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Vacancy: AL (ST)-TISS, Mumbai
by Puttaraj Choukimath 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

Dear All, fyi: http://www.tiss.edu/work.htm All the Best Puttartaj. 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 --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. Dear All, fyi: http://www.tiss.edu/work.htm http://www.tiss.edu/work.htm All the Best Puttartaj. 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 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/virusmail/*http://mail.yahoo.com Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.

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Libraries fear digital lockdown
by Farooque Shaheen 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

Libraries have warned that the rise of digital publishing may make it harder or even impossible to access items in their collections in the future. You can access full article on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4675280.stm Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Libraries have warned that the rise of digital publishing may make it harder or even impossible to access items in their collections in the future. You can access full article on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4675280.stm Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105

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Fwd: OA Librarian
by Bhojaraju G 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Hello everyone, You might be interested in OA Librarian, a new, cooperatively produced weblog, which combines a pathfinder function with news and commentary on open access and librarianship: http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com OA Librarian highlights the work of librarians who advocate for open access, and draws attention to pertinent LIS research that is being deposited into LIS open access archives, such as dLIST. Recent deposits summarized in OAL include research by Michele Cloonan and Shelby Sanett on Digital Preservation: http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/12/digital-preservation.html and Andrew Dillon and April Norris on the LIS education crisis: http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/02/lis-education-crisis.html Apologies in advance for cross-posting, and happy reading! --Paul -------------- Paul F. Marty, Ph.D. (marty(a)fsu.edu) Assistant Professor, College of Information Florida State University, Tallahassee FL 32306-2100 http://info.fsu.edu/~pmarty Thanks and Regards Bhojaraju G Knowledge Management Practice *********************************************************************************************************** GCI Solutions (SEI CMM Level 4 Company), 31 Grape Garden, 17th H Main, Kormangala, 6th Block, Bangalore - 560 095. INDIA. Ph: 91 80 2552 2059 Ext. 421, Fax: 91 80 2553 8415, Cell: +91 944 836 9905 URL: www.g-c-i.com *********************************************************************************************************** KM Cyberary: http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com/cyberary.html KM-Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=3319898 Hello everyone, You might be interested in OA Librarian, a new, cooperatively produced weblog, which combines a pathfinder function with news and commentary on open access and librarianship: http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/ http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com OA Librarian highlights the work of librarians who advocate for open access, and draws attention to pertinent LIS research that is being deposited into LIS open access archives, such as dLIST. Recent deposits summarized in OAL include research by Michele Cloonan and Shelby Sanett on Digital Preservation: http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/12/digital-preservation.html http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/12/digital-preservation.html and Andrew Dillon and April Norris on the LIS education crisis: http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/02/lis-education-crisis.html http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/02/lis-education-crisis.html Apologies in advance for cross-posting, and happy reading! --Paul -------------- Paul F. Marty, Ph.D. ( mailto:marty@fsu.edu marty(a)fsu.edu ) Assistant Professor, College of Information Florida State University, Tallahassee FL 32306-2100 http://info.fsu.edu/~pmarty http://info.fsu.edu/~pmarty Thanks and Regards Bhojaraju G Knowledge Management Practice *********************************************************************************************************** GCI Solutions (SEI CMM Level 4 Company), 31 Grape Garden, 17th H Main, Kormangala, 6th Block, Bangalore - 560 095. INDIA. Ph: 91 80 2552 2059 Ext. 421, Fax: 91 80 2553 8415, Cell: +91 944 836 9905 URL: http://www.g-c-i.com www.g-c-i.com *********************************************************************************************************** KM Cyberary: http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com/cyberary.html http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com/cyberary.html KM-Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=3319898 https://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=3319898

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new stuff
by Thapar, Amit 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

