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Information Needed: Education Volumes from the past
by Tanika Chakraborty 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Dear All, I have been looking for some documents that are published by NCERT and/or the respective State counterparts(SCERT) and need your help in locating them.. I need DISTRICT LEVEL DATA from the 5th (1986-87) ALL INDIA EDUCATIONAL SURVEY (AIES). NCERT usually comes out with a report after each of their surveys with lists the India wide and state level details from the survey. However, we need district level data which they do not publish formally. I have come to know from fellow researchers at MIT, who have used the data before, and also from faculty members affiliated with NCERT, that the NCERT has the separate state volumes for the different states/UTs of India and the district data for each state can be obtained from those volumes. Some of the states might not be present at the NCERT library. They might be in the Central Secretariat library, the library of the Planning commission or other government libraries in Delhi. Most probably they will be with the libraries of the directorate of education of the relevant state since they are the ones who are linked with collecting and collating the data. I need those data for all the districts of India, and most importantly for West Bengal and Karnataka. Do you have any information about the location of these volumes? Please let me know your suggestions. Regards, Tanika. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Social Tagging and the Next Steps for Indexing
by Mailing List Admin 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 19:48:38 -0800 (PST) From: vimal kumar <vimal0212(a)yahoo.com> Dear Friends, Here is an interesting paper deposited in DLIST. Which discusss about Social tagging, as a particular type of indexing, has thrown into question the nature of indexing.This paper also addresses the question: what is next for indexing? comparing social tagging and subject cataloguing. http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/2091/ Vimal Kumar Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 www.asb.edu.in/vimal

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Online library
by Mailing List Admin 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 10:21:58 +0000 (GMT) From: ashokar kar <ashokarmlisc(a)yahoo.co.in> An online library now that allows readers to borrow books online and have them delivered to your doorstep within a matter of 24 hours. With a one time registration fee of Rs 499 and a refundable deposit of Rs 499, you can choose a billing plan that allows you to choose books depending on your pace of reading. Charges range from Rs 139/month (for those who want to read three books a month) to Rs 3,000/month (which allows you to borrow 12 books). You can see that library through this URL http://www.librarywala.com/web/Index.aspx Hiten Turakhia, one of the founders of this library, says he and five other friends were inspired by their college days struggle to get books. Everybody would chip in Rs100 to get reading material for their courses. Sitting at a coffee shop lat year decided to make it easier for today�s generation. Thus librarywala.com was born. The library six founder members have expertise in related fields like IT, marketing and management. Their market-savvy has clearly paid off, in over two months since its launch. The website, which is currently operational only in Mumbai with 8,000 titles, hopes to extend its operations to Bangalore and Pune by next year. As professionals we should think that behind of their inspiration because they are not LIS professionals still they are providing a kind of information service without knowing of fundamental knowledge of regarding fields. As we know we can do such things to improve the library services in an innovative way. Regards Ashoka R. Librarian, Maharaja Institute of Technology, Mysore.

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Assist. Librarian - vacancy in AICTE
by sri priya 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

SL. NO. 05: ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN, SCALE OF PAY : Rs. 6,500-200-10,500/-, Post:01, (01-UR), Age limit: Not exceeding 35 years. (on direct recruitment basis) http://www.aicte.ernet.in/download/ADVERTISEMENT_2_.doc URL : http://www.aicte.ernet.in/ Regards, S.Sripriya Librarian Bangalore ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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A.D.I.Sc is equivalent to M.L.I.Sc
by Suchitra Das 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

dear friends, regards and good wishes to all.please any body can provide us that A.D.I.Sc is equivalent to M.L.I.Sc.i am working in IMMT library bhubaneswar, sister organisation of C.S.I.R.I have qualified A.D.I.Sc from DRTC, bangalore.our office needs it.we would be more help ful the recognisation of ADISc to MLISc by csir can be sent to me.it is urgent thaks, with regards. suchitra das 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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Required Librarian in Indian Council of World Affairs
by Mailing List Admin 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 09:33:59 +0530 From: Ajay Kum Sharma <ajaysharma.lib(a)gmail.com> Dear Colleague, The Indian Council of World Affairs(ICWA), an institution of national importance, established under the ICWA Act, 2001, invites applications for the post of LIBRARIAN with a consolidated contract amount of Rs.40,000/- per month. *QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE:* *QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE:* Master's degree in Library Science/Information Science/Documentation or an equivalent professional degree with at least 55% marks. At least 10 years experience in a responsible capacity in a University level Library/Head of Library of a reputed research organisation. Candidates should be well-versed in the usage of Library Software. *OR* Master's degree in Arts/Science/Commerce or equivalent degree with at least fifty five percent marks or its equivalent grade with Bachelor's degree in Library Science/Information Science /Documentation or an equivalent professional degree with at least fifty five percent marks or its equivalent grade plus a consistently good academic record. At least 10 years experience in a responsible capacity in a University level Library. Should be well conversant with various activities of an academic and modern library, such as procurement and processing of books and periodicals, computerization of Library, supervision and maintenance of Library materials, reprography, binding unit etc. and 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 qualifications. *Maximum Age:* 45 years as on 01-01-08. *GENERAL INFORMATION* 1. *The applications should be submitted by 24 December, 2007 addressed to Dy. Director, Indian Council of World Affairs, Sapru House, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi � 110 001.* 2. Candidates should submit their CV and photocopies of their educational certificates/testimonials. 3. Candidates serving in Government/Semi-Government organization or Educational Institution must apply through proper channel. Alternatively, they should submit "No Objection Certificate" from their employer while appearing for interview. Candidates failing to produce 'NOC' will not be interviewed. 4. The contract will be for 2 years extendable to a maximum of 5 years. Probation period will be three months. 5. Selection will be through interview only. The ICWA will make preliminary screening of the applications. Thus, merely fulfilling the requirements laid-down in the advertisement will not automatically entitle a candidate to be called for interview. 6. Any direct or indirect canvassing, will be considered as a disqualification. 7. No TA/DA for appearing in the interview will be admissible. Acting Director General Indian Council of World Affairs Sapru House, Barakhambha Road, New Delhi-110001. Email: *dg(a)icwa.in* Thanks and regards. Ajay Kumar Sharma Project Associate, INDEST-AICTE Consortium Central Library, IIT Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016 011-26596627 (O) 09868092479 (M) Web: http://www.geocities.com/ajaysharma_lib/

