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PhpMyLibrary
by vimal kumar 03 May '06

03 May '06

Dear Professionals, Latest version of PhpMyLibrary (2.2.1-3) now available for download. PhpMyLibrary is an open source library management system available free of cost. It developed in Philippines by Polerio T. Babao and very popular ILMS in that country. Latest version of PhpMyLibrary has added a web based installer and serial control module. It supports USMARC and CDS/ISIS conversion. PhpMyLibrary written in PHP and runs with the support of Apache web server and MySQL database. For more information and download the software visits the home page of PhpMyLibrary http://www.phpmylibrary.org . Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messengers low PC-to-Phone call rates. Dear Professionals, Latest version of PhpMyLibrary (2.2.1-3) now available for download. PhpMyLibrary is an open source library management system available free of cost. It developed in Philippines by Polerio T. Babao and very popular ILMS in that country. Latest version of PhpMyLibrary has added a web based installer and serial control module. It supports USMARC and CDS/ISIS conversion. PhpMyLibrary written in PHP and runs with the support of Apache web server and MySQL database. For more information and download the software visits the home page of PhpMyLibrary http://www.phpmylibrary.org/ http://www.phpmylibrary.org . Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messengers low http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman8/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… PC-to-Phone call rates.

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India fares better than China in the list of failed states
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 03 May '06

03 May '06

Pakistan among top 10 'failed states' [India rated better than China] Chidanand Rajghatta [Times of India] [ Wednesday, May 03, 2006 03:15:38 am TIMES NEWS NETWORK ] WASHINGTON: Nuclear-armed Pakistan has been ranked among the top 10 'failed states' in the world, ahead of Afghanistan and a host of crisis-ridden African countries, in a new world survey released Tuesday. Foreign Policy magazine's second annual index of failed states paints a grim picture of India's neighbourhood. Four other South Asian countries, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, are ranked 18th, 19th, 20th and 25th respectively. All of them are featured in the critical red zone of states most vulnerable to failure. According to the index, a failing state is one in which the government does not have effective control of its territory, is not perceived as legitimate by a significant portion of its population, and does not provide domestic security or basic public services to its citizens. The survey uses 12 indicators to measure failure, including criminalisation or delegitimisation of the state, security apparatus as "state within a state," rise of factionalised elites, intervention of other states or external actors, legacy of vengeance-seeking group grievance, chronic and sustained human flight, and uneven economic development. Pakistan scores heavily in all categories to chalk up a scary total of 103.1 out of 120, while other failing South Asian states are all score in the mid-90s. By contrast, 93th ranked India is rated the most stable country in the neighbourhood with a score of 70.4, well ahead of even China, which is ranked 57th with 82.5. The study debunks the notion that China's massive economic growth is making the country more stable. China lost ground from last year when it was ranked 75th, just ahead of India at 76, mainly on account of increasing inequity and corruption. Greater social mobility and increased decentralisation appears to have served India better and pulled it ahead of China in the stability sweepstakes. But the most startling slide, and a worrisome development for India, is nuclear-armed Pakistan's precipitous slide from 34th place last year to 9th place this year. Remarkably, Liberia, Burundi and Ethiopia are rated more stable than nuclear Pakistan. Only Sudan, which tops the list, and a handful of African countries such as Somalia and Congo, are ahead of Pakistan in the failure stakes. Iraq is ranked 4th and Afghanistan 10th. The survey said Pakistan's inability to police its tribal areas, where there is now an ongoing civil war, it's simmering ethnic tensions, and the devastating earthquake last year, has led to its sharp decline. Western European nations, along with Japan, Australia and New Zealand, are ranked among the most stable nations in the index.

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USA moving closer to mandating open access to all publicly-funded
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 03 May '06

