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Subject: Training in LIS
by Rajan 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Dear All, It seems that we need to discuss the issues raised by Shri Arun, in order to make the library field a little better. The scenario is far from satisfactory. There is no need to blame anyone for the sorry state of affairs. But we need to think of ways for improving the situation. So it seems that the teacher- friends in the forum should start the discussion airing their views. Probably they are are the people who can do something substantial to improve the situation. Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian , Kerala Institute of Local Administration Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur -680591 Ph 0487- 2204097 (O), 2201428 ( R) Message: 1 Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 14:02:23 +0100 (BST) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Training in LIS To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, naglaxman(a)yahoo.com, iatlis-owner(a)yahoogroups.com Cc: haravu(a)newgenlib.com Message-ID: <37633.41021.qm(a)web43144.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Friends: I am concerned about the quality of training we provide in our country to would be librarians and information scientists. The other day I had received my copy of the Bulletin of ASIST, which I always find very readable. Prof. Blaise Cronin, who won the ASIS&T Award of Merit for 2006, had written a two-page acceptance speech. He is an extraordinarily good writer and I enjoy reading him. In his acceptance speech, Prof. Cronin, whom I first came to know more than two decades ago when I reviewed his cute little book "The Citation Process", had mentioned the names of many outstanding information scientists, spanning more than two generations, whose writings had shaped his career or influenced him in some way. Among them are Hans Peter Luhn Robert Fairthorne Cyril Cleerdon Eugene Garfield Wilfrid Lancaster Gerard Salton Tefko Saracevic Henry Small Don Swanson Howard White Bertram Brookes Michael Buckland Pauline Autherton Cochrane Wiliam Goffman Belver Griffith Robert Hayes John Martyn Stephen Robertson Karen Sparck Jones Irene Farkas-Conn Peter Taylor Alan Gilchrist Elizabeth Lowry-Corry Brian Vickery Robert Williams Ben Ami-Lipetz Derek de Solla Price Nick Belkin Boyd Rayward Jack Meadows. I met a young librarian with a Masters degree from a leading Indian university and a couple of years of work experience and showed him the article and asked him if he had read any of these authors. He was honest enough to admit that he had heard of the name of Garfield in connection with indexing, and his teachers never even mentioned the names of the others. On another day I was asked to meet the final year Masters students of LIS in a famous Indian university. Some students would not speak a word, despite repeated cajoling. Their knowledge was far below what one would expect of a Masters student. Without preparation, they may not be able to appreciate Tefko Saracevic's edited volume "Introduction to Information Science" or Irene Farkas-Conn's history of the field "From Documentation to Information Science." To be fair, they may understand some portions of Garfield's Essays of an Information Scientist, as Garfield often wrote not for the specialists but for the lay readers. Many years ago I was in a selection committee in a chemistry laboratory and I asked a candidate for the post of an assistant librarian if he knew any chemistry as his job would be to serve chemists; scientists may want to make a substructure search and unless one knows chemical structures it will be almost impossible to make such searches. The candidate replied that in the LIS school they taught 'organization of knowledge' and therefore there was no need to know chemistry! When asked to explain 'open access to journal literature' another candidate said that some libraries allowed users to move freely in the library and pick up the books and journals they wanted to read, and he was totally ignorant of making journal literature freely available on the Internet. I have attended a few national conferences. There is hardly any originality in the papers presented and the level of discussion is appallingly low. We need to do something and do it quickly. We need to inculcate the habit of reading in our students. Blaise cronin says that when he was a graduate student at Belfast he "poured over copies of American Documentation, Aslib Proceedings, IP&M, ARIST and the Journal of Documentation with enthusiasm of a kid in a candy store, stumbling upon seminal papers". We need to guide our students to the masters and their great writings. As the field is expanding, the need to keep abreast of developments is becoming more and more important. We need to improve the communication skills of our students. We should award degrees only to