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EMPI Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre Launches its Official Website
by PARSAI KAMAL L. 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Dr. Shailendra Kumar , Department of Library & Information Science, Delhi University & National Advisory Board Member, EMPI Digital Library National Convention 2007 launched the Convention¢s Official Website http://www.empidlnc.org. on Wednesday, 29th November, 2006 , at the premises of the EMPI Business School ¢s Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre. Mr. Gurnam Saran, President, EMPI Group of Institutions, Mrs. Rumma Sharma, Deputy Director (Library), CME, AIMA, New Delhi & Members of the Organizing Board were the prominent dignitaries at the inaugural function. Later, Dr. Shailendra Kumar read, at the EMPIs R&D Conference Room No. 2, his paper on " Dynamics of Information from the Village to the Research Laboratory ." The paper was illuminating and thought provoking for all who are interested in reducing 'the Digital Divide' between the Rural and Urban populations, the Illiterate and the Academicians. The prime objectives of launching the website http://www.empidlnc.org are 1. EMPI Knowledge and Resource Center 's continuing efforts of promoting & shaping the Digital Library concepts and practices in India , 2. To share and contribute the best expertise about implementing, governing and regulating Digital Library processes and practices, and make a platform to announce various EMPI training and educational activities on developing Modern Knowledge & Learning Resource Centres. 3. To provide students, faculty and other practitioners a knowledge base to download and share presentations (PPT), abstracts, and extended abstracts of the papers presented at various conventions. 4. Disseminate information relating to the EMPIDLNC-2007, including on line facilities for Registration, Booking Accommodation, Programmes and Schedules of the Convention etc. etc. It may be recalled, that recently, Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre, Central Library, EMPI Business School, announced its first initiative - the EMPI Digital Library National Convention (EMPI DLNC) - 2007 for promoting digital libraries and associated Technical, Management, Social Processes and emerging issues. The Convention will be held on 18th March to 20th March 2007 at India International Centre under the venerable leadership of Dr. Muttayya Koganuramath, President, Indian Library Association . The EMPIDLNC-2007 is proposed with a view to provide a unique platform to the eminent Knowledge and Learning Resource Centers professionals and practitioners in search of and to share the innovative ideas, work space problems and their solutions (case studies), modern library technical and management processes and practices, opportunities and challenges in managing people and digital resources, and servicing aspects of the upgraded Knowledge and Learning Resource Centers Dr. Shailendra Kumar, Department of Library & Information Science, Delhi University & National Advisory Board Member, EMPI Digital Library National Convention 2007 launched the Convention¢s Official Website http://www.empidlnc.org. on Wednesday, 29th November, 2006, at the premises of the EMPI Business School¢s Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre. Mr. Gurnam Saran, President, EMPI Group of Institutions, Mrs. Rumma Sharma, Deputy Director (Library), CME, AIMA, New Delhi & Members of the Organizing Board were the prominent dignitaries at the inaugural function. Later, Dr. Shailendra Kumar read, at the EMPIs R&D Conference Room No. 2, his paper on "Dynamics of Information from the Village to the Research Laboratory." The paper was illuminating and thought provoking for all who are interested in reducing 'the Digital Divide' between the Rural and Urban populations, the Illiterate and the Academicians. The prime objectives of launching the website http://www.empidlnc.org are 1. EMPI Knowledge and Resource Center's continuing efforts of promoting & shaping the Digital Library concepts and practices in India, 2. To share and contribute the best expertise about implementing, governing and regulating Digital Library processes and practices, and make a platform to announce various EMPI training and educational activities on developing Modern Knowledge & Learning Resource Centres. 3. To provide students, faculty and other practitioners a knowledge base to download and share presentations (PPT), abstracts, and extended abstracts of the papers presented at various conventions. 4. Disseminate information relating to the EMPIDLNC-2007, including on line facilities for Registration, Booking Accommodation, Programmes and Schedules of the Convention etc. etc. It may be recalled, that recently, Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre, Central Library, EMPI Business School, announced its first initiative - the EMPI Digital Library National Convention (EMPI DLNC) - 2007 for promoting digital libraries and associated Technical, Management, Social Processes and emerging issues. The Convention will be held on 18th March to 20th March 2007 at India International Centre under the venerable leadership of Dr. Muttayya Koganuramath, President, Indian Library Association. The EMPIDLNC-2007 is proposed with a view to provide a unique platform to the eminent Knowledge and Learning Resource Centers professionals and practitioners in search of and to share the innovative ideas, work space problems and their solutions (case studies), modern library technical and management processes and practices, opportunities and challenges in managing people and digital resources, and servicing aspects of the upgraded Knowledge and Learning Resource Centers

