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Number of engineering Ph.D graduates from India
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Dear All We want to know (approximate) number of engineering Ph.D students graduating from Indian educational institutions per year, and institution wise distribution of these numbers. Thanks in advance for any help in this regard. 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

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fixation of pay scale
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:01:09 +0530 From: Vijayalaxmi R Deshpande <vrd(a)powersearch.cpri.res.in> Moderator's Note: ----------------- Members who have inputs for the following posting are requested to send their replies directly to Vijayalaxmi R Deshpande <vrd(a)powersearch.cpri.res.in>. Vijayalaxmi, in turn is requested to consolidate all the inputs and post it back on the lis-forum for the benefit of other members. Please do not send your replies, for this posting, to either lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in or to mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in. Thanks for your cooperation and active participation. - Moderator ----------------Note ends here----------------- Dear Lis-forum members, I am Latha K N working as Librarian in CPRI since 1982. While fixing pay scale in V CPC, my scale was fixed to 5000 - 8000 scale instead of 5500 - 9000. Recently one more order published in Swamys News to fix all librarian's scale in 5500 -9000, when I gave representation by producing this order they are asking for original order where in central government autonomous organisation it is implemented. Kindly any of you have got this order or this is implemented let me know by return mail. Thanking you, Latha K N Librarian.

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A news report on the national Allianace
by Mailing List Manager 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:55:41 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is a report that appeared in The Communication Initiative [http://www.comminit.com/pds72004/sld-10439.html] Best wishes. Arun National Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Basic Human Needs - India Summary Formed in May 2004, the National Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Basic Human Needs will seek to take the knowledge-led services harnessed by ICTs to all of India's 600,000 villages by August 2007, when the country celebrates its 60th year of independence. The Alliance sees itself as acting as a catalyst for technology innovation for rural ICT applications and connectivity. "It will work to bring the private sector and the academia together with strong support from civil society organizations for experimenting every innovation among the target communities." The M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) and OneWorld South Asia are jointly organising the Alliance. Main Communication Strategies The Alliance is using networking and partnership as strategies for taking ICTs to the poor and the disadvantaged in India's rural and urban communities. To begin the process of creating the alliance, 50 representatives drawn from civil society organisations, government departments, the private sector, and academia took part in consultations in May 2004. They set up 7 task forces, including connectivity, content, policy, capacity building, resources, organisation and management, and programme design. One focus of these task force activities will be how to use the ongoing efforts by the government and the private sector in creating an ICT infrastructure, human networks, and political institutions to provide multipurpose information kiosks in rural areas. "The info-kiosk of tomorrow would serve as a communication hub, providing multiple telephone and communication services to the village, a virtual academy and training center and banking, financial, insurance and trading outlet and much more." Face-to-face interaction will continue to be the Alliance's key strategy for sharing ideas and engaging in strategic planning toward the 2007 goal. These conversations take the form of "Policy Makers Workshops" like the May and July 2004 consultations. (Other such workshops were held in October 2003 and February 2004 to organise other MSRRF programmes designed to bridge the digital divide; please see Key Points, below). According to organisers, a number of key government people attended and spoke at the July 2004 meeting. According to MSRRF, these representatives expressed firm support for the National Alliance's work and a strong desire to collaborate. Here is an excerpt from the May 2004 meeting report, which indicates the Alliance's strategic direction (this document is available as a PDF document; please see contact section, below): The emergence of Rural Knowledge Centres and info-kiosk movement in our country has demonstrated that the local panchayats and self-help groups can take advantage of appropriate information and communication technologies and that they can easily access the scientific and technical knowledge they need to solve local problems and enhance the quality of their lives, as well as to communicate their own insights and needs back to Government departments and scientists. A national movement of knowledge centres needs to be established in mission mode to ensure quick implementation at the local level, create information infrastructure and locally appropriate and relevant content for rural economy through active involvement of Gram Sabhas, Local Self-Help groups and