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KALA National Conference on "Libraries and Development: Present and Future" on 7, 8 & 9 June 2012
by rajendrababu.hanumanthappa＠wipro.com 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

Dear LIS Professionals, KALA is happy to announce The National Conference on "Libraries and Development: Present and Future" to be held on 7th, 8th & 9th June 2012 in Shravanabelagola, Karnataka, India. Conference Theme: "Libraries and Development: Present and Future" Sub Themes: · Privatisation of libraries (public libraries) with emphasis on public-private partnership · Financial resource mobilization including fee-base services · Karnataka Public Libraries Act (1965) · Metrics Management · Measuring Scholarly Impact Public Libraries: · Community Information centers; Information kiosks; Tele centers vis-à-vis public libraries. · Public Library situation in different states (situation reports) · Public Libraries vis-à-vis distance education · Collection development/ Evaluation · Staff position · Use/ User studies · Rural Libraries School and College Libraries · Library services in Schools and Colleges · School library management · Collection Development and Organization · New models of acquisition (e-books, e-journals) · Case Studies and Best Practices · Use/ User studies · Digital Libraries · Library Automation · Institutional Repositories (IR) · Library website · College Library consortia Special/ Industrial Libraries · Best practices · Web based information services · Innovative information services · Competencies/ Skills required Call for Papers Original contributions based on applications/ deployments/ research/ surveys/ best practices related to the theme and subthemes mentioned, are invited for conference presentations and poster presentations. Based on technical committee's recommendations, papers for the national conference shall be selected and published in the conference volume. Registration for all authors is mandatory for paper presentation. Paper Submission · The authors may submit their papers on or before 31st March 2012. · Papers should be submitted in a detailed format suggested below. · Acceptance of papers will be intimated to the authors by 30th April 2012. · In case of co-authors, correspondence will be sent to the first author only. · The deadline for registering for the National conference is 25th May 2012. · Accepted papers will be called for presentation based on editorial committee's scrutiny. . All the submitted papers for the conference would go through the Plagiarism Detection Process. If the plagiarism is >10%, the article would be referred back to the author for necessary revision. · Papers can be submitted through an email to Dr. K N Prasad:: kadaba.n.prasad at gmail.com Author Guidelines Manuscripts Requirements · Length: Not >10 pages maximum for a paper. However, authors are advised to write as much precise as possible. · Theme Font: Times New Roman · Font Size: Heading -20, Sub Heading -16, and rest of the text - 12. · Title: The title should be concise. · Paper Format: The paper should have the following details: o Sub-Theme of the paper to which the paper belongs to o Author's / Co-Author's name o Communication address o Contact details such as telephone number and email o An abstract of 100-150 words along with 8-10 key words · Headings and Sub-headings should be short and defined clearly · Footnotes may be used wherever necessary, which should be identified in the text by consecutive numbers, placed as superscript. · Case Studies proposed may preferably be supported by real life case examples from business/academic situations · Quality of Illustrations, Photos etc. must be good with original caption and in black and white · Tables and Figures, if any must have a brief caption written on the bottom of the figure and provide the due reference of the original work. · All text should be justified References must be in standard format as given below: · For Books: Author (Surname, initials), (year), title, publisher, place of publication. · For Journals: Author, A., & Author, B. (Year). Article title. Title of Periodical, Vol (Issue), pp-pp · For Web pages: Author, A., & Author, B. (Year). Title of the web page. Retrieved from http://... [Accessed on Date, Month & Year]. Venue: Auditorium, Library Building, Behind Bus Stand, Shravanabelagola, Hassan District, Karnataka. Date: 7th, 8th & 9th June 2012. Registration Fee: Rs. 2200.00: With Tutorials for Delegates (Conference Kit, Gift, Food, Accommodation, Local Site seeing and Yoga) Rs. 2000.00: Without Tutorials for Delegates (Conference Kit, Gift, Food, Accommodation, Local Site seeing and Yoga) Rs. 1500.00: For the family members accompanying the delegates (Gift, Food, Accommodation, Local Site seeing and Yoga) Tutorials would be held on 7th June 2012 for the duration of three hours. Tutorial on "Building/ Developing a Library Website Using Drupal" by experts in the Industry. The participants shall get the tutorial material on CD, including the related software. Early bird registration option is available for the registration before 30th April 2012. A discount of Rs 200 will be extended for all the above registration options. KALA members are entitled to get a Special discount of Rs.200 for all the registrations. Payment The DD/ Cheque should be drawn in favour of "Karnataka State Library Association" payable at Bangalore, Karnataka. Please send the filled in Conference registration forms and DD / Cheque to the address as below Mr. Rajendra Babu H Organising Secretary Karnataka State Library Association C/o Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS) # 702, 'Upstairs', 42nd Cross, III Block Rajajinagar, Bangalore - 560 010 Contact: +91-9916457890 / +91-9880297932 Advisory Committee: · Sri Sri Sri Charukeerthi Bhattaraka Swamiji, Shravanabelagola and Chief Patron. · Prof. V G Talawar, Vice Chancellor, University of Mysore, Mysore · Mr. P Y Rajendra Kumar, Conference Director and President KALA, Bangalore · Mr. D Surendra Kumar, Dharmastala, Karnataka · Mr. S Jithendra Kumar, President K.J,A · Dr. Hampa Nagarajaiah, Former President, Kannada Sahithya Parishat and Kannada Writer, Bangalore. · Prof. C R Karisiddappa, Former UGC Emeritus Fellow. Karnatak University, Dharwad. · Mr. N V Sathyanarayana, Chairman & Managing Director, Informatics India Ltd, Bangalore · Dr. I R N Goudar, Rtd, Head ICAST, NAL and Visiting Prof. and Lib Adviser, University of Mysore · Prof. I K Ravichandra Rao, Professor, DRTC,ISI, Bangalore. · Prof. Shalini R Urs, Executive Director, ISiM, University of Mysore, Mysore · Mr. K G Venkatesh, Director, Department of Public Libraries, Bangalore. · Mr. Ashok Kumar, Executive Officer, Sri Muth, Shravanabelagola Technical Committee: · Dr. K N Prasad, Executive Officer, SRELS, and KALA-GC member, Bangalore. · Prof. A Y Asundi, Rtd. Professor, Bangalore University, Bangalore · Prof. K S Raghavan, DRTC, ISI, Bangalore · Dr. M S Sridhar, Rtd. Head, Library and Doc. Centre, ISRO, Bangalore · Dr. N S Harinarayana, Associate Professor, DLISc, University of Mysore, Mysore · Mrs. Usha Mukunda, Member, Knowledge Commission, Karnataka Organizing Committee: · Mr. V L Kalyan, Library Advisor, DRTC, ISI and KALA-GC member, Bangalore . Dr. P V Konnur, Librarian, BUB, Bangalore · Dr. M M Bachalapur, Librarian, KIT, Tiptur and KALA-GC member, Bangalore · Mrs. Gayathri Sen, Librarian, PESIT and KALA-GC member, Bangalore · Mr. Raghavendra, Library Executive, Jubilant Biosys, and VP, KALA, Bangalore · Dr. K R Mulla, Spl. officer, VTU, Balgaum and Joint Sec, KALA, Bangalore · Mr. Shreenivas H E, Asst. Libn, Alliance University, and Joint Sec, KALA, Bangalore · Dr. Nagappa B, Branch Head, TCS, Bangalore. · Mr. S K Hosamani, Chief Librarian, DPL, Bangalore Special Note: · KALA Awards: Library Professionals across India are encouraged to apply for KALA Awards. For more details please visit conference website. · Best Paper Award shall be given to the best paper submitted based on technical committee's recommendations. For the conference Brochure, Registration form and other details, please visit http://www.kalaonline.com/ Regards, Rajendra Babu H General Secretary, Karnataka State Library Association (KALA). Please do not print this email unless it is absolutely necessary. The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. WARNING: Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. 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Invitation to participate in the One day Workshop on “E-books: Issues & Challenges” to be held on 15th March, 2012
by Kishor Satpathy 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

