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Online survey on social software usage by LIS professionals in India
by Kshirod 08 May '12

08 May '12

Respected All, I am working on the theme "Knowledge Management and Sharing in Libraries". I would like to invite you to participate in survey which will take about 5-10 minutes to complete. All data entered will be kept confidential, strictly be used for my research. To participate in this survey click on the link: http://kwiksurveys.com?u=socialsoftware Please feel free to share above link to your colleagues working with other Institutes / Companies which will help me to get good response. Thank you very much for participating in this survey. Your time and effort will be greatly appreciated. Looking forward to get good response. Thanks and Regards -- Kshirod Das National Institute of Technology Rourkela-769 008, Orissa kdas(a)nitrkl.ac.in daskshirod(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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CSI eNewsletter May 2012 issue
by HRMohan 08 May '12

08 May '12

Dear all, The May 2012 issue of CSI eNewsletter can be accessed at http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2012-05-01.pdf [1] and also at the CSI KM Portal http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/enewsletter [2] For the archives of this newsletter, pl. visit http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-archives.htm [3] or at http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/archives [4] You are free to forward this mail to your contacts who may like the information presented in the mail. With regards HR Mohan Chairman -- eNewsletter Committee, IEEE CS & PCS Madras http://infoforuse.blogspot.com/ [5] Contents ======= -- Internet Hall of Fame -- Machine Learning Lectures by Professor Andrew Ng, Stanford CS Dept -- Multilingualism and the Internet -- Protection Against The Advanced Persistent Threat -- Data Classification; a scalable approach to managing sensitive data -- Unified Storage For Dummies: Oracle Special Edition -- ERCIM News -- Video: All your devices can be hacked -- Securing Data in the Cloud--10 Critical Questions to Ask Your Cloud Provider -- Insight Guide: Commercial Business Insurance -- 2012 web security report -- Demystifying social media -- Can India lead the mobile-Internet revolution -- Competing through data -- Cloud Benefits 101: What's In It for You? -- 10 critical ERP upgrade mistakes -- Five cloud-based PM tools to suit a wide range of projects -- 10 ways to look your best on social media -- Fraud alert: Phishing -- the latest tactics and potential business impacts 2012 -- Young Innovators Competition -- Video: Robots that fly ... and cooperate -- Open Government Platform - OGPL -- Video: PowerPoint presentations How Not To Make -- How To Succeed As An Executive -- Announcements -- ICT Events -- ICT News: Voices & Views -- ICT News: Telecom, Govt, Policy, Compliance -- ICT News: IT Manpower, Staffing & Top Moves -- ICT News: Company News: Tie-ups, Joint Ventures, New Initiatives -- Book: Drupal - The Guide To Planning and Building Websites (Wiley India) -- Book: QC 10, QTP 10 and Automation Framework - Automating Automation (TMH) -- Book: Software Engineering (Pearson) -- Book Summary: The Power of LEO: The Revolutionary Process for Achieving Extraordinary Results -- Book Summary: Growth or Bust!: Proven Turnaround Strategies to Grow Your Business -- About the CSI-eNewsletter -- Contributions to CSI-eNewsletter InfoQuiz-2012-05-01 (NINE Prizes to Win) ============================== FOUR Prizes of Rs. 500/- each, THREE books, TWO free one month access to Business Book Summaries) 1. "Software gets twice as slow every eighteen months" is known as ------ Law. 2. Bangalore is the first city to get the 4G services in India. State True or False 3. Google : Google Drive = Microsoft : ------ 4. ------ beat Nokia to the top position in the global handset market in the first quarter of 2012. 5. ------ became the first Indian IT company to cross the $10 billion (revenue) milestone. Email your answers by 31st May 2012 to csi.infoquiz(a)gmail.com [6] with subject "infoquiz-2012-05-01". Please provide your name, designation, company/institution, full postal address (to send the prize) and the contact phone nos. after the answers. There are NINE prizes to win. TWO prizes of Rs. 500/= each by SRA Systems (www.srasys.com [7]) and TWO prizes of Rs. 500/= each by VictoryMind Educare Services. THREE prizes will be in the form of books which are briefly reviewed in this edition of the newsletter. They are being offered by Wiley India Pvt. Ltd (www.wileyindia.com [8]), Tata McGraw Hill Education Pvt Ltd (www.tmhshop.com/ [9]) and Pearson Education (http://www.pearsoned.co.in [10]) . Other TWO prizes are free one month access to Business Book Summaries from EBSCO Publishing (www.bizsum.com [11]). Answers along with the winners' info will be published in the next issue. Answers & Winners of InfoQuiz-2012-04-01 ============================== = Google, Niklaus Wirth, Alan M Tturing, Lady Gaga, D is for Digital Rs. 500/= from SRA Systems: Ms. Nitu Sahoo (Bhopal) & Mr. Ashok Singh Chauhan (Kasganj, UP) Rs. 500/= from VictoryMind Edu Services: Mr. Prashant Khisty (Mumbai) & Mr. M. Divakar Raj (Coimbatore) Book from Wiley India Pvt. Ltd: Ms. Umarani Yalavarthi (Bangalore) Book from Tata McGraw Hill Education Pvt Ltd: Sivaraj Ambat (Bahadurpally) Book from Pearson Education: Mr. C. Sudalaimani (Trivandrum) Free access to "Business Book Summaries" for one month from www.bizsum.com [12] / Ebsco Publishing: Mr. M. Anbazhagan (Chennai) & Ms. Shalini Aggarwal (New Delhi) Links: ------ [1] http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2012-05-01.pdf [2] http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/enewsletter [3] http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-archives.htm [4] http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/archives [5] http://infoforuse.blogspot.com/ [6] mailto:csi.infoquiz@gmail.com [7] http://www.srasys.com [8] http://www.wileyindia.com [9] http://www.tmhshop.com/ [10] http://www.pearsoned.co.in [11] http://www.bizsum.com [12] http://www.bizsum.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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article request
by Biju Varghese 07 May '12

