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World Bank Rolls Out ICT Project For India
by Madhuresh 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

Dear Friends, Some of you might be interested in the following news item published in Financial Express. Internet will finally start benefitting the common man, particularly villagers, in a big way, as part of a government-private sector partnership to promote information and communication technologies (ICT). India Development Gateway (InDG), as the project is known, will facilitate effective use of ICT in the areas of health, primary education, agriculture, among other sectors. Addressing a press conference on the launch of implementation phase of the project here, chairman of governing council of InDG Prof MS Swaminathan, announced the setting up of the Development Gateway Foundation (DGF) research and training (R&T) centre at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore. According to Prof Swaminathan, the DGF R&T Centre will address the major technology domains of Internet technologies, language technologies and speech technologies to address requirements in the application sectors of healthcare, education and agriculture. InDG is a joint initiative of the department of information technology, ministry of communications, World Bank, and DGF, Washington. It has received an initial funding of Rs 2 crore for its implementation phase. InDG plans to operate through its strategic partners in the area of both content development and services. URL: http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=67471 Regards. Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 422 Fax 2852 6285 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://www.aurigene.com/

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`The Best Librarian in India'
by BHOSALE, DEEPALI [AG-Contractor/6020] 04 Sep '04

04 Sep '04

Practising what he preaches - Hindu, August 22, 2004 "We cannot sustain ourselves, unless we contribute to the society in someway or the other. I strongly feel if even one person does his bit towards social good, there will be some change." A will to serve combined with a sense of social justice has been the guiding principle of P. Kalyanasundaram, who has spent over 45 years in social service. A gold medallist in library science, he is also an MA in literature and history. During his 35-year-career as a librarian at the Kumarkurupara Arts College at Srivaikuntam in Tuticorin district, he gave away all his salary for charity and did odd jobs to meet his daily needs. He has also come forward to donate his body and eyes to the Tirunelveli Medical College. The Union Government has acclaimed him as `The Best Librarian in India'. He has also been chosen as `one of the top ten librarians of the world'. The International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, has honoured him as `one of the noblest of the world', while the United Nations Organisation adjudged him as one of the Outstanding People of the 20th Century'. An American organisation has also selected him as the `Man of the Millennium.' Mr. Kalyanasundaram, who has founded a social welfare organisation, `Paalam', shares his experiences in a chat with Prathiba Parameswaran. SIMPLICITY IN life and exemplariness in practice has been the hallmark of Mr. Kalyanasundaram. Born in August 1953 at Melakarivelamkulam in Tirunelveli district, he lost his father at a very young age. It was his mother, who inspired him to serve the poor. When he was at college, the Indo-China war broke out, and he contributed his gold chain to the then Chief Minister, Kamaraj, for the war fund. At this time around, he went to meet Balasubramanian, Editor, Ananda Vikatan. "He sent me away, saying he would write about me the day I donated something I had earned myself. I did not speak a word to anyone about what I had done. I took it as a challenge," Mr. Kalyanasundaram recalls. Ever since he got a job as a librarian in Tuticorin, he has contributed all his salary, pension benefits and ancestral property to social welfare. It was not until 1990, when he received his pension arrears and contributed it to the Collector's Fund, that the then Tiruneveli Collector felicitated him, despite his protests. The `Paalam' serves as a bridge between donors and beneficiaries: it collects money and materials from those willing to donate and distribute them among the weaker sections. It has also contributed to the cyclone relief funds in Tami! l Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, and has helped the earthquake victims in Maharashtra and Gujarat. "We cannot sustain ourselves, unless we contribute towards the society in someway or the other. I strongly feel if even one person does his bit towards social good, there will be some change," he asserts. Mr. Kalyanasundaram feels that one must achieve something in his chosen field. His contribution to library science is immense. A thesis he submitted as part of his post-graduate course to the Madurai Kamaraj University fetched him distinction. He has also hit upon an easy way of tracing and accessing books in libraries. His ability to strike a rapport even with youngsters is remarkable. He cites the instance when he started wearing khadi. At college, he was required to take classes on Gandhianism. "I had to speak about simplicity and everything Gandhi stood for, but I was clad in expensive clothes. That was when I decided to switch over to khadi," he relates. Since then he had always practised what he stood for, making himself a role model for many youths. He was popular among college and school students, and many of them have joined his organisation. He has long-term plans for his organisation. One is the setting up of a nationalised digital library with modern equipment, which could be accessed by people from all walks of life. He also wants to set up an international children's university in Tamil Nadu, with foreign aid. However, he says, a mission has a meaning only when the right people are involved in it. The Directorate of Public Libraries should recruit people with a library science background to be librarians, he says. "And good librarians should have a broad knowledge of everything." Source: http://www.hindu.com/lf/2004/08/22/stories/2004082209260200.htm Thanks & Regards, Ms. Deepali Bhosale Consultant - Library & Info Services Monsanto India Limited Mumbai [Bombay] Tel: 91-022-28247220 Fax: 91-022-28244707 email: deepali.bhosale(a)monsanto.com http://www.monsantoindia.com

