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Admission Notice..PGDHL course 2006-07.
by hemanth rao 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Dear Moderator. Kindly arrange to announce the following admission notice to PGDHL Course for the year 2006-07 Hemanth Rao C RGUHS, Bangalore ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Applications are invited from eligible candidates for admission to One Year Postgraduate Diploma Course In Health Science Librarianship (PGDHL) for the academic year 2006-07 (September to August) at Department of Health Science Library and Information Systems in Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore. The prescribed Application Form may be obtained on payment of Rs.100/- in the form of Demand Draft drawn in favour of Registrar, either in person or by post. Candidates can download the application form from www.rguhs.ac.in(The application forms downloaded shall be sent along with the DD of Rs 100 in favour of Registrar, RGUHS. ELIGIBILITY 1. A candidate who has passed Masters Degree in Library & Information Science (M.L.I.Sc.) examination of any University established by law in India or any other degree recognized as equivalent for this purpose and scored not less than 55% of the maximum marks prescribed for the qualifying examination. 2. Librarians having M.L.I.Sc. Degree or equivalent qualifications with minimum 50% of marks and minimum of five years experience in a Health Science Library. 3. For SC/ST Category-1 candidates, the minimum prescribed percentage of marks will be relaxed by 5% STIPEND: The selected candidates are eligible for the stipend of Rs. 5,000/- per month DURATION: The course of study including submission of project work is 12 months ENTRANCE TEST: An Entrance Test will be held for eligible candidates on 28-08-2006 at 10-00am, in the Department of Health Science Library and Information Systems, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, 4th T block, Jayanagar, Bangalore-560 041. INTERVIEW: The interview for successful candidates in the Entrance Test will be held on 28-08-2006 at 3-00pm. Duly filled in applications along with attested copies of marks cards of qualifying examination, proof of date of birth, certificates and testimonials, Employment Certificate and No Objection Certificate (in use of Working Librarians) to be sent through proper channel to the Registrar, RGUHS, 4th T Block, Jayanagar, Banalore-560 041 on or before 25-08-2006. For further details contact Dr.R.Rama Raj Urs Course Coordinator Dept. of Health Science Library and Information System Digital Library and Information Centre Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka 4th T Block, Jayanagar Bangalore - 560 041 Ph: 91-80-26961943, drurs(a)rguhs.ac.in, drurs_in(a)yahoo.co.in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --------------------------------- See the all-new, redesigned Yahoo.com. Check it out. Dear Moderator. Kindly arrange to announce the following admission notice to PGDHL Course for the year 2006-07 Hemanth Rao C RGUHS, Bangalore ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Applications are invited from eligible candidates for admission to One Year Postgraduate Diploma Course In Health Science Librarianship (PGDHL) for the academic year 2006-07 (September to August) at Department of Health Science Library and Information Systems in Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore. The prescribed Application Form may be obtained on payment of Rs.100/- in the form of Demand Draft drawn in favour of Registrar, either in person or by post. Candidates can download the application form from http://www.rguhs.ac.in(The www.rguhs.ac.in(The application forms downloaded shall be sent along with the DD of Rs 100 in favour of Registrar, RGUHS. ELIGIBILITY 1. A candidate who has passed Masters Degree in Library & Information Science (M.L.I.Sc.) examination of any University established by law in India or any other degree recognized as equivalent for this purpose and scored not less than 55% of the maximum marks prescribed for the qualifying examination. 2. Librarians having M.L.I.Sc. Degree or equivalent qualifications with minimum 50% of marks and minimum of five years experience in a Health Science Library. 3. For SC/ST Category-1 candidates, the minimum prescribed percentage of marks will be relaxed by 5% STIPEND: The selected candidates are eligible for the stipend of Rs. 5,000/- per month DURATION: The course of study including submission of project work is 12 months ENTRANCE TEST: An Entrance Test will be held for eligible candidates on 28-08-2006 at 10-00am, in the Department of Health Science Library and Information Systems, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, 4th T block, Jayanagar, Bangalore-560 041. INTERVIEW: The interview for successful candidates in the Entrance Test will be held on 28-08-2006 at 3-00pm. Duly filled in applications along with attested copies of marks cards of qualifying examination, proof of date of birth, certificates and testimonials, Employment Certificate and No Objection Certificate (in use of Working Librarians) to be sent through proper channel to the Registrar, RGUHS, 4th T Block, Jayanagar, Banalore-560 041 on or before 25-08-2006. For further details contact Dr.R.Rama Raj Urs Course Coordinator Dept. of Health Science Library and Information System Digital Library and Information Centre Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka 4th T Block, Jayanagar Bangalore - 560 041 Ph: 91-80-26961943, mailto:drurs@rguhs.ac.in drurs(a)rguhs.ac.in , mailto:drurs_in@yahoo.co.in drurs_in(a)yahoo.co.in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ See the all-new, redesigned Yahoo.com. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=40762/*http://www.yahoo.com/preview Check it out.