Libraries Using IM Reference http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Online_Reference#Libraries_Using_… If you're thinking about using instant messenger for reference service, and want to ask librarians who are already doing it how it's working for them, start here. Library Grants Blog http://www.librarygrants.blogspot.com/ The authors of a new book, Grants for Libraries, update you here on funding opportunities. Not categorized by topic, but it is searchable. amit@niper Cell: 9855701060 / 9417419457 e-mail: amit_thapar(a)yahoo.com URL: http://www.niper.gov.in/ "Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive." "Reality is the only obstacle to happiness" "Life is just Fun, like a scoop of Ice Cream, - Enjoy it before it melts ! " Libraries Using IM Reference http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Online_Reference#Libraries_Using_… http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Online_Reference#Libraries_Using_… If you're thinking about using instant messenger for reference service, and want to ask librarians who are already doing it how it's working for them, start here. Library Grants Blog http://www.librarygrants.blogspot.com/ http://www.librarygrants.blogspot.com/ The authors of a new book, Grants for Libraries, update you here on funding opportunities. Not categorized by topic, but it is searchable. mailto:amit@niper amit@niper Cell: 9855701060 / 9417419457 e-mail: mailto:amit_thapar@yahoo.com amit_thapar(a)yahoo.com URL: http://www.niper.gov.in/ http://www.niper.gov.in/ "Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive." "Reality is the only obstacle to happiness" "Life is just Fun, like a scoop of Ice Cream, - Enjoy it before it melts ! "

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Search Engine for Health Science
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

Dear All, Here is one search engine in its Alpha Stage, developed by 2 Indians related to Health Science. Unlike Google this has many features... For ex: If you give a keyword you will get Basic information, Expert opinion, Blogs related to that concept, and organization working on it, etc... Here is the URL - http://www.kosmix.com/ Thanks ~Sreeharsha BG

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Data mining in libraries
by Sukhdev Singh 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

How can data mining could be useful in the following? -Collaborative Collection Management-Collection views-Library decision-making-User behavior-Trend-spotting Read the following article. Making Data Work HarderBy Brian Lavoie, Lorcan Dempsey, and Lynn Silipigni Connaway — January 15, 2006http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6298444.html You would be interested knowing in how - "OCLC Research has been tackling data mining from two directions. Oneuses data to create enhanced user experiences. The OCLC WorldMap is ageographical representation of WorldCat title holdings by state,province, and country of publication. WorldMap can be used to identifygroups of collections visually for potential collaborative collectiondevelopment and management." --------------------------------Sukhdev Singh, NIChttp://openmed.nic.in

