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RE: [LIS-Forum] FW: RE Dr T.V. Sathyamurthy 12 8 2003
by Mailing List Manager 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:11:09 +0530 From: "Chidambaram, Siva" <Schidambaram(a)ncaer.org> Tennalur Vengara Sathyamurthy, political scientist; born Madras, India, 29 October 1929; Lecturer in Government, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1962-63; Lecturer in Political Science, University of Singapore, 1963-65; Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Makerere University, Kampala, 1965-67; Lecturer in International Relations, Department of Politics, Strathclyde University, 1967-68; Lecturer, Department of Politics, York University 1968-71; Senior Lecturer, 1971-96; Professor, 1996-1997 (Emeritus 1997); married 1963 Carole Methven (one daughter); died, York, 25 August 1998.

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FW: [DIGITALDIVIDE] Supreme Court Cases Get a Fresh Hearing
by Mailing List Manager 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:40:11 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Dear Fred and members of bytesforall and Lis-Forum lists: Here is an excellent initiative from the USA. Do you think that we in India should mount such an effort and make audio recordings of all Supreme Court proceedings available to the public free of cost? Best wishes. Arun ----------- Subject: US Supreme Court Cases Get a Fresh Hearing (fwd) SUPREME COURT CASES GET A FRESH HEARING Since 1994, Northwestern University's OYEZ project has made audio of US Supreme Court cases available in a "streaming" format that requires a continuous Internet connection. Now the project is converting the files to MP3 format, which permits downloading, file sharing and use on portable devices. The MP3 files are free and sharable, if users agree to credit OYEZ and limit usage to noncommercial purposes. Jerry Goldman, the project's director, hopes to make available with search functionality all of the approximately 6,000 hours of the Supreme Court recordings since 1955, when taping of oral arguments began. "The whole idea is to build a digital commons, make accessible materials that are really valuable in a free and open society," he said. Particularly with controversial cases such as affirmative action and abortion, "there's so much more information and emotion in the human voice that a transcript can't do it justice," explained Goldman. SOURCE: Washington Post; AUTHOR: Phuong Le http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41812-2003Aug10.html ***********************************

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Re: Re: Re: [LIS-Forum] Areas in LIS Res
by afsar bukhari 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

Dear Friends, I fully agree that core areas of Research in LIS have been neglected as has been rightly pointed out by Mr. Sukhdev ( specially classification) I also feel that classification forms the basis of life. Everyone practices it every day (although in different ways). One of the areas of LIS research as suggested by Maurice B. Line is Summarisation and Representation of Info this in itself suggest the importance of classification because we cannot represent the info in more accessible form until it is arranged in some helpful sequence. The so called search engines (Google etc developed by the computer professionals), which are being heavily used by all to find information, are not able to give us satisfactory result. It has often been pointed out that No search engine is able to index the entire web. Strength of web is 500 times more that what the search engines are today able to index This I feel is perhaps because the so called computer professionals were much enthusiastic about finding ways of retrieving information without bothering about mapping the resources first. Perhaps librarian mind was not involved. If we think with an inquisitive mind we may find a suitable solution in the underlying principles of classification. Wood Ward J. On cataloguing and Classifying Info Resources on the Net in Ann Rev Inf Sc. Tech. 1996: 31: 189-219 very rightly points out Internet is currently in a state of near chaos in terms of access and organization, and because searching is usually performed only with word based search engines, it is generally not adequate for the needs of most users. We have lot to offer. Computer Professionals can only write a program and the input for a program can be the experience of librarian. The need of the hour is Comp Professionals and Librarian should come together on a single platform. The both should complement each other. If they are left to do at their own the problems will be far more for us because we should not forget the fact that WE ARE A BRIDGE BETWEEN INFORMATION & USERS warm regards bukhari 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. We are still looking for the areas to >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). 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/). Classifiaction does >not mean numbers we put on the spine of the books; >dear friends, it is putting things in helpful >sequence. > >Information technology is in use in every aspect of >life. Even some medical professionals left their >profession to join IT Rat Race. I know some for >example http://www.indmedica.com. But should this mean >every professional follow the same path. > >Today we have to answer, the real tough question? Do >we really have something to offer? Something Unique. >What is our USP...? If Yes, then why we are in >hibernation. 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". > >Regards >Sukhdev > >--- Vijay Raghav Tiwari <vijayrt(a)rediffmail.com> >wrote: > > 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 > > technology the software, online information > > retrieval sources are becoming an essentials of the > > library services. A true professional will have to > > attain the full command of the situation otherwise > > he/she will be left far behind from the present day > > profession. > > > > Hope that you will be agreeing to the concern. It is > > good for us if we start learning more and more in > > this techno field. > > yours truly > > VR Tiwari > > > > On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 Sukhdev Singh wrote : > > >Dear Afsar, > > > > > >Thank you very much for circulation such use > > >information. If possible, please let me know the > > >reference cited (Maurice B. Line). > > > > > >Further I would like to suggest that there should > > be > > >also research in core areas of Library and > > Information > > >Science like Classification. Unfortunately these is > > a > > >trend amoung the LIS schools to make students more > > >Computer Literate at the cost of core subjects of > > LIS. > > > > > > > > >(I wish such LIS schools should stop issueing > > >certificates in LIS and start issueing MCA etc.) > > > > > >Regards > > >Sukhdev > > > > > > > > >--- afsar bukhari <bukhari_786(a)rediffmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > Dear Friends > > > > > > > > This is in response to a recent mail in lisforum > > > > regarding the areas of research in LIS > > > > > > > > LIS, since its inception has been dealing with > > > > organizing information so as to make it > > available to > > > > the users in more efficient manner. > > > > > > > > Information seems like dirt; its everywhere > > you > > > > look, accumulates in piles, and is challenging > > to > > > > organize for easy retrieval. > > > > > > > > It is this very nature of info that has always > > > > threatened LIS professionals and forced them to > > come > > > > up with innovative approaches towards its > > effective > > > > organization. With the advent of WWW, organizing > > > > info is giving tough time for all LIS > > professionals. > > > > Newer and newer approaches are being tried, but > > > > still more and more are required to be done! > > > > > > > > Maurice B. Line has identified 10 key areas > > related > > > > to Info Res in the MILLENIUM > > > > > > > > 1. Internet & WWW (info retrieval aspects) > > > > 2. Search engines & alogorithms > > > > 3. Bibliographic control on the internet > > > > 4. User interface including common user > > > > interface,natural language interface > > etc. > > > > 5. User needs or requirement analysis > > > > 6. Info seeking behaviour of users and cognitive > > > > approach > > > > 7. Digital Libraries > > > > 8. Summarization & representation of information > > > > 9. Visual information > > > > 10. 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FW: RE Dr T.V. Sathyamurthy 12 8 2003 (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 12 Aug '03

12 Aug '03

Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:00:51 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Can any member of LIS-Forum help my friend from Africa? Please reply him directly. thanks and best wishes. Arun -----Original Message----- From: Leuben.Njinya-Mujinya(a)teol.uu.se [mailto:Leuben.Njinya-Mujinya@teol.uu.se] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 3:37 PM To: arun(a)mssrf.res.in Subject: RE Dr T.V. Sathyamurthy 12 8 2003 Professor Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Dear Subbiah, Greetings. I am finishing a study here on Buganda, and all along I have been required to provide the first name (in FULL) of each book OR article that I have drawn upon. One of the writers whom I used is T.V. Sathyamurthy: See down for one of his studies. Sathyamurthy has apparently written much about Uganda and India. HOWEVER, I have been unable to find the FULL NAME of his first initial "T". NOT in his publications that I have seen, NOT on the major libary web sites and NOT in the books where his work is cited. He invariably appears as T.V. Sathyamurthy. Since you are quite acquainted with Indias's scholars because of your many roles, could you please, if you can, let me what Sathyamurthy's FIRST NAME IS in FULL. Sathyamurthy, T.V. 1986. The Political Development of Uganda: 1900-1986. Aldershot (Hunts) and Brookfield (Vermont): Gower Publishing Co. I hope you can help, and thanks beforehand for the help. Leuben

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Re: Re: [LIS-Forum] Areas in LIS Res
by afsar bukhari 12 Aug '03

