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RE: [LIS-Forum] FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants
by Mailing List Manager 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:24:00 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Dear Ms Chandra: Good question! We at MSSRF are holding two workshops on OA with four truly top class experts as resource persons and am insisting that each participant should set up an institutional archive after the workshop. We will provide all the software on a CD. All they need is a Linux server and a decent Internet connection. A number of institutions have sent in nominations. And more nominations are coming in every day. I am talking to key people having a big say in making science policy both here and abroad [e.g. Dr Mashelkar, Prof. Valiathan, Prof. Bruce Alberts, the Open Source Institute, the US National Academy of Sciences, InterAcademy Panel] about the need to proactively promote open access in both forms [OA journals and more importantly OA archives]. I write about OA in international media. I provide important leads to others who want to write about OA. I keep writing to librarians, heads of institutions and government officials. I am not sure if information literacy is a problem. Anyone surfing the Net or reading journals like Nature and Science will come to know of OA. Even if it were a problem, that can be set right with a little effort. Members of this list should talk about it to publishing scientists and research students, write about it and organise small group seminars in their own institutions and library associations. A few weeks ago FRONTLINE carried a detailed article on OA by one of India's best science writers. I am also not sure if open access has picked up in other countries of Asia. I am trying to organise a trination conference (Brazil, China and India) where a number of leading scientists and policymakers from these three countries will look at open access and how it can make the fie;d level playing (as far as access to information is concerned). I work with some very committed people in the UK, Canada and Europe. All of us work with hope. Eventually, many people including a majority of Indian scientists will recognise the value and usefulness of OA. Best wishes. Arun -----Original Message----- From: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 1:28 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants (fwd) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 22:02:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Smita Chandra <smitac_in(a)yahoo.com> Is there anything that can be done to market the OA initiative among institutions in India ? [truncated]

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Fw: [sla-kiie] 2004 International Paper Contest
by Mailing List Manager 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 21:22:25 -0700 (PDT) From: JK Vijayakumar <vjkjk(a)yahoo.com> Appologies for cross-postings ----------------------------- 2004 International Paper Contest on International Digital Libraries and Information Science & Technology Advances in Developing Countries The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST), International Information Issues Special Interest Group (SIG-III), is pleased to announce its fifth competition for papers to be submitted for the 2004 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Providence, Rhode Island, November 13 - 18, 2004. The theme of the paper is: "Managing and Enhancing Information: Cultures and Conflicts - the developing world perspective." The paper topic could be at the country or regional level. Papers could discuss issues, policies and case studies on specific aspects of this theme, such as, but not limited to, the following: *Social, ethical, political, legal, and economic issues: issues related to the role of information in society, such as information policy, access, security, privacy, and intellectual property, as well as the social uses and abuses of information technologies such as the Internet and World Wide Web in bridging or separating diverse communities. *Information management, organization and access. *Information seeking and use: the role of information in professional and daily lives, use of various types of information technology, and social contexts of information seeking. There will be six winners. Winners will be selected by a panel of judges, which will include Suzie Allard, University of Tennessee; Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto; Nathalie Leroy, United Nations; Duncan Omole, The World Bank; Liwen Vaughan, University of Western Ontario; and Hong Xu, University of Pittsburgh. The contest chairs are Yunfei Du, Wayne State University; Nathalie Leroy, United Nations; and Sue O'Neill Johnson, SIG-III Immediate Past Chair. The prize for each winner is a two-year individual membership in ASIST. In the case of multiple authors, the principal author will be awarded the ASIST membership. In addition, thanks to the continued generous support from Elsevier, the first place winner will be rewarded a minimum of $1,000 toward travel, conference registration, and accommodations while attending the ASIST Annual Conference in Providence, Rhode Island, November 13 - 18, 2004. Publishing opportunities Submitted papers will be considered for posting on the SIG