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Libraries without walls
by Subbiah Arunachalam 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

SECOND CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Closing date Friday 2 March 2007 Libraries Without Walls 7: Exploring anywhere, anytime delivery of library services http://www.cerlim.ac.uk/conf/lww7/ An international conference organised by CERLIM - The Centre for Research in Library and Information Management http://www.cerlim.ac.uk/ To be held on the Aegean Island of Lesvos, Greece, at the Delphinia Hotel, Molyvos http://www.molyvoshotel.com/eng/hotel.htm 14 - 18 September 2007 Cost 495 GBP (including accommodation and breakfast for four nights, with lunches and refreshments during the Conference, and two evening dinners) Keynote Speaker Christine Borgman, Professor & Presidential Chair in Information Studies within the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. Conference Themes >From their beginnings in 1995, the Libraries without Walls conferences have mapped a major change in the practice of librarianship. While library services are still concerned to provide users with physical access to their buildings, electronic access, often from remote locations, is becoming ever more dominant. Library services are being integrated into virtual learning, research and personal environments. Papers presented at previous LWW conferences have mapped this change and provided examples of how libraries are delivering their services whenever and wherever their users need them. In 2007 we wish to encourage the widest possible range of papers to reflect the diverse current developments in library service delivery. We anticipate that papers may cover: New kinds of service, especially those which open up new paradigms of library perhaps the library equivalent of YouTube or MySpace? Papers which describe the librarys role within new models of scholarly publishing, including experience of developing services based on institutional or other repositories, and papers examining the responsibility of the library for digital curation. Service delivery in challenging environments, especially where the infrastructure may be sub-optimal as in some developing countries, or where the user group represents particular challenges. New technological solutions, provided these are presented to illustrate the impact on users of the improved services they make possible Delivery and assessment of information skills/literacies, especially where this is achieved through electronic environments. As in the past these themes are indicative and we remain open to proposals which, while in the general area of interest of the conference, do not fit neatly into the defined themes. In addition to research papers, we welcome papers based on truly innovative practice, but these should assess the more general lessons to be learned rather than simply presenting a localised case study. Submissions Presentations at the conference can be either papers of 30 minutes duration or interactive workshops of 60 minutes. Workshop sessions could start before and finish after the extended lunch break to allow for discussion time. To be considered please submit an abstract (between 400 and 800 words) together with a 50 word biographical statement and a 50 word synopsis of the paper or workshop which can be used to publicise your session. Proposals for workshop sessions should also include a brief description of the proposed session format, and an indication of any special room or equipment requirements. Please make sure you have read the Information for Workshop Presenters on the FAQ section of the LWW7 website. All presenters are expected to submit a paper for publication in the LWW Conference Proceedings series, published by Facet Publishing. Closing date Submissions should be sent by email (as text rather than an attachment), to lww-7(a)mmu.ac.uk or mailed to the address below by Friday 2nd March 2007. All proposals will be considered by a panel of independent referees. Applicants will be informed whether their submissions have been selected by the end of March 2007. Please note that, as the conference does not aim to make a profit, we are unable to offer discounted conference rates to all presenters. However, a small number of subsidised places are available at LWW7, covering the conference fee and a contribution to travel and subsistence costs. These places are intended for participants from countries under-represented at these conferences (especially those from developing countries) who would be prevented from attending for financial reasons. To apply for a subsidised place please submit the abstract of your paper accompanied by a short statement of up to 300 words which sets out the grounds for your application and your estimated travel costs. Feedback from the last Libraries without Walls Conference included these comments: The wide range of perspectives and the high level of professionalism in research papers and discourse were among the best I have experienced in library conferences! The Conference papers were both very informative and relevant; a very good match with what you promised there would be. Sharing is the strength of the Conference; the fact that there are people from all around the world, with different backgrounds and experiences. Very thought-provoking For further information please visit the website at http://www.cerlim.ac.uk/conf/lww7/ All enquiries should be addressed to the organisers: Libraries Without Walls 7 Conference Centre for Research in Library & Information Management (CERLIM) Department of Information and Communications Manchester Metropolitan University Geoffrey Manton Building Rosamond Street West Manchester M15 6LL United Kingdom Email: lww-7(a)mmu.ac.uk Tel: ++44 (0)161 247 6142 Fax: ++44 (0) 161 247 6979 To make a provisional booking, please provide the information below. This does not commit you in any way, but indicates to us the level of interest. We will contact you again when booking opens. I wish to make a provisional booking for the conference only OR I wish to make a provisional booking for the conference and submit a paper (delete as appropriate) Surname First names Position Organisation Address Telephone . Fax Email A separate booking form with instructions for payment will be forwarded to you in due course. Margaret Markland Research Associate CERLIM Department of Information and Communications Manchester Metropolitan University Geoffrey Manton Building Rosamond St West off Oxford Road Manchester M15 6LL Tel 0161 247 6142 Fax 0161 247 6979 "Before acting on this email or opening any attachments you should read the Manchester Metropolitan University's email disclaimer available on its website http://www.mmu.ac.uk/emaildisclaimer " ___________________________________________________________ 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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Re: [LIS-Forum] Engineering Databases
by Mailing List Admin 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:46:46 +0000 (GMT) From: nirmala reddy <nirmabag(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear sir I suggest that your college join INDEST -AICTE Consortium. so that you will have access to e-journals, DEL, EDSU etc. It is strongly recommended by AICTE. For more details pl. visit the site http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/home.php Nirmala Reddy, YTIET, Bhivpuri, Karjat.

