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CSI eNewsletter dt. 1st Mar 2011
by hrmohan＠vsnl.com 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Dear all, The 20th issue (Volume 2. issue 4) of CSI eNewsletter dt. 1st Mar 2011 is ready and can be accessed at http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2011-03-01.pdf and also at the CSI KM Portal http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/enewsletter For the archives of this newsletter, pl. visit http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-archives.htm or at http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/archives You are free to forward this mail to your contacts who may like the information presented in the mail. With regards HR Mohan Chairman, Div IV, CSI & eNewsletter Committee, IEEE CS & PCS Madras http://infoforuse.blogspot.com/ Contents ======= -- eBook: Storage Virtualization for Dummies -- 7 Virtualization Challenges -- Is SOA Being Pushed Beyond Its Limits? -- Design Considerations for Software plus Services and Cloud Computing -- Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Design -- Business Insight = Business Infrastructure = BI Platform -- Red Hat PaaS: Bringing Open Choice & Application Portability to the Cloud -- The Fundamental Principles of Network Security -- Desktop Virtualization: Drivers, Challenges, and Best Practices -- 9 Essential Requirements for Web 2.0 Security -- Data Center Project: Standardized Process -- Blade server technology faces virtualization hit in the data center -- MCA programme: Eligibility, Best Institutes, more -- Careers & Courses: Software Testing -- Web 3.0 Emerging -- How to divorce your tech vendor -- Design Rules by Eric S. Raymond, the author of the book The Art of Unix Programming. -- Some startling facts in India -- ICT News Headlines & Briefs -- Announcements -- IT Events: Call for Papers & Participation -- Book: IT Strategy for Business -- Book: Entrepreneurship -- Book: Testing in 30+ Open Source Tools -- Book: Nothing is Absolute -- About the CSI-eNewsletter -- Contributions to CSI-eNewsletter -- eNewsletter Committee InfoQuiz–2011-03-01 (Six Prizes to Win – Four Books and Two Awards of Rs. 500/- each) ================================================================= 1. ------ is a tweet that is exactly 140 characters long. 2. In SMS/Chat lingo “OMG”means what? 3. Who is considered as the "Father of information theory?" 4. Classical Computer : bits = Quantum Computer : ------ 5. Identify the company whose tagline is “Exceed Your Vision” Email your answers by 20th Mar 2011 to csi.infoquiz(a)gmail.com with subject “infoquiz-2011-03-01”. Please provide your name, designation, company/institution, full postal address (to send the prize) and the contact phone nos. after the answers. The first person to answer correctly and one randomly selected lucky winner will be awarded Rs. 500/= each by SRA Systems (www.srasys.com) Oxford University Press (http://www.oup.co.in) & Shroff Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd (http://www.shroffpublishers.com) will present the books which are briefly reviewed above. In all, there will be SIX prizes – TWO cash prizes of Rs. 500/- each and FOUR prizes of one book each. Answers along with the winner info will be published in the next issue. Answers & Winners of InfoQuiz-2011-02-01 =============================== Vodafone, handsets from Motorola, Chatter, twttr, Tally Awards of Rs. 500/= each from SRA Systems to Mr. R. Jayakanthan from Chennai and to Ms. S. Sangeetha from Walajapet. Books from Oxford University Press: “Mechatronics: Integrated Technologies for Intelligent Machines” to Mr. N.M. Zaheer from Chennai & “Skills Development for Business and Management” to Mr. M.Elavazhagan from Kanchipuram. Books from Shroff Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd: “97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know” to Ms. L. Kannagi, from Guduvancherry & “Heads You Win Tails You Win” to Mr. S. Shankar from Hosur. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Opportunities for Library professionals
by Swati Bhattacharyya 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

lis-forum coordinator - please post this message: Opportunities for Library professionals A Human Resource Agency (Updater Services Ltd. Kolkata) is inviting applications from trained Library and Information Science graduates, for placing them in the library of a Kolkata-based institute. The requirements are: 1. Minimum qualification: M.Lib.Sc with good result and strong aptitude towards working in fully computerized environment. 2. Desirable: Training in MS-Office (ability to work with MS Access and spreadsheet) and other software necessary for library work. 3. Experience: A few of the positions will be filled up with professionals already having working experiences in large libraries. At the maximum level, the experience should be in the area of one or more of (i) working with MARC-21 record structure (ii) working with library software such as Libsys, Softlink, Virtua, KOHA (iii) record management for electronic resources (iv) knowledge of cataloguing, classification, metadata. Rest of the positions will be filled up with professional with less experience (in terms of the area of experience and/or years of experience). Fresh graduates may also be considered if found suitable. 4. Remuneration: Rs 9,000 Rs 18,000/ p.m. depending on range and number of years of experience. 5. Duration: The positions are purely on contractual basis and initially for one year. Hence permanent position holders must not apply. Interested individuals may send their resume. Those who want their current experiences to be considered must provide details of experiences (duration of experience, nature of job done) duly certified by the organization. Please email your application to udskolkata(a)uds.in with subject line: Attn Mr. P.K. Sen for Library positions. Applications can also be mailed to the undersigned (swati(a)iimcal.ac.in) which will be forwarded to the agency. Swati Bhattacharyya -------------------------------------------------- Librarian Indian Institute of Management Joka Diamond Harbor Road Calcutta - 700104 Phone: 091-33-24678300 Extn: 416 FAX: 091-33-2467-8062 Email: swati @iimcal.ac.in -------------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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DCSMAT Invites applications for library trainees.
by Rajesh M N 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