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Fwd: [IFLA-L] SLA-PAM International Relations Call for Nominations
by J. K. Vijayakumar 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:20:10 -0400 To: ifla-l(a)infoserv.inist.fr, stl-sc(a)infoserv.inist.fr From: Nisa Bakkalbasi <nisa.bakkalbasi(a)yale.edu> CC: nisa.bakkalbasi(a)yale.edu Subject: [IFLA-L] SLA-PAM International Relations Call for Nominations [PLEASE EXCUSE MULTIPLE POSTINGS. FEEL FREE TO DISTRIBUTE AS APPROPRIATE.] The Special Libraries Association (SLA) Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics (PAM) Division is now calling for nominations for the International Membership Award. The SLA-PAM Division will present this award to a librarian from the developing world; it provides a two-year SLA membership, for the years 2007 and 2008. For complete information, please visit the following web page: http://units.sla.org/division/dpam/manual/awards/pamimadetails.html Please submit nominations to the incoming chair of the International Relations Committee (IRC) of the PAM Division (address below) by October 31st, 2006. The award will be announced in November 2006. Thank you. Objective: The purpose of the award is to provide an opportunity for librarians from the developing world to be an active member of SLA and of SLA-PAM. Components: The award will provide SLA membership, including PAM Division affiliation, for a period of two years. The award recipient will serve as a member of PAM's International Relations Committee (IRC) during the term of the award. PAM will fund the award recipient to attend SLA's annual conference during the first year of the award. The award recipient will prepare a short report on the state of scientific information/libraries in his/her country, to be presented to the membership at the annual SLA conference either in person or in writing. The award recipient will also prepare a final report reflecting on his/her experience with PAM and providing recommendations for future improvements to the award program; this report is to be sent before the end of the second year of the award to the PAM Executive Board and PAM IRC. Qualifications: The nominee must reside and work in a developing country and have basic English skills. The nominee must be working currently in a library, information center, library school or other information-related capacity, in one of the subject areas related to science and technology. Priority will be given to applicants working in Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics areas. The nominee will not have had a previous opportunity to become actively involved in SLA, such as by attending an SLA conference or other professional library association meetings in the U.S. Nomination Process: Self nominations are encouraged. Nomination documentation should include the following: A letter highlighting the candidate's professional career and qualification and explaining why this person should be granted the award. The candidate's current professional resume. Contact information for the nominee: name, position, business address, and (if possible) email address. Nominations are to be submitted by 31 October, 2006, to the PAM IRC incoming chair, and the award recipient will be announced in November. Selection will be made by the PAM Executive Board in consultation with the PAM IRC chair. Please submit nominations to: Nisa Bakkalbasi Incoming Chair, SLA-PAM International Relations Committee Yale University Library 130 Wall Street P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240 Phone: (203) 436-2851 | Fax: (203) 432-8527 | Email: nisa.bakkalbasi(a)yale.edu ------------------------ Nisa Bakkalbasi Electronic Collections Librarian Yale University Library 130 Wall Street, P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240 Phone: (203) 436-2851 | Fax: (203) 432-8527 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:20:10 -0400 To: ifla-l(a)infoserv.inist.fr, stl-sc(a)infoserv.inist.fr From: Nisa Bakkalbasi <nisa.bakkalbasi(a)yale.edu> CC: nisa.bakkalbasi(a)yale.edu Subject: [IFLA-L] SLA-PAM International Relations Call for Nominations [PLEASE EXCUSE MULTIPLE POSTINGS. FEEL FREE TO DISTRIBUTE AS APPROPRIATE.] The Special Libraries Association (SLA) Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics (PAM) Division is now calling for nominations for the International Membership Award. The SLA-PAM Division will present this award to a librarian from the developing world; it provides a two-year SLA membership, for the years 2007 and 2008. For complete information, please visit the following web page: http://units.sla.org/division/dpam/manual/awards/pamimadetails.html http://units.sla.org/division/dpam/manual/awards/pamimadetails.html Please submit nominations to the incoming chair of the International Relations