the deserving. Years ago I had taught at the INSDOC Training School and I had the great pleasure of working with people like Prof. Thyaga Natarajan and Prof. Guha, and was amazed at their simplicity and passion for reading and teaching. Even the next level faculty had the qualities of good teachers. I have heard about the high quality of training imparted at DRTC, but have no first hand knowledge, except attending a few conferences and giving a few lectures to students. The training imparted at NCSI, largely thanks to the late Dr T B Rajashekar, is indeed very good. We need to make sure that training imparted in every LIS school in the country is of the highest quality. As Greg Chappell said there should be a system where those who do not perform are automatically sent out. According to him that is why Australia performs very well in cricket. Best wishes. Arun -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Training in LIS
by Subbiah Arunachalam 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Friends: I am concerned about the quality of training we provide in our country to would be librarians and information scientists. The other day I had received my copy of the Bulletin of ASIST, which I always find very readable. Prof. Blaise Cronin, who won the ASIS&T Award of Merit for 2006, had written a two-page acceptance speech. He is an extraordinarily good writer and I enjoy reading him. In his acceptance speech, Prof. Cronin, whom I first came to know more than two decades ago when I reviewed his cute little book "The Citation Process", had mentioned the names of many outstanding information scientists, spanning more than two generations, whose writings had shaped his career or influenced him in some way. Among them are Hans Peter Luhn Robert Fairthorne Cyril Cleerdon Eugene Garfield Wilfrid Lancaster Gerard Salton Tefko Saracevic Henry Small Don Swanson Howard White Bertram Brookes Michael Buckland Pauline Autherton Cochrane Wiliam Goffman Belver Griffith Robert Hayes John Martyn Stephen Robertson Karen Sparck Jones Irene Farkas-Conn Peter Taylor Alan Gilchrist Elizabeth Lowry-Corry Brian Vickery Robert Williams Ben Ami-Lipetz Derek de Solla Price Nick Belkin Boyd Rayward Jack Meadows. I met a young librarian with a Masters degree from a leading Indian university and a couple of years of work experience and showed him the article and asked him if he had read any of these authors. He was honest enough to admit that he had heard of the name of Garfield in connection with indexing, and his teachers never even mentioned the names of the others. On another day I was asked to meet the final year Masters students of LIS in a famous Indian university. Some students would not speak a word, despite repeated cajoling. Their knowledge was far below what one would expect of a Masters student. Without preparation, they may not be able to appreciate Tefko Saracevic's edited volume "Introduction to Information Science" or Irene Farkas-Conn's history of the field "From Documentation to Information Science." To be fair, they may understand some portions of Garfield's Essays of an Information Scientist, as Garfield often wrote not for the specialists but for the lay readers. Many years ago I was in a selection committee in a chemistry laboratory and I asked a candidate for the post of an assistant librarian if he knew any chemistry as his job would be to serve chemists; scientists may want to make a substructure search and unless one knows chemical structures it will be almost impossible to make such searches. The candidate replied that in the LIS school they taught 'organization of knowledge' and therefore there was no need to know chemistry! When asked to explain 'open access to journal literature' another candidate said that some libraries allowed users to move freely in the library and pick up the books and journals they wanted to read, and he was totally ignorant of making journal literature freely available on the Internet. I have attended a few national conferences. There is hardly any originality in the papers presented and the level of discussion is appallingly low. We need to do something and do it quickly. We need to inculcate the habit of reading in our students. Blaise cronin says that when he was a graduate student at Belfast he "poured over copies of American Documentation, Aslib Proceedings, IP&M, ARIST and the Journal of Documentation with enthusiasm of a kid in a candy store, stumbling upon seminal papers". We need to guide our students to the masters and their great writings. As the field is expanding, the need to keep abreast of developments is becoming more and more important. We need to improve the communication skills of our students. We should award degrees only to the deserving. Years ago I had taught at the INSDOC Training School and I had the great pleasure of working with people like Prof. Thyaga Natarajan and Prof. Guha, and was amazed at