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OCKHAM Initiative
by sandeep bhavsar 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Respected All The OCKHAM Initiative seeks to promote the development of digital libraries via collaboration between librarians and digital library researchers. By promoting simple, open approaches and standards for digital library tools, services, and content, the gap between digital library development and the adoption of digital library systems by the traditional library community will be bridged. MyLibrary@OCKHAM MyLibrary@OCKHAM is a demonstration of how to make National Science Foundation Digital Library content more available through traditional libraries venues. This goal is accomplished in four steps: 1) create a framework for storing relevent content using MyLibrary, 2) harvest content from the NSDL OAI Repository, and save it to the underlying MyLibrary database, 3) write reports against the database in the form of browsable lists, and 4) index the content to provide searchable interfaces. Demo: http://mylibrary.ockham.org/ Download: local (http://mylibrary.ockham.org/src/ockham-mylibrary.tar.gz) or from Google Code (http://code.google.com/p/ockham-mylibrary/) --------------------------------- OCKHAM Alert OCKHAM Alert is an alerting service which utilizes a proposed method for providing a current awareness service against the content of OAI repositories as well as library catalogs. More information on OCKHAM Alert can currently be found at http://alert.ockham.org. Demo: http://alert.ockham.org Downloads: local (http://alert.ockham.org/src/ockham-alert.tar.gz) or from Google Code (http://code.google.com/p/ockham-alert/) --------------------------------- OCKHAM Spell OCKHAM Spell returns alternative spellings of word via Web Serivce interface. Demo: http://spell.ockham.org/ Downloads: local (http://spell.ockham.org/src/ockham-spell.tar.gz) or from Google Code (http://code.google.com/p/ockham-spell/) --------------------------------- Eric Lease Morgan (emorgan(a)nd.edu) March 1, 2007 Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ --------------------------------- What kind of emailer are you? Find out today - get a free analysis of your email personality. Take the quiz at the Yahoo! Mail Championship. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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free access to e-books by caltech authors
by Krishnan 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Caltech has made available the following books by its faculty for free access recently Pls look at http://caltechbook.library.caltech.edu for more books made available Ballhausen, Carl J. and Gray, Harry B. Molecular electronic structures : an introduction, 1980 <http://caltechbook.library.caltech.edu/155/> Ballhausen, Carl A. and Gray, Harry B. Molecular orbital theory: an introductory lecture note and reprint volume, 1965 <http://caltechbook.library.caltech.edu/117/> Dence, Joseph B. and Gray, Harry B. and Hammond, George S. Chemical dynamics, 1968 <http://caltechbook.library.caltech.edu/156/> Gray, Harry B. Electrons and Chemical Bonding, 1965 <http://caltechbook.library.caltech.edu/130/> Langford, Cooper H. and Gray, Harry B. Ligand Substitution Processes, 1966 <http://caltechbook.library.caltech.edu/100/> -- Dr. S.Krishnan Head, Information Division National Chemical Laboratory Pashan Road PUNE 411008, INDIA e-mail: s.krishnan(a)ncl.res.in Tel: +91-20-25902650 Fax: +91-20-25902850 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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vidhyanidi website
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 10 Mar '07

10 Mar '07

Dear Friends I am unable to access Vidhyanidi website -- Thesis portal from Mysore university. Has the site address been changed? http://www.vidhyanidi.org.in Thanks -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Society for Serving Seniors 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015 Phone 27846631 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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Current Free Trials of magazines from Sage
by A. B. NAIKAL 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

