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Project Assistant Position at NCSI
by Francis Jayakanth 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Dear Members, This posting is being made on behalf of chairman, NCSI. NCSI needs a Project Assistant for its ongoing Science Observatory Project. The candidate needs to possess a minimum qualification of a First Class Master's degree in Library and Information Science preferably with NCSI/DRTC/NISCAIR (INSDOC) experience. The candidate should be interested in bibliometric/scientometric analysis and familiar with searching databases such as Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar. The candidate will also be expected to analyze the data using standard software like Excel. The position will start from 1 Dec and is for a period of 3 years but would be renewed on a continual assessment every three months for satisfactory performance. Please apply with your CV to chairman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in with the subject heading "PA for SO project" before 15 Nov, 2008. Such of those candidates who had applied earlier are requested to apply once again. - Francis Jayakanth NCSI, IISc, Bg -12

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InfoVision 2009: The Knowledge Summit, Jan 22-23, 2009, Bangalore- call for participation
by Shalini Urs 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

************Apologies for cross postings******* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- International School of Information Management, University of Mysore, Mysore & Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Bangalore & Triumph India Software Services, Bangalore ------------------------------------------------------------------- Present InfoVision 2009: The Knowledge Summit, January 22-23, 2009, Bangalore Theme: "Content to Intent: Understanding user intent and context in multimodal, multilingual and mobile information access" Welcome to the 4th edition of InfoVision - The Knowledge Summit Series. Session Themes: * Mobile Information Access * Multimedia Information Access * Multilingual Information Access * Consumer Created Content * eScience, eResearch and Cyber infrastructure * Enterprise Content and Communication Distinguished Speakers at InfoVision 2009: * Dr. P. Anandan, Managing Director, Microsoft Research India, Bangalore * Mr. John Blossom, President and Senior Analyst, Shore Communications, USA * Prof. Dieter Fellner, Director IGD, Fraunhofer Institute of Computer Graphics Research, Darmstadt, Germany * Dr. Edward Cutrell, Research Scientist, Adaptive Systems Interaction Group, Microsoft Research, USA * Prof. John Girard, Associate Professor of Management, Minot State University, USA * Prof. Ee-Peng Lim, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore * Prof. Rohini Srihari, Founder CEO, Janya Inc., USA & Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA * Mr. Bob Stembridge, Thomson Reuters, UK InfoVision brings you the Thomson Innovation Award 2009 Registration Fee: Corporate and Industry: INR 8000.00 per delegate Academic Institutions: INR 6000.00 per delegate 3 or more delegates from same organization - 10% discount Early Bird Offer - Registration before 20th December, 2008 Corporate and Industry: INR 6000.00 per delegate Academic Institutions: INR 4000.00 per delegate 3 or more delegates from same organization - 10% discount Don't miss this great opportunity. For registration and updates, please visit: www.infovision2009.org Come, participate, listen to and interact with eminent speakers. See you at InfoVision 2009! InfoVision 2009 Summit Team. For more details, contact: InfoVision secretariat International School of Information Management University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006 Tel: +91-821-2514699; +91-821-2411417 Fax: +91-821-2519209 Angrosh - 9886970411 Email: office(a)infovision.org.in; office(a)isim.ac.in ----------- Shalini Dr. Shalini Urs Executive Director and Professor International School of Information Management University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore - 570006 Phone : + 91 821 2514699 Fax : + 91 821 2519209 ISiM-Management School for IT, Technology School for IM www.isim.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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reg - zilla Rajostva Award
by Mailing List Admin 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:20:25 -0700 (PDT) From: shivashankar kadadevaramath <skadadevaramath(a)yahoo.com> Respected Modreater � I shivashankar kadadevaramath selection grade Librarian working in sree siddaganga college for women tumkur karanataka, tumkur zill authority declared Rajostva Award, for my outstanding contriubution to the Library proffession which will be held on nov1st 2008 at tumkur gubbi veeranna kalakestra � Yours ever in Library service shivashankar kadadevaramath president karanataka state college Librarian Assocation Bangalore, mob 09449070311

