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KPSC Notification for posts of Lecturers & Librarians in First Gr. Colleges Karnataka
by rupesh kumar 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

Dear All, Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) has issued a notification for the recruitment of Lecturers in various disciplines in First Grade Colleges of Karnataka. The notification includes 73 POSTS OF LIBRARIANS. The notification is available at http://kpsc.kar.nic.in/notifications.htm 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 --------------------------------- Access over 1 million songs - Yahoo! Music Unlimited. Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) has issued a notification for the recruitment of Lecturers in various disciplines in First Grade Colleges of Karnataka. The notification includes 73 POSTS OF LIBRARIANS. The notification is available at http://kpsc.kar.nic.in/notifications.htm http://kpsc.kar.nic.in/notifications.htm Regards, Rupesh Kumar A Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore University mailto:a_rupeshkumar@yahoo.com a_rupeshkumar(a)yahoo.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://a.rupeshkumar.googlepages.com http://a.rupeshkumar.googlepages.com Access over 1 million songs - http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=36035/*http://music.yahoo.c… Yahoo! Music Unlimited.

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Loss of books
by Balesh Kumar 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

As per General Financial rules 2005 Govt. of India, loss of books up to 5 books per thousnd books issued/consulted can be considred reasonable. Balesh Kumar Librarian HCTM, Kaithal --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW As per General Financial rules 2005 Govt. of India, loss of books up to 5 books per thousnd books issued/consulted can be considred reasonable. Balesh Kumar Librarian HCTM, Kaithal Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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SATKAL Awardees
by Venkat R Pokuri 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

The following LIS professionals have been awarded the SATKAL Awards for the year 2006. The Awards were given away by the Hon'ble Minister of State for Finance, Govt. of India, Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal, at a function organised by the Panjab University Library on 18th November 2006. > Punjab National Librarian Award Dr R P Kumar Chief Librarian, AIl India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. > Woman Librarian Award Dr (Mrs) S P Singh Chairperson, DLIS, UNiversity of Delhi, Delhi > Young Librarian Award Mr P Venkata Rao Librarian M G State Institute of Public Administration, Punjab Chandigarh >School Librarian Award Ms Preeti Kathpalia Librarian St. John's High School Chandigarh Submitted by: P V Rao Librarian M G State Institute of Public Administration, Punjab Institutional Area, Sector 26 Chandigarh 160019 Email: pvrao(a)mgsipap.org --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW The following LIS professionals have been awarded the SATKAL Awards for the year 2006. The Awards were given away by the Hon'ble Minister of State for Finance, Govt. of India, Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal, at a function organised by the Panjab University Library on 18th November 2006. > Punjab National Librarian Award Dr R P Kumar Chief Librarian, AIl India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. > Woman Librarian Award Dr (Mrs) S P Singh Chairperson, DLIS, UNiversity of Delhi, Delhi > Young Librarian Award Mr P Venkata Rao Librarian M G State Institute of Public Administration, Punjab Chandigarh >School Librarian Award Ms Preeti Kathpalia Librarian St. John's High School Chandigarh Submitted by: P V Rao Librarian M G State Institute of Public Administration, Punjab Institutional Area, Sector 26 Chandigarh 160019 Email: pvrao(a)mgsipap.org Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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25 Technologies in 50 Minutes by (Audio with presentation sliedes)
by Mallikarjuna, H.B 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

25 Technologies in 50 Minutes by (Audio with presentation sliedes) by Stephen Abram, SirsiDynix's Vice President "Lots of technologies are due consideration for our library portals. Which would be on your top 25 list? We can't do it all at once but we should be trying more than a few out to learn about them. Stephen Abram, SirsiDynix's Vice President of Innovation lists a technology application every 120 seconds in this roller coaster ride of what's out there in LibraryLand and which one's are worth playing with and seeing if they'll be useful to your library and your community of users. Join us for the cook's tour of what's in the front of the pack for the 2.0 Community Portal. Maybe I'll use an egg timer dinger for every 2 minutes!" Audio: http://www.sirsidynixinstitute.com/Resources/Podcasts/20061114.mp3 Presentation slides : http://www.sirsidynixinstitute.com/Resources/Attachments/Slides/abram_20061… -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Indian Libraries and Librarians search engine :http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW Stephen Abram, SirsiDynix's Vice President "Lots of technologies are due consideration for our library portals. Which would be on your top 25 list? We can't do it all at once but we should be trying more than a few out to learn about them. Stephen Abram, SirsiDynix's Vice President of Innovation lists a technology application every 120 seconds in this roller coaster ride of what's out there in LibraryLand and which one's are worth playing with and seeing if they'll be useful to your library and your community of users. Join us for the cook's tour of what's in the front of the pack for the 2.0 Community Portal. Maybe I'll use an egg timer dinger for every 2 minutes!" Audio: http://www.sirsidynixinstitute.com/Resources/Podcasts/20061114.mp3 Presentation slides : http://www.sirsidynixinstitute.com/Resources/Attachments/Slides/abram_20061… -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Indian Libraries and Librarians search engine :http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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Exclusive Day on Digital Libraries and Web Information Retrieval at ICDIM -2006
by J. K. Vijayakumar 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

