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Vacancy at Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.
by Shraddha Lapasiya 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hi All, We have an opening at Accenture Services Pvt Ltd, for an Associate who can ready to work closely with the Information Resource Center and the Vendor Management team. The candidate profile which we are looking for is as follows: · Graduate with 2-4 Yrs experience in an Training Department of an IT company with good knowledge of all the IT training aspects. · IT Skills such as MS Office suite. · Good P R Skills · Good negotiation skills · Managing the training library collection Do send in your resumes on or before 5.00 PM 2nd March, 2006. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. Hi All, We have an opening at Accenture Services Pvt Ltd, for an Associate who can ready to work closely with the Information Resource Center and the Vendor Management team. The candidate profile which we are looking for is as follows: · Graduate with 2-4 Yrs experience in an Training Department of an IT company with good knowledge of all the IT training aspects. · IT Skills such as MS Office suite. · Good P R Skills · Good negotiation skills · Managing the training library collection Do send in your resumes on or before 5.00 PM 2nd March, 2006. Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39174/*http://photomail.mai… New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.

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Librarianship Quotes (manjax)
by Manju manju 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Dear All Library, Librarian, and Librarianship Quotes http://informatics.buffalo.edu/faculty/ellison/quotes/libquotesac.html Yours MANJUNATHA P.S LIBRARIAN B.N.M.INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BANGALORE Library, Librarian, and Librarianship Quotes http://informatics.buffalo.edu/faculty/ellison/quotes/libquotesac.html http://informatics.buffalo.edu/faculty/ellison/quotes/libquotesac.html Yours MANJUNATHA P.S LIBRARIAN B.N.M.INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BANGALORE

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DRTC seminar on "Open Document format"
by nupur ag 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Indian Statistical Institute Documentation Research and Training Centre 8th Mile Mysore Road, R.V. College PO. Banglore- 560059 DRTC Seminar On Open Document Format (ODF) Abstract The open document format is a means of creating word processing, spreadsheet, chart and presentation documents in a standardized XML format. It is a new international standard for documents created using office type programs. The open document format is intended as a document type that could be used on any office program, that means one can create a spreadsheet in openoffice calc, save it in the standard open document format for spreadsheet and then be able to open it in any other spreadsheet program - Lotus, Quattro Pro or Excel and without losing any data. In this seminar I am going to discuss about what is open document format, how it originated, Organization behind this, its various features, benefits and its internal structure and use in digital preservation. Speaker: Nupur Agrawal, 2nd year ADIS All are cordially invited. Venue: DRTC classroom Date : 28th Feb 2006 Time : 3.30 pm Dr. A.R.D Prasad (Seminar Incharge) --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. Indian Statistical Institute Documentation Research and Training Centre 8 th Mile Mysore Road, R.V. College PO. Banglore- 560059 DRTC Seminar On Open Document Format (ODF) Abstract The open document format is a means of creating word processing, spreadsheet, chart and presentation documents in a standardized XML format. It is a new international standard for documents created using office type programs. The open document format is intended as a document type that could be used on any office program, that means one can create a spreadsheet in openoffice calc, save it in the standard open document format for spreadsheet and then be able to open it in any other spreadsheet program - Lotus, Quattro Pro or Excel and without losing any data. In this seminar I am going to discuss about what is open document format, how it originated, Organization behind this, its various features, benefits and its internal structure and use in digital preservation. Speaker: Nupur Agrawal, 2 nd year ADIS All are cordially invited. Venue: DRTC classroom Date : 28 th Feb 2006 Time : 3.30 pm Dr. A.R.D Prasad (Seminar Incharge) Jiyo cricket on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailcricket/*http://in.sports.yahoo.com/cric… Yahoo! India cricket http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailmobilemessenger/*http://in.mobile.yahoo.… Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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Vacancy at JNU, New Delhi.
by L Kaini Mahemei 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Dear All, Greetings. Vacancy at Central Library, JNU, New Delhi. http://www.jnu.ac.in/Career/currentjobs.htm with regards, L.Kaini Central Library, JNU, New Delhi - 110067. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Library Cataloging Software
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

Dear Friends Please visit: www.readerware.com Readerware software is available for cataloging books CDs & video products. Just Enter the ISBN, the catalog entry is automatically fetched from LOC or Brtish library and added to your database. You scan the barcode / isbn or drag & drop data from web pages. You can create a list of ISBNs in a text file for automatic cataloging. Users seem to have added anywhere between 200 to 2000 titles in a couple of days. This is fantastic product for books that are already cataloged in some leading library whose opac can be searched online. There is of course a provision for manual data etry as well for adding books. -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, SENIORS (Society for Enriched Information of Relevance to Seniors), 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500018 Phone 27846631

