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Lecture on Interoperability for Digital Libraries
by Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

The Board of Trustees of the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore in collaboration with the National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore cordially invite you to a public lecture by Dr. Michael Shepherd Professor and Director, Health Information, Faculty of Computer Science Dalhousie University, Canada on Interoperability for Digital Libraries at The Seminar Hall National Centre for Science Information Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012 on Friday, 12th December 2003, at 5.30 p.m. Dr. I.K. Ravichandra Rao Professor and Head, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore will preside ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- RSVP: Ph: 3305109 (Prasad, SRELS) E-mail: srels(a)vsnl.com 3600271 (Rajashekar, NCSI) raja(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

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Registration Open - ICDL 2004 www.teriin.org/events/icdl
by Mailing List Manager 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 17:22:45 +0530 From: ICDL2004 <ICDL2004(a)teri.res.in> Our apologies for cross postings Final announcement- Registration Open ICDL 2004 New Delhi 24-27 February 2004 International Conference on Digital Libraries: Knowledge creation, preservation, access and management *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We would appreciate disseminating this mail to your colleagues. *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital libraries and knowledge management are innovations, the implementation of which is still nascent in developing countries. However, they hold the promise of becoming key technologies for knowledge creation and management in the future. In February 2003, the Government of India launched the National Mission for Manuscripts, aimed at preserving the valuable manuscripts in India. The mission is designed to undertake elaborate surveys, run awareness programmes, and impart training in conservation/preservation techniques. ICDL 2004 would contribute to the objectives of the mission by assembling a galaxy of experts, researchers, and academics from across the world to exchange ideas on digital libraries, and related technologies and issues. Objectives .Bridge knowledge gaps between developing and developed countries .Initiate capacity building activities in digital libraries .Evolve a road map for the digitization of archives, manuscripts, and libraries .Provide a forum for facilitating interaction amongst participants .Formulate recommendations on digitization technologies, Acts, and policies Who should participate? .Policy-makers .Library and information science professionals .IT professionals .Archivists and museologists .Content developers and knowledge managers .IT service providers .Information providers and vendors .Professionals from electronic publishing and virtual electronic communities .All stakeholders in the digitization and knowledge business Patrons: Mr Jagmohan Hon'ble Union Minister for Tourism and Culture Government of India * Dr Arun Shourie (invited) Hon'ble Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology Government of India Programme highlights Tutorials .Conference sessions .Panel discussions .Business sessions .Exhibition Day 1: 24 February 2004 (Tuesday) 8.00 a.m. Registration for Tutorials and Conference 9.00-10.30 a.m. TUTORIALS TUTORIAL 1A TUTORIAL 1B TUTORIAL 1C Finding information Ontologies and Institutional through the Internet Thesauri repositories and the WWW Nicola Guarino T B Rajashekar Paul Nieuwenhuysen 10.30-11.00 a.m. Tea 11.00 a.m.-1.00 p.m. TUTORIALS TUTORIAL 2A TUTORIAL 2B Build digital library Knowledge Management using open source and Systems: development software (GSDL) applications Ian Witten Hsinchun Chen 1.00-2.00 p.m. Lunch 2.00-4.00 p.m. TUTORIALS TUTORIAL 3A TUTORIAL 3B Dublin Core Metadata: XML/RDF Stuart Weibel Erich Neuhold 6.00-7.00 p.m. Conference Inauguration Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi Day 2: 25 February 2004 (Wednesday) 8.00 a.m. Registration 9.00-9.30 a.m. Keynote Address 1 9.30-11.30 a.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 1 SESSION 1A SESSION 1B SESSION 1C ePublishing, Digital library Digital library initiatives multimedia, and technology: Digital library planning, development, evaluation and management 11.30 a.m.-12.00 noon Tea 12.00 noon-1.30 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 2 SESSION 2A SESSION 2B SESSION 2C Digital library Country initiatives/ Digital library policy issues case studies architecture, network and technology 1.30-2.30 p.m. Lunch 2.30-3.30 p.m. BUSSINESS SESSION 1 3.30-4.00 p.m. Tea 4.00-5.30 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 3 SESSION 3A SESSION 3B SESSION 3C Digital divide Multilingual Metadata issues metadata issues 7.30 p.m. Dinner Day 3: 26 February 2004 (Thursday) 9.00-9.30 a.m. Keynote Address 2 9.30-11.30 a.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 4 SESSION 4A SESSION 4B SESSION 4C Content Knowledge Semantics, thesauri, management management and ontologies 11.30 a.m.-12.00 noon Tea 12.00 noon-1.30 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 5 SESSION 5A SESSION 5B SESSION 5C Copyright issues e-Learning System scalability and digital and inter-operability rights management 1.30-2.30 p.m. Lunch 2.30-3.30 p.m. BUSINESS SESSION 2 3.30-4.00 p.m. Tea 4.00-6.00 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 6 SESSION 6A SESSION 6B SESSION 6C Archiving and Retrieval systems Human-machine sharing cultural interface, user heritage and interaction history globally Day 4: 27 February 2004 (Friday) 9.00-9.30 a.m. Keynote Address 3 9.30-11.00 a.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 7 SESSION 7A SESSION 7B SESSION 7C Manuscript: archiving Digital library Digital library and digitization consortium communities 11.00-11.30 a.m. Tea 11.30 a.m.-1.00 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSION 8 SESSION 8A SESSION 8B SESSION 8C Futuristics Digital library Digital library services security 1.00-2.00 p.m. Lunch 2.00 a.m.