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MyLIISA Celebrates Ranganathan's Day
by N.S. Harinarayana 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

This is an excerpt from the talk given by Dr. K.N. Prasad, Executive Officer, Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Rajajinagar Bangalore 560010 at the ‘Librarians Day’ celebrations organized by Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (MyLISA) on 9th August 2010 at MMK & SDM Mahila Vidyalaya, Mysore. The speaker can be reached through his email srels(a)dataone.in. This report is prepared by Mr. N. Vasantha Raju, Librarian, First Grade Govt. College, Periyapatna, Mysore Dist. The Chief Guest of the event Dr. K.N. Prasad, Executive Officer, Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore gave a special lecture on “S.R. Ranganathan in the 21st century”. He spoke about the need of revisiting Ranganthan’s contribution in light of the new developments in Information and communication technologies. He mentioned how Ranganathan’s facet analysis is being used by the search engine giants like Yahoo! and others for increasing the efficiency of information retrieval. He linked the epic Ram and Hanuman relationship to the modern information world. If the browser represents Hanuman in seach mode, then the database is the mountain. The information is hidden somewhere. How do you find it? Ranganathan provided a solution in the form of revolutionary system in 1933 through his book called Colon Classification. Prasad pointed how Ranganathan’s five laws were revisited and re interpreted by many scholars across the globe. He said these five laws provided inspiration to other authors and they have presented different principles based five laws. As illustrative examples he cited works such as: ‘Five new laws of librarianship’ by Michael Gorman (1995), ‘Principles of distance education’ by Sanjaya Mishra (1998), Five laws of the software library’ by Mentor Cana (2003), ‘Five laws of children’s librarinship’ by Virginia A. Walter (2004), ‘Five laws of web connectivity’ by Lennart Björneborn (2004); and ‘Five laws of diversity/affirmative action’ by Tracie D. Hall (2004). The Iranian librarian Aliroz Noruzi enunciated five laws of the web exactly similar to Ranganathan’s law by replacing ‘books’ with ‘web’. He elaborated on how each of the five laws applies to the web resources. Prasad mentioned some of the stalwarts of library and information science like Eugene Garfield, Jesse H. Shera acknowledged Ranganathan for his seminal contribution to the international librarianship. He mentioned a few of the examples of how his idea being used in management. He cited the example of Japanese 5 “S” workplace organization principles. He also highlighted the Ranganathan contributions in developing quality standards for Bureau of Indian Standard. Special invitee of the day Prof. Nageshwar Rao, Head Department of Commerce, MMK and SDM College for Women shared his association and experience in dealing with librarians and the importance of the role of librarians in today’s context. Prof. Mallinath Kumbar made the presidential remarks on the occasion. As a part of the librarians day celebration Ranganathan's Monologue on Melvil Dewey audio event (1964 recording of the great librarian S.R. Ranganathan giving a fifteen-minute talk about his connections with Melvil Dewey) was organized. Ranganathan's Monologue on Melvil Dewey can be found at: http://www.miskatonic.org/library/ranganathan-audio.html. Mr. Naganna, Librarian, University of Agricultural College, Mandya, highlighted the various professional activities conducting under the banner of MyLISA for the professional developments. Mrudula student of JSS Public School rendered the invocation and Mrs. Padma, librarian MMK SDM College for Women welcomed the guest. Sri. Siddalinga Swamy of JSS College, Mysore anchored the program. Dr. N.S. Harinarayana, Mr. M.V. Sunil and Dr. M. Chandrashekara Executive members of MyLISA, Mr. Basappa, Secretary MyLISA. Dr. I. R. N. Gouder Library adviser, University of Mysore, Dr. C.P. Ramasesh, Deputy Librarian, UG Library, University of Mysore, Mysore and librarians of various colleges in and aroun Mysore, Mysore university library staff, students and research scholars of the Department of Library and Information Science, university of Mysore attended the event. -- N.S. Harinarayana Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006 Off. Ph: (0821) 2419393 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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KLA CELEBRATES THE BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF DR. S.R. RANGANATHAN
by Sadasivan KP 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Dear All, Greetings from Kerala Library Association ! I have great pleasure to announce that the Kerala Library Association, jointly with the Department of Library & Information Science, University of Kerala, is celebrating the Birth Anniversary of Dr. S.R. Ranganathan on 13th August 2010. The programme had to be scheduled for 13th August, as 9th happened to be a public holiday for the State. Venue : DLIS Lecture Hall, University of Kerala, Trivandrum & Time : 2-4 pm The Theme : " Dr. RANGANATHAN - AS I KNOW HIM " The programme comprises Brief Talks of 10-15 minutes each, by the LIS Professionals of old and new generations, including the students community, on SRR and/or his works and philosophy, which impressed or influenced the speaker the most. It will be a blend of personal reminiscences and technical greatness of his works. It will be a kaliedoscopic view of his work and philosophy, having tremendous influence in the traditional and new generation areas in LIS. It is expected to be a refreshing experience to the beginners of the academic courses in our discipline as well. We invite you to join us in this programme, thereby paying our rich tributes to our Great Guru ! With Warm Regards K.P. Sadasivan President Kerala Library Association 919447903282 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Librarians' Day Celebrations @ Raj Bhavan- Vehicle Parking Suggestions
