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Re: [LIS-Forum] need information
by Mailing List Manager 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:08:49 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] chandrakant gangurde" <gangurdechandrakant(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Salman, There is website useful and gives relevant information about library. You can go through it http://www.information-professional.com this websites by which you can search choosing by search engine like yahoo/Google/MSN. etc. Chandrakant Gangurde Sir Dorabji Tata Memeorial Library Deonar Mumbai-88 -------------Original Message------------------------------------ From: salman haider Dear All, I like to know if there is any other website like "www.inforlibrarian.com" which has more information for LIS professionals. Thanks & Regards Salman Haider Consultant Indian School of Business Library Hydrerabad _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Robot Librarians
by Mailing List Manager 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:40:40 +0530 From: HENAG <HENAG(a)infosys.com> Dear All, Similar to this there is an article in a magazine called "Technology Tomorrow" published by ICFAI University, Hyderabad, the article is about a 'snakebot' - a robot like a snake will enter in your room when your door is closed and will work on your computer. It does not require the door to be open, it can move through the space available between the door and the floor. How strange ? Now even the computer engineers will be jobless if this is the way technology going to improve ( a joke apart). Probably I may give you the exact issue date & No of the publication if anyone wants it. Hena S Gupta Infosys Technologies Ltd, Hosur Road, Electronics City. ---------- Original message ---------- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:36:38 +0530 (IST) From: Poornima Narayan <poornima(a)css.nal.res.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Robot Librarians Dear Professionals Came across an interesting article which has appeared in today's (30th July 2004) Indian Express (Youth Express). If Robots are going to manage the future libraries, what is the future of L & IS Professionals? Robot Librarians ******* A group of robotics researchers at University Jaume I in Spain is working on a robot librarian. The prototype has cameras, sensors and grippers so it can locate and collect a book. The hope is that one day, teams of service robots could work in libraries.....

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by Mailing List Manager 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Tue, 3 Aug 2004 16:35:44 +0530 "Shalini R.Urs" shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in Dear friends, Please read the complete report before jumping to conclusions- the Sabo bill and the NIH policy is still in the 'debate' stage and there is no conclusive evidence to say that 'NIH research to be open access'. If you read the whole piece, you will understand the undercurrents of the issues.This is a case of typical 'double speak'. The article begins with the usual brouhaha bait by Zehrouni, Director of NIH, about 'public needs to have access to what they have paid for', but he is quick to add - let me quote > But Zerhouni tried to assure participants that the government was not yet > creating a mandate and that their views would be taken into account before > the policy was finalized. He also distanced himself from the House report, > saying that NIH did not prepare it, even though the wording was "inspired" > by deliberations within the agency. ---- > Zerhouni said that individual repositories tend to fade out. He also told > participants that NIH had no intention of becoming a journal publisher and > the public is aware of the value of journals' peer reviews. ---- The issue of scholarly publishing, copyright , etc cannot be resolved by rhetorical positioning alone but by dispassionate understanding of the implications and realities.Let us understand the basics of copyrights, right. The first copyright act-the Statute of Queen Anne of 1710 introduced the concept of author being the owner of copyright. The original purpose was to exercise central authority to control publishing and generate tax revenue for the government! But then soon copyrights evolved and the aim of copyrights is to provide stimulus for creativity Copyright is not just about economic rights but about also about paternity rights. The copyrights also cover the right of paternity by which authors have the right to claim authorship of their works ensuring that their names are mentioned in connection with it. The right of integrity is another dimension of the copyright. It is not without reason that the word 'author' etymologically means father. If 'copyrights' are banned then what incentive will a scientist have to publish? The forces and incentives that help produce creative or intellectual works are diverse. In the end, if bills like Sabo bill if passed then few scholars would spend their time and efforts to publish. One critical difference between the Government 'banning copyright' and authors assigning / transferring certain rights to publishers is- while the latter is voluntary the former is not. Actually it amounts to 'taking away' the