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Neglected Role of Librarians
by Rajan 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Dear All, Dr Shahab has raised a very pertinent issue. Librarians were appointed, given all the responsibilities and not provided with necessary enabling environments. So libraries are tend to fail in delivering the services normally. Why does this happen? Many librarians are happy with confining themselves to some routine duties and not interested to think, plan and implement library development and services. Some others are incapable of functioning as a professional librarians due to their poor exposure and lack of interest. Other capable and innovative librarians do not get the luxury of a supportive and enabling environment for their professional work. Very few institutions provide reasonable environment for library development. This is a very bad situation. The book selection is considered to be a domain of some experts and librarian is considered not capable of proper book selection. The selection of books should be in tune with the information needs of the users. Book selection can be done without the deeper knowledge of the subject or reading seriously, if you know the criteria to evaluate a book based on the quality consideration of the publisher, book reviews and even the citation statistics, if one is a capable librarian. On the other hand teachers, having doctorate degrees etc and incapable of making a good selection for the library, are provided with the right to selection based on the knowledge that they are experts and librarians are ignorant. We need to change this situation for which the library professional associations should raise this issue, promote the concept and should show good results at least in some institutions where librarians can build a better collection, if provided with a free hand. Unless the librarian is supported with facilities like men money, materials , methods etc, they cannot go ahead reasonably in proper library development. In this age of interdisciplinary studies, proper book selection require very good understanding of the main subjects in general and their inter- relationships. Librarian should develop that knowledge by becoming a generalist, rather than a specialist. Library schools should work as a breeding ground of such new breed of library professionals. Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India Original Message Subject: [LIS-Forum] Seeking discussion on problems with a balance BOOK SELECTION POLICY & PROCEDURE From: T. Shahab <tshahab(a)jamiahamdard.ac.in> Dear Memberss, Through the popular LIS-Forum for exchanging professional ideas, I wish to engage the valuable attention of the practicing librarians to the ever increasing problem of breach in librarians' domain by faculty members in light of the shrinking role of librarians in determining the policy and procedures involving many of the library activities, particularly the collection development through BOOK SELECTION. In some libraries that I know, the Acquisition Dept. has been turned into just like a clearance house; the librarian is not consulted on matters of Book selection; even the budgeted amount under the Central library has to be used on the authorization of the Vice-chancellor or one of his/ her nominees. Book suppliers will directly contact the faculty members get the books recommended and pass-on the recommended lists to the Acquisition Dept. for necessary followups. Some times, two or more departments may recommend the same title, and the librarian being unaware of the reason, has only to meekly put his/her signature. Even in matters of acquiring multiple copies of the already purchased books (on students' demand), the hands of a librarian is bound. A Librarian being in close touch with the students is always approached by them with their requests on different library related matters, but the librarian is most of the cases is unable to make any firm committment for a facility or extension of services to the students. This change in power dynamics in Universities is making the job of a librarian a very unsavoury one; most librarians are feeling dejected and professionally emasculated. Please, take the above write-up as a point of discussion. Feel free to express your considered opinion on this matter of great importance. Regards. Dr. T. SHAHAB -- 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] UNESCO helps preserve Indian documentary heritage
by Mailing List Admin 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 11:02:21 +0530 From: Susmita Chakraborty <susmitachakraborty94(a)gmail.com> Congratulations to The Librarian, The Principal and the other members of the team for doing a tremendous piece of work towards preserving great cultural heritage of mother India. Hope many others will get inspired. Regards. Susmita Chakraborty Kolkata On 4/4/08, Mailing List Admin <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > > Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:46:12 +0100 (BST) > From: Puna Das <puna_05(a)yahoo.co.in> > > UNESCO helps preserve Indian documentary heritage > 04-04-2008 (New Delhi) > > A UNESCO-supported project "Preservation and Conservation of Rare > Documents of St. Xavier's College Library, Kolkata" has recently been > completed. Several thousands of pages of rare documents from the College > library have been recovered, preserved and digitised.

