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i-Quiz 2008 Contest : Part of 23rd National Seminar of IASLIC
by Dr. Arun K. Chakraborty 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Dear Moderator Pl. circulate this. Dear LIS students and professionals, Subject : i-Quiz 2008 Contest : Part of 23rd National Seminar of IASLIC 2008 at BI, Kolkata) Important Dates : Round 1 - Online Quiz is on 28th November, 2008 and the Grand finale - Stage quiz is on December 11, 2008 in the Bose Institute, Kolkota during 23rd National Seminar of IASLIC 2008. Register Before : 2nd December, 2008 ___________________________________________________________________________ Informatics is happy to announce the return of Q-Times. Yes, We are back with our popular quiz contest !!!!! We bring the "i-Quiz 2008" to tease your brains and let you win prizes ...... i- Quiz 2008 is part of the "23rd National Seminar of IASLIC 2008" at Bose Institute (to commemorate 150th Birth Anniversary of Acharya J.C. Bose and 90th Foundation Day of the Institute" during 10-13 December, 2008, being organised by Bose Institute, Kolkata. InfoQuiz is now i-Quiz. i-quiz has 2 rounds: Round 1 - Online Quiz & Round 2 - Stage Quiz. Round 1 - Online Quiz is on 28th November, 2008 and the grand finale - Stage quiz is on December 11, 2008 in Kolkota during 23rd National Seminar of IASLIC 2008. Registration for i-Quiz begins on November 21 and closes on 27th, at www.i- quiz.in Please note - you have just 7 days to register for the event. The last date for registration is November 27, 2008. Top 6 scorers in the Online Quiz will be called for the Final Round on December 11,2008 in Kolkata, during IASLIC 2008. CASH PRIZES and other AWARDS for the Winners and 1st Runners-up. Spread the good word - tell your friends and colleagues... "More, the Merrier" More details visit - www.i-quiz.in I-Quiz Team Informatics India ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please Register yourself for the Seminar before 30th November, 2008, after that it may not be possible for us to Register any particpants. http://bic.boseinst.ernet.in/seminar/workshop/library/ Contact : Dr. Arun Kumar Chakraborty DR. ARUN KUMAR CHAKRABORTY LIBRARIAN BOSE INSTITUTE, KOLKATA, INDIA CENTENARY CAMPUS : P1/12 CIT SCHEME - VII-M, KOLKATA 700 054 INDIA PH: 91-33-2569 3268, 3270 FAX: 91-33-2355 3886 MAIN CAMPUS: 93/1 A.P.C. ROAD, KOLKATA 700 009 INDIA PH: 91-33-2350 2402/03, FAX: 91-33-2350-6790 Ph(Res): 91-33-23242100, E-MAIL: akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in ------- End of Forwarded Message ------- DR. ARUN KUMAR CHAKRABORTY LIBRARIAN BOSE INSTITUTE, KOLKATA, INDIA CENTENARY CAMPUS : P1/12 CIT SCHEME - VII-M, KOLKATA 700 054 INDIA PH: 91-33-2569 3268, 3270 FAX: 91-33-2355 3886 MAIN CAMPUS: 93/1 A.P.C. ROAD, KOLKATA 700 009 INDIA PH: 91-33-2350 2402/03, FAX: 91-33-2350-6790 Ph(Res): 91-33-23242100, E-MAIL: akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in (Fulbright Scholar 2005-2006) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Registration Open for IASLIC Seminar 10-13 December, 2008 at BI
by Dr. Arun K. Chakraborty 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Dear Moderator Kindly circulate this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF SPECIAL LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION CENTRE (IASLIC), KOLKATA 23rd National Seminar of IASLIC at Bose Institute, during 10-13 December,2008 Dear All We have the honour to submit that Bose Institute, as a part of year long programme in commemoration of 150th Birth Anniversary Founder Sir J. C. Bose and 90th Foundation Day of the Institute, is organizing and hosting the 23rd National Seminar of Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centre (IASLIC) during 10-13, December 2008. The Seminar will be inaugurated on Wednesday 10th December, 2008 at 4.30 P.M. SIG Meetings will be at 10.00 A.M. on 10th December, 2008. All of your presence would benefit all the library professionals in India and globe. Please register yourself and also depute at least two persons from Library or LIS Department. Some of the objectives of the Seminar are to bring together special library professionals to a common platform, to promote special libraries, and facilitate the exchange of ideas and help to bridge the knowledge gap amongst the professionals associated with special libraries and to develop the professional competent. This seminar is expected to attract more than 500 participants from India and abroad. Registrations are open. You are invited to attend the same. For details please visit: http://bic.boseinst.ernet.in/seminar.html/workshop.html, or http://www.iaslic1955.org/organ.htm, Dates to Remember Last Date for Registration : 30th November 2008 Cancellation of Registration (for any un-avoidable circumstances) before 7th December, 2008 ---- 80% Registration Fees and accommodation charges (if any) will be refunded after deduction of Paper Publication charges (for authors, if any) Registration Fees : http://www.iaslic1955.org/fee.htm