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Loaning a Voice in a Public library !!!!!!
by khaiser nikam 20 Sep '05

20 Sep '05

Dear Friends, A public library in Alemelo,Holland , is lending out people in a new initiativeaimed at challenging stereotypes.Apart from books ,the users can borrow gay people ,gypsies and Muslims for an hour and talk to them about their lives.For instance teh public library visitors can borrow a muslim woman in ahead scarf and ask her questions they would not aother wise dare to find out if,they met her on the street.This is according to the public library director-Jan Krol. Th elibrary has contacted 10 people from differnet backgrounds who are willing to have a chat with its visitors in a nearby pub. How do u alll like this !!!!!!!!! Dr khaiser Nikam Reader / Management consultant DOSLISc University of Mysore Mysore - 570 006 0821-2419399(D) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear Friends, A public library in Alemelo,Holland , is lending out people in a new initiativeaimed at challenging stereotypes.Apart from books ,the users can borrow gay people ,gypsies and Muslims for an hour and talk to them about their lives.For instance teh public library visitors can borrow a muslim woman in ahead scarf and ask her questions they would not aother wise dare to find out if,they met her on the street.This is according to the public library director-Jan Krol. Th elibrary has contacted 10 people from differnet backgrounds who are willing to have a chat with its visitors in a nearby pub. How do u alll like this !!!!!!!!! Dr khaiser Nikam Reader / Management consultant DOSLISc University of Mysore Mysore - 570 006 0821-2419399(D) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Felicitation
by SRELS 20 Sep '05

20 Sep '05

Dear Moderator, Kindly arrange to announce the following to the lis-forum members. Yours truly, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Ph: 080-23305109 ; e-mail: srels(a)vsnl.com ---------- Ranganathan Centre for Information Studies, Chennai and Bangalore DRTC Alumni Association, Bangalore and Informatics (India) Limited, Bangalroe cordially invite you to a function to felicitate PROF. A. NEELAMEGHAN Professor & Head (Retd.) Documentation Research and Training Centre Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore on Wednesday, 28th September 2005 at 6.30 pm at Yavanika (State Youth Centre) Nrupatunga Road, Bangalore 560 001 PROF. P. BALARAM (Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) will be the Chief Guest and release the Festschrift Volume PROF. M. ANANDAKRISHNAN (Chairman, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai) will preside Chairman and Members Prof. A. Neelameghan Festschrift Committee, Bangalore RSVP: Ph: 080-23305109 ; (Prasad) 080-28483002 - Extn. 492 (Raghavan) Dear Moderator, Kindly arrange to announce the following to the lis-forum members. Yours truly, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Ph: 080-23305109 ; e-mail: mailto:srels@vsnl.com srels(a)vsnl.com ---------- Ranganathan Centre for Information Studies, Chennai and Bangalore DRTC Alumni Association, Bangalore and Informatics (India) Limited, Bangalroe cordially invite you to a function to felicitate PROF. A. NEELAMEGHAN Professor & Head (Retd.) Documentation Research and Training Centre Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore on Wednesday, 28th September 2005 at 6.30 pm at Yavanika (State Youth Centre) Nrupatunga Road, Bangalore 560 001 PROF. P. BALARAM (Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) will be the Chief Guest and release the Festschrift Volume PROF. M. ANANDAKRISHNAN (Chairman, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai) will preside Chairman and Members Prof. A. Neelameghan Festschrift Committee, Bangalore RSVP: Ph: 080-23305109 ; (Prasad) 080-28483002 - Extn. 492 (Raghavan)

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Winning support for OA at WSIS
by Subbiah Arunachalam 20 Sep '05

20 Sep '05

Dear Professor Samassekou: We must get a strong recommendation and a stronger action plan to implement open access (self archiving of all research papers in science, technology, medicine, arts, humanities and literature) at the Tunis meeting of WSIS. We must mobilise as many country delegations as possible to support resolutions favouring open access. The African Academy of Sciences, TWAS, InterAcademy Panel, InterAcademy Council, etc. should be persuaded to lend support to such a move. I am cc-ing this mail to others who are championing the cause of open access. All of us would be grateful for your support and proactive advocacy. Regards. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Dear Professor Samassekou: We must get a strong recommendation and a stronger action plan to implement open access (self archiving of all research papers in science, technology, medicine, arts, humanities and literature) at the Tunis meeting of WSIS. We must mobilise as many country delegations as possible to support resolutions favouring open access. The African Academy of Sciences, TWAS, InterAcademy Panel, InterAcademy Council, etc. should be persuaded to lend support to such a move. I am cc-ing this mail to others who are championing the cause of open access. All of us would be grateful for your support and proactive advocacy. Regards. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Searching Blogs using Google
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

