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Internet Archive to build alternative to Google
by Madhuresh 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

Dear Friends, This announcement didn't get much attention in comparison to Google's announcement. Internet Archive is hosting the digitized book collections of 10 International libraries including the library of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. See below news item taken from http://www.iwr.co.uk/IWR/1160176 Internet Archive to build alternative to Google Ten international libraries agree to add digitised book collections to not-for-profit Internet Archive's new Text Archive project By Mark Chillingworth [21-12-2004] Ten major international libraries have agreed to combine their digitised book collections into a free text-based archive hosted online by the not-for-profit Internet Archive. All content digitised and held in the text archive will be freely available to online users. Two major US libraries have agreed to join the scheme: Carnegie Mellon University library and The Library of Congress have committed their Million Book Project and American Memory Projects, respectively, to the text archive. The projects both provide access to digitised collections. The Canadian universities of Toronto, Ottawa and McMaster have agreed to add their collections, as have China's Zhejiang University, the Indian Institute of Science, the European Archives and Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt. In a statement, the Internet Archive describes the Text Archive as an Open Access archive that will "ensure permanent and public access to our published heritage". Over a million books have been committed to the Text Archive by the member institutes, with 50,000 available in the first quarter of 2005. The San Francisco-based Internet Archive was founded in 1996 to build a library for the internet that offered access to historical collections. It's most well-known online project is the Wayback Machine, which harvests snapshots of freely-available websites. Announced 24 hours after Google's tie-up with the university libraries of Oxford, Stanford, Michigan and Harvard, and the New York Public Library, the Internet Archive project is likely to be seen as the first of many alternatives to the Google Print library. Internet Archive said: "Commercial companies are currently working with libraries to digitise materials as well. We are encouraging these efforts and hope most of these materials will also be available through Text Archives." Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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Information om Library And Infn. Science Thesis
by vijaykumar nayak 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

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Re: [iatlis] Its Indians all the way......
by Smita Chandra 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