Register Online : http://bic.boseinst.ernet.in/seminar/workshop/library/lib_form.htm PANEL of SPEAKERS --- For Panel Discussions --- from India and abroad Payment Details : The payment should be sent through local cheque/ demand draft to be made in favour of "NS-IASLIC-BI-2008 and payable at Kolkata. The filled-in registration forms and the payment should be sent to the Bose Institute address (http://www.iaslic1955.org/regd.pdf) For further information, please contact: Dr. Arun Kumar Chakraborty Organizing Secretary 23rd National Seminar of IASLIC Bose Institute P-1/12 CIT Scheme VII-M, Kankurgachi, Kolakta 700 054 INDIA Ph. 91-33-25693268/ 3270 Fax: 91-33-23553886 Cell: 09433323424 Email: akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in, c_arunK(a)hotmail.com, iaslic(a)vsnl.net Seminar updates : http://bic.boseinst.ernet.in/seminar/workshop/library/, www.iaslic1955.org Dated : 27th October, 2008 (Dr. Arun Kumar Chakraborty) Hony. General Secretary DR. ARUN KUMAR CHAKRABORTY LIBRARIAN BOSE INSTITUTE, KOLKATA, INDIA CENTENARY CAMPUS : P1/12 CIT SCHEME - VII-M, KOLKATA 700 054 INDIA PH: 91-33-2569 3268, 3270 FAX: 91-33-2355 3886 MAIN CAMPUS: 93/1 A.P.C. ROAD, KOLKATA 700 009 INDIA PH: 91-33-2350 2402/03, FAX: 91-33-2350-6790 Ph(Res): 91-33-23242100, E-MAIL: akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Lecture on Use pattern of e-Resource Databases in Modern Libraries at NISCAIR, New Delhi on 28-11-2008
by Puna Das 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Dear All, You are coordially invited for the lecture on "Use pattern of e-Resource Databases in Modern Digital Libraries" by Dr. Dirk Fernholz on 28th November 2008 at NISCAIR as per the details given below: Speaker Dirk Fernholz Sr. e- Product Manger, Springer, Heidelberg. Topic Use pattern of e-Resource Databases in Modern Digital Libraries Venue Seminar Hall, NISCAIR, 14 Satsang Vihar Marg, New Delhi -110 067, India Date & Time 28 November 2008. 14:30hrs-16.30hrs Programme 14.30 Hrs. Welcome by Mr. S K Rastogi, Director, NISCAIR 14.35 Hrs. Opening Remarks 15.00 Hrs. Mr. Dirk Fernholz 16.30 Hrs. Closing remarks - Mr. Prakash Chand Regards Prakash Chand National Science Library NISCAIR, New Delhi-110 067, India ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://www.anup-jnu.blogspot.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Building Malayalam documents with Greenstone
by Rajan 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Dear All, Recent trials on Greenstone 2.81 revealed that Malayalam full text documents (word, pdf etc) containing Unicode fonts can be built up into digital library collections with browsing classifiers and word search in Malayalam. Greenstone emerges, probably, as the only digital library software with capability to have full text search in Malayalam. The experimentation was surprising to many of us, in spite of NCSI team, who worked on this aspect earlier, had told us about this possibility much earlier. The complexity of Malayalam language and the long delay in standardizing the keyboard made many of us believe that it would be a difficult task to handle Malayalam text. Now Malayalam search is a reality in Greenstone. This indicates that Greenstone has a larger scope from now onwards in local language computing and digitization. Malayalam OCR is still under development and may not expect to have more than 80 percent accuracy in the beginning, according to the development team. Regards, K Rajasekharan Kerala Institute of Local Administration Thrissur -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fw: Request to fill the Questionnaire on Library Management System Survey for research work
by o u 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Dear Sir, Please try to include the following message in LIS- FORUM mailing for the information of professionals in this region. Thanks --- On Mon, 24/11/08, o u <ojwini(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: From: o u <ojwini(a)yahoo.co.in> Subject: Request to fill the Questionnaire on Library Management System Survey for research work To: lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Cc: "Ojas Upasani" <ojaswini.upasani(a)gmail.com> Date: Monday, 24 November, 2008, 4:03 PM Please publish this request on LIS-FORUM Thanx Ojaswini Upasani Hello Professionals, I am a research (Doctorate level) student at Library and Information Sciences faculty of Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU, Nashik) under the guidance of Dr. D.N. Phadke of IIT Mumbai. I need your cooperation in my research project, entitled: Study of migration of Library Management Systems (LMS) in Western regional Indian libraries. This survey is designed to depict a regional picture of the library software / system migration in India . A questionnaire, to seek data about the migration aspects of LMS pertaining to your library is enclosed herewith. The information sought from you will not only help me to investigate the problem in detail but the process will also help in identifying problems in