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by shaji joykutty 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

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MyLISA Lecture on Designing and Implementing Library Website
by SUNIL M.V. 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Dear Friends, MyLISA (Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association), Mysore Cordially invite you for the lecture on Designing and Implementing Library Website BY Mr. Mohamed Minhaj HOD, Department of Computer Science St. Philomena's College, Mysore On Saturday, October 7, 2006 at 4.00pm Venue: Vidhyanidhi Seminar Hall Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Mysore MyLISA --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail. Dear Friends, MyLISA (Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association), Mysore Cordially invite you for the lecture on Designing and Implementing Library Website BY Mr. Mohamed Minhaj HOD, Department of Computer Science St. Philomena's College, Mysore On Saturday, October 7, 2006 at 4.00pm Venue: Vidhyanidhi Seminar Hall Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Mysore MyLISA Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=42297/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailb… all-new Yahoo! Mail.

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Call for Participation: ICADL2006 The 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries in Kyoto, Japan
by Taro Tezuka 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

**** FYI. Apologies for cross postings **** Call For Participation The 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2006) November 27-30, 2006, Kyoto, Japan The International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) is an annual Asian event of international participation focusing on digital libraries and related technologies. Inaugurated in Hong Kong in 1998, ICADL has since been hosted in Taipei, Seoul, Bangalore, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, and Bangkok. The 9th ICADL (ICADL2006) will be held in Kyoto, Japan in the late November. It will provide an international forum for sharing experiences and up-to-date technologies among researchers, developers, educators, practitioners and policy makers from a variety of disciplines. ICADL2006, as well as the previous ICADL conferences, focuses on the use, adoption and adaptation of digital libraries, which include work surrounding digital libraries and related technologies, the management of knowledge in digital libraries, and the associated usability and social issues. This year, we will have the following invited talks. (in the order of presentation). The Age of Content and Knowledge Processing Makoto Nagao (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan) Cyber Science Infrastructure and Scholarly Information for the Promotion of e-Science in Japan Jun Adachi (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Working Together in Developing Library and Information Science Education in the Asia Pacific Schubert Foo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) (To be announced) Daniel Clancy (Google, USA) One Billion Children and Digital Libraries: With your help, what the $100 laptop and its sunlight readable display might enable Mary Lou Jepson (MIT, USA) Dr. Nagao is one of the most famous information science researchers in Japan, who is also well-known for his contributions to digital libraries. Professor Adachi is one of the leading researchers of digital library systems. His talk will be on promoting e-Science using digital libraries. Professor Foo is a leading researcher of digital library systems in Singapore. He will talk about library and information science education in the Asia-Pacific region. Singapore is well known for their advanced education on information science. Dr. Clancy is the engineer director who is in charge of Google Book Search Project (originally known as Google Print), which is attracting much attention recently. Dr. Jepson is one of the leading members of the $100 laptop project, which aims to provide inexpensive but effective laptop computers for children's education. She will talk about the architecture that enables children to read books through their laptops. For more information, please see the conference website at http://www.icadl2006.org/ Early registration is available on or before October 27th. The final deadline for registraion is 18:00 of November 13, 2006, Japan Standard Time (GMT+9). Kyoto, which is globally known as the historical city and the heart of Japan, will welcome you to ICADL2006 in a very beautiful autumn. We look forward to seeing you at this invaluable occasion. Taro Tezuka Publicity Co-chair of ICADL2006 (Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University)

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Sad Demise of Prof. N.B. Pangannaya
by sathya 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Prof. Pangannaiah was my beloved teacher, very special to me. In my first job as Librarian, I was his proud successor at Udipi, a college library he had build and developed on a very modern line. He made my entry into profession so good and enjoyable that I owe him my success in the first leg of my career profusely to him. He is no more, a very sad feeling indeed. A fine human being, always helpful, he worked for the profession till his last days. I was lucky to have him as my teacher. We miss him. Let us pray for the departed soul. Sathya ----------------------- N V Sathyanarayana Informatics (India) Ltd Bangalore 560003. -----Original Message----- From: N.S. Harinarayana [mailto:ns.harinarayana@gmail.com] Sent: Mon 10/2/2006 9:04 PM To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Cc: Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad Demise of Prof. N.B. Pangannaya Here is my tribute to my beloved teacher Prof. N. Balakrishna Pangannaya who died due to multiple organ failure on October 1, 2006. He was quite active and had no sign of any illness. He attended to the professional work at his office at Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) even on the Friday, September 29, 2006. It is evident that he was contributing richly to the good cause of the profession till his last breath. NBP, as was called fondly by his students, was a teacher par-excellence. Like many of his students, his teachings have a great influence on my professional careers. What I like most in his teachings is his discussions on any topic based on logic and practical utility. He had excellent command over language and the subject. He had the ability to teach any difficult topic with great ease and make even the average students to understand the essence of the topic. His discourse on Information Processing and Retrieval (IPR) still rings in my ears. Prof. Pangannaya is one of the main pillars on which Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore was built. He served the Department for more than three decades. He joined the Department as Lecturer in early 1970s and retired in 2000. For a brief term in-between he served Mangalore University as librarian. I had the fortune of associating myself with him in developing self instructional materials (SIM) for BLISc and MLISc programs of KSOU. He had undergone severe stress during the process of developing the course. In fact, SIM development of MLISc course is half through and he was trying his best to complete the assignment by December this year. It goes to his credit that he alone, single handedly, was able to coordinate the design and development of SIMs both in English and Kannada for BLISc in a record time of just one and half years. It may be noted here this achievement is a record of its kind in KSOU. No other Department was able to develop the SIMs in both the languages. His contributions were recognized and acknowledged by Prof. Sudha Rao, the present Vice Chancellor of KSOU in her key note address during the MLISc contact program held recently. The Department of Library and Information Science has organized a condolence meeting on Tuesday, October 3, 2006 at 4 PM. It will be attended by his students and colleagues in and around Mysore. If you want to send your condolences it may be sent to me before 3 PM. I will pass on your message to the concerned for reading them during the meeting. I pray the Almighty to rest Prof. N.B. Pangannaya's soul in eternal peace. -- N.S. Harinarayana, Ph.D Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Manasagangtori Mysore 570 006 Off. Ph: (0821) 2419393

