre, Government of India, New Delhi Dr T A V Murthy, Director, Information and Library Network Centre, Ahmedabad, India Dr Usha Reddi, Director, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia, The Commonwealth of Learning, New Delhi Dr S Sadagopan, Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India Mr H D Singh, Director-General, National Archives of India, Government of India, New Delhi Prof. M Tawfik, Director and UNESCO Representative to Bhutan, India, Maldives, and Sri Lanka, New Delhi Dr N Vijayaditya, Director-General, National Informatics Centre, Government of India, New Delhi Dr Om Vikas, Scientist 'G' and Head, Computer Development Division, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India, New Delhi -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steering Committee: ------------------ Co-Chairs --------- Mr K Jayakumar, Joint Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi Dr Leena Srivastava, Executive Director, TERI, New Delhi Conference Coordinator ---------------------- Mr Debal C Kar, Fellow and Area Convener, Library and Information Centre, TERI, New Delhi Members ------- Ms Martina Bartel, Head, Information Department and Library; Regional Coordinator, South Asia, Goethe Institut, Maxmuller Bhavan, New Delhi (invited) Ms Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Mission Director, National Mission for Manuscripts, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi Dr P R Goswami, Director, National Social Science Documentation Centre, Indian Council of Social Science Research, Government of India, New Delhi Dr Arora, Jagdish Librarian and National Coordinator, INDEST Consortium, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India Mr P Jayarajan, Head, Library and Information Services (India), British Council Division, British High Commission, New Delhi Dr H K Kaul, Director, DELNET, New Delhi Dr S Majumdar, Director, Central Secretariat Library, Government of India, New Delhi Ms Rebecca McDuff, Information Resources Officer (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka) and Public Affairs - US Embassy, American Centre, New Delhi Mr M Moni, Deputy Director-General, National Informatics Centre, Government of India, New Delhi Dr Usha Mujoo-Munshi, Librarian, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi Mr V N Shukla, Director (Special Applications), Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Noida, India Mr H D Singh, Director-General, National Archives of India, Government of India, New Delhi Dr Shalini Urs, Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science, Mysore University, Mysore, India --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invited speakers: ---------------- Several globally renowned experts are expected to participate in and share their experiences at the conference. It will be an excellent opportunity for associated professionals to interact with these experts and enrich their knowledge base. Dr Schubert Foo Shou Boon, Associate Professor, Head, Division of Information Studies, School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Prof. Jos� Luis Borbinha, Director for Innovation and Development, National Library of Portugal, Portugal Dr Gobinda Chowdhury, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Scotland Dr Jean-Marc Comment, Integration Manager, Archives F�d�rales Suisses, Archivstrasse, Switzerland Prof. Dieter W Fellner, Professor of Computer Graphics, University of Technology, Germany Dr Amarnath Gupta, San Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego, USA Mr Simon Huggard, Systems Manager, Systems Support Unit, Monash University Library, Australia Prof. Leonid A Kalinichenko, Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Dr Arora, Jagdish Librarian and National Coordinator, INDEST, Consortium, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India Dr Yan Quan Liu, Professor of Information and Library Science, School of Communication, Information and Library Science, Southern Connecticut State University, USA Dr Javed Mostafa, Victor H Yngve Associate Professor of Information Science, Associate Professor of Informatics, Indiana University, USA Dr T A V Murthy, Director, Information and Library Network Centre, India Dr Erich Neuhold, Chairman, IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries; Professor, GMD-IPSI Darmstadt, Germany Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Head, Information and Documentation, University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium Dr Harsha Parekh, Librarian and Professor of Library Science, SNDT, Women's University, India Mr John Paschoud, Project Manager, ANGEL, DELIVER, SECURE, Information Systems Engineer of the Library, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Dr Peter Schirmbacher, Director, Computing and Media Services, Humboldt-University,Berlin, Germany Dr Michael Seadle Head, Digital and Multimedia Center; Copyright Librarian, Michigan State University Libraries; Editor, Library Hi Tech, USA Dr Atul Sharda, E-learning Adviser, E-Learning Strategy Unit, Department of Education and Skills, UK Dr Shigeo Sugimoto, Koichi Tabata, Tetsuo Sakaguchi, University of Library and Information Science, Japan Dr Stuart Weibel , Executive Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, OCLC Office of Research, USA Dr Norman Wiseman, JISC Head of Programmes, University of Nottingham, UK Prof. Ian H Witten, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand Dr Takeo Yamamoto, Director and Professor, Multimedia Information Division, National Institute of Informatics, Japan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contacts: ------------- Conference Coordinator ICDL 2004 Secretariat TERI Darbari Seth Block, Habitat Place, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110 003 / India Telephone +91 11 2465 1629, +91 11 2468 2100, or +91 11 2468 211 Fax +91 11 2468 2133 E-mail ICDL2004(a)teri.res.in Web www.teriin.org/events/icdl ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Metadata Harvesting-Interview
by Mailing List Manager 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 19:01:59 +0530 From: Aman Jha <aman.jha(a)ciionline.org> Dear friends The following piece of interview is for those who doesn't read OCLC Newsletter. The interview is relating to the protocol for metadata harvesting (PMH) which is about new protocols that enable users to search across multiple repositories and to view and use works from different digital collections from a single workstation. A link is also provided for more information about OAI-PMH. Aman Kumar Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) New Delhi Interview: Herbert Van de Sompel, Developing new protocols to support and connect digital libraries Herbert Van de Sompel is a digital library research pioneer known for his cutting-edge work in linking technologies and metadata harvesting. He received a master's degree in mathematics in 1979, a master's degree in computer science in 1981 and a doctorate in communication science in 2000, all from Ghent University, Belgium. He was Head of Library Automation at Ghent University from 1981-1998. From 2000-2001, he served as Visiting Professor in the Computer Science Department of Cornell University, where he was part of the Digital Library Research Group and taught computing methods for digital libraries. Prior to accepting his current position as Digital Library Researcher at the Research Library at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), he served as Director of e-Strategy and Programmes at the British Library. The 2003 recipient of the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology, Dr. Van de Sompel has played a major role in creating the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, the OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services and the SFX linking server. He is also a member of the OCLC Research Advisory Committee. What do you do at the Los Alamos Laboratories? I lead the Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team, a group of highly qualified individuals who are well established in the digital library research community. Our team explores architectures/solutions for next generation digital library services in the context of the Los Alamos Research Library and beyond. You recently won the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology for your work in linking technologies and metadata harvesting. How important are these to libraries? I think this work is significantly changing the nature of library services. Probably the OpenURL/SFX work on linking is the one that currently has the highest impact on libraries. There are quite a few academic and research libraries across the world operating an OpenURL-compliant linking server. Libraries now have a say in the nature and target of links, and users enjoy a consistent linking experience across resources. Interestingly, the linking work is not very well known in the digital library research arena. There, the impact of metadata harvesting protocols is more visible. Maybe that's because metadata harvesting has its origins in an effort to transform scholarly publishing. Initially, libraries had little involvement in those efforts as they were mostly initiated from within a given research community. As libraries start taking a more active role in that transformation, for example, through institutional repositories, they will be adopting a protocol to become part of a global, interoperable network of scholarly repositories. So, eventually, the impact of the OAI-PMH might become more profound. What is the Open Archives Initiative (OAI)? Can you talk a little about the philosophy and driving force behind it? Initially, OAI was about transforming scholarly communication. The idea was to increase the impact of communication through preprints by making repositories interoperable. For example, if we could make it easier to find preprints than electronic published papers, preprints might become a viable (and cheaper) alternative, which would change the dynamics of scholarly publishing. Later, mostly through the influence of the Digital Library Federation (DLF) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), our work became more generic. Preprint repositories were not the only islands on the Web. So were digitized library collections. There was a clear need for interoperability at the resource-discovery level for all kinds of materials, not only for preprints. Supported by DLF and CNI, Carl Lagoze, Senior Researcher, Information Science Program, Cornell University and I embarked on a mission to create a generic protocol for metadata harvesting. The modus operandi is the creation of simple, generic, high-quality, vetted specifications that can enhance the experience of dealing with the networked information environment we live in. What do you see OAI accomplishing for libraries? There are a zillion things libraries could do with the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) because it is so generic. In Los Alamos, we use it for things as diverse as a read-only Repository Access Protocol, as a protocol to synchronize bibliographic data between different components in our infrastructure, and as a means to share digital library usage logs with our research collaborators, Johan Bollen (Old Dominion University) and Luis Rocha (LANL), who will be using them for creation of a recommendation system. I have been hoping that libraries would put pressure on publishers to make their metadata harvestable via the OAI-PMH. Unfortunately, so far, I haven't seen a lot of action. Not sure why that is. Probably academic libraries are too busy worrying about integration with educational systems. How's the reception been to OAI-PMH around the world? Beyond what I had expected or hoped for. The protocol is all over the place. Whichever meeting or conference I attend, the OAI-PMH comes up. As Cliff Lynch, Executive Director, CNI, mentioned, the protocol has become a part of our information infrastructure. I feel that the timeframe in which this has happened (less than 4 years) is quite surprising and impressive. It is really difficult to give quantitative measures about the adoption of the protocol because there is no requirement to publish usage, and in many cases usage actually occurs in an Intranet context. Recently, we have seen an increasing interest in the protocol from industry. Dot.coms and dot.nets that I had never heard of are playing around with the OAI-PMH. What were some of the challenges in developing OAI and OAI-PMH? With the OAI, things have been rather straightforward. Initially, in 1999, my ideas to move to action in the preprint realm were supported by Paul Ginsparg, Professor of Physics and Computing and Information Science, Cornell University; Rick Luce, Research Library Director at Los Alamos National Laboratory; Cliff Lynch; Don Waters, Program Officer, Scholarly Communications, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress; and Rick Johnson, Enterprise Director, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). This support was crucial for assembling a group of experts to discuss how to make preprint repositories interoperable. In Michael Nelson, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University and Thomas Krichel, Assistant Professor, Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University, I found the perfect partners to demonstrate a possible solution: metadata harvesting. At the expert meeting, my connection with Carl Lagoze was established. Initially our collaboration was quite informal. Later, the DLF and CNI expressed interest in generalizing the protocol, and generously provided us with some funds. With that came the creation of an advisory board, and Carl and I became the OAI executives, leading the effort to deliver a protocol. Things have been very smooth. The funding expired at the end of 2002, and ever since then OAI has faced organizational challenges that are well known to anyone who has been involved in defining infrastructural components. Developing the OAI-PMH has not been a challenge but rather great fun. It has probably been the best experience in my professional life. Carl and I have been able to assemble two generations of the OAI Technical Committee with people who excelled through their talents, insights and determination to get the job done. If I would have to name a single challenge, it would be remaining faithful to the fundamental principles of sticking to scope and maintaining simplicity. How much input from librarians went into OAI-PMH? How many libraries are involved with the project, and what are their roles? We had people on the OAI Technical Committee from the Library of Congress, the California Digital Library, the CERN library, the British Library, the Engineering Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and OCLC. And we had some more people with library backgrounds on the OAI Steering Committee. How can OCLC help advance open access content systems? I think OCLC can play a very important role through the creation of tools that can easily be deployed in a variety of institutional contexts, through educating its constituency about the better kind of place we could live in if they would collectively move to action to initiate some real change in scholarly communication, and through using their longstanding and valuable experience in novel ways that help in making such action successful. How do you see OAI evolving? What are the future plans? We have several pieces of work in thinking or in the pipeline. An important one is an upcoming collaboration with the JISC RoMEO project, in the realm of expressing rights statements about metadata and content in the OAI framework. We will soon set up a new technical committee for that work. Another effort that we have already done significant work on is the so-called OAI Static Repository. It's a file-based solution to lower the barrier for people to share metadata through the OAI-PMH; they don't need to run any special server, only put a file of a specified format on a Web server. We also think about the creation of a SOAP version of the OAI-PMH. Our good friend, Hussein Suleman (Cape Town University), is currently doing research in that realm, the results of which will probably become the starting point of an OAI effort. And there is more great stuff we have in mind. Just trust us and wire the money so we can get going. What other communities are working on linking technologies, and how is the library community connecting with them? The problem that comes closest to the library's "appropriate copy" problem is the one in e-commerce whereby companies want to offer Web visitors a choice of online vendors of their products, but instead of providing that information themselves, they rely on third party services to do so. Interestingly, in their world, offering more choices is better than offering the "appropriate" choice. But it's a similar thing, and companies like Channel Intelligence are providing services in that realm. I am not sure about what exactly their solution is but I can see that it could be addressed by using OpenURL and an OpenURL Resolver. Then there's Microsoft's Smart Tags and related ideas that have led to some helper applications that let a user consult an authoritative database on a specific topic by selecting a word, or by clicking links overlaid by those applications. Again, this feels very similar to OpenURL ideas. As far as I know the library community is the first one to devise a standard in this realm of linking; we seem to be leading the way. The hope is that other communities will adopt the upcoming NISO OpenURL Standard to address their linking needs; by all means, the standard is written in such a generic manner that they could. Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the Web, describes the next generation of the Web as the "Semantic Web," when people create many programs that collect Web content from diverse sources, process the information and exchange the results with other programs. How close are we to the Semantic Web that Berners-Lee describes? Yes, and my American garage door talks to my Belgian toaster, and they agree I am hungry. Great idea. I think it will take long time to realize, and that we will go through several generations of enabling technologies before we find ones that are suitable to actually get the job done. "Suitable" in this case means both powerful and simple. Like the technologies that led to the emergence of the Web. Also, the Semantic Web will probably happen very gradually, with some sample implementations in niche areas illustrating the capabilities, and by doing so, slowly convincing the world at large. Quite a different deployment than the Web itself. While I have become increasingly receptive to the Semantic Web ideas in general, I remain puzzled as to why it takes so long for a killer illustration to emerge. My personal take on this is that too many people feel uncomfortable with the technologies at hand, or the lack thereof. While I keep hearing that RDF is simple, I remain to be convinced that the technology is straightforward. Also, maybe we are too focused on seeing a garage-door/toaster illustration of the Semantic Web concepts. Probably we should settle for an application that is less exotic, more useful and hence more convincing. Herbert Van de Sompel; Jeff Young, OCLC Consulting Software Engineer; and Thom Hickey, OCLC Chief Scientist, wrote an article entitled, "Using the OAI-PMH...differently" for D-Lib Magazine. You can read it at http://dlib.org/dlib/july03/young/07young.html. Source: OCLC Newsletter, July 2003