12 Aug '03

Dear Sukhdev it's an article published in Journal of Documentation 54(3) pp 284-292 (1998) happy reading bukhari On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 Sukhdev Singh wrote : >Dear Afsar, > >Thank you very much for circulation such use >information. If possible, please let me know the >reference cited (Maurice B. Line). > >Further I would like to suggest that there should be >also research in core areas of Library and Information >Science like Classification. Unfortunately these is a >trend amoung the LIS schools to make students more >Computer Literate at the cost of core subjects of LIS. > > >(I wish such LIS schools should stop issueing >certificates in LIS and start issueing MCA etc.) > >Regards >Sukhdev > > >--- afsar bukhari <bukhari_786(a)rediffmail.com> wrote: > > Dear Friends > > > > This is in response to a recent mail in lisforum > > regarding the areas of research in LIS > > > > LIS, since its inception has been dealing with > > organizing information so as to make it available to > > the users in more efficient manner. > > > > Information seems like dirt; its everywhere you > > look, accumulates in piles, and is challenging to > > organize for easy retrieval. > > > > It is this very nature of info that has always > > threatened LIS professionals and forced them to come > > up with innovative approaches towards its effective > > organization. With the advent of WWW, organizing > > info is giving tough time for all LIS professionals. > > Newer and newer approaches are being tried, but > > still more and more are required to be done! > > > > Maurice B. Line has identified 10 key areas related > > to Info Res in the MILLENIUM > > > > 1. Internet & WWW (info retrieval aspects) > > 2. Search engines & alogorithms > > 3. Bibliographic control on the internet > > 4. User interface including common user > > interface,natural language interface etc. > > 5. User needs or requirement analysis > > 6. Info seeking behaviour of users and cognitive > > approach > > 7. Digital Libraries > > 8. Summarization & representation of information > > 9. Visual information > > 10. Intelligent Information Retrieval including > > intelligent agents > > > > All the best > > > > > > Bukhari > > Librarian > > Shantha Biotechnics Pvt Ltd > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________ > > Download the hottest & happening ringtones here! > > OR SMS: Top tone to 7333 > > Click here now: > > http://sms.rediff.com/cgi-bin/ringtone/ringhome.pl > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software >http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___________________________________________________ Meet your old school or college friends from 1 Million + database... Click here to reunite www.batchmates.com/rediff.asp

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InfoWatch - July 2003
by M.R Lalitha 12 Aug '03

12 Aug '03

------------------------------------------------------------------------ InfoWatch Tracking Networked Scientific Information Sources and Services (An electronic update service brought to you by NCSI) July 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In This Issue: 1. Atlas Conferences [A database of academic conference announcements] 2. Bioinformatics.Org [Free information sources in bioinformatics] 3. C Language Integrated Production System - CLIPS 4. eCourses - Engineering Media Lab 5. Genetics Home Reference [National Library of Medicine's web site for information about genetic conditions] 6. GMP - Arithmetic without limitations 7. GreenCOM Resource Center [A resource for environmental educators and communicators] 8. Homologous Structure Alignment Database - HOMSTRAD [A database of homologous proteins] 9. How Much Information [A measure how much information is produced in the world each year] 10. Knowledgepoint - Knowledge management resources 11. MouseSite [History of the computer mouse] 12. Nationmaster.com [A handy tool to graphically compare nations] 13. Network Design and Research Center 14. Object Oriented Programming Web - OOPWeb 15. Preservation Managament of Digital Materials - The Handbook 16. Slipstick Systems Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center [Problem solving in MS Outlook and MS Exchange Server] 17. Technology Research News 18. TeleSpec - IR Spectra Simulation on the WorldWideWeb 19. The Technology and Environment site 20. The visu project [A scientific simulation data visualization tool] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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Re: Re: [LIS-Forum] Areas in LIS Res
by Sukhdev Singh 12 Aug '03

12 Aug '03

It is unfortunate that while computer professionals are working in areas were library people should have been working. We are still looking for the areas to 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). 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/). Classifiaction does not mean numbers we put on the spine of the books; dear friends, it is putting things in helpful sequence. Information technology is in use in every aspect of life. Even some medical professionals left their profession to join IT Rat Race. I know some for example http://www.indmedica.com. But should this mean every professional follow the same path. Today we have to answer, the real tough question? Do we really have something to offer? Something Unique. What is our USP...? If Yes, then why we are in hibernation. 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". Regards Sukhdev --- Vijay Raghav Tiwari <vijayrt(a)rediffmail.com> wrote: > 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 > technology the software, online information > retrieval sources are becoming an essentials of the > library services. A true professional will have to > attain the full command of the situation otherwise > he/she will be left far behind from the present day > profession. > > Hope that you will be agreeing to the concern. It is > good for us if we start learning more and more in > this techno field. > yours truly > VR Tiwari > > On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 Sukhdev Singh wrote : > >Dear Afsar, > > > >Thank you very much for circulation such use > >information. If possible, please let me know the > >reference cited (Maurice B. Line). > > > >Further I would like to suggest that there should > be > >also research in core areas of Library and > Information > >Science like Classification. Unfortunately these is > a > >trend amoung the LIS schools to make students more > >Computer Literate at the cost of core subjects of > LIS. > > > > > >(I wish such LIS schools should stop issueing > >certificates in LIS and start issueing MCA etc.) > > > >Regards > >Sukhdev > > > > > >--- afsar bukhari <bukhari_786(a)rediffmail.com> > wrote: > > > Dear Friends > > > > > > This is in response to a recent mail in lisforum > > > regarding the areas of research in LIS > > > > > > LIS, since its inception has been dealing with > > > organizing information so as to make it > available to > > > the users in more efficient manner. > > > > > > �Information seems like dirt; it�s everywhere > you > > > look, accumulates in piles, and is challenging > to > > > organize for easy retrieval.� > > > > > > It is this very nature of info that has always > > > threatened LIS professionals and forced them to > come > > > up with innovative approaches towards its > effective > > > organization. With the advent of WWW, organizing > > > info is giving tough time for all LIS > professionals. > > > Newer and newer approaches are being tried, but > > > still more and more are required to be done! > > > > > > Maurice B. Line has identified 10 key areas > related > > > to Info Res in the MILLENIUM > > > > > > 1. Internet & WWW (info retrieval aspects) > > > 2. Search engines & alogorithms > > > 3. Bibliographic control on the internet > > > 4. User interface including common user > > > interface,natural language interface > etc. > > > 5. User needs or requirement analysis > > > 6. Info seeking behaviour of users and cognitive > > > approach > > > 7. Digital Libraries > > > 8. Summarization & representation of information > > > 9. Visual information > > > 10. Intelligent Information Retrieval including > > > intelligent agents > > > > > > All the best > > > > > > > > > Bukhari > > > Librarian > > > Shantha Biotechnics Pvt Ltd > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________ > > > Download the hottest & happening ringtones here! > > > OR SMS: Top tone to 7333 > > > Click here now: > > > > http://sms.rediff.com/cgi-bin/ringtone/ringhome.pl > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > > > >__________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site > design software > >http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > >_______________________________________________ > >LIS-Forum mailing list > >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > Vijay Raghav Tiwari > Librarian > Harish Chandra Research Institute > (Department of Atomic Energy, Govt of India) > Chhatnag Road Jhunsi Allahabad -211 019. > Phone.91-532-2668302(O), 2667509,2667318,2667578 add > extention 4064 (R) <vrtiwari(a)mri.ernet.in> > ___________________________________________________ > Meet your old school or college friends from > 1 Million + database... > Click here to reunite www.batchmates.com/rediff.asp > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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Areas in LIS Res
by afsar bukhari 11 Aug '03

11 Aug '03

Dear Friends This is in response to a recent mail in lisforum regarding the areas of research in LIS LIS, since its inception has been dealing with organizing information so as to make it available to the users in more efficient manner. Information seems like dirt; its everywhere you look, accumulates in piles, and is challenging to organize for easy retrieval. It is this very nature of info that has always threatened LIS professionals and forced them to come up with innovative approaches towards its effective organization. With the advent of WWW, organizing info is giving tough time for all LIS professionals. Newer and newer approaches are being tried, but still more and more are required to be done! Maurice B. Line has identified 10 key areas related to Info Res in the MILLENIUM 1. Internet & WWW (info retrieval aspects) 2. Search engines & alogorithms 3. Bibliographic control on the internet 4. User interface including common user interface,natural language interface etc. 5. User needs or requirement analysis 6. Info seeking behaviour of users and cognitive approach 7. Digital Libraries 8. Summarization & representation of information 9. Visual information 10. Intelligent Information Retrieval including intelligent agents All the best Bukhari Librarian Shantha Biotechnics Pvt Ltd ___________________________________________________ Download the hottest & happening ringtones here! OR SMS: Top tone to 7333 Click here now: http://sms.rediff.com/cgi-bin/ringtone/ringhome.pl

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INTERNATIONAL CALIBER-2004
by JK Vijayakumar 11 Aug '03