Committee (IRC) of the PAM Division (address below) by October 31st, 2006. The award will be announced in November 2006. Thank you. Objective: The purpose of the award is to provide an opportunity for librarians from the developing world to be an active member of SLA and of SLA-PAM. Components: The award will provide SLA membership, including PAM Division affiliation, for a period of two years. The award recipient will serve as a member of PAM's International Relations Committee (IRC) during the term of the award. PAM will fund the award recipient to attend SLA's annual conference during the first year of the award. The award recipient will prepare a short report on the state of scientific information/libraries in his/her country, to be presented to the membership at the annual SLA conference either in person or in writing. The award recipient will also prepare a final report reflecting on his/her experience with PAM and providing recommendations for future improvements to the award program; this report is to be sent before the end of the second year of the award to the PAM Executive Board and PAM IRC. Qualifications: The nominee must reside and work in a developing country and have basic English skills. The nominee must be working currently in a library, information center, library school or other information-related capacity, in one of the subject areas related to science and technology. Priority will be given to applicants working in Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics areas. The nominee will not have had a previous opportunity to become actively involved in SLA, such as by attending an SLA conference or other professional library association meetings in the U.S. Nomination Process: Self nominations are encouraged. Nomination documentation should include the following: A letter highlighting the candidate's professional career and qualification and explaining why this person should be granted the award. The candidate's current professional resume. Contact information for the nominee: name, position, business address, and (if possible) email address. Nominations are to be submitted by 31 October, 2006, to the PAM IRC incoming chair, and the award recipient will be announced in November. Selection will be made by the PAM Executive Board in consultation with the PAM IRC chair. Please submit nominations to: Nisa Bakkalbasi Incoming Chair, SLA-PAM International Relations Committee Yale University Library 130 Wall Street P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240 Phone: (203) 436-2851 | Fax: (203) 432-8527 | Email: mailto:nisa.bakkalbasi@yale.edu nisa.bakkalbasi(a)yale.edu ------------------------ Nisa Bakkalbasi Electronic Collections Librarian Yale University Library 130 Wall Street, P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240 Phone: (203) 436-2851 | Fax: (203) 432-8527 Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=42297/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/handr… all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Foundation Stone laying ceremony of iSIM@University of Mysore
by Mailing List Manager 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:13:45 +0530 From: Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> Just gone through the site http://www.isim.ac.in --Interesting. CONGRATULATIONS. --Sukhdev > > The Foundation Stone laying ceremony of the New Building of > International School of Information Management (iSIM) > University of Mysore > > (a Ford Foundation Funded Initiative) > [truncated]

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Seminar : Open Access
by Mailing List Manager 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:08:22 +0530 From: Dr. Arun K. Chakraborty <akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in> BOSE INSTITUTE, KOLKATA Institute Colloquium/ Seminar SPEAKER : Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam Distinguished Fellow MS Swaminathan Research Foundation Chennai 600113 TOPIC : Taking advantage of technology : Making the field playing through Open Access Archiving. DATE & TIME : FRIDAY , AUGUST 4th 2006 AT 12.00 Noon VENUE : SEMINAR ROOM,CENTENARY BUILDING BOSE INSTITUTE, KOLKATA About Speaker : Distinguished Fellow in the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation and a part-time Visiting Professor in the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai. His research interests include science on the periphery, scientometrics, and information access. He has recently completed a literature-based study on mapping science in India. He is a member of both the Indian and the International Science Writers Associations. ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTENED THE Colloquium PROF SIBAJI RAHA DIRECTOR BOSE INSTITUTE, KOLKATA 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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Comparison of citation databases
