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article request
by Veeru 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

Dear Professionals, Can anyone please provide me these articles need urgent 1. *Using Spreadsheets To Emulate Diffusion and Thermal Conductivity* Harvey F. Blanck p 651 Publication Date (Web): May 1, 2009 (Tech Report) DOI: 10.1021/ed086p651 2. *Surfactant Adsorption Parameters from Surface Tension Measurements* Mário N. Berberan-Santos p 433 Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2009 (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/ed086p433.1 3.* Self-Cleaning Surfaces: A Third-Year Undergraduate Research Projec*t Ronald S. Haines , Alex H. F. Wu , Hua Zhang , Jacob Coffey , Thomas Huddle , Justin S. Lafountaine , Zhi-Jun Lim , Eugene A. White and Nam T. Tuong , Robert N. Lamb p 365 Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2009 (Article) DOI: 10.1021/ed086p365 -- *with regards Virupaksh BH Senior Research Fellow, University of Agricultural Science, GKVK, Bangalore**,* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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KALA/ NCSI-NET Talk on Wikipedia and GLAM's by Liam Wyatt
by madhuresh.singhal 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

Dear LIS Professionals, Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) and NCSI-NET (an alumni association of Students and staff of NCSI) are happy to invite you to the Special Lecture on; Topic: "Wikipedia and GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)" Speaker: Liam Wyatt (Wikimedia Foundation's Cultural Partnerships Fellow) Date and Time: 19th Feb 2011 at 10.30AM Venue: Seminar Hall, National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), IISc, Bangalore -12 Abstract: In this presentation Liam will discuss his project as the "Wikipedian in Residence" at the British Museum and the current global cultural partnerships project. He will then talk about the kinds of collaboration that libraries and librarians can achieve with Wikimedia and also answer any questions about Wikipedia more generally. About the Speaker: Liam Wyatt is the Wikimedia Foundation's Cultural Partnerships Fellow<http://bit.ly/GLAMfellow> (a.k.a GLAM fellow), based in Sydney. He has done his bachelors in Globalisation. He had been given a one year fellowship to focus on Cultural Partnerships within the Wikiverse. His role is to help create systems and processes to make outreach partnerships more efficient and effective. The key phrase is "capacity building" as described in his blogpost a few months ago "How to make cultural collaborations scale<http://www.wittylama.com/2010/11/how-to-make-cultural-collaborations-scale/>". He believes that now the cultural sector has seen that working with Wikimedia can be A Good Thing(tm), that we must have reasonably professional processes in place for managing those relationships. As a first step in this he has built a bit of a GLAM hub on-wiki<http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM>. For more details, he can be accessed at this URL http://glamwiki.org<http://glamwiki.org/> He has been Vice President of Wikimedia Australia<http://wikimedia.org.au/> and the "Wikipedian in Residence<http://www.wittylama.com/2010/03/the-british-museum-and-me/>" at the British Museum. Also, a project officer at Austlii<http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/> and multimedia coordinator at the Dictionary of Sydney<http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/www/html/51-project-teams.asp>, a historian, podcaster<http://wikipediaweekly.org/>, fire-twirler<http://www.circusoc.com/>, museuophile, snowboarder, förman<http://www.ostgota.nu/>, bartender and backpacker. Thanks and Regards, Rajendra Babu H General Secretary Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) Visit us at ToxExpo, 6-10 March 2011 in Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C., Booth# 1228 ************************************************************************************************* This email and its attachments are confidential and proprietary to Advinus Therapeutics Ltd. and are meant for the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient, do not take any actions based on the contents of this message, except to permanently delete the message and its attachments and inform the sender immediately. ************************************************************************************************* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Now, get best of IIT, IISc lectures online
by shankar nadoor 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