11 Aug '03

INTERNATIONAL CALIBER-2004 INFLIBNET Centre has been organizing CALIBER [Convention on Automation of Libraries in Education and Research Institutions] every year in different parts of the country in collaboration with different universities, since 1993. This is the premier convention in India which provides a unique forum to the library and information professionals, teachers, IT professionals, consultants and users involved in automation and networking of libraries as well as information providers to come together and interact on the subjects of mutual interest. The eleventh CALIBER in the series, for the year 2004, has been themed as �Road Map to New Generation of Libraries using Emerging Technologies� and will be hosted by Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi during February 11-13, 2004. The official language of the convention will be English. DELIBERATIONS � Visions/Policies for Strategic Planning and Catalysts (Social Issues, User Requirements) for New Generation of Libraries. � Infrastructure, Standards, Archiving for Digital/Virtual/E-Libraries. � Emerging Technologies like Wireless LAN, Digital Services, Distributed databases, E-education and WBT. � Web content mapping, classification, management, Data warehousing, security aspects. CALL FOR PAPERS Programme committee solicits high quality technical papers related to the themes and sub-themes listed below. Main Theme: Road Map to New Generation of Libraries using Emerging Technologies Sub theme 1 Strategic Planning and Catalysts for New Generation of Libraries Visions/Policies, Social Issues, Intellectual Property Rights, User Requirements and Satisfaction, Models and framework for change management, Consortia: Success and Reality, Free and equal access to digital information Sub theme 2 Digital/Virtual/E-Libraries Infrastructure, Standards and Protocols, E-Publishing, Digital Archiving, Personalization, New Type Resources, Open Digital Libraries and Interoperability Sub theme 3 Emerging Technologies Networking (including WLAN), Digital Services, E-Education / WBT: Reality and Myths, Distributed database access and management � mirror sites, Online Reference Sub theme 4 Web content Management Cataloguing and Classification, Metadata / XML, Searching and Retrieval, Web content mapping, Data warehousing/hosting, Managing access to Web Content, Security Issues, Reliability and QA of Web content, Reference Linking, Ontology and Semantic Web Papers typed in MS-Word can be sent as attachment to INFLIBNET directly through E-Mail or in a floppy by post. The length of the paper should normally be within 5000 words. Papers should contain full name and affiliations with e-mail of author(s), an abstract, author biography and references properly cited in the text of article. The paper should neither be published anywhere nor should have been kept under consideration for publication elsewhere and the author should agree to transfer the copyright to the conference organisers. A passport size photograph(s) of author(s) has to be submitted with the paper. Detailed Guidelines and Editorial Policy for CALIBER 2004 will be soon available in the conference website at http://www.inflibnet.ac.in IMPORTANT DATES Receipt of full papers December 15, 2003 Intimation to Author(s) January 1, 2004 Last date for Registration January 15, 2004 Convention Dates February 11-13, 2004 About INFLIBNET Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) is a major mission of the UGC initiated in 1991 with an objective to automate and network libraries in Academic and R & D system to facilitate resource sharing at different levels and promote scholarly communication among academicians and researchers in the country. Till now, 142 universities have been funded by the UGC under this programme for automation and networking. Creation of national union databases, development of an integrated library management software, human resource development, on-site training, providing bibliographic information services, extending technical help and guidance from time to time to academic libraries in automation and networking are some of the major activities of the INFLIBNET Centre. Very soon centre is going to play major role in E-learning. A number of modules are under development on different subjects, which will be mounted on centre�s web site for facilitating distance education through e-learning. UGC has signed on MOU with ERNET India for establishing UGC Network linking about 170 universities, UGC Regional Centres and IUC�s. This network will also have connectivity to Internet. INFLIBNET will play a major role in content creation for this network. It is trying to create awareness about library automation and spread IT culture among library professionals. About Jamia Millia Islamia Jamia Millia Islamia, an institution originally established at Aligarh in United Provinces, India in 1920, was declared as a deemed to be University in 1962 and became a Central University by an act of the Indian Parliament in 1988. In Urdu language, Jamia means �University� and Millia means �National�. In 1936,all institutions of Jamia, except Jamia Press, the Maktaba and the library, were shifted to the new campus. The history of Dr. Zakir Husain Library is closely linked with the history of Jamia Millia Islamia. It was established during 1920-23 in Aligarh and was named as Jamia Millia Islamia Library. In 1925, Jamia Millia moved from Aligarh to Delhi, the Library also shifted.In 1972, Library moved to its new building and it was rechristened as �Dr. Zakir Husain Library� in the memory of late President of India Dr. Zakir Husain. This library is the Central Library of the University Library System, which includes the faculty and Central libraries,It is having collection of about 3.00 lac books & bound volumes of periodicals, about 3000 manuscripts, 200 microforms, 17 special collections and subscribes to 440 journals.The library has fully computerized its most actively used collections, which is searchded through OPAC.Circulation Counter is computerized, using barcode scanners.The library is providing range of databases available in electronic form on the Campus Network and from remote hosts via WWW. The library provides Internet and electronic database services for the registered users. Contact Details Registration Dr. Gayas Makhdumi Organising Secretary CALIBER-2004 University Librarian & Head, DLIS, Jamia Millia Islamia, M aulana Mohammad Ali Johar Marg, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi � 110 025, India Phone:+91-11-26984910/26981717(Ext. 472) Fax:+91-11-26982360 E-mail:zhl@jmi.ernet.in Paper Submission Dr T A V Murthy Editor-in-Chief Director INFLIBNET Centre[An IUC of UGC] Gujarat University Campus PB 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad � 380 009, India Phone: +91-79-6304695/5971/8528/0002 Fax:+91-79-6300990 E-Mail: tav(a)inflibnet.ac.in Queries can also be sent to Mr S M Salgar Chairman, CALIBER-2004 Scientist-G INFLIBNET Centre[An IUC of UGC] Gujarat University Campus PB 4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad � 380 009, India Phone: +91-79-6304695/5971/8528/0002 (Ext 33)Fax:+91-79-6300990 E-Mail: salgar(a)inflibnet.ac.in More details will be available in the website soon. ******************************************** J K VIJAYAKUMAR ******************************************* __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? 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Library standards
by geitc, kchelpdesk (CORP, GEITC) 11 Aug '03

11 Aug '03

Dear All, I wish to know what are all international standards exists are available in field of LISc. viz for bibliographical exchange, other data related to library services and functions. ISO 2407 : Std for bibliographic data exchange. ISO 2789 : Std for International library statistics ISO DIS 10160: Documentation-Interlibrary loan service definition ISO DIS 10161:Documentation-Interlibrary loan service protocol definition ISO DIS 10162:Documentation-Application service for information's systems search, retrieve and update protocol specification is there any other standard to other services also. Second thing I wanted to know as there is standard for Bibliographic data exchange. is there any standard specification for exchange of other data, such as circulation, serials holding etc... . This I feel very important as libraries are growing and adopting different soft wares, and as the years pass one library may feel it is not comfort with the software it has adopted. It wishes to change over to another software, in that case is it possible to get all the data that the present software holds, will be exported to new software which the library wants to switch over to. Where in we can get all member records, there usage statistics, or present holding. as these are vital which a library can't recreate again. is there a solution to this problem are any other way it is been done. Where can i get details regarding above matter. I will be happy to know. Thanks and regards, Chidananda Chidananda B G Technical information Assistant Knowledge Centre John F Welch Technology Centre Export Promotion Industrial Park, Phase-2 Hoodi Village, Whitefield Road Bangalore, INDIA-560 066 ( Direct: +91-80-503 2668)

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NYTimes.com Article: Open Access to Scientific Research
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 07 Aug '03

07 Aug '03

This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by arun(a)mssrf.res.in. Here is an editorial in New York Times on open access. Arun arun(a)mssrf.res.in /-------------------- advertisement -----------------------\ Explore more of Starbucks at Starbucks.com. http://www.starbucks.com/default.asp?ci=1015 \----------------------------------------------------------/ Open Access to Scientific Research August 7, 2003 A number of influential scientists have begun to argue that the cost of research publications has grown so large that it impedes the distribution of knowledge. Some subscriptions cost thousands of dollars per year, and those journals are usually available online only to subscribers. This looks less like dissemination than restriction, especially if it is measured against the potential access offered by the Internet. That is why a coalition led by Dr. Harold Varmus, the former director of the National Institutes of Health, is creating a new model, called the Public Library of Science. Several years ago Dr. Varmus's group issued an open letter, signed by some 30,000 colleagues, calling on the publishers of scientific journals to make their archived research articles freely available online. Most journals declined, so they would not undercut the profitable business of selling expensive subscriptions to libraries. But there is a basic inequity when much of the research has been financed by public money. The Public Library of Science plans to confront that inequity by establishing a new series of peer-reviewed journals that will be freely available on the Internet. The first ones, published this October, will be PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine. The aim is to create a freer flow of data about research and results. The journals will pay for themselves by charging a small fee to the organizations and institutions that support the research. Most of us, admittedly, will not have much use for free access to new discoveries in, say, particle physics. But it is a different matter when it comes to medical research. Popular nostrums abound on the Web, but it can be very hard, if not impossible, to find the results of properly vetted, taxpayer-financed science - and in some cases it can be hard for your doctor to find them, too. The Public Library of Science could help change all that, creating open access to research. The publishers of scientific journals are naturally skeptical, but the real test will come in the marketplace of ideas. What will matter this fall, when the new journals make their debut, is how many scientists choose to publish in them rather than in the journals traditionally deemed the most prestigious in their disciplines. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/07/opinion/07THU3.html?ex=1061257104&ei=1&en… --------------------------------- Get Home Delivery of The New York Times Newspaper. Imagine reading The New York Times any time & anywhere you like! Leisurely catch up on events & expand your horizons. Enjoy now for 50% off Home Delivery! Click here: http://www.nytimes.com/ads/nytcirc/index.html HOW TO ADVERTISE --------------------------------- For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact onlinesales(a)nytimes.com or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company