III web site as pre-publications. In addition, they will also be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the International Information and Library Review, subject to the usual peer refereeing process. Information for authors Only papers by a principal author who is a citizen of, and resides in a developing country are eligible. Winners in the 2000, 2001, 2002, or 2003 contests are not eligible. The papers should be original, unpublished, and in English. We encourage submissions from librarians, information and network specialists, and educators involved in the creation, representation, maintenance, exchange, discovery, delivery, and use of digital information. ASIST Copyright Policy ASIST will have the non-exclusive right to publish any of the papers submitted on its web site or in print, with ownership and all other rights remaining with the author. Deadline for submission of full papers Authors are invited to submit manuscripts, not to exceed 5000 words, by June 30, 2004. Authors are encouraged to submit papers electronically. For more information or to submit manuscripts, please contact Yunfei Du, International Paper Contest Co-Chair, by e-mail at the following address: yunfei(a)wayne.edu Please check the SIG III website (http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/) for a list of previous winners, sample papers, and success stories of some previous winners! ------------- J K Vijayakumar INFLIBNET

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Free Week for 24 databases
by Mailing List Manager 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 12:38:42 +0530 From: Jeetender "Vicky" Chandna <vicky(a)irft.org> Dear friends A free week of 24 databases. http://www.gale.com/nlw/-------- Coming April 18! Celebrate information with integrity - the resources in your library Thomson Gale, known around the world for information integrity, honors the nation's libraries by hosting a free-for-all - free, unlimited access to 24 diverse databases during National Library Week, April 18-24. Visit www.gale.com Regards Jeetender "Vicky" Chandna Coordinator Information Systems ------------------------------------------ INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES FOR FAIRER TRADE Sona Udyog Industrial Estate Unit No.7, Parsi Panchayat Road Andheri (E), Mumbai 400069 INDIA ------------------------------------------ Tel: (91-22) 2835 2811 / 2823 5246 Fax: (91-22) 2823 5245 Email: vicky(a)irft.org Website: http://www.irft.org ------------------------------------------

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RE: [LIS-Forum] FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 22:02:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Smita Chandra <smitac_in(a)yahoo.com> Sir, Is there anything that can be done to market the OA initiative among institutions in India ? Is it possible that we are wrong in our approach each time ? I am talking here about the "Information literacy" competency of our elite (the educated, of course). Information literacy has to be inherit in our information policy, which is so different that the IT policy that is often/always represented, even at forums like the WSIS. Maybe we can learn a few lessons from the way South Africa and other south east Asian countries have been doing it. Thanking you and with regards, Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism New Mumbai Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 18:14:40 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam Dear Vijayakumar: We are talking to the Open Society Institute about the status of India. For the first time they may make an exception and are likely to provide partial support to our OA workshops in May. [truncated]

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RE: [LIS-Forum] FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants
by Mailing List Manager 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 18:14:40 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Dear Vijayakumar: We are talking to the Open Society Institute about the status of India. For the first time they may make an exception and are likely to provide partial support to our OA workshops in May. I am also talking to the National Academy of Sciences, USA, to make available PNAS free on the Internet to Indian researchers immediately on publication. Often one is confronted with the question: Have we done whatever WE COULD before seeking help from others? Often the answer is no. For example, it does not take much effort or money to set up interoperable institutional open access archives, and yet I do not know of any Indian institutional archive other than the one at IISc, B'lore. It does not take much money to make our journals open access, and yet only a small number of our journals have gone open access. I must congratulate Dr D K Sahu of Bombay who has done an excellent job in making the electronic versions of more than a dozen Indian medical journals freely accessible on the Internet. At a meeting of INDEST held on 7 October, a decision was taken to set up institutional archives in the major INDEST institutions (following the model of IISc), but so far no archive has been set up. I wrote to key persons in those institutions more than once, but I have received no reply from all but one of them (my friend Jeevan from IITKh). Incidentally, international connections do not play much of a role in getting things done; persistence does. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] -----Original Message----- From: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 10:20 AM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 03:44:43 -0800 (PST) From: JK Vijayakumar <vjkjk(a)yahoo.com> George Soros is founder and chairman of the Open Society Institute and the Soros foundations network (http://www.soros.org/)Soros foundations are autonomous institutions established in particular countries or regions to initiate and support open society activities. The priorities and specific activities of each Soros foundation are determined by a local board of directors and staff in consultation with George Soros and OSI boards and advisors. As per the guidelines the fundings will go to the countries where Soros Network is active.Unfortunately India is not covered under this catagory (http://www.soros.org/openaccess/grants.shtml) I hope Shri Arun can utilise his international relations in open access initiative to activate Soros network in India, and then ask for fundings. > India is again excluded as was done earlier > with HINARI and AGORA! > > Arun _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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website of the Indian Journal of Pediatrics
by Mailing List Manager 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 18:55:37 +0530 From: Bala G Subramanian <balagsub(a)in.ibm.com> pleased to announce the launch of a new version of the website of the Indian Journal of Pediatrics. The site address would remain same [ http://www.ijppediatricsindia.org/>]. The features of the new site include: Free full text availability of articles accessible without login (Registration required only to access PDF; registration is free) Search across multiple journals [Journal of Postgraduate Medicine ( www.jpgmonline.com) Neurology India (www.neurologyindia.com) Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology ( www.ijdvl.com) Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine ( www.ijccm.org) and Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery (www.ijps.org) Direct link to abstracts and full text from the cited references Facility to submit comments on articles Email notifications on new issue release Statistics of articles download and visits Better user interface and structure based on OpenURL, DC Metadata and other international standards As a registered user with the old site you get the priviledge to continue the free and unrestricted usage of the scientific content of the journal. To confirm your re-registration, please click on the link below: http://www.ijppediatricsindia.org/verify.asp?id=145029-203.199.114.103 Thanks and Regards G.Balasubramanian Librarian, COC, India Learning Centre, IBM India Pvt Ltd., #99, Residency Road, Bangalore - 25. Ph: 91-080-2073504 ID:balagsub@in.ibm.com

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FW: Current Cites, March 2004
by Mailing List Manager 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 07:33:44 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Here is something most lis-forum members would find useful. Best wishes and happy reading. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Current Cites Volume 15, no. 3, March 2004 Edited by [2]Roy Tennant The Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720 ISSN: 1060-2356 - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2004/cc04.15.3.html Contributors: [3]Charles W. Bailey, Jr., [4]Terry Huwe, [5]Shirl Kennedy, [6]Leo Robert Klein, [7]Roy Tennant [8]Nature Web Focus: Access to the Literature: The Debate Continues (2004) - Nature is offering a new series of freely available commissioned papers by noted authors on open access and other innovative publishing business models. Current contributions include "[9]Open Access and Learned Societies"; "[10]Open Access and Not-for-Profit Publishers"; "[11]Open Access: Yes, No, Maybe"; "[12]Universities' Own Electronic Repositories Yet to Impact on Open Access"; "[13]Why Electronic Publishing Means People Will Pay Different Prices"; and other papers. There are also useful links to related articles and resources. Like prior Nature debates on electronic publishing issues, this one is lively and very interesting. - [14]CB [15]Computers in Libraries 2004 Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2004. (http://www.infotoday.com/cil2004/presentations/) - Many of the presentations from this conference, held March 10-12, 2004 in Washington DC are available in either PowerPoint or Adobe Acrobat format, or both. Handouts are also often available, as well as the occasional Perl script. The topics range widely from strategies for keeping up to blogs to dead and emerging technologies. There is, in other words, something here for just about anyone. - [16]RT [17]Museums and the Web 2004 Toronto, ON: Archives and Museums Informatics, 2004. (http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/sessions/) - A number of the presentations at this conference are online in HTML as contributed papers. Although many of the topics are perhaps of interest mostly to museums or archives, there are other topics (e.g., building accessible web sites) that cross those boundaries. - [18]RT [19]Thinking Beyond Digital Libraries - Designing the Information Strategy for the Next Decade: Proceedings of the 7th International Bielefeld Conference Bielefeld, Germany: Bielefeld University Library, February 2004. (http://conference.