their simplicity and passion for reading and teaching. Even the next level faculty had the qualities of good teachers. I have heard about the high quality of training imparted at DRTC, but have no first hand knowledge, except attending a few conferences and giving a few lectures to students. The training imparted at NCSI, largely thanks to the late Dr T B Rajashekar, is indeed very good. We need to make sure that training imparted in every LIS school in the country is of the highest quality. As Greg Chappell said there should be a system where those who do not perform are automatically sent out. According to him that is why Australia performs very well in cricket. Best wishes. Arun ___________________________________________________________ Copy addresses and emails from any email account to Yahoo! Mail - quick, easy and free. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/trueswitch2.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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librarian post for INDIA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
by Rohit Kumar 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Dear friends, Application are invited for the Walk in Interview for librarian post for IIS. India International School (IIS) is looking for a dynamic librarian for its institute Required qualification & experience: Master degree in library and information science (MliSc) from a recognize university or equivalent. Bachelor degree in library and Information scienc (BliSc) from a recognize university or equivalent. Working professional experience in any library/ or in any project work with library/ library automation work experience Or 1 year certificate degree in computer applicationh from a recognize Institute or equivalent. (recognize by any state of Govt of Indial) Having a good communication skill in English. Age: no limit Pay scale: 8,000- 10,000 Rs Eligible candidate may send their soft copy of resume to contacts(a)iis.edu.in or hard copy to the school address. (given below) Shortlisted candidates will be called for the interview on 16th April at school. With best wishes (Principal) India Internation School Chikka BeLlaNdur Village Carmelram post, Sarjapura Road Bangalore- 560035 Tel no: 91-80-28439001/02/03 91-80-65366001/02/04 --------------------------------- Check out what you're missing if you're not on Yahoo! Messenger -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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AICTE Norms -Library Exhibition
by veeresh hiremath 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Dear All, I am given to understand that as per AICTE norms, it is compulsory for a library to hold one annual exhibition. Can any of you throw more light on this issue? Veeresh c Hiremath Librarian, K J Somaiya College of Engineering Phone (D):(91-22)66449020, fax:(91-22)25152272 mobile:9867260884 Email:veer9999@rediffmail.com,hiremathvc@gmail.com,vchiremath@indiatimes.com,veereshmlisc@yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Version 67, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Version 67 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. This selective bibliography presents over 2,960 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html New versions of SEPB are announced on DigitalKoans: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalKoans The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2006 Annual Edition is also available from Digital Scholarship. Annual editions of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography are PDF files designed for printing. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries, see: http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2007/02/18/summary-of-baileys-d… Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues* 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Digital Rights Management* 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies Appendix B. About the Author Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* Digital Libraries* Electronic Books and Texts* Electronic Serials* General Electronic Publishing* Images Legal* Preservation Publishers* Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* SGML and Related Standards Further Information about SEPB The XHTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be searched using a Google Search Engine. Whether the search results are current depends on Google's indexing frequency. In addition to the bibliography, the XHTML document includes: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (biweekly list of new resources; also available by e-mail--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756 http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepr/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm Related Article An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ DigitalKoans/Flashback http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/category/flashback-weekly-news/ Open Access Bibliography/Webliography http://www.digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/oaw.htm Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography/Weblog http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy
by arun yadav 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Dear Professionals Vacancy fo Library Asst on contract basis for three years.For details please visit at www.pnbiit.com/recruitment.htm ARUN YADAV Acharya Narendra Dev Public Library Lucknow (M) 9838150983 --------------------------------- Check out what you're missing if you're not on Yahoo! Messenger -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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LibSite.org - A Recommendation Service for Library-related Websites
by Mallikarjun 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Dear Professional http://libsite.org/ LibSite.org is built around the premise that library-related projects need and deserve a higher profile, that the current technology allows us to engage this material in any number of creative ways. FEATURES For that reason, the site features a blog, a wiki, RSS feeds and email alerts -- the last two being configurable down to individual tags. Users can rate sites and add them to a "favorites" page. There's even a LibSite Widget that people can put on their own sites: http://libsite.org/wiki/features USER-GENERATED Fundamental to the concept is user-involvement. Users can post recommendations ("webCites"). Users can add their own tags. Based on this input, others can then create RSS feeds and email alerts. All can participate if only to leave constructive comments and rate the work of others. http://libSite.org With regards Mallikarjun Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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AICTE Norms (Library) for PGDBM / MBA Institutions ( Existing), Vide AICTE : Handbook 2007, No 12.5
by Subir Das 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Subir Das <subirmlis(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: Dear All the Librarians of Management Institutions, As per AICTE's Library requirements for PGDBM / MBA Institutions (Existing): Vide AICTE Handbook 2007, No 12.5 No.of Books : 150, No.of Vols.:1000, No of Journals: 30, But we are all aware that most of the self financing Institutions ( Private Management Institute ) are facing financial problems for the purchase of Journals due to short of funds and also for business based mindset of the institute owner. Moreover the prices of the Journals are rising up on a regular basis. The Top Management authorities are not showing their interest to procure the costly Journals. Here, I am submitting the lists of top ten (10) renowned & peer reviewed journals ( Not Magazines!!!) which will be very much fruitful for AICTE purpose as well as for the MBA/PGDBM faculties, students & staffs of thier recognized Institutions. The later part of the 20 journals / Magazines will be given shortly for those who are interested and further reply me for that purpose. The Lists are as follows: 1) 'Metamorphosis : A journal of Management Research'.( Twice a Year ) Published by Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, Annual Subscription: Rs.500 Bank Demand Draft in favour of 'Indian Institute of Management Lucknow' payable at Lucknow Order to be Placed : Editor in Chief, Metemorphosis Indian Institute of Management; Lucknow Prabandh Nagar, off Sitapur Road, Lucknow-226013, U P, India. 2) 'Vikalpa: The journal of Decision Makers'.(Twice a yr) Published by: Indian Institute of Management; Ahmedabad. Annual Subscription: Rs.800 Bank Demand Draft in favour of 'Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad Payable at Ahmedabad Order to be Placed: Editor, Vikalpa, Indian Institute of Management,Ahmedabad, Vastrapur-380015. 3) 'IIMB Management Review'. ( Quarterly ) Published by: Indian Institute of Management; Bangalore, Annual Subscription: Rs.900 Bank Demand Draft in favour of 'IIMB Management Review' payable at Bangalore Order to be Placed: The Subscription Desk IIMB-Management Review, IIM Bangalore, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore-560076 4) 'Decision' (Twice a Year) Published by: Indian Institute of Management; Calcutta. Annual Subscription : Rs.400 Bank Demand Draft in favour of 'Indian Institute of Management Kolkata' payable at Kolkata Order to be Placed: Publication Division, IIM Calcutta, D.H.Road, Joka, Kolkata-700104. 5) 'Bank Quest' ( Quarterly ) Published by: Indian Institute of Banking & Finance. Annual Subscription: Rs.140 Bank Demand Draft in favour of ' Indian Institute of Banking & Finance ' payable at Mumbai Order to be Placed: The Director of Administration Indian Institute of Banking & Finance The Arcade, World Trade Centre, 2nd Floor, Tower-4, Mumbai-400005. 