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open access (Washington Post)
by Mailing List Manager 07 Aug '03

07 Aug '03

Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 19:20:49 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: You may find this article on open access interesting. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19104-2003Aug4.html Arun

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Re: New Book in Library and Information Science
by Mailing List Manager 06 Aug '03

06 Aug '03

Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 18:14:16 -0700 From: Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur <rcgaur(a)tifr.res.in> Sorry for crossposting, if any; "Reengineering Library and Information Services Process, People & Technology" by Ramesh C. Gaur Librarian, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai ---------- Allied PublishersPrivate Limited, Mumbai. pp. 304. Price Rs. 500/- Some Comments About the Book To me, it is a first research contribution of its kind from India. Therefore, LIS professionals in academic as well as professional circles will benefit a great deal, in integrating theoretical as well as practical aspects of the subject, in their own contexts. - Dr. Roshan L. Raina, Professor, IIM, Lucknow The present digital networked environment has changed the whole structure of 'knowledge organizations', i.e., libraries. The pace of such changes is very fast. To cope up wuth above changes, it requires a radical change in our thinking, in our organization, in our people, and in the usage of technologies. And this radical change is possible by way of re-engineering only. It is a guide book for librarians and library planners and gives us a very thorough understanding of the reengeeneering process. - Dr. Jagdish Arora, Coordinator, INDEST Consortium, Librarian, IIT, Bombay Today's librarian works in a hybrid environment and his role is more of pulling together the various channels of information, package the relevant bits and present it to the user. This calls for a totally fresh look at the professional routes and roadmap. Dr. Ramesh C Gaur is one of the pioneers in applying the principles of re-engineering in the context of librarianship in India. I welcome this publication which makes a significant contribution to professional literature. - Dr. Mishwara Bhat, Head of Library Services, BITS, Pilani 'Re-engineering Library and information services' by D. Ramesh Gaur is indeed a welcome addition to the library & information science literature in the country. The book portrays a vivid and candid picture about the prevailing status of the libraries under study and gives clear cut BPR as well as transformation guidelines they should adapt/adopt/absorb if they want to be relevant, reliable and context sensitive. As such the model could be emulated by any modern library/information center in the country. - M G Sreekumar, Librarian & Head, CDDL, IIT, Kozhikode The author places the responsibility for change in the way of working of libraries in the context of change in information environment coupled with changing information seeking patterns of users in the electronic environment. To cope up with issues posed by evolution and revolution in Information technology such as Internet and Intranet revolution, Web publishing, Electronic publishing, and other information technological innovations, etc. a fine-tuning of the operations and activities of libraries and their information services is required. This is possible by way of re-engineering library and information services as explained in this book. The book provides a step-by-step guide about the re-engineering of libraries. - Usha Mujoo-Munshi, Head, Library and Informatics Centre, INSA, New Delhi About the Book This study presents a report on the effort to bring forth the transition of a traditional library service, mainly relying on paper preservation and local diffusion, to a modern information centre, whose main goal is putting final users in contact with the information needed, whether it is local or remote, on paper or stored digitally. To cope up with issues such as Internet and Intranet revolution, Web publishing, Electronic publishing, and other information technological innovations, etc. a fine-tuning of the operations and activities of libraries and their information services is required. This study describes how this transition may be achieved through a process of re-engineering that involves staff tasks, available space, available resources, and choice of tools. The book is a first attempt towards an indepth study on applications of "Reengineering Management" to Libraries. This book is focused on the re-engineering of Library and Information services in which present state of management libraries in India has been discussed. On the basis of findings of the study, various solutions have been suggested. A case study of "Re-engineering of library of IMT, Ghaziabad has been presented. A comparative study of thirteen management libraries of NCR, has also been undertaken. The suggested "re-engineering framework" - a model for reengineering of libraries, is a useful outcome of this study. The primary beneficiary of this book would be the all libraries and information centers who are planning to improve their library and information services by way of reengineering. The head of the institutions, librarians, library staff and all policy planners, who plan, monitor, and use library and information services should be able to understand the basic principles of re-engineering management and use the proposed re-engineering framework to improve their library and information services. The case study will help librarians to prepare a plan for the reengineering of their libraries. The academia and researchers will find it as a basis for further application in other libraries too. About the Author - Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur is a Librarian at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai. A Science graduate, he holds a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science and has undergone several advanced training programmes in IT Applications in Libraries and Management of Libraries. Besides this, he also holds Post B.Sc. Diploma in Computer Applications. He is visiting Virginia Tech., USA, under Fullbright Fellowship in Information Science & Technology for year 2003-04. He began his career as an Information Officer at Eicher Research Centre, Faridabad. Within a year he shifted to the Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi and then to Brisk Securities Ltd., a corporate company. He also worked in RIS, New Delhi. He made his mark at the IMT, Ghaziabad, where he automated the Library and transformed it to a top class establishment. During the 11 years of his professional career over 25 papers have been contributed by him to various publications. He has edited a book 'Business and Management Libraries: opportunities and challenges in 21st century' going to be released shortly. He has successfully organized Management Libraries Network (MANLIBNET) Convention and UPLA Seminar. He is member of all Library Association in India and some important one in abroad. His major professional achievements includes the formation of Ranganathan Research Circle (RRC) along with Late Shri C.V. Subba Rao as the Founder Convener of RRC. He is Life Trustee and Joint Secretary of Ranganathan Research Trust (RRT), New Delhi. Dr. Gaur's interests range from web designing to training programmes on IT in the library and information field, he has also been affiliated with studies based on management libraries in India. He developed a computer program entitled, 'Development of Some Library Applications Using d-Base III +' for Water and Land Management Institute. His goal is to develop and enhance professional competence and by virtue of this to serve its clientele the best and to become the leader in the Library and Information Science Field.

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Arcticle Requirement
by Mailing List Manager 06 Aug '03

06 Aug '03

Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:38:12 +0530 From: Dr. Arun K. Chakraborty <akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in> Dear Professional Collegaues If you have following paper in your library please send me the copy. This paper is urgently required by one of our faculty members : Radiation Measurement 24 (3), 309-313, 1995. Thanks. DR. ARUN KUMAR CHAKRABORTY LIBRARIAN BOSE INSTITUTE, KOLKATA, INDIA MAIN CAMPUS : 93/1 A.P.C. ROAD, KOLKATA 700 009 INDIA PH : 91-33-2350 2402/03, 6619,6702 FAX : 91-33-2350 6790 CENTENARY CAMPUS : P1/12 CIT SCHEME - VII-M, KOLKATA 700 054 INDIA PH : 91-33-2337 9544, 9416, 9219 FAX : 91-33-2334 3886 Ph (Res) : 33-2672 1192, 3892 E-MAIL : akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in, arunchkr(a)vsnl.net.in, c_arunk(a)hotmail.com

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ICT and research in DCs
by Mailing List Manager 06 Aug '03

06 Aug '03

Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:05:28 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Information for research in developing countries - Information Technology, a friend or foe? http://www.developmentgateway.org//ict/dg-contribute/item-detail?item_id=33… version_id=202274&from=alert This paper by Subbiah Arunachalam from M.S.Swaminathan Research Foundation discussses the influence of ICT on the researchers in developing countries. One of the author's conclusions states that "a concerted effort should be mounted to persuade philanthropic foundations ... Arun

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GENISIS Manual
by mujib rahiman 06 Aug '03

06 Aug '03

Hi all A manual in English for Genisis is now available at http://www.nsf.ac.lk/purna/genisisman.pdf. Genisis is a web authoring software to create webforms and scripts required to query cds/isis databases using BIREME's wwwisis. GenesisCD is available to create CD-ROM interface. with regards Mujib Rahiman ===== Bioinformatics Centre and Library Central Plantation Crops Research Institute P.O. Kudlu, Kasaragod - 671 124, Kerala, India Ph: 04994 - 232 974 URL: http://bioinfcpcri.org E-mail: bioinf(a)bioinfcpcri.org ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Do our Scientists deserve high bandwidths?
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '03