07 May '12

Dear friends, Send me the below article if you have this one. Its urgently needed to one of the research scholar. Title :*Effect** **of** **plumbagin** **free** **alcohol** **extract** **of* * **Plumbago** **zeylanica** **Linn.** **root** **on** **reproductive** ** system** **of** **female** **Wistar** **rats.* Authors: *Sandeep** **G* <../pubmed?term=>, *Dheeraj** **A*<../pubmed?term=> , *Sharma** **NK* <../pubmed?term=>, *Jhade** **D* <../pubmed?term=>, * Bharti** **A* <../pubmed?term=>. Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine (2011), 4, (12), 978-984. ** -- Biju V V Technical Assistant Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam, Kerala Ph: +919446143971 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy of Post Graduate Trainee
by Kiran Khamitkar 07 May '12

07 May '12

Dear Professionals, Applications are invited from post graduates who are highly motivated to pursue their career for the following position:Library Trainee Positions: 3 Qualification: Post-graduate in Library & Information Science (M. Lib. Sc.) with basic degree in Science (preferable). Students who have appeared for final exam and awaiting results may also apply. Additional Qualification: Basic Knowledge of computer and preferably working knowledge of any library software and open source software. It is also desirable that the individuals are familiar with the preservation and conservation procedure of the library materials. Age limit: Below 25 years Tenure of position: Two years Emoluments: Rs.16000/- per month (inclusive of all) in the 1st year and Rs.17000/- per month (inclusive of all) in the 2nd year. Place of posting:Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) Bangalore For more details: http://www.iiap.res.in/files/Library%20Trainee.pdf -- Thanks with Regards, Kiran S Khamitkar, Library Trainee, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, 2nd Block, Koramangala, Bangalore- 560 034 M. No. +919743156689 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Admission Notification TISS : PG Diploma in Digital Library and Information Management 2012-13
by Satish Kanamadi 07 May '12

07 May '12

Dear Professionals, Greetings! Centre for Library and Information Management Studies, Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai is happy to announce admissions to the programme "Post Graduate Diploma in Digital Library and Information Management" for the year 2012-13. This cutting edge, one year dual mode programme uses contact classes for on campus and Moodle e-learning platform for its off-campus sessions.It is aimed at creating trained manpower to handle digital libraries and electronic resources. There is a burgeoning need for trained librarians in the light of national priorities like National Mission on Education through Information and Communication technology (NME-ICT) and National Knowledge Commission (NKC).This programme will equip librarians with skills of digital library and information management to play a bigger role in their organizations. The salient features of this programme are well crafted curriculum, sound theory and experiential learning unique to TISS Last date for submission of application is 29th June 2012 Please visit the following websites for prospectus and application form. http://www.tiss.edu/announcement/short-term-programmes-2012-13/admissions-t… http://library.tiss.edu/pgdlim.html We will also be happy to answer your queries. Thanking you, Prof.Muttayya Koganuramath Centre for Library and Information Management Studies SDTM Library Tata Institute of Social Sciences Deonar MUMBAI -400088 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Satish Kanamadi PhD Deputy Librarian Tata Institute of Social Sciences V N Purav Marg, Deonar MUMBAI -400088 INDIA Tel: 91-22-25525283 Email: satish(a)tiss.edu ; kanamadi(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Help your students become better searchers
by Jayadev P Hiremath 07 May '12

