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Invitation for Paper submission to World Digital Libraries: An International Journal
by Debal Chandra Kar 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

The Editor of World Digital Libraries: An International Journal (WDL) invites Papers for the December 2008 and June 2009 issue. World Digital Libraries: An International Journal is a peer reviewed bi-annual journal on digital libraries. The first issue of this journal has just been published. Content can be found at http://bookstore.teriin.org/journal_inside.php?material_id=477&qty=1. You are requested to subscribe the same or recommend to your library to subscribe. The second issue will be published in December 2008. The aim of the journal is to advance the theory and practice of acquisition, organization, management and dissemination of digital information on a sustainable basis. The journal will seek quality research papers that present original theoretical approaches as well as experimental case studies related to digital library development and maintenance. In doing so, the journal will keep readers abreast with the current developments in the field. The journal will include articles, reviews, current developments, and case studies dealing with § theoretical and methodological issues that relate to the interrelationships among electronic resources management, digital preservation, multiple access, multilinguality, copyright issues and security aspects; § initiatives taken towards digitization through lucid case studies; § current developments across the globe; and § dialogues between the scientific community and society at large. The journal will be having global coverage with local focus and would provide a platform for decision-makers, planners, consultants, library and information science professionals to share their experiences. It will also facilitate dialogue among the digital library communities. Articles and reviews should examine concepts, analyses, new approaches, and techniques pertaining to this field. Case studies covering new initiatives, as well as procedural breakthroughs of important issues in the digital library field would be included. Book reviews will cover recent books in the field, reviewed by an independent reviewer. All submissions will be peer-reviewed using the criteria of originality, accuracy, and quality of contribution in these fields. The journal will also provide an update on topical developments in the field; notes on important breakthroughs; information on forthcoming conferences, workshops, seminars and relevant events; and highlight activities of national and international importance in the field. We would like to request all of you to submit paper for the same to dckar(a)teri.res.in address below. Editor-in-Chief: Prof N Balakrishnan, Professor & Associate Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Editor Debal C Kar, Fellow, TERI, New Delhi Editorial Board: Dr. Jagdish Arora, Director, INFLIBNET, India Prof. José Luis Borbinha, INESC-ID - Information Systems Group, Engineering School, Lisbon Technical University, Portugal Prof. Daniel Chandran PhD, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Prof. Ching-chih Chen PhD, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmond College, USA Dr Gobinda Chowdhury, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, UK Dr P R Goswami, Director, National Social Science Documentation Centre (NASSDOC), Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi, Prof. Alan Hopkinson, Head of Library Systems, Learning Resources, The Sheppard Library, Middlesex University, UK Prof. Ee-Peng Lim, PhD, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore Prof. Gary Marchionini, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Dr. A. Lakshmana Moorthy, Director, Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre, India Dr Usha Mujoo-Munshi, Librarian, Indian Institute of Public Administration, India Prof. Dr Erich J Neuhold, Professor, Computer Science, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Research Studios Austria, University of Vienna, Austria Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Mr John Paschoud, Information Systems Engineer of the Library, London School of Economics, UK Dr. A.R.D. Prasad, Documentation Research & Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India Prof. Dr Michael Seadle, Director, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Dr. V N Shuka, Director (Application), CDAC, India Prof. Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg PhD, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Prof. M G Sreekumar Phd, Librarian, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, India. Prof. Shigeo Sugimoto, Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, University of Tsukuba, Japan Prof. P. Tapio Varis Ph.D. , Acting President, Global University System., Unesco Chair in global eLearning with applications to multiple domains, Professor and Chair of Media Education, University of Tampere, Finland Prof. Shalini R. Urs PhD, Executive Director, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore, India Prof. Om Vikas PhD, Director, ABV Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, India Prof Ian H. Witten PhD, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand Thanking you and with personal regards Yours sincerely, Debal C Kar, Fellow Library and Information Centre ************************************************************ TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) Darbari Seth Block IHC Complex, Lodhi Road New Delhi 110 003 (India) Tel. +91 11 2468 2100, 2468 2111 Ext 2724 Fax +91 11 2468 2144, 2468 2145 E-mail dckar(a)teri.res.in Web site www.teriin.org ************************************************************ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Open Knowledge Society Gaining Momentum
by Sukhdev Singh 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

Dear Friends You might have noticed that Open Knowledge Society (http://www.oksociety.in) has started gaining momentum. I have been informed that Open Journal System (OJS) has been installed on its server (http://www.ojs.oksociety.in) and is ready to host journals. The OKSociety would benefit from your suggestions and participation. Please do come forward with your suggestions and advice. --Sukhdev Singh. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fw: Australian innovation report recommends Open Access to research outputs
by Subbiah Arunachalam 14 Sep '08

