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Article need
by Mahesh.. brp? 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Dear Sir, One of my faculty need this article for his research work, if you have access send me this article. Application of artificial intelligence for the determination of package parameters for a desired solder joint fatigue life doi: 10.1108/13565360610659707 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13565360610659707> -- *With Warm & Regards* ** *Mahesh. Y* *Assistant Librarian KS Group of Instituation Mallasandra Bangalore-62* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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UGC to rethink ban on distance PhD
by Mailing List Admin 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

From: sambhaji patil <sambhajipatil07(a)gmail.com> The University Grants Commission (UGC) will now seek legal opinion on its two-year-old ban on MPhil and PhD courses through distance learning. The decision came after universities have claimed that such a ban is hampering their autonomy. The commission discussed the matter at its last meeting on February 3, 2011 and decided to seek legal opinion on whether its regulations can override powers conferred on the universities by their acts to offer such courses, a source said. The UGC came out with a rule in 2009— the Minimum Standards and Procedure for Awards of MPhil/PhD Degree Regulation — that states research courses in the distant mode were of poor quality. The regulations have put a question mark on the future of nearly 10,000 students pursing such courses through universities across the country and the degrees that they will eventually get. Even those who have got such degrees since the regulations were issued face uncertainty. In order to protest the rule Open University IGNOU and evn regular universities have argued that their respective laws, passed by Parliament or the state legislatures, allowed them to offer such courses. Although there are institutions like IGNOU which are not following the bar, “The UGC regulations do not apply to us as we have been allowed to offer such courses under our act. That is why we did not stop our PhD and MPhil programmes,” vice-chancellor Rajasekharan Pillai said. Justifying the ban, R.K. Chauhan, a former UGC Secretary said, “The quality of research programmes like PhD and MPhil is poor in the distant-learning mode. Large numbers of students pursued such courses, which were treated equivalent to the National Eligibility Test (NET) held to appoint lecturers.” Chauhan contrasted the distance-learning programmes with the relatively tougher UGC rules that apply to the regular PhD and MPhil courses, under which students are to be given admission through an entrance test and must do a course before start working on their thesis. But Ignou vice-chancellor Pillai claimed the UGC had no authority to debar universities from offering any course. “Our university is an autonomous organisation under the IGNOU Act and is allowed to offer MPhil and PhD courses. We have been offering such courses since the 1990s. How can the UGC take away that power?” Officials of the central varsity have met a UGC panel and demanded that the ban be lifted. Pillai said IGNOU’s MPhil and PhD were more rigorous programmes. Students have to do a course work and get their research published in a varsity-prescribed journal. But A.N. Mishra, president of the Federation of the Central University Teachers’ Association, argued that as the statutory body regulating higher education, the UGC could set standards to maintain quality in research programmes. [Source: The Telegraph<http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110303/jsp/nation/story_13661256.jsp#> ] Please see website:- http://www.indiaeducationreview.com/news/ugc-rethink-over-ban-distance-phd From Sambhaji Patil Librarian MET's Institute of Engineering, Bhujbal Knowledge City, Adgaon, Nashik-3 Maharashtra 09420691868

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MACP for Librarians
by RK_Panda 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

Dear Professional, I wish to know some information from the government librarians coming under 6th pay commission. Whethere the librarians are coming under sixth pay commission MACP for 10/20/30 years policy ? if the answer is yes, kindly let me know the govt. office / organisation implemented it. Because KVS has implemented this scheme only for non-academic (non-teaching) staffs & the KVS librarians post do not comes under their defination. so as we people are devoid of this facility. Thanks -- Mr.R.K.Panda Librarian Kendriya Vidyalaya Gopalpur Military Station Odisha-7610052, India http://librarykvgopalpurms.wordpress.com Mob: 9861534316 -- 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] KOHA Implementation @ University of Mysore
by Vimal Kumar 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