07 May '12

Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners. With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training. http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/index.html Warm regards. Jayadev P Hiremath Independent Libraries Professional (Former Librarian - IBS,Kuwait) E-mail : jayadevh(a)hotmail.com LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jayadev-p-hiremath/44/12a/2a0 Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/people/Jayadev-P-Hiremath/603802230 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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7 Words or Phrases to Never Say or Write Again
by Jayadev P Hiremath 07 May '12

07 May '12

By Roy Tennant <http://www.thedigitalshift.com/author/rtennant/> We all have our pet peeves, so here are some of mine, many of which were sparked by ideas from the Twitterverse (attributions below), so . These are words that in our opinion long ago outlived their usefulness, especially in a digital library realm, but that we still can’t seem to shake: - *OPAC* — Some days I think I will die a happy man *if I never, ever hear this again*. The shelf life of this pronounceable acronym should have been somewhere on the order of 3 years — instead, we’ve been saddled with it *for 30*. Why? I have no idea. It was ridiculous to begin with. Let me break it down for you. OPAC stands for Online *Public Access*Catalog. Why, pray tell, the “public access” bit? Because in the very earliest days, most automation systems in libraries were back room affairs. They simply automated the check out process, but they weren’t initially designed for the public to see or use. So when we decided to expose it to the public, the words “public access” were added. Brilliant. So now, some 30 years later, librarians *still* say “OPAC” as if that has any rational meaning to anyone presently living. So STOP already. - *Webmaster* — There are so many synonyms for managing a web site I hardly know where to begin, but this one seems to me to be the most prevalent. The only good part of this to me is that it prevents me from seeing such atrocities as *Webwizard*. It’s Web Manager, people, or something similar. You aren’t what most definitions of “master” mean, *nor do you wield magic*, you have a set of technical skills that are well between your average reference desk librarian and your hard-core coder. Get over yourself. - *E-Reading* — Yes, this monstrosity is out there<http://www.google.com/search?q=ereading>. It’s *reading*, people. Who cares what device, printed volume, street sign, codex, or disk <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaistos_Disc> you are performing this act upon. You are *reading* — making sense of symbols, whether they are chiseled into a tablet or lit up by the latest e-paper technology. - *Bibliographic Instruction* — I mean really. Who on this planet would rush to take part in *bibliographic instruction*. “Oh, wait, me! Pick me!” And this is from someone who did his fair share of this at one point in his career. I guess I know how deadly it can be. Don’t ever let this leave your lips around real humans, or prepare to be a pariah<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcast>. By the way, three different people nominated this on Twitter. I think it’s time to put it away for good. - *Library 2.0* — At the risk of sparking a religious war, I (and at least two of my Twitter followers) nominate this term for the dustbin of history, never to be seen again. Believe me, I get the motivation. I subscribed to *Business 2.0* before it met an untimely demise in the wake of the dotcom crash. I understand it is meant to signal a different way of doing things. From that aspect, it speaks to me, since I’ve been advocating a different way of doing things since oh, let me see, *the last 35 years*. But “Library 2.0″ never really spoke to me, and I found myself bristling at the idea that libraries were unchanging institutions before the Library 2.0 crowd came along. Well, let me take you back to the early 1980s — before the Internet, even before personal computers. Libraries have been changing *a lot*. I know, since I’ve lived it. But then I guess the Young Turks <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Turks>always need to revolt against the *status quo*. You won’t find me manning the parapets of the *status quo*, but you might find me arguing with the terminology of those attacking said parapets. - *Copy cataloging* — I know that this has stood us in good stead for many years, but they were *pre-Internet* years. Of course we needed to put a copy of a record in our local systems. But with the Internet, libraries are increasingly questioning the need to *have* a local system. Why have the headaches? Just identify what you have in some catalog in the sky and get on with it. At least that’s what I would do. - *Cybrarian* — I’m shocked to have this here, but since at least two people nominated it, it must still have some kind of life. What a ridiculous term. I remember from the early days of the Internet, where someone at UC Berkeley took on the moniker of “CyberBear”. I mean, puhleeeze. *Shoot me now*. So say it with me, “We solemnly swear to never let these words or phrases escape our lips or typing fingers for as long as we shall live.” There. Now it wasn’t all that difficult, was it? ------------------------------------------ Warm regards. Jayadev P Hiremath Independent Libraries Professional (Former Librarian - IBS,Kuwait) E-mail : jayadevh(a)hotmail.com LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jayadev-p-hiremath/44/12a/2a0 Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/people/Jayadev-P-Hiremath/603802230 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Columbia Library Columns/Bates College Digital Library
by Jayadev P Hiremath 05 May '12