NGOs. For this a Rural Knowledge Centre Fund may be established by NABARD to cover 100,000 villages within 3 years. To provide the fillip the Government of India may provide necessary matching assistance to NABARD to the tune of Rs. 300 crores a year. These NABARD supported knowledge centres should work towards creating sustainable livelihood opportunities, and also serve as service providers and communication enablers for the landless and the poor, especially those belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other Backward Classes, women and the disabled - the most vulnerable groups in rural India....It will be useful if Government can proactively promote public-private and institutional partnerships facilitating outreach of the knowledge centres to cover the unreached villages in rural India. The active participation of this elected women and men members of local bodies crucial for the success of this movement. An integrated use of the Internet and Community Radio will be an effective means of reaching the unreached and voicing the voiceless. Development Issues Technology, Economic Development. Key Points The Alliance's work will be guided by the philosophy of MSSRF's Chairman, Prof. Swaminathan. Here is a synopsis of that approach, provided by MSSRF: "His focus is people. He looks at their contexts and needs and then proceeds to satisfy those needs within their context. He is ready to use any technology that comes in handy. For example, in our Information Village (Rural Knowledge Centres) project we use noticeboards, public address systems (loud speakers put up in different streets of a fishing village) and a local language twice-monthly community newspaper along with solar (photovoltaic) energy, the Internet, spread spectrum technology and Motorola two-way radio...For us technology is often a mere enabler. What people want delivered is healthcare, education, agriculture, markets, entitlements, credit, and better livelihoods. We work towards achieving the MDGs [Millenium Development Goals]." The National Alliance is a natural progression from MSSRF's ongoing efforts to set up rural knowledge centres in several villages - efforts that can be characterised as using a bottom-up approach and involving the community from the beginning. MSSRF comments, "These are not mere kiosks. They have become an integral part of the life of the village communities." This work is described in detail in "Rural Knowledge Centres: Harnessing Local Knowledge via Interactive Media Policy Makers Workshop" [PDF] </redirect.cgi?r=http://www.mssrf.org/publications/pmw.pdf>. For a summary of this workshop, click here <http://www.comminit.com/st2003/sld-9144.html>. Additional information is available on the MSSRF website </redirect.cgi?r=http://www.mssrf.org> (click on the words "Special Programmes" on the left navigation bar). Click here <http://www.comminit.com/DiscussionForums/sld-10232.html> to find out how to participate in a related Discussion Forum entitled "Information kiosks in every Indian village by 2007 - a myth or reality?". Partners The July workshop was supported by the International Development Research Center (IDRC), Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), NASSCOM Foundation, and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. It was organised by M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation and OneWorld South Asia. Source "National Alliance on ICTs for basic human needs launched" </redirect.cgi?r=http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/8 6557/1138/2150>, on the OneWorld South Asia website. Featured in the Digital Opportunity Channel - weekly newsletter - May 20-26, which was forwarded by Atanu Garai to the bytesforall_readers list server on May 26 2004 (click here to access the archives </redirect.cgi?r=http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers/>); and posting to the bytesforall_readers list server dated July 6 2004; and letter sent from Subbiah Arunachalam to The Communication Initiative on July 15 2004. For more information, contact: Subbiah Arunachalam Distinguished Fellow arun(a)mssrf.res.in <mailto:arun@mssrf.res.in> subbiah_a(a)hotmail.com <mailto:subbiah_a@hotmail.com> Prof. M.S. Swaminathan Chairman msswami(a)mssrf.res.in <mailto:msswami@mssrf.res.in> M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) Third Cross Street, Institutional Area Taramani, Chennai - 600 113, India Tel.: +91-44-22541229, 22541698 Fax: +91-44-22541319 MSSRF website </redirect.cgi?r=http://www.mssrf.org> Dr. Basheerhamad Shadrach Director, OneWorld South Asia Basheerhamad.shadrach(a)oneworld.net <mailto:Basheerhamad.shadrach@oneworld.net> Placed on the Communication Initiative site July 15 2004. Last Updated July 15 2004. Please also see: http://www.comminit.com/pds72004/sld-10439.html National Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Basic Human Needs <http://www.comminit.com/pds72004/sld-10439.html> A network formed in May 2004 is working to bring ICTs to all of India's 600,000 villages by August 2007, when the country celebrates its 60th year of independence. The National Alliance sees itself as a catalyst for technology innovation for rural ICT applications and connectivity. Networking and partnership will be key strategies for taking ICTs to the poor and the disadvantaged: "It will work to bring the private sector and the academia together with strong support from civil society organizations for experimenting" with ICT innovations. The M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation and OneWorld South Asia are organising the Alliance.