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Expanded coverage for free technology search service - TechXtra
by MacLeod, Roderick A 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

Expanded coverage for free technology search service - TechXtra http://www.techxtra.ac.uk <BLOCKED::http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/> TechXtra, the free service for finding material in engineering, mathematics and computing, has added a bundle of new sources to its cross-search. Now, it's possible to search across 31 major collections (over 4 million items) for articles, eprints, technical reports, books, theses & dissertations, teaching & learning resources, the latest industry news and job announcements, and more! In addition, TechXtra has partnered with GlobalSpec to bring you a free Patents and Standards search facility. We've also increased the coverage of our OneStep Industry News and Job Announcement services by adding numerous new sources. And that's not all! There are new, free, trade magazine subscriptions available, and we've also made some enhancements to the service which make it easier to use. The new collections now covered by TechXtra's cross-search are: * Emerald - a well established publisher of academic and professional literature. TechXtra indexes a subset of Emerald Journals relevant to Engineering & Materials Science. Around 6,000 articles are indexed from approximately 15 Journals. Full text content is available to Emerald subscribers, or by pay-per-view. * JORUM - a searchable repository of learning and teaching resources for academic and support staff in the UK. TechXtra indexes around 1,500 JORUM objects. An Athens username and password are required to access the actual resources. * Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Virtual Library. TechXtra indexes a sample subset file from the ICE Virtual Library of papers produced between 1836-1998. Over 5,500 papers are indexed (including the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers). Full text content is available by subscription, or by pay-per-view. These collections join arXiv, CISTI, CiteSeer, DOAJ, Inderscience, IoP, NASA Technical Reports, and many more in the TechXtra cross-search. For a full list of the collections covered by TechXtra, see: http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/index.html?action=collectiondetails TechXtra aggregates, so that you don't have to! In addition, TechXtra now offers a free Patents & Standards search: http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/patents/index.html <BLOCKED::http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/patents/index.html> provided in association with GlobalSpec. Many new feeds have been added to TechXtra's OneStep News service http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/onestepnews/ <BLOCKED::http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/onestepnews/> giving this even wider coverage of breaking industry news. Over 5,000 of the latest industry news items are currently listed. The new feeds include: * Platts - Nuclear, Metals, and Electric Power news. * Building Design & Construction News * IEEE Spectrum * Brightsurf Science News * PhysOrg News * SPIE NewsRoom * Control Design News * Wireless Net News OneStep Jobs, http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/onestepjobs/ <BLOCKED::http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/onestepjobs/> which gives access to the very latest new job announcements, has also increased its coverage. Over 7,000 new jobs are currently listed. New sources include: * 1Job * Resource Personnel - Oil and Gas Jobs * CV - Library * iMechanica Jobs Various free trade magazine subscriptions are available via TechXtra's Magazine Subscription section http://techxtra.tradepub.com/ <BLOCKED::http://techxtra.tradepub.com/> Titles are available to professionals who qualify. Subjects include: * Construction - over 30 