by Mailing List Manager 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 07:38:50 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> I reproduce below a news story - reporting on a recent study from Latin America - with the kind permission of Mr Abel Packer of BIREME/PAHO/WHO/SciELO. Anyone working in the area of comparing citation databases such as the Web of Science, Scopus and Scholar Google will find a goldmine in the work of Prof. Peter Jacso of the University of Hawaii. He has written many papers and made many presentations, all meticulously researched, and has shown that WoS continues to score over others in most respects. Prof. Jacso wrote a paper on this subject for Current Science about a year ago, when we brought out a special section in honour of Dr Eugene Garfield on his 80th birthday. I am sure people like Subir Sen, Dr A R D Prasad, Filbert Minj, Gunasekaran, Shahabuddin, Prabir Ghosh Dastidar, Sukhdev Singh, Dr D K Sahu and several others in India would like to do a similar study on citations to Indian papers as seen from different databases. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ---------------------------------- Newsletter VHL 054 28/july/2006 Study compares article citations in Google Scholar, SCOPUS and WoS for the full article, visit, http://newsletter.bireme.br/new/index.php?lang=en&newsletter=20060728

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University provosts support OA
by Mailing List Manager 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 07:57:52 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: The provosts of 25 top American universities are jointly releasing an open letter that strongly backs the Federal Public Research Access Act bill and encourages higher education to prepare for a new way of disseminating research findings, reports Jennifer Heffelfinger, Communications Manager, SPARC [jennifer(a)arl.org] "Widespread public dissemination levels the economic playing field for researchers outside of well-funded universities and research centers and creates more opportunities for innovation. Ease of access and discovery also encourages use by scholars outside traditional disciplinary communities, thus encouraging imaginative and productive scholarly convergence," the provosts write. Subbiah Arunachalam

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looking for the title "The Conquest of Mind"
by Mailing List Manager 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:04:20 +0530 From: SwatiC(a)rkfoodland.com Dear All, I have been desperately looking for the title "The Conquest of Mind" by Eknath Eswaran. Pls let let me know if it is available with anyone of you. Would be highly obliged. Regds, Swati Corporate Librarian Radhakrishna Foodland Pvt Ltd Radhakrishna House, Majiwade Village Road, Majiwade, Thane - 400601 www.rkfoodland.com www.spar-india.com

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Foundation Stone laying ceremony of iSIM@University of Mysore
by Mailing List Manager 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Dear Members: The following posting from Dr. Shalini Urs could not be broadcated in time due to some unavoidable circumstances. Sorry about it. It is being broadcasted now just for the sake information for fellow professionals. With regards, - Moderator ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:59:24 +0530 From: Shalini Urs <shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in> To: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Foundation Stone laying ceremony of iSIM@University of Mysore The Foundation Stone laying ceremony of the New Building of International School of Information Management (iSIM) University of Mysore (a Ford Foundation Funded Initiative) By His Excellency Shri. T.N. Chaturvedi, the Governor of Karnataka. On July 27, 2006, at 5.00 PM, at the Crawford hall, Mysore, as part of the Foundation Day Celebrations of the University of Mysore Mr.N.V. Sathyanarayana, Chairman and Managing Director, Informatics India & Prof. Sumathi Ramaswamy, University of Michigan, USA and Former Program Officer of Ford Foundation, New Delhi Will grace the occasion The munificent building grants provided by Informatics India, Bangalore is gratefully acknowledged. 'You are cordially invited' Dr.Shalini R. Urs Executive Director International School of Information Management University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore - 570006 Tele : + 91 821 2514699 Fax : + 91 821 2519209 www.isim.ac.in www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm

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Data sharing through networks
