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UGC-NET
by Sunny Joseph 03 Jul '12

03 Jul '12

Dear friends, I do not agree with Mr. Vimal Kumar that all who pass UGC-NET are mere calligraphers. But of course, good hand writing and presentation skills play vital roles in success of any written exam, along with the subject knowledge and language skills. At the same time some phrases such as "I am not agree" or "the large number of response by the candidates against this new format shows how they were enthusiastic about this objective type" etc are testimonies about the language skills of NET qualified persons. Personally, I plead for full- proof system whether it may be descriptive or objective. My charge against the descriptive system is about its valuation procedures which do not permit re-valuation in any case. In such a system the invisible evaluator who claims to be the "absolute authority" is at full freedom and the candidate is at their mercy or luck plays a major role. When I requested for photocopy and re-valuation of may answer scripts after June 2010 exam through Kerala High Court, UGC obviously lied in the Court that my answer papers were destroyed as my letter for preserving my papers was not received in their office. The result of the exam was published on 8 th October and I sent my request for preservation of my papers on 9th October by speed post. When I produced the evidence of its receipt by UGC's office, they were voiceless. Getting copies of answer papers of three toppers, publishing answer keys in web site were also my prayers. I contended the case myself and the case was failed due to my lack of experience in court procedures. But due to the decision of Hon.Supreme Court of India, any examining agency is bound to provide the copies of answer books under RTI Act. I think the judicial decisions have bearings on the new pattern of UGC-NET also. You may remember that in June 2010 NET exam only 11 candidates passed in English. There were wide discussions in campuses and in media about the result. See what happened in DEC-2010 exam. More than 350 candidates in English passed NET. Whether the standard of English in India was increased to 3000% just in six months !!! I was informed by UGC that more than 30 crores is with them as "profit" earned by six years by conducting NET exam and UGC is unwilling to disclose the earnings since the beginning of the test. The case is pending with Central Information Commission. There for I have strong evidences to believe that everything is not fine with UGC. As Hon. Courts opined that secrecies tempt to corrupt. Transparency or sun light is the best disinfectant. Sunny Joseph, Knowledge Manager, Govt.IASE, Thrissur. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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DOOMS DAY-REG
by Sunny Joseph 02 Jul '12

02 Jul '12

Dear Friends, Primarily it is the prerogative of the employer to decide whom should be appointed and to fix the qualifications etc. We know the works in libraries and many of us have good working skills in computer based library technologies. To my knowledge library science departments were wooing computer science, since 1990's, the beginning of the internet era, much ahead of other teaching departments thinking and planning for computerised systems. Now-a-days, most of the students pass out MLIS possess good competence in library technologies along with traditional library and information skills. On comparing various professionals in their ICT competence, it is sure that library professionals are second only to computer professionals. But computer professionals have only computing skills. No information skills.I recollect an experience in my college when my Principal wanted an information from the University's web site and the staff member with M.Sc. computer science could not provide the information, though he perused the web site; but I could furnish it quickly. They are more competent in technologies and ignorant about information or knowledge or its management. Instead of "information", computer persons usually use the term "data". It is fact that many of the persons in the top level management of any organisation in India are "veterans" who awe about computers or its techniques. They look the computer people with great admiration and many of the veteran group are not even ashamed in openly admitting about their ignorance of computer techniques. At the same time many of them underestimate librarians because of their common sense thinking. They vociferously opine that library science is nothing but common sense and the job of a librarian can be performed by any literate person. In India librarians are generally the under-utilised professionals. The main job of a librarian,that is , reference or information service is not popularised in many libraries including the highly staffed university libraries. Thus the users see librarian as mere book clerks. In fact, the computer persons can not operate a library and he can install a digital library software but can not create and mange a digital library. The thing which is likely to happen is the computer person shall get appointment as library cum informatics officer and he shall join for library science distance education. It is the duty of professional organisations like ILA, IASLIC etc to take up the matter to concerned authorities and if failed fight legally. Sunny Joseph, Knowledge Manager & Information Officer, Govt. Institute of Advanced Study in Education, Thrissur, Kerala. On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Niraj Barua <nbar(a)iitg.ernet.in> wrote: > > > Dear fellow Professionals and > respected one its a very sad development that the DOOMSDAY for the > Library Professionals is nearing in general and in particular in our > country. See the link below about vacancy for Library cum informatics > Officer in a Central Govt autonomous institution. We should raise our > voice unitedly against such unjustful strategies from the policy makers. > Our professional qualification limits our job scope to only the > Libraries, but Computer professionals have far more avenues to try for a > job. Why are some of the people desperate to throttle our profession for > benefit of some so called elites? Please raise your voice, share your > concern otherwise the coming generation of our profession (if survives) > will blame the present lot. > > > http://www.nabi.res.in/Vacancies/Permanent/NABI3(2)2012-Rectt/DetailofAdvt.… > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 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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by Thippeswamy swamy 02 Jul '12

02 Jul '12

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Transcript of Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam's CSIR-NISCAIR Diamond Jubilee Lecture
by G Mahesh 02 Jul '12

02 Jul '12

The transcript of Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam's CSIR-NISCAIR Diamond Jubilee Lecture "Is universal open access closer than we imagined?" delivered at CSIR-NISCAIR on 20 June 2012 is available at http://blog.niscair.res.in/?p=790 G. Mahesh NISCAIR ----------------------------------------- This email was sent using NISCAIR's web mail service. "" http://niscair.res.in/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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by monisha mishra 02 Jul '12