rights and potentially has all the ingredients of governments hegemony over academe. Second and more complicated issue is of paternity rights. Like all rights copyrights also have the 'responsibility' dimension. Can the government own responsibility for everything that is written and published by the scientists/scholars? Imagine a scenario like this- Salman Rushdie were to be a Professor at some university and publish 'The Satanic Verses' , will his university be held responsible for his writings ? Will the university be banned and face the death threat from Iranian clergy ? Organisations cannot own up the responsibility for one scholar's writings. Do not think that the scenario of 'Satanic Verses' is only in literature but it could well be in sciences as well. Imagine the classic case of Galileo's treatise 'Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems' proving the logical superiority of the Copernican theory for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Roman Catholic Church, and eventually died a recluse under house arrest.Would the University of Padua where Galileo served as a professor of Mathematics would have been held responsible for his writings and served a life sentence? Finally friends- this piece is written as part of my professional interests to air my views on the topic by me-Shalini Urs- a professor at an Indian University and these are my views and I not only own copyrights but also am liable to be held responsible for these views. My university's views on this issue if and when decided will only be expressed as an official policy statement with the authority and official seal of the University of Mysore! Shalini -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr.Shalini R.Urs Director Information & Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore- 570006 India Ph : 91-821-2514699 Fax: 91-821-2519209 Website:http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO)
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Dear LIS-Forum members I am giving below details of a new journal in the area of metadata. Many of you may be interested in this. Regards Rajashekar ------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Associate Chairman Tel: +91-80-23600271, 23601427 National Centre for Science Fax: +91-80-23601426, 23600683 Information (NCSI) E-Mail: raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Indian Institute of Science URL: http://144.16.72.189/raja/ BANGALORE-560012 (India) ------------------------------------------------------------- SciGate: http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/ The IISc Science Information Portal ===================================================================== International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO) Inderscience Publishers - ISSN (Online): 1744-263X - ISSN (Paper): 1744-2621 First, preliminary call for papers, July 2004 https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=152 ===================================================================== IJMSO aims at publishing research advances and discussions about meta-data in a broad sense, and about their associated semantics and ontological structures. IJMSO takes a multi-disciplinary perspective, with an emphasis on domain-specific ontologies and organisational, human interaction and social issues regarding metadata annotation, use and assessment. IJMSO also intends to cover Semantic Web research, as a concrete metadata-intensive technological framework in which shared and standardised semantics are a critical issue. Objectives ----------- The main objective of IJMSO is to provide an open forum in which several disciplines converge and provide their perspectives regarding the complex topic of metadata creation, use and assessment. Those disciplines include Digital Libraries, the Semantic Web, Library Science and Knowledge Management, among others. Readership ----------- IJMSO aims at being an open forum for researchers, practitioners, managers and policy makers in the field of metadata,informing current practices with recent innovations. Contents --------- IJMSO publishes original research papers providing significant results, and also short communications about innovative ideas and news, announcements and reviews regarding the topics of the journal. Articles describing schemas or ontologies for concrete applications or domains are also welcomed, provided that a digital version of the final artefact is submitted to be made publicly available. Subject Coverage ----------------- Subjects covered include, but are not limited to: Metadata design and semantics Quality of metadata Evaluation and applications of metadata standards Metadata annotation practices Ontological and knowledge-based approaches to metadata Ontologies and standard catalogues specific to business or professional domains Semantic Web and Ontologies in Library Science and Digital Libraries Metadata-based information retrieval and browsing Organisational and social aspects of Semantic Web and related technologies Submissions ------------ Visit http://www.inderscience.com for information on submission. Contributions synthesizing existing knowledge and clearly describing research directions are sought for the first issue. Deadline for submission for the *first issue is October 1st 2004*.