*Dear Professional Friends Those students of engineering, who did not get opportunity to attend top rated institutions, can now learn from some of the best teachers of IITs and IISc, Bangalore as several hours of their lectures on various disciplines have been uploaded on internet for a free access. For More Details : http://www.deccanherald.com/content/138750/now-get-iit-iisc-lectures.html Source : DHNS,18th Feb 2011 Thanking You With Regards * Shankar Nadoor Assistant Librarian M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology Bangalore -54 http://sites.google.com/site/shankarnadoor/ www.msrit.edu/ Mobile:8553533135 * * -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Institutional Repository@RGUHS DL
by thimmappa naik 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Dear Professionals, Kindly look into our institutional repository using DSpace at http://119.82.96.198:8080/jspui/ and even No 605 in who's using Dspace (www.dspace.org) and kindly give suggestions to improve the project more effectively. Thimmappa N. MLISc, PGDHL Bengaluru thimmappa03(a)yahoo.com/ softeyest(a)gmail.com "The Illiterate of the present is not one who cannot read & write, but the one who cannot learn, unlearn, relearn” "Read an eBook, Save a Tree; Buy an eBook Reader, Save a Forest" -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Today's lecture stands canceled; Re: Lecture invitation
by Francis Jayakanth 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Dear Members, Dr. KN Prasad of SRELS had called to inform the LIS-Forum members that today's (Thursday 17 Feb 2011 Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Memorial Lectures (16) (2011) on PEOPLE, CULTURE, AND 21 CENTURY LIBRARIES by Dr. Gary Marchionini stands canceled as the speaker is held up in the delhi airport due to the inclement weather condition in delhi. Kindly inform your friends / colleagues about the cancellation of today's lecture. Please do note that the remaining two lectures on Friday (18 Feb) and Saturday (19 Feb) will be held as per the schedule. The original announcement of the lecture series is appended to this mail. With regards, - Francis NCSI, IISc On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Francis Jayakanth wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: SRELS <srels(a)dataone.in> > Date: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 3:17 PM > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Lecture invitation > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > > Dear Moderator: > Kindly arrange to announce the following invitation for the benefit of > LIS-FORUM members. > > Sincerely, > > K.N. Prasad, SRELS > > ********* > > > > Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS), > > Bangalore > > > > in association with > > > > Informatics (India) Ltd., Bangalore > > and > > Ranganathan Centre for Information Studies, > > Chennai & Bangalore > > > > cordially invites you to the > > Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Memorial Lectures (16) (2011) > > on > > PEOPLE, CULTURE, AND 21 CENTURY LIBRARIES > > by > > Dr. Gary Marchionini > > Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Professor, > > School of Information and Library Science, > > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, > > Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA > > > > on > > 17 , 18 , and 19 February 2011, at 6.00 pm each day > > at > > SRELS, 702, 'Upstairs', 42 Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, > > Bangalore 560 010 > > > > Mr. N.V. Sathyanarayana > > Chairman & Managing Director, Informatics (India) Ltd., Bangalore > > Inaugurates > > > > Tea: 5.30 pm > > > > > RSVP:1. K.N. Prasad-Ph: (080) 23305109 E-mail: srels(a)dataone.in > > > > > ********* > > > > Abstracts > > > > Day 1. > > > > The transformation of Libraries as Institutions: Physical-Digital Hybrids > > Electronic technologies have brought great changes to information > work, including libraries > > Library automation: classification, organizations, catalogs (e.g., > > MARC, OCLC, ISI) > > Online searching, virtual reference > > Databases and IR techniques > > > > Digital libraries > > Technology Drivers > > Digitization > > Indexing, Metadata > > Network transfer, interoperability > > Preservation > > > > Human Drivers > > New skills, roles, adoptions > > > > Culture Drivers > > Economies of scale and action > > Intellectual Property > > Cooperation, Policies > > > > Hybrid Libraries > > Shared collections > > Local special collections > > lnteroperations > > High tech vs high touch decisions > > > > Day 2. > > Humans as information Creators, Collectors, Consumers, and Communicators > > Human Memory and Institutional History > > Creation, capture, and reuse revolutions in the information life cycle > > Capture: cameras, recorders, sensors, scanners > > Editors, mixers and mashups > > > > Personal Collections > > Physical > > Digital > > > > Information Consumption > > Learning: effectiveness, retention > > Working: flow, efficiency > > Entertaining: engagement, enjoyment > > > > Communication > > Social networks > > Participatory Libraries: Institutional + Personal Libraries > > > > Day 3. > > > > Libraries of People and their State Changes: Saturday > > Computational Agents and Social Media > > Agents as Assistants, Surrogates, Observers, and Adversaries > > Social media: individuals, groups, culture blur > > > > Proflection Theory > > Projections of Self: Exoinformation > > Purposeful > > Unconscious > > Reflections of Self > > Human > > Machine > > Participatory Libraries of Proflections of Personal Identity > > Libraries as Reflections of Cyberspace Culture > > > > > > Gary Marchionini, Brief Bio > > > > Gary Marchionini is the Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Professor in the > School of Information and Library Science at the University of North > Carolina at Chapel Hill. He teaches courses in humaninformation > interaction, interface design and testing, and digital libraries. He > heads the Interaction Design Laboratory at SILS. His Ph.D. is from > Wayne State University in mathematics education with an emphasis on > educational computing. He has published over 200 articles, chapters > and reports in a variety of books and journals. He is author of a book > titled Information Seeking in Electronic Environments published by > Cambridge University Press and a forthcoming book titled Information > Concepts: From books to Personal Identities in Cybespace. Professor > Marchionini has had grants or research awards from the National > Science Foundation, Council on Library Resources, the National Library > of Medicine, the Library of Congress, Bureau of Labor Statistics, > Kellogg Foundation, and NASA, The Nationa! > l Cancer Institute, Microsoft, Google, and IBM among others. > Professor Marchionini was Editorin- Chief for the ACM Transaction on > Information Systems (2002- 2008) and is the editor for the > Morgan-Claypool Lecture Series on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and > Services. He has been program chair forACM SIGIR (2005) and ACM/IEEE > JCDL (2002) as well as general chair ofACMDL96 and JCDL2006. He serves > or has served on a dozen editorial boards and is the 2010 president of > the American Society of Information Science and Technology. His > current interests and projects are related to: interfaces that support > information seeking and information retrieval; usability of personal > health records; alternative representations for electronic documents; > multimedia browsing strategies; digital libraries; and evaluation of > interactive media, especially for learning and teaching. He currently > has a 3-year grant from NSF on established a search results framework > that supports searches over multip! > le sessions and in collaboration. He also has a one-year grant! > from NS > F to investigate the viability of Second Life as an environment for > promoting digital preservation. > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > >

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National Seminar on “Plagiarism and Validation of Research in the Internet era: problems and prospects”
by HPS Kalra 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

The Department of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala is organizing a one-day National Seminar on Plagiarism and Validation of Research in the Internet era: problems and prospects on 24 February 2011. Introduction: Plagiarism has been considered a major problem in academics and research since the written word and the means of reproducing written word reached masses. In the age of the Internet, where access to vast information resources across space and time is possible in seconds, the possibilities for plagiarism have increased manifold. Beside legal and ethical issues, this has serious implications for research process and its validation. This seminar is being organized Department of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala, to address these and related issues. The Seminar: The inaugural session would be held from at 10.15 on Thursday, 24 February 2011 in the Senate Hall at Punjabi University, Patiala. The programme would include a mixture of lectures, presentations and panel discussion. Participants: Researchers, Librarians, Academics, Students in any subject can participate Registration: Spot registration for this one-day seminar can be made in cash. Registration fee: Rs. 250/-. Participants requiring accommodation should intimate so with details of their travel plans at the earliest for making necessary arrangements. For more details contact: Dr H.P.S. Kalra, Department of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala – 147002 (Punjab). Tel: 0175-3046179, 3046180. Email: hpskalra(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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FW: Book/journals acquisition procedure
by Tejasvini.Ranadive＠ril.com 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Dear Professionals, I would like to know the Book/journals acquisition procedure followed at corporate libraries? 1. Is purchasing of library books/journals done through direct procurement or is it routed through some other process? 2. Is any library using SAP for acquisition of library documents? 3. How many days it takes to receive a book in the library? 4. Does anyone procure articles/standards online (ones which are available for immediate download)? If yes; how do you make payments toward online purchases of articles/standards? Kindly reply. Thank you all in anticipation. Regards, Tejasvini Ranadive Reliance Industries Ltd., Central Library, Patalganga Manufacturing Division Rasayani 410220 District: Raigad MAHARASHTRA - INDIA Tel: 02192256270 tejasvini.ranadive(a)ril.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HP "Print this mail only if absolutely necessary. Save Paper. Save Trees." "Confidentiality Warning: This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s). are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient. you are hereby notified that any review. re-transmission. conversion to hard copy. copying. circulation or other use of this message and any attachments is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient. please notify the sender immediately by return email. and delete this message and any attachments from your system. Virus Warning: Although the company has taken reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email. The company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage arising from the use of this email or attachment." -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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ISiM Special Lecture- Open Video Project by Prof. Gary Marchionini
by Shalini Urs 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