03 May '06

At last the United States is moving closer to mandating Open Access for all publicly-funded research. There is no reason why we in India need to keep postponing the inevitable! >From Peter Suber's blog More on the FRPAA Here are some helpful official links on the FRPAA: * Full text of the bill * Sen. Cornyn's floor speech introducing the bill * Sen. Cornyn's one-page summary of the bill * The FAQ on the bill * The short version of Sen. Cornyn's press release. (I've already blogged the long version.) * Sen. Lieberman's press release on the bill. And here are a couple of unofficial ones: * The press release on the bill from the Alliance for Taxpayer Access. Also see the ATA page on the bill. * The press release from Public Knowledge * My article from today's issue of SOAN. When I have time, I hope to go back and blog excerpts from some of these docs. ----------------- May issue of SOAN I just mailed the May issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. This issue takes a close look at Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) just introduced in the US Senate by Senators John Cornyn and Joe Lieberman. The FRPAA mandates OA for federally funded research and imposes a firm six month deadline. The Top Stories section takes a brief look at the EC report calling for an OA mandate to publicly-funded research, the developing OA policy at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, NIH-Director Elias Zerhouni's public admission that the NIH policy might need a mandate, two recent clues to the RCUK thinking about OA, a new call for OA to biodiversity data, an "email-eprints" button for Eprints and DSpace archiving software, and the beta of Microsoft Live Academic Search. ------------------- The Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Joe Lieberman (D-CT) introduced the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 (FRPAA) in the US Senate today. This is giant step forward for OA, even bigger than the CURES Act that Senator Lieberman introduced in December 2005. Like CURES, FRPAA will mandate OA and limit embargoes to six months. Unlike CURES, it will not be limited to medical research and will not mandate deposit in a central repository. It will apply to all federal funding agencies above a certain size --including the NIH, NSF, NASA, EPA, and eight Cabinet-level Departments. It instructs each agency to develop its own policy, under certain guidelines laid down in the bill. Some of those agencies might choose to launch central repositories but others might choose to mandate deposit (for example) in the author's institutional repository. But all must insure OA "as soon as practicable, but not later than 6 months after publication in peer-reviewed journals". BTW, Cornyn and Lieberman introduced the bill today because the NIH public access policy took effect one year ago today. For more deails, see Sen. Cornyn's press release: In an effort to increase taxpayers' access to federally funded research, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) on Tuesday introduced the bipartisan Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006. The legislation is co-sponsored by U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.). The bill requires every federal agency with an annual research budget of more than $100 million to implement a public access policy. The policy must ensure that articles generated through research funded by that agency are made available online within six months of publication. Cornyn said: "This legislation is a common-sense approach to expand the public's access to research it funds. And it will help accelerate scientific innovation and discovery." Lieberman said: "Tax payer-funded research should be accessible to tax payers. Our bill will give researchers, medical professionals and patients in Connecticut and throughout the nation access to scientific discoveries and advancements that can help bring new treatments and cures to the public." I'll also have an article about the bill later today in the May issue of SOAN. Peter Suber's Comment. This is a superb bill: informed by the arguments for OA and the shortcomings of the NIH policy. It's one more sign that legislators are not treating the NIH policy as a precedent but taking every opportunity to improve upon it: going beyond a request to a requirement, beyond long or indefinite embargoes to firm deadlines, beyond biomedicine to all disciplines, beyond publisher consent to a federal purpose license that does not accommodate publisher resistance, and at least possibly, beyond central to distributed archiving. The FRPAA adds momentum to the CURES Act and the lesser but potent pressures on the NIH to convert its request to a requirement. It will give taxpayers access to the non-classified research they fund with their taxes. It will make a very large and useful body of research even more useful than it already is by sharing it with all who can apply or build upon it. In both respects it will increase the return on the taxpayers' enormous investment in this research.

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1st International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM-2006) at Bangalore
by J. K. Vijayakumar 02 May '06

02 May '06

1st International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2006) December 06-08, 2006 Bangalore, India Organised by the Digital Information Research Foundation, http://www.dirf.org Chennai and Chirst College, Bangalore http://www.christcollege.edu The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multidisciplinary conference on digital information management, science and technology. The principal aim of this conference is to bring people in academia, research laboratories and industry and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science and technology. The ICDIM intends to bridge the gap between different areas of digital information management, science and technology. This forum will address a large number of themes and issues. Conference Organizers and Committees General Chair Thomas C Mathew (Christ Edu, India) Programme Chair Pit. Pichappan (Annamalai University, India) Co-Chairs Fredrick Andres (National Informatics Center, Japan) Antony Satyadas (IBM, USA) Tutorial and Panel Chair Ajith Abraham (Chung-Ang University, Korea) Workshop Chair Richard CHBEIR (Universite de Bourgogne, France) Visit http://www.icdim.org for more details.... --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates. 1 st International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2006) December 06-08, 2006 Bangalore, India Organised by the Digital Information Research Foundation, http://www.dirf.org http://www.dirf.org Chennai and Chirst College, Bangalore http://www.christcollege.edu http://www.christcollege.edu The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multidisciplinary conference on digital information management, science and technology. The principal aim of this conference is to bring people in academia, research laboratories and industry and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science and technology. The ICDIM intends to bridge the gap between different areas of digital information management, science and technology. This forum will address a large number of themes and issues. Conference Organizers and Committees General Chair Thomas C Mathew (Christ Edu, India) Programme Chair Pit. Pichappan (Annamalai University, India) Co-Chairs Fredrick Andres (National Informatics Center, Japan) Antony Satyadas (IBM, USA) Tutorial and Panel Chair Ajith Abraham (Chung-Ang University, Korea) Workshop Chair Richard CHBEIR (Universite de Bourgogne, France) Visit http://www.icdim.org/ http://www.icdim.org for more details.... http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman3/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates.

