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ICAL 2009-Proceedings and photographs
by faisal sl 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Dear all, The first International Conference on Academic Libraries (ICAL-2009) held at the University of Delhi from 5-8 October 2009. The conference was a historic event where eminent personalities in the field of Library and Information Science from around the world met and deliberated on many areas to create a road map for the future Academic Libraries in India. A pre-conference volume " Globalizing Academic Libraries: Vision 2020" was released by Dr. Sam Pitroda, Chairman, National Knowledge Commission at the inaugural ceremony on 5th October 2009.There were a number of 'gold speakers' and keynote addresses. Thee pre-conference tutorial was taken by Ms.Susan McGlamery on QuestionPoint (24/7 Reference services).The conference felicitated Ms.Ellen Ramona Tise, President IFLA. A panel discussion by the Delhi Vice Chancellors was also held which discussed various matters related to the academic libraries especially University and College Libraries. Paper and poster presentations by participants added value to the conference.The evenings were illuminated by cultural programmes.The less importance given to the School libraries was the only blind spot of the natable event. It was also declared that the next ICAL in 2011 will be held at the University of Hyderabad.The proceedings were well planned and executed. Needless to say Dr. Suprabhat Majumdar, Organizing Secretary and University Librarian, University of Delhi and his team did a commendable work. You can see some photographs of the ICAL 2009 at http://librarynext.wordpress.com Thank you S.L.Faisal Librarian Kendriya Vidyalaya Pattom,Thiruvananthapuram-695 004 Kerala India Ph.09447699724 Official http://librarykvpattom.wordpress.com http://libzine.wordpress.com http://homeworksonline.wordpress.com http://mydearbook.wordpress.com Professional http://librarynext.wordpress.com http://kvlblogs.wordpress.com Social Networks http://kvlibrarians.ning.com/ http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/isl-link/ Personal http://slfaisal.wordpress.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[ELF] Is it the end of road for conventional libraries?
by Engg-Lib-Forum from India 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/city/ahmedabad/Is-it-the-end-of-roa…] AHMEDABAD: Books have shifted from laps to laptops and reading has been reduced from pages to keywords so have libraries and librarians, who are known as knowledge resource' and knowledge professionals'. A seminar on future libraries and librarians at Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA) with participants from prominent academic institutions and business organizations shared their views about the existing system of libraries and what the future holds for them. Satish Deshpande, former head of British Council Library, said that the concept of a knowledge centre has undergone a paradigm shift. "When we think of library, we see an image of a dull place with an uninterested librarian and graveyard peace. However, the new-age resources do not depend on printed books only. Internet has become the biggest knowledge store house," he said. The educational institutes are feeling the heat. Dr TS Kumbhar, librarian at DA-IICT told TOI that the percentage of the subscription of the books by students has fallen drastically over the years. "We, as knowledge professionals, have an important role to play in guiding students to the right resources. We are already working on the concept of a virtual library," he said. Anil Kumar, librarian at IIM-Ahmedabad, told TOI that the automation of the library does not automatically convert into efficiency. "A library's role also includes documentation of the knowledge gathered by an institute and make it available to the others. The students also expect a lot more than just a classification of the information and issuance of books," he said. -- Posted By Engg-Lib-Forum from India to ELF at 10/11/2009 08:12:00 PM -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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ISiM - CXO Lecture Series - 1 on "eGovernance" by Mr. M.N. Vidyashankar, 9th October 2009 - A Report
by Roopa 10 Oct '09

10 Oct '09

International School of Information Management University of Mysore, Mysore ISiM - CXO Lecture Series -1 ****************** "eGovernance in India: Challenges and Opportunities." by Mr. M. N. Vidyashankar, IAS Principal Secretary, Department of e-Governance, Govt. of Karnataka. Guest of Honor Mr. A.S. Srikanth, IAS Secretary, Department of Education (Higher education) Govt. of Karnataka Presided by Prof. V.G. Talawar Vice Chancellor, University of Mysore The event started of with Prof. Shalini. R. Urs, Executive director, International School of Information Management (ISiM) welcoming the dignitaries on the dais and introducing them to the gathering. Mr. M.N. Vidyashankar, began his talk by stating that eGovernance is more about Governance and less about 'e' and that the citizen is in the center stage in any eGovernance initiative. He also pointed out that "e-Governance is an added dimension of comfort that Government is committed to offer to the citizens". In his talk that lasted for about an hour, he introduced the audience to some of the important initiatives of the government including Bhoomi, Kaveri, Khajane, Bangalore One, Nemmadi, E-Procurement, Human Resource Management System and Karnataka State Wide Area Network among others. He stressed the relevance of each of these initiatives and the challenges that were encountered in their way of successful implementation. He also spoke passionately about the "Bangalore One" initiative going mobile and also the additional features that would be incorporated into this popular initiative. He also revealed that initiatives like "Bangalore One" would be extended to other districts of Karnataka. Speaking of efficiency within the implementation of eGovernance, he pointed out that "Human Resource Management System (HRMS)" project, after having failed in its implementation with three other states in India, was successfully rolled out in