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InfoNation: Choose a Career in Libraries
by Mailing List Manager 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:01:44 +0530 From: "Thapar, Amit" <amitt(a)niper.ac.in> http://www.cla.ca/infonation/welcome.htm Here's how the Canadians are recruiting people for the profession. Along with job descriptions and the skills for success, it offers real librarians ("trust us, you can't make this stuff up") talking about their work life, and a sampling of librarian blogs so people can see what issues librarians are talking about online. amit@urservice Cell: 9855701060 e-mail: amit_thapar(a)yahoo.com

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Prof. C N R Rao on the status of science in India (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:07:18 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> >From The Indian Express, New Delhi. [Prof. C N R Rao is the President of TWAS, a Fellow of the Royal society and a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. He is the Chairman of the Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India.] 'The best of us in government consider science as a budget item, possibly a non-productive expenditure' [Posted online: Thursday, July 20, 2006 at 0000 hrs] The past few months have seen science and technology, in various forms and at various levels, under threat from government action and policy. It prompted a letter from Prof CNR Rao, chairman of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, to Manmohan Singh expressing his concerns on the situation and suggestions for improvement. We publish extracts from the letter: For full story, visit http://www.indianexpress.com/story/8817.html

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Bill Gates puts an OA condition on AIDS research grants
by Subbiah Arunachalam 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Friends: Bill Gates supports open access once again! But details are awaited. Arun ------ From Peter Suber's blog "Open Access News" Bill Gates puts an OA condition on AIDS research grants >From yesterday's press release from the Gates Foundation on a new funding program for an HIV/AIDS vaccine. Five central facilities will be established, including three laboratory networks for measuring the immune responses elicited by vaccine candidates, a research specimen repository, and a data and statistical management center. As a condition for receiving funding, the newly-funded vaccine discovery consortia have agreed to use the central facilities to test vaccine candidates, share information with other investigators, and compare results using standardized benchmarks....In addition, the grantees are developing global access plans to help ensure that their discoveries will be accessible and affordable for developing countries, where the vast majority of new HIV infections occur. Also see Marilyn Chase, Gates Won't Fund AIDS Researchers Unless They Pool Data, Wall Street Journal, July 20, 2006 (accessible only to subscribers). Excerpt: Frustrated that over two decades of research have failed to produce an AIDS vaccine, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates is tying his foundation's latest, biggest AIDS-vaccine grants to a radical concept: Those who get the money must first agree to share the results of their work in short order.... So far, attempts to come up with a vaccine that produces protective antibodies to block infection by the wily and shape-shifting AIDS virus have been a "miserable failure," says Nick Hellmann, interim director of HIV projects at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Now, Mr. Gates's family foundation is putting $287 million new, five-year grants behind the notion that pooling results can surmount the massive technical hurdles that have hindered individual, sometimes-competing efforts....Through such data sharing, Dr. Hellmann says, rival teams can build on successes, avoid pitfalls and eliminate redundancy. Even so, he says that a vaccine is "at least 10 years away."... Grant recipients and outside observers were unsure whether data-sharing requirements of the grants could pose potential legal or patent conflicts with Mr. Gates's vow to respect intellectual property. Foundation officials said this week researchers would still be free to commercialize their discoveries, but they must develop access plans for people in the developing world. The foundation declined to make its attorney available to address these concerns.... Enforced data sharing, Dr. [Steve] Self predicted, "increases the pace of discovery enormously rather than waiting for the process of writing formal journal articles, waiting for them to be published, and [confirmed] by other labs."... Peter Suber's Comment. Kudos to the Gates Foundation. This is a big step forward, recognizing the truth that OA accelerates research and applying the principle that the more knowledge matters, the more OA to that knowledge matters. I have some questions about the program, but I expect that answers will emerge shortly. It's pretty clear that the Gates Foundation will host its own OA repository and require grantees to deposit their data in it. It appears that the requirement will apply only to data, not to articles published in peer-reviewed journals. I'd welcome clarification on that. I can't tell what steps the foundation will take, if any, to insure data interoperability. I can't tell whether the free online access will be universal, limited to developing countries, or some of each for different kinds of information. I'll blog more as I learn more. Friends: Bill Gates supports open access once again! But details are awaited. Arun ------ From Peter Suber's