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applicants please check for the qualifications
by SCKumaresan 28 Oct '04

28 Oct '04

Dear Friends, Greetings to all. I have received a number of resumes in response to my earier mail for the post of Librarian. All the applicant have excellant qualifications, however none of them has mentioned anything about their elequonce in "Arabic" Please be informed that this is very important that the Librarian has to interact with students who have little or no knowledge in English. so please make sure that you are quite elequent in arabic and then apply. Moreover candidates who have over 20 years of experience and drawing more than 25,000 rupees salary may think twice before you applly, because Universities here are not that big like in india and as far as professional growth is concerned its almost nil. (This is purely my personnel opinion and kind suggestion based on my experience.) Those quilifed applications would be forwarded to the University Authorities and they would be reviewd by them and if shortlisted you will hear from them directly. Thank you Best Regards S.C.Kumaresan S.C.Kumaresan SeniorLibrarian, BITS - Pilani, Dubai Campus, P.O. Box No.500022. Block 11, Knowledge Village, Dubai, UAE Tele(009714)3664575/76, Fax(009714)3664580 Mobile. 0097158829462 http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo… Dear Friends, Greetings to all. I have received a number of resumes in response to my earier mail for the post of Librarian. All the applicant have excellant qualifications, however none of them has mentioned anything about their elequonce in "Arabic" Please be informed that this is very important that the Librarian has to interact with students who have little or no knowledge in English. so please make sure that you are quite elequent in arabic and then apply. Moreover candidates who have over 20 years of experience and drawing more than 25,000 rupees salary may think twice before you applly, because Universities here are not that big like in india and as far as professional growth is concerned its almost nil. (This is purely my personnel opinion and kind suggestion based on my experience.) Those quilifed applications would be forwarded to the University Authorities and they would be reviewd by them and if shortlisted you will hear from them directly. Thank you Best Regards S.C.Kumaresan S.C.Kumaresan SeniorLibrarian, BITS - Pilani, Dubai Campus, P.O. Box No.500022. Block 11, Knowledge Village, Dubai, UAE Tele(009714)3664575/76, Fax(009714)3664580 Mobile. 0097158829462

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Fultext articles
by Krishna Maraddi 28 Oct '04

28 Oct '04

Dear Sir/Madam I am Krishna Maraddi, Librarian of SKSVMAgadi College of Engg.&Tech. Laxmeshwar, of Karnataka. I am doing PhD on "Networking of College Libraries", Please help me to search fulltext articles on the Internet. or get me information in which web sites I can get this inforamation. With regards KRISHNA MARADDI --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. Dear Sir/Madam � I am Krishna Maraddi, Librarian of SKSVMAgadi College of Engg.&Tech. Laxmeshwar,�of Karnataka. I am doing PhD on "Networking of College Libraries", Please help me to search fulltext articles on the Internet. or get me information in which web sites I can get this inforamation. � With regards KRISHNA MARADDI Do you Yahoo!? http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/virus/*http://promotions.yahoo.com/… Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.

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Mandating OA around the corner?
by Subbiah Arunachalam 28 Oct '04