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/proceedings/) - The presentations from this conference are available in PowerPoint format. A few also have the speakers remarks available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. Speakers include university professors, academic library directors, and high-level managers of library-related non-profits and commercial companies (e.g., Jay Jordan, President and CEO of OCLC). - [20]RT [21]METS Opening Day Washington, DC: Library of Congress, October 2003. (http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/od1_ppts.html) - A number of the PowerPoint presentations from the first "METS Opening Day" for the emerging standard Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) are available. Topics include an introduction to METS, building METS by hand, METS profiles, METS repositories, and METS case studies. A second METS Opening Day will be occuring on April 8 and 9 at Stanford University, with those presentations likely to be available shortly thereafter at the [22]METS web site. - [23]RT Christiansen, Donald. "[24]Ephemera for Engineers and Scientists" [25]Today's Engineer (IEEE) (February 2004) (http://www.todaysengineer.org/feb04/backscatter.asp) - It's not news to those of us in the information profession -- the fact that when it comes to Web-based resources, it's too often a case of here today, gone tomorrow. How many times have you spotted an interesting article while out surfing and, when you wanted to go back to it later on, you could no longer find it? Even if you saved the link, the link no longer works. While this is an annoyance when it comes to our everyday web browsing, it can be a disaster for resarch and scholarship. "Many technical articles now include references to Internet addresses, as opposed to hard-copy resources," the author correctly points out. But when authors or readers attempt to access these URLs at a later time, they have effectively vanished into cyberspace. The author cites a [26]study done at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in which researchers checked articles that appeared in Science, the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine. They found "that 3.8 percent of Internet references were inactive three months after journal publication, 10 percent after 15 months and 13 percent after 27 months." While there are ways of tracking these things down after the fact -- the author gives some suggestions, most would agree that this is a tremendous waste of time and energy. A solution, he says, may come in the form of "Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), the Uniform Resource Name (URN) syntax or the Persistent Uniform Resource Locator (PURL)." - [27]SK Dilevko, Juris, and Lisa Gottlieb. "Selection and Cataloging of Adult Pornography Web Sites for Academic Libraries" [28]Journal of Academic Librarianship 30(1) (January 2004): 36-50. - The authors argue that as interest in adult porn studies proliferates on campus, librarians are challenged to provide support material. The authors delineate various criteria for selecting subject-specific Web sites, reminding us that while the sites themselves may not be scholarly, they may still "represent a type of cultural artifact worthy of (and currently the subject of) scholarly inquiry." Catalogers will appreciate the extensive discussion on subject access in this area. The inclusion of material like this in the academic library's catalog would, we are told, "facilitate scholarly research in this area and fill a prominent gap in the library's collection." (Available through ScienceDirect.) - [29]LRK Ebare, Sean. "[30]Digital Music and Subculture: Sharing Files, Sharing Styles" [31]First Monday 9(2) (2 February 2004) (http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_2/ebare/index.html) - The author takes a fresh look at online music sharing communities, applying theories from popular music studies and cyberethnography. He explores how identity and difference, subculture and genre lifespans, and the political economy of technology and music production combine to influence the use of music on the Internet. Identity is more fluid, and anonymity more prevalent, making the music sharing community somewhat unique. He argues that the subculture of music sharing user-driven and that the ability to forecast how this community behaves will be invaluable for both music publishers and social scientists. He offers his own forecast on the future marketplace for music sharing, arguing that it will depend upon an understanding of the diversity of the members, their need for self-determination, and the mandate to allow these communities to exercise a substantial degree of independence within their online experience. - [32]TH Feldman, Susan. "[33]The High Cost of Not Finding Information" [34]KMWorld Magazine 13(3) (March 2004) (http://www.kmworld.com/publications/magazine/index.cfm?action=read article&Article_ID=1725&Publication_ID=108). - "There are all kinds of information disasters. Some are caused by wrong information. Some are caused by outdated information.... Missing or incomplete