Dear All, Google has launched a new tool designed to help internet-users search web logs. Google's new tool will search the latest posts on Blog sites.The internet search giant has developed the engine to look exclusively at the journals, known as web logs or "blogs", in a move that is expected to push blogging into the mainstream. http://blogsearch.google.com/ Regards ~Sreeharsha BG

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Request
by rafiq rather 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

Dear Patrons Why the trend towards chainging the 8 digit ISBN number to 13 digits. Will it serve the purpose for the future intellectual outcome. Rafiq Ahmad Rather Depi. of Lib & infor. science University of Kashmir -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.as…

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Prof. Nick Moores Lecture at DLIS, Mysore- a report
by N.S. Harinarayana 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

Prof. Nick Moore, Chairman, Acumen Ltd., United Kingdom , the Keynote Speaker at the recently concluded Infovision 2005 event, addressed the faculty, researchers and students of the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore on September 19, 2005 at 11.30 am. Prof. Moore �s lecture on Policy framework for information societies was well attended. This special lecture was organized by Mysore University Library and Information Science Students Association (MULISSA). Summary of the lecture: ICTs have influenced the society and the economy of nations. Information is the major resource of today�s society. People have more access to information than ever before. This has resulted in the creation of a more informed society. Information in tandem with ICTs has induced economic, social, cultural and political changes. The speaker gave a few examples to demonstrate the changes that have occurred. A policy framework would guide these changes in the direction which is more profitable to the human kind. However, the challenge for policies is of two folds: one to maximize the opportunities and the second one is to minimize the dangers. There have been various attempts to develop suitable policies by the developed countries. Unlike previous revolutions, the information revolution needs to be guided consciously with in the framework of comprehensive and globally acceptable information policies. As these changes need to guided and planned and not let it happen, an information policy becomes cirtical. The speaker outlined the need and challenges involved in meeting the various goals in creating the framework for the policy. The goals are: * Creating robust infrastructure:- The policy should address the issues of robustness, the breadth and depth of penetration of the information infrastructure * Competitive information sector:- Developing a competitive information sector is another goal of the policy. * Information-intensive organisations:- Encouraging the organization to become more and more information intensive is an important issue to be covered by the policy. * Social use of information:- Making the society information savvy by encouraging the society to identify, collect, and use information that they want for their personal as well as professional life. * Legal and regulatory framework:- If above goals have to be effective, the information policy must also look in to the legal and regulatory frame work. Such frame work needs to be comprehensive as well as globally applicable character. * Skilled workforce:- The speaker opined that there is dire need for skilled personnel who can manage the information effectively for the benefit of the society. The policy framework should look into the proper availability of skilled personnel. Addressing the students the speaker outlined the following competencies required of information workforce for the future. ** Creators: Preparing, packaging and producing the intellectual content produced by authors suitable for display, distribution and consumption. ** Collectors: Individuals, agencies and organizations involved in aggregating and collecting information materials. ** Communicators: People and agencies involved in the process of interaction with consumers of information. ** Consolidators: Individuals and agencies involved in the analyses and consolidation of information for the end users. Prof. Moore was of the opinion that that there is going to be a great demand for the above four processes and hence human resources with the requisite skills in the information society. He called upon the students to concentrate on improving their skills in the above areas. Prof. Moore concluded his lecture by identifying the following - clarity of vision; co-ordinated policy and action: and commitment by the government, as the critical success factor in framing an information policy for the information societies. -- N.S.Harinarayana Ph.D Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri, Mysore 570 006 Ph: 2419393

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MedIND 36 and Counting
by Sukhdev Singh 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

Today we have made available the following Journal on medIND, http://medind.nic.in . Indian Journal of Nephrology http://medind.nic.in/iav/iavm.shtml MedIND is accessible freely and hosts fulltext of Indian Biomedical Journals that are indexed in IndMED [ http://indmed.nic.in ] or PubMed. Indian Journal of Nephrology becomes the 36th journal in medIND family. The family, which is still counting and hopes to grow gradually to cover all indexed Indian Medical Journals. --Sukhdev Singh, Technical Director, Bibliographic Informatics Division, National Informatics Centre, A-Block, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110003 http://indmed.nic.in ; http://medind.nic.in & http://openmed.nic.in http://medind.nic.in http://medind.nic.in . Indian Journal of Nephrology http://medind.nic.in/iav/iavm.shtml http://medind.nic.in/iav/iavm.shtml MedIND is accessible freely and hosts fulltext of Indian Biomedical Journals that are indexed in IndMED [ http://indmed.nic.in http://indmed.nic.in ] or PubMed. Indian Journal of Nephrology becomes the 36th journal in medIND family. The family, which is still counting and hopes to grow gradually to cover all indexed Indian Medical Journals. --Sukhdev Singh, Technical Director, Bibliographic Informatics Division, National Informatics Centre, A-Block, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110003 http://indmed.nic.in http://indmed.nic.in ; http://medind.nic.in http://medind.nic.in & http://openmed.nic.in http://openmed.nic.in