titles, including: Composites Technology, Construction Equipment, Consulting-Specifying Engineer, Landscape Construction, Professional Builder, and more... http://techxtra.tradepub.com/?pt=cat&page=Cons <BLOCKED::http://techxtra.tradepub.com/?pt=cat&page=Cons> * Engineering - over 80 titles, including: Assembly, Communications Technology, Control Design, Desktop Engineering, EDN, Flow Control, and more http://techxtra.tradepub.com/?pt=cat&page=Eng <BLOCKED::http://techxtra.tradepub.com/?pt=cat&page=Eng> * Internet - 30 white papers, guides and newsletters. http://techxtra.tradepub.com/?pt=cat&page=Inet <BLOCKED::http://techxtra.tradepub.com/?pt=cat&page=Inet> * Mechanical / Machine - over 25 titles, including: Industrial Market Trends, Machinery Lubrication, Plant Services, and more... http://techxtra.tradepub.com/?pt=cat&page=Mech <BLOCKED::http://techxtra.tradepub.com/?pt=cat&page=Mech> Various enhancements are being made to the TechXtra service interface, making it easier to use. TechXtra's subject focus makes it an ideal finding tool for technology and technology-related materials. In the majority of cases, the full text of items found through TechXtra is freely available. This includes the 8,000 Australian theses, nearly half a million articles in computer and information science from CiteSeer, items found via ARROW (Australian Research Repositories Online to the World), thousands of eprints from arXiv in mathematics and computer science, 300 earthquake engineering technical reports from Caltech Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory Technical Reports, many articles from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), theses and dissertations from NDLTD, learning resources from the National Engineering Education Delivery System (NEEDS), and more. TechXtra is a freely available service, developed at Heriot Watt University in the UK. We receive no external funding for its development, so we rely on word of mouth to spread the word. Why not tell your colleagues about TechXtra, or blog about the service, or place a link to it from your websites. A web version of this press release is available at: http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/news/press-release5.htm For more information about TechXtra, contact: Roddy MacLeod Senior Subject Librarian Heriot-Watt University Library Edinburgh 0131 451 3576 r.a.macleod(a)hw.ac.uk <BLOCKED::mailto:r.a.macleod@hw.ac.uk> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Engineering Databases
by Mailing List Admin 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:30:13 -0800 (PST) From: M.K. Prasanna <mkprasanna(a)yahoo.com> Hi Veeresh, Most online databases are prohibitive because of their cost. I would recommend the following in order of priority (I have been Librarian at premier Engg colleges before & now working for a corporate) based cost & on the possibility of justifying it to Management: NetLibrary- database of ebooks Safari Online - database of ebooks EBSCO Science & Technology (you can share it with your Sc. College too) Engineering Village ACM Digital Library You can also create an Elibrary with FindArticles, Ingenta & links to Enggg journals & buy ecopies of requested articles by paying per view, instead of annual subscriptions. You can for a Library Committee of Senior students & volunteer faculty to do selections regularly. Best Regards, Best Regards, Prasanna Information Officer Motorola Plot No. 12 HiTech Layout Madhapur, Hyderabad Tel: 40- 2347 1600 When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox ----- Original Message ---- From: Mailing List Admin <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 2:49:37 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Engineering Databases Date: 19 Jan 2007 09:08:42 -0000 From: veeresh hiremath <veer9999(a)rediffmail.com> Hello Everybody Can anyone of you suggest me useful databases (online and offline) for an engineering college library?

