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Dr. Dakshaben Surati is no more
by Lavji N. Zala 11 Sep '06

11 Sep '06

Dear Colleagues, Once again the Library and Information profession has been shocked by hearing the sad news of sudden and ultimate demise of the great personality, Dr. Dakshaben Surati, the coordinator and the faculty of the Department of Library and Information Science at Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. She passed away on 04th September 2006 due to ill health. The SNDT University, Mumbai granted her the PhD degree in year 2000. She also produced number of articles in journals and books chapters. It is the great loss for the LIS profession that can not be filled anyway. Teachers Never Die hence Dr. Dakshaben Surati is always within us, though her physical body is not, We, the library personnel always have her path, which she shown in her life. May almighty provide eternal peace for departed soul of Dr. Dakshaben Surati and pray to offer our condolences to her family members. From: Lavji N. Zala & Niraj R. Patel Knowledge Exchange & Information Centre (KEIC) Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) Shela Ahmedabad - 380058 ----------------------------------------- (on mail) Email Disclaimer: Information contained and transmitted by this e-mail is confidential, proprietary, and legally privileged data of Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad (MICA), that is intended for use only by the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. You are requested to delete this e-mail immediately and notify the originator. Any views expressed by an individual do not necessarily reflect the views of MICA. While this e-mail has been checked for all known viruses, the addressee should also scan for viruses. Internet communications can not be guaranteed to be timely, secure, error or virus-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete. MICA does not accept liability for any errors or omissions. ---------------------------------------------------------

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The Hindu and Business Line e-paper PDF format) from Sunday September 10, 2006
by Appasaheb Naikal 09 Sep '06

09 Sep '06

Dear all,  The Hindu and Business Line will be launched in digital form, that is, as an e-paper on the Internet, on Sunday, September 10, 2006. The web address is http://epaper.thehindu.com/login.php and http://epaper.thehindubusinessline.com. The Hindu Three digital editions of the newspaper - Chennai, Hyderabad, and Delhi - will be available at this first stage. Business line The Chennai edition of the newspaper will be available at this first stage. Both digital editions will be available for viewing at 6 a.m., Indian Standard Time (IST) every day from September 10, 2006. Access will be free for now but users will be required to register online. What does the e-paper offer the online reader? The newspaper itself, nothing less. You can see each page as it appears in each of the three print editions. This means all the reports, articles, photographs, and other graphics have been organised, laid out, and presented according to their importance, with the appropriate typography and design elements. You can also see the advertisements as they appear on the page. The e-paper has been developed for Business Line by Nine Stars Information Technology and IBM using state-of-the-art technology and offering high resolution and versatile features. Whole pages, articles, photographs and other images can be viewed in .pdf and .jpg format, and articles can also be read as text. You can make use of the Internet\'s powerful feature - search. The e-paper offers you search in several forms: You can look for something specific using the search engine. You can also track stories in your areas of interest by setting your preferences for \"My News,\" a news tracking feature. You can clip articles and photos for future reference and can email them to a friend. A week\'s back issues of the digital editions of The Hindu and Business Line will be available in the archive. With regardsAppasaheb NaikalSPJCM-Singapore Dear all, The Hindu and Business Line will be launched in digital form, that is, as an e-paper on the Internet, on Sunday, September 10, 2006. The web address is http://epaper.thehindu.com/login.php http://epaper.thehindu.com/login.php and http://epaper.thehindubusinessline.com/ http://epaper.thehindubusinessline.com . The Hindu Three digital editions of the newspaper - Chennai, Hyderabad , and Delhi - will be available at this first stage . Business line The Chennai edition of the newspaper will be available at this first stage. Both digital editions will be available for viewing at 6 a.m., Indian Standard Time (IST) every day from September 10, 2006. Access will be free for now but users will be required to register online. What does the e-paper offer the online reader? The newspaper itself, nothing less. You can see each page as it appears in each of the three print editions. This means all the reports, articles, photographs, and other graphics have been organised, laid out, and presented according to their importance, with the appropriate typography and design elements. You can also see the advertisements as they appear on the page. The e-paper has been developed for Business Line by Nine Stars Information Technology and IBM using state-of-the-art technology and offering high resolution and versatile features. Whole pages, articles, photographs and other images can be viewed in .pdf and .jpg format, and articles can also be read as text. You can make use of the Internet's powerful feature - search. The e-paper offers you search in several forms: You can look for something specific using the search engine. You can also track stories in your areas of interest by setting your preferences for "My News," a news tracking feature. You can clip articles and photos for future reference and can email them to a friend. A week's back issues of the digital editions of The Hindu and Business Line will be available in the archive. With regards Appasaheb Naikal SPJCM-Singapore 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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OA and poverty alleviation
by Subbiah Arunachalam 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

