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Is this website is OK - need evaluation
by Shivanand 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

Dear professionals, Long back I have created a website for my library the same is being used by my customers satisfactorily. Now I feel that this needs evaluation (critically) and improvisation. Can anybody please go through the portal and keep this on discussion forum. OPAC option in the website will work only in the campus (LAN OPAC). Portal is best view in 800X600 IE 5.5 Please visit: http://jnmclibrary.googlepages.com <http://jnmclibrary.googlepages.com/> Your reply is highly useful and appreciated. Thanking you, Shivanand Murgod Librarian Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Nehru nagar, Belgaum - 590010 Ph - D (0831) 2470386 Cell - (0) 9448790619 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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MLAI NATIONAL CONVENTION-2007
by prakash gouda 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

MLAI NATIONAL CONVENTION-2007 Dear Professionals, I, on behalf of the organizing Committee of MLAI 2007, feel immense pleasure in inviting you to the National convention of Medical Library Association of India at Anugrah Narayana Magadh Medical College, Gaya , Bihar. THEMES OF THE CONVENTION Vistas of Health Science Libraries Management Users, Librarians and Vendors relation Tracks A ( For librarians) Track I : Digitization of Health Science Libraries Track II : Knowledge Management of Health Scien(Libraries Track III : Management of E-Resources in Health ScienceLibraries Track IV : Consortia approach for Health Science Libraries Track V : Internet Based Services in Health Science libraries Track VI . User Needs in Health Science libraries Track VII. Problems of Health Science Libraries TrackVll1 . Varia Tracks B (For Medical Professionals) Track I : Prevention of Diabetes MellitusType II (Medicine: Track II . Importance of Stem Cell (Pathology) Track III . Child Sexual abuse & Psychosis (Psychology) Track IV . Microsurgeryfor Middle Ear (Otorhinolaryngology) Track V . Needs & Training of Modern Equipments ( Radiology) Track VI : Role of quality control of Laboratory Testin ( Biochemistry) TIME SCHEDULE FOR PAPERS Submission of abstract of the paper to the MLAI office or Convention Director 30th October, 2007 Intimation of the acceptance of paper by the Convention Director 5th November, 2007 Submission offull text of the papertothe MLAI office or 20th November, 2007 Convention Director, The time schedule will be strictly adhered. Registration fee Convention (upto 31 st October) On spot Registration 1. Member Rs.1,900/- Rs.2,000/- 2. Non-Member Rs. 2,100/- Rs.2,300/- 3. Accompanying Rs. 800/- Rs. 800/- person per head 40% discount in accommodation fee (for Author who is not a member of MLAI) Free accommodation and 50% discount in Registration fee (for Medical professionals, Undergraduate students and author) Accommodation Accommodation for participants will be provided in the hotels of Bodh Gaya, i.e.Nicho Lotus, Vishal International, Sujata, Lumbani International, Sidhartha International, and Ajatshatru (Gaya) . Each participant has to pay a sum of Rs. 1,900/- extra as accommodation charges other than Registration fee. The registration fee includes convention material, lunch, dinner, morning and evening tea with snacks for all four days. For more information please contact Kishori Mohan Prasad, librarian Organising Secretary Central Library A.N. Magadh Medical College, Gaya, Bihar Mobile-09431793698, 09430840297 09234867019,09431478047 College Fax No. 0631-2410339 e-mail: mlai2007gaya(a)gmail.com C.P. Verma, librarian Co-organizing Secretary Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy, 61-65, Institutional Area, Janakpuri, New Delhi-11 0 058. Mobile - 09312266401 e-mail: opverma(a)yahoo.com Convention Director Dr. R.P. Kumar, Chief Librarian Allindia Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi-110029. Tel.: 011-26593312 (0); 26593313 (R) 09891052128 (M) Fax No. 011-26588663 e-mail: drrpkumar(a)hotmail.com THANKS & REGARDS PRAKASHGOUDA S.U. SENIOR LIBRARIAN COORG INSTITUTE OF DENTAL SCIENCES VIRAJPET- 571 218 COORG DIST KARNATAKA MOB: 09980910533 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Materials Missing At Library Of Congress
by KR. Senthil Kumar 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