*DCSMAT* Institutions invites Applications for the post of *Professional Trainees* for our Vagamon Campus Library. For more details follow the link below. http://www.dcschool.net/php/showAnnouncementDetails.php?ann_id=7 With regards, Rajesh M N Assistant Librarian Library and Research Centre DC School of Management and Technology Vagamon -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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3 days training program on Content Management using Open Source Tool-DRUPAL
by shivaram gowda 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

Dear Professionals/Memmbers, The Information center of CSIR-NAL, ICAST, an ISO-9001: 2008 Certified Center (http://www.icast.org.in) is imparting 3 days training program on Content Management using Open Source Tool-DRUPAL. This training program is targeted to professional interested in and responsible for creating, managing and providing web based information service. The details of the training program are given below: TITLE: Content Management using Open Source Tool-DRUPAL DATE: 19-21 April 2011 VENUE: NAL-ICAST Lecture Hall, NAL, Bangalore - 560017 TARGET AUDIENCE: Librarians, Information and KM managers, Content Managers, Information systems managers, etc, with adequate knowledge of IT applications. TRAINING PROGRAM OBJECTIVE and COVERAGE: The objective of this training program is to enable individual and organisations to initiate building their library and subject specific web portals. The specific goal of the training program is to impart practical training to participants in using the package for creation and maintenance of their library portal. Focus is on installing, configuring, customizing and administration of this package. The main objective is to acquire complete knowledge and skill sets required to build one’s own subject specific web portal. Training Program Contents: Introduction to Content Management An Overview of Drupal Installation of Drupal on Linux/Windows Modules, Themes, Menus & Blocks Configuration Content Creation Functionality Custom Content Kit (CCK) & Taxonomy Views Configuration User management Site Configuration Multilingual Content Report Generations & Backup Number of Participants: Restricted to 25, it will be FIRST COME FIRST SERVE BASIS. Registration fee: Rs. 2000/- per participant, DD should be drawn in favor of Director NAL, payable at Bangalore. NOTE: Limited arrangements for accommodation at NAL Guest house for outstation participants on first come first serve basis. For further information, please visit the Seminar website at: http://www.icast.org.in/cm/contmgnt.html To register kindly send an E-Mail to Training program Coordinator. Dr. Poornima Narayana Head, ICAST National Aerospace Laboratories Bangalore - 560 017 E-Mail: poornima(a)nal.res.in; adminicast(a)nal.res.in Telephone: Tel: 080-25086080, 81, 82, 83. Fax: 080-25268072 Registration Form Participant’s Name: Ms./ Mr./ Dr. Position: Organization: Address: City: Pin: Telephone: Fax: Email: Registration details: Registration Fee per participant Rs. 2,000/- I need accommodation in NAL Guesthouse: YES / NO (Note: Accommodation charges are as per guest-house rates. Bill to be settled in the guest-house directly) Dates of accommodation requirement: From: To: Payment details: DD No. & date: Bank drawn on: Amount:(Note: DD to be drawn in favor of “Director NAL” payable at Bangalore) with warm Regards ICAST, CSIR-NAL, Bangalore-17 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Autobiograghy of S R Ranganathan
by silent listener 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

Dear fellow professionals, I would like to get a copy of the book "A Librarian Looks Back" autobiography of Ranganathan the Great. Can anybody suggest where it will available. Regards Joseph Zacharia -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for article
by Mamtha's Gmail 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

Dear Friends, Kindly provide full-text of following articles, if available in your library. 1. Decrease in the total antioxidant activity of saliva in patients with periodontal disease Randa Diab-Ladki, Bernard Pellat Ramez Chahine * **Clinical Oral Investigations*<http://www.springerlink.com/content/1432-6981/> * (2003)* Volume 7, Number 2<http://www.springerlink.com/content/1432-6981/7/2/>, 103-107, 2. Aerobic exercise reduced oxidative stress in saliva of persons with Downs Syndrome Zambrano JC, Marquina R., Sulbaran N., Rodriquez-Malaver AJ, Reves RA * **Res Sports Med.*<javascript:AL_get(this,%20'jour',%20'Res%20Sports%20Med.');> * 2009 *;17(3):195-203. Thanking You. Best wishes Mamtha Pk Central Library yenepoya university Deralakatte -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Need information.
by Manjunath Ealiger 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

