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Lecture Delivered on Digital Libraries at RRC
by Sukhdev Singh 29 Jul '03

29 Jul '03

Dear members of the forum, Last satureday, I had an opportunity to deliver a lecture on Digital Library : Definition to Implementation at Ranganathan Research Circle, Delhi. The lecture gave an account of Definition of Digital Libraries, Myths surrounding it and an overview of general framework for implementing a Digital Library. A copy of the lecture is available at the DLIST archives. Anybody interested may visit the following link and download a copy of it. It is of 1+18 pages and is in PDF format. http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/archive/00000236/ Regards Sukhdev Singh __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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Libraries @ the Heart: Travel Grants available (fwd)
by Shyam Prasad pujar 29 Jul '03

29 Jul '03

Travel Grant for participants from developing countries The Swiss Organization Committee of the Preparatory IFLA Conference "Libraries @ the Heart of the Information Society" (Geneva, Switzerland 3-4 November 2003) has made available a limited number of grants to enable participants from less developed countries to attend. The grants are towards particpation cost and are given on a cost sharing basis. The Travel Grant will cover air ticket, accommodation, registration fee and a small allowance.Applicants should meet the following conditions: Must be working in a library Must have a minimum of five years of professional experience Must be a member of the National Library Association (evidence of membership will be required from the Association). Priority will be given to professionals and applicants who are involved in the promotion of the libraries as important points of free access to the information society. Return the completed application form on http://www.ifla.org/III/wsis/wsis_travelgrt03.htm with a curriculum vitae before September1st 2003 to: iflawsis(a)hei.unige.ch or Danielle.Mincio(a)bcu.unil.ch

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ePrints in Library and Information Science
by Mailing List Manager 29 Jul '03

29 Jul '03

Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:02:20 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Prints in Library and Information Science - http://eprints.rclis.org (ELIS) An open access archive to deposit preprints, postprints and other documents in the field of library and information science in electronic format. ---- http://dois.mimas.ac.uk/ Documents in Information Science - http://dois.mimas.ac.uk/ (DoIS) - Database of articles and conference proceedings published in electronic format in the field of library and Information science. Thanks Guna From: Subbiah Gunasekaran [mailto:guna1970@rediffmail.com]

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A Google-like Portal of the World's Leading Scientists
by Bibhuti Bhusan Sahoo 29 Jul '03

29 Jul '03

ISIHighlyCited.com calls itself "an expert gateway to the most highly influential scientists and scholars worldwide," using similar techniques to Google's PageRank to identify these intellectual leaders. This free search tool makes it easy to identify individuals, departments and laboratories that have made fundamental contributions to the advancement of science and technology over the past several decades. Google's PageRank algorithm uses many of the same techniques involved in citation analysis to get a sense of the most important pages on the web, based on the number and quality of links pointing to them. ISIHighlyCited.com plans to include the top 250 preeminent individual researchers in 21 subject categories who have demonstrated great influence in their field as measured by citations to their work. Bibliography with links to the full bibliographic information indexed in the ISI Web of Science. ISIHighlyCited is similar to ResearchIndex, an academic computer science search engine that also does a lot of extensive citation analysis. Both tools are excellent resources for tracking research trends through literature references. To learn more about citation analysis and how it reveals useful information about who's who and what's what, see the article "How Does ISI Identify Highly Cited Researchers? follow the link http://isihighlycited.com/isi_copy/Comm_news08.htm -- ================================ Bibhuti Bhusan Sahoo JRF, DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute 8th mile, Mysore Road R.V.College P.O. Bangalore -560059 Phone : 8483975(hostel) 8483002 ext-320 (hostel) ================================

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Availability of ISA
by Mailing List Manager 28 Jul '03

28 Jul '03

Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 01:01:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Srinivasan R <seenukkd(a)yahoo.com> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Dear Members I would like to know in which libraries located at Tamil Nadu, or Kerala or Karnataka, CD-ROM version of Indian Science Abstracts (ISA) containing 10 years 1990-1999 data, is available. Kindly inform as I am in need of it urgently. Sincerely R Srinivasan Central Electrochemical Research Institute Karaikudi - 630 006 Tamil Nadu email: seenukkd(a)yahoo.com With Best Wishes Yours Sincerely R Srinivasan Phone: 225904 (R) ; 227750 (O) 7, kambar Street Thilagar Nagar Karaikudi - 630 002 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software

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(Fwd) MSc courses
by prafulla＠nisc.co.in 28 Jul '03