14 Sep '08

----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Stevan Harnad <amsciforum(a)GMAIL.COM> To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM(a)LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG Sent: Wednesday, 10 September, 2008 23:52:37 Subject: Australian innovation report recommends Open Access to research outputs The Australian minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Kim Carr spoke about this report in a speech released yesterday. Full text here. It is embodied in a series of recommendations aimed at unlocking public information and content, including the results of publicly funded research. The review panel recommends making this material available under a creative commons licence through: machine searchable repositories, especially for scientific papers and data and the internet, where it would be freely available to the world. ...The arguments for stepping out first on open access are the same as the arguments for stepping out first on emissions trading – the more willing we are to show leadership on this, we more chance we have of persuading other countries to reciprocate. This speech reflects a number of recommendations in the report: Recommendation 7.7: Australia should establish a National Information Strategy to optimise the flow of information in the Australian economy. The fundamental aim of a National Information Strategy should be to: ·utilise the principles of targeted transparency and the development of auditable standards to maximise the flow of information in private markets about product quality; and ·maximise the flow of government generated information, research, and content for the benefit of users (including private sector resellers of information). Recommendation 7.8: Australian governments should adopt international standards of open publishing as far as possible. Material released for public information by Australian governments should be released under a creative commons licence. Recommendation 7.9: Funding models and institutional mandates should recognise the research and innovation role and contributions of cultural agencies and institutions responsible for information repositories, physical collections or creative content and fund them accordingly. Recommendation 7.10: A specific strategy for ensuring the scientific knowledge produced in Australia is placed in machine searchable repositories be developed and implemented using public funding agencies and universities as drivers. Recommendation 7.14: To the maximum extent practicable, information, research and content funded by Australian governments including national collections should be made freely available over the internet as part of the global public commons. This should be done whilst the Australian Government encourages other countries to reciprocate by making their own contributions to the global digital pubic commons.. ________________________________ As ROARMAP indicates, the world leader in Open Access, both in time and in absolute size, is indisputably the United Kingdom: A UK Parliamentary Select Committee was the world's first governmental recommendation to mandate OA, in 2004. However, the UK government, under pressure from the publishing lobby, did not accept its own committee's recommendation. Nevertheless, six of the seven RCUK research funding councils went on to mandate OA anyway. The UK now has a total of 18 university and funder OA mandates (including the world's first OA mandate at Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science in 2003). Australia, however, adopted the world's first university-wide OA mandate in 2004, and with its current total of 7 mandates along with this vigorous governmental support from Minister Carr, Australia is the world's relative, if not absolute leader in OA, by size as well as timing. And it is about to consolidate that leadership with an international Open Access and Research Conference in Brisbane next week, convened by Tom Cochrane, the DVC who engineered the world's first university OA mandate. By way of comparison, the US, the country with the world's largest research output, has only five OA mandates (though that includes one from the NIH, the world's biggest biomedical research funder, as well as Faculty mandates from Harvard and Stanford).. Universities are the sleeping giants, and the council of the European Universities Association (EUA) has unanimously recommended the adoption of an OA mandate by its 791 member universities in 46 countries -- but that mandate has not been adopted yet (although Professor Bernard Rentier, Rector of University of Liege is working on it, withEurOpenScholar). But Australia looks poised now to be the one that sets all the dominoes falling worldwide. Stevan Harnad American Scientist Open Access Forum -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Regarding eligibility for assistant librarian
by vinod mishra 13 Sep '08

13 Sep '08

Dear Professionals Recently IIT Bombay has announced one post of assistant librarian whose details are as follows. My question is out of two different types of qualification which one is realy satisfying the job requrments, i think first one. So my question is how the second qualification is satisfying the job requirments? ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN (1 postreserved for OBC) The candidate should be well conversant with various activities of an Academic Library, such as procurement and processing of books and periodicals, supervision of special collections, maintenance of Library materials, reprography, binding unit etc. and providing assistance to general library administration. Experience, and knowledge of modern information handling tools, knowledge of any foreign language such as German, French or Russian will be added qualification. Essential Qualification/Experience : Master's degree in Library Science/Information science/Documentation or an equivalent professional degree with at least 55% marks or its equivalent grade of B in the UGC seven point scale plus a consistently good academic record. At least 7 years experience in a responsible capacity in a University level Library. Candidates should be familiar with usage of Library software and have experience in library computerisation. OR Master's degree in Arts/Science/Commerce or equivalent degree with at least 55% marks or its equivalent grade with Bachelor's degree in Library science/Information science/Documentations or an equivalent professional degree with at least 55% marks or its equivalent grade plus a consistently good academic record. Candidates should be familiar with usage of Library software and have experience in library computerisation. Scale of Pay : Rs.800027513500 (Total emoluments on the minimum of the scale excluding HRA is Rs.17940/per month) Age Limit : Preferably below 40 years Regards Vinod Kumar Mishra Senior Library Inforamtion Assistant -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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ProQuest and Google Strike Deal To Digitize Newspaper Pages
by Mallikarjun 13 Sep '08