Dear Professionals, I am working in Health Science/Medical Library since from around one year. Now I want know the qualification required for the below mentioned posts as per* MCI* norms/rules, 1 Librarian 2. Deputy Librarian 3. Documentalist 4. Cataloguer 5. Library Assistants 6. Daftaries 7. Peon I request the professionals to clarify this question. yours, Manjunath Ealiger -- With Regards, Manjunath Ealiger GENOHELIX Librarian Bangalore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for MLIS example project report
by banani banik 26 Feb '11

26 Feb '11

Hi, I am Banani, an MLIS student from IGNOU. Currently I am preparing for my Master's project. Any example report will help me to frame my final thesis, specially questionnaire to find a statistical report from the user of the library. Thank in advance for fowarding any example set of question!!! Best Regards Banani Banik -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Reaching out to Government school libraries.
by usha mukunda 26 Feb '11

26 Feb '11

Dear friends, I would like to send out this appeal to all of you residing in Karnataka to ask if you would be willing to be involved in a programme of mentoring high school libraries in your vicinity You may be required to pay a visit to the school about once a month. As a member of the Karnataka Knowledge Commission, I have been closely associated with "Arivu" , an initiative which covered 225 high schools in helping them set up active open libraries in their schools. In this regard, they were provided with open racks, a carefully selected set of books in Kannada and English, along with a user-friendly manual written especially for this purpose. In addition we held workshops with the participating teachers where we helped them raise questions and generate ideas towards running an open library with the active help of the students themselves. The schools have now embarked on this programme about a month ago. We feel that to make this an effective model, monthly visits by mentors would be essential. Therefore the idea was to gather a pool of resource people who would be willing to give some of their valuable time to perform this invaluable task and serve the profession as well. Our plan is to link each school with a library professional who is based in the same district. Please contact me for any clarification and to respond with your name, place of residence and availability so that we may begin the process of linking schools with mentors. With many thanks and hoping to hear from you, Usha Mukunda School Librarian Member, Karnataka Knowledge Commission (Committee on Libraries and Knowledge Networking.) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Beyond OER: Shifting Focus to Open Educational Practices -- OPAL Report 2011 released
by Puna Das 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

Beyond OER: Shifting Focus to Open Educational Practices -- OPAL Report 2011 released 22-02-2011 (Paris) The Open Educational Quality Initiative (OPAL) releases its Report 2011, entitled Beyond OER: Shifting Focus to Open Educational Practices. Among its conclusions is the fact that OER are more widely used where programmes or initiatives for open resources exist at the institutional level. The lesser the fear, insecurity or discomfort towards OER, the higher the frequency of their use. The report thus advocates building trust in OER in order to increase their actual usage and to build open learning architectures to transform learning. As a member of OPAL Initiative, UNESCO contributed to the international dimensions of the Report, especially policy development and institutional capacity building, and will also be responsible for its wide dissemination. Institutional policies for OER are still a long way from impacting on educational institutions, according to findings from the OPAL quantitative survey. The perception by respondents that OER lead to institutional innovation still does not translate into implementation at the organization level. This is further compounded, on the one hand, by the very modest levels of support to factors that induce or enable the implementation of Open Educational Practices (OEP) in educational institutions, and on the other hand, by the level of importance attached by respondents to institutional policy barriers to the use of OER. The report presents the following key findings in relation to supporting factors for OER. Policy support for OER: * Support and recognition for OER projects and initiatives is necessary in institutional policy in higher education and adult education. * Support for localization, adaptation and translation of existing OER and support for implementing appropriate licensing schemes are viewed as very important. * Infrastructure, access and availability are seen as necessary conditions. * Promotion of quality assurance for OER is viewed as necessary. Role of networks and partnerships for the diffusion of OER in institutions: * 54% of all respondents stated that partnership with other organizations is a supporting factor for the use of OER. * Future OER-related support initiatives should focus their attention more on partnerships with other institutions. Demand for specific quality assurance processes for OER * The report shows that systematic quality assurance mechanisms for OER are lacking in higher education and adult education in Europe. * Educational professionals give voice to considerable insecurity about how they can demonstrate the value of OER. The Report (PDF, 64mb) can be downloaded from the University of Duisberg-Essen public repository: click here http://duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de/servlets/DerivateServlet/Derivate-2…. OPAL is an international network that promotes innovation and better quality in education through the use of open educational resources. Partly funded by the European Commission, OPAL is initiated through international organizations like UNESCO, ICDE and EFQUEL, and a number of universities. UNESCO is contributing to the OPAL Open Educational Practices framework, as well as to the development of the Registry of OER Champions and the Clearinghouse of Open Educational Practices. Source: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=31243&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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