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Fwd: [Agrilib] IFLA Conference in Argentina -Indian delegates
by JK Vijayakumar 04 Sep '04

04 Sep '04

--- "D.B.Eswara Reddy" <devaereddy(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > To: nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com, > iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com, agrilib(a)yahoogroups.com > From: "D.B.Eswara Reddy" <devaereddy(a)yahoo.com> > Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 13:04:47 -0700 (PDT) > Subject: [Agrilib] IFLA Conference in > Argentina -Indian delegates > > Hello: > I am happy to report that this year the IFLA > world > conference was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina > from > 21-28, August 2004. About 3500 delegates from > over 85 > countries attended.About 170 papers on various > aspects > of information literacy were presented. > India was represented by: > Professor.C R Karisiddappa, Ex-President(ILA) > Dr.J.K.Vijaya Kumar (INFLIBNET) > Dr.Leena Shaw (Govt College,Mehidpur,Ujjain) > Mr.R.C.Ahuja, Joint Secretary, Lok Sabha > Secretariat > Mr.Pavan Kumar, Director, Research Wing, Rajya > Sabha > Mr.Raj Kumar, P G Institute of Medical > Education and > Research, Chandigarh > Dr.karisiddappa presented three papers and > Dr > Leena Shaw,and Mr. Raj kumar each one paper. > > We were greatly honored by the Indian > Ambassador in > Argentina,Shri Rinwing Wangdi and Smt Pema > Wangdi who > hosted a dinner to the Indian delegates at > their > residence. > > I, on my part, had detailed discussion with > several > officers of IFLA including the Secretary > General, > coordinator of professional activities,and > Chairperson > of Special Libraries Division, and pleaded for > a > Separate IFLA Section for Agricultural > Libraries.Back > in USA, I am working on this idea and > collecting > letters from IFLA Members from different > countries in > different parts of the world. If approved by > the > Governing Board of IFLA in their meeting in > December, > it may start as a Discussion Group in Oslo, > Norway(2005),continue as a group in Seoul, > Korea > (2006) and start as a Section in Durban, South > Africa > (2007). This will provide another international > forum > for agricultural librarians, information > professionals. > > Thanks > > ===== > Deva Eswara Reddy Ph.D > Assistant Professor > Texas A & M University > College Station, Texas 77843 > Devaereddy(a)yahoo.com > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free > storage! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > --------------------~--> > Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! > Companion Toolbar. > Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! > http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/S8XolB/TM > --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Agrilib/ > > <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an > email to: > Agrilib-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com > > <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Radio Talk
by srels 04 Sep '04

04 Sep '04

Dear Sir, The following message may please be announced for the benefit of the lis-forum members. Sincerely, Chitra Devi S Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Ph: 080 - 23305109; E-mail: srels(a)vsnl.com *********** Dr. K.N. Prasad, Executive Officer, Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science will be delivering a talk on All India Radio, Bangalore Station on "INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY" on 8th September 2004 at 9.16 p.m. Dear Sir, The following message may please be announced for the benefit of the lis-forum members. Sincerely, Chitra Devi S 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 *********** Dr. K.N. Prasad, Executive Officer, Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science will be delivering a talk on All India Radio, Bangalore Station on " INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY" on 8th September 2004 at 9.16 p.m .

