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Vacancies (AL, LA & JLA) at The Indian Law Institute, New Delhi
by Vinod Singh 05 Aug '10

05 Aug '10

Dear Professionals: Posts: 1. Assistant Librarian: 1 2. Library Assistant: 1 3. Junior Library Assistant: 1 Last date:Aug 25, 2010. Click for: Advertisement: http://www.ilidelhi.org/Advertisement.pdf Application form: http://www.ilidelhi.org/Form_Administration.pdf Vikusi* Senior Research Fellow (Ph.D) Dept. of Lib. & Info. Sci. University of Delhi Delhi-110007 *Vinod Kumar Singh <http://www.fddiindia.com/newslines/press/jobs/jb_22072010na.html> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Library Working Hours
by krishna chandra mishra 04 Aug '10

04 Aug '10

Dear All Librarins and Library Professional I shall be grateful if librarians of IITs, IIMs, IISC, TIFR and other libraries of govenment aided autonomous institutes answer the following simple questions: 1. Do you keep your librray open after normal working hours? 2. If yes, please specify the time slots 3. DO you provide all services beyod normal working hours? 4. Do you keep the library open with help of security staff only? yours truly K C Mishra Library, ISI Kolkata Kolkata -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Assistant Librarian (12 Posts) at Panjab University, Chandigarh
by Vinod Singh 04 Aug '10

04 Aug '10

Dear Professionals Post: 1. Assistant Librarian: 12 (Gen-9, sc-2, sc-1). Last date: Aug 13, 2010. Click for more details: http://jobs.puchd.ac.in/ With regards Vikusi* Senior Reserach 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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Article Request
by Shailesh Lohiya 04 Aug '10

04 Aug '10

Dear Moderator Please post the request. Please do me favour to send the following article. Details are given below:- >From Hegemonic Masculinity to the Hegemony of Men Feminist Theory April 2004 5: 49-72, Regards -- Shailesh K. Lohiya Librarian (NUIL) NIRMA University SG Road,Ahmedabad Mob. 09601851608 --------------------------------------------- *Before printing, think about the environment, every 3000 A4 paper costs 1tree. Please DO NOT print unless you really need it.* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Call for Papers for National Seminar on “ OPEN SOURCE SYTEMS” (OSSS) from Oct 18-20,2010
by Nadeem Akhtar khan 04 Aug '10

04 Aug '10

National Seminar on “ OPEN SOURCE SYTEMS” (OSSS) Theme: “OSSS: Challanges and Issues” 18-20 OCTOBER, 2010 Venue: Kashmir University, Srinagar Organiser: DLIS, Kashmir university Partner: Department of Information Technology, Government of J&K. INTRODUCTION Continuous capacity development and awareness programmes are necessary to achieve the objective of transforming the novice into IT enabled citizens of tommorrow in a cost effective and sustainable way to suit need of diverse stakeholders in inclusive knowledge society. The success of different conferences and workshops especilaly from 2005 by the Department on various recent themes like Digital Library initiatives, Open Access Systems , web resources ,Application Digital Library softwares etc has encouraged and motivated us in partnership with Department of IT in stimulating a forum for different professionals to share their knowledge, experience and wisdom. The theme of the proposed conference is “OSSS: challenges and issues”. The conference will focus on adoption, implementation and utilization of OSSS in e-learning, e-governance in knowledge based society to enable an effective reach and connectivity between citizen and government and government to citizen(C2Z&Z2C). We invite you all to submit your research paper. Who should participate? (a) Information Technology professionals. (b) Content and knowledge Managers and e-governance institiutes (c) Policy makers, Educationists, Health professionals (d) Academicians, students and distance learners (e) Archivists and Museologists (f) Information providers and vendors. (g) E-publishers and virtual electronic communities (h) Library and Information Science professionals. (i) Engineering Faculty, Workers, enterpruners (j) Corporate and buisness Houses, Banking ,Insurance sectors and Media Call for papers Original papers focusing on the theme of the conference— Open source systems: challenges and Issues -are invited Some of the topics are listed below: > Open Source: Sociology & Growth practices, innovation, communities, sociology of open source, open source for non profits, customization, extending technology and impact. > Open Source: Challenges and opportunities. License and Legal Aspects, Maintainance and upgradation,Customisation , Economic and finanacial aspects, Cost effectivencess ,etc > Open Source: Software & Design Development and administration, solutions, metrics, design, modularity, immigration to open source, open source aspect to programming, modularity and interoperability. > Open Source: Commercial Aspect Commercialization of open source software, revenue aspect > Government sector: Adoptation : Challenges and issues Application Development Areas, Overview of Developers in Government to citizen and citizen to Government. Emphasis on web servers, content management software, server operating systems, embedded systems (such as secure gateways and network attached storage,) and ‘middleware’ systems (Allowing ommunications between different systems) > Adoption of Open Source in Business World Developing nations and open source, open source and India, Breaking the myth > Operating systems and other utilities: Linux, Mozilla, Debian, Apache, LAMP, Mysql, AJAX. > Special Groups and Appilications Government/Open Governance /Education/Health/Music/Libraries/Informatiuon > Digital Content creation and delivery Audio, video, 3D , Animation , Recreation, Digital library etc > Data extraction and mining : Algorithms and adoption of new innovative techniques > Web enabled Technologies: Social Networking and tools, Impact, Transparency and acccountability For details of paper submission guidelines and submission process, visit www.kashmiruniversity.ac.in. (in News/ anouncements column of the website) Important dates Last date for Submission of full papers: 20 September 2010 Last date for Submission of Poster: 25 September 2010 Notification of acceptance of paper/ poster with comments: 30 September 2010 Submission of the revised paper after incorporating comments: 08 October 2010 Registration: FEE | Up to 20 September 2010 | After 20 September 2010 ------------------+-----------------------------+--------------------- -------- | | DELEGATES | Rs 1,500.00 | Rs 2,000.00 | | ------------------+-----------------------------+--------------------- -------- | | For PAPER /poster | | CONTRIBUTORS only | Rs 500.00 | Rs 500.00 | | ----------------+-----------------------------+-------------------- ------------- For Tutorial | Rs 500.00 | Rs 1,000.00 Additional | | (All categories) --------------------+----------------------------+--------------------- --------------- --ACCOMODATION Details pl visit university website under news/anouncement column. Contact: S M SHAFI Organizing Secretary OSSS Secretariat DLIS, Kashmir university. HAZRATBAL, J&K – 190 006, India Telephone 9419008599 ; Fax 0194-2421357 E-mail smshafi(a)kashmiruniversity.ac.in or osss2010(a)uok.edu.in OR osss2010(a)kashmiruniversity.ac.in Web www.kashmiruniversity.ac.in or www.kashmiruniversity.net -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fwd: [MLOSC.9022] we have an Indian professional, who made us proud in USA thru his work !!
by trupti parida 04 Aug '10