by Pandurang Konnur 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

*Dear Friends, * *Please do not forget to participate in the proposed **"Walk to the Book - March to the Library"* programme at Raj Bhavan @ 815 am on 12th August 2010. *LIBRARIANS’ DAY* Dr.Sr.Ranganathan, at the end of his life, when all the professionals desired to celebrate his birth day, he directed them to celebrate this day as “Librarians' Day” Accordingly since then 12th August is celebrated as “Librarians' Day”. Government of Karnataka has officially declared 12thAugust as “Librarians' Day” since 2007 and from this year Government of India has also declared this day as “Librarians' Day”. This day is celebrated in promotion of Reading Habit among users of every individual libraries and by Public Libraries to the public at large. * Walk to the Book – March to the Library:* All the Library Associations of Karnataka and Department of Public Libraries have joined together this year to commemorate the birth Anniversary of Dr.S.R.Ranganthan and celebrate “Librarian’s Day” by organizing a *“Walk to the Book-March to the Library” *form Raj Bhavan to State Central Library, Cubbon Park, Bangalore. His Excellency Governor of Karnataka Shri.H.R.Bharadwaj has kindly consented to inaugurate and flag off the march. Eminent personalities of different spheres of the society like literary giants, cine Artists sports luminaries and eminent educationists like Vice Chancellors, Registrars of different Universities are invited for the program. We have arranged for getting T-Shirts and caps for free distribution to the participants. I request all the Library Professionals to join this *"Walk to the Book - March to the Library"* programme. You all are requested to reach the main Gate of Raj Bahavan (All India Radio side) before 8.15 am. We all will have to be organised (by wearing the T-Shirts and cap) and fall in to the procession inside the premises of the Raj Bhavan. His Excellancy will flag off the March sharp at 9.00 am. Those who reach Raj Bhavan after 8.30 am may not be fortunate to witness the flag off ceremony. However you may wait for a while and wait for the procession come out of the Raj Bhavan Premises at 8.35 am and join the procession outside the Raj Bhavan Main Gate. *Vehicle Parking Suggestions:* There is very little parking space available before the Raj Bhavan Main Gate. Those who reach earlier may park at the road side of the Main Gate. I suggest the other Parking lots: 1. Beside Head post office on Vidhana Veedhi (near old KGID building) there is a huge space that you can park your vehicles comfortably without any parking fees. 2. In the parking lot of Visveswaraya Main tower you can comfortably park your vehicles and come back from the State Central Library Cubbon Park and collect back your vehicle. 3. You can park your vehicle near Cubbon Park near State Central Library. Here you have hhuge parking space. You can park your vehicles here and reach the venue, so that you can collect the vehicle sooner you complete your procession at State Central Library (Where tiffin is organized by Department of Public Libraries). Dear Friends, I know it is difficult to reach the venue on time. It may also difficult to take permission from your office to reach littele late. But your profession needs your solidarity to be exhibited on 12th August at Raj Bhavan. Please set aside your inconveniences and help us to help you all. Thanks, -- Dr.P.V.Konnur President, IALA Fulbright Fellow (University of Illinois) University Librarian, Bangalore University Library, Jnanabharati, Bangalore-560056 Phone: 080-22961131, 23215510 Website: http://library.bub.ernet.in/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Run for Professional Cause
by Nagana Goudar 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Dear Professional Friends, "Journey Towards Book - March Towards Library" "Run for Professional Cause" " Run for Library" Great news! "His Excellency Shri Hans Raj Bhardwaj, The Governor of Karnataka will inauguratethe event on 12th August 2010. Venue for Get Set Go: Raj Bhavan (Inside) at 8.45 am. All are requested to reach Raj Bhavan before 8.30 am on Aug 12, 2010 and get organized in the Procession after wearing the T-Shirt and the Cap got prepared for the occasion. Literary giants, Academicians and Vice Chancellors have been invited to participate in the March and give a message to the society to adopt reading habit. Media Channels and News Papers will cover the event extensively. I appreciate the organisers like Dept. of Public Libraries, IALA and others under whose leadership this thoughtful even is being heralded. Let us participate in large number along with professional friends, readers, family members along with children and make this event successful. Dr. I.R.N. Goudar Ex. Scientist "G", ICAST, NAL 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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Librarians' Day Celebration
