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Promoting Reading Habits
by Rajan 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

Dear Mr Singh, It is true that you should build the collection to the needs of the user and should not impose your value system to him. The user knows the best, most of the time, but not always. When you speak about the user, please don't think of the students or faculty now there in the academic rolls of the institution alone. Think of the tenure of a library book and all possible users which may run into a few generations. So, in many cases you need to foresee creatively and arrive at a conclusion about the real needs of the users of the book rather than what the users speak when you decide to purchase. That means, don't avoid inclusion of a book which you visualize to be of useful later and cannot be obtained then eventhough you dont have a user right now. As well, when you think of the user, you should think of the diverse kinds of users during the entire tenure of the book too. Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur From: "Sukhdev Singh" <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> So you cannot have Second Law violated and then expect Librarian to operate the Third Law. So Build Your Collection to the Needs of your User. Don't impose your own Value - System on the User. User Knows the Best. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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A browser plugin for libraries
by Romesh Chander 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

Dear colleagues, LibX is a browser plugin for Firefox and Internet Explorer that provides direct access to your library's resources. LibX is an open source framework from which editions for specific libraries can be built. Currently, 345 academic and public libraries have created public LibX editions. To find more information, follow the following link:- http://www.libx.org/ With Regards, Romesh Chander Sharma IKM Trainee, National Centre for Science Information(NCSI), Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore-560012 Mob. no. 9880959707 Meet people who discuss and share your passions. Go to http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/bestofyahoo/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Open Science Directory
by Mailing List Admin 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:54:23 +0200 From: Imma Subirats <imma.subirats(a)gmail.com> Open Science Directory http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/ Search tool for open access journals and journals in special programs for developing countries. The *Open Science Directory* has been developed by *EBSCO* and the *Hasselt University Library* based upon a request by marine information management experts collaborating within the framework of the *IOC<http://ioc.unesco.org/> *'s (*Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO*) *IODE<http://www.iode.org/> * (*International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange*) programme. *Goal: * - To create a global search tool for all open access and special programs journal titles. - To enhance the access of these collections by creating direct links to the journals and their articlesincluded in this A-to-Z-list. - All information about the included journal collections is available at the websites of the included projects. These websites are directly accessible from the Open Science Directory. - The Open Science Directory will not replace these programs. Also the different programs have their own regulations and eligibility conditions. As a interested user, you or your institute will have to register on their sites if you want to make use of special programs like HINARI, AGORA, INASP-PERI, OARE, eIFL and eJDS. *Target groups: * - Institutes (universities, research units, …) and their researchers in developing countries. - Every organization and researcher interested in these collections. *Content:* - About 13000 scientific journals are now available in the 'Open Science Directory'. When all the special program journals will be included, the Open Science Directory will contain more than 20000 titles. - Open Science Directory contains collections of Open Access Journals (full – partly) and journals in the special programs (Hinari, Agora). Other programs will be added in the near future: OARE, INASP-PERI, eIFL, eJDS. *Open Acces Journals:* The most important collections are: - The Directory of Open Access Journals <http://www.doaj.org/> covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are about 3000 in the directory (Dec 1, 2007). DOAJ is developed by the Lund University Libraries. - BioMed Central <http://www.biomedcentral.com/home/> is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. BioMed Central contains 184 journals (Dec 1, 2007). Many are citation-tracked and already have Impact Factors. - A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press<http://highwire.stanford.edu/>hosts a large repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1079 journals and 