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Fw: Special OAIster Announcement from OCLC
by Subbiah Arunachalam 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

----- Forwarded Message ---- From: "Peters, Dale" <peters(a)SUB.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE> To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM(a)LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG Sent: Thursday, 24 September, 2009 20:29:11 Subject: Re: Special OAIster Announcement from OCLC An alternative to the systematic commercialisation of Open Access data, is the formal constitution of COAR: the Confederation of Open Access Repositories, scheduled to take place in Open Access Week 2009. http://www.driver-repository.eu/DRIVER-COAR.html Emerging as the sustainable outcome of the DRIVER infrastructure, COAR is a community-driven approach, where institutions can determine how they want their repositories to be deployed. The action plan is directed towards international organisational support for Open Access in research infrastructures around the globe. COAR utilises the tremendous synergies emerging in higher education between repositories, researchers and research funders to coordinate collaborative networks in the vision of a global knowledge infrastructure. Once the legal and technical infrastructures for OA dissemination reach the coverage and maturity that equally satisfies the researcher's data-sharing concerns and matches the respect that WorldCat enjoys, third party service providers, like OCLC, become equitable partners without questionable terms and conditions. Regards, Dale ------------------------------------------ Dr D Peters Scientific Technical Manager DRIVER II State and University Library of Goettingen peters(a)sub.uni-goettingen.de Tel: +49 551 39 5242 Fax: +49 551 39 5222 Mobile:+49 (0)160 989 67663 ------------------------------------------ http://www.driver-repository.eu/ http://www.driver-support.eu/en/ ---------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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55th Annual Conference of Indian Library Association
by Rajesh Bhardwaj 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

*55th Annual Conference of Indian Library Association * Dear Professionals, We are glad to inform you that 55th Annual Conference of Indian Library association will be held at Birla Institute of Management Technology, Greater Noida from 21st to 24th January, 2010 in association with “Ranganathan Society for Social Welfare and Library Development” and Jointly organised by BIMTECH and ILA. Establish in 1988, The fully residential campus of Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH) located in National Capital Region, provides a highly conducive academic environment, interaction with hard working and industry-academia mix professors, exposure to the international universities and companies, and a ready profile of strong alumni base spread through out the world. BIMTECH boasts of it’s library facility as a leader in it’s own class. The theme of the conference will be “Library and Information Science in the Digital Era” Without restricting itself, this conference would like to invite participants to reflect upon and present experiences, research and theories about the Formation, Organisation, Management, Updation, Mechanisation, Automation and Modernisation of libraries. This call for papers, based on variations on four themes, would like to ask contributors to link their paper to the relation between the above seven parameters. The aim is to better understand these things in the contemporary world, but also in their history; to examine the relationship between conventional publishing and digital publishing. The conference will maintain its proceedings of high standard and hence would evaluate each and every paper in accordance with the international standards. For further queries visit http://ilaindia.net/ILA-Conf.htm or http://ilaconf.bimtechlibrary.net Kind Regards, Rajesh Kr. Bhardwaj, M-9818603208, http://www.rajweb.name Area Convener and Librarian, Library and Information Centre, TERI *For further details may please contact to * * * Dr. Rishi Tiwari Organizing Secretary, Librarian-Knowlwdgw Centre Birla Institute of Management Technology(BIMTECH) Plot No.5, Knowledge Park-II Greater Noida(NCR) U.P.-201306 Mob.:09810583623, Off.:0120-232301-10,0120-3219972(dir) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Ph.D award
by raghunandana m 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

