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Voluntary Data contribution
by G. K. Manjunath 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

We invite Indian LIS professionals to join our initiative which aims to develop a Free online Database consisting of index to Journal articles with abstract, book reviews and conference papers published in Indian Social Science Journals. For further details, please visit http://oii.igidr.ac.in thanks, g.k.manjunath CHIEF LIBRARIAN INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FILM CITY ROAD ( GEN.VAIDYA MARG ) SANTOSH NAGAR GOREGAON ( EAST ) MUMBAI - 400 065 INDIA

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IFLA-ALP Workshop on Information Literacy at Punjabi University, Patiala.
by harry＠pbi.ac.in 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

****Apologies for cross postings**** IFLA-ALP Workshop on Information Literacy at Punjabi University, Patiala. The Department of Library & Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala is organizing a 5-day international workshop on Information Literacy from 3-7 October 2005. The theme of the workshop is 'Information Skills for Learning'. This is a follow-up workshop, the first one was held in Colombo (Sri Lanka) in November 2004. The following resource persons have confirmed their participation in this IFLA-ALP and Unesco sponsored workshop: Mr. Gerald Brown, Honorary Ambassador of the International Association of School Librarianship, Canada Prof. Russell Bowden (UK) Honorary IFLA Fellow, Sri Lanka Prof. Philip J Calvert, School of Information Management, University of Wellington, New Zealand. Dr Diljit Singh, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Ms. Karen Bonanno, Australian School Libraries Association, Australia. Ms. June Wall, Australian School Libraries Association, Australia. Mrs. Pradeepa Wijetunge, Director, NILIS, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka About 30 foreign delegates from South and South East Asian countries are also participating in this workshop. Library and information professionals in India are invited to participate in this workshop. Only a limited number of seats (25-30) are available for Indian delegates. Applications for participation would be considered on first-come-first-served basis. IFLA and Unesco are sponsoring the International resource persons and delegates. Persons having knowledge/experience in the field of information literacy would be given preference. The registration fee for the workshop is as under: Indian delegates (with accommodation): Rs. 5000/- Indian delegates (without accommodation): Rs. 4000/- Registration fee includes food, workshop kit, and study materials. Modest accommodation would be provided on first-come-first-served basis in the university. In case a an intending participant requires star accommodation in a hotel, he would have to pay for it from his own sources. We would provide the interested persons with list of hotel addresses/phone numbers. Patiala is situated about 250 km north of Delhi and is well connected with rail and road. The nearest airport is Chandigarh (60 km). Punjabi University, the venue of the workshop, is situated 20 km off Rajpura. Rajpura is situated about 30 km from Ambala Cantt. on the Delhi- Amritsar National Highway no.1. The climate generally remains pleasant during first week of October and the temperature during these days remains between 30 degrees celcius (maximum) and 20 degrees celcius (minimum). For further details, interested persons may contact the workshop coordinator at the following address: Dr Jagtar Singh, Project Coordinator and Head Department of Library & Information Science Punjabi University, Patiala 147 002 Tel: 0175-3046179 (work) Email: kindu_jagtar(a)yahoo.co.in, empowering8(a)sify.com, jagtar(a)pbi.ac.in

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Case Material: Provisions of IPR laws
by theresa.williams＠wipro.com 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Tariq As per copyright rules, will have to seek permission from the publishers for each additional copy we need to Xerox for the sessions by paying appropriately on the no of copies . ex: HBS case studies. Regds Theresa Theresa Williams Information Services Division Wipro Technologies 72,Keonics E-city Hosur road Bangalore 560100 Tel:91-80-51381791 91-80-28520408#1791 FAX:91-80-28520478 VOIP:808-5512 Mobile:9845324613 theresa.williams(a)wipro.com -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of tariq22(a)gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 1:35 PM To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Case Material: Provisions of IPR laws Dear All I am looking for provisions of Intellectual Property and Copy Right laws in India with regard to Case MateriaL used in Business School and included in reading list The information I require is that if a case is released for use in courses should it be OR not be openly available in the Library I request you to kindly enlighten me with the requisite provisions AND practices in this regard. Thanks and Regards -- Dr.Tariq Ashraf Librarian Indian Institute of Management Prabandh Nagar, Lucknow 226 013 (India) Ph: 0522-2736944[Direct] Res: 011-55125312 Mobile : 9935-639130 Fax: 91-0522 -2734025-2734027 Email: tariq(a)iiml.ac.in; tariq22(a)gmail.com URL: http://iiml.ac.in Confidentiality Notice The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender at Wipro or Mailadmin(a)wipro.com immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments.

