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IGF 2008: Content in local languages is as essential as connectivity
by Puna Das 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

IGF 2008: Content in local languages is as essential as connectivity 05-12-2008 (Hyderabad) The power of the Internet is multiplied when people are able to access and use content in their local languages, agreed a group of experts who opened the 2008 Internet Governance Forum in a session on Reaching the Next Billion: Multilingualism. The complex topic of achieving multilingualism on the Internet has political and social dimensions beyond the technological challenges of ensuring tools for access and translation. Key points of the discussion were: * Content in local languages is as essential as connectivity. People must be able to create and receive information in their local language and to be able to express themselves in ways their peers can understand. * Internet tools and applications – software, hardware, search engines, browsers and translation tools – must be localized and also support the accessibility needs of people with special needs. * A fundamental access point is how one accesses Internet sites. Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) and internationalised email addresses, to accommodate non-Latin scripts, are being developed through technology, standards and policies. * Increasingly, online communication is occurring in mediums other than in written form: multilingualism for multiple media, of which mobile devices are a significant point of access. * A common framework and language will help the Internet Governance Forum to address these issues. * There remains a great need for capacity building in digital literacy as well as basic, traditional literacy. The panelists were: Alex Corenthin, President of the Internet Society; Manal Ismail, Director of International Technical Coordination, Government of Egypt; Hiroshi Kawamura, President of DAISY consortium (Digital Accessible Information System); Viola Krebs, Executive Director, ICVolunteers; Tulika Pandey, Department of Information Technology, Government of India; S. (Ramki) Ramakrishnan - CEO of C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing), India. The moderator and rapporteur for the session was Miriam Nisbet, Director of UNESCO’s Information Society Division. An Open Dialogue plenary session on Reaching the Next Billion: Access and Multilingualism gave panelists and participants from both opening day main sessions an opportunity to discuss in more depth the relationship between access and multilingualism. Proceedings of all IGF sessions and workshops are available on the IGF website [http://www.intgovforum.org/] Source: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=27869&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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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Polytechnic Library requirements
by Mailing List Admin 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

Date: 4 Dec 2008 07:01:07 -0000 From: baban more <bkmore(a)rediffmail.com> Can you please help me? I'm a librarian at a polytechnic college. Please let me know the no. of book titles & no.of Volumes that the library should posses during the first year of establishment of the library? Thanking you B K More Librarian, Saraswati Education Society's Saraswati Institute of Technology Plot No.-46/46A, Sect- 05 Kharghar Navi- Mumbai- 410210 E-mail- bkmore(a)rediffmail.com babankmore(a)gmail.com Ph.No. 09869780650

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Training for corporate librarianship
by Mailing List Admin 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 17:41:46 +0530 From: Anita Pujari <anita(a)dnaindia.net> Dear professional colleagues, I have been following with interest the exchange of opinions on Corporate Librarianship - the status, the training needs etc. In my opinion the problems that LIS professionals face in the Corporate Sector is that of being little understood. Atanu Garai has elucidated with examples the poor understanding of HR/Corporate recruiters of the professional/academic requirements to handle the role of Information Management or Knowledge Management. At best they would think of a LIS professional for a "Library" with a view of a physical collection - typically Books, Magazines, Newspapers or Multimedia such as CDs, DVDs, Tapes and so on as per the business the company engages in. Basically Storehouse/Collection management. However it is not always so - there are many exceptions. I have been lucky to have worked in both kinds of Corporate Libraries. My experience of the past 14 years with Media Libraries has been particularly challenging. Fighting mindsets & managing perceptions plays a big part. We as LIS professionals have to work on marketing ourselves and creating our role and place in the company. As you all know Knowledge Management is the big buzz word in the Corporate sector now. At the recently held CII KM India 2008 Knowledge Summit in Mumbai there were about 150 delegates from a spectrum of companies. Amongst all those knowledge practitioners barely 6-7 of us were from the LIS profession. Every other profession, with IT & MBAs in the lead have staked claim to playing the Knowledge Manager role in almost all companies be it Infosys, WIPRO, Satyam, Reliance, MindTree, Eureka Forbes, Airtel� long list. ILFS, Mumbai is an exception I know of and there maybe(hopefully) a couple more. But we are hopelessly outnumbered in this upcoming profession and Job role that we as LIS professionals can so easily play. Anita Pujari ------------------------------------------ General Manager DNA - Research, Archives & Syndication Diligent Media Corporation Ltd. Oasis Complex, Kamala Mills Compound, Lower Parel, Mumbai 400 013 Phone: +91 22 39888888 Extn 451 Fax: +91 22 39801000 www.dnaindia.com <http://www.dnaindia.com/> http://epaper.dnaindia.com <http://epaper.dnaindia.com/> www.3dsyndication.com <http://www.3dsyndication.com/> ----Original Message---------- From: Mailing List Admin Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Training for corporate librarianship To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 10:53 AM Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:17:49 +0530 From: atanu garai Dear Professors, I am very glad to interact with you all again, as I always look for opportunities to ask questions to teachers. Let me be very honest here. I will of course agree to what is said regarding the imminent need for improving the quality of intake and output of LIS incumbents. There is no doubt about it. But, this is just one side of the