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extremely well communicated presentation (by sukh dev singh)
by Mailing List Admin 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 08:52:16 -0500 From: bhawna vashishtha <bhawnavashishtha(a)gmail.com> We have been regularly telling readers how to subscribe to a RSS Feed through a subscribed database. But i think this presentation has proved to be very useful for us to let them understand how they can get the latest updates from their favourite website. I want to thank Dr. Sukhdev Singh for sharing his efforts through forum. Sir i want to further write that today i came to know that if we are using Mozilla FireFox then we may also opt for "Subscribe this page" option under "bookmarks" menu. Bhawna Vashishtha Semi Professional Assistant Central Library Delhi University -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Cheers to Chikkamallaih on his superannuation
by Mailing List Admin 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 17:38:16 +0530 From: Sulochan <sulochanp(a)gmail.com> Everybody has to give place to new face and Mr Chikkamallaiah is no exception - he has had good and great time of his quality service rendered tirelessly from that stalwart stone building of IIM, Bangalore. The one-point 'service focused' appraoch of Chikkamallaaih was always amazing and today the IIM-B Library stands tall among the best and finest libraries in the country - a tall model to be emulated. So to use the Kannada tone, today Chikkamallaiah is not small, but really deserves to be called 'Doddamallaiah'. Inserting higher qualifications and feathers of recognitions on his head was not his passion. I understand, his single-point passion to render service first and last to the users was great and this focus might have put less 'need and greed' in him towards acquiring higher or doctorate qualification. (Not that one should not go for higher qualification. All professionals do need that, along the line of quality and dedicated service to the users.) Only once or twice I might have some personal interaction with him - which he even may not remember. As Dr IRN Goudar has aptly pointed out, his services and contributions to the profession, his invisible qualities of supporting, inspiring and shaping up of the many young budding professionals on the corridor and campus of that tall stone buliding of IIM-B is as strong as the very shining stones there. Cheers to Chikkmallaiah - you have done it. P Sulochanan, Bangalore.

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For the post of Librarian and assistant librarian at Veer Narmad South Gujarat University
by vijay kumar 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Dear Library professionals, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University invites application for the post of Librarian(1) and Assistant Librarian(1) Last Date for submission of complete form is 30-04-2008 For Details visit the website http://www.sgu.ernet.in/job/index.php Thanks Vijay kumar NCSI -- 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 and Library attendent at DU
by vijay kumar 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Dear Library professionals, Application are invited on the prescribed form for Assistant Librarian, and also for Library Attendant (for Physically Handicapped Persons) latest by 28 April 2008 For Details visit DELHI UNIVERSITY website http://www.du.ac.in/career.html Thanks Vijay kumar NCSI -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Invitation to write text books
by L J Haravu 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Dear Members One of the objectives of the Kesavan Inst. of Information & Knowledge Management (KIIKM) (http://www.kiikm.org) is to provide a forum and assistance to senior professionals in publishing good quality text books for use in library and information science courses. KIIKM will consider getiing such publications edited and published. I welcome experienced professionals to write books on topics of current interest as well as on those which expose important concepts in library and information science/management. Manuscripts may be submitted to me. These will be peer reviewed before a decision to edit/publish it is taken. I also welcome views of members on topics on which text books are needed. Haravu . -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Explore the nexus and..
by Rupak Chakravarty 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Dear All, 1. please explore ResearchID.org (http://www.researchintelligentdesign.org/wiki/Main_Page) It is really a springboard for innovative research ideas. 2. Also build your own newsletter: Rupak Chakravarty Lecturer-cum-Assistant Librarian Department of Library & Information Science Panjab University, Chandigarh - 160014 INDIA Website: http://libsc.puchd.ac.in Phone # (0172) 2700459(R) (0172) 2534775(O) 9217133380(M) Email: rupak2811(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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Annals of Library and Information Studies: Table of Contents
by gmahesh＠niscair.res.in 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Annals of Library and Information Studies Vol 55, No. 1, March 2008 Changing pattern of user expectations regarding the library catalogue as an information retrieval tool: a case study of Mangalore University S.S.Kumbar and T. Y. Mallaiah.................................7 Research publication trends in structural engineering based on Journal of Structural Engineering S. Maheswaran, R.D. Sathish Kumar and K.R. Sridharan...............17 Open access journals and institutional repositories: practical need and present trends in India Mohammad Nazim and Maya Devi...............................27 Citation analysis of Journal of Oilseeds Research 1993 2004 Surendra Kumar and S. Kumar..................................35 Strengthening R&D information systems through library consortium: A case of CSIR laboratories Prakash Chand and Nishy P......................................45 Pramana - Journal of Physics: A scientometric analysis Anil Kumar, E. R. Prakasan, V.L. Kalyane and Vijai Kumar.............52 Use of search engines by research scholars and faculty members of physics departments in the universities of Karnataka State B.S. Biradar and B.T. Sampath Kumar..................................52 Strategic Management Journal: a citations study Tapas Kumar Raut, Sada Bihari Sahu and Shantanu Ganguly..............69 Scientometric profile of the journal Mausam K.C. Garg, Praveen Sharma and Suresh Kumar...........................76 Book Review......................................................81 G. Mahesh Scientist, NISCAIR ----------------------------------------- This email was sent using NISCAIR's web mail service. "" http://niscair.res.in/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Manuscriptology.
by rajiv tripathi 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Dear Moderator: Kindly announce the following in LIS Forum. Rajivaksh Tripathi mlib student of BHU Banaras. BHU is going to start a new course Manuscriptology. Duration of course is one year for detail contact to BHU website. Rajivaksht Tripathi rajiv.lis2008(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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