28 Jul '03

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 01:28:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Bijayananda Pradhan <ncsipradhan(a)yahoo.com> Subject: MSc courses To: prafulla(a)nisc.co.in Dear Prafulla, Can U please inform me : Is there any Univ in INDIA offering MSc Geology in distance mode. Regards Bijay ===== Have a nice time -With Regards, Bijayananda Pradhan DESIDOC, Ministry of Defence (DRDO) Metcalfe House, New Delhi- 110 054 Ph: (011)23819587(Off), FAX: 23919151 Mail ID:ncsipradhan@yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------- End of forwarded message ------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Information retrieval with cURL
by Aman Kumar Jha 28 Jul '03

28 Jul '03

Dear friends Please find an interesting article related to Information Retrieval. Source: http://www.hinduonnet.com/stories/2003072800120200.htm Aman Kumar Jha Librarian South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre New Delhi Information retrieval with cURL THIS WEEK NetSpeak focuses on a tool for automatically transferring files from the Net using a variety of Net protocols. The innumerable and wide ranging Net resources available on the various servers across the Net are stored/retrieved using different well-defined methods or protocols. The web protocol HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol), the FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and the Gopher protocol are three popular protocols. To retrieve resources stored under various servers, many tools that understand these protocols have been developed. These are called Net clients. The web browser, which understands the HTTP protocol, is a client tool for retrieving resources from a web server. Similarly there are clients for other protocols such as FTP and POP. But the drawback of most of these tools is that, though quite easy to operate, they lack enough flexibility. For example, the browser does not have an easy mechanism to selectively download a few web pages from a site. Again, if you want to automatically download regularly all newly updated files with a specific extension from a site, current browser features become inadequate. Here is another scenario: Suppose a Net resource is mirrored at several locations and to speed up the download process you want to split the file into multiple parts and download each of them from separate locations, instead of downloading the file completely from one location. None of the current browsers can do of do this. Al these point to the fact that there is need for a better information retrieval tool that will help automate some of the download tasks and allow downloading of materials as per requirements. One such client tool is cURL, which can be used to download Net resources automatically with extreme ease and flexibility. cURL As per its web site (http://curl.haxx.se/) cURL (stands for `client URL') is a command-line utility for transferring files from diverse Net servers such as FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP. Any Net resource that uses standard URL format (like http://, ftp://) can be retrieved with this tool. Please note that cURL has nothing to do with 'Curl', the web programming language discussed in this column (http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/biz/2001/12/13/stories/2001121300 340100.htm) long ago. You may also note that this free tool, which runs on platforms such as Windows and Linux, not only allows you to download files but can also be used to upload files on to such servers as web and FTP. Another highlight of this service is the availability of the free curl library libcurl that can be integrated with popular programming languages such as Basic, C, C++, Python and PHP to develop curl based applications. As usual, to get a good hold and internalise the capabilities of this program, let us go through a few examples: The command: `curl http://www.hinduonnet.com' will download the home page of The Hindu's site and will display it on your screen. If you want to view the HTTP exchange or the conversation that takes place between the client and the web server while downloading the web page, execute the above command with the `v' (v stands for verbose) option (like this: curl - v http://www. hinduonnet.com) To upload a file on to an FTP server, use curl with the option `T' as follows: Curl - T readme-file ftp://user: pass word(a)ftp-domain-name.com The above command will upload the file `readme-file' on to the FTP server. If you have a file stored in two locations, using cURL with `r' option, you can retrieve parts of the file simultaneously from these servers. For example, suppose you have a file called `example.doc' of size 39424 bytes, stored in two servers called server 1 and server 2. To download the file in two parts from these servers, use the following commands: curl -r 0-1500 -o example 1 http://server1/example.doc (this will download first 1500 bytes of the file from server 1 and store it as `example 1') curl -r 1501- -o example 2 http://server2/example.doc (this command will download the rest of the file from server 2 and store it as `example 2') Combining the two downloaded files, we will get the original file. Programs based on libcurl As already mentioned, along with the cURL client program, a curl `program library' that can be used to create cURL-based applications is also available at the cURL site. The free program Getleft developed for downloading complete web sites is a good example of a product created with the help of cURL library. The software, Getleft, written in TCL (Tool Command Language http://tcl.activestate.com/), can be used to download a web site completely by just entering the site's address in its input box. During the downloading process, it alters links in the original page so that you can browse the site locally without any trouble. For more details, check out: http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/ getleft/english/ Bootdisk If you are a regular computer user, it is likely that you have faced the problem of hard disk failure at least once. Once the machine fails to boot from the hard disk, the next feasible solution is to attempt to boot using a bootable floppy disk. If you have failed/forgotten to create a boot disk during the installation stage, you will not be able to take this course. In case you land up in such troubled situations, check out the site BootDisk (http://www.bootdisk.com), which hosts many programs that can be used to create boot disks. For example, if you want to create a DOS 6.22 boot disk, access the site, click on the `DOS/Windows... ' option and download the appropriate boot software. Now, insert a fresh floppy disk and execute the downloaded software, which will convert the floppy into bootable disk by transferring the DOS system files on to it. Apart from several `boot' programs, you will find many valuable materials that include information on hard disk partitioning, networking and several `how to guides' in this site. Free web space index It is quite likely that many of you have own web sites or are planning to launch one. One easy route is to avail the services of a free web space provider and build a site on its server. There are many free web space providers on the Net such as Tripod (http://www.tripod.com) and Netfirms (http://netfirms.com/) with varying tools/facilities. To get the latest information on the free web space providers, check out the search service `Free web hosting space finder' at: http://www.free-web-space-finder. com/ J. Murali _________________________________________________________________ They are beautiful. They are in danger. http://server1.msn.co.in/Slideshow/BeautyoftheBeast/index.asp Our four-legged friends.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Psychology courses
by farooque 26 Jul '03