Materials Missing At Library Of Congress - 13 Percent of Collection Misplaced, Survey Finds By James V. Grimaldi and Jacqueline Trescott, Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, October 24, 2007 About one-sixth of the books, monographs and bound periodicals at the Library of Congress weren't where they were supposed to be because of flaws in the systems for shelving and retrieving materials, according to a survey to be made public at a congressional hearing today. Officials at the library say they believe most of the missing materials are misplaced, not stolen or lost. Investigators for the congressional library have told lawmakers on a House oversight committee that its review of the retrieval system for the general collection concluded that a 17 percent of materials requested could not be found. "A subsequent review found 4 percent were either on nearby shelves, checked out to the public or marked with the wrong call numbers. But it remains deeply troubling that nearly 13 percent are unaccounted for by library officials," said Howard Gantman, staff director of the joint congressional committee on the library. The Library of Congress's Office of the Inspector General did the survey earlier this year but did not make it public. Library staff followed usual procedures and no follow-up audit was necessary, according to the report by Karl W. Schornagel, the library's inspector general, but the chairman and ranking member of the House Administration Committee were so upset by the finding that they have summoned James H. Billington, the librarian of Congress, to answer questions about it at a hearing today. The 17 percent rate of missing materials "is unacceptable, and a clear indication that we must reassess how we manage this Nation's priceless collection that exceeds 130 million items," said Rep. Vernon J. Ehlers (R-Mich.), the ranking Republican on the committee, in a statement. Since receiving the assessment in the spring, library officials have accelerated efforts to track down the books. "The number of not-on-shelf books has dropped each year. A quality assurance team in the past several months has reduced that rate to 10 percent," said Deanna Marcum, the associate librarian for library services. Established in 1800, the Library of Congress is one of the world's largest research facilities. It has 135 million items, including almost 20 million books, 59.5 million items in the manuscript division, and nearly 3 million sound recordings and radio and television broadcasts. It has 615 miles of shelving. Ehlers and committee Chairman Robert A. Brady (D-Pa.) told Billington they want a thorough accounting of how the library is managed and how the collection is protected. Since 2002 the library has been conducting an inventory, prompted in part by a series of thefts in the early 1990s. However, the inventory is only 20 percent complete, Marcum said. http://www.washingt onpost.com/ wp-dyn/content/ article/2007/ 10/23/AR20071023 01784.html? hpid=topnews<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/23/AR200710230…> or http://tinyurl. com/2xvlcf <http://tinyurl.com/2xvlcf> The entire article can be read at the above URL. Sincerely, -- KR.SENTHIL KUMAR MCA -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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The Public Library of Science
by KR. Senthil Kumar 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

I found a very interesting free website that has very interesting medical information -- the Public Library of Science -- http://biology. plosjournals. org. <http://biology.plosjournals.org./> The following is a statement from their website about copyright issues: "Open-Access License - No Permission Required -- The Public Library of Science (PLoS) applies the Creative Commons Attribution License (CCAL) to all works we publish (read the human-readable summary or the full license legal code). Under the CCAL, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their article, but authors allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy articles in PLoS journals, so long as the original authors and source are cited. No permission is required from the authors or the publishers. In most cases, appropriate attribution can be provided by simply citing the original article (e.g., Kaltenbach LS et al. (2007) Huntingtin Interacting Proteins Are Genetic Modifiers of Neurodegeneration. PLoS Genet 3(5): e82. doi:10.1371/ journal.pgen. 0030082). If the item you plan to reuse is not part of a published article (e.g., a featured issue image), then please indicate the originator of the work, and the volume, issue, and date of the journal in which the item appeared. For any reuse or redistribution of a work, you must also make clear the license terms under which the work was published." Sincerely, -- KR.SENTHIL KUMAR MCA -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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Trial access to HistCite - Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization Software
by Mailing List Admin 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