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Fwd: "Connections 2006 Doctoral Consortium"
by Bhojaraju G 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Pimentel <pimentel(a)syr.edu> Subject: Doctoral consortium: Call for Participation Please share with doctoral students at your institution. ******************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Doctoral Consortium in Information Studies at Connections 2006 Syracuse University School of Information Studies Syracuse, NY May 19-21 http://connections2006.syr.edu/consortium.htm PhD students in information studies (including LIS, IS, MIS and information policy programs) are invited to submit applications for the Connections 2006 Doctoral Consortium. The consortium offers an opportunity for Ph.D. students making progress on their dissertation research to share and discuss their research with peers and faculty mentors. It will include multiple concurrent small group sessions facilitated by experienced faculty members with expertise in the topic area or methodological approach. In addition, there will be opportunities to network with peers and faculty, learn about research and publishing strategies, and engage in discussions on research, teaching, jobs, and careers. As the purpose of the Doctoral Consortium is to share and get feedback on research, it is most useful for students who have defended a proposal (or are close to doing so). The consortium will be held on Friday 19 May 2006 as a pre-conference activity in conjunction with Connections 2006 (19-21 May 2006), at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies, in Syracuse, NY. Accepted participants will be expected to arrive in Syracuse by 6 pm on Thursday 18 May 2006. A get-acquainted event will take place at 7 pm. Participants are also encouraged to attend and present their research at Connections 2006. APPLICATION PROCESS To apply, send an e-mail to Kevin Crowston <crowston(a)syr.edu> with Subject Line "Connections 2006 Doctoral Consortium." Attach an abstract (not to exceed 5 double spaced pages including figures and tables but not references) describing the student's proposed dissertation. The submission should also include the expected timeline for completing the dissertation, including the date of the proposal defence. The DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS is 3 March 2006 and accepted participants will be notified by 17 March 2006. Faculty participants will be identified soon. CONTACT INFORMATION Please contact Dr. Kevin Crowston < crowston(a)syr.edu> with any questions. Also visit http://connections2006.syr.edu/consortium.htm for more information. Thanks and Regards Bhojaraju G Knowledge Management Practice *********************************************************************************************************** KM Cyberary: http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com/cyberary.html KM-Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=3319898 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Pimentel < mailto:pimentel@syr.edu pimentel(a)syr.edu > Subject: Doctoral consortium: Call for Participation Please share with doctoral students at your institution. ******************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Doctoral Consortium in Information Studies at Connections 2006 Syracuse University School of Information Studies Syracuse, NY May 19-21 http://connections2006.syr.edu/consortium.htm http://connections2006.syr.edu/consortium.htm PhD students in information studies (including LIS, IS, MIS and information policy programs) are invited to submit applications for the Connections 2006 Doctoral Consortium. The consortium offers an opportunity for Ph.D. students making progress on their dissertation research to share and discuss their research with peers and faculty mentors. It will include multiple concurrent small group sessions facilitated by experienced faculty members with expertise in the topic area or methodological approach. In addition, there will be opportunities to network with peers and faculty, learn about research and publishing strategies, and engage in discussions on research, teaching, jobs, and careers. As the purpose of the Doctoral Consortium is to share and get feedback on research, it is most useful for students who have defended a proposal (or are close to doing so). The consortium will be held on Friday 19 May 2006 as a pre-conference activity in conjunction with Connections 2006 (19-21 May 2006), at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies, in Syracuse, NY. Accepted participants will be expected to arrive in Syracuse by 6 pm on Thursday 18 May 2006. A get-acquainted event will take place at 7 pm. Participants are also encouraged to attend and present their research at Connections 2006. APPLICATION PROCESS To apply, send an e-mail to Kevin Crowston < mailto:crowston@syr.edu crowston(a)syr.edu > with Subject Line "Connections 2006 Doctoral Consortium." Attach an abstract (not to exceed 5 double spaced pages including figures and tables but not references) describing the student's proposed dissertation. The submission should also include the expected timeline for completing the dissertation, including the date of the proposal defence. The DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS is 3 March 2006 and accepted participants will be notified by 17 March 2006. Faculty participants will be identified soon. CONTACT INFORMATION Please contact Dr. Kevin Crowston < mailto:crowston@syr.edu crowston(a)syr.edu > with any questions. Also visit http://connections2006.syr.edu/consortium.htm http://connections2006.syr.edu/consortium.htm for more information. Thanks and Regards Bhojaraju G Knowledge Management Practice *********************************************************************************************************** KM Cyberary: http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com/cyberary.html http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com/cyberary.html KM-Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=3319898 https://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=3319898

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Next generation digital libraries
by Subbiah Arunachalam 05 Feb '06