Dear Friends, Adoption of Koha ILS in Mysore University and British Libraries in India is a good move. I hope that, this initiatives inspire other libraries to use Koha. Many libraries not automated yet due to lack of money to buy a proprietary software. Koha now is in mature stage to use in Indian libraries. Lack of awareness and training are the main barrier. A general perception rooted among librarians is that Open Source softwares are not user friendly and difficult to learn. Its true, many librarians got bitter experiences while try to install Koha. Now scene is changed lot, Koha Live CD is available for download. Koha is ready to use after installing the live CD. No need to install Koha after Linux installation. Here are the Koha Live CD/DVD link, http://kohalivecd.mizstik.com/p/koha-live-cd.html http://sourceforge.net/projects/kohalivedvd/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/liblivecd/ http://www.osslabs.biz/koha/livecd Regards, -- Vimal Kumar V. Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.co.nr Blog: http://vimalkumar.oksociety.in http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White My profiles: [image: Delicious] <http://www.delicious.com/vimal0212> [image: SlideShare] <http://www.slideshare.net/vimal0212> [image: Flickr]<http://www.flickr.com/photos/vimal0212/> [image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/home.php#%21/profile.php?id=512044127> [image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/vimal0212>Latest tweet: Currently Browsing: http://is.gd/rB9XhG Follow @vimal0212 <http://twitter.com/vimal0212> <http://twitter.com/?status=@vimal0212%20&in_reply_to_status_id=446732401567…> Reply<http://twitter.com/?status=@vimal0212%20&in_reply_to_status_id=446732401567…> <http://twitter.com/?status=RT%20%40vimal0212%3A%20Currently%20Browsing%3A%2…> Retweet<http://twitter.com/?status=RT%20%40vimal0212%3A%20Currently%20Browsing%3A%2…> 13:48 Mar-07 <http://twitter.com/vimal0212/statuses/44673240156741630> Get this email app! <http://www.wisestamp.com/apps/twitter?utm_source=extension&utm_medium=email…> Signature powered by <http://www.wisestamp.com/email-install?utm_source=extension&utm_medium=emai…> WiseStamp<http://www.wisestamp.com/email-install?utm_source=extension&utm_medium=emai…> -- 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 Mamtha's Gmail 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

Dear Friends, Kindly provide full-text of following articles, if available in your library. 1. Effect of retinal blur on the peak latency of the pattern evoked potential. Sokol S, Moskowitz A * Vision Research (1981) ; 21 (8) :1279–86.* 2. Voluntary changes of visual evoked potentials in cases with hysteria and/or simulation [in Spanish]. Manresa MJ, Bonaventura I, Martinez I, et al. * Revista de Neurologica (1996) ;24 (127) :285– 6.* Thanking You. Best wishes Mamtha Pk Central Library Yenepoya University Deralakatte Reply Forward -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Doctorate annulled for plagiarism
by Mangesh J Ghodke 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

Doctorate annulled for plagiarism By: B V Shiva Shankar Date: 2011-03-08 Former member of academic council plans to appeal to the government to initiate criminal action against guide and student who prepared the thesis In a first ever, the High Court has ordered annulment of a PhD awarded for a doctoral thesis on grounds of plagiarism. Hearing a PIL, a two-member bench of the High Court comprising Chief Justice J S Kehar, and Justice A S Boppanna ordered annulling the resolution of the Bangalore University Syndicate for awarding a PhD for a thesis submitted by Venkataramanappa in 2003. It's a steal: Apart from content, pictures were used from books penned by Mylarappa's in Venkataramanappa's thesis MiD DAY had earlier carried a series of reports exposing the plagiarism along with copies of pages of the thesis, which were verbatim copy of the books Gramina Baduku and Krishi Karmikaru authored by B C Mylarappa. Content, apart from pictures were used in the thesis submitted by Venkataramanappa. Following the PhD being awarded to Venkataraman-appa, L Vasudeva Murthy, then member of the academic council, petitioned Governor T N Chaturvedi to cancel the plagiarised thesis. In 2007, Chaturvedi constituted an enquiry committee that confirmed that the content was indeed plagiarised. However, the government did not act on the governor's directions to annul the thesis, following which Murthy moved the High Court with the PIL. "It is a victory and truth prevailed after a long drawn out legal battle. I am happy that the court upheld my objections," said Murthy. Mylarappa, whose books were plagiarized, had allegedly allowed Venkataramanappa to use content from his books, since in order to be eligible for professorship as per the rules, he had to be guided by a PhD. Murthy added that he would appeal to the government to initiate criminal action against Mylarappa and Venkataramanappa, as according to the court this was a case of fraud. While Mylarappa declined to comment on the issue, Venkataramanappa remained unavailable for comment. http://www.mid-day.com/news/2011/mar/080311-News-Bangalore-academic-council… Mangesh Ghodke Sr. Librarian, L&T Infotech Ltd., Mumbai. Tel.: 022-67953011 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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GOC RATES
by Elan Ramesh 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

