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I challenge them to apply once again and win NET: Will not challenge you
by Vasanth 30 Jun '12

30 Jun '12

Dear Sir/Madam, This is in response to Vimal Kumar post on “Response from NET aspirants, 24th June”. The main intention of raising issue with regard to the new format of UGC NET exam was purely UGC introduced/switched over to objective type questions from previous descriptive format (paper 3), without consulting academia or students. Can we allow this to happen in a democratic society? UGC time and again flouted its own decisions and introduced new rules and regulations without much discussion in public forum. The introduction of new NET exam pattern was one such example. If the new format is fine and students are happy, it is welcome but in a democratic society each individual has its own views or points to make and they have the rights to do so. Let us not make this too personal. Challenging previous NET qualified candidates is not good in any way. Have heard that the new format is much easier than previous one. Some of them were happy and some others had a different view. Everyone is unique in their own way. Vimal you have born and brought up in a state where there is space for dissent and Karl Marx a household name. I would like to quote Marx and conclude this piece “Ruthless Criticism of Everything”, which is good for the democratic society. If we don’ allow dissent, then (political) rivalry would end up in violence which you are witnessing in Kerala in recent time. ------------------------- With best wishes Vasantha Raju N -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Duty
by subhash khode 30 Jun '12

30 Jun '12

Respected sir, One of the my working working as library assistant in contact basis since last three years. He received order in his office from collector office to perform duty in election as usual as other employ's receives in government office but he their order instruct that he has to work in their library in whole day and after office timing he has to do election works in other area of city. Is it legally right to give this type of order . Subhash khode -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Walk-in-Interview for LIA & IS at NIT Silchar
by Kishor Satpathy 30 Jun '12

30 Jun '12

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SILCHAR (An Institute of National Importance by MHRD, Govt. of India) Silchar – 788010 (Assam) Walk-in-Interview Following posts are to be filled on Contractual basis (purely temporary) through a Walk-in-Interview on 9th July, 2012 at 2:00 pm 1. Information Scientist: Qualification: BE/MCA with Library experience or AIS/AIDS. Salary: Negotiable. 2. Library & Information Assistant: Qualification: BLISc/MLISc/AIS with 2/3 year experience. Salary: Negotiable Eligible candidates are to submit their complete bio-data along with photo copies of all testimonials, one copy photograph and to bring all original documents at the time of interview. For further information, please contact: Kishor Chandra Satpathy, PhD National Institute of Technology (A Deemed University-Institute of National Importance under Ministry of HRD, GOI) Silchar-788010, Assam, India Telephone : +91-3842-240055 (Off) +91-9435175531 (M) E-mail : kishor_satpathy(a)yahoo.com and ksatpathy(a)gmail.com v Librarian & Coordinator, DL Project, NIT Silchar v Mentor Librarian, NIT Nagaland v Coordinator , BARC-Akruti Priject@NITS & NER v Transparency Officer, NIT Silchar v Coordinator, Landscaping & Campus Beautification, NIT Silchar v Officer in-charge, New CEC, NIT Silchar -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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UGC NET Exam analysis
by Ratheesh K 30 Jun '12

30 Jun '12

Dear Friends, I totally disagree with the opinion of Mr. Vimal that good handwriting is the criterion for getting marks in NET third paper, in my case I think my hand writing is not at all good (only *just *legible) I invite your attention to my UGC NET Marks from December 2006 to June 2009- (I qualified NET in June 2009, UGC starts to publish the NET marks from December 2006 onwards) *Month & Year* *Roll No.* *Marks in Paper-I* *Marks in Paper-II* *Marks in Paper-III* December 2006 090593 62 66 84 (Not qualified) June 2007 090788 68 70 81 (Not qualified) December 2007 133171 60 82 71 (Not qualified) June 2008 133198 60 82 84 (Not qualified) December 2008 1604147 64 70 64 (Not qualified) June 2009 1303339 64 52 92 (*Qualified*) You can verify the data with UGC website Regards, Ratheesh.K University Library, Cochin University of Science & Technology Kochi-22,Kerala -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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DOOMSDAY FOR LIBRARIAN AND WHO CAN MANAGE A LIBRARY?
by Mailing List Admin 30 Jun '12