Dear All, I am happy to inform you that the Central Library, National Institute of Technology Silchar is going to organize a workshop on “E-books: Issues & Challenges” on 15th March, 2012. The main purpose of this workshop is to identify the issues and complexities involved in e-books and its future stand on academic and research in the field of engineering & technology. The objectives of this workshop are the following: · To find out the importance and advantages of e-books. · To find out the technological issues & challenges of e-books · To indentify the resources of for procurement Experts from e-book Publishing Industry & Faculty from NIT Silchar / Assam University will deliver lectures in this workshop. You are requested to participate in the workshop. For detailed information please contact: Dr. Kishor Chandra Satpathy Librarian 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 Thanking you, Yours faithfully, Dr. Kishor Chandra Satpathy -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for an article
by Binod Yadav 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

Dear colleague/Professional, Please provide the following articles. 1. Ergonomics. 1989 May;32(5):491-5. Anthropometry of Korean female industrial workers. Fernandez JE, Malzahn DE, Eyada OK, Kim CH. 2. Ergonomics. 1992 Nov;35(11):1393-8. Anthropometry of south Indian industrial workmen. Fernandez JE, Uppugonduri KG. Source Department of Industrial Engineering, Wichita State University, KS 67208. Thanking you in anticipation. -- Binod Kumar Yadav Senior Librarian B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences Dharan, Nepal Phone: +97725525555 Mobile:+977-9804060641 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Deputy Librarian post at SNDT Mumbai
by Bhupendra Bansod 10 Mar '12