Dear Muruli you may go through the link below for Conversion rates purpose http://www.dsbpa.in/gocrates.php With regards. E.Ramesh Librarian www.mrcet.ac.in INFOSHARE 2011 AWARD WINNER(ASIS&T-USA) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010/Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

Digital Scholarship has released the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010. This 466-page book presents over 3,800 selected English-language articles, books, and other textual sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. It covers digital copyright, digital libraries, digital preservation, digital rights management, digital repositories, economic issues, electronic books and texts, electronic serials, license agreements, metadata, publisher issues, open access, and other related topics. Most sources have been published from 1990 through 2010. Many references have links to freely available copies of included works. The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010 is available as an open access PDF file and a low-cost paperback. All versions of the bibliography are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. http://digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/sepb2010.htm Digital Scholarship has also released the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010. This 80-page book presents over 500 English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding digital curation and preservation. This selective bibliography covers digital curation and preservation copyright issues, digital formats (e.g., data, media, and e-journals), metadata, models and policies, national and international efforts, projects and institutional implementations, research studies, services, strategies, and digital repository concerns. Most sources have been published from 2000 through 2010; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 2000 are also included. Many references have links to freely available copies of included works. The Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010 is available as an open access PDF file and as a low-cost paperback. All versions of the bibliography are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. http://digital-scholarship.org/dcpb/dcpb2010.htm For further information about Digital Scholarship publications, see the "Digital Scholarship Publications Overview" and "Reviews of Digital Scholarship Publications." http://digital-scholarship.org/about/overview.htm http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/reviews.htm Translate (oversatta, oversette, prelozit, traducir, traduire, tradurre, traduzir, or ubersetzen): http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/dcpb2010_en.htm http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/sepb2010_en.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/cwbaileyprofile.htm -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy for the post of Deputy Librarian
by sushanta kumar pathy 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

Dear Professional (s),Please refer the link below for vacancy for the post of "Deputy Librarian" at IIT Bhubaneswar.http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/jobs-iitbbs.phpRgds,Sushanta Kumar PathyCentral Library,Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), BhubaneswarSamantapuri (Rear-side of Hotel Swosti Plaza)Bhubaneswar- 751013, ODISHAEmail: spathy@iitbbs.ac.inOffice:0674-2306292 (D)www.iitbbs.ac.inwww.iitbbs.gov.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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What LIS Student Should Know
by srinivas rao 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

