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Open Access and Electronic Publishing Session @InfoVision2005- join the debate
by Shalini R Urs 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

Dear friends, Participate and join the debate - at the Panel on E-Publishing: Changing Paradigms and shifting markets on September 15 at the InfoVision2005 Summit This panel begins with a keynote by Prof. Jean Claude Guedon of University of Montreal, Canada, the founder of Surfaces, the first Canadian electronic scholarly journal, and a champion of Open Access Publishing from the Open Society Institute. The session is anchored by Ms. Judith Turner, the editor of Journal of Electronic Publishing - University of Michigan Press, USA. Joining the great debate are Mr. H.S. Balaram, Editor, Times of India, Ms. Mr. Rajiv Seth, president, Cybermedia services, Ms. Nancy Buckley from Blackwell publishing, Come and enjoy the intensive and incisive debates on topical issues that affect the Information Landscape of the future at the InfoVision 2005 Summit For more details visit the website www.infovision2005.org Shalini Urs Coordinator- InfoVision2005 -- Dr.Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Mysore Tele: 91-821-2514699 Fax: 91-821-2519209 Homepage:www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.html

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Infosys launches 'A library for a school' in Gulbarga district
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEK20050816025454&Page=K&Title=… Infosys launches 'A library for a school' in Gulbarga district Tuesday August 16 2005 13:16 IST GULBARGA: The launching of 'A Library for a School' scheme by Infosys Foundation was the highlight of the celebrations of the 59th Independence Day here on Monday. The ambitious scheme envisaging provision of books worth Rs.10, 000 to every government school was inaugurated at a simple function in the Durbar Hall of the Aiwan-E-Shashi guesthouse. Though the beneficiary schools are from Gurmitkal assembly constituency in Yadgir taluk the function was organised at the far off district head quarter. Foundation Chairpersons Sudha Murthy symbolically handed over five kits each containing 144 books costing about Rs.10, 000 to the head masters of five government schools of Gurmitkal in the presence of Minister for Water Resources and Transport Mallikarjun Kharge. Gurmitkal is the assembly constituency of Kharge from where he has been elected to the assembly for a record eight times in a row. There are 169 government lower, higher and secondary schools in Gurmnitkal constituency and all of them will be getting free books under the Infosys Foundation scheme. The Foundation also offered sewing machines to five poorest of the poor women all hailing from Gurmitkal in an effort to bring about economic stability to their families. Handing over the book-kits, Sudha Murthy declared that all government Kannada medium secondary schools will be given book-kits in Gulbarga district in a phased manner. She wanted teachers to evince interest in inculcating reading habits among children so that children can develop love for reading in their life. Mallikarjun Kharge lauded Infosys Foundation for taking up educational charities on a large scale. Sent by ======= Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631

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post ponement of refresher course in Jammu University
by sangeeta gupta 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

Dear COlleagues We r sorry to say that Refresher Course in library Science has been postponed for probably in the month of November due to unavoidable circumstances. We will write to you later in the month of October. sorry for inconvenience. Dr. sangita Gupta Reader( Course Coordinator ) Deptt of Library science University of jammu jammu __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Is there any refresher course
by Mailing List Manager 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 00:35:11 -0700 (PDT) From: veena dusane <veenadusane2003(a)yahoo.com> Dear members Is there any agency/university which sponsors to attend refresher course or conference or seminar for library staff. It will be nice of you, if you will able to provide information about the refresher course in India. Thanking you Veena

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The newest open access journal from Hindawi
by Mailing List Manager 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 14:06:08 +0100 (BST) From: M.Prasanna <mitubpj(a)yahoo.co.in> August 10, 2005 The newest open access journal from Hindawi The Hindawi Publishing Corporation announce one more addition to its open access journal collection. The Journal of Nanomaterials (JNM) will be edited by Michael Hu of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and it can be found at www.hindawi.com/journals/jnm/. JNM is open access with a business model based on article processing charges to be paid by the authors' institution or research grant. The journal shall have an online edition, which is free with no subscription or registration barriers, and a print edition which shall be priced at a level reasonable for covering the printing cost. All articles published in JNM shall be distributed under the "Creative Commons Attribution License," which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. JNM brings the number of open access journals published by Hindawi to eight. The first seven journals are in the areas of biomedicine, computer engineering, mechanical engineering and applied mathematics. Hindawi is planning to launch several more open access journals in the next few months. For more information please contact: Paul Peters Senior Publishing Developer Hindawi Publishing Corporation E-Mail: http://in.f85.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=paul.peters@hindawi.com&YY=81754… paul.peters(a)hindawi.com The Hindawi Publishing Corporation is an STM publisher with 25 journals (17 subscription based and 8 open access) and two book series. The company website is located at http://www.hindawi.com/ http://www.hindawi.com < http://www.hindawi.com/ http://www.hindawi.com/ Prasanna