blog "Open Access News" Bill Gates puts an OA condition on AIDS research grants >From yesterday's http://www.gatesfoundation.org/GlobalHealth/Pri_Diseases/HIVAIDS/Announceme… press release from the http://www.gatesfoundation.org/ Gates Foundation on a new funding program for an HIV/AIDS vaccine. Five central facilities will be established, including three laboratory networks for measuring the immune responses elicited by vaccine candidates, a research specimen repository, and a data and statistical management center. As a condition for receiving funding, the newly-funded vaccine discovery consortia have agreed to use the central facilities to test vaccine candidates, share information with other investigators, and compare results using standardized benchmarks....In addition, the grantees are developing global access plans to help ensure that their discoveries will be accessible and affordable for developing countries, where the vast majority of new HIV infections occur. Also see Marilyn Chase, http://online.wsj.com/google_login.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Fa… Gates Won't Fund AIDS Researchers Unless They Pool Data , Wall Street Journal , July 20, 2006 (accessible only to subscribers). Excerpt: Frustrated that over two decades of research have failed to produce an AIDS vaccine, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates is tying his foundation's latest, biggest AIDS-vaccine grants to a radical concept: Those who get the money must first agree to share the results of their work in short order.... So far, attempts to come up with a vaccine that produces protective antibodies to block infection by the wily and shape-shifting AIDS virus have been a "miserable failure," says Nick Hellmann, interim director of HIV projects at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Now, Mr. Gates's family foundation is putting $287 million new, five-year grants behind the notion that pooling results can surmount the massive technical hurdles that have hindered individual, sometimes-competing efforts....Through such data sharing, Dr. Hellmann says, rival teams can build on successes, avoid pitfalls and eliminate redundancy. Even so, he says that a vaccine is "at least 10 years away."... Grant recipients and outside observers were unsure whether data-sharing requirements of the grants could pose potential legal or patent conflicts with Mr. Gates's vow to respect intellectual property. Foundation officials said this week researchers would still be free to commercialize their discoveries, but they must develop access plans for people in the developing world. The foundation declined to make its attorney available to address these concerns.... Enforced data sharing, Dr. [Steve] Self predicted, "increases the pace of discovery enormously rather than waiting for the process of writing formal journal articles, waiting for them to be published, and [confirmed] by other labs."... Peter Suber's Comment . Kudos to the Gates Foundation. This is a big step forward, recognizing the truth that OA accelerates research and applying the principle that the more knowledge matters, the more OA to that knowledge matters . I have some questions about the program, but I expect that answers will emerge shortly. It's pretty clear that the Gates Foundation will host its own OA repository and require grantees to deposit their data in it. It appears that the requirement will apply only to data, not to articles published in peer-reviewed journals. I'd welcome clarification on that. I can't tell what steps the foundation will take, if any, to insure data interoperability. I can't tell whether the free online access will be universal, limited to developing countries, or some of each for different kinds of information. I'll blog more as I learn more.

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Re: Alma Swan elected to Euroscience governing board
by Subbiah Arunachalam 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Congratulations Alma! You now have one more forum through which to advance the cause of open access. Arun ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stevan Harnad" <harnad(a)ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> To: <JISC-REPOSITORIES(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 1:23 AM Subject: Alma Swan elected to Euroscience governing board > Reproduced from Peter Suber's Open Access News > http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_07_16_fosblogarchive.html#115341867… > > Alma Swan elected to Euroscience governing board > > Alma Swan has been elected to the Governing Board of Euroscience (the > European Association for the Promotion of Science & Technology). > http://www.euroscience.org/ > > Her election was announced at the Euroscience Open Forum 2006, which > concluded in Munich yesterday. > http://www.esof2006.org/ > > (BTW, the meeting had an important session on OA, organized by > Hélène Bosc.) > http://www.esof2006.org/scientific_session_detail.php4?ID=146 > > Alma is a biologist-turned-consultant on scholarly > communication with a commitment to the advance of science and its > communication. Her studies of open access for Key Perspectives are > among the most important empirical studies of OA to date. > http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/openaccessarchive/reports.html > > Alma is also a member of Euroscience Working Group on Science > Publishing (convened by Hélène Bosc). > http://www.euroscience.org/WGROUPS/SC_PUBLISHING/index.htm > > Congratulations, Alma! > > Permanent link to this post Posted by Peter Suber at 7/20/2006 01:48:00 > PM. > http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_07_16_fosblogarchive.html#115341867…