10 Mar '12

Dear all, S.N.D.T. WOMEN’S UNIVERSITY, 1, Nathibai Thackersey Road, MUMBAI-400020 published ADVERTISEMENT NO. 01 OF 2012 for the following posts. 1. Deputy Librarian – (Open - 01) SNDT Women’s University Library 2. Assistant Librarian – (DT(A) – 01, Open - 01) SNDT Women’s University Library 3. Documentalist – (OBC - 01)RCWS, Juhu The candidates belonging to reserved and physically challenged category can also apply for open posts. The prescribed application form along with details regarding the Qualification, Experience, Age and Pay Scale etc. may be downloaded from the University Web Site www.sndt.ac.in The duly filled up applications should reach the Registrar before 05.00 p.m. on or before April 10, 2012. Applications received after the due date for any reason whatsoever/other than prescribed form/incomplete applications shall not be considered/accepted. LAST DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF DULY FILLED APPLICATIONS 10/04/2012 DETAILS ABOUT THE TEACHING & OTHER THAN TEACHING POSTS PUBLISHED IN THE ADVERTISEMENT NO. 01 OF 2012 (Published in Loksatta & The Indian Express) -- Bhupendra Bansod, Librarian, PVDT College of Education, SNDT Women's University, Churchgate, Mumbai - 20 Mo. +91 9029092218 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Require Book
by prammila Jamdade 10 Mar '12

10 Mar '12

Dear Members, One of our faculty member need following book urgently. *Manual for Conners' Rating Scales By Conners C K, Publisher : Multi - Health Systems, Inc. North Tonawanda, NY. Any Latest Edition * Please send suppliers name and address Or Please kindly infom, if anyone has this book with you. http://addwarehouse.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/conners-rating-scales-revise… Or http://portal.wpspublish.com/portal/page?_pageid=53,112710&_dad=portal&_sch… Or http://psychcorp.pearsonassessments.com/HAIWEB/Cultures/en-us/Productdetail… Or http://www.pearsonpsychcorp.com.au/productdetails/97/1/44 Or https://shop.acer.edu.au/acer-shop/group/CRS3/63;jsessionid=70244BA7DE0459F… Pramila Jamdade Librarian Tehmi Grant Institute of Nursing Education Ruby Hall Clinic Pune - 1 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Registration closed for Seminar on "Managing Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) at JNU
by Dr Ramesh C Gaur 10 Mar '12

10 Mar '12

Dear Professional Colleague, Many thanks for your overwhelming response to our first announcement for the National Seminar on "Managing Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) being organized at JNU in collaboration with INFLIBNET during 22-23 March 2012. The registration for participation to the above Seminar has been closed with immediate effect. We have already exceeded the desired registration limit of 250+. Only the candidates who have already registered will be considered for the participation in the Seminar. No spot registration will be entertained. The tentative programme and other details of the seminar are available at http://www.jnu.ac.in/Library/Seminars.htm . With regards, Ramesh ************************************** Dr. Ramesh C Gaur PGDCA, MLISc,Ph.D. Fulbright Scholar (Virginia Tech, USA) University Librarian Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU) New Meharuli Road, New Delhi - 110067 Tele +91-11-26742605, 26704551 Fax : +91-11-26741603 Email: rcgaur(a)mail.jnu.ac.in ;rcgaur66(a)gmail.com URL: www.jnu.ac.in Brief Profile: http://www.jnu.ac.in/Library/RameshCGaur.htm -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Post of Librarian @ SAINIK SCHOOL, REWA (MP)
by amit uraon 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

*SAINIK SCHOOL, REWA (MP)* APPLICATIONS ARE INVITED FOR THE REGULARS POST OF LIBRARIAN. *Essential Qualification :* Graduate with degree / diploma in Library Science from a recognised institution. Ability to converse fluenty in English and Minimum 02 years experience as a Librarian in a Senior Secondary English Medium School affiliated to CBSE. *Desirable Qualification :* Computer Literate, ability to operate Library Management System, Proficiency in Games, NCC, CCA, experience working in a residential School etc. will be given preference. *Pay and Benefit : *Pay Band : Rs. 930034800/, Grade Pay : Rs. 4600 *Age Limit :* Between 21 and 35 years as on 01 Mar 201 *Last Date: *17 Apr 2012. *How to Apply : *Candidates to send thier application with full Biodata on a plain paper along with one passport size colour photograph pasted on the right top corner alongwith attested photocopies in support of essential and desirable qualifications. Please provide email Id and mob No with application form for correspondence. Also enclose Demand Draft of Rs. 300/ (Nonrefundable) drawn in favour of Principal, Sainik School, Rewa (MP) payable at Punjab National Bank / State Bank of India, Rewa (MP) – 486 001. *For further detailed information* Contact :* 07662257109* on working days between 0800 – 1400 hrs. With regards: Amit Uraon LIA, National Library, Kolkata -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Penguin and OverDrive: The Scuffle
by Madhurjyamoy Das 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

