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Wanted Voluntary Group for IndLibra
by Sukhdev Singh 05 Nov '03

05 Nov '03

Dear Friends, The Bulletin Board for Indian Library and Information Community i.e. IndLibra, has received a good response. I was not expecting this kind of response. Now this is the point where the community spirit is required. I fully understand that single person can not take the community to the desired position. I therefore want to transfer the ownership and responsibility to a voluntary group. Let us call this group as Voluntary Group for IndLibra or VGI for short. This Voluntary Group for IndLibra would be the sole owner of IndLibra and would be looking after IndLibra Discussions (http://indlibra.myforum.net/) and would also be putting and managing content of the related website of the IndLibra (http://in.geocities.com/indlibra/) The User Id and Password would be disclosed to this group and it would symbolise the end of my indivitual responsibility and ownership. Please come forward and give your Names at the email indlibra(a)yahoo.co.in . I am expecting people like Prof. Shalini, Dr. Rajashekar, Dr Vyasamoorthy, Dr T.V. Prafulla Chandra and others to come forward. If it is successful, then IndLibra can purchase its own space on some web host instead of depending upon free-service providers like myforum and geocities. There please come forward in large numbers and give your Names at the email indlibra(a)yahoo.co.in . Regards Sukhdev Singh _________________________________________________________________ MSN Hotmail now on your Mobile phone. http://server1.msn.co.in/sp03/mobilesms/ Click here.

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Subject: Full-Text on Amazon
by Mailing List Manager 05 Nov '03

05 Nov '03

Date: 4 Nov 2003 16:40:20 -0000 From: aprajita suman <aprajita_drtc(a)rediffmail.com> Respected Professionals, There is some interesting news to share with you all, now even the commercialventures like Amazon are going for full-text availability.However, the facility is limited to selected portions of the particular book ;this is to help one decide on the appropriateness of the book before ordering for it.So, it is something like browsing through the book before buying it,back to our old bookshop style purchasing, isn't it. See the detailed information at following URL: http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb031103-1.shtml with regards, Aparajita Suman, Student,DRTC

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Database of Indian LIS Professionals
by Mailing List Manager 05 Nov '03

05 Nov '03

Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 09:19:30 +0000 From: Vara Lakshmi Rudrabhatla <rvsn1234(a)hotmail.com> Dear Sir, The Departmennt of LIS, Andhra University is ready to take up the responsibility to consolidate the info and to update whwnever necessary. Pl chalk out the modalities first. regards, Vara lakshmi. -- Dr. RSR Varalakshmi Prof. and HOD, Dept. of Library and Information Science., Andhra University. Visakhapatnam.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Request for list of Audio visual resource suppliers
by Mailing List Manager 05 Nov '03

05 Nov '03

Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 00:56:16 -0800 (PST) From: Mr.G.Bhojaraju <bhojarajug(a)yahoo.com> Dear Sir, CONGRATULATIONS !! on your new job. The following links may be of helpful to you. http://www.nadhani.com/knowtally/books/bpb_dealers.html http://www.indiacatalog.com/web_directory/entertainment/1003.html with regards Bhojaraju www.bhojarajug.cjb.net

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POPLINE
by Mailing List Manager 04 Nov '03

04 Nov '03

Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:59:40 +0530 From: Madhuresh <madhuresh_s(a)aurigene.com> I would like to share the following website with you all. http://www.popline.org/ POPLINE, the world's largest bibliographic database on population, family planning, and related issues, is available free of charge on the Internet. All 300,000 citations, representing published and unpublished literature, can be accessed for no charge. POPLINE is maintained by the INFO Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs and is funded primarily by the United States Agency for International Development. For those in developing countries who may have limited access to the Internet, POPLINE distributes POPLINE on CD-ROM to over 950 sites twice a year. POPLINE Digital Services also provides full text documents of many of its abstracts in the database at no charge for readers in developing countries. Full-text documents are only available if the information is not available locally, is not a commercially published book, and is less than 100 pages in length. POPLINE sends full-text documents as an e-mail attachment in Adobe Acrobat format or by mail. For more details, see http://db.jhuccp.org/popinform/aboutpl.html Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 562 158 Phone 8521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile: 98861 82822 Fax 852 6285 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://www.aurigene.com/

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Database of Indian LIS Professionals
by Mailing List Manager 04 Nov '03

04 Nov '03

Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 11:46:45 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> Dear Friends, I thank Dr Manjunath for sparing time to send in point by point reply and for adding clarity. Among the data fields needed I wish to emphasize that Email inclusion is a must. Nowadays correspondence via snail mail is costly and time consuming. All said and not done, to begin with, is there any one person ready to accept whatever details/data I have collected so far? --> I would send the data to him/her for further consolidation. Once this happens others will follow suit and start sending in whatever data they have collected. Best Wishes Vyasamoorthy, P

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list of Audio visual resource suppliers
by Mailing List Manager 04 Nov '03

04 Nov '03

Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 09:03:07 GMT From: sainul(a)iiitmk.ac.in Dear Professional friends, This has reference to Dr Kumbar's Request for Audio Visual Resource Suppliers. IIT Kharagpur and IIT Delhi produce Video lectures in various Subjects. These are available in VHS Cassettes and CD form. Contact Address : Dr. Bani Bhattacharya Centre for Educational Technology, Kharagpur – 721302 e-mail : banib(a)cet.iitkgp.ernet.in Prof. Kushal Sen, Head, Educational Technology Service Centre IIT Delhi New Delhi - 16, http://www.iitd.ac.in/centres/etsc/mbp.html With regards Sainul Abideen P Librarian IIITM-K, Trivandrum http://sainul.tripod.com This Mail has been sent from: ________________________________________________________________________ Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - Kerala, Park Centre, Techno Park, Thiruvananthapuram - 695 581. Kerala. India. Contact: Website: http://www.iiitmk.ac.in Phone: +91-471-2527567 / 3091334 Fax: +91-471-2527568 ________________________________________________________________________ The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and /or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this in error,please contact the sender and delete the material from anycomputer.

