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e-Bookstore, e-Reader Next Month
by Mailing List Manager 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:22:11 +0100 (BST) From: sandeep bhavsar <sandeep31581(a)yahoo.co.uk> Subject: e-Bookstore, e-Reader Next Month Dear all Sony is reportedly going to launch an electronic bookstore on the Internet and start selling a device that displays e-books purchased from the store, starting October 1 this year. For details, visit, http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/article.jsp?article_id=76181&cat_id=643 Kind Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 email : sandeep(a)vpmthane.org Mobile : 09870484626

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Condolence Meeting - Prof. N.B. Pangannaya
by mkumbar＠lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

I am sad to inform you the unfortunate demise of Prof. N.B. Pangannaya, Retired Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore on October 1, 2006 around 4.30 pm. A condolence meeting in this regard is organised at the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore today at 4 PM. I am to inform you that you may send your condolence message to me immediately which will be communicated to the gathering and to the family of Prof. N.B. Pangannaya. Dr. Mallinath Kumbar Reader and Chairman Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006 Mobil: 9844355929

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Position Announcement - Assistant Librarian
by Aman Jha 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Dear all We want to recruit Assistant Librarian for CII-Central Library (Gurgaon). We are looking for following profile. Qualification and Experience - M.A.(Economics) - MLIS - Post Graduate Diploma in Library Automation and Networking - 2/3 years experience of working in a special library (Social Science) Age - 30 years Required skills - Good Computer/IT skills - Good communication skills - Good Cataloguing and Classification skills - Good library marketing skills - Knowledge management skills - Database search and retreval skills Job Responsibilities: - Query handling from Staff and Members - Knowledge management coordinator - Database (CMIE) Search and Retrieval - Technical processing of the documents - Bringing out Monthly Alerts - Subscription and circulation management - Library website management Interested candidates may send their resume to library(a)ciionline.org. Salary will match industry standard. Thanks and regards, Aman Jha Confederation of Indian Industry Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon - 122015 (Haryana) http://www.ciionline.org DISCLAIMER:The information in this message may be privileged. If you have received it by mistake please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete the message from your system. Any unauthorised use or dissemination of this message in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Any information in this message that does not relate to official business shall be understood to be neither given nor endorsed by the Confederation of Indian Industry.

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NACLIS 2007
by Puna Das 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Sri Lanka Library Association National Conference on Library and Information Studies (NACLIS 2007) Colombo, Sri Lanka, 8-9 March 2007 Call for Papers/Participation General Theme: Information Management in the Digital Environment The Sri Lanka Library Association (SLLA) invites members, practitioners, academics and other interested parties to participate in the National Conference on Library and Information Studies to be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 8-9 March 2007. The main objective of this conference is to provide an ideal forum to the library professionals and information providers to come together and interact on subjects of mutual interest, leading to the professional development of the information community in the country. Although the SLLA is particularly interested in papers on the main theme, following sub themes will also be considered · Digital Library Initiatives: Concepts, Policies, Plans, Services, Achievements, Expectations, Lessons Learnt · Promoting the implementation of Open Access · Institutional Repositories: policies, implementation issues, technologies · Libraries and Life Long Learning · Community Information Services in the Digital Environment · Library Co-operation and Networking in the Digital Era The SLLA wishes to receive expressions of interest from potential presenters on the above themes and encourage submissions on practical rather than theoretical aspects of the themes. The intention is for members of the information community to have a chance to hear about ‘best practices’ that is emerging within the country/region. Papers may address policy or practice, technology applications, case studies or principles involved in. 1. The deadline for submitting a detailed, one-page abstract and full author details is 15 November 2006. Selection of papers is based on the abstract, and presenters will be informed of the outcome of the review panel by 15 December 2006 2. The full paper is due on 28 February 2007 and must be an original submission not published elsewhere 3. Both abstracts and full papers should be submitted by e-mail 4. Papers should be of 20 pages maximum, double spaced 5. Papers should be in English with a one-page abstract 6. 20 minutes will be allowed for a summary delivery of the paper in the Conference 7. The author(s) should indicate his/her personal full contact details and include summary curriculum vitae with the paper. Also, a digital photograph would be useful. Selection: Full abstracts (1 page, or at least 400 words) should be prepared indicating the purpose of the paper, methodology/approach, findings, research limitations, practical implications and original value of paper. Each abstract will be blind reviewed by a panel of experts. Late submissions will not be considered. Please send your abstract by 15 November 2006 to: NACLIS 2007 – Publication Officer (lilamani(a)mailcity.com) Registration: For details about the conference registration fee for all presenters and participants and other registration information, please refer to the conference website – http://www.slla.org.lk Sponsorship – Please contact – premila(a)ips.lk OR "Anton Nallathamby" <anallathamby(a)sl.asiafound.org> Premila Gamage Secretary - IFLA/RSCAO Vice-President - Sri Lanka Library Association Librarian Institute of Policy Studies 99, St. Michael's Road Colombo 3 Sri Lanka Phone: 94 11 2431368 Fax: 94 11 2431395 http://www.ips.lk __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Revised message on genisis manual with right URL
by Rajan 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Dear Friends, We are happy to inform that a draft Manual for Creation of Digital Archives has been put at http://www.kilaonline.org/html/library.htm to seek your response on its deformities such as grammatical/spelling mistakes, lack of clarity in expression, conceptual mistakes etc. so as to enable us to bring out the final copy without errors. The manual deals with creation of digital library equivalent archives with Winisis, GenisisWeb & GenisisCD, for less resourceful libraries in the developing countries. We have plan to add an annexure to the manual explaining the advance features of the Genisis software.Kindly inform us such innovative experiment you had done with Genisis so that we can add them to the new annexure. A web page containing links to the download sites of the software (winisis, genisis & apache) required for digital archiving of this sort will also be launched in our site for easier and convenient download by new user soon. Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian Kerala Institute of Local administration Mulagunnathu Kavu Thrissur 680 581, Kerala State, India Email librariankila(a)hotmail.com Ph +91-487-2204097 Website www.kilaonline.org Dear Friends, We are happy to inform that a draft Manual for Creation of Digital Archives has been put at http://www.kilaonline.org/html/library.htm http://www.kilaonline.org/html/library.htm to seek your response on its deformities such as grammatical/spelling mistakes, lack of clarity in expression, conceptual mistakes etc. so as to enable us to bring out the final copy without errors. The manual deals with creation of digital library equivalent archives with Winisis, GenisisWeb & GenisisCD, for less resourceful libraries in the developing countries. We have plan to add an annexure to the manual explaining the advance features of the Genisis software. Kindly inform us such innovative experiment you had done with Genisis so that we can add them to the new annexure. A web page containing links to the download sites of the software (winisis, genisis & apache) required for digital archiving of this sort will also be launched in our site for easier and convenient download by new user soon. Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian Kerala Institute of Local administration Mulagunnathu Kavu Thrissur 680 581, Kerala State, India Email mailto:librariankila@hotmail.com librariankila(a)hotmail.com Ph +91-487-2204097 Website http://www.kilaonline.org www.kilaonline.org