Dear Sir, As per your guidance I have included the Title of the thesis and abstract. So, kindly post this mail of acknowledgment to professional fraternity of LIS-FORUM. Dear Professional friends, I am happy to inform you all that, I have successfully completed and awarded Ph.D. Degree from Karnatak University, Dharwad for the thesis entitled “Use of Information Resources in UN (United Nations) Depository Centers in South India: A study with special reference to the policies, procedures and plan of action in view of the development of Internet”, under the auspicious guidance of Prof. C.R. Karisiddappa, UGC-Emeritus Fellow, Department of Studies in Library and Information Science, Karnatak University, Dharwad. I sincerely acknowledge the friends and professionals who directly and indirectly supported in getting my Ph.D. and those who have extended their moral support. I promise before the professional fraternity that, I will make justice to the profession with good vision and mission as I have got more responsibility after getting this degree. Thanking you, with regards. Yours sincerely, Dr. Raghunandana M. Abstract of the Thesis The United Nations is an inter-governmental organization dedicated to promoting peace and security among nations and developing global efforts to fight economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian problems. There are 408 UN Publications Depository Libraries in 146 Countries of the world today, in India there are 18 Depository Libraries. The publications brought by UNO and its other agencies like, UNESCO, WHO etc. are easily available in the market or at any other library because of their special nature, the establishment of Depository of UNO Publications in reputed libraries was brought into practice. So, these Centers are now able to fulfill the requirements of Researchers and others who are in need of them and it is also responsibility of each Depository Centre to work towards this end. However, it is found that these publications are not able to reach the users in a desired level of expectations and few studies on their in-depth information contents exist, and also ! as to their availability and use of these Publications from the Depository Libraries. An attempt is therefore made in this research study to examine the various issues related to the UNO and its other publications available through the Depository Libraries. Hence the study of UNO Publications Depository Libraries located in South India is undertaken for an in-depth and detailed study. The aim of the study is to find out how the UN depository resources reach to the end user and various effective mechanisms created for their optimum utilization with the available information technology facilities in particular in selected designated libraries. This research work is focused in the need analysis of the selected samples from seven Depository Libraries. The main aim of the study is to find out the awareness of UN Depository Information. As a part of the study a survey of seven Depository Libraries in South India through questionnaire method has been conducted successfully. ! The questionnaires mainly focused on the strengths of the Depository L ibraries with regard to their information resources, awareness, budget, library collection, user education programmes, building, arrangement of the documents etc., The Information Technology infrastructure were also gathered. Dr. Raghunandana M M.A.,MLISc.,Ph.D. Lecturer, Dept. of Library & Information Science Bangalore University Bangalore - 560056 Karnataka State India Ph:091-080-22961401 Mobile:091-9611334522 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Five US universities to provide central funding for open access publication fees
by Mailing List Admin 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:46:45 +0530 From: Shivendra Singh <shiv.mail(a)gmail.com> Five US universities to provide central funding for open access publication fees<http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcblog/entry/five_us_universities…> In a major step forward for the open access movement, Berkeley, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last week announced <http://news.biomedcentral.com/t/13102619/7881471/1544239/0/> a joint commitment to provide their researchers with central financial assistance to cover open access publication fees, and encouraged other academic institutions to join them. The aim of the 'compact for open access publication equity<http://news.biomedcentral.com/t/13102619/7881471/1544240/0/>' is to create a level playing field between subscription-based journals (which institutions support centrally via library budgets) and open access journals (which often depend on publication fees). Read more <http://news.biomedcentral.com/t/13102619/7881471/1544241/0/> http://www.oacompact.org/ -- Shivendra Singh 9815526163

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conference:relevance of Ranganathan @bbau
by Mailing List Admin 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:14:15 +0530 From: vijay kumar <vijaydlis(a)gmail.com> Dear LIS professionals, Topic:"RELEVANCE OF RANGANATHAN IN THE PRESENT DAY KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY" PLACE: BBAU (a central university), LUCKNOW DATE:14-15 NOV,2009 for detail, visit, http://www.bbauindia.org/news_events/notice_18sep09.pdf With Regards, VIJAY GAUTAM MLISc.,(MCA) bbau,lko

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Seminar on Future Libraries and Librarians at Ahmedabad
by AMA Library 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