A Message from Dr. P Pichappan, Program Chair for ICDIM - 2006 icdim(a)icdim.org, conference(a)icdim.org Dear LIS Professionals, There is a special day exclusively for LIS professionals during the First IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM) on 8th of December. There are special sessions on Digital Libraries, E-Learning, Web Information Retrieval and Search Engines. Besides there will be a tutorial on Digital Inclusion. For details see the conference URL www.icdim.org/conf_program.asp One day registration is possible. There will be a discount in the registration fee if participants prefer CD proceedings. Interested participants can send mail to conference(a)icdim.org for registration. Prior information about participation is essential. Visit Conference Website http://www.icdim.org/ for more details. --------------------------------- Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. A Message from Dr. P Pichappan , Program Chair for ICDIM - 2006 mailto:icdim@icdim.org icdim(a)icdim.org , mailto:conference@icdim.org conference(a)icdim.org Dear LIS Professionals, There is a special day exclusively for LIS professionals during the First IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM) on 8 th of December. There are special sessions on Digital Libraries, E-Learning, Web Information Retrieval and Search Engines. Besides there will be a tutorial on Digital Inclusion. For details see the conference URL http://www.icdim.org/conf_program.asp www.icdim.org/conf_program.asp One day registration is possible. There will be a discount in the registration fee if participants prefer CD proceedings. Interested participants can send mail to mailto:conference@icdim.org conference(a)icdim.org for registration. Prior information about participation is essential. Visit Conference Website http://www.icdim.org/ http://www.icdim.org/ for more details. Everyone is raving about http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=42297/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailb… the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta.

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LibWorm:Librarians RSS Engine-latest in Librarianship
by Mallikarjuna, H.B 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

LibWorm:Librarians RSS Engine LibWorm collects updates from about 1400 RSS feeds (and growing). The contents of these feeds are then available for searching, and search results can themselves be output as an RSS feed that the user can subscribe to either in his/her favourite aggregator or in LibWorms built-in aggregator. http://www.libworm.com/ -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Indian Libraries and Librarians search engine :http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW LibWorm:Librarians RSS Engine http://www.libworm.com/ LibWorm collects updates from about 1400 RSS feeds (and growing). The contents of these feeds are then available for searching, and search results can themselves be output as an RSS feed that the user can subscribe to either in his/her favourite aggregator or in LibWorms built-in aggregator. http://www.libworm.com/ http://www.libworm.com/ -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Indian Libraries and Librarians search engine :http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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Biomedicine:Databases:Free on the Web
by Mallikarjuna, H.B 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