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Forwarded mail.... (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 09:37:13 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> This has reference to Sri Deshpande's (of CPRI)recent request for info on companies that can be contacted for Scanning OCR & other related digitisation work. I wish to add the following address: Mr Sastry chemudupaty Vicisoft Technologies P Limited plot 126 jyothi colony, behind aoc paade grounds, secunderabad 500015 mobile 98490 30737 phone 27743168/27740226 email: sastry(a)vicisoft.com & manish(a)vicisoft.com If Mr Deshpande or someone else can cumulate the addresses he has recived into a single file, it would be useful to all. Thanks *Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre *ICICI Knowledge Park, Turkapalli Village, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA *Ph: +91(40) 2348 0053; Fax:+91(40) 2348 0007 Ph. Res: +91(40) 2784 6631 *Website: http://www.vic-ikp.info and http://www.iciciknowledgepark.com

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Traditional Information Providers Branch Out
by Mailing List Manager 08 Sep '03

08 Sep '03

Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 08:24:35 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> >From Information Today Inc. [Newslink, September 2003]: Traditional Information Providers Branch Out By Paula J. Hane Recently, Microsoft announced that a number of healthcare industry software vendors, solution providers, and organizations have developed a range of solutions that take advantage of the 2003 release of Microsoft Office as a platform to increase productivity and improve quality of care. According to Microsoft, these solutions "automate paper-based processes, streamline workflow, and enable workers throughout the healthcare industry to focus on what they do best: healthcare." The technologies implemented in Office position it as a front end to work processes and integrated access to information. Ovid, an operating company of Wolters Kluwer Health, is integrating journal content from its Journals@Ovid database into various Microsoft Office 2003 applications. Healthcare professionals will have access to full-text content from more than 900 medical and health sciences journals. Clinicians or researchers can select an article and view the entire full text, if their institution is an Ovid subscriber, or they can purchase the material through Ovid's PayPerView feature. Bette Brunelle, executive vice president of Ovid, said, "Ovid is dedicated to finding new and innovative methods of integrating content into the enterprise environment that enhance end-user work flow and, by extension, the medical research process." Elsevier announced that it has developed a healthcare reference package compatible with the 2003 release of Microsoft Office. The package includes two of the company's medical reference titles: Dorland's Medical Dictionary and Mosby's Drug Consult. Some of the other healthcare companies that are partnering with Microsoft include Gold Standard Multimedia (which will offer its interactive drug information solution, Clinical Pharmacology, as an add-on product); Allscripts Healthcare Solutions; NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc.; and MICROMEDEX, a division of the Thomson Corp. (which will offer its SaveNotes feature to customize CareNotes Patient Education documents). According to information on the Microsoft site, the Research Task Pane, which uses XML to provide access to data sources, can also search customized corporate data sources. For example, an organization can build a database of information about its products and services, and offer that information through an intranet to its employees. Employees can also incorporate additional third-party data services into their data sources. Microsoft, which had planned to launch Office 2003 in the summer, now says this has been delayed until Oct. 21, 2003, though Office will be pre-installed on some PCs by the end of this month. Google and IEEE Finally, Google, never out of the media spotlight for long, announced that researchers will be able to locate technical papers published by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) using the Google search engine. Google is currently crawling, or indexing, the abstract records for all online IEEE technical documents and standards available through the IEEE Xplore online delivery platform (http://www.ieee.org/ieeexplore). There are now nearly 1 million documents in the IEEE database. The project is expected to be completed this month, at which time Google users will see the linked content in their search results. Abstracts will be available free to everyone, and full-text documents are available to IEEE subscribers or through individual online purchase.