4,552,400 full text articles from over 130 scholarly publishers. HighWire-hosted publishers have collectively made 1,823,449 articles free. You will find the journals in the Open Science Directory with the embargo information included. - PubMed Central (PMC) <http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/> is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Journals in special programs: - HINARI <http://www.who.int/hinari/>: The Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI), set up by the World Health Organization (WHO) together with major publishers<http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/partners.php>provides free or very low cost online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, not-for-profit institutions in developing countries. Over 3750 journal titles are now available to health institutions in 113 countries<http://www.who.int/hinari/eligibility/en/>. - AGORA <http://www.aginternetwork.org/>: The AGORA program, set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers <http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/part.php>, enables developing countries to gain access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. AGORA provides a collection of 1132 journals to institutions in 107 countries<http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/el.php>. - OARE <http://www.oaresciences.org/>: Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers<http://oare.oaresciences.org/content/en/partners.php>, enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science research. Over 1,300 peer reviewed titles owned and published by over 340 prestigious publishing houses and scholarly societies are now available in more than 100 low income countries <http://www.oaresciences.org/eligibility/en/>. *Not available yet in the Open Science Directory: in negotiation* - INASP <http://www.inasp.info/>-PERI: PERI<http://www.inasp.info/file/104/peri-programme-for-the-enhancement-of-resear…>is a programme to support capacity building in the research sector in developing and emerging countries by strengthening the production, access and dissemination of information & knowledge. The programme comprises five components: 1: Delivers information (Access to journals and research content). 2: Strengthens national research publications. 3: Enhances ICT skills. 4: Supports country collaboration and networking. 5: Research and development. This project already includes: over 20,000 full text online journals, many of the world's leading citation, bibliographic and reference databases, document delivery from over 20,000 research journals, CD-ROM (or DVD) format can be provided where they are available. - eJDS <http://www.ejds.org/>: The electronic Journals Delivery Service (eJDS) is a prototype programme geared to facilitate the access to current scientific literature free of cost in the fields of Physics and Mathematics. The goal is to distribute individual scientific articles via e-mail to scientists in institutions in Developing Countries who do not have access to sufficient bandwidth to download material from the Internet in a timely manner and/or cannot afford the connection. The eJDS was made possible through agreements with several important scientific publishing companies and societies<http://sdu.ictp.it/ep/publishers.html>who provide access to their journals for free in the fields of Physics and Mathematics. - Finally, even if it was impossible to add an eIFL collection to the Open Science Directory, it is still a relevant program for institutes in search of support for access to scientific literature. eIFL.net<http://www.eifl.net/>is a not for profit organisation that supports and advocates for the wide availability of electronic resources by library users in transitional and developing countries. Its core activities are negotiating affordable subscriptions on a multi-country consortial basis, supporting national library consortia and maintaining a global knowledge sharing and capacity building network in related areas, such as open access publishing, intellectual property rights, open source software for libraries and the creation of institutional repositories of local content. eIFL.net currently offers 6 core programs to the consortia in its network:1. Negotiating affordable access to commercially available e-resources<http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/negotiations>; 2. Supporting the creation of sustainable national library consortia; 3. Open access publishing and the building of institutional repositories of local content; 4. Intellectual property rights and libraries; 5. Free and open source software (FOSS) for libraries; 6. Knowledge sharing and networking. *The Open Science Directory is developed by EBSCO - Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (UNESCO) Hasselt University Library (Bibliotheek Universiteit Hasselt)* -- Imma Subirats E-LIS Chief executive E-LIS, E-prints in Library and Information Science URL: http://eprints.rclis.org/ URL: http://openlib.org/home/subirats/ imma DOT subirats AT gmail DOT com