05 May '12

Columbia Library Columns http://library.columbia.edu/content/libraryweb/indiv/rbml/digitalcollection… Most institutions keep records of their various activities, and university libraries are no different. Columbia University's Library published its in- house "Columbia Library Columns" from 1951 to 1996. Over the years it was edited by several people, including Kenneth A. Lohf, Jean Ashton, and Michael Stoller. This remarkable archive brings together the entire run; all told, it includes 135 issues and 6,900 pages. Visitors can browse the table of contents, peruse a list of all the volumes, and also perform a detailed keyword search. The Selected Articles of Interest collection brings together some of the most compelling offerings, such as "The John Jay Papers," "Instructing Women: Conduct Books in the Plimpton Library," and a rather intriguing piece from 1978 titled "The Library of the Future Has Books." Bates College Digital Library http://digilib.bates.edu/cgi-bin/library.cgi Bates College in Lewiston, Maine has created this site to provide access to some of the holdings in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library. Appropriately enough, the library holds the papers of Muskie, who served as the governor of Maine from 1955 to 1959, and then as one of the United States senators from the state from 1959 to 1980. One of the collections here consists of more than 400 interviews with individuals who knew, affected, or were affected by Senator Muskie. Visitors to the site can browse each interview, and in many cases, the interviews include an audio recording, a transcript and a summary sheet. Interested parties can search for particular words in each transcript and browse by interviewer, interviewee, and interviewer number. In addition, the site includes access to some of the 10,000 historic photographs of Bates College. This section of the site documents the life of the institution from 1875 to the present day, and users can search for photographs of classroom activities, clubs, dorm life, and theater. ------------------------------------------------- Warm regards. Jayadev P. Hiremath Independent Libraries Professional Former Librarian - IBS,Kuwait) E-mail : jayadevh(a)hotmail.com LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jayadev-p-hiremath/44/12a/2a0 Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/people/Jayadev-P-Hiremath/603802230 <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jayadev-p-hiremath/44/12a/2a0> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Workshop
by Pradip Das 05 May '12

05 May '12

*Dear Professionals* * It gives us immense pleasure to inform you that SVKM’s Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies ( NMIMS**), Shirpur Campus (MS) is organizing a two day’s National Workshop on “Web Technology and Skill Development for LIS Professionals **”* * * * Resources Persons:* * * *·* Dr. Mahendra Jadhav, Dy.Librarian, IIT Chennai *·* Dr. Shubhada Nagarkar, Asst.Prof.DLIS, Pune University, Pune *·* Prof. Charu Dubey NMIMS Mumbai *·* Ms. Swati Limaye, British Council, Pune *·* Two Resource Persons from Corporate *Venue:** * *SVKM’s NMIMS,* * Learning Resource Centre (Central Library)* *Mukesh Patel Technology Park, * *Shirpur Campus, Dist- Dhule (MS), * * **Workshop Dates **: – 1st – 2nd June 2012 * * * *No. of Participants:** – 60 only (on first come first serve basis.)* * **Last date for Registration: -** 25th May 2012* * **For more details Pl go through the attached PDF* *Thanks * Contact Person: Ravindra M. Mendhe Deputy Librarian, & organizing secretary y SVKM's NMIMS ( Deemed to be University Mumbai) Mukesh Patel Technology Park Shirpur Campus, Bank of Tapi River, Mumbai - Agra Road, Shirpur, Dist- Dhule- 425 405, MS, India Tel: 02563 -286545 , 9403503789 email: ravindra.mendhe(a)nmims.edu, , ravindramendhe@ <ravindramendhe@g> gmail.com Blog: www.ravindramendhe.blogspot.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Permissible number of lose books after stock verification
by silent listener 05 May '12

05 May '12

Dear fellow professionals, I would like to know is there any rule which help the Librarian against book lose.We have conducted stock verification in our self financing Engineering College Library and found some books missing.The management demand us to impose a common fine from students or to collect the compensation from library staff. I would be greatful if I get expertise regarding the matter so that I can claim the management regarding the rule. Waiting for your valuable comments. JOSEPH ZACHARIA +91 9947997767 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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