05 Aug '03

Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 07:09:18 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Dr Vyasamoorthy has raised a pertinent point and I like his frank expression of his views which might offend at least some of our colleagues in the labs! As it happens often, in ny given situation it is difficult to determine which is the cause and which is the effect. For a pretty long time, we were unable to provide decent infrastructure support to our scientists and doctoral students. It is not only in the provision of information; even in the provision of laboratory infrastructure (equipment, chemicals, reagents, etc.). Doing science under such circumstances, many of our scientists might have lost some of their enthusiasm. I believe that if we provide the proper environment (including facilities), there will be a change for the better. Especially, when there are low-cost options (providing information through open access and Internet, both of which are spreading fast and becoming cheaper), we should give them a try. Giving up is easy, but it can transform our country into a better place to live for us and our children. As a young scientist in a national laboratory, I often found it extremely difficult to be able to attend and speak at international conferences to which I was invited because of the attitude of officers who had the power to permit or disallow my participation in such meetings! But now things have changed. Arun

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Do our Scientists deserve high bandwidths?
by Mailing List Manager 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 15:28:04 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> Dear Mr Arun & friends, I really wonder whether our scientists deserve (they may desire, though)such high bandwidth. In my opinion they are incapable of using even the meger internet bandwidth that they already have. Scientists in India were the first group of persons to enjoy internet based email via ERNET. I have not seen many scientists from India (Indians abroad are an exception) taking part in Newsnet newsgroups in any worthwhile manner. Most of the discussion fourums started enthusiastically die for want of participation. INFLIBNET Experts database, after having been in place for over a year does not have more than 12K profiles. This was based on a very good model of getting the database self-populated by the community. Compare it with Community of Science website. Recently a private firm in Bangalore sent out 3000+ email letters to Indian scientists - every one of whom is an author of some science paper or the other - asking them to try out free of charge some web based IT facility that would help them keep in touch with their colleagues: How many do you think responded? Not even one percent! My own experience in having organised JCCC@VIC has not been very encouraging -- there are no takers for this consortium effort. Others' experiences may be different but mine are sour. Regards Vyasamoorthy, P -----Original Message----- From: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 2:58 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Competition spurs broadband in Europe (fwd) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 09:03:57 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Almost everyone in Belgium - at least 98% of them - have broadband access of 3Mbps or better! Up to six times faster than the service available in France or Britain. Where do we stand in India? Even our research scientists cannot boast of such bandwidth. Let us do something about it and quickly. Our scientists deserve it. Regards. Arun -Original Message----- From: Andy Carvin [mailto:acarvin@benton.org] Subject: Competition spurs broadband in Europe (fwd) Also from today's Benton headlines.... -ac COMPETITION SPURS BROADBAND IN EUROPE A new report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development suggests that European countries that promote competition among telecom and cable providers show faster adoption of broadband Internet services. The report warned governments against propping up the telecom industry in exchange for broadband build-out. "Incumbent operators are using their economic influence on governments to say, 'If you are nice to us we will deliver broadband,' but what the OECD numbers show is that competition between operators is what delivers broadband," said Ewan Sutherland, director general of the Brussels-based International Telecommunications Users Group. Evidence shows that Germany, once the leader in broadband growth, has been overtaken by the more competitive environment in Belgium, where 98 percent of the country has access to at least 3Mbps service - up to six times faster than the transmissions available in France or Britain. The United States has fallen from 3rd to 10th in the OECD rankings, primarily because the prices and speeds offered by phone companies have not matched those offered by cable. Asian countries have used government subsidies to stimulate the markets have resulted in additional competition and lower prices, allowing the region to take the lead in broadband deployment. SOURCE: E-Commerce News; AUTHORL Jennifer L. Schenker http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/31231.html _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Competition spurs broadband in Europe (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 09:03:57 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Almost everyone in Belgium - at least 98% of them - have broadband access of 3Mbps or better! Up to six times faster than the service available in France or Britain. Where do we stand in India? Even our research scientists cannot boast of such bandwidth. Let us do something about it and quickly. Our scientists deserve it. Regards. Arun -Original Message----- From: Andy Carvin [mailto:acarvin@benton.org] Subject: Competition spurs broadband in Europe (fwd) Also from today's Benton headlines.... -ac COMPETITION SPURS BROADBAND IN EUROPE A new report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development suggests that European countries that promote competition among telecom and cable providers show faster adoption of broadband Internet services. The report warned governments against propping up the telecom industry in exchange for broadband build-out. "Incumbent operators are using their economic influence on governments to say, 'If you are nice to us we will deliver broadband,' but what the OECD numbers show is that competition between operators is what delivers broadband," said Ewan Sutherland, director general of the Brussels-based International Telecommunications Users Group. Evidence shows that Germany, once the leader in broadband growth, has been overtaken by the more competitive environment in Belgium, where 98 percent of the country has access to at least 3Mbps service - up to six times faster than the transmissions available in France or Britain. The United States has fallen from 3rd to 10th in the OECD rankings, primarily because the prices and speeds offered by phone companies have not matched those offered by cable. Asian countries have used government subsidies to stimulate the markets have resulted in additional competition and lower prices, allowing the region to take the lead in broadband deployment. SOURCE: E-Commerce News; AUTHORL Jennifer L. Schenker http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/31231.html

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Articles on Knowledge Society
by farooque 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

one may get information on "knowledge society" at following urls. http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/ifactory/ksgpress/www/ksg_news/transcripts/druck… http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/skills/recomm/report/ch_1.htm http://www.ies.ubc.ca/events/transition/abst.html http://members.tripod.com/knownetwork/what.html http://members.tripod.com/knownetwork/articles/heralding.htm On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 prafulla(a)nisc.co.in wrote : >Dear All: > >I am looking for a couple of good articles (Web-based, >available >free)) which provide a good and authoritative introduction to >the >concept of Knowledge Society. I shall appreciate any pointers >on >them --------------------------------- Mohammed Farooque DRTC,Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalore-560059 Tel-(080)8483975(hostel) 8483002 ext 495(lab) ---------------------------------- ___________________________________________________ Download the hottest & happening ringtones here! OR SMS: Top tone to 7333 Click here now: http://sms.rediff.com/cgi-bin/ringtone/ringhome.pl

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IndMED gets HON code certification
by Sukhdev Singh 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

The following information may be useful for the members of the forum. 1. "The European Commission has weighed in with its contribution to the growing body of standards and recommendations for online health and medical information. The document contains quality criteria for use by Member States, as well as public and private bodies, in the development of quality initiatives for health related web sites. Recognizing the need to protect its citizens, as well as the global customers of its online sector, the European Commission has taken a clear position on the need to maintain high standards for online health information. The report stops short, however, of proposing an EU-wide implementation for quality criteria, judging this to be impractical for the moment. HON participated actively in the development of the EU document, along with some sixty other delegations from government, industry, medical and consumers associations and academia. The result incorporates all eight principles of the HONcode condensed into six points with additional emphasis on accessibility, a hotly debated subject on both sides of the Atlantic. In effect, US Government requirements for domestic information providers may also influence decisions made in Europe." (http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/HON_CCE_intro.htm) 2. Indian Medlars Centre, has received the cerfication from the above mentioned "Health on Net (HON) Foundation" for its compliance with the HON code. This site is the First Government Indian health site and among select few Indian health sites to receive the certification.(http://indmed.nic.in). The certification may be verified from http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/Conduct.html?HONConduct932785 . 3. I would suggest to website administrators / evaluators to use best practises / standards for sites so that their reliability could be ascertained. Regards Sukhdev Singh BID, NIC HQs. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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Google India
by Shyam Prasad pujar 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

Dear Members, Google search engine is now available in Indian languages. It is available in Hindi, Telugu, Bengali and Marathi. Now when you type http://www.google.com at the URL address location you will be redirected to http://www.google.co.in. Default interface for India is Hindi, if you want to search using 'English' interface, click on 'Agrezi'. Regards, S.M. Pujar ********************************************************************** Shamprasad M. Pujar Assistant Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% * Phone: (022) 28400919-21 Extn: 514 * * Fax: (022) 28402752 * * E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in * * URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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medicine/pharma. information retrieval
by Shivendra Singh 30 Jul '03

30 Jul '03

Dear members, Where I can see about medicine/pharma. information retrieval system? Regards, Shivendra Singh National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research Sector 67, S.A.S Nagar, Punjab - 160 062 , INDIA, Phone : 0172 214682-87, Ext. 2017 Fax : 0172 214692 Mobile: 9815526163 Home page: http://sshivendra.tripod.com E-mail: shivendra(a)niper.ac.in

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Regarding Website Hosting
by aravind llm shety 30 Jul '03

30 Jul '03

Dear Members, I am in search of free web servers for hosting a web site. Can anyone suggest me the sites of free web hosting servers. With Regards Arvind M Bhadrashetty Librarian Appa Institute of Engineering & Technology Gulbarga ___________________________________________________ Download the hottest & happening ringtones here! OR SMS: Top tone to 7333 Click here now: http://sms.rediff.com/cgi-bin/ringtone/ringhome.pl

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Research students needed at MSSRF
by Mailing List Manager 29 Jul '03