by zafar iqbal 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

The Department of Library and Information Science, Aligarh Muslim University organises Librarians Day Celebration on 12-14 August 2010. Various programs like LIS Quiz, Debate and Dr. Ranganathan Memorial Lecture will be conducted. BLISc Students, MLISc Students, Research Scholers in LIS and LIS professionals can participate. Those who are interested may contact: Dr. Naushad Ali PM, The Chairman, Dept. of Library and Information Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, UP-202002. Email: naushadali.amu(a)gmail.com, Mob: 09897258855 Jafar Iqbal Research Scholar DLIS, AMU, Aligarh, UP-202002 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[ELF] Asia Journals Online
by Engg-Lib-Forum from India 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

[http://asiajol.info/index.php/index] Asia Journals Online: "- Sent using Google Toolbar" Asia Journals Online is a portal to scholarly journals published in Bangladesh, Nepal, The Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. You can search for information from all the countries by using the search box below or search a single country by clicking on its flag. javascript:void(0) -- Posted By Engg-Lib-Forum from India to ELF at 8/10/2010 12:49:00 AM -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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How many books are there in the World? (About 13 crores)
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Librarians must read this!! ========================== Books of the world, stand up and be counted! All 129,864,880 of you. Thursday, August 05, 2010 at 8:26 AM Posted by Leonid Taycher, software engineer When you are part of a company that is trying to digitize all the books in the world, the first question you often get is: “Just how many books are out there?” Well, it all depends on what exactly you mean by a “book.” We’re not going to count what library scientists call “works,” those elusive "distinct intellectual or artistic creations.” It makes sense to consider all editions of “Hamlet” separately, as we would like to distinguish between -- and scan -- books containing, for example, different forewords and commentaries. One definition of a book we find helpful inside Google when handling book metadata is a “tome,” an idealized bound volume. A tome can have millions of copies (e.g. a particular edition of “Angels and Demons” by Dan Brown) or can exist in just one or two copies (such as an obscure master’s thesis languishing in a university library). This is a convenient definition to work with, but it has drawbacks. For example, we count hardcover and paperback books produced from the same text twice, but treat several pamphlets bound together by a library as a single book. Our definition is very close to what ISBNs (International Standard Book Numbers) are supposed to represent, so why can’t we just count those? First, ISBNs (and their SBN precursors) have been around only since the mid 1960s, and were not widely adopted until the early-to-mid seventies. They also remain a mostly western phenomenon. So most books printed earlier, and those not intended for commercial distribution or printed in other regions of the world, have never been assigned an ISBN. The other reason we can’t rely on ISBNs alone is that ever since they became an accepted standard, they have been used in non-standard ways. They have sometimes been assigned to multiple books: we’ve seen anywhere from two to 1,500 books assigned the same ISBN. They are also often assigned to things other than books. Even though they are intended to represent “books and book-like products,” unique ISBNs have been assigned to anything from CDs to bookmarks to t-shirts. What about other well-known identifiers, for example those assigned by Library of Congress (Library of Congress Control Numbers) or OCLC (WorldCat accession numbers)? Rather than identifying books, these identify records that describe bibliographic entities. For example the bibliographic record for Lecture Notes in Mathematics (a monographic series with thousands of volumes) is assigned a single OCLC number. This makes sense when organizing library catalogs, but does not help us to count individual volumes. This practice also causes duplication: a particular book can be assigned one number when cataloged as part of a series or a set and another when cataloged alone. The duplication is further exacerbated by the difficulty of aggregating multiple library catalogs that use different cataloging rules. For example, a single Italian edition of “Angels and Demons” has been assigned no fewer than 5 OCLC numbers. So what does Google do? We collect metadata from many providers (more than 150 and counting) that include libraries, WorldCat, national union catalogs and commercial providers. At the moment we have close to a billion unique raw records. We then further analyze these records to reduce the level of duplication within each provider, bringing us down to close to 600 million records. Does this mean that there are 600 million unique books in the world? Hardly. There is still a lot of duplication within a single provider (e.g. libraries holding multiple distinct copies of a book) and