by Mailing List Manager 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:18:23 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Dear Friends: Chinese Academy of Sciences will soon enable 90 institutions to share data via a computer network, says a news story in Peter Suber's blog "Open Access News". Please note Suber's comment at the end. The Internet and the web offer unforeseen possibilities for information flow and knowledge exchange, which if adopted quickly can make the field level playing in the matter of accessing and disseminating information and knowledge. We can ignore them only at our peril! We in India must act fast and adopt open source software, open access archiving, collaborative research through grid computing and knowledge sharing through data sharing through nationwide networks. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --------------------------------- Data sharing coming to China Zi Xun, China plans massive data sharing project, SciDev.Net, July 24, 2006. Excerpt: The Chinese Academy of Sciences is planning a large-scale computer project to make it easier for researchers at its 90 institutes to share their data....Over the next four years, data from the academy's institutes will be entered into hundreds of databases, and computing tools will be made available to help researchers analyse the data.... The e-Science project aims to tackle the problem of poor data sharing in the scientific community....[Nan Kai of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Computer Network Information Center] says that the e-Science platform will be freely accessible to scientists outside the academy, as well as the public. Liu Mian, of the US-based University of Missouri, says that besides developing the infrastructure, the government should also stipulate that researchers must share their data by sending them to public databases such as the e-Science project. Peter Suber's Comment. This is a notable development that should greatly accelerate research in China. I support Liu Mian's suggestion that the government mandate deposit in the new OA system. If the Chinese combine the right policy with the right technology, it will maximize its return on the investment in its new and powerful infrastructure.

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Special Libraries 2006 :Webcast
by ++ Mukesh Anand ++ 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Dear Professionals Details of ' The Library of Congress' Webcast are appended below: Title : Special Libraries 2006: Change and Challenges in the Digital Environment Speaker : Bruce Rosenstein Running Time : 47 minutes Bruce Rosenstein of the USA TODAY library discusses the current state of special libraries in the United States, focusing on trends, threats, opportunities and the impact of e-resources and technology. He also examines the personal qualities necessary for today's special librarian to succeed. These librarians must consider the implications of working for libraries affiliated with institutions that can close or drastically change at a moment's notice. Other points include the challenges of working in information-rich but time-poor environments, dealing with demanding, highly knowledgeable patrons and the need to answer a key question: what can you do differently and better than your clients, who may think they can get their own information without the need of a librarian? To view the entire Webcast, click the link http://loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3893 Thanks ++ Mukesh ++ - - Mukesh Anand http://monitorlinks.typepad.com Dear Professionals Details of ' The Library of Congress' Webcast are appended below: Title : Special Libraries 2006: Change and Challenges in the Digital Environment Speaker : Bruce Rosenstein Running Time : 47 minutes Bruce Rosenstein of the USA TODAY library discusses the current state of special libraries in the United States, focusing on trends, threats, opportunities and the impact of e-resources and technology. He also examines the personal qualities necessary for today's special librarian to succeed. These librarians must consider the implications of working for libraries affiliated with institutions that can close or drastically change at a moment's notice. Other points include the challenges of working in information-rich but time-poor environments, dealing with demanding, highly knowledgeable patrons and the need to answer a key question: what can you do differently and better than your clients, who may think they can get their own information without the need of a librarian? To view the entire Webcast, click the link http://loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3893 http://loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3893 Thanks ++ Mukesh ++ - - Mukesh Anand http://monitorlinks.typepad.com http://monitorlinks.typepad.com

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