Nice to know this, but what are they doing for the 'Indian Library Scenario' ? Maybe we can lead them to pool together their expertise and resources for libraries here !?! If there is anybody willing to start this as a project, I'd most like to help. Best wishes, Smita C. Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai.INDIA Kumaresan <sckumaresan(a)yahoo.com> wrote: 'Indians in US are superachievers' December 29, 2004 10:15 IST The right wing Republican magazine 'National Review' praises Indian Americans as 'superachievers' who are reportedly switching from the Democratic to the Republican party in increasing numbers. "They may be the most prosperous ethnic group in America. By any measure, they are among the most successful. And they are waking up to politics, which portends big things ahead. Republicans, in particular, have reason to be excited," review writer Jay Nordingler says. An Indian-American moment may be coming. This community we're talking South Asia, not 'Native American' numbers about two million, and they are the fastest-growing such community in the nation. Their median income is $60,000 (as against the general American one, about USD 39,000), the magazine says. "They boast something like 200,000 millionaires. They are extraordinarily educated, leaders in many professions. They include about 40,000 doctors, a staggering figure to which you can add about 12,000 medical students and interns." Famous small-business owners, Indian Americans preside over nearly 40 percent of hotels in the US. In short, this is a group of American superachievers. And Republicans think and hope that this group is ripe for their party, it says. The thinking goes like this: "Indian Americans are entrepreneurial, hard-working, striving, traditionalist, family-oriented, religious, assimilationist and patriotic. What could be better?" And what are their issues? Tax reform and regulation, particularly as they affect small businesses; free trade, which includes a robust defence of outsourcing..., the magazine says. "Have a Nice Day" S.C.Kumaresan Senior Librarian BITS, Pilani - Dubai Campus, P.O. Box: 500022, Block No.11, Knowledge Village, Dubai - UAE Phone. 0097143664575 - 77, Fax. 009714 3664580. Mobile. 00971508829462 ================================================================= The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge. -- Sir William Arthur Lewis. ================================================================= --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. Yahoo! Groups SponsorADVERTISEMENT --------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iatlis/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: iatlis-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Jazz up your holiday email with celebrity designs. Learn more. Nice to know this,�but what are they doing for the 'Indian Library Scenario' ? Maybe we can�lead them�to�pool�together their expertise and resources for libraries here�!?!� If there is anybody willing to start this as a project, I'd most like to help. � Best wishes, � Smita C. Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai.INDIA Kumaresan <sckumaresan(a)yahoo.com> wrote: 'Indians in US are superachievers' December 29, 2004�10:15 IST The right wing Republican magazine 'National Review' praises Indian Americans as 'superachievers' who are reportedly switching from the Democratic to the Republican party in increasing numbers. "They may be the most prosperous ethnic group in America. By any measure, they are among the most successful. And they are waking up to politics, which portends big things ahead. Republicans, in particular, have reason to be excited," review writer Jay Nordingler says. An Indian-American moment may be coming. This community we're talking South Asia, not 'Native American'� numbers about two million, and they are the fastest-growing such community in the nation. Their median income is�$60,000 (as against the general American one, about USD 39,000), the magazine says. "They boast something like 200,000 millionaires. They are extraordinarily educated, leaders in many professions. They include about 40,000 doctors, a staggering figure to which you can add about 12,000 medical students and interns." Famous small-business owners, Indian Americans preside over nearly 40 percent of hotels in the US. In short, this is a group of American superachievers. And Republicans think and hope that this group is ripe for their party, it says. The thinking goes like this: "Indian Americans are entrepreneurial, hard-working, striving, traditionalist, family-oriented, religious, assimilationist and patriotic. What could be better?" And what are their issues? Tax reform and regulation, particularly as they affect small businesses; free trade, which includes a robust defence of outsourcing..., the magazine says. "Have a Nice Day" � S.C.Kumaresan Senior Librarian BITS, Pilani - Dubai Campus , P.O. Box: 500022, Block No.11, Knowledge Village, Dubai - UAE Phone. 0097143664575 - 77, Fax. 009714 3664580. Mobile. 00971508829462 � ================================================================= The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge. -- Sir William Arthur Lewis. ================================================================= Do you Yahoo!? http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/mobile/*http://mobile.yahoo.com/mai… Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. Yahoo! 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Fwd: NASSDOC Workshop for Librarians and Social Scientists
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

--- "M.K.Singh" <mksingh(a)iiml.ac.in> > Subject: NASSDOC Workshop for Librarians and Social Scientists > Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:08:24 +0530 > > A Very Happy New Year 2005 > > May I take the liberty of requesting you to please post the following > news-item along with the attachments, to as many LIS User > Groups/Bulletin Boards, as you are familiar > with/coordinating/monitoring, like the following? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dear Colleagues > > A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR 2005 > > It gives me pleasure to inform all my colleagues in the profession as > well as academia that on a request from National Social Science > Documentation Centre of ICSSR, IIM Lucknow has agreed to organize a > four day workshop (without any registration Fee) for Librarians, Social > Scientists and Research Scholars, in the area of Acess to Social Science > Information in Digital Environment during February 7-10, 2005. > Since this programme is designed to accommodate a participant strength > of 20-25, registrations will be confirmed on the basis of > first-come-first-serve basis. > for further details plese contact> > > M.K.Singh > Assistant Librarian > Indian Institute of Management > Prabandh Nagar > Off Sitapur Road > Lucknow 226 013 (India) > > Phone: 91-0522- 2734101-20 Ext. 6965 (O) > 91-0522-2766746 & 2766097 (R), 9415010875(Mobile) > > email: mksingh(a)iiml.ac.in > Fax: 91-0522 -2734025-2734027 > URL: http://iiml.ac.in ===== Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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The Manthan Award 2004 for best e-content initiative
by JK Vijayakumar 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