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Condolences from the INFLIBNET Staff
by Suresh Chauhan 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Dear All, It is really very shocking to know about the demise of Prof. Veena Saraf. She was one of the brilliant LIS professionals of this country. She was well associated with the INFLIBNET and its activities since very beginning. Her sad demise has created a vacuum which can not be filled up in future. The condolences from the INFLIBNET Staff for her bereaved Family and pray for resting her soul in peace. Suresh Dear All, It is really very shocking to know about the demise of Prof. Veena Saraf. She was one of the brilliant LIS professionals of this country. She was well associated with the INFLIBNET and its activities since very beginning. Her sad demise has created a vacuum which can not be filled up in future. The condolences from the INFLIBNET Staff for her bereaved Family and pray for resting her soul in peace. Suresh

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An alliance for taxpayer access in India
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

>From Biobytes, Vol. 1, 18 December 2006 [http://biobytes.bicmku.in/] A Perspective on Open Access Publishing Subbiah Arunachalam Email: arun(a)mssrf.res.in Much of research in India in the fields of science, technology, agriculture, medicine, social sciences, economics, etc. is funded out of taxpayers' money. A few years ago, a DST report quoted a figure of about 75% for the share of publicly funded scientific research. However, the findings of these research programmes, usually in the form of research papers published in refereed journals, are not easily accessible even to Indian scientists at large let alone the public, for the simple reason scientists publish their research papers in a wide variety of journals published from many countries and no library in India or for that matter anywhere in the world can afford to subscribe to all these journals. Also, some journal publishers fix their subscription prices at astronomical levels. As a consequence research published by scientists at the Tuberculosis Research Centre in Chennai, which would be of great relevance to researchers say in a university in Maharashtra, may not be even noticed by the university scientists. Both groups receive funds from the same source, viz. the Indian Government, and yet what one does is not easily accessible to the other. What is more it need not be. The authors at the Tuberculosis research Institute may publish their papers in any journal they want to. But if, at the same time, they also place the papers in an interoperable institutional open access archive (or repository) anyone with an Internet connection can access it. This is precisely why enlightened institutions such as the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian Institute of Science are subscribing to the idea of open access. All eleven Academy journals are open access. Anyone anywhere in the world can access any paper published in these journals - full text and not just abstracts - through the Internet. The Indian Institute of Science is maintaining an open access repository of full text papers and they are on their way to placing every paper published by the IISc faculty and students in this repository. Currently they have more than 5,000 papers. CERN, the Centre for Nuclear research in Geneva has placed more than 75,000 papers in its repository. Many Indian physicists have been placing their research papers - both preprints and postprints - in an international repository called arXiv. But a vast majority of Indian scientists are not making their papers available via open access. What can we the common people, the taxpaying public, do? Well in the USA they have an organization called the Alliance for Taxpayer Access; please see http://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:5584.334940148/rid:24ef8cfe5… for details. They have over 75 institutional members and they are fighting for open access to all publicly funded research. Through their advocacy, the Alliance members hope to change not only the US policy but also the attitude and behaviour of individual scientists. Enlightened Indians in all walks of life could form a national organization similar to the US Alliance for Taxpayer Access and persuade the government to mandate open access all research publications resulting from public funding. The Alliance could write to major funding agencies and apex bodies (such as DST, DSIR, ICAR, ICMR, DAE, DRDO, Dept of Space, Department of Ocean Development, UGC, etc.), the Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister and the science academies and professional societies urging them to adopt a comprehensive open access policy in India. In the US a bill is at an advanced stage of discussion in the Congress and in the UK six of the eight Research Councils have already announced their support to open access. The Wellcome Trust, one of the largest funders of life science research, has mandated OA for all papers resulting from their support. Surely we in India can open up the scientific and scholarly literature. Subbiah Arunachalam ---------------------- The presentations made at the workshop on electronic publishing and open access: developing country perspectives, Bangalore, 2-3 November 2006, are now available at <www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/OAworkshop2006/>. ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com