Dear Friends, HistCite is a flexible software solution to aid researchers in visualizing the results of literature searches in the Web of Science. It is easy, fast, and provides perspectives and information not available from The Web of Science. HistCite lets you analyze and organize the results of a search to obtain various views of the topic's structure, history, and relationships. HistCite helps to - Identify the key literature in a research field; Analyze publication productivity and citation rates within a collection of research papers; Reconstruct the history and development of a research field. HistCite is a software implementation of algorithmic historiography, and has been developed by Dr Eugene Garfield, founder of the Institute for Scientific Information and the inventor of the Science Citation Index. HistCite performs its analyses on the results of searches from the Web of Science, which are exported to text files. In order to use HistCite effectively, you will need access to the Web of Science. Register for access to a fully functional 30-day free trial version - http://secure.softwarekey.com/solo/products/custom/2958023/histcitedemo.asp Thanks - Moderator

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Army Library Program (ALP)
by sri priya 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

Army Library Program (ALP) The Army Library Program's Web site is designed to serve as the portal to the Digital Army Library Service (DALS). The Army Library Program's worldwide network of academic, research, technical, general, and special libraries provides the Army community access to a selected group of Web resources via the Digital Army Library Service. The virtual reference desk, research tools, reading room for professional military education, databases, and links to Web-based library catalogs are accessible at your desktop . http://www.libraries.army.mil/index.htm Regards, S.Sripriya __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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The freely available e-books.
by sri priya 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

The freely available e-books. Bartleby.com Great Books Online http://www.bartleby.com/ Bartleby publishes classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge on the Web. http://www.bartleby.com/ Classics at the Online Literature Library http://www.literature.org/authors/ The site provides access to a small, but easily navigated selection of online classic works of English Literature. http://www.literature.org/authors/ eScholarship Editions http://texts.cdlib.org/escholarship/titl es_public.html Access a collection of publically available electronic books from academic presses on topics in the arts and sciences. The collection is searchable and can be browsed by subject, author, or title. eScholarship Editions are published by eScholarship, the California Digital Library. http://content.cdlib.org/escholarship/titles_public.html Humanities Text Initiative http://www.hti.umich.edu/stacks/ The Humanities Text Initiative, a unit of the University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service, collaborates with other U of M units and partners with other institutions to convert, create and deliver online texts and resources. You can access a number of freely available collections on the site. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/c/collsize/collsize?summ=all Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection http://www.ipl.org/reading/books/ Over 20,000 titles covering a broad range of subjects are available for searching or for browsing by author, title, or Dewey Decimal Classification. http://www.ipl.org/reading/books/ NLC Electronic Collection http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/e-coll-e/in dex-e.htm The Electronic Collection of the National Library of Canada (NLC) includes over 6000 Canadian book and periodical titles published online by commercial and government publishers. The publications exist in various formats, including HTML, PDF, ASCII and others and in some cases software such as Acrobat Reader is required to read the texts. Some titles are labeled "Restricted Access" and are accessible on-site at the NLC only. http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/e-coll-e/index-e.htm http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/003/008/099/003008-disclaimer.html?orig=/e-coll-e/… Online Books Page http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ Search or browse over 16,000 online books and access relevant news, special exhibitions and links to other e-book collections. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ Online Medieval and Classic Library http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/ Access a collection of some of the most important literary works of the Classical and Medieval periods. http://omacl.org/ Oxford Text Archive http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ Founded in 1976 and dedicated to encouraging the acceptance of electronic texts within academia, the Archive contains an extensive collection of high quality e-texts and reference works in a variety of languages. Oxford Text Archive http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ Founded in 1976 and dedicated to encouraging the acceptance of electronic texts within academia, the Archive contains an extensive collection of high quality e-texts and reference works in a variety of languages.Oxford Text Archive http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg began in 1971 when Michael Hart decided that it would be a good idea to make many classic and important texts freely available worldwide. The project operates on a system of volunteers selecting a text that is no longer in copyright (in the USA the general rule is pre-1923), turning the text into e-text, and adding it to the archive. http://www.gutenberg.net/ Source : http://library.athabascau.ca/ebook.php Some free journals list also available through this site. Some Donated E-Books Under Copyright University of Kansas, USA. http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/ Regards, S.Sripriya __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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What should I read next?
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

