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Request for article
by jiteshkjain＠indiatimes.com 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Dear All I am in need of the following article for our research work. If anybody can provide me the soft/hard copy of it, that will be a great help to us. Indian Medical Gazzette, Vol 136 No 8, page 309, 2002. Looking forward for your kind help. best regards Jitesh Jain Librarian Zydus Research Center Ahmedabad +919426424047 -- My life has changed. What about yours? Log on to the new Indiatimes Mail and Live out of the Inbox! -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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lecture invitation
by srels 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

Dear Moderator, Please arrange to announce the following lecture invitation for the benefit of the professional colleagues. Dr. K.N. Prasad Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science ------------- Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS) 702, 'Upstairs', 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 and Ranganathan Centre for Information Stuides, Bangalore cordially invites you to a Lecture on WEB 2.0: CHALLENGES FOR LIBRARIES by Dr. Mohamed Taher Information Specialist, Ontario Multifaith Council on Spiritual and Religious Care Toronto, Ontario, Canada on Monday, 7th January 2008 at 6.00 p.m. at SRELS premises RSVP: Ph:23305109 E-mail: srels(a)dataone.in -- 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] Reports on libraries in THE HINDU
by T. Shahab 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

Good to read about progress being made at the Madras University Library towards modernisation of the professional practices and making the competencies relevant to the emerging demands under the inspiring leadership of Prof.Ms.Amudhavalli. I wish to learn in some detail regarding the online theses database at the Madras University library. How the concept of the institutional repositories has been implemented?? Regards. T. SHAHAB Central Library Hamdard University, New Delhi:110062. -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Mailing List Admin Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 11:24 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Reports on libraries in THE HINDU Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:42:20 +0000 (GMT) From: sankaran arumugam <sankaran_thehindu(a)yahoo.com> Dear All, Reports on libraries published in THE HINDU Chennai Edn. recently. Libraries have modern day promises to keep http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/04/stories/2007120494470300.htm DVD library, an in-thing now http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/04/stories/2007120494490300.htm We can't turn a blind eye to their special need http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/04/stories/2007120494500300.htm What they say http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/04/stories/2007120494480300.htm Regards sankaran _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Seminar on Emerging Trends and Challanges Library and Information Service - SPALIS- 2008
by KR. Senthil Kumar 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

Dear Professionals National Seminar on Emerging Trends and Challanges Library and Information Science - SPALIS- 2008 http://alagusenthil.googlepages.com/spalis-2008 SPALIS- 2008 National Seminar on "Emerging Trends and Challenges in Library and Information Services" 6-8 February, 2008 Organized by A.V.V.M SRI PUSHPAM COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS) POONDI- 613503 THANJAVUR(dt) TAMILNADU AND BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY TRICHY IN ASSOCUATION WITH INDIAN ACADEMIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (IALA) VENUE AUDITORIUM A.V.V.M SRI PUSHPAM COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS) POONDI- 613503 THANJAVUR(dt) TAMILNADU REGISTRATION FEE OF Rs.600/ FOR EACH PARTICIPANT INCLUDES CONFERENCE KIT. PROCEEDINGS , REFRESHMENT AND LUNCH DURING THE CONFRENCE DAYS. THE REGISTRATION FEE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL STUDENT IS Rs.300/ ONLY Dr.A.Ganesan Organizing Secretary P.G.Dept of Library and Information Science A.V.V.M Sri Pushpam College (Autonomous) Poondi- 613503 Thanjavur ayyapillaiganesan(a)yahoo.com Mobile: 9443008292, 9443648113, 9486310120 -- KR.SENTHIL KUMAR Asst. LIBRARIAN KARPAGAM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING COIMBATORE http://alagusenthil.googlepages.com http://alagusenthil.tripod.com Mobile:09382804980 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Impact Factors / “Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics”
by Sukhdev Singh 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