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KALA Monthly Lecture
by I.R.N.Goudar 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Karnataka State Library Association and Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science Cordially invite you for KALA Monthly Lectures by Fulbright Scholars in Information Science & Technology (2003-2004) 1. Mrs.Poornima Narayan, Deputy Head, Information Centre, NAL, Bangalore on " My Experience at UIUC, USA and Visualisation of Indian Aerospace Digital Library" and 2. Dr. M.Krishnamurthy, Librarian,Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore on "Latest Information Services and Practices at UIUC, USA" Date and Time: 07-09-2004, 6.00 PM Venue: Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702,(upstairs), 42 cross, 3rd Block, Rajajinagar Bangalore- 560010 Tel: 23305109 ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED Ms.R.Adilakshmi Dr.H.S.Siddamallaiah General Secretary, KALA President, KALA Tel: 26995031

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Understand the question b4 replying
by Rajesh K Patil 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

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New arrivals with gif files
by theresa.williams＠wipro.com 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Hello Can any of you please confirm whether we can send image files of the books added during the month along with abstract by downloading the files from Amazon or any other website. Is it a copyright issue. Thanks n regds 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 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. New arrivals with gif files Hello Can any of you please confirm whether we can send image files of the books added during the month along with abstract by downloading the files from Amazon or any other website. Is it a copyright issue. Thanks n regds 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 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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WG: [LIS-Forum] Newsletter from MMB Regional Information Centre
by Seth, Renu 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Dear Colleagues, Sorry for the mistake. There is a spelling mistake in the E-mail ID given, here it is once again: info.manager.mmb(a)delhi.goethe.org With best regards, Renu Seth -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. September 2004 17:47 An: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Betreff: [LIS-Forum] Newsletter from MMB Regional Information Centre Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:13:58 +0530 From: "Seth, Renu" <seth(a)delhi.goethe.org> Dear Colleagues, Please find enclosed a newsletter from "Max Mueller Bhavan Regional Information Centre" for LIS professionals. This newsletter is designed to keep you informed about the LIS scenario in Germany. In case you would like to receive this newsletter regularly and would like to be on our mailing list, please write to us at: info.mmanager.mmb(a)delhi.goethe.org With best regards, Renu Seth Librarian Max Mueller Bhavan Regional Information Centre & Library 3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg New Delhi 110001 Telephone +91-11-23329506 librarian.mmb(a)delhi.goethe.org www.goethe.de/newdelhi Newsletter for Librarians & Information Professionals, from the RIC August 2004 Dear Friends! We bring to you the first issue of our newsletter on Information Services, which aims to provide you with the latest in the field of Media & Information in Germany. In the first section of this newsletter, we invite you to browse through DigiBib - an online library. The second section informs you about the latest happenings in the German Library & Information Science sector. In each issue, Literary Projects will introduce you to a web project organized by the Goethe Institute. In this edition we introduce you to www.litrix.de - a portal for promoting contemporary German literature. Meet Cornelia Funke, the 'German J.K. Rowling', and get to know about her fascinating creations in our Author in Focus section. Our separate Corner for Bibliophiles puts you into the current German literary picture and also gives you a foretaste of some of the finest literary pieces being published there today. We would also like to draw your attention to the fact that we have recently started offering our readers the services of the internationally recognized databank Lexis Nexis. This databank is well known as a rich source of articles, which are gathered from newspapers, magazines and journals from all over the world. We will be happy to receive your queries on any topic related to Germany - be it art, culture, literature or science. Your queries will then be processed by our team of professionals and the results will be made available to you. We hope that this newsletter will prove to be interesting and insightful for you. Please do write to us with your valuable suggestions & feedback at the following e-mail address: mailto:online.editor.mmb@delhi.goethe.org Best wishes from The MMB RIC team - DigiBib-The online library from Nordrhein-Westfalen Finding answers with Digibib DigiBib offers you the opportunity to search through different sources of information under one unified interface. Search simultaneously through the catalogues of international libraries as well as through bibliographic databases, from all over the world. DigiBib offers its users:- selected links from the WWW- WWW-Metasearchmachine and much more... http://www4.digibib.netAlthough DigiBib offers information in English language, the search interface is German. Hence, you may face difficulties in accessing it. You are welcome to contact us in case you need help in this regard. - In the News The Dresden medien@age - a Library for the 21st Century For a long time the library of the twentieth century may have been just "a collection of books", but other media forms are becoming increasingly important this century. The medien@age library in Dresden has courageously embraced this change - and has scored points with its target audience along the way. http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/bib/thm/en139876.htm Information Services in Germany Unlike in the Anglo-American countries, information services in libraries in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century initially referred