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Digital Libraries created by IIM Kozhikode, India
by JK Vijayakumar 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

Dear Friends, Two Digital Libraries created by Center for Development of Digital Libraries (CDDL) at Indian Institute of Management-Kozhikode (www.iimk.ac.in) is available for access 1. The first one crated basically for IIMK, is available at http://intranet.iimk.ac.in/cgi-bin/library . This DL has been created by using Greenstone Software and the same is listed at Greenstone site under examples at http://www.greenstone.org/cgi-bin/library?a=p&p=examples. The copyrighted materials like eJournals and educational videos will not be able to access from outside, as they are accessible IP based only, and the second one (Videos) is copyrighted. But this can be a model, in a practical DL setting, which also can be emulated with our own collection. Also they are now putting lots of public domain material of interest to many people. 2. The second one "www.medinfoguide.org" they did for HIN/WHO as an eLearning platform for doctors in India, which has over 12 million citations, over 1500 plus free full-text eJournals and over 1000 eBooks meticulously packaged along with a host of value added information services. You can see the page announced at at "http://www.hin.org.in/". The test bed for this product was made at the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science, Bangalore in their 26 medical schools (you can see the site hosted at RGUHS "http://www.rguhs.ac.in/" also, at "E-Learning@RGUHS" link. Lots of our medical librarians/libraries shall benefit out of this. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Vote for the stars of Yahoo!'s next ad campaign! http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo/votelifeengine/

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25,000 titles (books) in Enginering field
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 07:08:15 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] vijaya kumara" <vijayakumar71(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear All Our College is going to get National Board of Accrediation, so we have to procure 25,000 title books on Engineering field. So any one of you will help me to get the list of 25,000 titles through net/web or any union catalogue of Engineering. The Engineering field may include Aeronauticla Engineering, Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Electrical and Electronics, Industrial Engineering Management, Information Science Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Medical Electronics, Telecommunication Physics, Chemistry, and Mathes Wating for your good reply at the earliest Regards Vijayakumar M *************************************************************************************** Vijayakumar M, 080 - 28452324 Ext. 234 HOD - Library, library(a)mvjeducation.com MVJ College of Engineering, (ISO Certified Institute), Bangalore-560 067

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full text articles
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 00:07:23 -0700 (PDT) From: gayathri sen <gayatsen(a)yahoo.com> Dear Arvindkumar, Your should regularly browse all issues of infowatch newletter by NCSI, IISc, which is an excellent resource for latest internet free sites. Maybe you will get something on the area of your interest. I find the newsletter very useful. Regards, Gayathri Sen, PESIT

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justice
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 00:32:30 -0700 (PDT) From: gayathri sen <gayatsen(a)yahoo.com> Dear members, I congradulate Rajesh on passing the CAT Exam. It is very unfortunate to note that admission is not given at IIM. B.Lib.Sc. is a post graduate programme and he has done his M..Lib. Inf. Sc. also, and passed the entrence exam of IIM too. The university from which he passed, UGC and dept. of Lib.Sc. of different universities and also ILA should take up this issue very seriously to bring professional dignity for our profession. Regards, Gayathri Sen, PESIT

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UC Press - free e-books
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 09:29:47 +0530 From: Krishnan <krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in> University of California Press http://www.ucpress.edu/ following the pioneering lead of the National Academy Press http://www.nap.edu/ has released 400+ books for public consumption http://texts.cdlib.org/escholarship/titles_public.html Dr. S. Krishnan Head, Information Division=20 National Chemical Lab, PUNE 411008, INDIA HYPERLINK "http://www.ncl-india.org"http://www.ncl-india.org Tel: 020-25893457; Fax: 020-25893973

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Re: Re: [LIS-Forum] request for references
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:30:22 +0530 From: head_infoservices <head_infoservices(a)indiatimes.com> Dear Mr. Abhilash, Please refer to the magazine of Information Today, Inc. COMPUTERS IN LIBRARIES. It is an excellent source and I hope it will help you alot in your research study. Please visit the link below. http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/jul04/index.shtml Regards Sanjay Singh ---------Original Message---------- Dear Professionals I am doing research in the topic "IMPACT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES" Can you suggest any journals/articles or books published in this area. Abhilash SKCET COIMBATORE

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Re: UDC Abridged Edition
by Mailing List Manager 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:28:06 +0530 (India Standard Time) From: indk68 <indk68(a)hotmail.com> Dear LIS Professionals, Ultimately, we r able to contact M/s Book Supply Bureau, Bangalore and also Mr.S. R. Taqi.Thanks alot for ur just-in-time response= Indira K. ICFAI University Hyderabad-500 082

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