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Re: Re: [LIS-Forum] Prof ( Dr) Veena is no more- condolences from the professionals of hyderabad
by Mailing List Manager 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Date: 1 Dec 2006 05:12:31 -0000 From: Dr. S M.SHAFI <shafi_sm(a)rediffmail.com> Dear prof Rao and Colleagues, We were shocked to know about sad demise of prof. veena Saraf. The Department of Liberay and information Science and senior colleagues from Kashmir university Library System held a condolence meeting in the departent. The participants prayed for her eternal peace and prayed Almighty to have courage to her parents and daughter to bear the loss. DR saraf was adauhter of Kashmir and had her professional bebinning from the Departmnet and later worked for about one year innthe university LIB system S M SHAFI > >Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:39:47 +0000 (GMT) > From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. > >dear friends > >Prof ( Dr) Mrs Veena shroff, Head, Dept of Library and Information >science, NEHU was suffering from Cancer for last few months. I am >extremely sorry and feel very bad to inform u that she left all the >professionals on 28 nov at abt 9-30 PM. > >[truncated]

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Prof ( Dr) Veena is no more- condolences fromtheprofessionals of hyderabad
by Mailing List Manager 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:59:21 +0530 From: "srels(a)vsnl.com" <srels(a)blr.vsnl.net.in> Dear Dr.Laxman Rao: It saddened us to hear the news of the untimely demise of Dr. Veena Shroff. Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science condoles the death of Dr. Shroff. May her soul rest in peace. K.N.Prasad, SRELS, Bangalore ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mailing List Manager" <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 11:33 AM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Prof ( Dr) Veena is no more- condolences fromtheprofessionals of hyderabad > Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:39:47 +0000 (GMT) > From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> [truncated]

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Koha 2.2.7 released
by vimal kumar 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Dear Friends, Koha 2.2.7 just released. It is a stable version of 2.2.6. The main feature of this version is Z39.50 client based of Zoom. Koha has more than 100 registered users and at least 300 libraries use the software. Koha is the first Open-Source Integrated Library System. Koha is a full-featured open-source ILS. Developed initially in New Zealand by Katipo Communications Ltd and first deployed in January of 2000 for Horowhenua Library Trust, it is currently maintained by a team of software providers and library technology staff from around the globe. Visit Koha home page for more details, http://www.koha.org/ Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in --------------------------------- Cheap Talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. Dear Friends, Koha 2.2.7 just released. It is a stable version of 2.2.6. The main feature of this version is Z39.50 client based of Zoom. Koha has more than 100 registered users and at least 300 libraries use the software. Koha is the first Open-Source Integrated Library System. Koha is a full-featured open-source ILS. Developed initially in New Zealand by Katipo Communications Ltd and first deployed in January of 2000 for Horowhenua Library Trust, it is currently maintained by a team of software providers and library technology staff from around the globe. Visit Koha home page for more details, http://www.koha.org/ Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in Cheap Talk? http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman8/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates.

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Communication of the ACM - Backvolume - July, 2006- Required.
by Mailing List Manager 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:44:00 +0530 (IST) From: Vasanthakumar N <vasanthakumar(a)tsm.ac.in> Hello Mentors, sirs, If you anyone have the "COMMUNICATION OF THE ACM" JULY-2006 back volume. Please inform anyone have this. I need two pages of the article. Regards, Vasanthakumar.N

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NET Exemption to M.Phil/Ph.D holders
by rupesh kumar 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Dear All, UGC has officially approved exemption from NET to M.Phil. and Ph.D. Degree holders for appointment to the posts of Assistant Librarians and Assistant Director of Physical Education. The Official Notification is available at http://www.ugc.ac.in/notices/exemption_net06.pdf on the UGC Website 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com UGC has officially approved exemption from NET to M.Phil. and Ph.D. Degree holders for appointment to the posts of Assistant Librarians and Assistant Director of Physical Education. The Official Notification is available at http://www.ugc.ac.in/notices/exemption_net06.pdf http://www.ugc.ac.in/notices/exemption_net06.pdf on the UGC Website 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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A new report on OAI interoperability
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