What LIS Student Should Know? Every year, a group of students joins the universities on their way to becoming librarians and information professionals. Each group is full of energy and ideas, and ready to take on the world. Each student believes in the power of information, even before they fully realize the power that information holds. Every person is willing to make sacrifices in order to reach his/her goal. While the wide-eyed "this is awesome" attitude remains during the semester, it often becomes tempered as students attend to the details of their classes and their lives as graduate students. The end of the semester is in sight, but there is so much to do before then! 1. You have selected a noble professional, no matter what name you use to describe it. Every organization and person needs help locating and using information, and you are becoming poised to assist them. You can help them with its organization and retrieval. You can help with its interpretation and dissemination. You can work to ensure that information is available to those who need it, no matter who the person is or where the person is located. 2. Yes, what we call ourselves is in flux. We do seem to be hung-up on labels, which is unfortunate. What really matters are the knowledge and skills that we have. Your knowledge and skills will open doors for you, and land you in positions that you might not have imagined when you first said, "I want to be a librarian." 3. Your coursework won't teach you everything you need to know. While you will learn a tremendous amount during your coursework, LIS programs are not apprenticeships and we're not like medical schools where students do full-fledged residencies as part of their programs. You will learn theory and introduce you to practice they will give you opportunities to learn and to dive into your practice through specific assignments and your internship. 4. Every information professional you meet during your graduate program is a person who can connect you to a job. It doesn't matter if you see the person in the classroom, at a conference, or on a library tour...that person has connections that could help you, if only you asked. mmm...and there is the problem...you have to engage the person in order to ask about opportunities. I know that it isn't easy talking to strangers, but you’re joining a profession that likes to share information and be helpful (those really are our traits), so just start with "hi" and let a conversation start. Remember to exchange contact information and then, when you're comfortable, ask about the opportunities that person sees on the horizon. 5. Your reputation, CV/Resume and portfolio matter. I believe in having a portfolio of work that you can share with a prospective employer, as well as your resume/CV. Many people are creating their portfolios online and including in them samples of their work (e.g., papers and presentations). Keep in mind that your portfolio doesn't need to be fancy; it just needs to be a good representation of you. Placing this information online -- either on a web site, in a blog, or in LinkedIn (perhaps with a connection to SlideShare) -- allows you to present what you want people to know about you and your work. It also makes you more findable. Someone searching on a topic of interest may stumble upon something you have and then be interested in you as a professional. And - yes - you want to be findable. As you think about your resume and portfolio, also think about your reputation. According to a Microsoft survey of more than 1,200 hiring managers in December 2009, 79% of companies and recruiters reviewed online information about job applicants and 70% had actually rejected candidates based on what they found. - Information Today, Nov. 2010, p. 1 Take time to clean up that information that is online about you in Facebook and other social networking site. Review the photos that you're in and make sure that they reflect the you that an employer would like to hire. And check your profiles - even in places like Twitter - to ensure that they say what you truly want to communicate. 6. Don't lose out on a job opportunity because you either were not findable or what was found wasn't deemed professional. Use all of the resources that are available to you. I suspect that you haven't explored all of the resources that are available to you on campus that will help you prepare to find a job as well as ensure that you're prepared for that job. Have you stopped into Career Services? Have you done mock interviews? Have you check out other resources that have been mentioned on syllabi, in classes or during orientation? Odds are that you haven't and that's a shame. Those resources are there to help you (and you've paid for them), so you should be using them. There are also resources on campus to help you when you’re stressed or when your world seems to be crashing around you. If you need them, please - please - please use them. If you don't know what those resources might be, please ask. Yes, there are also fun resources on campus. We tend to get caught up in all the work that needs to be done and forget that relaxation is important. So do schedule time to walk through a building that you think is interesting or to check out an art exhibit. Those few moments will help to refuel you. 7. Ingest more content about the profession. That includes reading blogs as well as the professional literature, watching videos and presentations, and listening to podcasts. You might start with: Information Today (magazine)Searcher (magazine)EContent (magazine)Library Journal (magazine) LibPunk Radio (podcast)Adventures in Library Instruction (podcast)T is for Training (podcast)Free Range Librarian (blog) Tennant: Digital Libraries (blog)Book of Trogool (blog)David Lee King (blog)Walking Papers (blog) Of course, these are a few of hundreds of resources available to you! So explore and find those that challenge your thinking as well as inform you. Develop an informed opinion about the profession and what we do (or should be doing). If you haven't joined a professional association, forum do so and then read its discussion lists, blogs, and journals as well as attend its meetings. Srinivasa Rao Ganta Librarian Bharat Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad Mobile9666656116 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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