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Call for proposals for UN-Family "21st Century" News Magazine
by Puna Das 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

This project aims at putting ICT to the use of media content development on major societal and development issues such as human rights, peace, tolerance and the fight against discrimination by providing developing countries with training, production and distribution opportunities in these areas. The show consists of feature segments, most often 3 pieces per show, each an estimated six to eight minutes in length. The stories should deal with gripping human problems that have not been widely reported. The programme will feature character-driven, human interest stories that reflect some of the most important issues affecting the world, and our lives, today. Balanced thematically and geographically, each episode will reflect UN priorities for the new millennium. Stories should be targeted to all publics and aim at increasing understanding of the development and societal issues identified as priority fields by UNESCO, namely: * Millennium Development Goals, particularly poverty-alleviation, basic education, gender equality and women empowerment; * Human Rights; * Peace and Tolerance; * Fight against discrimination, based on race, gender or other issues (e.g. HIV status); * Freedom of Expression; and * Intercultural communication and cultural diversity. This project falls within the framework of UNESCO’s project "Harnessing ICT for the audiovisual industry and public service broadcasting in developing countries" and is in collaboration with the United Nations Department of Public Information (UNDPI) and the UN family. Submission criteria: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/22842/1159427733921_Century_-_Submissi… http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=34889&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION… __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Condolence message
by srels 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

On behalf of the Board of Trustees and Staff of the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore, I convey our heartfelt condolences on the sudden and untimely demise of Prof. Pangannaya. He was a great friend of the Endowment and we cherish his memory for a long time to come. May his soul rest in peace. K.N.Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore. On behalf of the Board of Trustees and Staff of the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore, I convey our heartfelt condolences on the sudden and untimely demise of Prof. Pangannaya. He was a great friend of the Endowment and we cherish his memory for a long time to come. May his soul rest in peace. K.N.Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore.

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Sad Demise of Prof Pangannayya
by I.R.N.Goudar 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Dear Professionals, Karnataka State Library Association mourns the untimely and sad demise of Prof. N.B. Pangannayya. He served Department of LIS, University of Mysore for more than three decades with a small stint at Mangalore as University Librarian. For the last few years he worked very hard to prepare course material for LIS of Karnataka State Open University aswell organised contact programs. I too had the opportunity of being part of KSOU programs as Guest Lecturer. A very down to earth person. We have lost an efficient professional and a good teacher. May his soul rest in peace. Dr.I.R.N. Goudar President KALA on behalf of all Members. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html

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Paul Ginsparg on arXiv, OA, and the future
by Mailing List Manager 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 04:14:32 +0100 (BST) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Friends: Here is an excellent article on arXiv, the central archive for physics and related fields, by its founder Paul Ginsparg. He highlights the value of arXiv (and all open access archives) for developing country researchers. Unfortunately, developing countries themselves are doing very little to adopt open access, in spite of the fact most countries have the necessary infrastructure and competence. Subbiah Arunachalam Paul Ginsparg on arXiv, OA, and the future Excerpt: The e-print arXiv, initiated in August 1991, has effectively transformed the research communication infrastructure of multiple fields of physics and could play a prominent role in a unified set of global resources for physics, mathematics, and computer science. It has grown to contain >375,000 articles (as of July 2006), with >50,000 new submissions expected in calendar year 2006 and >40,000,000 full-text downloads per year. It is an international project, with dedicated mirror sites in 17 countries and collaborations with United States and foreign professional societies and other international organizations, and it has also provided a crucial lifeline for isolated researchers in developing countries... For more details, visit: http://www.mysyndicaat.com/myfeed/blog/default/baileycw_Open%20Access%20Upd…

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OA Educational resources from Univ Calif., Berkeley
by Mailing List Manager 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:55:39 +0100 (BST) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> >From Francis Muguet of ENSTA. A new step for Open Educationnal Resources Video, for sure... with Google ??? that is probably going to be discussed at the "e-learning" WSIS action line meeting at UNESCO in October ? http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/09/26_google.shtml

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Scholarly Communication in Engineering Blog
by Mailing List Manager 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:28:58 +0100 (BST) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> --- Jay Bhatt <jay_bhatt_98(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > The Engineering Libraries Division > <http://eld.lib.ucdavis.edu/> of > the American Society for Engineering Education > <http://www.asee.org/> > has recently created a blog on the Scholarly > Communication in > Engineering. > > To access, go to: Scholarly Communication in > Engineering > <http://eldsc.library.cornell.edu/> > > Any suggestions, ideas and projects dealing with > Scholarly Communication > in Engineering, please send them to me at > bhattjj(a)drexel.edu > <mailto:bhattjj@drexel.edu> > > Looking forward to see your feedback and ideas to > promote awareness > about scholarly communication issues (such as Open > Access, Institutional > Repositories, publishing, etc) among scientists and > engineers, > > Sincerely, > > Jay > > Jay Bhatt > Information Services Librarian (Engineering) > Hagerty Library, Drexel University > TEL 215-895-1873 > AOL IM jaybhatt59 YAHOO IM jay_bhatt_98 > EMAIL bhattjj(a)drexel.edu <mailto:bhattjj@drexel.edu> >

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