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Digital Library of India
by Aman Jha 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Dear all Recently, I visited a website of the Digital Library of India [http://www.dli.ernet.in/] It is a million book project - a collaborative effort between Indian Institute of Science and Carnegie Melon University with partners from Government, Academia and Religious Institutions. 54000 books have already been scanned and 29000 books are available for online access. It is one of the biggest digital library initiatives in India. The objective of this project is clearly mentioned in its mission statement given below: "The mission is to create a portal for the Digital Library of India which will foster creativity and free access to all human knowledge. As a first step in realizing this mission, it is proposed to create the Digital Library with a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books, predominantly in Indian languages, available to everyone over the Internet. This portal will also become an aggregator of all the knowledge and digital contents created by other digital library initiatives in India. Very soon we expect that this portal would provide a gateway to Indian Digital Libraries in science, arts, culture, music, movies, traditional medicine, palm leaves and many more. The result will be a unique resource accessible to anyone in the world 24x7, without regard to socioeconomic background or nationality." Hope this initiative proves to be a wonderful digital resource centre for all of us. Best regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon - 122015 (Haryana) Tel: 0124-5014060-67 aman.jha(a)ciionline.org http://www.ciionline.org DISCLAIMER:The information in this message may be privileged. If you have received it by mistake please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete the message from your system. Any unauthorised use or dissemination of this message in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Any information in this message that does not relate to official business shall be understood to be neither given nor endorsed by the Confederation of Indian Industry.

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Request for article - Reg
by Avinashilingam University 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Dear All, I would be grateful if anyone could send the article from the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Vol.171, Issue 3, Aug 2000, Pg.425-435 or inform me about the availability of the journal in any institutions. Thanking you A.Dhanalakshmi, Research scholar, Avinashilingam Deemed University, Coimbatore. Dear All, I would be grateful if anyone could send the article from the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Vol.171, Issue 3, Aug 2000, Pg.425-435 or inform me about the availability of the journal in any institutions. Thanking you A.Dhanalakshmi, Research scholar, Avinashilingam Deemed University, Coimbatore. http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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E - Literacy campaign in Kerala
by Saji S. Nair 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Dear all, 'Akshaya',the ambitious project of Government of Kerala has so far made around 5.8 lakh people e-literate. The project, that was launched in Malappuram District, one of the northern districts in Keala is currently moving ahead in Kasargod, Kannur, Kozhikkode, Thrissur, Ernakulam, Kollam and Pathanmthitta. It will also extend to the remaining six districts so as make Kerala, the first e-literate state in India by the year 2007. see the interesting news stuff at 1.Cyber-savvy at 106: an evergreen saga in Kerala http://www.thehindu.com/2006/02/23/stories/2006022303811300.htm 2.Star looks the part for Akshaya http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/26/stories/2006022607910400.htm Saji S. Nair Regional Cancer Centre Library Trivandrum Kerala _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

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JISC guidance on open source software to all colleges and universities
by vimal kumar 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Dear Readers, JISC issued a briefing paper to all colleges and universities in the UK to raise awareness of the issue of open source software. Further reading http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=oss_bp Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. JISC issued a briefing paper to all colleges and universities in the UK to raise awareness of the issue of open source software. Further reading http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=oss_bp Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com 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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Will "Google Scholar" beat the "Web of Science" in future ?
by Sukhdev Singh 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Friends, Just revised Google Scholar < http://scholar.google.com > last week. Noticed that it has improved a lot. Just searched for "OpenMED@NIC" <http://snipurl.com/mz7n > It gave 925 hits. Not bad considering thatOpenMED@NIC < http://openmed.nic.in > has around 1015 documents. Whatfacinated me was that it presented link "Cited by" along with thehits. Clicking those showed all the articles citing an article inquestion in OpenMED@NIC. No wonder Dean Giustini of Biomedical Branch Library, VancouverHospital & Health Sciences Centre, writes in his blog an item - GoogleScholar Rivals Web of Science <http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/googlescholar/archives/023377.html >comparing Web of Science with Google Scholar. He refers to an articleby Daniel Pauly and Konstantinos I. Stergiou entitled "Equivalence ofresults from two citation analyses: Thomson ISI's Citation Index andGoogle's Scholar service. ETHICS IN SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENTALPOLITICS, 2005:33–35 Published December 22 <http://www.int-res.com/articles/esep/2005/E65.pdf >. "Citation counts were performed across a wide range of disciplinesusing both the Thomson ISI files and Google Scholar, and shown to leadto essentially the same results, in spite of their different methodsfor identifying citing sources. This has strong implications forfuture citation analyses, and the many promotion, tenure and fundingdecisions based thereon, notably because ISI products are rathercostly, while Google Scholar is free." However one thing irritates me - it shows the following text in hitsof OpenMED@NIC."@import url(http://openmed.nic.in/eprints.css"Google could have done better to render the CSS better from the Eprintbased repository. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC.http://openmed.nic.in

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Need information regardin CD Servers.
by Shraddha Lapasiya 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hello All, We at Information Resource Centre at Accenture Services are exploring the availability of differed models of CD Servers in market and seeking your support in sharing us the latest advances in CD Server technology and also the benefits of the same in the current IT scenario. Most of the corporate world today uses the shared folder access against going for a dedicated CD Server and we need to justify why CD Servers are better option than the Shared folder access? Also share us the details of the models available with vendor information so that we can start reaching out the vendors and initiate the evaluation process. Many thanks for your time and effort. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. Hello All, We at Information Resource Centre at Accenture Services are exploring the availability of differed models of CD Servers in market and seeking your support in sharing us the latest advances in CD Server technology and also the benefits of the same in the current IT scenario. Most of the corporate world today uses the shared folder access against going for a dedicated CD Server and we need to justify why CD Servers are better option than the Shared folder access? Also share us the details of the models available with vendor information so that we can start reaching out the vendors and initiate the evaluation process. Many thanks for your time and effort. 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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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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