29 Jul '03

Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:40:32 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: I need two bright young researchers for a scientometrics (bibliometrics) project. The candidates should have a First class Master's degree in science or information science with some competence in writing programmes to manipulate bibliographic data from databases. MSSRF will pay a consolidated salary of Rs 5,500 per month. I know it is not a big sum, but I can assure the candidates that they will get very good training. The project leader is an Honorary Fellow of CILIP, an Honorary Member of ASIST, a Life Member of IASLIC and Founding Member of the Indian Science Writers Association, and is on the editorial boards of Current Contents, Scientometrics, Journal of Information Science, Current Science and Desidoc Bulletin of Information Technology. He is on the Board of the Internatiaonal Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics. The group's other interests include application of information and communication technologies to rural development and poverty alleviation and the Information Village Research project has won the Stockholm Challenge Award and the Motorola Gold Award. MSSRF has a small library and a few databases (CD-ROM). E-MALA and lis-forum members may pass the word around and may suggest suitable candidates. Thanks and best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Distinguished Fellow MSSRF, Chennai

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Availability of ISA (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 29 Jul '03

29 Jul '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:18:14 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] meera bunglow" <mbunglow(a)yahoo.co.in> To: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Availability of ISA Dear Mr. R.Srinivasan, Indian Statistical Institute , Bangalore Library is procuring ISA -CD ROM from 1999. Thanking you Regards B.M.Meera Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore Centre Library --- Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 01:01:10 -0700 (PDT) > From: Srinivasan R <seenukkd(a)yahoo.com> > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > Dear Members > > I would like to know in which libraries located at > Tamil Nadu, or Kerala or Karnataka, CD-ROM version > of Indian Science Abstracts (ISA) containing 10 > years 1990-1999 data, is available. Kindly inform > as I am in need of it urgently. > > Sincerely > R Srinivasan > Central Electrochemical Research Institute > Karaikudi - 630 006 Tamil Nadu > email: seenukkd(a)yahoo.com > > > > With Best Wishes > > Yours Sincerely > > R Srinivasan > Phone: 225904 (R) ; 227750 (O) > > 7, kambar Street > Thilagar Nagar > Karaikudi - 630 002 > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site > design software > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum ________________________________________________________________________ Send free SMS using the Yahoo! Messenger. Go to http://in.mobile.yahoo.com/new/pc/

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Articles on Knowledge Society
by prafulla＠nisc.co.in 29 Jul '03

29 Jul '03

Dear All: I am looking for a couple of good articles (Web-based, available free)) which provide a good and authoritative introduction to the concept of Knowledge Society. I shall appreciate any pointers on this. Many thanks 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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Lecture Delivered on Digital Libraries at RRC
by Sukhdev Singh 29 Jul '03

29 Jul '03

Dear members of the forum, Last satureday, I had an opportunity to deliver a lecture on Digital Library : Definition to Implementation at Ranganathan Research Circle, Delhi. The lecture gave an account of Definition of Digital Libraries, Myths surrounding it and an overview of general framework for implementing a Digital Library. A copy of the lecture is available at the DLIST archives. Anybody interested may visit the following link and download a copy of it. It is of 1+18 pages and is in PDF format. http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/archive/00000236/ Regards Sukhdev Singh __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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Libraries @ the Heart: Travel Grants available (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 29 Jul '03

29 Jul '03

Travel Grant for participants from developing countries The Swiss Organization Committee of the Preparatory IFLA Conference "Libraries @ the Heart of the Information Society" (Geneva, Switzerland 3-4 November 2003) has made available a limited number of grants to enable participants from less developed countries to attend. The grants are towards particpation cost and are given on a cost sharing basis. The Travel Grant will cover air ticket, accommodation, registration fee and a small allowance.Applicants should meet the following conditions: Must be working in a library Must have a minimum of five years of professional experience Must be a member of the National Library Association (evidence of membership will be required from the Association). Priority will be given to professionals and applicants who are involved in the promotion of the libraries as important points of free access to the information society. Return the completed application form on http://www.ifla.org/III/wsis/wsis_travelgrt03.htm with a curriculum vitae before September1st 2003 to: iflawsis(a)hei.unige.ch or Danielle.Mincio(a)bcu.unil.ch

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ePrints in Library and Information Science
by Mailing List Manager 29 Jul '03

29 Jul '03

Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:02:20 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Prints in Library and Information Science - http://eprints.rclis.org (ELIS) An open access archive to deposit preprints, postprints and other documents in the field of library and information science in electronic format. ---- http://dois.mimas.ac.uk/ Documents in Information Science - http://dois.mimas.ac.uk/ (DoIS) - Database of articles and conference proceedings published in electronic format in the field of library and Information science. Thanks Guna From: Subbiah Gunasekaran [mailto:guna1970@rediffmail.com]

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A Google-like Portal of the World's Leading Scientists
by Bibhuti Bhusan Sahoo 29 Jul '03

29 Jul '03

ISIHighlyCited.com calls itself "an expert gateway to the most highly influential scientists and scholars worldwide," using similar techniques to Google's PageRank to identify these intellectual leaders. This free search tool makes it easy to identify individuals, departments and laboratories that have made fundamental contributions to the advancement of science and technology over the past several decades. Google's PageRank algorithm uses many of the same techniques involved in citation analysis to get a sense of the most important pages on the web, based on the number and quality of links pointing to them. ISIHighlyCited.com plans to include the top 250 preeminent individual researchers in 21 subject categories who have demonstrated great influence in their field as measured by citations to their work. Bibliography with links to the full bibliographic information indexed in the ISI Web of Science. ISIHighlyCited is similar to ResearchIndex, an academic computer science search engine that also does a lot of extensive citation analysis. Both tools are excellent resources for tracking research trends through literature references. To learn more about citation analysis and how it reveals useful information about who's who and what's what, see the article "How Does ISI Identify Highly Cited Researchers? follow the link http://isihighlycited.com/isi_copy/Comm_news08.htm -- ================================ Bibhuti Bhusan Sahoo JRF, DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute 8th mile, Mysore Road R.V.College P.O. Bangalore -560059 Phone : 8483975(hostel) 8483002 ext-320 (hostel) ================================

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Availability of ISA
by Mailing List Manager 28 Jul '03

28 Jul '03

Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 01:01:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Srinivasan R <seenukkd(a)yahoo.com> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Dear Members I would like to know in which libraries located at Tamil Nadu, or Kerala or Karnataka, CD-ROM version of Indian Science Abstracts (ISA) containing 10 years 1990-1999 data, is available. Kindly inform as I am in need of it urgently. Sincerely R Srinivasan Central Electrochemical Research Institute Karaikudi - 630 006 Tamil Nadu email: seenukkd(a)yahoo.com With Best Wishes Yours Sincerely R Srinivasan Phone: 225904 (R) ; 227750 (O) 7, kambar Street Thilagar Nagar Karaikudi - 630 002 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software

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(Fwd) MSc courses
by prafulla＠nisc.co.in 28 Jul '03

28 Jul '03

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 01:28:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Bijayananda Pradhan <ncsipradhan(a)yahoo.com> Subject: MSc courses To: prafulla(a)nisc.co.in Dear Prafulla, Can U please inform me : Is there any Univ in INDIA offering MSc Geology in distance mode. Regards Bijay ===== Have a nice time -With Regards, Bijayananda Pradhan DESIDOC, Ministry of Defence (DRDO) Metcalfe House, New Delhi- 110 054 Ph: (011)23819587(Off), FAX: 23919151 Mail ID:ncsipradhan@yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------- 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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Information retrieval with cURL
by Aman Kumar Jha 28 Jul '03