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Suppliers of CDs & DVDs on Management
by hemaa＠ingvysyabank.com 02 May '06

02 May '06

Dear Dipaali, Apart from Multimedia HRD, you can also try Rangnekar Associates. Their contact details are as follows: Rangnekar Associates 31, Neelambar 37, G Deshmukh Marg Mumbai - 400026 PH: 022 - 56640030/23523607/23521722 Mail: rangnekar(a)vsnl.com Thanks & Regards Hema Amble Librarian ING Vysya Bank Competence Development Center -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Dipaali K Bhosle Sent: 28/04/2006 12:38 PM To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Suppliers of CDs & DVDs on Management Dear All, Can you tell me other than Multimedia HRD who can source the CDs & DVDs on management topics. If not then which public libraries will have collection of the same? Thanks & Regards, Dipaali K Bhosle INFOMEDIA Mumbai

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One day workshop on e - resources
by Vijayakumara 02 May '06

02 May '06

Dear all, Kindly accetp this invitation and forward this for all your professional friends It gives me immense pleasure to inform you that the Learning Resource Wing of East Point College of Engineering and Technology, Bangalore 49 is organizing one day workshop on E-Resources: A Tool to Make Science and Engineering Research Easier on May 26th 2006. The workshop will mainly focus on various dimensions of the theme. During the event eminent scholars and practioners will be sharing their experience on the subject. We cordially invite you to participate in one day workshop. This Workshop will help Librarians, Teaching faculty, research scholars, and staff involved in R&D Activities. Workshop E-Resources: A Tool to Make Science and Engineering Research Easier Date & Time May 26th 2006 : 09.00 am Registration Fee Librarians Rs. 200.00 Academicians Rs. 200.00 Research Scholars Rs. 200.00 Students Rs. 200.00 Payment Mode Cash or DD in favour of Principal, EPCET, payable at Bangalore Venue Seminar hall, East Point College of Engineering and Technology, Bidarahally, Near Avalahally, Bangalore-560 049 Contact details of Workshop Coordinator )9448860702, 080-28473777 e-mail: libraryworkskop(a)yahoo.co.in Thanking you Dr. Vijayakumar M \ \ | / / \ \ ~ ~ / / | @ @ | ---------------oooo------ (_)-------------oooo------------------ Dr. Vijayakumar M, Chief Librarian, East Point College of Engineering and Technology Bidarahalli, Kithaganoor Road, Virgonagar - Post, Bangalore - 5600 049, India Tel:080-8473888, 8473777 Fax:080-8472999, coolvg(a)gmail.com --------------------------------- Love cheap thrills? Enjoy PC-to-Phone calls to 30+ countries for just 2¢/min with Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Dear all, Kindly accetp this invitation and forward this for all your professional friends It gives me immense pleasure to inform you that the Learning Resource Wing of East Point College of Engineering and Technology, Bangalore 49 is organizing one day workshop on E-Resources: A Tool to Make Science and Engineering Research Easier on May 26 th 2006 . The workshop will mainly focus on various dimensions of the theme. During the event eminent scholars and practioners will be sharing their experience on the subject. We cordially invite you to participate in one day workshop. This Workshop will help Librarians, Teaching faculty, research scholars, and staff involved in R&D Activities. Workshop E-Resources: A Tool to Make Science and Engineering Research Easier Date & Time May 26 th 2006 : 09.00 am Registration Fee Librarians Rs. 200.00 Academicians Rs. 200.00 Research Scholars Rs. 200.00 Students Rs. 200.00 Payment Mode Cash or DD in favour of Principal, EPCET, payable at Bangalore Venue Seminar hall, East Point College of Engineering and Technology, Bidarahally, Near Avalahally, Bangalore-560 049 Contact details of Workshop Coordinator ) 9448860702, 080-28473777 e-mail: mailto:libraryworkskop@yahoo.co.in libraryworkskop(a)yahoo.co.in Thanking you Dr. Vijayakumar M \ \ | / / \ \ ~ ~ / / | @ @ | ---------------oooo------ (_)-------------oooo------------------ Dr. Vijayakumar M, Chief Librarian, East Point College of Engineering and Technology Bidarahalli, Kithaganoor Road, Virgonagar - Post, Bangalore - 5600 049, India Tel:080-8473888, 8473777 Fax:080-8472999, mailto:coolvg@gmail.com coolvg(a)gmail.com Love cheap thrills? Enjoy PC-to-Phone http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman9/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… calls to 30+ countries for just 2¢/min with Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.