information plagues many projects..... Finally, there is the increasing problem of too much in formation." Some interesting statistics here: -- "(R)oughly 50% of most Web searches are abandoned." -- "Knowledge workers spend from 15% to 35% of their time searching for information." -- "Searchers are successful in finding what they seek 50% of the time or less...." -- "40% of corporate users reported that they can not find the information they need to do their jobs on their intranets." -- "Not locating and retrieving information has an opportunity cost of more than $15 million annually." -- "Some studies suggest that 90% of the time that knowledge workers spend in creating new reports or other products is spent in recreating information that already exists." - [35]SK Fiehn, Barbara. "[36]Federated Searching: A Viable Alternative to Web Surfing" [37]TechNewsWorld (21 March 2004) (http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/33160.html) - You'll be hearing lots more about federated search. Simple definition -- searching a variety of resources (databases, OPACs, the Web) from a single interface. This article (which originally appeared in the April 2004 issue of [38]MultiMedia & Internet@Schools but is not online there) focuses on school library media centers and the products available for that market. But it is worth reading by all information professionals since it presents a good overview of the topic and explains some of the pros and cons. The biggest advantage is the most obvious -- no need for the end user to hop from resource to resource in order to access all that an institution has available online. Some vendors' products will group results by source which, in essence, can show the user which resources are likely to be most useful for his/her particular information need. And the user only has to learn one search interface. But single-interface searching also has some downsides. Federated search technology is not quite "there" yet as far as relevance and de-duping are concerned. Also, the single interface may not permit the end user to take advantage of whatever sophisticated search features are offered by the individual resources. And this relatively new technology may prove challenging for librarians and IT people alike. If you don't have adequate in-house resources, hosting solutions may be available. - [39]SK Kurlantzick, Joshua. "[40]Dictatorship.com: The Web Won't Topple Tyranny" [41]The New Republic (25 March 2004) (http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?pt=oGG%2BvQEIjJRNjHGlOJiX4X%3D%3D) - As a tool to disseminate popular culture, the Internet has had spectacular success, even in "authoritarian nations" such as Laos, China, Singapore and Saudi Arabia. But, the author points out, its political impact has been negligible and, in some cases, "the Internet actually may be helping dictatorships remain in power." This in spite of the fact that pundits have been touting the political potential of the Net since it became more or less a mass medium in the mid-90s. Although "Internet usage has surged in many authoritarian nations," it has had little impact on "the political climate." Why? Because, the author says, it is not particularly useful "for expressing and organizing dissent," and -- technologically -- "it has proved surprisingly easy for authoritarian regimes to stifle, control, and co-opt." The author points out that the Internet is mainly used for individual rather than group activities. As one Laotian researcher quoted here observes, the Internet "is about people sitting in front of a terminal, barely interacting." Also, using the Net requires a relatively high level of literacy. The author provides examples of how different nations have attempted to control access to and content on the Internet, particularly China -- "Despite President Clinton's prediction, Beijing has proved that it can, in fact, nail Jell-O to the wall." And Western companies have proven only too eager "to sell the latest censorship technology" to any oppressive regime willing to ante up. Some dissidents claim the Internet actually facilitates monitoring of individuals by the government. Fascinating read; a don't-miss. - [42]SK Seebach, Peter. "[43]The Cranky User: Businesses Behaving Badly : Put Customers First Or Risk Losing Them" [44]developerWorks (4 March 2004) (http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-cranky38.html ). - The "Cranky User" is an occasional column on IBM's extremely helpful developerWorks site (the [45]Ease of Use section is wonderful). In this missive, the Cranky User complains about poor customer service. Poor customer service is a kind of action on the part of a company that produces a reaction in the customer, namely, a negative reaction. While I don't particularly agree with his example near the end of the column where he complains about contact email addresses being replaced by web forms, the notion that bad institutional practices have negative consequences is important to keep in mind. - [46]LRK Wells, Catherine A. "Location, Location, Location: The Importance of Placement of the Chat Request Button. " Reference & User Services Quarterly 43(2) (Winter 2003): 133-137. - Concerned that Chat Reference wasn't being used as much as expected, librarians at Case Western Reserve began experimenting with the size, shape, location