28 Oct '04

Friends: Here is a short message from Stevan Harnad that I received recently. I thought all of you might find it usful. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] -----Original Message----- From: Stevan Harnad [mailto:harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk] The Science Advisory Board, an international panel of 22,319 life science and medical professionals formed in 1997, has conducted a survey on "What makes searching scientific and medical literature online frustrating?": > Scientists Frustrated with Limited Access to Full-Text Documents > http://www.scienceboard.net/community/news/news.214.html > > While scientists often cite staying abreast of developments in their > field as the most common reason for reading scientific literature, > it is by far from the only reason. "Scientists perceive their > ability to access scientific and medical literature almost as an > unalienable right of their profession," observes Tamara Zemlo, > Ph.D., MPH, Director of The Science Advisory Board. The Internet > has reinforced this perception by increasing the speed and ease by > which these searches can be conducted. > > To find out what is the biggest obstacle to this ubiquitous scientific > practice, members of The Science Advisory Board participated in a poll > to address, "What makes searching scientific and medical literature > online frustrating?: Almost 80% of the 1,400 respondents stated that > limited access to full-text documents was the most annoying aspect > of online literature searches. It far exceeded the other complaints > of broken hypertext links, copyright restrictions and inadequate > search engines. > > Such sentiments will be sweet music to the ears of Public Library of > Science (PLoS) founders who espouse the philosophy that unrestricted > access to scientific and medical literature will accelerate progress > in these critical fields. Their model of offering full-text and data > of published research article--available free of charge anywhere > in the world--is still being tested. Time will tell whether the > scientists, who in theory embrace the nobility of this idea, will > choose to publish their own findings in such a venue. It continues to amaze, how researchers, despite their mounting frustration, remain blind (or paralyzed) with respect to the obvious! Why on earth would they want to keep waiting, passively, frustrated, for the eventual outcome of the test of a new cost-recovery model in order to gain access at last to one another's full-text articles, when they can already provide that access themselves, right now, by self-archiving their own articles? http://www.arl.org/scomm/subversive/toc.html There is no question but that the research community fervently desires Open Access: Already back in 2001, for example, 34,000 biologists worldwide signed the PLoS open letter to that effect, essentially threatening to stop publishing in and refereeing for journals if they did not provide Open Access. http://www.plos.org/about/letter.html But while researchers have proved willing and able to perform the requisite keystrokes for signing open letters, declarations and surveys clamouring for Open Access to be provided for them, it looks as if they are not yet ready to perform the few additional keystrokes it would take to actually provide that Open Access for themselves -- even when over 90% of their journals have already given them the green light to go ahead and do so, with their blessing! http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php It looks as if nothing less than a self-archiving mandate from their funders and employers will manage to induce the thirsty research cavalry, having been duly led to the waters of Open Access Self-Archiving, to actually stoop to drink, at last! http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php (Historians will have a jolly time sorting out why this was the case: why researcher inertia kept itself waiting, thirsty, needlessly, and despite mounting frustration, for over a decade, before grasping the optimal and inevitable that had been within their reach all along!) http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december99/12harnad.html http://www.infotoday.com/IT/oct04/poynder.shtml Stevan Harnad Mandating OA around the corner? Friends: Here is a short message from Stevan Harnad that I received recently. I thought all of you might find it usful. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] -----Original Message----- From: Stevan Harnad [ mailto:harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk mailto:harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk ] The Science Advisory Board, an international panel of 22,319 life science and medical professionals formed in 1997, has conducted a survey on "What makes searching scientific and medical literature online frustrating?": > Scientists Frustrated with Limited Access to Full-Text Documents > http://www.scienceboard.net/community/news/news.214.html http://www.scienceboard.net/community/news/news.214.html > > While scientists often cite staying abreast of developments in their > field as the most common reason for reading scientific literature, > it is by far from the only reason. "Scientists perceive their > ability to access scientific and medical literature almost as an > unalienable right of their profession," observes Tamara Zemlo, > Ph.D., MPH, Director of The Science Advisory Board. The Internet > has reinforced this perception by increasing the speed and ease by > which these searches can be conducted. > > To find out what is the biggest obstacle to this ubiquitous scientific > practice, members of The Science Advisory Board participated in a poll > to address, "What makes searching scientific and medical literature > online frustrating?: Almost 80% of the 1,400 respondents stated that > limited access to full-text documents was the most annoying aspect > of online literature searches. It far exceeded the other complaints > of broken hypertext links, copyright restrictions and inadequate > search engines. > > Such sentiments will be sweet music to the ears of Public Library of > Science (PLoS) founders who espouse the philosophy that unrestricted > access to scientific and medical literature will accelerate progress > in these critical fields. Their model of offering full-text and data > of published research article--available free of charge anywhere > in the world--is still being tested. Time will tell whether the > scientists, who in theory embrace the nobility of this idea, will > choose to publish their own findings in such a venue. It continues to amaze, how researchers, despite their mounting frustration, remain blind (or paralyzed) with respect to the obvious! Why on earth would they want to keep waiting, passively, frustrated, for the eventual outcome of the test of a new cost-recovery model in order to gain access at last to one another's full-text articles, when they can already provide that access themselves, right now, by self-archiving their own articles? http://www.arl.org/scomm/subversive/toc.html http://www.arl.org/scomm/subversive/toc.html There is no question but that the research community fervently desires Open Access: Already back in 2001, for example, 34,000 biologists worldwide signed the PLoS open letter to that effect, essentially threatening to stop publishing in and refereeing for journals if they did not provide Open Access. http://www.plos.org/about/letter.html http://www.plos.org/about/letter.html But while researchers have proved willing and able to perform the requisite keystrokes for signing open letters, declarations and surveys clamouring for Open Access to be provided for them, it looks as if they are not yet ready to perform the few additional keystrokes it would take to actually provide that Open Access for themselves -- even when over 90% of their journals have already given them the green light to go ahead and do so, with their blessing! http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php It looks as if nothing less than a self-archiving mandate from their funders and employers will manage to induce the thirsty research cavalry, having been duly led to the waters of Open Access Self-Archiving, to actually stoop to drink, at last! http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php (Historians will have a jolly time sorting out why this was the case: why researcher inertia kept itself waiting, thirsty, needlessly, and despite mounting frustration, for over a decade, before grasping the optimal and inevitable that had been within their reach all along!) http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december99/12harnad.html http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december99/12harnad.html http://www.infotoday.com/IT/oct04/poynder.shtml http://www.infotoday.com/IT/oct04/poynder.shtml Stevan Harnad