A One Day Seminar on Future Libraries and Librarians Saturday, October 10, 2009 10.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. Topics and Speakers: l Positioning Information Professionals for the Future by Ms. Janice Lachance, CEO, Special Libraries Association, Alexandria, Virginia, USA l Model Corporate Library by Mr. B.P. Prakash, GM and Global LIC Head, TCS Mumbai l Future of Academic Libraries by Dr. Jagdish Arora, Director, INFLIBNET, Ahmedabad l Innovation Driven Librarianship: Expectations of a library user by Prof. S. Ramkumar, CEO Last Resort. l Creating the Future Landscape for Libraries: Relating Retail and Marketing Concepts to Libraries by Prof. P.K. Sinha, Professor & Head, Centre for Retailing, IIM, Ahmedabad Who should attend: Librarians; Information Assistants; Research Scholars and Doctorate Students; Faculty/Promotion Personnel; Market Research Professionals etc. Fee: Rs. 200/- per participant. This includes seminar kit, lunch and tea. The cheque may be drawn in the name of 'Ahmedabad Management Association'. Registration: Please send your registration along with participation fee to: The Executive Director, Ahmedabad Management Association AMA Complex, Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Marg, Vastrapur Ahmedabad 380 015. Ph: 079- 32512847 26308601-6 Fax: 079-26305692 E-mail: amaahd(a)gmail.com Website: www.amaindia.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for an anticle
by LIBRARY 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

Namaste, One of the academicians in our Centre needs this article. Could any one of you help us by sending a copy of the same. Title: Temperature jumps at the boundary of a rarefied gas Authors: Jörg Au1, Ingo Müller1 and Tommaso Rugger Journal: Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics , Volume 12, Number 1 / April, 2000 Publisher: Springer URL: http://www.springerlink.com/content/q4hq19aym5pwxyw1/ Thanks & regards, Veena -- -------------------------------------------------- Library TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics Phone: 91-80-66953757 Post Bag No. 6503, Sharada Nagar, Fax: 91-80-66953799 Chikkabommasandra, GKVK Post, URL: http://math.tifrbng.res.in Yalahanka New Town, Bangalore-560 065 Bharat -------------------------------------------------- "Every duty is holy and devotion to duty is the highest form of the worship of God." - Swami Vivekananda -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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JournalTOCs
by Mallikarjun 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

Dear All, JournalTOCs is a project by JISC for monitoring current journal issues. it covered 12,623 Journals collected from 422 publisher. you can browse latest table of contents from all journals. details please visit http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/index.php Thanks *************************************************************** Mallikarjun Dora Professional Assistant Vikram Sarabhai Library Indian Institute of Management, Ahemadabad http://mallikarjundora.wordpress.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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ISiM - Special Lecture Series (9) on "Changing Paradigms of Digital Marketing & Multichannel Commerce", 23rd September, 2009 - A Report.
by Roopa 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

International School of Information Management University of Mysore, Mysore ISiM - Special Lecture Series (9) 23rd September 2009 "Changing Paradigms of Digital Marketing & Multichannel Commerce" by Mr. Ajay Malgaonkar A special lecture was organized at the International School of Information Management (ISiM), University of Mysore, Mysore on Wednesday, the 23rd of September 2009 at 10 AM. The special lecture was delivered by Mr. Ajay Malgaonkar, Group Project Manager, Infosys Technologies Limited on the topic of "Changing Paradigms of Digital Marketing & Multichannel Commerce". Special lectures are organized in ISiM with the intention of providing students an insight into cutting edge trends in the field of Information Management and also an opportunity to interact with distinguished guests. The event started with Prof.Shalini Urs, Executive Director, ISiM welcoming the speaker and the audience. She introduced the speaker to the audience and set the environment for an exciting discussion. Mr. Ajay Malgaonkar began his lecture explaining the concept of Digital Marketing and the need for it in the contemporary world. Digital Marketing, he explained is the practice of promoting products and services using digital distribution channels to reach consumers in a timely, relevant, personal and cost-effective manner. He provided examples to show how the traditional methods of marketing and reaching out to people have become redundant. He then spent some time explaining how these tools could be leveraged to build a relationship between producers and consumers, Create Brand Awareness, build brand equity and capture the public opinion. This practice predominantly uses the new age tools like Internet, mobile and other interactive channels for reaching out to the masses. On the other hand, Multi channel commerce refers to the practice of pursuing multiple means to promote or doing business. The two techniques go hand-in hand in the modern day business scenarios. It today's business scenario, it is noteworthy that all popular brands are actively employing the techniques of Digital Marketing and Multi channel communications for a better visibility and market position. He also explained how the videos, emails, websites, SMS'es, Podcasts, Banners and blogs can be used in tandem to create awareness and branding of any product. He emphasized on the current trends in customers' decision making being deeply influenced by the opinions of their peers. In such scenarios, it becomes important for the companies/brands to monitor the blogs and other social networking platforms over the internet to assess their market positioning and sentiments. Ajay's point of view about marketing was that, "Instead of TELLING A STORY, Create the TOOLS that allow a story to be told". He is of the opinion that acquisition of a customer online consists of following 6 stages namely - Discovery of the product by the consumer, Evaluation by the Consumer, Engage the customer, Interaction among various consumers, Convert the consumers interest and Advocate the consumers- The speaker then took up a case study regarding the usage of digital marketing during the 2008 US presidential elections. He explained how the blogs, email campaigns were effectively employed to promote individual candidates as brands. For more details of the event, visit the webpage - http://isim.ac.in/html/Special%20Lecture-Ajay%20Malgoankar.htm Thanks & Regards Roopa Project Assistant International School of Information Management 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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Fw:HELINET Training and Continuing Education Program -2009
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