-4.00 p.m. PANEL DISCUSSION Digital library policy and strategic planning 4.00 - 5.30 p.m. Valedictory session For programme details please go to icdl site: www.teriin.org/events/icdl Advisory Committee Conference Co-chairs .Mr Dhanendra Kumar, IAS, Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr R K Pachauri, Director-General, TERI, New Delhi, and Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Geneva . Prof. N Balakrishnan, Professor and Chairman, Division of Information Sciences, IISc, Bangalore; Professor, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Members .Ms Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Mission Director, National Mission for Manuscripts, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India .Mr K Jayakumar, Joint Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi .Mr Yateendra Joshi, Fellow, TERI, New Delhi .Dr Abhijit Lahiri, Adviser, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr S Majumdar, Director, Central Secretariat Library, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr S S Murthy, Former Director, Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr T A V Murthy, Director, Information and Library Network Centre, Ahmedabad .Dr Usha Reddi, Director, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia, The Commonwealth of Learning, New Delhi .Dr S Sadagopan, Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore .Mr H D Singh, Director-General, National Archives of India, New Delhi .Prof. M Tawfik, Director, UNESCO New Delhi Office, UNESCO Representative to Bhutan, India, Maldives, and Sri Lanka .Dr R K Verma, Executive Director, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Noida .Dr N Vijayaditya, Director-General, National Informatics Centre, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr Om Vikas, Scientist 'G' and Head, Computer Development Division, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India International Programme Committee .Prof. José Luis Borbinha, Direction of Services for Innovation and Development, National Library of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal .Dr Hsinchun Chen, McClelland Professor of MIS, Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab; Director, Hoffman E-Commerce Lab, University of Arizona, Management Information Systems, McClelland Hall, Tucson, USA .Dr Gobinda Chowdhury, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1, Scotland, UK .Dr Jean-Marc Comment, Archives fédérales suisses, Archivstrasse, Bern, Switzerland .Dr Dieter W Fellner, Professor, Computer Graphics, University of Technology Braunschweig, Germany .Mr Simon Huggard, Systems Manager, Systems Support Unit, Monash University Library, Monash University, Australia .Prof. Leonid A Kalinichenko, Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia .Dr Yan Quan Liu, Professor of Information and Library Science, School of Communication, Information and Library Science, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA .Prof. Gary Marchionini, Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA .Dr Erich Neuhold, Chairman, IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries, Professor, GMD-IPSI Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany .Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Head, Information and Documentation University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium .Mr John Paschoud, Project Manager, ANGEL, DELIVER, SECURE, Information Systems Engineer of the Library, London School of conomics and Political Science, London, UK .Dr Michael Seadle, Head, Digital and Multimedia Center, Copyright Librarian, 100 Library, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA .Dr Atul Sharda, E-learning Adviser, E-Learning Strategy Unit, Department of Education and Skills, London, UK .Dr Stuart Weibel, Executive Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, OCLC Office of Research, Dublin, OH, USA .Prof. Ian H Witten, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand .Dr Norman Wiseman, JISC Head of Programmes, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK Steering Committee Co-chairs .Mr K Jayakumar, Joint Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr Leena Srivastava, Executive Director, TERI, New Delhi Conference Coordinator .Mr Debal C Kar, Fellow and Area Convenor, Library and Information Centre, TERI, New Delhi Members .Dr Jagdish Arora, Librarian and National Coordinator, INDEST Consortium, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi .Ms Martina Bartel, Head, Information Department and Library Regional Coordinator South Asia, Goethe Institut, New Delhi .Ms Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Mission Director, National Mission for Manuscripts, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr P R Goswami, Director, National Social Science Documentation Centre, Indian Council of Social Science Research, Government of India, New Delhi .Mr P Jayarajan, Head, Library and Information Services (India), British Council Division, British High Commission, New Delhi .Dr H K Kaul, Director, Developing Library Network (DELNET), New Delhi .Dr S Majumdar, Director, Central Secretariat Library, Government of India, New Delhi .Ms Rebecca McDuff, Information Resources Office and Public Affairs - US Embassy, American Center, New Delhi .Mr M Moni, Deputy Director-General, National Informatics Centre, Government of India, New Delhi .Dr Usha Mujoo-Munshi, Librarian, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi .Dr V N Shukla, Director (Special Applications) Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Noida .Mr H D Singh, Director-General, National Archives of India, New Delhi .Dr Shalini Urs, Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science Mysore University, Mysore Eminent speakers .Dr Jagdish Arora, Librarian and National Coordinator, INDEST Consortium, Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi .Prof. N Balakrishnan, Professor and Chairman, Division of Information Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore .Prof. Rahul Banerjee, Computer Science and Information Systems Co-ordinator, Centre for Software Development; Assistant Dean, Distance Learning Programmes Division, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani .Prof. José Luis Borbinha, National Library of Portugal, Direction of Services for Innovation and Development, Portugal .Dr Muniram Budhu, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Arizona, USA .Dr Vinod Chachra, Chairman & CEO, VTLS Inc., VA, USA .Dr Harish Chandra, Librarian, Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, Chennai .Dr Ching-chih Chen, Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, USA .Prof. Hsinchun Chen, Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab and Hoffman E-Commerce Lab, Management