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Database of Indian LIS Professionals
by Sukhdev Singh 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

Good, So we there is a concensus that a Single Master Database may be build up for Indian LIS professionals. Now let us proceed further and answer the following questions: 1. What is the AIM? and to whom it would benefit? 2. What information would it contain, and what would be the data elements of the database? 3. Are INFLIBNET and INFOLIBRARIAN ready to give their data? If yes, then are their databases compatible? Do they have common structure? 3a. I Remember ILA had similar effort, what is the present status, can some one check out? Can we integrate that data also? 4. How its utility would be better then a discuss group like LIS-FORUM? 5. What are the factors of success/failure of exisitng similiar efforts. What lessions / best practices we can learn from the exiting initiative. How would this knowledge would help us in our proposed initiative? 6. Who will own the data? I think, we would be able to develop and achieve our proposed database of LIS Professionals in much better and scientific manner after answering the above questions. Let me now forget to thank Prof Shalini's offer to host the database. ----NOTE-----:) I AM FOR SUCH A DATABASE AND NOT AGAINST IT. I AM WILLING TO OFFER MY IDEAS(?) IN DATABASE DESIGN, HOSTING AND USER INTERFACE. Regards Sukhdev Singh >From: Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] concrete steps >Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:59:37 +0530 (IST) > >Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:33:38 +0530 >From: Aman Jha <aman.jha(a)ciionline.org> > >Excellent. I think this is the first time in the history of lis-forum >that such a creative discussion has taken place. Prof. Shalini's offer is >an excellent example of professionalism. I feel that this forum is >getting more mature now. Mr Prafulla's proposal has great potential for >the advancement of library profession in India. Duplication must be >avoided and there should be only one comprehensive reference window for >this kind. INFLIBNET and INFOLIBRARIAN's databases need to be integrated >into one master database. This work should be done at different levels. >Possibly INFLIBNET could work on librarians' database and Prof Shalini's >on teachers and students and others on suppliers, etc. > >Regards, > >Aman Kumar Jha >Librarian >CII > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum _________________________________________________________________ He's the fastest Indian.He's Narain Karthikeyan. http://server1.msn.co.in/sp03/tataracing/index.asp Will he make it to F1?

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Request for list of Audio visual resource suppliers
by Mailing List Manager 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

From: ts_kumbar <ts_kumbar(a)da-iict.org> Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 16:47:43 Dear Professionals, After serving five fruitful and eventful years at INFLIBNET, I joined Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology ( University now), at Gandhinagar at the end of February 2003. My major responsibility at this new Institute is to setup a state-of-the-art library and information facilities and serve the community effectively. Being just two years old Institute, we are in the process of building the core collection ( in all formats) of books, journals, CDs, DVDs, Video cassettes and other reading materials in the areas of ICT to support our academic and research activities. We are currently in the process of selecting a panel of efficient and reliable agencies for the supply of educational resources that come in the form of CDs, VCDs, DVDs, Video cassettes etc. I would therefore appreciate, if you could kindly help me by providing the names (with contact address details) of some of the good suppliers for these materials that you have come across or dealt with. With kind regards Kumbar ============================================= Dr. T S Kumbar Resource Centre DA-IICT- Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology Near Indroda Circle Gandhinagar 382 009 Gujarat State, India http://www.da-iict.org Tel. 079-30510550 Fax. 079- 30520010

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workshop on semantic web
by Mailing List Manager 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:19:32 +0530 (IST) From: DRTC General <drtc(a)isibang.ac.in> DRTC Workshop on SEMANTIC WEB 8th - 10th December, 2003 Organised by Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore 560059 http://drtc.isibang.ac.in Semantic web, as the name suggests, is an attempt to make the chaotic World Wide Web (WWW) meaningful. Robots of web search engines can not collect information about the content of documents from the web pages (HTML pages), as a HTML tags provide no semantic clues about the content of the document. This leads to noise in indexing. One solution is providing meaning to web content by adding metadata. Semantic web is based on Resource Description Frame work (RDF) using eXtensible Markup Language (XML) for syntax and Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) as a naming convention.. DRTC announces a 3 day workshop focusing on the various standards and Request For Comments (RFC) to enable library and information professionals in creating semantic web. The workshop will emphasize on comprehensive theory and practice. Themes: * Semantic Web: Overview * Metadata * Automatic Extraction of Metadata Using a Context Thesaurus * Mobile Access to the Semantic Web * Metadata for Learning Objects on the Web * Retrieval in Indian Languages * RDF * XML * Web Ontology and Taxonomy * OWL (Web Ontology Language) * Naming Conventions URI, URN, etc Resource Persons: Experts from Dalhousie University, Canada and University of Hyderabad, DRTC faculty. As we plan an intensive training, we are limiting the number of participants to 25, selected on first-cum-first basis I.K. Ravichandra Rao Head, DRTC

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