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Nat. Symp. on OA & Building IRs
by I.R.N.Goudar 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Dear Professional Colleagues, We at National Aerospace Laboratories have organised a three day "National Symposium on Open Access and Building Institutional Repositories (NSOABIR)" as a part of Golden Jubilee Celebrations of NAL. Date: 21-23 Dec 2008 at NAL, Bangalore. Venue: Dr. S R Valluri Auditorium/KTMD Seminar Hall National Aerospace Laboratories Bangalore Topics: Scholarly Communication, Open Access Movement/Initiative, OA Channels, OA Policies, Digitisation & Digital Preservation, Open Access Journals, Institutional Repositories, Setting up of IRs, Impact of OA on Citations/IF Value, IPR and Copyright issues, Librarian's Role in OA/IR, Case Studies. Resource Persons: Experts from DRTC/ISI, NCSI/IISc, NIMHANS, GEIT, Informatics India and NAL Panel Discussion: "Impact of Open Access on Science Communication" No of Participants: Restricted to 75 Registration Fees: Rs. 2000/- Accommodation: For few participants on first come first served basis I invite you to make use of this opportunity for yourself or your colleagues. For more details Please See: www.icast.org.in/nsoabir.html Contact: Mrs. Poornima Narayana, Convener, NSOABIR Information Centre for Aerospace Science and Technology (ICAST) National Aerospace Laboratories Post Bag No. 1779, Bangalore-560 017 Tel: 080-25086080; 25086083 Fax: 080-25260862; 25270670 E-mail: poornima(a)nal.res.in Regards Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Sci G & Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for Article
by nitu＠drtc.isibang.ac.in 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Dear friends, Can someone kindly send me a copy of the below reference? I shall be grateful. Article title: Commercial Portals Evaluation Author: Azar, S.N.; jalali, A.H.; Falsafi, S. Advanced Communication Technology, 2008. ICACT 2008. 10th International Conference on Volume 3, Issue , 17-20 Feb. 2008 Page(s):2035 - 2039 Publisher: IEEE Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ICACT.2008.4494187 Seeking your co-operation Thanking You Nitu Kumari ADIS 2nd Year Student Documentation Research and Training Centre Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore-059 Karnataka (India) email: nitu(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in nitu.drtc(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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Book Exhibition Cum Sale
by Ajay Kamble 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

*Annasaheb Vartak College of Arts, Kedarnath Malhotra College * *of Commerce, **E S Andrades College of Science and * *Vidyavardhini **Junior College* ** *Proudly Invites you to the programme* ** *"Granthanchya Sahavasat Teen Diwas"* ** *College Library Books' Exhibition* *10th December 2008* *Venue : Vartak College Library* ** *Book Exhibition and Sale * *11th - 12th December 2008* *Venue - Rajani Hall, Vartak College* ** *Ajay Kamble* *Librarian* *Annasaheb Vartak Arts,* *KM Commerce,* *ESA Science and Junior College,* *Vasai Road (W) - 401202* *Dist. Thane* *0250-2352981* -- 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] Training for corporate librarianship
by Mailing List Admin 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 05:28:27 -0800 (PST) From: Anila Fadnavis <asufadnavis(a)yahoo.com> Dear All, yes what you say is right. Mostly in companies the library expenditure was/is shown for tax benefits, like social welfare of employees. Hence basics of libraries are not thought over and just some budget to purchase books & Magazines(not Journals) and some place with tables and chairs is provided. In the course of time the librarian and library is absorbed in some form in company except library. may be publication department or so.and librarian is posted somewhere in the company or fired. It is all oweners' wish and any CEO who has interest in Library & books. Librarians are not even middle managers who are in the companies main stream of flow of information. anila fadnavis --- On Wed, 12/3/08, Mailing List Admin <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: From: Mailing List Admin <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Training for corporate librarianship To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 10:53 AM Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:17:49 +0530 From: atanu garai <atanugarai.lists(a)gmail.com> Dear Professors, I am very glad to interact with you all again, as I always look for opportunities to ask questions to teachers. Let me be very honest here. I will of course agree to what is said regarding the imminent need for improving the quality of intake and output of LIS incumbents. There is no doubt about it. But, this is just one side of the coin. [truncated]