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Sad Demise of Prof. N.B. Pangannaya
by N.S. Harinarayana 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

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 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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Open course ware in higher education
by Subbiah Arunachalam 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

Dear Prof. Vijay Kumar: Here is one more item from Peter Suber's blog. Openness in higher ed The October/November issue of Innovate is devoted to open source and open courseware in higher education. Although none of the articles focuses on OA to research literature, David Wiley has a section on it in his piece, Open Source, Openness, and Higher Education. How do we persuade Indian universities to make their courses available via open access course ware? They can make available not only textual material but also video of lectures as the University of california in Berkeley is doing. Best wishes. Arun ___________________________________________________________ All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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Commons of science
by Subbiah Arunachalam 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

Friends: Here is an interesting lead from Peter Suber's blog. Vision papers for science commons conference Twelve strong vision papers for the Commons of Science Conference (Washington, D.C., October 3-4, 2006) are now online. (Thanks to Peter Murray-Rust.) All are on open data, open access, or open science. Please look up: http://www.spatial.maine.edu/icfs/papers.html http://informationcommonsforscience.org/ ___________________________________________________________ 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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open course ware
by Subbiah Arunachalam 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

Dear Prof. Vijay Kumar: Here are two items of interest from Prof. Peter Suber's blog. Arun More on PLoS ONE and Philica Alicia Chang, Online journals challenge scientific peer review, Mercury News, October 1, 2006. A glimpse at PLoS ONE and Philica, focusing more on their methods of peer review than on their access policies. New portal of open courses Open-Of-Course is a new portal for open courses. Since its launch in July 2006, it has posted 18 courses, some of them in more than one language. From the site: Here you will find a growing amount of free online courses and tutorials. By "free" we not only mean free as in "free beer" but also published as open content. Our focus is at the start mainly on open source software courses but as we grow more will be added. Our goal is to create a multilingual platform for free quality educational information. You can help realize this in several ways: * Tip us on free available courses and tutorials on the internet * Become a coordinator for your language section * Add free online courses or tutorials to our platform * Translate available courses into other languages... ___________________________________________________________ All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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Open access at CALTECH
by Subbiah Arunachalam 30 Sep '06

30 Sep '06

Friends: Caltech, home to many Nobel laureates and one of the world's leading research and higher education centres, is moving forward with progressive open access policies. Indeed, Caltech Library has digitized all faculty and student papers from 1914 onwards. When will Indian universities and research institutions adopt such progressive OA policies? Best wishes. Aru [Subbiah Arunachalam] OA at Caltech's CODA Growth of the CODA Repositories, Caltech Library Services News and Updates, September 15, 2006. (Thanks to STLQ.) Excerpt: The Caltech Collection of Online Digital Archives (CODA) has been receiving a lot of publicity in the Open Access Authoring @ Caltech blog site.... When asked to give a brief description of CODA, George Porter, a Technical Reference Librarian in the Sherman Fairchild Library for the last 9 years, first responded that CODA is a number of things. It is primarily a digital collection of all Caltech authored technical reports, books, conference papers, and oral histories from the Caltech archives, as well as a repository for Caltech dissertations and electronic theses (ETDs). The repository was launched in 2000, and as of 9/5/06 we have 2,884 dissertations on file. It has been mandatory, since 2003, for all graduate students to submit their theses electronically....[PS: Reluctantly cutting a photo of George Porter here.] George further notes a major benefit of having [open] access to Caltech authored research information is the visibility and easy access by multiple users to this data. Prior to this 24-hour-a-day on-line availability, only one hard copy of a paper was available, and it was kept filed away in the Archives. Library staff is currently involved in scanning all pre-2003 theses into CODA. Papers typed over 50 years ago can be digitally enhanced to be clearer than the originals. Geological maps can be saved in high-quality color, with the ability to zoom in and out.... Papers from as far back as 1914 have been scanned and stored in CaltechAUTHORS.... The Caltech community is truly benefited by having such a rich body of work accessible on-line. CODA not only allows students, faculty, and staff to view research material, but, almost by default, we are also able to read about our shared cultural history. Peter Suber: Congratulations to George, who was the most regular of my co-contributors here at OAN before I converted it to a solo blog in May 2006. ___________________________________________________________ The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from your Internet provider. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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