The Manthan Award 2004, India will be organized by Digital Empowerment Foundation, India and PlaNet Finance India, inspired by WSA - the World Summit Award in order to select quality e-Content and promote creativity and innovation in the development of new media applications in India. Visit http://www.manthanaward.com/ for more details. --J K Vijayakumar (INFLIBNET) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Special library functions.
by Seshu Sripada 28 Dec '04

28 Dec '04

Hi Could you please provide the any special library functions which are different to public libraries. Seshu -----------------------SOFTPRO DISCLAIMER------------------------------ Information contained in this E-MAIL and any attachments are confidential being proprietary to SOFTPRO SYSTEMS is 'privileged' and 'confidential'. If you are not an intended or authorised recipient of this E-MAIL or have received it in error, You are notified that any use, copying or dissemination of the information contained in this E-MAIL in any manner whatsoever is strictly prohibited. Please delete it immediately and notify the sender by E-MAIL. In such a case reading, reproducing, printing or further dissemination of this E-MAIL is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. SOFTPRO SYSYTEMS does not REPRESENT or WARRANT that an attachment hereto is free from computer viruses or other defects. The opinions expressed in this E-MAIL and any ATTACHEMENTS may be those of the author and are not necessarily those of SOFTPRO SYSTEMS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hi Could you please provide the any special library functions which are different to public libraries. Seshu -----------------------SOFTPRO DISCLAIMER------------------------------ Information contained in this E-MAIL and any attachments are confidential being proprietary to SOFTPRO SYSTEMS is 'privileged' and 'confidential'. If you are not an intended or authorised recipient of this E-MAIL or have received it in error, You are notified that any use, copying or dissemination of the information contained in this E-MAIL in any manner whatsoever is strictly prohibited. Please delete it immediately and notify the sender by E-MAIL. In such a case reading, reproducing, printing or further dissemination of this E-MAIL is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. SOFTPRO SYSYTEMS does not REPRESENT or WARRANT that an attachment hereto is free from computer viruses or other defects. The opinions expressed in this E-MAIL and any ATTACHEMENTS may be those of the author and are not necessarily those of SOFTPRO SYSTEMS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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ILA
by Seshu Sripada 28 Dec '04

28 Dec '04

Hi, Could you please provide a link for Indian Library Association web site url. I would like to know the complete details. Seshu -----------------------SOFTPRO DISCLAIMER------------------------------ Information contained in this E-MAIL and any attachments are confidential being proprietary to SOFTPRO SYSTEMS is 'privileged' and 'confidential'. If you are not an intended or authorised recipient of this E-MAIL or have received it in error, You are notified that any use, copying or dissemination of the information contained in this E-MAIL in any manner whatsoever is strictly prohibited. Please delete it immediately and notify the sender by E-MAIL. In such a case reading, reproducing, printing or further dissemination of this E-MAIL is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. SOFTPRO SYSYTEMS does not REPRESENT or WARRANT that an attachment hereto is free from computer viruses or other defects. The opinions expressed in this E-MAIL and any ATTACHEMENTS may be those of the author and are not necessarily those of SOFTPRO SYSTEMS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hi, Could you please provide a link for Indian Library Association web site url. I would like to know the complete details. Seshu -----------------------SOFTPRO DISCLAIMER------------------------------ Information contained in this E-MAIL and any attachments are confidential being proprietary to SOFTPRO SYSTEMS is 'privileged' and 'confidential'. If you are not an intended or authorised recipient of this E-MAIL or have received it in error, You are notified that any use, copying or dissemination of the information contained in this E-MAIL in any manner whatsoever is strictly prohibited. Please delete it immediately and notify the sender by E-MAIL. In such a case reading, reproducing, printing or further dissemination of this E-MAIL is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. SOFTPRO SYSYTEMS does not REPRESENT or WARRANT that an attachment hereto is free from computer viruses or other defects. The opinions expressed in this E-MAIL and any ATTACHEMENTS may be those of the author and are not necessarily those of SOFTPRO SYSTEMS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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(no subject)
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 28 Dec '04