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Forwarded mail....
by Mailing List Manager 08 Sep '03

08 Sep '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 10:10:49 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Should our scientists continue to publish their findings in toll-access journals such as those published by commercial publishers or should they publish their work in toll-free journals such as those published by BioMed Central and the Indian Academy of Sciences? If our scientists want their work read (and cited) by a very large number of people, then they have no choice: they ought to publish their work in toll-free journals. As a corollary, we must make all (worthwhile) Indian journals toll-free by making their electronic versions freely accessible on the Internet. Please read the following message I received from Stevan Harnad, who visited India three years ago and gave talks at Chennai and Bangalore. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ---- Message from Stevan Harnad The following data posted by Peter Suber in http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html indicate that open-access articles (from BioMedCentral) average at least 89 times as many downloads as toll-access articles (from Elsevier). (The 89 is probably an undercount, because it does not include PubMedCentral downloads.) PETER SUBER: "Elsevier has put some PowerPoint slides on the web summarizing its interim results for 2003. Slide #16 shows that there were 4.5 million full-text articles in ScienceDirect on June 30, 2003, and slide #15 shows that there were 124 million article downloads in the 12 months preceding that date. This means that its articles were downloaded an average of 28 times each during the past year. http://www.investis.com/reedelsevierplc/data/interims2003b.ppt "For comparison I asked Jan Velterop of BioMed Central what the download figure was for BMC articles during the same time period. He reports that the average is about 2500 per year, which doesn't count downloads of the same articles from PubMed Central. This is 89 times the Elsevier number. " Combine these download data with the citebase data on the correlation between downloads and citations http://citebase.eprints.org/analysis/correlation.php and you will be able to estimate the dramatic way in which open access enhances research citation impact, confirming what Steve Lawrence reported in 2001 for computer science research: http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/lawrence.html and what Kurtz et al. reported for astrophysical research: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2829.html (In an ongoing collaboration with Charles Oppenheim we are currently making controlled pairwise comparisons of citation impact between open-access and toll-access articles that appear in the same journal and year, comparing self-archived and non-self-archived articles, across time, and across disciplines. We hope to extend these comparisons with the help of ISI's citation database.) Those individuals, institutions, research-funders, tax-payers and nations who are interested in increasing the visibility, usage and impact of their research output should take special note of these data! Apply the estimates in reverse if you wish to estimate the amount of research impact (and its rewards) being that is currently being *lost* daily, monthly, and yearly by researchers, their institutions, and by research itself as long as we delay providing immediate open access to all research output -- as we could already do today, by self-archiving it. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/che.htm Stevan Harnad

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Hai
by Avinashilingam University 08 Sep '03

08 Sep '03

Dear Friends, Could anyone enlighten us on the status of librarian in central university and also in state government ( Whether they are under teaching or non teaching ) Lakshmi ___________________________________________________ Medicine meets Marketing; Dr. Swati Weds Jayaram. Rediff Matchmaker strikes another interesting match !! Visit http://rediff.com/matchmaker?2

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LAST DATE [Call for papers ICDL 2004 - 24-27 February New Delhi] 15th September 2004
by Mailing List Manager 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 14:13:19 +0530 From: Subrata Deb <sdeb(a)teri.res.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Cc: Debal Chandra Kar <dckar(a)teri.res.in> Apologies for cross postings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITATION AND CALL FOR PAPERS: LAST REMINDER LAST DAY FOR RECEIVING ABSTRACTS: 15th SEPTEMBER 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ICDL 2004 - 24-27 February New Delhi http://www.teriin.org/events/icdl International Conference on Digital Libraries: Knowledge creation, preservation, access and management ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We would appreciate disseminating this mail to your colleagues. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TERI in partnership with the Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India intends to organize a four-day International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL). CIEMCA/ COL is also an associte of this event. ICDL 2004 will facilitate interaction between experts and others, bridge knowledge gaps between developing and developed countries, and initiate capacity building activities in DLs (digital libraries). The deliberations of globally renowned experts - and subsequent discussions - during and after the conference, will help develop a road map for the digitization of archives, manuscripts, and libraries. ICDL 2004 will also provide directions on available technologies, digitization acts, DL policies, knowledge-sharing mechanisms, multilingual issues, etc. Who should participate? ---------------------- ICDL 2004 will witness cross-disciplinary participation by policy-makers, information scientists, and professionals involved in DL research and practice across the world. It would particularly interest the following. Policy-makers Library and information science professionals IT professionals Archivists and museologists Content developers and knowledge managers IT service providers Information providers and vendors Professionals from electronic publishing and virtual electronic communities All stakeholders in the digitization and knowledge business. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorials: 24 February 2004 --------------------------- Call for Tutorials: The main aim of these tutorials will allow participants to become familiar with basic principles of the field, to receive technical training in the area of Digital Libraries and making them aware of the potential of digital libraries in the current scenario. Tutorial 1: Build Digital Library Using Open Source Software Tutorial 2: Development and Application of Knowledge Base Management Systems Tutorial 3: Metadata issues: Dublin Core, XML, RDF Tutorial 4: Thesauri and Ontologies in Digital Libraries Tutorial 5: Filtering on the Internet Tutorial 6: Intellectual Property Rights and Copyright issues Conference 25-27 Feb 2004 ------------------------- Call for papers: Theme: Knowledge creation, preservation, access, and management Topics: ----------- Digital libraries: conceptual and theoretical aspects Planning, development, architecture, and management Metadata issues Archiving cultural heritage and history through digitization Content organization and knowledge management: discovery, organization, retrieval, and models Intellectual propery rights and copyright issues System scalability and interoperability Human machine interface and user interaction Digital library policy and strategic planning ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission guidelines: --------------------------- Extended abstracts (500 words) in English are to be submitted in MS Word format. The review committee will take the final decision regarding paper acceptance. Once accepted, the complete papers (5000 words) are to be submitted within the scheduled time frame. All papers must be original contributions and authors of the accepted papers are expected to transfer the copyright to TERI. Authors are requested to visit the ICDL web site for more details. Dates to remember: ----------------- Last date for submission of extended abstracts - 15 September 2003 Last date for communication of acceptance of papers - 30 October 2003 Last date for submission of full papers (soft copy) - 15 December 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration: ------------ The registration fee covers the conference kit, conference proceedings, lunches, inaugural dinner, and tea. It does not include other meals and accommodation. Registration fee* ---------------- For registrations done on or before 30 November 2003 Indian Delegates: Tutorials Rs 2000; Conference Rs 5000; Conference and tutorials Rs 6000 Foreign Delegates: Tutorials US$ 75; Conference US$ 200; Conference and tutorials US$ 225 For registrations done after 30 November 2003 Indian Delegates: Tutorials Rs 2500; Conference Rs 5500; Conference and tutorials Rs 6500 Foreign Delegates: Tutorials US$ 100; ConferenceUS$ 225; Conference and tutorials US$ 250 * Additional registration from the same organization qualifies for a 10% discount . * Students (Ph.D. and Masters) can avail of a 50% discount. Registration options: The registration form can also be downloaded from the conference web site. The completed form can be sent along with the registration fee through local cheque / bank draft favouring TERI and payable at New Delhi. Visit our web site for online registration. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For paper submission and registration, please contact: Debal C Kar Conference Coordinator ICDL 2004 Secretariat TERI Darbari Seth Block, Habitat Place, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110 003 / India Telephone +91 11 2465 1629, +91 11 2468 2100, or +91 11 2468 211 Fax +91 11 2468 2133 E-mail ICDL2004(a)teri.res.in Web www.teriin.org/events/icdl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme structure: ------------------------------ ICDL 2004 will have a mix of educative events and programmes spread over four days. Tutorials: Day 1(24 February) Leading researchers and practitioners will present the tutorials. Conference sessions: Day 2, 3, and 4 (25-27 February) Plenary, parallel, and poster sessions will engage the delegates in a wide range of presentations from leading national and international experts. Panel discussions, Valedictory session: Day 4 (27 February) Policy-makers, media-persons, academics, and techno-experts will discuss digitization initiatives in the developing world to frame a plan of action. Business sessions: Day 2 and 3 (25-26 February) ICDL 2004 opens up excellent opportunities for organizations involved in develo-ping and providing digital and knowledge management solutions to reach a global audience through product presentations. Exhibitors: Day 1, 2, 3, and 4 (24-27 February) ICDL 2004 welcomes organizations to showcase their best products/technologies at the venue. Space is available for 25 exhibitors. Stalls of 2 � 2 metres and 2 � 3 metres will be allotted on a first-come, first-served basis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Committees ------------------ International Programme Committee: --------------------------------- Prof. Jos� Luis Borbinha, Director for Innovation and Development, National Library of Portugal, Portugal Dr Hsinchun Chen, McClelland Professor of MIS; Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab; Director, Hoffman eCommerce Lab, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA Dr Gobinda Chowdhury, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Scotland Dr Jean-Marc Comment, Integration Manager, Archives F�d�rales Suisses, Archivstrasse, Switzerland (invited) Dr Dieter W Fellner, Professor of Computer Graphics, University of Technology, Braunchweig, Germany Mr Simon Huggard, Systems Manager, Systems Support Unit, Monash University Library, Victoria, Australia Prof. Leonid A Kalinichenko, Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Dr Yan Quan Liu, Professor of Information and Library Science, School of Communication Information and Library Science, Southern Connecticut State University, Connecticut, USA Prof. Gary Marchioni, Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Dr Erich Neuhold, Chairman, IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries; Professor, GMD-IPSI Darmstadt, Germany Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Head, Information and Documentation, University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium Mr John Paschoud, Project Manager, ANGEL, DELIVER, SECURE, Information Systems Engineer of the Library, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK Dr Michael Seadle, Head, Digital and Multimedia Center, Copyright Librarian, Michigan State University, USA Dr Atul Sharda, E-learning Adviser, Department of Education and Skills, London, UK Dr Stuart Weibel, Executive Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, OCLC Office of Research, Dublin, USA Dr Norman Wiseman, JISC Head of Programmes, University of Nottingham, UK Prof. Ian H Witten, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Advisory Committee ------------------------------ Conference Co-Chairs -------------------- Mr Dhanendra Kumar, Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi Dr R K Pachauri, Director-General, TERI, New Delhi; Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Geneva Members -------------- Prof N Balakrishnan, Chairman, Division of Information Sciences, IISc, Bangalore; and Professor, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Ms Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Mission Director, National Mission for Manuscripts, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi Mr K Jayakumar, Joint Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi Mr Yateendra Joshi, Fellow, TERI, New Delhi, India Mr Kiran Karnik, President, NASSCOM, New Delhi, India (invited) Dr Abhijit Lahiri, Adviser, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India, New Delhi Dr S Majumdar, Director, Central Secretariat Library, Government of India, New Delhi Dr S S Murthy, Former Director, Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre, Government of India, New Delhi Dr T A V Murthy, Director, Information and Library Network Centre, Ahmedabad, India Dr Usha Reddi, Director, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia, The Commonwealth of Learning, New Delhi Dr S Sadagopan, Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India Mr H D Singh, Director-General, National Archives of India, Government of India, New Delhi Prof. M Tawfik, Director and UNESCO Representative to Bhutan, India, Maldives, and Sri Lanka, New Delhi Dr N Vijayaditya, Director-General, National Informatics Centre, Government of India, New Delhi Dr Om Vikas, Scientist 'G' and Head, Computer Development Division, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India, New Delhi -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steering Committee: ------------------ Co-Chairs --------- Mr K Jayakumar, Joint Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi Dr Leena Srivastava, Executive Director, TERI, New Delhi Conference Coordinator ---------------------- Mr Debal C Kar, Fellow and Area Convener, Library and Information Centre, TERI, New Delhi Members ------- Ms Martina Bartel, Head, Information Department and Library; Regional Coordinator, South Asia, Goethe Institut, Maxmuller Bhavan, New Delhi (invited) Ms Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Mission Director, National Mission for Manuscripts, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi Dr P R Goswami, Director, National Social Science Documentation Centre, Indian Council of Social Science Research, Government of India, New Delhi Dr Arora, Jagdish Librarian and National Coordinator, INDEST Consortium, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India Mr P Jayarajan, Head, Library and Information Services (India), British Council Division, British High Commission, New Delhi Dr H K Kaul, Director, DELNET, New Delhi Dr S Majumdar, Director, Central Secretariat Library, Government of India, New Delhi Ms Rebecca McDuff, Information Resources Officer (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka) and Public Affairs - US Embassy, American Centre, New Delhi Mr M Moni, Deputy Director-General, National Informatics Centre, Government of India, New Delhi Dr Usha Mujoo-Munshi, Librarian, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi Mr V N Shukla, Director (Special Applications), Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Noida, India Mr H D Singh, Director-General, National Archives of India, Government of India, New Delhi Dr Shalini Urs, Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science, Mysore University, Mysore, India --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invited speakers: ---------------- Several globally renowned experts are expected to participate in and share their experiences at the conference. It will be an excellent opportunity for associated professionals to interact with these experts and enrich their knowledge base. Prof. N Balakrishnan, Chairman, Division of Information Sciences, IISc, Bangalore & Professor, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Prof. Rahul Banerjee, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Vidhya Vihar Campus, Pilani, Rajasthan, India Dr Schubert Foo Shou Boon, Associate Professor, Head, Division of Information Studies, School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Prof. Jos� Luis Borbinha, Director for Innovation and Development, National Library of Portugal, Portugal Dr Muniram Budhu, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Arizona Dr Harish Chandra, Librarian, Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India Dr Gobinda Chowdhury, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Scotland Dr Jean-Marc Comment, Integration Manager, Archives F�d�rales Suisses, Archivstrasse, Switzerland Prof. Dieter W Fellner, Professor of Computer Graphics, University of Technology, Germany Dr Amarnath Gupta, San Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego, USA Mr Simon Huggard, Systems Manager, Systems Support Unit, Monash University Library, Australia Prof. Leonid A Kalinichenko, Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Dr Arora, Jagdish Librarian and National Coordinator, INDEST, Consortium, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India Dr Yan Quan Liu, Professor of Information and Library Science, School of Communication, Information and Library Science, Southern Connecticut State University, USA Dr Javed Mostafa, Victor H Yngve Associate Professor of Information Science, Associate Professor of Informatics, Indiana University, USA Dr T A V Murthy, Director, Information and Library Network Centre, India Dr Erich Neuhold, Chairman, IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries; Professor, GMD-IPSI Darmstadt, Germany Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Head, Information and Documentation, University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium Dr Harsha Parekh, Librarian and Professor of Library Science, SNDT, Women's University, India Mr John Paschoud, Project Manager, ANGEL, DELIVER, SECURE, Information Systems Engineer of the Library, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Dr Peter Schirmbacher, Director, Computing and Media Services, Humboldt-University,Berlin, Germany Dr Michael Seadle Head, Digital and Multimedia Center; Copyright Librarian, Michigan State University Libraries; Editor, Library Hi Tech, USA Dr Atul Sharda, E-learning Adviser, E-Learning Strategy Unit, Department of Education and Skills, UK Dr Shigeo Sugimoto, Koichi Tabata, Tetsuo Sakaguchi, University of Library and Information Science, Japan Dr Stuart Weibel , Executive Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, OCLC Office of Research, USA Dr Norman Wiseman, JISC Head of Programmes, University of Nottingham, UK Prof. Ian H Witten, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand Dr Takeo Yamamoto, Director and Professor, Multimedia Information Division, National Institute of Informatics, Japan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contacts: ------------- Conference Coordinator ICDL 2004 Secretariat TERI Darbari Seth Block, Habitat Place, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110 003 / India Telephone +91 11 2465 1629, +91 11 2468 2100, or +91 11 2468 211 Fax +91 11 2468 2133 E-mail ICDL2004(a)teri.res.in Web www.teriin.org/events/icdl *-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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FW: Junior Project Assistant
by Madhuresh 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