26 Jul '03

university of madras is offering MSc in psychology through distance mode one can get detail information on this address: http://www.universityofmadras-ice.ac.in/ apart from this, annamalai university, bharthir university (coimbatore) and nalanda open university(patna)are also offering master degree course in psychology through distance mode.. On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 prafulla(a)nisc.co.in wrote : >Dear All: >I am searching for information on Indian universities offering >Master'd degree courses through DISTANCE MODE in >Psychology/Applied Psychology/psychology-related subjects. I >shall appreciate any useful pointers on this. > >Many thanks > >T.V. Prafulla Chandra >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. > (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. >USA) > S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad >500 017 > Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 >27002538 > WWW.NISC.COM > A company in service to NISC worldwide. >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum --------------------------------- Mohammed Farooque DRTC,Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalore-560059 Tel-(080)8483975(hostel) 8483002 ext 495(lab) ---------------------------------- ___________________________________________________ Download the hottest & happening ringtones here! OR SMS: Top tone to 7333 Click here now: http://sms.rediff.com/cgi-bin/ringtone/ringhome.pl

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Article: The open source option
by Shyam Prasad pujar 25 Jul '03

25 Jul '03

Dear Members, Please go through the following link to know why librarians should and shouldn't use open source software. http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=articlePrint&article… 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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Refresher Course in the subject of Library&LibraryScience
by Dr. Muttayya 24 Jul '03

24 Jul '03

Dear All, I am pleased to announce the following upcoming event: Sub: Refresher Course in the subject of Library & Information Science Tata Institute of Social Sciences is conducting a 21 days Refresher Course in the subject of Library & Information Science. The theme is New Challenges in Information Management: Issues and Opportunities for Librarianship. It is scheduled to be held from 1st Sept 2003 to 21st Sept 2003. The objective of this Refresher Course is to make Librarians feel fresh and updated after the training is over and really contribute to the teaching learning process. The eligibility conditions are mentioned below. Application Form will be sent upon receipt of an e-mail request. Minimum UGC Requirement for participation in Refresher Courses The Minimum UGC Requirement for participation in Refresher Courses is as follows: Here Librarian means either a College Librarian or a University Assistant Librarian/Lecturer In Library & Information Science who are in the pay scale of Rs.8000-13, 500 and above The gap in two successive Refresher Courses should normally be two years and may be relaxed if the adequate number of participants are not available or it is essential for the Librarian to fulfill eligibility condition for his/her career advancement. The College should be included in the List of Colleges under Section 2(f) of the UGC Act, even though they may not yet be fit under Section 12-13 of the same Act. If the College has not yet come within the purview of Section 2(f) but have been affiliated to a University for at least five years may also participate in the Refresher Course. The last date for submission of applications is 15th August 2003. Alternatively, for further assistance you may contact Mr.Satish Kanamadi, Asst. Librarian ( Tel:022-25563290.Ext.285E mail: kanamadi(a)hotmail.com) Yours Sincerely, Dr.Mutttayya.Koganuramath University Librarian ************************************** DR. MUTTAYYA KOGANURAMATH UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN Tata Institute of Social Sciences, P.B.No.8313, Sion-Trombay Rd., Deonar, Mumbai 400 088, INDIA. Ph: 91-22- 2556 3289-96; Extn.281(O) 91-22- 2558 3375(R) Direct: 91-22-25513350 Fax: 91-22- 2556 2912 E.Mail : muttayya(a)bom3.vsnl.net.in Website: www.geocities.com/tisslibraryin **************************************

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