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Open Archives Data Providers: Part III. Social Sciences and Humanities
by Gerry Mckiernan 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

_Open Archives Data Providers: Part III. Social Sciences and Humanities_ Colleagues/ I am pleased and proud to announce the publication and availability of the third part of my Open Archives Data Provider Trilogy: "Open Archives Initiative Data Providers. Part III. Social Sciences and Humanities," _Library Hi Tech News_ 21 no. 7 (September/October 2004): 30-39. I have self-archived a copy of this eProfile at: [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-DP-III.pdf ] In this last, but not least section, I profile the following OA Data Providers: 1. David Rumsey Historical Map Collection [ http://www.davidrumsey.com/ ] 2. Documenting the American South [ http://docsouth.unc.edu/ ] 3. Ethnologue [ http://www.ethnologue.com/ ] 4. Perseus Digital Library [ http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ ] Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Documented Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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i-DLR (Interactive Digital Library Resource Information System)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

** Sorry for Cross Postings, if any ** Dear Members, i-DLR is a web portal for Digital Library education. This web site is designed to support beginners in the field of Digital Library by providing a central repository of resources pertaining to Digital Library. The resources are organized into eight broad subject areas, representing the area of research and studies in the field of Digital Library. This website is a collaborative effort by graduate students of the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies (SISLT) at the University of Missouri-Columbia. You may access this portal at the following URL address: http://tiger.coe.missouri.edu/~rafee/iDLR/index.php Regards, S.M. Pujar ********************************************************************** Shamprasad M. Pujar Assistant Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% * Phone: (022) 28400919-21 Extn: 514 * * Fax: (022) 28402752 * * E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in * * URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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Workshop on "Automation of Libraries"
by SUNIL M.V. 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

Dear Friends, The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has revolutionized the way people access information, opening new vistas in every aspect of Librarianship, paving way to digital libraries leading to efficient information retrieval and dissemination. SDMIMD Library is organizing a workshop on �Automation of Libraries� from November 3rd to 6th 2004, with an aim to help the Library professionals have a HANDSON experience of the automation aspects. The workshop aims to look at the following core areas: Operation System and MS Office Database Creation and Management � MS Access and WINISIS Introduction to Key functional areas of Library Automation � Using Easylib Digital Libraries � Greenstone Workshop Fee is Rs 3000/-, inclusive of boarding and lodging provided by the organizers. Please rush with your nomination for the workshop, participation is limited to 15 people only For more details contact Sunil MV Librarian SDM Institute for Management Development No. 1, Chamundi Hill Main Road Mysore - 570 011, Karnataka Ph: 0821 - 2420490/491 ; 2429722/161 Fax: 0821 - 2425557 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear Friends, � The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has revolutionized the way people access information, opening new vistas in every aspect of Librarianship, paving way to digital libraries leading to efficient information retrieval and dissemination. � SDMIMD Library is organizing a�workshop on �Automation of Libraries� from November 3rd to 6th 2004, with an aim to help the Library professionals have a�HANDSON experience of the automation aspects. � The workshop aims to�look at�the following core areas: Operation System and MS Office Database Creation and Management � MS Access and WINISIS Introduction to Key functional areas of Library Automation � Using Easylib Digital Libraries � Greenstone Workshop Fee is Rs 3000/-, inclusive of boarding and lodging provided by the organizers. Please rush with your nomination for the workshop, participation is limited to 15 people only � � For more details contact � � Sunil MV Librarian SDM Institute for Management Development No. 1, Chamundi Hill Main Road Mysore - 570 011, Karnataka Ph: 0821 - 2420490/491 ; 2429722/161 Fax: 0821 - 2425557 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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public library systems
by shashi kumar 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