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Re: [LIS-Forum] online journals in Engg & Technology
by Mailing List Admin 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 05:25:27 -0800 (PST) From: sri priya <sri_lib(a)yahoo.com> Engineering and Technology databases, there are many. A fair number are listed at PerX Listing of Engineering Repository Sources http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/sourceslisting.htm and many commercial databases in engineering are listed in http://www.saur.de/index.cfm?id=0000010424 and also in the more recent http://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Literature-Routledge-Studies-Informati on/dp/0824729641 Though it doesn't restrict itself to journal content, TechXtra http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/ might be useful to you, as it cross-searches 31 different collections (databases) in technology, and thereby facilitates access to over 4 million items on technological subjects, many (but by no means all) of which are freely available in full text. Regards, S.Sripriya --------------------------------- Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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LibraryCareers
by Mailing List Admin 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:30:10 +0530 From: "Thapar, Amit" <amitt(a)niper.ac.in> LibraryCareers.org http://www.ala.org/ala/hrdr/librarycareerssite/home.htm The site you need to steer potential recruits to. Jargon-free explanations of why the career might suit them, the kinds of libraries and library careers, the training required, and resources to help them achieve their career goal. Wikiseek: Search Wikipedia and its external links http://www.wikiseek.com/ The idea behind this restricted search is to retrieve more authoritative information and limit the effect of spam and search engine optimization schemes. Try it with subjects you know well and see if you think it succeeds.

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Internet Resources Newsletter: Latest issue is available
by Mailing List Admin 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:41:52 -0000 From: "MacLeod, Roderick A" <R.A.MacLeod(a)hw.ac.uk> ____________________________________________ Internet Resources Newsletter ____________________________________________ The latest edition of the FREE monthly newsletter for academics, students and researchers is now available at: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn147/irn147.html <http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn147/irn147.html> No subscription or registration is needed to access this free, full text Newsletter at the above site. You can also subscribe to the free, full text email version at: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html <http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html> An RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed for the Newsletter is available: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.rss Featured in this issue: Comment Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS News items of interest Find a swiki A-Z New & Notable Web Sites: About 100 new and notable good quality websites: new services, ejournals, directories, search engines, publishers, government sites, etexts, booksellers, portals, calls for papers, software, news services, conferences, research groups, etc, etc. Nice Web Site(s): SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #105 Blogorama News of Blogs, RSS, etc Calls for Papers by RSS Selected interesting Blogs and RSS feeds Press Releases Cambridge Information Group announces agreement to acquire Proquest Information and Learning Nature Publishing Group announces the launch of Nature Education JISC and partners launch European petition Expanded coverage for free technology search service - TechXtra Get a life! Leisure Time After hours Published by Heriot-Watt University Library, and edited by Roddy MacLeod (R.A.MacLeod(a)hw.ac.uk) Catherine Ure and Marion Kennedy

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Need guidence
by reshma toraskar 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

Dear All, Can anybody tell me which institute in India conduct PGDLAN(Post Graduate Diploma in Library Automation and Networking) course fulltime. What is duration of course and what is procedure of admission for the same. Thank you. Regards Reshma __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Engineering Databases
by Mailing List Admin 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Date: 19 Jan 2007 09:08:42 -0000 From: veeresh hiremath <veer9999(a)rediffmail.com> � Hello Everybody Can anyone of you suggest me useful databases (online and offline) for an engineering college library? 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

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Call for International Papers-ALA Annual Conference
by Mailing List Admin 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:32:31 -0800 (PST) From: J. K. Vijayakumar <vjkjk(a)yahoo.com> CALL FOR PAPERS AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (ALA) IRRT INTERNATIONAL PAPERS COMMITTEE 2007 ALA ANNUAL CONFERENCE WASHINGTON, D.C. Cooperation Among Libraries Within the Same Geographic Region The American Library Association International Papers Committee invites proposals for papers for the ALA Annual Conference to be held in Washington, D.C. from June 21 through June 27, 2007. The International Papers Program provides librarians with an opportunity to exchange information about library services and collections throughout the world. The program also serves to stimulate the interest of U.S. librarians in international library matters. The 2007 International Papers Program theme is Cooperation among Libraries within the Same Geographic Region (for example, Latin America, Eastern Europe, West Africa, etc.). The IRRT Papers Committee invites librarians to submit papers that describe regional library cooperative programs that enhance user services; improve access to collections; serve as models for resource-sharing; increase efficiency in bibliographic control; collaborates preservation projects; or demonstrate application of emerging technologies. Other topics pertaining to geographic regional cooperative programs will be considered as well. For additional information, please visit: http://www.ala.org/ala/iro/iroactivities/papersession.htm SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL The deadline for proposals is Friday, February 23, 2007. International Relations Office American Library Association 50 East Huron Street Chicago, IL 60611-2795 USA Fax: +1-312-280-4392 E-mail: intl(a)ala.org

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