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Proceedings of SPIE
by noufal palliparamban 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Dear friends May I know about libraries subscribibg proceedings of SPIE please? Looking forward to hearing from you soon, please Noufal.P.P Computer Aided Reference Service IIT Kanpur ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony

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Good article
by Ayesha Taranum 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Hello, � Read a good article published in "Interactions" The whiteboard: What's in a Word? The Semantics of Usability by Bruce G. Allen, Elizabeth Buie Volume 9, Number 2 (2002), Pages 17-21 Abstract: When you say something is intuitive, do you mean that absolutely everybody understands it right away? If you say a program is logical, what help is that to a user? Does user-friendly mean anything these days? (Did it ever?) Interactions, as many of us know is a magazine on applied human-computer interaction (HCI) published by ACM. Regards, -- Ayesha Ayesha Taranum Executive - Information Services DSL Software Ltd. The Senate, #33/A Ulsoor Road, Bangalore - 560 042 Ph: +91 80 51246800 xtn: 6790 email: ayesha.taranum(a)dslsoft.net __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Thanks
by Mailing List Manager 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:22:18 +0530 From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Dear Moderator, I thank you for putting an end to this unwanted digression in the thread = "Autonomous Institutions". On second reading of my initial posting, I do = find that it contains a few lines of very sweeping generalisation of = Govt sector employees and that it has hurt some of my colleagues, for = which I regret and apologise.=20 My mails to franc(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in are bouncing while the ones sent to = the LIST go through. I wonder why?!=20 Regards Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal,=20 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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Free Access to science Publications
by Mailing List Manager 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:04:12 +0530 From: Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Following Editorial in The Hindu of 3/8/2004 supports our cause. (I = think 'For' in the title is a typo; it should be 'free') [Free?] FOR ACCESS TO SCIENCE PUBLICATIONS=20 IN JULY, THE movement for `open access' got an important boost when the = Appropriations Committee of the United States' House of Representatives = and the Science & Technology Committee of the United Kingdom's House of = Commons recommended measures that would help make scientific journal = publications available more freely online. Scientists are judged by = their research output. Each year they publish more than a million papers = in approximately 16,000 science, technology and medical journals put out = by more than 2,000 publishers worldwide. Commercial publishers have a = dominant presence, with Reed Elsevier having a 28 per cent market share. = There has been a growing feeling that neither the public, which pays for = much of the science that is published, nor the scientists, who receive = no payment either for their papers or for carrying out the `peer review' = that ensures that quality is maintained in journals, benefit by limiting = access to the papers through journal subscriptions. Not only are = journals expensive; there is mounting criticism that journal costs have = been rising exorbitantly. The Commons' S&T Committee noted that = commercial scientific journal publishers enjoyed "substantially higher" = profit margins than the academic, educational and professional = publishing sector as a whole. And this was happening at a time libraries = were obliged to cut down on journal subscriptions in order to keep = within budgets. The problem is particularly acute for scientific = institutions in developing countries such as India. Another issue that = has been raised is that the larger public has little access to the = scientific research that their tax money makes possible.=20 The limitations of the `subscriber pays' system has led some to attempt = an `author pays' model for scientific journals. BioMed Central, which = was established in 2001, has now over 100 journals in biology and = medicine. [Public Library of Science] PLoS Biology, launched in October = 2003, has the ambition of joining the front ranks of scientific = journals; PLoS Medicine is to be launched soon. Prominent public and = private research sponsors such as the Wellcome Trust in the U.K., the = Max Planck Society in Germany, and the Centre National de la Recherche = Scientifique (CNRS) in France, have announced their support for such a = system of open access. But `author pays' publishing currently accounts = for merely five per cent of the total journal market. The Commons' S & T = Committee recommended that another alternative needs to be explored and = supported - storing published work electronically in institutional = archives. Just a month before the Committee published its report, = Elsevier announced that scientists publishing in its journals would be = allowed to post the final text of their articles on a personal or = institutional website. Over 80 per cent of the journal publishers allow = such archiving. The House Appropriations Committee suggested that copies = of articles published from research supported by the National Institutes = of Health be deposited within six months of publication in PubMed = Central, a free digital archive of life science literature.