04 Aug '10

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> Date: Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:33 AM Subject: [MLOSC.9022] we have an Indian professional, who made us proud in USA thru his work !! To: nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com, iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com, maharashtra group < mlosc(a)googlegroups.com> Cc: bhattjj(a)drexel.edu hi friends, please see the following note. Our Indian professional Dr Jay Bhatt from Drexel University got the award in US. we are proud of him. we all congratulate him on this occasion. Jay Bhatt Receives the Homer Bernhardt Distinguished Service Award *April 29, 2010* Jay Bhatt, the librarian for engineering, received the Homer I. Bernhardt Distinguished Service Award from the American Society for Engineering Education Engineering Libraries Division. Each year at the ASEE Annual Conference, the Engineering Libraries Division presents an award to an outstanding librarian. Bhatt will be recognized for his work that contributes greatly to the advancement and development of excellence in the engineering aspect of the library. Bhatt was nominated by the Drexel community. As read in his nomination letter, his colleagues believe that “his record in reaching out to many constituencies, promotion of information literacy, authoring original papers, collaborations on presentations, mentoring others and technical work attest to his advancement and development of excellence in engineering libraries. Bhatt was “enthusiastically nominated for the award based on his record of contributions and service to ASEE, ELD, his colleagues throughout the world, the many engineering students he has taught and the engineering library profession as a whole." Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, UGC- EMERITUS PROFESSOR, Dept of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Association of British Scholars (Hyderabad Chapter) +91-9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com *OR* naglaxman(a)gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Maharashtra Librarians Online Study Circle" group. To post to this group, send email to mlosc(a)googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mlosc+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com <mlosc%2Bunsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com>. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mlosc?hl=en. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Last date for submission of paper for SALIS 2010 Nat conference extended.
by Arunachalam Hariharan 04 Aug '10

04 Aug '10

Dear professional colleagues, The Last date for submission of full paper for the SALIS 2010 National Conference on 'NEXT GENERATION DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND WEB TECHNOLOGIES : CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES' has been extended to 26.7.2010. This is for your kind information to all please. Organizing Committee SALIS 2010 -- 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 - "RUN FOR THE LIBRARY" Program
by Pandurang Konnur 04 Aug '10

