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IEEE University Partnership Program on “Library and Life: Be a Lifetime Student”, Keynote Address: Prof. P. Balaram, Former Director, on 2nd Nov. 2022, at Faculty Hall, Main Building, IISc
by Suresh Balutagi 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

Dear All, JRD Tata Memorial Library, IISc, and IEEE-IISc Student Branch invites you for an event under the IEEE University Partnership Program on “Library and Life: Be a Lifetime Student”. Date & Time: Wednesday, 2nd November 2022 @ 3.00 p.m. Venue: Faculty Hall, Main Building, IISc Keynote Address: Title: Hunting for Hidden Gems in Real and Virtual Libraries Speaker: Prof. P. Balaram, Former Director, IISc Abstract: Libraries can be endless sources of pleasure for those who wish to learn. I describe four examples of searches for information about little known scientists who did outstanding work in their time. The use of both scientometric data and archives will be illustrated with specific examples. I shall narrate the stories of what I learnt of Sambhu Nath De, who discovered cholera toxin in Kolkata, Dorothy Hamre who discovered the coronavirus in Chicago, Bijoor Sanjiva Rao who isolated morellin at IISc and William Mock who rediscovered a 1905 paper and found the remarkable molecule, cucurbituril. There is joy in searching and indescribable pleasure on finding. Panel Discussion: Prof. L. Umanand, Electronic Systems Engineering Prof. Upendra Nongthomba, Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics Prof. T. Srinivas, Electrical Communication Engineering Quiz – Surprise Gifts for Participants Coffee/Tea: 5:30 p.m. Registration Link : https://bit.ly/iiscieeeday1 with regards, Suresh Balutagi Deputy Librarian JRD Tata Memorial Library -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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INDIAN LIBRARY CONGRESS-A PLATFORM FOR INTENSE DELIBERATIONS
by Vimal Kumar V. 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

Welcome to the Indian Library Congress, a platform for intense deliberations to shape ideas for the sustainable and inclusive development of libraries in India as empowering, democratic and inclusive public spaces. Indian Library Congress-2023 January 1-3-Kannur-Call for Papers The Indian Library Congress is scheduled to be held at Kannur from 1-3 January 2023. The Congress aims at a scholarly assessment of the local and global experience in the functioning of libraries. The focus is on formulating an active strategy to assess the prospects and address the present and future challenges. http://peoplesmission.in/call-for-papers/ Papers are invited in the following themes. Themes of Indian Library Congress 1. Evolution and history of libraries Changes in global concepts through the ages – Regional, national and international experiences of libraries in community building – Local self-government institutions and Co-operative movement – Functional integration of public libraries and libraries in academic institutions; Problems and prospects 2. Politics of the public library Critical appraisals of Indian experience – Evolution, growth and challenges-– Public policy and allocation of resources by the State and Union governments. 3. Library – society and culture Social justice and the experiential world of the marginalized – Libraries and women empowerment- culture and literature – Literacy, literature, community and libraries – Sports and public libraries – Libraries and child development and welfare- Librarians and their changing roles in the present 4. Contemporary Kerala – Library movement: Challenges and prospects Kerala development experience -Collective learning and skill development through libraries -The people’s library movement and resource mobilization in the background of the People’s Mission for Social Development 5. Libraries- spatial transformation Libraries and the role of science and technology – Building designs, construction, preservation and expansion of democratic spaces – Green libraries 6. Imagining the future libraries => The last date for the submission of abstracts is 15th November 2022. Completed papers with proper citations and references are to be submitted latest by 30th November 2022. => Presenters are requested to register at www.peoplesmission.in and the registration number should be mentioned in the final paper. Abstracts and papers may be emailed to ilckannur1(a)gmail.com. For details please contact: Dr. P. Mohandas: Convenor, Academic Committee, Mobile No.: 9447755381 Home page: http://peoplesmission.in TO REGISTER CLICK HERE: http://pmsd.in/ILC/backend/web/library-registration/new-registration -- *Vimal Kumar V., PhD* Reference Assistant Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala-686560 ------------------------------------------ My Home page:www.vimalkumar.info My Blogs:linuxhalwa.blogspot.com kohageek.blogspot.com moovandan.blogspot.com ----------------------------------------------------------- *"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." Alvin Toffler* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Copyright to research papers should vest with authors
by Subbiah Arunachalam 31 Oct '22