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Offering the post of SLIA (IITR)
by Mailing List Admin 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:33:50 +0530 From: kunwar.air air <kunwr.air(a)gmail.com> Dear LIS Professional Wishing you and Your Family A very Happy Diwali Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee invites the applications on the prescribed form for the following posts as per details given against each. The form may be obtained from Supdt.,Establishment 'B' Section, IIT Roorkee or the form may be downloaded from the Institute website www.iitr.ernet.in. Sr. Library Information Assistant 07 Posts (SC-01, ST-01, OBC-01, UR-04) 01 of the above 07 posts is reservedb horizontally for physically disabled applicants affected by one leg or one arm or both legs. 5500-9000 Essential: (i) Degree from a recognised University or equivalent (ii) Bachelor's degree or equivalent diploma in Library Science of a recognised University/ Institute or quivalent obtained after graduation. (iii) Experience of two years in a Library/ Computerization of a Library or one year certificate in computer application from a recognized institution or equivalent. Regard:- K. S. Rawat Central Library Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai-600036

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Announcement for SIS Fellowship Awards
by Mailing List Admin 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:04:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Kishor Satpathy <kishor_satpathy(a)yahoo.com> Announcement for SIS Fellowship Awards and Raizada Memorial� Awards for Young Information Scientists � Applications are invited from SIS Life members for the SIS Fellowship Awards and from young information Scientists aged below 35 for the Raizada Memorial Young Information Scientists Awards. The Young Information Scientists Award was instituted in memory of late Shri A.S.Raizada Founder Secretary of the Society. � The application along with bio-data and scientific contributions like research paper, Books, or any other material produced by him/her may please be sent to Secretary, Society for Information Science C/O NISTADS, K.S. Krishanan Marg, PUSA, New Delhi-110012 positively by 5th November 2008. Applications received after this shall not be considered. Awardees shall be facilitated on 5th December 2008 at the 25th Silver Jubilee Year�s National Convention & Conference to be held on 5-6th December 2008 at the Indian Institute of Management, Indore. � The details of the Conference can obtained from: Mr. Kishor Chandra Satpathy Librarian & Organising Secretary, SIS 2008 Indian Institute of Management Indore Prabandh Shikhar, Rau-Pithampur Road, Indore-453331, Madhya Pradesh E-mail: satpathy(a)iimidr.ac.in; ksatpathy(a)gmail.com Tel: 0731-4228626, 09425312746(M) � http://www.iimidr.ac.in/iimi/pages/institute/sis2008.php http://sis2008conference.blogspot.com/ http://www.indolibnet.org http://sis2008.synthasite.com/

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3rd Management Development Programme for LIS Professionals
by Mailing List Admin 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:46:00 +0000 (GMT) From: arun kishore <arunkishore_bl(a)yahoo.co.uk> Dear friends, Library and Information Centre of DCSchool of Management and Technology, Kerala is organising its 3rd Management Development Programme for library professionals on 1st�November 2008 at HOTEL TAJ RESIDENCY, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Chief Presentator : Prof. Salini R. Urs. International School of Information Management, Mysore www.isim.ac.in REGESTRATION IS FREE Register Online here� Please access the folowing link for details http://www.dcschool.net With warm regards, Arun Kishore, B.L. Librarian DCSMAT, Kerala Mob. 9745608096 Email. arunkishore@dcschool. net

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request for information
by Meruvu. satyanarayana 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

Dear Fellow Professional Colleague I am in need of data on population and villages of Marine Fisher folk on the sea shore of Visakhapatnam District for my Research Project. Please mail the data as soft copy if possible Thanks in anticipation... Yours Dr.M.Satyanarayana Associate Professor in Library and Information Science Andhra University Visakhapatnam Phone: 9440632703 --------------------------------- Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Invite them now. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for material on Retrospective Conversion for research purpose
by ashok upadhyay 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