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Wanted - Library and Information Scientists
by Maruthu Pandian 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Dear Members PubSub Concepts Pvt Ltd, requires Library and Information Scinetists for its India Development Centre at NOIDA. Library and Information Scientists ------------------------------------------------ Job Description Librarians and library information scientists having very good knowledge and experience in various aspects of library science including various international standards of classification and Cataloguing. Selected candidates will work on the realtime data collection, acquisition, taxanomies and classification for various domains. Experience in news/media content classification, RSS/XML Feeds, Content Searching on web would be added advantage. Required Skills * Strong in Library and Information Science * Search Engines and Search Strategies. * Classification methodologies * Good Communication Skills Preferred Skills * Online content classification * Computers and Internet * MS-Office and other text/word processing applications * Experience with RSS Feeds and blogs. * SQL Queries. Remuneration * Best in the industry Location * Noida Contact Maruthu Pandian B mpandian(a)pubsub.com __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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Usage of library software by academic libraries
by Ashwini Prabhu 10 Sep '05

10 Sep '05

Hello, I would like to know if anybody has conducted some survey on the which library software, academic libraries are using in Mumbai and an analysis of the same. Ashwini Librarian M.P Shah College Hello, I would like to know if anybody has conducted some survey on the which library software, academic libraries are using in Mumbai and an analysis of the same. Ashwini Librarian M.P Shah College 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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MLA Cunningham International Fellowship for Medical Librarians
by JK Vijayakumar 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Please excuse any duplication. Two Indian Medical librarians received this fellowship from MLA since 1972. The Cunningham Fellowship is a four-month fellowship for health sciences librarians from countries outside the United States and Canada. The award, which provides for observation and supervised work in one or more medical libraries in the United States or Canada, is in the amount of $6,000, with up to $2,000 additional for travel within these two countries. MLA welcome applications for interested individuals from countries other than the USA and Canada. For full information, fact sheets, and application form please go to: http://mlanet.org/awards/grants/index.html The application deadline is Dec. 1, 2005. All the best. J.K.Vijayakumar __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Please excuse any duplication. Two Indian Medical librarians received this fellowship from MLA since 1972. The Cunningham Fellowship is a four-month fellowship for health sciences librarians from countries outside the United States and Canada. The award, which provides for observation and supervised work in one or more medical libraries in the United States or Canada, is in the amount of $6,000, with up to $2,000 additional for travel within these two countries. MLA welcome applications for interested individuals from countries other than the USA and Canada. For full information, fact sheets, and application form please go to: http://mlanet.org/awards/grants/index.html http://mlanet.org/awards/grants/index.html The application deadline is Dec. 1, 2005. All the best. J.K.Vijayakumar __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Fwd: [BOAI] colLib - organizing Open Access documents in LIS]
by Subbiah Arunachalam 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [BOAI] colLib - organizing Open Access documents in LIS From: "Magnus Enger" <Magnus.Enger(a)hibo.no> Date: Fri, September 9, 2005 3:40 pm To: SCHOLCOMM(a)ala.org boai-forum(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk web4lib(a)webjunction.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Apologies for cross-posting! *** Hi! Wouldn't it be nice to have a subject-gateway to all the LIS-related documents that can be found in Open Access repositories? Would you like to collaborate on organizing them? As part of my ongoing masters-degree in "Science of documentation" at the University of Tromsø, Norway, I have created colLib - a prototype of a system for organizing and finding documents that are available in Open Access repositories: http://collib.info/ New metadata are "harvested" daily from open repositories - the newest "records" are available here: http://collib.info/index.php/Special:OaiRecent All the repositories that are harvested are related to "Library and Information Science" - a list of them is available here: http://collib.info/index.php/Special:OaiRepos Metadata are organized through "tags". A tag can for example represent a subject - here is an overview of the subjects that are represented as of today: http://collib.info/index.php/Category:Subjects Tags can also represent other organizing categories, like geography and names of projects and services - here is an overview of the categories so far: http://collib.info/index.php/Category:Top * My colLib If you register as a user of colLib, you can click "watch" at the top of most pages in colLib and have them added to "My colLib", which is your personal "bookshelf" in colLib. This page will give you a list of categories, subjects and posts that you would like to keep an eye on, remember or have easy access to. To register: http://collib.info/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&returnto=Main_Page My colLib: http://collib.info/index.php/Special:MyCollib * RSS A RSS 0.91-feed for the newest records is available here: http://collib.info/xml.php You will also find a link to RSS-feeds for the records that are connected with each tag on the page for that tag. See the article "RSS For Non-Techie Librarians" by Steven M. Cohen for more on RSS: http://www.llrx.com/features/rssforlibrarians.htm * You can contribute! colLib is based on the fact that anyone can contribute to organizing the records. When you look at a post you will allways find a link marked "Click here to add/edit tags". Clicking here will give you the opportunity to change the old tags and/or add new ones. You will find some more information on how to do this here: http://collib.info/index.php/Help:Editing Another way to contribute is to upload documents you have created to one of the repositories that are harvested by colLib. * Feedback is very welcome. You can send an e-mail to magnus(a)enger.priv.no or add a comment here: http://collib.info/index.php/ColLib:Feedback Regards Magnus Enger Magnus Enger Bibliotekar / Librarian Høgskolen i Bodø / Bodø Regional University Biblioteket / The Library N-8049 BODØ Norge / Norway http://www.bibliotek.hibo.no/