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JPEG PHOTO FORMAT ON ITS WAY OUT?
by Farooque Shaheen 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Microsoft Corp. will soon submit a new photo format to an international standards organization that it says offers higher quality images with better compression, the company said on Thursday. The format, HD Photo -- recently renamed from Windows Media Photo -- is taking aim at the JPEG format, a 15-year old technology still widely used in digital cameras and image applications. Both formats take images and use compression to make the file sizes smaller so more photos can fit on a memory card. During compression, however, the quality of the photo tends to degrade. Microsoft said HD Photo's lightweight algorithm causes less damage to photos during compression, with higher-quality images that are half the size of JPEG. The format can also accommodate "lossless" and "lossy" compression, two methods of compressing photo data with different effects on image quality. Microsoft said adjustments can be made to color balance and exposure settings that won't discard or truncate data that occurs with other bitmap formats. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129676/article.html Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Single search is a need of the hour
by Rajesh Chandrakar 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Hello folks, The time has come for libraries, too, to negotiate for rights to index full text locally. Have a look the article on "Metasearch like Google" http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6413442.html based on the following project: Ontario Scholars Portal The Scholars Portal Project of the Ontario Council of University Libraries aims to bring together a number of key digital services for member libraries. Alan Darnell, manager of the project, says they decided that "single search" was a key service to be provided and that for the reasons of performance, reliability, and flexibility, local-loading of article metadata was the best approach. Darnell says that with Google Scholar, "It's not always clear who the publishers are, the scope of the content [or] the depth of the content.... Even if Google Scholar had the coverage, we'd still feel the responsibility to do the local loading. I don't think there's any reason we can't do it better [than Google]." Darnell says they have succeeded in creating a metasearch environment through local loading that works better and more powerfully than typical cross-search: "In a [cross-search] environment, after you've done that first search, you need to drop into the native interface to do anything else. In our [locally indexed] single search, [users] can stay within our environment longer, although eventually they might still need to drop into the native interface." The Scholars Portal single search also allows member libraries to create custom subject or disciplinary "clusters" by selecting from available databases that have been locally indexed. The Scholars Portal single search is only in its beginning stages, but Darnell says that initial evidence suggests success: "Our usage numbers show that if you make it easier to search, users get presented to the journal literature in greater numbers than they would if they only had the specialized search engine. There's always time later on to teach them specialized searching if that's what they want to do. I don't see any disadvantages in lowering that learning curve." Just as importantly, with the local indexing technique, the power and features of a metasearch tool can be significantly increased, especially if you can get access to full text to load as an aid to the searching algorithms: "As we do get more and more full text, we will be able to get meaningful relevancy ranking, useful clustering, more advanced presentation of result sets," and other advanced features that will serve more needs without requiring the user switch to a "native" interface. Rajesh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajesh Chandrakar, Commonwealth Professional Fellow Scientific & Technical Officer INFLIBNET (INFormation and LIBrary NETwork) Centre An IUC of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House, PB No. 4116, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380 009, India Tel. +91-(0)79-26305971/ 8528/ 4695(O), 26873805(R) Mobile: +91-9427527894 Fax: +91-(0)79-26300990, 263007816 E-mail: rajesh(a)inflibnet.ac.in; rchandrakar(a)gmail.com Website: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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A service forbookbuyers and libraries
by Mailing List Admin 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:33:20 +0530 From: "Thapar, Amit" <amitt(a)niper.ac.in> . Better World Books http://betterworldbooks.com/ A great service for both bookbuyers and libraries. BWB solves libraries' problem of unwanted discards and donations by selling them online and passing on proceeds to the libraries and their nonprofit literacy partners. Buyers can select from 1.8 million used books and 500,000 new ones, knowing that the money will go to libraries and literacy promotion. . Library Videos - the best videos about libraries on the web http://libraryvideos.blogspot.com/ In this brand new blog, Nancy Dowd, marketing guru at New Jersey State Library, promises to post all the neat library videos she comes across. There's not a great deal there yet, but what IS available should give you some ideas. And of course she'll be happy to add your videos to her site.

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Greenstone Customization - Reg
by Mailing List Admin 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:12:15 +0530 From: Rajan <rajankila(a)hotmail.com> Dear All, A new document "Customizing Greenstone Easily: A Self-instructional Guide for Beginners" is put today at the Greenstone Support for South Asia/ Resources/ Documents page at http://greenstonesupport.iimk.ac.in/Documentation.htm Please inform remarks, if any Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian , Kerala Institute of Local Administration Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur -680591 Ph 0487- 2204097 (O), 2201428 ( R)

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New Journal on LIS
by Library 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Dear Moderator: Could you please announce the following for the benefit of the LIS professionals? Thanks; Y.M.Patil Librarian -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raman Research Institute Library, Tel: +91 80 2361 0122 Extn 250 C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Fax: +91 80 2361 0492 Bangalore 560 080, India. Email: library(a)rri.res.in -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues: We are happy to announce a new journal entitled: INFORMATION AGE, the details of which are given below: Name of the Journal: INFORMATION AGE: A journal for library and information science professionals. Periodicity: Quarterly ISSN: 0973 - 7073 Published issues: Vol.1, N1, Jan.2007 Annual subscription: Rs.150.00 for individuals; Rs.250 for Institutions Chief Editor: Prof. P.S.G.Kumar Assoc.Editor: Dr. Yalagouda M.Patil Published by:Editorial Office and Distribution, Dr.P.S.G.Kumar Library Foundation, 371, Guruprasad Nagar, Dattawadi, NAGPUR 440 023 (Maharashtra). Payments by DD to: Dr.P.S.G.Kumar Library Foundation and to be sent to the address given above. INFORMATION AGE has kept the following objectives: . Mainatain the publication schedule scrupulously; . keep the readers informed about the latest developments in LIS and IT; . Focus of timley subjects; . Annual "round-up" of events in the filed; . provide reports on events, news, views, technology up-dates, etc. You are kindly requested to send papers, news and views, comments, suggestions for enriching and betterment of Information Age; Also, I request you to kindly subscribe the journal personally and /or recommend it to your library. Request for SAMPLE copy may be sent to the Editorial and Distribution Office at Nagpur. We solicit your kind cooperationn in this matter. With kind regards, Y.M.Patil Assoc.Editor -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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LIS New Journal: Pearl (ULTA, 2007+)
by Puttaraj Choukimath 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Dear All, Greetings! FYI: New Journal (LISc) Title : Pearl: A journal of Library and Information Science (Q) [Inaugural Issue proposed to be published on 20th Mar 2007]. ISSN : 0973-7081 Editor-in-Chief : Dr. G. Sujatha Publisher : University Library Teachers Association of Andhra Pradesh (ULTA), Hyderabad, India. Address : Dr. V. Nireekrihna Babu, Associate Editor, PEARL, PS Telugu University, Nampally, Hyderabad-500 004, India. Email : vnbabu_2004(a)yahoo.co.in, pearl_journal(a)yahoo.co.in Subscription Rates : Rs.200/- (Individual); Rs.500/- (Institutional) Best regards, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: puttuc(a)yahoo.com, choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: www.tiss.edu --------------------------------- Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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