Information Systems, University of Arizona, USA .Dr Gobinda Chowdhury, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, UK .Dr Jean-Marc Comment, Integration Manager, Archives Fédérales Suisses, Switzerland .Dr Dieter W Fellner, Professor, Computer Graphics, University of Technology, Germany .Dr Schubert Foo Shou Boon, Associate Professor and Head, Division of Information Studies, School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore .Dr Nicola Guarino, Senior Research Scientist, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC-CNR, Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Italy .Prof. Amarnath Gupta, Director, Advanced Query Processing Lab, Data and Know-ledge Systems, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, USA .Mr Simon Huggard, Systems Manager, Monash University Library, Australia .Dr Ernie Ingles, Associate Vice-President (Learning Services) and Chief Librarian, University of Alberta, Canada .Prof. Leonid A Kalinichenko, Professor, Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia .Dr Yan Quan Liu, Professor, Information and Library Science, School of Communication, Southern Connecticut State University, USA .Dr Javed Mostafa, Victor H Yngve Associate Professor of Information Science, Associate Professor of Informatics, Indiana University, USA .Dr T A V Murthy, Director, Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET)/UGC, India .Prof. Erich J Neuhold, Chairman, IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries; Director and Professor, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany .Dr Liddy Nevile, Adj. Associate Professor, Applied Computing Research Institute, La Trobe University, Australia .Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Head, Information and Documentation, University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium .Dr Peter Noerr, Chief Technology Officer, MuseGlobal, Salt Lake City, USA .Dr Douglas W Oard, Digital Library Research Group, College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, USA .Dr Harsha Parekh, Librarian and Professor of Library Science, SNDT Women's University, India .Mr John Paschoud, Project Manager, ANGEL, DELIVER, SECURE, Information Systems Engineer of the Library, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK .Dr Darren Peacock, Director, Information and Communications Technology, National Museum of Australia, Australia .Dr Annelise Mark Pejtersen, Senior Scientist, Systems Analysis Department, Risø National Laboratory, Denmark .Dr T B Rajashekar, Associate Chairman, National Centre for Science Information, Bangalore, Indian Institute of Science, India .Dr Andreas Rauber, Research Fellow, Department of Software Technology, Vienna University of Technology, Austria .Dr Anshuman Razdan, Director, PRISM, Arizona State University, USA .Prof. Bruce Royan, Chief Executive, Concurrent Computing Ltd, UK .Prof. S Sadagopan, Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore .Prof. Rajeev Sangal, Director, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad .Dr Peter Schirmbacher, Director, Computing and Media Services, Humboldt-University, Germany .Dr Michael Seadle, Head, Digital and Multimedia Center; Assistant Director for Systems and Digital Services; Copyright Librarian, Michigan State University Libraries; Editor, Library Hi Tech; USA .Dr Fabrizio Sebastiani, Instituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy .Prof. Tengku Mohd T Sembok, Professor in Computer Science, Department of Information Science, Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia .Dr Atul Sharda, E-learning Adviser, E-Learning Strategy Unit, Department of Education and Skills, UK .Prof. Shigeo Sugimoto, Koichi Tabata, Tetsuo Sakaguchi, University of Library and Information Science, Japan .Dr Shalini Urs, Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science Mysore University, Mysore .Dr Stuart Weibel, Executive Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, OCLC Office of Research, USA .Dr Norman Wiseman, JISC Head of Programmes, University of Nottingham, UK .Prof. Ian H Witten, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand .Dr Vilas Wuwongse, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand .Dr Takeo Yamamoto, Director and Professor, Multimedia Information Division, National Institute of Informatics, Japan .Ms Xu Yinchi, Professor, Director of Chinese Science Digital Library, Beijing .Prof. Halimah Badioze Zaman, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia Registration The registration fee covers the conference kit, pre-conference proceedings, lunches, dinner, and tea. It does not include other meals and accommodation. Registration fee* For registrations done on or before 31 December 2003 Delegates Tutorials Conference Conference and tutorials Indian Rs 2000 Rs 5000 Rs 6000 Foreign US$ 75 US$ 200 US$ 225 For registrations done after 31 December 2003 Delegates Tutorials Conference Conference and tutorials Indian Rs 2500 Rs 5500 Rs 6500 Foreign US$ 100 US$ 225 US$ 250 * Additional registration from the same organization qualifies for a 10% discount . * Students (full-time) can avail 50% discount. * 25% special discount for foreign delegates from developing countries. Registration A registration form is sent along with this announcement brochure. The form can also be downloaded from the conference web site. The completed form, along with the registration fee should be sent to the ICDL 2004 Secretariat. Payment can also be made through any of the following modes: local cheque / bank draft favouring TERI and payable at New Delhi; credit card; and bank transfer. Registration confirmation Confirmation of registration will be sent upon receipt of the completed registration form and payment. Cancellation and substitution policy No cancellation or refund will be possible after a firm registration has been made. However, substitutions may be made. Please indicate, by 15 February 2004, the name and other necessary details, of the delegate who will replace the original registrant. Conference venue: India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India For conference details,contact Mr Debal C Kar Conference Coordinator ICDL 2004 Secretariat TERI Darbari Seth Block, Habitat Place (India Habitat Centre) Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110 003 India Telephone: 2465 1629, 2468 2100, or 2468 2111 (extn. 2724) Fax : 2468 2144 or 2468 2145 E-mail : ICDL2004(a)teri.res.in Web : www.teriin.org/events/icdl India +91 * Delhi (0)11