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Information on E-books
by Mahesh G T 02 May '06

02 May '06

Dear All, Could anyone give me the details of procuring E-books, and also I need information on procurement procedure, its policies with its termsand conditions. And also could you please provide me some vendor details, I enquired with few vendors, but they would give access on single client basis, like one member can access one book at a time, but we need multi client access at a time, So I kindly request you all to provide me details in this regard, Thanking you, ========================================================== "Knowledge is of two kinds,We Know a subject ourselves, or,we know where to find information on it" ========================================================== Mahesh G T Librarian Alliance Business Academy, Bangalore-68 Off No - 080-26684369 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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LIS-Jobs in bangalore
by K.R. Mulla 02 May '06

02 May '06

Hi, Friends, There is a vacancy for the post of "Librarian" in our Organisation to set up a library. HKBK Groupe of Institution (www.hkbkeducation.org) Location: Bangalore If anyone interested may send their CV to krmulla(a)gmail.com or mulla_kamalasab(a)yahoo.com Please inform to your friends too. Thanks and Regards -- K. R. Mulla, Librarian, HKBK College of Engineering, # 22/1, Nagawara, Bangalore - 560 045. http://krmulla.googlepages.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/krmulla Hi, Friends, There is a vacancy for the post of "Librarian" in our Organisation to set up a library. HKBK Groupe of Institution ( http://www.hkbkeducation.org www.hkbkeducation.org ) Location: Bangalore If anyone interested may send their CV to mailto:krmulla@gmail.com krmulla(a)gmail.com or mailto:mulla_kamalasab@yahoo.com mulla_kamalasab(a)yahoo.com Please inform to your friends too. Thanks and Regards -- K. R. Mulla, Librarian, HKBK College of Engineering, # 22/1, Nagawara, Bangalore - 560 045. http://krmulla.googlepages.com/ http://krmulla.googlepages.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/krmulla https://www.linkedin.com/in/krmulla

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DSpace Workshop Materials: Lecture Notes, Manuals, Presentations, Exercises, Software
by Puna Das 02 May '06

02 May '06

A] National Workshop on Building Digital Libraries: Application of DSpace Held on April 22-25, 2006 at DELNET, New Delhi Resource Persons: Dr. A. R. D. Prasad, Associate Professor, DRTC, Bangalore Dr. (Ms) Devika P. Madalli, Lecturer, DRTC, Bangalore Workshop Materials, Lecture Notes, Manuals, Presentations, Exercises are available at: http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/pub/delnet.tar.gz http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/pub/exer.zip http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/pub/papers_ppts.tar.gz B] Installing DSpace On Wiindows http://www.sdmimd.net/workshop/DSpaceOnWindows.pdf ___________________________________________________ Anup Kumar Das/ Bidyarthi Dutta/ Swapan Patra Information and Communication Society of India New Delhi ___________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new. http://in.answers.yahoo.com

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Changing Nature of the Library Catalog
by Sukhdev Singh 02 May '06

02 May '06

Friends, Some of you might be interested in reading the following report -- "The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools" < http://www.loc.gov/catdir/calhoun-report-final.pdf > Prepared for the Library of Congress By Karen Calhoun Cornell University Library "Today, a large and growing number of students and scholars routinely bypass library catalogs in favor of other discovery tools, and the catalog represents a shrinking proportion of the universe of scholarly information. The catalog is in decline, its processes and structures are unsustainable, and change needs to be swift. At the same time, books and serials are not dead, and they are not yet digital. Notwithstanding widespread expansion of digitization projects, ubiquitous e-journals, and a market that seems poised to move to e-books, the role of catalog records in discovery and retrieval of the world's library collections seems likely to continue for at least a couple of decades and probably longer". - Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in

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