28 Jul '03

Dear friends Please find an interesting article related to Information Retrieval. Source: http://www.hinduonnet.com/stories/2003072800120200.htm Aman Kumar Jha Librarian South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre New Delhi Information retrieval with cURL THIS WEEK NetSpeak focuses on a tool for automatically transferring files from the Net using a variety of Net protocols. The innumerable and wide ranging Net resources available on the various servers across the Net are stored/retrieved using different well-defined methods or protocols. The web protocol HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol), the FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and the Gopher protocol are three popular protocols. To retrieve resources stored under various servers, many tools that understand these protocols have been developed. These are called Net clients. The web browser, which understands the HTTP protocol, is a client tool for retrieving resources from a web server. Similarly there are clients for other protocols such as FTP and POP. But the drawback of most of these tools is that, though quite easy to operate, they lack enough flexibility. For example, the browser does not have an easy mechanism to selectively download a few web pages from a site. Again, if you want to automatically download regularly all newly updated files with a specific extension from a site, current browser features become inadequate. Here is another scenario: Suppose a Net resource is mirrored at several locations and to speed up the download process you want to split the file into multiple parts and download each of them from separate locations, instead of downloading the file completely from one location. None of the current browsers can do of do this. Al these point to the fact that there is need for a better information retrieval tool that will help automate some of the download tasks and allow downloading of materials as per requirements. One such client tool is cURL, which can be used to download Net resources automatically with extreme ease and flexibility. cURL As per its web site (http://curl.haxx.se/) cURL (stands for `client URL') is a command-line utility for transferring files from diverse Net servers such as FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP. Any Net resource that uses standard URL format (like http://, ftp://) can be retrieved with this tool. Please note that cURL has nothing to do with 'Curl', the web programming language discussed in this column (http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/biz/2001/12/13/stories/2001121300 340100.htm) long ago. You may also note that this free tool, which runs on platforms such as Windows and Linux, not only allows you to download files but can also be used to upload files on to such servers as web and FTP. Another highlight of this service is the availability of the free curl library libcurl that can be integrated with popular programming languages such as Basic, C, C++, Python and PHP to develop curl based applications. As usual, to get a good hold and internalise the capabilities of this program, let us go through a few examples: The command: `curl http://www.hinduonnet.com' will download the home page of The Hindu's site and will display it on your screen. If you want to view the HTTP exchange or the conversation that takes place between the client and the web server while downloading the web page, execute the above command with the `v' (v stands for verbose) option (like this: curl - v http://www. hinduonnet.com) To upload a file on to an FTP server, use curl with the option `T' as follows: Curl - T readme-file ftp://user: pass word(a)ftp-domain-name.com The above command will upload the file `readme-file' on to the FTP server. If you have a file stored in two locations, using cURL with `r' option, you can retrieve parts of the file simultaneously from these servers. For example, suppose you have a file called `example.doc' of size 39424 bytes, stored in two servers called server 1 and server 2. To download the file in two parts from these servers, use the following commands: curl -r 0-1500 -o example 1 http://server1/example.doc (this will download first 1500 bytes of the file from server 1 and store it as `example 1') curl -r 1501- -o example 2 http://server2/example.doc (this command will download the rest of the file from server 2 and store it as `example 2') Combining the two downloaded files, we will get the original file. Programs based on libcurl As already mentioned, along with the cURL client program, a curl `program library' that can be used to create cURL-based applications is also available at the cURL site. The free program Getleft developed for downloading complete web sites is a good example of a product created with the help of cURL library. The software, Getleft, written in TCL (Tool Command Language http://tcl.activestate.com/), can be used to download a web site completely by just entering the site's address in its input box. During the downloading process, it alters links in the original page so that you can browse the site locally without any trouble. For more details, check out: http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/ getleft/english/ Bootdisk If you are a regular computer user, it is likely that you have faced the problem of hard disk failure at least once. Once the machine fails to boot from the hard disk, the next feasible solution is to attempt to boot using a bootable floppy disk. If you have failed/forgotten to create a boot disk during the installation stage, you will not be able to take this course. In case you land up in such troubled situations, check out the site BootDisk (http://www.bootdisk.com), which hosts many programs that can be used to create boot disks. For example, if you want to create a DOS 6.22 boot disk, access the site, click on the `DOS/Windows... ' option and download the appropriate boot software. Now, insert a fresh floppy disk and execute the downloaded software, which will convert the floppy into bootable disk by transferring the DOS system files on to it. Apart from several `boot' programs, you will find many valuable materials that include information on hard disk partitioning, networking and several `how to guides' in this site. Free web space index It is quite likely that many of you have own web sites or are planning to launch one. One easy route is to avail the services of a free web space provider and build a site on its server. There are many free web space providers on the Net such as Tripod (http://www.tripod.com) and Netfirms (http://netfirms.com/) with varying tools/facilities. To get the latest information on the free web space providers, check out the search service `Free web hosting space finder' at: http://www.free-web-space-finder. com/ J. Murali _________________________________________________________________ They are beautiful. They are in danger. http://server1.msn.co.in/Slideshow/BeautyoftheBeast/index.asp Our four-legged friends.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Psychology courses
by farooque 26 Jul '03

26 Jul '03

university of madras is offering MSc in psychology through distance mode one can get detail information on this address: http://www.universityofmadras-ice.ac.in/ apart from this, annamalai university, bharthir university (coimbatore) and nalanda open university(patna)are also offering master degree course in psychology through distance mode.. On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 prafulla(a)nisc.co.in wrote : >Dear All: >I am searching for information on Indian universities offering >Master'd degree courses through DISTANCE MODE in >Psychology/Applied Psychology/psychology-related subjects. I >shall appreciate any useful pointers on this. > >Many thanks > >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. >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum --------------------------------- Mohammed Farooque DRTC,Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalore-560059 Tel-(080)8483975(hostel) 8483002 ext 495(lab) ---------------------------------- ___________________________________________________ Download the hottest & happening ringtones here! OR SMS: Top tone to 7333 Click here now: http://sms.rediff.com/cgi-bin/ringtone/ringhome.pl

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Article: The open source option
by Shyam Prasad pujar 25 Jul '03

25 Jul '03

Dear Members, Please go through the following link to know why librarians should and shouldn't use open source software. http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=articlePrint&article… Regards, S.M. Pujar ********************************************************************** Shamprasad M. Pujar Assistant Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% * Phone: (022) 28400919-21 Extn: 514 * * Fax: (022) 28402752 * * E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in * * URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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Refresher Course in the subject of Library&LibraryScience
by Dr. Muttayya 24 Jul '03

24 Jul '03

Dear All, I am pleased to announce the following upcoming event: Sub: Refresher Course in the subject of Library & Information Science Tata Institute of Social Sciences is conducting a 21 days Refresher Course in the subject of Library & Information Science. The theme is New Challenges in Information Management: Issues and Opportunities for Librarianship. It is scheduled to be held from 1st Sept 2003 to 21st Sept 2003. The objective of this Refresher Course is to make Librarians feel fresh and updated after the training is over and really contribute to the teaching learning process. The eligibility conditions are mentioned below. Application Form will be sent upon receipt of an e-mail request. Minimum UGC Requirement for participation in Refresher Courses The Minimum UGC Requirement for participation in Refresher Courses is as follows: Here Librarian means either a College Librarian or a University Assistant Librarian/Lecturer In Library & Information Science who are in the pay scale of Rs.8000-13, 500 and above The gap in two successive Refresher Courses should normally be two years and may be relaxed if the adequate number of participants are not available or it is essential for the Librarian to fulfill eligibility condition for his/her career advancement. The College should be included in the List of Colleges under Section 2(f) of the UGC Act, even though they may not yet be fit under Section 12-13 of the same Act. If the College has not yet come within the purview of Section 2(f) but have been affiliated to a University for at least five years may also participate in the Refresher Course. The last date for submission of applications is 15th August 2003. Alternatively, for further assistance you may contact Mr.Satish Kanamadi, Asst. Librarian ( Tel:022-25563290.Ext.285E mail: kanamadi(a)hotmail.com) Yours Sincerely, Dr.Mutttayya.Koganuramath University Librarian ************************************** DR. MUTTAYYA KOGANURAMATH UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN Tata Institute of Social Sciences, P.B.No.8313, Sion-Trombay Rd., Deonar, Mumbai 400 088, INDIA. Ph: 91-22- 2556 3289-96; Extn.281(O) 91-22- 2558 3375(R) Direct: 91-22-25513350 Fax: 91-22- 2556 2912 E.Mail : muttayya(a)bom3.vsnl.net.in Website: www.geocities.com/tisslibraryin **************************************

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Cesus of India Map
by suvarsha 24 Jul '03

24 Jul '03

Hi, I found an interesting site where you can generate maps (of India) by different parameters using data from the Census of India. Could be useful to some of you in social sciences. http://www.censusindiamaps.net/ with regards, Suvarsha Minj Research Executive - KM Feedback Consulting 5th Floor, Oxford Towers 139, Airport Road Bangalore 560 008 Tel : 91-80-5201379 / 5201398 Fax : 91-80-5201402 Web : www.feedbackconsulting.com

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Psychology courses
by prafulla＠nisc.co.in 23 Jul '03

23 Jul '03

Dear All: I am searching for information on Indian universities offering Master'd degree courses through DISTANCE MODE in Psychology/Applied Psychology/psychology-related subjects. I shall appreciate any useful pointers on this. Many thanks 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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"CONSORTIUM OF LIBRARIES OF DAE"
by Dileep Ghoderao 21 Jul '03

21 Jul '03

To, The LIS Forum Manager and Members, Please click on below URL to view the "Consortium Workshop" details to be held at TIFR, Mumbai, you may fowrward these details to others. http://www.tifr.res.in/~libws All are most welcome. Regards, ===== D.B. Ghoderao(M.Com., M.Lib.I.Sc.) Scientific Assistant - B. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) ( Deemed University and National Centre of the Government of India for Nuclear Science and Mathematics) Homi Bhabha Road, Navy Nagar, Colaba, Mumbai-400 005 Phone: 022-22804545 Ext. 2584, Fax: 022-22804610, 22804611 URL: www.tifr.res.in\~library Send reply to email: ghoderao(a)yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com

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Free Access to All India Index to English Books in Print (AIIEBIP)
by prafulla＠nisc.co.in 21 Jul '03