-----Original Message----- From: Mr. V K J Jeevan [mailto:vkj@library.iitkgp.ernet.in] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 7:17 PM To: india-lis(a)infoserv.inist.fr Subject: Junior Project Assistant The Central Library of IIT Kharagpur is looking for a suitable "Junior Project Assistant" on purely contract basis for 18 months only to work in the MHRD sponsored project, A Personalized Selective Access Information System (SAI). Emoluments: Rs. 5000 p.m. Qualifications and experience: B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering/Information Technology/MCA/MSc Computer Science/MLISc with PGDCA Experience: Unix/Linux System Administration and System Programming; Administering Web server on Linux, Programing skills of a high standard in C/C++, visual Programming, and experience in web tools; Oracle database administration and development skills Interested eligible persons may apply on plain paper, giving full bio-data alongwith attested copies of testimonials and a demand draft of Rs. 50/- drawn in favour of IIT Kharagpur payable at Kharagpur to Mr. A K Naskar, Administrative Officer (Projects), Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721 302, West Bengal, on or before 22nd September, 2003. V K J Jeevan Asst. Librarian IIT, Kharagpur

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Urgent help needed
by Yashwant G. Kanade 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

Dear Lis-forum member Cou you any one help me to get a copy of the paper entitled "Darwin's Malthusian Metaphor and Russian Evolutionary thought" by Daniel P. Todes Journal ISIS Vol.-- Issue.-- Year 1997 pp.1853-1917. With Warm Regards YASHWANT G KANADE CES-Library, IISc, Bangalore-12 kanade(a)ces.iisc.ernet.in kanade_yg12(a)yahoo.com

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(Fwd) Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Inf
by prafulla＠nisc.co.in 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 07:25:12 -0600 Send reply to: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group <LIS-E-JOURNALS(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> From: Marian Dworaczek <Marian.Dworaczek(a)USASK.CA> Subject: Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information To: LIS-E-JOURNALS(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK The September 1, 2003 edition of the "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information" is available at: http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUBJIN_A.HTM The page-specific "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information" and the accompanying "Electronic Sources of Information: A Bibliography" (listing all indexed items) deal with all aspects of electronic publishing and include print and non-print materials, periodical articles, monographs and individual chapters in collected works. This edition includes 1,556 indexed titles. Both the Index and the Bibliography are continuously updated. Introduction, which includes sample search and instructions how to use the Subject Index and the Bibliography, is located at: http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUB_INT.HTM This message has been posted to several mailing lists. Please excuse any duplication. ************************************************* *Marian Dworaczek *Assistant Head, Technical Services Division *University of Saskatchewan Library *E-mail: marian.dworaczek(a)usask.ca *Phone: (306) 966-6016 *Fax: (306) 966-5919 *Home Page: http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze ------- End of forwarded message ------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Nutch - an open source search engine.
by aprajita suman 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

Respected all, Recently we witnessed discussion about the relevance of library skills in current era of IT. Here we have an opportunity to use our skills for something new and exiting. A new open source search engine has come to being called NUTCH.The idea behind Nutch is to create an open-source web search engine where everything is exposed. In contrast, other search engines may be secretive about how they rank pages (implication: Google) or take payment to include sites (implication: all the other major search engines that do paid inclusion). This is a challenging proposition. If you believe in the merits of this project, please try as a developer. details can be seen at: http://www.nutch.org/docs/en/index.html with regards, Aparajita suman, ADIS Student, DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, R V college P.O. Bangalore- 560 059. ___________________________________________________ Law meets Electronics; Veena Weds Sanjay. Rediff Matchmaker strikes another interesting match !! Visit http://rediff.com/matchmaker?1

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UGC Newsletter Online
by JK Vijayakumar 03 Sep '03

03 Sep '03

University Grants Commission started publishing UGC NEWS, its official newsletter from July 2003 as Dr V N Rajasekharan Pillai, Vice-Chairman as the Editor. The online version is available at http://www.ugc.ac.in/newsletter/page1.htm ----------- J K Vijayakumar INFLIBNET __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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FW: [BOAI] ACRL Issues Scholarly Communications Principles
by Mailing List Manager 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 15:41:57 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> ACRL Issues Scholarly Communications Principles and Strategies The Association of College and Research Libraries has issued its "Principles and Strategies for the Reform of Scholarly Communication." The document, which was prepared by the ACRL Scholarly Communications Committee and approved by the ACRL Board at the ALA annual conference in Toronto, is the foundation statement for the ACRL scholarly communications initiative. The document contains a brief definition of the existing system of scholarly communication, an overview of the scholarly communication crisis, and an enumeration of general principles and specific strategies that ACRL supports in working for reform of the system of scholarly communication. The document is accessible online at: http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ACRL/Publications/White_Papers_an d_Reports/Principles_and_Strategies_for_the_Reform_of_Scholarly_Communicati on.htm It will also be published in the September issue of College and Research Library News.