Karnataka. He also highlighted that Karnataka is the only state in the country to implement total HRMS, using which salaries of 5 lakh employees of the state are being processed by 25,000 drawing and disbursing officers. As expected, the one topic that caught most of the interest was the Unique ID project. The speaker suggested that Karnataka was chosen for the pilot project based on its track record of effective implementations of eGovernance initiatives. He also suggested that the project guidelines may arrive at the end of October 2009. Speaking passionately about the project he revealed the fact that UID Authority was only entrusted with assigning a 'Unique Identification Number to each individual' and not any card. The lecture was followed by a very enthusiastic Question and Answer session. The audience expressed concerns about issuing an UID to all the people in the country, given the fact that we have still not being able issue the Election ID card to everyone. To this issue, Mr. Vidyashankar spilled the beans by pointing out that UIDA does not make it mandatory for all citizens to have an UID. Elaborating further, he pointed that the onus of getting a UID will rest with the individual. However, the government agencies, service sector and the corporate will make the UID mandatory to avail any of their facilities. It is by this means that the UIDA is hopeful of reaching out to all the existing citizens. However, after rolling out the UID project, the newborn's will be assigned an UID at birth. The speaker also said in a lighter vein, "Going forwards all children in India would be born with an UID". Addressing the security issues related to the UID project, he said that biometrics in the form of fingerprints(all 10 fingers) of the people would be collected and archived along with other details and maintained in a new database. Replying to a question about UID reporting to any agency, he said that UID shall under no circumstance share the data or any other information even to the government of India. The usage would strictly be restricted to the identification of the person's name with the UID. The speaker passionately spoke about the UID project as it is expected to touch the lives of the last person in the queue. The audience had many questions to ask about UID and other eGovernance initiatives but to the constraint of time few of them could not be addressed. However, the questions can be submitted at the official blog of ISiM - http://isim-uom.blogspot.com/2009/10/cxo-lecture-series-1.html. Mr. Vidyashankar expressed his willingness to answer them. After the lecture by Mr. M. N. Vidyashankar, the guest of honor, Mr. A. S. Srikanth also spoke about few of the initiatives of the eGovernance and highlighted the challenges and importance that is attached with them. Prof. V. G. Talawar, the Vice Chancellor then presented the presidential address in which he pointed out that efforts were in place to implement 100% of eGovernance within the University of Mysore. The event concluded at about 5.45 pm with huge appreciation for the passionate lecture by Mr. Vidyashankar. Thanks & Regards Roopa International School of Information Management, ISiM University of Mysore Mysore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for Articles
by Pandurang Konnur 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Dear Friends, Following are some of the articles required by our Faculty. They are not available on the UGC-Infonet. Any library which might have the back volumes of the following journals may please get us the copies of the articles. Thanks, Konnur. 1) Beale, E.M.L., “Cycling in the dual simplex method, “Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, 2(1955), 269-275. 2) Dantzig, G.B., and Thapa,M.N., Linear Programming 2: Theory and Extensions, p.216, Springer Series of Operations Research, 2003. 3) Gassner, B.J., “Cycling in the Transportation problem, “Naval research Logistics Quarterly, 11(1964), 43-58. 4) Hoffman, A.J., “Cycling in the simplex Algorithm, “ National Bureau of standards report No.2974, December 1953. 5) Marshall, K.T. and J.W.Suurballe, “ A Note on Cycling in the simplex Method”, “Naval research Logistics Quarterly”, 16(1969), 121-137. 6) Szwarc, W., “Zagadnienie Transportwe” (in Polish), Zastosowania Matematyki, 7 (1962), 149-187. 7) Szwarc, W., “ The solution of the Transportation Problem, “ Mathematica, 4 (27) (1962), 149-157. -- Dr.P.V.Konnur Fulbright Fellow (University of Illinois) University Librarian, Bangalore University Library, Jananabharati, 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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Dates extended for papersubmission to ICDL-2010
by ICDL 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL) Shaping the Information Paradigm New Delhi * 23 – 26 February 2010 http://www.teriin.org/events/icdl Venue: *Conference at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi • 24–26 February 2010 *Tutorial at IGNOU, Convention Centre, New Delhi • 23 February 2010 Continuous capacity development and awareness programmes are necessary to achieve the objective of transforming the novice into digital librarians of future. The success of ICDL 2004 and ICDL 2006 has encouraged and motivated TERI in partnership with IGNOU to conduct of the ICDL 2010 which will provide yet another stimulating forum for DL professionals to share their knowledge, experience and wisdom. Highlights Awards will be conferred for the "Best Paper" and "Best Poster" Objectives · Provide a platform and enable interaction among DL experts and researchers · Facilitate creation adoption, implementation and utilization of DL‘s, and their future implications · Bridging the digital divide through knowledge sharing Who should participate? · Information professionals · IT and knowledge service providers · Policy makers · Academicians, students and distance learner · E-publishers and virtual communities · Other stake-holders Call for papers Original papers focusing on the theme of the conference—Digital Libraries: Shaping the Information Paradigm are invited for the conference poster and tutorial. Some of the topics are listed below: · DL development, architecture, and management · Contents