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Invitation for 4th ASSIST Two-Day National Seminar on DIGITAL RESOURCES AND SERVICES IN LIBRARIES
by Mailing List Manager 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 00:16:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Biradar B.S. <bs_biradar(a)yahoo.com> Dear Professional Colleagues, Myself on the behalf of 4th ASSIST National Seminar Organising Committee welcome you all for the 4th ASSIST National Seminar on "DIGITAL RESOURCES AND SERVICES IN LIBRARIES" to be held on 30th April and 1st May 2004 at Kuvempu University, Shankarghatta, Shimoga, Karnataka, India. All accepted papers bibliographies are hosted at the seminar site URLed http://www.freewebs.com/assist2004/ For further queries pls. contact me at bs_biradar(a)yahoo.com Attached is the Invitation. Thanks and Warm Regards Dr. B.S. Biradar, Chairman, Dept. of Lib. & Inf. Science, Kuvempu University, Jana Sahyadri, Shankarghatta, -577451, Shimoga Karnataka, India. Email : bs_biradar(a)yahoo.com : bsbiradar53(a)rediffmail.com Phone : 91-8282-657319 (Off.) : 91-8282-656142 (Res.)

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Courier journals
by Mailing List Manager 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 12:54:29 +0530 From: Rajeev Sharma <bic.crpo(a)tcil.com> Respected Professionals I am looking for journals/serials in courier industry and reference material for fire safety in warehouses. Looking forward for your kind help. Thanks and Best Regards Rajeev Kr. Sharma Officer - Information Services Business Information Center ( BIC) ------------------------------------ Transport Corporation of India Ltd. TCI House, 69 Institutional Area. Sector 32, Gurgaon - 122 001 Haryana, India Ph: (91) (124) 2381603 - 07 Ext. 104 Fax: (91) (124) 2381611 Email: bic.crpo(a)tcil.com Web: www.grouptci.com --------------------------------------

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Data to be stored on paper disc!
by Mailing List Manager 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:45:46 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> Sony has developed Blu-ray Disc technology-based 25GB paper disc, along with Toppan Printing Co., aiming to produce low cost discs. Friday, April 16, 2004 NEW DELHI: Sony Corporation has announced that it has successfully developed a 25GB paper disc based on Blu-ray Disc technology. The paper discs, which marks a new phase in the Blu-ray disc technology, has been developed jointly by Sony and Toppan Printing Co Ltd. According to a Sony press release, the two companies have been working on for about a year on printing data onto Blu-ray discs made mostly of paper. The companies are aiming to produce lower-cost discs and expand the use of the technology. The discs will be able to store more than two hours of high-definition video. The companies plan to share more details about the new product at the Optical Data Storage conference beginning April 18, 2004 at Monterey, California. The Blu-ray Disc format uses blue laser light and is considered a successor to today's red-laser DVD drives. The discs that can store more than five times the capacity of current DVDs was introduced last year in Japan by Sony. The company is part of a group called the Blu-ray Disc Founders that promote the format. Talking about the paper discs, Toppans MD and head of corporate R&D division, Hideaki Kawai claimed that the use of printing technology on paper allows high level of artistic label printing on the optical disc, besides adding a level of security in some cases. "Since a paper disc can be cut by scissors easily, it is simple to preserve data security when disposing off the disc," he said. Sony claimed that the two companies were able to develop the paper discs by exploiting the fact that the Blu-ray Disc did not require laser light to travel through the substrate. Sony Corporation senior general manager of optical system development group Masanobu Yamamoto further said that it was also possible to decrease the amount of raw material used per unit of information by increasing the capacity of the disc. The worldwide production of optical discs is approximately 20 billion per year and optical discs are being adopted widely. The combination of paper material and printing technology is also expected to lead to a reduction in cost per disc and will expand usage. The Sony press release also said that the company would continue to work with Toppan towards developing the disc for practical usage. CyberMedia News ===== 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) 040-56547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com ____________________________________________________________ Does your mail provider give you a free online calendar? Yahoo! does. Get Yahoo! Mail http://uk.mail.yahoo.com

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Minimum standard of library as per UGC norms
by Mailing List Manager 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:50:07 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Sanjay Kataria" <katariasanjay2001(a)yahoo.com> Dear friends, Kindly provide the detailed information on Library standard as per UGC norms. Best regards Thanks & Regards =============================== Sanjay Kataria Librarian (Acting) Learning Resource Centre (Library) Jaypee Institute of Information Technology A-10,Sector-62, Noida (UP) 201307 Ph. 9810503341 (Mobile) 0120-2400973 to 978 Ext. 251 E-mail: katariasanjay2001(a)yahoo.com, sanjay.kataria(a)jiitindia.org