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OPENISIS.ORG temporarily closed in protest against software patents
by Sukhdev Singh 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

Dear Friends, I was surprised to see today that http://www.openisis.org has temporary shut down their site. What they call as a protest against software patents. It would unfortunate if they close it permanently. The Openisis had a potential to be a wonderful software for Library & Information work. I wonder if we can support the open source community..? Regards Sukhdev __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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ejournals
by prafulla＠nisc.co.in 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

Dear Dr Manjunath: The ARL Directory of Scholarly Electronic Journals and Academic Discussion Lists First Edition (2000) lists 3915 peer-reviewed ejournals. You may find the following URL useful. http://db.arl.org/dsej/index.html This site has couple of useful articles. The "Foreword" is also informative as it indicates the growth in the number of ejournals over the years. As for the query on the first ejournal, the following article would be useful: Electronic Journals & Scholarly Communication, by Harter & Kim http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/archive/harter.html Here's an extract from the above article: _________________________________ Although electronic journals (or e-journals) have been under development since 1976 (Turoff and Hiltz, 1982) <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/archive/>, e-journals in their non- experimental phase did not begin until the 1990s, with a few exceptions. The first peer-reviewed electronic, full-text e-journal including graphics was Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials (OJCCT) (Keyhani, 1993) <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/archive/>. In the most recently published list, and one of the few research projects involving e- journals, Hitchcock, Carr, & Hall (1996) <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/archive/> identified 115 scholarly, peer-reviewed e-journals in science and technology, and there are many more in the social science and humanities. These constitute the first wave of what are likely to be many more scholarly e-journals to come _____________________________________ However, it is not clear when it was started. Related Sources: The National Library of Canada has published the following guide: Electronic Publishing: Guide to Best Practices for Canadian Publishers. It is available freely at: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/9/13/index-e.html Another useful site is Electronic Journal Publishing: A Reader Version 2.0 http://www.inasp.info/psi/ejp/index.html This is a goldmine of valuable articles and one of the best sites to start with. For background info on trends in scholarly communication, please see: http://www.arl.org/scomm/index.html Happy reading! T.V. Prafulla Chandra --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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IASLIC Website Update
by Saiful Amin 30 Aug '03

30 Aug '03

Dear All, The IASLIC website's news and search links are working now. The news section has been updated with the announcement of the IASLIC seminar 2003 and the search is given through the Google's index. Please visit: http://www.iaslic.org/ We welcome your feedback at: saifulamin(a)yahoo.com or aditya(a)isibang.ac.in Regards, Saiful Amin ===== Saiful Amin Indian School of Business Gachibowli Hyderabad - 500 019. India. Ph. +91-40-2318-7963/7999 http://purl.org/net/saiful ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Promos: Win TVs, Bikes, DVD players & more! Go to http://in.promos.yahoo.com

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Peter Drucker on Librarians
by Koteswara_Tumuluru 29 Aug '03

29 Aug '03

Peter Drucker's interview with Information Outlook. He talks on librarians...very interesting. http://www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/2002annual/whatsnew/druckfeb.cf m Warm Regards T Koteswara Rao Satyam Computer Services Ltd CHENNAI 600 018 ************************************************************************** This email (including any attachments) is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient/s and may contain material that is CONFIDENTIAL AND PRIVATE COMPANY INFORMATION. Any review or reliance by others or copying or distribution or forwarding of any or all of the contents in this message is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by email and delete all copies; your cooperation in this regard is appreciated. **************************************************************************

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Re: Converting Old Documents into Digital Format
by Mailing List Manager 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 03:28:21 +0000 From: Gowri Ravindranth <gravindranth(a)hotmail.com> I have come across a promotional letter from: Ms. P. Malarvizhi or Ms. R. M. Prathima E-Publishing Co-ordinators Management Information Services No.9, Madanagopal Street Abhiramapuram, Chennai 600 018 Tel: 52108474/24991693 Email: misresume(a)hotmail.com Regards, L. R. Gowri AIRC, Chennai 600 006 ________________________________________________________________________________ Are you a geek? Are you a techno freak? Welcome home!

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Facts and figures on E-journals.
by G. K. Manjunath 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

Dear Members, I would like to have some facts and figures on e-journals. If you have come across any reference to this information, please let me know the info and the source. 1. Which was the first E-journal to be published on the net and when (year and publsher )? 2. Latest figure- Number of journals published in E-form, now available on the net ( both free and on subscription ). This would not include archieves and backvolumes sites such as J-store. 3. Is there any yearly, time series data available, showing the growth in e-jls? Thanks, g.k.manjunath CHIEF LIBRARIAN INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FILM CITY ROAD ( GEN.VAIDYA MARG ) SANTOSH NAGAR GOREGAON ( EAST ) MUMBAI - 400 065 INDIA e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm phone 91-22-28490653 ************************************************

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How to evaluate software
by sajid sabir 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

I am a student of Master of library inforamtion science, and i wish to know how a library software can be evaluated. thank you. s.s.foazdar MLIS Student M.S.U. ___________________________________________________ Meet your old school or college friends from 1 Million + database... Click here to reunite www.batchmates.com/rediff.asp

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RE: [LIS-Forum] digital library firms
by Rajendra Babu 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Dear Madam, You can contact the following few, most reputed firms who does the digitization projects including publishers, Libraries and so on. 1. Versaware Products and services: E-book Publishing and Undertaking digitization projects Contact: Ms. Geeta/Ruchira North Main road, Koregaon Park Pune-411001 Tel.: 020-6136028 www.varsaware.com 2. IHS (Information Handling Services) Products: Standards & Specifications, Digitization and so on Contact: Mr/ Louis D'mello, Manager India & Sri Lanka Bangalore. India. Ph: 080-5487749 www.ihs.com 3. Kodak India Ltd. Products & Services: Undertaking digitization projects and selling digitization equipment. Contact: Mr. Rao, Vijaya-Vauhini Complex, Arcot Road, Chennai-600 026. Tel. : 044-4833838/4590 www.kodak.com/IN/en/nav/index.jhtml You can refer my name while speaking to any one mentioned above. Hope that helps, Warm Regards, Babu. H Rajendra Babu Business Development Manager Southern Region Global Information System Technologies # 306, Level-3, Prestige Meridian-II, MG Road, Bangalore-01 Ph: +91-80-5595564 or 93 E-mail: rajendra.babu(a)gistglobal.com WebSite: www.gistglobal.com -----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: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 11:24 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] digital library firms Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:30:05 +0530 From: vrd <vrd(a)powersearch.cpri.res.in> Sir, I would like to know the firms which can digitize the publications and put in to softcopy. If anybody know the addresses may please reply. Thanking you V.R.DESHPANDE SENIOR LIBRARIAN _______________________________________________ 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] digital library firms (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:38:02 -0500 (GMT) From: ppich(a)vsnl.net Ref: Digital Library Firms In Chennai there are a few firms who do the work on digital conversion of documents and digital information processing including metadata creation. I was told they do currently for a few US libraries. They have specilisation in digital conversion including file formating, indexing using metadata and establishing hyperlinking of references. Their contact details are: OMNISCIENT INFO TECH (P) LTD., 044-521 86 703 (O) 044-521 86 704 (O) Director: Mr.Anandprasad email: anandprasadonline(a)yahoo.com Voice Venture com Director: MR. Srikant Krishnamoorty email: srikanth(a)voiceventure.com Information given by P.Pichappan Dept. of Library & Information Science Annamalai University Annamalainagar 608002 TN ==============================================

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Re: [LIS-Forum] digital library firms
by Mailing List Manager 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:52:36 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] A Hariharan" <salis_info(a)yahoo.co.in> dear sir, You can contact AutoLib Software System Chennai They will do the work their web address is: http://autolib-india.net e-mail : autolib(a)yahoo.com thank u John A. Hariharan Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS) B2-Solai Apartments (opp. to MGR Garden) Mount-Poonamalle Road Ramapuram Chennai - 600 089 Tel : 044- 2252 2234 , 2252 2448 E-mail: salis_info(a)yahoo.co.in Web : http://autolib-india.net/salis.html Win TVs, Bikes, DVD players and more!Click onYahoo! India Promos

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Re: [LIS-Forum] digital library firms
by Mailing List Manager 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 00:25:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Mr.G.Bhojaraju <bhojarajug(a)yahoo.com> Dear Mr. DESHPANDE You may contact Dr.Usha Munshi, INSA, Delhi, she may help you in this. "Dr.Usha Munshi" <umunshi(a)hotmail.com> regards Bhojaraju www.bhojarajug.cjb.net Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:30:05 +0530 From: vrd Sir, I would like to know the firms which can digitize the publications and put in to softcopy. If anybody know the addresses may please reply. Thanking you V.R.DESHPANDE SENIOR LIBRARIAN _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Please acknowledge the receipt of the mail !!!G.Bhojaraju.Library-cum-Information Officer, Indian Rubber Manufacturers Research Association (IRMRA), (ISO-9001 Certified), B-88 Road No. 24/ U-2, Wagle Industrial Estate,Thane - 400604. INDIA. Ph:022-25811348, 25803753 Fax: 25823910 Mob: 9892380905 E-mail : bhojarajug(a)yahoo.com www.irmra.org Homepage : http://www.bhojarajug.cjb.net/ --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software

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Re: [LIS-Forum] digital library firms
by Mailing List Manager 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:44:26 GMT From: sainul(a)iiitmk.ac.in Dear Friends, 'Enter Technologies' in Technopark Trivandrum is undertaking Digitisation, Retroconvertion etc. More details can be had from. Enter Technologies Pvt. Ltd. 244, NILA, Technopark Campus, Trivandrum 695 581 Phone: 0471-2700106, 2700108 Email: tkv(a)entechsys.com URL: www.entechsys.com Sainul Abideen P Librarian IIITM-K --------------------------------------------- This Mail has been sent from - Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - Kerala, Park Centre, Techno Park, Thiruvananthapuram - 695 581. Kerala. India. Contact: Website: http://www.iiitmk.ac.in/ Phone: +91-471-2527567 / 2700777 Fax: +91-471-2527568 _______________________________________________________________ The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and / or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dis- semination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.