migration of LMS and solving them with standardization and troubleshooting. I would like to assure you that the data will be used only for the academic purpose and will be treated as “Strictly Confidential”. I need to know if any library other than the western region has migration experience which they are willing to share with the professionals. If you let me know your name and address, I will contact you for the details of the same. If you wish to reply my questionnarie for Librarians, the same is available on my blog http://ojas-lms.blogspot.com. Similarly, Questionnarie for Vendors is preapred separately to understand the type of features of LMS and type of services provided by the vendors. Hope to get you kind support & co-operation. Complete address: Mrs. Ojaswini Subodh Upasani A-202, Chandravel Co-op. Housing Society Katrap D.P. Road, Badlapur (East) Dist. Thane. Pin code – 420 503 Mobile: 9324962146 E-mail id : ojaswini.upasani(a)gmail.com Blog: http://ojas-lms.blogspot.com Get rid of Add-Ons in your email ID. Get yourname(a)rocketmail.com. Sign up now! Get perfect Email ID for your Resume. Grab now http://in.promos.yahoo.com/address -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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DELNET Annual Lecture by Mr Stephen Abram, President, SLA, USA on, November 28, 2008 at 6:30 pm at IIC
by Sangeeta Kaul 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Dear Sir/Madam We request you to kindly join us for the DELNET Annual Lecture. Please confirm your kind presence. Thanking you Yours faithfully Sangeeta Kaul ============================================================================= DELNET cordially invites you to the DELNET Annual Lecture on Libraries and the Global Technology Forecast by Stephen Abram President, Special Libraries Association (SLA) U.S.A Vice President Innovation for SirsiDynix Corporation on Friday, November 28, 2008 at 6-30 p.m. at India International Centre (Conference Room II) 40 Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi 110003 N. Ravi Shankar Joint Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India has kindly agreed to preside. Tea : 6 p.m. RSVP : 26742222 Stephen Abram is President, Special Libraries Association (SLA), U.S.A. He was President 2004-2005 of the Canadian Library Association, President 2002 of the Ontario Library Association and has served twice on the SLA international board of directors, in addition to the Toronto Chapter, CASLIS and SLA as LMD. He is currently also Vice President Innovation for SirsiDynix where he helps predict the future of libraries, technology and user behavior. He has been VP of Corporate Development for Micromedia ProQuest and Publisher Electronic Information for Thomson. He has run libraries for Suncor, Coopers & Lybrand, Smith Lyons Torrance Stevenson and Mayer and The Hay Group. Stephen has been listed by Library Journal as a "Mover and Shaker", one of the key people influencing the future of libraries and librarianship. He has been awarded SLA's John Cotton Dana Award as well as being a Fellow of the SLA. He was Canadian Special Librarian of the Year and Alumni of the Year for the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto. He is an adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Information Studies. Stephen gives well over 50 international keynote talks annually to library and information industry conferences and articles and columns for, among others, Information Outlook, Feliciter, Multimedia & Internet @ Schools, and Library Journal. Recently he has enjoyed a few radio and television appearances promoting libraries. _______________________________________________________________________________ Sangeeta Kaul Network Manager DELNET-Developing Library Network Jawaharlal Nehru University Campus Nelson Mandela Road Vasant Kunj New Delhi-110070 Tel: 91-11-26742222, 32471010, 32471002, 32471011 Fax: 91-11-26741122 Email: sangs(a)delnet.ren.nic.in, sangskaul2003(a)yahoo.co.in, sangskaul(a)gmail.com Web : www.delnet.nic.in ________________________________________________________________________________ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Neem extract for preservation
by YASHWANT G KANADE 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Dear Members, Could any one please suggest us how neem extract can be used to control the worm attacked to books? Please give the details of the company who does this services? -- YASHWANT G KANADE SGO/Librarian Centre for Ecological Sciences Indian Institute of Science BANGALORE - 560012, Karnataka, INDIA kanade(a)ces.iisc.ernet.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner @CES, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] LIS Education