05 Feb '06

Friends: Here is something academic and special librarians in particular will find interesting. [http://www.campus-technology.com/print.asp?ID=17887] Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Digital Library Initiatives -- Next-Gen Libraries By Matt Villano As digital repositories continue to evolve, keep your eye on these projects. They may serve as the models for your own digitization initiatives. Read on! Next Gen Libraries Keeping a history of peace studies. Cataloging audio and video broadcasts important to the Northwest. Digitizing images and other documents older than the state of California. All of these efforts are important steps toward preserving the history of our nations development. And all of them are going on right now, thanks to various digital library efforts. Digital library initiatives are nothing new; the effort to digitize data for posterity has been alive and well now for the better part of two decades. (See Opening a Digital Library, Campus Technology, Sept. 2005.) Still, the world of digital libraries changes furiously every month, and it seems theres always something new to explore. Here are details on some of the newest stories, and predictions about the digital library movement in the months to come. Teaching Peace When it comes to modern-day religions, Quakerism isnt exactly the first faith that comes to mind. Still, in todays era of war and strife, the peace-loving Religious Society of Friends that was founded in England in 1660 is alive and well, its tenents taught mostly at three Indiana institutions: Goshen College, Earlham College, and Manchester College. In order to make their collections more accessible, the three schools banded together in 2003 to digitize local archives centered on peace studies. Today, the collection includes organizational records, diaries, and specialized periodicals. The effort has been dubbed the Plowshares Project. Plowshares began out of a drive for the colleges to more closely align their resources. Earlham is Quaker, Goshen is Mennonite, and Manchester is Brethren, and these three churches traditionally comprise the Historic Peace Churches. Indiana is the only state in the country that has colleges from all three denominations, so it seemed fitting that the three should join forces and pool materials. Tom Kirk, library director and coordinator of Information Systems at Earlham, explains that the schools had met first in 2004 to discuss ways in which they could collaborate. Months later, a $13.3 million grant from the philanthropic Lilly Endowment (www.lillyendowment.org) set the plan in motion. The projects focus was not on the digital library per se but on this larger institutional collaboration, of which one part was the library, says Kirk. Each of the three campuses is selecting materials from its own archives that reflect the history of the denominations work in the areas of peace and social justice. As Kirk explains, these materials comprise the very heart of the project itself. Over the course of eight months of image scanning in 2005, the schools added thousands of images, pages, and documents from just about every era since the peace movements began. By the time the project launched formally last month, it boasted 40,000 items, and has added even more since then. Much of the scanning has been performed by Orem, UT vendor Backstage Library Works (www.marclink.com) In addition, each school has farmed out certain scanning projects to full- and part-time staffers, including students who are paid by the hour. Were hoping we can communicate with just about any digital library in the world. Jim DeRoest, University of Washington Still, the project hasnt been without its challenges. At Goshen College, Library Director Lisa Guedea Carreno says the schools have been having some trouble ironing out copyright issues as they attempt to scan items for which rights have reverted to someone other than the original holder. Another big problem has been the quality and uniformity of the metadata, which she identifies as the information used to describe the items in the library itself (see Rethinking Metadata, left). As Carreno outlines the problems with the project so far, she is careful to note that ultimately, the benefits of Plowshares will far outweigh all of the struggling that participating schools have endured thus far. Rethinking Metadata A library is nothing without access. Even digital libraries need card catalogs of a sort to give users a sense of whats there and how to find it. For most digital libraries, virtual catalog cards exist in the form of metadata, or data about the content inside the library itself. As digital libraries have become increasingly sophisticated, however, creating worthwhile metadata has become a challenge. For starters, there is the issue of having accurate metadata. If a school errs in cataloging a particular image or document, that item could be lost forever in the digital ether until someone happens to stumble on it. Then there is the question of uniformity in metadata; if one school uses one set of metadata conventions and another school uses another, the two schools cannot combine libraries without a major programming initiative to reconcile the differences. Its Garbage in, garbage out, says Lisa Guedea Carreno, library director at Goshen College (IN). If you put in inconsistent things on the input side, the output side will be inconsistent, too. Fortunately, librarians nationwide are set to improve the metadata situation. Some have rallied around the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI; www.dublincore.org) an open forum that revolves around the extended Dublin Core model of informationauthor, title, publisher, and 12 other points of identifying information. Others have called this approach too vague, and are flocking to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH; www.openarchives.org) new standards being pushed by the Digital Library Federation (DLF; www.diglib.org) in Washington, DC. According to Barrie Howard, program associate and principal investigator, the DLF approach consists of 21 identifiers, many of the same characteristics found in the Dublin Core. The difference is that the DLF approach also focuses on how information is written. An example: dates. Because schools now catalog the date an object was digitized in a variety of formats, DLF seeks to standardize that information. Solving such vagaries may end the metadata conundrum. Metadata enables resource discovery, but thats why its such a big deal, Howard says. Theres a lot of digital scholarship thats going on today, but if an item or piece of content cant be found, all the metadata in the world isnt worth a thing. These are distinctive collections, she says. No matter what we have to go through to get them online, its important theyre up there so everyone can use them down the road. Going to the Well While most digital repositories exist to store small, static files such as images and documents, a new project at the University of Washington has an entirely different purpose: storing big, bulky audio and video files. The DigitalWell project has been under development since 2000, when technologists set out to build a system to catalog audio broadcasts from the school-sponsored KEXP radio station, as well as video broadcasts from the UWTV television station and from campus research programs. Jim DeRoest, director of Streaming Media Technologies with the Video, TV, and Technologies group, has overseen it all. Today, to hear DeRoest describe D-Well is to listen to a proud father chatting about his child. He explains that after the school came up empty in a search to find an off-the-shelf program to manage its audio and video files, UW