6)'Indian Journal of Training & Development' (Quarterly ) Published by: Indian Society for Training & Development Annual Subscription: Rs.500 Bank Demand Draft in favour of ' Indian Society for Training & Development payable at New Delhi Order to be Placed: Executive Director, Indian Society for Training & Development B-41,New Mehrauli Road. New Delhi-110016. 7) 'Personnel Today' (Quarterly ) Published by: National Institute of Personnel Management. Annual Subscription: Rs.300 Bank Demand Draft in favour of ' National Institute of Personnel Management ' payable at Kolkata Order to be Placed: Executive Director for NIPM 45, Jhowtala Road, 1st.Floor, Kolkata-700019. 8) 'Bhavishya' ( Bi-Annual ) Published by: Future Business School Annual subscription: Rs.300 Bank Demand Draft in favour of 'Director, Future Business School' payable at Kolkata Order to be Placed: Chief Editor; Future Business School. Sonarpur Station Road, Kolkata-700150, India. 9) 'Foreign Trade Review' ( Quarterly ) Published by: Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. Annual Subscription: Rs.275 Bank Demand Draft in favour of ' Indian Institute of Foreign Trade ' payable at New Delhi Order to be placed: The Editor, Foreign Trade Review B-21, Qutab Institutional Area New Delhi-110016. 10) 'Finance India' ( Quarterly ) Published by: Indian Institute of Finance, Delhi Annual Subscription: Rs.1200 Bank Demand Draft in favour of ' Indian Institute of Finance ' payable at Delhi Order to be Placed: The Editor, Finance India, Indian Institute of Finance, Ashok Vihar II, Delhi-110052, India So you have just spend Rs 5000 and getting ten top level of Indian Management Journals for your valuable Library user as well as it is very impressive outcomes for query of AICTE team year by year. Before purchase please must see the website of the perticular journals for last minute change, if any. Feel free to write me for any query for quick communication. with regards, SUBIR DAS FIEM, KOLKATA-150 librarian(a)fiemonline.org subirmlis(a)yahoo.co.in SUBIR DAS --------------------------------- Check out what you're missing if you're not on Yahoo! Messenger -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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6th Colloquium (DRTC) on Open Access Movement
by Sanjeev Kumar Sunny 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE 8th Mile Mysore Road, Bangalore-560059 6th Colloquium (2006-08) On Open Access Movement ABSTRACT Journal prices were affordable till 1970s, when they began to rise faster than inflation. Prices have risen four times faster than inflation since 1986. Fortunately, just as journal prices were becoming unaffordable, the Internet emerged to offer an alternative - in the form of Open Access Movement. "Open Access" defines a movement that promotes free, unrestricted Internet access to the primary research literature as a public good. What make it possible are the Internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder. OA is entirely compatible with peer review, and all the major OA initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insist on its importance. There are two primary vehicles for delivering OA to research articles: OA archives or repositories and OA journals. There are open-source software for building and maintaining OAI-compliant archives. The development and usage of these archives are gaining worldwide momentum. Topics Speakers 1. Overview Sanjeev K Sunny 2. What's happening worldwide? Mithun Raj M. 3. Open Access Journals Ayesha Khatoon 4. Disciplinary Archives Syed Raiyan Ghani 5. Institutional Archives and Repositories Anila S. 6. OAI Tools: Software Mita Sarkar 7. Conclusion Radha Rani Rit Venue: DRTC Classroom Date: 18th of April 2007 Time: 2:00 pm All are cordially invited. Prof. K.S. Raghavan (Colloquium Coordinator) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Banning of books in libraries
by N.S. Harinarayana 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Hi, After reading the articles, I am again prompted to bring the below mentioned two articles appeared in Library Review to the attention of the fellow professionals. Article Title: Library Review: The banning of books in libraries Authors: W.C. Berwick Sayers Article Type: Viewpoint Keywords: Censorship, Librarianship history, Libraries Pages: 194-196 Link to Page: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentType=Articl… Article Title: On reading "The banning of books in libraries" Authors: Paul F. Burton Article Type: Viewpoint Keywords: Censorship, Ethics, Libraries Pages: 197-199 Link to Page: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentType=Articl… -- N.S. Harinarayana, Ph.D Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Manasagangtori Mysore 570 006 Off. Ph: (0821) 2419393 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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