Dear Friends www.whatshouldireadnext.com What Should I read next? This is a good site of great help to librarians. Amazon gives this service. The site mentioned above combines such results from several book sellers based sites. If you find a title is read frequently by your customers, you can easily find out similar popular titles on the same topic. The results you get are consolidations of readers' recommendations. This will be useful for further acquisitions, helping readers read more etc. -- 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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Reminder on Dr. TBR Memorial Seminar on Emerging ICT Skills for Information Professionals - 2007
by Maruthu Pandian 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

Dear Professionals, This is a gentle reminder about the forthcoming "Dr. TBR Memorial Seminar on Emerging ICT Skills for Information Professionals - 2007", being organized under the aegis of Dr.TBR Memorial by NCSI-Net. This Seminar is being conducted for the benefit of students and young professionals. The response to the seminar is very encouraging. We will be able to accommodate few more students and professionals for the seminar. In view of this, we have extended the deadline for registration till Wednesday, 31 October 2007. The details of the seminar are given below. Seminar Title: Dr. TBR Memorial Seminar on Emerging ICT Skills for Information Professionals - 2007 Date: November 03, 2007 (Saturday) Venue: National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore - 560012 Target audience: Students of Library & Information science course or its equivalent & budding information professionals. Seminar coverage: The Seminar is conducted with an intention to create an awareness amongst the students and budding budding information professionals about the latest developments in the information and communication technologies applicable to LIS profession. This year's Seminar will give an overview of Library Automation, open source software for Library Automation, and Open Access resources and tools relevant to information professionals. There will also be a session dealing with career building strategies and job opportunities for LIS professionals. Registration fee: Rs. 150/- for Students and Rs. 200 for budding professionals. Kindly bring this to the attention of the budding professionals and encourage them to attend the seminar. Participation in the seminar will also get an opportunity to interact with professionals working in the industry and academia. For further information, please visit the Seminar website at: http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/seminar/index.html Registration form is available at: http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/seminar/registration2007.html For further queries, please contact hipandian(a)gmail.com , umpradeep(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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OCA vs Google & Microsoft
by Mailing List Admin 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:32:33 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah.arunachalam(a)gmail.com> *NYU students ask university to join OCA<http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/2007/10/nyu-students-ask-university-to…> * NYU should digitize library content<http://media.www.nyunews.com/media/storage/paper869/news/2007/10/24/Opinion…>, *Washington Square News*, October 24, 2007. An editorial arguing that New York University <http://www.nyu.edu/> should join with the Open Content Alliance <http://www.opencontentalliance.org/>, not the Google Library project <http://print.google.com/googleprint/library.html>, to digitize the books in the NYU library. Excerpt: Since 2004, Google has been making thousands of books available to readers - including college students - online; Microsoft has also joined this effort. Both work with major university and research libraries, covering the costs of book scanning while requesting a non-exclusive agreement in return. Once a library has signed on, its scanned materials become solely accessible through either the Microsoft or Google search engines. The program, which counts universities such as Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford as participants, has recently come under criticism from a non-profit group called the Open Content Alliance. OCA raised concerns voiced by many other libraries: By trusting either Google or Microsoft to scan, store, and allow access to these libraries' content, the public would end up being dependent on the decisions of either corporation. While access is free today, what would stop either company from charging an access fee for its contents tomorrow? The Open Content Alliance, and the like-minded Boston Library Consortium, counters this oligopolist vision by arguing for a consortium of universities and private contributors who would create, finance and manage a similar book-scanning effort. Theoretically, this diffuse membership would prevent the type of unilateral decision-making some fear from Google or Microsoft. This option is not without its costs. While Google and Microsoft scan a library's contents for free, OCA members must pay up to $30 per book. We believe this is a price worth paying....Such a database would better serve all NYU students by saving on research and check-out time while, more significantly, expanding each student's access to content by freeing it from its physical quantity and location.... We recognize that costs must be investigated before NYU can or should commit itself to either system. Whatever the numbers, we urge the administration to digitize NYU's library content. [image: Permanent link to this post]<http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/2007/10/nyu-students-ask-university-to…>Posted by Peter Suber at 10/25/2007 12:28:00 PM.

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