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Digitizing Indian language books
by Subbiah Arunachalam 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Friends: Here is a news story from Xinhuanet. Google is digitizing books in major libraries in the USA and UK, so anyone anywhere (with an Internet connection) can read those books. Google is digitizing books in University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University and the New York Public Library and now the (one hundred or so) libraries of the University of California. Google is also negotiating with the US Library of Congress. Yahoo and Microsoft have joined the Internet Archive to form the Open Content Alliance and they are also digitizing books in major western libraries. What about the great treasures in non-western languages such as Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali, Telugu, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Oriya, Sanskrit, etc.? Should we not organise such masssive digitization with appropriate search capabilities? Under the Millennium Digitization (?) programme, efforts are on to digitise books in India and China, but I am not sure how large the effort is and how comprehensive. As one who speaks Tamil, I will be interested to see all the great classics of Tamil literature as well as the works of contemporary writers such as Asokamitran, Jayakanthan and Sujatha (to name only a few) to be freely available for all the80 million or so Tamils living around the world. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] From Xinhuanet Google Inc. on Wednesday said the University of California has agreed to having books from its libraries' collections digitized and made searchable within the company's controversial library project. The UC system's 34 million books are spread across more than 100 libraries on 10 campuses, making it the largest academic research library in the world. The full text of books in the public domain will be available through Google Book Search, while only snippets of copyrighted books will be viewable, along with information about where they can be bought or borrowed. The UC system joins the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University and the New York Public Library in making book collections available to Google. The latter is making available only books in the public domain. The participants support of the project is in contrast to writers and publishers who are suing Google to prevent them from digitizing books without first getting their permission. The UC system believes Google's policy of providing only snippets of copyrighted works in search results is sufficient protection. Google announced its library project last year, prompting separate lawsuits by the Association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild. The organizations are arguing that Google should first seek the permission of copyright holders before digitizing books. Google is arguing that its actions are legal, since it only offers snippets of copyrighted material. The cases are pending. Google is working with the U.S. Library of Congress on a similar effort. For Google, the new momentum for its Book Search Project is the latest in a string of high-profile deals it has announced over the past week in which it signed a major search and advertising contract with News Corp., the owner of MySpace.com, and a video advertising and delivery deal with Viacom, owner of MTV. Friends: Here is a news story from Xinhuanet. Google is digitizing books in major libraries in the USA and UK, so anyone anywhere (with an Internet connection) can read those books. Google is digitizing books in University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University and the New York Public Library and now the (one hundred or so) libraries of the University of California. Google is also negotiating with the US Library of Congress. Yahoo and Microsoft have joined the Internet Archive to form the Open Content Alliance and they are also digitizing books in major western libraries. What about the great treasures in non-western languages such as Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali, Telugu, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Oriya, Sanskrit, etc.? Should we not organise such masssive digitization with appropriate search capabilities? Under the Millennium Digitization (?) programme, efforts are on to digitise books in India and China, but I am not sure how large the effort is and how comprehensive. As one who speaks Tamil, I will be interested to see all the great classics of Tamil literature as well as the works of contemporary writers such as Asokamitran, Jayakanthan and Sujatha (to name only a few) to be freely available for all the80 million or so Tamils living around the world. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] From Xinhuanet Google Inc. on Wednesday said the University of California has agreed to having books from its libraries' collections digitized and made searchable within the company's controversial library project. The UC system's 34 million books are spread across more than 100 libraries on 10 campuses, making it the largest academic research library in the world. The full text of books in the public domain will be available through Google Book Search, while only snippets of copyrighted books will be viewable, along with information about where they can be bought or borrowed. The UC system joins the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University and the New York Public Library in making book collections available to Google. The latter is making available only books in the public domain. The participants support of the project is in contrast to writers and publishers who are suing Google to prevent them from digitizing books without first getting their permission. The UC system believes Google's policy of providing only snippets of copyrighted works in search results is sufficient protection. Google announced its library project last year, prompting separate lawsuits by the Association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild. The organizations are arguing that Google should first seek the permission of copyright holders before digitizing books. Google is arguing that its actions are legal, since it only offers snippets of copyrighted material. The cases are pending. Google is working with the U.S. Library of Congress on a similar effort. For Google, the new momentum for its Book Search Project is the latest in a string of high-profile deals it has announced over the past week in which it signed a major search and advertising contract with News Corp., the owner of MySpace.com, and a video advertising and delivery deal with Viacom, owner of MTV.