30 Jun '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:26:23 +0800 (SGT) From: Dr. A.T. Francis <francisaloor(a)yahoo.com> Dear Library Professionals, Let me share few points on the opinion of Mr. Gafoor as DOOMSDAY!!! nearing for our Profession. 1. What are the jobs our fully qualified (MLISc + NET + PhD+PGDCA etc.) library professionals doing in many of the University Libraries in Kerala or other states? 2. Whether we are employing these highly qualified professionals only for counter duty and issue and return of books for several years? 3. If that is happening, after a long period of issue and return only experience, what technical and managerial excellence they can gain?. 4. Whether our Library Schools (other than DRTC) are able to effectively train LIS professionals to manage the e-resources. Whether we can manage an e-resource only library confidently? 5. Whether our Library Science teachers and senior professionals are sincerely looking into our real personnel and professional problems and trying for solution?.� It is a grave fact that our professionals are quarreling each other mainly because of system generating issues like appointment, promotion, qualification, etc. 6. The Govt. of Kerala run schools without effective libraries and librarians.� Now we are arguing that CLISc holders are best suit to be posted as School Librarins 7.� Then why not we recommend/try Nurses in place of Doctors; Diploma holders in place of Engineers, Degree holders as Asst. Professors? So, this is high time to re-structure our system. Otherwise it will be a huge loss to the society (Not to the LIS Community) � Dr. A.T. FRANCIS, MCom, MLISc, PhD HEAD, LIBRARY & IT NODAL OFFICER College of Horticulture Kerala�Agricultural University Thrissur - 680 656, India, 91-9496839409 (m) francisaloor(a)yahoo.com

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ISiM Project Colloquium on "Mining Locality-Preserving Trust Hierarchies in Signed Networks"
by Mailing List Admin 30 Jun '12

30 Jun '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:18:18 +0530 From: Athif Mohammed <athif(a)isim.ac.in> Description: Description: isim_NEW_logo Project Colloquium On "Mining Locality-Preserving Trust Hierarchies in Signed Networks" By Ms. Mili Ann Abraham 2nd year M.Tech Student International School of Information Management University of Mysore, Mysore Date and Time: 12 PM, Saturday, June 30, 2012 Supervisor: Prof. Mandar R Mutalikdesai Member Technical Staff - Corporate Research and Technologies Siemens Technology and Services Private Limited Bangalore You are cordially invited Dr.Shalini R Urs Executive Director and Professor International School of Information Management University of Mysore, Mysore Abstract The phenomena of social hierarchy and stratification among humans could be traced back to the origin of human society. Presently, the growing popularity of online social networks has provided an opportunity to analyze these well-studied phenomena over different networks at different scales. Generally, a social network can be considered as a collection of actors and their interactions (connections). In signed networks, there is an explicit show of trust (positive) or distrust (negative) among the actors. That is, an actor can designate others as friends or foes. Examples of signed networks include the Slashdot Zoo network, Epinions etc. In a social network, actors tend to connect with each other on the basis of their perceived social hierarchy. The concept of social hierarchy can be stated as the emergence of a tree-like structure comprising of actors in a top-down fashion in the order of their ranks, describing a specific parent-child relationship, viz. child trusts parent. However, owing to the presence of positive as well as negative interactions in signed networks, deriving trust hierarchies is a non-trivial challenge. We argue that traditional notions are insufficient to derive hierarchies underlying signed networks. To build hierarchies in signed networks, we introduce two interpretations of trust/goodness namely 'presence of trust (good)' and 'lack of distrust (not bad)'. In order to develop a hierarchy signifying both trust and distrust more effectively, the above interpretations are combined and the actors are arranged according to their aggregate deserve (trust) values. We then introduce a hypothesis for building hierarchies based on deserve values while preserving the locality of interactions between actors. In this sense, even though a hierarchy represents an aggregate social structure, the relationships are formed from local structures. The hierarchies obtained using our hypothesis are said to be locality-preserving, with each hierarchy representing a well-defined local community. Each such hierarchy contains a community representative at the root. Modeling such locality-preserving hierarchies in trust networks finds applications in community detection, information dissemination and locality-based governance for the population. For further details visit <http://www.isim.ac.in> www.isim.ac.in INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore -570006 Ph: +91-821-2514699 | Fax: +91-821-2519209 | <mailto:office@isim.ac.in> office(a)isim.ac.in Athif Mohammed Assistant Manager International School of Information Management (ISiM) University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore - 570006. Email- office(a)isim.ac.in M: +91 9886772356 Website: www.isim.ac.in

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!!DOOMSDAY!!! nearing for our Profession (if we sleep now)
by Niraj Barua 29 Jun '12

