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My views on Five Laws of Library Science
by Krishnamurthy M 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

Dear friends, An ideology of librarianship was created by S.R.Ranganathan in his classic The Five Laws of Library Science. He formulated objectives and principles for the organization of access to and use library materials. As Ranganathan asserted, " it should be the business of the librarian to adopt all the recognized methods of attracting the public to the library, so that every potential reader may be converted in to actual one, there by increasing the fulfillment of the Third Law." The third law concerns context rather than law content. The mission of the librarian is to build a well -organised collection of resources in order to maximize the chance that users will find what they need. The third law is also tells "Every book ,its reader" almost means that "resources look for people." Who want and need them the most. Library patrons, Ranganathan points out, often do not know enough about available resources to know what to request. Any organization of the electronic or physical library that focuses only on getting the readers what they ask for neglects two key components of good library practice: browsing and linking. M.Krishnamurthy -- Dr. M Krishnamurthy,M.A.,M.L.I.Sc., Ph.D. Librarian Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road R.V.C.E. Post Bangalore 560059 Ph:91-80-8483002/3/4/4 Fax: 91-80-8484265 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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SoonR
by rupesh kumar 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

Dear All, SoonR keeps you securely connected to your computer files though your mobile phone. Sounds interesting? Learn more about SoonR here http://www.soonr.com Regards, Rupesh Kumar A Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore University a_rupeshkumar(a)yahoo.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://a.rupeshkumar.googlepages.com --------------------------------- Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Book Search
by Mailing List Admin 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 11:07:17 +0530 From: Amit Thapar <amitt(a)niper.ac.in> BookSearchx3 - Search Inside Books with Amazon, Google & MSN Live http://kokogiak.com/booksearch/ Results from each search engine are displayed side by side, which makes it possible to compare the databases and results Quintura Search Engine http://www.quintura.com/ A visual search tool. Your search term starts out in the middle of a cloud of related terms, with links on the right. Simply mousing over a related term shifts the search results. This could be particularly effective in getting students past the first ten results, and helping them understand differing perspectives on their topics.

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National Workshop on LIS Education in Digital Era
by D Jotwani, Librarian IIT Bombay 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

Dear All The last date for registration is drawing close on 10th June 2007. Those interested to participate in workshop may rush their registration form along with the fee (Rs 2000/-) immediately to the undersigned. More details about workshop can be seen at http://www.library.iitb.ac.in/IATLISW.pdf -- D. Jotwani Librarian Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Powai, Mumbai 400076 Phone 91-22-25768920, 91-22-25720227 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Google Launches Gears Offline Web App Project
by Ramshirish M 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

Dear All Google launches open source Gears Offline Web Application Project. This has been announced on Google Developer Day. SYDNEY, Australia (May 31, 2007) -- Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced at Google Developer Day 2007 that it is providing developers with Google Gears?, an open source technology for creating offline web applications. For complete informtion: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0705/S00074.htm Warm regards Ramshirish M ********************* Ramshirish Mamidala Library and Information Centre Tata Consultancy Services Kohinoor Park (e-Park) Plot 1, Jubilee Garden Main Road Kondapur Hyderabad - 500084,Andhra Pradesh India Ph:- 040-66675019 Buzz:- 4405019 Mailto: ramshirish.m(a)tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com =====-----=====-----===== Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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DBLP - a computer science bibliography
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

Friends: Please alert computer science scientists and students you serve to the DBLP server. The DBLP server provides bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings. Initially the server was focused on DataBase systems and Logic Programming (DBLP), but now it is gradually being expanded toward other fields of computer science. You may now read "DBLP" as "Digital Bibliography & Library Project". The server indexed more than 870,000 articles and contains several thousand links to home pages of computer scientists (as of April 2007). Subbiah Arunachalam ___________________________________________________________ For email that puts you in control, choose Yahoo! Mail. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/addressguard2.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fwd: [Sigiii-l] Winners of the 2007 ASIST SIG III International Paper Contest
by J. K. Vijayakumar 31 May '07