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Re: Library rules for CSIR Labs
by Subbiah Gunasekaran 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Dear Members: I will be grateful if anyone could mail me the library rules framed by the CSIR for its constituent labs? Thanks S.Gunasekaran Library CECRI, Karaikudi Dear Members: I will be grateful if anyone could mail me the library rules framed by the CSIR for its constituent labs? Thanks S.Gunasekaran Library CECRI, Karaikudi 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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Writing and Editing for the Library Website
by vimal kumar 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Dear Information Professional, Here is the link to a useful article about writing for library website appeared in current issue of Free Pint newsletter. http://www.freepint.com/issues/100806.htm#tips Best Wishes Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. Here is the link to a useful article about writing for library website appeared in current issue of Free Pint newsletter. http://www.freepint.com/issues/100806.htm#tips Best Wishes Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman7/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… Great rates starting at 1¢/min.

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RE: [LIS-Forum] After retirment
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:47:10 +0000 From: Vara Lakshmi Rudrabhatla <rvsn1234(a)hotmail.com> There are a number of public libraries that are sick. One can spare some time to motivate and guide the staff and offer services to public. They can do career counselling to local government school students who are deprived of such facility. They can go to any old age home or orphanage etc. and read books for them. If one has the willingness and permissible health there are so many things to do even after retirement (ofcourse not-for-profit). Varalakshmi -- Dr. RSR Varalakshmi Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Science., Andhra University. Visakhapatnam. >From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Subject: [LIS-Forum] After retirment >Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:04:43 +0530 (IST) > > >Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 04:50:58 -0700 (PDT) >From: ranjit dharmapurikar <d_ranjit(a)yahoo.com> > >Dear All, > > Iam opening a topic for discussion. All service >librarians are going to retir as per the government >rules. My point is what should be done after >retirement. Library service is a professional task. >Even after retirement a librarian can do lot of things >related to this profession. In order to spent time >happily one can cultivate habbit of reading among the >society. One can open a library. There are lot of >opportunities to work. You can also suggest other >opportunities. Let us start suggesting....... > >with regards, > > ranjit >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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RE: [LIS-Forum] After retirment
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 14:03:28 +0530 From: Vyasamoorthy <vyasamoorthy(a)gmail.com> After retirement I started a non-profit called "Society for Enriched Information of Relevance to Seniors" (SENIORS). I fulfill info requirements of Retired persons pensioners and other elders. Some of my services are fee based while some are free. A list of topics dealt with by me is given below: Seniors Residential care facilities Investment options Income tax doubts Legal points like writing will, succession laws Health, Yoga, Alternate therapies Entertainment, funny stories & Jokes Second Career Government Policies & Concessions Help lines & Counseling Elder Abuse and redressal Safety & security Old Age Homes, Nursing /geriatric Care/ Retirement Homes Newsletters, magazines and guidebooks Travel for leisure & religious tourism Insurance of all sorts specially health insurance Suppliers of Assistive Devices Others can do something siliar. If anyone is further interested I can give more ideas. Vyasamoorthy -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of Mailing List Manager Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 11:05 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] After retirment Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 04:50:58 -0700 (PDT) From: ranjit dharmapurikar <d_ranjit(a)yahoo.com> Dear All, Iam opening a topic for discussion. All service librarians are going to retir as per the government rules. My point is what should be done after retirement. Library service is a professional task. Even after retirement a librarian can do lot of things related to this profession. In order to spent time happily one can cultivate habbit of reading among the society. One can open a library. There are lot of opportunities to work. You can also suggest other opportunities. Let us start suggesting....... with regards, ranjit _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Rendering of library Services
by Vandana.Karande＠ril.com 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