Dear Sir/Madam/Friends, Iam the student of Library and information science in mysore university i want to know rural public library systems with special reference to Karnataka and Andrapradesh. If u have any meterial relating to this topic or refrences please provide me. Regards, shashikumar Dept. of library and information science manasagangothri mysore. Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Sir/Madam/Friends, Iam the student of Library and information science in mysore university i want to know rural public library systems with special reference to Karnataka and Andrapradesh. If u have any meterial relating to this topic or refrences please provide me. Regards, shashikumar Dept. of library and information science manasagangothri mysore. 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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AACR3 Edition Announcement
by Rajesh Chandrakar 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

AACR3 Edition Announcement The Committee of Principals for AACR made the appointment in preparation for a comprehensive revision of the rules. The new edition, with the working title of "AACR3 : Resource Description and Access", will be published in 2007 and will enable easier application of international cataloguing principles to new and existing materials. For details please follow: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/aacr3editor.html Rajesh AACR3 Edition Announcement The Committee of Principals for AACR made the appointment in preparation for a comprehensive revision of the rules. The new edition, with the working title of AACR3 : Resource Description and Access, will be published in 2007 and will enable easier application of international cataloguing principles to new and existing materials. For details please follow: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/aacr3editor.html http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/aacr3editor.html Rajesh

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Position open at Dubai
by SCKumaresan 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

Dear Friends, One reputed University in dubai requires a Librarin, with First Class in Masters degree and good command in English and relatively good in Arabic. Any one who has these qualifications please forward your resume to me. Thank u Best Regards S.C.Kumaresan S.C.Kumaresan SeniorLibrarian, BITS - Pilani, Dubai Campus, P.O. Box No.500022. Block 11, Knowledge Village, Dubai, UAE Tele(009714)3664575/76, Fax(009714)3664580 Mobile. 0097158829462 http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo… Dear Friends, One reputed University in dubai requires a Librarin, with First Class in Masters degree and good command in English and relatively good in Arabic. Any one who has these qualifications please forward your resume to me. Thank u Best Regards S.C.Kumaresan S.C.Kumaresan SeniorLibrarian, BITS - Pilani, Dubai Campus, P.O. Box No.500022. Block 11, Knowledge Village, Dubai, UAE Tele(009714)3664575/76, Fax(009714)3664580 Mobile. 0097158829462

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List of Lisc schools in India
by vasanth raj 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

Dear sir/madam/friends One of my friend is doing project on" Creating a database of Lisc schools in India. Therefore we required the list of Lisc schools and the name of the Head of the Institution, URL of the Institution, Address etc. if u find these detials please forward to the following Mail. gooche_1981(a)yahoo.co.in Regards Vasantha Raju N Dept of Library and Information science University of Mysore Mysore Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear sir/madam/friends One of my friend is doing project on" Creating a database of Lisc schools in India. Therefore we required the list of Lisc schools and the name of the Head of the Institution, URL of the Institution, Address etc. if u find these detials please forward to the following Mail. mailto:gooche_1981@yahoo.co.in gooche_1981(a)yahoo.co.in Regards Vasantha Raju N Dept of Library and Information science University of Mysore Mysore 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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