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Website on 'Fellowships'
by sangeeta Halijwale 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Dear Members, I have attempted to develop an internet site on 'Fellowships' available to Indian students and researchers. Guidance and motivation for this work came from Mr. Manjunath, Chief Librarian & Mr. Pujar, Asst Librarian, IGIDR. This site is specially designed for Indian academic Community and I intend to update it as frequently as possible. It can be accessed at: http://freewebs.com/fellowindia May I reqeust you all to please give your valuable suggestions for further improvement of the site? Regards, Sangeeta S.H Library Assistant IGIDR, Mumbai

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Collection development/ weeding out
by Mailing List Manager 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 02:45:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Smita Chandra <smitac_in(a)yahoo.com> Respected colleagues : Could any one please share their library's collection development policy ? I am in particular interested in knowing the criteria being used for weeding out in different libraries in India, like a. how do we decide what to weed ? b. how much should we weed ? (what percentage of library collection and frequency) I would also like to know if there are any rules or procedures specified by the government about such processes by libraries in India, or in any particular state (with reference to audits and accounts). Since my library comes in the science domain, policies and criteria of libraries within the S & T domain would be of great help. Thanking you and with regards, Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai

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complete e-library
by Mailing List Manager 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Date: 25 Jun 2004 03:51:45 -0000 From: thejasvi tv <tvthejasvi(a)rediffmail.com> Members, www.elibraryhub.com seems to be one of the best sites relating to e-library. you may please check it out. An article had appeared in The Hindu on 24 June in appreciation of this. Its a round the clock library and functions without the virtual prescence of a librarian. All the library activities are carried out mechanically without human interface. I request all professionals to comment on this kind of library.Its presently in Singapore. Regards, Thejasvi.

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DLIST
by Anita S. Coleman 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hello everybody, just a quick message to let you know about DLIST, http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu. DLIST is an eprints repository for LIS and I encourage you to deposit your publications in it. I visited India in Feb. 2003 (CALIBER conference) to encourage Indian librarians and LIS academics to join in the global consortium for building DLIST. If you are a librarian or an LIS dept. head who is considering an institutional repository for LIS and IT, I encourage you join DLIST and use it as your repository. Please write to DLIST Project Manager paul(a)ahsl.arizona.edu or me, if you have questions. Thanks and best wishes, Anita Coleman

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inagural function invitation to Workshop on Developing Digital Library using Dspace
by Mailing List Manager 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 13:14:30 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> DEPT. OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE, OSMANIA UNIVERSITY AND INFLIBNET CENTRE (UGC), AHMEDABAD Cordially invite you to the inauguration of WORKSHOP ON DEVELOPING DIGITAL LIBRARY USING DSPACE Prof. Y. Venkatarami Reddy Vice-Chancellor, JNTU, Hyderabad has kindly consented to be the Chief Guest Prof. M.Mutha Reddy Registrar, Osmania University has kindly consented to preside over Venue: New Conference Hall, Arts College, Osmania University Day & Date: Monday 28th June 2004 Time: 10.00 a m Dr. J.Yadagiri Reddy Dr. ARD Prasad Prof. N.Laxman Rao Head, DLIS Director of the Workshop Coordinator of the Workshop 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

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Re: WiFi for library users and it is free!
by Samdarshi Pali 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Friends: All Indian libraries currently providing Internet facility can also extend/provide WiFi free access to their users. WiFi is now a matured technology and even a non-technical person can put the WiFi setup in less than 10K after some efforts. Some helpful links for all interested in WiFi: http://www.dqindia.com/content/search/showarticle.asp?arid=54642&way=search http://www.dqindia.com/content/search/showarticle.asp?arid=55912&way=search… Who will be first to announce the free WiFi service in their library in India? Regards Samdarshi Pali Reliance Engineering Associates Pvt Ltd 4W21 - G Block, First Floor Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City Koper Khairane, Navi Mumbai 400 709 Tel # Direct +91-22 - 303 85407 Tel # Board +91-22 - 3037 3333, 3038 3333 Fax # +91-22 - 30385599 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:49:57 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] WiFi for library users and it is free! To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0406231049380.25876(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:13:03 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: When will we have WiFi connections provided free to library users in India? Here is what is happening in the UK. Best wishes. Arun ----- Library trial puts Wi-Fi hot spots on the books Matt Loney ZDNet UK June 16, 2004, 13:25 BST The DTI has put its plan to roll out Wi-Fi hot spots to libraries across the UK into action. Speaking at the Mobile Enterprise conference in London's Earls Court on Wednesday, e-commerce minister Stephen Timms said a trial is now running at 10 libraries. "We want to understand how popular it really is," said Timms, adding that three trial sites are charging for access while the other seven are offering it free." Full article at http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/wireless/0,39020348,39157760,00.htm or http://shorterlink.com/?XGVEW ------------------------------ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum End of LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 15, Issue 15 *****************************************