Hello I am into library profession, based in Mumbai...I am interested in serving a mobile library. I can devote sundays for the same...Can someone help me in giving the list of libraries that are being operated in Mumbai or the contact person???? Thanks Vandana Karande Information Specialist Corporate Development Group Reliance Industries Ltd. Mumbai Tel No. 30327139 Hello I am into library profession, based in Mumbai...I am interested in serving a mobile library. I can devote sundays for the same...Can someone help me in giving the list of libraries that are being operated in Mumbai or the contact person???? Thanks Vandana Karande Information Specialist Corporate Development Group Reliance Industries Ltd. Mumbai Tel No. 30327139

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Development agenda for WIPO - Press News
by Kumar N 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

Dear Professionals, The following article published in "The Hindu" on 09/08/2006. It is interesting about WIPO. Now a development agenda for WIPO The decision of member-countries of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), acting through its Provisional Committee, to refer the issue of a Development Agenda for this United Nations-affiliated body to its General Assembly in September marks a new stage in the global debate on the role of intellectual property. The decision runs parallel to happenings at the GATT/WTO, where the nearly six-decade-old mechanism has been forced to add a development dimension to the current round of trade negotiations since the Qatar ministerial meeting. This is not surprising because intellectual property rights (IPRs) are very much part of a broader system commonly identified as the market economy functioning within a multi-party parliamentary democratic setup, just as free trade and freedom of enterprise are. It was only two years ago that Brazil and Argentina came out with an initial proposal that WIPO should look beyond its traditional standard-setting activities in respect of IPRs and reflect the development needs of the developing and the least developed countries (LDCs). The duo was later supported by 12 other developing countries (India is not one of them) and together they have submitted a total of 111 proposals for consideration under a possible action framework for a development agenda. As could be expected, demands that have arisen in the wake of the debate within WIPO's internal committees on the new initiative include: "balancing of public interest and rights of owners of IP"; combating the tendency towards a "one-size-fits-all" approach in standard-setting for patents, trade marks, copyright etc.; sovereign space for developing countries and LDCs to implement IPR laws in tune with their stage of development; and a greater role for non-government organisations and activist groups in WIPO's consultation process. Though there is no voice within the organisation against the adoption of a development agenda, serious differences on the very concept, priorities and roadmaps are bound to arise in taking the proposal forward. Nevertheless, some facts need to be acknowledged as a starting point. First, WIPO (like the WTO) is an organisation of 183 member-countries and reflects divergences and inequalities in their political-economic strengths. Secondly, in historical terms, intellectual property rights have played a progressive role in making available to societies as a whole state-of-the art advances in every field, in consideration of a limited monopoly or royalty for creators and inventors (and, increasingly, for corporations, universities and publishers, to whom the rights are assigned by the creators). Thirdly, there is a substantial difference between the limited monopoly that is given to creators/assignees of any IP to encourage innovation and the market monopoly that entities like big corporations enjoy, and a clear distinction needs to be maintained between the two. The hindu - 09/08/2006. Kindest regards, N.Kumar, INCOIS Library, INCOIS, Hyderabad. Dear Professionals, The following article published in "The Hindu" on 09/08/2006. It is interesting about WIPO. Now a development agenda for WIPO The decision of member-countries of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), acting through its Provisional Committee, to refer the issue of a Development Agenda for this United Nations-affiliated body to its General Assembly in September marks a new stage in the global debate on the role of intellectual property. The decision runs parallel to happenings at the GATT/WTO, where the nearly six-decade-old mechanism has been forced to add a development dimension to the current round of trade negotiations since the Qatar ministerial meeting. This is not surprising because intellectual property rights (IPRs) are very much part of a broader system commonly identified as the market economy functioning within a multi-party parliamentary democratic setup, just as free trade and freedom of enterprise are. It was only two years ago that Brazil and Argentina came out with an initial proposal that WIPO should look beyond its traditional standard-setting activities in respect of IPRs and reflect the development needs of the developing and the least developed countries (LDCs). The duo was later supported by 12 other developing countries (India is not one of them) and together they have submitted a total of 111 proposals for consideration under a possible action framework for a development agenda. As could be expected, demands that have arisen in the wake of the debate within WIPO's internal committees on the new initiative include: "balancing of public interest and rights of owners of IP"; combating the tendency towards a "one-size-fits-all" approach in standard-setting for patents, trade marks, copyright etc.; sovereign space for developing countries and LDCs to implement IPR laws in tune with their stage of development; and a greater role for non-government organisations and activist groups in WIPO's consultation process. Though there is no voice within the organisation against the adoption of a development agenda, serious differences on the very concept, priorities and roadmaps are bound to arise in taking the proposal forward. Nevertheless, some facts need to be acknowledged as a starting point. First, WIPO (like the WTO) is an organisation of 183 member-countries and reflects divergences and inequalities in their political-economic strengths. Secondly, in historical terms, intellectual property rights have played a progressive role in making available to societies as a whole state-of-the art advances in every field, in consideration of a limited monopoly or royalty for creators and inventors (and, increasingly, for corporations, universities and publishers, to whom the rights are assigned by the creators). Thirdly, there is a substantial difference between the limited monopoly that is given to creators/assignees of any IP to encourage innovation and the market monopoly that entities like big corporations enjoy, and a clear distinction needs to be maintained between the two. The hindu - 09/08/2006. Kindest regards, N.Kumar, INCOIS Library, INCOIS, Hyderabad. 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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After retirment
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 04:50:58 -0700 (PDT) From: ranjit dharmapurikar <d_ranjit(a)yahoo.com> Dear All, Iam opening a topic for discussion. All service librarians are going to retir as per the government rules. My point is what should be done after retirement. Library service is a professional task. Even after retirement a librarian can do lot of things related to this profession. In order to spent time happily one can cultivate habbit of reading among the society. One can open a library. There are lot of opportunities to work. You can also suggest other opportunities. Let us start suggesting....... with regards, ranjit