OA in the war against poverty Gavin Yamey, What did you do in the war against poverty, granddad? PLoS Medicine blog, September 6, 2006. Excerpt: Is it folly to believe that a medical or scientific journal can have any measurable impact upon global poverty? I dont think so, and nor does the Task Force on Science Journals, Poverty, and Human Development, of which Im a member.... As you can imagine, I feel passionately that the most effective way that journals can help to lift people out of the extremes of poverty is to champion open access to the worlds treasury of medical, scientific, and technical knowledge. Im not alone in my conviction --the United Nations, for example, has repeatedly championed open access as a development tool. If youre unconvinced that open access has anything to do with human development, I urge you to read the UN Millennium Project report Innovation: applying knowledge in development. The lead author is Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development at Harvard's John F Kennedy School of Government and another member of the PLoS Board of Directors. The report includes an extremely compelling description, with some fantastic case studies, of how developing countries are improving their capacity to harness scientific and technical knowledge to solve local problems themselves. But they can only do this if they have an adequate pool of public domain knowledge in the first place. And this is where editors can step in. As the PLoS Medicine editors say in our editorial this month, expanding the amount of essential information placed in the public domain would give developing countries the scientific and technical information needed to solve fundamental challenges, promote public health, manage the environment, and participate in international trade. How can we not do it? ___________________________________________________________ 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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Info Vision 2006 The Knowledge Summit
by Lata Suresh 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

Dear friends, Sorry for Cross posting. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: K-Community of Bangalore <coordinator(a)k-community.org> Date: Sep 7, 2006 9:08 PM Subject: InfoVision2006 - The Knowledge Summit on September 28th & 29th, Bangalore - India To: coordinator(a)k-community.org Dear K-Community Blr Member, We would like to inform you of the Knowledge Summit taking place here in Bangalore with many globally admired speakers. We are also pleased to inform you that all K-Community members can avail a 10% discount if you register before September 15. Please find the details below. InfoVision2006 - The Knowledge Summit on September 28th & 29th, Bangalore - India Dates: 28 September 2006 - 29 September 2006 Place: Le Meridien Hotel, Bangalore InfoVision is a premier annual global Summit in India for the Knowledge Industry and Society. The Summit focuses on a chosen theme each year and congregates leaders and professionals across the `Information and Knowledge Spectrum' to come together and analyze the transformational trends and deliberate on the challenges. Experts from the industry and the academia join the debate and share their views. Best practices and success stories are showcased. InfoVision is an intellectual confederation of all stakeholders - academia, industry, government and the user groups, to meet as partners and to develop a unified framework for and formulate strategies for capitalizing knowledge for performance. InfoVision Summit Sessions: On September 28th and 29th, InfoVision 2006 brings the following sessions and speakers to help organizations to transit towards a Knowledge Enterprise. Innovation and Intellectual Property Management │ Enterprise Content Management │ Harnessing Business and Competitive Intelligence │News and Media: Convergence and Disconnect │Digital Libraries and Archiving Knowledge│ New Cyber Genres: Wikis, Blogs, collaborative tools and models │ Managing Intellectual Capital There will be over 30 speakers at the Summit including the following luminaries: 1. Leif Edvinsson - Professor of Intellectual Capital, at Lund University, Sweden, Edvinsson is inspirator and CEO of Universal Networking Intellectual Capital, Winner of the prestigious Brain of the Year award for 1998. A key contributor to the theory of IC and recognized with awards from the American Productivity and Quality Centre, USA and Business Intelligence, UK, he is the author of the books - Corporate Longitude and Intellectual Capital for Communities ( with Ahmed Bounfour ) 2. Rory L. Chase - Founder of Teleos - the company that conducts the internationally recognized Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE) program. Advisor, author and researcher in the development and implementation of knowledge management strategies and approaches, he is the Founding Editor of the Journal of Knowledge Management and the Journal of Intellectual Capital. Chase has also authored the `Creating a Knowledge Management Business Strategy' 3. Jimmy Wales - named one of the Time magazine's 100 most influential eople in the world in the year 2006, Wales has translated the utopian concept of universal access to knowledge a reality through his Wikipedia the largest freely available online encyclopedia . Wikipedia is also available in more than 100 languages. Wales is the fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School and member of the Board of Directors of Socialtext, a provider of wiki technology to businesses. 4. Sam Pitroda -- chairman of India's National Knowledge Commission, he is also largely considered to have been responsible for India's communications revolution. He is the Chairman and CEO of World-Tel Limited, an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) initiative. He holds many key technology patents, has been involved in several startups, and lectures extensively around the world on the implications of communications and information technology. He is also the founder and CEO of C-SAM, Inc, Inc, and serves as a director on the board of Jet Airways. He has served as an advisor to the United Nations and in 1992, his biography was published, and became a bestseller. And many many more thought leaders and speakers...... 2006 Indian MAKE Award Ceremony and panel discussion For the first time in India, an Indian MAKE ceremony will be conducted to recognize those Indian organizations that stand out in building their knowledge and intellectual capital. There will be an interactive panel discussion with the award winners during a gala dinner event. This will cover best practices, do's and don'ts on KM from the very best in India. For registration and contact information, please visit the website: www.infovision.org.in Summit Chair:Mr. Ashok Soota, Chairman and Managing Director, MindTree Consulting Pvt. Ltd., Chair, CII Mission on Knowledge and Skills Programme Co-Chairs: Prof. S. Sadagopan, Director, IIIT-B Prof. Shalini R. Urs, Executive Director, iSIM, University of Mysore Mr. Raj Datta, General Manager, KM, MindTree Consulting Pvt. Ltd. regards ======================== Lata Suresh Librarian Institute of Health Management Research 1, Prabhu Dayal Marg, Sanganer Airport Jaipur 302033, RAJASTHAN, INDIA Tel : 91-0141-2791431-34 Fax: 91-0141-2792138 Email : lata(a)iihmr.org