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Google Creates a Web page creator
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Google has launched a new product - Google Page Creator, a free, easy, browser-based tool for creating attractive web pages. Google maintains that Google Page Creator has been designed with ease-of-use in mind. Its interface enables users to edit and create pages just as they appear online, without knowledge of HTML or other computer programming languages. Combined with a simple one-step publishing process, users can create attractive, functional web pages in minutes - hosted by Google for free. You may check this feature and know more about it by clicking on the URL given below http//pages.google.com Regards ~Sreeharsha BG

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Student campaigns for OA and open source
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Friends: The United States has many faces: Wars in far away places such as Vietnam and Iraq, denying visas to reputed scientists, the dominant power in a unuopolar word, and so on. But US is also home to youngsters like Gavin Baker. University students in India might wish to look at what he is doing right now. Please pass this message to doctoral and masters students you know. Best wishes. Arun OA as a campaign issue in a student government election Gavin Baker is running for the Student Senate at the University of Florida. Baker co-founded the Florida chapter of Free Culture and is making open access a campaign issue. His platform is offline at the moment (but the problem is probably temporary, so keep trying). He tells me in an email: I'll advocate for open access to university research and journals, work to expand library digitization projects, promote open source software and open file formats....As far as I know, I am the first student to make open access an electoral issue. He's the first as far as I know too. His candidacy and position could make a difference: At UF, the Student Senate controls an $11 million budget, the third largest in the US. Go, Gavin! Note to students elsewhere: learn about open access and what you and your university can do to promote it. Take your commitment into your research and future career. But in the meantime, take it into your student government!

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Introduction
by Maha Kumaran 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hello LIS Forumers, I am new to this list and thought I would introduce myself. I am originally from Chennai, India but have lived in Canada for the last 12 years. I am a librarian and I graduated from University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. It was by sheer accident I found this listserve on the website and decided to join in. For, I don't really know about libraries in India as much as I know of them here. The only libraries I visited were the British Council and USIS. Hope to chat with you all and learn more, Mahalakshmi Kumaran. Maha Kumaran Librarian, Saskatchewan Literacy Network http://www.sk.literacy.ca/resource.htm Saskatoon, SK, S7K 1M1 306-653-7368 Please read my blog at http://www.librariansramblings.blogspot.com/ and send me your comments --------------------------------- Find your next car at Yahoo! Canada Autos Hello LIS Forumers, I am new to this list and thought I would introduce myself. I am originally from Chennai, India but have lived in Canada for the last 12 years. I am a librarian and I graduated from University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. It was by sheer accident I found this listserve on the website and decided to join in. For, I don't really know about libraries in India as much as I know of them here. The only libraries I visited were the British Council and USIS. Hope to chat with you all and learn more, Mahalakshmi Kumaran. Maha Kumaran Librarian, Saskatchewan Literacy Network http://www.sk.literacy.ca/resource.htm http://www.sk.literacy.ca/resource.htm Saskatoon, SK, S7K 1M1 306-653-7368 Please read my blog at http://www.librariansramblings.blogspot.com/ http://www.librariansramblings.blogspot.com/ and send me your comments Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca Yahoo! Canada Autos

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On scholarly communication and OA
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

>From Peter Suber's blog. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] -------------------------- Nancy Davenport on scholarly communication and OA Andy Carvin has blogged some notes on Nancy Davenport's keynote address at the University of Missouri conference, Open Access, Open Source, Open CourseWare: Sharing as a Solution to the Digital Divide (Columbia, February 22, 2006). Davenport is the president of Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Excerpt: Scholarly Communications. What are the issues? What are the options? What are the leadership issues?...Scholars are the supply and the demand. Research has to be distributed, through print, e-format, open access, repositories, self-publishing, even blogs. Who is in the middle, mediating scholarly discussions? Societies, reviewers, publishers - for profit and nonprofit - aggregators, librarians, provosts, administrators, the Internet....Digital scholarship: only way to integrate disparate content, allows new research and scholarship, encourages using material in new ways, creates new fields and communities of practice, creates new knowledge. CLIR call to action: tells publishers that librarians want independent, third party preservation of your content. "The academic community is built upon a sham. More and more you don't own your content - you're paying rent." What impedes open access? The academic reward system. Tenure requires publishing in "the right journals." Scientists can put open access fee into their budgets. But in the humanities, you don't get that kind of funding. PloS.org won't work for most humanities scholars....Where are we now? We pay a lot of money. Most institutions are paying 24% for digital serial journals in their collections budget. Libraries each pay large fees to access the same material. Meanwhile, libraries are digitizing their own special, unique materials.