21 Jul '03

Dear All: Heres an announcement from NISC of potential interest to LIS practitioners and teachers: NISC is pleased to offer free access to All India Index to English Books in Print (AIIEBIP) for the entire month of July 2003. You can access the database at: http://www.nisc.com/factsheets/qebip.asp AIIEBIP includes the entire contents of Indian Books in Print (ed. by Sher Singh. Indian Bibligraphies Bureau, New Delhi) plus several thousands of new entries. It is available in two formats: CD-ROM and Internet-/Web-based. AIIEBIP is powered by NISCs inhouse-developed ROMWright software, acclaimed globally as one of the finest bibliographic and textual information search-and-retrieval softwares. We request all LIS practitioners and teachers to kindly explore AIIEBIP database and let us have your valuable feedback regarding its coverage and search features. Contact person: Anu K. Dürr, Director, AIIEBIP. Email: AIIEBIP(a)nisc.co.in T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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WebDewey Free Trial
by prafulla＠nisc.co.in 19 Jul '03

19 Jul '03

Dear All: OCLC is offering one month free trial for WebDewey, the online version of DDC Edition 22. Please visit the following URL for registration: http://www.oclc.org/dewey/ The print edition of DDC 22 is scheduled for release this month. The WebDewey includes the entire content of print version of DDC22 plus much more explanation and examples, etc. Thanks T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Times Foundation
by Mailing List Manager 17 Jul '03

17 Jul '03

Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:38:30 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> For your information, please. Arun ------ The Times Foundation has been actively involved in spearheading initiatives in women's empowerment, education, health and self-development and in facilitating heightened visibility of development issues through the print and electronic media. We act as a point of convergence for government agencies, NGO's, the corporate sector and citizens to facilitate partnerships and enable the harnessing of synergies to press for policy level changes and for holistic development. The Times foundation website is being developed into a gateway for information on development issues, interventions , success stories and funding opportunities. It would acts as a virtual meeting point for the stakeholders in development-the funding agencies, grassroots organizations, advocacy agencies and volunteers and aims at generating awareness, encouraging dialogue and enabling partnerships. The Times Foundation is in the process of building and updating its information repository and invites ideas, deliberations, articles and analysis on development issues and experiences, which would be accessed by stakeholders across the development spectrum. The aim is to get the information across to people and organizations who believe in making a difference and who would join hands with us in furthering the common good. We look forward to your interest in this collective endeavor. Thanking you Kuldip nar Programs Manager Times Foundation 7, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg New Delhi - 110002 India Tel :011-23302103 Dir: 011-23302193 Email : kuldip.nar(a)timesgroup.com URL : http://www.timesfoundation.indiatimes.com

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InfoWatch - June 2003
by M.R Lalitha 17 Jul '03

17 Jul '03

Dear LIS-Forum member, The June 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) June 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In this issue: 1. An Educational Tour of Nuclear Data 2. Annodex.net - Open standards for annotating and indexing networked media 3. BioCompare.com [Product reviews in Life Sciences] 4. Biodiversity Hotspots [A focus on 25 biologically rich areas around the world under significant threat of destruction] 5. Catalog of the Scientific Community in 16th and 17th Centuries 6. Computer Immune Systems 7. Copper Development Association 8. DSP Design Performance [Free Digital Filter Design Applets] 9. Electronic Review of Computer Books (ERCB) 10. ElsevierEngineering.com [Information resources for engineering research] 11. EquationSheet.com [Searchable directory of equations, constants, symbols and SI units] 12. Geometry in Action 13. Home Computer Security 14. Image Reduction and Analysis Facility (IRAF) 15. Infrared Zoo [Viewing animals with thermal infrared camera] 16. LTSN Bioscience ImageBank Pilot 17. Molecular Biology Protocols 18. NASA Technology Portal 19. Reference Guide for Instructional Design and Development [By IEEE] 20. Web-enabled Scientific Services & Applications ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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NexLib - Library Automation Software
by raj＠nexevolve.com 14 Jul '03

14 Jul '03

Dear Members, Our state of the art NexLib - Library Automation Software demo version is ready. It is already kept in our website http://www.nexevolve.com/download.htm you can download the same from the following link http://www.nexevolve.com/downloads/nexlib.zip Awaiting your reply for your interest. Kind regards Rajasekhar Sajja Director - Sales&Marketing, NexEvolve Logic Solutions Pvt. Ltd, #401, Swastik Plaza, SR Nagar, Hyderabad - 500038, India. Tel: +91.40.55368401/7401 MObile: +91.9849053507 email: raj(a)nexevolve.com URL: www.nexevolve.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .

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Call for papers: ICDL 2004 - 24-27 February New Delhi
by Mailing List Manager 11 Jul '03

11 Jul '03

Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 14:26:45 +0530 From: Subrata Deb <sdeb(a)teri.res.in> 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 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: 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 x 2 metres and 2 x 3 metres will be allotted on a first-come, first-served basis. Committees ------------------ International Programme Committee: --------------------------------- Prof. Jose 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 Federales 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. Jose 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 Federales 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 ontacts: ------------- 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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ICDL 2004 - 24-27 February New Delhi http://www.teriin.org/events/icdl (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 10 Jul '03

10 Jul '03

Apologies for cross postings ---------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 17:40:49 +0530 From: ICDL2004 <ICDL2004(a)teri.res.in> International Conference on Digital Libraries 2004 Dear Sir/Madam, TERI is organizing the ICDL 2004 in partnership with Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India on knowledge creation, preservation, access and management from 24 to 27 February 2004 in association with Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA)/ The Commonwealth of Learning (COL). The conference is expected to be a major forum focusing on digital libraries and related technologies, policies, and other issues. The conference is expecting an august gathering of 500 participants drawn from different areas which will witness cross-disciplinary participation by policy-makers, library and information professionals, IT professionals, knowledge managers, professionals from electronic publishing and virtual electronic communities, etc. involved in DL research and practice across the world. In this regard we have enclosed an electronic version of the brochure for your kind perusal and for further dissemination at your end. For further details you may visit our website at www.teriin.org/events/icdl Looking forward to your kind cooperation With regards (Debal C. Kar) Conference Coordinator ********************************************** ICDL 2004 (International Conference on Digital Libraries) (24-27 February 2004) TERI, Darbari Seth Block India Habitat Place, Lodhi Road New Delhi - 110 003, India Tel. (+91 11) 2465 1629 (Dir), 2468 2100 & 2468 2111 (Extn 2724) Fax (+91 11) 2468 2144 & 2468 2145 E-mail <ICDL2004(a)teri.res.in> Web: www.teriin.org ****************************************************

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For a kind suggession
by Mailing List Manager 09 Jul '03

09 Jul '03

Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 07:00:53 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] RANJAN BARIK" <ranjan_tld(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Friends/Sir, All of us well aware that dealing with a electronic Publisher/Vendor/aggrigator is a complex task. In the mean time they may change their color like Chameleon. I am a student of Library Science. Would you like to suggest me on" how to deal more intelligently with the electronic Publisher or Vendor." Waiting for your kind suggessions. Thanking you Ranjan Kumar Barik Library Trainee INFLIBNET Centre, Ahemedabad

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InfoWatch - May 2003
by M.R Lalitha 09 Jul '03

09 Jul '03

Dear LIS-Forum member, The May 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) May 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In This Issue: 1 4200 Research Essays about the Net 2 Access to Archival Databases 3 Aerospace Technology 4 Allwhois [whois service on the Internet] 5 Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) 6 ChipDocs [Datasheets for Electronic Components and Semiconductors] 7 CKNOW.COM [Acronyms/Definitions] 8 Directory of Open Access Journals 9 Einstein Archives Online 10 Engineering Resources- Engineering directory 11 Error Messages for Windows 12 GreenHouse Gas Online 13 Instructional Resources for Chemistry 14 KillerInfo [A Search engine] 15 O'Reilly's CD bookshelf 16 SiteLines - Ideas about Web Searching 17 Taxonomy Warehouse- Free Web-Directory of Taxonomies 18 The Big Picture Book of Viruses 19 Trinity Atomic Web Site 20 Writing for the Web, Part I and part II ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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The Library as a Place: Tradition and Evolution (fwd)
by Library 09 Jul '03

09 Jul '03

I liked this article too. So I am forwarding the URL for those interested. 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: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 09:39:30 -1000 From: Liz Bryson <bryson(a)cfht.hawaii.edu> To: slapam-l(a)lists.yale.edu Subject: The Library as a Place: Tradition and Evolution This article caught my eye in 'Library Juice' the other day and I sent it on to Jane Holmquist, who gave a presentation at LISA IV entitled: "What's the Difference between a "Reading Room" and a "Library"? [http://www.eso.org/gen-fac/libraries/lisa4/toc.html]. Then, after re-reading the article, I decided I liked it so much that I'd share it with PAMnet : The Library as a Place: Tradition and Evolution by William Miller http://www.libraryissues.com/pub/LI220003.asp

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