Biomedicine:Databases:Free on the Web Biomedicine: India 1.IndMED - http://indmed.nic.in/ (India) Jointly setup by NIC and ICMR 2. OpenMED- http://openmed.nic.in/(India) By Bibliographic Informatics Division, National Informatics Centre. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.PubMed [U.S. National Library of Medicine] - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed 2.NLM Gateway [U.S. National Library of Medicine]-- http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd 3. The Cochrane Collaboration [citations only, without subscription]- http://www.cochrane.org/index0.htm 4. Cochrane Reviews abstracts & summaries-- http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/ 5. Centre for Reviews and Dissemination Databases- http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/crdweb/ [including Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)] 6.TRIP Database: Turning Research into Practice - http://www.tripdatabase.com/index.html 7.Scirus for scientific information only- http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/advanced/index.jsp Medical Education: 8.ERIC [Education Resources Information Center, U.S. Dept. of Education] http://www.eric.ed.gov/ 9.TIMELit: Topics in Medical Education [Centre for Medical Education, Dundee] http://www.timelit.org/ 10.RDRB: Research & Development Resource Base (in CME) [University of Toronto]- http://www.cme.utoronto.ca/rdrb/ Alternative Medicine: 11. PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database) [Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy (CEBP)]- http://www.pedro.fhs.usyd.edu.au/index.html 12. OSTMED (The Osteopathic Literature Database) [to 2003] Index to Chiropractic Literature [CLIBCON]- http://ostmed.hsc.unt.edu/ostmed/index.html -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Indian Libraries and Librarians search engine :http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW Biomedicine:Databases:Free on the Web Biomedicine: India 1.IndMED - http://indmed.nic.in/ http://indmed.nic.in/ ( India ) Jointly setup by NIC and ICMR 2. OpenMED - http://openmed.nic.in/( India ) By Bibliographic Informatics Division, National Informatics Centre. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed PubMed [U.S. National Library of Medicine] - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed 2. http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd NLM Gateway [U.S. National Library of Medicine]-- http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd 3. http://www.cochrane.org/index0.htm The Cochrane Collaboration [citations only, without subscription]- http://www.cochrane.org/index0.htm http://www.cochrane.org/index0.htm 4. http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/ Cochrane Reviews abstracts & summaries -- http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/ http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/ 5. http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/crdweb/ Centre for Reviews and Dissemination Databases - http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/crdweb/ [including Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)] 6. http://www.tripdatabase.com/index.html TRIP Database: Turning Research into Practice - http://www.tripdatabase.com/index.html http://www.tripdatabase.com/index.html 7. http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/advanced/index.jsp Scirus for scientific information only- http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/advanced/index.jsp Medical Education : 8. http://www.eric.ed.gov/ ERIC [ Education Resources Information Center , U.S. Dept. of Education] http://www.eric.ed.gov/ 9. http://www.timelit.org/ TIMELit: Topics in Medical Education [Centre for Medical Education, Dundee ] http://www.timelit.org/ http://www.timelit.org/ 10. http://www.cme.utoronto.ca/rdrb/ RDRB: Research & Development Resource Base (in CME) [ University of Toronto ]- http://www.cme.utoronto.ca/rdrb/ http://www.cme.utoronto.ca/rdrb/ Alternative Medicine : 11. http://www.pedro.fhs.usyd.edu.au/index.html PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database) [Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy (CEBP)]- http://www.pedro.fhs.usyd.edu.au/index.html 12. http://ostmed.hsc.unt.edu/ostmed/index.html OSTMED (The Osteopathic Literature Database) [to 2003] http://www.chiroindex.org/ Index to Chiropractic Literature [CLIBCON]- http://ostmed.hsc.unt.edu/ostmed/index.html http://ostmed.hsc.unt.edu/ostmed/index.html -- Regards hbmallikarjuna hbmallikarjuna[at]gmail.com http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com/ http://mallikarjunahb.blogspot.com Indian Libraries and Librarians search engine :http://tinyurl.com/yfrozb Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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reg theft books
by suresh lalwani 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

Dear friends, I am working as a librarian in AICTE recognized Management Institute. I would like to know that what are the UGC rules and guidelines of books theft from library. And who is responsible for that. Suresh Lalwani Dear friends, I am working as a librarian in AICTE recognized Management Institute. I would like to know that what are the UGC rules and guidelines of books theft from library. And who is responsible for that. Suresh Lalwani http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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Video capture
by Eldho Joy 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

Dear Colleagues I would like to know if any systems/technology /personnel available to capture video images from the internet. Eldho Joy Librarian LBS Institute of Technology for Women Poojappura,Trivandrum-695012. http://www.lbsitw.ac.in Dear Colleagues I would like to know if any systems/technology /personnel available to capture video images from the internet. Eldho Joy Librarian LBS Institute of Technology for Women Poojappura,Trivandrum-695012. http://www.lbsitw.ac.in/ http://www.lbsitw.ac.in