13 Sep '08

Dear All, ProQuest and search giant Google have reached an agreement to digitize millions of pages of content from ProQuest’s vast newspaper microfilm archives, Google deal aims to create searchable electronic versions of smaller newspapers otherwise unlikely to be digitized, making them available on the open web via Google’s News archive search." http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6595862.html ________________________________________________________________:-) Mallikarjun Dora Professional Assistant Vikram Sarabhai Library IIM, Ahemadabad ...The Future is here, Its just unevenly distributed..... http://curiouslib.blogspot.com/ Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now, on http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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vacancy for the post of Reference Librarian at Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi
by Seth, Renu 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

Vacancy Announcement Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Delhi invites applications for the position of Reference Librarian. Max Mueller Bhavan is part of the worldwide network of the Goethe-Institut Munich and promotes German language and culture abroad. The library provides comprehensive and up-to-date information about Germany. Responsibilities: Ø Provide reference services about Germany Ø Cataloguing and classification of library collection Ø Participate in collection development Ø Promote library resources and services Ø Prepare library newsletter and other promotional material Ø Maintain the library website Ø Maintain address databases Ø Provide assistance in organization of international conferences and seminars as well as staff training programmes Ø Carry out day to day office administration Requirements: Ø Master's degree from an accredited library school Ø Minimum of two years professional experience Ø Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English Ø Good knowledge of spoken and written German language and culture an advantage Ø Competence in using new technology as a research tool Ø Profound knowledge of computer applications Ø Initiative, flexibility and ability to work in a team environment Ø Strong commitment to public service Remuneration in accordance with the MMB salary scheme and in commensuration with qualifications and experience. Applications received by September 25, 2008 will receive first consideration. Send letter of application, along with two professional references to Renu Seth, Chief Librarian, Max Mueller Bhavan, 3, K.G. Marg, New Delhi-110001 Tel: (011) 23329506 email: seth(a)delhi.goethe.org Visit our web site at www.goethe.de/newdelhi -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Digitisation of old books and journals
by Susmita Chakraborty 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

Dear Friends, Greetings to you all. Those of you have done digitisation work in your libraries pl tell me the background details: 1. How the documents to be digitised were chosen 2. How the vendor was selected 3. The Costing per page 4. The Basic process(es) done (tiff/processed tiff or PDF or other) 5. What were the search options- keyword/abstract/fulltext,etc. 6. Metada chosen- DCM/any other? 7. Total time taken 8. No of documents/pages covered 9. Name of some vendors, etc. Pl answer to my queries personally through email if possible. Thanks & regards. Ms. Susmita Chakraborty Bengal Engineering and Science University Official Email: susmita.chakraborty(a)becs.ac.in Personal Email: susmitachakraborty94(a)gmai.com Personal Blog:http://susmita-besu.blogspot.com/ --------- Please support: MANAS - a society for mentally disturbed persons their family and friends (http://www.geocities.com/manas_teghari/) -- 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] information
by Dr.D.P Prathap 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

Dear colleagues We need FULL TEXT of the following articles for a project work. Please provide if available OR the source/s. 1. Besemer, H. and Veerman, I. 'Agricultural information on the Internet: what is out there and how to find it.' IAALD Quarterly Bulletin 40 (2/3), 1995, pp. 61-67. 2. Stoker, D. and Cooke, A. 'Using the Internet to co-ordinate the provision of agricultural information in the UK.' IAALD Quarterly Bulletin 41(2), 1996, pp. 196-200. 3.Freidrich, H. and Pohlman, J.M. 'The German Agricultural Information Network Deutsches Agrarinformationsnetz (DAINet) – goals, state of the art and future perspectives.' IAALD Quarterly Bulletin 42 (3/4), 1997, p. 146. 4.Judy, J.R., Mangstl, A. and Le Hunte Ward, F. 'WAICENT, World Agricultural Information Cen- tre: FAO's information gateway.' IAALD Quarterly Bulletin 42 (3/4), 1997, pp. 136-145. 5.Maltha, D.J. 'Information needs in agriculture.' IAALD Quarterly Bulletin 10(2), 1972, pp.170-177. Thankng you Yours Sincerely Librarian Sugarcane Breeding Institute Coimbatore 641 007 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Study articles- Reg.
by Murali dharan 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

Dear All, We need the research publication in eye care or public health in India. 1.I need only done any study regarding this. 2.I need only research publications Please provide the relevant articles With regards V.Muralidharan, Librarian, Aravind Eye Hospital, Coimbatore 641 014 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Library 2.0 Functionality with new materials delivery
by DINESH SIDDAIAH 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

Dear Friends, Auto-Graphics announced further advancement in the Library 2.0 movement with the introduction of Lib2Home, a preference tracking and alerting system within the AGent VERSO integrated library system that can be used by libraries to implement home delivery programs, a nationwide trend that allows libraries to improve and simplify the materials holding and transfer process and provides patrons with access to library materials without needing to leave home. For more information browse: http://www.librarytechnology.org/ 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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