mainly to literary information and less to factual information.For two decades now ever more people in Germany have been asking questions about facts to the information sectors of libraries. Today, highly specialised information teams in the field of general information who have many databases for literature and factual information at their disposal can increasingly be found in the academic and large public libraries. http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/ask/ein/en21811.htm vascoda - the Internet Portal for Scientific Information Being able to access the information lying dormant on the shelves of German libraries with a click of the mouse and download it onto your computer with another click - this is a vision that has just moved one step closer to becoming reality. Since August 2003 the interdisciplinary Internet portal vascoda has been providing access to 37 German libraries, research institutes and information providers. http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/bib/thm/en69733.htm - Literary Projects Litrix.de - German Literature Online Since January 2004, excerpts from outstanding new publications, specimen translations and the latest information on the German book market are available from the online magazine Litrix.de. The magazine is aimed at an international audience and is a major part of a project promoting contemporary German literature abroad. Project partners are the Federal Cultural Foundation, the Goethe-Institut and the Frankfurt Book Fair. www.litrix.de - Author in Focus Portrait of Cornelia Funke Cornelia Funke is currently the most successful German author of books for young people. She was born in 1958 and has sold a million copies of her books for young people and children. She has been compared internationally with JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series. In September 2003 her book "Tintenherz" was released. http://www.goethe.de/in/d/film/e/kubus-e-59-1-f.html - Bibliophile's Corner Lexikon der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur - Revised Germany, the "land of poets and thinkers", has brought forth a great number of writers since time immemorial. So it isn't easy keeping track, especially of the latest names. A newly revised encyclopaedia has arrived to help out. http://www.goethe.de/kug/kue/lit/thm/en96421.htmEncyclopaedia only in German language. Where the Good Guys Still Win German detective stories about FBI agent Jerry Cotton have been an international hit for 50 years. "His leap was an act of desperation, the insane reaction of a cornered killer who has nothing left to lose. He dove smack into the line of fire of my revolver. I had released the safety: all I had to do was pull the trigger. But I chose not to: I have a deep-seated aversion to shooting an unarmed man." http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/buv/thm/en91801.htm "The Wild East" - Young East German authors look back By contrast with the young West Germans who accommodated themselves with Helmut Kohl perfectly well for eight years after the Berlin Wall came down and watched, relaxed and uninterested, as the so-called "Berlin Republic" decayed into "Berlin provinciality", the East Germans of the same age, who have been largely speechless until now, have suddenly appeared from nowhere and are now publishing one book after another. http://www.goethe.de/kug/kue/lit/thm/en72032.htm To unsubscribe from the mailing list, please click here: mailto:online.editor.mmb@delhi.goethe.org?body=unsubscribe _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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CD Sorter
by sainul＠iiitmk.ac.in 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Dear Friends, This is with reference to Rajeev's mail regarding CD Stand. There are some adjustable CD Rack called CD Sorter in which we can insert CDs in-between the existing CDs. More details are available at http://www.cdholdings.com/cdsorter/howcanorder.html I do not know the availability in India. We need to see the durability also. I would like to know if any of our professional colleagues have bought such CD Stands. With regards Sainul Abideen P Librarian IIITM-K Trivandrum This Mail has been sent from: ________________________________________________________________________ Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - Kerala, Park Centre, Techno Park, Thiruvananthapuram - 695 581. Kerala. India. Contact: Website: http://www.iiitmk.ac.in Phone: +91-471-2527567 / 3091334 Fax: +91-471-2527568 ________________________________________________________________________ The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and /or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this in error,please contact the sender and delete the material from anycomputer.

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Buying CD Rack - help required
by Rajeev K R 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Hi, I would like to get the phone numbers of vendors who deals with CD - Rack (For keeping the CD's in the shelf.). If you know any vendors in Bangalore, please send me the phone numbers. We do have approximately 750 + CDs and currently it is kept in the ordinary shelf. So if you have any suggestions in buying the CD Rack, please let me know. With Warm Regards Rajeev K R Library & Information Center Sasken Communication Technologies Limited 139/25, Ring Road, Domlur Bangalore - 560071 India Email: krr(a)sasken.com Tel: + 91 80 25355501 Extn: 2021 Fax: + 91 80 25351133 URL: www.sasken.com SASKEN BUSINESS DISCLAIMER This message may contain confidential, proprietary or legally Privileged information. In case you are not the original intended Recipient of the message, you must not, directly or indirectly, use, Disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message and you are requested to delete it and inform the sender. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender unless otherwise stated. Nothing contained in this message shall be construed as an offer or acceptance of any offer by Sasken Communication Technologies Limited ("Sasken") unless sent with that express intent and with due authority of Sasken. Sasken has taken enough precautions to prevent the spread of viruses. However the company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email

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