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WiFi for library users and it is free!
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:13:03 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: When will we have WiFi connections provided free to library users in India? Here is what is happening in the UK. Best wishes. Arun ----- Library trial puts Wi-Fi hot spots on the books Matt Loney ZDNet UK June 16, 2004, 13:25 BST The DTI has put its plan to roll out Wi-Fi hot spots to libraries across the UK into action. Speaking at the Mobile Enterprise conference in London's Earls Court on Wednesday, e-commerce minister Stephen Timms said a trial is now running at 10 libraries. "We want to understand how popular it really is," said Timms, adding that three trial sites are charging for access while the other seven are offering it free." Full article at http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/wireless/0,39020348,39157760,00.htm or http://shorterlink.com/?XGVEW

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Old Search Engine
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Date: 22 Jun 2004 13:21:14 -0000 From: farooque <mfarooque(a)rediffmail.com> It's a very interesting article published on June 21,in NewYork Times by Katie Hafner. Old Search Engine, the Library, Tries to Fit Into a Google World Katarina Maxianova, who received her bachelor's degree in comparative literature from Columbia University in May, took a seminar last year in which the professor assigned two articles from New Left Review magazine. She found one immediately throug Google; for the other, she had to trek the library tacks."Everyone in class tried to get those articles online," she said, "and some people didn't even bother to go to the stacks when they couldn't Google them."For the last few years, librarians have increasingly seen people use online search sites not to supplement research libraries but to replace them. Yet only recently have librarians stopped lamenting the trend and started working to close the gap between traditional scholarly research and the incomplete, often random results of a Google search."We can't pretend people will go back to walking into a library and talking to a reference librarian," said Kate Wittenberg, director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia University. Ms. Wittenberg's group recently finished a three-year study of research habits, including surveys of 1,233 students across the country, that concluded that electronic resources have become the main tool for information gathering, particularly among undergraduates."We have to respond to these new ways," Ms. Wittenberg said, and come up with a way to make better research material available online.That means working with commercial search engines like Google and Yahoo to make ever more digital-research materials searchable. Undergraduates like Ms. Maxianova and her classmates are not the only ones conducting research from their computers. Faculty members also do it."One of the rarest things to find is a member of the faculty in the library stacks," said Paul Duguid, an information researcher who will teach a class this fall at the University of California, Berkeley on judging the authenticity of information found on the Web. In the Columbia survey, 90 percent of the faculty members who responded said they used electronic resources in their research several times a week or more. Nearly all said it was a valuable resource. While the accuracy of online information is notoriously uneven, the ubiquity of the Web means that a trip to the stacks is no longer the way most academic research begins. "The nature of discovery is changing," said Joseph Janes, associate professor and chairman of library and information science at the University of Washington. "I think the digital revolution and the use of digital resources in general is really the beginning of a change in the way humanity thinks and presents itself."A few research librarians say Google could eventually take on more of the role of a universal library."If you could use Google to just look across digital libraries, into any digital library collection, now that would be cool," said Daniel Greenstein, university librarian of the California Digital Library, the digital branch of the University of California library system."It would help libraries achieve something that we haven't yet been able to achieve by ourselves," Dr. Greenstein said, "which is to place all of our publicly accessible digital library collections in a common pool."The biggest problem is that search engines like Google skim only the thinnest layers of information that has been digitized. Most have no access to the so-alled deep Web, where information is contained in isolated databases like online library catalogs. Search engines seek so-called static Web pages, which generally do not have search functions of their own. Information on the deep Web, on the other hand, comes to the surface only as the result of a database query from within a particular site. Use Google, for instance, to research Upton Sinclair's 1934 campaign for governor of California, and you will miss an entire collection of pamphlets accessible only from the University of California at Los Angeles's archive of digitized campaign literature. --------------------------------- Farooque, IBM Global Services (India) Pvt Ltd. First floor, GT Annexe, Airport Road, Bangalore-17 Tel: 25094107, 25094119 email... farooque(a)in.ibm.com ----------------------------------