28 Dec '04

Google Designs an Engine for Eggheads With its Scholar research software, the Web giant hopes to tap into a new source of traffic -- and revenue. By Chris Gaither Times Staff Writer December 27, 2004 After raking in billions of dollars helping the masses search the Web, Google Inc. is targeting academics like Daniel Branton. The Harvard University biology professor has used Google for years to locate sensors and other laboratory equipment. But it wasn't very good at finding peer-reviewed research papers and other academic publications. That changed with the recent release of Google Scholar. The specialized search engine uncovers papers better than Google.com, Branton said, and is simpler to use than the expensive databases in Harvard's vaunted libraries. "I found that I could find, in a much more rapid fashion, what I was looking for by just putting in a few keywords," he said. "Even if it had a bit of advertising, I wouldn't mind." That's exactly what Google was hoping the professor would say. Google Scholar doesn't feature ads, but one day it just might. Along with rivals Yahoo Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., Google is in hot pursuit of the egghead crowd as a new source of traffic — and revenue. They all see opportunity in scholarly information, a $12-billion business long dominated by publishers such as Reed Elsevier and Thomson Corp. The Web companies are aiming to snag scholars before they head to subscription services to do research. To do that, the companies have to equip their search engines to scour some of the billions of pages locked away in subscription sites, hidden corners of the Web and books. "The search engine market is very competitive," said Ed Pentz, executive director of CrossRef, a nonprofit organization in Lynnfield, Mass., that works to make scholarly papers available to the public. "This is the next stage, and it's prestigious, high-quality content. It expands the range of what they can offer users." It also gives search engine companies more pages on which to place ads. Google generates nearly $3 billion a year serving up targeted ads tied to keywords, and the Mountain View, Calif., company says it could sell even more if it could just find relevant pages to put them on. If it does, advertisers will probably pay extra to deliver their highly targeted messages directly to potential customers such as Branton, said Chuck Richard, a vice president with market research firm Outsell Inc. When the Harvard professor uses Google Scholar to find papers on his specialty, nanotube biology, companies that sell the $6,000 humidity sensors he favors might be willing to pay a pretty penny to have their ads appear on his computer screen. "They're not trying to get the average person," Richard said. "One of the strengths is it calls the right people to it." Google Scholar relies on the same index of websites as Google's mainstream search engine but ranks those websites differently. The regular search engine uses a system called PageRank, which turns the Internet into a huge popularity contest. When a user enters a query into Google, Web pages are ranked in large part according to the number of times they are linked to by other websites. That approach presents problems when it comes to specialized research, because the most relevant papers may not be the most popular. Studies that would be useful to scientists may live in obscurity on the Web, buried beneath hundreds of sites that command more links. So Google Scholar doesn't rely on how many websites link to a particular paper or book. Instead, it examines who wrote it, who published it and how many other scholarly works cited it. Based on those sorts of criteria, dissertations, peer-reviewed papers and other scholarly literature can float to the top of search results. The newest Google search engine has received mixed reviews. Branton and others complain that, unlike nearly all other scholarly databases, Google won't disclose what sources it draws from, so academics can't know what they're missing. It also appears to be incomplete. In an online review, Peter Jacso of the University of Hawaii at Manoa's library and information science program wrote that a search for all records from the medical research database PubMed returned only 879,000. The database actually contains 15 million records. "Like its popular counterpart, searching Google Scholar is easy," he wrote. "Finding the gems is difficult." Anurag Acharya, a former computer science professor at UC Santa Barbara who created Google Scholar, said the 1-month-old program would improve as Google got feedback from users. Google is working to collect more scholarly information by expanding its Google Print program to digitize some or all of the books in five research libraries, including those at Harvard. The task will take years. But when it's finished, Google says, millions of books will be available for academics — and others — to search. That mirrors efforts at other big Internet companies. Amazon has scanned more than 200,000 books in the last year as part of its Search Inside the Book program. Last month the Seattle-based online retailer capitalized on that investment by quietly introducing Amazon.com Citations to help drive sales of scholarly texts. Now, when Amazon provides descriptive information about a book, it includes a list of other books that are mentioned in the text, footnotes or bibliography. If the book is cited in other texts, those are mentioned as well. "It's yet another way for people to find related books," said Bill Carr, Amazon's director of digital media. Carr declined to say whether sales have grown as a result. As for Yahoo, it's enlarging its searchable index to include more Web pages from sources such as the National Science Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution. Among other items, the Sunnyvale, Calif., company's 9-month-old Content Acquisition Program has netted nearly 100,000 digital documents about ancient Babylon from UCLA's Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. "There's no question that we are getting much wider publicity as a result of it," said Bob Englund, a professor of Assyriology and director of the cuneiform library. In addition, Yahoo has recalibrated its system for gauging the importance of a website to raise the visibility of academic papers and documents. Because they tend to deal with esoteric subjects, few other sites link to them — a situation that would normally relegate an online document to obscurity. Instead, Yahoo relies on publishers like Englund to identify the keywords and other descriptors that will boost their obscure material in search results. Google, analysts say, has been the most aggressive in its efforts to tap into the academic market. "It's very shrewd," said John Tinker, an analyst with ThinkEquity Partners. "It keeps differentiating them from Microsoft, and it keeps them intellectually ahead of Yahoo." Both Google and Yahoo were founded by computer science graduate students from Stanford University. While Yahoo has evolved into an online media company — its chief executive, Terry Semel, ran the Warner Bros. studio before going to Silicon Valley — Google has stuck close to its roots. Its fevered courtship of engineers, scientists and mathematicians has made for a workforce attuned to the needs of the academic market. "This is one way we give back to the community," said Acharya, the professor-turned-Google engineer. The scholarly search engine could pave the way for similar services targeting other research-heavy professions, analysts say. Logical candidates include Google Doctor and Google Lawyer. "I see it as an opening that can be further developed," said David Garrity, an analyst with investment firm Caris & Co. "Google can certainly hold itself out as being the site where people can go to gain not only breadth but depth of information." **************************************** Sreeharsha BG Knowledge Management Group i2 Technologies software Pvt. Ltd. 5th Floor, Diamond District, Airport Road, Bangalore-8 PH: 25047319 **************************************** Nahi Jnanena sadrusham....pavithramiha vidyathe