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Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 30, Issue 17
by Aloor Thomas Francis 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

PROF. K.A. ISAAC, A DOYEN OF THE LIBRARY AND INFORMATION PROFESSION The sad demise of Prof. K.A. Issac is a great loss to the nation in general and to the profession in particular. He was a great teacher and librarian and contributed much to the profession, especially to the academic library system. The best tribute to him is to follow the professional spirit injected by him. A.T. Francis Assistant Librarian Kerala Agricultural University --- lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in wrote: > Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to > lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, > visit > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > or, via email, send a message with subject or body > 'help' to > lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > You can reach the person managing the list at > lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it > is more specific > than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Could u Please Help (zahid wani) > 2. CONDOLENCE MEETING ON THE DEMISE OF PROF. > K.A.ISAAC (Sadasivan KP) > 3. research work (arun yadav) > 4. PROF. K.A. ISAAC PASSED AWAY (Prof. N. Laxman > Rao.) > 5. Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETD) > Documents from NDLTD > (JK Vijayakumar) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 01:58:10 -0700 (PDT) > From: zahid wani <zahid_rais(a)yahoo.com> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Could u Please Help > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > Message-ID: > <20050914085810.82879.qmail(a)web33007.mail.mud.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > Dear patrons > > could please provide information regarding > public library systems in punjab and haryana as i am > pursuing my research study on the public library > systmes in these states and if some body think > he/she can be of any help to me, then please write > to me at zahid_rais(a)yahoo.com or > zahid_rais(a)rediffmail.com . i will be grateful to > the person and the this network. > Zahid Ashraf wani > > PhD Res. Scholar > > Deptt. of Lib. & Inf. Science > > University of Kashmir > > Jammu & Kashmir > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com >

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Opening For Sr.Library Position
by tariq22＠gmail.com 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

OPENING FOR A SENIOR LIBRARY POSITION A reputed Management Institute, situated in South West Delhi has an opening for a Librarian at Senior Position. Interested professionals ONLY from in and around Delhi may forward their detailed resume to the undersigned in electronic format by 30th September, 2005 Prospective candidates must be Post Graduates in Library & Information Science from a reputed Institute and should have working experience of at least 12-15 years. Knowledge of modern information and communication technologies, Library Automation Soft wares and capability to leverage IT in rendering library services is essential. Candidates must also possess excellent English language proficiency, both oral and written . The job profile of selected candidates would also involve promotion of Institutes's a newly launched publication. Salary and other perquisites are dependent upon qualifications, experience etc. Dr.Tariq Ashraf tariq22(a)gmail.com OPENING FOR A SENIOR LIBRARY POSITION A reputed Management Institute, situated in South West Delhi has an opening for a Librarian at Senior Position. Interested professionals ONLY from in and around Delhi may forward their detailed resume to the undersigned in electronic format by 30th September, 2005 Prospective candidates must be Post Graduates in Library & Information Science from a reputed Institute and should have working experience of at least 12-15 years. Knowledge of modern information and communication technologies, Library Automation Soft wares and capability to leverage IT in rendering library services is essential. Candidates must also possess excellent English language proficiency, both oral and written . The job profile of selected candidates would also involve promotion of Institutes's a newly launched publication. Salary and other perquisites are dependent upon qualifications, experience etc. Dr.Tariq Ashraf mailto:tariq22@gmail.com tariq22(a)gmail.com

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Re: public support of journals
by Subbiah Arunachalam 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