=20 The Commons' Committee recommended that "all U.K. higher education = institutions establish institutional repositories on which their = published output can be stored and from which it can be read, free of = charge, online"; and that "Research Councils and other Government = funders mandate their funded researchers to deposit a copy of all of = their articles in this way." It is an idea that India - where research = is overwhelmingly supported by the Government - must adopt with = conviction and enthusiasm. The software for such archiving is available = free of cost and has been used to establish an e-print archive at the = Indian Institute of Science. Not only must more such institutional = repositories be established; scientists need to take the lead in = ensuring that their papers are suitably archived. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal,=20 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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Re: [LIS-Forum] Re: Norms of AICTE for selection as Librarian, Dep.Librarian And Asst.Libn
by Mailing List Manager 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 13:42:19 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> it is same like univs. u can see on AICTE website, u may get as the qualifications required were given Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 11:57:13 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] vijaykumar nayak" Dear Colleagues, I need infn on Norms of AICTE for selection as a LIBN,DEPUTYLIBN,And ASSTLIBN.in UNiversitues and Engg.colleges. Reply soon Thanking u Vijay Nayak _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum 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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Robot Librarians
by Mailing List Manager 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 11:12:56 +0530 (IST) From: Poornima Narayan <poornima(a)css.nal.res.in> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:36:38 +0530 (IST) From: Poornima Narayan <poornima(a)css.nal.res.in> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Robot Librarians Dear Professionals Came across an interesting article which has appeared in today's (30th July 2004) Indian Express (Youth Express). If Robots are going to manage the future libraries, what is the future of L & IS Professionals? Robot Librarians ******* A group of robotics researchers at University Jaume I in Spain is working on a robot librarian. The prototype has cameras, sensors and grippers so it can locate and collect a book. The hope is that one day, teams of service robots could work in libraries. The question of safety is what has been deterring the use of robots outside of the factory to work in domains surrounded by people, explains Professor Angel del Pobil. Mixing robots and humans in an unstructured, uncontrolled environment, where there are all manner of obstacles to negotiate, could have unpredictable results. Professor Pobil thinks libraries are the best place to start introducing robots into public spaces, or at least to start showing that the technology is possible and works. The robot is a mobile manipulator which means that it is a vehicle with three wheels, Professor Pobil says. It has an arm with seven joints, two fingers which form a gripper, and two micro cameras on its wrist. Four sensors built into its gripper senses the force it is applying. When it receives a request for a book, its voice recognition software matches the titles with the book's classification code in the database. It can then search the database to identify which bookshelf to go to. Because the database will only give an approximate location, the robot will navigate its way to the bookshelf, using its infrared and laser guidance system, and scan books within a four-metre radius. Once it is in there, it starts using its cameras, says the professor. By moving the arm with the cameras, it takes an image of the bookshelf. It can read the labels and the position of the book using its image processing and optical recognition software. Once the book is located, it has to grasp it and take it off the bookshelf. For this, the team had to develop special fingertips like nails, with one nail longer than the other. Professor Pobil says there is quite a possibility that teams of robots could, in about five years' time, realistically perform searching and fetching tasks. They could even mill around doing their work at night, working on library inventories, or identifying missing books, or mapping libraries. However, he does not imagine that at any stage they will be replacing librarians and demanding payment for overdue books. A separate team in Japan is working on a similar robotic librarian automat, but their project is more concerned with developing robots that can be controlled remotely over the web in order to scan and read books. -Courtesy BBC Online -- Poornima Narayana Contact: 080-5086083 (O) Dy Head, ICAST 080-6682781 (R) N.A.L E mail: poornima(a)css.nal.res.in Airport Road prn_1_in(a)yahoo.com Bangalore 560 017 Fax: 080-5268072

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