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What is the 1% rule?
by ++ Mukesh Anand ++ 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Dear Professionals You may find it interesting ! The Guardianhttp://www.guardian.co.uk What is the 1% rule? It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it. Consider, too, some statistics from that other community content generation project, Wikipedia: 50% of all Wikipedia article edits are done by 0.7% of users, and more than 70% of all articles have been written by just 1.8% of all users, according to the Church of the Customer blog (http://customerevangelists.typepad.com/blog/) Bradley Horowitz of Yahoo points out that much the same applies at Yahoo: in Yahoo Groups, the discussion lists, "1% of the user population might start a group; 10% of the user population might participate actively, and actually author content, whether starting a thread or responding to a thread-in-progress; 100% of the user population benefits from the activities of the above groups," So what's the conclusion? Only that you shouldn't expect too much online. Certainly, to echo Field of Dreams, if you build it, they will come. The trouble, as in real life, is finding the builders. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1823959,00.html?gusrc=rss ++ Mukesh ++ - - Mukesh Anand Monitor Information Services http://monitorlinks.typepad.com Dear Professionals You may find it interesting ! The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk What is the 1% rule? It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it. Consider, too, some statistics from that other community content generation project, Wikipedia: 50% of all Wikipedia article edits are done by 0.7% of users, and more than 70% of all articles have been written by just 1.8% of all users, according to the Church of the Customer blog ( http://customerevangelists.typepad.com/blog/ http://customerevangelists.typepad.com/blog/ ). Bradley Horowitz of Yahoo points out that much the same applies at Yahoo: in Yahoo Groups, the discussion lists, "1% of the user population might start a group; 10% of the user population might participate actively, and actually author content, whether starting a thread or responding to a thread-in-progress; 100% of the user population benefits from the activities of the above groups," So what's the conclusion? Only that you shouldn't expect too much online. Certainly, to echo Field of Dreams, if you build it, they will come. The trouble, as in real life, is finding the builders. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1823959,00.html?gusrc=rss http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1823959,00.html?gusrc=rss ++ Mukesh ++ - - Mukesh Anand Monitor Information Services http://monitorlinks.typepad.com http://monitorlinks.typepad.com

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New Journal: "Journal of 9/11 Studies" (Jun 2006+
by Puttaraj Choukimath 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Dear Friends, Greetings! New Journal Title : Journal of 9/11 Studies, Vol.1. Jun 2006. Editors : Prof. Steven E. Jones & Prof. Judy D. Wood. Availability : The Journal of 9/11 Studies is a peer-reviewed, open-access, electronic-only journal covering the whole of research related to 9/11/2001. All content is freely available online. Please Visit : http://www.journalof911studies.com/ Best Regards, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, TATA Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: puttuc(a)yahoo.com, choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: www.tiss.edu --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Next-gen email? Have it all with the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. Dear Friends, Greetings! New Journal Title : Journal of 9/11 Studies, Vol.1. Jun 2006. Editors : Prof. Steven E. Jones & Prof. Judy D. Wood. Availability : The Journal of 9/11 Studies is a peer-reviewed, open-access, electronic-only journal covering the whole of research related to 9/11/2001 . All content is freely available online. Please Visit : http://www.journalof911studies.com/ http://www.journalof911studies.com/ Best Regards, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, TATA Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: mailto:puttuc@yahoo.com puttuc(a)yahoo.com , mailto:choukimath@tiss.edu choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: http://www.tiss.edu www.tiss.edu Do you Yahoo!? Next-gen email? Have it all with the http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=42241/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/handr… all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta.