Dear Jean Claude: Here are some facts about the Indian situation. All journals published by the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Academy of Sciences are now OA. Both these Academies receives grants from the Government of India (through the Department of Science and Technology). The Council of Scientific & Industrial Research publishes about a dozen journals from its NISCAIR office in New Delhi. As far as I know none of them is open access and in fact all of them are print journals with a subscription price. A private firm called MedKnow Publications undertakes to publish medical journals, mostly owned by professional societies. Right now they have more than thirty OA titles (although the print version may have a subscription price). The National Informatics Centre, another Government Department, manages the Indian Medlars Centre. This centre also publishes more than thirty OA journals (not owned by them). Besides, NIC-Indian Medlars Centre has set up an archive for full text biomedical research papers and it has more than 600 papers. But the best known Indian archive is the one at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. It has more than 2,000 papers. The National Chemical Laboratory in Pune has a repository, but they are concentrating on uploading Ph D theses. The National Institute of Technology at Rourkela has an archive with about 150 papers. For a vast country, what we have achieved so far is miniscule. Close to 75% of research is funded by the Central (Federal) Government in Delhi, and yet most Indian research papers are not easily accessible to other Indian researchers. Open archiving is perhaps the best solution and the government departments that fund research have not yet come forward to mandate self-archiving. It is likely that the University Grants Commission which kind of oversees the universities may come up with an OA policy soon. Regards. Arun --- Jean-Claude Guédon <jean.claude.guedon(a)UMONTREAL.CA> wrote: > Dear Jan, > > Indeed, you have missed something. > > After our long discussion, Stevan and I, support was > defined as follows: > > 1. Direct transfer of funds to a journal through > some governmental or > para-governmental body (e.g. a Council, a publicly > supported university, > etc.)in the form of direct subsidies (e.g. the 140+ > journals directly > supported by the Social Science and Humanities > Research council of > Canada); > > 2 Indirect support, i.e. free access to space, > equipment and work time > within a publicly supported institution (King and > Tenopir mention this > as hidden form of publishing support and some > publishers have even > deemed it "unfair" competition... > > Stevan raised the very point you mentioned in yet > another attempt brush > aside as marginal or irrelevant the possibility of > mandating certain > categories of publicly-supported journals to OA. I > have made it clear in > my response that I keep the form of "support" you > mention out of the > discussion: it really relates to the seller-customer > relationship. I > would also include in this non-public support the > direct transfer of > publishing fees (instead of a subscription fee) - > e.g. the $3,000 fee > practised your new employer. > > My point was *not* to try showing that commercial > journals are publicly > supported; my point was to demonstrate that, in many > countries, a (often > overwhelming) majority of journals are supported by > public subsidies, > either directly or indirectly. Because of this, I > argue they can be > mandated by governments to go OA. Incidentally, > Stevan agreed with this > proposition (while still maintaining that it touched > only a small number > of largely irrelevant or inferior journals). > > > Le samedi 17 septembre 2005 à 18:17 +0100, Jan > Velterop a écrit : > > I've clearly missed something. Whence this > discussion? Is there a > > problem? One could easily make the case that *all* > scholarly journals > > are supported by public money. If not directly, > then certainly > > indirectly, as all journals get a substantial part > of their revenues > > (often the majority) from publicly funded > institutions, who pay for > > the subscriptions, licences, page charges, > reprints, and the like. > > > > That's true for many industries, though. Think of > road construction, > > and, dare I say it, arms manufacturing. > > > > Jan Velterop > > > > On 17 Sep 2005, at 15:20, Jean-Claude Guédon > wrote: > > > > > A member of the library of the Academy of > science of China has > > > responded > > > to my query about public support of journals in > her country. here is > > > what she had to say: > > > > > > As far as we know, all the scholarly journals in > China may more or > > > less > > > receive public support. Editorial office of the > scholarly journals are > > > always affiliated to a certain institute, school > or society, which > > > makes > > > them more credible to readers. The institute, > school or society would > > > devote part of their budget supporting the > journals. Nowadays more and > > > more journals are turning to self-financing, but > they still receive > > > public support in the form of space, equipment > or work-time of > > > employees. > > > > > > Consequently, the case of China appears clear: > all or nearly all > > > scholarly publications in China receive some > form of public support. > > > > > > In all three cases thus far surveyed - Canada, > Chile, China - we > > > find a > > > majority of journals supported by public money. > From Chile, we hear > > > that > > > the Chilean situation is replicated across the > whole continent. > > > > > > If this is a marginal phenomenon, we must > redefine the word > > > "marginal"... > > > > > > jcg > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Dr. Jean-Claude Guédon > > > Dept. of Comparative Literature > > > University of Montreal > > > PO Box 6128, Downtown Branch > > > Montreal, QC H3C 3J7 > > > Canada > > > > -- > Dr. Jean-Claude Guédon > Dept. of Comparative Literature > University of Montreal > PO Box 6128, Downtown Branch > Montreal, QC H3C 3J7 > Canada > ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? 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