31 Oct '22

Friends and Members of the LIS Forum, In an interview given to *SciDevNet* in 2009, Prof. Padmanabhan Balaram said, "I argue that we should be permitted to put in the repository the full text article as it appears in a journal. For this, countries such as India should have a law specifying that the copyright for articles published with publicly-funded research always vests with the authors and their institutions. [See https://www.scidev.net/global/features/q-a-open-archives-the-alternative-to… ]. Prof. Peter Suber of Harvard University has argued that journals DO NOT NEED exclusive rights to publish papers. Please see https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/id/1869/?s=03. Here is Suber's Abstract: "Journal publishers don’t need exclusive rights. Or, they don’t need them for publishing. They don’t need them to make a work public or to add value in the form of peer review, copy editing, metadata, formatting, discoverability, or preservation. Nor do they need them to make enough money to pay their bills and grow. Publishers only need exclusive rights for monopoly control over the published work and any revenue it might yield. Publishers who say they need exclusive rights are saying they need this monopoly control. The best evidence that journal publishers don’t need exclusive rights is that so many peer-reviewed journals do without them, for example, open access journals using CC-BY." Thirteen years have passed since Prof. Balaram wrote about the need for retention of rights. Have the Current Science Association, IASc, INSA, NASI and government agencies such as DST, DBT, CSIR, ICAR, IICMR, DAE and UGC written to the Government of India about this issue? Probably not. I suggest that librarians of all Higer Educational Institutions (HEIs) and other research performing institutions (RPIs) in the country write to the Members of the Lok Sabha from their constituencies requestig them to enact such a law. You may also talk to your Vice Chancellors/ Directors to adopt a Rights Retention policy at your institution. Regards. Arun

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Forthcoming Events in Nov & Dec 2022
by Mohan Hr 31 Oct '22

31 Oct '22

Forthcoming Events of CSI, IEEE CS, ACM & HCC in Nov & Dec 2022 *12th Nov 2022 at 6 pm IST -- Webinar * Topic: Trends in Space Technologies and Opportunities for Computing Speaker: Mr. Murali Sundaram, Consultant, Npedia Technologies Date & Time: 12th Nov 2022 at 6 pm IST PDF Invite at https://bit.ly/3TLaGC1 Register at https://bit.ly/3z25nWV *26th Nov 2022 at 6 pm IST -- Webinar * Topic: Machine Learning Beyond Algorithms Speaker: Mr. M. A. Rajeev, Enterprise Architect, Tata Consultancy Services, Kochi. Date & Time: 26th Nov 2022 at 6 pm IST PDF Invite at https://bit.ly/3yPDp0u Register at https://bit.ly/3s7mcLW *30th Nov 2022 at 6 pm IST -- Webinar * Topic: Privacy & Security in every one’s life Speaker: Mr. Sairam Palabindela, Security Researcher, TSARO Labs Inc., Michigan, USA Date & Time: 30th Nov 2022 at 6 pm IST PDF Invite at https://bit.ly/3eRANIN Register at https://bit.ly/3DkJAfv *10th Dec 2022 at 6 pm IST -- Webinar* Topic: Future of Software Testing - Chaos Engineering & Evolving Systems for Reliability Speaker: Mr. Abhilash Gopalakrishnan, Former Principal Engineer, ABB & Researcher at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Date & Time: 10th Dec 2022 at 6 pm IST PDF Invite at https://bit.ly/3fksg12 Register at https://bit.ly/3DNstDy *Call for Papers -- 29th Nov 2022 -- Symposium -- Hybrid* RISICS’23: Research & Industry Symposium on "Information and Cyber Security" (in honour of Mr. FC Kohli, Father of Indian Software Industry) Symposium Date: 25th January, 2023 (Full day, Hybrid Mode) Organised by: Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Avinashi Road, Civil Aerodrome Post, Coimbatore – 641014 Supported by: Association for Computing Machinery, Chennai & Coimbatore; Computer Society of India, Chennai & Coimbatore; and IEEE Computer Society, Madras Papers submission last date: 29th Nov 2022 Prizes: Best three papers presented will be awarded cash prizes of Rs 10K, 7.5K and 5K respectively. Brochure: https://lnkd.in/gEX3BbVT Website: https://lnkd.in/gY9JNyhd Other Events in Nov 2022 at https://bit.ly/3Dt6SzV