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XML Query Test Suite Released
by Mailing List Manager 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 07:45:29 +0100 (BST) From: noufal palliparamban <noufalkodur(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear friends, The XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group are pleased to release the XML Query Test Suite (XQTS). The groups invite W3C Members and the public to run this suite of approximately 7,000 test cases with any or all of the over 20 implementations of the XML Query draft specification. Your feedback will help the Working Groups judge the implementability of the XML Query language, help to improve interoperability, and help XML Query advance on the W3C Recommendation Track. Contributions of additional test cases are invited. XML home page. Regards Noufal.P.P Indian Institute of Technology

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Google's digital library on hold
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Google has shelved its ambitious library project -- to scan every book in the world -- for three months to allow copyright holders time to opt out of being scanned and included in Google's index. http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B80E824B0-2A2A-4670-A62E-4… Thanks Sreeharsha BG

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Inauguration of NLSIU Library, Bangalore
by madhu＠nls.ac.in 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Director, Faculty, Staff, Members of the General Council, Executive Council & Academic Council of the NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL OF INDIA UNIVERSITY Cordially invite you to the inauguration of Shri Narayanrao Meligiri Memorial National Law Library By The Visitor Honble Mr. Justice R.C. Lahoti Chief Justice of India On Saturday, the 27th of August, 2005 at 5.00 p.m --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Regards

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IBM Introduces Open Software Framework for Analysis of Unstructured Information
by Bhojaraju G 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Apologies for cross postings Dear Colleagues, IBM Introduces Open Software Framework for Analysis of Unstructured Information by Paula J. Hane --------------------------------------------------------------------------------August 15, 2005 — IBM has been working on an engineering foundation tosupport applications that make sense of the facts, meaning, andrelationships in unstructured information. IBM's UnstructuredInformation Management Architecture (UIMA) is an architecture andframework platform for creating, integrating, and deployingunstructured information management solutions that use combinations ofsemantic analysis and search components. The company has justannounced it is making UIMA available as free, open source software.The UIMA framework has already been embedded in IBM products,including IBM WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition, whichIBM said is the first commercially available software platform forprocessing content based on the UIMA standard. IBM WebSphere PortalServer and Lotus Work Place also leverage UIMA for content processing.In addition, 16 software vendors have announced commercial support forand adoption of UIMA. For full details pl referhttp://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb050815-3.shtml Thanks & Regards Bhojaraju G,Librarian–Knowledge Management, (Sharepoint Administrator)Homepage: http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.comKM-Forum Moderator : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/************************************… OneSource Ltd.148 Bhaskara Plaza, RV Road,VV Puram, Bangalore-560004, INDIA.Cell:+91-944 836 9905 E-mail: Bhojaraju.G(a)gmail.com, bhojarajug(a)yahoo.com ************************************************************************************************Visit "KM Cyberary" @http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com/cyberary.html & Pl put yourcomments on Guest Book.

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Announcement
by SRELS 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Sir: Kindly arrange to announce the following message to the members. Sincerely, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science ******** Message : To all the present and past students of DRTC It is proposed to compile a Directory of all the present and past students of Documentation Research and Training Centre (Indian Statistical Institute). Please send details including the mailing address and e-mail id to Dr. K.N. Prasad, Treasurer, DRTC Alumni Association C/o. Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010. Ph: (080) 23305109; E-mail: srels(a)vsnl.com If you have the details of address of your classmates at drtc, please send them. K.N. Prasad DRTC Alumni Association Sir: Kindly arrange to announce the following message to the members. Sincerely, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science ******** Message : To all the present and past students of DRTC It is proposed to compile a Directory of all the present and past students of Documentation Research and Training Centre (Indian Statistical Institute). Please send details including the mailing address and e-mail id to Dr. K.N. Prasad, Treasurer, DRTC Alumni Association C/o. 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 If you have the details of address of your classmates at drtc, please send them. K.N. Prasad DRTC Alumni Association

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