technologists got to work building their own. The result, unveiled publicly this past fall, represents a standard central computing model with clustered servers that scale as demand requires. Thanks to a proprietary underpinning system called the Storage Resource Broker (SRB) and a middleware system built by the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California at San Diego, D-Well is also interoperable with other digital library systems across academia. By using SRB as an underpinning, were really hoping that we can communicate with just about any digital library in the world, says DeRoest, who notes that with the help of this technology, UW already has been able to trade video content with the University of Queensland in Australia. What makes SRB so compatible is the language in which it is written. Because the original D-Well architect had come from Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) the project was built on the Windows Operating System using .NET technology. Since then, however, versions of the initial prototype have been developed in a variety of computing languages and forms. In September, ResearchChannel (www.researchchannel.org) a non-profit media and technology organization, and the Coalition for Networked Information (www.cni.org) have stepped in and released an open source version of the project to broaden the number of schools and other institutions that can take advantage of the technology. With this larger effort in full swing, DeRoest has redoubled his efforts to roll out D-Well on his home campus at UW. The universitys School of Music has been itching for a way to digitize its ethnomusicology collection, and D-Well would be a perfect fit. The astronomy department has some deep-space videos that theyre hoping to get into the system, as well. And the School of Nursing has expressed a desire to convert video coverage of lectures. Then, of course, theres the forestry department, which has inquired about collaborating with the University of São Paulo in Brazil, to digitize video content about old-growth forests and how forest fires start. So long as were preserving this stuff, well look at anything and everything, he says. If its a string of bits, thats about all that matters for us. The Real Enabler: Information Literacy The flourishing digital library scene boasts great potential for widespread resource sharing and increasingly sophisticated search, retrieval, and delivery mechanisms. But, as with most technology-enabled applications, the real promise lies in just how well the technologies are used by the communities they are intended to serve. True, educational programs can be put in place to bring individuals up to speed on how to search for and access digital materials. But there are broader issues to be addressed as well, as faculty, administrators, and librarians examine the overall effects of the digital age on their institutions. A few years ago, people spoke of computer literacy, which usually meant a basic familiarity and comfort level with a personal computer and mouse. Today, information literacy is a call to action that cuts across departmental and organizational lines and encompasses a range of issues, from access, to intellectual property, to professional roles. Students need to be taught how to discriminate among digital search results and be aware of copyright concerns. Faculty members and librarians must decide how to work together and examine whether their roles need to be redefined: Should the librarians and technologists work alongside the faculty in designing and teaching certain courses, in order to cover information literacy effectively and make good use of digital library resources? Are instructors taking advantage of pedagogies that incorporate digital materials? And there just may be a physical aspect to the digital library after all: Learning and study spaces in libraries and other common areas are beginning to be designed for highly connected and collaborative next-gen students, our digital natives. Finally, ask: How can you assess information literacy on your campus? Institutions are now seeing that they need well-thought-out information literacy programs. To help with the planning process, the Council of Independent Colleges (www.cic.org) runs a series of workshops on Transformation of the College Library. The series covers the questions and issues above and much more, and is a great place to start or keep plugging for information literacy on your campus (www.cic.org/conferences_events/index.asp) The Big Boys Just as the Historic Peace Churches and the University of Washington are blazing new trails for storing certain types of data, larger digital repository efforts at the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan are innovative in similar ways. At UVA, University Librarian Karin Wittenborg says her staff has worked to digitize dozens of special collections of old images and manuscripts to preserve them for generations to come. Highlights of the collection include photos from the American Civil War, documents from railroad history, and unique documents from the Appalachian heyday. These special collections are only one portion of UVAs digital library effort. The bulk of the library, including the schools famous, 1,700-item Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive, is comprised of e-texts, or scanned content in a variety of languages that is searchable by anything from topic to specific characters and words. According to Wittenborg, a key principle behind the e-text project was to build a user community as consumers rather than simply convert or acquire digital texts. Over time, the texts were tagged using Standard Generalized Markup Language (now eXtensible Markup Language, or XML) to make them easier to search. We were fast out of the gate, kept our concept for the electronic center simple, and focused on user-centered collections, Wittenborg says. We wanted to create digital communities and to involve faculty and departments from the outset. A similar effort is underway at the University of Michigan, home of the digital collection, Making of America. The collection, accumulated over the last five years, has been drawn from images, documents, and other 19th-century publications in the UM libraries. Another big draw is the schools digital archive of non-Euclidian mathematics monographs, also from the same period. The collection includes a variety of content types from the 1800s: science, business, and more. Perry Willett, director of the schools Digital Library Production Service, admits the collection is a hodgepodge, saying the school digitizes what it can, when it can, anyway it can. Because Willetts department has managed to digitize so much, it recently has capitalized on the software behind the effort, for use at other schools. The open source program, Digital Library eXtension Service (DLXS), is designed for schools to create digital collections of text and images and other kinds of structured data. Similar to the D-Space effort at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DLXS is stand-alone content scanning and management software that can help schools without digital libraries set them up quickly. As Willett explains, the more digital libraries UM can facilitate down the road, the better. There isnt that much commercial software available for digital libraries, so we continue to develop our version, adding functionality and changing the architecture, he says. In our field, where things are always changing, you can never spend too much time or energy getting your resources online. Matt Villano is senior contributing editor of this publication. This article originally appeared in the 2/1/2006 Issue of Campus Technology