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Bulletin of the Medical Library Association archives online
by Shyam Prasad pujar 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

Dear Members, PubMedCentral has made available the full-text of the complete volumes of the 'Bulletin of the Medical Library Association' now published as 'Journal of the Medical Library Association' online. The archive begins with Vol.1, 1911. The full text articles are available in .pdf format. You may access the archives at: V.1, 1911 to V.89, 2001 http://pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?action=archive&journal=72 V.90, 2002 to V.91, 2003 http://pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?action=archive&journal=93 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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(Fwd) Library of Congress report on the National Library Baghd (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 15:52:17 +0530 From: prafulla(a)nisc.co.in A team from the Library of Congress visited Baghdad in October-November 2003 to advise the Ministry of Culture on the National Library of Baghdad. The report of their visit was distributed earlier this week: "Library of Congress Mission To Baghdad Report on the National Library and the House of Manuscripts, October 27-November 3, 2003" With the kind permission of Mary Jane Deeb, Team Leader and Arab World Area Specialist at the Library of Congress, the Middle East Librarians Association Committee on Iraqi Libraries has prepared and published the report on-line: http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/mela/LCIraqReport.html A suite of illustrations to accompany the text of the report is in preparation. Please repost this announcement wherever there might be interest. -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Charles Ellwood Jones Research Associate - Bibliographer The Oriental Institute - Chicago 1155 E. 58th St. Chicago IL 60637-1569 USA http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/Research_Arch.html