management in DL · Multi-linguality and interoperability issues · Digital rights management · Digital preservation and access management · Semantic web · KM (knowledge management) and organizational repositories · E-learning and e-publishing · DL standards and policy · Open archives initiatives · ODOL (Open distance online learning) · Multimedia content · Virtual support to distance learners · E-resources management for distance learners · Access management · M-learning technology Important dates Submission of full papers 30 October 2009 Notification of acceptance of paper with comments 30 November 2009 Submission of the final paper after incorporating comments 30 December 2009 Registration Early–bird offer (for registration on or before 31 December 2009) Delegates Tutorial Conference Conference and Tutorial India/Bhutan/Nepal Rs 2000 Rs 6000 Rs 7500 Other countries US$ 80 US$ 250 US$ 300 Registration after 31 December 2009 Delegates Tutorial Conference Conference and Tutorial India/Bhutan/Nepal Rs 2500 Rs 6500 Rs 8000 Other countries US$ 100 US$ 275 US$ 325 * Additional registration from the same organization and SLA member qualifies for 10% discount * Regular Students (Ph.D and masters), accompanied persons qualify for 20% discount. Contact: ICDL Secretariat, TERI (The Energy & Resources Institute), Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 110003, India, Telephone 24682138, 24682100, 41504900, Fax 24682144, 24682145 E-mail icdl(a)teri.res.in, Web www.teriin.org/events/icdl India +91 • Delhi (0)11 Kind regards Rajesh Kr. Bhardwaj, Fellow & Librarian, TERI. -- 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 Rabisankar Giri 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Dear All, I would require the following article for one of our researcher. It would be highly appreciating if anyone can send a copy of the following. ? The physico-chemical properties of the seed and seed oil ofJatropha gossipifolia Journal Plant Foods for Human Nutrition (Formerly Qualitas Plantarum) Publisher: Springer Netherlands ISSN 0921-9668 (Print) 1573-9104 (Online) Issue Volume 43, Number 3 / May, 1993 DOI 10.1007/BF01886220 Pages 197-200 Thanks with anticipation Rabisankar Giri GGS Indraprastha University New Delhi-6 Keep up with people you care about with Yahoo! India Mail. Learn how. http://in.overview.mail.yahoo.com/connectmore -- 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] [MLOSC.3249] Author Entry in Accession Register
by Senthil kumar KR. 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Dear Professionals, This is an new engineering college Anna University based coimbatore. Next year we will starting aeronautical engineering , marine engineering courses. if u have anybody those course books details kindly send me. if i am getting very thankful to all with regards -- KR. Senthil kumar Librarian SVS College of Engineering J P Nagar, Arasampalayam, Coimbatore - 642 109. Mobile: 9360191721 librarian(a)svscolleges.org http://alagusenthil.googlepages.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Free library software
by divya singh 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Dear Professionals Can anyone tell me bout the free library software available on the internet and is there anyone using free software in the library. Kindly let me know asap. Regards Divya YWCA, Delhi Resource Person -- 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] Openings for Non-teaching Positions
by karunakar n 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

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IRMA 30th Anniversary Conference on Social Science Research and Public Involvement
by Puna Das 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

IRMA 30th Anniversary Conference on Social Science Research and Public Involvement Dates: 15-16 December 2009 Organised by: Institute of Rural Management Anand, Gujarat, India Call for Papers The Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) announces the conference on 'Social Science Research and Public Involvement' to be held as part of 30th anniversary celebrations. Established in 1979, to address the inequality issues in rural India, IRMA has combined knowledge production and public action in a symbiotic rhythm. In more recent times, the scenario of higher education has become complex. Specialization has come at the cost of 'appropriateness'; collaborations and financing patterns have eclipsed the right questions; usability of knowledge is diluted in the struggle between truth and power; information abundance has made it difficult to distinguish wheat and chaff in the knowledge world; marketization of research has produced paradoxical effects; Apart from these concerns, public action agenda and policy making has often been ideology-driven than evidence-driven. The nature of social science research needs to be revisited for its relevance and revitalization. IRMA invites papers on wide-ranging topics around this conference theme (as delineated in the concept note in the conference website). The paper abstracts are to be sent to 30irma[at]irma.ac.in before 25 October 2009. Important themes are: - Collaborations in Social Research - Financing of Social Research - Social accountability in knowledge production and dissemination - Social science research in vernacular languages - Evidence-based policy making - Revisiting methods - Learning from evaluation research - Politics of knowledge creation Important Dates - Last date to receive abstracts 25 October 2009 - Decision on abstracts 2 November 2009 - Full Papers to be sent by 30 November 2009 - Conference dates 15-16 December 2009 Please send the abstracts to: 30irma[at]irma.ac.in Travel, Boarding and Lodging Facilities Authors of the selected full papers will be reimbursed with travel allowance, and free boarding and lodging facilities for the stay during the conference. Further Details http://cssp-jnu.blogspot.com/2009/10/irma-conference-on-social-science.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Connect more, do more and share more with Yahoo! India Mail. Learn more. http://in.overview.mail.yahoo.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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