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Assistant Librarian vacancy at MDI Gurgaon
by Antony Jose 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

Moderators, may kindly post the following on your forums Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon invites applications for the post of an Assistant Librarian in the pay-scale of Rs. 8,000 - 275 - 13,500 along with usual allowances and benefits as per rules of the Institute. MDI, an integrated business school, has been consistently ranked within the top five b-schools in India. It is the first and the only institute in India to be accredited by the "Association of MBAs" (AMBA), UK. MDI is a leader among Indian b-schools in terms of faculty, number of programmes, international linkages, etc. MDI's library is considered to be one of the best management libraries in the country. Essential Qualifications and Skills * Should be M.Lib / ADIS (DRTC) / AIS (INSDOC / NISCAIR) with atleast 55% marks * Should be capable of independently managing various operations in the library like Acquisitions, Cataloguing and Classification. * Should have very good communication skills * Should be well versed with library management systems (LMS) like Libsys * Should be comfortable with working in a highly computerized environment * Should have a flair for learning and updating oneself with latest technologies, etc. Desirable Qualifications and Skills * Degree / Diploma in IT Applications * Expertise in using Digital library software systems like DSpace, Greenstone, Eprints, etc. * Experience in a business school library The person should be willing to work on late shifts and on week-ends, if required. Age Limit: Below 35 years Experience: Around 5-6 years at Officer level position in a reputed library. How to Apply: Interested candidates may send their detailed curriculum vitae with a recent photograph in a sealed envelop super scribing the name of the post applied for, addressed to: Librarian Management Development Institute (MDI) Mehrauli Road, Sukhrali Gurgaon - 122 001 You may also email your curriculum vitae to: ajose(a)mdi.ac.in Last date for submission of application: 30th September 2006.  Moderators, may kindly post the following on your forums � � Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon invites applications for the post of an Assistant Librarian in the pay-scale of Rs . 8,000 – 275 – 13,500 along with usual allowances and benefits as per rules of the Institute. � MDI, an integrated business school, has been consistently ranked within the top five b-schools in India . � It is the first and the only institute in India to be accredited by the “Association of MBAs” (AMBA), UK . MDI is a leader among Indian b-schools in terms of faculty, number of programmes , international linkages, etc. � MDI’s library is considered to be one of the best management libraries in the country. � Essential Qualifications and Skills � Should be M.Lib / ADIS (DRTC) / AIS (INSDOC / NISCAIR) with atleast 55% marks Should be capable of independently managing various operations in the library like Acquisitions, Cataloguing and Classification. Should have very good communication skills Should be well versed with library management systems (LMS) like Libsys Should be comfortable with working in a highly computerized environment Should have a flair for learning and updating oneself with latest technologies, etc. � Desirable Qualifications and Skills � Degree / Diploma in IT Applications Expertise in using Digital library software systems like DSpace , Greenstone, Eprints , etc. Experience in a business school library � The person should be willing to work on late shifts and on week-ends, if required. � Age Limit : Below 35 years � Experience: Around 5-6 years at Officer level position in a reputed library. � How to Apply: Interested candidates may send their detailed curriculum vitae with a recent photograph in a sealed envelop super scribing the name of the post applied for, addressed to: � Librarian Management Development Institute (MDI) Mehrauli Road , Sukhrali Gurgaon – 122 001 � You may also email your curriculum vitae to: mailto:ajose@mdi.ac.in ajose(a)mdi.ac.in �� Last date for submission of application : � 30 th September 2006 . �

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Make library books - full texts - free on the web!
by Subbiah Arunachalam 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

"Google has changed its policy and will now allow users to download full-image files of public domain books in its Google Book Search collection. Until now, Google had insisted that readers remain connected to Google while they read any public domain books online. Why the change in policy? According to Adam M. Smith, product manager for Google Book Search, It stemmed from listening to users and our library partners. Competition may have had some influence, however, both from the downloading policies of the Open Content Alliance and, now, from Googles own library partners. For example, the University of Michiganone of Google Book Searchs most generous and activist library partnershas begun releasing MBooks to the open Web, as well as to its campus users. The MBooks collection currently includes hundreds of thousands of books Google has digitized from the University of Michigans library collection. The MBooks offer different features than the versions Google Book Search supplies directly. It also includes in-copyright books, though only to produce individual book indexing...." - From Peter Suber's blog. Friends: Indian and other developing university libraries may follow the Michigan University Library and digitize all the books in their collections and make them available free on the web. Subbiah Arunachalam ___________________________________________________________ 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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Fwd: 115 US university presidents and provosts endorse FRPAA self-archiving mandate proposal
by Subbiah Arunachalam 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

Here is a message from Prof. Stevan Harnad about the growing demand from US universities for adopting open access institutional archiving. Stevan recommends Immediate Deposit/ Optional Access. Which means authors deposit all their published papers IMMEDIATELY on publication (even if he/she has surrendered the copyright to the journal). If there are no copyright problems the deposited paper could be made available for universal viewing, downloading, etc. immediately. If the journal has an embargo policy, the paper could be released fr universal viewing at the end of the embargo period. Universities and research institutions in the developing countries will do well to follow this practice. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --- Stevan Harnad <harnad(a)ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote: > Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 00:37:58 +0100 > From: Stevan Harnad <harnad(a)ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> > Subject: 115 US university presidents and provosts > endorse FRPAA self-archiving mandate proposal > More US university presidents and provosts are > signing to support the > proposed FRPAA self-archiving mandate. Let us hope > that they will not now > sit waiting for the Act to pass, but will sign a > self-archiving mandate > for their own university (the > Immediate-Deposit/Optional-Access [IDOA] > mandate is the optimal one, *infinitely* preferable > to Optional Delayed > Deposit mandates) > > > http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html > > and then register it in ROARMAP for other > universities to emulate: > > http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php > > (UK vice-chancellors and pro-vice-chancellors should > hasten to adopt > IDOA too, now that half the RCUK research councils > and the Wellcome > Trust have already mandated self-archiving! The > European Commission > is next...) > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > [From Peter Suber's Open Access News] > http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_09_03_fosblogarchive.html#115765784… > > 115 presidents and provosts endorse FRPAA The > SPARC list > > http://www.arl.org/sparc/advocacy/frpaa/institutions.html > of presidents and provosts who have publicly > endorsed FRPAA > > http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:s.02695: > > now includes the 53 liberal arts college > presidents > who signed the September 5 Oberlin Group letter. > http://www.oberlingroup.org/about/frpaa.pdf > The total is now a very impressive 115. > > Posted by Peter Suber in OA News at 9/07/2006 > 03:33:00 PM. > ___________________________________________________________ Copy addresses and emails from any email account to Yahoo! Mail - quick, easy and free. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/trueswitch2.html