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ILA Information
by Mailing List Manager 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

Date: 5 Dec 2003 12:00:23 -0000 From: Geetha <vgitha(a)rediffmail.com> hello sir: i come to know about this site through my friend, i am searching for information on "Indian Libraries Association (ILA) Functions and activities and history" as soon as possible. i searched for this in internet but i didn't got the infromation coz that ILA site is down. please help me Thanking you *************************************** Geetha Admin. Executive Indegene Life Systems 130, 1st Main, 5th Block Koramangala Bangalore-560095 geetha(a)indegene.com www.indegene.com

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Fw: Library Security System
by Mailing List Manager 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:45:55 +0530 From: Swati.Gokhale(a)ril.com I am regularly receiving messages from LIS FORUM. I needed information of Library Security Systems to prevent theft of Library documents. We need to implement an Electronic Security System in our library and would also like to visit libraries which have installed the same. Please let me know if any of your libraries have such systems. Regards Swati Gokhale Swati Gokhale Technical Library Reliance Industries Ltd Village Mora Post Bhatha Surat-Hazira Rd, Dist Surat Gujarat 394510 Tel : 0261-3035357 , To: lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in. cc: Date: 03/12/2003 02:04:49 PM Subject: Fw: Library Security System Pl help . Am not able to post messages on LIS FORUM. regards, Swati Gokhale ----- Forwarded by Swati Gokhale/HAZIRA/RIL on 03/12/2003 01:57 PM ----- lis-forum-owner@ ncsi.iisc.ernet. in To Sent by: swati.gokhale(a)ril.com lis-forum-bounce cc s(a)ncsi.iisc.erne t.in Subject Library Security System 03/12/2003 02:04 PM You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your message has been automatically rejected. If you think that your messages are being rejected in error, contact the mailing list owner at lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in. ----- Message from Swati.Gokhale(a)ril.com on Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:57:33 +0530 ----- To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Library Security System Please post this message: We are looking for details on Library Security Systems . Please send information on any Security Systems installed in your libraries. Regards, Swati Gokhale Technical Library Reliance Industries Ltd Village Mora Post Bhatha Surat-Hazira Rd, Dist Surat Gujarat 394510 Tel : 0261-3035357

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CDSware News: CDSware v0.1.0 released
by Saiful Amin 06 Dec '03

06 Dec '03

Subject: CDSware News: CDSware v0.1.0 released From: Tibor Simko <tibor.simko(a)cern.ch> To: project-cdsware-announce(a)cern.ch Date: Thu, December 4, 2003 7:53 pm -------------------------------------------------------------------- CDSware News: CDSware v0.1.0 released December 4, 2003 http://cdsware.cern.ch/news/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- CDSware v0.1.0 was released on December 4th, 2003. What's new: * development branch release * search engine redesign to yield five times more search performance for larger sites (WebSearch, BibWords) * fulltext indexation of PDF, PostScript, MS Word, MS PowerPoint and MS Excel files (WebSearch) * integrated combined metadata/fulltext/citation search (WebSearch) * multi-stage search guidance in cases of no exact match (WebSearch) * OAI-PMH harvestor (BibHarvest) * bibliographic task scheduler (BibSched) * automatic daemon mode of the indexer, the formatter and the collection cache generator (BibWords, BibFormat, WebSearch) * user management and session handling rewrite (WebSession) * user personalization, document baskets and notification alert system (WebBasket, WebAlert) * role-based access control engine (WebAccess) * internationalization of the interface started (currently with Czech, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Slovak support) * web page design update (WebStyle) * introduction of programmer-oriented technical documentation corner (WebHelp) * source tree reorganization, mod_python technology adopted for most of the modules Download: <http://cdsware.cern.ch/download/cdsware-0.1.0.tar.gz> Notes: This is a development branch release. It is not meant to replace CDSware 0.0.9. Users of 0.0.9 are advised to wait for the next stable release. Users of 0.0.9+ are advised to upgrade to 0.1.0. As of this release we are adopting the classical stable/development branch version numbering scheme spread in the GNU/Linux world and elsewhere, with even minor versions denoting stable branch releases and odd minor versions denoting development releases. For more details, see <http://cdsware.cern.ch:8000/hacking/releases.html>. Known problems: WebSubmit is not working properly yet. Several admin-level functionality of 0.0.9 is missing in 0.1.0 yet. The task scheduler and RBAC authentication engines are functional but not yet called by all the clients. These issues will be subsequently dealt with in the next releases of the 0.1.x development branch. What's next: Fixing known problems described above. Stabilizing the 0.1.x tree. Continuing with the internationalization of the interface. Introducing BibIndex for better phrase indexing and browsing. -- [Please http://remember.to/edit_messages ] Saiful Amin c/o, Learning Resource Center Indian School of Business Gachibowli Hyderabad - 500019 Ph. +91-40-2318-7963/7999 ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Mobile: Download the latest polyphonic ringtones. Go to http://in.mobile.yahoo.com