among providers -- for example, we have 96 records from 46 providers for “Programming Perl, 3rd Edition”. Twice every week we group all those records into “tome” clusters, taking into account nearly all attributes of each record. When evaluating record similarity, not all attributes are created equal. For example, when two records contain the same ISBN this is a very strong (but not absolute) signal that they describe the same book, but if they contain different ISBNs, then they definitely describe different books. We trust OCLC and LCCN number similarity slightly less, both because of the inconsistencies noted above and because these numbers do not have checksums, so catalogers have a tendency to mistype them. We put even less trust in the “free-form” attributes such as titles, author names and publisher names. For example, are “Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1234” and “Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Logical Foundations of Computer Science” the same book? They are indeed, but there’s no way for a computer to know that from titles alone. We have to deal with these differences between cataloging practices all the time. We tend to rely on publisher names, as they are cataloged, even less. While publishers are very protective of their names, catalogers are much less so. Consider two records for “At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror” by H.P. Lovecraft, published in 1971. One claims that the book it describes has been published by Ballantine Books, another that the publisher is Beagle Books. Is this one book or two? This is a mystery, since Beagle Books is not a known publisher. Only looking at the actual cover of the book will clear this up. The book is published by Ballantine as part of “A Beagle Horror Collection”, which appears to have been mistakenly cataloged as a publisher name by a harried librarian. We also use publication years, volume numbers, and other information. So after all is said and done, how many clusters does our algorithm come up with? The answer changes every time the computation is performed, as we accumulate more data and fine-tune the algorithm. The current number is around 210 million. Is that a final number of books in the world? Not quite. We still have to exclude non-books such as microforms (8 million), audio recordings (4.5 million), videos (2 million), maps (another 2 million), t-shirts with ISBNs (about one thousand), turkey probes (1, added to a library catalog as an April Fools joke), and other items for which we receive catalog entries. Counting only things that are printed and bound, we arrive at about 146 million. This is our best answer today. It will change as we get more data and become more adept at interpreting what we already have. Our handling of serials is still imperfect. Serials cataloging practices vary widely across institutions. The volume descriptions are free-form and are often entered as an afterthought. For example, “volume 325, number 6”, “no. 325 sec. 6”, and “V325NO6” all describe the same bound volume. The same can be said for the vast holdings of the government documents in US libraries. At the moment we estimate that we know of 16 million bound serial and government document volumes. This number is likely to rise as our disambiguating algorithms become smarter. After we exclude serials, we can finally count all the books in the world. There are 129,864,880 of them. At least until Sunday. ============= URL: http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2010/08/books-of-world-stand-up-and-be-count… Dr P Vyasamoorthy, 30 Gruhalakshmi Colony Secunderabad 500015 Ph 040-27846631 / 9490804278. My blog: http://vyasa-kaaranam-ketkadey.blogspot.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Jobs for Stipendiary Trainees (Lib. Sc. : 6 posts) at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai
by Vinod Singh 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Dear Professionals Jobs: Library Science: 6 (Sc-1, St-1, OBC-1, PH-3) Last date: Aug 18, 2010 Click for more details: http://www.barc.ernet.in/recruitment/vacancy24.pdf With regards, Vikusi* Senior Research Fellow (Ph.D) Dept. of Lib. & Info. Sci. University of Delhi Delhi-110007 *Vinod Kumar Singh -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Need article
by Yusuf 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Kindly provide the following articles 1. Title: Constructing a new orthodoxy? wendt's 'Social theory of international politics' and the constructivist challenge. Author: Friedrich Kratochwil Journal Name: Millenium issue: 29 year: 2000 Pages: 73-101 title: the dialectics of world order: notes for the future archaelogist of international savoir faire author: Hayward R Alker and Thomas Biersteker Journal name: International studies quarterly issue: 28 year: 1984 pages: 121-42 -- -- Mohd.Yusuf M.Phil. Deptt. of Library and Information Science University of Delhi Delhi 110007 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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help
by Archu Sahu 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Kindly provide me information on libraries which are using open access integrated library management software "NEWGENLIB". Archana Sahu Asst. Librarian NLUO, Cuttack - 753008 Orissa Phone no. - 06712503516 Mail id: sahuarch(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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