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STALLMAN TO SPEAK IN MGU ON 7th DECEMBER 2008
by University LIbrary Mahatma Gandhi University 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

STALLMAN TO SPEAK IN MGU ON 7th DECEMBER 2008 Dr. Richard Matthew Stallman, who heralded software freedom movement and the brain behind the GNU Project which resulted in he creation of free Unix-like operating system (LINUX), will address the academia and the public in Mahatma Gandhi University Campus on 7th December 2008 at 11.00 am. Vice-_Chancellor Prof. (Dr.) Rajan Gurukkal will preside over the function. Recipient of several honorary doctorates from leading Universities including Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology, Stallman set up the Free Software Foundation in 1985. He pioneered the concept of copyleft and is the main author of several copyleft licenses including the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license. Since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time advocating free software, as well as campaigning against both software patents and what he sees as excessive extension of copyright laws. He co-founded the League for Programming Freedom in 1989. Teachers, students and the public interested to attend the programme as well as interact with Dr. Stallman are requested to register their names/send their queries through email promgu(a)gmail.com. For further details contact: G.Sreekumar, Public Relations Officer, Mahatma Gandhi University <http://sites.google.com/site/stallmanslecture/Home/StallmanF.JPG?attredirec…> Contributions of Dr. Richard Stallman<http://sites.google.com/site/stallmanslecture/Home/contributions> Personal Page of Dr. Richard Stallman <http://www.stallman.org/> Open Access Digital Archives of Doctoral Dissertations of Mahatma Gandhi University <http://www.mgutheses.org/> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Book Tome
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Here is a good personal library management software. bookTome bookTome, a book management system, can help catalog and manage your library or personal book collection. Its features include: Add and edit books manually or using web services; sort and organise your books by author, series or reading status; display books - view books by author or series, as well as by the reading status; search your books with free-form text searching and links; and print out book lists, book information; and keep track of books that you want to read with the wish list. The 2.95 MB bookTome, version 1.20 (29th Nov, 2008), for Windows XP / Vista, can be downloaded at http://booktome.shanemca.com/downloads/bookTome.exe Dr P Vyasamoorthy Link to me through: http://vyasa-kaaranam-ketkadey.blogspot.com/ http://societyforservingseniors.satyamcsr.org/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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International conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture
by Vimal Kumar 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

2nd International conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture" start on 9 December 2008 at Mascot Convention Center, Thiruvananthapuram. Three day conference is end on December 12. Seat availability is 400, online registration facility is available. Seats will be based on First-Come First-Served mode. Organizers of this event are Kerala State IT Mission and SPACE, the Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment. Celebrities in free software movement attend this conference and lots of related programs are the highlights of this conference. Main attraction among speakers are Eben Moglen, Jimmy Wales, Richard Matthew Stallman, Subbiah Arunachalam, and Adam Arvidsson. Other sweet session of this conference are Linux install fest, Open Movie Fest and display of Malayalam Computing, General Word Processing Applications, Scientific Computing, Games and Educational Software, Open Hardware and Computing for Disabled. Various interesting topics are take place for speech and discussion; ethical economy, Free Software in E-Governance, open access, software patents, FOSS in Agriculture and Fisheries, Free Software Education and Research. More details available at http://fsfs.in/ -- Vimal Kumar V. Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581 Web: www.asb.edu.in/vimal/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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