Dear Friends, I am doing research on “Retroconversion of Documents in English Language in Central Secretariat Library, Zakir Husain Library, JMI and Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi: An evaluative study.” For this purpose I have needed some full text articles and references of books on Retrospective Conversion by which I would complete my research work. Please help me regarding this because much material is not available on that topic and give me valuable suggestions regarding this. Provide me book reference on that topic and book availability because much books are not available on that topic if available anywhere give me information to me. If anybody have a questionnaire related to this topic please send me immediately. I shall be highly thankful to you. From Ashok Kumar Upadhyay Research Scholar Deptt. of Library Information Science AMU, Aligarh 202002 (M) 09368015073, 09412545849 E-MAIL: ashoka143(a)gmail.com Connect with friends all over the world. Get Yahoo! India Messenger at http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/?wm=n/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Thank you for your help for development of Globethics.net Library
by atanu garai 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

Dear Colleagues, It is indeed my pleasure to introduce to you the Globethics.net Library, launched on 9 October 2008 in a press conference in Geneva. The Library is an endeavour by Globethics.net to bring together open-access and toll-access literature in ethics in a single digital library for the use of associated community (Globethics.net Network). While we are still improving content, technology and resource discovery of the website, we want to invite you to join us and help us in improving this service by giving your insightful feedback. Also, I would like to thank you for sharing your knowledge on various aspects and questions in development of the Library, with particular reference to OAI-PMH integration, metadata quality, among others. Below are some representative links of the consultations done in your forum during this time period. [Dlrg] Metadata from OAI-PMH Harvesters http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/pipermail/dlrg/2008-August/007985.html Aug 11 2008 [Dlrg] Questions: Using controlled vocabulary http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/pipermail/dlrg/2008-June/007923.html Jun 27 2008 [Dlrg] List of Z3950 gateways http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/pipermail/dlrg/2007-August/007616.html Aug 29 2007 [Dlrg] Import and export in OAI http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/pipermail/dlrg/2007-August/007610.html Aug 26 2007 [LIS-Forum] CMU Million Book Project http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2007-November/006351.html Nov 2 2007 [OAI-implementers] Selective Harvesting OAI-PMH Global Harvesters http://www.openarchives.org/pipermail/oai-implementers/2008-August/001885.h… Aug 11 2008 [OAI-implementers] Re: Central versus institutional self-archiving http://www.openarchives.org/pipermail/oai-implementers/2008-March/001814.ht… Mar 8 2008 [OAI-implementers] local/distributed vs global/unified archives http://www.openarchives.org/pipermail/oai-implementers/2008-March/001816.ht… Mar 9 2008 [OAI-implementers] Question regarding OAI-compliant (multiple) journal archiving system http://www.openarchives.org/pipermail/oai-implementers/2007-February/001694… Feb 10 2007 [Liblicense] Submission in repositories by people other than authors http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0804/msg00074.html Apr 23 2008 [Liblicense] local/distributed vs global/unified archives http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0803/msg00036.html Mar 10 2008 Thank you again for your feedbacks and contributions. Best regards, Atanu Garai Online Networking Specialist Globethics.net International Secretariat 150, route de Ferney CH-1211 Geneva 2 Switzerland Tel.: +41 22 791 62 49 Fax: +41 22 710 23 86 Web: www.globethics.net -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Invitation From Indian School of Business.
by preethi subramanians 25 Oct '08

25 Oct '08

Dear all, Greetings from the Indian School of Business! Learning Resource Centre (LRC) at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad invites you to – A keynote address on "Open Access to Information: Quality assurance in OA model", by Dr ARD Prasad, DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore and A lecture on "Organisational Knowledge Assets Conservation through Knowledge Management" by Dr Devika P Madalli, DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Venue: Indian School of Business, AC-3 MLT Date: November 4, 2008 Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm Followed by lunch RSVP: Vijaya Lakshmi J Phone: +91 40 23187963/67 Email: Vijaya_Joda@ isb.edu or lrc_isb(a)isb.edu Thanks & Regards, Preethi Subramanian S. Learning Resource Centre, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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