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Library Land Index
by DINESH SIDDAIAH 23 Sep '08

23 Sep '08

Dear Friends, Quite obviously, managing a library is an enormous occupation, one that is so complex and involved that it requires people to earn advanced degrees in the collection, organization, and dissemination of information. Nevertheless, if you are looking to organize a small library on your own, and you have not had extensive training in this area, here is a quick checklist of steps to take, as based upon the guidelines inspired by the Follett Library Management System <http://www.flr.follett.com/>. These useful resources for librarians is available in http://www.librarylandindex.org/admin/manage.htm. Thanking You, Dinesh K. S. -- Dr. Dinesh K. S. Selection Grade Librarian, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Devanahalli, Bengaluru - 562 110. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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About Classification Scheme
by kirti vaishampayan 23 Sep '08

23 Sep '08

Hi I am Kirti, working as a librarian in newly opened college for FYBcom & FYBMS. There is no classification scheme in our college as we cannot purchase it as of now. So please help me out in finding the classification numbers in any other way that you know. Can we find the classification numbers on the internet? If yes please mail me the details and the steps to search it on the net. Kirti -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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contact details of IPR-LIS professionals required
by S A N J E E V A 23 Sep '08

23 Sep '08

Dear All, This is Sanjeeva Kumar Majumdar working at NRDC as consultant IPRs. I am in need of contact details of all those LIS professional who are also engaged in IPR activities. Please reply, with your contact details as i have to organise few IPRs awareness seminars nationwide. with warm regards Dr Sanjeeva Kumar Majumdar Consultant - IPR National Research Development Corporation NRDC [Govt of India Enterprise] 20-22 Zamroodpur Community Centre;Kailash Colony Extn New Delhi -110 048 www.nrdcindia.com 09310031212 iprs(a)in.com __________________________________________________________ "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." 21:(I Thes. 5).------------------------Holy Bible Download prohibited? No problem. CHAT from any browser, without download. Go to http://in.webmessenger.yahoo.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy at IISER, Mohali
by Thapar, Amit 23 Sep '08

23 Sep '08

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION & RESEARCH (IISER) MGSIPA Complex, Sector 26, Chandigarh-160019, India Advt. no. NF-1/8-9 The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, intends to fill up the following vacancies. 1.. Deputy Librarian : 01 post, Pay Scale : Rs.12000-18300 2.. Library Information Assistant ; 01 post, Pay Scale : Rs. 5500-9000 How to Apply : Applications form in the prescribed format filled in and submitted along with a recent poassport size photogrpah and names of at least 3 referees (in case of Gr.A posts) to the Registrar, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali, MGSIPA Complex, Sector-26, Chandigarh-160019, by 30/10/2008 alongwith a bank draft of Rs.50/- (SC/ST) and Rs.100/- for others in favour of Registrar, IISER, Mohali. Please view http://www.iisermohali.ac.in/advertisement.pdf for details, application form available at http://www.iisermohali.ac.in/application.pdf amit@urservice -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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THREAT TO THE PROFESSION
by Dipen Deka 23 Sep '08

23 Sep '08

Dear professionals Should the department of library & information science of the Indian universities be included in the science faculty? Recently the UGC team for the XIth plan visited our departments on 23rd September 2008. We are using the 18th edition of the DDC for classification practice, which are outdated now. We requested them to sanction money for procuring 25 sets of DDC sets. They are not convinced that these are laboratory equipments for us. They said that they are unable to sanction that huge amount of money ( Rs. 2, 50,000 ) for the books. But the question is whether the DDC sets are considered as books in LIS profession. As like the science laboratory practical Equipments to us the DDC, UDC and the Sears List of subject headings are laboratory tool to us. The science departments are getting lots of money for laboratory equipments. As we are under the Arts faculty we are deprive of our basic need. Another thing is that, the UGC team can't recognize that 1:1 computer lab is necessary for LIS department. They said that most of the time the PC is lying idle or using Internet only. Perhaps they don't know that for a modern library automation and library software is so much important. For information retrieval in online environment, Internet and PC are an integral part. So, We call upon all the library professionals, teachers, research scholars, and students to step forward to make a revolution to include LIS departments in Science faculty or as a separate entity in all the universities in India for the sake of the development of the profession. Earlier we had a great discussion about the *monster.com* advertisement. This is also a burning and humiliating section for us. Please come forward. -- Dipen Deka (SRF) & Apurba Jyoti Majumder (JRF) Department of Library & Information Science Arts Block, Gauhati University Guwahati-781014 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Openings for library professionals at University of Hyderabad
by Dr. M. Koteswara Rao 23 Sep '08

23 Sep '08

Professional Assistant : One post (temporary - Un-reserved) 1. Scale of pay: Rs. 5500-175-9000 2. Qualifications: At least second class post-graduate degree with a second class B.L.Sc., or a second class bachelors degree with a second class M.L.Sc., or at least a bachelor degree and B.L.Sc., with 5 years relevant experience. 3. Age As On 01-10-2008: Minimum 18 years and not exceeding 28 years. 4. Last date for receipt of application in the University of Hyderabad is 10-10-2008 by 4:00 p.m. Note: More details can be found at http://www.uohyd.ernet.in/recruitment.php Librarian University of Hyderabad -- 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] Digital conversion of Library materials
by T. Shahab 23 Sep '08