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Discourage paying APC to publishers
by Subbiah Arunachalam 31 Oct '22

31 Oct '22

Friends and fellow information scientists, This will be of interest: https://www.aaas.org/sites/default/files/2022-10/OpenAccessSurveyReport_Oct… . Please impress upon researchers in your institutions that 1. If research is supported by public funding, then using taxpayers' money to pay APC is immoral and unethical. [Please remember that in publicly funded research APC is almost always paid out of taxpayers' money given to the researcher for the purpose of doing research and not to be given away to publishers] 2. They could gain instant visibility to their work, as soon as it is ready for publication, by placing it in a preprint server virtually at no cost. For a list of OA repositories, please see https://doapr.coar-repositories.org/repositories/. You may also propose the adoption of a Rights Retention Policy by your institution. That would mean no more copyright transfer to the journal publisher. The publisher will only have the exclusive right to publish the paper first. With best wishes, Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Advertisement for the post of librarian at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru
by Francis Jayakanth 31 Oct '22

31 Oct '22

Dear Members, IISc has advertised for the above position. The English version of the advertisement is available at the following link: https://iisc.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/English-Advertisement-Librari… Hindi and Kannada versions are available at the links mentioned below: https://iisc.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/HindiAdvertisement.pdf https://iisc.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Kannada-Advertisement.pdf Interested individuals are requested to apply online at the following link: http://recruitment.iisc.ac.in/NonTeaching/ along with the certified copies of supporting documents on or before 18/11/2022.e post. Best regards, Francis Francis Jayakanth JRD Tata Memorial Library IISc -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Institutional Repositories
by Subbiah Arunachalam 31 Oct '22

31 Oct '22

Friends, There is much talk about open access in India but if we talk about action we have a long way to go. I would even say OA in India is a story of missed opportunities. More than 20 years ago, thanks to the efforts of Dr T B Rajashekar and Dr Francis Jayakanth, NCSI at IISc set up the first institutional repository for research papers based on EPrints. That repository is not only the first in India but one of the earliest in the world. But we lost the lead. Incidentally, EPrints was the first software for repositories and it was developed by a group of researchers at the University of Southampton's Department of Electronics and Computer Science, where Prof. Stevan Harnad, the archevangelist of open access, was on the faculty. Here is a fabulous talk (52 min) on institutional repositories by an expert in scholarly communication and one of the pioneers of the OA movement, Dr Alma Swan, who was also associated for some years with the Univ. of Southampton: https://hstalks.com/t/2293/institutional-repositories/. Although delivered more than 10 years ago, what she spoke is applicable to us today. Dr Alma Swan has played an important role in promoting OA in India and the developing world. She spoke at a special session on OA at the 63rd Indian Science Congress at Hyderabad in 2006. She convinced Dr David Hoisington, Deputy Director of ICRISAT (who had not yet made up his mind when Dr Balaji, the head of Knowledge Resources at ICRISAT had put together all that was needed) that it would be good to have an IR, and that led the entire IGCAR system to adopt IRs. She also came to India in 2006 for a three-day international workshop hosted jointly by IASc, IISc and MSSRF and spoke to delegates from India, China, Brazil, South Africa and a few other countries from the Global South, and helped draft an OA policy for developing countries, that came to be known as the Bangalore declaration. Please see MEETING REPORT: Open access and developing countries Barbara Kirsop, Current Science, Vol. 92, No. 3 (10 February 2007) <https://www.jstor.org/stable/i24096703>, pp. 276-277. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24096714. Arun - <https://hstalks.com/t/2293/institutional-repositories/#> - <https://hstalks.com/t/2293/institutional-repositories/#> -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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One Day National Seminar on 25 November 2022 @ Hubballi
by S.F Kattimani 30 Oct '22