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Greetings & Canon of Parsimony
by Prafulla Chandra 27 Dec '04

27 Dec '04

Dear All, With the New Year is around the corner, we witness another flood of greetings from individuals. As a contribution towards reducing information overload and to save on precious Internet bandwidth and to avoid clogs in networks, shall we have just a single, generic New Year greeting message posted by the moderator of each listserve (lis-forum, corporate librarians, iatlis, nmlis, etc.). Shall we all consider this message as the greeting which conveys the collective best wishes of all members of the group to each one of us. Perhaps, we could follow the same practice in case of other major Indian festivals too. Many thanks Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Romila Thapar- library consortium
by vasanth raj 27 Dec '04

27 Dec '04

Dear sir/Madam, The eminent historian of India Romila Thapar has explained the improvements of library facilities in Indian schools and She also mentioned the need of library consortia in India.It is great that such scholar has rise the need of library consortia in India., which is very important to provide information to large masses with cost effectiveness. For further information: See the THE Hindu " Insight " 26th Dec 2004. Vaantha Raju N E-mail: gooche_19812yahoo.co.in. Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear sir/Madam, The eminent historian of India Romila Thapar has explained the improvements of library facilities in Indian schools and She also mentioned the need of library consortia in India.It is great that such scholar has rise the need of library consortia in India., which is very important to provide information to large masses with cost effectiveness. For further information: See the THE Hindu " Insight " 26th Dec 2004. Vaantha Raju N E-mail: gooche_19812yahoo.co.in. http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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