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Call for free access to research
by Subbiah Gunasekaran 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Call for free access to research UK universities have joined calls for publicly-funded research to be freely available on the internet. In a position statement, Universities UK supports moves to broaden access away from subscription-based journals and - more recently - websites. The organisation argues that such academic material is vital to national productivity and well-being. Its intervention is the latest in a long-running debate about the public accessiblity of research findings. Universities UK says freeing up research would also increase the number of times it is cited by other academics - which in turn boosts researchers' claims to funding. Cultural health The eight UK research councils, which control most of the public funding, have proposed making free access a condition of getting grants. The president of Universities UK, Professor Drummond Bone, said: "Publicly funded research undertaken in UK universities lies at the heart of a productive economy, as well as supporting the physical, social and cultural health of the nation. "Ensuring that the main outputs of research - ideas and knowledge - are disseminated widely is vitally important. "Universities UK supports moves by the research community and publishers to develop new publishing models that are based on the principle that research outcomes should be disseminated and freely accessed as widely as possible." Rising prices The universities say the subscription-based system of scholarly communication has served the research community well in the past but "now operates at a sub-optimal level". A key problem has been rapidly increasing journal prices - up 58% between 1998 and 2003, compared with a general inflation rate of 11%. Developments in electronic publishing have made possible a fundamental change, they argue. In a report last year, the House of Commons science and technology committee also called for publicly-funded research to be made freely available online in archived digital information banks. Publishers have argued that the cost per page has not increased - they are just being offered increasing amounts of research material. And they say they bear the costs of having research "peer reviewed" - checked by others - and that if this were to end the integrity of research could be compromised. They include not only commercial publishers but not-for-profit learned societies. Universities UK says they play a crucial role and the effect of any change on them should be monitored closely. But it says there are sustainable ways forward, probably involving a mixture of the current system and new ways of doing things, such as having those who fund the research meet the publication costs. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4224072.stm --------- Call for free access to research UK universities have joined calls for publicly-funded research to be freely available on the internet. In a position statement, Universities UK supports moves to broaden access away from subscription-based journals and - more recently - websites. The organisation argues that such academic material is vital to national productivity and well-being. Its intervention is the latest in a long-running debate about the public accessiblity of research findings. Universities UK says freeing up research would also increase the number of times it is cited by other academics - which in turn boosts researchers' claims to funding. Cultural health The eight UK research councils, which control most of the public funding, have proposed making free access a condition of getting grants. The president of Universities UK, Professor Drummond Bone, said: "Publicly funded research undertaken in UK universities lies at the heart of a productive economy, as well as supporting the physical, social and cultural health of the nation. "Ensuring that the main outputs of research - ideas and knowledge - are disseminated widely is vitally important. "Universities UK supports moves by the research community and publishers to develop new publishing models that are based on the principle that research outcomes should be disseminated and freely accessed as widely as possible." Rising prices The universities say the subscription-based system of scholarly communication has served the research community well in the past but "now operates at a sub-optimal level". A key problem has been rapidly increasing journal prices - up 58% between 1998 and 2003, compared with a general inflation rate of 11%. Developments in electronic publishing have made possible a fundamental change, they argue. In a report last year, the House of Commons science and technology committee also called for publicly-funded research to be made freely available online in archived digital information banks. Publishers have argued that the cost per page has not increased - they are just being offered increasing amounts of research material. And they say they bear the costs of having research "peer reviewed" - checked by others - and that if this were to end the integrity of research could be compromised. They include not only commercial publishers but not-for-profit learned societies. Universities UK says they play a crucial role and the effect of any change on them should be monitored closely. But it says there are sustainable ways forward, probably involving a mixture of the current system and new ways of doing things, such as having those who fund the research meet the publication costs. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4224072.stm --------- 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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Urgently looking for a book
by Parinita Samant 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Dear All, This is a very nice forum for discussion. I am new here, and have enjoyed reading all your mails. In fact, that is why I decided to seek your help. I am looking for a book, " Advanced Assembler Language and MVS Interfaces" by Carmine A. Cannatello. Can anyone help me out?? Thanks and Regards Parinita contact me at parinitas(a)hexaware.com

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[LIS-Forum] Version 59, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Version 59 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,480 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals, by the same author, provides much more in-depth coverage of the open access movement and related topics (e.g., disciplinary archives, e-prints, institutional repositories, open access journals, and the Open Archives Initiative) than SEPB does. http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.htm The Open Access Webliography (with Ho) complements the OAB, providing access to a number of Websites related to open access topics. http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 5.3 Other Legal Issues 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Digital Rights Management 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies* Appendix B. About the Author* Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* Digital Libraries* Electronic Books and Texts* Electronic Serials* General Electronic Publishing* Images Legal* Preservation Publishers Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* SGML and Related Standards Further Information about SEPB The HTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be can be searched using Boolean operators. The HTML document includes three sections not found in the Acrobat file: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (biweekly list of new resources; also available by mailing list--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepwlist.htm http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm The Acrobat file is designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 200 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 550 KB. Related Article An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston Libraries Home: http://www.escholarlypub.com/ DigitalKoans: http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/ Open Access Bibliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.htm Open Access Webliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm

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