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Application for the post of permanent Technical Assistant (Libbrary) in ISEC, Bangalore
by T R B Sarma 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE NAGARABHAVI, BANGALORE 560 072. ADVERTISEMENT NO.NA/1/2006 Technical Assistant (1) (LIBRARY) Scale of Pay: 5200-125-5700-150-7200-200-8800-260-9580 Qualifications: Essential: 1.. Bachelors degree with first or high second class (55% or above), and Degree/Diploma in Library Science with two years teaching and/or research experience in Library Science. 2.. Catalogue and classification skills Desirable: 1.. Good Computer/IT Skills 2.. Knowledge of Library Management Systems like LIBSYS and CDS-ISIS 3.. Database Search and Retrieval Skills 4.. Good Oral and Written Communication Skills Age limit: Normally below 30 years and relaxable by 5 years for candidates belonging to SC and ST. Candidates are required to produce caste certificate issued by a competent authority. There is no age limit in case of employees of the Institute. Selection Procedure: Selection will be made on the basis of written test/driving test/and interview of short-listed candidates. However, mere satisfying the eligibility norms does not entitle a candidate to be called for the interview. Depending upon the number of applications received in relation to number of vacancies, the Institute reserves the right to call only a limited number of candidates after preliminary screening with reference to their qualifications, suitability and qualification, experience, etc. The Selection Committee may relax qualifications in exceptional cases and also consider suitable candidates from outside the list of applicants. The advertisement No.NA/1/2006 and the prescribed application form can be obtained from the Registrar's Office or also be downloaded from www.isec.ac.in. Completed applications with copies of testimonials should be sent in a envelope superscribing "application for the post of ............" and should reach the undersigned on or before December 23, 2006. Applications received after the last date will not be entertained and the Institute takes no responsibility for any delay in receipt or loss in postal transit of any communication or application. Canvassing in any form by the candidates results in disqualification of the candidates. The Institute reserves the right not to recruit any candidate if no suitable candidates are found. November 10, 2006 V Ramappa Registrar I/c (You also can see the above advt. in Indian Express dt: 24.11.2006 at 7th page.) TRB SARMA Dy.Librarian, ISEC Nagarabhavi, Bangalore. 560 072. E-mail : trbsarma(a)isec.ac.in Telephone: 080-23215468 Extn. 302 INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE NAGARABHAVI, BANGALORE 560 072. ADVERTISEMENT NO.NA/1/2006 Technical Assistant (1) (LIBRARY) Scale of Pay: 5200125-5700-150-7200-200-8800-260-9580 Qualifications: Essential: Bachelors degree with first or high second class (55% or above), and Degree/Diploma in Library Science with two years teaching and/or research experience in Library Science. Catalogue and classification skills Desirable: Good Computer/IT Skills Knowledge of Library Management Systems like LIBSYS and CDS-ISIS Database Search and Retrieval Skills Good Oral and Written Communication Skills Age limit: Normally below 30 years and relaxable by 5 years for candidates belonging to SC and ST. Candidates are required to produce caste certificate issued by a competent authority. There is no age limit in case of employees of the Institute. Selection Procedure : Selection will be made on the basis of written test/driving test/and interview of short-listed candidates. However, mere satisfying the eligibility norms does not entitle a candidate to be called for the interview. Depending upon the number of applications received in relation to number of vacancies, the Institute reserves the right to call only a limited number of candidates after preliminary screening with reference to their qualifications, suitability and qualification, experience, etc. The Selection Committee may relax qualifications in exceptional cases and also consider suitable candidates from outside the list of applicants. The advertisement No.NA/1/2006 and the prescribed application form can be obtained from the Registrars Office or also be downloaded from http://www.isec.ac.in/ www.isec.ac.in . Completed applications with copies of testimonials should be sent in a envelope superscribing "application for the post of ............" and should reach the undersigned on or before December 23, 2006. Applications received after the last date will not be entertained and the Institute takes no responsibility for any delay in receipt or loss in postal transit of any communication or application. Canvassing in any form by the candidates results in disqualification of the candidates. The Institute reserves the right not to recruit any candidate if no suitable candidates are found. November 10, 2006 V Ramappa Registrar I/c (You also can see the above advt. in Indian Express dt: 24.11.2006 at 7 th page.) TRB SARMA Dy.Librarian, ISEC Nagarabhavi, Bangalore. 560 072. E-mail : mailto:trbsarma@isec.ac.in trbsarma(a)isec.ac.in Telephone: 080-23215468 Extn. 302

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