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Fwd: Its easy to give.
by Subbiah Arunachalam 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

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Ulrich 2006
by girish kumar 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

Dear All, I would like to know which library has latest version of Ulrich Periodicals Directory, either it is in print from or CD form. Kindly inform me regarding this . I am awaiting positive response. With Warm Regards, N.Girish Kumar N.Girish Kumar IKM Trainee, National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Banglore-560 012. Mobile No:9980876586 E-mail:girish@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ngirik(a)yahoo.co.in --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail. I would like to know which library has latest version of Ulrich Periodicals Directory , either it is in print from or CD form. Kindly inform me regarding this . I am awaiting positive response. With Warm Regards, N.Girish Kumar N.Girish Kumar IKM Trainee, National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Banglore-560 012. Mobile No:9980876586 E-mail:girish@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ngirik(a)yahoo.co.in 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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Articles required
by kshema prakash 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

Apologies for X Postings Dear Friends, Thank you so much for responding to my earlier request. I have a further need of some of the references cited below. I tried with the online databases available to us, but we do not have access to backfiles. So, if someone can kindly help me with these, please let me know. 1. Bera, B. & Mukherjee, K.K. et al., (1992). Characterization of seeds of three cytotypes of Chenopodium album L. through analysis of phenolics and proteins. Seed science and Technology 20(1): pp. 57-67. 2. Prakash, D. and M. Pal (1998). Chenopodium seed protein, fractionation and amino acid composition. International Journal of Food sciences and Nutrition. 49(4): 271-275. 3. Dey, N. and Mandal, R.K. 1993. Characterization of 2S albumin with nutritionally balanced amino acid composition from the seeds of Chenopodium album and its antigenic homology with seed proteins of some Chenopodiaceae and Amaranthaceae species. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology International. 30(1): 149-157. 4. Qasem, J.R. and Hill, T.A. 1993. A comparison of the competitive effects and nutrient accumulation of fat-hen and groundsel. Journal of Plant Nutrition 16(4): 679-698. With thanks. Kshema Mrs. Kshema Prakash Faculty Librarian -Gr I DEI Central Library Dayalbagh Educational Institute Dayalbagh, Agra 282 005 9897190604, 3298227 --------------------------------- Here's a new way to find what you're looking for - Yahoo! Answers Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW Apologies for X Postings Dear Friends, Thank you so much for responding to my earlier request. I have a further need of some of the references cited below. I tried with the online databases available to us, but we do not have access to backfiles. So, if someone can kindly help me with these, please let me know. 1. Bera, B. & Mukherjee, K.K. et al., (1992). Characterization of seeds of three cytotypes of Chenopodium album L. through analysis of phenolics and proteins. Seed science and Technology 20(1): pp. 57-67. 2. Prakash, D. and M. Pal (1998). Chenopodium seed protein, fractionation and amino acid composition. International Journal of Food sciences and Nutrition. 49(4): 271-275. 3. Dey, N. and Mandal, R.K. 1993. Characterization of 2S albumin with nutritionally balanced amino acid composition from the seeds of Chenopodium album and its antigenic homology with seed proteins of some Chenopodiaceae and Amaranthaceae species. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology International. 30(1): 149-157. 4. Qasem, J.R. and Hill, T.A. 1993. A comparison of the competitive effects and nutrient accumulation of fat-hen and groundsel. Journal of Plant Nutrition 16(4): 679-698. With thanks. Kshema Mrs. Kshema Prakash Faculty Librarian -Gr I DEI Central Library Dayalbagh Educational Institute Dayalbagh, Agra 282 005 9897190604, 3298227 Here's a new way to find what you're looking for - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers 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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