dear friends recently i was in Bangalore at Rajiv Gandhi Health University. Dr Urs, the Chief Librarian of th euniversity, who established the HELINET by roping in medical colleges in the university to proivde the subscription of journals and books as well as information to these colleges. he started five user education programs to the doctors, librarians and medical students on wht are the resources available and how to make use of them.. on first day, the program was for medical subject and more 80 participated in the program, they were attentively attending the program. I FEEL ALL THE PROFESSIONALS SHOULD APPRECIATE THE ATTEMPTS OF Dr URS IN ORGANISING THESE FREE USER EDUCATION PROGRAMS TO ENLIGHTEN THE USERS AND ALSO TO MAKE OPTIMUM USE OF THE RESOURCES. THIS ENABLES VALUE FOR TH EMONEY SPENT BY THE INSTITUTIONS. Why cannot the Universities getting the resources thru Infonet make such regular programs? i congratulate Dr Urs and his staff in doing these programs. LAXMAN RAO --- On Sat, 19/9/09, thimmappa naik <thimmappa03(a)yahoo.com> wrote: From: thimmappa naik <thimmappa03(a)yahoo.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] HELINET Training and Continuing Education Program -2009 To: "ncsi lis forum" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Date: Saturday, 19 September, 2009, 12:06 PM To, All respected professionals, Affiliated colleges to RGUHS-Karnataka HELINET Training and Continuing Education Program for the Librarians and faculty / students of the affiliated Colleges of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka, 4 T Block Jayanagar-Bangalore-41(RGUHS) under HELINET Consortium September 22-30, 2009 1. Librarians, Principals, Students of Medical Colleges,Tuesday, Sept 22, 2009 2. Librarians Principals, Students of Dental Colleges Wednesday, Sept 23, 2009 3. Librarians Principals, Students of Pharmacy Colleges,Thursday, Sept 24, 2009 4. Librarians Principals, Students of Nursing Colleges,Friday, Sept 25, 2009 5. Librarians Principals, Students of Physiotherapy & Allied Health Science Colleges Saturday, Sept 26, 2009 6. Librarians Principals, Students of Ayurveda, Homoeopathy, Unani, Yoga & Naturopathy Colleges Wednesday, Sept 30, 2009 Timings: 10.30 a.m. to 5.45 p.m. Venue: Dhanvathri Hall, RGUHS Kindly participate, regards, Thimmappa N. MLISc, PGDHL Library Assistant, RGUHS Bengaluru Thimmappa N. MLISc, PGDHL Bengaluru thimmappa03(a)yahoo.com or softeyest(a)gmail.com"Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future”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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