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Position Announcement for Library & Website Management Specialist
by Maruthu Pandian 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Dear Friends Position Announcement for Library & Website Management Specialist The Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC) is committed to address the needs of the urban poor by working with key partners to raise awareness and mobilizing resources for improving health of the urban poor. UHRC has been institutionalized from the USAID-supported Environmental Health Project (EHP India) and continues the program activities of EHP India with ongoing USAID support. The goal of UHRC is to bring about sustainable improvements in Maternal and Child Health conditions among the Urban Poor through a consultative and knowledge sharing approach in partnership with Government and Civil Society. A major component of UHRCs activity is to enhance attention on health of the urban poor among government and non-government agencies and academic institutions through increased dissemination of urban poor specific health information. Position - 1 : Library & Website Management Specialist UHRC is looking for a dynamic individual to manage its Library & Information Centre and website. UHRC Library has a growing collection of urban health related literature. UHRC website available at www.uhrc.in is a favored location of researchers and program planners related to various aspects of urban health. Key Responsibility: Ø The incumbent will be managing the library, Ø Providing information services to UHRC staff, Ø Assisting in publication of UHRC reports, Ø Disseminating UHRC publications widely through print and electronic media, Ø Periodically update and maintain the website, prepare e-newsletters, etc. Essential Qualification & Skills The right candidate should be a post-graduate, preferably in Public Health/Social Science, with a degree in Library and Information Science or AIS from NISCAIR. He/she should have basic understanding of content management systems and open source software. He/she should be a team player with good verbal and written communication skills. Experience 2 year+ experience working in library/information management/website management, preferably in development sector Compensation: Gross cost to the organization ranging from Rs.18,000/-pm to Rs.21,000/-pm based on qualification and experience. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Applications can be sent by email to jobs(a)uhrc.in or by post to Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC), F 9/4 Vasant Vihar, New Delhi 110057 latest by July 30,2006. With Regards, Maruthu Pandian, B Urban Health Resource Centre F-9/4, Vasant Vihar New Delhi-57 Ph:011-4101 0920,4101 0921(Ext.245) Fax:011-4166 9281 --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on Yahoo! Answers India. Position Announcement for Library & Website Management Specialist The Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC) is committed to address the needs of the urban poor by working with key partners to raise awareness and mobilizing resources for improving health of the urban poor. UHRC has been institutionalized from the USAID-supported Environmental Health Project (EHP India) and continues the program activities of EHP India with ongoing USAID support. The goal of UHRC is to bring about sustainable improvements in Maternal and Child Health conditions among the Urban Poor through a consultative and knowledge sharing approach in partnership with Government and Civil Society. A major component of UHRCs activity is to enhance attention on health of the urban poor among government and non-government agencies and academic institutions through increased dissemination of urban poor specific health information. Position - 1 : Library & Website Management Specialist UHRC is looking for a dynamic individual to manage its Library & Information Centre and website. UHRC Library has a growing collection of urban health related literature. UHRC website available at www.uhrc.in is a favored location of researchers and program planners related to various aspects of urban health. Key Responsibility: Ø The incumbent will be managing the library, Ø Providing information services to UHRC staff, Ø Assisting in publication of UHRC reports, Ø Disseminating UHRC publications widely through print and electronic media, Ø Periodically update and maintain the website, prepare e-newsletters, etc. Essential Qualification & Skills The right candidate should be a post-graduate, preferably in Public Health/Social Science, with a degree in Library and Information Science or AIS from NISCAIR. He/she should have basic understanding of content management systems and open source software. He/she should be a team player with good verbal and written communication skills. Experience 2 year+ experience working in library/information management/website management, preferably in development sector Compensation: Gross cost to the organization ranging from Rs.18,000/-pm to Rs.21,000/-pm based on qualification and experience. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Applications can be sent by email to jobs(a)uhrc.in or by post to Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC), F 9/4 Vasant Vihar, New Delhi 110057 latest by July 30,2006. With Regards, Maruthu Pandian, B Urban Health Resource Centre F-9/4, Vasant Vihar New Delhi-57 Ph:011-4101 0920,4101 0921(Ext.245) Fax:011-4166 9281 Find out what India is talking about on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailanswersshare/*http://in.answers.yahoo.co… Yahoo! Answers India.