29 Jun '12

Dear all and respected ones. I thank each and everyone who have shown their concern regarding my earlier message. In this regard i have following observations: 1. First and foremost Library jobs must be reserved for Library Professionals like the Doctors job in the Hospital. 2. We must sincerley follow ethics of librarianship without following the ethics of Computer professionals. 3. Librarianship must be the Master and technolgy its Servant and not the otherway. 4.If we go too much after technology we shall be nowhere, as if like the small fish in the big ocean full of Sharks. 5. Technology should be the means and not an end to the Library professional values and ethics. 6. Many of us are unknowingly welcoming the dvelopments which encourages People from other profession (one can guess easily!!!) to encroach our field of practice. 7. At this hour of crisis we must be united locally, nationally and internationally. 8. Professional association must not sleep in the hour of crisis. These are the forums through which we can raise our concern in a proactive manner. 9. I suggest all local and state library associations to place signed memorandums to the National level library organizations like IASLIC,SIS,IATLIS who can convey such concern to the respective Governments for necessary redressal. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Niraj Barua 9435346637(Mobile) niraj_barua(a)yahoo.co.in. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Librarian and Assistant Librarian Openings in KSSEM (Mahesh *Y*)
by mujib rahiman 29 Jun '12

29 Jun '12

Hi AllI am surprised to see the Note "Candidates Who have attended regular courses and obtained relevant degree in Library and Information Science are preferred. Candidates with degree obtained through distance education mode may please ignore this advertisement". That too at this age of self learning! I cannot understand why people are prejudiced about the distance learning system. Does the mode of study really matters or the knowledge or skills attained by the professional matters. Why not try the candidates and see whether they are qualified enough or not? Many advertisements for various job opportunities are for regular candidates only. Then why not abolish the system of distance education? Does it mean once we acquire any degree the learning stops unless you study through regular course? Do you really believe that all students are taking distance education as an easy way to acquire degrees? What about those who are not much lucky enough to continue their studies through regular mode? How can we say some one who completed any diploma/graduation/post graduation by distance mode is inferior to those who did it as a regular course? Universities like IGNOU has got an excellent course structure and study materials. The problem is not with the system of distance education, but with the individuals concerned. I don't think one needs to attend college or university today to gain knowledge on any subject. As LIS professionals, we should be the first to realise this fact. By the way, I have completed my LIS course/PGDCA through distance education mode and I don't think that makes any difference to what I have learned. regards M RahimanLIBRARIAN KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA KANJIKODE WEST PALAKKAD - 678 623 KERALA, INDIA Phone (Off.): 0491 -2566317 Mobile: 09946152785URL: http://kvklibrary.inhttp://kv-library.blogspot.inhttp://kvkanjikode.nic.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Need Article
by srinivas rao 29 Jun '12

29 Jun '12

Dear Professional One of the faculty requires following article. If anybody having access to elsver. kindly send the softcopy of same. "The statistical modeling of road traffic noise in an urban setting" Alfredo Calixto, Fabiano B Diniz, Paulo H.T Zannin, Elsevier pub. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0264-2751(02)00093-8 SRINIVASA RAO GANTA Asst.Professor in LIS VBIT,Hyderabad http://vbitlibrary.blogspot.com http://vbitlibrary.pbworks.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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MOVE AFOOT TO REVIVE LIBRARY CULTURE
by Ragaavendra R 29 Jun '12

29 Jun '12

Move afoot to revive library culture Mysore: Even as the world is going gaga over digitization of library resources, the department of Library and Information Sciences, Manasagangotri, has taken lead in bringing the research tradition back. With an aim of capturing users' interests towards the use of library resources, three books that are in the form of research thesis, were released here on Wednesday. The books were penned by researchers Dinesh K S, R Guruprasad and Khaiser Nikam, chairperson, DOS in Library and Information Sciences. These books act as an excellent incentive for the future researchers that deal with the availability of library material in the universities along with an exhaustive literature review, Khaiser Nikam said. Dinesh K S, author of the Strategic Management of Engineering College Libraries in Karnataka, said it is an extensive study on the means and ways of attracting the students to the library that are deserted in the internet age. P Ventaramaiah, former vice-chancellor of Kuvempu University and N Chowdappa, president of AKELPA, were present. Source: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-06-28/mysore/32456244_1_li… Best Regards, Raghvendra R The information contained in this electronic message and in any attachments to this message is confidential, legally privileged and intended only for use by the person or entity to which this electronic message is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please notify the sender and system manager by return email and delete the message and its attachments and also you are hereby notified that any distribution, copying, review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this electronic transmission or the information contained in it is strictly prohibited. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not represent those of the Company or bind the Company. Any commitments made over e-mail are not financially binding on the company unless accompanied or followed by a valid purchase order. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Mail Scanner, and is believed to be clean. The Company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.jubl.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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