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Lasetjet 1020
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

Dear Friends I have a HP Laserjet 1020 printer attached to my PC. PC runs on XP. When the printer is temporarily out of order (say no tomer or no paper) I can print the matter to "print-to-file" This asks for a file names and saves the printer output specific to HP 1020. How do I get a physical paper print out this printed file? Any clues? -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Society for Serving Seniors 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015 Phone 27846631 / 94908 04278 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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Promoting reading habits & collection sharing
by gayathri sen 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

Dear Chudamani, Most of the engineering colleges are already members of INDEST and getting the foreign journal access at a reduced rate. As far as sharing of books is concerned DELNET is doing a wonderful job by sending books through courier in the fastest possible time for all its member libraries. I get many books which are out of print or out of stock for reference through DELNET and my users are overjoyed by this. It is only when we provoide what the user wants, in the shortest possible time, somehow or the other, their faith in the library system increases, and you can see you readership and usage increasing by leaps & bounds. Provoide what they want, of course keeping the quality collections in mind. You can see the result yourself. When you cannot get what they want communicate the reason, either by mail or over phone to explain. Regards, Gayathri Sen PESIT --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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ISiM Special Lecture 3 - April 28,2008
by Shalini Urs 26 Apr '08

26 Apr '08

ISiM Special Lecture Series - 3 "Machine Learning: New Paradigms and Perspectives" By Prof. Sargur Srihari SUNY Distinguished Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Founding Director CEDAR (Centre of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition) University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA All are cordially invited Date & Time: April 28, 2008: 3.30 PM Venue: Vidyanidhi Hall Mysore University Library Manasagangotri Mysore ------------ Abstract of the Talk: Machine learning methods are a systematic approach to designing high performance information processing systems. The methods of machine learning have been around for nearly fifty years, yet there is now a revolution ongoing with methods such as the fully Bayesian approach and conditional random fields. There is also a move to discover the broad underpinnings of a unified theory, to describe a range of seemingly ad-hoc methods, by using graphical models and the discriminative-generative taxonomy. The talk will begin with a tutorial approach to the central concepts underlying newer methods and then describe some results in the context of MINDS (Machine learning, Information retrieval, Natural language processing, Document analysis/ recognition and Speech recognition). Speaker's Bio Sargur (Hari) Srihari is a SUNY Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He teaches and does research in pattern recognition and machine learning in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He served as Principal Investigator on a project that led to the first large scale deployment of automatic reading of handwritten postal systems in the world. He is presently serving on a U.S. National Academy of Sciences committee on "Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Community". An author of over 300 papers he has received several honours including Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) and Distinguished Alumnus of the Ohio State University College of Engineering. Srihari received a B.E. from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and a PhD from the Ohio State University, Columbus. ------ 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 - new age school for the knowledge economy 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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LIS DIGEST : New Library and information science journal
by JAGDISH KULKARNI 26 Apr '08

26 Apr '08

Dear professionals, I am pleased to inform u that a QUARTERLY publication LIS DIGEST is scheduled to publish from Nanded (Maharashtra). All professionals are requested to send research papers and professional literature to this new publication. Papers in English on different topics are expected. Being a new publication all are requested to send their suggestions about how a lis journal should be? What will be difficulties and how it can overcome. Send Ur papers and comments to, The General Editor, LIS Digest, 15, Manorama, Vivekanand Society, Gopalchawadi, Nanded (Maharashtra) e-mail: lisdigest(a)rediffmail.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Post of Assistant Librarian at GNDU, Amritsar
by Raj K Bhardwaj 26 Apr '08

26 Apr '08

Dear All, Applications are invited for the post of Assistant Librarian , No of post 3 (2Gen, 1SC/ST) at Guru Nank Dev University , Amritsar. Last date of receipt of application is 21.05.08. For more detail access the below mentioned link http://gndu.ac.in/DOWNLOAD/Advt.No2-2008.pdf Raj Kumar Bhardwaj Hon'ble Judges Library High Court of Punjab and Haryana, Chandigarh -- http://raajchd.googlepages.com/home " There is a difference between an objective and actions. Unless you understand your objective, you will be wasting your time in actions. Know your objective first " – Swami Vivekananda -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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E-learning and its Prospects
by Raj K Bhardwaj 26 Apr '08

26 Apr '08

Dear All , As per *William Glasser;* "We learn……. 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we see and hear 70% of what we discuss with others 80% of what we experience personally 95% of what we teach someone else Read the interested article on E-Learning on the following link http://www.employmentnews.gov.in/career_details-e-learning-and-its-prospect… Raj Kumar Bhardwaj Hon'ble Judges Library, High Court of Punjab and Haryana, Chandigarh -- http://raajchd.googlepages.com/home " There is a difference between an objective and actions. Unless you understand your objective, you will be wasting your time in actions. Know your objective first " – Swami Vivekananda -- 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] Promoting reading habits
by gautam bahl 25 Apr '08

25 Apr '08

I Totally agree with Mr. Sukhdev that problem lies somewhere else. I think the one should just not see one side of the coin only, the root cause of the problem expressed by Mr. David lies somewhere else i.e. 'Collection development.' But as per AICTE norms (http://www.aicte.ernet.in/12norms_engineering.htm) There should be a minimum of 12 technical journals - 6 Indian and 6 International for each branch of engineering. While this is essential for institutions offering P.G. programme, the number of International Journals may be relaxed, though preferred for those offering only U.G. Programmes. I would like to know through this forum about the situation in other engineering institution libraries what are they doing int their libraries to utilise this mandatory collection. Gautam Bahl Asstt.Librarian A.C Joshi Library Panjab University Sector - 14 Chandigarh - 160014 India ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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