and frequency of placement of the Chat Reference button on their site. They eventually found, perhaps to no one's surprise, that usage went up if the button appeared on the most heavily trafficked pages (home page, catalog page, database page). High on their wish list now is getting the button on vendor (i.e. subscription database) pages as well. - [47]LRK _________________________________________________________________ Current Cites - ISSN: 1060-2356 Copyright (c) 2004 by the Regents of the University of California All rights reserved. Copying is permitted for noncommercial use by computerized bulletin board/conference systems, individual scholars, and libraries. Libraries are authorized to add the journal to their collections at no cost. This message must appear on copied material. All commercial use requires permission from the editor. All product names are trademarks or registered trade marks of their respective holders. Mention of a product in this publication does not necessarily imply endorsement of the product. To subscribe to the Current Cites distribution list, send the message "sub cites [your name]" to [48]listserv(a)library.berkeley.edu, replacing "[your name]" with your name. 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Google's Gmail arriving shortly
by Shyam Prasad pujar 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

Dear Members, Google is launching an e-mail service. Presently in beta testing, has the following features. Search, don't sort. Use Google search to find the exact message you want, no matter when it was sent or received. Don't throw anything away. 1000 megabytes of free storage so you'll never need to delete another message. Keep it all in context. Each message is grouped with all its replies and displayed as a conversation. No pop-up ads. No banners. You see only relevant text ads and links to related web pages of interest. For more information, please have a look at: http://gmail.google.com http://www.google.com/gmail/help/about.html Regards, S.M. Pujar ********************************************************************** Shamprasad M. Pujar Assistant Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% * Phone: (022) 28400919-21 Extn: 514 * * Fax: (022) 28402752 * * E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in * * URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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2005 IFLA/OCLC Fellows Program
by Mailing List Manager 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:57:08 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao." <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> 2005 IFLA/OCLC Fellows Program Deadline Approaching ATLA seeks theological librarians for a new fifth fellowship The deadline to apply for the 2005 IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program is rapidly approaching. Complete applications, which include a cover sheet, a résumé, an essay of 1,000 words or less about the applicants professional plans and three letters of recommendation, must be submitted by Friday, April 23, 2004. Only complete applications will be considered. The Fellowship Program provides early career development and continuing education for library and information science professionals from countries with developing economies. OCLC and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions are happy to welcome a third sponsor for the 2005 program. This year, a fifth Fellow will be selected thanks to the generosity of the American Theological Library Association (ATLA). Established in 1946, ATLA is a professional association of more than 800 individual, institutional and affiliate members providing programs, products and services in support of theological and religious studies libraries and librarians. ATLAs ecumenical membership represents many religious traditions and denominations. Announcement http://www.ifla.org/V/press/pr110304.htm 2005 IFLA/OCLC Fellows Program Deadline Approaching Application information is available at: http://tinyurl.com/2oe55 or http://www.oclc.org/institute/resources/fellowships/ifla/default.htm More information at: http://www.ifla.org/III/grants/ecdf.htm

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DRTC COLLOQUIUM ON ICT FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
by Mailing List Manager 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:07:41 -0800 (PST) From: rajesh mishra <rajesh_mishra61(a)yahoo.com> INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Banglore-560059 DRTC Colloquium on ICT FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ABSTRACT The difference of classes has brought about the phenomenon of Digital Divide. This phenomenon made information accessible only to a few communities. Information Communication Technology (ICT) is one approach to fill this divide. This colloquium is an attempt to look closely at use of ICT to fill Digital Divide and various social and economic challenges associated to it. SPEAKERS TOPICS 1. Rajesh Mishra Overview on ICT 2. Sarandha Singh Digital Divide 3. Ravinder ICT Policies and Development 4. Rashid Hussain ICT Education and Training 5. Amit Jha ICT Models and Tools Venue: DRTC Classroom Date: 2nd Apr. 2004 Time: 2.00 PM All are cordially invited Dr. Devika P. Madalli

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