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Need for mandating OA
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

>From Peter Suber's blog University policies are the next step for OA John Lorinc, The bottom line on open access, University Affairs, March 2006. Also available in French. (Thanks to Stevan Harnad.) Excerpt: The rapidly evolving debate over free online scholarship drives right to the heart of some of the most fundamental questions about research....Worldwide, there are about 24,000 scholarly journals, but only three to seven percent of them are considered to be open access OA for short meaning that they make their research papers available for free on the Internet. But the rapidly evolving debate over open-access scholarship extends well beyond academic journals like the [new] one at www.econtheory.org, and drives right to the heart of some of the most fundamental questions about research: Do publicly funded universities and granting bodies have a democratic indeed a moral obligation to ensure that academic scholarship is available on the Internet? What kinds of public and institutional policies are needed to make such wide-ranging dissemination both possible and useful? And what are the implications for publishers, research libraries, copyright, and for scholarship itself? Few self-respecting researchers argue with the idea per se. Its easy to get people to sign off on a principle, says Stevan Harnad, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at Université du Québec à Montréal. It becomes interesting and substantive when you take a practical policy. Since the mid-1990s, Dr. Harnad has been at the centre of an international campaign to promote open access. But its only in the last three or four years since the George Soros Open Society Institute orchestrated a 2002 summit of OA activists in Budapest that granting bodies and universities have begun to look hard at how to translate open access from a feel-good cyber principle into something entrenched in the way academics do business either by encouraging them to patronize open-access journals or urging them to routinely upload all their published research papers to a growing network of institutional repositories. The right to know is at the forefront [of OA], says John Willinsky, a language and literacy education professor at the University of British Columbia who heads the Public Knowledge Project, a research initiative that asks whether and how online technologies can improve the quality of academic research. The critical point were at now is mandated access. Were seeing a momentum build. The epistemological benefits are difficult to dispute. Dr. Harnad refers to studies showing that citations can more than double for articles that are freely available on the web. Accessible online papers benefit academics in poor countries where universities have few resources. And research libraries see institutional electronic repositories as one way of ensuring the preservation of digitized online material that is highly vulnerable to the problem of disappearing URLs....In the past few years, large research councils in the U.S. and U.K. have grappled with the mechanics of applying the OA principle to publicly funded research. In Canada, in late 2004, the board of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council approved OA in principle; council staff are preparing recommendations based on public consultations....But open-access advocates contend that universities must now step up to the plate and adopt policies that compel faculty to self-archive....Tim Mark, executive director of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, describes...the absurd situation whereby academics working for publicly funded institutions give up their intellectual property rights to commercial journal publishers, who turn around and sell the fruits of their labour right back to those institutions in the form of costly journal subscriptions....The potential of the OA movement, [Harnad] argues, doesnt begin with policy conditions aimed at altering the operating conditions for a small subset of journal publishers [to make them convert to OA]. Rather, it needs a much broader-based effort to make institutional self-archiving a routine and unquestioned part of the work of scholarship as basic as including bibliographies and reference lists at the end of any paper. OA advocates say the pieces for such a cultural change are beginning to fall into place. There are now numerous open-source software and harvesting systems that allow institutions to create searchable, indexed and networked electronic repositories....But, as Dr. Harnad observes, the availability of user-friendly archiving software is necessary but not sufficient. Thats why, in 2005, OA activists approved the Berlin 3 institutional policy commitment. It calls on universities and research institutions to establish policies requiring academics to self-archive, as well as encouraging them to publish in open-access journals....So far 17 universities and research institutions including the University of Zurich, Portugals University of Minho, and the University of Southampton, where Dr. Harnad taught before joining UQAM have signed the 2005 Berlin commitment. No Canadian universities are signatories. How do academics feel about self-archiving? Authors havent picked it up, says Dr. Willinsky at UBC. It has a lot to do with the fact that the focus of [academics] work is getting published, not getting circulated. Indeed, a U.K. survey of scholars showed that about half of the respondents had self-archived at one point, mainly on personal websites, but many didnt do it routinely. Yet 95 percent said theyd be prepared to self-archive if their university required it as a condition of tenure or employment. Whats become increasingly apparent is that copyright issues arent a roadblock for the OA movement....While journal publishers, from giants like Elsevier to upstarts like Econtheory.org, will continue to work out a sustainable online business model, the OA policy ball has now landed squarely in the university sectors court.

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