04 Aug '10

Dear Friends, Please join us in celebration of Librarians' Day programme by participating in the "Run for the Library" on 12th August 2010 the run starts at 8.30 am from Vidhana Soudha and ends at State Central Library, Cubbon Park Bangalore at 9.30 am. All the professional Associations have joined their hands in organising this programme. We have planned to distribute a T Shirt with Dr.S.R.Ranganthan's Photo in the front and Five Laws of Library Science at the back. At the end of the Run programme Department of Public Libraries have arranged Tea for the participants. We are also exploring the possibilities of giving certificates to the young Librarians who need the ceritificate for their participation. We are trying to invite leading Writers, Poets, Literay gaints to participate and give message to the public at large towards promotion of reading habbit. Many political leaders have also been invited to be with us on this event. I request all of you to kindly spare your morning for this event. This will exhibit our unity and solidarity and help all asociations to work with greater zeal. Many of the professionals may not be able to read this message. So, please do not sit quite after committing yourself to attend this programme. Please call all your friends and alert them to attend this event. I need at least 300 participation to br presnt on that day. *SO FAR ASSOCIATIONS HAVE WORKED FOR YOU: NOW IT IS YOUR TURN TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT TO THE ASSOCIATIONS.* ** *Please Alert, Awake and Activate your profession by your participation.* *Please send your participation confirmation to the following email:* ** *raghupawar(a)gmail.com* <raghupawar(a)gmail.com> Thanks, Konnur. On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Ragaavendra R < Ragaavendra_R(a)jubilantbiosys.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > > > In Commemoration of S R RANGANATHAN BIRTHDAY event, all library > associations of Karnataka state have organized “RUN TOWARDS LIBRARY” on 12 > th August 2010. > > > > This is to create reading awareness among youths, general public and all. > > > > RUNNING DISTANCE: From vidhna Soudha to state central library > > > > VENU: VIDHANA SOUDHA (Gopala Gowda Circle, Gate number 3) > > DATE: 12th August 2010, Thursday > > TIME: 8.30AM > > DURATION: One hour > > > > Request all the professionals to assemble at the above mentioned place 15 > minutes before event starts. > > > > T-shirt will be given to each participant’s. Participant’s confirmation > enables the organizers to arrange for the sufficient number of T-shirts. > > > > Please send your details to this email id: raghupawar(a)gmail.com > > > > > > 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/ > > > > > > > > > > Best Regards, > > Raghavendra R > > > > This e-mail classified as "Internal" > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This Message and any attachment (the "message") is intended solely for the > addressees and is confidential. > If you receive this message in error, please delete it and immediately > notify the sender. > Any use not in accord with its purpose, any dissemination or disclosure, > either whole or partial, > is prohibited except formal approval. The internet can not guarantee the > integrity of this message. > Jubilant Organosys Ltd. (and its subsidiaries) shall (will) not therefore > be liable for the message if modified. > -- 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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Fwd: Liberarian required ( CASS)
by Pandurang Konnur 03 Aug '10

03 Aug '10

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: sankar rajakumar <rajakumar.sankar(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:28 PM Subject: Liberarian required ( CASS) To: konnur(a)bub.ernet.in Dear Mr.Konnur This is in continuation with our discussion last week I am sending herewith the detailed profile of Liberian whom we are going to recruit soon in Centre for Advanced Sanitation System (CASS). Our office is situated in Rajiv Gandhi Housing Corporation situated Opposite to Beedi colony in Kengeri Satellite town. Kindly recommend the candidates whom you know. They candidates can send the CVs to me I can forward the same to the management. Last date for application is 11th of August. Regards Rajakumar Sankar CASS Coordinator Sy.No 205, Opp Beedi Workers Layaout Khomaghatta, Kengeri Satellite Town, Bangalore -560 060 Tel 080- 28486700 Mobile: 9448454852 Email: cass(a)cddindia.org -- 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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Dr. S R Ranganathan's Birthday Celebrations
by Babu Rajendra 03 Aug '10

03 Aug '10

Dear All, As part of Dr. S R RANGANATHAN'S Birthday Celebrations, Library Associations of Karnataka State have organized "LIBRARY AWARENESS RUN" on Thursday, 12th August 2010. The objective of this "Library Awareness Run" is to create Library Awareness and Promote Reading Habit among Youth, General Public and All. FROM: Vidhna Soudha (Karnataka State Legislative Assembly) to State Central Library (Sir Seshadri Iyer Memorial Hall), Cubbon Park, Bangalore. VENUE: Vidhana Soudha (Gopala Gowda Circle, Gate No: 3), Bangalore. DATE: Thursday, 12th August 2010. TIME: 8.30am. Request all the Professionals to assemble at the venue 15 minutes before the event starts. T-shirts will be distributed to all the participants. Participant confirmation enables the organizers to better plan the event. Please send-in your nominations to: raghupawar(a)gmail.com Thanks and Regards, 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/ 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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