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Need some info....
by Parinita Samant 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Dear All, Here's a question I would like to have an answer to: Say, you are on a short (2 hrs) or a long (20 hrs) flight / train / car etc journey. How would you like to, or how would you spend your time? I am planning to build a separate section for our frequent travelers, and need ideas for building this collection. Could you help? Thanks & Regards Parinita Samant *************************************************************************************************************************** This e-mail communication and any attachments may be privileged and confidential to Hexaware and are intended only for the use of the recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not review, disclose, disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail and attachments. If you have received this email in error, please delete the same alongwith all attachments thereto and notify us immediately at mailadmin(a)hexaware.com . *************************************************************************************************************************** Need some info.... Dear All, Here’s a question I would like to have an answer to : Say, y ou are on a short (2 hrs) or a long (20 hrs) f light / train / car etc journey. How would you like to , or how would you spend your time? I am planning to build a separate section for our frequent travelers , and need ideas for building this collection. Could you help? [A] Thanks &� Regards � Parinita Samant *************************************************************************************************************************** This e-mail communication and any attachments may be privileged and confidential to Hexaware and are intended only for the use of the recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not review, disclose, disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail and attachments. If you have received this email in error, please delete the same alongwith all attachments thereto and notify us immediately at mailadmin(a)hexaware.com . ***************************************************************************************************************************

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Request for MBA (E-commerce) Syllabus
by Dabas Bharat K 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Dear Sir/Madam, Good Morning! Our university is planning to start MBA (E-commerce). If any of the institute is presently running the course is requested to send a soft copy of the syllabus to help us in framing a competitive and up-to-date syllabus. With great thanks and regards! Bharat Kumar Librarian Mody Institute of Technology & Science Lakshmangarh â 332311, Disst â Sikar, Rajasthan Phone no - 01573-225001-12 (12 Lines) Ext 283 (M) +91-9414390757 Bharat Kumar Librarian Mody Institute of Technology & Science (A Deemed University u/s 3 of the UGC Act 1956) Lakshmangarh - 332311. Disst - Sikar. Rajasthan. India. Phone No - (O) +91-1573-225001-12 Ext-283 (M) +91-9414390757 --------------------------------- Groups are talking. We´re listening. Check out the handy changes to Yahoo! Groups. Dear Sir/Madam, Good Morning! Our university is planning to start MBA (E-commerce). If any of the institute is presently running the course is requested to send a soft copy of the syllabus to help us in framing a competitive and up-to-date syllabus. With great thanks and regards! Bharat Kumar Librarian Mody Institute of Technology & Science Lakshmangarh â 332311, Disst â Sikar, Rajasthan Phone no - 01573-225001-12 (12 Lines) Ext 283 (M) +91-9414390757 B harat Kumar Librarian Mody Institute of Technology & Science (A Deemed University u/s 3 of the UGC Act 1956) Lakshmangarh - 332311. Disst - Sikar. Rajasthan. India. Phone No - (O) +91-1573-225001-12 Ext-283 (M) +91-9414390757 Groups are talking. We´re listening. Check out the http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=41144/*http://groups.yahoo.… handy changes to Yahoo! Groups.

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Refresher Course
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:39:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Pijushkanti Panigrahi <panigrahipk(a)yahoo.com> Department of Library and Information Science, University of Calcutta UGC-Academic Staff College, University of Calcutta is going to organize a refresher course on Academic Library Services : Today and Tomorrow during September 01-21, 2006 at the Department of Library & Information Science, 3rd Floor Asutosh Building, University of Calcutta, 87/1 College Street, Kolkata. All eligible and interested Librarians/ Asstt Librarians/ Lecturers are advised to apply directly on prescribed Application form (downloadable from http://www.geocities.com/ugc_asc_cu/selected.htm) to: The Director Academic Staff College, University of Calcutta, Rajabazar science College, 92 A P C Road, Kolkata immediately. Prof Arjun Dasgupta Dr Pijushkanti Panigrahi Co ordinators, DLISc, Cacutta University Dr Pijushkanti Panigrahi, Reader, Dept of Lib and Inf Science, University of Calcutta, 87/1 College Street,Kolkata - 700 073, West Bengal, India, email : panigrahipk(a)yahoo.com, Res : Qtr No. C1/78 IIT Campus, Kharagpur - 721 302, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India, Ph : +91 (03222) 278852 (M) : +91 94342 43522.

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