by shriram pandey 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Dear Madam, There are various approaches that can be adopted by LIS departments and some specialized organizations to prepare corporate librarians. In order to fulfill this requirement, first we have to see that whats are the necessary qualifications and experience needed for a corporate librarians.Most of the corporate libraries are fully automated and use latest technologies to provide best quality based services to their patrons. This includes content management, Community portal development for social networking, CAS services through blogs and through some others web 2.0 technology like wikies. Knowledge Management is also more associated with this and many libraries are now proactively providing "Knowledge Management services". Some of the leading organizations that have already started some specialized programs for LIS professionals include NCSI, Indian Institute of Science, which is providing specialised training in information and Knowledge Management(IKM). This training programme is now being continued as LIM (Library and information management) in collaboration with JRD Tata Memorial Library, IISc. ADIS course (Now MS-Library and information science), ISI , Bangalore has also the latest curriculum and infrastructure to prepare corporate librarians. Library and information Science departments can take reference from curriculum of these organizations and can develop their curriculum based on that. There are several other issues that LIS departments should have to care of like Specialized staff , Infrastructure etc. Regards, Shri Ram Pandey - MLIS(BHU), IKM(IISc), UGC-NET (JRF) NCSI, IISC, Bangalore-560012 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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The Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program -2010
by J. K. Vijayakumar 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

Introduction This program, jointly sponsored by the American Theological Library Association, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and OCLC, provides early career development and continuing education for library and information science professionals from countries with developing economies. Program overview On an annual basis, up to six individuals, including a theological librarian, are selected for participation in this intensive five-week Fellowship program. Four weeks are based at OCLC's headquarters in Dublin, Ohio, USA; one week is based at OCLC in Leiden, Netherlands. The program gives Fellows opportunities to meet with leading information practitioners, visit libraries, and explore topics including information technologies, library operations and management, and global cooperative librarianship. The Fellows visit selected North American and European libraries, cultural heritage institutions and library organizations. The Fellows also observe OCLC's governance structure in action, gaining insight into issues affecting the global library cooperative. Fellows give presentations about their home countries and libraries, meet leading information professionals and discuss real-world solutions to the challenges facing libraries today. The Fellows translate their learning and experiences into specific professional development plans that guide their continued growth as well as their personal contributions to their home institutions and country of origin. Application deadline 06 March 2009 Selection April - July 2009 Award announcement August 2009 Program dates April - May 2010 (exact dates to be determined) Full Details are available at http://www.oclc.org/community/careerdevelopment/fellows/default.htm Best wishes for all applicants; Posted by -- -- -- Dr. J. K. VIJAYAKUMAR IFLA-OCLC Fellow - 2001 Associate Director of Library Services American University of Antigua PB W-1451, St. Johns Antigua, West Indies www.auamed.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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"Get an edge realize your dream"
by shivakumar shiva 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

Dear Professionals, The 5th talk of the 'Friday Talk' series of MULISSA (Mysore University Library and Information Science Students Association) was held at the First year Lecture hall of Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore on Friday, 21st Nov. 2008. This week's topic of discussion was 'Get on edge to realize your dream'. Mr. Prashanth Kumar, Managing Director of EDGE (Enhancing Individual Growth and Excellence), Mysore, gave an interactive presentation on how to realize our dreams. He began by defining the word 'success', which means many things to many people. Intent, effort and God's grace are three ingredients for success. He emphasized certain issues such as - Why some people are not successful. - The art of dream conversion being a structured process. - Handling fear - Dealing with criticism He ended with the quote 'Dreams can come true, if you make them come true'. Dr. Mallinath Kumbar presided over the function, welcomed and introduced the guest, Faculty, Research Scholars and students were present on the occasion. -- *Shivakumar H.R.* * II year MLISc * *Manasagangothri * *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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