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Fight hunger with a click, for free.
by vyasamoorthy＠gmail.com 04 Feb '06

04 Feb '06

PASS IT ON! Visit http://www.thehungersite.com to give food to the hungry with just a click -- every day and at no cost to you. HOW IT WORKS When you click the "Give Free Food" button (once a day per person) at http://www.thehungersite.com, this simple action gives over a cup of fortified food to a hungry person. It costs you nothing. Funding is paid by site sponsors and food is distributed by two leading nonprofit hunger relief organizations: Mercy Corps and America's Second Harvest. The number of people who click each day determines the amount of food that goes to the hungry, so please forward this message along. WHY CLICK? There is enough food in the world for every man, woman and child. Yet an estimated one billion of the world's people live in poverty and face chronic hunger. 24,000 die daily. 75% of them are children under age five. A "click to give" costs nothing but a few seconds of your time, and gives help and hope to a person in desperate need. Click here to give free food: http://www.thehungersite.com --------------------------- A person identifying him/herself as the sender above has sent this email to you to inform you about The Hunger Site. This service is provided by The Hunger Site as a mechanism for visitors to tell other friends about our philanthropic-based sites, and should not be used for any other purposes.

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Postponing National Conference On Community Information Service: Challenges and Opportunities for Libraries, 2nd - 4th March, 2006
by Aditya Tripathi 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

Dear Friends, Due to President of India Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam's proposed visit to Banaras Hindu University on 2nd March, 2006 we are compelled to postponed the "National Conference On Community Information Service: Challenges and Opportunities for Libraries, 2nd - 4th March, 2006" for few days. This step has been taken becuase of security reasons as, he will be addressing University faculty in a different hall but in the same primises where we wish to host the conference. The new dates will be soon announced. We regret for the inconvenience caused. With best wishes -- Dr. Aditya Tripathi Coordinator Department of Library & Information Science Banaras Hindu University Varanasi-221005 ---------------------------------------------------- 1. Contribute to DRTC LIS Open Digital Library https://drtc.isibang.ac.in 2. Join today Digital Library Discussion Forum http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg Due to President of India Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam's proposed visit to Banaras Hindu University on 2nd March, 2006 we are compelled to postponed the "National Conference On Community Information Service: Challenges and Opportunities for Libraries, 2nd - 4th March, 2006" for few days. This step has been taken becuase of security reasons as, he will be addressing University faculty in a different hall but in the same primises where we wish to host the conference. The new dates will be soon announced. We regret for the inconvenience caused. With best wishes -- Dr. Aditya Tripathi Coordinator Department of Library & Information Science Banaras Hindu University Varanasi-221005 ---------------------------------------------------- 1. Contribute to DRTC LIS Open Digital Library https://drtc.isibang.ac.in https://drtc.isibang.ac.in 2. Join today Digital Library Discussion Forum http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg

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