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CAMBIA Intellectual Property Resource
by Madhuresh 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

Dear All, I would like to share the following site. http://www.cambiaip.org/Home/welcome.htm CAMBIA Intellectual Property Resource site has been developed by a team of experts in the areas of biotechnology, intellectual property, business strategy and informatics and it is funded in part by The Rockefeller Foundation. The goal is to facilitate a productive and strategic approach to identifying and addressing intellectual property issues relevant to biotechnology in international agriculture and health sciences. Through this site one can search the full text patent database (relevant to only Agriculture Biotechnology) of US, PCT, AU and EP in a single search in which more than 300,000 patents are available. One can also download full text of the available patents in HTML/PDF format freely. The site also gives White Papers, which gives the analyses of major patent positions and patent policy in key areas of biotechnology; Tutorials, which covers the approaches for utilizing patent data; Newsletters; Jobs and Resources on IP. Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 562 158 Phone 8521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 Fax 852 6285 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com

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Kuvempu University Library & Information Science Alumni
by Mailing List Manager 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 23:39:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Biradar B.S. <bs_biradar(a)yahoo.com> Dear LIS students of Kuvempu University It is our great pleasure to inform you that Kuvempu University, Department of Library and Information Science has formed Alumni Association to keep abreast about the associate activities of Library and Information Science in India and Abroad. In this regard we have hosted a Web site to enroll yourself to the Alumni Association through below mentioned URL. http://www.kuvlib.cjb.net To become a member of the Alumni Association he/she should be a old/present student of this department. We also look forward the valuable suggestions from professional colleagues and friends on the above mentioned web site. With Warm Regards Dr.B.S. Biradar Chairman Dept. of Library and Information Science Kuvempu University, Jnana Sahyadri Shimoga, Karnataka-577451 Phone: 91-8282-657319 & 91-8282-656306/7 Email: bs_biradar(a)yahoo.com

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digital library firms
by Mailing List Manager 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:30:05 +0530 From: vrd <vrd(a)powersearch.cpri.res.in> Sir, I would like to know the firms which can digitize the publications and put in to softcopy. If anybody know the addresses may please reply. Thanking you V.R.DESHPANDE SENIOR LIBRARIAN

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medIND: Fulltext of Indian Medical Journal, site being lauched by NIC
by Sukhdev Singh 21 Aug '03

21 Aug '03

Dear LIST MEMBERS. medIND Site (http://medind.nic.in) would be lauched by NIC on 22nd August 2003. medIND site contains Fulltext of Indian Medical Journals that are being indexed in IndMED (Please note: It is a different site i.e. http://indmed.nic.in) . The Access to the medIND site would be free. NIC have signed MOUs with the participating Journals to provide the full text. Full Texts of the journal articles can be viewed in any PDF Reader (For Example, Acrobat Reader). Visitors may Browse though journals by clicking on the available issues for a particular journal. They may also search the IndMED database with Full Text option selected. At present the following 18 journals are available. More journals would be added by soon. ---------------------------------------------- Endodontology Health Administrator Indian Journal of Aerospace Medicine Indian Journal of Allergy Asthma and Immunology Indian Journal of Anaesthesia Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry Indian Journal of Community Medicine Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology Indian Journal of Occupational Therapy Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery Indian Journal of Pharmacology Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Indian Journal of Tuberculosis J.K. Practitioner Journal, Indian Academy of Clinical Medicine Journal of Indian Association of Pediatrics Surgeons Journal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry NTI Bulletin -------------------------------------- The experience of the NIC staff working on the project in regard to DIGITIZING would be shared sometime latter. Regards Sukhdev Singh __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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News Items
by Madhuresh 20 Aug '03

20 Aug '03

Dear All, I have some news item that, I felt, are useful for our profession. I just wanted to share it. I don't think that any information searcher is passing his day without using Google. If we have to search any information, the first site comes to our mind is Google (quick and dirty searching?). There are various services offered by Google and it is continuing to offer other useful services. Here are few services which Google introduced recently/going to introduce. I have modified some news items. IEEE Xplore Indexed by Google Researchers will soon be able to locate technical papers published by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) by using the Google search engine. Google is currently indexing the abstract records for all online IEEE technical documents and standards available through the IEEE Xplore online delivery platform (http://www.ieee.org/ieeexplore). Starting sometime in September, Google users will see the linked content in search results. Abstracts are free and full-text will be available for purchase. Google users can view abstract records when linking from a Google search into IEEE Xplore. Abstract records will contain the document's bibliographic information and abstract summary, wherever available. Guests can continue to browse tables of contents to locate and purchase articles of interest. IEEE Members and users at subscribing institutions continue to have access to complete abstract records containing index terms, download citation links, linked references (backward links), "documents that cite this document" links (forward links), and CrossRef links. IEEE has more than 380,000 members in approximately 150 countries. The IEEE publishes 120 technical journals, magazines, and transactions, and has developed more than 900 active industry standards. The organization also sponsors or co-sponsors more than 300 international technical conferences each year. Google Calculator The Internet's top search engine announced it had crammed a mathematical calculator into its search service, letting users type math problems directly into the search box and get instant answers. Google's calculator is trained to recognize words as well as numbers, so you can type in "eight plus seven minus four" or "8 plus 7 minus 4." Both will yield 11. You can type numeric expressions either into the search box at Google's Web site (www.google.com) or directly into your Internet browser if you've installed Google's tool-bar software or you use a browser with built-in Google searching, such as Mozilla or Apple's Safari. Below the numeric answers Google returns, it will present a link to a regular Web search for your phrase in case you weren't trying to use the calculator. But this calculator doesn't just do simple multiplication. It also handles conversions. The calculator can evaluate mathematical expressions involving basic arithmetic (5+2*2 or 2^20), more complicated math (sine(30 degrees) or e^(i pi)+1), units of measure and conversions (100 miles in kilometers or 160 pounds * 4000 feet in Calories), and physical constants (1 a.u./c or G*mass of earth/radius of earth^2). You can also experiment with other numbering systems, including hexadecimal and binary. Here are some sample queries and there results. (G * mass of earth)/(radius of earth ^ 2) will result in (G * mass of Earth)/(radius of Earth^2) = 9.79982305 m / s2 1.21 GW / 88 mph will result in (1.21 gigaWatts) / (88 mph) = 30 757 874 Newtons Dictionary Definitions One can use Google to find dictionary definitions. Here one has to enter the query in the search box and any or all parts of query for dictionary definition is available will be underlined in the center text above the search results. For example: if you search for "kernel density function" in Google, just before the results you will find the following line in Blue Strip - Searched the web for kernel density function Results 1 - 50 of about 141,000. Search took 0.27 seconds. Here kernel, density and function are underlined and if you click on them, you will get the definitions of these terms from Dictionary.com. CAS Pursues Patent Searching Market with Science IP For 2 decades, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS; http://www.cas.org) has had an in-house custom search service available to do intermediated searches, primarily sophisticated structure and substructure searching of chemical files. Now, CAS has renamed and re-targeted its custom search service to focus on patents, both within and outside the chemical field. The revised service, called Science IP (http://www.scienceip.org), is targeted at the intellectual property community-patent searchers, attorneys, and research and development professionals. Besides relying on the array of databases produced by CAS and those hosted by STN International, CAS executives said that-if needed-the service would tap outside databases available on competitive services. One expert patent searcher suggested that the reorienting of the service may represent an effort by CAS to position itself competitively for when the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office begins outsourcing prior art searches, as proposed in The 21st Century Strategic Plan (http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/strat21/index.htm). The Science IP service will serve the sci-tech research needs of clients looking for prior art and patentability for the prosecution of new patents, freedom-to-practice-and-operate for new and existing technologies, and patent validity for infringement litigation. A four-person research team, including one part-time Ph.D. chemist, will provide the expert searching. The service will continue to draw on the Technical Advisory Team's 25 subject experts for assistance with the chemical searching they have always offered, e.g., experts in Markush chemical structures, nucleic and amino acid sequences, polymers, molecular biology and genetics, material sciences, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals. Regards. Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 562 158 Phone 8521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 Fax 852 6285 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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Press Release -Fedora v.1.1 Released (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 20 Aug '03