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Gokhale Library: Online Public Access Catalogue
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 23:40:22 +1200 (NZST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Chaudhary Gokhale" <chaudhary_gokhale(a)yahoo.co.nz> Hello to all, I am pleased to inform you all lis-forum members that Dhananjayarao Gadgil Librarys online public access catalogue is available on the World Wide Web to browse and search the collection. Dhananjayarao Gadgil Library, the library of the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune has one of the largest and most important collections of social science documents in India. It has quite a large member of publications on Economics and allied social science subjects and successfully caters to the needs of scholars, academicians, policy makers and other users working in social science subjects in India and abroad. URL: http://www.gipe.ernet.in/library/ Total Number of records: 2,71,000 Home page: Designed using XHTML 1.0, HTML 4.0, CSS, JavaScript, ASP, Metadata Hosted at: Windows 2000 Advanced server Web server: IIS Designed and hosted by: N Murali For more details, please contact Webmaster With regards Chaudhary

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Re: [LIS-Forum] FAO Statistical Databases
by Mailing List Manager 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:46:14 +0530 From: ++ Mukesh Anand ++ <mukesh(a)monitorinfo.com> FAOSTAT offers free on-line access to all of its data. In addition, FAOSTAT offers an annual subscription service that provides extended on-line query and download limits (10,000 records per query) and unlimited access to FTP bulk download files. FAO is a non-profit Organization with the mandate to work to alleviate poverty and hunger by promoting agricultural development, improved nutrition and the pursuit of food security. All proceeds from the sale of FAOSTAT services and products are used to improve those services by improving the collection, preparation and dissemination of information. ----- Original Message ----- From: "G. K. Manjunath" <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> To: "Mailing List Manager" <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > > FAOSTAT is also avialble free on the net. For futher details you may > visit http://apps.fao.org/default.jsp > > > g.k.manjunath > IGIDR > > e-mail : gkm(a)igidr.ac.in > http:// www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.htm > > phone 91-22-28490653 > ************************************************ > > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Mailing List Manager wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:23:48 +0530 > > From: ++ Mukesh Anand ++ <mukesh(a)monitorinfo.com> > > > > Members may also be interested in the forthcoming publication: > > > > FAOSTAT CD 2004. > > FAO Statistical Databases. (CD-ROM) > > > > Year : 2004 > > ISBN 92-5-005125-5 > > Price : US$ 600.00 > > > > > > FAOSTAT is a statistical database that currently > > contains more than 3 million time-series records. > > This new, updated CD-ROM incorporates statistical > > information up to January 2004, covering more than > > 300 countries and territories and 3 000 items in > > the following areas of agriculture, fisheries, > > forestry and nutrition: > > > > > > * Production > > * Trade > > * Food Balance Sheets > > * Producer Prices > > * Forestry Trade Flow > > * Land Use and Irrigation > > * Forest Products > > * Fishery Products > > * Population > > * Codex Alimetarius Food Quality Control > > * Fertlizers and Pesticides > > * Agricultural Machinery > > * Food Aid Shipments > > * Exports by Destination > > > > > > Please confirm your order > > ------------------------- > > Monitor Information Services > > Library suppliers of books n software > > 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex > > Narayanguda > > HYDERABAD - 500 029 India > > > > http://www.monitorinfo.com > > > > Phone : (040) 55787065, 27552390 > > Fax : + 91-40-27552390 > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > >

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