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Article Request
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 18:04:08 +0530 From: Dr. Arun K. Chakraborty <akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in> Dear All We require the following articles (PDF files) from Journal of Theoretical Biology. 1. O G Berg, Journal of Theoretical Biology 71, 587 (1978) 2. D. R. Rigney et al., Journal of Theoretical Biology 69, 761 (1977) 3. D. R. Rigney et al., J. Theoretical Biology 79, 247 (1979) These papers are available in the Science Direct archive. Thanks. DR. ARUN KUMAR CHAKRABORTY LIBRARIAN BOSE INSTITUTE, KOLKATA, INDIA MAIN CAMPUS: 93/1 A.P.C. ROAD, KOLKATA 700 009 INDIA PH: 91-33-2350 2402/03, FAX: 91-33-2350-6790 CENTENARY CAMPUS : P1/12 CIT SCHEME - VII-M, KOLKATA 700 054 INDIA PH: 91-33-2355 9544, 9416, 9219 FAX: 91-33-2355 3886 Ph(Res): 33-2672 1192, 3892, E-MAIL: akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in

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Amazon Library Processing
by Mailing List Manager 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:11:59 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> --> Amazon Library Processing Prepares Books for Library Shelves by Barbara Quint By now, every book reader must have received at least one box from Amazon emblazoned with the Amazon swoosh and the slogan "And You're Done." Now libraries can order books and other media, such as CDs and DVDs, from Amazon (http://www.amazon.com) and receive the material ready to go from box to shelf, ensuring that libraries too-like Amazon-aholic individuals everywhere-are done. --> http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb060807-2.shtml

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