20 Aug '03

MELLON GRANT LETS LIBRARIES AND COMPUTER SCIENTISTS JOIN FORCES TO CREATE NEW SOLUTION FOR DIGITAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT Charlottesville, VA-Thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University of Virginia Library announces the release of an open-source digital object repository management system. The Fedora Project, a joint effort of the University of Virginia and Cornell University, has now made available the first version of a system based on the Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture, originally developed at Cornell. Fedora repositories can provide the foundation for a variety of information management schemes, not least among them digital library systems. At the University of Virginia, Fedora is being used to build a large-scale digital library that will soon have millions of digital resources of all media and content types. It is also currently being tested by a consortium of institutions that include the Library of Congress, Northwestern University, Tufts University, and others. They are building testbeds drawn from their own digital collections that they will use to evaluate the software and give feedback to the project. This first version of the software is designed to support a repository containing one million objects using freely available software. It fully implements the Fedora architecture, provides the first version of a graphical user interface to manage the repository, and provides facilities to create and ingest batches of objects. The software has the following key features: --Management API (API-M) - defines an interface for administering the repository. It includes operations necessary for clients to create and maintain digital objects and their components. API-M is implemented as a SOAP-enabled web service. --Access API (API-A) - defines an interface for accessing digital objects stored in the repository. It includes operations necessary for clients to perform disseminations on objects in the repository and to discover information about an object using object reflection. API-A is implemented as a SOAP-enabled web service. --Access-Lite API (API-A-Lite) - defines a streamlined version of the Fedora Access Service that is implemented as an HTTP-enabled web service. --Datastreams - Objects in a repository may contain content and metadata (i.e. datastreams) that physically reside inside the repository or outside the repository. The Fedora repository system supports content of any MIME type. --XML Submission and Storage - Fedora digital objects conform to an extension of the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS), described at http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/. Objects can be submitted to the repository in XML format. Also, digital objects are persistently stored in the repository as XML files. The Fedora extension of the METS schema can be found at http://www.fedora.info/definitions/1/0/mets-fedora-ext.xsd. --Versioning - The Fedora repository system includes the infrastructure to support versioning of digital objects and their components. This feature will be available in Release 1.2, projected for Fall 2003. --Access Control and Authentication - Release 1.0 includes a simple form of access control to provide access restrictions based on IP address. IP range restriction is supported in both the Management and Access APIs. In addition, the Management API is protected by HTTP Basic Authentication. Release 2.0 will provide Shibboleth-based authentication and authorization, XML-based policy expression, and enforcement of fine-grained access control policies. --Disseminators - Digital objects can be associated with a set of behaviors and a service that runs those behaviors. This provides an extensible mechanism for transforming or presenting the object's digital content. --Default Disseminator - The Default Disseminator is a built-in internal disseminator on every object that provides a system-defined behavior mechanism for disseminating the basic contents of an object. --Searching - Selected system metadata fields are indexed along with the primary Dublin Core record for each object. The Fedora repository system provides a search interface for both full text and field-specific queries across these metadata fields. --OAI Metadata Harvesting Provider - The OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting is a standard for sharing metadata across repositories. Every Fedora digital object has a primary Dublin Core record that conforms to the schema at: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd. This metadata is accessible using the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, v2.0. --Batch Utility - The Fedora repository system includes a Batch Utility as part of the Management client that enables the mass creation and loading of data objects. Fedora is being made available as an open-source product under a Mozilla Public License. For more information and to download the software, visit http://www.fedora.info/. -- Ronda A. Grizzle Technical Coordinator, Fedora Project Digital Library Research & Development (voice)434-924-3965 (fax)434-924-1431

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First PLANNER 2003: Reminder
by JK Vijayakumar 20 Aug '03

20 Aug '03

-------------------------- Sorry for Cross Postings ------------------------- PLANNER stands for "Promotion of Library Automation and Networking in North Eastern Region". INFLIBNET has made an attempt to organize this event in collaboration with universities and other academic institutions located in North East. This Convention will provide 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 in the region. First PLANNER is being organized for the professionals in the North Eastern region at North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya during November 6-7, 2003. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS We solicit your submissions of papers in any areas of the theme and the sub themes listed below, which explore issues in effectively and efficiently informing users through information technology. Papers based on research, practical experience and survey will only be accepted for presentation and inclusion in the pre-convention volume. Full papers, on different themes, as per the standard formats should reach the Editors directly on or before 30th September 2003. Papers should not exceed 10 single spaced pages (Use A4 Format, Times 12 Pt font, Margins: Left � 3 cm, others � 2 cm ). The cover page must contain: a resume of about 150 words 3-5 keywords, names and affiliation of author(s) author�s e-mail, phone, fax, postal address along with passport size photograph. THEME OF THE CONVENTION The main theme of the PLANNER � 2003 is "Automation of Libraries in North East Region: Trends Issues and Challenges". The sub-themes and the topics to be covered under each sub-themes are given below. 1. IT based Activities The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have brought revolutionary changes in handling delivering and storage of information. The transition of traditional library collections to digital or virtual collections presented the librarian with new opportunities and challenges. The internet, especially WWW has given the librarian a new dynamic role to play in the society and serve the new information based in better ways than every before, Because of the powerful features of web i.e. distributed, heterogeneous, collaborative, multimedia, Standards and Protocols, architecture, world wide web has revolutionized the way people access information and has opened up new possibilities in areas such as digital libraries, Virtual libraries, efficient information retrieval and dissemination. Topic under this sub-theme are:- v Library automation v Database Development v Standards and Protocol v Search Engines v Electronic Document Delivery v Digital library 2. Emergency of Consortia The recent development of library consortia can be considered a major step towards library cooperation. Impact of electronic resources on collection development; new developments in e-journal licensing, various pricing models of consortia, the roles of librarians, and library consortia has brought revolutionary changes in the field of Library and information science. It is important to notice the initiative of INFLIBNET at national level for subscription of e-journals for entire academic community which will provide better, easier and faster access to number of electronic journals to the end uses. In order to obtain the benefits of electronic journals, INFLIBNET has taken up number of initiatives at national level. It is appropriate to discuss following topics under consortia. v UGC-INFONET v Library Consortia v Electronic Publishing v E-Journal Subscription v Copy right and IPR Paper on IT based activities should be sent to the following editor Dr. Narendra Lahkar Department of Library & Information Science 100, GU Campus, Gauhati University, Guwahati � 781 014 (India) Phone : (0361) 2571954 ( O) 2571257 ( R) Mobile: (98640) 53349 e-mail: n_lahkar(a)yahoo.com Paper on consortia should be sent to the following editor Prof. Mrs.) Veena Saraf Head, Deptt. of Library Science NEHU, Shillong � 793 014 (Meghalaya) Phone : 091 �0364 � (O)231617 (R) 550932 E-mail : Ibscnehu(a)sancharnet.in or veenasaraf(a)yahoo.co.uk ************************ FOR MORE DETAILS CONTACT ************************ Mrs. I Majaw Organising Secretary, PLANNER � 2003 University Library North Eastern Hill University Mayurbhanj Complex, Shillong � 793 014(Meghalaya) Phone : 091- 0364 � 2231682(Off..); 2547985 (Res.) nehulibr(a)sancharnet.in All queries may be sent to : Mr. Prem Chand Chief Coordinator, PLANNER � 2003 Scientist � C, INFLIBNET Center (An IUC of UGC) P.B.NO 4116, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad � 380009 Phone 091-079 - 6305971, 6304695 (Off.); 7548670(Res.) Fax : 091-079 - 6300990, 6307816 E-mail : premchand(a)inflibnet.ac.in Programme Committee: Chairman: Dr. T A V Murthy, Director, INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad ( Gujarat) Convenor: Sh. K. Prakash, INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad ( Gujarat) VISIT WEBSITE http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/info/mini.doc ****************** J K VIJAYAKUMAR ****************** __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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Re: Re: Re: [LIS-Forum] Areas in LIS Res
by gireesh kumar poonattile 18 Aug '03

18 Aug '03

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 Sukhdev Singh wrote : >It is unfortunate that while computer professionals >are working in areas were library people should have >been working. Weird! What is unfortunate here? Computer professional 'encroaching LIS area. You are square pegged in the four falls of your profession. You want to debar people from working in these areas. How naïve! >work in. Take for example, while we were beating about >the bushes of "Bibliometrics" some students created >GOOGLE using the same principle of "citations" (links >here). Who said that they have copied this idea from Bibliometrics. Didn't they copy the powerful Google algorithm also from Library Professionals? Do not blather like people who used come up with Vedas and Upanishads when someone makes a new invention in the west. (It has been said some 4000 years back in the <book name> here, blah, blah.) >While we were debating on utility of >classification, some other students created "YAHOO". >And still others are building up Open Directory >Project (http://www.dmoz.org/). You need only commonsense and sound knowledge of technology to bring up a site like Yahoo. Classification is not the hegemony of LIS professionals. Do you think that LIS professional are qualified enough to do the job of a programmer? Is that what people are taught in our schools. Then, why this insecurity? >Classifiaction does >not mean numbers we put on the spine of the books; >dear friends, it is putting things in helpful >sequence. Thanks for that information. Latest addition to the vast LIS knowledge repository! >Information technology is in use in every aspect of >life. Even some medical professionals left their >profession to join IT Rat Race. They joined the rat race not because IT is used in every aspect of the life. Big money is the secret. >example http://www.indmedica.com. But should this mean >every professional follow the same path. Every professional? Then who will feed us? You use toilet soap, right? Since its an integral part of your life, does it mean that every other household needs to start making soap? IT is a tool. It had application in almost all the spheres of life. Knowing how to use a tool doesnt require you take a Phd in that subject. >Today we have to answer, the real tough question? Do >we really have something to offer? Something Unique. If you dont have something to offer, then why thousands of libraries in our country. Please dont bring IT as an overhead. Your profession caters to many other things. Technology may change. But there are quite a number of things which doesnt change. Reading habit, Peoples affinity toward books, etc Remember, Ranganathans five laws are centered around books. >What is our USP...? If Yes, then why we are in >hibernation. Who said that library professional are in hibernation. Cant you see them doing their work? Look at closely, is that IT driving them, really.? >If No, then why we are pretending...? Why >not to leave the stage to Computer Professionals who >otherwise are today "Plenty in Supply, Less in >Demand". What stage you are going to leave? There is no stage which you have occupied where others are going to take over. Its a hallucination. Gireesh Kumar Poonattile Radha Nivas Chulliparmaba Farook College Post Calicut > > Dear Sukhdev ji > > > > I agree with your suggestion that research on > > Classification is required but to be honest, it is > > the need of the hour that a librarian has to be > > perfect in the modern information technology other > > wise the whole scene of librarianship will be > > spoiled. The advent of the new information ___________________________________________________ Meet your old school or college friends from 1 Million + database... Click here to reunite www.batchmates.com/rediff.asp