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Subbiah Arunachalam Co-Director of CogPrints for Journals
by Mailing List Manager 05 Dec '03

05 Dec '03

It is my great pleasure and honour to announce that India's and the Developing World's great advocate for open access, Subbiah Arunachalam has become Co-Director of the CogPrints Archive http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ Professor Arunachalam will be specifically in charge of the growing Journals sector of CogPrints: * JOURNALS o Asian Student Medical Journal o Behavioral & Brain Sciences o Calicut Medical Journal o Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal o Internet Health o Medical Education Online + MEO Peer Reviewed + MEO PrePrint o Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences o Psycoloquy This sector hosts online journals (in any discipline) that wish to self-archive their contents centrally. This sector grew out of a natural evolution of CogPrints in a transitional period when distributed institutional self-archiving is replacing central CogPrints-style self-archiving. "Central vs. Distributed Archives" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0293.html "Central versus institutional self-archiving" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3208.html Thanks to OAI-interoperability, all these archives are now equivalent, interoperable, and hence integrable into one big virtual archive in OAI-space -- e.g. http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/ As a result, more and more cognitive science papers will be self-archived in their authors' own institutional OAI archives (for which the Eprints.org software is an adaptation of the CogPrints software: http://software.eprints.org/#ep2 ). It is only natural, then, that CogPrints should make its central archiving capacity available to those who need it, including authors whose institutions do not yet have their own Eprint Archives (or authors without institutions) and journals that wish to self-archive their contents centrally. No one on the planet is more closely and deeply identified with the cause of researchers and journals who lack the resources to make their output openly accessible than is Professor Arunachalam. We are deeply grateful for his generous collaboration. Stevan Harnad NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online is available at the American Scientist Open Access Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01 & 02 & 03): http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september98-forum.html http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html Post discussion to: september98-forum(a)amsci-forum.amsci.org Dual Open-Access-Provision Policy: BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists. BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it. http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/berlin.htm http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0026.gif http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0021.gif http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0024.gif http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0028.gif

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Library Book Racks
by Mailing List Manager 05 Dec '03

05 Dec '03

Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 22:05:32 -0800 (PST) From: gayathri sen <gayatsen(a)yahoo.com> Dear friend, You need to get 25 double sided racks of the standard size if you want to make provision for 10,000 books. Appro. 200 books on one side of the shelf. Regarding Catalogue cabinet you must insist that a PC given to the library to make entry of records. In these days of library automation and networking no new library should go for old method of catalogue cards and filing. UGC(INFLIBNET) wants to network all university and college libraries and may be want to find out how forward looking you are. About your approach to library management. However, you can also calculate the no. of cards that can be held in a tray, and give an second answer in continuation to the online catalogue. All the best, Gayathri Sen

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Emilda: Free library management tool
by Shyam Prasad pujar 05 Dec '03

05 Dec '03

Dear Members, Emilda is a fully featured electronic library management tool that includes Web-OPAC, circulation functions, user management and book information retrieval from databases around the world. This is a "free" library system released under the GPL license. It is a web based system works on a Linux platform. As per the developers it can work on other platforms as well with modifications in source code. The software can be downloded from the following website. http://www.realnode.fi As per developers, these are pre-releases of stable versions and are not recommended for other use than testing or evaluation. 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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