>From Peter Suber's blog Major report on OAI interoperability Martha Brogan, Contexts and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library, Digital Library Federation, November 22, 2006. A major study (282 pp) of OAI interoperability from the DLF, one of the organizations, with CNI and NSF, that originally sponsored the development of the OAI-PMH. Excerpt: This report updates and expands on "A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services," originally commissioned by the DLF as an internal report in summer 2003, and released to the public later that year. It highlights major developments affecting the ecosystem of scholarly communications and digital libraries since the last survey and provides an analysis of "OAI implementation demographics," based on a comparative review of repository registries and cross-archive search services. Secondly, it reviews the state-of-practice for a cohort of digital library aggregation services, grouping them in the context of the "problem space" to which they most closely adhere. Based in part on online survey responses collected in fall 2005 from an online survey distributed to the original core services, the report investigates the purpose, function and challenges of next-generation aggregation services. On a case-by-case basis, the advances in each service are of interest in isolation from each other, but the report also attempts to situate these services in a larger context and to understand how they fit into a multi-dimensional and interdependent ecosystem supporting the worldwide community of scholars. Finally, the report summarizes the contributions of these services thus far and identifies obstacles requiring further attention to realize the goal of an open, distributed digital library system. The new report aims to inform DLF's continuing efforts "to foster better teaching and scholarship through easier, more relevant discovery of digital resources, and a much greater ability for libraries to build more responsive local services on top of a distributed metadata platform," as articulated in its successful IMLS National Leadership Grant, "The Distributed Library: OAI for Digital Library Aggregation." Extending over a two-year period from October 2004 through September 2006, the grant enables DLF to prototype a "second generation" OAI finding system. Concurrently, it affords DLF the opportunity to address challenges identified in the 2003 survey and voiced by early OAI adopters. In particular, DLF is building a comprehensive OAI registry, establishing best practices for shareable metadata, improving communication between data and service providers, and developing curricular materials and training sessions to introduce OAI best practices to a widening circle of institutions (Shreeves et al. 2005). Using the 2003 survey as a point of departure, this companion report takes a fresh look at the evolution of interoperability and federating heterogeneous content, especially as realized through implementation of the OAI protocol. It re-examines the original set of digital library aggregation services as well as representative new initiatives in an effort to identify trends - progress, needs, and challenges. How are they evolving over time? What have they achieved? What is impeding their progress? How do they envision their future? An online survey conducted in fall 2005 gathered baseline information from more than forty aggregators.... See especially these sections: * 2.2, Open Access Ascendant - Growth of OAI-compliant Repositories * 4.1, Points of Reference: Open Access and the Open Archives Initiative * 4.2, Links in the Scholarly Communication Value Chain Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Open access and higher education and research
by Subbiah Arunachalam 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

>From Peter Suber's blog The OA workshop at Online Educa Berlin Online Educa tackles lifelong learning and open access, a press release from JISC, November 30, 2006. Excerpt: Delegates have been gathering for the world's largest e-learning conference which began in Berlin yesterday. The Online Educa conference on Technology and Supported Learning, now in its twelfth year, has attracted nearly 2,000 delegates from education, research, Government and commercial sectors from around the world.... Joint activities by JISC and SURF began in the afternoon with a workshop on open access. JISC Scholarly Communications consultant Fred Friend introduced the topic, saying that there were considerable economic, social and educational benefits to making research and other outputs available without financial, legal and technical barriers to access. It was also, he suggested, a question of giving more power to authors. He outlined the two complementary routes to open access. Self-archiving or the deposit of a pre-print or post-print in an institutional or subject repository is one route, he said, while the other is publication through an open access journal....Both routes, suggested Fred Friend, will enable the opportunities provided by technological developments, such as data mining and text mining, to be realised....There are significant economic benefits to open access too, he continued, through the sharing of developments in medical research, for example, and through the value for money gains of publicly funded research being more freely available.... Amber Thomas, JISC programme manager spoke about JISC's work to encourage the establishment and development of repositories in the UK.... Erik Saaman of SURF spoke about open access initiatives in the Netherlands, such as DAREnet (research), LOREnet (higher education), Edurep (non-HE) and Driver (European), and the common technical architectures which underpin them.... Ryan Hargreaves gave an overview of Jorum, the free online repository for learning and teaching resources which is aiming to create a culture of sharing of learning and teaching resources.... John May of the SURF Foundation spoke about LOREnet which is aiming to create a similar 'community of sharing' in the use of online teaching materials in the Netherlands.... ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com

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