Respected all, It is a news of concern that Penguin would no longer provide its ebooks via OverDrive (OD) that shares ebooks to lending libraries, which provide their content, of course, free of charge. OD extends its services to more than 7000 public libraries in US and approx. 950 publishers, and an access to over a hundred thousand works which OD helps libraries lending to patrons. Similar incidents happened earlier as Penguin once removed its titles from OD, but to return them again in few days without the new titles. Publishers, content providing mechanisms such as OD, and libraries all understandably have their own interests in mind, and some publishers, such as Simon & Schuster as well as Macmillan, don't lend books in this manner at all, while only Random House gives libraries full access to its entire catalog. The reason claimed in Penguin's retreat is in the process of lending books. While OD allows users to download books over the air directly to their devices, Penguin wanted the process to involve a download first to the patron's computer, then to the device, making the lending experience a bit more cumbersome. Regardless, this is likely not the last move in this discussion as publishers struggle to come to terms with the digital model. Earlier, at a meeting On February 8, American Library Association (ALA) president Molly Raphael met with executives at Random, Perseus, and Penguin and tried to resolve the issue. While nothing has been settled, it supposed to usher some optimism: there was a lot of air-clearing eliminating misconceptions while enhancing mutual appreciation, as claimed by her. But to the most of the publishers, a library is an institutional buyer especially in the print world, and not as channels for retail consumer sales to individual patron or user. Although some research clearly show that more than 19% of users who use the library weekly, not only read and borrow more books than other library users, but approx 40% of them confirm that they bought a book which was previously borrowed by them from the library; almost 70% bought a book by authors they discovered in the library. These Power Patrons are also more avid users of the library’s digital content and of social media.In fact, in contrast to what the publishers have feared for , ebook world may open up a new outlet for publisher sales, as evidenced by many libraries of late. The library website has usually a buy button on the homepage and that button enables patrons to purchase ebooks that are already checked out. In all this ferment, Random House, while reaffirming its commitment to library lending, announced that, with effect from March 1, plans to raise prices to wholesalers, who in turn set their own markups to libraries. Anyway, it indicates that the ebook ecosystem will continue to be wild and imprecise as publishers try to find the right pricing and access models for libraries and protect their businesses. Madhuryamay Das B.Tech (Univ. of Tech, WB), Masters (IIT-Kharagpur), MS-LIS (DRTC, ISI-Bangalore) (For regular blogging and most recent job-updates in LIS, please visit the blog at http://lis-digest.blogspot.in/) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy @ Arsha Vidya Mandir
by Usha Ramu 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

Arsha Vidya Mandir - a CBSE School has vacancy for the post of Librarian. Qualification : MLIS Salary : Negotiable Prefereably Female Candidates. Interested may forward their CV to this address *Arsha Vidya Mandir,* 114, Velachery Road, Guindy, Chennai - 32, Ph:22301177. Contact Person Ms. Nisha. Can call over phone and fix an appointment. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Mysore University OPAC on Mobile
by Ishwar Goudar 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Dear Professionals, I am happy inform you all that our University Library Web OPAC has gone the * mobile way*. We have adopted open source library automation system KOHA for all our house keeping activities including OPAC and the same has been made available in cloud hosting environment. Anybody can access our OPAC on *Mobile* at site http://mopac.mysore-univ.org/ To see what it looks like in a mobile phone, please use following site on your desktop/laptop: http://iphonetester.com/?url=http://mopac.mysore-univ.org/ Apple claims to have sold record number of Smart-phones smashing the the record of PC sales. The same has been the fate with Laptops and notebooks. ( http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/smartphone-sales-exceed-those-of-pcs-fo… ) Internet access through Mobile has become the order of the day. This being the case, I strongly feel that all of us should go the mobile way for our OPACs. Our patrons can use their mobile for reserving, renewing the documents and all related activities. We are working towards using Mobile SMSs for overdue reminders, informing the availability of reserved documents, documents purchased against requests, broadcasting important library related messages, etc. The automation model we have adopted is *-* Centralised database, decentralised inputting/ housekeeping activities and Universal access to OPAC. Once completed the OPAC will have > 10 Lakh records of documents available in colleges, institutes, PG Centres and various departments, which are directly under the control of Mysore University. We acknowledge OSS Labs, Bangalore for having given quality, timely and cost effective service to us in this matter. Probably ours is the first university library to go mobile way for OPAC (?). Please have a look at it and give your feedback, enabling us to improve the service. Regards, Dr. I.R.N. Goudar Visiting professor and Library Adviser University of Mysore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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