31 May '07

domole(a)worldbank.org wrote: To: sigiii-l(a)asis.org, asis-l(a)asis.org From: domole(a)worldbank.org Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 16:41:13 -0400 Subject: [Sigiii-l] ANNOUNCEMENT: Winners of the 2007 ASIST SIG III International Paper Contest Dear All, It is my great pleasure to announce the results of the eighth International Paper Contest organized by the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST) Special Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG III). Thanks to Julian, Judy and their jury team for making it happen! Our six winners this year are: 1. Shampa Paul, India. "A case study of e-governance initiatives in India." 2. Soumitra Sharma, India. "Exploring best practices in public-private partnerships (ppp) in e-government through select Asian case-studies." 3. Rama Devi, India. "Towards promotion and dissemination of IK. A case of NIRD." 4. M.Masoom Raza Amar Nath, India. "Use of IT in University Libraries of Punjab, Chandigarh and Himachal Pradesh : A Comparative study." 5. Elsa Barber, Silvia Pisano, Sandra Romagnoli, Verónica Parsiale and Gabriela De Pedro y Carolina Gregui, Argentina. "User Interface of Web Opacs in Mercosur Member and Associate Countries." 6. Medha Joshi, India. "Digital resources for information accessibility at the point of care: an overview of Library Information System at Tata Memorial Hospital." The theme of this year?s contest was "Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing and Information Science." The principal authors of each of the six winning papers will be awarded a two-year individual membership to ASIST. In addition, the leading two winners, Shampa Paul and Soumitra Sharma will be awarded a minimum of $1,000 each to attend the October 18-25, 2007 ASIST Annual Meeting, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. These winning papers and other submitted papers for the competition will be considered for publication by Elsevier's International Information and Library Review, which is edited by Toni Carbo. Thanks to the generous donations from participants of the October 6 2006 Kenya Embassy Fundraiser, Elsevier, and many of our previous organization and individual donors. Your efforts have enabled us to continue with this International Contest. Further fundraising effort is underway and we welcome donations as well as entries to the ongoing raffle to support the contest. Updates will be provided periodically as we get closer to the conference. Congratulations to the winners! The Contest Committee worked really hard in selecting the winning papers. The paper contest was organized by Julian Warner (Chair) and Judy Jeng (co-Chair). The judges were: Julian Warner, The Queen's University of Belfast, School of Management and Economics. Belfast, Northern Ireland. Judy Jeng, New Jersey City University, Congressman Frank J. Guarini Library, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. Yin Zhang, Kent State University, School of Library and Information Science, Kent, Ohio, USA. Yunfei Du, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. We thank the jury members for their selfless effort and our donors for their compassion which makes it possible to develop and sustain this international network of digital scholars and experts on digital libraries and information technology in developing countries. More information about the paper competition is available from the SIG III website (http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/ ) under Paper Contest. Regards, Duncan Omole, Chair, ASIST SIG III _______________________________________________ Sigiii-l mailing list Sigiii-l(a)asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigiii-l --------------------------------- Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. --------------------------------- Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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We welcome our new members to Engg-Lib-Forum (Engineering College Librarians Forum), from India and elsewhere.
by K.R. Mulla 30 May '07

30 May '07

Dear LIS Professionals We welcome our new members to Engg-Lib-Forum (Engineering College Librarians Forum), from India and elsewhere. About the ELF. . . the Engineering Libraries forum, consists of librarians and information professionals concerned with the support of engineering education. We are involved in the provision of library services and the development of innovative approaches to networking information services. Our role is to promote the role of the library as an integral part of engineering education. In ELF we are at once pragmatic and futuristic. We help colleagues to cope with the everyday problems of library management through services such as our duplicate journal exchange. We also are pioneering the development of digital libraries through our work with technical publishers, universities and computer companies. Our members contribute to the technical literature and are regular speakers at meetings such as the National Online Meeting. The future holds dramatic change for engineering libraries and ELF will be there to help mold those institutions to best serve the coming generations of engineering students. Come join us! Share your experiences, concerns, and innovative ideas in ongoing discussions of best practices. Together let us learn how to evaluate practices, add value, enhance performance and profitability by choosing best practices and re-using that fit our situations and organizations. Hope to see lots of discussions happening in this forum. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Engg-Lib-Forum/promote -- Thanks with regards K. R. Mulla, Librarian, HKBK College of Engineering, # 22/1, Nagawara, Bangalore - 560 045. Karnataka, India. ************************************************************************** Engg-Lib-Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Engg-Lib-Forum/ Home Page: http://krmulla.googlepages.com/ **************************************************************************** -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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UNESCO Libraries Portal
by Kshirod Das 30 May '07

30 May '07

Dear LIS professionals, UNESCO Libraries Portal gives access to websites of library institutions around the world. It serves as an international gateway to information for librarians and library users and international co-operation in this area. Hope this could help in many ways to LIS professionals. Here the Link to UNESCO Libraries Portal: http://www.unesco.org/cgi-bin/webworld/portal_bib2/cgi/page.cgi?d=1 Thanks n Regard, -- Kshirod Das Library Information Assistant National Institute of Technology Roukela Rourkela-769 008, Orissa -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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The beginning of all understanding is classification-Hyden White
by Mailing List Admin 30 May '07

30 May '07

Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 11:56:40 +0530 From: K.R. Mulla <krmulla(a)gmail.com> Dear LIS Professionals I want to share with the Mr. Vasanth Raj's View on the relevance of Dr. S.R.Ranganathan's laws of library science. IT (Information technology) is just tool for librarians and library professionals, we should not dilute our professional ethics and also we have to grow along with the new technology and adapt it in our profession. With best wishes one and all -- Thanks with regards K. R. Mulla, Librarian, HKBK College of Engineering

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