02 Jul '12

Dear professionals , Kindly send the fulltext of the below mentioned articles if anybody have the fulltext access. *ISHS Acta Horticulturae 350*: *I International Symposium on Education and Training in Horticulture * HORTICULTURAL EDUCATION IN FINLAND *Author:* S. Ahonen *ISHS Acta Horticulturae 350:* *I International Symposium on Education and Training in Horticulture* <http://www.actahort.org/books/350/index.htm> FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR HORTICULTURAL EDUCATION IN ENGLAND *Author:* J.F. Bennett *ISHS Acta Horticulturae 350:* *I International Symposium on Education and Training in Horticulture* <http://www.actahort.org/books/350/index.htm> EDUCATION FOR HORTICULTURE WORLD WIDE, CURRENT PROVISION AND FUTURE REQUIREMENTS: A CONFERENCE OVERVIEW *Author:* G.R. Dixon *ISHS Acta Horticulturae 350*: *I International Symposium on Education and Training in Horticulture* <http://www.actahort.org/books/350/index.htm> HORTICULTURE EDUCATION IN WESTERN CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES: PROBLEMS AND POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS *Author:* E.A. Maginnes *ISHS Acta Horticulturae 350:* *I International Symposium on Education and Training in Horticulture* <http://www.actahort.org/books/350/index.htm> THE NEW EDUCATIONAL CONCEPT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURE AT HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITY IN BERLIN *Authors:* H. Bochow, A. Knüppel regards *Monisha Mishra* *Librarian Orissa University of Agriculture & Technology, Bhubaneswar Orissa* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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ISiM Industry Talk Series on Entrepreneurship
by Mailing List Admin 02 Jul '12

02 Jul '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 11:45:50 +0530 From: Athif Mohammed <athif(a)isim.ac.in> ISiM Industry Talk Series on Entrepreneurship (4) "Driving Marketing & Sales for an Entrepreneur" By Mr. Sunder Madakshira Vice President - Marketing and Communications SAP Labs India Date and Time: July 3, 2012 10:30 AM You are cordially invited Dr.Shalini R Urs Executive Director and Professor Abstract: Marketing can be effective without being expensive, though it costs a lot in terms of imagination. Struck by the notion of creating "big bang" impacts, marketers gravitated to advertising on television and print. Consequent to rising media costs and increasing media clutter, the verdict on these media is "low return on investments". What do companies which are startups do then to create an awareness and engagement with customers? In this session on "Driving Marketing and Sales for an Entrepreneur" Mr. Sunder Madakshira, Vice President - Marketing and Communication, SAP Labs India discusses these issues and provides 18 tips on marketing which help companies with limited financial resources but infinite power to imagine, creating a brand for themselves at no costs. Speaker Bio: Description: Description: Sunder is Vice President - Marketing and Communication, SAP Labs India. His passion is generating and executing ideas which give disproportionate leverage in the market. For the past 18 years, he has worked and learnt from path-breakers and game changers in communication to customers, talent pool and other corporate stakeholders. His areas of focus at SAP are building Influencer Relations, PR, employee engagement and customer evangelism. He has held leadership roles in the sales and marketing functions in Unilever, Infosys and WIPRO before his current role. He has driven wide range of marketing functions - market research, traditional and new age advertising, competition intelligence, category management, talent branding, internal communications and marketing process administration. He has spoken at many industry and academic forums including at CII, NASSCOM, IIM Bangalore and IIM Calcutta on the topics of interest in Marketing. At the NASSCOM Emerge Forum in 2011 and 2012, he presented sessions on "18 Tips on Zero Cost Marketing in 36 minutes" and "Organizational Growth through Personal Branding". These have been received well by participants. He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal (TAPMI) and an Engineering Degree from the R V College of Engineering, Bangalore. He has finished top of his class throughout his academic career, winning the prestigious Agro Evo Gold Medal award to the Best Outgoing Student at TAPMI and a Gold medalist from Bangalore University. A keen carnatic music enthusiast, he is learning to play the Veena as a passionate hobby. 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 | M: +91 9886772356 | <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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Urgent Librarian request - Please advice
by Emelia Cardoz 02 Jul '12

02 Jul '12

Dear all, I am looking for a professional librarian urgently, who can take care of our library, its personal for a library which is at the residence. Since I am not well versed with this industry, I have listed a few things which I could think of; may be the professional could add a few things to the list. We have the Cybrarian software which they can use too. The person can visit twice a month: a) Classifying the newly purchased books. b) Cataloging, printing & pasting spine labels. c) Checking for mis-shelved books & placing them in their correct place on the shelves in the library, offices, 3 children’s rooms & 1 common children’s play area. 95% of the work is at the residence which is in Worli and 5% which is very rare will be in Lower Parel. The commuting distance is at a maximum of 15 minutes. Please advice on priority if you know anyone who would be interested in taking this up? Regards, Emelia Tel: +91 22 3001 0222 Mobile: +91 98197 07078 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Acquisition & Serial Modules of KOHA
by Arup Raychaudhury 30 Jun '12

30 Jun '12

1. Does anyone out there use the acquisitions function of KOHA 3.6/3.8? 2. Can it handle irregular serials and standing book orders (i.e. serials and books that are released on unknown intervals)? 3. When an item is on order, does it appear in OPAC with appropriate message? 4. How do you receive multiple copies (by range of barcode no./ individual barcode no)? 5. Does it verify availability of a title against OPAC and on-order file before allowing placing order? 6. How do you verify availability of a suggested title (suggested by the member from OPAC)? 7. How good is Serial Module? -- Arup Raychaudhury Indian Statistical Institute 203 BT Road Kolkata 700108. INDIA Phone: 91-33-2575-2106 Fax: 91-33-2578-1412 This mail is scanned by Ironport -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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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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