Dear Friends, There is a very popular saying - "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." So, "Statistics" has been labeled as one type of lies. This is due to the fact meant that even the most accurate statistics could be used to support inaccurate arguments. "Impact Factors" are also statistics derived out of academic citations. If not understood properly could be misused to support wrong arguments. Need not say again that these too are statistics after all. These numbers originated from the "Information Storage and Retrieval" domain as the by-product of "citation indexing". However are being increasingly (mis)used in measuring the academic excellence of individual scientists. If we go about 60 years back, we know that in 1950s, lot many things were happening in the Information Storage and Retrieval domains. Machines (Every Computers) had shown the promise of information revolution. However, natural languages were found to be inadequate to map concepts with words or phrases. Major problems were mainly due the use of synonyms, homonyms, gender, numbers, order of words in phrases and punctuation marks in natural languages. These grammatical goodies enrich natural languages and make sense to human brains. However in the domain of information retrieval these inhibited one-to-one mapping between concepts and words. So controlled vocabularies like MeSH were being developed. Mr. Eugene Garfield however thought of innovative way of mapping between concepts by relying on the citations among articles. It goes like this; if "A" cites "C" and "B" also cites "C" then "A" and "B" are referencing to same concept. He did not use "words" to map "concepts" and hence avoided the problems associated with languages. (In 1958, Eugene Garfield starts ISI with a loan of US$500. - Science for Sale - Features - The Lab - Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Gateway to Science - http://www.abc.net.au/science/features/sciforsale/default.htm ) Garfield developed the concept of citation indexing in 1950s. A product based on his citation indexing - "Science Citation Index (SCI)" was released officially in 1964. It was meant to be a tool of scientific information retrieval. SCI become more popular for its utility to measure scientific productivity rather than being a search engine. It was due to its by-product "SCI Journal Citation Reports (JCR)" launched officially in 1975. A parameter was evolved to compare various large journals and this parameter become to know as Journal Impact Fact. In the absence of any other objective criteria – Journal Impact Factor has been widely accepted parameter for comparing the "quality" of journals. E. Garfield himself describes the rise of SCI and Impact Factors in the following article. - E. Garfield. The evolution of the Science Citation Index (2007) - http://www.iec.cat/1jcrc/GarfieldEEvolution.pdf However, one should always remember that "Impact Factors" that are calculated are only applicable to journals included in ISI database (SCI). I am very frequently encountered by this question – what is the impact factor of some Indian journal? Well very few Indian journals are covered in SCI database, so except for few, most do not have impact factors. I feel like replying –There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies and impact factors! Because I know that these "impact factors" being applied to areas for which they were never meant. It sometimes becomes very difficult to explain that it undercounts the number of citations from journals in less-developed countries. The research priorities for less-developed countries could be entirely different that of developed countries. If the research is not of contemporary interest of journals indexed in ISI databases it is unlikely to be cited. Linking research to citations and impact factors could lead to a situation where the less-developed countries fund for the research problems of the developed countries. Academic administrators - without knowing complexities of the Impact Factors – are now increasingly temped to apply these to measure the individual productivity of scientists. The following article explains the problem with such "numbers". - Richard Monastersky. "The Number That's Devouring Science", The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 14 2005. Here is one more reference: - P.O. Seglen. Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research. (1997) BMJ 314(7079): 498-502. PubMed: 9056804. [Try - http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/314/7079/497 for full text] However, there is one good thing about these "Impact Factors". They at least are best at indicating the "popularity" of journals. Well - does "popularity" and "quality" means the same? One more thing - they arose from "citation indexing" which the founders of Google used to develop a killer search engine. --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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E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship
by sri priya 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

E-JASL is an independent, professional, refereed electronic journal dedicated first and foremost to advancing knowledge and research in the areas of academic and special librarianship. Published and distributed by the International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication (ICAAP), Athabasca, Canada. http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/ Regards, S.Sripriya ____________________________________________________________________________________ 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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Capacity Building of School Librarian
by rajendra kumar panda 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

Regional Institute of Education, Bhubaneswar is going to organize a five days training programme on "Capacity Building of Vidyalaya Librarians to modernise Vidyalaya Library" Date: 7th to 11th January, 2008 twenty two Kendriya Vidyalaya Librarians of KVS Bhubaneswar Region are invited to particiapte. R.K.Panda Librarian KV,GOPALPUR MS -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Salary of Librarian in Academic Library
by librarymahad 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

Dear all, I would like to draw your attention about the salary of Librarian in Academic Library. I have seen in most of the cases the librarian is being neglected in respect of salary. For example you can see the advertisement In Times of India, Mumbai dated 5th December, 2007. On page XIV, an advertisement is there from ICRI (Institute of Clinical Research India) where they will be paying a lecturer with a minimum Rs 40000 - 60000, whereas the Librarian will be paid Rs 8000 to 12000. All these as gross in month. Even though the year of experience is same for both the case. Why this type of negligence towards the library professionals. What we as a library professional, should do? What way are doing for that? I would like to have some discussion on this matter. Regards, Pradip Das ================================================= Pradip Das, B. Sc. (Chem.), ADIS/DRTC., M. Phil. Sr. Librarian / TPM & Training Co-ordinator, Pidilite Industries Limited, A/21, MIDC, Mahad, Maharashtra - 402309. India. Ph. : 02145- 31444(R), 02145 - 232043 to 46 (Off.) Extn. : 226 Fax. : 01245 - 232048 Mobile : 09420836138 E-mail : librarymahad(a)pidilite.co.in or, pradipbhadreswardas(a)gmail.com Web : www.pidilite.com ================================================ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Reports on libraries in THE HINDU
by Mailing List Admin 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:42:20 +0000 (GMT) From: sankaran arumugam <sankaran_thehindu(a)yahoo.com> Dear All, Reports on libraries published in THE HINDU Chennai Edn. recently. Libraries have modern day promises to keep http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/04/stories/2007120494470300.htm DVD library, an in-thing now http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/04/stories/2007120494490300.htm We can't turn a blind eye to their special need http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/04/stories/2007120494500300.htm What they say http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/04/stories/2007120494480300.htm Regards sankaran

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Shaping the future information science professionals - report in THE HINDU
by Mailing List Admin 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:42:53 +0000 (GMT) From: sankaran arumugam <sankaran_thehindu(a)yahoo.com> Dear All, Revamping Library Science course, Madras University in lead Report published in THE HINDU Education Plus Highlights: Shaping the future information science professionals The course is aimed at equipping the digital age librarian with skills in handling online database, Internet, software, and multimedia tools. HI-TECH LIBRARIANS: Students of the Department of Information Science working in their laboratory at the University of Madras. For detailed report, click the link http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/edu/2007/12/17/stories/2007121750050300.htm Regards sankaran

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