23 Sep '08

Dear Moderator, This is in connection with the ongoing discussion on the modalities of Digitization. I would like to put forth the following points concerning policy to be adopted for the selection of materials in a library to be digitized. 1. Meeting the concern of copyright restrictions: In the Indian context 60 years is the period when a copyright to a published material holds valid. That is to say, we will not breaching any copyright obligation if we go for documents published by 1948 (2008-60=1948) 2. But fulfilling the copyright law demand should not make a librarian to conclude that now he/she is free for digitizing any old library material. Every penny to be spent has to be valued in terms of return. We are obliged to be conscientious as the Digitization is costly process- money wise as well as time wise. 3. How to avoid duplication? A number of libraries may be digitizing the same document. 4. Does the document to be digitized have any readership? This should be of particular concern for a librarian going to digitize printed books & documents. 5. Digitization for preservation purpose as one often hears has to be taken only in case of rare documents and manuscripts. 6. Digitization of Theses and post-graduate level Dissertations is greatly recommended. 7. Similarly, one can readily digitize the class notes, lectures etc. of the academic staff. 8. The Syllabus and Question papers can be also digitize on priority basis with a link to the digitized collection on the library Webpage, etc. & etc. My own preference is to start with the creation of ETD (electronic Theses & Dissertation) database for every University. I hope this topic will receive more attention from our professional community, better with a brief case study type presentation. Regards TANWIR ________________________________ From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Gopakumar Velayudhanpillai Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 11:34 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Digital conversion of Library materials In response to the query from N Shailaja of Deccan Herald in this forum Volume 66, Issue 20, I am providing some information regarding the digital conversion of library materials. The process of digitalization is time consuming and costly. Hence a proper planning is required in that respect. The major aspects we have to think about are : 1.Hardware requirements 2.Software requirements 3.Benchmarking 4.Storage formats and media 1.Hardware requirements Personal Computers with the present day configuration are more than enough for undertaking digitalization processes. As you have a lot of back up data better to have more disk space. RAM capacity also could be enhanced as you have to deal with graphic data. Scanners of various capacities are available in the market from Heavy duty Scanners to simple flat bed scanners. If you need to undertake OCR conversion, see that the software attached to the scanner has that facility. 2.Software requirements The software attached to scanners is suitable to carry out digitalization works. Abbey Fine reader is an OCR software. The twain utility attached to Photoshop is also helpful in scanning. He scanned images could be later edited for clarity in the Photoshop software itself. 3.Benchmarking We are not at all going to convert all materials that are available in our library into digital format. Then we will have to think of a selection process. A policy has to be framed to select documents for digital conversion. It should be reasonable. While making such a policy, copy right restrictions should be taken into consideration. 4.Storage format and Media Scanned image could be stored in various available digital formats. TIFF, PDF, JPEG etc are some of the formats that could be used. Adobe Acrobat TM software could be used to add security regulations to your scanned documents. It can be used to add metadata elements along with the documents. Dr GOPAKUMAR V. Librarian (UGC), University College,Palayam, Thiruvananthapuram, PIN 695 034. gopakumar.v(a)rediffmail.com Mobile No: 09447056713 Ebay <http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/click.cgi/www.rediff.com/sign ature-home.htm/1050715198@Middle5/2401775_2394076/2397136/1?PARTNER=3&OA S_QUERY=null> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner <http://www.mailscanner.info/> , and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Amrita university requires University, Deputy and Assistant Librarians
by J. K. Vijayakumar 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham - Deemed University Established u/s 3 of UGC Act 1958 Ettiamdai Post, Coimbatore 641105 Amrita requires personnel with right background for the following posts for its campuses in Kerala, Tamil Nadu & Karnataka. University Librarian Ph.D in Library Science with sufficient experience Deputy Librarian Ph.D in Library Science with Minimum 8 years experience Assistant Librarians M.Lib. Science with minimum of 3 years experience in a reputed modem library. Assistant Librarian Trainees M.Lib. Science. Freshers may also apply. (Those who have done B.Lib.Sc. & M.Lib.Sc. through correspondence need not apply for the above posts) Details are at http://www.careerage.com/cgi-bin/showad.cgi?file=/20080909/4589993c7d89e182… -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Open Access English Language Journals in Library and Information Science
by Badan Barman 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

Respected All, The site http://lislinks.110mb.com/ll/lis.html provides the customize search and browsing option for 50 Open Access English Language Journals in Library and Information Science. -- Thanking you Yours faithfully (Sri Badan Barman) Academic Consultant, Library & Information Science, Krishna Kanta Handique State Open University, Housefed Complex, Last Gate, Dispur, Guwahati-781006, Assam, Phone: 0361-2234964 / 2235971, Fax: 0361- 2235398. Website: www.kkhsou.org, Email: kkhsou(a)gmail.com, kkhsoul(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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36th Five Laws Lecture (2008)
by DRTC - General 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

DRTC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE and SARADA RANGANATHAN ENDOWMENT FOR LIBRARY SCIENCE CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO THE 36th FIVE LAWS LECTURE (2008) on "ROLE OF DIGITAL INFORMATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION" by Dr. M.A. Dawood Batcha Chairman R.D.B Educational Institutions Papanasam, Thanjavur (Dist.) on Saturday, 27th September 2008 at 6.30 pm. at Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, (Upstairs), 42nd Cross, 3rd Block, Rajajinagar Bangalore 560 010 Professor K.S Raghavan Documentation Research and Training Centre Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore-560059 Presides -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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