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LIS Education
by Mailing List Admin 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:39:00 +0000 (GMT) From: vinay shaligram <shaligram_vinay(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Professionals, I would like to add one comment here regarding the course curriculum of LIS. I am not up to that level from where I can speak on this vast subject but I feel this is a serious matter so I want to say that if it possible then National knowledge Commission takes the initiative to structure the syllabus of BLIS and MLIS and the syllabus must be same all over India, right now we see different subjects are being taught in different Universities, so the student who studied from the Banglore or from Delhi University have the more knowledge than the student who studied from any other universities, the differences in the curriculum makes a big difference in the professional life. So it is my request to LIS Forum Pl pass my message to the right person or I request the senior professionals to put their views on this matter. regards Vinay S. Librarian SunBeam Infotech Pvt. Ltd.

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Protecting Olive Tree from the Lexus
by vasanth raj 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Dear Sir/Madam, This is in response to some of the issues that raised by the respected information Profs. The topics that we have been discussing for the past few days have been completely driven by the notion of globalization. Technology should be a part of the curriculum and every new entrant should be in a position to upgrade his knowledge to stay in the competition. The question is, should we completely embrace the technology or is there nothing to study in the library domain except few facets. As Dillon points out that technology has permeated all we do in this field; it is a foundational for the discipline in the twenty-first century, not a component that can be ignored or taught separately. But Dillons above verbatim emphasizes is that we do need technology to thrive in the 21st century but not to the extent that we should wear the mask of the technologists or software designers. Even the modern technologies that we have been using over the years in one or the other way have molded and designed based on the traditional concept of information organization. It is note worthy here to mention the classic work of Lickliders Libraries of the future, where Licklider talks so eloquently about the contribution that library science dsicpline brought into shape the procognitive systems of the 60s. He went on to emphasize the inter-disciplinary collaboration by putting the library science as a core, which could contribute immensely for the enhancement of the human-computer interactions in the future. What all these shows is that library science domain is as relevant as forever. But we do change according to the needs of the present environment. It is not that we should completely forget the library domain and embrace technology. Education is a life long process and every day we have to learn new things and upgrade our knowledge. One of the participants have mentioned that he has lost is job simple because of that he is from different stream. MNCs run with the profit motives and they recruit who best suit to their work environment. That is altogether different context. Another aspects is that libraries in India especially Govt schools and colleges are in very bad condition, whenever we get a chance to work in that environment., librarians are not respected, so the need is the quality of the libraries and creating the awareness among others about the importance of the library. In England and America parents always take their children to book store and cultivate reading habits in a early age, but this is not the case in our country. Why this aspects I have mentioned here is that the discussion is completely driven by the motto of train young minds to be an employee of the MNCs not to make them to see the problems that we Indians are facing. Over the years 117000 farmers have committed suicide in India- one of the reason for this is the lack of information. So here comes the role of the librarians and information professionals. I conclude this by quoting the Dillions words the organization and management of information, the digital divide, the level of literacy in our society, and freedom of access to published information have become mainstream issues for our culture. This may be a once in a century opportunity to convince those in the power that the field has a real contribution to make. Ref: Dillon, A. and Norris, A. (2005) Crying Wolf: an examination and reconsideration of the perception of crisis in LIS education. Journal of Education in Library and Information Science, 46,4 280-298. Your Sincerely Vasantha Raju N Mysore --------------------------------- Save all your chat conversations. Find them online. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Exposure to the world of information
by Mailing List Admin 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 19:45:20 +0530 (IST) From: Vijay Deshabag <vijaydeshabag(a)yahoo.co.in> Hi this is Vijay Deshabag presently working as Libaray trainee in Advanced centre for Treatement Research and Education in Cancer, Mumbai. I wanted to comment on the issue of adding the syllabus what i think and what i suggest is that during the final year of mlisc the students must be given an exposure to work with various libraries free of cost a sort of internship progaramme of one month, so that they will get exposed to various tools and tecnologies of librarianship.This will make them more confident enough to face the interviews, perhaps some of the university have such programes but with collaboration with various research centres, information centres etc it can be done more systematically as the practical knowledge will be very usefull to the students rather than giving them theorotical exposure. Vijay J Deshabag Library Trainee Advance Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer(ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre Kharghar, Navi Mumbai-410208 E-mail:deshabag@gmail.com

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Census of India Data online
by Shamprasad Pujar 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Dear Members, Census of India has released their new website starting from Sept, 2007. The new site provides comprehensive data up to State level free of cost for registered members. Registration is free for every one. The comprehensive district and village data is not available from the website, it needs to be purchased from Census offices. More than that the site is also available in few foreign languages viz French, German, Italian, Portugese and few more languages are in beta mode. More details can be had from the site at: http://www.censusindia.gov.in Regards, Dr. S.M. Pujar University Librarian Shivaji University Vidyanagar KOLHAPUR-416 004 Phone: 0231-2609204 E-mail: smp_lib(a)unishivaji.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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