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ICADL2004-Shangai, China-Dec 13-17-Call for papers
by Mailing List Manager 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 23:57:11 +0530 (IST) From: shalini(a)vidyanidhi.org.in -------------Apologies for cross postings------ Here is the call for papers for ICADL 2001. Important Dates are: Submission of Abstracts (full papers only) - June 10, 2004 Submission of Full Papers - July 1, 2004 Submission of Short Papers - July 1, 2004 --------- The 7th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries ------- International Collaboration and Cross-Fertilization ( http://icadl2004.sjtu.edu.cn) Call for papers After its six-years efficient exploration in offering a forum to promote and share the latest development of technology of digital library, the International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) has turned out to be a grand annual event in the library and IT communities in Asia and the world as well. The 7th ICADL Conference in 2004 will be hosted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shanghai Library in Shanghai, China from December 13 to 17. The theme of this conference is: Digital Libraries International Collaboration and Cross-Fertilization. Papers are solicited in a wide variety of digital library related areas, including (but not limited to): Main Topics: Service and Management New forms and models of DL services; Digital library performance, resources, usefulness, usability and evaluation;User studies: user communities, user needs, user behavior, usage pattern; Social, legal and economic issues related DL, such as privacy, intelligence property, information security, sustainability;Knowledge management and its application in DL; New institution roles and responsibilities of DL in 21st century. Live reference service Personalization service Collaboration and Localization Case studies on successful national, cross-regional and international DL collaboration projects and impact in Asia-Pacific Region;Preserving, organizing and disseminating Asian unique and indigenous knowledge and culture;Novel methods and tools for Asian languages information processing. Exploring a Cross-Culture Context for DL studies in Asia, social impacts of DL in Asia. Technology Digital library system: architectures, interoperability, mobile applications, agents related to DL;Access to distributed and heterogeneous digital collections: interoperability, scalability, relevant information discovery, meta-information integration, Mass storage;Information retrieval and data mining: novel IR technologies of text and multimedia, data mining; multi- and cross-lingual data access and searching, machine translation and machine learning; Information organization and content management: metadata and OAI, ontologies and semantic web, topic maps;Human-computer interaction: interfaces, visualization, portals, personalization;Technical standards、protocol in DL area and implication strategies; Grid technologies and digital libraries E-publication Proceedings Conference Proceedings will be composed of long (full) papers (10 pages), short papers (4 pages) and poster papers (2 pages) and be published by Springers Lecture Note Series in Computer Science (LNCS). Important Date: Submission of Abstracts (full papers only) June 10, 2004 Submission of Full Papers July 1, 2004 Submission of Short Papers July 1, 2004 Papers should be written in English and submitted in electronic format. More details will be released dynamically at the 7th ICADL Conferences website: http://icadl2004.sjtu.edu.cn. And much more will be given around March. Please contact us if you have any questions: Mr. Yuan Guojing, Ms. Guojing Email: icadl2004(a)mail.lib.sjtu.edu.cn Tel.: +86-21-62933229 Fax: +86-21-62820892 The Organization Committee of the 7th ICADL Conference Shanghai, P.R. China

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PNAS - Free on the web to Indian readers
by Mailing List Manager 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 09:25:26 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> "All - Free access to PNAS Online was made available to India on Tuesday, April 20. We are excited about this development, and that PNAS Online and publications of the National Academies Press are now available in more than 140 developing countries. Please let me know if you have any difficulty with access to PNAS." -- Ken Fulton Publisher PNAS

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CMI launches Pervasive Computing initiative (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:41:41 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> CMI launches Pervasive Computing initiative For the last 40 years, humans have been slaves to their computers. Now the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) is setting up an innovative research community that will look for specific ways to reverse the relationship - and put humans firmly back in charge. For more information about these, and about CMI, please visit our website: http://www.cambridge-mit.org For more information please contact: Rachel Simpson, CMI 01223 448764 Mobile: 07796 261297 E-mail: r.simpson(a)cmi.cam.ac.uk

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FW: PNAS not yet free to Indians!
by Mailing List Manager 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 18:56:49 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: I am happy to inform you that soon scientists and research students in India will get free access to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, immediately on publication. I have been writing to officials at the NAS for some time and this letter from Prof. Bruce Alberts, President, NAS, makes me extremely happy. Best wishes. Arun ------- I am pleased to be able to announce that, at the NAS publishing committee meeting a week ago, it was voted to increase the list of immediately free nations for PNAS to match the list for our immediately free PDFs of 3000 Academy books and reports. Those nations just added include India and South Africa, and will now total 140. All nations everywhere (including the US) have been getting PNAS for free for many years, following a 6 month delay from the publication date. The publisher of PNAS, Ken Fulton, and I will send everyone an email once the new system has been fully implemented on the PNAS website. There has been a brief delay because of the software installations needed to implement the change on the site. With best regards, Bruce ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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US patent Search
by Mailing List Manager 23 Apr '04

23 Apr '04

Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:02:00 +0530 From: Bhojaraju G. <bhojaraju.g(a)icicionesource.com> Dear Mr.Biradar, You may refer Patents Page : http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html <http://www.uspto.gov/> Search Page : http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/search-bool.html Example : Search Results for Chemistry (the same way u can do for others) http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2 <http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2= HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TER M1=chemistry&FIELD1=&co1=AND&TERM2=&FIELD2=&d=ptxt> &Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l =50&TERM1=chemistry&FIELD1=&co1=AND&TERM2=&FIELD2=&d=ptxt with regards Bhojaraju G. www.bhojarajug.cjb.net <http://www.bhojarajug.cjb.net/>

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Moving over to Linux
by Mailing List Manager 23 Apr '04

23 Apr '04

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 15:56:23 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Here is some good news for those who want to migrate to Linux. New software would let Windows programs run on Linux A Philippine-based company unveiled software Thursday that would allow Windows-based programs to run on computers using the Linux operating system. SpecOps Labs said its software will help millions of users migrate from Windows to the free and open-source Linux platform. Several other companies have developed software that combines Linux's underpinnings with a Windows-like interface, but they generally cannot run programs written for Windows. Previous attempts to run Windows word processors, spreadsheets, and other applications smoothly on Linux machines have been largely unsuccessful and cumbersome. SpecOps said the 80MB program will be available commercially by the end of the year at a still-undetermined price. It said it expects to sell more than 30,000 copies of the program and generate about $1 million in gross revenues in the first year. InformationWeek / AP <http://infonomics.nl/ref.php?nid=1741>, April 22, 2004

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