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Google's new features
by Madhuresh 18 Aug '03

18 Aug '03

Dear All, Google has introduced 2 new features -searching by synonyms and News Alerting. Searching by synonyms can be used by professional researchers who know advanced search techniques. The mechanism for doing this is to preface your word with a tilde (~). The example Google gives is a search for browser help as well as browser guides and tutorials. The search strategy is: browser ~help. To know more in detail, just follow the link http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb030811-2.shtml The content of the article is also pasted below. Google Introduces Synonym Searching, News Alerting Features by Marydee Ojala August 11, 2003 - Professional researchers-the ones who actually understand and use the advanced search techniques provided by Web search engines-will be delighted to learn Google has introduced a new feature that enables searching by synonyms as well as by keyword. The mechanism for doing this couldn't be easier. All you need to do is preface your word with a tilde (~). The example Google gives is a search for browser help as well as browser guides and tutorials. The search strategy is: browser ~help. Why the tilde? It's shorthand for approximate, which is appropriate since that's what you get-an approximation of similar search terms. In addition to free-text synonym searching, the new advanced search feature works in fielded searches. Search for browser intitle:~help, browser inurl:~help, allintitle:browser ~help, or allinurl browser ~help, and you will retrieve synonyms for help occurring in the title and URL fields, respectively. For example, enter intitle:~cancer and Web sites with pain, one of the synonyms for cancer along with disease and oncology, in the title will show up on the results list. In typical Google fashion, the synonym search feature is computer created. Although human beings created the algorithm, a Google employee did not sit down with a thesaurus and enter all the words and synonyms into a database that Google searches when it sees that tilde. According to Marissa Mayer, director, Consumer Web Products, the intent is to broaden a search. "We think this is a powerful and useful way to broaden results. It's the opposite of disambiguation, which narrows a search. Google's synonym search will provide searchers with additional possibilities for search terms and help them if they don't know the jargon associated with a topic." Google won't reveal how the algorithm works. However, extensive searching gives some clues. There's certainly evidence of PageRank, not exactly surprising, in the skewing of results toward popularity. Enter ~apple and the synonyms are almost entirely computer related. There's no synonym for the fruit mention of the word, nor for singer Fiona Apple. A search for ~shell, first retrieves the home page for Shell Oil Company, but the next nine highlight Unix as the synonym. The second page of results mixes the oil company and computer Web sites. No synonyms for seashells down by the seashore show up, probably because there aren't a lot of Web sites that link to those types of sites. Google optimizes search results that are frequently linked to, which weights results toward technology, business, and entertainment. Mayer pointed out that synonym searching works only on the Web search tab, not in Images or News, and only in English. Synonym searching has no effect on AdWords and sponsored links. If you search for ~magazine, it will trigger ad displays for companies that have purchased magazine as an AdWord, but none for its synonym journal. What has happened, to the amazement of Google staff, is the mining of synonyms by Webmasters who want to use them as new registered keywords for their products. Separately, Google announced its news alerting service (http://www.google.com/newsalerts). As with the synonym feature, this should be welcomed by serious researchers. Other news tracking services, such as that from The New York Times, have begun charging for the service; a free Google news alerting service is a boon. Options for update frequency are either once a day or as news happens. If a story is being widely reported, choosing the second option is very likely to result in a flooded inbox. There is a limit of 50 alerts per e-mail address. The normal search conventions, as operative in Google News, can be used. In addition to Boolean searches, a News Alert can be limited by source, location (country or U.S. state), occurrences (anywhere, in the headline, in the body of the story, or in the URL), and date. The one drawback to News Alert is the inability to edit a search. Instead, it must be deleted and a new one entered. Both synonym searching and News Alerts were developed by Google in its Google Labs (http://labs.google.com/). Both are in beta. According to Mayer, it's Google's normal practice to introduce new features and services and then watch how people use them. From this, Google decides on further developments and minor tweaking. For example, if synonym searching catches on, it may join the Advanced Search page as a search option. At the moment, it's not there. Other languages might also be added, much as French and German news was added to the formerly all-English sources of Google News. For now, it's a good bet that Google Labs is working on other features designed to delight a searcher's heart. Marydee Ojala is editor of ONLINE and program chair for the National Online conference. Her e-mail address is marydee(a)infotoday.com. Regards. Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 562 158 Phone 8521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 Fax 852 6285 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://www.aurigene.com/ Best Regards, Madhuresh Singhal This email and its attachments are confidential and proprietary to AURIGENE Discovery Technologies and are meant for the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient, do not take any actions based on the contents of this message, except to permanently delete the message and its attachments and inform the sender immediately.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] FW: [DIGITALDIVIDE] Supreme Court Cases Get a Fresh Hearing
by Mailing List Manager 18 Aug '03

18 Aug '03

Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:07:58 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] madhu ks" <madhuks4u(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Mr. Arun, I am happy to see your mail in connection with the idea of making available the Supreme Court Proceedings ( Cases as well as arguments )in audio format in a CD/DVD/MP3 for the benefit of general public/Professionals use. As mentioned in the case of USA, the Proceedings are already available in the tape recorded format hence, they can either copy/record in a MP3 format whereas, I doubt, the Procedings of any court/s are available in audio/visible format in India. Ofcourse, The Supreme Court Case Laws CDs are available in text format for example, SCC Online, AIR Supre Court on CD, Grand Jurix etc. But, if this type of project/s can be undertaken in India atleast in future , which again requires Government as well as Judiciary's will and prior approval. If this is done then, one can go for such project/s which will be beneficial for both common man as well as to professionals. This project needs to be initiated institionally,Government , Judiciary or by the Business Firms. Hope someone will initiate this project in India soon and make it available in audio format probably, by reading this mail. Thanking you, Sincerely yours, C U Navalgund N L S I U Bangalore (cnavalgund(a)hotmail.com)

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printable catalogue cards
by Mailing List Manager 18 Aug '03

18 Aug '03

Date: 13 Aug 2003 12:25:38 -0000 From: Subbiah Gunasekaran <gunasekaran_subbiah(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Members: I just want to know the availability of printable [continuosly] catalogue cards in Tamil Nadu. Please give me the contact details of the firm. Thanks Guna

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article needed
by Aman Kumar Jha 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

Hi friends, Now I work with Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) as a Librarian. I am in need of an article. Can anyone let me know the local availability of the following article? Title: A LOOK AT THREE REGULATORY FORCES INFLUENCING CONTENT AND DISTRIBUTION IN THE MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION INDUSTRIES Author: Robert A. Burgelman; Philip Meza (Stanford University) Industry: Motion picture, television, consumer electronics Location: United States Publication date: 11 July 2002 Pages: 11 pp Abstract: Much of the landscape in which today's media companies find themselves as they contend with the impact of digitization of content and the convergence of means of distribution was shaped by regulatory forces. Three government rulings in particular were influential: the Consent Decree of 1948 (often referred to as the 'Paramount Case'), the Financial Interest and Syndication ruling (also called the 'FinSyn' ruling of 1970 of the United States Federal Communications Commission), and the United States Supreme Court ruling in Universal City Studios et al (including Disney) vs Sony Corp. (also known as the Betamax case of 1984). These regulatory forces broke up tight vertical integration between content production and distribution (Paramount case and FinSyn ruling) or helped to pave the road for the introduction of new technologies for distribution (Betamax case). The teaching purpose is to discuss the market power available by owning both sources of content and distribution in media and the controversies surrounding such verticalization. Availability: Harvard Business School Source: Stanford School of Business, Stanford University Note: I have checked Harvard Business Review, July 2002 Thanks & regards, Aman Kumar Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) _________________________________________________________________ Race along with NK. The fastest Indian. http://server1.msn.co.in/sp03/tataracing/index.asp Feel the thrill!

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Digital Divide in India ?
by Abdul J Tharayil 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

Hi ALL I got to read an article, rather an interview with Keninston (MIT), says that cheap information kiosks are helping India bring computing power to the masses, providing a model for how to bridge the digital divide. The full version is available at http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_keniston081303.asp?p=0) However I failed to learn any good Library based intitiative helping us bridge the digital divide in the country except the one I happend to read about the Kallara Project in Kerala (the Department of IT in association with the State Library Council -launched the first computerized rural information centre at Kallara Gram Panchayat Library) which ofcourse is a proud initiative for all of us. Is it because I am kept ignorant about it myslef? OR are we very much confined to the library stacks and forgotten the role of library in social development. Or is it because our public library system in the country is in Chaos? Are there professionals seriously thinking about it ? Regards, Abdul J Tharayil,

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