International School of Information Management University of Mysore ---- ISiM Special Lecture (11) -- The Open Video Project: Research and Practice by Prof. Gary Marchionini, PhD Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA February 19, 2011: 11:00 AM Mr. D. Sudhanva, Managing Director, Excel-Soft Technologies Pvt Ltd, Mysore Will preside You are cardinally invited --- Shalini Dr. Shalini Urs Executive Director and Professor International School of Information Management University of Mysore Mysore - 570006 Phone : + 91 821 2514699 Fax : + 91 821 2519209 www.isim.ac.in ISiM - Management School of IT. Technology School for IM -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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KALA/ NCSI-NET Talk on Wikipedia and GLAM's by Liam Wyatt (Wikimedia Foundation's Cultural Partnerships Fellow) on 19th Feb 2011
by Babu Rajendra 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

Dear LIS Professionals, Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) and NCSI-NET (an alumni association of Students and staff of NCSI) are happy to invite you to the Special Lecture on; Topic: "Wikipedia and GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)" Speaker: Liam Wyatt (Wikimedia Foundation's Cultural Partnerships Fellow) Date and Time: 19th Feb 2011 at 10.30AM Venue: Seminar Hall, National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), IISc, Bangalore -12 Abstract: In this presentation Liam will discuss his project as the "Wikipedian in Residence" at the British Museum and the current global cultural partnerships project. He will then talk about the kinds of collaboration that libraries and librarians can achieve with Wikimedia and also answer any questions about Wikipedia more generally. About the Speaker: Liam Wyatt is the Wikimedia Foundation's Cultural Partnerships Fellow<http://bit.ly/GLAMfellow> (a.k.a GLAM fellow), based in Sydney. He has done his bachelors in Globalisation. He had been given a one year fellowship to focus on Cultural Partnerships within the Wikiverse. His role is to help create systems and processes to make outreach partnerships more efficient and effective. The key phrase is "capacity building" as described in his blogpost a few months ago "How to make cultural collaborations scale<http://www.wittylama.com/2010/11/how-to-make-cultural-collaborations-scale/>". He believes that now the cultural sector has seen that working with Wikimedia can be A Good Thing(tm), that we must have reasonably professional processes in place for managing those relationships. As a first step in this he has built a bit of a GLAM hub on-wiki<http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM>. For more details, he can be accessed at this URL http://glamwiki.org<http://glamwiki.org/> He has been Vice President of Wikimedia Australia<http://wikimedia.org.au/> and the "Wikipedian in Residence<http://www.wittylama.com/2010/03/the-british-museum-and-me/>" at the British Museum. Also, a project officer at Austlii<http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/> and multimedia coordinator at the Dictionary of Sydney<http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/www/html/51-project-teams.asp>, a historian, podcaster<http://wikipediaweekly.org/>, fire-twirler<http://www.circusoc.com/>, museuophile, snowboarder, förman<http://www.ostgota.nu/>, bartender and backpacker. Thanks and Regards, Rajendra Babu H General Secretary Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender of this email immediately. You should not copy, use or disseminate the information contained in the email. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Capco. http://www.capco.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Seminar on Library Advocacy at IIT Bombay
by Daulat Jotwani 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

Central Library, IIT Bombay is organizing a Seminar on Library Advocacy on 23rd Feb 2011 as per following details Topic : Library Advocacy Speaker : Margaret Law, Associate University Librarian, University of Alberta, Canada Date & Time : 23rd Feb 2011 at 3.00 pm Venue : Lecture Hall No.22, Victor Menezes Convention Centre, IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai All are welcome. Thanks. -- D. Jotwani Librarian Indian Institute of Technology Bombay -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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