30 Oct '22

Dear sir Madam *The KLE Technological University, Hubballi, is celebrating its 75th Anniversary (Amrit Mahostava 1947-2022); on this auspicious occasion, The Central Library has hosted “One Day National Seminar on **“Repositioning of Libraries in Research Information Management System of Higher Learning Institutes.”* Date: 25 November 2022 Venue: BT Auditorium BVBCET Campus Hubballi No Registration Fee (Registration includes a Seminar kit, Breakfast, Lunch, High Tea and participation certificates) For Registration: please click here: https://forms.gle/1WtrdmH1qNtGqAHz5 [image: qrcode for registration.png] President: Dr Ashok Shettar, Vice Chancellor KLE Technological University Chief Guest: Dr B D Kumbar, Vice Chancellor, Davangere University, Davanger Speakers: Dr Sanjay Banavar, Director of Libraries Ahmedabad University Dr Shrinivas D Desai, Prof School of Computer Science & Engg KLETECH Dr Umesh K Reddy, Librarian IISER Pune Dr Shivaram BS ICAST CSIR NAL Bangalore Dr Arun Adrakatti Asst Librarian IISER Odisha Dr Uma Mudenagudi Dean R & D KLE Tech Hubballi Best Regards -- *DR SHIVAPUTRAPPA KATTIMANI PhD* *CHIEF LIBRARIAN* *CENTRAL LIBRARY* *KLE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY* *Formerly known as BVBCET - B. V. BhoomaraddiCollege of Engineering & Technology* *VIDYA NAGAR- HUBLI* *KARNATAKA STATE (INDIA)-580031* *0836-2378303* *9886821032* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Workshop on Koha ILS
by Vimal Kumar V. 28 Oct '22

28 Oct '22

National Workshop on Koha ILS Dates: 12-13 November 2022 Time: 9:30 P.M. – 5:00 P.M. Organized by Democratic Alliance for Knowledge Freedom-Kottayam and BCM College, Kottayam. Venue: BCM College, Kottayam, Kerala State-686 001 Intake Capacity: 30 Registration Fees: Rs. 1100 (Includes Lunch and Tea) Online registration Link: https://rzp.io/l/dakf-bcm Accommodation: The conference fee does not include your accommodation. Organisers will help you to find accommodation in Kottayam town. Resource Persons for the Workshop 1. Dr Vimal Kumar V, Reference Assistant, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala State, India. 2. Sri. Subeesh Gopinathan, Librarian, St. Mary's Women's College for Teacher Education, Thiruvalla.. 3. Sri. Mahesh Palamuttath, Librarian, East Campus, Sacred Heart College, Kochi. Organising Secretary: Jincy Philip ( Sr. Gracena ), Librarian (UGC), BCM College, Kottayam. Contact Person: Dr. Vimal Kumar V., Secretary, DAKF, Kottayam. Mobile: 9846496323 Please find the workshop schedule at the following url, https://vimal0212.files.wordpress.com/2022/10/koha-workshop-dakf-bcm.pdf -- *Vimal Kumar V., PhD* Reference Assistant Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala-686560 ------------------------------------------ My Home page:www.vimalkumar.info My Blogs:linuxhalwa.blogspot.com kohageek.blogspot.com moovandan.blogspot.com ----------------------------------------------------------- *"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." Alvin Toffler* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Indian institutions may adopt a Rights aRetention Policy
by Subbiah Arunachalam 28 Oct '22

28 Oct '22

Friends in the LIS fraternity, Please consider spearheading the Rights Retention Policy in your institutions. Please read https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/10/26/reviewing-the-rig… Arun -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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